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Unit VII Web Assignment

Using your favorite search engine, locate the website for two research firms. Conduct a review of the services offered by these two different research firms. What types of tools do they use, and how effective are those tools? Be sure to respond to the following questions/topics, evaluating each research firm’s capability of providing valuable services to its customers.

1. Contrast the services and tools provided by the two research firms. 2. Explain the advantages of utilizing these research firms. 3. Discuss why a company might decide to save the money and utilize its in-house team as opposed to one of these firms. 4. Explain how the tools discussed in the lecture might enable more companies to complete their research internally.

Unit VII Web Assignment

Using your favorite search engine, locate the website for two research firms. Conduct a review of the services offered by these two different research firms. What types of tools do they use, and how effective are those tools? Be sure to respond to the following questions/topics, evaluating each research firm’s capability of providing valuable services to its customers.

1. Contrast the services and tools provided by the two research firms. 2. Explain the advantages of utilizing these research firms. 3. Discuss why a company might decide to save the money and utilize its in-house team as opposed to one of these firms. 4. Explain how the tools discussed in the lecture might enable more companies to complete their research internally.

Your APA-formatted submission must be a minimum of three pages (not including the title or reference pages). References must include the two websites and a minimum of one additional credible reference. All sources used must be referenced. Paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Discussion questions

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Annie is considering amending her current organizational structure. Using your reading to support the reasoning, advise Annie on the organizational structure that might work well to help solve her project problem:

Project: Annie Oakley wishes to develop the business to incorporate a new style of rifle that is computer generated, plastic, and collapsible. The rifle also takes plastic bullets. This process must cost less than 1 million dollars and take less than 2 months to produce. Annie has one large client who will pay 3 times her investment and is anxious to accept the project. However, it will be a one of a kind project and Annie is not sure others will have a use for the gun in the future.

Annie currently has four leadership team members that each head up a division: rifle design, rifle manufacture, customer service, and sales. They each have final decision making authority within their departments. Annie says that she is thinking of creating an additional link in the decision train for the new project with one department head that like the other division heads, reports to the leadership team. Annie feel the need to disband the project after the client sale is complete. Annie would like to know what would happen if the fifth link were self-contained. Explain how you would allocate the resources of the company to make the new link in the decision train work on a daily basis? Be creative yet practical thinking of the types of people you would need to accomplish the goal, financial resources, human capital, etc. Be sure to consider the various other departments and how they would interface with the project team. Alternatively, how would the link work if it were self- contained?

Learning Activity 2 – Theme 2

Choose one of the two questions below and answer it using the weekly readings and two external sources to support your reasoning.

1) How has technology changed the way manager define how tasks are performed within an organizational structure?

2) One of the manager’s job is to keep stability within an organization. What happens to structure when the walls are missing? How do tasks get complete and by whom?

Don’t forget to include your in-text citations and references in your responses. Also, please make sure that you post your learning activities (LAs) separately.

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Discussion questions

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Annie is considering amending her current organizational structure. Using your reading to support the reasoning, advise Annie on the organizational structure that might work well to help solve her project problem:

Project: Annie Oakley wishes to develop the business to incorporate a new style of rifle that is computer generated, plastic, and collapsible. The rifle also takes plastic bullets. This process must cost less than 1 million dollars and take less than 2 months to produce. Annie has one large client who will pay 3 times her investment and is anxious to accept the project. However, it will be a one of a kind project and Annie is not sure others will have a use for the gun in the future.

Annie currently has four leadership team members that each head up a division: rifle design, rifle manufacture, customer service, and sales. They each have final decision making authority within their departments. Annie says that she is thinking of creating an additional link in the decision train for the new project with one department head that like the other division heads, reports to the leadership team. Annie feel the need to disband the project after the client sale is complete. Annie would like to know what would happen if the fifth link were self-contained. Explain how you would allocate the resources of the company to make the new link in the decision train work on a daily basis? Be creative yet practical thinking of the types of people you would need to accomplish the goal, financial resources, human capital, etc. Be sure to consider the various other departments and how they would interface with the project team. Alternatively, how would the link work if it were self- contained?

policing practices and operations

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Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper discussing policing practices and operations. Include an assessment of the following:

• The relationship between traditional organizational structures of policing agencies

• Communication patterns both within and outside the policing agency

• Current trends in the approach to the policing function

Identify any existing issues with the partnership between law enforcement and community.

Recommend any necessary changes to improve partnerships between law enforcement and community.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

the workforce. Before the tension e

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Create a five to seven (5-7) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

Propose a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and at least one (1) relevant graphic (photograph, graph, clip art, etc.). Ensure that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from up to 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain effective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations, including career development, fostering ethical behavior, discipline, labor relations, and dismissals.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

Case Study Analysis: New Kind of Structure

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Option #1: Case Study Analysis: New Kind of Structure

Read and respond to a case study to demonstrate your understanding of, and ability to apply, the concepts of organizational design and culture.

review a case study of Pfizer in the 9th edition of the course textbook.

Write an integrated essay that addresses the following items:

Describe and evaluate how Pfizer is allowing employees to be more productive with its PfizerWorks.
Analyze an organization for which you work, or are familiar with, by considering the structural implications—good and bad—that the PfizerWorks approach would have in the specifics of productivity. (Think in terms of the six organizational design elements.)
Compare this arrangement with other types of organizations (including nonprofit, volunteer, etc.) and whether this structure would work.
Discuss the global aspect of adapting a structure similar to Pfizer and how the culture of the organization may, or may not, be impacted.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

3-4 pages in length
Formatted according to the APA Requirements
Contain a minimum of two scholarly sources,

Attachments:
application/pdf iconmgt300_casestudy_176-177.pdf

Case Study Analysis: New Kind of Structure

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Option #1: Case Study Analysis: New Kind of Structure

Read and respond to a case study to demonstrate your understanding of, and ability to apply, the concepts of organizational design and culture.

review a case study of Pfizer in the 9th edition of the course textbook.

Write an integrated essay that addresses the following items:

Describe and evaluate how Pfizer is allowing employees to be more productive with its PfizerWorks.
Analyze an organization for which you work, or are familiar with, by considering the structural implications—good and bad—that the PfizerWorks approach would have in the specifics of productivity. (Think in terms of the six organizational design elements.)
Compare this arrangement with other types of organizations (including nonprofit, volunteer, etc.) and whether this structure would work.
Discuss the global aspect of adapting a structure similar to Pfizer and how the culture of the organization may, or may not, be impacted.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

3-4 pages in length
Formatted according to the APA Requirements
Contain a minimum of two scholarly sources,

Attachments:

American Literature 1 page paper (2)

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In Unit III, you have been reading about how American thinkers moved away from Puritan beliefs and embraced new scientific theories, applying them to new ways of thinking about their fellow human beings, including relationships between humans and the earth, God, and each other.

Now, you are asked to critique a 2012 book review by Marek Steedman, written about Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson: The American Dilemma of Race and Democracy (2010).

Steedman’s review discusses how the book reexamines the foundational tension in American politics between racial issues and the democratic government our founding fathers sought to establish.

For this assignment, you are to write a brief article critique of Steedman’s book review. Your critique must include the following information and answer the following questions:

 Briefly introduce and summarize Steedman’s book review

 Identify Steedman’s main points about the book

 Who is Steedman’s intended audience for the book review?

 What specific issues related to Thomas Jefferson are addressed in Steedman’s article?

 Discuss how Steedman’s book review relates to what you have learned about Thomas Jefferson and the legacy of race and slavery and related controversial issues still relevant today

 Use a minimum of three of this unit’s key words in your critique

American Literature 1 page paper (2)

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In Unit III, you have been reading about how American thinkers moved away from Puritan beliefs and embraced new scientific theories, applying them to new ways of thinking about their fellow human beings, including relationships between humans and the earth, God, and each other.

Now, you are asked to critique a 2012 book review by Marek Steedman, written about Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson: The American Dilemma of Race and Democracy (2010).

Steedman’s review discusses how the book reexamines the foundational tension in American politics between racial issues and the democratic government our founding fathers sought to establish.

For this assignment, you are to write a brief article critique of Steedman’s book review. Your critique must include the following information and answer the following questions:

 Briefly introduce and summarize Steedman’s book review

 Identify Steedman’s main points about the book

 Who is Steedman’s intended audience for the book review?

 What specific issues related to Thomas Jefferson are addressed in Steedman’s article?

 Discuss how Steedman’s book review relates to what you have learned about Thomas Jefferson and the legacy of race and slavery and related controversial issues still relevant today

 Use a minimum of three of this unit’s key words in your critique