Discussion Questions

You have been hired as an organization development consultant for a medium size manufacturing company. After analyzing the company, you suggest some change initiatives to be implemented in the organization. Several of the senior employees are not happy about the change and have provided several valid reasons to back their claim that the change will not be successful. Some consultants believe that resistance to change may actually be good for a change initiative while others disagree.  Discuss the impact (both positive and negative) change resistance can have on the implementation of a new initiative.By respond to the discussion question assigned by the Faculty. Submit your response to the appropriate . Use the same to comment on your classmates\’ submissions and continue the discussion until . Comment on how your classmates would address differing views.

Personal Goal Setting

In your textbook the authors discuss a technique for developing a vision called “Vision as Story-Telling”.  Use this technique to develop your own personal vision statement.  Write a story of what your life will look like in 5 years. Include a discussion of your core beliefs and what changes in your life you’d like to see made (include at least two).  Next develop specific goals for yourself (at least five) for the next year to help make this vision a reality.  Finally, discuss two reasons that identifying your vision and goals will help to make them happen and two possible stumbling blocks that may impede your progress towards your vision.Your paper should be no more than 4 – 5 pages and in current APA edition format. Submit this to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox by . 

Volkswagen Mexico potential risk analysis

  Base this analysis on the material below, i.e., discuss how the country characteristics (part A) and the company/subsidiary characteristics (part B) may create country- and organization-specific challenges and cause problems.    :  All content should be related to \’ subsidiries Mexico. Please discuss more about the specific internal organizational challenges like how specific organizations work together in the company, no need for the introduction for starbucks, no need broad analysis like political economic and cultural issue. 

Assignment 1: Discussion—Training Design Issues

The primary goal of training programs is to ensure participants develop the required knowledge and capabilities to maximize on-the-job performance. To improve the effectiveness of training programs, it is important for training professionals to develop strategies that support the transfer of training (or learning) and create evaluation methods that effectively measure the impact of the instructional process.Using the Argosy University online library resources, research the concept of transfer of training.Why is the topic important to employee training and development? Justify your response, giving at least three reasons, supported by at least two scholarly resources.Write your responses in about 300 words.

D 4

Censorship, enforced written and unwritten laws, red tape and language hurdles not to mention having and keeping the rights to your own patents and products.1. Give examples of 2 U.S companies who may have faced some or all of these issues.2. Give examples of 2 U.S companies whose global ventures have gone smoothly.To what do you attribute these negative and positive results? Country? Multi-national company (MNC) preparedness? Luck of the draw? Support your answers with appropriate theory. : Provide background on a successful joint venture in one of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China).

Think_Vison writer

Now that you have considered how to recruit and retain the employees you want in your organization, create a compensation and benefits package using this . The package must be consistent with the objectives of job satisfaction for the valuable employees in an organization of your design.The compensation package must include the following:Carefully review the  for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Quantitative Reasoning for Business

 a publicly traded company in the same industry as the company you work for or one that you would like to work. the company\’s annual report and any other available data (e.g. units manufactured, revenue, etc.) that is available for the last 5 years. one of the company\’s historical data sets to calculate the standard deviation of the selected data for the last 5 years. what the standard deviation means. data using variance and standard deviation. a 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation including detailed speaker notes in which you include the following:Attached is the grading rubric that you must adhere to. Cite references as well 

HCA 312 Health Care Finance

For your Final Project, you will create a capital investment plan proposal utilizing the health care business you selected in Week One as well as the answers to the Basic Information questions.  Refer to the websites for .  Create a capital investment plan proposal for your health care company that includes the following sections:

Harley-Davidson: External and Internal Analysis

Instructions for this assignment: Perform all of the elements listed below.This assignment has you complete two parts of a strategic business plan. To see how those parts fit into a full business plan, I have attached a .(See attachment below to open) As part of the Strategic Business Plan, you have been asked to:This section should be titled \”The Analysis of H-D\’s External Environment.\”Gather the financial information necessary to do a complete ratio analysis and the Balance Score Card (BSC) key metrics information.If you were going to create a BSC, what would be the key metrics you would measure in each of the four BSC areas:Perform a ratio analysis using H-D\’s five-year financial performance. Interpret the meaning of the ratios and financial performance.This section should be titled \”The Analysis of H-D\’s Current Strategy: Two Views.\” Be sure to include the ratio analysis. You may also include other graphics to support your narrative.Based on your analysis, you must decide which two competitors present the biggest competitive threat to H-D.Perform a financial ratio analysis for the competitors after looking at trends in financial performance over five years, and compare the trends to industry averages.Be sure you have a clear ranking of the industries\’ competitors.This section should be titled \”Competitor Analysis.\” Be sure to include the financial ratio analysis. You may also include other graphics to support your narrative.