Reference no: EM131166443
Structures and Frameworks
Explain formal and informal structures and decipher between traditional and non-traditional frameworks. Describe the characteristics that set functional, divisional, and matrix structures apart.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each design?
Ethics
Differentiate between ethics and ethical behavior.
Why are ethical practices and corporate social responsibility critical issues for contemporary managers?
Provide an example of how stakeholder's decisions could lead to a company's image and how customers view that picture, either positively and negatively
Workplace Expectations
How do you know what is expected of you at work?
Discuss five expectations you feel are important for your position and describe who could be negatively affected should you not meeting those expectations.
What are the best ways to communicate your expected performance and what method is used to evaluate your work?
What does excellence look like in your current role?
High-Performing Teams
Adopting high-performing teams to solve problems where direct supervisors and managers recognize service and quality outcomes could promote quality initiatives.
Using Google Scholar or EBSCO Library find two peer-reviewed articles written in the last three years illustrating researched teams in healthcare, information technology, education, or the general business sector.
Read the articles and describe in your own words the setting of the investigation and characteristics that demonstrated the problem under investigation relating to teams.
Describe the findings of the research and provide a suggestion for future investigation.
NAFTA
What is NAFTA? Under what President was NAFTA formed and why?
What countries are linked? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the trade agreement? Define reshoring.
Discuss why leaders are deciding to reshore products and what implications could that strategy have on the global economy.
Change
In the lecture, we discussed change agents and those that sabotage an effort for change.
Answer both questions below.
Question A - Describe someone you have worked with past or present that you consider a change agent and provide examples of what contributed to your view.
Question B - Have you encountered a situation where a manager was resistant to change?
Share your perspective regarding a decision where you or a co-worker presented an idea to a manager that was not implemented.
How did the decision make you feel?
Looking back, was the decision justified? Why or why not?
Leadership
Leadership does not begin with the skills for moving others to action. Instead, leadership involves embarking on an " inward and outward journey of self-reflection," which inspires others to action. (Arkoubi, 2013, p. 3).
Could a new leader "know" how to influence others if a person cannot manage one's behavior?
What training would you suggest for new leaders?
|
Identify strength and weakness of criminal behavior theories
: Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the criminal behavior theories. Which theory do you think is most applicable to the cause of criminal behavior today and why? Support your answer.
|
|
Research the himss davies award winners
: Topic: Research the HIMSS Davies Award winners. Review the case study for one of them. Compare their experience with the learning from this course. (approximately 2 typed pages)
|
|
Discuss the keys to success in developing stage
: Discuss the keys to success in developing Stage I and Stage II organizations. Provide an example of a successful company in each stage
|
|
Cause surplus or shortage of workers
: The government in California is increasing minimum wage to $15 dollars and hour, will this cause a surplus or a shortage of workers (labor)? Make sure to include the appropriate Graph and who the potential winners and losers are, as well as provide a..
|
|
Differentiate between ethics and ethical behavior
: Differentiate between ethics and ethical behavior. why are ethical practices and corporate social responsibility critical issues for contemporary managers
|
|
Money should you be willing to invest to complete product
: You manage a company that has invested $5 million in developing a new product, but the new product isn’t finished yet. Your salespeople give you some bad news. A new product has entered the market, and the expected sales of your product are now just ..
|
|
About the maturing government bonds
: Last year,$100million in outstanding bank loans to a developing nation's not renewed , and the developing nation's government paid off $50 million in maturing government bonds that had been held by foreign residents. All of the stocks issued gave the..
|
|
Hypothetical data for manufacturer which possesses
: Below is hypothetical data for a manufacturer which possesses a fixed plant producing a commodity that requires only one variable input. Total Product is given. Total Fixed Cost is $220 per period. Units of the variable input cost $100 per unit of va..
|
|
Major elements of the efficient markets hypothesis
: Describe the major elements of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) theory that create dissention between the worlds of finance and academia in terms of its usefulness. Select a real-world scenario and explain how EMH is either 1) currently used, o..
|