What is organizational structure and what are organizational controls?

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1. What is corporate governance? What factors account for the considerable amount of attention corporate governance receives from several parties, including shareholder activists, business press writers, and academic scholars? Why is governance necessary to control managers’ decisions?

2. What is organizational structure and what are organizational controls? What are the differences between strategic controls and financial controls? What is the importance of these differences?

Who has access to agendas, control over information, knowledge of procedures, ability to cope with uncertainty, etc.?

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Organizational Analysis: Defining Your General Organizational Realities for the Case Study

This portion of the case study assignment will require you to apply the Political Theories lens to your organization. This enables you to make sense of the organization in a general way before turning to the specific problem within the organization which you identified in Case Study: Problem Proposal Assignment.

Lens Four: Reviewing the Political Theories [CONGRESS]

Use the following questions to describe, in a summative-narrative fashion, what the power/influence realities of your organization looks like. Your summary is to be 3–5 pages, include 3–5 references (this can include your textbook), have a title and reference page, and be formatted according to current APA style (first person should not be used).

  1. Who has what power in this organization? (Reward, coercive, legitimate, expert, referent)
  2. Who has access to agendas, control over information, knowledge of procedures, ability to cope with uncertainty, etc.?
  3. Describe the power coalitions and alliances affecting your unit.
  4. How does your unit attempt to influence other units and create upward influence in organization?

Discuss how doing case analysis will help you develop skills needed to prepare recommendations for consideration in a Strategic Plan.

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Discuss how doing case analysis will help you develop skills needed to prepare recommendations for consideration in a Strategic Plan. What is a business model and how can it disrupt a company, industry and or both? Provide at least two examples.
WE CAN USE STARBUCKS ,AMAZON

What is feedback? How can verbal feedback affect customer encounters?

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Answer the following three (3) questions. Type your answers directly below each question (you can just type the numbers for each question)

Q1. What is feedback? How can verbal feedback affect customer encounters?

Q2. Give some examples of nonverbal feedback and explain how they complement the verbal message and how they can affect customer interactions.

Q3. What are the four spatial distances observed in Western cultures, and for which people or situations is each typically reserved?

You can use the necessary sources. I am also attaching chapter 11 from the book “The world of customer service, 3rd edition by Pattie Gibson.” that can be helpful for this assignment.

Identify a current public issue about which “something must be done.” In relation to the change issue,

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Identify a current change in an organization with which you are familiar. Alternatively, identify
a current public issue about which “something must be done.” In relation to the change issue,
think about what sense-making changes might need to be enacted and how you would go
about doing this. Assess this in terms of the eight elements of the sense-making framework
suggested by Helms Mills and as set out in Table 9.7:
● Identity construction
● Social sense-making
● Extracted cues
● Ongoing sense-making
● Retrospection
● Plausibility
● Enactment
● Projection
What ones did you feel you might have the most/least control over? Why? What implications
does this have for adopting a sense-making approach to organizational change?
Prepare a 4 pages document with at least eight (8) peer-reviewed sources with your answers
and thoughts in APA format.

Give an example of an ethical or privacy issue that came about through use of an information technology?

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Give an example of an ethical or privacy issue that came about through use of an information technology? What changes would you recommend in order to minimize the impact of these challenges?

Explain how the selected business can capture opportunities and minimize risks in the emerging economy;

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(1) introduce the business/company you have selected, including their company history, business activities, international experience (e.g. any export or foreign direct investment before) etc.;
(2) describe the selected emerging economy (or any other economy if you prefer) your business is entering. The use of World Bank database is recommended.
The final product of the term project is a report and a presentation on “Business entering an Emerging Economy”, between 1000-1500 English words, 12 font, double space. APA Style for citation and attribution should be strictly followed.
The final report should consist of the following parts:
(1) introduce the business/company you have selected, including their company history, business activities, international experience (e.g. any export or foreign direct investment before) etc.;
(2) describe the selected emerging economy your business is entering, you can use the PESTLE analysis for this part, or you can use the institutional distance framework (National level formal and informal institutional distances include economic development, marketization, political regime, legal system, culture, innovation capability, and global connectedness.);
(3) use the firm-level analysis tools such as global strategy matrix, organizational structure, entry mode, etc. to explain how the selected business can capture opportunities and minimize risks in the emerging economy;
(4) your comments and recommendations on the firm’s strategy in the emerging economy.
This assignment is designed to allow students to develop an understanding of the problems that managers might face in an emerging market. Students ought to apply the concepts learned throughout the course to solve managerial problems arising from country-level differences.
Composing final written report should strengthen students’ ability to construct clear, concise and convincing written business communication. The instructor provides detailed feedback at each stage of the written assignments to facilitate the writing/learning process.

Choose two organizations/companies operating in the same sector and compare/contrast their operations using the 4Vs model.

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Answer the following in no more than a page:
Choose two organizations/companies operating in the same sector and compare/contrast their operations using the 4Vs model. What is their strategy (use Porter’s generic strategies) and how operations serve that strategy?

Discuss three recruiting strategies that promote the application of diverse candidates and provide an explanation of your justification for using them.

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The goal of this activity is to determine your ability to create a recruiting strategy for a position once you know the KSAOs for the position.
Activity Instructions
Building on the KSAO job analysis Be considerate of legal and union regulations and incorporate realistic job preview information in the posting. Discuss three recruiting strategies that promote the application of diverse candidates and provide an explanation of your justification for using them.
Over the course of the semester, you will conduct and analyze a number of research sources. In addition to the course reading, you are required to include at least one additional resource for your discussion postings and assignments. Using the worksheet located in course documents, you will record your research, summarize your findings, utilize your resources and submit your completed worksheet in your

Write an interview thank you letter in which you thank the interviewer, mention topics discussed in the interview, and remind him/her of some of your strong points.

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Background Scenario. Assume that you have a genuine interest in obtaining an internship position with the company you researched for the Oral Presentation Assignment. You will compose four messages to the company in which you demonstrate your continued interest in such a position.

Please observe these assignment requirements as you complete the messages:

Write all four messages in the same file—placing each message on a separate page.
Review the message organization and content suggested by the Chapter 16 textbook illustrations (Section 16-5)—especially the blue comments in the margin; however, do not copy any wording directly from the illustrations.
Make up names, dates, and other details needed to complete a message; however, provide accurate information about your background, interests, goals, and accomplishments.
Format the messages as illustrated by the format guides provided in Appendix A in the course textbook (Figure A.1 illustrates typical e-mail format; Figure A.2 illustrates a business letter.).
Provide all letter parts for the letter messages and all the memo components for the email messages (See Appendix A). Notice that some of the Chapter 16 sample messages skip some letter parts and start instead with the salutation and end with the complimentary closing. Provide the appropriate letter parts before the salutation and after the complimentary closing.

Message 1: Application or Resume Follow Up Message

Background: Assume that two weeks ago, you applied for an internship position with the company you researched for the Oral Presentation Assignment. You have not heard back from the company yet, but you are still very much interested in an internship opportunity with them.

Task: Write an email message in which you express your continued interest in the position.

Message 2: Interview Thank You Letter

Background: Assume that you received an interview invitation from the desired internship company. You attended an interview today. Write an interview thank you letter in which you thank the interviewer, mention topics discussed in the interview, and remind him/her of some of your strong points.

Task: Compose an interview thank you letter. Make up any necessary detail needed to complete the letter.

Message 3: Interview Follow-Up Message

Background: Approximately five days have passed since you sent your interview thank you letter. You have not heard from the company. You are still interested in the position.

Task: Compose a follow-up e-mail message in which you ask about the status of the company’s hiring decision.

Message 4: Rejection Follow-Up Message

Background: Unfortunately, the company decided to hire another applicant for the position and sent you a bad news letter in which it shared the decision with you. You are very disappointed.

Task: Write a rejection follow-up letter in which you thank the company for considering you for the position. Also tell the company you’d be interested in future openings.