Please write essay answering the below:
We often hear that nonprofits are encouraged by community and foundation leaders (and sometimes by their own board members) to “operate more like a business.” From a legal perspective, what are the potential implications of taking this orientation (positive and negative)? Are nonprofits really just businesses with a social purpose?
-Boeing’s 737 Max planes’ crashing on takeoff, which resulted in hundreds of deaths, and other unethical behavior
-The topic chosen must relate to business legal and/or ethical subjects/issues covered in the assigned reading material (e.g., contracts, torts, product liability, the environment, workplace discrimination, antitrust matters, securities, etc.).
-Please emphasize on the unethical process and steps leading to the unethical decisions.
Instructions: Write reflection paper based on the following:
Reflection Paper Prompt:
. . . we’re heading into a new era—new for the sector and new for those who aspire to lead and manage it. Nonprofits will play even more roles of pivotal significance in the shared-power global environment of tomorrow, and their leaders and managers will be those who become adept at identifying, understanding, and addressing the dynamic needs and challenges of an environment characterized by greater variation and complexity, coupled with cycles of change that are deeper and faster than we traditionally have known. The pace of change and the extent of that change will demand a greater level of knowledge, sophistication, and skill from those who aspire to lead and manage these organizations.
Do you concur with this assessment? Please explain your views and discuss the points with which you do and do not concur.
Write APA format.
CASE STUDY
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A U.S. fishing boat manufacturer is known throughout the United States for its innovative approach to product design, lean manufacturing, and responsive customer service since its start three years ago. The mission statement of the company is “We will provide the most innovative customer-driven design and growth in the industry.” The founders’ ideals for the company are described in the vision statement: “We will be the most sustainable company in the industry.” The company’s ethical statement that guides all conduct and decision-making is “We will make decisions that are sustainable for customers and the environment.”
The company’s founders have created an organizational culture of innovation. They have provided incentives for employees’ creative ideas and created testing laboratories where customers use the products and provide design feedback. The founders have also invited innovators in other industries, such as gaming and information technology, to improve on the designs. The founders have cultivated a company culture in which employees and founders are considered equal partners. The company structure is decentralized, and all employees can access the founders at any time for collaboration, shared decision-making, or relationship building. All company decisions are evaluated by all employees to ensure that everyone is committed to the decisions.
The company has identified an emerging global market opportunity in India for its products. Successful sales in India could represent a critical moment for the company if the company establishes strategic partnerships that will increase the likelihood of product success. The founders hope to capture profits and market share and expand into other parts of Asia within the first year of selling products in India.
Research indicates market potential for the company’s sales in India because of the importance of the fishing industry in the country. Fishing and aquaculture are primary industries in the coastal regions of India. Economic zones have been established to support the over 14 million people who are an important part of the fishing industry. This industry makes up 1% of the nation’s gross domestic product and 7% of global fish exports (Hanko Hackberry Group, n.d.).
The company’s goal of the market expansion into India is to be the first foldable fishing boat manufacturer reaching the country. An origami-inspired foldable fishing boat is the company’s most popular product. This boat comes designed as a plastic carrying case that unfolds into the water like an origami paper boat. This boat is suitable for uses in calm water, and the boat can be recycled. The product retails for U.S.$200.
Traditional fishers use nonmechanized boats, which would be ideal for the foldable boat’s entry into the market. Laws and regulations surrounding the use of nonmechanized boats favor importing foldable boats, which would be easy for fishers to carry from home to the water. The business climate in India is open to new partnerships to improve the fishing experience for those who preserve the natural ecosystem with nonmotorized boats. The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) promotes the use of natural fishing equipment to reduce disruption to the fishing ecosystem in India (National Fisheries Development Board, n.d.).
The U.S. boat manufacturer’s founders met with the NFDB to request an endorsement for their foldable boats because of the product’s sustainable design and net-zero environmental impact. The founders discovered that the NFDB would only endorse the boat if it was made of plastics used in India, in order to reduce the waste products in the nation’s landfills.
This endeavor would require the U.S. company to make a significant investment in India. The company would need to purchase or build a manufacturing facility, or it would need to contract with a facility owner to secure a manufacturing location. It would need to employ Indian workers. Lastly, the company would have to manufacture a new foldable boat made from used plastics in India with an environmentally friendly waterproof coating.
The new foldable boat could be designed in several ways, and the company would need to test a series of paper products and waterproof coatings to determine which would be suitable for fishers in India. The fishers range in age from 13 to 70, so the design would need to be comfortable and portable enough for all fishers in this target group.
The company decides to hire Indian fishers to help design the product to reach this market. These fishers will provide qualitative, open-ended conversations and data that will be valuable in communicating the product’s features and benefits to other fishers. The product will be tested by a variety of fishers that represent different sectors of the fishing industry, different regions, and different cultural segments. Testing will provide generalizable, qualitative data about the product use and effectiveness.
Discuss how each of the three following aspects impact the company’s decision-making process:
Discuss how the company culture could affect the market entry strategy.
Identify the organizational structure of the company
1Describe briefly how Higher Education institutions in your year abroad country prepares its students for employment; then critically compare and contrast with that of country X;
Country X = either the UK or a country you know well (as a national or a student). (70% weight).
(ii) Use your first part to help prepare a briefing with recommendations for WBS/University of Warwick relating to their preparation of students for employment (30% weight).
Advice: Q2 topics could be selected from: preparing/supporting students with work placements, developing skills for employment, encouraging global/international awareness, etc. And could cover the 2 countries’ national systems or focus on specific HE institutions e.g. Spain or Carlos III, Madrid
1. A specialty chemical company is considering expanding its operations into Brazil, where five companies dominate the consumption of specialty chemicals. What sort of distribution network should this company use?
2. What differences in the retail environment may justify the fact that the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain in India has far more distributors than it has in the United States?
Activity 1
Your CEO has asked each departmental head to undertake a critical review of their systems, processes and practices as part of a major organisational change agenda. You have been asked to review an area of HR/business practice and present a business report to key stakeholders with recommendations for improving practice. To provide the basis for your report, you have been asked to conduct a critical review of information sources relevant to the area of practice. You should:
● Select an area of HR/business practice and give the reason for your choice (Employee Turnover at Ocado online supermarket.)
● Undertake a critical review of different information sources (at least four) e.g. research digests, academic and professional literature, online databases, key texts relevant to the selected area of practice.
● Draw meaningful conclusions from the review of the different information sources.
● Make justified recommendations to named stakeholders for sustaining and/or improving practice.
Your report structure should include:
● Title page (report title and their name, submission date)
● Executive summary (overview, methods of analysis, findings, recommendations)
● Table of contents (list of numbered sections)
● Introduction (terms of reference)
● Main body (headings and sub-headings – these could be for each information source reviewed). Candidates should use a mix of narrative and diagrammatic formats to present their findings.
● Conclusions
● Recommendations
● Reference list/Bibliography
● Appendix if used i.e. information supporting their analysis but not essential to its explanation.
Activity 2
a. Summarise the key stages of the research process.
b. Compare two different research methods.
Evidence to be produced/required
A written business report for stakeholders and written answers to activity two of approximately 2600 words. The title page, executive summary, reference list and any appendices are excluded from the word count.
You should relate academic concepts, theories and professional practice to the way organisations operate, in a critical and informed way, and with reference to key texts, articles and other publications and by using organisational examples for illustration.
All reference sources should be acknowledged correctly and a bibliography provided where appropriate (these should be excluded from the word count).
Select a current topic in employee benefits and write a 5-7 page paper outlining the benefit issue and its implications to the organization and employees. For example, retiree medical and prescription coverage – whose responsibility is it? Ned to have 3 sources cited APA style.
Your Servant Leadership Assignment begins by reading the articles and overviews, watching the videos, and completing the Servant Leadership Assessment included in these instructions.
Write a four-page paper regarding organizational behavior (OB) from a servant leader’s perspective, with ten paragraphs aligning with Spears’ 10 characteristics of a servant leader. Following the OB/servant leadership overview, provide a brief explanation of your servant leadership (based on the assessment) and write a proposal for a leadership development plan to improve in the servant leadership areas that are not currently your strengths. This final section can be written in first person.
The concept of servant leadership was originally coined by Robert Greenleaf (1970) in his essay The Servant as Leader. Greenleaf’s background included 38 Years at AT&T, largely in management training and development, and 25 years consulting on servant leadership thereafter. He founded the Center for Applied Ethics (now Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership).
Greenleaf’s work on the concept was further developed by Larry Spears, who served as president and CEO of the Greenleaf Center for 25 years. Spears extracted 10 characteristics from Greenleaf’s work:
Listening
Empathy
Healing
Awareness
Persuasion
Conceptualization
Foresight
Stewardship
Commitment to the Growth of People
Building Community
https://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/jvl/vol1_iss1/Spears_Final.pdf
Sipe and Frick (2009) condensed these characteristics into their book Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership: Practicing the Wisdom of Leading by Serving. Read about the seven pillars of servant leadership at https://melissagena.me/2012/05/26/seven-pillars-of-servant-leadership/
Blanchard and Hodges (2006) applied servant leadership in their landmark work, Lead Like Jesus. Watch the following video clip on Lead Like Jesus.
Having completed this review of the concept of servant leadership, now take the servant leadership self-assessment.
REVIEW THE ARTICLES AND VIDEO AND TAKE THE SELF-ASSESSMENT QUIZ. PLEASE INCLUDE INTRODUCTION, CONCLUSION, AND TITLE EACH COMPONENT OF THE PAPER
Starting a business is a risky endeavor, but staying in business can be just as challenging. As the entrepreneurial firm grows beyond founding, it needs to ensure its organization is capable of managing growth. We have outlined a driving forces model that integrates leadership, opportunity domain, and resources and capabilities—and has execution at the core. The entrepreneur should understand and anticipate the challenges associated with building and managing a growing organization at different stages, prepare the organization to execute effectively at each point, and set the stage for a healthy future.
Identify three (3) companies that have experienced successful, rapid growth in your industry. Study their Websites and search for articles about the companies.
Address the following questions:
1. Can you discern their strategic focuses early in their growth cycles?
2. What are the core areas that they are leveraging?
3. How do their growth strategies change later in their lives?
4. What are some peripheral markets/customers they are going for?
5. Have they grown by acquisition? How has that worked out?
Write an APA 7th formatted paper of 700-1,050 words, typewritten in double-spaced format (Times New Roman styles), page margins Top, Bottom, Left Side and Right Side = 1 inch, with reasonable accommodation being made for special situations and online submission variances. Use template provided per Week 1.
In your response, make certain that you include at least two credible outside references from search engines or scholarly sources from the APUS Online Library.
Turnitin is required and your paper will be automatically submitted into the Turnitin system.
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