Explain how culture can affect perceptions of team members in a group. Discuss strategies for working with leaders or team members who originate from a different culture than you. Expound on the significance of using the best type of verbiage to communicate with other members of a team in order to prove successful in task completion.

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Case Study

Given this scenario, include the following topics.

-Explain how culture can affect perceptions of team members in a group.
-Discuss strategies for working with leaders or team members who originate from a different culture than you.
-Expound on the significance of using the best type of verbiage to communicate with other members of a team in order to prove successful in task completion.
-Share the benefits of connecting with humor to build team camaraderie.
-Explain how personality traits, social factors, and styles of leadership can affect the competence and loyalty of a team member.
-Determine the different career options an employee might consider when having trouble working with a cohort or leader of a department.

Formulate your response to these questions using APA format in a minimum of a two-page paper that includes at least two outside sources. Therefore, two additional sources, in addition to the case study, are required. Please use the Waldorf Online Library databases to find academic journals as sources.

How would this factor affect our industry and/or related industries? Positive, negative, or more complex? What the trend of this factor in near future? Growing? Declining? Changing in structure? Or anything else?

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Strategic Business Management

PAPER OUTLINE- External Analysis

3.1 General Environmental Analysis (PESTEL analysis)

3.2. Demographic Segment

1) List the first factor in this segment that can have impact on our industry and/or related industries:

2) How would this factor affect our industry and/or related industries? Positive, negative, or more complex? Please specify with a few sentences.

3) What the trend of this factor in near future? Growing? Declining? Changing in structure? Or anything else? Use a few sentences to justify.

4) Based on the trends in 3), what are the resulting changes of our industry and/or related industries?

5) List the second factor that you think can affect our industry/related industries:

6) Follow the order 1) to 4), outline your analysis regarding the second factor you just proposed. You can also propose several more factors following the same procedure of analysis.

7) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables here.

3.3 Economic Segment

1) List the first factor in this segment that can have impact on our industry and/or related industries:

2) How would this factor affect our industry and/or related industries? Positive, negative, or more complex? Please specify with a few sentences.

3) What the trend of this factor in near future? Growing? Declining? Changing in structure? Or anything else? Use a few sentences to justify.

4) Based on the trends in 3), what are the resulting changes of our industry and/or related industries?

5) List the second factor that you think can affect our industry/related industries:

6) Follow the order 1) to 4), outline your analysis regarding the second factor you just proposed. You can also propose several more factors following the same procedure of analysis.

7) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables here.

3.4 Political/Legal Segment

1) List the first factor in this segment that can have impact on our industry and/or related industries:

2) How would this factor affect our industry and/or related industries? Positive, negative, or more complex? Please specify with a few sentences.

3) What the trend of this factor in near future? Growing? Declining? Changing in structure? Or anything else? Use a few sentences to justify.

4) Based on the trends in 3), what are the resulting changes of our industry and/or related industries?

5) List the second factor that you think can affect our industry/related industries:

6) Follow the order 1) to 4), outline your analysis regarding the second factor you just proposed. You can also propose several more factors following the same procedure of analysis.

7) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables here.

3.5 Socio-Cultural Segment

1) List the first factor in this segment that can have impact on our industry and/or related industries:

2) How would this factor affect our industry and/or related industries? Positive, negative, or more complex? Please specify with a few sentences.

3) What the trend of this factor in near future? Growing? Declining? Changing in structure? Or anything else? Use a few sentences to justify.

4) Based on the trends in 3), what are the resulting changes of our industry and/or related industries?

5) List the second factor that you think can affect our industry/related industries:

6) Follow the order 1) to 4), outline your analysis regarding the second factor you just proposed. You can also propose several more factors following the same procedure of analysis.

7) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables here.

3.6 Technological Segment

1) List the first factor in this segment that can have impact on our industry and/or related industries:

2) How would this factor affect our industry and/or related industries? Positive, negative, or more complex? Please specify with a few sentences.

3) What the trend of this factor in near future? Growing? Declining? Changing in structure? Or anything else? Use a few sentences to justify.

4) Based on the trends in 3), what are the resulting changes of our industry and/or related industries?

5) List the second factor that you think can affect our industry/related industries:

6) Follow the order 1) to 4), outline your analysis regarding the second factor you just proposed. You can also propose several more factors following the same procedure of analysis.

7) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables here.

3.7 Global Segment

1) List the first factor in this segment that can have impact on our industry and/or related industries:

2) How would this factor affect our industry and/or related industries? Positive, negative, or more complex? Please specify with a few sentences.

3) What the trend of this factor in near future? Growing? Declining? Changing in structure? Or anything else? Use a few sentences to justify.

4) Based on the trends in 3), what are the resulting changes of our industry and/or related industries?

5) List the second factor that you think can affect our industry/related industries:

6) Follow the order 1) to 4), outline your analysis regarding the second factor you just proposed. You can also propose several more factors following the same procedure of analysis.

7) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables here.

[Integration and thoughts]

Do you have any other thoughts regarding the interaction among different factors you have proposed so far?

3.8 Summary of General Environmental Analysis

[No need to make summary for your outline here. But you need to have this section written up in the complete paper]

4.1 Industry Analysis

4.2. Description of the Industry

1) What is the definition of our focal industry according to SIC and NAICS codes?

2) Describe the emergence and development of the industry in the United States (3-5 sentences):

3) Identify the names of major supplying industry(-ies)/supply materials and major buying industry (-ies)/customers of our focal industry:

4) What is the current global and US market size in terms of sales revenue? What is the expected growth rate in near future?

5) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables here.

5.1 Industry Dominant Economic Features

5.2 Market Size

1) What is the current industrial total sales revenue in US market in 2019, 2020, and 2021? How many companies in this industry? How many employees hired by this industry?

2) use several sentences to describe the global aspects of the industry: A) what is the degree of globalization of this industry? B) What is global market size (total sales revenue) in 2019, 2020, and 2021? C) Are there any large foreign companies take significant market share worldwide?

3) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables (highly recommended) here.

5.3 Market Growth Rate

1) What is the industry’s average growth rate in recent years? (It’s better to provide several other measures besides sales revenue.)

2) What is the expected growth rate in near future? (It’s better to provide several other measures besides sales revenue.)

3) Is there any other related changes in the industry recently and in future? (If you have, please list as A, B, C, etc. below, with a few sentences for each change.)

4) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables (highly recommended) here.

5.4 Industry Trends

1) Are there any changes recently or expected in near future in terms of total number of firms in the industry, location distribution of the firms, abnormal industrial dynamics (such as merge and acquisition, new entrants, and declining incumbents), etc? List as A, B, C, … below if you found any with several sentences for each item.

2) Are there any new products, production process, technology innovation (improvements) recently or expected in near future? If you found any, list below as A, B, C,… with several sentences for each item.

3) Are there any change of the scope of the market such as pace of globalization; product/business diversification of current large companies? If you found any, list below as A, B, C,… with several sentences for each item.

4) Put any other industry trends you identified here and list as A, B, C, … with several sentences for each item

5) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables (highly recommended) here.

5.6 Threat of New Entrants

1) Follow the checklist in the textbook to analyze the whole industry, and identify the factors that may encourage new entrants to this industry. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

2) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may prevent new entrants. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

3) What is your overall verdict on threat of new entrants: low, moderate, or high? (Just pick one from these three or you can make a term like “low but growing”, “moderate and declining”, etc.

4) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables too.

5.7 Power of Suppliers

1) Specify what industries are suppliers of our focal industry:

2) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may increase the suppliers’ bargaining power. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

3) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may weaken the suppliers’ bargaining power. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

4) What is your overall verdict on the power of suppliers: low, moderate, or high? (Just pick one from these three or you can make a term like “low but growing”, “moderate and declining”, etc.

5) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables too.

5.8 Power of Buyers

1) Specify who (what industries) are buyers of our focal industry:

2) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may increase the buyers’ bargaining power. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

3) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may weaken the buyers’ bargaining power. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

4) What is your overall verdict on the power of buyers: low, moderate, or high? (Just pick one from these three or you can make a term like “low but growing”, “moderate and declining”, etc.

5) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables too.

5.9 Power of Substitutes

1) Specify what products by which industries are possible substitutes of our focal industry’s major products:

2) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may increase the power of those substitutes. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

3) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may weaken the power of those substitutes. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

4) What is your overall verdict on the power of substitutes, low, moderate, or high? (Just pick one from these three or you can make a term like “low but growing”, “moderate and declining”, etc.

5) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables too.

5.10 Intensity of Rivalry

1) Specify major companies and number of total companies in our focal industry (primarily in US markets).

2) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may increase the intensity of rivalry. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

3) Follow the checklist to analyze the whole industry and identify the factors that may weaken the intensity of rivalry. Use one sentence to make your argument for each factor, and list them as A, B, C, …

4) What is your overall verdict on the intensity of rivalry: low, moderate, or high? (Just pick one from these three or you can make a term like “low but growing”, “moderate and declining”, etc.

5) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables too.

5.11 Summary of Industry Analysis

(NO outline needed, but you need to have this section written up in your complete draft.)

6.1 Industry Driving Forces

6.2 Brief Summary of 3.1 and 4.1

(NO outline needed, but you need to have this section written up in your complete draft.)

6.3 Industry Driving Forces

[Read and understand the content of industry driving forces in the textbook and evaluate the whole industry for each item. The file in “Knowledge Base Articles” in the project folder is also very useful too. Keep in mind you need to be specific to our focal industry.]

1) Among the factors identified in your general environmental analysis and the industry analysis (such as five forces analysis), what factors do you think are driving forces of our focal industry? listed them here with A, B, C, … Use one sentence for each factor to make an argument why and how that factor is a driving force.

2) You may find some driving forces in several industry reports, but you need to have connections to your previous analysis for general environment and industry if you list any factors from those reports.

3) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables too.

7.1 Competition Analysis

7.2 Industry Competitors

1) List the major competitors (companies) (about 3-5 companies) of the Company in United States (or North America) in the whole industry:

2) Why you list them as major competitors of the Company?

3) Make a brief comparison table of them (and include the Company too) below listing their major products, headquarter location, establishment year, number of employees, last year’s sales revenue, market share, net income, profit, and other related data.

4) Make a brief introduction of the first competitor following this sequence:

  1. Brief history including significant strategic changes of the Company:
  2. Its product & services:
  3. Revenue, market share, and profitability of recent years:

5) Make a brief introduction of the second competitor following this sequence:

  1. Brief history including significant strategic changes of the Company:
  2. Its product & services:
  3. Revenue, market share, and profitability of recent years:

6) Make a brief introduction of the third competitor following this sequence:

  1. Brief history including significant strategic changes of the Company:
  2. Its product & services:
  3. Revenue, market share, and profitability of recent years:

[Please make more sections if you have more than three competitors identified here]

7) List your references here. Copy the competitors’ logo here. You can also copy and paste other useful graphs and tables too.

7.3 Rivals Anticipated Strategic Moves

Following the same order that you introduce the competitors in the previous section, create a few sections each of which analyzes the strategic moves of each competitor below.

1) What are the current strategies of the first competitor?

2) What is the future strategic plan of the first competitor?

3) What are the current strategies of the second competitor?

4) What is the future strategic plan of the second competitor?

5) What are the current strategies of the third competitor?

6) What is the future strategic plan of the third competitor?

[add more sections if you have more than three competitors to analyze. Change the following section numbers accordingly.]

7) Below make a strategic map for the major competitors (including the Company) following the sample strategic map in Chapter 3 in the section of “strategic group analysis”. Here are some variables (i.e., X- and Y-Axis) you can consider for your strategic map: degree of business diversification; broadness of franchising brands; (domestic/global) market coverage/locational presence; price (high value vs low cost), etc.

8) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables too.

7.4 Summary of Competition Analysis

[NO outline needed but you need to have this section written up in your complete draft.]

7.5 Industry Key Success Factors

[Read and understand textbook content from page 59-61. Also read the knowledge base articles on this in the folder “documents and instructions on part one”.]

1) List several factors (not more than five) that you think are critical for a firm to succeed in our focal industry, and specify why and how (with 1-3 sentences):

  1. Factor one:; Why and how this is critical for a firm to succeed in this industry:
  2. Factor two: ; Why and how this is critical for a firm to succeed in this industry:
  3. Factor three:; Why and how this is critical for a firm to succeed in this industry:
  4. Add more here if you have more than three KSFs.

2) List your references here. You can also copy and paste useful graphs and tables too.

 

Select a retail store you are familiar with such a grocery store, Kmart, Macy’s, Staples, Walmart, etc., and identify the mission and strategy. What are the manifestations of the 10 strategic OM decisions at the store? That is, how is each of the 10 decision accomplished?

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Mission and strategy

Select a retail store you are familiar with such a grocery store, Kmart, Macy’s, Staples, Walmart, etc., and identify the mission and strategy. What are the manifestations of the 10 strategic OM decisions at the store? That is, how is each of the 10 decision accomplished?

What is the cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index (CPI), and schedule performance index (SPI) for the project? Is the project ahead of schedule or behind schedule? Is the project under budget or over budget?

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Topic: Resource Allocation And Risk Management

Part 1

Review the “Project Execution” section of Chapter 3 in the textbook. Follow the steps provided to guide your baseline process and the subsequent status of you plan.

Open the Microsoft Project “Global Treps Project Rev4” file and set a baseline. To set the baseline, first select the project tab.

Then select set baseline. Then click OK.

Turn on the Tracking Table.

Update the following tasks with the revised actuals specified below.

Update the Resource Sheet to reflect the revised labor costs specified below.

Save the Microsoft Project file as “Global Treps Project Rev5.”

Revised Actuals:

Finalize project team – 100% complete

Develop project charter – 100% complete

Develop scope statement – 100% complete

Develop and refine other plans – 100% complete

Evaluate current systems – 100% complete – Make the “Actual Start” date the “Current Date” and the “Actual Finish” date 10 days later than the “Current Date.”

Conduct research for income mechanism into Global Treps – 30 days – 100% complete

Evaluate current system – 10 days – 100% complete

Define requirement – 22 days – 100% complete

Define user requirements – 23 days – 100% complete

Define content requirements – 29 days – 100% complete

Define system requirements – 33 days – 100% complete

Define server owner requirements – 20 days – 100% complete

Define specific functionality – 33 days – 100% complete

Define risks and risk management approach – 21 days – 100% complete

Develop project plan – 32 days – 100% complete

Brief web development team – 3 days – 100% complete

Revised Resource Labor Costs:

Project Manager (you): $120 per hour

Website Developer (Bobby): $125 per hour

System Test Engineer and Event Runner: Vietnam (Kim): $55 per hour

Support Team Manager and Event Runner: India (Ashok): $55 per hour

Event Runner: Ethiopia (Alfreda): $55 per hour

Part 2

Using the information from “Global Treps Project Rev5,” you must evaluate the seriousness of the threats to project success based upon data from the Earned Value Table and Earned Value Report. Complete the steps below to access the data.

Using the “Global Treps Project Rev5” you created in Part 1, view the Earned Value table by selecting the “Select All” button, then right-click your selection, select “More Tables,” and double-click on “Earned Value.” Reveal all the columns. Be sure the entire number shows in each column. Add a column for the cost performance index (CPI) and schedule performance index (SPI).

View the earned value report by clicking the “Report” tab, and then click “Costs” followed by the “Earned Value Report.”

Create a Word document and insert a screen shot of the earned value table and the earned value report.

Using the earned value table and the earned value report, answer the following questions in the Word document after the screenshots.

Questions:

What is the cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index (CPI), and schedule performance index (SPI) for the project?

Is the project ahead of schedule or behind schedule? Is the project under budget or over budget?

Use the CPI to calculate the estimate at completion (EAC) for this project. Is the project performing better or worse than planned?

Use the SPI to estimate how long it will take to finish this project.

Part 3

Create a management report to discuss where the project stands in terms of the triple constraint: meeting scope, time, and cost goals at a specific point in time. Use the revised information from the Microsoft Project earned value dashboards and reports to communicate the project status to project stakeholders. Be sure the comments address each of the questions below and provide any additional information required in the template.

Are there issues that need to be escalated?

Is it acceptable to do nothing and simply proceed?

Should the project be terminated?

Based on your evaluation of the threats to the project, how should you proceed?

 

Identify the consequences of having dissatisfied employees and describe ways of applying the four theories of job satisfaction and how you would use them to boost job satisfaction. Discuss how intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors affect job satisfaction.

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Application of Theory

After working through the Theoretical Foundations Powerpoint, select only one of the theories and discuss its usefulness in the context of managing organizations.

Use online peer-reviewed journal research (case study research is best) to inform your writing, and to advance the theoretical discussion beyond what you encountered in the PowerPoint.

You may select a theory that you will eventually use elsewhere in the course.

Identify the consequences of having dissatisfied employees and describe ways of applying the four theories of job satisfaction and how you would use them to boost job satisfaction.

Discuss how intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors affect job satisfaction.

When answering consider how goals may help with job satisfaction and how to design jobs to enhance motivation.

 

From the findings above which area had the greater percentage of deaths? Why would there be a difference? If it is great, why so great or if not so great, why not?

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Primary Resource Exercise Primary Resourced Exercise Montgomery County – District 110 Washington Twp Mortality Census 1850.

Cholera Work sheet

Fill in the Deaths due to Cholera and calculate the percentage of deaths due to Cholera.

Township Number of Deaths Deaths due to Cholera Percentage due to Cholera Notes

City of Dayton 180

District 111 229 This district includes the Townships of: Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Miami & Perry

From the findings above which area had the greater percentage of deaths? Why would there be a difference? If it is great, why so great or if not so great, why not?

 

Assume that you are sending the same email to someone who is not at all familiar with the topic. Revise your original email to make it appropriate for this reader. In doing so, which email is longer? Which is more effective? And, why?

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This is based on order 751170

Terms here like ‘goodwill,’ ‘hostile takeover,’ and ‘due diligence’ are pretty commonly known, and not connected to one specific industry or line of work.

If you can write on medical terminology, it will be much better.

The original question is Write an email to a colleague who is also an expert on the subject. Include (and highlight) at least six jargon terms that flow easily into the context of your email.

Then, assume that you are sending the same email to someone who is not at all familiar with the topic. Revise your original email to make it appropriate for this reader. In doing so, which email is longer? Which is more effective? And, why?

Discuss a project you were involved in that was not successful. Explain why the project failed and what you think needed to be done to make it successful.

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Unit 7 discussion

Project management is essential for the operations in various industries such as information technology, hospitality, engineering, and others. Discuss a project you were involved in that was not successful. Explain why the project failed and what you think needed to be done to make it successful. This can be a project from work or a personal project.

Citing credible reference materials, including your course textbook(s), is highly recommended when providing your response.

Analyze two to three team performance challenges that may arise and what corrective action you may employ to keep the project on track. Discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of expanding globally from a leadership perspective.

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Unit 5 – Individual Project BPS

Your company has determined that the time is right to expand globally. As a corporate manager within the organization, you have been assigned to identify and select a team of five to ten members from within the organization to explore and identify two to three managerial challenges associated with global expansion. You have been given three months to assemble your team and create a PowerPoint presentation outlining your findings to the leadership team.

As the team leader, you realize you will need to identify how to successfully complete the assignment. Assuming you have completed the process of selecting your team, what are your next steps? Include in your strategy the following:

Analyze two to three team performance challenges that may arise and what corrective action you may employ to keep the project on track.
Discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of expanding globally from a leadership perspective.
Examine two management theories and discuss how each theory impacts managerial decisions from a global perspective.

Create a complete job description for the benefits manager position using O*NET. Calculate the job evaluation points for the administrative assistant, payroll assistant, operational analyst, and benefits manager jobs. Provide a rationale for assigning specific degrees to the various jobs.

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Human Resource considerations to business decision making.

You will prepare the SHRM case analysis on “Designing a Pay Structure,” which consists of your completion of Tasks A–J that simulate the creation of a compensation system for an organization in meeting its goals and supporting its mission. In your analysis, respond to the following tasks found in the case study by using Excel.

Your case analysis should consist of:

Task A: Create a complete job description for the benefits manager position using O*NET.

Task B: Calculate the job evaluation points for the administrative assistant, payroll assistant, operational analyst, and benefits manager jobs. Provide a rationale for assigning specific degrees to the various jobs.

Task C: If there were any outliers (i.e., extreme data points) in the data, what would you recommend doing with them? From this point forward, assume no extreme data points exist in the dataset.

Task D: Conduct a simple regression in Excel to create a market pay line by entering the job evaluation points (on the X axis) and the respective weighted average market base pay (on the Y axis) for each benchmark job.

Task E: What is your R squared (variance explained)? Is it sufficient to proceed?

Task F: Calculate the predicted base pay for each benchmark job.

Task G: Because your company wants to lead in base pay by 3%, adjust the predicted pay rates to determine the base pay rate you will offer for each benchmark job.

Task H: Create pay grades by combining any benchmark jobs that are substantially comparable for pay purposes. Clearly label your pay grades and explain why you combined any benchmark jobs to form a grade.

Task I: Use your answer to Task H to determine the pay range (i.e., minimum and maximum) for each pay grade.

Task J: Given the pay structure you have generated, consider the following: Does this pay structure make good business sense? Do you think it is consistent with the organization’s business strategy? What are the implications of this pay structure for other HR systems, such as retention and recruiting?

Your analysis of this case and your written submission should reflect an understanding of the critical issues of the case, integrating the material covered in the text, and present concise and well-reasoned justifications for the stance that you take. You are to complete this case analysis using Excel in a spreadsheet analysis format.