Using the force-field analysis model, discuss a change initiative that you are familiar with, and define the key driving forces and key restraining forces that impact the change.

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Force field analysis

Force-Field Analysis

Describe the concept of force-field analysis and the forces that either drive or restrain the change process. Using the force-field analysis model, discuss a change initiative that you are familiar with, and define the key driving forces and key restraining forces that impact the change.

Your paper should be three to four pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center, and it must include in-text citations and references for at least two scholarly sources from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library, in addition to the course text

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Waypoint Assignment Submission

What methods of training would be appropriate for your audience? Which training methods would you actually use based on the objectives? What activities will you use to engage your audience?

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Training Design and Objectives Part 2

You are to develop a training plan. Each student will identify an organization, You will then identify a training need of that organization (e.g. new system, new product, upskilling, customer service, etc.). This training must address an area in which the participants’ KSAs are at a lower than the desired level. It also must be an area in which the participants have at least a moderate desire to develop their KSAs. After you have identified the training need (Training Topic) you will answer these 7 questions. The organization identified is OFFICE DEPOT and The training Need identified is strategic problem solving (can add more details under this topic)

QUESTIONS

1. What might be some organizational constraints?

2. What is the overall budget for the training? Show the different line items. This might change as you go through with your project, that is fine.

3. What are the objectives of the training? Make sure they are specific and include behaviors, conditions, and standards.

4. What methods of training would be appropriate for your audience?

5. Which training methods would you actually use based on the objectives?

6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the training method(s) you will be using?

7. What activities will you use to engage your audience?

I’ve attached a document below to help with these questions from part 2

How does effective coaching contribute to improved outcomes in your organization? Are the outcomes related to individual employees, teams or groups?

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2.1 Discussion question

How does effective coaching contribute to improved outcomes in your organization? Are the outcomes related to individual employees, teams or groups? Ultimately, how does coaching impact patient outcomes? How do you know that coaching is making an impact? Substantiate your post using at least one research article.

Determine the most critical merger or acquisition that has contributed to Caterpillar’s performance and success in achieving organizational goals.

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Strategic Management Research Journal Part 4.

Write a 525- to 700- Microsoft word response to the following prompts in your journal entry. Remember the journal should be research written. Remember APA formatting is required, inclusive of the title page, level headings, 3rd person, and a thesis sentence. Do not focus on the word journal. Rather, complete each assignment using research writing format. :

Identify Caterpillar Inc.’s short-term and long-term goals.
Evaluate how mergers and acquisitions in the last 3-5 years have contributed to Caterpillar Inc.’s performance and affected its organizational goals.
Determine the most critical merger or acquisition that has contributed to Caterpillar’s performance and success in achieving organizational goals. Defend your choice.
Evaluate the effectiveness of Caterpillar’s operational plan for global strategies (international, multi-domestic, global-standardization, or transnational). Include supporting research or data.

Is the title appropriate? Does the article include: introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, references?

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Why Diversity Matters

Suggested questions for the Article Critique submissions Answer the following questions and write not more than a two-page critique for each of the articles that you select

  1. Is the title appropriate? Yes/No
  2. Is the article theoretical, empirical, or both? Theoretical/Empirical/Both/Practitioner oriented
  3. Does the article include: introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, references? Yes/List any missing item(s)
  4. Does the article introduce the problem or new concepts clearly? Clear/Unclear introduction
  5. Does the article address problems of significant concern to sustainability and/or social responsibility? Highly significant/Somewhat significant/Not significant
  6. List three important facts from the literature review that the author(s) use(s) to support the main idea(s) of their article. 1-, 2-, 3-, or lacks objective reasoning/uses biased or unreliable sources
  7. Are there any propositions or hypotheses? Yes/No If so, how many? Number
  8. If yes, then are propositions or hypotheses logically derived from the theory or conceptual framework? All logically derived/Some logically derived/None logically derived/No propositions/hypotheses
  9. Was the sample size sufficient? Yes/No/No sample size mentioned If not, then it should have been about.
  10. Did the author(s) draw correct conclusions from the study/sample/analysis of their research intentions/hypotheses? Yes, all correct/Yes, some correct/No, all wrong/No hypotheses were tested/Not applicable
  11. Was the discussion supported by appropriate statistical analysis? Based on statistics analysis/Purely conjectural/Not applicable
  12. List any examples of bias or faulty reasoning that you found in the article. Free of bias and supported by reliable sources/Speculative reasoning/Biased use of sources/Promoting a perspective
  13. What information or ideas discussed in this article are also considered in your textbook and/or presented in this class? 1-, 2-, 3-, or All-new information
  14. Managerial implications of the findings? Yes, practical use(s)/Limited application(s)/Not actionable
  15. Did the article make a significant contribution to sustainability and/or social responsibility literature/fields? Very significant/Somewhat significant/Not at all significant/Can not determine
  16. Your opinion/analysis/critique. Open-ended presentation

Explain the purpose and audience for the training. Describe a discrimination issue facing your workplace

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Memo to the CEO of the company

1. Describe a discrimination issue facing your workplace (you can focus on discrimination based on race, religion, ability, national origin, age, sex, etc.)

2. Propose a training session to address the problem. Be sure to detail:

Explain the purpose (routine/annual training, training conducted in response to a violation, etc.) and audience (executive leadership team, hiring managers, low-level managers, employees/staff, etc.) for the training
Include a description of the training
Include anticipated costs (time, etc.) and benefits (to the company, individual, etc.) of the training

Does the article include: introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, references? Yes/List any missing item

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Suggested questions for the Article Critique submissions.

Answer the following questions and write not more than a two-page critique for each of the articles that you select

  1. Is the title appropriate? Yes/No
  2. Is the article theoretical, empirical, or both? Theoretical/Empirical/Both/Practitioner oriented
  3. Does the article include: introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, references? Yes/List any missing item(s)
  4. Does the article introduce the problem or new concepts clearly? Clear/Unclear introduction
  5. Does the article address problems of significant concern to sustainability and/or social responsibility? Highly significant/Somewhat significant/Not significant
  6. List three important facts from the literature review that the author(s) use(s) to support the main idea(s) of their article. 1-, 2-, 3-, or lacks objective reasoning/uses biased or unreliable sources
  7. Are there any propositions or hypotheses? Yes/No If so, how many? Number___________.
  8. If yes, then are propositions or hypotheses logically derived from the theory or conceptual framework? All logically derived/Some logically derived/None logically derived/No propositions/hypotheses
  9. Was the sample size sufficient? Yes/No/No sample size mentioned If not, then it should have been about ____.
  10. Did the author(s) draw correct conclusions from the study/sample/analysis of their research intentions/hypotheses? Yes, all correct/Yes, some correct/No, all wrong/No hypotheses were tested/Not applicable
  11. Was the discussion supported by appropriate statistical analysis? Based on statistics analysis/Purely conjectural/Not applicable
  12. List any examples of bias or faulty reasoning that you found in the article. Free of bias and supported by reliable sources/Speculative reasoning/Biased use of sources/Promoting a perspective
  13. What information or ideas discussed in this article are also considered in your textbook and/or presented in this class? 1-, 2-, 3-, or All-new information
  14. Managerial implications of the findings? Yes, practical use(s)/Limited application(s)/Not actionable
  15. Did the article make a significant contribution to sustainability and/or social responsibility literature/fields? Very significant/Somewhat significant/Not at all significant/Can not determine
  16. Your opinion/analysis/critique. Open-ended presentation

would this be legal and ethical or illegal and unethical, or a combination of the two? How might you be viewed in the organization if you hire a less qualified person? What would you do?

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Look at each situation from the perspective of all groups concerned: customers, stockholders, employees, and community

Situations
1.You are a general manager of a cosmetics firm. The results of a study show that your major brand could cause skin cancer. From the different viewpoints stated above, is this legal and ethical or illegal and unethical, or a combination of the two, and what is the potential outcome of the company if it does nothing? What would be your recommendations and why?
2. You have the opportunity to offer a job to a friend who really needs it. Although you believe that the friend could perform adequately, there are more qualified applicants. From the different viewpoints stated above, would this be legal and ethical or illegal and unethical, or a combination of the two? How might you be viewed in the organization if you hire a less qualified person? What would you do? Explain your justification.Man’s shoes on pavement with word right and arrow and wrong and arrow going different directions.
3. You are the vice president of a beer company in a state that sets the legal drinking age at 21. Your boss asks you to organize a lobbying effort to have the drinking age reduced to 18. From the different viewpoints stated above, would this be legal and ethical or illegal and unethical, or a combination of the two? Does this violate the company’s social responsibility to the state and/or surrounding towns? What would you do? Explain your justification.
4. Because of a loophole in federal laws, you find that you could legally pay your workers less than the minimum wage. The cost savings you recommend may mean you’re getting a choice promotion. From the different viewpoints stated above, would this be legal and ethical or illegal and unethical, or a combination of the two? What would you do? Explain your justification.
Discuss at least two situations. Be sure to consider both short‑ and long‑range consequences.

Of the five styles of conflict management discussed in Shearhouse (2011) or Bauer and Erdogan (2011) which one do you think would be the best approach for Nick Cunningham to take?

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 A fictional case of a manager caught between a rock and hard place.

1.) Do you think this conflict that Nick Cunningham a fictional case of a manager caught between a rock and hard place. faces is functional or dysfunctional? Explain your reasoning, and cite Bauer and Erdogan (2011) or Luthans et al. (2015) in your answer.

2.) What is the source of this conflict? Use the terminology from Bauer and Erdogan (2011), or Luthans et al. (2015) in your answer. For example, is this conflict a result of relationship/interpersonal issues? Or from tasks/roles? Other?

3.)Of the five styles of conflict management discussed in Shearhouse (2011) or Bauer and Erdogan (2011) which one do you think would be the best approach for Nick Cunningham to take?

4.)What other advice would you give Nick Cunningham based on the concepts discussed in any of the background readings?

Did the negotiations involve integrative or distributive bargaining? What stages of negotiation did management go through, and did these stages match the five stages discussed in Bauer and Erdogan (2011)?

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Module 3 SLP

For the Module 3 SLP you will be applying the concepts you learned in the background materials regarding conflict and negotiation to a situation from your own personal experiences. Carefully review the background materials regarding types of conflict, causes of conflict, negotiation stages, and conflict management styles. It is important to first understand these comments from the background readings before starting this assignment.

Once you have thoroughly reviewed the background materials, think of a situation in the workplace where a conflict erupted and management had to intervene and some type of negotiation was involved. Then write a three page paper addressing the following four questions, and make sure to cite at least one of the required background readings for each of your four answers :

1.)Was this conflict functional or dysfunctional?

2.)What was the cause of the conflict? Use the terms from the background materials in your answer—for example, was the conflict a result of interpersonal issues, a specific task involved, due to inter-organizational issues, etc.

3.)Of the five approaches to conflict management outlined in Shearouse (2011) or Bauer and Erdogan (2011), which approach most closely describes the approach used by management to resolve this conflict?

4.)Did the negotiations involve integrative or distributive bargaining? What stages of negotiation did management go through, and did these stages match the five stages discussed in Bauer and Erdogan (2011)?