Explain two current threats that potentially could threaten Southwest’s business operations.

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Your essay should be at least two (2) pages, double-spaced with proper references and adhere to citing format per APA guidelines. Use at least two (2) scholarly sources with

Review the company’s information from their website and search for information from the Hunt Library. Respond to the following in an essay format:

From your assessment of Southwest Airlines, identify and describe in detail at least one of Porter’s generic competitive strategies Southwest has been using.
Assess Southwest’s opportunities and threats.

Describe a plan for implementing at least one opportunity strategy.

Explain two current threats that potentially could threaten Southwest’s business operations.

Now that you’ve identified one of Porter’s competitive strategies and assessed Southwest’s opportunities and threats, describe at least one recommendation for Southwest to be more competitive in a global market.

Examine the components of individual and small-group communication, including verbal (oral) and nonverbal communication.

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Building a Coalition for Emergency Preparedness

Communication: The Glue That Binds Us Together

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
• Provide a working definition of communication.

• Address the manager’s critical role in employee communication.

• Review the common means of communication used in the work setting.

• Provide guidelines for the proper use of electronic mail (e–mail) and social media.

• Examine the components of individual and small–group communication, including
verbal (oral) and nonverbal communication.

• Enumerate the essential components of successful interpersonal communication.

• Review means of fostering, enhancing, and improving interpersonal communication
and overcoming barriers to individual communication.

• Provide guidelines for personal improvement in using written communication in its
various forms.

• Present the fundamentals of organization communication, including both formal and informal communication.

• Differentiate between formal and informal communication in the organizational
setting.

• Review the commonly encountered barriers to effective communication in the
organizational setting.

What role did the company’s Chief Financial Officer play in creating the problems that led to Enron’s financial problems?

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Monsanto Attempts to Balance Stakeholder Interests

How did the corporate culture of Enron contribute to its bankruptcy?

In what ways did Enron’s bankers, auditors, and attorneys contribute to Enron’s demise?

What role did the company’s Chief Financial Officer play in creating the problems that led to Enron’s financial problems?

Identify the company’s key resources and/or capabilities (at least four) and assess the competitive power of each of those resources and/or capabilities using VRIN Test.

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Strategic Management | Capstone assessment – Written report submission

In preparation for this assessment, you are required to read the following article (attached)

Dobbs, ME 2014, ‘Guidelines for applying Porters Five Forces Framework: A set of Industry Analysis Templates’, Competitiveness Review, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 32–45.

Your task is to undertake a strategic planning exercise for your own organization, or for an organization with which you are familiar.

For this assignment, you are required to conduct a detailed assessment of various components of the strategic management process and suggest which business strategy you believe will be the most appropriate for your chosen organization and explain why.
Clearly describe the chosen organization and industry.

Identify the company’s key resources and/or capabilities (at least four) and assess the competitive power of each of those resources and/or capabilities using VRIN Test.

Analyze its competitive environment using Porter’s Five Forces Framework, assess the nature /strength of the competitive pressures and suggest whether collective strength of the five forces (in your chosen industry) is conducive to good value for the organization.

The scholarship article by Dobbs (2014), ‘Guidelines for applying Porter’s Five Forces Framework’, provides a comprehensive, structured and practical set of templates that can be used by managers to analyse the competitive environment in their industry.

You must use the templates provided in the scholarship article to strengthen your analysis in this part. Here is the Dobbs (2014) editable framework from Appendix 01 (attached) of the article.

Based on your analysis, recommend which of the five generic strategies will be most appropriate for your chosen organisation and provide justification for your recommended choice.

Critically evaluate the following two components of strategy execution in the specific context of your chosen organisation and discuss their appropriateness for the recommended strategy:

Organisation culture

Leadership

Provide an overall conclusion and recommendations.

Template attached

Module reading attached

appendix 01 attached

article attached

example assignment attached

style guide attached

What are barriers women face when aspiring to a leadership position in public education.

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What are barriers women face when aspiring to a leadership position in public education

Explain how this scholarship will assist your educational pursuits?

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Explain how this scholarship will assist your educational pursuits?

Discuss Organizational Information Systems and experimental study of managers knowledge of IT based on the additional materials below (Rainer, R. Kelly.

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Organizational Information Systems and experimental study of managers’ knowledge

Discuss Organizational Information Systems and experimental study of managers knowledge of IT based on the additional materials below (Rainer, R. Kelly.

Introduction to Information Systems. include 3 quotes from the pictures below and 3 quotes from outside information at minimum

 

Describe considerations that should be considered when assessing an older person

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Explain (1500 words), how to support a patient with dementia. You should include.

• Describe the ageing process and how

• Summarize health and social care support available to older people

• Describe considerations that should be considered when assessing an older person

How might each be appropriate in healthcare research and evidence-based management?

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1. Differentiate between qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research designs.

What are the benefits of each research method? How might each be appropriate in healthcare research and evidence-based management?

As always, provide substantive support of your views and opinions using appropriate research articles.

2. What constitutes valid, reliable, and relevant evidence? Why is it necessary to always consider the validity, reliability, and relevance of a research study?

As you explain why a systematic appraisal of the evidence is necessary, consider the alternative to valid, reliable, and relevant evidence and the potential resulting outcomes.

As always, provide substantive support of your views and opinions using appropriate research articles.

Identify a minimum of 5 relevant research articles and provide the required information for each using the BHMC 346 Literature Review Matrix Template.

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Literature Research Paper
A screenshot of the first page of your search results.
Here is a link if you need help with a Screenshot:

Part 2– Problem Statement
Re-state your problem statement. If you revised your problem statement from Week  identify the original problem statement, followed by the revised version.

Part 3 – Literature Matrix
Identify a minimum of 5 relevant research articles and provide the required information for each using the BHMC 346 Literature Review Matrix Template.

Include:
APA reference for the article.
Purpose statement – what was the purpose of the study?

Sample – who were the subjects in the study?

Research Design/Methodology – Identify the type of research design used in the study (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods)

Provide a brief justification (single paragraph) for including the research article in support of your problem statement.

You should group “like articles” together. For example, if you have two articles about the same topic, put those together or label them somehow as being related.

APA formatting for this assignment is not required except where noted. No additional resources are required.

Assignment Objectives:
Employ principles of an inquiry relevant to your problem statement.

Perform an efficient and effective literature search resulting in a specified number of relevant articles.

Demonstrate professionalism and accountability through timely completion and submission of the assignment.

Review the demos on conducting an Efficient Literature Search and the EBSCO

Tutorial, and then perform a literature search using the Bellevue University Library.

HINT: When conducting a literature search, make sure you click on the first 2 boxes in the top left of the search page under Refine Your Search.
Items with full text online.