What key messages would you deliver concerning the importance of public service?

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Harness the Power of Public Service (Video)

President Bill Clinton addresses Rutgers University students regarding the value of public service and civic engagement. Access the following website and watch the video.

What key messages would you deliver concerning the importance of public service?

Augment your answer with information from other videos on this site that deal with the impact of public service on community building.

Rutgers Newark Public Service, “Harness the Power of Public Service,” September 29, 2009, www.youtube.com/RUPubServe

 

Discuss the evolution of the ethical concept. Critically elaborate the theories of ethics as discussed by the author. Evaluate on how ethics is related with social responsibility with references.

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Business Ethics

Read the article entitled “Ethics and Social Responsibility in Justice Decision Making”, José Poças Rascão, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal, International Journal of Responsible Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making Volume 1 • Issue 2 • July-December 2019.

Available in SDL and answer the following questions:

Discuss the evolution of the ethical concept (4 Marks).

Critically elaborate the theories of ethics as discussed by the author (7 Marks). (800 words)

Evaluate on how ethics is related with social responsibility with references (4 Marks). (500 words)

 

What activities would be conducted centrally and which would you decentralize? How would the shifts in this method of decision-making and management that you suggest impact the company overall?

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Management question

Sherry Smith is the president/CEO of Tiller Components. She founded the firm and has led it to become an industry leader in the area of automobile manufacturing components and parts. The company has plants in over 35 areas across the country. Smith is finding that she cannot manage and stay on track with things the way she was able to in the past.

Discuss the decision-making approaches (centralized and decentralized) that you might use if you were the CEO of Tiller Components and how this would affect the different local and regional managers.

What activities would be conducted centrally and which would you decentralize?

How would the shifts in this method of decision-making and management that you suggest impact the company overall?

 

Discuss your role as a change agent in your current organization, including your traits and characteristics. If you are not a change agent, discuss what type of change agent would benefit your organization.

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Management question

One of the most fascinating components of the change management process is the change agent. The change agent, who can be a leader, manager, employee, consultant, or customer, is a person who is often at the center of the change management process and performs several critical functions in the overall process. Are you a change agent?

  • Discuss your role as a change agent in your current organization, including your traits and characteristics. If you are not a change agent, discuss what type of change agent would benefit your organization.
  • Share how you influenced the generation, direction, success, or failure of a change initiative.
  • Finally, discuss challenges you have as a change agent (e.g., not agreeing with the change, management not truthfully sharing the repercussions of the change, etc.).

 

What are the major barriers before launching into e-commerce?

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Management question

Watch the short video at the following link

What are the major barriers before launching into e-commerce?

 

Briefly explain (in less than a page) what you personally found most interesting about the article, and what you want to remember from the article as you move forward in your career.

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Management question

ONLY READ THE ARTICLE “HOW WILL YOU MEASURE YOUR LIFE?” FROM PAGE 10 – 21 FROM THE PDF!!! (or just look at the contents)

Briefly explain (in less than a page) what you personally found most interesting about the article, and what you want to remember from the article as you move forward in your career. If you dislike and disagree with the article fully, you can say that as well – but you need to explain/defend your stance in this case. You may think of this as a “journaling” assignment if you would like – it is intended to be more for your personal benefit than for a grade

 

Consider the following two-dimensional matrix with weights on the y-axis and ratings on the x-axis, as given in Figure 3-5. What are example opportunities and threats that could possibly characterize Sam’s Club in China in the four corners of the matrix? Develop a hypothetical opportunity and threat for Sams’s that could be positioned in each of the four corners of the matrix.

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Sam’s Club pp.91-92

Questions

  1. Consider the following two-dimensional matrix with weights on the y-axis and ratings on the x-axis, as given in Figure 3-5. What are example opportunities and threats that could possibly characterize Sam’s Club in China in the four corners of the matrix? Develop a hypothetical opportunity and threat for Sams’s that could be positioned in each of the four corners of the matrix.
  2. Give a supporting rationale for each factor. Which corner of the matrix do you think characterizes factors most commonly in an EFE Matrix? Why? Which corner of the matrix do you think characterizes factors least commonly in an EFE Matrix? Why? What could you say about the middle of the matrix in terms of factors commonly included in an EFE Matrix?

Book Name: David, Fred, R. et al. Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts and Cases. Available from: VitalSource Bookshelf, (17th Edition). Pearson Education (US), 2019.

Book Link: https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9780135203736/epubcfi/6/186[%3Bvnd.vst.idref%3DP7001015636000000000000000001C96]!/4

Remember to use the guidelines provided in “How to Prepare and Present a Case Analysis” (pp. 349-356), and answer all questions included with this case. Must be 1-3 sources cited in APA format.

 

Identify the major parts and limitations of the traditional performance management process. Discuss the features of a continuous performance management process and why companies are adopting this approach.

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Performance management

  1. Identify the major parts and limitations of the traditional performance management process.
  2. Discuss the features of a continuous performance management process and why companies are adopting this approach.
  3.  Discuss the six purposes of performance management.
  4. Identify the five criteria for effective performance management systems
  5. Discuss the five approaches to performance management, the specific techniques used in each approach, and the way these approaches compare with the criteria for effective performance management systems.
  6. Choose the most effective approach to performance measurement for a given situation.
  7. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different sources of performance information.
  8. Choose the most effective source(s) for performance information for any situation.
  9. Discuss the potential advantages of social performance management and electronic monitoring for performance management.
  10. Distinguish types of rating errors, and explain how to minimize each in a performance evaluation. Conduct an effective performance feedback session.
  11. Identify the cause of a performance problem.

 

Discuss how to align a company’s strategic direction with its human resource planning. Determine the labor demand for workers in various job categories.

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Company’s strategic direction

LO 5-1 Discuss how to align a company’s strategic direction with its human resource planning.

LO 5-2 Determine the labor demand for workers in various job categories.

LO 5-3 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various ways of eliminating a labor surplus and avoiding a labor shortage.

LO 5-4 Describe the various recruitment policies that organizations adopt to make job vacancies more attractive.

LO 5-5 List the various sources from which job applicants can be drawn, their relative advantages and disadvantages, and the methods for evaluating them.

LO 5-6 Explain the recruiter’s role in the recruitment process, the limits the recruiter faces, and the opportunities available.

Describe characteristics of cultural intelligence, its importance for global business leaders, and approaches to developing it. Explain the major cultural dimensions and related communication practices.

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Cultural  intelligence

  1. Describe characteristics of cultural intelligence, its importance for global business leaders, and approaches to developing it.
  2. Explain the major cultural dimensions and related communication practices.
  3. Name and describe key categories of business etiquette in the intercultural communication process.
  4. Identify how generational, gender, and other aspects of diversity affect workplace communication.