What is the process of strategic management and decision making? What types of control systems do managers use? What is the role of accounting information in strategic management?

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Strategic management

Q1 – What is the process of strategic management and decision making?

Q2 – What types of control systems do managers use?

Q3 – What is the role of accounting information in strategic management?

Q4 – What information is relevant for decision making?

Q5 – How does business risk affect management decision making?

Q6 – How do biases affect management decision making?

Q7 – How can managers make higher-quality decisions?

Q8 – What is ethical decision making, and why is it important?

 

Develop a programming budget estimate for a 100,000-square-foot warehouse, assuming a square-foot cost factor of $60 per square foot.

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Construction Cost Estimating

Assignment 1
Attached Files: A Assignment 1 Template.xls (222.5 KB)

Develop a programming budget estimate for a 100,000-square-foot warehouse, assuming a square-foot cost factor of $60 per square foot. The site will be about 200,000 square feet with a site development cost of $3 per square foot. Use the following allowances to prepare your budget estimate:

  • – Owner-furnished FFE: $1,000,000
  • – Owner soft costs: $800,000
  • – Programming fees: $50,000
  • – Geotechnical Investigation: $390,000

Based on the self-assessment, what is your leadership style; Do you agree or disagree with the results presented? Explain.

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Management Leadership Development critical thinking

This assignment has four parts:

PART I

Understanding our leadership styles will help us maximize our skills. This will also help us evaluate our effectiveness in specific leadership situations.

Not all leadership styles are as effective in the same situations. Understanding the best leadership style for each situation will help us create effective strategies to achieve organizational goals.

As part of this assignment, you are asked to take the following self-assessment from MindTools website (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/leadership-style-quiz.htm) to determine your leadership style.

Once you have completed the self-assessment, please answer the following questions:

  • Based on the self-assessment, what is your leadership style; Do you agree or disagree with the results presented? Explain.
  • Based on the readings you did this week on Leadership Styles, describe three characteristics and skills associated with your leadership style (provide in-text citations)
  • Describe a situation where your leadership skills helped you.
  • How can your leadership style create a stronger workplace environment
  • How can you enhance your leadership style to better improve your organizational culture?

PART II

  • Which of John Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership most resonates with you and why; please provide an example of why.
  • Describe a KSA leader that embodies one of the 21 Laws and describe why (provide at least two sources)

PART III

In the article by Nitin Nhria assigned this week, the author states that “as the world shifts, so should leaders”

  • In what ways have you, or will you ,shift as a leader?
  • Describe how SaudiVision2030 is shifting KSA. How is the leader enabling this shift?
  • Describe a KSA leader that has shifted (as per the article) as a leader in the past few years (provide at least two sources)

PART IV

In the Video this week Simon Sinek talks about how great leaders inspire action

  • How do you inspire action?
  • One of the main themes of the video assigned, Sinkex profeses, is that “people don’t buy what you do, they by why you do it”
  • Explain your company’s why
  • Explain your personal why
  • Describe a KSA company that really embodies they “why” instead of the “what”(provide at least two sources)

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

Be 5-8 pages in length (double-spaced), which does not include the title and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.

writing standards and APA style guidelines.

Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook or readings from this week and at least four current, scholarly, or contemporary, articles. Current articles for this assignment are those published within the last three years.

It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments to the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment to the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check–Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.

In advance of submission, review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

Avoid Palaigrsim

 

fine your short-term post-MBA career goals. How are your professional strengths, past experience, and personal attributes aligned with these goals?

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Application Essay

Essay 1.  Post-MBA Career Goals:  Define your short-term post-MBA career goals. How are your professional strengths, past experience, and personal attributes aligned with these goals? (300 word limit)

Provide a specific example of your leadership and explain what you learned about yourself through the experience.

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Leadership

Essay 2.  Leadership in Business: The business school is named for Roberto C. Goizueta, a former Chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company who led the organization for 16 years, extending its global reach, quadrupling consumption, building brand responsibility, creating unprecedented shareholder wealth, and demonstrating a commitment to values and positive impact on society.  Roberto Goizueta’s core values guide us in educating principled leaders to have a positive influence on business and society.  Provide a specific example of your leadership and explain what you learned about yourself through the experience.  (300 word limit)

Discuss the role of present technology and its Impact on the Leanness of E-Procurement Processes. Examine and Outline the major issues being faced by supply chain managers and how it affects the companies they work for.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Background information:

The supply chain profession entered the year leading the digitalization of ecosystems, delivering the customer experience, managing trade uncertainty, and applying circular economy concepts.Digital technologies have deeply changed the way societies exchange information and interact with each other Technological novelties have altered how people communicate and share information. Technology has driven enterprises to the next level by helping in many ways starting from automating repetitive activities, eliminating errors, and last but not least to help in decision making. The use of technology will surely bring down the challenges and issues, related to customer expectations, managing their suppliers,maintaining the quality standards, and access to supply chain data faced by Supply Chain leaders year-on-year.The evolution of SCM is being driven by new information technologies, including Big Data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), radio frequency identification (RFID), 3-D printing, robotics, global digital networks, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality. Global supply chain flows will become increasingly digital and integrated, and end-to-end data will be driven in real-time, exponentially increasing upstream information flows.” This new paradigm calls for a new management culture. We call this management culture “Supply Chain Management 4.0.” This novel technology will affect the logistics, supply chains, manufacturing, and transportation industries. Therefore, the future of every industry will be open to innovation and technology. Every industry is going through a rapid transformation that appeared with the fourth industrial revolution. As a Project manager what measures are you going to take for your organization under below mentioned critical questions:

Critical Question(s)

Ques-1-Looking ahead to 2023 and beyond, what does the future hold for the supply chain? (3- Marks)

Ques-2-Discuss the role of present technology and its Impact on the Leanness of E-Procurement Processes. (3- Marks)

Ques-3-Examine and Outline the major issues being faced by supply chain managers and how it affects the companies they work for. (3- Marks)

Ques-4- Discuss, Information technology offers many valuable capabilities to the enterprise, especially in E-Auction / Negotiation. (3- Marks)

Ques-5-Analyse what are the future necessities in the field of SCM4.0 applied to sustainable supply chain management. (3- Marks

 

Drawing on Bader, Schuster and Dickmann (2019), outline the risks for expatriates travelling to Chile and Brazil and make some recommendations for mitigating these.

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Risks for expatriates travelling

Drawing on Bader, Schuster and Dickmann (2019), outline the risks for expatriates travelling to Chile and Brazil and make some recommendations for mitigating these.

 

How did you analyze primary and secondary sources on the issue? What questions did you ask about the documents? How did you identify the facts to make your point? What did you learn from the documents about the history of your issue?

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

  1. Choose the issue that you want to investigate for your presentation. Select one issue from the following list to research:
    • Climate change
    • Pollution
    • Deforestation
  2. Research your issue.
    • Read and analyze the resources about your chosen issue in the the Primary and Secondary Sources for United Nations Briefing PDF document. These resources provide important historical context for current discussions about these issues that you’ll want to discuss in your presentation.
    • Note: You can do some of your own research to add to the resources provided. If you decide to do so, make sure that you choose reliable sources.
  3. Present your issue. For this project, create 8–12 slides with speaker notes. To learn more about creating a presentation, refer to the Supporting Materials section. Remember to cite your sources.

    In your presentation, Dr. Turner has asked you to do the following:

    • Describe your chosen issue.
    • Describe your research approach.
      • How did you analyze primary and secondary sources on the issue? What questions did you ask about the documents?
      • How did you identify the facts to make your point? What did you learn from the documents about the history of your issue?
    • Analyze your issue.
      • What is the history of the issue? Describe the issue based on your analysis of the primary and secondary sources that you researched.
      • How have historians described and interpreted this issue in the past? How has this changed over time? (Note: Be sure to discuss multiple perspectives and focus on how these perspectives changed over time.)
      • How did various groups present the issue throughout history (including social, economic, and political interests)? Have these presentations changed or remained the same over time?
    • Relate your issue to the present.
      • How does the history of your issue relate to current circumstances?
      • What are the similarities and differences between past and present?
    • Explain how history informs current discussions about the topic.
      • How could historical context and inquiry inform current discussion and future decisions about your issue? Historical context refers to the norms and values of a particular time in history. For example: Take the current issue of expanding voting rights to prisoners in the United States. When analyzing this issue, it’s important to consider the historical context of voting rights in this country. In 1865, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution gave African American men the right to vote. In 1920, women were given the right to vote by the 19th Amendment. Understanding this context can help inform your discussion of the issue.

What to Submit

Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed.

Presentation

For this project, you will create a presentation with 8-12 slides and speaker notes.

 

What are the activities and tasks given to you during this month? What skills did you learn through the month? How many meetings did you attend?

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PERIODIC REPORT

What are the activities and tasks given to you during this month?

What skills did you learn through the month?

How many meetings did you attend?

What are the difficulties you had this month?

How did you overcome these difficulties?

What did you learn from completing the tasks

What did you want to learn more?

 

Do you think electric cars may become a viable alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles? What is the future of the electric car? Explain your answer especially in the context of KSA as Saudi Arabia is moving towards carbon free economy.

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Critical Thinking

 The Chinese company BYD is pursuing electric cars and hopes to become the world’s largest car company. With the financial support of American Warren Buffett, the company, which has only been in existence for a few years mostly making batteries, has caught the attention of not only Mr. Buffett but also many in the auto industry.

ELECTRIC AND HYBRID CARS

 Electric cars (also known as electric vehicles or EVs) rely exclusively on battery power. With an all-electric EV there is no internal combustion engine, muffler, gasoline tank, air and fuel filters, and other parts needed to run a gasoline powered system. The vehicle itself also produces no tailpipe emissions, and by getting its power from an efficient utility company, overall, it produces fewer greenhouse gases. This is especially true if the electricity is produced with nuclear power, clean coal, or natural gas. EVs are also less expensive to fuel on a per mile basis. Electric cars, however, have a shorter driving range and are difficult to operate with long distance travel.

There are also some safety concerns associated with using a lithium-ion battery, as lithium is a highly reactive material prone to explosion

1.Do you think electric cars may become a viable alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles? What is the future of the electric car? Explain your answer especially in the context of KSA as Saudi Arabia is moving towards carbon free economy. (5 Marks)

2.Given a business strategy of being the word leader in manufacturing electric cars with innovative technology, what operations and supply chain strategy do you think BYD should pursue? Identify what operations and supply chain should do to help BYD compete including a mission, objectives, distinctive competence, and key decisions.

(5 Marks)

3.How electric car will be useful in Saudi Arabia’s Neom city project to achieve          Kingdom’s vision?  (5 Marks)

Note:   Go to the company website and answer the above questions. This is just an advice. You may surf net , company report, Saudi vision 2030 to answer the questions.