Written Assignment: Organization’s Strategic Plan •Write a 3-5 page paper summary of your organization’s strategic plan describing the following: ◦Any required organizational change management strategies that would enhance successful implementation. ◦Risk management plan, including contingency plans for identified risks.
Inferential Research Project
A few months ago, the upper management at a large corporation decided they wanted to make major changes in the organization. Leadership is concerned that employees may be resistant to the change, and they want to find out if there is a change management method that would help employees accept change more effectively and keep employee satisfaction high. Two methods they have considered are the ADKAR Framework and the Prosci Change Management Methodology. The company wants to implement a small change in two departments before they make any major organization changes and would like to test the methods. The corporation uses the Devine Company to measure employee satisfaction with an anonymous survey.
Write a 525- to 750-word paper that addresses the following for your chosen scenario:
• Clearly define the problem or issue you are addressing. Provide a brief background of any research you have found that might affect your research hypothesis.
• Create a research hypothesis based on the information provided in each scenario. You have been given a data set (Excel document) with two sets of interval data (just the numbers, as you must decide what they represent, such as method A results or method B results). This means you are going to test one thing against another, such as which method works best (step 1 of the steps to hypothesis testing). State the null and research hypotheses. Explain whether these hypotheses require a one-tailed test or two-tailed test, and explain your rationale.
• Describe the sample you will use. Sample size will be 30 for each group, which are provided in your data set. Explain what type of sampling you selected.
• Do you think you would also collect some descriptive data, such as gender, age, or shift? Why do you think it makes sense to collect descriptive data?
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
Example
You have a hypothesis that two drugs have different effects on lowering anxiety. You would have anxiety scores for drug A and anxiety scores for drug B (all after 4 weeks of treatment) to run inferential analysis for after 4 weeks.
• Null hypothesis is H0: drug A = drug B • Research hypothesis is H1: drug A ≠ drug B • Dependent variable: Anxiety score changed after treatment. • Independent variable: drug treatment
Because you did not state a direction in your hypotheses (better than or worse than), this will be a two-tailed test. You are looking for differences in either direction. You would set your alpha level of .05 and have a sample for each group of 30 people that were volunteers for the study.
Decision Analysis "expertsolution"
Compare the primary strengths and weaknesses of cost-benefit analysis (CBA), cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), and cost-utility analysis (CUA). Give your opinion on which method you believe to be the most effective in economic evaluation. Using the umbrella decision-making example on page 198 of the textbook, suppose the probability of rain is 0.6, the ruined clothes cost is $30, and the lost umbrella costs are $2. Come to a decision based upon these assumptions, and determine the break-even probability of rain.
Procurement Cost Reduction Strategy in Petroleum Field
Abstract
Table of Contents
1. Introduction (Terms of Reference) What the research project is to achieve?
• Research Rationale (Statement of Problem),
What is the underlying rationale and aim of your research? What in your experience prompted it? Why are you doing it?
• Objectives (Purpose of Research) What is the study trying to achieve (i.e. is your purpose to explore, describe, understand, explain, predict, change, or something else)?
• Research question (or propositions or hypotheses)
What is your research question(s)? or proposition(s)?
2 Critical Literature Review
(Indication of the literature that informs your research)
• Theoretical/conceptual frameworks (Role of theory)
3. Methodology and methods
4. Discussion
5. References & Bibliography
Strategic Operations Performance Objectives
Managing Operations and the Supply Chain
Assignment 1
| Assignment title: | Strategic Operations Performance Objectives |
| Words limit | 2000 words |
| Weighting: | 40% |
| Deadline: | |
| Feedback and Grades due: | |
| Resit date: |
Purpose of the Assessment
This assignment is designed to enable you to show an understanding of key strategic performance objectives of organisations in general. It also enables you to apply theory into practice by discussing operations performance improvements in a specific real-life business scenario with basis on key strategic performance objectives of operations.
Assessment Task
You are required to write a report based on a specific organisation of your choice. You can choose an organisation of any type (manufacturing or service), sector (private or public, e.g. a government agency or department) and size (small, medium or large corporation).
The report should address key theoretical and practical aspects related to the subject “Strategic Operations Performance Objectives”. The theoretical part of your report should provide a complete characterisation of the 5 key strategic operations performance objectives of organisations in general, namely: Quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost. Discuss the internal and external perspectives of these performance aspects, i.e. what they represent for organisations in general and what they represent for customers.
The practical part of your report should be developed through a specific discussion of how these performance aspects apply to the organisation of your choice, i.e. what each performance aspect mean in the specific context of your organisation and what are their relative importance for the organisation (i.e. most critical and less critical performance objectives for the organisation).
Finally, you are expected to identify performance shortcomings in the organisation being discussed in the light of the performance objectives being considered and propose possible improvements. Discuss the challenges you think the organisation may face to implement the suggested improvements.
Assessment Breakdown
- (10% of word count)
Introduce the company you have chosen to focus your report on. Describe- Which organisation is it?
- What are the main products and/or services provided by the organisation?
- Who are the main competitors and target customers?
- (45% of word count)
Provide a literature review on the subject of Strategic Operations Performance focusing on quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost aspects. You should draw from academic publications, books and business articles that are no older than 10 years. Address the question: Why are these performance objectives strategic for organisations in general? What are their internal and external perspectives?
- (45% word count)
Use the theoretical aspects characterised above as a basis to discuss practical aspects of your chosen organisation. Key issues/questions to be addressed in this part are:
- Characterise quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost aspects of your chosen organisation. The key question to address in this part is: What are the key quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost aspects of the company’s operations?
- Point out the relative importance of the performance aspects for your chosen organisation, i.e. from the 5 key operations performance objectives, which ones are most critically important for the organisation? And which ones are less critical?
- With basis on the performance aspects being discussed, point out organisation’s weaknesses, suggest improvements and discuss potential challenges to implement the improvements.
Assessment Submission
Your assignment must be word processed and presented in a report format with simple sub-headings. The word count should be 2000 words±10% (references and appendices are excluded from the count).
The Assignment report should have a Front Sheet showing your name, your student number, the module name, the module number, the assignment title, the module tutor’s name, the date and the word count.
All assignments will be submitted, graded and fed-back electronically via TURNITIN. Several submissions will be permitted before the hand-in date in order to enable you to refine the content in your report.
If you click on the “Submit Your Work” button on the Module NILE site you will find an explanation of the Submission and Grading Electronically process there.
Feedback on assignments in general will be provided to the whole group when marked assignments are returned. Feedback on assignments for each individual will be provided electronically via TURNITIN.
A student may obtain an individual appointment to discuss feedback with the tutor.
Assessment Guidance
The quality of your presentation and academic referencing is very important. Please, use the Harvard Referencing System.
Within your assignment your tutor will be looking for content that addresses the key elements of the assignment brief.
Try not to overcomplicate your answers by choosing a company that you know little about. Keep to simple processes that you know well.
Look at the Check list at the end of this brief. It shows the subheadings to use and offers a guide as to how the marks will be distributed.
Use the percentages as a guide to how to distribute your word count.
Academic Practice
This is an individual assignment. The University of Northampton policy will apply in all cases of copying, plagiarism or any other methods by which students have obtained (or attempted to obtain) an unfair advantage.
Support and guidance on assessments and academic integrity can be found from the following resources
SkillsHub: http://skillshub.northampton.ac.uk
CfAP: http://tinyurl.com/UoNCfAP
STRM046 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
“Report Content Checklist”
STUDENT NAME AND REPORT FRONT SHEET
DESCRIPTION OF ORGANISATION (10%)
– Identify the company, products/services, main customers and competitors
LITERATURE REVIEW (45%)
– Research literature on the 5 strategic performance objectives of organisations. Why are they strategic? What do they represent for organisations? What do they represent for customers?
APPLICATION OF CONCEPTS (45%)
– What are the key quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost aspects for the company of your choice? What are the most critical and the less critical ones for the type of your company business?
– Identify performance problems
– Propose solutions for the problems
– Discuss challenges to implement the proposed solutions
MAX WORD COUNT 2000 +/- 10%
Learning outcomes
The learning outcomes being addressed through this assignment are:
| Knowledge and Understanding: a) Investigate and critically evaluate the range of concepts and techniques available to operations managers so as to enable effective business decision making. b) Desmonstrate conceptual and practical understanding of the opportunities and constraints that organisational characteristics place on operations managers and on operational decision making in the supply chain context. c) Critically discuss and evaluate the theoretical and real life applications of topics in the indicative content, analysing and evaluating the benefits they offer to an organisation and the challenges to be overcome in implementing them. Subject- Specific Skills d) Critically evaluate the business relevance of the concept/topic studied, with a view to understanding the value of its adoption to an organisation. e) Design evidence-based and contextually relevant solutions to a range of case study scenarios to illustrate the applicability of the Operations Concepts, Tools and Techniques studied. f) Assess the capacity and capability of an organisation to deliver Quality and Value to Customers both internal and external to the organisation. Key Skills: g) Make discriminating use of a range of learning resources in order to solve problems within the domain of International Supply Chain and Operations Management. h) Communicate the solutions arrived at, and the critical evaluation underlying them. |
Managing Operations and the Supply Chain
Assignment 1
| Assignment title: | Strategic Operations Performance Objectives |
| Words limit | 2000 words |
| Weighting: | 40% |
| Deadline: | |
| Feedback and Grades due: | |
| Resit date: |
Purpose of the Assessment
This assignment is designed to enable you to show an understanding of key strategic performance objectives of organisations in general. It also enables you to apply theory into practice by discussing operations performance improvements in a specific real-life business scenario with basis on key strategic performance objectives of operations.
Assessment Task
You are required to write a report based on a specific organisation of your choice. You can choose an organisation of any type (manufacturing or service), sector (private or public, e.g. a government agency or department) and size (small, medium or large corporation).
The report should address key theoretical and practical aspects related to the subject “Strategic Operations Performance Objectives”. The theoretical part of your report should provide a complete characterisation of the 5 key strategic operations performance objectives of organisations in general, namely: Quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost. Discuss the internal and external perspectives of these performance aspects, i.e. what they represent for organisations in general and what they represent for customers.
The practical part of your report should be developed through a specific discussion of how these performance aspects apply to the organisation of your choice, i.e. what each performance aspect mean in the specific context of your organisation and what are their relative importance for the organisation (i.e. most critical and less critical performance objectives for the organisation).
Finally, you are expected to identify performance shortcomings in the organisation being discussed in the light of the performance objectives being considered and propose possible improvements. Discuss the challenges you think the organisation may face to implement the suggested improvements.
Assessment Breakdown
- (10% of word count)
Introduce the company you have chosen to focus your report on. Describe- Which organisation is it?
- What are the main products and/or services provided by the organisation?
- Who are the main competitors and target customers?
- (45% of word count)
Provide a literature review on the subject of Strategic Operations Performance focusing on quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost aspects. You should draw from academic publications, books and business articles that are no older than 10 years. Address the question: Why are these performance objectives strategic for organisations in general? What are their internal and external perspectives?
- (45% word count)
Use the theoretical aspects characterised above as a basis to discuss practical aspects of your chosen organisation. Key issues/questions to be addressed in this part are:
- Characterise quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost aspects of your chosen organisation. The key question to address in this part is: What are the key quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost aspects of the company’s operations?
- Point out the relative importance of the performance aspects for your chosen organisation, i.e. from the 5 key operations performance objectives, which ones are most critically important for the organisation? And which ones are less critical?
- With basis on the performance aspects being discussed, point out organisation’s weaknesses, suggest improvements and discuss potential challenges to implement the improvements.
Assessment Submission
Your assignment must be word processed and presented in a report format with simple sub-headings. The word count should be 2000 words±10% (references and appendices are excluded from the count).
The Assignment report should have a Front Sheet showing your name, your student number, the module name, the module number, the assignment title, the module tutor’s name, the date and the word count.
All assignments will be submitted, graded and fed-back electronically via TURNITIN. Several submissions will be permitted before the hand-in date in order to enable you to refine the content in your report.
If you click on the “Submit Your Work” button on the Module NILE site you will find an explanation of the Submission and Grading Electronically process there.
Feedback on assignments in general will be provided to the whole group when marked assignments are returned. Feedback on assignments for each individual will be provided electronically via TURNITIN.
A student may obtain an individual appointment to discuss feedback with the tutor.
Assessment Guidance
The quality of your presentation and academic referencing is very important. Please, use the Harvard Referencing System.
Within your assignment your tutor will be looking for content that addresses the key elements of the assignment brief.
Try not to overcomplicate your answers by choosing a company that you know little about. Keep to simple processes that you know well.
Look at the Check list at the end of this brief. It shows the subheadings to use and offers a guide as to how the marks will be distributed.
Use the percentages as a guide to how to distribute your word count.
Academic Practice
This is an individual assignment. The University of Northampton policy will apply in all cases of copying, plagiarism or any other methods by which students have obtained (or attempted to obtain) an unfair advantage.
Support and guidance on assessments and academic integrity can be found from the following resources
SkillsHub: http://skillshub.northampton.ac.uk
CfAP: http://tinyurl.com/UoNCfAP
STRM046 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
“Report Content Checklist”
STUDENT NAME AND REPORT FRONT SHEET
DESCRIPTION OF ORGANISATION (10%)
– Identify the company, products/services, main customers and competitors
LITERATURE REVIEW (45%)
– Research literature on the 5 strategic performance objectives of organisations. Why are they strategic? What do they represent for organisations? What do they represent for customers?
APPLICATION OF CONCEPTS (45%)
– What are the key quality, flexibility, speed, dependability and cost aspects for the company of your choice? What are the most critical and the less critical ones for the type of your company business?
– Identify performance problems
– Propose solutions for the problems
– Discuss challenges to implement the proposed solutions
MAX WORD COUNT 2000 +/- 10%
Learning outcomes
The learning outcomes being addressed through this assignment are:
| Knowledge and Understanding: a) Investigate and critically evaluate the range of concepts and techniques available to operations managers so as to enable effective business decision making. b) Desmonstrate conceptual and practical understanding of the opportunities and constraints that organisational characteristics place on operations managers and on operational decision making in the supply chain context. c) Critically discuss and evaluate the theoretical and real life applications of topics in the indicative content, analysing and evaluating the benefits they offer to an organisation and the challenges to be overcome in implementing them. Subject- Specific Skills d) Critically evaluate the business relevance of the concept/topic studied, with a view to understanding the value of its adoption to an organisation. e) Design evidence-based and contextually relevant solutions to a range of case study scenarios to illustrate the applicability of the Operations Concepts, Tools and Techniques studied. f) Assess the capacity and capability of an organisation to deliver Quality and Value to Customers both internal and external to the organisation. Key Skills: g) Make discriminating use of a range of learning resources in order to solve problems within the domain of International Supply Chain and Operations Management. h) Communicate the solutions arrived at, and the critical evaluation underlying them. |
Introduction to Public speaking
For this week’s discussion, give two examples of public speaking that you see every day. One example is a news anchor. Like us, news anchors present without being able to see their audience. Another example includes restaurant servers, because they may try to convince you to try a new item on the menu or special for that week. The ideas are endless!
Make your examples specific (give names and where you’ve seen these speakers, etc.). What makes your examples unique? What kind of public speaking skills (such as gestures or vocal delivery) impresses you about the speaker, or what turns you away? What can you tell us about the speaker’s style? Intonation? Language and expressions? Give us your thoughts!
In your initial post…
In approximately 150 words give two examples of an everyday speaker. Do your best not to duplicate another peer’s examples. You can do this by being specific. If you do have similar examples try and think of other observations of their public speaking skills that impress or turn you away.
Follow Up Posts
After your initial post, read over the examples from your peers. Select two different posts and address the following items in your responses:
Were these examples ones you see everyday or ones you hadn’t thought of? What makes these examples unique?
After reading the observations of the speaker’s public speaking skills, would you want to listen to these speakers? Why or not? (remember to be specific and expand on your thoughts).
What questions do you have about these speakers? Is there anything you want clarified regarding the observations of these speakers?
Politics
Discuss representation, participation, and voter turnout in local elections. What trends do you see, and what are their impacts.
essay should be at least 500 words in length and include an introduction, a body, and a conclusion
budjet essay
n NOT less than 300 words, respond to the following discussion questions:
Explain in few sentences how each of these heuristics applies to security:
a. Goal orientation (people want to pursue some task which isn’t security)
b. Confirmation bias (people believe they’re right, and search for evidence)
c. Compliance budget (People can only budget a certain amount of time for security)
add references
criticl thinking essay
You can imagine a scenario where you are a new employee. You are being introduced to your primary job task. There is a lot of information to process about the task, including understanding what technology is used to complete the job, how it is used exactly, what other departments are affected by you efficiently completing the tasks, who else is involved in your tasks, how your performance will be evaluated, and so on.
- You may prefer to learn your new job by shadowing someone who is familiar with the job and who can serve as a mentor. This will allow you to explore the job with your hands, and it will reveal the standard process for doing things (i.e., sensing).
On the other hand, you may prefer to be left alone after having a tutorial of your new job task. This will allow you to process all the information in your mind’s eye, and it will provide you with the opportunity to see what new skills you will develop and possibly alternative ways of completing the task (i.e., intuition).
Describe how you would prefer to process the information in this imaginary scenario. On the scale, are you close to the sensing side or the intuition side? What is another context where you can see yourself processing information as one of these two types?
theory and behavior business management
Just individual questions no need for cover page or anything.
1.Outline the main features of a global mindset, and justify its usefulness to employees and organizations. Share a related personal experience. (200 words)
2.Discuss how stereotyping, attribution, and self-fulfilling prophecy effects influence the perceptual process. Share a related personal experience (200 word)
3.What mental models do you have about attending a college or university lesson? Are these mental models helpful? Could any of these mental models hold you back from achieving the full benefit of the lesson? (200 word)
4.You are manager of a district that has just hired several recent university and college graduates. Most of these people are starting their first full-time job, although most or all have held part-time and summer positions in the past. They have general knowledge of their particular skill area (accounting, engineering, marketing, etc.) but know relatively little about specific business practices and developments. Explain how you would nurture the self-concepts in these new hires to strengthen their performance and maintain their psychological well-being. (200 word)