Pro-Social Behavior

Visit the website of The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, an organization dedicated to altruistic pursuits. Review the information, literature, and downloadable documents. Design your own assignment in which you implement five acts of kindness (pro-social behavior). Use your discretion, common sense, and modesty at all times. Do not put yourself in an environment of potential danger or harm to yourself. Write a paper of 500-750 words in which you describe what you did, how, where, to whom, and what reactions you perceived from others and yourself. What did you learn about prosocial behavior from this exercise in light of the material in this module’s readings and lecture material? Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. webiste: http://www.actsofkindness.org

Influencing Performance

Prepare a 2-3 page double spaced paper (or 1-1.5 single spaced) titled Influencing Performance. Compose your paper in Microsoft Word. Format your paper and cite ALL sources according to APA guidelines. ​Discuss the following in your paper: How could your organization better enhance individual motivation and performance beyond what it is currently doing. Justify your reasoning. Describe one method effective leaders can use to improve individual and/or group performance in your organization. Include the role of theory in your discussion. Describe an experience in which you felt empowered to use your decision making skills or to express your creativity in your work environment. Support your analysis with a minimum of 2-3 appropriate, using scholarly articles. Use weekly enrichment readings, and library resources.

Groundswell

Li, C., & Bernoff, J. (2008). Why the Groundswell—and Why Now? Women In Business, 60(4), 29-33. Retrieved from http://library.immaculata.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ofm&AN=510828838&site=ehost-live In OmniFile Full Text Mega database in Gabriele Library. In an initial message of 200-300 words by Day 3, respond to ONE of the following question sets: What does “groundswell” mean to you? Where do you fit into the Social Technographics Profile? Which social media do you belong to or regularly use? Do you foresee yourself changing your profile position? How do you see our society changing between categories in the next five years? Explain the POST process for implementing a groundswell strategy. Why is it an important first step that a company should take? What could be added to it to make it more comprehensive? As you reply by Day 7, identify the likely challenges of a company that is attempting to develop a company-wide corporate intelligence. What factors might inhibit such a goal? What kinds of tactics might company leaders employ to encourage cultural intelligence? Does cultural intelligence have a place in every company? Why or why not?

PROJECT

The Fig Technologies Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has asked you to compile a report regarding the age demographics within the organization. Your findings are that employees between the ages of 18 to 25 comprise 11% of the workforce, employees 26 to 39 comprise 31%, employees 35 to 55 comprise 34%, employees 56 to 69 compose 18%, and the remainder are age 69 and above. You have been asked to compile a report regarding the advantages and disadvantages of developing a younger workforce in both professional and nonprofessional positions as well as for older employees 65 and above. Be sure to discuss age legislation and how this will affect any decisions the company may face. You must include a minimum of one outside resource for this component. This component of the report should be one to two pages included into the final report. The second part of this assignment is to submit the comprehensive research that you have compiled throughout your consulting contract over the past seven units. You are to provide a comprehensive report of the previous studies. Please add an executive summary of the steps for improving organizational diversity to the report being submitted to the ELC. The executive summary should be approximately half of a page. The report is the compilation of the previous project assignments. Please review these assignments, making any corrections based on instructor feedback. Add any transitions along with headers and sub-headers. Specific headings and sections should include the following: Executive Summary, Fair Treatment of Ethnicities, Benefits of Organizational Diversity, Improving Organizational Culture, Gender and Work-Life Balance, and Age Demographics. Your comprehensive report should include a title page and reference page. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

Analyzing the Decision-Making and Problem-Solving Processes

Compose a 1-page paper single spaced (or two page paper double spaced) in Microsoft Word that addresses the following key items: Provides your personal definition of effective decision making and problem solving. Describes the most important steps involved with the decision making process and the process of problem solving. Include the following elements in your description: What is the focus of these processes as defined by your readings? When should you use problem solving and/or decision making? What strengths and benefits do each of these processes offer business leaders? Conclude your paper with a paragraph that summarizes how your thoughts have changed or been enhanced as a result of your readings and the outcome of your assignment work regarding the decision making and problem solving processes. Format your paper and cite ALL sources according to APA guidelines.

Organizational Interventions

Organizational Interventions Submit a two- to three-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), describing two types of Organizational Interventions used by corporations and the issues they address. Compare and contrast the interventions utilized by the corporations in your articles. You must use at least two scholarly sources (which may be your scholarly/academic journal articles regarding Organizational Interventions), in addition to the textbook, and be formatted according to APA style guidelines

business plan

Select two business plans from the following websites, or elsewhere: http://www.businessplanarchive.orghttp://www.bplans.com http://www.businessplans.org Analyse and evaluate them (including comparison/contrast between the two), the report should include: A brief description – maximum 1 page each Identification of the three strongest components of each plan (and why) Identification of the three weakest components of each plan (and why) Suggestions on how the business plans could have been improved List of challenges faced and how you overcame them A statement of five lessons you have learnt about business planning. Indicate the competencies you believe you may have demonstrated and to what extent.

Project Report

A man working at a local restaurant wants to buy a new vehicle. He is a father of two and drops his children off at school each morning on his way to work. He also regularly has to collect produce from the market for the restaurant. Each year he takes his wife and family away on holiday in the caravan. The vehicle he currently has is very costly to run and it getting old, so he would like to get something to save money in the long run. You need to decide which vehicle the man should purchase and why this would be best suited to his needs. Report should include: project title; aim/objectives; methods/research carried out; proposed findings/solution, project limitations and references.