Imagine that your training plans are not yielding the expected results in learning. There has been discussion with the leadership team about issues with employees not being motivated to learn. Your team has been asked by the HR Director to investigate what may be causing the lack of motivation. Your investigation should consider barriers to learning, motivational theories, and alternatives for enhancing employee motivation.
Create a report of no more than 300 words that summarizes the motivational theories. Write a report that includes the following components: • A comparison of motivational theories • Alternatives that should be considered to enhance learner motivation
Select a business company supplying a product/service. Identify factors likely to affect the purchasing behavior of customers in your target market when purchasing your chosen product/service. how the business company might influence & respond to behaviors
Take a blue ocean approach to the business of your company, and ask if it could and/or should change its business level-strategy by eliminating, reducing, rising or creating factors related to its product offering.
Key Assignment For this assignment, select a real company in the fast food industry.
You have just been hired by (your selected company) as its new vice president of strategic planning. The corporation’s performance in recent years as well as the changes with business and economic conditions will be a central focus of your new job.
Given the size of the corporation and the fact that it is in a highly competitive industry, the chief executive officer (CEO) to whom you report has already given you permission to hire a staff of recent Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates to assist you in your efforts. You recently completed the interviewing and hired four people with minimal real business experience.
In coming months, you and your team will be creating a completely new—and, presumably, more effective—strategic plan. You plan to begin by holding a kick-off meeting with your team. Deliverable Length: 1,000–1,250 words To feel confident that all of the employees in your strategic planning team understand all that you have taught them, you require each to prepare a streamlined version of the key elements of a strategic plan. You require each employee to prepare the following sections of a strategic plan for the corporation's next 3-5 years: Mission and Vision Statements (Simply copying from an existing real company is unacceptable.) Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound (SMART) Goals and Objectives Industry Analysis Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends (SWOTT) Analysis A Perceptual Map Choose any criteria that you think are important to plot. Explain why you picked the criteria. Your task is to create a plan, following the same parameters, which will be the sample standard that your employees' submissions should match.
Recruitment guide and analyze the effective methods used for recruitment in the Tanglewood Regions
For this assignment it is required to create a recruiting guide for the Store Association Position. The instructions state that it is not the same situation as in the textbook. Be creative in your development of the final message to new recruits, a short memo is appropriate. Be aware of the major outcomes of recruiting. Think of some alternative recruiting outcomes. The interpretation and application of the information is more important that the process. I have attached multiple documents to help you complete this assignment. There is no word count limit but make sure that you are clear with your interpretation, arguments and consideration.
define issue(s) within the company you are analyzing, discuss the impact on business -create action plan to fix the issue(s) -use metrics to determine projected outcome of your solution
Just answer each question 1. Briefly describe the technologies that are leading businesses into the third wave of electronic commerce. 2. In about 100 words, describe the function of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Include a discussion of the differences between gTLDs and sTLDs in your answer 3. In one or two paragraphs, describe how the Internet changed from a government research project into a technology for business users 4.In about 100 words, explain the difference between an extranet and an intranet. In your answer, describe when you might use a VPN in either. 5.Define “channel conflict” and describe in one or two paragraphs how a company might deal with this issue 6.In two paragraphs, explain why a customer-centric Web site design is so important, yet is so difficult to accomplish 7.In about two paragraphs, distinguish between outsourcing and offshoring as they relate to business processes 8.In about 200 words, explain how the achieved trust level of a company’s communications using blogs and social media compare with similar communication efforts conducted using mass media and personal contact 9. Write a paragraph in which you distinguish between a virtual community and a social networking Web site. 10.Write two or three paragraphs in which you describe the role that culture plays in the development of a country’s laws and ethical standards
1. Explain the communication process that occurs in the workplace, and describe how it is similar or different for leaders, manager, and followers
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
2. Define leadership and communication. Explain how these two relate to one another in the workplace.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Unit III
1. Discuss the factors that affect responsiveness. Give an example of several responding strategies.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
2. What are some factors that affect an individual's willingness to communicate? List at least three ways that leaders can work with a low willingness to communicate individual.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
3. What are some methods you could use to adapt communication to different personalities, cultures, genders, and generations?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
4. List at least three ways leaders can work with people who are less argumentative and people who are highly argumentative to enhance work communication.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Unit IV
1. Read Communication Ethics box (pp. 128) and choose two of the four questions to answer.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
2. Take the "Where your time goes" inventory (pp. 384-385). Evaluate your results and write a short essay covering: Your results. Discuss any changes you would like to make in allocating your time Elaborate on how these changes might make you a more effective leader.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
3. Read Communication Skills for a Digital Age Box (Pg. 139). After reading the do's and don'ts of Facebook for work, create a list of at least three rules your company would use for Facebook. Also include why these rules are needed.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
4. Discuss your conflict style(s) and how they affect your communication in the workplace. Write a short essay explaining what skills for managing emotions and conflict you use as aids when you communicate in the workplace or at home (pp. 133-137).
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Unit VI
1. Of the roles listed on pages 211–213, which role or roles do you typically assume in groups, teams, and meetings? Identify two task and two social roles you usually do not assume. Why don't you assume these roles?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
2. Identify a team that you are currently participating in, or a team with which you have worked in the past. Identify norms and any explicit ground rules that were developed for the team. Even if the team did not have an explicit mission statement, as you reflect on the team goals and objectives, develop a team mission statement for the team using the guidelines presented in this chapter (pp. 216-217).
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
3. Develop a meeting agenda for an upcoming meeting. Develop a meeting goal or goals, and identify the sequence of agenda items. After you have written your agenda, write a brief explanation of why you structured your agenda as you did. Use the information on pages 234–236 as a basis for your rationale.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
4. Identify all the ways you have communicated, using media or technology, in the past week to collaborate virtually with someone. Identify how the presence of anonymity, physical appearance, distance, and time (see textbook, p. 207) have had an effect on your virtual communication.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Read the Case Study: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare, located on page 20 of the textbook.
Write a paper of approximately 750 words that will include three separate writing projects: •The first will be a brief letter (approximately 250 words) in which you pretend to be John Mackey responding to a major supplier of Whole Foods that has threatened to terminate business dealings because of the controversial op-ed piece. •The second will be a statement (approximately 250 words) that you will read at the next Whole Foods board of directors meeting to explain your decision to write the op-ed piece and your subsequent handling of the resulting publicity. •The third will be your analysis (approximately 250 words) of whether Mackey's Op-ed article and his response afterward showed that he properly applied the four steps in the strategic communication process: ◦Identify the purpose ◦Analyze the audience ◦Consider the context ◦Analyze the method ◦Examine which steps (if any) he took and which (if any) he missed
Please re write and address the specific questions
Reflective essay due that addresses the following questions:
1. Research different theories and models of leadership: e.g., contingency, relational, shared, and complexity leadership.
2. How do they influence your thoughts about the function of leadership within organizations?
3. How do these theories relate to your understanding of your own leadership style and philosophy?
4. How do these theories change or deepen your understanding of your own leadership style and philosophy? For example, what are your thoughts about leadership being distributed throughout a human system? What are your reactions to the idea that leadership is not about people, but the spaces between people in human interaction?
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