Adaption of a biblical story

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Dr. Apple is the principal of a small elementary school in a metropolitan school district.  One of her best teachers asked her first-graders to make a poster depicting things for which they were thankful.  One student made a poster expressing thanks for Jesus.  Posters were displayed in the school’s hallway.  The student’s poster was removed but later returned to a less prominent place.

The next year, the student was chosen to read a story to the class.  The student selected an adaption of a biblical story. Should the student be permitted to read his biblical story?  Why or why not? What is the legal issue surrounding both the poster and the biblical story? What legal risks does the school incur (if any) if it permits either or both of these activities? What legal risks does the school incur if it denies either or both of these practices ? How would the courts likely rule in both cases?

 

The entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions of innovativeness

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Explain how the Samsung Electronics case illustrates the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions of innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking and how they can be combined to create competitive advantages for entrepreneurial firms. What is the difference between focused and dispersed approaches to corporate entrepreneurship? Which best represents Samsung Electronics? Explain your answer.

 

Business analytics in finance and risk management

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Business Analytics is all around us and is strongly embedded into our daily lives. A marketing catalog for clothes emailed to us is developed using an analytics model analyzing our preferences and previous purchases. Financial institutions use a scoring model developed using analytics to predict whether a borrower will default on a loan. Your cell phone service provider uses analytics to analyze your calling and browsing behavior to predict whether you will churn and soon seek a new provider.

Your Facebook social media posts, pictures, and friends are analyzed using social media analytics to present ads for products and services when you log on to your account. Our likes, retweets, and comments on Twitter are analyzed in real-time to recommend entities to follow. Do independent research or use your personal experiences to identify other applications of business analytics in finance and risk management; operations and logistics; marketing; social media; government, etc. Make sure you provide substantial detail in the identified example

 

Planning and delivering on an HRM strategy

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For more than 10 years you have been a human resources manager at a welding and machining company that has remained fairly stable. The business has 20-25 employees, most of whom have been with the company for nearly 25 years. Your firm has built a reputation of quality, and the relationships of your long-time employee team with customers are a key pillar of your client service strategy.

You have conducted both an environmental scan of the external environment, as well as a supply and demand forecast. You previously determined that the operating environment is far too challenging to sustain your current employee complement and that the skills gap between your current team and the future direction of the company — automation — is very wide. You have presented a change management plan to upskill your team, reduce your workforce, and realign the company through an HRM strategy. During the implementation of your plans, your company decided to merge with another firm that specializes in robotics and advanced manufacturing. On the surface, it makes a lot of sense, but your team is nervous about what ‘enhanced efficiency’ and ‘strategic leveraging,’ really mean. You have already drafted a communication to them regarding the merger.

You have been the champion of change, but the complexity that has evolved throughout the evolution of this scenario has your team worried about missing some key elements of planning and delivering on an HRM strategy. You decide to make a planning exercise to ensure that everything is covered.

Make a detailed chart-format document that inventories the work that you have done to date (throughout your course assignments).

Make a detailed list of all of the other learning-based items that have not been included on the course assignments that you would include in an HR plan for your organization with a one-paragraph rationale on why you would include each one.  Your list will include 5 to 7 examples.

Conclude the written assignment by creating a one-page, approximate timeline of how and when you propose to implement the missing pieces of your plan.

Include references, minimum 3 references

The role of leaders in creating learning organizations

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Leadership and the role of leaders in creating learning organizations, and describes leaders as designers, teachers and stewards. Discuss which aspects of the “new work” with which you agree and/or disagree. How do his comments impact your views of your own leadership? How have your views of leadership changed over the term? What did you find challenging about what Senge is saying?

The impact of technology on economic growth and development

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Impact of technology on economic growth and development

Information Systems (IS) play a critical role in supporting, supplementing, and automating many of our professional and personal lives, including business decision-making, shaping and transforming industries, and contributing to deep societal and economic change.  The impact of technology on economic growth and development, electronic globalization, and the vast opportunities and challenges of a hi-tech world has both short-term and long-term effects on our world.  Use this forum to reflect on the following:

  • What is an example of a technology that has global implications?
  • What are some of the short-term issues and challenges with this technology?
  • What are some of the long-term issues and challenges with this technology?

Concepts and Applications of Information Technology

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Purpose of this Assignment The Class Project is the most significant assignment in this course, Concepts and Applications of

Information Technology. As such, it accounts for 40% of the course points. This assignment is comprised of two deliverables; a SWOT Analysis and a Presentation. The SWOT Analysis is due in Week 4 (worth 15% of the course grade), and the Presentation is due in Week 8 (worth 25% of the course grade).

This assignment gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to research, evaluate, and describe business strategy focused on information technology tools and services. This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcomes:

• Identify the basic components of the information system: hardware, software, data, processes, and people, and how these components are used to support strategic decision-making.

• Apply information technology tools for research, data gathering and information analysis, problem-solving, decision-making, and communicating information that aligns with business needs and objectives.

 

Start Here The Class Project for this course focuses on the evaluation of a business or organization and how it might strengthen its operations through technology, including its information systems. There are two parts to the Class Project; the SWOT Analysis and the Presentation. You will use the same business/organization for both parts; however, the grade received on the SWOT Analysis will not affect the grade for the Presentation (they are separate assignments).

 

Step 1: Choose a Business or Organization

To begin, choose a business or organization that you would like to evaluate – it can be where you work, a school (UMGC), a place of worship, a government entity (e.g., DMV, Secretary ofState, courthouse, etc.), or any other type of organization. Since the focus of the analysis will involve information technology, the best type of organization to choose is one where you can

envision technology playing a key role in improving products, processes, or services.

*From this point on, the instructions focus on the first deliverable, the SWOT Analysis*

Step 2: The SWOT Analysis (due week 4)

Now that you have chosen a business or organization for your Class Project, it is time to complete the first deliverable – the SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a framework for identifying and analyzing an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats –SWOT stands for Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat. Commonly used by businesses,

this tool focuses on factors that are important to strategic decision-making. These factors include both internal and external influences on the viability of the organization.

For more explanations on a SWOT Analysis, go to:

• YouTube “How to Perform a SWOT Analysis”

• Complete Your SWOT Analysis

• Forbes: What Is A SWOT Analysis?

• SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

• Refer to the SWOT examples on Heineken and Walt Disney World (below)

 

You will use a SWOT analysis to help analyze the current health of your organization, and (in week 8), you will identify possible ways the information technology could be used to make it stronger.

 

The SWOT analysis offers a visual way of identifying both the positive attributes of an organization and areas that need to be recognized and addressed. Thinking of the organization you chose, start by filling out a simple table listing its internal strengths and weaknesses, and external opportunities and threats:

SWOT Table:

 

Task: List 2-3 Strengths and 2-3 Weaknesses

Strengths and weaknesses are associated with internal resources and experiences and include:

 

 

• Characteristics of the business that give it an advantage over others in the industry.

• Positive tangible and intangible attributes, internal to an organization. ▪ Human resources – staff, volunteers, board members, target population ▪ Physical resources – location, building, equipment ▪ Financial – products/services, other sources of income ▪ Activities and processes – programs and processes, online presence ▪ Past experiences – building blocks for learning and success, your reputation in

the community

Task: List 2-3 Opportunities and 2-3 Threats

Opportunities and threats are factors outside of business operations that can contribute to either the make the organization stronger or being troublesome. The ability of a business to identify, control, and adapt to these external factors can make it more profitable:

▪ Market expansion ▪ Complacent/aggressive competition ▪ Changing customer needs and tastes ▪ Economic swings ▪ Changing government deregulations

Step 3: Write the SWOT Analysis

Now that you have identified the organization you will analyze and complete a SWOT table listing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the organization, it is time to write the analysis paper that will be submitted to your instructor/classroom. The paper should include all of the following:

1. Title page – the title of the paper, company/organization name, your name, course, and date of submission.

2. Purpose – briefly describe what the SWOT methodology is and the business/organization you are focusing on.

3. SWOT Analysis – include a SWOT Analysis table and describe each quadrant (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) for your organization. Each quadrant should be clearly identified in the analysis and the description should include the importance of the attributes to the organization.

4. Conclusion – synthesize the findings from the SWOT analysis.

5. References – cite at least two resources with APA formatted citation and reference.

The importance of HR policy

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You have been successful in securing the contract, and you have a lot to do. The management priority is to have a Human Resource plan in place as soon as possible, but you feel that an HR policy is equally important, if not more. Therefore, you have decided to create the outline of the HR plan but to include it together with a memo about creating an HR policy.

Instruction:

You, therefore, need to prepare:
1. An outline of a human resource plan.
2. A memo concerning the importance of HR policy, the memo should provide examples of regulatory, legal and ethical concerns that should be covered within the policy (living wage vs minimum wage, maternity cover, Equality Act 2010, termination of employment, etc.) which would be important to the Club.

Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory

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Oftentimes, employees would get to hear wonderful advice from the management of organizations. One such piece of advice is that employees must leave all personal issues upon entering the premises in the workplace. Often times too, and more so if the managers or executives are familiar with Organizational Behavior (maybe because they took Organizational Behavior during university), the concept of Organizational Citizenship behavior is conjured to implore employees to leave personal problems out of the workplace.

By applying the Interactionist Perspective, illustrate the fallacy of the above statement – that one can simply leave personal problems out of the workplace.

By using the Two Factor Theory (also known as Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory) – suggest a better way how business organizations can overcome the unavoidable and negative impact of personal problems spilling over in the workplace

 

Evaluation of the MBA program

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Propose a training evaluation plan for consideration by the Faculty of Business Administration, assume you have been hired as a consultant to provide a program evaluation of the MBA program at the Toronto school of management.

Your proposal should provide an outline of the evaluation, indicating the steps and activities associated with each step.

Please make sure to cite all your sources at the end of the document.