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Considering your results, discuss whether there is evidence to say that social capital produces economic capital.
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Explain how external factors affect organisations and how changes in the external environment affect organisational strategy
Strategic Planning
In preparation for the first virtual meeting you decide to make detailed notes in which you:
Explain organisational vision, mission, strategy and business plans and the relationships between them
Explain how external factors affect organisations and how changes in the external environment affect organisational strategy
evaluate how stakeholder expectations influence organisations
At the first virtual meeting of the team all members have been asked to make an individual contribution, which will be circulated to other team members prior to the next meeting. Your task is to provide a document which:
analyses the mission and vision statements of named organisations.
To gain a merit grade you must have a further section in the document which:
evaluates the impact of a named organisation’s vision and mission on its strategy.
To gain a distinction grade you must add another section to the document which:
analyses how external influences affect organisational strategy in a named organisation.
Following the virtual meeting you have been asked to review an organisation’s strategy and business plans as this may influence thinking for Vista’s future direction.
Produce a presentation with accompanying notes which:
explains the importance of review in developing organisational strategy and business plans.
evaluates the tools which can be used to review organisational strategy and business plans
To gain a merit grade your presentation must also:
review the position of an organisation in its current market using appropriate tools.
To gain a distinction grade your presentation must also:
analyse the competitive strengths and weaknesses of an organisation’s current business strategy and business plans.
Whilst completing the above tasks your team has decided that there is clearly a number of strategic options to consider.
With this in mind you decide to model strategy options for a smaller organisation as an illustration. Produce a document for circulation which develops:
strategy options for a chosen organisation, using modelling tools
criteria for reviewing the potential strategy options.
To gain a merit grade you must also:
apply the criteria and evaluate the options for delivering the strategic direction of the organisation you have chosen.
The Board has decided that the meeting in Singapore should take place and you have received your travel and accommodation documents.
The agenda for the meeting will include how to create a strategic plan. In preparation for this critical meeting you decide to produce a file for your own use. The file will:
explain the structure of a plan needed to deliver the strategy
explain how stakeholders are involved in the formulation of the plan
provide a dissemination process to ensure stakeholders are informed and committed to the plan.
Identify the main issues experienced by the company and provide suggestions for how to make improvements.
Fresh Price Accounting Inc
Description
Final Project Prompt
Fresh Price Accounting, Inc., is a well-known accounting firm that provides exceptional services to businesses and individuals but is notorious for being a difficult place to work.
Employee turnover is at an all-time high and the company recently had a lawsuit filed against them for mismanagement of employees.
To improve, they’ve reached out to you, an HR consultant, to help them identify ways they can change their management of human resources.
To learn more about the problems occurring, you’ve done some research by interviewing the employees that work at Fresh Price Accounting, Inc., and have discovered the following complaints made within the last calendar year:
More than 68% of current employees stated that there is little motivation to work harder than what is expected of them.
87% of employees identified in a questionnaire that they felt they couldn’t take extended leave to care for an illness or the illness of a family member for fear they would lose their jobs.
4 employees were fired shortly after incurring a disability or announcing a pregnancy.
91% of the company is comprised of white males. Individuals that represent a different race, gender, speak a different language, or are not originally from the United States felt ‘unwelcomed’ and ‘misunderstood’.
62% of current employees that left the company in less than 6 months cited that they felt inadequately trained for the position they were hired for.
As their HR consultant, you’ve been asked to relay the findings of your research in a brief report.
The company’s executives want the report to identify the main issues experienced by the company and provide suggestions for how to make improvements.
Make sure to provide rationale and examples from sources to support your findings and recommendations.
The report should be 1500 to 2000 words in length and well-researched (at least 4 sources), as it will serve as an overview of both the current human resource management practices as well as your proposed improvements.
Your sources should be cited using APA format. If you’re unsure about how to use APA format to cite your sources, see the following lessons:
What is APA Format? Definition & Style
How To Format APA Citations
Evaluate the efficacy of this strategy together with considering whether any changes to this strategy are needed. Suitable and credible academic and industry literature MUST be used to support your analysis and evaluation.
Company Strategy Analysis and Evaluation
TASK 3: Company Strategy Analysis and Evaluation (Summative) You must complete a 1,500 words (± 10%) written analysis and evaluation of a company’s or organisation’s strategy, chosen from the list of companies/organisations below.
Using relevant models from 3 (three) concepts covered in the module, you will need to analyse the company’s or organisation’s strategy.
You will also need to evaluate the efficacy of this strategy together with considering whether any changes to this strategy are needed. Suitable and credible academic and industry literature MUST be used to support your analysis and evaluation.
The completion of tasks 1 and 2 will help in the completion of this summative task.
The assessment feedback detailed in the tables 5 & 6 below will be used to assess the task 3 assessment.
Companies/Organisations Select one company/organisation from those listed below which will form the basis of your work for tasks 2 and 3 of the PORT1 portfolio assessment.
• Aldi • Amazon • Apple • Renault • Ryanair • Tesla • Tesco • Sainsbury • Microsoft • Lego • Virgin • Marks & Spencer
Table 5: PORT1 Assessment Criteria Weighting
Criteria Description
Weighting 30% Task 3 Analysis Correct use and application of relevant strategic management models, theories and concepts, evidencing depth in understanding, knowledge and analysis.
Task 3 Evaluation Ability to consider and critically appraise the choice and efficacy of a company’s/organisation’s strategy together with an evaluation and critique of supporting literature and theory. 25% Task 3 Literature Use and application of a wide range of relevant and credible academic and industry literature supported by correctly formatted in-text citations and reference list entries
using Harvard Referencing. 25% Task 3 Communications Presentation of work, academic writing style, coherence, clarity and proofing. 10% Portfolio Formative and summative tasks completed and uploaded to Moodie 10%
Module Handbook 2020/21 — BSP6000 Strategic Management
How does their artwork intent to express cultural or physical Deaf experience?How does it centralize focus on facial features or on the hands?
Select of piece of Artwork from the artist and discuss the following: see attachment.
how does their artwork intent to express cultural or physical Deaf experience?
how does it centralize focus on facial features or on the hands?
how does it incorporate contrasting or intense colors and values?
In approximately 400–500 words, using compare/contrast strategies, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of distance education programs compared to traditional classroom education.
PART 6: ESSAY WRITING
In this section, you’ll provide four writing samples: choose one topic from each of the four groups of essay types. Each type uses a different writing pattern.
Group 1: compare and contrast essays
Group 2: process analysis and narration essays
Group 3: argumentative and persuasion essays
Group 4: definition and division/classification essays
Essays for group 1-4 do not require research. However, if you choose to use secondary sources, you must cite them according to Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines for in-text (parenthetical) citation and provide a list of works cited.
GROUP 1: COMPARE/CONTRAST
(Choose only one topic)
1. In approximately 400–500 words, using compare/contrast strategies, discuss
the advantages and disadvantages of distance education programs compared
to traditional classroom education.
2. In approximately 400–500 words, using compare/contrast strategies, compare
and contrast two sports or two games.
GROUP 2: PROCESS ANALYSIS AND NARRATION
(Choose only one topic)
1. In approximately 400–500 words, using process analysis and narration techniques, explain how to take some measures to protect yourself online.
2. In approximately 400–500 words, using process analysis and narration techniques, explain how to get a good night’s sleep before an important event, such as an exam.
GROUP 3: NARRATION AND PERSUASION
(Choose only one topic.)
1. In approximately 400–500 words, using narration and persuasion techniques,
persuade readers that they should be physically active and eat a healthy diet.
2. In approximately 400–500 words, using narration and persuasion techniques,
persuade readers that a school dress code or uniform policy should or should
not be implemented.
GROUP 4: DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION
(Choose only one topic.)
1. In approximately 400–500 words, using definition and classification strategies, discuss various types of social networking sites and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
2. In approximately 400–500 words, using definition and classification strategies, discuss some active measures people can take to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
PART 7: MLA STYLE
In this section, you’ll demonstrate your proficiency in rhetorical analysis, research, and the correct use of MLA style.
You’ll compose a persuasive essay that contains a paraphrase, a short quotation, and a block quotation, each of which is properly formatted and cited in MLA style.
The Works Cited list at the end of your essay must include a citation for an Internet source, a book, and a magazine or journal.
This essay must be typed. Compose a persuasive essay of 750–1,000 words based on one of the following topics
1. “Today about half the adult population owns a smartphone; by 2020, 80% will. Smartphones have also penetrated every aspect of daily life. The average American is buried in one for over two hours every day.” (“Planet of the Phones,” The Economist).
Based on this quote, research this topic and persuade the reader you believe that smartphone use is making us either more connected or more alone, than in the past.
2. During the Ebola epidemic in 2014, people discussed whether to impose a travel ban to prevent the spread of the disease. Research this topic and write a paper trying to persuade the reader that a travel ban during outbreaks of viruses like that
of Ebola either is or is not warranted.
Essays must be typed using 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, and double-spaced.
What ways will you implement critical reasoning in your lives going forward? How will you share what you’ve learned with family, friends, and colleagues? Are there any specific concepts you’ve learned that you have found particularly helpful?
Discussion 4
In what ways will you implement critical reasoning in your lives going forward? How will you share what you’ve learned with family, friends, and colleagues? Are there any specific concepts you’ve learned that you have found particularly helpful?
How useful is the concept of stealth democracy for explaining disaffection and disillusionment with politicians?
Literature review paper on political analysis (you can pick the question)
Description
Word Count: 2700-3000 Words
Limit your sources to:
5 monographs
5 chapters in an edited volume
12 academic journal articles
If using additional sources (archives or websites): 2
Answer one of the following questions:
How does the ways in which political participation is measured affect what we can know about it?
How useful is the concept of stealth democracy for explaining disaffection and disillusionment with politicians?
How useful is a postcolonial lens for challenging Eurocentric knowledge?
What is the relationship between gender-based violence and populism?
What are the different aspects of citizenship? How might these sustain or challenge social inequalities?
What are the politics of self-care?
What is the relation between immigration control and ‘race’?
What is epistemic injustice? How can it be overcome?
What are the promises and pitfalls of transitional justice?
What is the relation between nationalism and violence?
How could political theory help understand NGO climate change campaigning?
How does the security studies literature explain environmental change?
How is ‘power’ conceptualized in International Relations theory?
What is the purpose of foreign policy?
To what extent does Feminist IR challenge ‘malestream’ IR?
Is masculinity a problem for world politics?
Analyze the company’s business environment and identify possible opportunities for growth. In this assignment, you will analyze your company’s internal business environment and explain its influence on revenue or market share.
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To create your proposal, you first need to analyze the company’s business environment and identify possible opportunities for growth. In this assignment, you will analyze your company’s internal business environment and explain its influence on revenue or market share.
Prompt Perform an internal environment analysis of your company to understand the company’s current business environment and future goals.
Use resources such as the company website, which will have pertinent information including its most recent sustainability report, and other relevant sources to help complete this presentation.
You can also use the resources in the MBA Library Research Guide to conduct further research about your company.
Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to show the results of your analysis. Use both onscreen text and speaker notes to convey your information effectively.
For example, you can use brief bulleted lists summarizing the highlights of your analysis on the slide, and include more detailed explanations where needed in your speaker notes.
Define and name the variables, explain what the measures (as per literature) are, according to, my supervisor example, and; Create the Research Equation (that should reflect the variable measures in the research model).
Impact of Covid-19 on Business
Briefly (400 words each theory) discuss the digital transformation and change management theories and its relation to this research topic.
Introduce and discuss the Research Model and Create the Chapter Summary (hat did you set-out to do and what did you do – match the two here – THEN what you will be doing next – methodology chapter…), and; Make all the changes and adjustments that my supervisor asks in the comments in the file that uploading, including:
Identify the variables related to this Research (and later show how to measure), the measurements have to go into the research model), according to the presented table;
Define and name the variables, explain what the measures (as per literature) are, according to, my supervisor example, and; Create the Research Equation (that should reflect the variable measures in the research model).