Identify/choose a major organisational issue to focus your report on that will enable you to critically analyse leadership, culture and change.

Business Report

This assignment will be a business report of 2,500 words . You will base the report on an organisation of your choice: one where you can gain access to a good range of relevant information in terms of leadership, change and culture. If you are currently working or have previously worked for an organisation then you are free to choose that if you wish.

Identify/choose a major organisational issue to focus your report on that will enable you to critically analyse leadership, culture and change. This might be a strategic challenge, opportunity or project that the organisation has either faced in the past or is currently ‘live’– the critical thing is that it involved a significant ‘change’.

 

Analyze the survey results and write a summary of your findings . recommend a plan for change based on a change model.

Human Resource Management

Overall, this is a three-part task: We need a plan for what HR can do to help prepare for this change, a summary of what we know about change readiness among the employees, and at least three KPIs you suggest tracking and measuring.
Assignment Instructions:
You have been called to a meeting with the CEO, Jacob Zielinski, and the COO, Sofia Morales.
Analyze the survey results and write a summary of your findings .
recommend a plan for change based on a change model.
suggest at least three KPIs and explain how you can track and measure them.

Utilize all your research from this course to prepare an ethical initiative for your organization. What will you implement, improve upon, or omit?

Assume your organization has experienced a few ethical violations over the past six months. Some were considered quite severe. You have been tasked by senior leadership to prepare a proposal for an ethical initiative for your organization. For purposes of this assignment, you may include hypothetical ethical violations or ones you have experienced; be sure to omit any identifying information.

Utilize all your research from this course to prepare an ethical initiative for your organization. What will you implement, improve upon, or omit? Think of short-term goals and long-term goals to achieve later. Specifically, explain how you will ensure that you are an ethical leader and how you will help build and maintain an ethical organization and culture. Be sure to include the following:

-Explain how your organization can improve socially responsible initiatives.
-Assess current methods of communication to recommend improvements where necessary.
-If your organization has a global presence, explain whether those practices have been conducted ethically. Indicate how these initiatives could be improved.

In addition to the written plans for your initiative, including charts, graphs, and any other visual aids to illustrate your ideas.

Collect and synthesise information from a range of authoritative sources to inform a choice of solutions to sustainability problems in familiar and unfamiliar contexts of various world cities in the world.

Sustainable city economies report

LEARNING OUTCOMES ADDRESSED:
Collect and synthesise information from a range of authoritative sources to inform a choice of solutions to sustainability problems in familiar and unfamiliar contexts of various world cities in the world.
Select appropriate techniques for evaluation and discriminate between the relative relevance of evidence collected to examine the impacts of businesses and governmental structures in cities on economic development, environment, and social equity.

ASSESSMENT SUMMARY:
In your first assessment you have researched a city and identified critical issues that need to be addressed to improve its sustainability performance. Building on your Assessment 1 research and findings you are required to prepare a report that analyses two of these critical issues and identifies realistic solutions and strategies that could positively impact on your city’s performance in this area.

The report should include a reflection on the video recording of the online fieldtrip centred on your role in promoting a sustainable city and potential solutions that can be implemented to this end.

Develop a process improvement recommendation including a detailed plan incorporating business process engineering theory and including bench marking the reengineered process to a close business competitor.

Management Process Improvement Paper

Select a company with which you are familiar, preferably one where you have been employed, and consider a process within that company that could be improved. This could be a business process, a manufacturing process, a distribution process, or a service process that you have observed or been involved with during your career. Prepare a recommended process improvement proposal that incorporates tools and methods learned in this course.

Your paper should:

** Describe the company and how the selected process fits into the overall framework of the company.
** Create a step-by-step description of the current process incorporating a process flow chart.
** Analyze the current process for inefficiencies.
** Develop a process improvement recommendation including a detailed plan incorporating business process engineering theory and including bench marking the reengineered process to a close business competitor. The process should be designed to be more efficient, using appropriate tools and methods learned throughout the course, including capacity utilization improvements and statistical quality control models.
** Explain possible challenges in implementing the process changes.
** Assess the expected benefits of the improved process and the potential benefits.

How is cost estimating different in Agile project management and what is the different techniques used? Why does cost estimating techniques in waterfall project management not translate well to agile projects and vice versa?

Cost estimation in project management

The paper should cover your chosen topic thoroughly and from a unique viewpoint. In this case the chosen topic is cost estimating in project management.

Questions the paper should address are below and there should be no less that 10 sources to go with the paper that come from journals or peer reviewed articles.

Questions the paper should address:

What is cost estimation in project management?
What is the importance of cost estimation in project management?
What are the different cost estimation techniques in waterfall project management and in what circumstances should they be used?
What are the different pros and cons to the various cost estimating techniques in waterfall project management?
How is cost estimating different in Agile project management and what is the different techniques used?
Why does cost estimating techniques in waterfall project management not translate well to agile projects and vice versa?
How does cost estimation affect the success or failure of projects?
How does cost estimation impact project schedules and duration estimation?

The paper should be 10 pages long and answer the above questions.

What provision of the law was at issue? Briefly state the facts of the case. What legal tests were applied?  Were there any unusual elements in the case?

Article Critique

• Identify the articles
o Provide the reader with enough information about your articles so they will be able to locate the article. Describe your search process.
• Summarize the articles
o Identify the main points that the authors have tried to establish . There normally will be three to five main points per article. If you are summarizing a court case, you should discuss the following:
What provision of the law was at issue? Briefly state the facts of the case.
What legal tests were applied?
Were there any unusual elements in the case?
o Provide sufficient information to demonstrate you understand the content of the article.
• Critique the article
o Provide your reaction to the points that the authors tried to make or an overall critique of the entire articles. A simple statement of agreement or disagreement is not sufficient. While you may make such a statement by way of introduction to your reaction, you must clearly and logically state the reasons for your position.

Describe the type of organisation design that you think YOU would be well suited to when you FIRST graduate. You are required to CHOOSE an organisation design from Anand and Daft OR Stanford , covered in the Module 4 readings.

Managing and developing careers

Describe the type of organisation design that you think YOU would be well suited to when you FIRST graduate. You are required to CHOOSE an organisation design from Anand and Daft OR Stanford , covered in the Module 4 readings.

2. Using one CAREER METAPHOR from the Module 1 reading by Inkson et al. , provide examples to support the organisation design you have chosen.

3. Explain how your knowledge of organisation design may help you in your future career.

Provide examples to support your answer. To CHOOSE AN ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN, it is PAGE 25 of the ‘What is Organisational Design’ pdf on Table 1.3 ‘Systems models of organisation design in common use’.

To FIND CAREER METAPHORS it is PAGE 22 – 31 of the ‘Careers and metaphors- Inkson’ pdf. If you need any help, please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank you

Explain how the MBA will provide higher learning business knowledge much needed in collaboration with healthcare organizations and systems.

Pursuing the Master of Business Administration (MBA)

1. General information about me, Having a BSN, MSN, and working on a DNP would like to pursue a MBA to utilize in healthcare careers.
2. Explain how the MBA will provide higher learning business knowledge much needed in collaboration with healthcare organizations and systems.
3. Explaining why I choose Northern Kentucky University (NKU) business program versus other schools/universities in the area.
4. Summarizing how the MBA will aid in accomplishing goals in teaching innovation in higher learning nursing education and how the MBA will help improve conditions of humanity and the community.