Explore strategic issues in SME management.Critically evaluate contemporary issues relating to SMEs.

Module summary content and aims
The department of Business Innovation and Skills estimates that 99.9% of all private sector businesses in the UK were SMEs. The vast majority of all businesses are small businesses. Even larger firms were once very successful small businesses.
“Since the late 20th century we have come to realise that new forms have done more to create wealth than firms at any time before them – ever! 95% of the wealth in the USA was created since 1980.”
This module is designed to give you an insight into the nature of SMEs and the people that run them.
You will engage in a consultancy type project in which you will undertake an evaluation of a small
business and develop a growth, or development strategy for them.
The aim of the module is to provide students with the opportunity to:
1. Critically evaluate contemporary issues relating to SMEs
2. Explore strategic issues in SME management
3. Explore alternative routes of business development in SMEs
4. Investigate and evaluate diverse business development methods in SMEs
5. Analyse financial aspects of business expansion in SMEs
6. Critically appraise change and development processes in SMEs

Explain how global expansion of a domestic organization can impact business operations such as strategic planning, marketing, supply-chain management, human resources, and so on.

If you would like to use another country for your course project, please reach out to your instructor.
Prompt
In this milestone, you will complete Section One of the Business Brief Template.
Drivers for Global Entry: Develop the first section of the Business Brief Template that explains the purpose of global expansion, business impacts of global business, societal impacts of global business, and cultural considerations using evidence from course and outside resources to support your explanations. Make sure to use evidence from course resources to support your responses.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
State the country you have selected to use for your course project.
Purpose of Global Expansion: Explain key benefits of successful global expansion for domestic organizations.
Business Impacts of Global Business: Explain how global expansion of a domestic organization can impact business operations such as strategic planning, marketing, supply-chain management, human resources, and so on.
Societal Impacts of Global Business: Explain how the global expansion of organizations has impacted society, citing specific examples regarding culture, transportation, employment, infrastructure, and environmental climate.
Cultural Considerations for Global Business: Explain the importance of researching the culture of a potential global market prior to market entry, as well as key cultural considerations to explore to inform expansion decisions.

How do you see yourself contributing to the fabric of our School culture and community?How has your academic, professional and personal trajectory prepared you to enter an MBA program?

Describe your motivation for pursuing an MBA degree – suggested points you may wish to include:

1. How has your academic, professional and personal trajectory prepared you to enter an MBA program?
pointers:
Practical approach- edu theory to action at work
Prepares you for the competitive world
Helps you become more independent- independent projects and independent decisions.
Better time management-project deadlines
Networking- for efficient and optimal use of time to meet project deadlines
Clearly defined career path.

2. How do you see an MBA fitting in with your short and long term career goals?
This was included in the pervious essay.
3. How do you see yourself contributing to the fabric of our School culture and community?
This was answered in one of the previous essays
4. If your undergraduate major is different from this graduate degree you are seeking, please explain how you became interested in graduate business education at this time in your life.
pointers:
country relocation-the USA- world class, highly prestigious universities
Career Progression
Diversifying Knowledge
Personal Growth

Does this person possess some of the traits of a good leader discussed in your reading? How would you describe his or her leadership style? Be specific, using terms from your reading.

In your readings on Leadership, you learned the difference between management and leadership, as well as traits, styles, and situations of leaders and leadership.

Your Task

You are at a meeting, and during the meeting, someone on the team addresses their manager and points out a crucial mistake that could doom the project. The person says that their manager should have caught it and because of that should resign. As a leader of the group, write an essay on how would you deal with the subordinate, the manager, and communication with the entire team incorporating the leadership style & trait of your choice from your text.

Think of a person you consider to be a good leader. Does this person possess some of the traits of a good leader discussed in your reading? How would you describe his or her leadership style? Be specific, using terms from your reading.

Social Responsibility Paper
Discuss the concept of Social Responsiblility and why it is important for a company.
Give three examples of companies that are Socially responsible and what they are doing to contribute to society and the community.
in addition, please include how they help to support their employees with various perks and Benefits.
Once again, please focus on companies that you yourself use and purchase things from. They could be Retail stores as well!

Describe possible ethical issues related to organizational change that could affect the existing organizational culture, patient safety, and organizational integrity.

Organizational culture and ethics

Write a strategic change management plan

Imagine that you are a department manager in a mid-size health care organization that is in the process of undergoing a major change . Your director has called a meeting of all department managers to develop a strategy for taking the organization successfully through the change. A major component of managing this change is safeguarding the organizational culture, which is currently very positive and based on ethical principles and practices. In addition, the organization has quality ratings in both patient safety and organizational integrity.

At the end of the meeting, the director asks each manager to draft a strategic change management plan to help them guide their department through the change. To help you get started, the director has provided a statement to be used in each plan. Each plan must consider the role of ethics and ethical management in organizational culture. You must bring your plan to the next strategy meeting in two weeks.

Please use the following statement as your thesis or opening statement for this assessment:

Creating and maintaining a positive organizational culture requires exceptional awareness, communication, and management skills on the part of leaders in any organization in any industry. When a shared identity is created and acceptance of the overall goals and mission of an organization is strong, ethical issues can more easily be prevented and resolved. This is vitally important in the health care industry as every aspect of management faces crucial ethical elements.

Then, in the rest of your assessment, complete the following:

Explain how organizational culture can affect ethical health care management practices. Be sure you consider this from the perspective of both a negative organizational culture as well as a positive one.
Describe possible ethical issues related to organizational change that could affect the existing organizational culture, patient safety, and organizational integrity.
Explain the role of personal moral integrity in effectively leading change and maintaining a positive organizational culture.
Describe evidence-based strategies health care leaders can use to prevent or resolve ethical challenge.

Describe possible ethical issues related to organizational change that could affect the existing organizational culture, patient safety, and organizational integrity.

Organizational culture and ethics

Write a strategic change management plan

Imagine that you are a department manager in a mid-size health care organization that is in the process of undergoing a major change. Your director has called a meeting of all department managers to develop a strategy for taking the organization successfully through the change. A major component of managing this change is safeguarding the organizational culture, which is currently very positive and based on ethical principles and practices. In addition, the organization has quality ratings in both patient safety and organizational integrity.

At the end of the meeting, the director asks each manager to draft a strategic change management plan to help them guide their department through the change. To help you get started, the director has provided a statement to be used in each plan. Each plan must consider the role of ethics and ethical management in organizational culture. You must bring your plan to the next strategy meeting in two weeks.

Use the following statement as your thesis or opening statement for this assessment:

Creating and maintaining a positive organizational culture requires exceptional awareness, communication, and management skills on the part of leaders in any organization in any industry. When a shared identity is created and acceptance of the overall goals and mission of an organization is strong, ethical issues can more easily be prevented and resolved. This is vitally important in the health care industry as every aspect of management faces crucial ethical elements.

Then, in the rest of your assessment, complete the following:

Explain how organizational culture can affect ethical health care management practices. Be sure you consider this from the perspective of both a negative organizational culture as well as a positive one.
Describe possible ethical issues related to organizational change that could affect the existing organizational culture, patient safety, and organizational integrity.
Explain the role of personal moral integrity in effectively leading change and maintaining a positive organizational culture.
Describe evidence-based strategies health care leaders can use to prevent or resolve ethical challenges related to changes in organizational culture.