Do you need to make or suggest any changes to make it more efficient and effective? What structure will you use and implement? Explain how you will use departmentalization in your organizational structure.

Team Management Activity and Reflection
This assignment focuses on how the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling are implemented in your workplace. Using the xxxxxxxxxxxx Library and other credible online resources, find three Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources that provide information on Amazon.com’s business structure.
How will you work to use and apply the five functions of management?
Now let’s apply the five functions. In your paper, include the following sections:
Planning: Examine the specific areas you will choose to manage that fall under the planning function.
For example, what might be some of the things you will plan to do and implement to build an effective team and culture? People are the most important resource in any business, what do you plan to do to build a positive team culture? What processes and systems do you plan to use?
Assess if the present structure that Amazon has set up is working.
Do you need to make or suggest any changes to make it more efficient and effective? What structure will you use and implement? Explain how you will use departmentalization in your organizational structure.
Analyze your staffing needs.
How do you intend to staff your organization and replace members that leave or are promoted? How does the HR process apply? What things will you suggest?
Leading: Justify the leadership theory and style you will follow to ensure efficiency.
Will you use transformational or transactional leadership? Why or why not?
Controls: Identify what controls and measures you will implement.
How will you apply the four steps of control ?

Critically analyse and evaluate conceptual frameworks, models and theories of strategic management that could be utilised by senior management of the organisation.

Strategic Management

1 Critically analyse and evaluate conceptual frameworks, models and theories of strategic management that could be utilised by senior management of the organisation.
2 Justify and apply models of change to aid strategic management within an organisationScenario- DKX is a large industrial company that manufactures tools and engineering equipment. The company operates on a shift system and is fully operational six days of the week.

It is proud of maintaining a strong sense of corporate social responsibility, also stimulating a progressive culture within the organisation that cares about the overall wellness of communities and the environment whilst remaining dynamic and updated with the latest business solutions.

 

What do you understand by teams? Using examples, discuss the steps organisations can take to build high performance teams? What are the main advantages and disadvantages of teamwork in organisations?

Answer one of the following questions.

Discuss the components of the ‘marketing mix’ and the role it plays in organisations today. Using examples, explain how you would use the marketing mix in developing a marketing strategy for a new product launch.
Using examples, discuss the role and importance of ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ in
organisations. As a manager what approach would be best suited to encourage and promote innovation in your company, or one known to you?
Outline the key elements of the ‘communication process’ and, using examples, discuss the role and importance of communication in the effective management of organisations.
What do you understand by teams? Using examples, discuss the steps organisations can take to build high performance teams? What are the main advantages and disadvantages of teamwork in organisations?

Explain the two topics, do some research with actual coach and mentors and mentees, explain the difference then do a situational analysis on what is the lifecycle of an employee and what to use as support and at which level of his/her career.

Mentoring or coaching, what is what and what is best for your at which level of your career

Explain the two topics, do some research with actual coach and mentors and mentees, explain the difference then do a situational analysis on what is the lifecycle of an employee and what to use as support and at which level of his/her career.

Write a budget proposal explaining the rationale for your proposed budget.

Write a budget proposal explaining the rationale for your proposed budget.
For this assignment you will be working to prepare a budget for the library you selected  and have been working with for all of your previous assignments. Based on the budget you prepare; you will also be creating a written rationale to request your budget be approved.

You will be working with a budget template for this assignment, but keep in mind that your real library  may have different budgeting methods and evaluation tools that they use. Since budgets vary by library type, you will want to make sure you follow the instructions and use the template that matches the type of library you are working with for this course very carefully.

Expand on the basic compare and contrast perspectives by discussing a specific topic as it relates to broader categorization and/or clarify the classification system that can be applied to a large group of topics.

Classification/Distinction

1. Expand on the basic compare and contrast perspectives by discussing a specific topic as it relates to broader categorization and/or clarify the classification system that can be applied to a large group of topics.

2. Write an essay with a clearly stated thesis and purpose by reaching conclusions about the way subjects and their categorization exist in relation to each other. Justify exactly how, why, and to what end a subject or group of subjects are classified, and how we can reach conclusions based on the comparative quality of groups.

3. Support points regarding issues and solutions with examples and evidence by using information, testimonial, data , and other evidence from informed sources while providing succinct and direct reasoning to justify conclusive thoughts.

Describe and map, by creating two IDEFO diagrams, the main processes in the pre-construction phase of the selected project.

Working individually, you are required to select and investigate a recent ‘iconic’ construction project completed in the last 10 years or currently progressing. The project can be located in any part of the world. Considering your selected iconic project, you should write a 3000-word research oriented report covering the following two
tasks:
TASKS
1. Introduce your selected project. The selected project should be named, and a brief background should be provided to introduce/describe the chosen project and to justify its iconic nature. Project key information and start and completion dates should be clearly specified by including relevant tables/figures.
2. Describe and map, by creating two IDEFO diagrams, the main processes in the pre-construction phase of the selected project. The two IDEF0 diagrams should consist of a single Level 0 diagram and a single Level 1 diagram.
The RIBA Plan of Work or CIOB Code of Practice for Project Management frameworks must be investigated and used to identify and map the main processes/activities and other relevant information to be included in your own diagrams.

Discuss how one’s own views have changed.Identify a question or a problem in another student’s writing.

What HSEM is and what it really looks like in your own community as much as is practicable. 

This course will revolve around homeland security and emergency management principles… the foundation. As such, you will explore the basics of what HSEM is and what it really looks like in your own community as much as is practicable. The final paper will examine a specific community and address how that specific community addresses basic HSEM issues… who is in charge and what their plans may or may not look like.

A video introduction to the Final Paper will be included in Week 3 that will assist you as you proceed. Several of the modules of our course are designed to assist you in your final paper.

The general guidance for your final paper is as follows:

A paper that is 10-12 pages, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins all around, left-justified. The 10-12 pages must be pages of actual content. Only a limited number of images or graphics will be allowed as content. Students must use a variety of sources throughout the case study to provide established evidence of the supporting issue/topics before presenting their own perspectives. Sources should be mostly from legitimate, peer-reviewed works as well as government sources .

1. Conduct active readings early in the week.
2. Begin your discussion posting soon after.
3. Look for sources to supplement your work, your responses, and your perspectives.
4. Integrate the sources.
5. Refine your work and post.

The best responses will tend to provide a balance of breadth and depth as well as appropriately formed and referenced perspectives.

The instructor will deduct points for initial and reply postings that do not meet the deadline dates. After the Graded Discussion Board closes for the week, no posts will be permitted and the student will receive a score based on the work submitted. If there are mitigating circumstances, the Instructor may allow the student to submit alternate work.

The following are examples of responses to another student one might make to further the understanding and add to the learning community HSEM-301 is trying to establish:
• Identify a question or a problem in another student’s writing
• Pose a solution
• Clarify a confusion
• Add to the information contained in the original posting
• Bring in outside information to support an argument
• Offer an alternative solution or interpretation
• Pose a question that furthers the discussion
• Discuss the implications of a theory, idea, etc.
• Provide criticism of a theory, concept, etc.
• Point out connections among various ideas
• Move the discussion to a deeper level
• Discuss how one’s own views have changed
• Discuss how one has gained new insight
• Discuss any value implications
• Propose avenues for further research on the topi

Explain the purpose and role of information security policies in an organization and their relationship to auditing.

All submissions should be done through Blackboard only
All submissions should be in PDF format only containing all required elements and must be submitted using Blackboard by the deadline.
Assessed intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:
Critically discuss the nature and purpose of information security related risk management and business continuity planning in an organization, including the importance of quantifying risks and assessing the costs and benefits of putting in place risk management measures.
Explain the purpose and role of information security policies in an organization and their
relationship to auditing.
Critically discuss the issues and problems arising in and from the introduction and implementation of information security policies within organizations, strategies for overcoming these, ethical and legal considerations, and mechanisms for ensuring that policies have been successfully embedded in the organization.