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Were there and additional strategy you could use?
What strategies have we learned that may have helped the project manager in this case?
Lesson 5 PRM discussion
Explain what activity information is important for sequencing activities.Explain the relevance in the critical path.
CASE ASSIGNMENT:
For this assignment, review the basic concepts of persuasion discussed in Cialdini (2001) and McLean (2012). Make sure you are clear on the distinction between argument, persuasion, and propaganda.
Once you have finished reviewing the background materials, think about communication that you receive in your daily life that is intended to sway your attitudes, opinion, or behavior. This could be communication from your employer, YouTube videos, TV advertisements, spam email, and a host of other communication that you are exposed to in your daily life. After reviewing some communication examples, write a 3-page paper with a minimum of two scholarly sources (citing and referencing) addressing the following questions:
1.)Describe a communication example that you have seen that is best described as propaganda. In addition to describing the communication, explain why you think this was propaganda rather than argumentation or persuasion.
2.)Now find a communication example that you think is a good example of argumentation.
3.)Last, but definitely not least, find a communication example that is best defined as persuasion and best fits the concepts of persuasion discussed in Cialdini (2001) or McLean (2012). Explain why you think this communication best fits the definition of persuasion rather than propaganda or argumentation.
ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW:
For this assignment, take a close look at the required readings below:
1.) McLean, S. (2012). Chapter 14 Section 2: Presentations to persuade. Communication for Business Success. Lardbucket.org or The Six Principles of Persuasion by Cialdini (2013).
2.) Then take a look at the Art of Persuasion by Burg (2011) and see which one of them is the most useful for you.
CASE ASSIGNMENT:
When you have finished carefully reading these materials, write a 4-page paper addressing the following issues:
1.) Which of these readings or tutorials was the most convincing or presented the most useful information? Explain your reasoning as to why you found this source more convincing that the others.
2.)Based on the ideas about persuasion that you read about in the background readings, write a memo (at least one page) to your employees trying to persuade them to cancel their weekend plans and volunteer to work next weekend. This memo shouldn’t be an “order” that they need to work on the weekend, but rather an attempt to persuade them to do so. Make sure to use the general concepts from Cialdini (2013), McLean (2012), or Burg (2011) as well as some of the practical persuasion guides to help you craft your memo.
3.)Conclude your paper with a discussion of how your memo applied the concepts from the background materials. Be specific as to what sources you used and what sections of your memo were influenced by which source.
Assignment content should include a brief introduction to the assignment, background information about the organization being studied, and discussion in terms of the concepts or theories being applied in the assignment and use headings and subheadings.
Strategic Decision Making
Project 1: Leading Strategically
Determine long–term objectives and priorities.
Learn what clients and customers need and want.
Learn about the products and activities of competitors.
Assess current strengths and weaknesses.
Identify core competencies.
Evaluate the need for a major change in strategy.
Identify promising strategies.
Evaluate the likely outcomes of a strategy.
Involve other executives in selecting a strategy.
For the choice of your organization,use Centene Corporation.
Discussion: Write one discussion page for each topic below. Use the attached leadership notes to help write your response to this discussion topics below.
Discuss the two topics listed below:
Discussion Topic 1: Drivers of Change
What are the major external and internal drivers of change in your organization?
Discussion Topic 2: Strategic Leadership
What is, or should be, the role of the strategic leadership in your organization to meet its performance objectives, develop a resilient organization and respond to the challenges of environment and sustainability?
Management Information System Presentation
Describe clearly,either woven in with your slides or as a separate section (i.e. a few slides devoted to only this topic) of the presentation,how you are considering constraints imposed by COVID-19 in your plan.
These constraints include, but are not limited to: reducing mobility by allowing people to work from home instead of the office, reducing mobility by doing teaching, training, and learning virtually, reducing density where people are working in a face to face environment, providing PPE where necessary, redesigning the workplace to allow “capsules,” i.e. no equipment or tools are shared – each person uses their own computer, their own set of tools, their own set of stationery, their own chair, etc. to avoid cross-contamination, moving activities outdoors to prevent infection through re-circulated air.
Stand-Alone Project: Expatriate Employee Development
Describe the type of company that you work for by industry, age, financial health, and reason for wishing to expand overseas. Also, use Hofstede’s dimensions to describe the home national culture. (20 points)
Describe the national culture where the new subsidiary will be established in terms of age and financial health, as well as motivation to create an alliance with the acquiring company. Also, use Hofstede’s dimensions to describe the new national culture. (20 points)
Describe a profile of the expatriate employee in terms of function,seniority,education,work experience,prior overseas experience,knowledge of the new culture,and motivation for accepting this assignment. (20 points)
Describe a profile of the expatriate family in terms of spousal background (career, hobbies, overseas experience in general and knowledge of new culture in particular), and background of children (how many children, age, grade in school, extracurricular interests, prior overseas experience in general, and prior experience with the new culture in particular). (20 points)
Mid term assignment
Learning Outcome(s) Assessed:
Comprehend the importance of international management as we increasingly operate in a global business environment.
Understand the fundamentals of management theory and practice.
Understand and relate the basic functions of planning,organizing,motivating, and controlling.
(the pdf with the instructions is uploaded)
Avoid plagiarism
Business Proposal to an Investor
This is master level with a lot of competition and need to be clear and convincing to the Investor why he needs to invest in congregated living,
Discuss the Product/congregated living in Terms of Market Needs. Some companies make the mistake of focusing on the size of the market.
Recognize the Competition.
Explain Why an Investor is Important to Your Company.
Have a Concise Pitch. … it is a business PITCH
Look at Companies That Excel at Talking to Investors.