Category: Management homework help

 
For this week’s discussion response, complete the SWOT matrix to highlight the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the company (as approved by the instructor). Each SWOT category should include four items. Use the SWOT matrix template below.
SWOT Matrix Template.
Start with a brief overview of your business: company name and what you are selling (a maximum of 3 sentences).
Submit the completed SWOT Matrix.
Discuss the opportunities you identified in your SWOT Matrix to clarify how you can increase your sales by pursuing those opportunities.
Review the link SWOT Analysis: How To With Table and ExampleLinks to an external site. for additional information. 
I have included the information for the company that you will use to create the SWOT matrix

 
Each student will upload their final inquiry assignment.  
Provide an approximately 10-12 page (excluding references and tables/figures) critical review of your topic.  Your job is to integrate each of the components to date into a comprehensive, critical review. This will include your topic summary/literature review as well as potential resources for a practitioner of the topic. Your assignment should contain:
APA Style Cover Page
Introduction of your paper – explain the purpose of your paper, the value/benefits/importance of examining this topic and corresponding tool, and put forth a thesis statement about the topic. (1-2 paragraphs)
Topic Summary/Literature Review – produce a final draft of your literature review/summary of the topic (be sure to paraphrase and appropriately cite your sources) taking into consideration all feedback (4-5 pages). 
Discussion and Justification of Selected Tools – discuss the one tool you selected using the following headings/subheadings:

Tool Name & description (about 1-2 pages).

Focus – concerns, relationships, insights, and studies regarding the tool. Be sure to paraphrase most writing and, when appropriate, strategically use direct quotes as you appropriately cite all sources in APA format. There must be at least 3, but ideally 4 or more references.
How to use the tool
When to use the tool

Conclusion – brief summary of findings that includes a discussion on the alignment of your findings from the literature review and your toolbox.  For example, did the scholarly articles within your literature review align with the “pop” and/or scholarly sources you referenced in your toolbox?  Also, include a discussion of how a practitioner using the tool might further inform/advance the research of the topic.  For example, are there any research questions you have as a result of understanding the tool? (about 1 page)
Reflection – professional and personal discoveries or takeaways, including how the concepts and tools of your research relate to your current experiences and future experiences. Second, discuss the process of researching and writing and how you utilized AI in the paper (if at all). Where did it help, where did it go wrong, and what are some ethical considerations for future use (about 1-2 pages)?
Reference Page – The paper should follow APA style and formatting, including a list of all references, proper APA formatting, etc.
**The final paper should incorporate feedback (e.g., AI generated, faculty, peer, writing center) and will be measured on how feedback was incorporated.  Final papers will also be measured regarding progress from the first draft to the final draft of the paper.  

 The Signature Assignment will allow you to examine a Content Theory or Process Theory below and its Perspective on Motivation.
Content Theories: Emphasize the needs that motivate people.
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Alderfer’s ERG Theory
• Herzberg’s Two-Factory Theory
• McClelland’s Acquired Needs Theory
Process Theories: Explain how people select behavioral actions to meet their needs and determine whether their choices were successful.
• Locke’s Goal-Setting Theory
• Adams’s Equity Theory
• Vroom’s Expectancy Theory
Customers, both external and internal are a key element of a successful business, and an organization’s internal customers are the employees. One of the fundamental keys to a successful organization is successful employees (Bartosh, 2015). Managers are more than supervisors who plan, organize, lead and control. Dynamic managers are one of the most vital elements of employee success (Bartosh, 2015). Therefore, it is wise for a manager to recognize not only what makes him or her an effective manager, but also, to understand what makes employees successful, productive, and highly motivated. To accomplish this managers must understand a management theory that complements his or her skill set, personality traits, and problem-solving style.
Submit a 5-6 page Evaluative Signature Assignment. Your Signature Assignment is to choose and examine a Content or Process Management Theory that interest you. This assignment should also contain your perspective and insights. Research and provide support from scholarly or peer-reviewed journals.
Use five or more sources outside the course textbook and proofread your work before submitting for grade. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length. There is no penalty for going over 6 pages.
The assignment is to be completed in the most current APA or CMS Style format.

Use the Rubric
Activity 7
How should a project manager handle and work with a difficult stakeholder?The assignment is to answer the question provided above in es form. This is to be in narrative form and should be as thorough as possible. Bullet points should not to be used. The paper should be at least 1.5 – 2 pages in length, Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins and utilizing at least five outside scholarly or professional source. The textbook should also be utilized. Do not insert excess line spacing. APA formatting and citation should be used.

Discussion 7 please use the Rubric
Reflection and Discussion Forum Week 7Assigned Readings:Chapter 9 – Managing Difficult StakeholdersInitial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
How does or can a project proceed without an executive sponsor?
[Your post must be substantive and demonstrate insight gained from the course material. Postings must be in the student’s own words – do not provide quotes!] [Your initial post should be at least 450+ words and in APA format (including Times New Roman with font size 12 and double spaced). Post the actual body of your paper in the discussion thread then attach a Word version of the paper for APA review]

No plagiarism! and also check the grammar. 300 words each part. Instructions are provided in the file. Due in less than 24 hours  

  
Reading and Power Point Packet #4 
Directions: Using the PowerPoint and what you learn from the chapter reading, please complete the following. Please write in complete sentences and elaborate on your responses. 
1. Explain the patterns of growth in body proportions in the first seven years of life. 
2. How does development and growth in the brain support physical development? 
3. What does proximodistal development mean? How does this impact the development of fine and gross motor skills?
4. What are some ways infants use their senses to learn about the world around them? 
5. Typically, which of the five senses are usually poorly developed at birth? 
6. What are the benefits and challenges to breastfeeding?
7. What are the recommendations for infants to transition to solid foods?
8. How does colic impact infant’s health? 

Practical Connection AssignmentAt UC, it is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own career.Assignment: 
Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. Requirements:
Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.
Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.
Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.
Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment. 
You should NOT, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace. 

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the following resources:
Chapter 9 of your textbook Leadership: Theory and Practice

How Great Leaders CommunicateLinks to an external site. article
Choose one of the following speeches to reflect on for this discussion forum:
President Obama: Barack Obama – New Beginning Speech June 4th 2009, CairoLinks to an external site.
Malala Yousafzai: Activist Malala Yousafzai Delivers Impassioned Speech to Canadian ParliamentLinks to an external site.
President Kennedy: President Kennedy’s speech at Rice UniversityLinks to an external site.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I’ve Been to the MountaintopLinks to an external site.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a DreamLinks to an external site.
John F. Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the NationLinks to an external site.
Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (aka “The Speech”)Links to an external site.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor Address to the NationLinks to an external site.
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary SessionLinks to an external site.
Aung San Suu Kyi: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speech at Yale with Myanmar SubstitleLinks to an external site. [sic]
In your post,
Review your selected speech and share the key points illustrated in the speech.

What made the speech so memorable?
What were the main takeaways?
What did you learn in terms of leadership communication from this speech?

Share attributes that you could incorporate into your own leadership communication.
Your discussion post should be a minimum of 250 words.

 Your response to the questions should be at least 2-3 pages in the APA Writing Style Author-Date format. If you refer to any parts of the textbook, sources from other texts, movies, or internet sources, you must cite them.  This document must be submitted in Microsoft Word.  It is also going to be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin. 
Scenario:  You are a project manager at a medium-sized company that produces a variety of house appliance products. You have been working with a group of engineers and designers in creating a new toaster oven. The product is ready to be marketed, and the company seems to be extremely anxious to begin production. However, when you approached the head of production to start making plans, you are told that your work will be delayed for at least a year. According to them, you should have notified them weeks earlier because other products have already been scheduled for marketing. Also, some of the production equipment will have to be refitted, and the process will take three months. You insisted on beginning production immediately, but the head of production refused to begin before a year has passed. You and the head of production had a very heated exchange, after which you went to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). She informed you that she wants you to work out the problems and that the first product needs to roll off the line in six months.  
Conflict can be handled in many ways. The parties can work to resolve the conflict themselves, or they can seek outside help from a third party.
·    After reviewing the case, describe in detail five potential strategies for conflict management that might be used to address the problems between the parties 
·    What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches to conflict resolution? 
·    Identify and describe a real incident of conflict from the media or your job situation 
·    Which of the five approaches to conflict management is likely to be most effective in this situation, and why?