Category: Management

Decentralized Operations
Sherry Smith is the president/CEO of Tiller Components. She founded the firm and has led it to become an industry leader in the area of automobile manufacturing components and parts. The company has plants in over 35 areas across the country. Smith is finding that she cannot manage and stay on track with things the way she was able to in the past.
Discuss the decision-making approaches (centralized and decentralized) that you might use if you were the CEO of Tiller Components and how this would affect the different local and regional managers.
• What activities would be conducted centrally and which would you decentralize?
• How would the shifts in this method of decision-making and management that you suggest impact the company overall?
• Further, how can the use of analytical tools assist Smith with better understanding how each of her divisions and segments are performing?
Directions:
1. support your work with the concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook.
2. Cite atleast 2 other sources, APA style
3. Text Not Image.
4. Unique Answer.
5. Avoid Plagiarism.
6. 500-words.
7. AI is not allowed.

Change Agents
Are you a change agent?
• Discuss your role as a change agent in your current organization, including your traits and characteristics. If you are not a change agent, discuss what type of change agent would benefit your organization.
• Share how you influenced the generation, direction, success, or failure of a change initiative or would if given a chance.
• Finally, discuss challenges you have as a change agent (e.g., not agreeing with the change, management not truthfully sharing the repercussions of the change, etc.).
Directions:
1. Support your work with the concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook.
2. Cite atleast 2 other sources APA style
3. Text Not Image.
4. Unique Answer.
5. Avoid Plagiarism.
6. 500-words
7. AI is not allowed.

No plagiarism, no matching please. This is IMPORTANT!!
Word format only.
Answers must be detailed.
Use Time New Roman size 12 – double spaced and no pictures.
Use APA style reference. & In text citation.

No plagiarism, no matching please. This is IMPORTANT!!
Word format only.
Answers must be detailed.
Use Time New Roman size 12 – double spaced and no pictures.
Use APA style reference. & In text citation.

Kindly find attached Assignment 3. Below are the most important instructions that you need to carefully read:
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling in your information on the cover page.
Late submissions will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the paper should be written in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
Submissions without the cover page will NOT be accepted.
Do not change the arrangements or the details in the document.
The assignment is worth 10%. Please follow the instructions above and the ones inside the document.

Assignment Question(s):
Read carefully the mini case No. 18 from your textbook (entitled ‘Tesla Motors Inc.) and answer the following questions: (2 marks for each question)

Describe the different functional strategies of the Tesla Motors company.
Describe the relationship of Tesla Motors with its primary stakeholders.
Discuss any strategic alliance (acquisition, outsourcing, joint venture, ….) that Tesla Motors uses. Why did this company choose it? was it successful? Justify your answer.
Describe the core competency and assess the competitive advantage of Tesla Motors in its market.
Recommend solutions for Tesla Motors to improve its competitive advantage.

Selecting a Solution
[WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Prior to beginning this assignment,
Read Chapter 4: Finding Solutions and Gaining Support in the course textbook One Step at a Time: A Roadmap for Problem Solving & Making a Difference.
Review A Closer Look: Week 4: Identifying the Target Audience.
Download and complete the Innovation Ambition Continuum Comparison Worksheet Download Innovation Ambition Continuum Comparison Worksheet.
You will evaluate the two potential solutions to your stated problem (SOCIAL ISOLALTION AMONG OLDER CITIZENS) using a template based on the Tamarack Institute’s Innovation Ambition Continuum. From the results, you will select the best potential solution for the presented problem.
Complete Part One by:
Complete the table by critically evaluating the two potential solutions you proposed in this week’s Generating Potential Solutions discussion forum.
Complete Part Two by:
Writing the problem statement.
Briefly describing each potential solution.
Identifying the best solution
Explaining why you selected the solution.
Convert your completed worksheet (paper) to PDF and Save the completed PDF of your paper to your computer then upload it to Waypoint. Be sure to double check that it was properly saved and uploaded successfully.
Must be at least 2 double-spaced pages in length.
Select the arrow to review the formatting guidelines for the Selecting a Solution paper.
Innovative Ambition Continuum Worksheet Technical Requirements
must be 2 to 3 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
must include complete responses to all the prompts.
must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.

Generating Potential Solutions [WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 5]
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Chapter 4: Finding Solutions and Gaining Support of the course textbook One Step at a Time: A Roadmap for Problem Solving & Making a Difference.
Review A Closer Look: Week 4: Identifying the Target Audience.
Review SynthesisLinks to an external site..
Review the information you have gathered over the duration of the course, including the following:
Results of cultural and worldview lens evaluations (Week 2)
Data gathered from research and evaluation using a theoretical lens (Week 3)
Interview results (Week 3)
In this discussion, you will review information gathered over the duration of the course to help inform your recommendations for potential solutions to the problem.
In your discussion post,
Restate the problem statement.
Synthesize the results of your lens evaluations, data gathered, and interview results.
Propose two recommendations to address the problem based on your analysis.
Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 150 words and is due on Day 3 (Thursday).

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Chapter 4: Finding Solutions and Gaining Support of the course textbook One Step at a Time: A Roadmap for Problem Solving & Making a Difference.
Read A Closer Look: Week 4: Identifying the Target Audience.
Examining the audience demographics and psychographics can help formulate an approach that will help your audience know what the problem is, have empathy for the problem, and ultimately become part of the potential solution. In this discussion forum, you will identify individuals and/or groups who are interested in the problem, people who should be interested in the problem, and people who can be part of the potential solution.
In your discussion post,
Restate your problem statement. (SOCIAL ISOLATION AMONG OLDER CITIZENS)
Describe the predicted demographics of your target audience based on the context of the problem, the environment, and your prior research. Include as many of the following details as you can identify:
Age
Gender
Culture
Religious beliefs
Education level
Occupation
Describe the possible psychographic concerns your target audience may have. Consider the following:
Preexisting ideas about the issue.
Personal or group biases.
Prior experiences with the issue.
Based on possible psychographic concerns you find, formulate a communication plan based on what you want your audience to know about the problem. As stated in the course textbook,
Know is to create a persuasive message that is informative and fact-based from the data collected about the problem.
Feel is to influence the audience’s emotions by appealing to their interests, passions, and concerns.

A New Decision-Making Trend
Can intuition and evidence-based decision making coexist as valid approaches within an organization? Explain.
How might managers combine their intuition with a rational, data-driven, evidence-based approach? Why would you use one and not the other?
In terms of data-driven decision making, do you see a place for artificial intelligence in the near future? List some possible advantages and disadvantages of using artificial intelligence for managerial decision making.
Meets both criteria with no errors:
Displays college-level writing in Standard English (includes spelling, grammar, and punctuation).
Includes APA style in-text style citations where appropriate, and a list of references when required.
Reference to be used: Daft, R. L. (2021). Management (14th ed.). Cengage Limited.
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Discipline: MT497 Bachelor’s Capstone in Organizational Management