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How has the current corporate culture facilitated the development of the current issue? Research the organization, dig into the culture, and analyze how it contributed to this issue. Hint: Review the mission and vision statements as well as the corporate Web site.

ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS

Write a 2–3 page, double-spaced paper in which you will present to the CEO your findings during your research steps. You must propose strategic solutions in your paper to include the following:

Describe the organization and the issue to resolve:

Provide a brief description of the organization you selected.

How has the current corporate culture facilitated the development of the current issue? Research the organization, dig into the culture, and analyze how it contributed to this issue. Hint: Review the mission and vision statements as well as the corporate Web site.

What are the organization’s areas of weakness as they relate to the issue? Apply your research on organizational behavior approaches to aspects of corporate culture—such as diversity, teamwork, and motivational strategies—to help identify the areas of weakness.

What organizational practices would you modify? What solutions would you recommend to management that would help solve the identified weaknesses? As a consultant, you will identify the suggestions and solutions you would present to the organization’s leadership with regard to modifying current organizational practices to resolve the issue.

 

Critically discuss what each of the factors means to the firm and what directions be aware og going forward? Note you are required to make recommendations within this briefing note.

Provide a briefing note, template provided, for CEO to discuss the macro-environmental factors they need to consider for next 12-24 months based of the FTSE listed firm Watches of Switzerland

Discuss the macro-environmental factors that they and the board of directors will need to consider over the next 12-14 months.

Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of changes in the business environment on business organisation and activity.

Identify the recent changes in the luxury watch market and firm performance. Feel free to use a graph, chart tables this are not included in the 500 word count.

Critically discuss what each of the factors means to the firm and what directions be aware og going forward? Note you are required to make recommendations within this briefing note. This should compromise 50-60% of the word count

 Explain the key components of project planning strategies that can be used for ensuring projects are delivered in line with customer requirements.

Presentation Pack

The CEO has also asked you to prepare a presentation to the managers prior to their formal Strategic Management Planning meeting to position them for their meeting. The focus is to give theoretical understanding of organisational culture and workplace behaviour and how people practices should support the achievement of business goals and objectives. The presentation pack needs to include presentation slides and supporting notes. The presentation must include:

An explanation of the principles of different approaches, theories and models of organisational and human behaviour that illustrate the factors that can influence how individuals, groups and teams contribute to organisational success. (AC 2.1)

An identification of the main drivers of change in organisations, and using at least two established models, an explanation of how people might experience change (AC 2.2)

An explanation of the steps that can be taken to increase diversity and inclusion in your work, and the implications for a positive and inclusive culture of not taking these steps (AC2.3)

using examples from your experience and current good practice concepts, an explanation of the positive and negative ways in which people practices can affect organisational culture and behaviours. (AC 2.4)

An assessment of the importance of wellbeing in the workplace and identification of the different factors affecting wellbeing that can impact physically and psychologically and upon relationships, affecting health, commitment and performance. (AC 2.5)

A critical evaluation of your experience of work and how this illustrates and supports the concept and principles of employee lifecycle (AC 3.1)

Explains both the strategic and operational links and support between people practice and other organisational functions. (AC 3.2

Explores the principles of different approaches for engaging with internal customers to establish their needs (AC 3.4)

Explain the key components of project planning strategies that can be used for ensuring projects are delivered in line with customer requirements. (AC 3.5) It is essential that you refer to academic concepts, theories and professional practice for the tasks to ensure that your work is supported by analysis. ensure that any references and sources drawn upon are acknowledged correctly and supported by a bibliography

Slide deck (1-2 slides per assessment criteria)

Presenter notes (1900 words) the word count on the slides doesn’t count. Word count is only for the notes

Define a health care administrative / management problem / clinical issue for which you are going to develop a research proposal.”Are rural hospitals at a disadvantage when it comes to CEO succession planning?”

Choose one question that you can answer in the project. An example of such a question could be, “Are rural hospitals at a disadvantage when it comes to CEO succession planning?”

The research proposal project is designed to provide the student an opportunity to investigate a topic of interest and learn about the various parts of a research proposal / research. the purpose of this assignment is to define a health care administrative / management problem / clinical issue for which you are going to develop a research proposal.

Identify the financial records that indicate commitment to TBL.Complete and submit the KPI and Triple Bottom Line Balanced Scorecard. In the scorecard spreadsheet, identify one additional KPI, a related SMART objective, and its measurement criterion. You need to do this for all three elements of TBL: people, planet, and profit. You have been provided with one example for each TBL element.

MBA500

Competency

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

Assess current performance of an organization through analysis of financial statements.

Scenario

In Project One: Applying Strategic and Operational Thinking, you prepared Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the marketing and sales departments of your product line.

Now, the CEO has provided you with a revised set of KPIs. You need to apply these KPIs toward the analysis of a proposed marketing and sales initiative to increase loyalty card memberships in neighborhoods with predominantly low-income populations, whether the populations are in rural, suburban, or city locations.

The CEO wants this analysis so that she can chart the sustainability and growth of the initiative while assuring it meets standards for Corporate Social Responsibility.

The CEO has provided you with several documents, available in the Supporting Materials section of this project. She wants you to use the provided Triple Bottom Line Balanced Scorecard to assess the strategic plan’s compliance with the KPIs and summarize your findings in a memo.

Directions

Complete the following to provide the analysis required by the CEO:

Identify the financial records that indicate commitment to TBL.

Outline which financial and other records marketing and sales maintains where TBL can provide data.

Using the TBL scorecard, evaluate the alignment of the strategic plan with KPIs. Remember, there may be multiple outcomes of this exercise. Your focus should be to apply your understanding of the scenario and evaluate the plan accordingly.

Which ideas in the plan support the KPI criteria? Cite specific ideas that meet the criteria.

Explain how they meet the criteria.

In your memo:

Describe how the TBL data relates to the KPIs.

Identify which additional TBL financial line items are needed to measure the cost for each criterion.

For example, should there be a line entry for hiring temporary workers?

Referring back to the SWOT analyses from Project One, explain how functional considerations of individual departments contribute to financial performance.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

KPI and Triple Bottom Line Balanced Scorecard

Complete and submit the KPI and Triple Bottom Line Balanced Scorecard. In the scorecard spreadsheet, identify one additional KPI, a related SMART objective, and its measurement criterion. You need to do this for all three elements of TBL: people, planet, and profit. You have been provided with one example for each TBL element.

Analysis Memo

In a Word document, write a memo outlining your analysis. Ensure that the memo is organized by TBL element with a header for each segment of your analysis. The Word document should use double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.

This memo should be no more than 6 pages in length, and include references cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Supporting Materials

The following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:

The following resources support your work on the project:

Document: Consolidated Balance Sheet

This is a consolidated balance sheet for the company. The CEO has highlighted the areas of the financial statements she wants you to focus your attention and analysis on.

Document: Consolidated Cash Flow Statement

This is a consolidated cash flow statement for the company. The CEO has highlighted the areas of the financial statements she wants you to focus your attention and analysis on.

Document: Consolidated Income Statement

This document is a consolidated income statement and a consolidated statement of comprehensive income of the company. The CEO has highlighted the areas of the financial statements she wants you to focus your attention and analysis on.

Document: KPI and Triple Bottom Line Balanced Scorecard

Analyze Uber’s financial success and present your findings to senior management. In your findings, you will identify financial key performance indicators, industry financial benchmarks, and accounting guidelines related to Uber.

MBA500

You have analyzed the current financial records of your organization and evaluated whether the operational plan aligns with key performance indicators of the finance department.

Now, your CEO wants you to present to senior management how your department (or any individual department) can contribute to the financial success of the organization.

Prompt

Analyze Uber’s financial success and present your findings to senior management. In your findings, you will identify financial key performance indicators, industry financial benchmarks, and accounting guidelines related to Uber.

Review the Uber Case Study provided in the textbook, and review the additional information related to Uber provided.

Review the Uber Case Study provided in the textbook.

Critical Thinking Case: Uber: Riding the Gig Economy

Review the following additional information related to Uber.

Investor information for Uber balanced scorecard/financial: In the annual report, review Uber’s balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement.

Uber: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environment, social, governance (ESG) metrics

Create a presentation for your CEO and senior management, discussing the following key criteria:

Identify the financial key performance indicators of Uber’s success.

Analyze how different functional areas, departments, or both of Uber contribute to its overall financial success.

What common industry financial benchmarks should Uber consider in developing its strategies to grow the business?

Which financial benchmark can Uber adopt to measure its performance and increase its industry attractiveness? Use Porter’s five forces to support your answer.

Are there any critical elements of accounting guidelines that will be crucial for Uber to meet? Explain your reasoning.

LINKS FOR FINANCIAL/investor for Uber

What action(s) the stakeholders take to help or oppose the public relations issue?Identify the company objectives for what is wants to achieve in trying to reduce future public relations issues.

Five of Strategic Analysis

Facebook has been surrounded by controversy. In 2017 the company lost around 2.8 million U.S. users under the age of 25. The prediction for 2018 is not much better.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has stated that due to the current controversy the amount of time users spend on Facebook has reduced by 50 million hours each day thus far in 2018.

A strategic analysis of Facebook using the Five I’s can help you better understand the crisis as well as how the organization should manage it.

In order to use the Five I’s in a strategic analysis, it is significant for you to gain an understanding of the history of the company.

This will help you determine how to strategically deal with stakeholders to avoid future public relations issues. Read pages 6-15 of “Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World,” a Harvard Business Review case study.

In addition to reading the Facebook case study, learn about the Five  strategic analysis stages by reviewing page 52 of your textbook, Business, Society and Government Essentials. Additional information on the Five  can also be found in the module overview.

To complete this assignment, address the following items in your short paper:

1. Identify the issue Facebook is having based on the HBR article (p.6-15).

2. Determine (identify) stakeholders who are for or against the direction Facebook is taking to avoid the public relations issues.

3. Identify the incentives of stakeholders by answering the following five questions:

a. What responsibility does the company have to the stakeholders?

b. Can the stakeholder help or hurt the company performance?

c. Is quick action needed?

d. What is the cost/benefit of the company taking action?

e. What action(s) the stakeholders take to help or oppose the public relations issue?

4. Identify the company objectives for what is wants to achieve in trying to reduce future public relations issues.

5. Identify interaction strategies that can be implemented in stages.

Write a 2000-word individual report to describe, and discuss how you would develop a coherent funding strategy for the venture, which has the following characteristics:

Raising finance

You have agreed to act as an advisor to ‘ELITE PRO’, a promising early stage technology venture based in the UK. They wish to develop a funding strategy for the next 48 months, at which point they should have achieved break-even.

Write a 2000-word individual report to describe, and discuss how you would develop a coherent funding strategy for the venture, which has the following characteristics:

• Stage – Currently pre-seed, no MVP or evidence (yet) of customer traction

• Team – Two full time co-founders (CEO and CTO) who can survive for 6 months without income.

• Industry – Sports wearables

• Market – B2C, initially targeting competitive cyclists and rowers (assume a SOM of £50m in EU and US combined, CAGR 5%)

• Competitors – No direct competition at present. Substitutes exist but are more expensive.

• I.P. – Yes, 2 patents pending

• Margins – Gross margin 60%, Net margin 25%

• Time to break-even – 48 months

• Total funding required to break even – £1.8m

Specifically, you have been asked to outline suitable funding options and to suggest a timeline together with milestones.

What were critical decisions, what was going on around them, etc. 3. Concept/Theory Connection: relate your readings and observations to different leadership concepts/theories (THIS REPRESENTS THE BULK OF YOUR PRESENTATION).

LIA REPORT: NELSON MANDELA

LIA Report This report is PPT Slides only – no written paper –Modified May 2020ALTERNATE ASSIGNMENT: Since Covid-19 prohibits students from volunteering in a service-learning leadership project typical for this class, the following alternative assignment has been created.

The student will select a contemporary leader (someone since 2000 – this cannot be a politician and you should choose someone who is popular, well researched and written about) and perform a comprehensive analysis of their leadership by summarizing the major points of their experience and what theories used, concepts covered/addressed, and the problems facing the person/organization.

Student will augment their findings with at least 8 other references other than your textbook or other editions by the same authors.

Slides should contain the presentation bullets – details on those bullets and citations, etc. should be included in the notes section (lower part of the slides).

Students will identify aspects where they agreed and disagreed with the authors of external researched articles in the conclusion section. The individual you select can be a corporate CEO/manager, non-profit organization leader, government or health organization leader, etc.

Whoever you select, ensure that the individual is well analyzed and written about as you will be utilizing those external articles in your project and analysis.Each PPT report must include the following (10-15 slides):Structure of the PowerPoint: 1. Introduction – Your Name, Individual you selected for this project, and WHY.2. Information about your leader.

What were critical decisions, what was going on around them, etc. 3. Concept/Theory Connection: relate your readings and observations to different leadership concepts/theories (THIS REPRESENTS THE BULK OF YOUR PRESENTATION).

Include one slide on lessons learned from this leader and his/her leadership style.Augment your findings with research which shows how the different theories work/do not work in various situations.

At least 8 research sources outside of the textbook must be used to earn more points than “Average” (THE REFERENCES SHOULD BE LISTED IN THE NOTES SECTION OF THE SLIDES).

You are encouraged to use peer reviewed journals, magazine articles, and other popular press material other than textbooks.4.

Students will identify aspects where they agreed and disagreed with the authors of the external articles in the conclusion section 5. References – From the research,  include one SLIDE FOR ALL REFERENCES in APA style.

After your PowerPoint is posted, you are required to comment on three of your classmates’ presentations citing what they did well and suggestions for improvement.