This document provides an overview of the strategic planning process for a potential startup fast food restaurant called aNachos. It discusses conducting an environmental scan to understand external factors like economic, political, technological, and social influences. An internal analysis examines the company's strengths, weaknesses, resources, and important internal factors like competition, compensation, legislation, and employee relations. The document also covers assessing the company's mission, leadership, culture, and competitive position to guide strategic decision making.
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The document discusses undertaking a strategic audit to improve a company's performance. It recommends the following initial steps:
1) Analyze the external environment, including competition, market trends, and changes in customer needs.
2) Evaluate the company's resources and capabilities to determine what is and isn't working given the company's growth.
3) Assess if the company has the right people in the right jobs and make changes if needed.
4) Review the strategic plan and vision to ensure they are aligned with current capabilities.
The document discusses the Deming Cycle, also known as the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle, which is a four stage model for continuous improvement. It involves planning a change, implementing it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned. The stages are outlined in detail. Strategic thinking is then defined as focusing on unique opportunities to create value through creative dialogue. Key competencies of strategic thinking are discussed, along with the characteristics of effective strategies. Finally, strategic analysis is defined as the process of conducting research to formulate strategy, using various analytical methods.
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BUSIENSS POLICY DEVLEOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION 2
Business Policy Development and Implementation
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Business Policy Development and Implementation
Introduction
In a constantly changing organizational and business environment, companies are increasingly facing stiff competition. As such, they are compelled by the need to improve their performance and do things in the most desired ways in order to meet the needs of consumers (Gomes & Romão, 2013). In light of these patterns, organizations can no longer be dependent upon the traditional analytical tools. Instead, they have seen the need to use models and frameworks such as the balanced scorecard to examine the degree to which companies work to attain their mission and vision. In addition, strategic decision-making must also be done through observance of the constantly changing trends and patterns that may affect the status of an organization. In this report, I provide ways in which our team members made logical decisions and how we utilized the balanced scorecard framework.
Decision Logic and What Supported the Decisions
The decisions that we embraced in the Capsim project was driven by the desire to generate a competitive advantage over other rivals. Therefore, we saw the need to take a closer look at the use of decision-making strategies within our business and operational environment. The main decisions that we made were associated with issues such as product development, research and development, innovation, marketing, as well as human resources and finance. There are various factors that made it possible for the team to make strategic decisions. First, having ready access to information, ranging from the details of the potential markets for the organization’s products and services, as well as estimates of next year’s labor requirements, is important. The more accurate and complete the information is, the more effective the strategic decisions we made. For instance, we relied on technological tools such as information systems to provide the team with accurate information about business intelligence issues (Spetzler, Winter & Meyer, 2016). Decision-making on production and product development functions heavily relied on technological tools such as spreadsheets and databases to calculate the efficacy of different machines, and to introduce new products in the production process. In order to support marketing decisions, we utilized Big Data technologies and analytics to determine the effects of different pricing strategies and to keep the records of consumer profiles. These tools were also utilized to plan the launching of new products and services. Human resources decisions were made with the purpose of planning for the next round and determining the pay awards. Planning decisions also sought to determine employee records and rewards. Finance decisions were also made to draw up p ...
The document discusses strategic planning and management. It defines strategic management as formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions to achieve organizational objectives. It notes that strategic management helps organizations succeed by guiding them to achieve strategic goals in light of internal and external factors. The strategic management process consists of three stages: strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation.
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The document discusses various aspects of business policy including:
1. Business policies are guidelines developed by organizations to govern their actions and define decision-making boundaries. They help achieve organizational goals.
2. Business policies cover functional areas like production, marketing, finance, and personnel. They define roles and responsibilities of senior management.
3. Effective business policies are specific, clear, reliable, appropriate, simple, inclusive and flexible to guide organizational activities. They provide long-term direction for organizations.
This document discusses strategic management and business policy. It begins by defining strategic management as the art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions to achieve organizational objectives. It then discusses the nature, characteristics, and features of strategic management, including that it involves a long time perspective, is an intellectual process, has wide ramifications, and is a continuing dynamic social process. The document goes on to discuss the importance and relevance of strategic management, including its financial and non-financial benefits. It closes by emphasizing the importance of effective strategic management for business success.
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The document discusses undertaking a strategic audit to improve a company's performance. It recommends the following initial steps:
1) Analyze the external environment, including competition, market trends, and changes in customer needs.
2) Evaluate the company's resources and capabilities to determine what is and isn't working given the company's growth.
3) Assess if the company has the right people in the right jobs and make changes if needed.
4) Review the strategic plan and vision to ensure they are aligned with current capabilities.
The document discusses the Deming Cycle, also known as the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle, which is a four stage model for continuous improvement. It involves planning a change, implementing it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned. The stages are outlined in detail. Strategic thinking is then defined as focusing on unique opportunities to create value through creative dialogue. Key competencies of strategic thinking are discussed, along with the characteristics of effective strategies. Finally, strategic analysis is defined as the process of conducting research to formulate strategy, using various analytical methods.
Running head BUSIENSS POLICY DEVLEOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION 1B.docxsusanschei
Running head: BUSIENSS POLICY DEVLEOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION 1
BUSIENSS POLICY DEVLEOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION 2
Business Policy Development and Implementation
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Business Policy Development and Implementation
Introduction
In a constantly changing organizational and business environment, companies are increasingly facing stiff competition. As such, they are compelled by the need to improve their performance and do things in the most desired ways in order to meet the needs of consumers (Gomes & Romão, 2013). In light of these patterns, organizations can no longer be dependent upon the traditional analytical tools. Instead, they have seen the need to use models and frameworks such as the balanced scorecard to examine the degree to which companies work to attain their mission and vision. In addition, strategic decision-making must also be done through observance of the constantly changing trends and patterns that may affect the status of an organization. In this report, I provide ways in which our team members made logical decisions and how we utilized the balanced scorecard framework.
Decision Logic and What Supported the Decisions
The decisions that we embraced in the Capsim project was driven by the desire to generate a competitive advantage over other rivals. Therefore, we saw the need to take a closer look at the use of decision-making strategies within our business and operational environment. The main decisions that we made were associated with issues such as product development, research and development, innovation, marketing, as well as human resources and finance. There are various factors that made it possible for the team to make strategic decisions. First, having ready access to information, ranging from the details of the potential markets for the organization’s products and services, as well as estimates of next year’s labor requirements, is important. The more accurate and complete the information is, the more effective the strategic decisions we made. For instance, we relied on technological tools such as information systems to provide the team with accurate information about business intelligence issues (Spetzler, Winter & Meyer, 2016). Decision-making on production and product development functions heavily relied on technological tools such as spreadsheets and databases to calculate the efficacy of different machines, and to introduce new products in the production process. In order to support marketing decisions, we utilized Big Data technologies and analytics to determine the effects of different pricing strategies and to keep the records of consumer profiles. These tools were also utilized to plan the launching of new products and services. Human resources decisions were made with the purpose of planning for the next round and determining the pay awards. Planning decisions also sought to determine employee records and rewards. Finance decisions were also made to draw up p ...
The document discusses strategic planning and management. It defines strategic management as formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions to achieve organizational objectives. It notes that strategic management helps organizations succeed by guiding them to achieve strategic goals in light of internal and external factors. The strategic management process consists of three stages: strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation.
Business Policy and Strategic Management.pptxATIFASLAM90
The document discusses various aspects of business policy including:
1. Business policies are guidelines developed by organizations to govern their actions and define decision-making boundaries. They help achieve organizational goals.
2. Business policies cover functional areas like production, marketing, finance, and personnel. They define roles and responsibilities of senior management.
3. Effective business policies are specific, clear, reliable, appropriate, simple, inclusive and flexible to guide organizational activities. They provide long-term direction for organizations.
This document discusses strategic management and business policy. It begins by defining strategic management as the art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions to achieve organizational objectives. It then discusses the nature, characteristics, and features of strategic management, including that it involves a long time perspective, is an intellectual process, has wide ramifications, and is a continuing dynamic social process. The document goes on to discuss the importance and relevance of strategic management, including its financial and non-financial benefits. It closes by emphasizing the importance of effective strategic management for business success.
Strategic management involves planning, monitoring, and assessing an organization's goals and strategies to ensure success amid changing business environments. It includes analyzing internal/external factors, formulating action plans, executing plans, and evaluating results. Strategic management allows organizations to be proactive and exert control over their destiny by identifying opportunities and minimizing threats. Key roles in strategic management are held by consultants, entrepreneurs, boards of directors, CEOs, senior management, corporate planning staff, business unit executives, middle managers, and executive assistants.
Business policy and strategic managementAnil Kumar
This document discusses strategic management and business policy. It begins by explaining the origins of business policy courses in business schools in the early 20th century. It then discusses the nature of business policy, which refers to long-term decisions made by top management about the future direction of a business. These decisions determine the business's relationship to its environment and position in the market. The document also distinguishes between strategic decisions, operating decisions, and administrative decisions. Strategic decisions have long-term implications and involve issues like products/services, markets, and objectives.
The document provides an overview of enterprise performance management (EPM) methodology in 6 steps: 1) Develop an enterprise strategy, 2) Objectively map the organization, 3) Identify improvement opportunities and key performance indicators (KPIs), 4) Develop an objective and relevant scorecard, 5) Implement outcome-based change management, and 6) Measure the results and continue to refine. EPM focuses on improving organizational performance through strategic planning, objective analysis of processes and costs, identifying opportunities for enhancement, tracking progress with scorecards, managing changes, and assessing outcomes. The goal is to empower leadership to make fact-based decisions to optimize performance.
1) The document introduces strategic management and discusses its importance for organizations to effectively plan for and address strategic challenges in today's global business environment.
2) It outlines the five steps of the strategic management process: external analysis, internal analysis, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategic control.
3) Strategic management involves both analyzing the internal and external environments to develop strategies to fulfill the organization's mission and gain a competitive advantage. Firms must then implement, execute, and monitor their strategies.
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Environmental Scanning for Google Inc. Introduction
Environmental scanning is a procedure that methodically inspects and interprets the relevant information to point out the external threats and opportunities that can influence future decisions. It is the consistent tracking of events, occurrences, and trends in the firm's internal and external environment that bear on its present and future endeavors. (Terry, 2020). Environmental scanning is related to SWOT analysis and should be integrated into the strategic planning process. An excellent environmental scanning process looks into both qualitative and quantitative changes. Ultimately, you should create a set of environmental indicators (external, internal, quantitative, and qualitative) that you think are the most important and could potentially impact the analysis you are performing.
The components of environmental scanning that should be analyzed include the following:
· Trends: What are the ongoing trends in the industry or marketplace that could impact your organization either positively or negatively.
· Competition: How are your competitors operating? What are they doing? Which of your competitor's weaknesses can you exploit?
· Technology: What are the developments in technology that could affect your business in the short or long term? Are there any existing technologies that could increase the efficiency of your organization?
· Customers: What is affecting your capability to offer top-notch customer service? How dynamic is your customer base?
· Economy: What is the present pattern of the economy, and how could it affect the future of the business?
· Labor Supply: How are the labor market and environment in your areas of operation?
How will you ensure there is ready access to workers with high demand?
· Academic interests: Employment interests and the famous fields of the prospective students together with their families.
· Research: Funding from private, governmental, and foundation sources and changes in
interests.
· Philanthropy: The changes in the available funding and donors' interests, attitudes, and approaches.
· Legislative/Political environment: Are there any impending legislation that will affect your business in the future? What impacts will the election results have on your organization?
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Every firm should identify the external factor with the most impact to make environmental scanning a helpful tool. The next step should be to perform an internal scan of the firm. Perform a review of the organization's mission, strategic plan, and vision. Examine the organization's weaknesses and strengths. Look at the ...
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Answers for theses question with little notes ant bullet point on power points. Two ppt is enough.
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Who supports the change? Who is resisting the change? Why?
5. What’s your communication objective? (Raise awareness, change behavior, change attitudes, build support, neutralize critics). Why?
Environmental Scanning for Google Inc. Introduction
Environmental scanning is a procedure that methodically inspects and interprets the relevant information to point out the external threats and opportunities that can influence future decisions. It is the consistent tracking of events, occurrences, and trends in the firm's internal and external environment that bear on its present and future endeavors. (Terry, 2020). Environmental scanning is related to SWOT analysis and should be integrated into the strategic planning process. An excellent environmental scanning process looks into both qualitative and quantitative changes. Ultimately, you should create a set of environmental indicators (external, internal, quantitative, and qualitative) that you think are the most important and could potentially impact the analysis you are performing.
The components of environmental scanning that should be analyzed include the following:
· Trends: What are the ongoing trends in the industry or marketplace that could impact your organization either positively or negatively.
· Competition: How are your competitors operating? What are they doing? Which of your competitor's weaknesses can you exploit?
· Technology: What are the developments in technology that could affect your business in the short or long term? Are there any existing technologies that could increase the efficiency of your organization?
· Customers: What is affecting your capability to offer top-notch customer service? How dynamic is your customer base?
· Economy: What is the present pattern of the economy, and how could it affect the future of the business?
· Labor Supply: How are the labor market and environment in your areas of operation?
How will you ensure there is ready access to workers with high demand?
· Academic interests: Employment interests and the famous fields of the prospective students together with their families.
· Research: Funding from private, governmental, and foundation sources and changes in
interests.
· Philanthropy: The changes in the available funding and donors' interests, attitudes, and approaches.
· Legislative/Political environment: Are there any impending legislation that will affect your business in the future? What impacts will the election results have on your organization?
("TOPPR", 2021A and "TOPPR", 2021B)
Every firm should identify the external factor with the most impact to make environmental scanning a helpful tool. The next step should be to perform an internal scan of the firm. Perform a review of the organization's mission, strategic plan, and vision. Examine the organization's weaknesses and strengths. Look at the ...
The document discusses the six steps of strategy formulation: 1) define the organization, 2) define the strategic mission, 3) define strategic objectives, 4) define the competitive strategy considering industry, competition, and internal strengths/weaknesses, 5) implement strategies using tactical actions, and 6) evaluate progress by assessing market conditions, competition, and strategy implementation. Regular evaluation allows organizations to adapt strategies as needed to achieve goals in a changing business environment.
This document provides an overview of strategic management. It defines strategic management as a process that includes analyzing the external and internal environment, formulating strategies to match strengths/weaknesses with opportunities/threats, implementing strategies, and measuring success through strategic control. The five steps of the strategic management process are discussed in detail. The document also discusses different perspectives on strategic management, including the scientific and artistic views, and the influences of industrial organization theory, resource-based theory, and contingency theory.
This document discusses strategic management in a competitive business environment. It defines strategic management as a process and logic for determining and controlling an organization's strategic position in its environment. Strategic management aims to define strategies and processes to help management adapt to dynamics of today through goals and methods. The document discusses the importance of strategic management for achieving effective projects to fulfill an organization's mission. It also discusses how strategic management allows deliberate management of progress and building of resources toward a desired future state.
This report is about combination of various strategic management theories which has explains by different authors with different viewpoints according to the situations which they are looking at.
Strategic management can be basically describe as a process which analysis the current situation and make strategies which will matches to that. Basically strategic management has three main processes which can name as strategic formulation, implementation and evaluation.
First this report explains about what is strategic management and how it has implemented and how if effects for an organization. Compare to that briefing then the report focus on the theories which has found out to be explain in the journals which has selected to review the strategic management theories.
And then the report contains about the strengths and weaknesses of the each selected strategic management theory. After that it contains about a combination of all the theories which has mention in the report, to fill up the gap of each theory using the strength of the other.
Finally, in the conclusion the report shows the final view of the researcher about the finding throughout the research and the assumption which can make about combination of the strategic management theories and the use of this combination for a better performance.
This document discusses developing an effective employee engagement strategy. It outlines that an engagement strategy should be created before conducting an engagement survey and should detail how the strategy will be communicated, how action areas will be identified from survey results, what measurable outcomes will be used to evaluate progress, what specific actions will address survey findings, and how the strategy will be sustained over time. Identifying drivers of engagement that can be realistically addressed given available resources is important for focusing improvement efforts.
This document outlines a strategic management model that includes determining a company's mission, developing a company profile, assessing the external environment, conducting strategic analysis and choice, implementing strategies, and controlling and evaluating performance. It discusses setting long-term objectives, grand strategies, and functional strategies aligned with the mission. The model emphasizes matching internal capabilities to external opportunities through analysis and strategic decisions at multiple levels of the organization.
Human resources planning identifies an organization's current and future human resource needs to achieve its strategic goals. It involves assessing the present HR capacity, forecasting future requirements, identifying gaps between present and future needs, and developing HR strategies. The key aspects of strategic HR planning include linking it to the organization's overall strategic plan, analyzing external trends, ensuring flexibility, and predicting future HR management needs. The process aims to ensure adequate human resources with the right skills to meet organizational goals now and in the future.
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Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change Annotated Bibliography
Baumgartner, J. (2013). Innovation Management. Retrieved from http://www.innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/the-basics-of-creative-problem-solving-cps/
This article discusses creative problem solving plus its procedure. This article states that creative problem is not just brainstorming in which a lot of people associate it with. J. Baumgartner states that creative problem solving is a simple procedure that breaks down the problem to really undersupplies it plus involves generating ideas to find a solution. There stand seven steps involved in this procedure: Clarify plus identify the problem (this is the most important step as it finds the real problem or goal), research the problem (this helps to get a better underutilizing), formulate creative challenges (this is a simple question that will encourage suggestions), generate ideas (brainstorming), combine plus evaluate the ideas (choose ideas that meet the criteria), draw up an action plan (use simple steps), do it! (implement the ideas). The end of this article states that if organizations fail to use the creative problem solving than the systems plus techniques normally fail.
Brpluss, R.F. (2017). Chief Executive. Retrieved from http://chiefexecutive.net/the-key-to-successful-innovation-is-proper-execution/
This article reviews how plus why proper execution is the key to successful innovation. The author explains how execution plus structure a culture of sustainable innovation is critical. Execution can be broken down into three parts comprised of big ideas, people, plus procedure. The big ideas portion consists mainly of promoting innovation, structure the proper culture, plus removing any barriers. The people portion is important because people related issues stand generally barriers to execution. A critical part of implementing innovation is acquiring plus keeping the right people. The proper people will help ensure all employees stand engaged plus contribute to innovation. Procedure is broken down into generating ideas, screening, testing, analysis, beta tests, product expansion technicalities, commercialization, plus post-launch review. The purpose of procedure is to make sure outcomes stand attained, plus the procedure is repeatable from beginning to end.
Dess, Gregory, Alan Eisner, G.T. Lumpkin, Gerry McNamara. Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages, 7th Edition. McGraw-Hill Learning
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This textbook discusses strategic management plus the competitive advantage. Chapter nine of this text discusses different tactics for motivating with rewards plus incentives plus how to measure it. It discusses what stand reward systems, the latent downside, creating effective reward plus incentive packages, plus setting up boundaries plus constraints. It also discusses reward systems as a way of organizational c ...
Strategic management involves formulation and implementation of major goals and initiatives by top management based on assessments of internal and external environments. [DOCUMENT] outlines the six key steps to effective strategic formulation: 1) define the organization, 2) define the strategic mission, 3) define strategic objectives, 4) define the competitive strategy considering industry, competition, and strengths/weaknesses, 5) implement strategies through tactical actions, and 6) regularly evaluate progress against the strategic plan and make adjustments based on changes in the business environment. Strategic formulation provides a framework for actions to achieve anticipated results but requires flexibility to adapt the strategic plan to changing market conditions.
Strategic management involves formulation and implementation of major goals and initiatives by top management based on assessments of internal and external environments. [DOCUMENT] outlines the six key steps to effective strategic formulation: 1) define the organization, 2) define the strategic mission, 3) define strategic objectives, 4) define the competitive strategy considering industry, competition, and strengths/weaknesses, 5) implement strategies through tactical actions, and 6) regularly evaluate progress against the strategic plan and make adjustments based on changes in the business environment. Strategic formulation provides a framework for actions to achieve anticipated results but requires flexibility to adapt the strategic plan to changing market conditions.
The document outlines the 6 key steps in the second stage of strategic management: 1) setting organizational objectives, 2) evaluating the organizational environment, 3) setting quantitative targets, 4) aiming divisional plans in context, 5) performing analysis, and 6) choosing an appropriate strategy. It then provides examples of a vision statement, mission statement, and performance evaluation for a municipal health office to illustrate the strategic planning process.
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Good continuation from your first Assessment Khanh. This paper is moving towards a nicely structured, organized and written paper, with details and supporting examples.
Nice job in further clarifying the issues regarding hiring in a multicultural environment. Critical for this paper is to fulfill the key ambition of this Assignment--to Analyze, to Apply and to Assess! Examples and specifics help a lot. So would the use of key insights from your research. More readings and secondary research add depth. Most important was the connection back to the ethical dilemma/issue. It would be helpful to precede the review of the dilemma with a definition of the criteria for determining a dilemma.
Nice job identifying (room for more analysis, compare and contrasting) some of the five most common theoretical approaches (Justice/Fairness, Universalism, Utilitarianism, Rights and Virtue Ethics). I wish you had discussed more on Rawl's Theory of Justice. This was critical, especially to set the context early in the paper. And of course, you concluded, like others, I think, that none are perfect and that it is important to consider the "practical consequences" resulting from key actions. And yes, while there are a lot of similarities there are some key differences. As you implied, each situation is different too, lending itself often, to a different approach. Most important was your review of the different approaches, application of a Step Model and your rationale for reviewing and applying the different Approaches. Now I wonder which one, leads the ethical decision making--Fairness supported by Utilitarian Approach thinking or something different?!?
As with most papers it is helpful to see clear organization, with a beginning, middle and end. You could work on this in the second half of your paper. For example, generically speaking, an Introduction clarifying what will follow, Background for context, the Discussion and a Summary and/or Conclusion. These beginning and ending sections help a lot and should be sub-titled!
In summary your paper is succinct (too much so at times) and to the point--yet includes some helpful background and context. It is important to exhibit a clear progression from discussion to analysis to new insights. Moving from data acquisition to information to knowledge building to insightful wisdom continues to be important for the learning process this Term.
COMPETENCY: Evaluate the parameters for ethical decision making in 21st century multi-cultural business environments.CRITERION: Evaluate the parameters of various ethical decision-making approaches.
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Motivation is key for the success of a company as it facilitates the attainment of the company goals and initiatives. It is the responsibilities of managers to induce motivation with the purpose of giving the company direction. The creation of a mission driven organization is a way of motivating employees. In international organizations, task-driven organizations enable employees to align their goals with the goals stated by the organization. Factors such as fostering career development and the promotion of personal growth are ideal for the growth of the company. The application of award recognition is a recommendable practice that focuses on positive idea alignment. It recognizes the efforts of the employees in the required spectrum by specifying on the basic needs that needs to be attained. However, the plan will face various risks, such as cultural differences, unnecessary competition between employees, and increased conflict. Performing a risk analysis is very suitable for this situation.
The existence of unnecessary competition is an expected risk that can be identified with the motivation program. The application of the award on performance as a way of motivation is an effective tool but has existing setbacks such as increased competition among employees. Ccontinual competition leads to the creation of unhealthy competition that later turns out to be rivalry. The practive can occur between departments and individual employees. This may cause them to adopt unfair practices to negatively affect the organization's better performance (Hidayah & Windijarto, 2018). On the other hand, the unnecessary competition leads to the rise of conflict amongst employees. This would make the organization to focus more on the conflict and competition and shifting its focus away from its goals and performance.
Cultural difference is a key risk associated with the practice based on the different environment that the company experiences. The culture in East Asia is not the same one in Europe and the United States. This issue is a factor that the company is likely to go through on a regular basis. The motivational approach that may apply in the Middle East may not apply in Africa making it a major risk that the company needs to assess (Hopkins, 2016). This factor is mainly related to religion and morality, and it is believed that certain employees from the region may have it. The identification of the factor as a key risk plays an important part in ensuring that cultural variations are given a broader thought as they make all the motivational methods that were identified to be practically ineffective.
Cultural differences create a key impact in the effectiveness of the motivational approaches that I would apply in the dimensional company setting. The integration of the multicultural themes can prove to be difficult based on the different cultural stereotypes that may exist. These factors create difficulties ...
According to the NASW Code of Ethics section 6.04 (NASW, 2008), .docxaryan532920
According to the NASW Code of Ethics section 6.04 (NASW, 2008), social workers are ethically bound to work for policies that support the healthy development of individuals, guarantee equal access to services, and promote social and economic justice.
For this Discussion
, review this week’s resources, including
Working with Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma: The Case of Rita
and “The Johnson Family”. Consider what change you might make to the policies that affect the client in the case you chose. Finally, think about how you might evaluate the success of the policy changes.
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an explanation of one change you might make to the policies that affect the client in the case. Be sure to reference the case you selected in your post. Finally, explain how you might evaluate the success of the policy changes.
Working With Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma: The Case of Rita
Rita is a 22-year-old, heterosexual, Latina female working in the hospitality industry at a resort. She is the youngest of five children and lives at home with her parents. Rita has dated in the past but never developed a serious relationship. She is close to her immediate and extended family as well as to her female friends in the Latino community. Although her parents and three of her siblings were born in the Dominican Republic, Rita was born in the United States.
A year ago, Rita was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance of a male coworker. Rita and a female coworker met Juan and Bob after work at a local bar for a light meal and a few drinks. Because Rita had to get up early to work her shift the next day, Bob offered to drive her home. Instead of taking Rita directly home, however, he drove to a desolate spot nearby and assaulted her. Afterward, Bob threatened to harm her family if she did not remain silent and proceeded to drive her home. Although Rita did not tell her family what happened, she did call our agency hotline the next day to discuss her options. Because Rita’s assault occurred within the 5-day window for forensic evidence collection of this kind, Rita consented to activation of the county’s sexual assault response team (SART). Although she agreed to have an advocate and the sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) meet her at the hospital, Rita tearfully stated that she did not want to file a police report at that time because she did not want to upset her family. The nurse examiner interviewed Rita, collected evidence, recorded any injuries, administered antibiotics for possible sexually transmitted infections, and gave Rita emergency contraception in case of pregnancy. The advocate stayed with Rita during the procedure, supporting her and validating her experience, and gave her a referral for individual crisis counseling at our agency.
My treatment goals for Rita included alleviation of rape trauma syndrome symptoms that included shame and self-blame, validation of self-worth and empowerment, and processing how it would feel to discl.
According to the text, crime has been part of the human condition si.docxaryan532920
The document provides instructions for a 4-6 page paper on criminal law. It asks the student to:
1) Determine if the Ex Post Facto Clause can prohibit increased federal minimum sentencing guidelines and provide a rationale.
2) Explain the distinction between criminal, tort, and moral wrongs, and support or criticize the premise that moral laws have higher standards than criminal law.
3) Identify and discuss the differences between solicitation and conspiracy to commit a crime, and support or criticize the unilateral approach to conspiracy convictions.
4) Identify the four goals of criminal law and discuss how they effectuate protecting the public and preventing innocent convictions.
According to Ronald Story and Bruce Laurie, The dozen years between.docxaryan532920
Conservatives came to dominate American politics between 1968 and 1980 by capitalizing on social unrest and challenging the New Deal coalition. They embraced ideas and policies that emphasized free markets, deregulation, and tax cuts. These policies shaped American society into the 21st century by promoting economic growth while also increasing inequality.
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Strategic management involves planning, monitoring, and assessing an organization's goals and strategies to ensure success amid changing business environments. It includes analyzing internal/external factors, formulating action plans, executing plans, and evaluating results. Strategic management allows organizations to be proactive and exert control over their destiny by identifying opportunities and minimizing threats. Key roles in strategic management are held by consultants, entrepreneurs, boards of directors, CEOs, senior management, corporate planning staff, business unit executives, middle managers, and executive assistants.
Business policy and strategic managementAnil Kumar
This document discusses strategic management and business policy. It begins by explaining the origins of business policy courses in business schools in the early 20th century. It then discusses the nature of business policy, which refers to long-term decisions made by top management about the future direction of a business. These decisions determine the business's relationship to its environment and position in the market. The document also distinguishes between strategic decisions, operating decisions, and administrative decisions. Strategic decisions have long-term implications and involve issues like products/services, markets, and objectives.
The document provides an overview of enterprise performance management (EPM) methodology in 6 steps: 1) Develop an enterprise strategy, 2) Objectively map the organization, 3) Identify improvement opportunities and key performance indicators (KPIs), 4) Develop an objective and relevant scorecard, 5) Implement outcome-based change management, and 6) Measure the results and continue to refine. EPM focuses on improving organizational performance through strategic planning, objective analysis of processes and costs, identifying opportunities for enhancement, tracking progress with scorecards, managing changes, and assessing outcomes. The goal is to empower leadership to make fact-based decisions to optimize performance.
1) The document introduces strategic management and discusses its importance for organizations to effectively plan for and address strategic challenges in today's global business environment.
2) It outlines the five steps of the strategic management process: external analysis, internal analysis, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategic control.
3) Strategic management involves both analyzing the internal and external environments to develop strategies to fulfill the organization's mission and gain a competitive advantage. Firms must then implement, execute, and monitor their strategies.
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Who supports the change? Who is resisting the change? Why?
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Environmental Scanning for Google Inc. Introduction
Environmental scanning is a procedure that methodically inspects and interprets the relevant information to point out the external threats and opportunities that can influence future decisions. It is the consistent tracking of events, occurrences, and trends in the firm's internal and external environment that bear on its present and future endeavors. (Terry, 2020). Environmental scanning is related to SWOT analysis and should be integrated into the strategic planning process. An excellent environmental scanning process looks into both qualitative and quantitative changes. Ultimately, you should create a set of environmental indicators (external, internal, quantitative, and qualitative) that you think are the most important and could potentially impact the analysis you are performing.
The components of environmental scanning that should be analyzed include the following:
· Trends: What are the ongoing trends in the industry or marketplace that could impact your organization either positively or negatively.
· Competition: How are your competitors operating? What are they doing? Which of your competitor's weaknesses can you exploit?
· Technology: What are the developments in technology that could affect your business in the short or long term? Are there any existing technologies that could increase the efficiency of your organization?
· Customers: What is affecting your capability to offer top-notch customer service? How dynamic is your customer base?
· Economy: What is the present pattern of the economy, and how could it affect the future of the business?
· Labor Supply: How are the labor market and environment in your areas of operation?
How will you ensure there is ready access to workers with high demand?
· Academic interests: Employment interests and the famous fields of the prospective students together with their families.
· Research: Funding from private, governmental, and foundation sources and changes in
interests.
· Philanthropy: The changes in the available funding and donors' interests, attitudes, and approaches.
· Legislative/Political environment: Are there any impending legislation that will affect your business in the future? What impacts will the election results have on your organization?
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Every firm should identify the external factor with the most impact to make environmental scanning a helpful tool. The next step should be to perform an internal scan of the firm. Perform a review of the organization's mission, strategic plan, and vision. Examine the organization's weaknesses and strengths. Look at the ...
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Answers for theses question with little notes ant bullet point on power points. Two ppt is enough.
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Who supports the change? Who is resisting the change? Why?
5. What’s your communication objective? (Raise awareness, change behavior, change attitudes, build support, neutralize critics). Why?
Environmental Scanning for Google Inc. Introduction
Environmental scanning is a procedure that methodically inspects and interprets the relevant information to point out the external threats and opportunities that can influence future decisions. It is the consistent tracking of events, occurrences, and trends in the firm's internal and external environment that bear on its present and future endeavors. (Terry, 2020). Environmental scanning is related to SWOT analysis and should be integrated into the strategic planning process. An excellent environmental scanning process looks into both qualitative and quantitative changes. Ultimately, you should create a set of environmental indicators (external, internal, quantitative, and qualitative) that you think are the most important and could potentially impact the analysis you are performing.
The components of environmental scanning that should be analyzed include the following:
· Trends: What are the ongoing trends in the industry or marketplace that could impact your organization either positively or negatively.
· Competition: How are your competitors operating? What are they doing? Which of your competitor's weaknesses can you exploit?
· Technology: What are the developments in technology that could affect your business in the short or long term? Are there any existing technologies that could increase the efficiency of your organization?
· Customers: What is affecting your capability to offer top-notch customer service? How dynamic is your customer base?
· Economy: What is the present pattern of the economy, and how could it affect the future of the business?
· Labor Supply: How are the labor market and environment in your areas of operation?
How will you ensure there is ready access to workers with high demand?
· Academic interests: Employment interests and the famous fields of the prospective students together with their families.
· Research: Funding from private, governmental, and foundation sources and changes in
interests.
· Philanthropy: The changes in the available funding and donors' interests, attitudes, and approaches.
· Legislative/Political environment: Are there any impending legislation that will affect your business in the future? What impacts will the election results have on your organization?
("TOPPR", 2021A and "TOPPR", 2021B)
Every firm should identify the external factor with the most impact to make environmental scanning a helpful tool. The next step should be to perform an internal scan of the firm. Perform a review of the organization's mission, strategic plan, and vision. Examine the organization's weaknesses and strengths. Look at the ...
The document discusses the six steps of strategy formulation: 1) define the organization, 2) define the strategic mission, 3) define strategic objectives, 4) define the competitive strategy considering industry, competition, and internal strengths/weaknesses, 5) implement strategies using tactical actions, and 6) evaluate progress by assessing market conditions, competition, and strategy implementation. Regular evaluation allows organizations to adapt strategies as needed to achieve goals in a changing business environment.
This document provides an overview of strategic management. It defines strategic management as a process that includes analyzing the external and internal environment, formulating strategies to match strengths/weaknesses with opportunities/threats, implementing strategies, and measuring success through strategic control. The five steps of the strategic management process are discussed in detail. The document also discusses different perspectives on strategic management, including the scientific and artistic views, and the influences of industrial organization theory, resource-based theory, and contingency theory.
This document discusses strategic management in a competitive business environment. It defines strategic management as a process and logic for determining and controlling an organization's strategic position in its environment. Strategic management aims to define strategies and processes to help management adapt to dynamics of today through goals and methods. The document discusses the importance of strategic management for achieving effective projects to fulfill an organization's mission. It also discusses how strategic management allows deliberate management of progress and building of resources toward a desired future state.
This report is about combination of various strategic management theories which has explains by different authors with different viewpoints according to the situations which they are looking at.
Strategic management can be basically describe as a process which analysis the current situation and make strategies which will matches to that. Basically strategic management has three main processes which can name as strategic formulation, implementation and evaluation.
First this report explains about what is strategic management and how it has implemented and how if effects for an organization. Compare to that briefing then the report focus on the theories which has found out to be explain in the journals which has selected to review the strategic management theories.
And then the report contains about the strengths and weaknesses of the each selected strategic management theory. After that it contains about a combination of all the theories which has mention in the report, to fill up the gap of each theory using the strength of the other.
Finally, in the conclusion the report shows the final view of the researcher about the finding throughout the research and the assumption which can make about combination of the strategic management theories and the use of this combination for a better performance.
This document discusses developing an effective employee engagement strategy. It outlines that an engagement strategy should be created before conducting an engagement survey and should detail how the strategy will be communicated, how action areas will be identified from survey results, what measurable outcomes will be used to evaluate progress, what specific actions will address survey findings, and how the strategy will be sustained over time. Identifying drivers of engagement that can be realistically addressed given available resources is important for focusing improvement efforts.
This document outlines a strategic management model that includes determining a company's mission, developing a company profile, assessing the external environment, conducting strategic analysis and choice, implementing strategies, and controlling and evaluating performance. It discusses setting long-term objectives, grand strategies, and functional strategies aligned with the mission. The model emphasizes matching internal capabilities to external opportunities through analysis and strategic decisions at multiple levels of the organization.
Human resources planning identifies an organization's current and future human resource needs to achieve its strategic goals. It involves assessing the present HR capacity, forecasting future requirements, identifying gaps between present and future needs, and developing HR strategies. The key aspects of strategic HR planning include linking it to the organization's overall strategic plan, analyzing external trends, ensuring flexibility, and predicting future HR management needs. The process aims to ensure adequate human resources with the right skills to meet organizational goals now and in the future.
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Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change Annotated Bibliography
Innovation/Entrepreneurial Change Annotated Bibliography
Baumgartner, J. (2013). Innovation Management. Retrieved from http://www.innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/the-basics-of-creative-problem-solving-cps/
This article discusses creative problem solving plus its procedure. This article states that creative problem is not just brainstorming in which a lot of people associate it with. J. Baumgartner states that creative problem solving is a simple procedure that breaks down the problem to really undersupplies it plus involves generating ideas to find a solution. There stand seven steps involved in this procedure: Clarify plus identify the problem (this is the most important step as it finds the real problem or goal), research the problem (this helps to get a better underutilizing), formulate creative challenges (this is a simple question that will encourage suggestions), generate ideas (brainstorming), combine plus evaluate the ideas (choose ideas that meet the criteria), draw up an action plan (use simple steps), do it! (implement the ideas). The end of this article states that if organizations fail to use the creative problem solving than the systems plus techniques normally fail.
Brpluss, R.F. (2017). Chief Executive. Retrieved from http://chiefexecutive.net/the-key-to-successful-innovation-is-proper-execution/
This article reviews how plus why proper execution is the key to successful innovation. The author explains how execution plus structure a culture of sustainable innovation is critical. Execution can be broken down into three parts comprised of big ideas, people, plus procedure. The big ideas portion consists mainly of promoting innovation, structure the proper culture, plus removing any barriers. The people portion is important because people related issues stand generally barriers to execution. A critical part of implementing innovation is acquiring plus keeping the right people. The proper people will help ensure all employees stand engaged plus contribute to innovation. Procedure is broken down into generating ideas, screening, testing, analysis, beta tests, product expansion technicalities, commercialization, plus post-launch review. The purpose of procedure is to make sure outcomes stand attained, plus the procedure is repeatable from beginning to end.
Dess, Gregory, Alan Eisner, G.T. Lumpkin, Gerry McNamara. Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages, 7th Edition. McGraw-Hill Learning
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This textbook discusses strategic management plus the competitive advantage. Chapter nine of this text discusses different tactics for motivating with rewards plus incentives plus how to measure it. It discusses what stand reward systems, the latent downside, creating effective reward plus incentive packages, plus setting up boundaries plus constraints. It also discusses reward systems as a way of organizational c ...
Strategic management involves formulation and implementation of major goals and initiatives by top management based on assessments of internal and external environments. [DOCUMENT] outlines the six key steps to effective strategic formulation: 1) define the organization, 2) define the strategic mission, 3) define strategic objectives, 4) define the competitive strategy considering industry, competition, and strengths/weaknesses, 5) implement strategies through tactical actions, and 6) regularly evaluate progress against the strategic plan and make adjustments based on changes in the business environment. Strategic formulation provides a framework for actions to achieve anticipated results but requires flexibility to adapt the strategic plan to changing market conditions.
Strategic management involves formulation and implementation of major goals and initiatives by top management based on assessments of internal and external environments. [DOCUMENT] outlines the six key steps to effective strategic formulation: 1) define the organization, 2) define the strategic mission, 3) define strategic objectives, 4) define the competitive strategy considering industry, competition, and strengths/weaknesses, 5) implement strategies through tactical actions, and 6) regularly evaluate progress against the strategic plan and make adjustments based on changes in the business environment. Strategic formulation provides a framework for actions to achieve anticipated results but requires flexibility to adapt the strategic plan to changing market conditions.
The document outlines the 6 key steps in the second stage of strategic management: 1) setting organizational objectives, 2) evaluating the organizational environment, 3) setting quantitative targets, 4) aiming divisional plans in context, 5) performing analysis, and 6) choosing an appropriate strategy. It then provides examples of a vision statement, mission statement, and performance evaluation for a municipal health office to illustrate the strategic planning process.
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Good continuation from your first Assessment Khanh. This paper is moving towards a nicely structured, organized and written paper, with details and supporting examples.
Nice job in further clarifying the issues regarding hiring in a multicultural environment. Critical for this paper is to fulfill the key ambition of this Assignment--to Analyze, to Apply and to Assess! Examples and specifics help a lot. So would the use of key insights from your research. More readings and secondary research add depth. Most important was the connection back to the ethical dilemma/issue. It would be helpful to precede the review of the dilemma with a definition of the criteria for determining a dilemma.
Nice job identifying (room for more analysis, compare and contrasting) some of the five most common theoretical approaches (Justice/Fairness, Universalism, Utilitarianism, Rights and Virtue Ethics). I wish you had discussed more on Rawl's Theory of Justice. This was critical, especially to set the context early in the paper. And of course, you concluded, like others, I think, that none are perfect and that it is important to consider the "practical consequences" resulting from key actions. And yes, while there are a lot of similarities there are some key differences. As you implied, each situation is different too, lending itself often, to a different approach. Most important was your review of the different approaches, application of a Step Model and your rationale for reviewing and applying the different Approaches. Now I wonder which one, leads the ethical decision making--Fairness supported by Utilitarian Approach thinking or something different?!?
As with most papers it is helpful to see clear organization, with a beginning, middle and end. You could work on this in the second half of your paper. For example, generically speaking, an Introduction clarifying what will follow, Background for context, the Discussion and a Summary and/or Conclusion. These beginning and ending sections help a lot and should be sub-titled!
In summary your paper is succinct (too much so at times) and to the point--yet includes some helpful background and context. It is important to exhibit a clear progression from discussion to analysis to new insights. Moving from data acquisition to information to knowledge building to insightful wisdom continues to be important for the learning process this Term.
COMPETENCY: Evaluate the parameters for ethical decision making in 21st century multi-cultural business environments.CRITERION: Evaluate the parameters of various ethical decision-making approaches.
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Evaluates the parameters of various ethical decision-making approaches.COMPETENCY: Evaluate organizational policy within the framework of ethical standards.CRITERION: Analyze an ethical dilemma using an ethical decision-making approach.
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Motivation is key for the success of a company as it facilitates the attainment of the company goals and initiatives. It is the responsibilities of managers to induce motivation with the purpose of giving the company direction. The creation of a mission driven organization is a way of motivating employees. In international organizations, task-driven organizations enable employees to align their goals with the goals stated by the organization. Factors such as fostering career development and the promotion of personal growth are ideal for the growth of the company. The application of award recognition is a recommendable practice that focuses on positive idea alignment. It recognizes the efforts of the employees in the required spectrum by specifying on the basic needs that needs to be attained. However, the plan will face various risks, such as cultural differences, unnecessary competition between employees, and increased conflict. Performing a risk analysis is very suitable for this situation.
The existence of unnecessary competition is an expected risk that can be identified with the motivation program. The application of the award on performance as a way of motivation is an effective tool but has existing setbacks such as increased competition among employees. Ccontinual competition leads to the creation of unhealthy competition that later turns out to be rivalry. The practive can occur between departments and individual employees. This may cause them to adopt unfair practices to negatively affect the organization's better performance (Hidayah & Windijarto, 2018). On the other hand, the unnecessary competition leads to the rise of conflict amongst employees. This would make the organization to focus more on the conflict and competition and shifting its focus away from its goals and performance.
Cultural difference is a key risk associated with the practice based on the different environment that the company experiences. The culture in East Asia is not the same one in Europe and the United States. This issue is a factor that the company is likely to go through on a regular basis. The motivational approach that may apply in the Middle East may not apply in Africa making it a major risk that the company needs to assess (Hopkins, 2016). This factor is mainly related to religion and morality, and it is believed that certain employees from the region may have it. The identification of the factor as a key risk plays an important part in ensuring that cultural variations are given a broader thought as they make all the motivational methods that were identified to be practically ineffective.
Cultural differences create a key impact in the effectiveness of the motivational approaches that I would apply in the dimensional company setting. The integration of the multicultural themes can prove to be difficult based on the different cultural stereotypes that may exist. These factors create difficulties ...
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According to the NASW Code of Ethics section 6.04 (NASW, 2008), social workers are ethically bound to work for policies that support the healthy development of individuals, guarantee equal access to services, and promote social and economic justice.
For this Discussion
, review this week’s resources, including
Working with Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma: The Case of Rita
and “The Johnson Family”. Consider what change you might make to the policies that affect the client in the case you chose. Finally, think about how you might evaluate the success of the policy changes.
By Day 3
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an explanation of one change you might make to the policies that affect the client in the case. Be sure to reference the case you selected in your post. Finally, explain how you might evaluate the success of the policy changes.
Working With Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma: The Case of Rita
Rita is a 22-year-old, heterosexual, Latina female working in the hospitality industry at a resort. She is the youngest of five children and lives at home with her parents. Rita has dated in the past but never developed a serious relationship. She is close to her immediate and extended family as well as to her female friends in the Latino community. Although her parents and three of her siblings were born in the Dominican Republic, Rita was born in the United States.
A year ago, Rita was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance of a male coworker. Rita and a female coworker met Juan and Bob after work at a local bar for a light meal and a few drinks. Because Rita had to get up early to work her shift the next day, Bob offered to drive her home. Instead of taking Rita directly home, however, he drove to a desolate spot nearby and assaulted her. Afterward, Bob threatened to harm her family if she did not remain silent and proceeded to drive her home. Although Rita did not tell her family what happened, she did call our agency hotline the next day to discuss her options. Because Rita’s assault occurred within the 5-day window for forensic evidence collection of this kind, Rita consented to activation of the county’s sexual assault response team (SART). Although she agreed to have an advocate and the sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) meet her at the hospital, Rita tearfully stated that she did not want to file a police report at that time because she did not want to upset her family. The nurse examiner interviewed Rita, collected evidence, recorded any injuries, administered antibiotics for possible sexually transmitted infections, and gave Rita emergency contraception in case of pregnancy. The advocate stayed with Rita during the procedure, supporting her and validating her experience, and gave her a referral for individual crisis counseling at our agency.
My treatment goals for Rita included alleviation of rape trauma syndrome symptoms that included shame and self-blame, validation of self-worth and empowerment, and processing how it would feel to discl.
According to the text, crime has been part of the human condition si.docxaryan532920
The document provides instructions for a 4-6 page paper on criminal law. It asks the student to:
1) Determine if the Ex Post Facto Clause can prohibit increased federal minimum sentencing guidelines and provide a rationale.
2) Explain the distinction between criminal, tort, and moral wrongs, and support or criticize the premise that moral laws have higher standards than criminal law.
3) Identify and discuss the differences between solicitation and conspiracy to commit a crime, and support or criticize the unilateral approach to conspiracy convictions.
4) Identify the four goals of criminal law and discuss how they effectuate protecting the public and preventing innocent convictions.
According to Ronald Story and Bruce Laurie, The dozen years between.docxaryan532920
Conservatives came to dominate American politics between 1968 and 1980 by capitalizing on social unrest and challenging the New Deal coalition. They embraced ideas and policies that emphasized free markets, deregulation, and tax cuts. These policies shaped American society into the 21st century by promoting economic growth while also increasing inequality.
According to Kirk (2016), most of your time will be spent work with .docxaryan532920
According to Kirk (2016), most of your time will be spent work with your data. The four following group actions were mentioned by Kirk (2016):
Data acquisition: Gathering the raw material
Data examination: Identifying physical properties and meaning
Data transformation: Enhancing your data through modification and consolidation
Data exploration: Using exploratory analysis and research techniques to learn
Select 1 data action and elaborate on the actions performed in that action group.
Reference: Kirk, A. (2016). Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (p. 50). SAGE Publications.
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According to the Council on Social Work Education, Competency 5 Eng.docxaryan532920
According to the Council on Social Work Education, Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice:
Social workers understand that human rights and social justice, as well as social welfare and services, are mediated by policy and its implementation at the federal, state, and local levels. Social workers understand the history and current structures of social policies and services, the role of policy in service delivery, and the role of practice in policy development. Social workers understand their role in policy development and implementation within their practice settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and they actively engage in policy practice to effect change within those settings. Social workers recognize and understand the historical, social, cultural, economic, organizational, environmental, and global influences that affect social policy. They are also knowledgeable about policy formulation, analysis, implementation, and evaluation.
Walden’s MSW program expects students in their specialization year to be able to:
Evaluate the implication of policies and policy change in the lives of clients/constituents.
Demonstrate critical thinking skills that can be used to inform policymakers and influence policies that impact clients/constituents and services.
This assignment is intended to help students demonstrate the behavioral components of this competency in their field education.
To prepare
: Working with your field instructor, identify a social problem that is common among the organization (or its clients) and research current policies at that state and federal levels that impact the social problem. Then, from a position of advocacy, identify methods to address the social problem (i.e., how you, as a social worker, and the agency advocate to change the problem). You are expected to specifically address how both you and the agency can effectively engage policy makers to make them aware of the social problem and the impact that the policies have on the agency and clients.
The Assignment (2-3 pages): Social Problems is Ex-cons finding Jobs Opportunities in State of California. The Agency is Called "Manifest" the website is Manifest.org
Identify the social problem
Explain rational for selecting social problem
Describe state and federal policies that impact the social problem
Identify specific methods to address the social problems
Explain how the agency and student can advocate to change the social problem
You are expected to present and discuss this assignment with your agency Field Instructor. Your field instructor will be evaluating your ability to demonstrate this competency in their field evaluation. In addition, you will submit this assignment for classroom credit. The Field Liaison will grade the assignment “PASS/FAIL,” see rubric for passing criteria.
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According to Kirk (2016), most of our time will be spent working.docxaryan532920
According to Kirk (2016), most of our time will be spent working with our data. The four following group actions were mentioned by Kirk (2016):
Book: Kirk, A. (2016). Data visualisation a handbook for data driven design. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Data acquisition: Gathering the raw material
Data examination: Identifying physical properties and meaning
Data transformation: Enhancing your data through modification and consolidation
Data exploration: Using exploratory analysis and research techniques to learn
Select 1 data action and elaborate on the actions preformed in that action group.
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According to Kirk (2016), most of your time will be spent working wi.docxaryan532920
According to Kirk (2016), most of your time will be spent working with your data. The four following group actions were mentioned by Kirk (2016):
Data acquisition: Gathering the raw material
Data examination: Identifying physical properties and meaning
Data transformation: Enhancing your data through modification and consolidation
Data exploration: Using exploratory analysis and research techniques to learn
Select 1 data action and elaborate on the actions preformed in that action group.
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According to Davenport (2014) the organizational value of healthcare.docxaryan532920
According to Davenport (2014) the organizational value of healthcare analytics, both determination and importance, provide a potential increase in annual revenue and ROI based on the value and use of analytics. To complete this assignment, research and evaluate the challenges faced in the implementation of healthcare analytics in the Health Care Organization (HCO) or health care industry using the following tools:
The paper must also address the following:
Application of PICO (problem, intervention, comparison group, and outcomes) to the challenge identified in your research.
The paper:
Must be two to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center. (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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According to the authors, privacy and security go hand in hand; .docxaryan532920
According to the authors, privacy and security go hand in hand; and hence, privacy cannot be protected without implementing proper security controls and technologies. Today, organizations must make not only reasonable efforts to offer protection of privacy of data, but also must go much further as privacy breaches are damaging to its customers, reputation, and potentially could put the company out of business. As we continue learning from our various professional areas of practice, its no doubt that breaches have become an increasing concern to many businesses and their future operations. Taking Cyberattacks proliferation of 2011 into context, security experts at Intel/McAfee discovered huge series of cyberattacks on the networks of 72 organizations globally, including the United Nations, governments and corporations.
Q: From this research revelation in our chapter 11, briefly state and name the countries and organizations identified as the targeted victims?
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According to Gilbert and Troitzsch (2005), Foundations of Simula.docxaryan532920
According to Gilbert and Troitzsch (2005), Foundations of Simulation Modeling, a simulation model is a computer program that captures the behavior of a real-world system and its input and possible output processes.
Briefly explain what the simulation modeling relies upon?
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-No Plagiarism.
-APA Format.
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According to Klein (2016), using ethical absolutism and ethical .docxaryan532920
According to Klein (2016), using ethical absolutism and ethical relativism in ethical decision making can lead to different outcomes. How can moral reasoning about a specific situation differ based on relativism or absolutism? Can you provide an illustration or example of an accounting procedure/situation whose outcome may differ based on absolutism or relativism? Is ethical relativism a more suitable standard within a global IFRS Environment? Why or why not?
at least 250 words
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According to Franks and Smallwood (2013), information has become.docxaryan532920
Social media differs from email in its functionality due to social media's immaturity compared to the stability of email. Specifically, social media allows for a greater volume of information to be shared and exchanged through newer tools like blogs, microblogs, and wikis which have increased the lifeblood of information for many businesses. Additionally, research has documented key differences in how social media is used compared to the more established email.
According to the Council on Social Work Education, Competency 5.docxaryan532920
According to the Council on Social Work Education, Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice:
Social workers understand that human rights and social justice, as well as social welfare and services, are mediated by policy and its implementation at the federal, state, and local levels. Social workers understand the history and current structures of social policies and services, the role of policy in service delivery, and the role of practice in policy development. Social workers understand their role in policy development and implementation within their practice settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and they actively engage in policy practice to effect change within those settings. Social workers recognize and understand the historical, social, cultural, economic, organizational, environmental, and global influences that affect social policy. They are also knowledgeable about policy formulation, analysis, implementation, and evaluation. Social workers:
Identify social policy at the local, state, and federal level that impacts well-being, service delivery, and access to social services;
Assess how social welfare and economic policies impact the delivery of and access to social services;
Apply critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
This assignment is intended to help students demonstrate the behavioral components of this competency in their field education.
To prepare: Working with your field instructor, identify, evaluate, and discuss policies established by the local, state, and federal government (within the last five years) that affect the day to day operations of the field placement agency.
The Assignment (1-2 pages): (In The States California. The Good Seed is a Drop-In center for 18-25 years!
Describe the policies and their impact on the field agency.
Propose specific recommendations regarding how you, as a social work intern, and the agency can advocate for policies pertaining to advancing social justice for the agency and the clients it serves.
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According to the authors, privacy and security go hand in hand; and .docxaryan532920
According to the authors, privacy and security go hand in hand; and hence, privacy cannot be protected without implementing proper security controls and technologies. Today, organizations must make not only reasonable efforts to offer protection of privacy of data, but also must go much further as privacy breaches are damaging to its customers, reputation, and potentially could put the company out of business. As we continue learning from our various professional areas of practice, its no doubt that breaches have become an increasing concern to many businesses and their future operations. Taking Cyberattacks proliferation of 2011 into context, security experts at Intel/McAfee discovered huge series of cyberattacks on the networks of 72 organizations globally, including the United Nations, governments and corporations.
From this research revelation in our chapter 11, briefly state and name the countries and organizations identified as the targeted victims?
Use the APA format to include your references. Each paragraph should have different references and each para should have at least 4 sentences.
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According to recent surveys, China, India, and the Philippines are t.docxaryan532920
According to recent surveys, China, India, and the Philippines are the three most popular countries for IT outsourcing. Write a short paper (4 paragraphs) explaining what the appeal would be for US companies to outsource IT functions to these countries. You may discuss cost, labor pool, language, or possibly government support as your reasons. There are many other reasons you may choose to highlight in your paper. Be sure to use your own words.
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Career Connection: Values and Strategy Paper
Career Connection: Values and Strategy Paper
In this report, you will read about a potential start-up company
that will potentially move from idea stage to a physical stage in
the future. The start-up is of fast food origin and has the
potential to be something great. Over the course of six weeks,
these reports will look in debt to this potential start-up venture
while highlighting along the way some of the process to
consider, strategies to take while understanding what challenges
may arise. The idea of this report is to make sure that the right
decisions are made while minimizing any mistakes that can
occur. In addressing these concerns, this report will review the
major components of the strategic management process and how
those components work together in value creation for the
organization. This report will review the company’s mission and
vision statements/ motivation, innovation, and people strategy.
Lastly this report will describe the role for ethics and corporate
social responsibility in the strategic planning process.
As an entrepreneur, starting this fast food business begins with
putting together a process that lays the foundation for creating
2. an idea into reality. Such a process starts from the strategic
management plan. The term strategic management plan
according to (Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson) states, “is the full set
of commitment, decisions, and actions required for a firm to
achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average
returns” (2015). This is a repeated process that reviews the
company and industry in which the company is occupied in.
When strategy management reviews a competitor, it’s looking to
strategize the current goals to meet the future goals against
competitor’s and then reassess the strategy over time. For an
individual or a group that is striving for success, it can reduce
the possibility for a downfall for a company as it will meet the
environment of the most recent competitive landscape. The
major components for strategic management process focus on
environmental analysis, the formulation of strategy, the
implementation of the strategy, and evaluation of the strategy.
The major components for strategy management plan
(environmental analysis, the formulation of strategy, the
implementation of the strategy, and evaluation of the strategy)
provides an framework for an existing business or a new start-
up, each component is critical in the strategic plan that a
business puts forth. For instance, environmental analysis is a
process for the collection, for scrutinizing as-well-as presenting
data for strategizing intentions. It helps with evaluating an
internal and external circumstances that effects a company.
Once the environmental scanning has been executed, the
company’s management team will be able to evaluate the
analysis on a continuous basis and strive to make improvements
as needed.
Formulation of strategy is a measure in the decision on the best
path a company should take in accomplishing the organizations
objectives thus achieving the purpose of the organization. After
carrying out the environment analysis, the management team
will put together a strategy for the company to follow.
Implementation of the strategy is a measure that entails building
a company’s strategy to perform as envisioned or committing
3. the picked strategy into motion. This strategy involves forming
the structure of the company’s, the distribution of supplies, the
development for a administrative process, which includes
human resource managing.
Evaluation strategy is the last procedure for the strategy
management plan. This strategy contains the opinion for
internal factors as well as external factors for the source of
current strategy or corrective actions to be taken forward. This
measure ensures that a company plan has execution, are meeting
company objectives. Each of the elements are progressions that
handle things sequential order, in developing a new
management strategy plan. Current companies whom already
have a strategy plan in place, typically go back to these
measures depending on the situation requirement, in making any
or all necessary changes to the plan.
“Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a
rudder, going around in circles”. (Joel Ross and Michael Kami)
A company can have employees, plenty resources and energy,
but if it lacks a clear and captivating vision of where it will
head, then it certainly struggles. Procedures for company
strategies are designed to avoid such a situation, and to help
manage a company to move efficiently toward their goals. Thus,
is the case for the start-up fast food restaurant. The vision
statement is focused on being the best within its industry for
taste, quality, and customer satisfaction. Often these are some
of the basic components that can drive a restaurant business into
the ground. Customers want to feel that the restaurant is
providing authentic food whether it’s a fast food chain or not.
If the company isn’t meeting the needs of the consumer, then
chances are they will fail.
The role of ethics and corporate social responsibility in
strategic planning for a start-up business is key. They (ethics
and corporate social responsibility) involve learning the right
and wrong in business, but making sure that as the manager of
the business, they are doing the right thing. The fast food
company within its vision, is aligned to that of the owner. In
4. starting a business, the owner of the company is responsible for
making sure all regulations are met, that all certifications have
been obtained, that every inch of the property, is safe for
customers in every way. The owner must manage ethics within
the workplace amongst staff, develop a code of ethics, and
develop a code of conduct. This provides a foundation for
employee’s and management to understand what is right and
wrong in the workplace and how to conduct themselves.
In closing, the purpose of this report was to discuss several key
items for a potential start-up company that will potentially
move from idea stage to a physical stage in the future. This
report reviewed the major components of the strategic
management process which are Environmental Scanning,
Strategy Formulation, Strategy Implementation, Strategy
Evaluation and understand that these components work together
as they do because it (strategic management process) is an
ongoing process that is continually reevaluated an updated as
needed. This report also reviewed the company’s mission and
vision statements/ motivation, innovation, and people strategy.
Since this is a new start-up company, the focus was on the
vision that the fast food restaurant has while indicating that
such basic principles can make or break a business. Lastly this
report described what steps the manager must take in the role
for ethics and corporate social responsibility in the strategic
planning process.
Reference
Hitt, M.A., Ireland, R.D., & Hoskisson, R.E. (2015). Strategic
management: Competitiveness and globalization (11th ed).
Stamford, CT: Cengage
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Strategic Plan Part 1: Environmental Scanning
Strategic Plan Part 1: Environmental Scanning
The owner is continuing to put together the research needed to
open his new restaurant named aNachos in the heart of Chicago,
IL. As discussed in the previous report, this start-up venture
will highlight many processes to consider, strategies to take
while understanding what challenges the owner may face along
the way. In seeing the potential for this restaurant to grow, the
owner must conduct an environmental scan of his business. The
purpose of an environmental scan is to business owners,
managers, and leads to decide the future path that an
organization should take. In conducting this analysis, the
following information will be considered: Determine how to
create value and sustain competitive advantage using the
environmental scanning strategy, evaluate a company’s external
environment, assess the company’s general environment, and
evaluate the organization’s industry operating environment.
Environmental Scan Strategy
To create value and sustain competitive advantage aNachos will
use environmental scanning to research new market
opportunities, review trends in current markets and analyze
product sales in all markets. When a company like aNachos
wants to create value a competitive advantage, the company
must establish brand loyalty with its customers. It builds a trust
with the customer that the company is providing them with
6. quality of product or service. Another way is to use incentives
with customers such as discounts for birthday’s or price
reduction due to a sporting event or purchase of party size
order. For the company to sustain its competitive advantage, it
will utilize the feedback and recommendations from customers
in designing and developing menus and food selections that
meet the needs of all patrons. The company will locate an area
with few competitors that serve similar food to minimize
customers from choosing between competitors. This company
will also select a highly visible location that has a large
consumer base nearby. Highly visible locations include areas
near schools, downtown areas, places where people hangout on
weekends and off days. Once the location has been selected,
analyze any local competition. Other restaurants are
competition, but this is more geared towards grocery stores or
convenience stores that may also sell prepared food to
consumers. Next, identify the competitor’s strengths such as
grocery stores that offer ready to eat meals for customers while
they shop. While reviewing the strengths, also review the
competitor’s weakness. For instance, as stated in the previous
example, if the competitor offers ready to eat meals, are the
meals stale from sitting out for long periods.
External Environment
“A firm’s external environment consists of all the conditions
and forces that affect its strategic options and define its
competitive situation and must begin with the development or
reevaluation of a company’s mission” (Pearce & Robinson,
2009). aNachos must understand how the external environment
will affect the strategy for his start-up business. “There are
several aspects of external environment; economic,
political/legal, technological, and sociocultural” (Hitt, Ireland,
& Hoskisson, 2015). The economic impact for aNachos is
challenged by an industry that pays employee’s a lower wage.
The fast food industry has a higher turnover ratio because of
lower wages. To offset the lower wage, companies will provide
benefits to help retain workers. Such benefits include paid
7. vacation, insurance (medical and dental), and education
funding. The legal impact for the company may be a penalty if
calories are not listed on the menu. It may alter the plans for the
business if customers are no longer interested in an item as it
will lose appeal due to the number of calories it contains. The
technological impact in today’s fast paced market indicates that
consumers want to make purchases quick and obtain the
purchases quick. Various websites, and apps allow customers to
make a purchase from their phone or computer and have their
purchase delivered. The sociocultural impact is the current
attitude of consumers that are driven by campaigns of healthy
eating and food safety concerns.
General Environment
The industry environment looks at the conditions that affect the
people in a specific industrial market that cannot be influenced
by marketing. The specific environment is make up of many
factors to considered. A company has the ability to monitor the
needs of consumers through determining problems noticed by
the consumer or anticipating them before they happen. aNachos
will have to pay attention to competitors that are well-known,
because all levels of management frequently underestimate the
competitors or have a poor job in recognizing potential
contender. The buyers along with the suppliers depend on one
another, and that dependency may lead to unprincipled actions.
Such actions where the two obtain benefits at the expense of
one another. Businesses are affected by regulatory agencies as
they create the rules as well as enforce them. Advocacy groups
do not have the regulatory power to change the practices of a
business. What they can do is advocate their concerns for
changing business practice by informing consumers through the
media and boycotts, as a way of convincing company to change
its practice.
Industry Operating Environment
aNachos as a company that will prepare food, is similar to many
of the constant elements that involve retail businesses. A direct
strategy such as opening new doors is typically a leading way
8. for a business to generate revenue in the beginning stage. When
a business is analyzing other restaurants, using comparable
store sales, is a beneficial metric to use. What makes
comparable so important is once the business gets to the stage
of maturity, it becomes the leading driver for growth.
Additional products and rises in menu-price, are the main ways
to boost store sales. The cost of food is plainly a line item of
great importance that at times may fluctuate as a result of price
changes by suppliers. Another cost to factor in for the restaurant
industry is labor. Constant changes into state or federal law can
have an impact minimum-wage which can have an affect
towards the costs and margins to a restaurant's.
In conclusion, this report focused on the potential for aNachos
to grow. The owner had to conduct an environmental scan for
his business. The purpose of an environmental scan is to help
business owners, managers, and leads to decide the future path
that their organization should take. In conducting the analysis,
the following information was considered: Determine how to
create value and sustain competitive advantage using the
environmental scanning strategy, evaluate a company’s external
environment, assess the company’s general environment, and
evaluate the organization’s industry operating environment.
Reference
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., & Hoskisson, R. E. (2015). Strategic
9. Management: Competitiveness & Globalization: Concepts and
Cases (11th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
Pearce, J. A., & Robinson, R. B. 2009. Strategic Management.
Formulation, Implementation, and Control. (11th ed.). McGraw-
Hill Companies, Inc.
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Strategic Plan Part 2: Internal Environmental Analysis
Strategic Plan Part 2: Internal Environmental Analysis
In this report, the company of aNachos is continuing its
strategic plan and focusing on the internal environment. The
company will focus on the following sections: Assessing the
organizations internal environment, it will identify the most
important strengths and weaknesses of the company including
an assessment of the company’s resources, it will identify the
most important internal environmental factors, perform a
competitor analysis, assess the structure of the organization and
the influence this has on its performance and lastly determine
the competitive position and the possibilities this provide for
the company.
The term internal environment is described as the
circumstances, systems, measures, and determinants within a
10. company that shape the activities and distinction, particularly
the demeanor of the employees. Determinants that are many
times considered part of this environment include the company
mission statement, style of leadership, and the culture in the
company. The mission statement should embody the things that
the company will do and won’t do. The mission statement sets
the expectations from management on down on what is required
by each employee during their time with a company. The style
of leadership helps set the tone for employees to follow. One
example of a leadership style is authoritative which sets in
motion how the team will come together on a shared vision and
central point on the goals, leaving the ways forward to each
employee. Another example of a leadership style is an
instructing leader which builds up their employees for the
imminent opportunities ahead. The culture in the company
consists of core values and behaviors that employees share and
utilize daily. Such values and behaviors are showing respect to
each other and the customers they serve. Providing teamwork in
every capacity, developing learning opportunities for potential
advancement and making sure each employee is aware of the
goals that are being set through employee engagement.
Identify the most important strengths and weaknesses of your
organization including an assessment of the organization's
resources. In identifying the most important strengths and
weaknesses my aNachos, one most first understand what defines
strengths and weaknesses. The term strength is best described as
the qualities that enable everyone involved with the company to
accomplish the company’s mission. The term weakness is best
described as a quality that prevents the company from
accomplishing the mission and not achieving it full potential.
For aNachos to gain success in the restaurant industry, the
company must consider the most important internal
environmental factors. Such factors include competition,
compensation, legislation and employee relations. The
competition in any given industry will have an effect on a
company’s ability to recruit qualifying staff. For organization
11. that have hundreds to thousands of employees, candidates tend
to seek out the organization. A smaller new company such as
aNachos that does not have the same branding power as a bigger
well-established restaurant, will have to send money advertising
to gain recruits.
The second important internal environmental factor is
compensation. The cost of labor for a small business must be
attractive enough in the recruitment of employees. In an
oversaturated market such as the one currently, with a relatively
high unemployment rate and their being many more candidates
qualified than actual opportunities for employment available,
the amount in compensation by aNachos must provide is less
than when there is a shortage of candidates in existence and a
company having to compete with other companies to recruit
employees.
The third important internal environmental factor is Legislation.
Whither it’s the state or federal levels of government,
companies are impacted by the legal decisions made by elected
officials. For instance, regulation laws are principles that can
influence a company can function during certain cases. For
example, environmental regulations, building code laws as well
as what types a license a business needs to have to operate.
Labor laws are another form of regulation that pertains directly
to how a company treats their employees. Such regulations
include, minimum pay standards, pay garnishment and worker
protection guidelines. There are also tax regulations in which a
company must provide a summary of its monetary standing to
the government and reporting regulations that have oversight on
how a company summaries its capital to the government and
shareholders
The last important internal environmental factor is employee
relations. The internal procedures and policies also can impact a
company. Whither it’s the hiring of new employees or
promoting current employees, the manager must ensure that the
employee is receiving appropriate training and development for
any role they will play for the company. If the company
12. provides benefits such as education assistance, the company
must outline what those conditions are and ensure that
employees and meet the criteria needed. Should aNachos have a
union based work force, the manager/owner will have to engage
in collective bargaining with the union on matters of
representation.
According to (Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson 2015), the term
competitor analysis is described as, “How companies gather and
interpret information about their competitors”. An assessment
of the competitor analysis, allows a company to focus on those
companies with which it will be in continuous competition with,
and it is especially important when a company fronts fewer
possible competitors. An area of focus for aNachos will be: To
examine the market, to formulate strategy, and to create strategy
for business expansion. In examining the market, this entails
determining if there is an opportunity within a specific market.
For instance, if aNachos can factor the market share or even the
percent of industry sale totals that each competitor would have
or conducting specific research on the target base (that being
customers) will determine the size of the market within that
location. To formulate strategy as a new start-up, aNachos can
consider reviewing the setting of the company’s objectives,
have an evaluation of the company’s environment, setting
measured targets and continue to aim for reaching overall
company goals, both short and long term.
To develop a strategy for business growth, aNachos will have to
begin by using market penetration by selling more types of
nachos to its current customer base. Then utilizing market
development and developing other ways to sell the nachos to
markets like the industry. This can be opening new restaurants
in different locations. Another method can be using alternative
channels. Instead of customers coming to the restaurant to
purchase their food, ordering online or through an app and the
food being delivered to them.
Assess the structure of the organization and the influence this
has on its performance. A promise that arises for startup
13. companies is understanding how to develop an organization
structure, or how a company defines roles, teams, and
supervision. For a startup such as aNachos, it is important to
plan for it as the company will expect to grow. As a small
business, the types of organizational structures that aNachos
should consider are functional, divisional, or matrix. The first is
functional which a company builds a scale based system on the
position for each employee. Functional is a structure putting
together employees that will work toward a shared goal. The
second is divisional which disperse the functional structure
because the duties of the employees are separated by product or
region, rather than function, with a company. The last is matrix
which integrates the characteristics of both functional and
divisional. The matrix structure works just like a team. Instead
of division heads, each area has a leader. The matrix brings a
combination of employees who center around a project, but fill
other types of duties, across the company. The matrix structure
is the most dispersed, which indicates it can distract employees
about who is in charge. A company’s framework can influence
the performance by setting company goals and having regular
performance reviews. “The findings reinforce the position of
structure on performance, and organizational structure directly
affects the organizational learning and innovation.
Organizational learning has an effect on performance through
innovation and depends on the firms and industrial character”
(Qingmin Hao, Helmut Kasper, Juergen Muehlbacher,2012).
Establishing the goals for a company gives all levels of
management and their staff a specific area of focus to strive for
during the fiscal year. It builds cooperation amongst employees
in seeing the company be successful which benefits everyone
involved with the company.
To determine the company’s competitive position, an
assessment must be taken to see what will allow the company to
stand out and ahead of all other competitors in the market. Such
as assessment would consider various ways of adding value.
Such ways aNachos must consider are offering better prices and
14. the type of service it will provide when compared to its
competitors. Another method is creating industry benchmarks
that will indicate what your spending is in comparison to the
company’s competitors. For example, if the industry spends on
average around 30 percent of sales on payroll, aNachos can
make a comparison to see where the company stands in
comparison to everyone else. Making an assessment to the value
chain can indicate areas of the business such as supplier, hours,
employees or store are areas that need improvement and take the
necessary measures to strengthen the company.
In closing, this report provided the second phase for the
company of aNachos’s strategic plan and focusing on the
internal environment. The company focused on the following
sections: Assessing the organizations internal environment,
identifying the most important strengths and weaknesses of the
company including an assessment of the company’s resources. It
identified the most important internal environmental factors,
performed a competitor analysis, assessed the structure of the
company and the influences this has on its performance and
lastly determined the competitive position and the possibilities
this will provide the company.
15. Reference
Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., & Hoskisson, R. E. (2015). Strategic
Management: Competitiveness & Globalization: Concepts and
Cases (11th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
Qingmin Hao, Helmut Kasper, Juergen Muehlbacher, (2012)
"How does organizational structure influence performance
through learning and innovation in Austria and China", Chinese
Management Studies, Vol. 6 Issue: 1, pp.36-52,
https://doi.org/10.1108/17506141211213717
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Strategic Plan, Part 3: Strategic Evaluation and
Recommendation
16. Strategic Plan, Part 3: Strategic Evaluation and
Recommendation
In part three of this report, we will evaluate many strategies and
make recommendations for aNachos to consider. The evaluation
will consist of multiple items such as, evaluating the potential
business level strategies for the company. Next, we will assess
potential corporate level strategies for the company. From there
we will assess potential global strategies for the company,
Lastly, we will provide our recommendation of a strategy or a
combination of multiple strategies for aNachos to implement,
and include a rationale for that recommendation.
To evaluate the potential business-level strategies for aNachos
to consider, one must first understand the term. According to
Strategic Management: Competitiveness & Globalization:
Concepts & Cases “A business-level strategy is an integrated
and coordinated set of commitments and actions the firm uses to
gain a competitive advantage by exploiting core competencies
in specific product markets” (Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson, 2015).
The strategy of business-level is made up of five types (cost
leadership, differentiation, focused cost leadership, focused
differentiation and integrated cost leadership/differentiation).
Cost leadership is described as a series of movements that a
company will take when producing goods or services, that
usages is acceptable to consumers for a lower cost, in
comparison to a company’s competitors. Differentiation is a
series of actions that a company will take when producing goods
or services, by which the consumer sees it as specific to ways
significant to them. Focused cost leadership is an action taken
by a company in contending based on price to aim at for a
narrow market. Focused differentiation which is an action taken
by a company proposing a unique feature that will fulfill
consumer demands in a narrow market. Integrated cost
leadership/differentiation states that a mixture of captivating
consumers in primary value chain activities and support
objectives that favor pursuing lower prices and differentiation
at the same time. The aNachos strategy will gain success by
17. giving customers the combination of excellence and intriguing
styles of nachos within an environment that will appeal to a
wide and varying group of people. aNachos will have a
competitive edge in its menu pricing. The competitive edge
includes, student discount pricing of 5 to 10% off with student
ID, lunch-time discounts for companies within a five-mile
radius of 5 to 10% off and special pricing for events or parties
with 50 or more customers up to 15% off. With fewer than five
immediate restaurants near the location for Alston Nacho, the
focused cost leadership approach will give this company a
competitive advantage.
In evaluating the corporate level strategies for aNachos to
consider, the term is defined as, “specifies actions a firm taken
to gain a competitive advantage by selecting and managing a
group of different businesses competing in different product
markets” (Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson, 2015). Corporate level
strategy is mainly troubled by the strategic decisions a business
makes that affect the entire organization and using
diversification to help reach those goals. The two types of
corporate level strategies under consideration for aNachos are
(single business and dominant business). A business that is
single in form of corporate level strategy where a company
makes 95% or greater of selling for a profit from its main
business. A dominant business is a form of corporate level
strategy where a company generates 70 and 95% gross revenue
within the single business area. The main reason a company
utilizes the corporate level strategy is to have growth in revenue
and profits. Another area to consider for growth using the
corporate level strategy can be market development through a
company entering a different geographic market. This strategy
level while using the single business model, indicates that
aNachos is solely focused on one industry, the fast food
industry, and growing and developing a distinctive brand from
all others.
To assess the global strategies for Alston Nacho to consider, the
term is defined as, “A global strategy is an international
18. strategy in which a firm’s home office determines the strategies
business units are to use in each country or region.” (Hitt,
Ireland & Hoskisson, 2015). When a company engages in a
global strategy, there are multiple perspectives to consider. The
first one is from the company which thinks about how
expanding will provide the company with new sales and profits.
For some companies, expanding may put the company into a
better situation to generate profits if its original home market
had only poor profits. From the consumer view, it will lead to
prices being lower for products and services, as a result of
economies of scale and scope that will take into account the
larger global base. From an international government
perspective, it removes barriers to trading around the world at
the same time, providing protection to other industries in
different countries. Each country has difference in cultures as
well as preferences, but if a product or service that may sell
extremely well in one country, may not sell as well in another
country. aNachos utilizing the global strategy for expanding
into international territory as a well-positioned brand would not
be difficult. The key factors that aNachos should consider in
expansion are people in other countries interested in different
styles of nachos? Will the company have access to the kinds of
ingredients it will need? If not, what would be the cost to obtain
those ingredients to that market?
In recommending a strategy or combination of strategies for
aNachos to consider implementing, it’s best to use a
combination of the business level strategy (Focused cost
leadership) and the corporate level strategy (Single business).
After reviewing what defines both terms and understanding how
a business can utilize both, a new startup company such as
aNachos would benefit greatly from both. The business level
strategy will focus on centering itself on developing a position
against its competitors and remaining updated on market trends
and changes in technology. As most of its menu options are
priced between 6 and $15, it meets the pricing of most of the
restaurant in Hyde Park a neighborhood of Chicago. This will
19. give aNachos an advantage of narrowing the market to compete
for those customers.
The corporate level strategy will give aNachos a single focus to
work towards. Since the company is not looking to diversify
into other ventures, it will look at what strategy will help the
company achieve the strategic direction it seeks in
accomplishing its long-term goals. This can include deciding
which items to list on the menu as well as the potential market
to compete in. It may define the geographic boundaries for
aNachos operations. The corporate level strategy will help the
company set aside money, staffing, and various other resources.
This strategy may also guide the decisions about adding a new
location in the near future or even whether to compete with
another company or partner with another entity that will benefit
all companies involved. The strategies of business level and
corporate level focus on an overall performance for the
company which is what this new company will need.
In conclusion, this report evaluated many strategies and made
recommendations for aNachos to consider. The evaluation
consisted of multiple items such as, evaluating the potential
business level strategies for the company (aNachos), assessing
potential corporate level strategies for the company, and
assessing the potential global strategies for the company.
Through the recommendations provided, aNachos will use a
combination of the business level strategy and corporate level
strategy. These strategies best fit the company as it looks to
become successful in the short term and in the long terms a new
company.
20. Reference
Hitt, M.A., Ireland, R.D., and Hoskisson, R.E (2015) Strategic
Management: Competitiveness & Globalization: Concepts &
Cases, Eleventh Edition, Cengage Learning.
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