As you’ve learned this week, the control process is essential to the achievement of goals. It allows a business to track their progress, make adjustments, and stay on schedule for what they’re trying to achieve. Your chosen goal from the strategic management project needs these same types of controls. This course project assignment will task you with creating a detailed control process for that goal. Think through all of the departments that might be involved in the completion of the goals and how they’ll need to be tracked. The course content from this week can be very useful in providing details on strategies and ideas for control processes. Some additional research will also prove useful.
This assignment should be at least two pages in length and complete the following:
• Identify four separate strategies that you will use to control your strategic goal.
• For each strategy:
o Identify which aspect or metric of the goal they’re controlling.
o Explain the reasoning and value behind the control choice.
o Identify the control as feed forward, concurrent, or feedback.
Change is usually positive, but it can also be difficult to embrace at times. Employees can be resistant to change, while managers may feel that it is necessary for organizational stability. Discuss the challenge of change as it relates to health care organizations. What is the overall impact of change on the organization, its employees, and its constituents, and what role does the manager play as an agent of change? In addition to responding to these questions, review the examples of successful change in your textbook and choose two examples to discuss in greater detail. What did you learn from these examples? In each case, how did the individuals overcome the barriers to change, and what were the resulting benefits?
Question – A study of the U.S. Department of Labor completed by the Rand Corporation showed that the nation’s work force will be smaller, more diverse, more mobile, and more vulnerable to global competition. What implications (positive and negative) do these trends have for organizational strategies?
Question 1: Describe the similarities and differences between leadership and management. Explain the six types of power identified by French and Raven. What is the relationship between leadership and power?
Question 2: What are the strengths and criticisms of the trait approach? What are the Big 5 personality factors and how do they relate to leadership? What is charisma?
Question 3: What are the strengths and criticisms of the skills approach? Explain each element of the Three-Skill Approach. Explain the difference between a skill and a trait.
Question 4: What are the strengths and criticisms of the behavioral approach? What are the characteristics of each of the seven leadership styles shown on the Leadership Grid? What is the relationship between a leader’s dominant style and backup style?
British car manufacturing hit a record high in the first half of 2016 with firms such as Toyota, Nissan and Mini continuing to increase their output. Almost 80% of all of those automobiles were exported to the EU and to other nations outside of Britain. Your client, a well-known Korean car manufacturer, has contacted you for your advice regarding her plan to begin manufacturing vehicles in Britain at the start of next year. You will need to respond to her with:
The compelling reasons for Toyota, Nissan and Mini to have chosen Britain for manufacturing
Consider sources of comparative advantage, protectionism, dynamic gains from trade, regulatory policy, and the movement of the factors of production
The concerns over Britain’s decision to leave the EU and what this could mean for manufacturing and exporting
Your recommendation for whether or not she should go through with those plans. Your recommendation must be based upon factual evidence and should any include any concerns she should consider if she follows your advice.
Your response should follow APA guidelines and should include in-text citations and a reference page at the end of the document. Your response is likely to be 5-7 pages in length (double-spaced)
Write a research paper that analyzes the evolving relationship between business and society.  Choose at least three of the topics from the course learning objectives (listed below), and clearly identify how the topics directly impact relationships between business and society.
Topics from Course Learning Objectives:
Social responsibility
Strategic philanthropy
Government regulation
Organizational ethics
Consumer protection laws and the Six Consumer Rights
Technology
Environmental issues
Please follow instructions
Write between 850 – 1,150 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style.
Use font size 12 and 1″ margins.
Include cover page and reference page.
At least 95% of your paper must be original content/writing.
No more than 5% of your content/information may come from references.
Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.
References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.
Using your favorite search engine, locate the websites for two research firms. Conduct a review of the services offered by these two different research firms. What types of tools do they use, and how effective are those tools? Then, write an essay responding to the following questions/topics, evaluating each research firm’s capability of providing valuable services to its customers.
1. Contrast the services and tools provided by the two research firms.
2. Explain the advantages of utilizing these research firms.
3. Discuss why a company might decide to save the money and utilize its in-house team as opposed to one of these firms.
4. Explain how the tools discussed in the lecture might enable more companies to complete their research internally.
Your APA-formatted submission must be a minimum of three pages (not including the title page and the reference page). References must include the two websites and a minimum of one additional credible reference. All sources used must be referenced. Paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Klassen, A., Creswell, J., Plano Clark, V., Smith, K., & Meissner, H. I. (2012). Best practices in mixed methods for quality of life research. Quality of Life Research, 21(3), 377-80. doi: 10.1007/s11136-012-0122-x Retrieved from
Pendergraft, L., & Blakely, A. F. (2010). Tensteps for evaluating and selecting software and service providers.Information Management Journal, 44(1), 40-44. Retrieved from
Compare and contrast one content and one process theory of motivation. In your opinion, why would two people with similar abilities have very different levels of performance? If you were the manager, what would you do and why?
Discussions 1 & 2 must be 250 words per discussion and please label them as seperate discussions.
Discussion 1
Productive Failure
Sometimes things go wrong and it’s not always a bad thing. Define and discuss the concept of productive failure. Discuss a time in your organization’s history (or an organization you are familiar with) when a change process failed. Explain the situation and what was learned in the process. Why do some organizations fail but become stronger while others fail to recover?
Discussion 2
Making Change Stick
While change is inevitable in most organizations, there is a difference between change that is superficial and embedded sustaining change. Drawing from this week’s lecture and readings, discuss the processes for successfully implementing and sustaining change. Provide examples that are designed to help make change stick and apply at least one of the examples to an organizational change with which you are familiar.