Assignment:
Your consulting firm has been hired by a small company to prepare a research paper aligned with their plans for a global expansion. The business has been successful for the past ten years with steady growth. However, the company believes that creating additional layers of management would increase performance. The company's idea is to create an upper-management team to focus more on the strategic initiatives of the business going global and a lower-level management team to focus more on the day-to-day operations. The company has realized that there may be a few challenges to this reorganizational structure and have asked you to research the situation and advise the executive team. Several of the immediate concerns include:
• The morale of the employees--half the current employees are very satisfied with their current job and responsibility and the other half of employees are eager to move into higher management position or into management position.
• The budget--budget does not allow everyone to be promoted.
• Performance issues-some individuals are lacking on their performance and are not going to be a good fit as a manager based on their past performance.
• Identification of high performers.
• Alternatives for moving forward with the new organizational structure that will not cause unnecessary chaos in the workplace.
• Evaluation of the importance of the leadership dynamics when it comes to prior knowledge and skills.
Present your findings as a 1-2 pages report in a Word document formatted in APA style.
Submit your assignment.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
1. TITLE PAGE. Remember the Running head: AND TITLE IN ALL CAPITALS
2. ABSTRACT. A summary of your paper...not an introduction. Begin writing in third person voice.
3. BODY. The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 4-5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
4. REFERENCE PAGE. References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lower case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference Page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.