Assignment
The requirements for the project are the following: Each student should create a fictitious consulting company to work on this project.
The objective is to analyze an organization to explore its management practices and issues from TWO AREAS in Column 1. The student will conduct research on the area to identify best practices to base their recommendations for improvements to the Company. (Column 2)
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Column 1: Question to Explore
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Column 2: Research & Recommend
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What are the environmental issues that the Organization's management is facing? What strategies are being implemented to adapt to these environments?
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What other strategies to adapt to these environments, would the team suggest?
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What are issues involved in managing a diverse workforce and conduct necessary research to address these issues? (Describe the diversity in the Organization)
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What suggestions would the team make to address these?
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What are examples of how the organization does planning, organizing, & control processes?
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What suggestions would the team make to improve what the company is currently doing?
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What are the current practices in the Organization around how leaders use motivation techniques?
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What theories support or relate to the practices you learned?
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What are the current practices in the Organization around how leaders use Effective communication?
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What suggestions would you make to the organization for improvements?
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The chosen organization will be a large organization (profit or non-profit). Conduct your search using online resources. You may use the company Website, financial records, annual reports, interviews of management and other public sources to gather the information for your report. You must also conduct research to identify the suggestions (Column 2) using 4-5 scholarly sources in addition to the Organization's web site. There are two parts to the project:
1. The paper will be 7 - 10 full pages long. Write the paper using MS Word, APA style.
The sections are:
a. Overview
b. Organization -Brief background - (history, Operations, products and services)
c. Who you interviewed- Name and contact information (If applicable, not required)
d. What are the two areas (Column 1) that your team addressed and what you learned about what the organization is currently doing.
e. What recommendations in each area would you suggest to help the Organization? Be sure to cite your references in your paper as to the source of your ideas.
f. Share whether you did or plan to share your recommendations to the Company and what their reaction was if you did do this.
g. Summary -What are the 3-4 major things that your team learned from the Project?
2. A PowerPoint presentation: 8- 12 slides about 8-10 minutes, should be prepared with speaker notes.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.