Category: Business and Management

Case study – “To test or not to test; that is the question” for Amtrak, Integra Life Sciences.  (Page 253)  – A 2-3 page analysis is due and in accordance with the Case Analysis Rubric). 
Instruction: – Please provide a summary of the case, identification of the problem, potential consequences if not resolved answer the questions, suggest recommendations and include references and citations according to APA guidelines.

In this module we are studying application strategies for IDS in international operations.  Explain the role interdisciplinary studies can play in solving global issues. Explain the role IDS can play in solving environmental issues. Explain the role IDS can play in solving health care issues. Have you observed, firsthand, interdisciplinary teams solving issues in globalization, environmental issues, or health care? What did you observe? What strengths did the interdisciplinary teams possess? What weaknesses?

The assignment portfolio consists of two parts for you to complete. Please read through the business scenario and complete part 1 and part 2.
Business Scenario:
A small (fictional) UK online retail business which focuses on a sustainable product offering. The Business is two years old, is rapidly expanding its sales and customer base and is now looking to use digital technologies (e.g., social commerce platforms) to support its proposed worldwide marketing, commerce and customer service business functions. At present, the company has an online website (one year old), and a physical store within Worcestershire. They predominantly sell within the Worcestershire area but want to expand their sales to multiple locations within the UK and ultimately, worldwide. Their budget is small at £6000 (£4000 for social commerce technologies and £2000 for staff training) and their staff are new and have little knowledge of digital/social media commerce and marketing. The company also has limited staff knowledge of the legal and international considerations surrounding social commerce. As they are a relatively new company and don’t yet have a social presence, increasing their customer following and trust, as well as brand awareness and reputation are top priority. They want to use social commerce platforms and create associated content to help drive online sales, reach further locations and increase competitive advantage.
Based on the above scenario, you are to choose a DIFFERENT company name; a DIFFERENT sustainable product offering within the retail sector and consider a DIFFERENT target customer base. Now, there are two parts to the assessment which you must complete.
Part 1: 60% of assessment 1 grade (1800 words equivalent)
You are required to produce a social commerce solution for your DIFFERENT chosen company name, with relevant content and associated elements, using Facebook as a primary platform and linking to a secondary platform. This needs to be fit for marketing and selling products for your chosen company. You will need to showcase (screenshots/screen recordings) your work via a PebblePad portfolio. Any image/videos/etc. you use must be cited and referenced properly. You must also ensure the platform pages themselves are set private. Any images/footage/music taken should be copyright/royalty-free.
As a minimum, you will need:
1. A Facebook Business page with company information, relevant images and content which aims to attract consumers and gain sale conversion.
2. Produce a minimum of two types of social commerce business tabs/features on Facebook business page (see grading matrix for further details)
3. Linkage to a populated secondary platform solution for the business. You can choose either Instagram, YouTube, or Pinterest
4. Link to an e-commerce solution
5. Produce regular content e.g., posts, stories, etc.
6. 2x videos which promotes the company and its products/services to the consumer, to seek sale conversion (between 30-120 seconds long- see grading matrix for further details).
Note: If you have trouble accessing certain elements (above) to complete the requirements, please speak with your module leader for permission to use templates provided to produce associated features from the above requirements. You will still need to complete the above requirements but instead of completing all of these requirements on the Facebook and Instagram/Pinterest/YouTube online social media pages themselves, you will produce these within the templates. You can combine the templates with the online versions to complete the assessment.
Part 2: 40% of assessment 1 grade – 1200 written words
Based on your DIFFERENT specific company and the business scenario, answer the following three tasks:
Task 1: Introduce your DIFFERENT chosen company, e.g., target customer, sustainable product offering, etc. (approx. 100 words)
Task 2: Assess the implications that your DIFFERENT chosen company would need to consider when implementing and deploying Facebook as a social commerce solution to the given scenario (above), with reference to theoretical underpinnings and your given business case (approx. 500 words).
This will need to include:
1. The business and technical reasoning for using Facebook to help support aspects such as commerce, marketing, and customer service business functions within an expanding market.
2. The associated issues involved in implementing and deploying Facebook as a social commerce solution
Task 3: Using the table in the submission template, map out and compare two alternative social commerce platforms. This should include the benefits and issues of the platforms and the appropriateness for your chosen company in relation to its business and technical/functional needs (as outlined in the business scenario) to enhance competitive advantage. This should be supported by key theories and relevant and credible sources – approx. 600 words
Table 1: Task 3 table of alternative platforms
Platform 1
Platform 2
Key Features
Appropriateness (benefits and issues and technical and functional needs of the business)
How should I present my work?
You will be submitting to PebblePad. A portfolio template will be given to you on PebblePad, to copy and edit. On the Home page of PebblePad, you will need to include the following:
1. A Disclaimer of “This portfolio and all of the work shown is for educational purposes only”
2. A Yes/No consent to whether you are happy for your work to be used anonymously for future students
3. A Yes/No consent to whether you are happy for your work to be used for future marketing material of student work
4. The company name, the name of the product offering, the intended target market and the platforms used for part 1
For part 1, you will need all of the screenshots/screen recordings for all elements required in part 1, as well as the MP4 file containing your videos uploaded to PebblePad. This will need to thoroughly document all part 1 elements that have been produced.
For part 2, you will need:
– Task 1: Introduction to the company (approx. 100 words)
– Task 2: Assessing Facebook (approx. 500 words)
– Task 3: Table of solution commerce alternatives (approx. 600 words)
– List of references for part 1 (images, videos, music – not included in word count)
– List of references for part 2 (not included in word count)
– Conclusion (not required)

Your
submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of
30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one
individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from
sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You
must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because
it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work.
Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect.
The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of
the course.
Write a paper (suggested length of 6–10 pages) by doing the following:
A.  Provide a PDF copy of your “Signature Themes” report after completing the CliftonStrengths assessment. 
1.  Reflect on the results of the five categorical strengths from your CliftonStrengths assessment, including what those results might indicate about your leadership.
B.  Evaluate your leadership, using one of the scholarly leadership theories below, by doing the following:
•   transformational leadership
•   transactional leadership
•   situational leadership
•   participative leadership
•   servant leadership
•   behavioral leadership
•   trait theory of leadership
1.  Evaluate three strengths of your leadership, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how each strength relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of your strengths with at least one scholarly source.
2.  Evaluate three weaknesses of your leadership, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how each weakness relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of your weaknesses with at least one scholarly source.
3.  Recommend three actionable items to improve the effectiveness of your leadership, including how each actionable item relates to the chosen scholarly leadership theory. Support the recommendations of actionable items with at least one scholarly source.
Note:
A scholarly source could be a reputable journal, a published book, or
any source from a university faculty member or business leader.
Scholarly sources also include any article or book in the online WGU
library.
C.  Discuss two short-term goals that will help improve your leadership. Adhere to the SMART criteria for each goal: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound.
1.  Discuss at least two specific actions you will take to reach each of the SMART goals discussed in part C.
D.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

The case study is regarding to the August Home company, the product is decided to improve their product for their Home locker.
the report should provide management with a basis for deciding whether the lean startup method should be used for development of future product generation.

Answer the questions in the pdf, and the professor will give you points based on your answers to eight questions.

As we learned this week in our reading, cognitive dissonance is the discomfort that arises when something that we believe is challenged.
Is cognitive dissonance ever good for an organization? For an individual?
Based on this information, what are three specific things that a leader can do to minimize the impact/leverage the effect of cultural dissonance within an organization? Include how leaders can assist both themselves and their employees in changing their behaviors. How can the three questions related to changing behaviors impact the employees in a positive way? What approach can a leader take if he/she receives opposition related to changing behaviors?

Conflict Management Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric Competency Name: Conflict Management Competency Statement: Develop and apply conflict management skills in an organizational setting. Final Assessment Title: Conflict Management Case Study Analysis and Annotated Bibliography Competency Objectives: 1. Develop an understanding of the types of conflict (e.g., interpersonal, intra-group, intergroup, and inter-organizational). 2. Develop an understanding of the sources of conflict (e.g., different goals/time horizons, overlapping authority, task interdependencies, different evaluation/reward systems, scarce resources, and status inconsistencies). 3. Identify and explain conflict management strategies (e.g., compromise, collaboration, accommodation, avoidance, and competition). 4. Apply conflict resolution skills to scenarios which may include workplace aggression (physical vs. verbal, active vs. passive, direct vs. indirect), incivility, fraud, substance abuse, cyber-slacking, and sabotage. Program Learning Outcome(s): N/A Institutional Learning Outcome(s): N/A Purpose of this Assessment Many organizational settings experience and even breed conflict. Conflict is a given challenge for all organizational managers, and therefore, they need to be equipped to recognize and manage conflict so that its negative effects are mitigated. Additionally, certain types and levels of conflict are the result of diverse ideas and resource scarcity. When managed properly, such conflict results in synergy, synthesis, and other positive effects. The purpose of this final assessment is for you to demonstrate familiarity with different types and sources of conflict that may occur organizations and to show different strategies that may be used for their resolution. Items Required for Submission The item required for this assessment is an analysis of a given case study and an annotated bibliography citing at least 12 academic references from the field of conflict management included as an appendix. Step ONE: Preparation Conduct a literature review from a variety of academic sources to find scholarly articles describing types of conflict, sources of conflict, and methods of conflict resolution. You should select at least four different types for each of these three categories, for least 12 references. Select one of the three cases studies. Read the case study interactively; that is, make notes about the conflict management principles that come to mind as you are reading through the case. It is best to read through it at least twice for understanding of the dynamics occurring in the scenario. Kenya: The case of internally displaced people following the 2007 post-election violence: 1 Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric Conflict Management Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric https://www.beyondintractability.org/casestudy/kenya-case-internally-displaced-people-following-2007post-election-violence Blackboard, Desire2Learn end dispute: https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/12/15/Blackboard-Desire2Learn-End- Dispute.aspx?Page=2 The Rwandan Genocide: http://www.beyondintractability.org/casestudy/fornace-rwandan As you read the case study, consider the following questions. You will answer these questions in your case study analysis and use your references from your annotated bibliography to support your observations and recommendations. 1. What types of conflict exist in the case? (Be sure to support your assessment.) 2. What are the sources of conflict in the case? (Again, support your conclusions.) 3. Who are the stakeholders, and which parties have conflicting interests? 4. What are at least two alternative conflict management strategies that could be used to address this case? 5. Which of these is the best alternative to resolving the conflict and why? Present a detailed plan to resolve the conflict, and achieve the stakeholders’ goals. Step TWO: Write Your Annotated Bibliography Using APA formatting, write a brief summary (about 150 words) of each article that includes the type of conflict, source of conflict, and resolution strategy and add this as an appendix to your case study analysis. Write a description of the case study that includes a brief description of the conflict and answers the five questions raised above. Step FOUR: Complete Checklist for Submission Before you submit your work, check to see if you have met the criteria noted below. Did you: ✓ ✓ ✓ Ensure that your case study contains thoughtful and well-supported answers to the five questions posed? Provide at least 12 highly relevant and varied examples of conflict management with clear summaries and accurate identification of conflict management conditions? Show that you understand the depth and breadth of the subject matter fully and all related concepts as it relates to conflict management with no errors in content or interpretation of the material and using conflict management methodologies? 2 Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric Conflict Management Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric Final Assessment: Outline and Rubric 3 ✓ Review to see that spelling, grammar, and punctuation are accurate; APA formatting standards are followed? 

mini case must be no more than three pages and double-spaced, exclusive of the cover and reference pages. The use of APA formatting and citation is required. Guidelines: Select a article on a company that address operations management challenges. Use the following guidelines to develop your case analysis. Remember you MUST apply APA 7th edition. Background – Investigate the Company’s History and Growth. Company’s Growth – Identify Strengths and Weaknesses. Company’s competiting elements – Examine the External Environment. Analyze the Business findings based on Operations Management Principles -Analyze Your Findings. Outline the Way forward for the company – Identify Corporate-Level Strategy. Outline the strategy and how it will be impolemented – Identify Business-Level Strategy. Highlight potential barriers – Address the Analyze Implementations. Recommended Solutions – Make Recommendations. Conclusion – Review. Remember you must use headers and sub headers to guide the paper. A paragraph must be 3-5 sentences. Use the MEAL Paragraphing Concept to write at the collect level: see attached document. FORMAT IN APA 7th Edition Title page Running header and page number start on title page 1″ margins double space throughout entire document. Indent 5″ the first line of each paragraph. Headers and/or sub headers are mandatory Reference Page is mandatory with at least three references.

Pleaser write a 7 page paper on Porter’s Five forces.  The format of the paper is, first page tile page, last page for resources, and 5 pages of content on the subject matter.
Describe each force in detail and include the diagram