Change Conditions For Success

Select a change process you have been involved in as a leader. Apply the 4 conditions of change model to that experience. What did your organization do well? What were the positive results? What was not done well? What was the negative impact? This submission should be 2-3 pages.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, Indiana's small businesses employ about 50% of Indiana's private sector workforce. Please review the SBA's Fact Sheet on Indiana and assume Governor Holcomb has asked you to develop an economic policy that will assist in the formation and sustainability of small business in Indiana. Please discuss your suggestions to the Governor on how Indiana can become the top incubator for small business.

Answer with 5-6 sentences.

PHASE 5 IP 

Your executive vice president (EVP) has decided to restructure six of the current business units into one sector structure. He has asked you to put together two deliverables for his team to review.

Part 1

You are to write an Executive Summary White Paper reflecting the benefits of the recommended change. Include the following in your white paper:

Short introduction about the alignment between organizational structure and organizational strategy  

Productivity improvement analysis for each organizational structure option  

Potential cost of each organizational structure option  

Potential schedule for the merger  

Your recommendation and why

Part 2

For this part, you are to write a Change Proposal Paper of 2,500 words in which you reflect upon your recommendation from Part 1.

Your EVP is very excited to get started on the change plan for the business unit merger project that you recommended in your Executive Summary White Paper. Before he signs off on the launch date for the project, the EVP wants to see a proposed change plan. Each of the impacted six divisions have approximately 830 employees, and each are organized in the following functions:  

Project management  

Manufacturing operations  

Engineering  

Quality  

Information technology  

Human resources  

Accounting  

Public relations  

Procurement

He was very impressed with your ideas on a customer service organization and wants to include this new function in the new organization. The change plan should include the following:

Assessments  

Examples of the return on investment (ROI)  

Training required  

Who will be involved in the full change planning  

Communication plan  

Places for potential economies of scale in the merger  

Action plan  

Schedule on the implementation of the new structure

He would also like to know what you need him and the other executive team members to do in support of this project.

What you learned about your client team in the previous change assignments is that they like to see charts with clear objective facts and the latest research in support of the ideas you are presenting in the documents that they review prior to the full team discussion. This is a critical project, so you will want to develop a standard list of questions to interview each of the seven executives to gather their input regarding this project. Be sure to build this diagnostic data collection into the overall project schedule.

Making Decisions

 Decisions are made on a daily basis within every position at every company.  Decisions regarding company policy can often create the conflicts that were discussed within last week's forum.  This week, we also read about making financial decisions within a company.  When making a decision that affects multiple departments within the company, it is important to think about the long-term benefits or challenges.  Think back over your professional life…discuss a decision that was made by your company that had an effect on you or your department directly.  What  challenges were created by this decision?  Was your company prepared for these challenges?  How was this decision communicated to the employees?  What could have been improved within this process?  While you are not required to formally cite your sources within the forum, you should make sure that you are incorporating information from the readings into your responses.  Your responses should clearly show that you have read the material. 

CT#6 – Purpose Of Control

Explain and provide examples of the two fundamental purposes of control.

Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length. Include at least two scholarly references in addition to the course textbooks.  The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.

DF# 6

You are talking with another student who is complaining about having to learn the systems development life cycle because he or she is not going to work in an IT department. Would you agree with this student? What would you say to this student to try to convince him or her that learning about the systems development life cycle is relative to all businesses?

Social Responsibility

In this Project, you will have an opportunity to demonstrate your mastery of social responsibility concepts by preparing a corporate social responsibility program that will be included in your corporation's annual report.   

Deliverables

 •A 1,000-word social responsibility program proposal  

Activity Details  Perform the following steps: 

  Step 1: Read the scenario.  Northeastern Steel is a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Penn., that manufactures steel tubes used in industrial operations. The company has been in business since the 1930s. Over the past decade, Northeastern Steel has seen a decrease in its market share for steel tubes due to competition from other mills that have incorporated environmentally sustainable operations. To address the competition and the concerns of environmental and neighborhood groups that are upset over the amount of fumes released into the air, wastewater being released into an adjacent river and traffic into and out of the mill, you have been asked to include an appendix in the annual report regarding Northeastern Steel's social responsibility initiatives to alleviate the advocacy group's concerns, establish Northeastern Steel as a socially responsible entity, as well as provide financially sound reasons the company is undertaking these initiatives. 

 Step 2: Write a proposal.   Write a 1,000-word business proposal that will be read and considered by Northeastern Steel's shareholders. Explain the reasoning and specifics of Northeastern Steel's sustainability initiative, utilizing your learning of corporate social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and the financial and competitive benefits of engaging in this program of corporate social responsibility.  Outline the corporation's social responsibility initiative: the reasons for undertaking these initiatives, the specific activities the corporation will undertake to become an environmentally sustainable corporation, and the benefits that undertaking this program will provide to shareholders, the corporation and the community. 

 Use these writing guidelines: 

• Include a cover page and references in addition to your required page count. 

• Use correct APA format. 

• Double-space text. 

• Use size 12 Times New Roman.

 • Use section headings to organize. 

• Indent paragraphs. 

• Include in-text citations as appropriate. 

• Use correct spelling, grammar, sentence structure and verb tense.

Change Conditions For Success

Select a change process you have been involved in as a leader. Apply the 4 conditions of change model to that experience. What did your organization do well? What were the positive results? What was not done well? What was the negative impact? This submission should be 2-3 pages.

Email Based On Listening Skills Scenario

Worth 150 points

Your supervisor has asked to you write a brief email on the vacation  policy changes to be distributed to staff. 

1. You will need to listen to a  voice mail from your supervisor with instructions on how to create the  email to announce the new vacation policy. 

2. The voice mail will include  specific details that must be followed in creating the email. 

3. This audio  voice mail can be found Attached to this assignment. Please listen and follow the directions carefully.

Create an email message in which you:

Listen to your supervisor’s voice mail here. 

Create a one to two (1-2) paragraph email with five to seven (5-7) sentences that follows your supervisor’s instructions.  

Target the appropriate professional audience. 

1. Use appropriate language for professional audience.

2. Use correct email formatting.

3. Follow appropriate netiquette rules for electronic communication.

4. Meet the 250-to-500-word minimum requirement.

5. Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.

Your assignment must follow these APA formatting requirements:

Be typed, single-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  1-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any  additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.  The cover page is not included in the required length.

Project Management #

Most students intuitively know more about project management than they realize. Through experiences at work, school, or in the community, almost every adult has either participated in and/or managed a project at one time or another.

Apply the concepts learned in chapter 1 and describe a project you have either participated in and/or managed.
A quality response will apply the components of the definition of a project; describe progress through the project life cycle; and reference quality of managing the scope, time and cost (the three project objectives).