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Review the Week 6 Implementing Change Business Case assignment.

 

Select a company you would like to interview about change management strategies, and request an informational interview with a representative. Focus your interview on the week 6 business case topic.

 

Create 3 to 5 questions you can discuss with a representative regarding the company’s approach to change management in the past.

 

·        Your interview questions should illicit the change management strategies they have used to implement a variety of changes intended to improve effectiveness and efficiency of the organization that will ultimately improve the bottom line.

 

Call the representative from your chosen company, and:

 

·        Share that you are an MBA student working on a business case for change management.

 

·        Ask your 3 to 5 questions.

 

·        Take notes about the conversation with the company representative.

 

Summarize the interview in a paper of 300 or more words. Please do not refer to specific company information in your documentation; use Company XYX and Mr./Ms. X in place of real names.

 

·        Provide the question asked and the information gained from the company representative.

 

·        Identify the company’s industry you chose to interview for your research.

 

·        Discuss the approach(es) the company used to make a change in the past.

 

Create a detailed approach that you as a leader would use for changing a process, action, etc. for a business. This approach may use bullets or numbers to list the order of your actions.

 

References – Provide at least two (2) references used for this assignment.

 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines. NOTE: all assignments must have a title page, introduction, body of assignment, conclusion, and reference page.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

 

 

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Purpose of Assessment   

 

Demonstrate how a leader can implement change within an organization to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. You will consider the information you learned in your conversation with the company you contacted in Week 5. You will be measured on how you apply key leadership and managerial skills to foster innovation and lead change in a dynamic business as well as your ability to listen actively and respond using appropriate tone and word choice. You will prepare a presentation, with detailed speaker notes, that covers the scenario shown below.

 

Scenario

 

Your boss has asked you to implement a new rotating work schedule that requires employees to work different schedules each week. Your boss would like to know how other companies in the area have handled their schedule changes in the past to determine if their change model is applicable to this situation.

 

Review the discussion with the organization you contacted in Week 5, and consider whether you would use any of the change strategies to implement a new rotating work schedule in your company.

 

Prepare a 12- to 15-slide presentation (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint) to build a business case for your boss and your organization’s leadership team. Your presentation must include detailed speaker notes, and ensure you do the following: 

 

·        Introduce and analyze the change requested by your boss, changing from the current state to a future state. 

 

·        Analyze the impact of this change to the bottom line (profit, productivity, and expenses).

 

·        Analyze the desired result or goal and use the SMART goal approach to formulate the goal. 

 

·        Analyze who will be affected by the change. 

 

·        Analyze the change management approach(es) used by the company you interviewed in Week 5.

 

·        Evaluate whether you would use any of the change management strategies from your Week 5 interview. 

 

·        Analyze the role of the leader to accomplish the change. 

 

·        Describe key leadership skills and characteristics that will be needed from the leader.

 

·        Assess what metrics will be applied to determine success or failure. 

 

·        Determine the timeline for the change.

 

·        Conclude your presentation with a short summary and specify your recommendations regarding the rotating work schedule.

 

References – Provide at least three (3) references used for this assignment.

 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines. NOTE: all assignments must have a title page, introduction, body of assignment, conclusion, and reference page.

 

Submit your assignment.

 You have been asked by management to secure the laptop computer of an individual who was just dismissed from the company under unfavorable circumstances. Describe how you would start this incident off correctly by properly protecting and securing the evidence on the laptop. 

The next part of your project will require you to navigate to the website of Johnson & Johnson and locate the most recent annual reports. You will use the annual reports to create financial statements. These statements will become the reference statements for your case. Annual reports for JNJ can be found on the company’s website and are usually located in a section titled Investors/SEC filings.

 

• Use the annual report to find the total current assets and total current liabilities.
• Compute the current ratio for JNJ for previous two fiscal years
• Review reports on data for the last two years.
  • Net Cash Flows from Operating Activities
  • Net Cash used by Investing Activities
  • Net Cash used by Financing Activities
  • Cash and Cash Equivalents at the end of the Years
• Create a Balance Sheet or Statement of Cash Flows for most recent two years
• Identify trends with an indication of if the financial statements show a positive or negative for the organization and investors.
  • Use Microsoft Excel to create at least three (3) graphical displays to show the trends (i.e., bar graph, pivot table, histogram, etc). You should include a copy of your graphs in the body of your report.
• Discusses which year Johnson & Johnson appear to be in a stronger financial position and big differences between the 2 years (Keep in mind that dollar amounts in ( ) are negative or cash outflows).
• Imagine that this information represents information for your project case. Incorporate or reference financial information in your case to support the report.

 

Summarize your responses in a report using titles from the assignment requirements (i.e., assets and liabilities, cash flows/balance sheet, trends, financial position). This document will serve as your Financial Statements section of your project.

Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub questions of each bullet point. The sub questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. 

 

 

 

Select a different bullet point section than what your classmates have already posted so that we can engage several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to re-use the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

 

• Employees’ rights to privacy are being brought to question on many fronts—just what is your right to privacy at your place of employment? Does your employer have a right to read your personal e-mail? To place surveillance cameras in the restroom? To track the sites that you visit? Monitor your phone calls?
  • Evaluate the employer’s interest in monitoring employees, including the rights that employers have.
  • Assess the rights to privacy and protection from monitoring that employees should have.
  • Justify a brief communication plan for policies and procedures pertaining to monitoring.

 

 

 

The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.

 

 

 

Your posting should be the equivalent of 1 page in length.

With significant operations around the world, Savannah Engineering, Inspection and Insurance Company (SEIIC) is truly a global company. Its most significant international operations are in the European Union (EU) countries and Asia. Growth in China has been particularly rapid over the last five years. Because of the highly technical nature of its business, SEIIC has had a difficult time getting the people with the right skills in the right places and then keeping their skills up to date. The company has worked hard at identifying and hiring local talent, but the efforts have not been entirely successful. To the extent that it can, it has tried to accommodate local needs in its HRM system. However, it has found it difficult to carry out some of its initiatives because of the different ways of working in different areas. It has been difficult for people who transfer from one area to another to deal with the different HRM policies and procedures.

 

As a part of the overall review of HRM operations, the company is interested in identifying key factors that differentiate its global and domestic operations and in understanding how it can develop a more global approach to HRM.

 

• Summarize key details about the case to date. What are the most important issues affecting SEIIC’s HRM? Your summary should be no more than one to two paragraphs. (Imagine that you are riding down the elevator with SEIIC’s CEO and she asks you to provide a high-level summary of what you’ve discovered so far. You have thirty seconds from the time she gets on the elevator until the time she gets off. What would you say?)
• With a focus primarily on the EU and Asian areas of operations, assess key factors that SEIIC should pay attention to in revising its approach to international HRM. Consider, for example, the cultural, economic system, and legal and labor relations similarities and differences in these areas of operation when compared to domestic (United States) operations.
• Analyze how these differences between EU, Asian, and domestic areas of operation may affect specific HRM activities including recruiting and staffing, training and development, compensation and benefits, performance management, and labor relations.
• Finally, justify how SEIIC should approach implementing HRM around the globe. Should it try to provide essentially a standardized, global HRM system or a highly specialized HRM system that is tailored to each location or region where it operates? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and which would you recommend?
• Submit your six page paper in APA style

Part 2: First Draft

Submit a first draft, to include the following:

 Introduction with thesis statement. See the APU Writing Center resources Thesis Statements and Introductions and Conclusions for help.

 Body paragraphs that address the following three (out of four) assignment questions:

1. How does the topic (Moses, Miriam, Covenant, the Decalogue, or the Golden

Calf) connect to the larger themes of creation, fall, and redemption within the

overarching story of the Bible?

2. What is important to know about the history, culture, and/or theology surrounding

this person or concept?

3. What was the original meaning of this concept or significance of this person

within Exodus/Deuteronomy?

 Body paragraphs embed research and analysis from scholarly sources and contain in- text citations.

 References page, formatted in APA style, minimally includes:

o The Drama of Scripture.

o The accompanying topic article found in the course from Dictionary of the Old

Testament: Pentateuch.

o Two additional sources from the APU Library.

o NOTE: In APA style, classical works – including the Bible – are not listed in the

References page. Embed biblical citations within the text as follows: “Then Moses turned and went down the mountain, carrying the two tablets of the covenant in his hands” (Exod 32:15, NRSV). Only indicate the Bible version in the first citation; it is not necessary to identify each citation as NRSV.

Assignment Expectations

 Written in Times New Roman 12-point font and double spaced.

 Approx. 1,000 to 1,200 words in length, plus a References page.

 Paper includes an introduction and thesis statement, addresses the first three (of four)

assignment questions, and engages with the required scholarly sources.

 Lists references in APA format.

 Contains minimal grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Body paragraphs that address the following three (out of four) assignment questions:

Golden Calf

Israel people force Aaron Moses’ brother made them a new God ”golden calf praise because they lost their faith and patience because Moses spend 40 days and 40 nights in the mountain. God had already warned the people about this rule that God says “Don’t put no other god before him” I believe Israel people to panic, when Moses didn’t come back from the mountain so assuming that Moses left them not using logic  know this before the 10 commandments since they didn’t want to take it seriously.

Question 1. 

Israel people grew tried and start to have doubt about God and Moses wondering if he will come back from the mountain. The people pressured him to make a God that they can see and touch. I believe Aaron was scared and afraid of what the people will do to him keeping in mind if it could have been thousands of people putting pressure on him if he does not create them a god what make sense to me they probably would cause harm Aaron created the Golden calf. The fall made God angry because he broke his law in the 10 commandments (Hamilton, 2005). The redemption God punished them many people pass a way or some survive were punish as well walking around in the desert. Miriam in the book of Exodus does not only frame that chapter’s narrative of Moses but the whole entire narrative of Exodus. The golden calves enacted in Exodus was as a form of celebrations of victory of the battle. Miriam began the dance to show and celebrate the victory of God.

Question 2. 

The most important about this history you can’t lost faith because Gods didn’t answer our prayer faster or learned to have patience it can save anyone from making huge mistake. The story of golden calf is one of the greatest scandals in the wilderness for the Israelites. The golden calf was important to Israelites because they believed that it was a symbol of strength and power. The storm of god too was represented by the golden calf whereby the calf was worshipped at the altar. The golden calf has been found in many of the Canaanian sites representing deity indirectly. Aaron made the golden calf for the people to worship and believe that it intended to depict YHVH. Prophet Aaron made the gods and made the people believe the gods were the reason for delivering them from the enemies.

Question 3. 

Exodus 32 story was about the golden calf which Aaron explained to Israelites that the gods were the reason behind them moving from Egypt. The people started the celebration because of deliverance and victory during Reed Sea.  The dance which was started by Miriam was an Israelites tradition to show victory of God which later was enacted in worshiping shrines during wanderings. Liturgical tradition was started too by Miriam in order to act as a reminder to future generations to come of God’s victory and how a warrior should act with strength and power because god is powerful (Mason, & Lupieri, 2018). The Golden calves in exodus and Deuteronomy shows how God delivered them from the enemies but later Moses collected them and set them into fire. At this period of time, there was contrast witnessed between the Quranic and biblical teachings from the prophet Aaron portrayed through his actions. The golden calf was a replacement for God, and caused the Israelites to be punished whereby Moses burned the golden calves, sprinkled water and ensured that the Israelites have drunk it.

Question 4. 

There are many lesson in this story, be patience you’ll bless the things you ask God for its going to take time. I believe is test people who ask for things to see if we are ready to receive the blessing. Peer pressure people who force anyone to do anything, is scare most of the time someone can really hurt for example think about how many people pressure to take drugs for the first -time then lead to an addiction (Hamilton, 2005). God loves us He grants us to have free will however, regardless if you break the 10 commandments God will forgive us if the person repent. The insights gained also help us to understand that there are false prophets who mislead God’s people. We need to be aware of the false prophets and be able to choose God’s will.  Despite the hardships we are encountering right now, we need to be strong and not choose another god to worship. Our God s powerful and full of strength, we need to rely on Him. World challenges are only tests that God puts us to test our Faith. There are consequences when we break God’s commandments as evidenced from what Moses did after burning the golden calf and let the people drink it.

References

Hamilton, V. P. (2005). Handbook on the Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Ada, MI: Baker Academic. 

. Golden Calf Traditions in Early Jud Mason, E. F., & Lupieri, E. F. (2018)aism, Christianity, and Islam. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. 

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For this assignment prepare a 3-4 page paper addressing the question, “Are leaders born or made?” For what it is worth, here are some “talking points” which you may choose to consider:

 

● What is leadership?

 

● Is leadership a trait or a process?

 

● Are there similarities between leaders?

 

● Examples of “born” leaders or individuals who became leaders because of 

 

 circumstances.

 

● Do leaders have certain skills?  Can they be learned?

 

● Is it possible to identify certain characteristics of an individual and then match 

 

 them to a leadership position?

 

Sample criteria:  Three (3) to four (4) page paper, excluding the cover and references page.  Cite at least five academic sources from the course readings, scholarly sources from the UMUC online library, and/or weekly modules to support your analysis –   Follow APA style guidelines for the cover page, citations, and references page.  The paper should be double-spaced with 1-inch margins with 12

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Using data and/or reports available from the National Crime   Victimization Survey, conduct an analysis of the rates of violent   victimization from 1993 until the most recent date available in the   data report. Include the following questions:

 

1. What do you conclude about the trends of violent   victimization?
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Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA   Style Guide.