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You are the CEO of a company with four foreign subsidiaries. Your work schedule makes it nearly impossible to visit more than once per year. How would you ensure you receive accurate information to fairly appraise each expatriate manager? Explain your answer.
Do you know what foods to select or how much to consume for a healthy diet?
For a company of your choice, select an important product or service offering within a particular market segment. Conduct a needs assessment – identify the customer’s product/service, delivery system, volume, and other needs. Articulate each customer need in such a way that it provides insight into why a customer would choose this company over another to fulfill that particular need.
Identify the important competitive priorities that are most closely related to fulfilling the customer’s needs. Discuss each one of the competitive priorities and analyze how it ties into meeting the customer’s needs. What level of capability must the company develop on each one of the competitive priorities? Based on your above analysis, which competitive priorities are order winners? Which ones are order qualifiers, and at what threshold level? Discuss what tradeoffs the company faces in its choice of competitive priorities. Do its order winners clash with each other, or with its order qualifiers?
Identify the core competencies that the company possesses. Are any of these competencies distinctive, i.e., something the competition cannot replicate easily? Discuss how each of the competencies ties into achieving the company’s order winners. Do these competencies detract from other competitive priorities?
There are two components to this assignment. Please complete both and assure you provide the appropriate sources.
Part One
Provide an example of a company that has done a complete turnaround. In your research, identify specific steps your selected company took to ensure a successful turnaround. Include data and statistics in your narrative. Explain whether the turnaround has been effective in improving the company’s profitability.
Support your propositions, assertions, arguments, or conclusions with at least one credible, relevant, and appropriate source synthesized in a coherent analysis.
Part Two
Scenario
Imagine that you are a member of the HR department of a small retail company and upper management has asked you to create an employee customer service training class for all new employees.
Requirements
Write a 6-7 page paper in which you:
Justify the use of a needs assessment for your company’s proposed employee customer service training, including an explanation of five ways in which such an assessment would expose any existing performance deficiencies.
Develop a customer service training implementation plan, including the method of training (for example: presentation, discussion, case study, discovery, role play, simulation, modeling, or on-the-job training).
Justify a selected training method for customer service training.
Propose two proven ways an organization can motivate employees who have no interest in attending training sessions.
Develop a survey to collect specific, targeted feedback from training participants that can be used to improve future training sessions.
Make sure that your survey is designed as though you were providing it to participants for completion. Include the survey within the body of your paper.
Support your propositions, assertions, arguments, or conclusions with at least four credible, relevant, and appropriate sources synthesized in a coherent analysis.
Cite each source on your source list at least one time within your assignment.
Write clearly and concisely in a manner that is well organized, grammatically correct, and free of spelling, typographical, formatting, and/or punctuation errors.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Propose how to create employee training, including a needs assessment, training methods, motivation, implementation plan, and training assessment.
Explain the importance of early intervention for young children and families.
Define the term early intervention, and explain its components. (
Explain why it is critical to provide early intervention services to children as early in their development as possible. (1 paragraph)
Create a SIOP lesson plan in a content area of your choice for a group of ELLs at a grade and English language proficiency (ELP) level that you specify..
Identify and select the ELP Standards from your state.
Create a content objective and a language objective using the English Language Arts Standards from your state.
Consider applicable language acquisition stages of development in your lesson planning.
Include a 500-750 word rationale that includes an explanation regarding how the following aspects of SIOP were accounted for within the design of your lesson:
Lesson Preparation
Building Background
Comprehensible Input
Strategies
Interaction
Practice and Application
Lesson Delivery
Review and Assessment
Use the same corporation you selected for the assignments in Weeks 3 and 6. You will examine business and corporate-level strategies and their impact on corporate success comparable to the competitive environment.This assignment requires the use of three or more quality resources, including your textbook. Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the chosen corporation:
The corporation’s website.
Public filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page.
Strayer University’s online databases.
The Nexis Uni database.
Other credible sources, such as the corporation’s annual report, will often provide insights that other resources may not include.
It is expected that you will use your textbook as a resource for this assignment.
Step 1: Assess one business-level strategy you believe to be most appropriate for the corporation’s long-term success. Support your position with specific evidence.Step 2: Assess one corporate-level strategy you believe to be most appropriate for the corporation’s long-term success. Support your position with specific evidence.Step 3: Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Include a comparison of the business and corporate-level strategies for both corporations (your selected corporation and the competitor.)
Based on your analysis, conclude which corporation (your selected corporation or its competitor) is most likely to be successful in the long term. Support your determination with at least three pieces of evidence.
Step 4: Determine whether your corporation or its most significant competitor would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets. Support your position with specific evidence.
Using the Internet:
Research acquisitions currently underway and choose one of these acquisitions to discuss.
Based on the firms’ characteristics and experiences and the reasons cited to support the acquisition, do you think it will result in increased strategic competitiveness for the acquiring firm? Why or why not?
Of the problems that affect the success of an acquisition:
Which one do you believe is the most critical in the global economy? Why?
What should firms do to ensure they do not experience such a problem when using an acquisition strategy?
Using the Internet:
Research acquisitions currently underway and choose one of these acquisitions to discuss.
Based on the firms’ characteristics and experiences and the reasons cited to support the acquisition, do you think it will result in increased strategic competitiveness for the acquiring firm? Why or why not?
Of the problems that affect the success of an acquisition:
Which one do you believe is the most critical in the global economy? Why?
What should firms do to ensure they do not experience such a problem when using an acquisition strategy?
Identify a multinational enterprise which has succeeded in offering its product/service in a number of international markets. Drawing on relevant theories and empirical evidence, you need to examine the company’s current global operation