• What is the Incident Command System (ICS)?
• Why was the Incident Command System developed?
• Who uses it?
• Has it been successful?
Category: Supply Chain
The importance of organizational leadership in conjunction with various leadership traits
Presents the importance of organizational leadership in conjunction with various leadership traits, styles, and
characteristics. Enhances the importance of having a vision and aligning strategy, the motivation to lead, social motives in
the workplace, ethics, and the significance of empowerment for effective leadership. Topics include situational leadership,
organizational climate and culture, moral dilemmas, personal integrity, servant leadership, participative management,
human relationships, high-performance teams, diversity, cultural and interpersonal differences, workplace stress,
performance management, and organizational change.
Course Textbook(s)
No physical textbook is required; resources are integrated within the course.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Compare leadership styles.
2. Explain the importance of vision to organizational leadership.
3. Differentiate between effective leaderships and followership.
4. Describe the role of ethics in guiding leadership behavior.
5. Examine the role of leadership in organizational performance.
6. Analyze methods to lead teams effectively.
Theoretical ideals to a “real world” situation
Real World OB: this paper will provide you with an opportunity to integrate the concepts you have learned in the readings and lectures, and to apply these theoretical ideals to a “real world” situation. Pick one of the topics we covered in class (for example, decision making, ethics, teamwork, etc.) that you have encountered in the “real world”. This paper should not be a detailed report of everything that happened your specific situation that you selected. Rather, the paper should focus on issues such as: • Briefly describe what happened in the situation, the key events, and try to frame them in terms that we discussed in class
• What did you learn about yourself in this experience?
• What did you learn about organizational behavior from this situation?
• Do the concepts presented in lectures or readings enrich your understanding of the situation you picked, its outcome, or your own style?
• What would you do the same or differently in the future based on your learnings from this class?
Credit Analysis And Lending Management
Critically evaluate the loan request outlined below and recommend whether you would lend the requested amount. Your answer must indicate the relevant facts of the case; the appropriate concerns with this loan proposal and provide the relevant recommendations.
The Bank of Monash has just received a loan proposal from an established client seeking to buy a local mixed grocery store / convenience food store. John and Joan Jones have been customers with the Bank of Monash for the past seven years. Until two years ago they were the hard-working owners of the local dry cleaners and laundromat. Their business was well run and profitable, mainly servicing the needs of the local university staff and student population. As a result of the skills learned while cleaning graduation gowns, their business had also built up a profitable side line in cleaning wedding gowns and similar formal clothes. After working long hours for the previous five years John and Joan had sold their dry cleaners and took a long-overdue extended holiday. After their long holiday John and Joan have worked as managers in several other cleaning businesses specialising in formal wear. Now feeling refreshed and ready to meet the challenges of running a small business again, John and Joan seeking to borrow from the Bank of Monash to buy another small business serving the needs of the Monash community. They are seeking to borrow $220,000 as a five-year term loan as well as an overdraft (line of credit) of $25,000 The business the John and Joan are seeking to buy is Mario’s Monash Munchies (MMM). MMM has been part of the Monash community since 1958. The business has changed hands a number of times since it was established, the well-recognised name has stayed with the business. MMM is a small grocery and convenience store that provides a range of products to Monash community as well as a limited range of fast food items such as hot pies, coffee and soups. While the prices charged by MMM are a bit higher that the supermarket prices, MMM offers the advantage of being on campus and open for longer hours during semester (MMM has a long-term lease arrangement with the university student union). This has made MMM something of a Monash University institution, particularly with students dropping in after evening class to have a cup of soup to eat when catching the bus or train home. The most recent financial statements and balance sheet from MMM for the last three years together with a forecast for 2024 are provided below.
Social inequality that exists in your community
Imagine you are the leader of your local community action team, and you are tasked with educating and addressing members of your community about a specific social inequality as well as inaccuracies and misinformation about social inequalities in general.
Your goal is to write a proposal that will inspire community members to participate in an action team campaign. This campaign will bring awareness and promote action to combat that inequality in your community.
Identify a social inequality that exists in your community to address in your proposal. Inequalities in economics and work, law and justice, or health and illness are discussed in the textbook.
Examine aspects of cultural diversity that relate to social inequalities. In your examination, look for some of the causes and effects of those inequalities and consider strategies for eliminating them.
Write a 525- to 700-word proposal to send to community members to promote opposition to this social inequality. Your proposal will be distributed to local businesses, universities, religious organizations, and social organizations.
Include the following in your proposal:
A list of community leaders, teachers, students, business employees (at all levels) you would like to be involved in the action team campaign and why you value their contributions
Specific examples of the social inequality along with what you believe are some of the causes for this and how it affects the community
Information that encourages participation in the campaign and demonstrates that the social inequality is truly an issue. Review the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for more information.
A description of how the campaign will make people aware of the inequality and what actions will be taken to fight for the elimination of this inequality
Positive reinforcement
Write a 1-2 page paper addressing the following: Think of a behavior you engage in you would like to change. Describe the behavior then explain how you would use positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement and punishment to reshape that behavior. For the last part of the paper, write a paragraph or two describing how operant conditioning differs from classical conditioning.
Strategic Management Decisions
Chapter 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
What is the vision and mission of this organization?
Explain the stakeholders.
Chapter 2: The External Environment: Opportunities, Threats, Industry Competition, and Competitor Analysis
Explain how your company aligned itself with three external threats from the general environment during the coronavirus pandemic.
Which two of the five forces were most impacted by the pandemic in your company’s industry environment?
Chapter 3: The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages
Which of the value chain elements is the core competency for your company?
Which of the value chain elements should be outsourced?
Chapter 4: Business-Level Strategy (Important!)
Explain your company’s cost leadership.
Explain your company’s differentiation.
Explain your company’s focus.
Chapter 6: Corporate-Level Strategy
Explain your firm’s level of diversification.
Explain one example of your firm’s value-creating diversification.
Business Finance – Operations Management LOGISTICS
Provide ONE 2-3 page paper addressing both of the following topics.
· How does Walmart leverage their value chain and innovation cycles from conceptualization, technical feasibility, design specification, materials sourcing and product marketing, and implementation? How does Walmart gain strength in their distribution, warehousing, and inventory management while taking into consideration the economic impact? (LG450).
· Does Walmart have International carrier operations and/or sourcing strategies for import, export and distribution of materials and finished goods? Where are Walmart’s Facility locations…and why? What are Walmart’s stakeholder roles in supply chain management? (LG460).
Human Resources at Marble Makeovers.
You work in Human Resources at Marble Makeovers. The company had to make temporary changes in work shifts due to ash flow and revenue. You are assigned to create a video that will supplement the COO’s written announcement (see below) that was ent to employees the day before. Create a 2 minute video with no more than 5 slides basing your presentation on the information below. You can paraphrase but do not make up content that takes away from the facts. Although this message is informative, it may also be considered “bad news” as it effects employees on many levels. Your message must be clear but remember your tone is just as important as the message being delivered. Your voice should reflect a tone of empathy, goodwill and encouragement that this is just a temporary change.
Ethical Standards of Contract Management
After reviewing, discuss what you learned about ethics and how it impacts
contracts and contract management.
Also, consider any other recent news that you have heard about in this
area as this continues to be a hot current topic with possible abuses such
as government officials using private jets or using government planes
rather than using commercial airlines.