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 This research term project aims to learn about the global corporation with ISO certification and their strategic planning and quality management systems that have occurred in the past 20 years or between 2000 – 2020. Students will work as a team to research, discuss, analyze, and report information to the classmates and course instructor.  The selected global corporation must have ISO certifications within the past 20 years. Your research and writing must include the following topics:  

• 1)Identify the different types of customer for each organization.  Identify customer and employee needs.
• 2)From your study and point of view, explain the current problems of this organization and how they can solve these problems and improve their situation.  Make recommendations to the company on how to be better for its stakeholders.
•   follow the APA style 6th or the latest edition. 
•  Some additional information and details can be added into the Appendix section.  In your writing, students are encouraged to use tools and techniques learned from this class in your analysis and data presentation (e.g. SWOT, Pareto chart, cause-effect diagram, priority matrix, PDCA, DMAIC, why-why, affinity diagram,…) 

Prepare an annotated bibliography of articles collected to date on the topic selected.  

Research Paper Topics:

1. Organizational development

2. Organizational culture

3. Team development

4. Diagnostic models

5. Learning organizations

6. Lewin’s Change Model

7. Neuroscience in leadership

8. Organizational Change

You will be required to prepare an annotated bibliography with some of the articles/books you plan to cite in your final project.   This assignment is worth 10% of your grade. To be eligible for full credit, you are required to have 6-8 entries.

COMPLETE TWO ASSESSMENTS—CHOOSE TWO FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST.

• Daft, R. L. (2018). The leadership experience (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage. 
  • Chapter 6, “Courage and Moral Leadership.” 
    • Leader’s Self-Insight 6.1: Ethical Maturity, page 172.
    • Leader’s Self-Insight 6.2: Your Servant Leadership Orientation, page 180.
    • Leader’s Self-Insight 6.3: Assess Your Moral Courage, page 184

Your leadership assessments this week focus on ethical maturity, servant leadership, and moral courage. Choose one of the assessments you completed this week to discuss. You will also go back to the role discussion you had in Week 1 to connect the assessment to the role you chose there. Once you have identified these two items, answer the following questions in your discussion:

• Describe the role and the assessment you will be discussing.
• How does the assessment you have chosen advise the effectiveness of the role you selected in Week 1?
• How will you use this knowledge to advise your personal leadership? You will find this knowledge helpful as you identify your personal leadership statement for the assignment you will complete for Week 8.

Support your ideas with course concepts and ideas. Be explicit in your use of course material. Use APA style and format for in-text citations and references.

You have recently joined an organization in an entry level HR position. The organization is now subject to union representation. You have been asked by your supervisor to write a brief memo for your HR colleagues that provides an overview of the expectations for managing human resources in a unionized environment. Your memo must address the following:

1. The differences, from the organization’s perspective, in operating in a union-free environment versus a unionized environment
2. The rights of the union, management, and employees
3. The impacts of the union on human resource functions, including
   • Work restructuring  
   • Performance Management
   • Employee Discipline and Job Security
   • Wages and Benefits
   • Health and Safety
4. Any costs the organization may expect based upon these impacts

Use headings to separate the sections of the paper, double-space, and Times New Roman font, cover page, page numbers, and APA format.

Support your answers! In responding, you must use FIVE references including THREE FROM THE COURSE MATERIAL BELOW. They should be from a scholarly journal or credible news source from within the past three years. At least three should be from course materials. 

PICK 3 ARTICLES TO CITE FROM OUT OF CLASSROOM MATERIAL!

 https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-rights/employer-union-rights-and-obligations 

 https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb 

 https://open.lib.umn.edu/humanresourcemanagement/chapter/12-2-collective-bargaining/ 

 https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/bargaining-in-good-faith-with-employees-union-representative 

 https://www.fedsmith.com/2008/07/08/why-do-employees-file-discrimination-complaints-2/ 

(Portion 1 Due TODAY)

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

• Explain why monopoly sellers usually offer discount prices to buyers who are willing to mail in a rebate coupon or endure some other type of inconvenience.
• Discuss why traditional economic models find it difficult to explain why people would pay to attend weight-loss camps that restrict their daily calorie intake.

(Portion 2 due tomorrow) 

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

*** classmate responses attached***

Portion 1= 175 words

Portion 2 = 125 words to each classmate reply (250 Words total) 

Discuss the major principles of the biosocial theories of criminal causation. Then explain the Human Genome Project (HGP). Finally, discuss criticisms that have been waged against the biosocial theories of criminal causation.

What is emotional intelligence (EI)? How can EI help a manager be (more) effective?

In the final project, you will be developing a change plan for the “Alaska Airlines: Navigating Change” case study. In The Heart of Change Field Guide: Tools and Tactics for Leading Change in Your Organization, Cohen explains what is required from the leader and other parts of the organization to incorporate Kotter’s steps successfully as a change intervention.

Review the case study “Alaska Airlines: Navigating Change” and then complete the following: (a) State what actually occurred in the case regarding Kotter’s first two steps of establishing a sense of urgency and creating the guiding team in a change effort and (b) address each of the critical elements for Section II parts A and B in your change effort analysis. Make sure to include your recommendations for implementing Kotter’s steps 1 and 2.

A. Create Urgency

1. Describe a plan to create urgency within the organization and convince stakeholders that this change needs to take place.
2. What processes currently exist for implementing change? How will these processes need to be updated for the proposed change?
3. Describe the strategy you will use to get support from your employees. How will this strategy be effective?

B. Build a Guiding Coalition

1. Identify who should be involved in this guiding coalition. Provide rationale for each choice. Kotter likes 50% leaders and 50% managers with experience, while others prefer the composition to be 33% leaders, 33% managers, and 33% informal leaders, but you can assemble the guiding coalition as you see fit.
2. Determine steps you can take to ensure commitment from those involved. Describe those steps.

Assignment 3b: Analysis on the Threats Defense Argument

Due in Week 10 and worth 100 points

The information you provided in your PowerPoint presentation on Threats to the Global Environment has led to productive debates at the United Nations General Assembly! Hence, they are now asking you to create an additional analysis report to respond to the issues raised in these debates.

Your fourth project as a consultant for the United Nations is to develop a report that addresses the issues raised by some of the member states of the United Nations.

Step I. Consider the Issues

In Assignment 3a, you were asked to create a PowerPoint identifying the four most critical threats out of eight threats provided in the table below. 

Energy sources 

Civil war

Globalization

Poor health of entire populations

Lack of educational opportunities

Cultural taboos 

Inappropriate uses of technology

Climate change

There are four remaining threats that you did not discuss in your PowerPoint. This assignment will focus on two of those four. Here are the specific tasks you will complete:

• Review the remaining four threats that you did not use in Assignment 3a.
• Pick two of the four to focus on in Assignment 3b. 
• Identify the reasons why you think these two threats are less critical than the four threats you chose for your PowerPoint presentation. 

Step II. Prepare Your Report 

The UN has given you the following guidelines. 

Introduction

Briefly introduce the topic of the analysis (about 100-150 words). 

1. State the topic and intent of the paper. 
2. Identify the two threats you will discuss in the paper in the order in which they appear in the paper.

Section I. Threat 1

1. Write an opening statement describing the perception of the threat.
2. Write one page giving three reasons that explain why you saw this threat as less critical than the four you chose for your presentation in Assignment 3a. 
3. Support these reasons with at least three credible sources.

Section II. Threat 2

1. Write an opening statement describing the perception of the threat.
2. Write one page giving three reasons to explain why you saw this threat as less critical than the four you chose for your presentation in Assignment 3a. 
3. Support these reasons with at least three credible sources. 

Conclusion

• Offer a summary (one page or less) of your defense of your choices that the United Nations can use to address their prioritization concerns.

Formatting Requirements

• Your paper may consist of up to four pages (not including the cover or reference pages). 
• Create headings for each section of your paper as follows: 
  • Introduction
  • Threat 1 (include the name of your chosen threat)
  • Threat 2 (include the name of your chosen threat)
  • Conclusion
• Use and cite four to six credible sources in your analysis. You may use the same source for more than one threat as long as you use a minimum of four different sources. A list of potential resources is available at the end of this course guide.
• Make sure your paper contains both in-text citations and a source list, per SWS guidelines; refer to the Strayer Writing Standards (SWS) document for reference. 
• Include a cover page with your name, the date you submitted the paper, and your instructor’s name.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:

• Examine the factors that account for why the growth in the world’s population can negatively affect the global society. 

Who Makes Public Policy?

In Chapter 1 of the Simon Public Policy text, we see that in a governing entity (whether a government, for-profit, or non-profit organization), values are fundamental to the understanding public policy. Since Simon mainly focuses on the U.S. federal or state government as the principal actor in the making of public policy, we should note that the governing bodies of for-profit and non-profit organizations are influenced by the same ideas and practices. In other words, governance by any organization may serve to implement public policy. But, in these different governing bodies, who are the actors actually making public policy? Can we say it is people in a community, officials in program agencies, or governing officials? Can we envision a role for human services professionals? 

Drawing on Internet sources, identify one example of social change initiative promoting progress and one example of degeneration that can occur. Note in your discussion who the principal actors are in developing public policy in response to either progressive social change or degenerative social change.