Using Balance Scorecard to Measure Project Effectiveness

 You are a project manager for a large electronics retailer (e.g., Best  Buy) who will be implementing a new time-keeping system to track hourly  and salaried employees’ time and attendance. You have been asked to  develop a balance scorecard that can be used to manage the effectiveness  of this project. Select an area (e.g., financial, customer, business,  and learning) that you will focus on from a balance scorecard viewpoint,  and explain how you will measure the effectiveness of the project. 

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For narrative-collaborative and solution-focused therapies, primacy is given to clients’ own meaning-making of their family stories. In other words, change comes not from altering dysfunctional patterns of relating, but re-authoring the ways couples and families make meaning of their relationships. Consider the impact of such techniques if your theoretical orientation is more action-oriented in focus. Conversely, imagine the potential difficulty if narrative-collaborative is your chosen theory, but clients are less inclined to talk about their problems and participate in this type of storytelling.

For this Discussion, select one of the theories demonstrated in the media this week (either narrative-collaborative or solution-focused). Consider challenges you might encounter if you attempted to integrate the theory you selected with your lens for couples counseling, including, but not limited to, agency or private practice demands, ethical responsibilities, or theory incompatibility.

By Day 4

Post a brief explanation of one challenge you may encounter if you attempted to integrate the theory you selected with your main theoretical orientation in your future professional practice. Then, explain how you might mitigate this challenge.

Structure

Step 1: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Take a look at the Organization Chart provided by the company.

·  Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that this team has tall structure or flat structure?

Underline your selection:

·  Tall Structure

·  Flat Structure

Step 2: HUMAN RESOURCES

The company would like to improve the culture of its team and the quality of its work. Its leadership has provided you with a Process Chart detailing how it currently applies Human Resources best practices.

 What step of the Human Resources Cycle is missing? Explain why it is important to include this part of the process.

Step 3: You have been asked to help improve the leadership style of the team leader in order to meet the team’s performance goals. The team leader has given you a description of what is most comfortable in terms of leading others.

·  Identify this leader’s style of leadership. Underline your selection:

·  Pacesetting

·  Visionary

·  Affiliative

·  Coaching

·  Coercive

·  Democratic
Explain your reasoning and list two benefits and two drawbacks to the style of leadership you identified as it relates to the performance of the team. 
*Provide advice to the team leader on how to overcome the drawbacks of this leadership style

Step 4. REAL-WORLD APPLICATION

Apply the thinking in Steps 1-3 as if you were a Leadership Consultant hired by the company where you work or for a previous employer.

  • Review the organization chart for your company. Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that your company’s team has a tall structure or flat structure? How does this affect the way your team works? Explain your answer.
  • Consider the work conducted by the Human Resources team at your company. What steps of the Human Resources Cycle do they implement well? What steps of the Human Resources Cycle might be missing from your company or are not implemented as well as they could be? What is the effect of this on you and your team? Explain your answer.
  • Lastly, reflect on the leadership style of either yourself or your supervisor. What leadership style do you have, or what leadership style does your supervisor have? What are the benefits and drawbacks of this style for your team? What might you or your supervisor do to improve leadership? Explain your answer.

Assessment

Discuss three nonverbal differences you might encounter if you are transferred to manage a company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Discuss the importance of understanding cultural differences when negotiating with people in another country. 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Explain how people from different countries who speak the same language may still miscommunicate. 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Explain some of the differences in information systems in other countries and the effect those differences have on business relationships. 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

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“Environmental Awareness and Organizational Sustainability”  Please respond to the following:

  • Use the Internet to research one (1) environmentally aware organization and its actions. Next, examine the selected organization’s relationship between sustainability, ethical decision making, and social responsibility. Provide one (1) example of this organization demonstrating environmental awareness.
  • Determine the major effects that an organization’s environmental awareness has on its sustainability. Recommend one (1) approach that HR can take to use an organization’s environmental awareness in order to attract and retain top talent.