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Each assignment should be done on its own word document. Please read all instructions and follow all guidelines. Information for Ebook is posted also link to CSU Library is posted. If you have any questions please let me know. 

Unit I Project

E-BOOK  Diversity in Organizations, 3rd Edition

https://online.vitalsource.com 

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Instructions

Final Project Information 

Throughout this course, you will complete assignments that lead up to a final project. The project, titled “Consultant to the Client Organization,” is based on a scenario presented below. It may be helpful to refer back to this scenario as you complete each assignment.

Consultant to the Client Organization

Fig Technologies is a global technology solutions firm with offices around the globe. Fig Technologies’ corporate headquarters is just outside Mobile, Alabama. Fig recently acquired several smaller firms in different regions to expand its products and service lines. Assimilating the processes, systems, and human capital has presented a significant challenge. The leadership has chosen to bring in an outside firm to address concerns. You are the consultant from that firm, The Solution Group. 

In each of the assignments in this course, you will be given a scenario to address the concern that is presented. You will be expected to develop assessment, analysis, and research in order to support your proposed solution. Often, you will be asked to present the top three solutions for the concern and support your answer. Use of course materials (textbook and required readings) and external credible materials is strongly encouraged. The scenario is not intended to have a set answer but to develop critical thinking on what can often be very emotional and opinion-based topics. Consider carefully your position and how you will support the proposed solutions. 

Grading will not require simply meeting format standards and word count. It will require substantive content, research, and critical thinking. Each assignment will be a section of a comprehensive report that will be submitted to the Fig Technologies Executive Leadership Council (ELC) in written form in Unit VII. The presentation will be made in Unit VIII. Consider as you work on each assignment how it will fit into the final report that will be sent to the ELC for review. The final report will include recommendations for continued improvement regarding managing diversity in the organization. 

The project serves as an opportunity to stretch your thinking and your organizational skills whether you are a business or human resources major. Working in an organization or being contracted to an organization will require this type of thinking from you as to how you will handle diversity issues within an organization. The project and the course will allow you to build a solid foundation to build upon while also enriching your resource library on the topic for future business world opportunities. 

Click here to download a copy of these instructions for the project scenario. 

Fair Treatment of Ethnicities

The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has authorized The Solution Group, (the company you work for) to assess assimilation of recent transfers into the workplace environment in the newly opened IT division of Fig Technologies in Tyler, Texas. The Tyler IT division was aligned with its counterparts in Qatar and Germany. In an effort to assimilate the newly formed virtual teams, a contingent from each of the three offices went to the other offices for a two-month immersion. The purpose of the short-term exchange was to learn culture, process, and systems. Some hostilities have been reported in all three offices by team members as to difficulties with the visiting team members. The ELC wants more information. 

Your objective is to determine how to assess the assimilation progress of workers to different people and cultures. Is there acceptance? What are possible roadblocks and obstacles (e.g., language, common terminology, customs, and work ethics). As a consultant, how would you complete this assessment and report results? 

Your assignment instructions are as follows: 

1. Introduce the composition of the three 10-member teams in each of the sites. You do not need names, though you should develop an ethnically diverse team of locals and visitors from the other respective worksites and national cultures. Explore the differences in culture, perspective, and experience of your team. Include whether the work culture in these countries is individualistic or collective. This section should be 200 words, approximately half of a page.   
2. Develop a short assessment tool in order to measure assimilation. Tools may include one of the following: a survey (no more than 10 questions), an interview (no more than 10 questions), or natural observation (approximately half of a page, including a copy of the assessment tool questions). The CSU Online Library is a great place to find information about research questions. 
3. Assessment and results: Develop a one and a half-page summary of your assessment results and how you determined these results based on the answers. The results must address the challenges of these three dynamic cultures and perspectives working together in a live, onsite, and remote environment. Also, identify the demographic data and cultures that make up the organization and how these relate to the U.S. population. Show how you will analyze and use this data in your assessment. 
4. Present your three approaches for improving assimilation onsite. Support your approaches. This section should be approximately half of a page. 

Your completed homework assignment should be three to four pages in length, not counting your references page. No title page is required. The report will require you, as the hired consultant, to review briefly the cultures in play in this scenario. What would be challenges these teams might face? Work ethics, religions, systems, cognitive processes, and cultural dynamics are all factors. 

Important: The homework assignments in each unit will build upon each other to create the entire project. The assignments are deliberately general for you (the consultant) to have a little fun as well as possibly apply the homework assignment to a situation you face or are likely to face in your chosen career field. These assignments will also allow you to apply practical knowledge for continuous improvement in your field. 

You are required to use at least two outside sources for this assignment—one of which may be the textbook. You are encouraged to use the CSU Online Library ( CSU Online Library Research Guide ) . All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style. 

Unit II Project

Instructions

Benefits of Organizational Diversity

You are the consultant assigned to study the organizational environment in the Miami, Florida, and the Kansas City, Missouri, offices. Both are service call centers for Fig Technologies. The workforces have a large cross-section of locals from the area, university graduates from nearby institutions, and transfers from other offices within the organization. The offices are facing issues in several areas. 

The two offices have a friendly rivalry with regard to professional sports and local college teams. In the Florida office, there have been concerns raised, including some complaints that the rivalry has gone to extremes. 

Contingent software developers in both offices from Brazil and South Africa have been unable to get people excited about fútbol instead of football. A few individuals in the Kansas City office have begun hanging out together and talking in the break areas about their relationships with same-sex partners, multiple partners, and some encounters of homosexual and heterosexual relationships together. A petition is circulating around the Kansas City office about these types of discussions being banned. 

You are being sent to assess the environment and provide a report of your findings. The report should be in three sections: 

• assessment of findings in Miami, FL; 
• assessment of findings in Kansas City, MO; and 
• recommendation for addressing these findings to the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) for review. 

In your assessment of findings, be sure to evaluate how organizational cultures are perceived and how problem solving and creativity are promoted with organizational diversity. In your recommendations for the ELC, contrast the benefits and disadvantages of diversity, and establish the value of working through these issues to create a dynamic organizational culture. How will you channel this diversity and help create a positive atmosphere? 

Support your recommendation through the use of at least two sources, one of which can be the textbook. Content should be three to four pages in length. Length does not include an assessment tool, if used, though it may be added as an addendum (recommended, not required). All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style. 

Have some fun with the assignment. Use your creative thinking along with your critical thinking to include your perspective of the findings and how to address the issue.

Read the case study titled “Revitalizing a Brand”, located in the online course shell. Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the branding and communication strategies of one (1) health services organization that is similar to the health services organizations mentioned in the case study.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
2. Conduct a Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT) analysis associated with the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
3. Assess the importance of benchmarking in Plaza Home Health Services’ development and implementation of an effective brand strategy (marketing communication, identity, and brand position).
4. Compare branding and communication strategies of a similar health services organization with that of Plaza Home Health Services. Determine whether or not Plaza Home Health Services should apply additional best practices into its current branding and communication strategies. Provide a rationale and support for your response.
5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the marketing research process and market segmentation strategies in the health care industry.
• Analyze business planning based on an analysis of domestic and global operating environments, market dynamics (supply and demand), commercialization, and product-market expansion.
• Explain how branding strategies apply to the health care market for existing and new products.
• Determine the marketing communications strategy used in health care services.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services strategic marketing.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services strategic marketing using proper writing mechanics.

Since this is the final course in your journey through the PPA program, it is worth reflecting on what you are learning and how it connects with work you have done up to this point. In this module, we are examining the Chicago Police Consent Decree as a public policy document. Consider your prior coursework. How has your prior learning shaped your experience in, or provided a foundation for, your perspective on this topic?

Submission: Submit this as a Word document. This entry should be at least 200 words in length. Cite resources and follow APA style guidelines as appropriate. 

                                                                  Discussion 1

 If you were assigned to work a year in one of the following types of teams and had to choose only one, which would it be and why? (a) functional team, (b) cross-functional team, (c) self-managed team, (d) shared-leadership team, and (e) multiteam systems (MTSs)

Guided Response: Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length.  Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond substantively to at least two of your classmates posts. 

                                                                    Discussion 2

 Leaders can improve the chances for a successful change outcome by following Kotter’s eight-step change theory. Pick three of the eight-step change theory components and give an example for each step that explains how leaders can implement it to effect change.

Guided Response: Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length.  Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond substantively to at least two of your classmates posts. 

                                                                      Final Paper

Final Paper

Focus of the Final Paper

For the final paper, you will examine key concepts of leadership in your place of work, or in a social organization to which you may belong that has leadership concepts (Rotary club, athletic team, scout leader, etc). Include the following in your paper:

1. Apply one of the leadership theories from the course text to the organization. Explain how the theory works and include an example.
2. Explain the effect of power and influence that leaders have on followers in the organization. Are the followers receptive? Would you recommend another strategy? Explain your reasoning. If not, why not?
3. Evaluate the role and effectiveness of transformational and transactional leadership in the organization. Support your (claims, points?) with examples (from?).
4. Assess the traits and characteristics of an effective team leader within the organization.
5. Explain how the leadership supports vision, mission, and strategy in the organization.
6. If you were the leader in the organization, what would you change and why?

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

1. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
2. Must include a title page with the following:
   • Title of paper
   • Student’s name
   • Course name and number
   • Instructor’s name
   • Date submitted
3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
6. Must use at least three scholarly sources (other than the text), including a minimum of one from the Ashford Online Library.
7. Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
8. Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

Considering the concepts behind supply chain management, what are your thoughts concerning utilizing “hard metrics” such as production, inventory, location, transport, and information as a model for human resource management processes? After restructuring, what specific challenges or adaptations would be made to better align staff development goals with business results where hard metrics are concerned? Should some inventory process of human capital resources be made available prior to implementing hard metrics?

* Your initial post (approximately 200-250 words) should address each question in the discussion directions and is due by 11:59 PM Central Time on Wednesday.

Must be a substantive response. Please further conversation.

175 words minimum

Include at least 1 reference

APA format

Respond to the following:

Jessica Foster

9:02 AM

Hello Class!

A standard of care is described as the guideline for the appropriate status of care and treatment that should be established within the line of work. Standards of care are developed through the many laws and regulations that are in place, expecting organizations and individuals to perform up to the standards. Organizations can also tighten the standard even more, but it must not deviate out of the baseline standard. For example, state and local areas can establish a more customized standard of care.

These standards protect patients within the care they are receiving. It also ensures that medical practices, treatments, and diagnoses will be delivered in good quality. 

I personally feel as if standards are important. Without a standard, anything is accepted- which simply does not work in the health care industry. This is a way to maintain delivery of quality medical care, acting as a baseline, and it is pretty standardized anywhere in our nation. Some states even go a little further to increase their standard of care to make the care being delivered even better. Which is why there are some good medical facilities, and there are some great ones, and there are those that fail to meet the standard and end up in a mess of malpractice. 

As described in Chapter 3 in the Public Value Scorecard text, the Department of Revenue in Minnesota implemented an invest/divest strategy in an attempt to change the oversight process. The purpose of this strategy was an attempt to critically examine the Department and its mission while directing internal resources to the highest priorities before requesting additional funding. In your initial post:

• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Department.
• Identify the outcomes which the Department and Division wanted to see accomplished and outcomes measured.
• List the pros and cons of implementing this strategy.
• How effective was this strategy? What risks were associated with implementing it?

In your reply posts, compare and contrast your conclusions and the rationale why you agree or reached different conclusions.

Visit the ONET Online portal to select the Human Resources Manager position description and review all the information offered. Develop a detailed outline with the most relevant aspects that you consider the position. 250 words minimum. Use Languages Spanish.

https://www.onetonline.org/

Discussion is to be submitted in 12-point Times New Roman font using APA format with 350 words and a minimum of two sources.  

Please see the attached PowerPoint shell and the instructions for completing the assignment 1 Management Team Briefing on Employment Laws. I need it within the next 24 to 48 hours. Also, see the other attachment for Assignment 2  Employment Law and the Hiring Process  I need it by May 01, 2020. Please pay special attention to the highlighted parts of each assignment. I’m willing to pay $25.00 for each assignment. Total of $50.00. Thanks in advance for all your help.