Marjorie Benton

American Internet Technology company

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Scenario

An American Internet Technology company has merged with a Canadian Social Media company. Because of this merger, performance is not as optimum as the executives would have hoped; morale is low, and stress is up. The new company has decided to hire you as an Organizational Development consultant. They have tasked you with finding out the issues and what they should do next to get back on track.

Instructions

Now that you have secured your role as an Organizational Development consultant, you are now tasked with determining a diagnostic and intervention process. You will need to demonstrate to management how using the chosen diagnostic process will be used in the new company to help increase the efficiency of the organization.

The following questions should be included in your business, professional report:

  1. Describe how you select a diagnostic process to use for this organizational development cultural change.
  2. Given the current situation, what are some of the process interventions you recommend for the newly merged company to ensure effective work teams?
  3. How would you collect the data needed for the organizational development program?
  4. Discuss some organizational development strategies that, as the consultant, you would use to create the necessary change.

Requirements: 3-4 pages not including cover and reference page

Answer preview

Given the current situation in the new company, the recommended intervention would be to change some of the processes. This method is used in the merged company to ensure employees from both companies jointly optimize the technical and social subsystems and work together to meet the minimal social and organizational requirements required for the organization (Pfeil, Chatlani, LaViola Jr, & Wisniewski, 2021). For such change, I would recommend using a dynamic system development method that incorporates face-to-face user involvement that enhances development cycles that result in prototypical evolutionary solutions. The Canadian and American workers should come together to create a development team, while the merged company must meet user requirements needed at the organizational level.

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American Internet Technology company

Marjorie Benton

Employee Motivation

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Identify a company that struggles with employee motivation. Make your choice based on evidence from resources you find.

To be effective, a company must learn to motivate its employees to efficiently and effectively meet the goals of the organization. Prior to starting this case study, read Chapter 6 in your text, the article Person-organization Fit, Family Supportive Organization Perceptions, and Self-efficacy Affect Work-life Balance (Links to an external site.), watch the required videos, The puzzle of motivation (Links to an external site.)and What makes us feel good about our work? (Links to an external site.), review the Writing a Case Study Analysis (Links to an external site.) resource from the Writing Center, and review the weekly Instructor Guidance and any supporting information in the announcements.The Motivation Case Study:

  • Identify a company that struggles with employee motivation. Make your choice based on evidence from resources you find. Be sure to document these resources so you can include as citations and references in your paper. The company may be currently active or no longer operating.
    • Not sure how to start? Try googling “Worst companies to work for” or “companies with poor motivation.” Numerous sites list companies that are struggling in differing areas. Once you identify the company you want to research, google news articles or other sites that include information about the company and the situations affecting motivation/challenges.
  • Research the company and the associated motivational challenges.
  • Identify three to five motivational challenges within the company that you discovered through your research. Support this information with citations for the sources that provided you the information about the organization.
  • Discuss potential rationales for why the company is experiencing these issues. Support your assertions with credible sources.
  • Identify at least three content theories and/or process theories of motivation, discussed in this week’s text chapters that could be applicable to determining strategies/solutions. (You are to identify the theories that you think could be applied to improve the organization’s situation.) Consider using headings in your paper to organize this information.
    • Note that extrinsic and intrinsic motivation are types of motivation and should not be presented as theories, but as variables within a theory.
  • Discuss Possible Solutions/Changes Needed
    • Identify at least two strategies that could be applied to improve motivation, based on your reading and research.

The Motivation Case Study paper

Requirements: 4 to 5 pages

Answer preview

The company’s employees had shares within the company. The company had made a contract agreement with the employees that they would buy shares on the condition that the employee would not be a member of any labor unions as it would impact the organization’s operations. The company, to date, refuses to recognize the labor unions hence impacting the employees as they are limited in voicing issues that directly impact them. The airline also has bad working conditions for its employees; for example, the cabin crew must work six one-way flights per day, including weekends, and in some circumstances, seven days in a row without a break (Efthymiou et al., 2021). Employees are anxious, weary, and unsatisfied due to these working conditions. High levels of stress are linked to bad results for employees, including lower productivity and a higher chance of developing health problems. Employee turnover is significant due to the company’s bad working conditions.

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Employee Motivation

Marjorie Benton

Purposes of personal growth

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Personality assessments are widely used in the workplace for purposes of personal growth, career guidance, and personnel selection. Analyze the use of personality assessments in the workplace and discuss the types of concerns practitioners have about their use. In what types of circumstances would you recommend that an organization administer a personality assessment such as the MBTI assessment? In what types of circumstances would you not recommend the use of a personality assessment? Explain your answer, referencing course readings and other academic sources.

Requirements: 300 words

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People are classified into one of 16 types according to the MBTI. The MBTI aims to help people better understand themselves, including their likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, potential job options, and interpersonal compatibility. When forming teams in an organization, the MBTI can determine how each team member prefers to work and with whom they will cooperate most effectively. Managers can utilize MBTI data to ensure that personality types don’t clash and that strengths and weaknesses complement one another when putting together a team.

Although personality assessments have proven to be effective in determining the personalities of an individual and whether they meet and fit into the requirements of an organization, they are however not applicable in all situations. Personality traits overemphasize given characters while undermining and omitting other factors, hence providing a distorted version of an individual (U.S. Department of Labor, n.d.). Hence, personality assessments should not be used solely for hiring practices. During hiring, different aspects of an individual are essential. This includes the skills, abilities, and knowledge of an individual.

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Purposes of personal growth

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Organizational change

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Reflect on an organizational change effort in the past that you are familiar with (this can be at an organization you researched or worked with) that experienced significant resistance from employees, and answer the following questions:

  1. Why did employees resist the change?
  2. What were the problematic issues that were not being effectively addressed, from the employees’ point of view?
  3. Were the underlying concerns legitimate?
  4. What could the leader have done to address the situation or prevent the concern from arising?
  5. How would this have changed the outcomes of the change effort?

Respond to at least two of your peers with any questions you have about their experience of witnessing resistance to change in organizational change efforts, and compare their answers to your own understanding of problems of resistance in organizational change efforts.

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED FOR PEER RESPONSES

Requirements: 1 paragraph each question – for peers just 1 paragraph

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Yes, the underlying concerns were legitimate. As much as the change is hard, employees always want the best for the organization. However, whenever they feel like their leader is not up for the task, they feel like the organization will fail, resulting in losing their jobs. The employees were not experienced enough for the software company’s changes, so they needed some training for the new roles (Tanner, 2019). Not receiving the training puts a strain on their job security which is realistic for every employee. Employees are part of the organization, and they always want to feel appreciated. Not including them in change management plans will demoralize them. Their concerns of not feeling appreciated were legitimate. They lost their faith in the company and any change was not welcomed.

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Enterprise risk management

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Part 1

Describe the internal control principle of “Risk Assessment” as presented in COSO’s 2013 Framework, SOX 2002 Sections 404 & 302, and PCAOB’s AS 5.

Compare the internal control effectiveness of the Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by COSO, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Section 404 “Internal Control over Financial Reporting Requirements”, and PCAOB’s AS 5 “an Audit of Internal Control over Financial Reporting that is integrating with an Audit of Financial Statements.”

Part 2

Read the article “Sarbanes-Oxley and Public Reporting on Internal Control: Hasty Reaction or Delayed Action?”. Do you agree with the authors that the COSO 1992 Framework and SOX 2002 Section 404 succeeded in changing the ways companies thought of internal controls over risk assessment? Why or why not?

Requirements: 2 Pages

Please separate the two parts.1PAGE EACH

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The COSO, SOX Section 404, and PCAOB’s AS 5 have demonstrated equal effectiveness in providing internal control structure and procedures needed for financial reporting. According to Lawson et al. (2017), the SOX law, in general, emphasizes organizations use the COSO framework for conducting internal controls to achieve the required standards for risk assessments and auditing. This also aligns with the PCAOB’s AS 5, whereby the standardized procedure helps identify the highest risks in financial information. However, a significant difference is that the COSO offers a framework for the organizational managers to use when creating their control environment (Lawson et al., 2017). On the other hand, the SOX 404, which acts as a compliance program, requires managers to sign off on the designed internal controls based on their financial reporting (Leech, 2003). Further, the PCAOB’s AS 5, compared to the COSO, SOX Section 404, acts as a prompt warning system for spotting the highest risks in financial reports (Goelzer, 2008).

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Enterprise risk management

Marjorie Benton

Human resource management systems

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All Those Letters!

What are the differences among HRMS, HRIS and HCM? What are the similarities? What are the strengths or weaknesses of each with regard to providing HR with data to support evidence-based decision making? What sort of questions would you have for a vendor?

Measurements

Levenson, A. R. (2014). Employee surveys that work: Improving design, use, and organizational impact. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

These chapters provide an overview of providing measurements to process.

Chapter 4, “Good Survey Practices: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel,” pages 31–38.

Chapter 5, “Anonymity vs Insights: Confidentiality and Organizational Data Matching,” pages 39–44.

Human Resource Information System (HRIS)

Leonard, K., & Seidel, M. (2019). Advantages and disadvantages of human resource information system. Retrieved from https://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadva…

The reading covers information and analysis on HRIS.

Foxall, D. (2019). HRMS vs HRIS vs HCM: What’s the difference? Retrieved from https://www.hrmsworld.com/hrms-vs-hris-vs-hcm.html

Requirements: 150

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On the other hand, the HCM provides data to promote workforce initiatives such as talent optimization strategies and attractive compensation packages for workforce management. Further, the HRIS organizes and manages employee-related data, including their contact, salary data, enrollment, and benefits information (Leonard & Seidel, 2019). A notable strength of the HRIS is it promotes accurate record archiving and reporting. HCMs have complex talent management capabilities, enhancing their performance in analyzing critical HR processes. Further, the HRMS has tracking features for employees’ schedules and project times. When interacting with a vendor, it would be essential to ask, what HR needs would you want to solve? Generally, this would determine the kind of system to recommend.

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Human resource management systems

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Seafood supply chain management Blockchain

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im working on a research paper regarding blockchain supply chain seafood management Application. and i want to add a blockchain and hyper ledger background/ methodology part which includes what is blockchain and its component/ architecture , what is hyper ledger fabric , fabric architecture, transaction flow, hyper ledger fabric components. and what i need for my project

if you can relate it to my topic as much as possible. “seafood supply chain management Blockchain application”.

Requirements: 2500 – 3000   |

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Technological advancements are inherently disruptive and transformational. This is because most of them not only challenge the status quo but also make it easier and possible for people to do or achieve things they previously perceived as impossible. One technology that fits this description is blockchain technology. According to Zheng et al. (2017), when blockchain came into existence, many people perceived it as the next evolution of the internet. Furthermore, the Economist even lauded the technology as the trust machine. Blockchain denotes an incorruptible and distributed ledger containing numerous transactions that enable users to effectively record, transact, and measure value (Zheng et al., 2017). It can be defined as technology that enhances transparency and trust within a system by accurately storing all transactions within the system in a decentralized way. Zheng et al. (2017) point out that any person with access to the system can look at the transactions and verify whether they are accurate. Furthermore, the fact that the technology uses gametheoretic and cryptographic mechanisms enhances the consistency and immutability of data.

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Seafood supply chain management Blockchain

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Multiple tactics leaders

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Leadership is a complex process that requires leaders to critically appraise the circumstances in which they find themselves to best determine how to lead and influence those around them. There are multiple tactics leaders can employ in any given circumstance to influence a situation or their followers. Compare two leaders you have dealt with in the past. Discuss the different tactics these leaders employed to influence situations or people. Provide examples of when these tactics were successful and when they were not successful. As a leader, describe how you can critically appraise situations to make sure you select appropriate tactics for influencing a given situation.

Leadership: Theory and Practice

Northouse, P. G. (2019). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN-13: 9781506362311

Requirements: 200 words

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Leader B used an authoritative leadership style. Authoritative leadership entails a management style where the leader completely controls the situation. The leader was actively involved in the processes and did oversee all the steps to ensure the organizational goals and objectives were achieved. The leader used assertiveness to influence the team to take the various steps necessary to achieve the organization’s goals. However, it did not work in areas where the team was required to manage their tasks. Leader B employs the strategy of rational persuasion, in which logical arguments are presented to persuade others to achieve the goals. The individuals often felt micromanaged, affecting the morale of the employees. To make the best-informed decisions, it is essential to critically appraise the situation. The ideal approach is to rationally assess the circumstance and employ an appropriate strategy.

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Multiple tactics leaders

Marjorie Benton

Role and value of cultural and social intelligence

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Scenario

Your company is planning on expanding its offices overseas. In anticipation of your management leading a more culturally diverse team, you have been asked to create a cultural report. Within the report, you will need to include a table or chart that lists Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and their connection to diversity management and explain the role and value of cultural and social intelligence.

Instructions

First, create a table or chart to include in the cultural report that:

Next, develop a cultural report that:

  • Defines the concepts of cultural and social intelligence with details on similarities and differences. How are they related, and what sets them apart?
  • Discusses the impact that social intelligence can have on success in the workplace. How will social intelligence be important to your company as they expand their offices overseas?
  • Be sure the cultural report displays proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and credible sources cited in APA format.

Requirements: 4 pages not including cover and reference page

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The best strategy for the manager when they join a high-power country such as China, the Arab world, and France the following strategies are necessary:

o   Ensure top leadership is powerful and with great competence

o   Maximize the leader’s decision-making capabilities etc.

o   Recognize leaders’ power to foster influence (Sent, & Kroese, 2020).

The best strategy for the manager when they join a low power country such as the United Kingdom or Canada include:

Ø  Emphasize performance development efforts, including training.

Ø  Ensure there is significant collaboration.

Ø  Fosters strong works teams and delegates roles to the team leaders.

Ensure consultations with the employees at all levels.

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Role and value of cultural and social intelligence

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Strained Research

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Assessment Description

Review “Case 3.1: A Strained Research Team,” located in Chapter 3 of the textbook, Leadership: Theory and Practice. Post a 250-300 word response to the questions located at the end of the case. In your response, be sure to address the strengths and weaknesses of the three-skill approach in this situation.

Requirements: 200 words

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Dr. Wood can be effective once his human skills improve to better relationships with team members and motivate them to perform their functions. Instead of drawing attention to himself as competent, he should inspire the rest to improve performance. Dr. Wood has effectively worked with small groups (Northouse, 2021). There are major barriers to the successful completion of the project, and hence teamwork and individual commitment are necessary. Effective leadership is necessary to relieve the stress and anxieties caused by negative experiences.

Question 3

Dr. Wood has demonstrated excellent performance in problem-solving skills and knowledge. Despite the time and budget constraints, he has managed to establish effective solutions to meet the project deliverables (Northouse, 2021). For instance, he has sourced funds to meet the costs, but there is a concern about the incidence being used to leverage personal credit.

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Strained Research