Marjorie Benton

Inter-Cultural Management

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Essay topic: Ankara, Turkey

Research the culture of the city above.

Write a 2-page essay.

Describe what you need to know about three (3) cultural differences that would help you open a subsidiary, hire staff, and manage it for your corporation to be successful in that country.

Essay should be properly formatted to include a title page and references list, which will not be included in the minimum page count.

Essay should follow APA guidelines for all resources for in-text citations, paraphrasing, and references.bba2551

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Turkish people have a work culture that promotes the practice of hard work. Kahraman (2016) notes that many Turkish people work long hours, which is a challenge to most foreigners who are not used to extended working hours. This culture provides both an advantage and a challenge for subsidiaries investing in the city. On the positive side, managers can quickly implement the Theory Y style of leadership that believes that employees are willing to work and need support to help them accomplish their tasks. This is contrary to Theory X, which believes employees are lazy and need to be pushed to work. On the negative side, the wages will be slightly higher than normal because employees are putting in more work and time. The subsidiary will also need to give preference to Turkish employees when hiring. Cases of xenophobia have been recorded in Turkey as a section of the society feel that it is better to give preference to locals in employment before considering foreigners.

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Inter-Cultural Management

Marjorie Benton

Global Leadership characteristics

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Paper on Global Leadership

Conduct a review of the literature regarding  Global Leadership characteristics. Search for information about which areas are considered critical and relevant for leaders.

Include the following in your review:

  • Introduction
  • Defining what is global leadership
  • Description about the need for addressing global leadership
  • Discussion on the key competencies global leaders would need. Include a minimum of 5 competencies and support your selections with related references (2 or more references)
  • Describe why they are important
  • Choose one of the competencies and discuss its relevancy from a leader’s perspective
  • Suggestions for becoming an effective leader global leader
  • Conclusion

Paper Requirements:

  • This paper must be 5 pages in length (double-spaced), not counting the title and reference pages.
  • It must include a minimum of 5 scholarly references (journal articles, not less reliable-web sources).
  • Using pronouns will be acceptable given the nature of the assignment.
  • Paper should have a reference section.
  • Paper should also have appropriate headings and sub-headings in the body of the paper (please refer to APA manual)
  • Write transition sentences between sections so that the reader knows where you are going and why.
  • Paper must be written according to APA style and be carefully referenced.
  • Appearance, punctuation, grammar, neatness, and spelling count.
  • Remember the basic requirements (title page, page numbers, 12-point font size, double spacing, indent paragraphs, reference page).

Every assignment must include the FCE title page (found in APA/Writing Resources) and a reference list in APA form and style.

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To correctly understand it, a person must understand why leadership is global and how it came to attain such an attribute. To become a global leader, an individual has to fulfill three conditions. The first revolves around the complexity of the tasks they perform. Global leaders typically deal with more complex matters in comparison to national leaders (Mendenhall et al., 2013). They are expected to balance a lot of responsibilities that come with the assumption of duties with a global nature. The second condition encompasses the movement associated with global leaders. As a global leader, a person has to move around often. Such movement allows them to build and maintain relationships with the people they oversee (Mendenhall et al., 2013). Global leaders must also have the ability to immerse themselves seamlessly in other people’s cultures, co-exist, and lead them.  For a leader, connecting with the people they wish to lead requires them to be adaptable and flexible.

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Global Leadership characteristics

Marjorie Benton

Business strategy

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Assume for this assignment that you are being highly considered for a director-level HR management position for a best-in-class national retailer. You are in the final phase of the interview process and must respond to the interview panel regarding specific questions and scenarios that will help them determine if you are a good fit for the new role. The company’s culture is centered on the effective development of strategy, plans, and selection criteria aimed at building and sustaining a competitive and profitable organization. It will be extremely important that you respond with a strategic mindset in order to convince the organization you are able to help them ensure the execution of the business strategy.

Instructions

Write a six- to seven-page paper in which you do the following:

Analyze different types of strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, and focus or niche) and select which one you would deem more appropriate for an “efficiency-minded” retail organization.

Explain your rationale.

How would the selected strategy ultimately affect how HR does its job?

Examine the four approaches to job design or redesign and provide an example (not a definition) of each.

Make a case to the interviewing panel on the importance of effective job design applications in supporting the overall strategic goals of the organization.

Consider challenges and constraints associated with recruiting workers and identify and discuss at least two issues.

What advice would you give to ease your selected issues? Be specific.

List and describe 2–3 candidate selection process ideas that might add value and overall effectiveness to the process. Example: 5 Tips for Designing an Effective Employee Selection System.

Also, what problems should HR and management teams avoid during the selection process?

Use at least five (5) quality academic resources, 1 of which must be the assigned textbook.

Robert Lussier. 2019. Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications, and Skill Development (3rd ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Please also review the two resources listed below:

http://www.businessstudynotes.com/hrm/human-resource-management/recruitment-and-selection-process-in-hrm/

The recruitment process video, (3 minutes 58 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJNcYZvToGY&feature=youtu.be

Internet websites are not to be used in this course unless they come from the course resources list (ATTACHED).

If you list a journal article reference you must add the retrieved from link so we all know where to go to get the reference. That is mandatory for this course.

Also be sure all references are listed properly to include all the required information. It is also helpful that you include page or paragraph numbers with your citations so information can be directly validated.

As we discussed, please follow all of the instructions provided especially the one listed below:

Internet websites are not to be used in this course unless they come from the course resources list (ATTACHED). You may use the website listed below as well as the additional one included in the instructions and the youtube video.

https://blog.psionline.com/talent/bid/147051/5-Tips-for-Designing-an-Effective-Employee-Selection-System

This professor is super strict. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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In discourse appertaining to organizational performance, the term strategy refers to the steps that an organization follows as a means of achieving its goals and objectives (Onday, 2016, p. 31). Strategies are essential for organizational success because they lay out a clear and defined plan that all stakeholders can follow to realize desired outcomes. Research into organizational performance has yielded insightful developments in the general understanding of corporate strategy. There are three main categories of organizational strategy: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus, or niche.  A cost-leadership strategy is an approach whereby organizations take various measures to lower their production and other operational costs (Jyoti et al., 2017, p. 172). Such a strategy means that an organization will prioritize reducing costs as a means of ensuring sustainability, competitiveness,

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Business strategy

Marjorie Benton

Transformational Leader with Vision

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Hi, Please use the title as “Option #1: Transformational Leader with Vision”

Transformation leaders are viewed as change agents in their organization. They develop, build, model and encourage the vision for the organization. Choose a leader and evaluate how he or she supports the elements of vision in his or her organization. You must identify the leader and his or her organization, and provide a URL to the leader’s website and to the organization.

Instructions:

Paper Requirements:

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Jeff is the CEO and founder of Amazon company.  According to forbs wealth, Benzos is the wealthiest person in the world since 2017. His net worth increased by $150 billion in 2018 (Solanki, 2019).  In 2018, his company because the second to attain a $1 trillion market cap in history (Solanki, 2019).   Jeff is recognized due to his legacy of transforming Amazon from a simple store to a multinational eCommerce store.  He established Amazon in 1993, where it began as an online book store at his garage.  Initially, he named his business as Cadabra and later changed it to Amazon after the Amazon River in Brazil. Jeff began Amazon after writing its business plan in New York. At an early stage, Amazon received finance from Jeff’s parents, who provided the capital of $300,000 (Solanki, 2019). Although Jeff was determined to see his Amazon grow, he gave investors a 70 percent chance that it would go bankrupt.   Although the company began as an online bookstore, Jeff remained visionary that it would expand to other products in the future.  He took Amazon to the public after three years with an initial public offering.  According to Wang, Demerouti,  & Le Blanc (2017),

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Transformational Leader with Vision

Marjorie Benton

Cloud environment

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Write a discussion on the following topic – In reference to cloud environment, what is SLA Monitor? In your opinion, why is it important in cloud infrastructure management?

Write a discussion on the following topic – In reference to cloud environment, what is SLA Monitor? In your opinion, why is it important in cloud infrastructure management?

Note: Length of the content should be 350 – 400 words. Please use APA 7 format (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html) for references and in text citations.

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SLA monitor is essential to cloud computing due to several reasons. First, it enables the early detection of downtime in cloud services to facilitate necessary changes. If an echo reply from the ICMP echo requests is not received within the intended timeframe, then it is considered down, and the associated route is removed from the routing table. Early detection can prevent the magnitude of the problem. SLA monitoring allows customers to get the best services as per the vendors’ prescribed standards (Ragmani, El Omri, Abghour, Moussaid & Rida, 2018). Enterprises may not have extensive knowledge of cloud computing, but SLA monitoring allows them to control the services they receive from vendors.

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Cloud environment

Marjorie Benton

Cloud infrastructure management

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Write a discussion on the following topic – In reference to cloud environment, what is SLA Monitor? In your opinion, why is it important in cloud infrastructure management?

Note: Length of the content should be 350 – 400 words. Please use APA 7 format (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html) for references and in text citations.

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SLA monitor is essential to cloud computing due to several reasons. First, it enables the early detection of downtime in cloud services to facilitate necessary changes. If an echo reply from the ICMP echo requests is not received within the intended timeframe, then it is considered down, and the associated route is removed from the routing table. Early detection can prevent the magnitude of the problem. SLA monitoring allows customers to get the best services as per the vendors’ prescribed standards (Ragmani, El Omri, Abghour, Moussaid & Rida, 2018). Enterprises may not have extensive knowledge of cloud computing,

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Cloud infrastructure management

Marjorie Benton

Autonomy and micromanagement.

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Management should be more about enabling employees to be successful than overseeing their every move. This is especially true in early childhood programs where the teachers may function autonomously in some respects but are beholden to the established procedures of the larger organization. When more direct supervision is warranted, managers must attempt to strike a balance that falls somewhere between complete autonomy and micromanagement.

Consider both the positive and negative aspects of autonomy in the workplace. What might a manager need to do to be sure employees are fulfilling their obligations while maintaining a comfortable level of autonomy?

Submit a 2- to 3-page response that includes the following:

  • What are the risks and benefits of allowing team members to be autonomous? When is autonomy appropriate, and when is it appropriate to adhere to established protocols?
  • What procedures would need to be put in place to ensure that assignments are still being completed?
  • What happens when your employees are educated in a Type X environment? As a manager, how can you help them succeed in a Type I environment? Be specific.

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Employee autonomy is appropriate for employers who have garnered sufficient expertise or experience in a specified field that they can be trusted to exercise proper judgment (Baird et al., 2018). The approach also suffices for the allocation of roles within teams where the top management has already determined the contribution expected from each group. In such instances, micromanagement is unnecessary because the team members know their strengths and allocate people’s roles. However, clear protocols should be established in circumstances where the persons discharging certain functions have limited experience (Baird et al., 2018). Similarly, the organization should establish clear guidelines for sensitive tasks concerning people’s safety and consumers’ concerns.

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Autonomy and micromanagement.

Marjorie Benton

Debate Discussion

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The eighth Debate Discussion assignment in this class relates to the HR Ethics box in Chapter 11 (p. 421):

HR Ethics: High-Tech Firms Collude to Limit Employee Pay

Several high-tech firms in Silicon Valley violated antitrust laws by agreeing that they would not try to hire each other’s employees. This limited employees’ job options and income.

  1. How should companies address the possibility of bidding wars when trying to retain top talent? How should HR professionals or general managers help address this issue?
  2. What compensation strategies would enable companies to attract and retain good employees without having to worry about bidding wars? How should the needs of employees be addressed in these strategies?

Your assignment is to 1) read the information in the box content, 2) answer these questions, 3) present/defend your ideas with thoughtful logic or relevant evidence, and 4) respond to at least two other students’ posts with other thoughtful analyses. Your posts should be comprehensive (multiple lengthy paragraphs), as well as concise and detailed.

Grades are assigned using a rubric with the following dimensions: 1) logic/support, 2) clarity/conciseness, 3) depth, 4) length, 5) contains multiple postings/responses.

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Participation as an evaluation metric bears several cons. It creates communication complexities which can make decision making slow and bureaucratic. Each employee wishes to give their opinion so that they tick the box in their evaluation reports. Participation can overlook some employees’ strengths who are good at goal achievement than communication (Spisakova, 2019). It is also hard to maintain a clear employee-manager boundary as subordinates tend to feel entitled to being heard and may try to take on responsibilities reserved for managers.

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Debate Discussion

Marjorie Benton

Interview with a retail manger

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Manager is a management, isn’t it? Describe the similarities and unique differences between being a manager in general and being a retail manager. As a part of this, conduct a phone or video interview with a retail manger and find out some of the following:

  1. Who is responsible for employee scheduling?
  2. How far in advance is the schedule made?
  3. How are peak periods (hours, days, or seasons) planned for?
  4. What happens when an employee calls in sick at the last minute?
  5. How are associates trained? What are the criteria for evaluation?
  6. How often are they evaluated?
  7. If there is no commission system, are any incentive programs offered? Give an example of a specific program or project used by the store to boost employee morale and productivity.
  8. What are the procedures for approaching a suspected shoplifters?
  9. What roles do sales associates and executives play in the security programs?
  10. What is this retailer doing well in terms of security and loss prevention, and in which areas should it improve its policies?

Write at least a 1500 word document that presents your findings.

Your research must also include at least 3 additional academic (e.g., journal articles) resources in addition to your textbook to support your conclusions.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines:

Title Page

Introduction and Conclusion

Main Headings for each section of the Minor Project

APA Citations: (all direct quotes must include the page or paragraph numbers)

References

  • Retailing Management, (Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Irwin, 9th edition, 2014), Michael Levy and Barton Weitz, ISBN: 9780077512378
  • APA 6th Edition Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (2009), American Psychological Association, ISBN 978-1-4338-0561-5. Available through http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4200066.aspx

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scheduling was the retail manager’s function in collaboration with the human resources department. The retail manager works with other mid-level supervisors to create workable schedules for each department in the store. Scheduling is often a complex task at Walmart since there are many employees, shifts, and departments that must coordinate smoothly. The HR department is involved in only the complicated matter of scheduling, such as high absenteeism that causes employee shortages in the store. HR can step in to manage the employees, including meetings with those recording many cases of absenteeism.

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Interview with a retail manger

Marjorie Benton

Interview with a retail manger

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Manager is a management, isn’t it? Describe the similarities and unique differences between being a manager in general and being a retail manager. As a part of this, conduct a phone or video interview with a retail manger and find out some of the following:

  1. Who is responsible for employee scheduling?
  2. How far in advance is the schedule made?
  3. How are peak periods (hours, days, or seasons) planned for?
  4. What happens when an employee calls in sick at the last minute?
  5. How are associates trained? What are the criteria for evaluation?
  6. How often are they evaluated?
  7. If there is no commission system, are any incentive programs offered? Give an example of a specific program or project used by the store to boost employee morale and productivity.
  8. What are the procedures for approaching a suspected shoplifters?
  9. What roles do sales associates and executives play in the security programs?
  10. What is this retailer doing well in terms of security and loss prevention, and in which areas should it improve its policies?

Write at least a 1500 word document that presents your findings.

Your research must also include at least 3 additional academic (e.g., journal articles) resources in addition to your textbook to support your conclusions.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines:

Title Page

Introduction and Conclusion

Main Headings for each section of the Minor Project

APA Citations: (all direct quotes must include the page or paragraph numbers)

References

  • Retailing Management, (Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Irwin, 9th edition, 2014), Michael Levy and Barton Weitz, ISBN: 9780077512378
  • APA 6th Edition Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (2009), American Psychological Association, ISBN 978-1-4338-0561-5. Available through http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4200066.aspx

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The schedule is made at least two weeks in advance. However, the time frame varies for every peak, low and regular season. Peak and low season schedules are made months in advance for better planning, while regular-season schedules require less time to prepare. Both employees and managers provide input in the scheduling. According to Hwang and Park (2016), employees are legally allowed to propose workable schedules without repercussions. At Walmart, employees are encouraged to provide feedback on their preferred working hours, shifts, and programs. Retail managers then use these views to develop schedules that will not frustrate their employees. Those desiring to work longer hours are given more shifts while those who want a better work-life balance are given fewer working hours to pursue other interests.

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Interview with a retail manger