Category: Business and Management

1. Explain the term delegation and show how it can be done effectively
2. Identify 3 approaches to organization departmentalization and how is it working (use Walmart as an example)
3. Distinguished between a centralized and a decentralized organization
4. Explain what is a “Learning Organization”
5. Identify some ways that “downsizing” has impacted the US economy
6. Show how customers are important to a responsive organization
About 5-12 sentences per question
Need 2 apa sources added in the post as well as sited at the end

Textbook chapters covered:  (pages 92-125)
Chapter 12 Planning & Decision-Making
Chapter 13 Forms of Business Organizations
1.  Every year for the past decade, ESPN has identified The Fighting Okra as one of the top ten college mascots in the United States.  The Fighting Okra product line is manufactured locally, in Mexico, and in the Pacific Rim, with each area producing about the same percentage of merchandise.  An emerging market is occurring in France due to that country’s growing use of okra as a vegetable of choice in French cuisine.  The Fighting Okra beanie baby is the second most popular item in that market, surpassed only by the Teddy Bear.  Sales are projected to increase ten percent annually over the next few years.  Managing the University’s mascots has become a business.  What form of business organization would you recommend that the College of Business and Aviation create?
2.  Write a Mission Statement for Fighting Okra, Inc.  Explain why you wrote what you did.
3.  Write a Vision Statement for Fighting Okra, Inc.  Explain why you wrote what you did.
4.  Conduct a SWOT analysis of Fighting Okra, Inc.
5.  Write a five-year plan to grow this business.  State legal issues that may arise.  Make a recommendation regarding licensing the trademarks.

Tell me about a leader you have experienced – who were they and what was the circumstance (2 marks) Using the concepts in Chapter 12 Tasa, K., & McShane, S. L. (2017). Canadian Organizational Behaviour. McGraw-Hill Education. | Chapter 12 on leadership, tell me what kind of leader you think they were and give specific examples of things they did that emulated that type (those types) of leadership (3 marks). Was their leadership style motivating, why or why not? (3 marks) Please note overall quality of writing will be worth 2 marks. Your submission must be between 800-1000 words, 12 font, submit on URcourses assignment tab. Must be a Word doc.
Do not make up fake stories – this will result in a zero because this is not a creative writing class. This is a reflective assignment designed to show me that you can apply the concepts.
Late assignments will receive a grade of zero.
Please do not cheat…this is a pretty easy assignment and it breaks my heart to see so many students using other students papers (or resorting to AI The use of AI is not permitted in this class. I catch MANY students each semester and am then forced to send the info to the Associate Dean, who then investigates and decides the penalty. For 10% it just is not worth it, so please, just do your own work.
Worth 10% of your final mark.

I have done the title page, table of contents, and vision/mission statement. I did write on paper for company overview and product strategy. I will also send what I have I just need help and I will be done with this class.

How does economic forecasting help you make better decisions about personal spending, investment, or other financial goals you may have?

This case write up should focus on (1) company History, timeline which led to the problem if necessary, and any other fact or figure important for introducing the company; (2) identifying and describing all the issues/problems faced by the company; (3) solutions taken by the company (organization) in the case to solve the above mentioned issues/problems; (4) evaluating the solutions taken by the company in the case and articulating pros/cons of the each solution; (5) offering substantiated recommendations to address the stated problem(s)/opportunity (ies) out of the solutions you found from the case. Your recommendations should effectively integrate both case and current information to offer viable options for the company in the case; (6) conclusion of the case study;

You are considering opening a small doughnut shop in your hometown. Research the process required to make doughnuts. After learning all of the steps that are required in the production of doughnuts, respond to the following:
List and describe all of the steps required to produce doughnuts as well as the equipment required to complete each step.
Create a bill of materials to list those ingredients required to produce doughnuts.
Describe what would be the capacity of the doughnut production operation that you are envisioning. In other words, describe what would define the maximum number of doughnuts that you could produce per hour.
If your doughnut business is incredibly successful (to the point that you are now selling them frozen, via grocery stores nationwide, so that people can prepare them in their own homes), explain how you could effectively increase the capacity of your doughnut operation.What change in process strategy would be required to produce and sell doughnuts in this way?

Your goal is to retire in 20 years.  You plan to start on this path by saving $200 a month.  If you earn 6% annually (using monthly compounding), how much will you have saved in 20 years?
Right before you started saving, you were notified by your auto insurance company that you will receive a discount of $20 a month on your auto premium because of your impeccable driving record.  If you chose to put those savings towards your retirement goal each month, how much would your retirement account be worth if you save $220 a month for 20 years with an annual return of 6% (compounded monthly)?
Please discuss your thoughts on the impact of saving an additional $20 a month over 20 years.

Master’s thesis. Key contstructs: (organizational change in general context and then specifically -> organizational restructuring). employee engagement, purpose of organization(literature must show a purpose that includes sustainability in the mission,vision,strategy), clarity of objectives(objectives related to this purpose). 
In the literature background please describe the constructs organizational change and deepdive specifically into organizational restructuring for the conceptual model.
Employee engagement is already a bit defined in the attached document.
The construct purpose is a bit defined in the attached document. But needs more focus on purpose in the context of sustainability. Like sustainability purpose as a compass for employees being engaged and how this is in the context of organizational restructuring.
Clarity of objectives is a bit defined in the attached document. but needs more elaboration.
The 3 hypothesis in the results attached docuement are the main for the section of hypothesis development. After the study I will do a post-hoc test to check for three-way interaction with SPSS macro. 

PART 1 – more practice related to Module 1:
1. Describe the firm’s competitive strategy using the framework from Module 1.
2.  Describe a possible change the firm could make to their competitive strategy. (You do not need to analyze too much here; I am not looking for a well-developed recommendation, just another way for you to demonstrate you understand what ‘strategic choice’ elements are and thus, what a strategic change (i.e., different choice) would be.
3. No list 3-5 different tactics the firm might choose to perform in order to execute that strategic change from #2. (Review – as needed – the Module 1 lesson on strategic vs. tactical choices).
PART 2 – applying the lessons from Module 2:
Identify and LIST as many strategic assets as you can for the firm ( you should get at least TEN).
List (A) RESOURCES and (B) CAPABILITIES separately, being careful to adequately and correctly describe each such that it is specific, precise, and clearly specifies a resource or a capability.
From the combined list of items in A and B from #1, select the FIVE you believe are probably the most valuable sources of the firm’s competitive advantage. (NOT five resources and five capabilities..but the five resources or capabilities that you believe are most valuable)
Take those five candidates and assess them using the criteria and methods described in the lesson. You may use one or both of the analytical methods. For clarity, however, create and show a table or Excel matrix inserted into your document to visually represent your analysis. This table or worksheet should be embedded within your Word document, not given as an attachment.
Argue, using proper form (review from Module 1’s Strategic Thinking reading) and the data from your analysis, your conclusion about the firm’s top two sources of competitive advantage.