Body of knowledge matrix important guidelines:

 

• Each knowledge area is associated with logistics and supply chain management. For example, sustainability can have different meanings in different areas of research, whereas logistics network or supply chain refers to environmental impact, waste costs, etc. (for an artifact on inventory management, the student can insert X in the operational and/ or tactical columns and should submit a document/ artifact to support that.

• Minimum of 10 artifacts and 15 summaries (each summary associated with a unique cell in the body of knowledge matrix)

• An artifact can be assigned to more one knowledge as long as it can be justify: a separate summary for each knowledge area association will be required. For example, an artifact on collaborative supply chains that also includes discussion on inventory management can be assigned to both collaborative supply chain management and inventory management.

• An artifact should be directly related to the knowledge area. For example, an artifact on collaborative supply chains, which may have a mention of inventory management but doesn’t include detailed discussion on inventory management, is not applicable for inventory management.

 

Each artifact summary utilizes the following grading criteria:

 

• Quality and depth of content

• Organization of the report

• Overall format, i.e., typed, use of page numbers, title page, table of contents, appropriate labels on figures and tables, etc.

• Correct grammar and evidence of proofing, i.e., no spelling errors.

• Variety and documentation of references used. Format for citations and references must follow APA guidelines.

 

One of the most fundamental aspects of group decision making is the ability to discuss important issues related to the decision. Discussion helps identify factual errors or errors in judgment, builds a shared understanding, and facilitates coordination among the group. When group members share the perception that their group wants to improve and learn, they are more likely to discuss important issues.

To enhance your understanding of group decision-making techniques, read several peer-reviewed articles on decision-making techniques. Describe three or four techniques and compare them. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each, and cite the sources you identified.

1. TCO 7.  When the civil rights and women’s movements were at their height in the 1970s, one often saw images on television of large groups of people marching with their arms linked together, chanting a movement slogan over and over. These behaviors set the stage for which one of the following? (Points : 10)     

     
      
      
      

 

 

      
      
      

With respect to the elements of persuasion, write one or two paragraphs on EACH of the following two factors: who is communicating AND channels of communication. Explicitly explain why and how these factors apply to the presidential case above.

      

Question 2. A huge campus-wide flap over the party followed. University administration, alarmed about race relations in a student population that is overwhelmingly white, condemned the party as an offensive parody of racial stereotypes of a certain segment of the area population. The 20 or so students who planned the party said it innocently had a 1990s theme. University officials held open meetings with minority students and staff in an effort to figure out ways to create programs that would avoid similar incidents in the future. Analyze the facts of this scenario critically using the following approach: a. explicitly use three (3) concepts from the textbook in your analysis; b. identify and very briefly describe each concept you use and link it to specific evidence from the scenario; c. within your group of three course concepts include at least one (1) concept from Chapter 8 (Group Influences) and at least one (1) concept from Chapter 9 (Prejudice: Disliking Others) in your analysis.

     

 

 

Description

 

In this assignment, you will define and apply various personality theories to your personal life experiences. The assignment consists of two parts. Be sure to complete both parts.

 

Background

 

In psychology, personality theorists have sought to understand the traits and other factors that determine our very nature. Some of these factors are innate, and others seem to be shaped by environmental forces. Each theory takes a different approach to understanding personality. Familiarity with theories of personality will help you to understand and organize behaviors that you observe in others and yourself.

 

Instructions

 

Part I: Apply each of the four personality theories to your personal life experience by answering the following questions.

 

• The Five Factor Model of Personality: Explain where you fall on each of the five dimensions or traits in this theory. Discuss whether you feel you were “born with” this trait or if you feel this trait developed through experiences in your environment (such as family experiences or other learning experiences). Based on your experience, explain whether personality traits are primarily biological (innate) or environmental (learned) (Nature vs. Nurture).

 

• Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory: Describe how social learning theory played an influence in your own personality development. Identify whose behavior you modeled and provide specific details to describe the ways in which their behavior influenced you.

 

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: Identify which stage of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs you are currently experiencing. Explain which level you hope to experience in the future.

 

• Freudian Theory of Personality Structure: Regarding your own personality functioning, provide an example of how your own Id, Ego, and Superego might all work together to help you meet your needs and have a successful life. Many contemporary psychologists disagree with Freud, and do not believe that the unconscious mind plays an important role in every day behavior. Based on your readings in psychology, as well as your own experiences, do you believe that the unconscious mind is important in everyday life? Why or why not?

 

Your response should be a 3–4-page Microsoft Word document written in a clear, concise, and organized manner. Be sure to demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. For help citing sources, click on Academic Resources under Course Home.

 

Part II: Psychological Autobiography

 

In this course, you have applied several theories and concepts from psychology to your own life. In this part, you will re-write the Autobiography submitted in Module 1 using the material you explored throughout the course.

 

1. In your Psychological Autobiography, describe your life in a way that incorporates 12–15 terms and concepts you learned in this class. You do not need to analyze your struggles in this assignment, or disclose sensitive material. The purpose of the assignment is to simply apply the concepts we explored throughout the course to your own life history in an everyday manner.

 

1. In your Psychological Autobiography, you may use any terms, research, concepts, or theories covered in class, however, you must use terms and ideas from at least five of the following theorists or perspectives:

 

• Piaget
• Erikson
• Kohlberg
• Eysenck
• Bandura
• Maslow
• Freud

 

There is room for creativity in this assignment! What is most important is that you show the instructor how much you have learned in this course by applying several theories, terms, or concepts to your life story. At a minimum, you should use information from your lectures and readings in this portion of the paper. This portion of the LASA assignment should be 2–3 pages in length. Here are some suggestions for developing your Psychological Autobiography:

 

• Write your life history according to one or more of the developmental stage theories.
• Apply key concepts to your early development.
• Explain how the concepts apply to your current life situation.

Assignment Components
Explain where you fall on each dimension or trait. Discuss whether you feel you were “born with” this trait or if you feel this trait developed through experiences in your environment. Based on your experience, explain whether personality traits primarily biological or environmental.	48
Describe how social learning theory played an influence in your own personality development. Identify whose behavior you modeled and provide specific details to describe the ways in which their behavior influenced you.	48
Identify which stage of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs you are currently experiencing. Explain which level you hope to experience in the future.	32
Provide an example of how your own Id, Ego, and Superego might all work together to help you meet your needs and have a successful life. Based on your readings in psychology, as well as your own experiences, do you believe that the unconscious mind is important in everyday life? Why or why not?	44
Describe your life in a way that incorporates 12–15 terms and concepts you learned in this class.	52
Academic Writing
Organization (12) Usage and Mechanics (12) APA Elements (24) Style (8)

nd answer the following questions.

Case Study Questions

1. Visit the website for Microsoft Dynamics CRM athttp://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/crm.aspx  to learn more about this software’s features and capabilities.  What features of this software would be especially attractive to a company like Evolution Homecare?
2. Why do you think Evolution chose Microsoft and its CRM vendors?
3. What benefits did Evolution realize by using the CRM software?  How did the system improve decision making and operations?
4. If you were a patient, what benefits might you receive from this system?

Remember to provide a brief introduction to the case and a conclusion at the end of our paper.  Be sure to incorporate course concepts in to your answers by using quotations or references from our text; you must also incorporate two external references into your work.  Conduct a library search for pertinent, quality articles that support your ideas and contentions.  Be sure to avoid using Internet sites like Wikipedia for sources, as these are not scholarly references.

Your paper should be 2-3 pages long and should contain a cover page, a Reference List, and in-text citations, and it should adhere to APA Stylehttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/  formatting.  Submit your paper in WORD or .rtf format to the proper link in the Week 03 Assignments module.

Remember to provide a brief introduction mnmn

 

That my outline for the paper.

 

 

Week6: Ford Motor Company Motivation, Leadership & Decision Making

 

Introduction

 

I. Ford Motor Company

 

 1. History 2. Founders of Ford Motor Company

 

   3. Goals of Company

 

 II. Decision Making

 

 1. Management

 

 2. Make sure that you go to CEO to help change the culture so that “important decisions within the company.

 

3. Make sure your employees know the quality and the value

 

 III. Leadership

 

1. The vision to become the world’s leading Consumer Company.

 

 2. Think to be winners

 

 3. Everyone needs to have a good attitude come to work.

 

 4. Take proud in your work and make sure you know what the value of your

 

IV. Motivation

 

 1. Make sure you have provide better communication for the worker and the manger

 

 2.   Management practices intrinsic motivation with employees

 

3. The Employees are value, listened to and involved the

 

V.    Conclusion Reerence:Ann, J. (2014). How the Ford Motor Co. invented the Squid. IEEE Spectrum, 23-29.

 

 Holton, L. (2014). Charles O’Reilly: Fining a corporate culture that drives growth. Standard  Business Graduate School. Retrieved from http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/charles%E2%80%99reilly-finding-corporate-culture-drives-growth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your course project, due this week, is an 8- to 10-page paper on an

organizational behavior problem or opportunity in one of the companies highlighted in the text. Your task is to research and present the organization you choose, identify the organizational behavior problem or opportunity, and recommend a course of action to address the opportunity or problem.

Companies highlighted in the textbook are:

• Netflix
• Ford Motor Company
• Oracle Corporation
• Groupon
• Dyson
• Quiktrip

Topics you might consider include:

• Motivation
• Learning and performance management
• Stress and well-being at work
• Interpersonal processes and behavior
• Work teams and group dynamics
• Decision making
• Power and political behavior
• Leadership
• Conflict and negotiation
• Job design
• Organizational culture
• And so on

I need a good grafe on this research paper

Imagine that you are visiting a friend

 

who lives on the 20th floor of an old,

 

downtown apartment building. It’s the

 

middle of the night when you are suddenly

 

awakened from a deep sleep by

 

the sound of screams and the choking

 

smell of smoke. You reach over to the

 

nightstand and turn on the light. You

 

are shocked to find the room filling fast

 

with thick clouds of smoke. You run to

 

the door and reach for the handle. You

 

pull back in pain as the intense heat of

 

the knob scalds you violently. Grabbing

 

a blanket off the bed and using it as

 

protection, you manage to turn the handle

 

and open the door. Almost immediately,

 

a huge wave of flame and smoke

 

pours into the room, knocking you

 

back and literally off your feet. There is

 

no way to leave the room. It is getting

 

very hard to breathe and the heat from

 

the flames is almost unbearable.

 

Panicked, you scramble to the only

 

window in the room and try to open it.

 

As you struggle, you realize that the old

 

window is virtually painted shut around

 

all the edges. It doesn’t budge. Your

 

eyes are barely open now, filled with

 

tears from the smoke. You try calling

 

for help but the air to form the words is

 

not here. You drop to the floor hoping

 

to escape the rising smoke, but it is too

 

late. The room is filled top to bottom

 

with thick fumes and nearly entirely

 

in flames. With your heart pounding,

 

it suddenly hits you, as time seems

 

to stand still, that you are literally

 

moments away from dying. The

 

inevitable unknown that was always

 

waiting for you has finally arrived. Out

 

of breath and weak, you shut your eyes

 

and wait for the end.

 

After reading this death scenario, participants

 

were asked to answer the following questions

 

(Cozzolino et al., 2004, p. 281):

 

 

1. Please describe in detail the thoughts

 

and emotions you felt while imagining the

 

scenario.

 

2. If you did experience this event, how do

 

you think you would handle the final

 

moments?

 

3. Again imagining it did happen to you,

 

describe the life you led up to that point.

 

4.How do you feel your family would react

 

if it did happen to you?

 

 

 

ISBN 1-256-51557-4

 

 

Positive Psychology,

 

Question 1=

“Business Analytics”  Please respond to the following:

• Examine the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Determine how each system can play a critical role in managing value chains.
• Provide an example from an industry where analytics is used today either through ERP or through CRM, and determine the ways this technology has helped to deliver quality to the customer. 
• Assess the challenges that companies might face when trying to implement these types of technologies.

Question 2 =

“RFID Technology” Please respond to the following:

• From the e-Activity, evaluate the use and applicability of Radio Frequency Identification Devises (RFID) in industry today. Choose a company and provide at least two examples of how these devices can be used to improve productivity in its operations.
• From the case study, assess the benefits and risks associated with this type of technology that should be considered by Mr. Bracket. Identify at least two possible risks that the company might face and suggest ways to mitigate them.

E-ACTIVITY=

research Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) and identify some organizations that you believe are exceptionally innovative. Be prepared to discuss.

 

Final Paper

Focus of the Final Paper

You are the manager of Acme Fireworks, a fireworks retailer who sells fireworks, puts on ground display fireworks, and large aerial display fireworks. The company started in the owner’s garage two years ago and now has 15 employees that you manage. The company started as a sole proprietorship, and the owner has never changed the entity. The owner has informed you that the company has received inquiries from several large businesses wondering if the company could create several fireworks displays on a regular basis. The owner told the inquirers that the company could fill such display orders, and a price per display was agreed upon. It was discussed that most of the cost for a fireworks display is for skilled labor, insurance, and the actual service of setting off the fireworks. No other details were discussed. The owner is anticipating that new employees will need to be hired, but he is worried that if the large orders for fireworks displays do not continue, the company will not have the funds to pay the new employees. The owner is now considering changing the business entity, but he does not know what entity to form or how to form it.

The owner has asked you to do the following:

• Determine if the contracts with the businesses will be governed by common law or the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), and explain why. 
• Analyze whether the owner formed a contract with the businesses, and apply the five essential elements of an enforceable contract.
• Explain the potential personal liability to Acme Fireworks if a spectator is injured by a stray firework from a fireworks display.
• Discuss the different employment types and relationships relevant to agency law, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each type specific to Acme Fireworks.
• Explain why Acme Fireworks should not operate as a sole proprietorship. Recommend a new business entity, and provide rationale to support your recommendation. 

For each task, be sure to analyze the relevant law, apply the facts to the law, and make a conclusion.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:
Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

1. Must include a title page with the following:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
2. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
3. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought. That is, describe what your response is to the content, either positive or negative, and defend your position. If multiple options, alternatives, and/or positions are present and are being rejected, you must also defend the reasons for rejecting an option.
4. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
5. Must include at least five scholarly sources, two of which must be from the Ashford University Library, in addition to the course textbook.
6. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
7. Must include a separate references page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.