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In your opinion, how can we ensure that persons with mental illness get appropriate treatment in the community?

Note; I  got  a comment,I would suggest that you look more closely at the PPACA and the MHPEA. The MHPEA mandated that insurers treat mental health treatment the same as physical health treatment so that mental health care was accessible to all.  The ACA expanded the MHPEA but neither of them “offered services”.

I think it would be helpful when you write your papers for the classes to have a friend or fellow student look at them and provide some feedback on the clarity of your sentences.  I’m just giving you a heads up because I think you may need some assistance with your writing.  You can also submit papers to the on-line writing center with MU and they can assist with editing.

MH-08 BELOW ASSIGNMENT.

 

Briefly respond to the following two questions.  Your responses and your participation in the group discussion will be worth points. 

 

  1. In your opinion, how can we ensure that persons with mental illness get appropriate treatment in the community?  What suggestions do you have to improve the mental health system.  For example, should psychiatric hospitalization be more readily available?  
  1. Think about the issue of whether jails should be used as mental health treatment facilities.  Should treatment be available in jails?  If so, who should provide it and what kinds of treatment should be available.  Are there better ways than jail time to treat persons with mental illness who commit low level crimes?

As usual, provide a citation or two to back up your arguments.  Citations can be media (popular press, magazines, etc.) or scientific journal articles.  

Do you think the term victimless crime is misleading? Why or why not?

Discussion—Victimless Crime

Natalie Davies is a thirty-eight-year-old single mother of two—an eleven-year-old daughter, Brandi, and a seven-year-old third grader, Jenny. Natalie married young and never attended college. After her divorce four years ago, she went back to school and obtained a certificate in paralegal studies. After returning to the workforce, she was motivated by others, as well as her modest salary, to return to school to work on her bachelor’s degree. She tells family and friends that she wants to be a role model for her daughters and also wants to be able to provide for their college education when the time comes.

Natalie decided to enroll in an online program to accommodate her work schedule and hectic family life that includes spending as much time as possible with her daughters, while also making time for herself. Natalie has hopes of working toward a master’s degree, possibly in counseling. Because of her two daughters and interest in working with people, she has decided to pursue an undergraduate degree in psychology.

A week after classes started, there was a commotion on Natalie’s block. Two police cruisers were at a house down the street, along with an unmarked police car. Natalie did not know the neighbor who lived there very well. It was another single mother with three young children. Natalie learned that the woman was arrested for possession of a controlled substance. Her three children were placed in foster care while the woman waited for trial, or could find the money to post her bond.

Apparently, the woman was using painkillers that she had purchased from an undercover police officer. She had injured her back several years ago and became addicted to the pills. Although her injury no longer bothered her, she continued to use the painkillers. Her mood would fluctuate if she did not get the pills and she would at times take out her anger on the children. When using the pills, she was disoriented and would at times jeopardize her children’s safety. She wanted to go into rehab but could not afford the treatment.

Natalie cannot decide who the victim in this crime is. Are the victims the children, the people without insurance, or society in general? Natalie’s daughters asked her why the neighbor was arrested and her children were in foster care away from their “mommy?”

Research the concept of “victimless crime” using the textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Select two resources for use in your discussion. Be sure that you have the following types of resources:

  • A news media report of what may be considered a victimless crime, such as the given example.
  • A scholarly, peer-reviewed article on the type of crime covered in your selected news media report. The peer-reviewed article should identify potential costs of the crime to society as well as intervention approaches.

Based on the scenario, and drawing on your readings and observations, respond to the following:

  • Do you think the term victimless crime is misleading? Why or why not?

Write your initial response in 4–6 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, October 3, 2015, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, October 7, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

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Would customers be willing to pay shipping costs on a small purchase, such as one pair of socks?

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It was March 2013, and Diana and Jeff House, co-founders of Cole and Parker, had just sat down to review their marketing plan together for the upcoming launch of their new business. Their concept for Cole and Parker was innovative: for every pair of socks the company sold, 1 per cent of its sales would be lent through Kiva,1 an organization that facilitated microfinance lending. Essentially, the sale of each pair of socks would aid entrepreneurs around the world who were starting their own businesses. With this socially responsible business model in mind, Diana and Jeff wondered what marketing decisions would be most effective for the successful launch of their new venture.

THE ONE-FOR-ONE BUSINESS MODEL

Blake Mycoskie popularized the “one-for-one” business model after founding TOMS Shoes in May 2006. In January 2006, while travelling and volunteering in Argentina, Mycoskie became distraught by the large number of children he noticed who were barefoot and impoverished. He was also intrigued by the style of shoes worn by Argentinean polo players, which were of a simple canvas slip-on style called Alpargatas. With the collaboration of an Argentinean shoe manufacturer, Mycoskie stylized some Alpargatas that he felt would fit with the North American market. At the retail level, for every pair of shoes sold, TOMS would donate another pair to a child in a developing part of the world. As the official Chief Shoe Giver, Mycoskie was not just creating a business; he was creating a movement. “The giving aspect of TOMS makes ours shoes more than a product. They’re part of a story, a movement anyone can join.” 2 TOMS trademarked the term “one-for-one” as a description of its business model.3

The quick success of TOMS was demonstrated through its sales. From its inception to 2010, TOMS had donated one million shoes worldwide. In 2012, it was estimated TOMS sold its two millionth pair of shoes.

1 www.kiva.org, accessed January 28, 2014.

2 Source: Good Works!: Marketing and Corporate Initiatives that Build a Better World, Hessekiel, Kotter and Lee, May 23, 2012.

3 Ibid.

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The launch of several socially responsible for-profit businesses emerged from the TOMS’ lead, including the following:

  • Warby Parker, a New York eyewear retailer, made a financial donation for every pair of glasses sold to Restoring Vision.
  • Ten Tree Apparel, a Saskatchewan-based clothier, planted 10 trees for every item sold.
  • WeTopia, a social game on Facebook, turned players’ points into monetary donations for children’s

    charities.

    By early 2013, the webpage www.shopwithmeaning.org4 listed several more one-for-one companies, with product offerings that included wine (OneHope), hand soap (Hand for Hand), candles (Candles for a Cause), health bars (Kutoa Bars), pet beds (Alpha Pooch), vitamins (Life Equals), blankets (Blanket America), and toothbrushes (Smile Squared). One-for-one companies were not only providing consumers with an outlet for giving back, but they were also creating sustainable business practices, which, for the most part, enhanced the companies’ profitability.

    For retail industry analysts, this one-for-one model provided some extremely valuable insight into consumer behaviour. It became obvious that consumers were looking for opportunities to give back through their purchases. In 2008, 80 per cent of 1,000 Americans surveyed said they would choose a brand associated with a good cause over another brand if both were similar in price and quality. Nineteen per cent said they would switch to a more expensive brand for this opportunity.5

    According to Statistics Canada, purchases of ethical6 products by Canadian consumers increased from 20 per cent of the population in 2003 to 27 per cent in 2008. Forty-one per cent of people with university degrees had purchased a product for ethical reasons. Those in higher income groups were also more likely to purchase an ethical product; however, those aged 65 years and older were the least likely to purchase an ethical product.7

    Challengers of the one-for-one model questioned its sustainability and the impact of the movement. In 2012, Cheryl Davenport of Mission Measurement, a strategic consulting firm, critiqued the one-for-one model:

    Those helped by TOMS are, in the long-term, no more able to afford shoes or address the real social, economic, and health issues that they face than they were before. Once their free shoes wear out in a couple years, the children will be just as susceptible to the health and economic perils associated with bare feet as they were before.8

    4 The webpage’s main goal was to connect consumers with socially responsible companies worldwide.

    5 Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575522251507063936.html, accessed January 28, 2014.

    6 Products considered “ethical” are those that appeal to consumer beliefs that they can effect positive social and economic change through their consumption choices.

    7 www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2011001/article/11399-eng.htm, accessed January 28, 2014.

    8 www.ecouterre.com/is-tomss-one-for-one-business-model-doomed-to-fail/, accessed January 28, 2014.

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COLE AND PARKER

The Co-Founders

Jeff House graduated from London, Ontario’s Western University in 2007 with an honors bachelor’s degree in health sciences. Upon graduation, House began a career in real estate, successfully transacting $20 million in sales and 120,000 square feet of leasing in his first few years. He launched House Group Inc., an asset management company with several commercial and residential properties in their portfolio. Jeff also offered real estate brokerage and consulting services, with a strategic focus on the development, construction and project management of properties in the city of London, Ontario, Canada.

Diana House’s career included that of investor, creator and entrepreneur. After her graduation from Bond University’s Law School in 2009, Diana launched Tiny Devotions (www.tinydevotions.com) an intention based accessory company that became successful through being first to market in North America selling mala beads9.

Together, Diana and Jeff established a formidable partnership after connecting over their common interest in the start-up business environment. Most importantly, they both had a passion for entrepreneurialism and wanted to find a sustainable way to support the entrepreneurial efforts of others, both locally and abroad.

Microfinance

The one-for-one business model intrigued the Cole and Parker co-founders. After a trip to Columbia in 2010 with Opportunity International,10 Jeff saw first-hand the impact of microfinance loans. Microfinance was a financial service wherein loans were extended to entrepreneurs who would otherwise be unable to access the necessary capital to operate and/or launch their businesses. Often, in the poorer developing nations of the world, these small-scale entrepreneurs lacked the assets to secure collateral, as required by banks within their regions. Microfinance organizations would extend these loans – which were deemed “higher risk” by the banks – and, as with any other loan, the loan recipient would be required to pay back the principal amount and interest at a later date. In 2012, the World Bank estimated that about 160 million people in developing nations worldwide were served by microfinance organizations.11

Although credit unions had been around for centuries, the creation of modern microfinance was attributed to a Chittagong University economics professor, Dr. Mohammad Yunus, who began providing small loans to impoverished women in Bangladesh in the 1970s. In 1983, he founded the Grameen Bank, a bank for the poor, which was one of the first global institutions to provide loans not based on collateral, but on “mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity.”12 Yunus won a Noble Peace Prize in 2006 for his work in this area.

Microfinance lending was not just limited to the developing nations of the world. In 2011, it was estimated that one in 12 American households were “unbanked,” meaning they did not have a bank account or access to financial services. In this same year, the average microfinance loan in the United States was $9,732, and in developing nations, it was one-tenth of this amount, $973.13

9 Mala beads are prayer beads commonly used to count mantras.

10 www.opportunity.org, accessed January 28, 2014.

11 http://web.worldbank.org, accessed January 28, 2014.

12 www.grameen-info.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=112, accessed January 28, 2014. 13 www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/, accessed January 28, 2014.

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Many proponents of the concept believed that, by providing the means to create a sustainable source of income, microfinance created an opportunity to lift people out of poverty. Jeff described the concept: “Instead of just charity, where you give a man a fish, you teach the man to fish so he eats for a lifetime.”14

The One-for-Many Business Model

Diana and Jeff envisioned Cole and Parker as a socially conscious, technology-driven, lifestyle brand (see Exhibit 1 for the company logo.) The inspiration for the name Cole and Parker originated from the names of jazz musicians John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Jeff described the link between entrepreneurialism and jazz: “Entrepreneurs have to carve out a bit of their own path, and in jazz, improvisation is a huge part.”

After gaining a full understanding of microfinance loans, the co-founders wondered how they could extend the one-for-one concept one step further. Diana and Jeff began brainstorming and thought that donating a product in need was not the hook they were looking for to launch of their new business. Instead, they wanted a more sustainable model. Thus, the one-for-many business model was born, whereby a percentage of top-line sales revenues would be loaned (through a microfinance organization) to give small- scale entrepreneurs the capital needed to sustain a business of their own.

Partnership with Kiva

Diana and Jeff had many goals for their new business, centred on the one-for-many business model. They would design and develop the product and create the brand story in an effort to drive sales that, in turn, could be turned into microfinance loans. The goal of their new business was not, however, to be a microfinance organization. There were already many existing organizations with great international partnerships that awarded financing to those who needed it the most. The partners thought it would be best for their business to partner with one of these established microfinancing organizations, and after much research, both partners believed that Kiva Microfunds (Kiva) would be the best fit. Through Kiva, Cole and Parker would be responsible for choosing the individual who would receive the loan, and Cole and Parker consumers would have to trust that their purchase would eventually make its way to an appropriate loan with Kiva.

Kiva, a not-for-profit organization, was founded in 2005. Kiva’s co-founders, Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley, were initially inspired by a presentation in 2003 given by Mohammad Yunus at Stanford University. Kiva’s website (see Exhibit 2) acted as an intermediary, allowing people to make loans, via the Internet, to people and businesses in developing countries. Kiva’s goal was to connect lenders with entrepreneurs on a more human level, and this goal was accomplished through the use of a website that showcased the personal stories of each loan recipient and their needs.

By early 2013, Kiva had facilitated $400 billion in loans to one million individuals and/or organizations in 69 countries. Kiva prided itself on its loan repayment rate of over 99 per cent. Kiva loans were facilitated through 203 field partners made up of microfinance organizations, such as social institutions and not-for- profits, worldwide. The field partners were responsible for “screening borrowers, posting loan requests to Kiva, disbursing loans and collecting repayments, and otherwise administering Kiva loans.”15 Upon loan repayment, the field partners would remit the principal of the loan to Kiva, where the lender could choose to re-lend it to another entrepreneur or retract the principal amount from the lending process.

14 Western grad hopes to knock socks off Dragons, The Gazette, April 2, 2013. 15 www.kiva.org, accessed January 28, 2014.

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MARKETING DECISIONS

The Product

The first product Cole and Parker intended to launch was a brightly coloured, high-quality and boldly designed pair of socks (see Exhibit 3 for product example.) Diana and Jeff wanted to create a transitional sock that could be worn with a suit or high-end denim. The co-founders believed the apparel marketplace lacked any sort of sock brand that told a product story. Cole and Parker’s product story would be summarized in the company’s tagline: “Socks that start businesses.”

Coincidentally, by late 2012 and early 2013, several media outlets had started to highlight socks as a “go to” apparel trend in menswear. David Coleman of the U.S. New York Times newspaper, proclaimed:

Distinctive socks are a clever and easy way to add a little oomph to your look without going overboard. A pair of multicolor Nordic socks is one thing — a bit of style you can flash when sitting down or crossing your legs — while a sweater in the same pattern might represent an unsportsmanlike reindeer overkill.”16

Gabrielle Greco, a senior buyer at Jack-Threads, a members-only menswear website, stated, “Socks have developed into an accessory versus a basic staple, and men want to show them off because they are very well designed.”17

Diana and Jeff wondered whether Cole and Parker should expand into other product lines that would be aligned with their bright, bold and socially responsible brand image. If so, what could these lines be? When would be the right time to expand?

The Consumer

Given the initial product and the unique business model, the co-founders wondered what consumer group to target. What characteristics would the Cole and Parker customer have? What would be the primary age group? Recently, fashionable and bold socks seemed to have been directed more towards the male consumer, but should Cole and Parker offer a women’s line? Diana and Jeff needed to determine their target market in order to most effectively craft their marketing decisions and the execution of their message.

Placement

Diana and Jeff wondered what placement strategy would best resonate with their target market and drive the most sales. There were three options for distribution: selling the socks wholesale to retailers, establishing the company’s own “brick and mortar” storefronts and, an e-commerce method of online sales.

The partners had several concerns about each distribution strategy. Should they approach the buyers at large department stores in hopes of gaining a large wholesale order? Which retail chains offered the best fit the Cole and Parker brand? Could retailers be persuaded to carry this line? What marketing support

16 www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/fashion/bold-colorful-mens-socks.html?ref=tradingup&_r=0, accessed January 28, 2014.

17 www.indiatimes.com/lifestyle/fashion-and-beauty/trend-alert-men-love-colourful-socks-78662.html, accessed January 28, 2014.

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would the partners have to provide, and would they still be able to control their brand image? If Cole and Parker built its own brick-and-mortar storefronts to sell the product, it would need the capital and managerial experience necessary to launch its own branded shop. Finally, could the company rely solely on e-commerce to drive sales through a branded webpage? Would customers be willing to pay shipping costs on a small purchase, such as one pair of socks?

Price Point

Considering their cost to manufacture the socks, the competitive landscape, and the target market’s willingness to pay, Diana and Jeff had to set an appropriate price point for a pair of socks. They wanted to take into consideration the risk of offering a higher price point, since this would mean more money available for loans through Kiva.

Diana and Jeff viewed the current non-athletic-sock market18 to be divided amongst three categories: discount, mid-range and luxury socks (see Exhibit 4). The discount-sock market consisted of socks sold in bargain outlet retails in packages of two or more pairs of socks for less than $10 per package. Mid-range socks retailed from $9 to $14 per pair, and were sold in retail outlets such as Mark’s Work Wearhouse and H&M and in department stores, including Hudson’s Bay and Sears. The luxury sock market included brands such as Paul Smith, Robert Graham, and Bugatti, and a pair of socks were priced above $20. These socks could be purchased at high-end retailers such as Harry Rosen and Holt Renfrew.

MARCH 7, 2013

On a whim, Diana and Jeff had auditioned for the popular Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television program Dragons’ Den, a reality program where entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists (called the Dragons) who could choose to invest in (or finance) the venture, usually in exchange for an ownership share of the business. On March 7, 2013, Diana and Jeff received a phone call from a Dragons’ Den producer: “Be ready to pitch, on camera, to the Dragons on April 4th [2013]!” The partners were excited by the opportunity to pitch their new business model to the esteemed panel.

With just one product and their one-for-many business model, the co-founders had to establish the remaining details of their business plan as soon as possible. Knowing that one of the first questions the toughest Dragon, Kevin O’Leary, a Western alumnus from the Ivey Business School, would ask would be “How many have you sold?” Diana and Jeff wanted to devise their marketing strategy to get as many product orders as possible before the on-air pitch date. With just a month to get everything in order, they knew it was crunch time.

18 Cole and Parker considered athletic socks, those to be worn during physical activities, not in direct competition with its fashion-focused product offering.

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EXHIBIT 1: KIVA’S WEBSITE HOMEPAGE

Source: www.kiva.org, October 29, 2013.

EXHIBIT 2: COMPANY LOGO

Source: Company files.

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EXHIBIT 3: PRODUCT EXAMPLE The Connector

The Closer

Analyze if your style is effective in your organization if so why or why not

The entire paper should not be about facilitation but it should be about

 

– Your facilitation style, personal values, and must include areas of improvement in becoming a skilled facilitator

 

– In addition analyze if your style is effective in your organization if so why or why not

 

This must be two pages with reference from the following book

Roger Schwarz – The skilled facilitator new and revised 2002

 

Using APA citation only

Select two (2) non-economic means of impasse resolution, 1) explain how each one functions and 2) discuss the relative pros and cons of each.

Select and respond to any four of these six topics:

  1. It has been said that “a company that deserves a union gets one,” suggesting that if proper leadership and motivation techniques are employed and desirable policies devised, the workers will not want to unionize. Either agree or disagree with this philosophy. Support your position and explain what a company could do to create an environment where workers will not want to unionize.
  2. Some means of resolving negotiations impasses involve economic weapons (e.g. strikes and lockouts). There are other means of impasse resolution that do not involve the use of economic weapons (e.g. fact finding, mediation, med/arb/interest arb, etc.). Select two (2) non-economic means of impasse resolution, 1) explain how each one functions and 2) discuss the relative pros and cons of each.
  3. Unions have declined as a percentage of the workforce in the private sector. With this decline, have career and workplace dissatisfaction and alienation increased? If so, why is this so? If not, why not? Support your position.
  4. List and discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages in using seniority as a factor to determine shift preference or overtime assignments.
  5. Identify two different steps a company should take to prepare for its first round of bargaining with the union pre-negotiation activities. Explain why each of the steps you have identified is critical to achieving an initial successful collective bargaining agreement with the union.
  6. Identify and explain the major ways in which the government is an important participant in the labor relations.

NOTE: Include the topic number and topic above each response, and the references directly below each response.

Use a minimum of four sources dated 2013-present (one minimum per topic).

Is the organization seeking a competitive advantage by taking the initiative in the marketplace? Explain your answer.

The goal of conducting a competitor analysis is to gather information about the company’s competitors and systematically formulate a strategy to become the market leader in the industry. In formulating any strategy, it is imperative that the company understand its organizational structure as well as the internal and external forces which could impact their strategic decisions.

Based on the company you chose in the previous module, analyze the organization’s mission, vision, and values, its ability to compete, and the effectiveness of its management team in executing strategy. Some of the factors to be considered in doing this evaluation include the company’s internal resource capabilities, its relative cost position, and its competitive strength. In addition, evaluate the competitive strategy of your selected organization and examine how this strategic approach drives the rest of the strategic actions the company undertakes in terms of product line, production emphasis, marketing emphasis, and the means for sustaining the strategy. Make sure to include at least one analytical tool such as SWOT analysis, Porter’s, BCG, etc. in your analysis.

Research your selected organization’s strategy and analyze the following elements:

  • The organization’s mission, vision, and values. What does it tell you about the company, their culture, their direction? Does it convey the purpose and primary objectives of the company? If so, how, if not what is missing?
  • The organization’s strategic goals. Based on your research, what are the top three strategic goals of your chosen company?
  • The relative alignment of strategic goals with the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Include at least three examples of how the strategic goals help and/or hinder the organization in achieving its mission, vision, and values.
  • Additions or changes you would recommend to the strategic goals to better achieve the company’s mission, vision, and values. Include at least two additions or changes and justify your response.
  • Describe the relevant external factors and influences (at least 3) which could affect the decisions the company makes about its direction, objectives, strategy, and business model.
  • Describe the Internal factors and influences (at least 3) which could impact the company’s decision making such as the company’s market position and its competencies, capabilities, resource strengths and weaknesses, and competitiveness.
  • Does your selected organization have a focused strategy that differentiates it from other companies in the same marketplace? Explain your answer.
  • Is the organization seeking a competitive advantage by taking the initiative in the marketplace? Explain your answer.
  • Does the organization have a strategy for competing in international markets? Does it appear to have a solid understanding of local customer needs and preferences to create customized products or services? Does it appear to know how to transfer company expertise to initiate actions to compete internationally?
  • Make sure you utilize at least one analytical tool in your analysis of this section.

 

Write up your findings in a 6 to 8 page MS Word format paper which complies with APA standards, including proper grammar and spelling. Include at least three scholarly resources in your report.

Analyze the Celestial Corporation referenced in the Baba, Gluesing, Ratner, and Wagner article using the structural frame.

eview the following:

 

Baba, M. L., Gluesing, J., Ratner, H., & Wagner, K. H. (2004). The contexts of knowing: Natural history of a globally distributed team. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25(5), 547–587.

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Directions:

 

In an 18–20 page report:

 

Present a literature review of the four-frame model.

Analyze the Celestial Corporation referenced in the Baba, Gluesing, Ratner, and Wagner article using the structural frame.

Identify the typical problems that occur in the use of virtual teams.

Describe the problems with virtual teams that are discussed in this specific case.

Determine how the issues need to be addressed in order to improve the company’s performance.

Analyze the Celestial Corporation referenced in the Baba, Gluesing, Ratner, and Wagner article using the human resource frame.

Determine the impact of cultural differences on the operations worldwide.

Identify the leaders in this case and describe their leadership styles.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the leaders in the case. If applicable, identify the specific areas in which leadership could be improved.

Explain what factors contributed to the initial lack of synergy and collaboration on the team.

Explain what factors and interventions eventually resulted in successful team collaboration.

Determine what and how issues need to be addressed in order to improve the company’s performance.

Analyze the Celestial Corporation referenced in the Baba, Gluesing, Ratner, and Wagner article using the political frame.

Assess the role that power and influence played regarding the impact and the acceptance of the Product Family Management methodology.

Determine which individuals have power. Explain why.

Determine what and how issues need to be addressed in order to improve the company’s performance.

Analyze the Celestial Corporation referenced in the Baba, Gluesing, Ratner, and Wagner article using the symbolic frame.

Determine which specific corporate cultural values were responsible for the virtual team problems discussed in the second item.

Considering the tension between Celestial and Voila, determine what issues should be addressed in order to improve the company’s performance.

Based on the list of issues you identified during the four-frame assessment of the company in the article, choose one issue and develop a strategy for reframing (solving) that specific problem using a different frame. Include considerations on ethics and social responsibility. Justify your strategy with information you collected from your literature review.

Summarize any key points you have learned regarding applying a new frame in order to solve a workplace problem.

Write an 18–20-page report in Word format. Utilize at least eight scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

 

Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

What is the role of a leader in the management of change?

Module 4 – The Role of Leaders in Change Management

  • Objectives
  • Instructor Comments
  • Assignment

Objectives

The aim of this assignment is introduce learners to the importance of leadership in the context of change management. This assignment seeks to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is – what is the role of a leader in the management of change?

Instructor Comments

Do leaders matter? Well three authors of papers tied to this assignment think so. Whether change is forced up an organization or an entity proactively alters itself, someone needs to be in control of an organization’s activities and responses. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a well known Harvard University business professor. She suggested that possession of a specific set of skills helps to differentiate effective leaders from ineffective leaders.

John Kotter is the author of what is probably the most influential model or process of leader driven corporate change. Few business schools fail to make use of his eight step model in their curriculum. Michael Watkins fame is more recent. He researched and has written a compelling article on what leaders need to do during the first 90 days of their tenure as CEO’s. In times of dramatic economic upheaval, CEO turnover typically escalates. In those instances, Watkins ideas serve as a useful guide for key decision.

Assignment

You should base your responses to the following questions on the insight found in the following readings:

Please answer the following questions:

  • For each paper, please use one paragraph to summarize the main ideas.
  • Please use one half page to summarize the ideas that are similar among all of these papers.
  • What is the role of a leader in the management of change?

 

Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.

Please identify two important things that each company is doing differently now as compared with 2000.

Module 5 – Understanding Changes to the Senior Management Teams

  • Objectives
  • Instructor Comments
  • Assignment

Objectives

The aim of this assignment is to help learners recognize the importance of senior management teams and as well as changes in their composition.

Instructor Comments

Many individuals equate career success with a position as an officer or executive of a large publicly traded corporation. While remuneration is often considerable, a downside of such success is that one’s life enters into the public domain. Observers, analysts and researchers of these corporations benefit from by being offered access to back ground information on these individuals. Biographies may be accessed online from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings by their employers. What is beneficial about such access is that the past behavior of executives often points to the future. We are creatures of habit.

Knowing the skills and previous successes of an individual often predicts how he or she might deal with a crisis or challenge and in turn enhance outsiders understanding of these large for profit entities. Knowing backgrounds also enables observers to understand who is who on corporate teams. Who did the CEO hire? Who preceded the CEO? Answers to questions such as these suggest who is powerful and who is an insider to decision making? Knowing education backgrounds and previous employers can also suggest who will be turned to for advice in challenging moments. As noted above, SEC documents such as a 10K filing will highlight the year when an executive started with a company. Looking back at previous years documents, one can determine when executives were hired, fired or retired. When this type of information is compared with share price data available using Yahoo!Finance, one can often tie executive changes to performance declines. Applying this type of knowledge is the purpose of this assignment.

Assignment

You should base your responses to the following questions on the insight found in the 10K SEC filing of Cisco Systems and the following websites.

The 10K Form is the Annual Report filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of a company whose shares trade publicly on U.S. stock exchanges. 10K Forms identify members of executive teams, offer brief biographies and identify when these executives started in these positions. They also offer financial information about the company.

Please answer the following questions:

  • Please identify the current CEO of each of Cisco Systems and two of its competitors. For each CEO please examine his or her bio and any back ground information. Please summarize his or her previous successes.
  • For each CEO, can you predict any future corporation initiatives as a result of his or her demonstrated track record?
  • For each company please identify the senior executives today and in 2000. How many members of the team have changed? What percentage is this? How have profit and revenues changed in this same time period?
  • If a change in CEO has occurred, please examine the date of the change. Can you suggest why the change occurred?
  • Please identify two important things that each company is doing differently now as compared with 2000.
  • So what?

 

Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.