Solution Mission, Vision, and Personal Goals Are you familiar with Walden University’s vision and mission? Were they a factor in selecting this University? How do they relate to your professional and academic goals? Does it matter if there is a tight or loose relationship or one at all? This week’s Discussion asks you to think about how the Walden mission and vision and the School of Nursing (SON) mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. Is there a match? How does Wa...

Question: • This assignment requires you to answer three questions about the fundamental changes affecting the car industry discussed in the Financial Times article, U.S. Autos: Adding new routes, appearing on pages 7 to 14 of this course outline. • Your response for each question has a word limit, and you cannot go more than 10% over the stated word limits. • Assignment marks and feedback will be posted back to you via Vision by the Semester 2 date. Assignment Questions: 1 Use PEST Analys...

Question: COURSEWORK DETAILS ESSAY (40% of final mark) Please answer one of the three following essay questions. The essay should be 2000-2500 words. 1.Labour Process Theory presents a useful way of understanding the functioning of modern organisations. Critically discuss this statement. 2.To what extent do you believe that Ritzer’s theory of ‘McDonalization’ can be applied to organizations operating in 2017. 3. The Hawthorne studies have been criticised for making recommendat...

Question: The purpose of this assignment is to have you explore, in reasonable depth, a range of Innovation Management concepts and how they could be applied in practice in organisations. The assignment will also help to further develop your team working, organisational, communication & time/project management skills. Task 1) You should establish a small group of three or four as soon as possible. The names of the group members should be registered in that week’s tutorials by that date. ...

Question: Based on the group work you have been involved in, and your own research, compile a report for your own organisation’s senior managers (or for another organisation you are familiar with or been involved with) setting out the case for your organisation adopting the concept of employee health and wellbeing, with recommendations for a health and wellbeing programme. Your report should: a. Set out and compare the differences between primary and secondary sources you have used and just...

Question: Taking into account the case study you have examined, please produce your views on the following issues: 1. Talent planning and recruitment activities 2. Managing dismissal, redundancy and retirement effectively and lawfully In producing your report, you should conduct research into contemporary and emerging practice in both key areas. Your report should include discussion covering the following details:  The principles of effective workforce planning and the tools used in t...

Question: Taking into account the case study you have examined, please produce your views on the following issues: 1. What labour market trends might make it hard for the company to recruit and retain the staff they need? What developments might change the situation? (1.1) 2. Explain the significance of ‘tight’ and ‘loose’ labour markets. (1.3) 3. Recommend two differing approaches that could be taken in the short term as a means of improving the organisation’s ability to retain staff eff...

Question: This report build upon Part A in which you were asked to write an initial report against the context of the following: There are many examples of organisations that clearly misunderstand the concept of employee engagement. Often levels of employee engagement are measured in a very superficial way that potentially adds very little value - for example, by the use of employee engagement surveys. Your recently appointed C.E.O, in the past has been a very strong advocate of engagement ...

Question: There are many examples of organisations that clearly misunderstand the concept of employee engagement. Often levels of employee engagement are measured in a very superficial way that potentially adds very little value - for example, by the use of employee engagement surveys. Your recently appointed C.E.O, in the past has been a very strong advocate of engagement surveys. He has come to you (in HR) for advice and has asked for a proposal for how levels of employee engagement can be ef...

Question: Your organisation (or one with which you are familiar) is going through a period of change, and you have been appointed as the project manager for a 12 month programme of Organisation Development (OD). Having produced your short research paper on Organisational Development, you are now asked to prepare a Project Initiation Document (PID) which should be structured in the following way: 1. Project Purpose and summary (A.C.1.1) Include change context, project objectives and benefit...