ACTION RESEARCH AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PLEASE WRITE FROM SCRATCH/ NO PLAGIARISM For lesson you will be applying the principles of organizational development to an organization you currently work for or have worked for in the past. For this first SLP, think carefully about the background readings and how they might apply to a specific organizational situation or problem that you have experienced firsthand. Then write a 2-page paper answering the following questions: 1. What do you think the biggest problem your current organization or one of the previous organizations you worked for faces? Why do you think management has had difficulty with this problem? 2. Do you think this problem could be mitigated by hiring an organizational development consultant based on what youve read in the background materials? Why or why not? Make sure to cite some of the readings in your answer. 3. Of the action research and organizational development steps listed in the required readings, which ones do you think would be the more challenging steps that an organizational development consultant would face coming into your organization? Explain your reasoning and cite at least one of the required background readings.

Please answer ALL Sections of with great detail AND STEP BY STEP being extremely methodical and accurate in your answers.

It is extremely important that for each Section, you write the entire question and you LABEL and/or PLACE the appropriate headings and subheadings clearly for EACH part of the question and/or section.Please address, analyze, and discuss in great detail and thoroughly support and explain the whats, hows, and whys of each of your answers.-Identification of Critical Issues
-Problem Statements
-Problem Analysis
-Identification of Alternatives
-Evaluation of Alternatives
-Recommended Course of Action, and
-Implementation Plan

Identify a current issue being debated about American national security.

2.Explain two competing solutions to this problem.
3.Evaluate which one is preferable.
4.Address the responsibilities of each level of government, which are federal, state, and local. (Most of the essay will be about the federal government).
5.Address the responsibilities of each of the three branches of the federal government.REQUIREMENTS:
500 word minimum and 600 word maximum length, not including references listed at the end or footnotes if used.
Incorporation of concepts and terms from the required readings.
Inclusion of facts from a recent news article about the topic/solution.
Correct spelling, grammar, and formatting, whether it’s APA, MLA, or Chicago/Turabian.
See the essay rubric for further details on grading.Writing tips:1) Write concisely! More is not necessarily better if the required points from the rubric are missed. A 500-word essay can earn an “A,” while a 700 word essay may lose points for going too long.2) Essays should be written in the third person perspective. (Avoid using “I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, you, your”).

What is the focal point of the image, and why? Are people in an image carrying out some sort of activity and, if so, what likely happened before the photo was taken, and what will likely happen next?

URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11111-013-0190-z
environmental historians are experts in documenting the historical relationship between humans and nature at specific times and places. You are going to practice developing such skills by collecting and analyzing photographic images taken on the Great Plains during the 1930s and using them as empirical data to interpret the human-environment relationship at that time and place. As you have now realized, the Great Plains droughts of the 1930s constitute one of the greatest environmental disasters of the 20th century. The photos in the US Library of Congress collection contain an important database of knowledge about the human-environment relationship on the Great Plains. Your assignment requires you to identify important images in the question and interpret them in a systematic way, as if you were a professional environmental historian. Specifically, you must do the following: 1. Browse through the US Library of Congress collection and select three images that you believe provide important information about the human-environment relationship on the Great Plains during the 1930s. Copy and paste these images into a Word document, providing the full bibliographic reference in a caption below each image (see how this was done in Figure 1 above and in the Lessons from the Dust Bowl article, and you do similarly).12. Write a report no more than 3 single-spaced pages in length (not including the space taken up by the images themselves) in which you: (1) describe in words what is being depicted in each of the selected photos, as well as where/when each photo was taken (you will find that many images in the LoC collection are accompanied by a note that provides this information); (2) explain what you believe is the lesson we today should draw from the information contained in the photograph. In your explanation, try to link the photos to what you learned from reading the What We Learned from the Dust Bowl article. Some tips about interpreting photographs… As you browse through the Library of Congress collection, think about how you will interpret the photographs you select. Photographic imagery provides powerful data with which to understand and interpret historical events. The photographs in the collection contain information such things as: -What people were like (such as their age, gender, clothing, family size and configuration, posture, etc) -Interactions between people (e.g. people looking at one another, holding one another, speaking, etc) 1 Note that it is OK to copy and paste images from this collection into your work, so long as you cite the source. This is because the images in this LoC database are in the public domain; that is, there is no copyright on them.
7-Activities that people carried out (in their work, in their leisure time, in their daily routines) -Things people have imposed upon the natural landscape (e.g. fields, crops, houses, bridges, farms, electrical poles, etc) -The technologies people at that time used (e.g. automobiles, farm equipment, windmills, etc) -Environmental conditions (e.g. soil, dust, wind, sunshine, standing water, etc) When you look at a photograph, consider not only the foreground of the image, but the background as well. Consider the time of day, the time of year, and the location in which it was taken. Remember that these photographs are the outcomes of deliberate decisions by a photographer to capture and communicate a particular set of information. What is the photographer trying to tell us? Why has the photographer composed the image in a particular way? For example, has the photographer chosen to zoom in on an individual persons face, or are the human figures shown in full? If there are no people at all in the photo, why not? (Notice you will not find a single selfie in the entire collection). The information the photographer is trying to convey is often reflected in the framing of the people, things and landscape elements in the photo. There are more questions to consider when viewing these photographs. Or has the photographer asked the people in the photo to pose for the image? If so, what is it the photographer wants us to interpret from them? Does s/he want us to study the people themselves, or does s/he want us to consider their setting and surroundings (or all of these)? Perhaps the photographer decided not to include any people in the photo at all, and instead shows us the landscape. What information is the photographer trying to tell us about that land?CANNOT BE PLAGIARIZED

Assess the opportunities and threats facing the company, and determine the relative attractiveness of the industry as a whole.

For purposes of the Module 3 SLP, you are a Strategic Management consultant. Your client is a major competitor in one of the following industries: 1.Amusement Parks in the U.S. 2.Golf Centers and Country Clubs in the U.S. 3.Concert and Event Promotion in the U.S. 4.Jewelry Stores in the U.S. 5.Nursery and Garden Stores in the U.S. 6.Department Stores in the U.S. 7.Womens Clothing Stores in the U.S. 8.Furniture Stores in the U.S. 9.New Car Dealers in the U.S. 10. Fast Food Restaurants in the U.S. Your client has an extensive number of strengths (indeed, these are SCAs): A solid image, the top market share in the industry, excellent cash flow, and a very low long-term debt to equity ratio. Because your clients company is renowned in the industry (which you have selected from the list above), the organization has also managed to attract and retain the most talented people working in the industry. Finally, the companys approach to marketing is second to none. While your client is clearly aware of its internal strengths, the organization is still unclear relative to whether the company should pursue a Grow (a more aggressive) strategy, or a Hold (a more passive) strategy. Your client has engaged you to do some research on the industry (use IBISWorld and other current publications in the library). In IBIS, be sure to review the sections: Industry Questions and Industry Issues in addition to other key information and industry data. Then using the GE/McKinsey Matrix, decide whether your client should pursue a Grow or a Hold strategy. Because you already know that your clients business strength is strong, your task is to determine the attractiveness of the industry/market. After performing some research on the clients industry using IBISWorld, write a 2-3 page memorandum to your client in which you discuss the key threats and opportunities in the industrys operating environment. Next, dependent on the attractiveness of the industry/ market, advise your client as to whether the company should pursue a Hold or Grow strategy. Finally, use the Model of Grand Strategy Clusters to recommend a grand strategy that your client should pursue. Be sure to justify your choice.

How to make world use of technology in a positive way

Your report will be your realistic solution to the problem that gave rise to your Big Idea, which you will address by the end of the semester and within the confines of a 7-10 page (single-spaced, but with headings, lists, graphics, and the like) detailed, complete and coherent formal report. Your final formal report (like the one on pages 277 290) should detail what was discovered after conducting research and will follow this format: Cover page Memo or letter of transmittal (It will begin like this: Here is the report .) Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction. Establish the need for action. Why the project was undertaken, who authorized it, and what the investigation hoped to achieve. Discussion. This will reflect the outline you created in the work plan. Conclusions. A summary of the main alternatives, their costs, and their suitability.

Explain the influence of Governance and Ethics.-Discuss the Company Social Value.-Discuss Innovation and Diversification.-Discuss Legal limitations. -Evaluation and Control-Explain Strategic Metrics.-Discuss Key Financial Ratios.

Explain the influence of Governance and Ethics.-Discuss the Company Social Value.-Discuss Innovation and Diversification.-Discuss Legal limitations. -Evaluation and Control-Explain Strategic Metrics.-Discuss Key Financial Ratios.

Do human beings evolve, or do we just keep making the same mistakes, perhaps even inventing new problems for ourselves?

Eng 303 Essay Assignment Two: Humanity, Modernity, and the Cultural Narrative of Progress
Is social development progressive, as those subscribing to the rational values of the Enlightenment would hold, or is there evidence to support the view held by some of the English romantics, that human society grows progressively worse? To answer this question, compare and contrast one of the nineteenth century texts weve read this semester with one from the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries (not including the text you wrote on for your first essay), focusing on the ways in which each text addresses one of the following issues:
Sex, gender
Race, colonialism
The Nonhuman (animals, plants, ecologies, etc.)
Science, learning (or the liberal arts in the case of Shakespeare)
Class, social hierarchies
In other words you might choose to write on how Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland takes up and extends Jonathan Swifts satire on social class in Gullivers Travels. Or you might choose to address changes in attitudes towards the nonhuman, as demonstrated by a comparison between S.T. Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe. Or perhaps you might compare the treatment of race issues in William Shakespeares The Tempest and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. You have a number of options, but whatever your choice of text and subject, be sure that you are comparing a nineteenth- with a pre-nineteenth-century text, and that you do not write on the text that was the subject of your first essay.
Please be aware that the topics given above are very general, and will need to be considerably developed towards a more focused argument as you work towards your essays thesis topic.
Your essay must be 6-8 pages (about 1,800 2,400 words)
The essay will be worth 25% of your semester grade. All papers must be typed in a legible font, double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around and in 12-point font. Follow the guidelines described on the style guide for this course, and use the citation practices of the MLA guide, 8th edition.