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In a paper, provide a detailed explanation of how the knowledge gained in this course provided you with an understanding of a critical component of project management: procurement management and planning. How would you define successfully monitoring and controlling a project? What challenges do project managers face during monitoring and controlling? The personal insights paper serves as the foundation for your discussion with your course instructor and possibly other students in Discussion portion of this week.

Support your insights paper with a minimum of two (2) external resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Based on your research and readings, compile a 7-to 8-page Microsoft Word that includes answers to the following questions:

What were the characteristics of your chosen leaders?
What were the factors that contributed to each individual rising to the role of leader?
What was each selected leader’s leadership style? Support your position with credible references with respect to the style, and include an accurate biography and depiction of historical events.
Did the leaders’ leadership style shifted or evolved with time or the acquisition of power? Why?
What tools did the leaders utilized to promote their influence and vision?
What were each leader’s contingency and situational leadership capabilities? Explain and support with examples where he or she demonstrated those leadership capabilities.
What was the power base of the selected leaders? What characteristics or traits allowed each individual to assume the position of leadership power?
What role did the leaders assumed in resolving conflict? What was each leader’s apparent conflict resolution style?
What was each leader’s iconic situation that gained him or her recognition as a leader?
Did the environment and time lend to each leader’s rise or recognition? Why?

This exercise will help you become more proficient at recognizing, translating, and evaluating if and and statements. In this assignment, find two examples for the exercise; translate the claims of the example into symbolic form; identify an if or anand statement; then assess it.

Note: Translation and assessment are tools we use to categorize statements. Therefore, you will not be penalized if, through translation and assessment, you learn a statement that appeared to be an if or an and statement is a statement of another type.

The completed assignment must contain the original claims, your translation of the claims into logical form, and your assessment of the statement in logical form. The original examples should be three to five sentences in length.

Your assessment should include answers to the following questions:

Is the set of claims an argument?
Is the original claim (when translated) an if . . . then or and statement?
Did the translation of the original claims reveal the statement was a different kind of statement than you originally believed?

Strategic Analysis: Organizational & Competitive

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.

The Final Paper should demonstrate understanding of the reading as well as the implications of new knowledge. The eight to ten page paper should integrate readings and class discussions into work and life experiences. It may include explanations and examples from previous experiences as well as implications for future applications.

Submit an eight to ten page paper (not including the title page and reference page) on the topic listed below, incorporating at least five peer-reviewed journal articles as references in addition to the textbook:

Focus of the Final Paper

Design a global business or organization, outside of the U.S. (i.e. export/import, franchising or outsourcing business)
Define and describe the key characteristics of an effective global business or organization as distinct from a local business or organization.
Propose a strategic plan that addresses the following:

Initial planning
Market, country, legal, and economic research
Outline the development of the structure
Hiring, production, management, and sales
Evaluate at least four challenges and advantages and/or opportunities and threats (e.g. cross-cultural, foreign currency, legal).
Suggest recommendations for improvement by specifically referencing evidence learned from this course and scholarly research.
Present how you could personally apply strategies and competencies needed to be an effective global business manager.

Research and define the differences in the job responsibilities of a leader versus the job responsibilities of a manager. Use the questions below to guide your research, which should include peer-reviewed articles from scholarly journals that are less than 5 years old. Prepare a paper in which you also include personal experiences and reflections with your responses to the following: PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENT 6-8 PAGES FOR PAPER

As you are planning the annual audit of Norton Corporation, you note that the company has a number of user-operated computers in use in various locations. One of the machines has been installed in the stores department, which has the responsibility for disbursing stock items and for maintaining stores’ records. In your audit, you find that one employee receives the requisitions for stores, disburses the stock, maintains the records, operates the computer, and authorizes adjustments to the total amounts of stock recorded by the computer.

When you discuss the applicable controls with the department manager, you are told that the user-operated computer is assigned exclusively to that department. Therefore, the manager contends that it does not require the same types of controls applicable to large IT systems.

Required:

Comment on the manager’s contention.
Discuss five types of control that would apply to this microcomputer application.

Project management

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This paper will demonstrate your understanding of the key concepts at the core of good project management practices covered throughout this course. Your paper should be based on a project (either theoretical or an actual project) and how issues of management, leadership, and team collaboration were applied to the success (or failure) of the project.

The purpose of this assignment is to apply the central concepts of the course to a project management experience. To do this, define the project particulars for illustrative purposes, explain how the project team was selected, explain how team problems were resolved, discuss how you utilized PM software to manage team activities, and analyze how the project was closed and the impact of the closure on the team. You must use course-related principles and at least five scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library to support the paper’s thesis.

Must be eight- to ten- double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference page) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a cover page that includes:
Student’s name
Course name and number
Title of Paper
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
Must use at least five scholarly resources, including a minimum of two from the Ashford Online Library.
Must use APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide to document all sources.
Must include, on the final page, a Reference Page that is completed according to APA style

Using the attached documents as reference for this 2-3 page, double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, in APA format, answer the following items:

1. Determine Human Resource Management’s role in the performance management process, including how the process aligns with the organization’s strategic plan. The description must be well supported and plausible.

2. Differentiate between the trait, behavioral, and results-based performance appraisal systems, and provides an example where each would be most applicable. Your example must be well supported and contextualized.

3. Determine how to identify best suited appraisals for the Maersk Customer Service – CARE Business Partner employee job duties, and support your response with an example. You must use scholarly research to substantiate claims and cite your references.

4. Identifies a variety of performance scales that can be used in organizations including graphical scales, letter scales, and numeric scales, and describes each. The description must be clear and contextualized.

Importance of Reputation Management

Write a paper that discusses the importance of reputation management in relation to an organization’s credibility. If a PR person only has their credibility to offer and is only as good as his or her deserved reputation, how can social media help or harm that reputation?

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
Include cover page and reference page.
At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.