Physio-Control Mission and Vision
Purpose of Assignment
The Week 1 assignment allows students to explore a company that they are familiar with and relate this to their own experiences to determine the importance of the mission and vision of a business as well as the influence this may have on their own role. The assignment will also allow the student to explore the effects of a company not having a mission statement.
Choose a company that has both a mission and vision statement. This should not be the same company you will choose for the assignments for Weeks 2-5. (Please use Physio Control)
Prepare a minimum 700-word summary in which you address the following:
- Identify the company’s mission statement.
- Identify the company’s vision statement.
- Explain what role these have on the way the business operates. Evaluate whether the company’s actions seem to align to their vision and mission statements.
- Examine how the mission and vision of the organization might affect or guide you as an employee or manager in the company.
- Analyze what you think would be the effect if the company did not have a mission statement.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Cite a minimum of two peer-reviewed references.
Answer Preview
Physio-control is a corporation founded in 1955 by Dr. Karl William Edmark and is the leading manufacturer, developer, and distributor of emergency monitors and medical response equipment and services. The main products are for treatment of sudden cardiac arrests occurrences. Physio-control developed a machine that terminated…
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