Management
Business operations
Prompt: Design an operations system for an athletic apparel manufacturer
o Requirements: A 1,250-word minimum, APA compliant paper that includes the following sections as a minimum:
A brief, introductory description of your hypothetical business
The approach you will use regarding globalization
How you will utilize forecasting in your operations
Define the culture you will want at your company and how you will structure your Human Resources system to achieve that culture
Define how you are going to develop a sustainable supply chain for your company
Explain how you will approach planning in your company and the methodology you will use.
Define how you will use lean operations in your company to reduce waste and improve productivity
Assessment: An essay or a portion of the final paper equal to 250 words, which is to be formatted into the following three sections:
E-Government
Required Elements:
An introduction section that defines your topic, and describes why this issue is important. This section must include your Thesis Statement, which expresses the topic of your paper in the form of a one sentence statement.
A state of the art assessment/literature review of your topic. Examine the published works found in major academic and business publications (i.e., HBR, Sloan, Academy of Management Review, MISQ, ISR, Communications of the ACM). At lease half of your sources should be from high quality journals, industry reports, and books. Provide the reader of your report with a thorough understanding of the topic, current practices, competing technologies, management models, problems/issues raised by others, etc.
An analysis of the topic that draws on the material from class and from your reading. Your analysis should include as a minimum (necessary to receive a score of 85%) the following elements (alternative elements may be used with consent of the instructor):
An examination of implementation issues related to your topic
Organizational benefits related to the issue
Cost factors related to the issue
An examination of the organizational and implementation risks related to the issue
Critical success factors related to the issue
Obesity in America
10-2 research paper based on obesity in the American culture. I have an annotated bib written on it that we turned in prior to this one and 3 of the sources need to be reused.
Future challenge facing management
Instructions:
In 500 words, 12 point font and double spaced discuss the following commentary theme:
Select one future challenge facing management in the OD field that you as a manager feel will be the hardest one for you to succeed in conquering.
The paper should discuss the following points:
a description of the challenge
how it is a challenge for the future workplace
why it is a challenge for managers
why you think it will be hard for you personally to succeed, include a discussion of the skills needed to
Research project
Your reflection exercise must consist of:
A personal experience to support the theory
How this personal experience connected to something we have covered in the course ( common goal strategy)
What you will do differently, next time, as a result of the learning
Your reflection exercise must be written in a word document and must use accurate business English
N.B. Your reflection exercise must not be more than 300 words