Management

The opening case discusses workers on the autism spectrum and the challenges faced by both the employees and companies that hire them.  Few companies have a workforce made up predominantly of autistic employees, as Auticon does – a tech consulting company.  But many major firms, including Microsoft, SAP, Ford, Walgreens, and Home Depot, are expanding … Read more

https://www.mediafire.com/file/p15ruw7v2borfe3/small-business-management-theory-and-practice.pdf/file The Startup Checklist – Read Chapters 18-25 Choose 3 of your favorite topics from these chapters and write a 2-3 page double spaced summary/response of those topics.

Overview As a middle manager, you have already recommended an innovation option (incremental or discontinuous) to the organization from the course scenario. However, one of the organization’s key luxury-market competitors in passenger vehicles recently launched a prototype of a fully autonomous luxury sedan. It has announced that it plans to bring the model to market … Read more

Scenario The organization you work for as a director of leadership and learning is looking to create an adaptive leadership toolkit to help improve employee leadership skills and behaviors over the next two years. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment to take a leadership inventory of yourself. Now that you know … Read more

Course: Organizational Change Week 8 Discussion Let’s Process: What have you learned in this course that will be most helpful to you as a leader of an organizational change?  Feel free to jog your memory by scanning over the Table of Contents for your textbook.(Chapter 1-8) textbook: Title: Organization Development and Change, 11th editionAuthors: Cummings and Worley Publisher: Cengage … Read more

Part I  What is your topic?  (two paragraphs)  What went wrong at Volkswagen? (topic) Describe the topic you are researching. Provide relevant information about the topic.  Locate recent articles about your topic (no more than 2 years old).  Describe some concepts you found to be interesting.  Why is this an important topic for managers to … Read more

https://www.mediafire.com/file/p15ruw7v2borfe3/small-business-management-theory-and-practice.pdf/file What are the five phases of growth according to the Greiner Model, briefly describe each. What are the four points of ‘Crisis’ that correspond with the Greiner five phases of growth? Briefly describe each and why they occur at the corresponding phase. The Weber study says that at least 83% of small businesses were … Read more

Overview In this course, the learner-faculty check-in assignments will be used for discussing the Milestone One, Milestone Two, and project guidelines. Be sure to reach out to your instructor so that any concerns and questions are addressed prior to when Milestone Two is due. In Milestone Two, you will create a strategic plan for the … Read more

Scenario As a director of leadership and learning, you collaborate with many different employees throughout the prosthetics manufacturing organization you work for. You were recently contacted by Eduardo, who was promoted from an individual contributor to a manager four months ago. Eduardo is seeking your advice on developing his leadership style after receiving his first … Read more

Course: Organizational Change Week 7 Online Assessment This online assessment expands upon the Discussion for this week.  Continue to focus on the intervention you selected for the Discussion questions. How many of you have experienced the “program of the month” syndrome in which a leader creates an exciting vision, gets your buy-in, implements a creative … Read more