...business pedagogy, and practice-based intellectual contributions. I. Catalog Description: The capstone course for the MBA. The course assumes that the company success depends upon formulation of an astute “game” plan and the ability to implement and execute that game plan proficiently. The purpose of the class is to enable students to “think strategically,” consider the total enterprise, and to make long-term decisions in a global market environment. A prerequisite for the Integrative Case Study. II. Prerequisites: - Student must be in last semester of course work and have approval of advisor. - Justification: This is a capstone course that draws upon all of the MBA core courses and stresses complex and interdisciplinary applications of the combined theories and experiences of these core courses. III. Course Learning Outcomes: This course has been developed to help you adapt to the rapidly changing markets, globalization, shifting government policies, new technologies and increasingly fickle consumer tastes, all which make the task of strategic management more difficult and critical over time. After taking this course, you should be able to: A. Recognize the most...
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...Code of Ethics Paper Tina Young HCS 335 February 11, 2012 Susan Morgan Code of Ethics Paper Nathan Smith Davis founded the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1847. The American Medical Association is a prestigious organization that bases its principles on core values and a code of ethics. The AMA mission statement that reads, “To promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public heath,” reflects their social responsibility and commitment to America’s health care industry ("American Medical Association", 1995-2013). Their ethics committee supports healthcare institutions and medical professional pursuing scholarly research. The goals of the American Medical Association are to improve the healthcare system for patients and medical professionals while establishing acceptable ethical behavior. This paper will address the association’s goals and social responsibility. Team B will analyze the relationship between the mission statement, code of ethics, and core values that are leadership, excellence, integrity, and ethical behavior. When establishing ethical policies from a theoretical standpoint, the relationship between the association’s culture and ethical behavior play a huge role in decision-making. In conclusion the team will discuss the importance of the “fit” between the ethical values of the American Medical Association’s current and potential members. The American Medical Association (AMA) is here to promote the art and science of...
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...Developing a Shared Vision Developing a Shared Vision at Grand Park Alternative School Research has shown that a critical factor among successful leaders is a clear and focused sense of values (Peters, 1987). I believe that becoming an effective leader is an inside-out process. Therefore the first step in implementing a change in my work environment is ensuring that my values are appropriate for student success at my school (Sarason, 1982). Without firm core beliefs, any leader is perceived as inconsistent and untrustworthy and unlikely to be willingly followed. So answering the internal question “Who am I?” is a crucial to developing a shared vision at my school. Who am I? During the course of my personal “value” inventory I determined that I am an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of learning that is shared and supported by the school community. I strive to reach a balance of head, heart and hands that will allow me to engage and to inspire students and teachers to accomplish phenomenal things without hurting their chances for success. With my personal values identified, I can better initiate a process of determining who we are as a school and how things will be done here (Hord, Rutherford, Huling-Austin, & Hall, 1987). The Shared Vision The next step is to create a shared vision with others. The purpose of creating a shared vision is to involve...
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...Integrating entrepreneurship and strategic management activities to gain wealth: CEOs' perspectives. Authors: Hagen, Abdalla Tootoonchi, Ahmad Hassan, Morsheda Pub Date: 01/01/2005 Publication: Name: Advances in Competitiveness Research Publisher: American Society for Competitiveness Audience: Academic; TradeFormat: Magazine/Journal Subject: Business; Business, general; Business, internationalCopyright: COPYRIGHT 2005 American Society for Competitiveness ISSN: 1077-0097 Issue: Date: Annual, 2005 Source Volume: 13 Source Issue: 1 Topic: Event Code: 200 Management dynamics Computer Subject: Company business management Geographic: Geographic Scope: United States Geographic Code: 1USA United States Accession Number: 138408287 Full Text: ABSTRACT This study explored means and ways that can help CEOs achieve wealth for their firms in the era of globalization. Using a sample of CEOs of MNCs, the findings of this study indicated that the majority of the CEOs agreed that many of the activities undertaken by organizations in an attempt to achieve wealth occur within six domains: Innovations, networks, internationalization, organizational learning, top management team and governance, and growth orientation. Critical challenges facing top management and the suggested recommendations were acknowledged by the participating CEOs. INTRODUCTION There is a general agreement regarding positive effects entrepreneurship has on firms' efforts for creating wealth (Lyon,...
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...several reasons. Environmental scanning helps identify strengths and weaknesses; is an essential element of effective strategic planning; and more importantly, raises awareness about potential issues (Ringland, 2002). Environmental scanning is a strategy that organizations should use in order to identify opportunities and changes that may affect future success. The information obtained from an environmental analysis enables organizations to forecast events, plan for the future and predict changes. There are three external environmental components within an organization and they are: remote environment, industry environment, and operating environment. An environmental analysis will be conducted on the Miami-Dade County Public School System (M-DCPS), using these three components. The remote environment is comprised of external dynamics where many of the fact have a considerable amount of control over the school district, however, the company has little control over...
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...Discuss the Need for Outsourcing the Internal Audit Function in A Company Traditional internal audit function is defined as an independent appraisal activity to review internal control activities in companies. Dezoort (2001) implies that with the extension of business activities, the internal audit function has evolved from the traditional supervision to value adding which includes a wider scale of audit-related work so as to maximize the value of a business company. This focus on adding value to the corporation through a variety of internal audit services has raised concerns about the ability of in-house auditors to perform the wider-scale audit function in a more professional and cost-saving manner (Chapman and Anderson, 2002). Due to fierce market competitions and overcapacities, company managements set out to downsize company staff and put the focus on its profit-producing business, tending to outsource (referred to the practice that one accounting firm provides audit-related services for a business organization) internal audit function to engage external specialists to present a highly cost-saving and professional performance. Although some evidence suggests that there are many limitations of outsourced activities, this essay asserts that outsourced internal audit function plays an essential role in the development process of a corporation and there is a need to outsource that function. In consequence, these positive effects on companies will be described principally...
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...University of Phoenix Material Critical Analysis Worksheet Read “Common Core” and “The Battle Against Common Core Standards.” Perform a critical analysis of each reading using critical thinking techniques from this week’s readings. Respond to the following based on your critical thinking analysis of the “Common Core” and “The Battle Against Common Core Standards” readings. 1) Define the term conclusion. |Conclusion is the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or | |decisions reached. | | | 2) What is the conclusion of each article? |The Battle Against Common Core Standards conclusion states “The problem is loss of state control in making the standards. Keeping| |standards under state control puts more power into the hands of parents as opposed to bureaucrats. | |Common Core conclusion states - Common Core was developed by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School| |Officers. Alabama has a debate about if Alabama students are learning the same concepts in the same grades as students anywhere | |else in the country. ...
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...Assignment on LR Process (10 Marks) 1. Categorizing your papers This should be a list of papers that have shaped your thinking so far. You may wish to highlight those that are ‘core’ and those that are more ‘peripheral’ [recognising that what is deemed core and periphery may change over time]. State a list of 15 papers related to your work. |Core papers |Peripheral papers | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On what criteria have you decided that a paper is core/periphery. Core papers are: • Texts that acknowledge and discuss the problem statements of your research and discuss the reality of the related situation. • Texts that reflect on the link between areas of focus in research • Texts that discuss the various...
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...The core problem of Molex, Inc is their failure to disclose an inventory valuation error problem thereby contravening AICPAs Statement of Position (SOP) 94-6 KPMG Report, 2008 states that the objective of such disclosures is to improve the information communicated to financial statement users and to help users assess those risks and uncertainties. SOP 94-6 focuses primarily on disclosures about risks and uncertainties that could significantly impact the amounts reported in the financial statements in the near term or the near-term functioning of the reporting entity. These risks and uncertainties may result from, among other matters, the nature of the entity’s operations, and the use of estimates in the financial statements, and significant uncertainties in the entity’s operations. Financial Implications due to delisting It is the opinion of the group after careful analysis of the Molex, Inc case that should the company not comply with regulations and allow themselves to be delisted due to delinquency, it will bring about a host of financial implication. In their paper on the Laws and Finances of the delisting process, M. O’Hara and D. Pompilio, 2004 wrote that The practice of delisting stocks that fail to meet certain financial criteria is curious for many reasons: it hurts the firms being delisted; it harms the investors holding those shares; and it removes from the exchange or stock market a security that traders wish to transact. Perhaps the most immediate impact of the...
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...European Management Journal VoI. 14, No. 6, pp. 596--611, 1996 ~ Pergamon S0263-2 373(96)00056-4 Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved 0263-2373/96 $17.00 + 0.00 Effective Organizational Control'. A Framework, Applications, and Implications ERIC FLAMHOLTZ, Professor of Management, University of California at Los Angeles This article by Eric Flamholtz provides a framework for understanding the nature, role, functioning, design, and effects of organizational control systems. It represents a model of control which can be used to make this process more visible in organizations. It illustrates the practical applications of the model, and suggests its implications for corporate and human resource management as well as for scholars. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Introduction All organizations (businesses, universities, governments, hospitals) are concerned with channeling human efforts toward attainment of organizational objectives. Regardless of their formal purposes, organizations are composed of people with their own personal interests. Even if these individuals and groups wish to help attain organizational goals, the organization of which they are ,~=r~ must integrate their efforts and direct them toward goals. Thus, organizations must influence or the behavior of people, if they are to fulfil their nd achieve their goals. To help gain control over the behavior of people in formal organizations, most enterprises...
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...2006 AST110-6 Due Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1. If nuclear fusion of hydrogen in the core of the Sun were to stop now, what would we see on the surface of the Sun tomorrow? Why? Will we be able to tell that hydrogen burning in the core has stopped? How? (20pt) (Hint: What particles that are generated by the fusion of hydrogen can escape from the interior of the Sun immediately?) You won’t be able to see any changes on the surface of the Sun…probably you won’t see anything from helioseismology data either. This is because photons generated in the core of the Sun takes about one million years to get to the surface. This means that the thermal energy generated in the last minute of the fusion will last for about a million years, and the Sun will just very slowly contract. So, we will not see changes on the surface until a million years later. However, we should be able to tell that the hydrogen fusion in the core has stopped by observing the solar neutrinos. The neutrinos do not interact with the solar plasma, and can escape the Sun and reach Earth in about 8 minutes. So, we would find that the neutrino flux is decreased. 2. Chapter 11, Review Question 7. What is the defining characteristic of a main-sequence star? How is surface temperature related to luminosity for main-sequence stars? (20pt) 3. Is this statement sensible? Why, or why not? (20pt) If the Sun had been born as a high-mass star some 4.6 billion years ago, rather...
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...BACKGROUND AND PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION Table 1. Grupo Bimbo History |2 |Bimbo was founded on 2 December 1945 with five shareholders. They are all Servitje’s family member. Bimbo | |December 1945 |started with only one brand, 38 workers, and 10 trucks to deliver the bread made in one plant in Mexico City. | | |The first product were white boxed bread and toasted white bread and incorporated more products into its product| | |line for the next few years. | |1963 |Don Lorenzo Servitje took on the role of CEO of Grupo Bimbo and his brother, Roberto Servitje, became CEO of | | |Bimbo breads division | |1970’s |imbo opened the largest bread factory in Mexico and Latin Amerika | |1979 |Lorenzo Servitje handed over Grupo Bimbo’s presidency to his brother Roberto and he assumed the chaimanship of | | |the board. | |1980’s |Bimbo started to distribute products in Houston and Los Angeles. | | ...
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...vision is a set of dreams, ideals, and aspirations. Organizations have implemented vision statements into their strategic business plans to provide the direction and purpose of their future. This paper will reflect my role as a leader of the University of Missouri-College of Veterinary Medicine. I will create a vision statement, supporting values statement, and a communication plan to deliver to the stakeholders; providing brief summaries of each key along the way. Creating a Compelling Vision A Review of the Organization The University of Missouri-College of Veterinary Medicine is located in Columbia, MO. We are the only College of Veterinary Medicine in Missouri; established in 1844. We offer a DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) program for students interested in pursuing a career in the veterinary field. The program starts with students spending two years in classroom and lab work, then two years of full-time clinical training. The college offers educational services and operates the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. The teaching hospital serves several functions for the school. It provides services for small animals, equine and food animal for Columbia resident pet owners and farmers in the surrounding areas. The teaching hospital is also a good resource for our students to receive the hands on experience needed for future job placement. Our Core Values Our core values are teaching, healing, discovery and service. Our mission is “to promote and protect...
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...Managerial Decision Making Lucinda Johnson Business Research for Decision Making MGT600 January 3, 2012 Kimetha Scarbrough M Ed Abstract The product needs to be well certain for several companies to be effective, the promotion obverse of the merchandise has to be moderately robust for which the four well-known P's that is pricing, product/service in the contribution, elevation and insertion. No business can ignore whether small or big the basic marketing functions to make the business a success. Individual or business owner must make sure that establishment of properties has to be additional determined on the source opinion that the exceeding said four P's motivation become uninterrupted source. In the contemporary world this modest reasons determination not effort and to improvement continued income, an obscure perfect of corporate examination has to be estimated. Managerial Decision Making To get feedback from the merchant and consumers on the product that is being sold. Analyzing the outside competitors by illustration deduction on SWOT analysis | Responsibility appropriate situation preparation approximation of the four sources which take steps ahead the exacting company and attractive the required major for the company to rise. Thoughtful the inside worth sequence organizations and approximation the openings in it so that incessant maintain purposes be capable of be make sure. Foundations on all these, many inferences are strained...
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...Running head: GENERIC BENCHMARKING WORKSHEET The Foundations Schools Generic Benchmarking Worksheet Deanna Fields, Kicia Gaines, Edward Thaxton University of Phoenix MMPBL/510 Implementing Organizational Initiatives Professor Joel Maier September 20, 2010 Task A: Problem/Opportunity Statement – Edward Thaxton The objective of our research study is to employ a team-based approach to identifying problem opportunity statements, effectively conduct generic benchmarking research, identify successful and unsuccessful generic benchmarking companies and recognize potential solutions to our problem opportunity statement and end-state goals. The design of the study includes peer-reviewed references, and utilization of a generic benchmarking worksheet. The team's approach to the research methods was to research the generic benchmarking information individually and incorporate our findings into one manuscript. Furthermore, the team-based research approach will provide enhanced solutions from three different perspectives and allow us to be more successful in our research, generic benchmarking methodologies and solution identification for California School Districts and Princeton Review. Task B1: Benchmarking - California School Districts – Kicia California’s 978 school districts receive the majority of their funding through a formula known as “revenue limits.” Revenue limit funds can be used by school districts for general purposes, unlike funds received through categorical...
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