Category: Management

What is continuous improvement and how does it affect the cost of quality

Course Description:

In this course, students will explore the philosophy and tools for quality management and the continuous improvement of products and processes. Using data collection and problem-solving techniques, students will examine the design of quality practices.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Apply critical thinking skills to analyze business situations.
• Appropriately use effective communication techniques.
  Calculate the costs associated with quality.
• Construct a process improvement by mapping, analyzing, and redesigning the process.
• Describe management quality initiatives such as TQM and Six Sigma.
• Discuss the opportunities provided by technology for businesses.
• Evaluate the quality control tools used to analyze and improve processes.
• Explain time study methods and work sampling, and perform calculations.
• Recognize situations that present potential ethical and legal issues, and develop solutions for those issues.

Assignment Details
This assignment has 4 parts:
1. Review the Terminal Course Objectives, which can be accessed by clicking on the Course Information tab at the top of your screen, scrolling down to Course Objectives, and then selecting View Class Objectives. Answer the following questions: How will accomplishing these objectives support your success in management? What risks or challenges might a manager encounter if he or she has not mastered these objectives? Explain.
2. What is continuous improvement and how does it affect the cost of quality?
3. What are some examples of process improvement tools and approaches? How are they used?
4. What are some examples of management quality initiatives? How do they help organizations achieve and maintain competitive advantage?
In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. Click here to view the grading rubric.

Quality and Cost Assignment

Course Description:

In this course, students will explore the philosophy and tools for quality management and the continuous improvement of products and processes. Using data collection and problem-solving techniques, students will examine the design of quality practices.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Apply critical thinking skills to analyze business situations.
• Appropriately use effective communication techniques.
  Calculate the costs associated with quality.
• Construct a process improvement by mapping, analyzing, and redesigning the process.
• Describe management quality initiatives such as TQM and Six Sigma.
• Discuss the opportunities provided by technology for businesses.
• Evaluate the quality control tools used to analyze and improve processes.
• Explain time study methods and work sampling, and perform calculations.
• Recognize situations that present potential ethical and legal issues, and develop solutions for those issues.

Assignment Details
This assignment has 4 parts:
1. Review the Terminal Course Objectives, which can be accessed by clicking on the Course Information tab at the top of your screen, scrolling down to Course Objectives, and then selecting View Class Objectives. Answer the following questions: How will accomplishing these objectives support your success in management? What risks or challenges might a manager encounter if he or she has not mastered these objectives? Explain.
2. What is continuous improvement and how does it affect the cost of quality?
3. What are some examples of process improvement tools and approaches? How are they used?
4. What are some examples of management quality initiatives? How do they help organizations achieve and maintain competitive advantage?
In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. Click here to view the grading rubric.

How might ethical decision making and ethical goal setting be increased in organizations

Organizational Behavior Assignment

Please read the article “Lessons from the Wells Fargo Scandal.” For this assignment you will answer the following questions.
https://search-proquest-com.library.esc.edu/docview/1822892219/CE361751EFFC4634PQ/1?accountid=8067

1. How does an organization’s values impact decision making for both leaders and employees? Explain.
2. Which of the ethical decision criteria apply to employees and leaders at Wells Fargo? Why?
3. How might ethical decision making and ethical goal setting be increased in organizations? Explain

Which of the ethical decision criteria apply to employees and leaders at Wells Fargo

Organizational Behavior Assignment

Please read the article “Lessons from the Wells Fargo Scandal.” For this assignment you will answer the following questions.
https://search-proquest-com.library.esc.edu/docview/1822892219/CE361751EFFC4634PQ/1?accountid=8067

1. How does an organization’s values impact decision making for both leaders and employees? Explain.
2. Which of the ethical decision criteria apply to employees and leaders at Wells Fargo? Why?
3. How might ethical decision making and ethical goal setting be increased in organizations? Explain

How does an organization’s values impact decision making for both leaders and employees

Organizational Behavior Assignment

Please read the article “Lessons from the Wells Fargo Scandal.” For this assignment you will answer the following questions.
https://search-proquest-com.library.esc.edu/docview/1822892219/CE361751EFFC4634PQ/1?accountid=8067

1. How does an organization’s values impact decision making for both leaders and employees? Explain.
2. Which of the ethical decision criteria apply to employees and leaders at Wells Fargo? Why?
3. How might ethical decision making and ethical goal setting be increased in organizations? Explain

Organizational Behavior Assignment

Please read the article “Lessons from the Wells Fargo Scandal.” For this assignment you will answer the following questions.
https://search-proquest-com.library.esc.edu/docview/1822892219/CE361751EFFC4634PQ/1?accountid=8067

1. How does an organization’s values impact decision making for both leaders and employees? Explain.
2. Which of the ethical decision criteria apply to employees and leaders at Wells Fargo? Why?
3. How might ethical decision making and ethical goal setting be increased in organizations? Explain

Dell’s Supply Chain Management

For this assessment, consider that you work as a business analyst for a consulting firm that specializes in helping clients improve their operations and associated processes. Your manager asked you to write a white paper that they will use to demonstrate how your firm can help clients implement best practices in their supply chains and distribution channels, and you and your manager selected Dell as the subject of the white paper.

Dell has been selling computers for over 25 years with its unique, direct build-to-order sales model.

As part of your research into Dell’s supply chain and distribution strategy, Using the attached article in Materials section as well as another resource article. You and your manager decided your white paper should address the following points:

• Analyze why Dell’s supply chain strategy is successful.
• Describe the main supply chain challenges that Dell is now facing and provide strategies to effectively overcome the challenges.
• Analyze how Dell has changed its supply chain to satisfy its customers. As an example, was Dell’s decision to sell its products via retail outlets a viable solution? Do you agree with this distribution strategy? Why or why not?

Project Communications Plan and Risk Analysis Plan

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word Project Implementation Plan for the organization using the Project Charter your Learning Team selected in Wk 2 and which will also be used for the final project due in Wk 5. The Project Implementation Plan must include the following sections:

Project Communications Plan: This plan should include the communications plan for project implementation. Your plan should:

• Describe the communication models and methods that will be employed and include a Data Flow Diagram.
• Examine how the project inputs and outputs will be communicated, including performance reports and updates.
• Describe the tools and techniques that will be used for the project, including information management systems and assets.

Risk Analysis Plan: This plan should include risk analysis and contingency planning for the project. Your plan should:

• Assess qualitative risk analysis inputs and outputs, including scope baseline, risk register, and environmental factors.
• Evaluate risk analysis tools and techniques, and include sources of risk, a risk probability and impact assessment, and risk data quality and urgency assessments.

Format your Project Implementation Plan consistent with APA guidelines.

 

 

 

Project Implementation Plan for the organization using the Project Charter

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word Project Implementation Plan for the organization using the Project Charter your Learning Team selected in Wk 2 and which will also be used for the final project due in Wk 5. The Project Implementation Plan must include the following sections:

Project Communications Plan: This plan should include the communications plan for project implementation. Your plan should:

• Describe the communication models and methods that will be employed and include a Data Flow Diagram.
• Examine how the project inputs and outputs will be communicated, including performance reports and updates.
• Describe the tools and techniques that will be used for the project, including information management systems and assets.

Risk Analysis Plan: This plan should include risk analysis and contingency planning for the project. Your plan should:

• Assess qualitative risk analysis inputs and outputs, including scope baseline, risk register, and environmental factors.
• Evaluate risk analysis tools and techniques, and include sources of risk, a risk probability and impact assessment, and risk data quality and urgency assessments.

Format your Project Implementation Plan consistent with APA guidelines.

 

 

 

Present a brief summary of the main goals and recommendations of the plan to assist top management to define the company quickly

Directions

Students will begin forming their project groups starting Unit 1. Any student who has not formed or joined a group will be randomly assigned to a group by the Instructor by end of Unit 1. Assume you will be presenting this plan to either prospective investors as a company officer, or as a consultant who is assisting the company to identify areas for growth.

Marketing Plan Outline

The marketing plan must contain but not limited to the following:

1. Executive Summary (10 points)-

Present a brief summary of the main goals and recommendations of the plan to assist top management to define the company quickly, and envision its projections for the future. A table of contents should follow the executive summary.

1. The Company Description (10 points)

In one page summary, describe the company’s products/services, their user benefits, and evidence of their acceptance by customers; management’s qualifications and major accomplishments; the amount of and uses for capital required; investor benefits; market size and growth rate; and the identity of the company’s market niche. Include recent history and successes.

III. Organization (5 points) – make this section very short! 

Outline the current organizational chart, including future positions that may be considered as a result of growth. Consider the following:

For each officer of the company, please provide the following information: name, years of experience in the company’s industry, responsibilities/functions of positions with company; salary, bonus, ownership interest in the company; relevant qualities, achievements, track record, and education.

Note: focus your efforts on the two aspects below:

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the company’s management team and its board of directors, and how will they enhance the growth potential of the company?

Explain how the management team will grow and continually improve itself in conjunction with company growth projections.

 

Project Management Plan Proposal Presentation

Select an organization in which one of the team members is employed, or one with which the team is familiar.
Identify a project for the organization that must be completed. This project will be used for the remaining Learning Team assignments.
Additionally, the plan will serve as an agreement between the following parties:

• Project sponsor
• Steering committee
• Project manager
• Project team

Other personnel associated with and/or affected by the project
Create a 17- to 25-slide visual presentation of the project plan proposal for the identified project using the template provided. Be sure to provide a definition of the project, including the project’s goals and objectives.

Subject Matter Expert SME Report

Subject Matter Expert SME Report worth up to twenty percent (20%) of the final grade for the course.

Submit a 2,500 to 3,000 word -plus references-written assignment on the following:

Draw on a real-life public or non-profit human resource issue that is currently in the news, and assume that as a result of your research you have become the subject matter expert (SME) for this HR topic. Good sources for this can be FedSmith.com, Governing.com, SHRM.org, hrmorning.com, HR.BLR.com, ipma@ipma-hr.org; etc., Feel free to use the popular media as well. (minimum of five articles) . Please do not use wikis, blogs, politically motivated websites or dictionaries as sources. In addition, you can use books, websites (Federal OPM, OHR), or BLS might be good to review as well as individual state HR sites) or any other authentic sources. You may augment the popular literature review with additional peer reviewed journal articles.

1. Build your literature review on the real-life news topic you chose to explore by researching relevant issues. As you read, make note of the following:

• Identify the author’s thesis. What is she arguing for/against? Identify the context of the argument.

• Why is he/she arguing this? Do they offer a solution to the problem(s) they raise?

• Does it seem plausible?

• Note any supporting evidence and all of the main ideas. How does the author support his/ her argument? What kind of appeals does the author make in order to persuade the reader?

For example, does he/she use:

pathos (appeal to emotion), logos (appeal to reason/logic), &/or ethos (appeal to credibility)

Your submission should include the following:

1. Summarize the key points of news articles and emphasize its relevance to public and nonprofit HR management. In addition, make connections to your readings and other assignments.

2. Provide a critical analysis of the arguments (for and against) made in the popular articles. Make sure to support your analysis with arguments from the course and any scholarly articles you wish to consult

3. Suggest what the future will bring for the issue you have researched. Excessive wordiness or brevity will negatively affect your grade.

Use the style guide for the American Psychological Association (APA) for proper form. Be sure to include citations for all direct quotes and paraphrases.

Graduate student level writing, grammar, and style as well as cogent and logical analysis are expected and will be considered in the grading.

Exploring critical success factors for stakeholder management in attracting investments to the oil and gas industry

Exploring critical success factors for stakeholder management in attracting investments to the oil and gas industry

 

In response to COVID-19 global pandemic many pharmaceutical companies have started to develop antiviral therapies for patients infected with this disease

In response to COVID-19 global pandemic, many pharmaceutical companies have started to develop antiviral therapies for patients infected with this disease. The global race for identifying an efficient treatment has intensified during past months, however, issues with the quality of manufacturing and potential drug recalls are of the major concerns.

Myer Pharmaceuticals is a Swiss-based pharmaceutical company that is currently in the final stage of clinical trials for a new drug with potential to treat mild to serious complications of COVID-19. Myer Pharmaceuticals’ products are already exported worldwide, but if the clinical trials are successful the company would like to produce the new drug on a larger scale. The company wants to establish manufacturing presence in a foreign country (instead of outsourcing or licensing) and ensure control over the process and a higher margin of profit. The company managers identified three potential countries for manufacturing: the United Kingdom, France and Italy.

You have been asked by the company to research ONE of these countries and write a report identifying the advantages and disadvantages of manufacturing and sales in that country. In your report, you are required to link your arguments to the course content, and to use relevant data to support your suggestion as to why the selected country would be appropriate (or inappropriate) for manufacturing and sales. In particular, the use of Porter’s National Competitive Advantage theory, PESTLE analysis, and reference to the Market Potential Index (MPI) are required for this assessment task.

Please note: This is a hypothetical case and not a real company. The purpose of this assessment is to analyse the potential of the country as a host-market with reference to the industry level information.

Length: 3000 words (tables, figures, references and appendix are NOT included in the word count, Executive summary included in the word count.)

Further instructions:

• Choose ONE country only (from either the United Kingdom, France or Italy ) for the analysis. Your task is to analyse the selected ONE country and writing a report on whether the selected country is appropriate for Myer Pharmaceuticals to expand into.
• Provide a brief Executive Summary (about 200words) that states the purposes of the report and the key findings and recommendation.