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Impact of Employee Communication and Perceived External Prestige on Organizational Identification
$17.50Article review: The Impact of Employee Communication and Perceived External Prestige on Organizational Identification
Each student will critique the research design and the methods of one empirical study. For this assignment, each Summary & Critique needs to be a minimum of 3 pages. Please follow the guideline below (http://www.uis.edu/ctl/wp-content/uploads/sites/76/2013/03/Howtocritiqueajournalarticle.pdf). I have provided the guideline as PDF document.
Additional Files:
THE-IMPACT-OF-EMPLOYEE-COMMUNICATION-AND-PERCEIVED.pdf
4.5 pages
APA – 1 References
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Market structure and power
$5.00Module 11: Market structure and power
This chapter discusses market structure and power. Do some research on two different organizations that have similar services, such as pulmonary, cardiac, oncology, etc, that are in Central Florida and describe their differences. Why would you choose one over the other? Who has more market power in the area? Please make sure to properly cite your references throughout the discussion and at the end.
1 page
3 References
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Twin Falls Community Hospital (Capital Investment Analysis) – Solution
$20.00Twin Falls Community Hospital
(Capital Investment Analysis) – AnswersQuestions
- Complete Table 1 by adding the cash flows for years four and five.
- What is the project’s payback and net present value (NPV)? Interpret each of these measures.
- Suppose that the project would be allocated $10,000 of existing overhead costs. Should these costs be included in the cash flow analysis? Explain.
- Conduct a scenario analysis. What is its expected NPV? What is the worst- and best-case NPVs? How does the worst-case value help in assessing the hospital’s ability to bear the risk of this investment?
- Now assume that the project is judged to have high risk. Furthermore, the hospital’s standard procedure is to use a three percentage point risk adjustment. What is the project’s NPV after adjusting for the assessment of high risk?
- What is your final recommendation regarding the proposed outpatient surgery center?
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Managing change at Cox’s Container Company Case Study
$30.00Read the case study ‘Managing change at Cox’s Container Company’. The case or a link to the case can be found on Blackboard and the full reference for this case study is:
Corbett, J. M. (1994) Critical cases in organisational behaviour (Palgrave/Macmillan), pp. 154-155 (Case 33).
Answer the following question:- Outline and analyse the problems confronting CCC in the short and long term and offer recommendations for their resolution.
Further guidance:
Please note that you should draw upon material from any or all sections of the OB unit as appropriate. This is a case that says a lot about organizational structures and cultures and processes of managing change (as well as motivations and power) and which also invites you to examine these issues in some depth (although choices about how much breadth and depth to go into will inevitably have to be made due to the word limit).
For further detailed guidance, please make sure you read very carefully the attached Guide to Analyzing OB Case Studies, which sets out at the end how the case study will be marked. Your answer should use the case study format outlined in that guide and should be 2,000 words in length (inclusive of references, etc).A GUIDE TO ANALYSING OB CASE STUDIES
Using Case Studies
Cases are intended to provide vicarious experience based on real situations, allowing you to ‘observe’ the internal affairs of organisations and to develop a deeper understanding of the subject matter. Whether based on real organisations or more simulated, they require the application of relevant theoretical concepts and models to the analysis of organisational and management problems. Often, they require you to explore a range of issues in a holistic way, drawing upon more than one aspect of the course (e.g. motivation, structure, culture, change management). Whatever the subject area(s), if you expect to find the ‘correct’ answer to a case study problem you are likely to get disillusioned and frustrated! There is usually no one best solution but, rather, a number of different paths, which may lead to a similar outcome. The task is to identify a path that is likely to solve the immediate and long-term problems in the case without causing unintended negative outcomes.
Analysing Cases
The standards expected in analysing OB cases are that:
An answer should demonstrate your ability to analyse the facts presented in the case. It should highlight your understanding of relevant theories, concepts and research findings and your ability to relate these, in a well-reasoned discussion, to the facts given. It should demonstrate emphasis on the most important issues and explain the assumptions, conclusions and recommendations you make. An answer that is merely a statement of your conclusions will receive very little credit.
Although different cases may require slightly different approaches, a standard format with which to approach a case analysis is suggested below. This should help you to structure your case analysis and, even if this precise format is not required to answer the case study questions, it provides you with an outline of the essential steps needed in preparing your case study report.
Step 1. First reading
Read the cased study as you would a short story, trying to understand the general points that are being realised and the characters involved.
Step 2. Second Reading and Summarising
It is at this stage that you will want to proceed more systematically. Make a summary of the contents of the case study. The following questions should help you do this:- What is the case study about?
- What are the main issues highlighted?
Note: This summary does not need to appear in your assignment. The starting point for the actual writing of your case study assignment is Step 3 below).
Step 3. Problem Identification
By this point, you should be ready to start writing your case study. First, try to define what the critical problem is in the case study. This may or may not be particularly easy. In addition, sub-problems may be present which may also influence the situation. You do not need to analyse the problems at this stage, but you should prioritise them. The following questions should help you:- What seems to be causing the ‘problems’ in the case?
- What further information might be needed to help you understand the causes of the problems?
Step 4. Analysis
This is the most important part of the case study (see ‘balance of marks’ below). Analyse the situation that has led to the problem(s) you have identified. At this stage, you will need to relate the theoretical material covered in lectures, textbooks and journals to the issues and problems you have identified. You might need to cover one, some or several topic areas covered in the course. Remember too that the theories and concepts you apply to the case will inevitably be partial and incomplete – dealing with some, but not all, aspects of the problem. They may even be controversial or contested, in which case you might need to work at demonstrating their relevance and usefulness. Consequently, you should use the theories and concepts collectively as a ‘toolbox’ for analysing the case, probably using more than one theory or model (and possibly several) to analyse each issue. You might use the following types of questions to help you:- Is this an issue or problem that is concerned with one or several aspects of the subject area?
- Which theories and concepts you have covered might help you to explain what is going on?
- How do these theories and concepts explain what is going on?
- Are other concepts and theories needed to analyse other aspects of the problem?
- Are they needed to provide ‘triangulation’ to bolster certain parts of your analysis?
Step 5. Alternatives
Based on your identification of the problem(s) and through your analysis, it should now be possible to highlight a variety of alternative course of action that can be taken. It is useful to identify a number of general alternatives (say 3 or 4) that address all parts of the problem(s) you have identified. (An obvious starting point here is to consider ‘do nothing’ as the default option!) As in any real situation, no alternative is likely to be ideal, so each should be evaluated in terms of its pros and cons (in dealing with all aspects of the problem), as well as the risks involved in implementation of any change required.
Step 6. Recommendation
After outlining all the alternatives available, you must now make a clear recommendation regarding which of the alternatives you prefer. Again, the following questions will be helpful:- What needs to be done to resolve the case study problem?
- In what ways do these resolutions relate to the theoretical analysis of the case?
Step 7. Plan of Action
The final stage of case analysis is the most practically focused and involves outlining the procedure by which you would implement your recommendation. The following questions might help you:- Which people might be involved?
- How long would the process take?
- What parts of the organisation might be affected?
- What sorts of side effects might be expected?
General Comments
Avoid excessive problem identification. It is too easy to fall into the trap of spending too much time identifying or listing problems (including superficial aspects such as conflict or poor communications) without spending enough time and not enough time analysing and understanding them. Think about it – a doctor treats a cough and chest pains as symptoms, but only a deeper diagnosis will get to the underlying medical problem or problems. It’s the same with case analysis.
Analysis is not just conjecture. A vital feature of good case study reports is that they tend to be analytical, rather than subjective and judgmental. They tend to expose how and why various conditions link together (i.e. expose inter-relationships) and how they produce particular outcomes. They rely on theories and research findings to understand and evaluate the case problems and to support suggestions about how those problems could be tackled.
In contrast, poor case study reports rely on personal judgements, conjecture and prejudice, rather than on analysis. In poor case study reports, the author takes side with little or no evaluation and expresses subjective likes and dislikes. Advice on what should have been done is given, without first focusing on how the main problems can be understood and tackled. Statements like ‘all the problems would be solved if the process was re-engineered’ are given without support or consideration of their consequences. Obviously, this is an extreme example, but it is surprisingly easy to slip into conjecture, rather than analysis. To avoid conjecture, you might want to ask yourself a series of ‘why’ questions, such as:- Why have I made this statement?
- Why have I come to this conclusion?
- Why are there these problems?
Analysis is not just description. Avoid the trap of simply re-describing the original case study in your report in your own words. Your tutor knows what the case study said, so get straight on to problem identification and, most importantly, your analysis. You should certainly use examples from the case to illustrate theoretical concepts and your main argument, so do not go to the other extreme and present a lengthy review of the literature without ever mentioning the case! Use theories to inform your understanding of the particular problems you have identified in the case, but let the problems identified in the case drive your arguments and use of theories (rather than letting the history of the subject area do that!). Remember that a case study represents an integration of theory and practice.
Be selective. You can’t hope to cover every possible theoretical angle or research finding that may apply to the case, so there is a need to be selective. The word limit will force you to make choices in the range of material you include to enable you to develop a good depth of analysis in the areas you explore. A good case study will therefore achieve a nice balance between breadth of coverage and depth of analysis – not trying to cover everything too superficially; but not narrowing the subject area too tightly and going into too much depth in any one area.
Integration. Take a look at your case study report as a whole to check that your arguments are logical and that the inter-relationships between different points are clear. Finally, make sure that your arguments are clear to the reader and that you have reached a conclusion that captures the most significant aspects of your analysis.
Use a proper referencing style. The ‘Harvard system’ of referencing is the simplest and preferred system of referring to book and articles in the text, so please use this. For example: Smith (2012) or (Smith, 2012), depending on context. If you do use direct quotes, make sure this is clear and that page numbers are also indicated (e.g. Smith, 2012, p. 75). Make sure too that you give full details of sources used and referred to in the text in an alphabetical list of ‘References’ or ‘Bibliography’ at the end. Further information on proper referencing should be available from your course handbooks. -
Organization’s Internal Communication in China
$32.50T
Qualitative Research
As part of your research project, you will conduct 1 focus groups or 5 in-depth interviews. You are going to provide the complete questioning route, full description of your research participants, the recruiting strategies, and the abridged transcript of the interviews along with your analysis result. You will follow the steps and turn in a report.
The paper is part of a qualitative research that focuses on one-to-one interview aimed at exploring internal communication in China.
Paper Contents:
- Introduction
- Data Collection
- Participants Selection
- Ethical Consideration
- Questions
- Abridged Transcript
- Data Analysis
Link to Report 4: Report 4: Survey Exercise Assignment
10 Pages
APA – 4 References
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Research Proposal Report 1-2 – Organization’s Internal Communication in China (Studies in Journalism and Communication Research Methods)
$50.00The research proposal explicates how communication in organizations has influenced the level of industrial operations in China.
The main purpose of the ‘Intro’ is to give a description of the problem that will be addressed. In this section the researcher might discuss the nature of the research, the purpose of the research, the significance of the research problem, and the research question(s) to be addressed. Three essential parts of a good introduction are: Rationale, Purpose, Research Questions.
Literature Review is a survey of important articles, books and other sources pertaining to your research topic. Now, for the second main section of your research report you need to write a summary of the main studies and research related to your topic. In a review of the literature, you do not merely summarize the research findings that others have reported. You must also evaluate and comment on each study’s worth and validity. If it also runs counter to your hypothesis, you may want to critique it in your review. Don’t just ignore it. Tell how your research will be better/overcome the flaws. Doing this can strengthen the rationale for conducting your research.
The research proposal explicates how communication in organizations has influenced the level of industrial operations in China.
Paper contents:
Introduction
Rationale for the Research
Purpose of the Study
Literature review
Research Question and Hypotheses
Link to Report 3: Report 3: Organization’s Internal Communication in China – Qualitative Research
14 Pages
APA – 20 References
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Research Proposal – A communication plan for iPhone 7
$100.00A research proposal on the communication plan that Apple should use for iPhone 7
As a member of the agency, you are asked to put together a proposal for the agency’s latest client (which is a client of your choice) for a year-long communications plan. I understand that some of you have easy access to an organization. If you don’t, I’m happy to work with you to find one that might work.
The goal of the final project is to use research in communications planning. Primarily focus on using historical and secondary research as well as content analyses (or communications audit) for your situation analysis and research. You can certainly use surveys/polls, focus groups or other methods if you’d like to do so. More than likely, you will use more than one form of evaluative research.
The document should be approximately 15-25 pages (excluding references and executive summary). I’ve given a wide range because I’d rather have a well-written concise 15 page proposal than a hard-to-read 25 page one.
The proposal would include:
- Executive Summary (no more than one page)
- Situation Analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Internal, External, and Competitive Analyses
- Problem Statement
- Research
- Research Results
- Implications of Research (i.e. key publics, potential key messages, priorities, etc.)
- Proposed Public Relations Goals & Objectives
- Goals
- Objectives (informational, motivational, behavioral)
- Plan Evaluation (How will the outcomes be measured)
- References
25 Pages
APA – 15 References
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Reinforcing Organizational Commitment in Shamrock and Zero-Hour Contracts
$39.00Organizational commitment is one of the important HR outcomes of HRM theory – treating people well makes them want to stay with you, in simple terms. How the can HR deal with the different types of worker in the Shamrock organization and increasingly those on Zero-hour contracts to ensure that this commitment is reinforced?
In this essay you will need to examine the HR outcomes of the HRM theory and the way in which good people practice is alleged to reinforce organizational commitment. You should explain how the steps of the HRD list are the principal and only interventions which the company and its managers can use to reinforce their plans and achieve the HR outcomes the theory suggests.
Take each of the sectors of Handy’s Shamrock organization in turn and address how far the different HRD steps are relevant to workers in that sector. The do the same for those working on zero-hours contracts.
Explain how constant change challenges job security for everyone in employment today and that many people know that they have a portfolio career. How can HR work with their people to enhance their career prospects in a systematic and consistent way?
8 Pages
APA – 10 References
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Kline and Saunders Learning Organization Assessment
$32.50GALC Activity #8: Learning Organization Assessment
Related Standards:
Florida Principal Leadership Standards 1-10
Interstate Leadership Licensure Consortium Standards (ISLCC) 1-6
Educational Leadership Constituents Council (ELCC) Standards 1-7
See Kline and Saunders, pages 61 to 63 and complete the Learning Organization Assessment by indicating in the responses that best describe your organization/school/institution. On page 63, determine the average of the results by dividing sum of all the response/ratings by 36, the number of statements. The average indicates, on a scale of 1-5, the degree to which the respondent believes his or her organization possess the characteristics of a Learning
Analyze and synthesize your results in a summary report where you discuss how your organization/school/institution (1) meets some of the Steps to a learning organization and why (Kline & Saunders), (2) what steps needs to be developed, and why and the (3)challenges your organization have to overcome to meet the remaining steps of a learning organization.
Ten Steps to a Learning Organization can be found in Kline and Saunders.
7 Pages
APA – 5 References