What are the three major activities that must occur to ensure that goals of the end business, consumers and analytics professionals align? Which activity do you think is the most difficult and why?

What is the difference in the early view and modern view of manager-as-leader? Include an explanation of pros and cons (providing examples) as part of your response.

Strategic Management Edition 4. - Frank T. Rothaermel

Amazon - Chapter 8

While Amazon as a firm continues to diversify its products, services, and markets under one corporate umbrella, why do firms such as Barnes & Noble choose to split into separate firms for greater focus on each piece of the business? Do these different strategies align with the core competencies of each? It may be helpful to review Exhibit 8.9.

The claims department of Corrupt Insurance operates Monday through Friday, except on holidays. The effective workday averages 6.5 hours, considering employee breaks. The department processes 10 different types of claims before they are accepted or denied. The estimated processing time per claim type, as well as their observed percentage, are shown in the table below. Based on reliable forecasts, the manager of this facility is expecting the throughput shown here for the second half of 2018. Estimate the number of FTEs (full-time equivalent) required every month and propose options to adjust the labor force accordingly.

A Singapore Airlines case study

Introduction

When you run a large organization, you are likely to have a large number of employees. The Singapore Airlines Group has more than 29,000 employees. This large workforce comprises a diverse mix of people who bring a range of skills, attributes and personalities to the workplace. They are employed in the Group’s home base in Singapore and in as many as 80 diverse locations, all around the world.

Organizational systems

In the most efficient organizations, all employees should know and understand their role and how it fits into the work of the organization as a whole. They will also want to do the best that they can, not only in the interests of the organization that employs them, but also in their own interest. With such a large and diverse group of employees operating in widely differing working environments, giving each of them a sense of belonging to a community with a common goal is a huge organizational undertaking.

Modern organizations like the Singapore Airlines Group need a structure that enables people to work and deal with one another in a coordinated and co-operative way as they work towards the goals of the business. An organization’s hierarchy helps to distinguish between the levels of post as well as the layers of authority and responsibility attached to each post.

Dividing up an organization

A very small business does not really need a formal structure and is unlikely to have one. As it grows, however, some sort of formal structure will be required. As it grows even larger, its ability to construct a proper organizational structure may well determine its fate. Differentiation is the process by which certain activities or parts of an organization are grouped and then assigned to managers and other staff. How this is done depends upon a range of issues related to each organization. Ideally, the chosen structure will:

• include every part of the organization
• relate each part to every other part
• show where the authority and responsibility of different individuals and their departments lie
• enable everyone within the organization to assess their roles and status.

There are five main methods of grouping different parts of an organization.
These are by: Function - Dividing the organization into broad sectors that reflect the specialism or function of each sector. Product - Basing the structure around products, with a different division for each type of product. Process - Creating a structure that mirrors the particular steps or phases of the production process. Geographical area - Relating parts of an organization to the activities they provide for each geographical region. Matrix - Setting up a mix of the above methods.

Running a service business

Airlines operate in a competitive environment. A key area of competition for them is the quality of customer service. Customer service helps to distinguish one airline from another, and to give one an advantage over the other. In order to provide the type of service that customers want; airlines need to be flexible. They must allow employees scope to make decisions that consider changing circumstances in a variety of environments. It is mainly for this reason that Singapore Airlines gives considerable autonomy to each part of the organization.

Questions

Use the course materials to support your discussion about:

• The type of culture
• The business strategy

In Singapore Airlines (450 words ).

You are at a job interview for a senior management position. The interviewer asks you to explain how you would go about changing the culture of the organization, if hired. What would you suggest?  

Please answer with detail : define diversity along with some of the key components of diversification and the risk of becoming over diversified.  

PLEASE CITE ALL OUTSIDE SOURCES.

1. A small mattress company recently started its operations and currently does not have enough resources to utilize high-tech forecasting software. The manager wants to utilize traditional methods of forecasting to estimate demand. The following recent data on monthly sales are available from the past year. Use this information to answer the following set of questions.

1. If the manager uses a naïve forecasting method. What is the forecast for Jan 2020? (2 pts.)

1. Use the three-period moving average method and estimate forecast beginning from Aug-19 to Jan-20. Use 0.4, 0.3, and 0.2 as weights with highest weights given to the most recent periods (8 pts.)
   
2. Calculate the Mean Absolute Deviation of forecasts from the three-period moving average. (5 pts.)
   

              2. Use the same date from Q1. to answer the following questions. (10 pts.)

1. Use the exponential smoothing method to calculate forecast from Aug-19 to Jan-20. Use an α value of 0.3.

You need a beginning forecast of Jul-19 to start this. Use the naïve forecast for estimating Jul-19, and then use the answer to start the exponential smoothing method.

(Please show all the work for credit on this. You can use excel too, but show the logic/formula if using excel)

• Why do governments try to create clusters around groundbreaking research?

• Do you think that governments should undertake such efforts or leave it all to markets to determine successes and failures?

Can you please describe 3 to 5 characteristics a data store design must have to be considered a proper physical design.

Firms pursuing a differentiation strategy primarily seek to:

What U. S. organizations use organizational open, natural and rational?

True/False: The advantage to being the late mover or follower strategy is that you learn from the mistakes that the first mover makes.

True/False: Firms have to choose between two different strategies of entry one is a non-equity strategy and the other is an equity strategy.

True/False:Joint ventures are considered a desirable strategy for firms that want tight control over the foreign operations.

Please also give a reasoning if you can, thanks!

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I need new and unique answers, please. (Use your own words, don't copy and paste)

THE RELUCTANT WORKERS

Tim Aston had changed employers three months ago. His new position was project manager.

At first he had stars in his eyes about becoming the best project manager that his company had ever seen. Now, he wasn’t sure if project management was worth the effort. He made an appointment to see Phil Davies, director of project management.

Tim Aston: “Phil, I’m a little unhappy about the way things are going. I just can’t seem to motivate my people. Every day, at 4:30 P.M., all of my people clean off their desks and go home. I’ve had people walk out of late afternoon team meetings because they were afraid that they’d miss their car pool. I have to schedule morning team meetings.”

Phil Davies: “Look, Tim. You’re going to have to realize that in a project environment, people think that they come first and that the project is second. This is a way of life in our organizational form.”

Tim Aston: “I’ve continually asked my people to come to me if they have problems. I find that the people do not think that they need help and, therefore, do not want it. I just can’t get my people to communicate more.”

Phil Davies: “The average age of our employees is about forty-six. Most of our people have been here for twenty years. They’re set in their ways. You’re the first person that we’ve hired in the past three years. Some of our people may just resent seeing a thirty-year-old project manager.”

Tim Aston: “I found one guy in the accounting department who has an excellent head on his shoulders. He’s very interested in project management. I asked his boss if he’d release him for a position in project management, and his boss just laughed at me, saying something to the effect that as long as that guy is doing a good job for him, he’ll never be released for an assignment elsewhere in the company. His boss seems more worried about his personal empire than he does in what’s best for the company.

“We had a test scheduled for last week. The customer’s top management was planning on flying in for firsthand observations. Two of my people said that they had programmed vacation days coming, and that they would not change, under any conditions. One guy was going fishing and the other guy was planning to spend a few days working with fatherless children in our community. Surely, these guys could change their plans for the test.”

Phil Davies: “Many of our people have social responsibilities and outside interests. We encourage social responsibilities and only hope that the outside interests do not interfere with their jobs.

“There’s one thing you should understand about our people. With an average age of fortysix, many of our people are at the top of their pay grades and have no place to go. They must look elsewhere for interests. These are the people you have to work with and motivate. Perhaps you should do some reading on human behavior.

1. “Employees are not showing interest in meetings and discussion”. Why do you think such culture exists in the company? Share your views.
2. What are the challenges Tim is facing to execute his project. Explain.
3. “Motivation is a key to change”- what according to you should be Tim’s approach towards employees.
4. What is Work, Life balance? What role does it play in day-to-day life of an employee?

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