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A.8.1
The organisation for which you work is planning an extension to the premises and an increase in staff numbers with a view to expanding into new markets. You have been asked to conduct research that will identify any risks or contingency requirements for the department that you head. What stakeholders or parties might be invited to assist with the risk identification and what contribution could they make? (150 words)
Answer in your words
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Question 3
Each organisation should have policies and procedures, grounded in the relevant legislation, in place to support their operations and the various functions/ activities of the business. Risk management plans will relate to the overall operation of the organisation.
Outline the reasons why business organisations should develop risk management policies, risk registers and processes for managing risk. (250 words)
Answer in your own words.
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Question 2
Legislation and regulations from all levels of government will affect various aspects of business operations and the risk management aspect of business. The impact of legislation and regulations will depend on business operations/ type of business, the number of staff employed, industry sector and the structure of the business.
Explain in 100 - 150 words:
Make a list of 10 forms of legislation or regulation that could have an impact on risk and that you might have to outline when communicating with employees.
Answer in your own words.
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The legal or regulatory frameworks affecting marketing are at different stages around the world; different priorities and influences are at work. Explain their impact on marketing in KSA or your region, and how companies are reacting to the laws or regulations.
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Question 3
For your answer to Question 3, consider two examples of decisions that you have made in the past month. You may use examples from different settings such as from your academic studies, from work, from your personal life. Choose examples that allow you to apply both basic/individual and team decision making concepts covered in our course materials. Are there methods of decision making that you find are more common during the current period when our lives are affected by the developing COVID-19 situation? Ensure to articulate your arguments clearly and provide support for your claims, using and applying relevant concepts.
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What is your sense of others’ willingness to support change efforts for improvement in your organization? Why do you believe as you do? (Please include in-text citation and a reference page)
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Question 1
As part of the fight to slow the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic, many jurisdictions have introduced policies to promote and enforce physical distancing, isolation/quarantine, limit social gatherings, and limit in-person business to essential services only, and other practices such as encouraging the use of face masks while in public. Similarly, universities and many businesses have migrated the bulk of their operations to online and remote operations and services. We’ve all experienced that at York University, work and non-work aspects of our lives. For your answer to Question 1, use your recent personal experiences to explore how these changes have impacted communication effectiveness. You may use examples from your recent York University experiences, recent work-related examples, or other recent personal examples that help you illustrate any changes that have happened. Consider a wide range of content from our course materials on communication. Ensure to articulate your arguments clearly and provide support for your claims, using and applying relevant concepts.
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On our text book (Ghillyer) you will find the phrase
“Sustainable ethics is a culture are those that persist within the
operational policies of the organization long after the latest
public scandal or the latest management buzzword”.
Please explain, what does this phrase mean? Give examples to
emphasis your argument.
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Question: Strawberry Internationalwishes to conduct a research study using their employees as key participa...
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Strawberry Internationalwishes to conduct a research study using their employees as key participants. The organization maintains a global footprint and employs over 25 000 employees at several branches worldwide.
1. Discuss why sampling such a population is necessary. (10)
2. Describe four types of non-profitability sampling. (8)
3. Critically analyze the principles of simple random sampling (12)
**NB: Please respond to the above questions in point form as asked above
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In capacity planning in healthcare, there exists a nonlinear relationship between average delay, utilization, system variability and system size.
(a) Explain those relations clearly.
(b) Prove the following relation by using queuing theory.
If the size of the system increases, the average delay decreases for a given utilization level. In other words, queueing systems have economies of scale.
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Describe positive strategy is a better way to manage employee issues than the traditional negative discipline model
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Question 2
Like other higher education institutions, York University is intensely preparing for the start of the new academic year in September, when a large new cohort of students will enter York for their first year of higher education. For the purpose of this question, we will assume that this preparation includes a contingency plan to deal with the a situation where limits will still be in place on in-person gatherings during the start of the fall 2020 term. Considering our course content on socialization and organizational culture, describe your own socialization process to York. Use your own socialization experiences when you came to York U as examples when you apply relevant concepts. Then, identify challenges and opportunities for the socialization process of newly admitted students that are expected to start their studies at York in September 2020. Explain why it is important for organizations such as York U to get the socialization process right in September. Ensure to articulate your arguments clearly and provide support for your claims, using and applying relevant concepts.
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