American giant automobile manufacturer, General Motors (GM), recently announced their intention to lay off 4000 workers and implement other strategies in order to restructure their business operations.
a. What factors/conditions led General Motors to this decision to layoff in excess of 4000 workers?

Question Four: (Word count 300 words)

1. Conduct a research for any issue you chose in real life, shortly describe the issue of your choice and explain which type of data will be collected and why? Also apply two of the investigating methods in collecting the data and mention the advantages and disadvantages of the two tools with examples of your chosen issue.
2. Conduct a career audit for yourself whether in your current job or in a future job and apply your personal marketing plan.

Note: for part (A) the two methods are:

1.Primary data – it is a data that you, or the investigator, have collected and which did not exist before.

2.Secondary data – data that is already exist.

Who is the most powerful person you know personally? What is it that makes the person so powerful? Be sure to answer this question in the context of the information presented in the chapter.

The mayor of New York City would like to build a new facility for public drug treatment. The members of the committee in charge of the project have developed four factors of importance based on their primary concern (and given a weight of 5). The First factor is the capacity to accept a large number of patients; second, The annual lease; third, the confidentiality for patients; and the fourth the accessibility for healthcare workers.

Using the factor-rating method, which site will be preferred?

The preferred site:

1. Answer true or false on the following

1. As it relates to using measures to manage and challenging strategy: Relationships between different parameters – for example customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and profitability – are often hypothesized with the support of academic research. However, the only way to know if the relationship is valid in your organization is to test it through performance measurement.

True

False

The initial success map reflects the assumptions and beliefs of the people who created it. However, once the measures have been implemented and used, you should use them to challenge the success map and through doing that, challenge your strategy.

Group of answer choices

True

False

Performance data cannot be used to test your basic understanding of how your organization works and what its strategy should be.

True

False

Reward systems can make it difficult to revise targets as employees’ remuneration is affected.

True

False

Conflicting perspectives of success between functional managers and business unit managers resurface when measurement is changed.

True

False

Select one of the following questions to answer:

1. Communication. Consider this statement: Leadership is communication. Evaluate this statement, and offer an argument to support it or to refute it.

4. Situational leadership. Consider this statement: Participative leadership involves sharing leadership. Evaluate this statement, and offer an argument to support it or to refute it.

5. LMX. How can the new supervisor in a unit use LMX principles to build power and support quickly? What practical steps should the new supervisor take?

Write correctly, and then formalize your writing by patiently rereading it for efficiency and precision. The minimum length for the main commentary is 250 words. Include in-text citations and a complete reference section at the end of the commentary. Cite at least two peer-reviewed, scholarly sources in correct APA style.

Answer true or false on the following

People are, not surprisingly, the most important element in the performance of an organization, and managing their performance is an entire subject in itself.

True

False

On an individual basis, performance is usually measured and managed through a process of appraisal.

True

False

The relationship between customer measures and willingness to purchase is, in any case, often far from straightforward.

True

False

Financial results are backward-looking and unimportant although they influence investors, banks, customers and suppliers in their willingness to trade with the business.

True

False

Make and discuss three strategies that you as the Human Resources manager can take to either capitalize on an opportunity presented through the external variables and/or minimize the negative impact of external variables on the organization. based on Nike industry or cunsumer electric industry with referenec

1. When Managing Quality—why is selecting a facility location becoming much more complex? Please elaborate on the following:

   1. Shipping (transport)

   2. capital ($ funding)

   3. labor (workforce)

1. There are two specific measures that are particularly important in managing the performance of processes, please list and describe.

Does a company like Amazon have a long range strategic plan? Or does it adjust to the daily market trends within the economy –considering that data/information change within seconds