Operational Excellence and Competitive Advantage Welcome to the course. Please introduce yourself to your classmates and professor.   What are the top 2 operational challenges in your industry?   What differentiates the most competitive organizations from the laggards in your industry?   What do you hope to get out of this course as it relates […]

Value Stream Mapping   Read the Course Project overview on pp. 16-17 of the Course Guide. In preparation for Part A, identify a value stream relevant to your organization that needs improvement. Include specific references to this week’s course materials to support your response.   What value does this value stream deliver to the organization […]

Question 1Which of the following behaviors is NOT something Jan should do while receiving feedback from her team?     Summarize what she hears and ask for clarification.     Share her feelings about the feedback in order to validate the information.     Defend and justify her own behaviors.     Decide whether the […]

Question 1Mintzberg (1973, 2009) identified 10 specific managerial roles, categorizing them into three groups. Which of the following is NOT one of the three categories?     Decisional     Informational     Interpersonal     Transactional   Question 2Which of the following statements about leadership is NOT true?     Leadership is an art, […]

Interdisciplinary Plan ProposalFor this assessment you will create a 2-4 page plan proposal for an interprofessional team to collaborate and work toward driving improvements in the organizational issue you identified in the second assessment.   The health care industry is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals. Nurses can play a critical […]

This Case 3 focuses on how a large, well-respected financial institution can seriously put its reputation at stake and what happened to bring that about.   Begin by watching the following series of videos:   WatchMojo.com. (2016, September 15). Wells Fargo scandal: 5 things you need to know! [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/zLm9c9rdrfQ.   Senator […]

Goal of this Session Long Project: This assignment is the third of four SLPs where you will be building a bank of takeaways pertaining to ethical and/or unethical behaviors.   After reviewing this SLP scenario:   Express your reactions   Apply your own background/experiences   State important takeaways   Add other comments you would like […]

This Case 3 focuses on how a large, well-respected financial institution can seriously put its reputation at stake and what happened to bring that about.   Begin by watching the following series of videos:   WatchMojo.com. (2016, September 15). Wells Fargo scandal: 5 things you need to know! [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/zLm9c9rdrfQ.   Senator […]

This Case Assignment for this module looks at an update of Nike and the ongoing issue of sweatshops. The case is found in:   Byars, S., & Stanberry, K. (2018). Impact of culture and time on business ethics, chapter 5. Business Ethics. Rice University, OpenStax. Retrieved from http://cnx.org/content/col25722/1.3 p. 138. CC BY 4.0 license   […]

Goal of this Session Long Project:   This assignment is the second of four SLPs where you will be building a bank of takeaways pertaining to ethical and/or unethical behaviors.   Begin by reading the following scenario for SLP 2:   When Even Doctors Smoked   From the 1940s to the 1970s, cigarettes were as […]