HRM420 Training and Development Week 2 Assignment Team Competency Analysis and Presentation Deliverable: Competency Model Analysis   This week’s  Research and Presentation assignment focuses on creating a competency model analysis.   Guidelines   The weekly reading describes the creation and use of competency models for two positions.   Select two volunteers from the team to […]

SOCS325 Environmental Sociology Week 3 Assignment SWOT Analysis This week you will examine a nonprofit organization working on environmental problems and conduct a SWOT analysis to assess success and potential improvements.   Tasks:   Identify a nonprofit organization. Some examples include Fibershed, Project Drawdown, Greenpeace, Earth Guardians, Cool Effect, Sierra Club, and One Tree Planted. […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 8 Discussion The Goal—Part 3 This week is a continuation from Week 6 and Week 7, in which you used critical thinking skills to analyze business issues from the business novel The Goal. You will analyze the relevance of systems thinking concepts described in the book to effective business […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 7 Discussion The Goal—Part 2 Through the lens of the business novel The Goal, you have been following many characters, complex business issues, and various management methodologies proposed for correcting problems. In choosing to write a novel, the authors are able to explore abstract concepts in an informative and […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 6 Discussion The Goal—Part 1 According to The Foundation for Critical Thinking (n.d.), “[c]ritical thinking is that mode of thinking—about any subject, content, or problem—in which the thinker improves the quality of [their] thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it.” As a manager, much of your work requires […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 5 Discussion A Study of Mental Models Peter Senge (2006) describes a mental model as a “deeply engrained assumption, generalizations, or even pictures or images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action” (p. 8). People with a different mental model can see the same […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 4 Discussion The Rise and Demise of the Innovative Entrant System archetypes describe and illustrate common patterns or common behaviors that occur within organizations (Braun, 2002). These archetypes can be utilized as effective tools in two main ways, first, as a diagnostic tool to identify and understand the underlying […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 3 Discussion Detail and Dynamic Complexity Are you overwhelmed by complexity? If so, you are not alone. Peter Senge notes that people are now able to “create far more information that anyone can absorb,” and he continues to say that the “scale of complexity is without precedent” (2006, p. […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 1 Discussion What Is a System? And What Is Systems Thinking? Donella Meadows, the pioneer of systems thinking and author of Thinking in Systems: A Primer, defines a system as “an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something. If you look at […]

WMBA-6040B/MMSL-6645/WMBA-6040/MGMT-6645 WMBA6040 Improving Business Performance Week 2 Discussion Moral Imagination Most are familiar with Nestlé, one of the world’s largest food producers, whose marketing slogan is: “Good food, Good life.” On its website, the corporation states that its three main ambitions are helping children live healthier lives, improving livelihoods in communities, and striving for zero […]