1. Think of a job that requires very high levels of certain cognitive abilities. Can you think of a way to redesign that job so that people who lack those abilities could still perform the job effectively? Now respond to the same question with regard to emotional and physical abilities.
2. Consider the personality dimensions included in the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory and the RIASEC model. If you had to “slot” those dimensions into the Big Five, would you be able to do so? Which dimensions don’t seem to fit?
3. Think about a highly successful team with which you are familiar. What types of task, goal, and outcome interdependence does this team have? Describe how changes in task, goal, and outcome interdependence might have a negative impact on this team.
4. Think of a team you’ve worked in that performed poorly. Were any of the causes of the poor performance related to the forces that tend to create process loss? If so, which force was most problematic? What steps, if any, did your team take to deal with the problem?
5. Who is the most influential leader you have come in contact with personally? What forms of power did they have, and which types of influence did they use to accomplish objectives?

Modes of entry into an international market are the channels which organizations employ to gain entry to a new international market.

Within our Thompson (2022) text, read Chapter 7 Assurance of Learning Exercise #2 related to Walgreens’ mode(s) international market entry and respond to the following questions:

• What was Walgreens’ entry strategy designed to achieve?
• Why would this make sense for a company like Walgreens?
• Provide two recommendations on what Walgreens might do differently going forward with their entry strategy? Make sure you support your recommendations?
• Incorporate our coursework (Thompson text and other material) from this week into your above responses.

Submission Details:

• Your analysis must be driven by facts, research, and data.
• Your analysis should be between 1200 words.
• Incorporate a minimum of at least our course text and one non-course scholarly/peer reviewed source in your paper. All written assignments must include a coverage page, introductory and concluding paragraphs, reference page, double-spaced and proper in-text citations using APA guidelines.

Please download textbook from here

https://u1lib.org/book/17514900/22c3be

Required Readings

Thompson Jr. A. A, Peteraf, M. A., Gamble, J. E., and Strickland III, A. J. (2022). Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases. 23^rd Edition. McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-1-260-07510-6 978-1-260-73517-8

Chapter 7

To evaluate an individual’s performance in an organization, many companies and firms are currently using the graphic rating scale. this approach is considered as one of the simplest methods to appraise an employee’s performance with its several varieties. A competency-based graphic rating scale is one of its varieties. As seen in Figure 8.2 (see below), its scale may include multiple job dimensions (such as personal effectiveness and teamwork) and a range of performance values (from Below Expectation to Role Model) for each dimension. The manager can evaluate his/her subordinate by checking the score that best describes the subordinate’s performance at work. For more details, please see the document I uploaded.

Instructions

You are to choose a job or occupation which you want to get or are now working for in the organization where you currently belong or one that you would like to work in.

You are to search O*NET (https://www.onetonline.org/ (Links to an external site.)) for general information on the target job/occupation of your choice.

Once you have created your own form, Explain why you are using the job dimensions and performance values listed on that form.

Besides the graphic rating scale, what other rating methods, would you recommend to better appraise your target job and why?

Carefully review the Session 8 Assignment Document.

This assignment asks you to design an applied research study (ideally of the controlled, randomized sort from near the top of the Pyramid of Evidence). To do so, you will need to:

1) Specify the cause-and-effect relationship you are testing (indicating both the Independent and Dependent variables).

2) Indicate precisely how you would propose that the independent variable be varied and the dependent variable be measured.

3) How you would ensure that sufficient data were collected todraw a conclusion

That paper (see the instructions) should be submitted as a proposal. That is, what would you propose to do to answer the question ‘What tempo of music should S&W play to maximize profits in its restuarants?’ (To be clear, you would not actually conduct this research unless someone had paid you to do so.)

Since this has been a course about the importance of ‘credible’ information (as we described using the ‘Pyramid of Evidence’), it would be important to design research that incorporated those aspects that lead to such credibility: contolled, longitudinal components that would serve to remove some of the threats to (internal) validity. So, be sure to include these as evidence of your understanding of this material.

I’m working on a management discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Please select only two of the four links, and use a short paragraph to discuss each of your two choices in your “Reflections”:

The following four online resources discuss the following:

NFL Optimizes Schedules with IBM Analytics Systems (Links to an external site.)

how NFL uses optimization to compute the best possible league schedules,

https://www.supplychain247.com/article/ups_fedex_dominate_the_parcel_market_but_there_are_opportunities_for_region (Links to an external site.)

how FedEx streamlines costs by optimizing the routing of packages through their shipping network,

https://www.syspro.com/industries/manufacturing/food-manufacturing-software/ (Links to an external site.)

how food companies can optimize food production,

Secrets Of The SAP Transportation Management Optimizer (Links to an external site.)

how SAP uses optimization to efficiently load containers and manage transportation of goods more efficiently. Read only the following sections: Introduction, What Is Optimization?, and VSR Optimizer Problem Statement)

For two examples listed above, discuss key benefits of optimization modeling for managerial decision-making. What is an example from your personal/professional life of when optimization could have been used but wasn’t.