BE SURE EVERYTHING IS APA FORMAT – I’VE ATTACHED A TEMPLATE – The company is Amazon.com, Inc. The GOAL is to open a physical store in the US (no specific state).
As you’ve learned this week, the control process is essential to the achievement of goals. It allows a business to track their progress, make adjustments, and stay on schedule for what they’re trying to achieve. Your chosen goal from the strategic management project needs these same types of controls. This course project assignment will task you with creating a detailed control process for that goal. Think through all of the departments that might be involved in the completion of the goals and how they’ll need to be tracked. The course content from this week (LOCATED IN THE HOMEWORK HELP ATTACHMENT) can be very useful in providing details on strategies and ideas for control processes. Some additional research will also prove useful. This assignment should be at least two pages in length and complete the following:

• Identify four separate strategies that you will use to control your strategic goal.
• For each strategy:
  • Identify which aspect or metric of the goal they’re controlling.
  • Explain the reasoning and value behind the control choice.
  • Identify the control as feed forward, concurrent, or feedback.

As an example, if my goal is to “decrease the amount of defective parts made on my assembly line by 5%”, I could control it through regular maintenance checks (feed forward), thorough employee training on the machines (feed forward), and a software system that monitors production while it’s happening and can print off detailed reports after work is completed (concurrent and feedback). You will need to go into much more detail on the structure, process, and purpose of your control methods, but this should give you a good idea of how to complete this assignment. Really think through how you’ll keep up to speed with company progress on your strategic management goal.

I also included an example of how it is supposed to be from my professor just in case you need an example

Business Admin. Capstone 499

Choose one (1) public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

• Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
• Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
• Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.
• Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.
• Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Determine ways in which the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm impact that firm’s overall success.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
• Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

PLEASE SEAPARATE EACH DISCUSSION WITH THEIR OWN REFERENCES IF NEEDED

DISCUSSION 1:

Callie works in a large office that employs nearly 20 staff members. The office has a breakroom where the staff can rest and relax during breaks and lunches. Recently someone has been leaving spills and trash behind. The manager asks Callie to compose a message to the staff. Callie decides it’s most effective to post this note on the refrigerator:

Step 2: Create a New Thread for Your Initial Post by Wednesday at 11:59pm EST

Respond to the following prompts in your initial post:

1. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the sender’s (Callie’s) communication strategy.
2. If you were the receiver of this message (the audience), how would you feel after reading this message?
3. Pretend you are Callie’s manager. What feedback would you offer Callie regarding her tone and word choices?

DISCUSSION 2:

Step 1: Read the Discussion Background:

Kaleena, a UMA student, has a difficult decision to make. Her sister, Raquel, recently lost her job and and moved in. Today, Raquel asks Kaleena if her boyfriend can also move in. Kaleena does not get along with her sister’s boyfriend. She is afraid that having him there will cause stress and damage relationships. However, Kaleena doesn’t want to disappoint Raquel or make her angry. Review universal intellectual standards for decision making HERE.

Step 2: Create a new thread and answer all three parts of the initial prompt below:

Respond to the following prompts in your initial post:

1. Decide whether Kaleena should make her decision based on an emotional response or using intellectual standards and explain why.
2. Human beings don’t always make logical or rational decisions. Give an example of a situation where logic may not help you make the best decision.
3. Think of a time when you had to make a difficult decision. Describe whether or not logic was helpful in determining what to do to resolve the problem you faced.

BOTH PARTS SHOULD BE BASED ON MY ATTACHED WORKSHEET ON THE FILM I CHOSE TO COMPLETE THE ESSAY ON

MAKE SURE TO SUBMIT THESE TEO PARTS TO ME SEPARATELY

PART 1:

You should now create a tentative thesis statement for Essay One. the general principles of thesis statements are as follows:

• A thesis states your topic and your opinion about that topic.
• A thesis is the organizing principle of your essay; it is a road-map for your readers to follow.
• A thesis is a promise to your readers and your paper must deliver on that promise.
• A thesis is usually debatable or controversial and therefore it is not an objective statement of fact.
• A thesis is never a question but instead is an answer/conclusion.
• A thesis comes at the end of your introduction.

You may also want to review the pages on thesis writing provided by Excelsior College online writing lab: http://owl.excelsior.edu/writing-process/thesis-sentence/ (Links to an external site.)

Your thesis for this essay assignment should follow this basic formula:

X (film title) by Y (author) is in/effective (un/successful, un/persuasive, etc.) argument because of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.

In one model student essay, the thesis looks like this:

Hot Coffee uses a highly compelling mixture of ethos, logos, and pathos appeals to make an effective argument against tort reform. The film employs examples of media bias, expert commentary, and personal accounts to persuade the audience and illuminate an issue with which it assumes many viewers are unfamiliar.

PART 2:

Taking your documentary NOTES (HW#2), you should transfer your ideas and examples into this graphic organizer/outline. Please read over the instructions and advice included on the worksheet. I will be checking these to make sure you are on track to write a rhetorical analysis of the documentary (rather than a summary and response of it).

Instructions

Human Impact on Climate Change PowerPoint

After learning about several ways in which our everyday actions impactclimate change, choose one action to conduct more research on and create aPowerPoint presentation to tell us more!

There are several ideas with information throughout the unit but there iseven more information out in the world! Think about what you do every day, andhow the activity uses energy or natural resources. Think about a product youbuy—how it was made, what natural resources were used to make it? You canalso do a quick google search of “everyday activities that effect theenvironment” and start reading some articles for more ideas.

Remember to use reliable sources from the Internet. There is a lot ofmisinformation out there and finding reliable information can be difficult.The best sources of reference material for your presentation are scientificjournals. You can alsofind reliable statistics at organization websites listed in the Unit under“Combat Climate Change.”

Your presentation must include:

1. What everyday activity or product have you chosen to present? Whydid you choose this activity or product? Why is it important?
2. Connect the activity/product to its impact on the environment andclimate change. How does doing the activity or making the productuse natural resources, disrupt habitat, impact wildlife orother effects on the environment?
3. Report data and statistics, with references, on how thisactivity/product effects the environment.
4. What can people do to decrease the activity/product’s impact on theenvironment?

Be sure to follow the formatting and guidelines provided below:

• Include at least three visual aids.
• Include three reliable references
• Use bulleted information on slides (five lines or fewer).
• Include a separate title slide and separate reference slide.
• Use an appropriate font and background.
• Include at least 11 slides, but not more than 15 slides (notcounting your title slide and reference slide).
• Use correct APA format for references and citations, and use correctgrammar and spelling.
• Upload the presentation as a .ppt or .pptx file.