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Importance of Communication

In a 250-300 word response, discuss why communication skills are important to organizational success and why recruiters focus so much on finding leads with good communication skills. What happens when there are problems with communications in the workplace (re-work, low morale, product delays, dissatisfied customers, etc.)? Use at least one resource to support your key points.

2) Review the Writing Center & Library tab in the left navigation of the course. Explore the resources available, view demos/tutorials and read the guides. In a 250-300 word response, discuss how these resources will be of value to you in your program at Ashford. Use at least one resource to support your key points.

The company is Subway. To feel confident that all of the employees in your strategic planning team understand all that you have taught them, you require each to prepare a streamlined version of the key elements of a strategic plan. You require each employee to prepare the following sections of a strategic plan for the corporation’s next 3-5 years: deliverable length 900-1200 words

• Mission and Vision Statements (Simply copying from an existing real company is unacceptable.)
• Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound (SMART) Goals and Objectives
• Industry Analysis
• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends (SWOTT) Analysis
• A Perceptual Map
  • Choose any criteria that you think are important to plot.
  • Explain why you picked the criteria.

the work-paper reference should come form “Baltimore’s 2018 CAFR”

question:

Summarize three key points from Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.

In terms of general revenues on the Statement of Activities, please list the largest three types of revenues and the dollar amounts of the associated revenues.Are the revenues are exchange revenues or non-exchange revenues?

What are the three largest asset line items and three largest liability line items reported on the Statement of Net Assets and what are the amounts associated with each?

What are the primary elements of the Reconciliation of the Governmental Funds Balance Sheet to the Statement of Net Assets – Governmental Activities Net Assets?

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This week I would like you to read an online edition of a newspaper and hard copy of a newspaper.

1. After reading through each section tell us what aspects you liked of each and what you didn’t like as much.

2. Which format are you more likely to use? Why?

3. Do you currently read a newspaper (hard copy or online) on a regular basis? Why or why not?

4. Did you grow up in a household where your parents read the paper on a regular basis?

5. Do you prefer reading an in depth report (like you might find in a newspaper) or watching a shorter version of the story (like you might find on a local newscast)?

Topic 1: Organization Structure

Organization structure:

• Do some research on the Internet and explain what a flat organization structure refers to and then provide an example and explain why it is considered flat.
• Which type of organization will be around in the long term in your opinion? Which organization type (based on structural attributes) would you want to work for?

Topic 2: Cultural Dimensions

• For a company that has manufacturing facilities in the United States and in China, select two of the five value dimensions from Hofstede’s Framework (from pages 163–165 in Chapter 5), and compare/contrast these dimensions with how the United States facility would be run versus the one in China, based on these work-related values.