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Efficiency and Effectiveness through Management

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate knowledge of management practices that increase efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace through behavior.

Step 1:  Carefully read the case study below.

Step 2:  Comprise a 12-16 slide presentation using PowerPoint, Prezi or other presentation software (excluding the title page and reference list page) that includes ALL of the following points:

• Examine effectiveness issues that affect decision-making in HOC’s management. Provide your reasoning for the selection; ensure that your reasoning is supported with course material, case study facts, and research.
• Examine efficiency issues that affect decision-making in HOC’s management. Provide your reasoning for the selection; ensure that your reasoning is supported with course material, case study facts, and research.
• Analyze the idea that HOC’s management promotes organizational diversity in an effective way. You must take a position; ensure that you support that position with course material, case study facts, and research.
• Analyze and explain the key components of relationship building for managers.  Specifically, identify the components of relationship building that HOC needs to improve.
• Identify those case study facts that show how future decisions and their implementation might be affected if change does not take place; be sure to explain why those future decisions and their implementation might be affected if change does not take place.
• Develop at least four recommendations/strategies that Areama might make to RLI and HOC that would improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency using culture, structure, and behavior as the focus of each recommendation. Be sure to be specific in the discussion by justifying each recommendation using examples from the case study, course materials, and research.

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PREPARE THE SUBMISSION:

• Read the grading rubric for the assignment.
  • Check the instructions to make sure ALL elements of the assignment have been covered
• Students are expected to use a variety as well as multiple course readings and research to support ideas, reasoning, and conclusions.
  • This assignment requires the use of, at minimum, 7 scholarly references/sources
• Follow APA style guidelines to ensure that your final submission includes a Title Page, In-Text Citations, and a Reference List.
  • IMPORTANT NOTE:  In-text citations should be included in the slides and notes, as appropriate, to support your key points and takeaways.  ALL in-text citations MUST be included in the reference list
  • Paraphrase and do not use direct quotation marks. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document, put a passage from a source document into your own words, and attribute the passage to the source document. Provide the page or paragraph number. Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.
• The presentation must be professional in appearance and include visuals such as tables, graphs, and clipart
  • The slides should flow and transition in an organized manner with one idea/concept leading to the next
  • The presentation should begin with an introductory slide that clearly and succinctly explains what you intend to cover in the body of the presentation.
  • The presentation should end with a conclusion/summary slide that clearly and succinctly explains what you covered in the body of the presentation.
• Each slide of the presentation must include a note page
  • The note page is the accompanying text for each page of the presentation and will be used by the reader in lieu of you verbally presenting the slide presentation – be sure that the content on the note pages is clear, focused and succinct

Third-person writing is required. Third-person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first-person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second-person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person .

Contractions are not used in business writing, so the expectation is that students do NOT use contractions in the assignment.

The paper must be double-spaced with 1-inch margins with 12 pt. font.

Submit the final project into the appropriate assignment submission folder by the due date.

NOTE:  All submitted work is to be your original work. You may not use any work from another student, the Internet, or an online clearinghouse.  You are expected to understand the Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism Policy and know that it is your responsibility to learn about instructor and general academic expectations with regard to proper citation of sources as specified in the APA Publication Manual, 7th Ed. (Students are held accountable for in-text citations and an associated reference list only).