As economic times change, management styles have changed accordingly. New concepts and issues of management styles have been analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated to meet the changing needs of the marketplace. The concept of change management has gained great acceptance and/or disapproval by all sectors, including civilian and military.

Katzenbach (1995) wrote that Real change leaders are the linchpins connecting three critical forces for organizational change and performance: top leadership aspirations (what are we trying to become?); workforce energy and productivity (how will we climb the mountain?); and the marketplace reality (what do our target customers truly seek, and what can and will our potential competitors really do?) (pp. 8-9).

Analyze the changes in your field to determine if there have been periods of time in which leaders in the field, as well as actual practitioners in the field, have had to address the issue of change management. Specifically, this analysis should be based on a synthesis of the current literature (and literature no older than 1995) to demonstrate how leaders in your field of study have addressed the issue of change management as well as any changes in management style. Finally, the student should relate these specific changes to their own current, previous, and/or future career paths. This analysis should help to reveal how you have seen changes occur over the past decade or so in your field. Finally, what possible changes, suggestions and/or recommendations would you consider to be necessary in your field of study?

Instructions:

Write a well researched, thorough response to the questions posed above in an APA formatted paper, to be reviewed by your faculty member in practice for your final comprehensive exam.  Include 7 scholarly references in your paper. Upload your submission for review here.

Explain the impact of language on critical thinking and decision making. Make sure you include the challenges presented by language and how one can manage these challenges. Include detailed speaker notes explaining the content on each slide Instructions Develop a 10 to 15 slide PowerPoint presentation Include detailed speaker notes to explain each slide content OR present your slides via Video and submit the link for the video with your slide deck. Support your presentation with at least 3 credible academic references beyond course materials Follow APA format where appropriate

Write a paper on doing business in Spain. Focusing on your assigned client company and its industry. The company assigned to me is Ontruck. website: www.ontruck.com/uk/
Industry: Smart trucking

This paper must include:

1. cultural, social, economic, and political aspects, of the country that are relevant to your assigned company’s business.

2.The industry in which your company operates, highlighting factors that are relevant to the focus of your project.

Instructions

Ethics in business relationships include both the external and internal relationships that develop around the organization. For this assignment, you will focus on the internal relationships that develop inside the organization. Studies have indicated the more positive the environment within the organization, the more productive the employees.

Research one or a combination of these job-related topics found within organizations: job discrimination; sexual harassment; bullying or unsafe working conditions.

Briefly describe the issue.
Analyze the impact on overall morale, relationships within the organization and ultimately overall productivity levels.
Research a minimum of one company that was caught up in this type of issue.
What best practices might a company implement to avoid negative behavior within their organization?
How would you rate the ethical practices of the company that you chose (excellent, fair or poor)? Explain.
Your response should include an introduction, thesis statement, and a clear discussion of the questions/topics above. It should be a minimum of two double-spaced pages. You are required to use at least two credible references. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations and be cited per APA guidelines.

You may find this presentation, Thesis Statements, a great resource for guidance in making reference citations: https://columbiasouthern.adobeconnect.com/csubasicthesisstatement/

Your essay response should be formatted in accordance with APA style. For step-by-step instructions for formatting a paper in APA style, please refer to the CSU Citation Guide (http://www.columbiasouthern.edu/downloads/pdf/success/citation-guide).

Instructions for formatting formal documents can be found on page 17.

If you were asked to make some recommendations to the organization on the leave plans, both paid and non-paid, what would be the must haves and why?
Select one paid leave program and identify how much leave you would give an employee and how would you award this to the employee?  For example, would you award leave based on the hours they worked, years of service, different rate for different groups of employees, etc.

Assignment: Coping With Change: Change Management Models and Philosophies
Amateur and professional cooks who enter competitions will often spend hours searching for just the right ingredients for the perfect recipe. They have likely formed philosophies about cooking and food that either consciously or unconsciously guide their efforts. After they are satisfied, they may present their dish to judges and other tasters, who often try to guess the secret ingredients in the winning recipe.

In a similar fashion, change management researchers spend considerable time trying to find the perfect recipe or model for managing change, because they realize that effective change management can mean the difference between business success and failure. To test assumptions based on underlying philosophies about change, researchers carefully analyze business leaders who were either successful or unsuccessful at managing change. Using these analyses, researchers put forth models as their recipes for change management. As a result, a multitude of sometimes-conflicting philosophies and models have emerged. Business professionals searching for advice on effective change management must be knowledgeable about the models available in order to choose a model or combination of models that best aligns with their own philosophies and beliefs about change and the organization they are leading.

To prepare for this Assignment, consider both successful and unsuccessful organizational changes of which you have been a part, or with which you are familiar, and evaluate how these organizational changes support or refute the philosophies and models offered by this weeks Learning Resources and/or any additional resources that you have selected.

By Day 7
Submit a scholarly, 2- to 4-page evaluation of two change management philosophies and models. Your evaluation must include the following:

An examination of the reasons for successful organizational change
An evaluation of your personal experience with or knowledge of organizational changes, both successful and unsuccessful
A dissection of the organizational change philosophies and or models that contain concepts that support and/or refute your successful and unsuccessful organizational change experiences
A synthesis of the Learning Resources along with appropriately formatted references to a minimum of two scholarly, peer-reviewed articles per page of your paper to support your assertions
Be sure to use the APA Course Paper Template (6th Ed.), found in this weeks Learning Resources, to complete this Assignment. Also, refer to the Week 2 Assignment Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this rubric to assess your work. Please Note: For each page of your paper, you must include a minimum of two APA-formatted scholarly citations.

Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:

Please save your Assignment using the naming convention WK2Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension) as the name.
Click the Week 2 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
Click the Week 2 Assignment link. You will also be able to View Rubric for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as WK2Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension) and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

Required book: American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa#s-lg-box-9633075

Discussion: Pretend You Are the Instructor

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

Two of the competencies you must develop in order to become an independent scholar include writing in a scholarly voice and tone and following an appropriate academic style. In your quest to become a scholarly writer, you must follow the rules meticulously detailed in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). Initially, recalling each rule will be difficult, but over time it will become second nature. Knowing where to look to determine if the manuscript you are reading or writing is in accordance with APA standards is critically important. Following a standard writing format increases the probability of others being able to easily comprehend your manuscript.

As you develop your scholarly writing prose in this program and beyond, there are two things to keep in mind: Adhering to APA writing format is required for your Discussions and Assignments, and others will read your manuscripts for comprehension. Occasionally, new writers forget they have a scholarly audience who will read their papers. It is important that the writer understand the significance of placing him or herself in the position of the reader. To that end, you will assume the role of an Instructor and will review an anonymous college paper to provide APA feedback to a student writer. During this exercise, you will practice recognizing APA errors and locating within the APA textbook the appropriate APA rules and formatting solutions.

To prepare for this Discussion, do the following:

Read and view the materials in your Learning Resources, including the Walden University academic guide pages on common reference list examples and using the Microsoft Word track changes feature. Review your APA manual for use in your assessment of the sample paper. Note: To assist you in your assessment, you may use any supplemental scholarly APA resources of your choosing.
Assess Michaels Writing Style Prose Paper to identify any APA writing errors, and use the track changes comment feature to propose corrections. As you make suggestions or corrections, be sure to include the source name and page number(s) so the author can locate the correction rule. For example, if you find text that reads, This study will provide your comment may contain the following comment: This is anthropomorphism. To correct it, please refer to the APA manual, 6th edition, pp. 6869 for details. Do this throughout the entire sample college paper.
By Day 3

Post your assessment of Michaels Writing Style Prose Paper for APA formatting. In addition to uploading your review of the paper as an attachment in the Discussion thread, include in your post answers to the following:

What were the most frequent errors you identified?
What did you find easy about the review, and what did you find challenging? Why?
What do you plan to do to further improve your knowledge of APA?
Refer to the Week 2 Discussion Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this rubric to assess your work.

Read a selection of your colleagues posts.

By Day 5

Respond to at least two of your colleagues postings as follows:

Support or refute your colleagues analysis of Michaels Writing Style Prose Paper, including support for your assertions.
Suggest one or more additional APA resources you found beneficial.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what insights you gained as a result of reading the comments your colleagues made.

Click on the Reply button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the Submit button to post your message.

Required book: American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.