What are the skills and competencies required for a successful consultant. Use at least two sources to support your analysis. Discuss the skills, expertise, and limitations, with particular emphasis on those areas where you need to develop additional skills and expertise.
Identify at least three different problems in an organization can have that would require interventions. Include the rationale for each and use at least two sources to support your assessment.
What do roles and responsibilities have to do with group and team interaction?
How do offshore operations fit in traditional industries, such as the steel industry?
Your team of management consultants has been retained by a senior manager who is concerned about the effectiveness of his managers. He would like your team to develop a mini-course on delegation. The course should be designed to improve the interest in and the delegation skills of his managers. He also wants the mini-course t
Robert Frost (1874 -1963), an American poet wrote the following lines: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. There are two cults (options) within the traditions of ancient Greece
Using Excel, solve the following: During registration at State University every semester, students in the college of business must have their courses approved by the college advisor. It takes the adviser an average of 2 minutes to approve each schedule, and students arrive at the advisors office at the rate of 28 per hour.
Explore the Altria website (formerly Philip Morris): http://www.altria.com/responsibility/4_10_environmentagriculture.asp 1. How committed is Altria to the environment? 2. In your opinion, is Altria's commitment strong enough to offset environmental issues within the tobacco company? 3. What is the actual strategic r
Write an outline for a presentation on the benefits of distance learning from a student's perspective. The audience will be students and teachers with very little computer experience and may be somewhat fearful of the idea. Make sure to tailor the presentation outline with this audience in mind. This outline should be at lea
Can a company be fast, dependable, flexible, produce high-quality products/services, and still provide poor service from a customer's perspective? Why?
Manychip, having identified the appropriate location for its major production facility, now wants your team to determine the optimal internal layout for the facility based on the following criteria: - The facility will manufacture several lines of memory chips, some with compatible components and some that do not have compati
(See attached file for full problem description) --- Consider the following forecasts: a. Calculate the three month Simple Moving Average forecast for months 4 - 11 for the following demand data: Month Demand SMA Forecast Error Absolute Error ( |E| ) 1 120 2 115 3 125 4 119 5 127 6 114 7 120
Task One: 1. Name three selection tools that you would consider using for a hiring program at a supermarket. 2. Choose what you think is the best selection tool or combination of selection tools. 3. Justify your choice by describing the advantages of your method compared to other selection tools that were considered. Tas
1. (Chapter 11) A retailer experiences a seasonal demand pattern for its services. Labor requirements over a typical six-month period follow (10 pts): (see chart in attached file) Costs associated with operations are as follows: Wages = $3,000 per worker per month Hiring cost = $1,000 per worker Layoff cost = $500
As the training manager, you are preparing to interview several consultants who may provide training services to your organization. One of the goals for the interview is to find out how the training will be evaluated and validated. Identify specific points that you will consider as effective evaluation techniques and methods for
List three things relative to the important and effectiveness of forecasting the market demand.
Customers arrive at Homestake Bank between the hours of 10 A.M. and 11 A.M. according to a Poisson distribution at a mean rate of 40 per hour. During the period from 10 A.M. to 11 A.M. the bank has 3 tellers working. The average time a teller spends with a customer is 3 minutes, and service time follows an exponential distribu
Students arrive at the Vermont University library reference desk according to a Poisson distribution at the mean rate of 12 per hour. The librarian spends an average of 12 per hour. The librarian spends an average of 4 minutes with each student, and service times follow an exponential distribution. What is the average number
For each of the following, state whether you think the disclosure of information was appropriate. Defend your position! 1. A young woman, who states she has just been raped, comes into the emergency room requesting a pelvic examination and a morning-after pill, but she insists that the staff not call the police. The staff re
In the mid 1970s, a nursing educator in Idaho had contact, through a student, with a female client who had chronic myelogenous leukemia. This form of leukemia can often be managed for years with little or no chemotherapy. The woman had done well for about twelve years and ascribed her good condition to health foods and a strict
Imagine you have been asked to make FOUR presentations on "Effective Presentation Skills" for FOUR very different audiences. What would be your presentation objective for each group? Write a 1-sentence objective statement (also known as "purpose statement") for each of the following audiences (refer to page 15 of the Munter a
Decision alternatives A) Should be identified before decision criteria is established B) Are limited to quantitative solutions c) Are evaluated as a part of the problem definition stage d) Are best generated by brain-storming Decision criteria a) Are the choices faced by the decision maker b) Are the probl
I'm just trying to incorporate the instructors comments from a previous assignment. The comment below was made from last week's assignments. I want to ensure that I have incorporated the instructors comments into this weeks assignment. The attached assignment on the power corruption cycle needs to be editted. Comments from
Is obesity covered by the ADA? Could you explain a little.
1. Explain why corporate governance fails, and list some of the "indulgences" some managers have given to themselves?
How will you evaluate the effectiveness of the training in terms of organizational objectives and limitations?
A regression equation found using the least squares principle is the best-fitting line because the sum of the squares of the vertical deviations between the actual and estimated values is minimized. True False.
Topic A: Please discuss the following: What are the challenges that you personally face in presentations? What are some successes that you have had in making presentations? What are the ingredients for a successful presentation? Topic B: Can a presenter really change his/her image from presentation to presentation? If
I need your help finding a research issue, problem, or opportunity that uses data that has absolute zero measurements, such as interval and ratio level data. The class is on Research and Evaluation Can you also give me the definitions for absolute zero measurements and interval and ratio level data?? I also need a descr
In the cosmetic industry what is a problem that relates to an operations management issue. What would a problem statement be? what would or are the relevant facts and circumstances related to the problem What is the operations management issue? How can it be turned into an operations management opportunity?