Category: Business and Management

This week we will explore and conduct research regarding employee health and safety of the workplace and answer the following questions:
1. What are the main health concerns that affect people at work?
2. What are some of the major ways we can reduce workplace stress?
3. What is/are YOUR major concern(s) regarding health & safety in your organization?

Part 1:
You are about to set up your own business (all specifications can be made up as per your preference), which will operate in the international arena. In this regard, you need to design a proper communication system to run the organisation smoothly and enable it to achieve its goals. In view of this, critically analyse and address the following points with regards to building an effective communication system for the work environment in the organization:
1. Determine which managerial approach would be the best fit in enabling the organisation to meet its goals for effective communication.
2. Design a feedback action plan for delivering constructive feedback associated with a non-routine change to your employees. Provide a specific example of such a change.
3. Evaluate and assess the effectiveness of the channels used in the communication of this change.
4. Discuss two important ethical principles that the organisation considers to be important components of the organisational culture.
5. Highlight the most challenging stage of reactions that employees go through when confronted with the above-mentioned change, and provide a rational explanation, as a communication manager, to convince them to accept the change.
Part 2:
Submit a reflective paper of 500-700 words, analysing the major challenges with regards to the communication strategy encountered as a manager in assignment 1.
a) What was the most challenging step you took as the communication manager?
b) What was the least challenging step you took as the communication manager?
c) What should be the priority of managers when designing an effective communication system and why?
For part 2 use credible sources (at least 2 publications) to support your ideas!

***NOTES***
The first three sections (Overview, Personal Development Plan, and Adaptive Leadership Toolkit) have been completed already as separate assignments, they will be attached to combine into this assignment. The last part, Rollout and Implementation (#’s 8-10 on the rubric) will still need written.
I need the last part to be written and combined with the first three parts into one seamless paper and adjusted where needed. I have provided graded rubrics of where adjustments were suggested byh professor. I will provide all documents pertaining to this assignment for reference to complete task. PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK ALL PARTS OF RUBRIC/PROJECT GUIDELINES TO MAKE SURE THEY’RE MET. The less edits I need to make, the better the tip you will receive. Professor is very thorough!
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:
Craft a communication strategy for internal and external audiences
Leverage internal and external intelligence to inform decision making
Develop an adaptable leadership mindset and skill set
Scenario
You work as a director of leadership and learning for an organization that makes prosthetics. The organization has been in business since 1999 and employs over 350 people in its Tampa, Florida, headquarters and three plant locations across the Southwest. While the business is currently based in the United States, the organization is exploring ways to move into Canadian markets within the next three years. This year’s employee engagement survey results for the organization show that some leadership practices are rated lower, while some practices were rated higher. The new chief human resources officer (CHRO) met with the team to discuss the general results. Everyone agrees that the company’s focus should be on both specific leadership development areas perceived as strengths and on those rated as areas for improvement, primarily regarding social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and the interpersonal skills of effective leaders.
To help this initiative, your manager, the vice president of leadership and learning, asked you to create an adaptive leadership toolkit that can be used throughout the organization. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment and turned this into a personal development plan. Then you shared this artifact with your manager. Your manager was impressed with the thoroughness of the personal development plan and saw value in incorporating it as an exemplar within the adaptive leadership toolkit for use by all people leaders in the organization. After receiving such positive feedback, you moved forward with creating the rest of the adaptive leadership toolkit.
Your manager has shared the adaptive leadership toolkit that you created with the CHRO, and it was well received. The CHRO wants to distribute this toolkit to all leaders throughout the organization—supervisors and above—and asks you to create a communication strategy that will help in the rollout and implementation of the adaptive leadership toolkit. For this project, you will create that communication strategy.
Directions
Overview: In this part of the communication strategy, you will summarize the business problems the organization is currently experiencing and provide an overview of trends from your analysis. You will also explain how a personal development plan and adaptive leadership toolkit can provide solutions to these challenges.
Summarize the business problems the organization is currently facing and describe how the personal development plan and adaptive leadership toolkit will address them.
Why was the personal development plan created?
Why was the adaptive leadership toolkit developed?
Summarize trends in leadership strengths observed in your analysis of the employee satisfaction survey and describe how they relate to the leadership skills and behaviors included in the adaptive leadership toolkit.
In which areas did leadership score well?
How did your analysis help to inform skills and behaviors included in the adaptive leadership toolkit?
Summarize trends in leadership weaknesses observed in your analysis of the employee satisfaction survey and describe how they relate to the leadership skills and behaviors included in the adaptive leadership toolkit.
In which areas did leadership not score well?
How did your analysis help to inform skills and behaviors included in the adaptive leadership toolkit?
Personal Development Plan: In this part of the communication strategy, you will describe the personal development plan in further detail. You will include how the personal development plan supports the adaptive leadership toolkit and the value it will bring once the entire toolkit is rolled out.
Summarize the importance of including a personal development plan in the adaptive leadership toolkit and explain the value it will bring to the organization.
How does the personal development plan support the adaptive leadership toolkit?
How do the strategies within the personal development plan address the business problems the organization is currently facing?
Explain how the personal development plan and SMART goal setting could help develop the leadership styles of the leaders within the organization.
Adaptive Leadership Toolkit: In this part of the communication strategy, you will describe the adaptive leadership toolkit in further detail. You will include how and who the adaptive leadership toolkit brings value to within the organization.
Describe how the adaptive leadership toolkit will be used and who within the organization will manage it. Your response should address the following:
Who is the target audience for the adaptive leadership toolkit?
Who are the owners of the adaptive leadership toolkit?
Describe the specific leadership skills and behaviors that are included in the adaptive leadership toolkit and explain how developing these skills and behaviors will address the business problems the organization currently faces. Use trends from the employee satisfaction survey to support your response.
Rollout and Implementation: In this part of the communication strategy, you will provide more details around the rollout and implementation of the adaptive leadership toolkit throughout the organization.
Provide a timeframe for rollout and implementation of the adaptive leadership toolkit and justify how this strategy supports the organization’s goal of improving leadership skills and behaviors over the next two years.
Describe the metrics and deliverables associated with the rollout and implementation of the adaptive leadership toolkit. Your response should address the following:
How will the success of this rollout and implementation be measured?
What are some important milestones to consider for tracking progress?
Determine methods for communicating the relevance of the adaptive leadership toolkit to stakeholders within the organization. Your response should address the following:
How should this be communicated to leadership to help gain buy-in?
How should this be communicated to its intended users to help gain buy-in?
Describe the feedback and communication strategy associated with continuous improvements to the adaptive leadership toolkit. Your response should address the following:
How can employees provide feedback on any roadblocks, issues, or ideas for improvement?
How will updates to the adaptive leadership toolkit be communicated from leadership down to employees?
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Communication Strategy
Submit a 10- to 12-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

This week I want you to draft a memo to your employees. The reading this week discussed planning and researching as well as writing reports and proposals. We are going to apply this knowledge to budget preparation. Please read chapter 1 and 2 in Budgeting Basics and Beyond. These 2 chapters will give you a great foundation as to what makes a good budget. For this assignment, please assume that you are a manager in the company of your choosing. You need your staff to help you gather the information that you need to create the budget that will be presented to executives for approval. This link will assist you in formatting your memo.
I do not expect you to submit an actual budget to me, this is an exercise in providing good instruction to your employees. The better your instructions, the more accurate their response. Please keep in mind that in providing good instruction, you will also need to provide some background information as to what you will be using this information for and why. Provide APA formatted citations for any information that you use from any sources.
Please submit your response in a Word document attached to this assignment.
Reference Page
Wikipedia is not an acceptable source for this paper should you choose to use additional sources.
https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/writing-resources/different-genres/writing-business-memos

The paper is for the course/subject – Workplace Health and Safety (in Canada). Detailed instructions and actual readings (6 articles) are attached. JOURNAL #2 ONLY.
Paper Format:
– Adherence to all academic standards and forms is expected. Of note are the use of
the third person in all assignments; the proper citation of sources; inclusion of
bibliographies; and the
use of proper spelling and grammar.
– All submissions are to use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced. APA 7th.
– Page numbers are required – their use greatly assists in quickly determining

The paper is for the course/subject – Industrial Relations in Canada. Detailed instructions and actual readings (3 articles) are attached. JOURNAL #2 ONLY.
Paper Format:
– Adherence to all academic standards and forms is expected. Of note are the use of
the third person in all assignments; the proper citation of sources; inclusion of
bibliographies; and the
use of proper spelling and grammar.
– All submissions are to use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced. APA 7th.
– Page numbers are required – their use greatly assists in quickly determining

In your own words (no direct quotes), clarify the difference between qualified and non qualified retirement benefit plans.
In your own words (no direct quotes), clarify the difference between defined benefit and defined contribution plans.
In your opinion, does one retirement plan serve to protect the retirement interests of participants than the others? Why?
Would you prefer a defined benefit plan or a defined contribution plan? Why?

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