Describe how the new plans will affect the organization, both internally and externally.  

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Using the Fortune 100 List (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., choose an organization that has their corporate social responsibility (CSR) statement, vision, and mission statements available on their website.

  • Quote the statement and describe what this means in your own words
  • Research a recent article on the organization that is related to their current and/or future CSR activities.
  • Describe how the new plans will affect the organization, both internally and externally.
  • Develop an idea for a new CSR endeavor for the organization based on the organization’s mission and vision.

The paper

  • Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    •  Title of paper
    •  Student’s name
    •  Course name and number
    •  Instructor’s name
    •  Date submitted
  • Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the course text and the article by Snider, Hill, and Martin (2003).
  • Must document all sources APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must end with a conclusion that clearly summarizes what was presented in the paper.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Discuss the philosophy of management that will be applied to the management of the organization and how the structure of the organization will foster a positive work environment where employees will be motivated and productive.

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Develop an operational plan for an organization of your choice. Create a fictional organization that includes the name, type of business, size of organization, and the product or service that the organization offers. The paper must be between 10-12 pages in length and include five scholarly sources, in addition to the text. Your paper must:

1. Develop an organizational chart for the proposed organization.

a. Include the title of positions and a brief description of the positions’ duties and responsibilities.

b. Figure 7.7 on page 207 of the text provides an example of how to develop the organizational chart.

2. Define the organization’s vision, mission, and values

3. Outline the basic planning process for the organization, and describes how the three levels of management influence this process.

4. Explain why the quality, productivity, and profitability are important elements in the planning process

5. Evaluate the relationship between the human resource planning activities and the overall organizational strategy

6. Discuss the philosophy of management that will be applied to the management of the organization and how the structure of the organization will foster a positive work environment where employees will be motivated and productive.

7. Compose the steps of control and types of controls included in the control process for the organization.

Writing the Operational Plan

The Plan:

1. Must be 10 to 12 double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

2. Must include a title page with the following:

a. Title of paper

b. Student’s name

c. Course name and number

d. Instructor’s name

e. Date submitted

3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.

4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.

5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.

6. Must use five scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library, in addition to the text.

7. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

8. Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

 

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·          MGT 601 Week 1 Assignment ( Management – Theory and Practice )

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·          MGT 601 Week 3 Assignment ( The Organizing Process )

·          MGT 601 Week 4 Assignment ( Human Resource Planning and Organizational Strategy )

·          MGT 601 Week 5 Assignment ( Situational Leadership Theory and Organizational Leadership )

·          MGT 601 Week 6 Assignment ( Operational Plan )

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Discuss the theoretical background for this topic including your personal interest in the topic.

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This week is the very important Discussion Board 2 is all about proper Research Questions. Discussion Board 2 requires you to:

1) Develop a focused research question(s) for a topic.

2) Discuss the theoretical background for this topic including your personal interest in the topic.

3) Post two or more replies to other classmates. When considering a research topic, make sure you are focusing on our Sport Profession and your desire to work in the Sport Industry. Take time to consider where you want to work and in what capacity within the sport industry. Then strongly consider the skills/competencies necessary to be successful in that position/field. Select a research topic that is geared toward learning and developing knowledge and skill necessary for your future advancement. Do not pick a topic such as steroids, paying college athletes, or the latest dietary supplementations just because it sounds interesting. This research course is designed to help prepare and guide you advancing into your professional career. If you want to be a(n):  •Athletic Director, then you must possess strong executive management, finance, and leadership skill. •Head Sport Coach, then you must enjoy strong personnel, communication, and strategic competency. •YMCA Director, then you must be experienced in Non-Profit, program management, and CSR. •ESPN Anchor, then you must possess outstanding personal and interpersonal communication.

•Sport Marketer, then you must possess competency in branding, advertising, and communication. •Sport Agent, then you must have a background in contract law, advertising, and endorsements.    As you can see, you should consider where you want to go in the Sport Profession and then pare down the necessary skill sets and competencies for advancement.

Those are the items I suggest you research and study through this course, something that will help you grow and blossom and your career advancement (finance, law, marketing, promotions, advertising, branding, liability, media, communication, ethics, management, administration, leadership, facility development, etc.).    Your topic could also be a problem or matter or issue we currently deal with in sport:  ∞ The difficulties of collective bargaining.  ∞ Greed in professional athletics.  ∞ Aggression and violence in the promotion of sport.  ∞ Ambush marketing in sport.  ∞ Product exclusivity.

∞ The place for prayer and religion in sport.  ∞ Public financing of private sport.  ∞ The intricacies of athlete endorsements and the morality clauses of today.

∞ How to provide sport to the lowers classes of society in cost effective manners.  ∞ Escalating costs of operating a sport business.  ∞ Product liability and the litigious society.    Try to avoid common trite topics such as nutrition enhancements, fitness matters, payment of college athletes, steroids, etc. Make sure you stay focused on key management topics that are related to your desire to advance into the Sport Profession.

You must first select a topic in the Sport Profession and then scour the scholarly literature (not op ed articles or Non-Professional materials – ONLY Professional scholarly sources) to see if there is a basis for the theoretical framework. Include references and citation from several journals and scholarly pieces to begin showing a theoretical framework. Forbes Magazine, ESPN Magazine, newspapers, etc. are Non-Professional sources unacceptable for graduate level research, stick to scholarly journals, textbooks, and trade publications. Answer the questions and provide the necessary discussion, respond to more than enough students, and always include lots of scholarship and faith integration throughout.

Describe what the listener should focus on in the Ambient Music.  Be specific, let your research inform this section.  

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Opening thoughts on Ambient Music.  First, define ambiance. Why did you choose this genre? Were you familiar with Ambient Music before this paper?

II. Ambient Music Overview [Two Paragraphs]

  • What is Ambient Music?
  • Who is/are the key figures in the development of Ambient Music?
  • What is Muzak (Links to an external site.)
    Links to an external site.
    ? Why is the corporation Muzak important to the development of Ambient Music?
  • Why is the work Music for Airports so important to the genre of Ambient Music?
  • How has Ambient music evolved from its origin in early 1970’s?

III. Musical Observations [Three to Four paragraphs]

  • After listening to the four examples of Ambient Music (especially the entirety of Music for Airports) describe the connecting stylistic attributes.  Try to make connections between two or three of the selected pieces.  Be specific and use music terminology
  • Describe the differences between three of the selected Ambient works
  • How is Ambient Music different from musical we’ve studied in MUSC&105 thus far? Describe the obvious and not-so-obvious differences. [Think about melody, harmony, goal-directed harmonic progressions, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, music length, etc…]
  • Describe the instrumentation/timbre of the selected Ambient works?  Any similarities?
  • How and where is Ambient Music experienced?  Why is location important to consider when discussing Ambient Music?
  • Does Ambient Music have a distinctive following?  If so, please describe.

IV. Appreciating Ambient Music [One to Two Paragraphs]

In a paragraph or two make a case for appreciating Ambient Music.

  • How does Ambient Music upend the traditional mode of music listening?  Is this mode of listening more relevant in today’s culture?  If so, explain.
  • Describe what the listener should focus on in the Ambient Music.  Be specific, let your research inform this section.
  • In order to truly appreciate what makes Ambient Music special, you need to consider musical attributes and the potential for foreground/background listening.  What attributes associated with other genres of music should be de-emphasized?  Meaning, what common musical expectations will not be met for a “new” listener of Ambient music?
  • Describe the optimal location, mindset for experiencing Ambient Music.
  • Are there misconceptions of what Ambient Music is?  Explain.  Do you see any potential misconceptions?

V. Concluding Thoughts [One Paragraph]

In a paragraph describe:

  • your personal thoughts on Ambient Music and the process of researching and describing appreciation of the Ambient Music genre.
  • the process of gaining appreciation in general.  Please provide a life experience.  What have you gained an appreciation for in other areas of your life?

Bibliography

Cite all resources…websites and all.

Your paper criteria: 

Your paper needs to have a plausible and interesting main argument, a coherent structure, convincing evidence, and an elegant style with your voice in it. The arguments that you will be making in your paper should primarily be based on specific and concrete musical elements that support the path to true appreciation of your selected genre.  In the process of creating your paper, you will need to build an understanding of your selected genre’s history, experience important works/songs (instructor selected), stylistic attributes, and socio/economic/cultural connections.  This means that you are not expected to LIKE or ENJOY either of stylistic choices, but you will need to ponder and express how to appreciate the music of your selected genre to the reader.   To be clear, you can’t simply write that the genre or the song or musical performance is “good or bad” or that “you liked it or didn’t.”  This paper is not about opinion but how to objectively approach music that is new to you or outside the realm of your musical tastes. Ultimately you need to reference specific elements of the music to make a strong arguable claim that you can support with evidence.  Each genre option will have genre-specific questions, selected music to help  you built your paper. An outline of the paper structure will be found below.

Before you start writing your paper and developing your thesis you need to observe and analyze the music.

Observe
As you listen to the music for the first time, pay attention to your first impression and your reactions. Focus on the moments that leap out at you, jolt your senses or seem to be important to you.   Try to hone in on what makes the genre sound the way it does.  What do you hear in the music that specifically leads to a stylistic attribute?  Listen to the selected music several times and focus on a different attribute in the music with each hearing. Try to build a list of various musical elements to help you find the key attributes that are essential to building appreciate of your selected genre.

Analyze

After you have made your careful observations you can start organizing them in order that is important to you. When you are analyzing, ask yourself how do aspects of the piece’s form, lyrics, repetitions, and other musical attributes (instrumentation, timbre, etc.) that you noticed in your observation, contribute to the work’s meaning or function and in how you understand the work.

Use of Terminology

In your writing make sure to make use of the musical terminology that you have learned in this course. However, don’t use them just for sake of using them. Use them if you think it would help to make your points clear. Also, don’t be afraid of using metaphorical or poetic language to describe a passage in the music.

PAPER OUTLINE

I. Introduction

II. Selected Genre Overview (see Genre-Specific Page for details)

III. Musical Observations (see Genre-Specific Page for details)

IV. Appreciating Your Selected Genre

V. Concluding Thoughts 

Bibliography

PROJECT RUBRIC:

 

Good grammar and spelling: 10pts

Correct use of music terminology: 10pts

 

Basic background information about the genre, songs(s) and composer(s)/performer(s): 20pts

 

Strength of musical observations: 20pts

 

Balance between descriptive analysis and personal reactions: 10pts

 

Overall quality of the appreciation argument: 30pts

Plagiarism policy 
Your paper must be your own original work.  Papers which are found to contain material copied from other sources will receive a grade of zero. All submissions will be checked for plagiarized material using VeriCite.