Identify the best value discipline, generic strategy, and grand strategy for your organization.

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Strategic Choice and Evaluation

 

Write a paper of no more than 1,400 words that evaluates alternatives an organization must consider to realize growth.
Identify the best value discipline, generic strategy, and grand strategy for your organization.
Recommend a strategy or combination of strategies the organization should implement.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Evaluate the value of both types of assessment and, specifically, the role you see assessment playing in your classroom.

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Assessment Matters

As a teacher, you need to have solid knowledge of formative and summative assessment and how each can help you ensure students are mastering key contents and skill. You also need to be able to take the information gleaned from assessments and make decisions that support the learning of all your students. This week, you will build on your previous assignment from last week and integrate the knowledge from your research and the readings.
Watch the following videos:

    1. Rick Wormeli: Formative and Summative Assessment
    2. TEDxSoCal – Dr. Brian Stecher – Cultivating Thriving Schools

Both videos examine the role of accountability and how they can and do impact our work in schools. Brian Stecher specifically discusses three indicators that drive everything that happens in schools, while Rick Wormeli outlines how different types of knowledge are assessed.
In this assignment, please address the following topics and questions:

    1. Analyze the roles of assessment and evaluation in school improvement and in measuring educational quality.
    2. Examine and explain your perspectives on the roles and trends related to assessment in education.
    3. Evaluate the value of both types of assessment and, specifically, the role you see assessment playing in your classroom.
    4. Evaluate the roles of both formative and summative assessment in the classroom. How does each form of assessment support learning? In what ways can the teacher use the data from assessments to influence learning in the classroom?
    5. Review your work from your Week Four Assignment and provide specific details of what you see as the next step in developing an assessment for the Common Core State Standard you identified in the activity you presented.

Please support your claims and assertions with the literature, using the course textbook, the videos, and resources for this week, as well as at least one other peer-reviewed article from the Ashford University Library. You must have three to five references total and use in-text citations throughout your paper. Please format your assignment, citations, and references in APA style. This assignment should be four to five pages in length, in addition to title and reference pages. Be sure to also save a copy of your assignment for your Final Project and for future professional development.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Margin of safety for the estimated sales volume

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Case: Mendel Paper Company
Mendel Paper Company produces four basic paper product lines at one of its plants: com¬puter paper, napkins, place mats, and poster board. Materials and operations vary accord¬ing to the line of product. The market has been relatively good. The demand for napkins and place mats has increased with more people eating out, and the demand for the other lines has been growing steadily.
The plant superintendent, Marlene Herbert, while pleased with the prospects for increased sales, is concerned about costs:

“We hear talk about a paperless office, but I haven’t seen it yet. The computers, if anything, have increased the market for paper. Our big problem now is the high fixed cost of production. As we have automated our operation, we have experienced increases in fixed overhead and even variable overhead. And, we will have to add more equipment since it appears that we need even more plant capacity. We are operating over our normal capacity as it is.
“The place mat market concerns me. We may have to discontinue printing the mats. Our specialty printing is driving up the variable overhead to the point where we may not find it profitable to continue with that line at all.”
Cost and price data for the next fiscal quarter are as follows:
Computer paper Napkins Place mats Poster board
Estimated sales volume in units 30,000 120,000 45,000 80,000
Selling prices……………. $14.00 $7.00 $12.00 $8.50
Materials costs………… 6.00 4.50 3.60 2.50

Case: Mendel Paper Company (continued)
Data with respect to production per machine hour and the variable cost per hour of pro¬ducing each of the products are given as follows:
Computer paper Napkins Place mats Poster board
Units per hour 6 10 5 4
Variable overhead per hour $9.00 $6.00 $12.00 $8.00

“I hate to spoil things,” the vice-president of purchasing announces. “But the cost of our materials for computer stock is now up to $7. Just got a call about that this morning. Also, place mat materials will be up to $4 a unit.”
“On the bright side,” the vice-president of sales reports, “we have firm orders for 35,000 cartons of computer paper, not 30,000 as we originally figured.”
Questions:
1. From all original estimates given, prepare estimated contribution margins by product line for the next fiscal quarter. Also, show the contribution margins per unit.
2. Prepare contribution margins as in part (1) with all revisions included.
3. For the original estimates, compute each of the following:
(a) Break-even point for the given sales mix.
(b) Margin of safety for the estimated sales volume.
4. For the revised estimates, compute each of the following:
(a) Break-even point for the given sales mix.
(b) Margin of safety for the estimated sales volume.
5. Comment on Herbert’s concern about the variable cost of the place mats

Describe the the responsibilities of the workers.

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Summative Assessment
You are a worker in a fast growing, large, non-union manufacturing organization. You notice persistent systematic labor violations in the plant. The company has multiple locations in the United States and plants in China and France. People are complaining about the working conditions and wages. A group of your fellow workers are talking about the need to fight back. There seems to be a willingness to organize. You have decided to seek the help of a Union. Write the following information in proposal format. Remember to follow APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center and to cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

  • Describe the union organizing process.
  • Identify the union you would choose to help you organize and explain why.
  • Describe the the responsibilities of the workers.
  • Describe what the unions can do to help labor.
  • Explain what management can legally say and do when they learn an organization movement is in progress.
  • Explain what can be done to help the workers overseas organize.
  • Explain why the global nature of the business does or does not influence the organization and bargaining process.

Note: Be sure to check that your Turnitin Similarity Index does not exceed 10% (excluding reference page).
Writing the Final Paper
The Final Paper:

  1. Must be 1250 to 1500 words, double-spaced (not including title and references pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  2. Must include a title page with the following:
    1. Title of paper
    2. Student’s name
    3. Course name and number
    4. Instructor’s name
    5. 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 at least three scholarly sources.
  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.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.