Integrative Learning Project – General Instructions

For the Integrative Learning Project (ILP), you will research a particular, authentic company/industry or a fabricated company/industry. The ILP must be written in current APA format and must include the following major elements:

· Title Page

· Table of Contents

· Abstract

· Organizational Setting

· Integration of Chapter Concepts to the Organizational Setting

· Select 8 different key concepts from the textbook that seem to be most applicable to your organizational setting. Some examples of key concepts include supply chain management, Six Sigma, innovation, etc. Provide an in-depth discussion of each of your chosen key concepts and its application to your organizational setting.

· For each concept, provide a comprehensive description, what benefit it may offer to your organization, and what needs to be done in order to successfully implement this topic into your organization.

· For each concept, integrate appropriate biblical references. Explain how these concepts magnify God’s plan for you.

· This section of your project requires at least 14 pages of graduate-level content and analysis.

· References: You must include at least 15 scholarly sources formatted in current APA style. Each reference must be current, having been published within the last 3 years, or, if older, must contribute important information relevant to historical background.

· Appendices: Include at least 3 well-developed and professional documents. Appendices often include information that is somewhat confidential, detail-oriented, and/or tends to change often. Some examples include:

· Action Planning: This specifies objectives, responsibilities, and timelines for completion of objectives.

· Description of Strategic Planning Process Used: This describes the process used to develop the plan, who was involved, the number of meetings, any major lessons learned to improve planning, etc.

· Strategic Analysis Data: This includes information generated during the external analysis (e.g., environmental scan) and internal analysis (e.g., SWOT analysis). It also includes a list of strategic issues identified during these analyses.

· Goals for Board and Chief Executive Officer: Goals of the board and CEO must be directly aligned with goals identified during strategic planning. This appendix will list goals for the board and can also include recommendations for redesigning board committees associated with strategic goals. These can be used (along with the CEO job description) to form the basis for performance evaluations of the CEO.

· Budget Planning: This depicts both the resources as well as the required funding for obtaining and using the resources needed to achieve the strategic goals. Budgets are often depicted for each term of the year of the strategic plan.

· Operating Plan: This describes the major goals and activities to be accomplished over the coming fiscal year.

· Financial Reports: These include last year’s budget (with estimated expenses and the actual amounts spent), this year’s current budget (again, with estimated amounts and actual amounts spent), a balance sheet (or, in the case of a nonprofit organization, a statement of financial position), an income statement (or, in the case of a nonprofit organization, a statement of financial activities), etc.

· Monitoring and Evaluation of Plan: This includes criteria for monitoring and evaluating as well as the responsibilities and frequencies of monitoring the implementation of the plan.

· Communication of Plan: This describes the actions that will be taken to communicate the plan and/or portions of it and describes to whom the plan will be communicated.

Assignment: Application: Student Contributed Resource

In this course, you explore and contribute readings to the dialogue about sustaining quality of life in the city. Each week, you read the assigned articles that provide a foundation for the learning on the topic. During the weeks with Discussions, you will also find articles on topics related to each Discussion.In the Discussions, you are required to use the article you find as a source for your response. As the course progresses, you and your colleagues build a bibliography. You may also draw upon the list of student contributed resources for the Final Project.This week, you complete the “Student Contributed Resource Worksheet” document, found in this week’s Resources area. This Assignment is designed to help you find articles or resources that both meet academic requirements and enrich the course dialogue.

By Day 7

Complete your “Student Contributed Resource Worksheet” document.

Student Contributed Resource Worksheet

Directions: Please type your answers in the boxes provided. If you need more space, the box will expand as you write—so, there is no need to worry about space. Do not write your answers in a separate document because your Instructor uses the Rubric after each question to grade that section. You may also use the Rubric as a guide to make sure you completed the question correctly.

Quality of Life in Cities: Perspectives

1. Find one article from the library or credible Internet site that focuses on quality of life in a specific city or in cities generally.

Note: You may use articles by the authors listed in the Learning Resources section but you may also include other authors.

Insert the requested information in the box below.

Author name: Year and date of publication: Name of the article (or web article or website): Name of the publication (or website): Volume and issue number (for magazine or journal articles): URL (that is, the web address) of the website (if applicable):

Next, attempt to organize the information above into an APA-style reference. There are two examples in the following box, one for an article published in a magazine or journal and one for an article published on a website.

Insert APA reference below.

Example of an article published in a magazine or journal: Kotkin, J. (2005). Cities: Places sacred, safe, and busy. The Next American City, (8), 19–22. Example of an article published on a website: Montgomery, C. (2013, November 1). The secrets of the world’s happiest cities. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices Enter your attempt at an APA style reference:

Finally, post this reference to the course blog.

Question #1 Rubric (for Instructor use only)	Points
Did the student find one academically appropriate source? _____ / 17.5 points Did the student provide all the requested details about the source? _____/ 17.5 points Did the student attempt to put the reference to the source in APA format? _____/ 17.5 points Did the student post the reference to the course blog? _____ / 17.5 points Instructor Comments:	70 Points _____/70

2. Write an annotation in the box below. An annotation summarizes the article and its point of view. It can be thought of as the explanation for why the article relates to the topic or an Assignment. Your annotation for this article should be 3–4 sentences.

Insert your answer below.

Question #2 Rubric (for Instructor use only)	Points
Did the student provide an explanation for why the article relates to the topic? _____/30 points Instructor Comments:	30 Points _____/30

Worksheet Total Points	100 points
	_____/100