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Strategic Staffing at Atlas Corporation

Read the attached case study. After reading the case study, answer the following questions:

1)How would you explain the alignment of Atlas business, human resource, and staffing strategies?
2) When considering the components of strategic staffing, what is Atlas doing well with regard to staffing strategically? What could they do better?
3) What would you suggest Atlas do to further enhance the alignment between its staffing function and its need to promote from within?
4) Is there a benefit for Atlas to have an internal or external staffing focus in order to gain/maintain a competitive advantage? Why, or why not?

Answer all four questions in one document. Your completed case study must be no less than two full pages in length. You must use at least your textbook as a reference, but other resources may be used if needed. Any information from resources used must be cited and referenced in APA format.

Conflicting Viewpoint

This assignment is in 2 parts. part 1 is a prewriting essay that doesn't have a page limit requirement, so it can be as short as 1 page. part 2 is the full paper that uses the prewriting from part 1. Part 2 is 3-4 pages minimum. The articles that are needed for this assignment can be accessed via the hyperlink in the word document that I attached with the assignment details. I also attached a copy of the strayer writing standards with is writing format required for this assignment. Let me know if you need anymore information.

Quik Trip Case Study

1) Evaluate Quik trip's operations strategy and explain how the organization seeks to gain a competitive advantage in terms of sustainability

2)Analyze how operation management activities affects the customers experience. Select  two operation management challenges and provide the solutions for confronting them.

3)Examine Quik Trips value chain and evaluate its effectiveness to operations in terms of quality, value, creation and customer satisfaction.

4) Determine the different type of performance measurements that can be used to measure Quik Trips service- delivery system design. Select at least two types that can be applied and provide justification for the selection.

5) Examine the different types of technologies applied to Quick Trips service operations and evaluate how the technologies strengthen the value chain.

6) Give two resources.

Chapter 10 reflection

I need a 2 page reflection on chapter 10.  The name of the book we are using is Groups Process and Practice 9th edition by Marianne Schneider Corey, Gerald Corey and Cindy Corey.  Summarize what what you've learned, what stood out to you and your thoughts and opinions on what you've read.

Chapter 9 reflection

I need a 2 page reflection on chapter 9.  The name of the book we are using is Groups Process and Practice 9th edition by Marianne Schneider Corey, Gerald Corey and Cindy Corey.  Summarize what you've learned, what stood out to you and your thoughts and opinions on what you've read.

Week Four: Chapter Six “Critical Thinking”

Critical Thinking

1.Obtain the job description for your current or most recent job (prepare one yourself if one does not exist). Redo this description by using the job characteristics framework presented in Exhibit 6.2. Design a job that would be more interesting, challenging, and enjoyable for you.

2.What are the critical factors to consider in the design of work systems? What particular role does technology play in the design of work systems?

3.Compare and contrast job enlargement, rotation, and enrichment. How are they similar to and different from each other?

4.What barriers to change exist in most organizations, and how can they be overcome?

5.Describe a successful and unsuccessful attempt at job redesign that you have experienced or observed. What factors contributed to the success or failure of the change initiative? How could the unsuccessful attempt have been managed better?

6.Debate how offshoring might impact the U.S. economy. Do you

Walgreens Boots Alliance

Section I

Complete an assessment of the political system and economic system of the company's country of origin. How does this influence the culture and operations of the company?

Section II

Complete an assessment of the legal system of the company's country of origin. How does this influence the culture and operations of the company.  Specifically address corruption, intellectual property, and product safety & liability.

Section III

Complete an assessment of the political economy and economic progress of the company's country of origin. How does this influence the culture and operations of the company? What advantage and disadvantages does this country provide to the company?

Section IV

Using this company origin nation, outline why the culture of this country might influence the costs of doing business in that country. Illustrate your answer with examples

Section V

Examine how the company's country or origin has i

Strategic Thinking

For this request, I have created a template to address all vital areas needed to cover.  You can use it as an outline for an essay, or use the template and just fill in answers, but they will need to be in paragraph format.I have included attachments to clarify details.  I have attached several documents to help clarify the requirements.  The Introduction & Scenario document contains the primary source of information to be used in completing the essay or template.  Let me know if you need additional information.

Institute of Management Accountants

This assignment will introduce you to the Institute of Management Accountants, a worldwide association of accounting and financial professionals in business, government, and nonprofit organizations.  Their web site is at  www.imanet.org.
The objective of this assignment is for you to locate the following topics at that site and summarize your findings in a Word document.  Include the hyperlink of the related web page.  Your submittal should be a three to four page paper using the Times New Roman font, 11-point type with one-inch margins. 
Locate and summarize the following topics:
            Who and what is the Institute of Management Accountants?
            What is the purpose (mission) of the organization?
            How many members are there and, generally, where are they located?
            Identify the closest chap

question

Please read each of the comments in the attached file and prepare a constructive response to that comment.
1. What is the transformational leadership response to the following comments?
a. From a patient: Nobody is answering my call light.
b. From a physician: The patient care team X isn't as helpful as they should be.
c. From a classmate at an HCO in another city: I'm looking for best practices in inventory protection. What can you tell me?

2. You're rounding, and associates say the following things. What is the best response to support the mission and the transformational culture? Your response should include what the leader should say, and at least the first round of any next steps that the leader should take.
a. So-and-so hit on me.
b. We need more staff!
c. So-and-so was late today and sick yesterday. Third time this month!
d. I disagree with the orders on this patient.
e. Dr. So-and-so never washes his hands!