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Indeed, little or no employee involvement is one of the factors responsible for the failure of most strategic plans (Thompson & Martin, 2010). As internal stakeholders, employees require to be engaged throughout the entire strategic implementation process -- from initiation to product design, and launch. The need to involve employees in strategic implementation is particularly informed by the fact that employees are directly involved in executing the strategic plan. When employees are involved, they are more likely to be more committed to the goals and objectives of the plan.
An important stakeholder in the strategic implementation process is the top management. Strategic plans are often initiatives of… Continue Reading...
available financial resources and personnel, crime rates, and socio-cultural setup. During strategic planning, the department must, for example, consider whether it has the resources and personnel needed to respond to crime, prevent crime, and to enhance public safety.
An important aspect of strategic management relates to stakeholder involvement. As an organization, the police department is surrounded by a multiplicity of internal and external stakeholders. Internal stakeholders mainly include police officers and police leaders. The department works with or is affected by several external stakeholders, including the state government, elected officials, correctional personnel, court personnel, the media, communities, businesses, and advocacy groups.… Continue Reading...
and HR planning. Through this process, HR activities and plans are incorporated into the corporate strategic plan such that HRM gets linked clearly to, or aligns itself with, corporate goal achievement (Meyer, 2014; Torrington et al., 2002).
HP's human resource department must support superior performance levels. Rather than assisting and serving its workforce, the company's HR personnel must create, promote, encourage, and facilitate personnel-building capacity. They should assist the company in making the most of its HR potential and guiding it along the right path -- towards realizing corporate goals (Wheelen and Hunger, 2010). Such an attitude or standpoint forms the starting block to a… Continue Reading...
Strategic Planning Cycle
Strategic planning is delineated as an organization's practice of outlining its strategy or direction to be undertaken and making decisions on apportioning its resources to carry out the strategy. Strategic planning is largely beneficial to the organization in that it outlines the short-term benefits sought after and where the company seeks to get to. The strategic planning cycle exemplified in a sequence of formal planning procedures, makes certain that managers evaluate key strategic issues being faced by the organization. This is imperative to get through the common… Continue Reading...
chairman at the top. The position of the chairman is tasked with the responsibility of laying out the strategic plan of the company and controlling it with a view to maximizing shareholder wealth. Aiding the chairman is the senior management, whose fundamental role is to oversee and coordinate the implementation of the company's strategic plan. The management team, which comprises of seven members, is headed by the CEO. The other members of the team include the senior landscape engineer and architect, site manager, design manager, designer, project coordinator, and the chief accountant. Table 1 below provides the names of the senior managers and the respective position held.
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the decisions of the board. It is involved in executing the organization's strategic plan. The management is, therefore, an important stakeholder, which must be kept informed of the marketing objectives, progress, and updates. Unlike the board, the management meets more regularly. These meetings present perfect opportunities to engage the management. The management relies on members of staff to achieve the objectives of the organization. Employees are directly involved in implementing the activities and initiatives of the organization. Among other everyday activities, they go to the field, conduct research, visit prisons, and perform evaluations. Effective communication to this group is essential. Indeed, without… Continue Reading...
note that being a private company, the business will not be mandated to adhere to the standards (Epstein et al., 2009). In the most recent strategic plan of the SEC, the body points out that it is prepared to take into consideration the notion of a single set of international accounting standards. This is through the convergence of the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) with the Internationally Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This convergence will influence Autodine Restaurant as a business in different ways (Sweetman, 2016). The main impact in which this convergence will impact the business is through… Continue Reading...
Haiti access to primary health care. This comprehensive marketing strategic plan should provide a roadmap for the pre-pilot phase with its customer-focused objectives. While many organizations have difficulty communicating and connecting with Haitian consumers both in Haiti and in the United States with Haitian Americans, experience and understanding for this specific target population allows for a thorough representation of what can be done to not only reach this target demographic, but also achieve specific goals.
Those specific goals involve regular primary care visits and ease of access to important emergency medical services to help prevent major medical issues, while… Continue Reading...
and beyond. This report shall manifest with a hypothetical organization and how precisely their strategic plan and shared services framework could and should manifest.
Acme Financial Services
The hypothetical company that shall be used for this report is Acme Financial Services. To fill in some context as to what this hypothetical company does, a few questions need to answered. To put it concisely, the company has to define who they are, what they do, for whom they do their job and how Acme knows the job is getting done. In terms of "what" the firm does, that would be check cashing and sending of… Continue Reading...
values of the bank. Most of all Sally is worried regarding the building of a strategic plan for the branch. The purpose of this assignment is to give detailed explanations as to how Sally ought to bring change and competency as a HRM leader to the ABC Bank branch.
Workforce
The key issue that Sally has to grapple with is the decision as to which technology to acquire and whether she ought to lay off the current set of employees and hire new employees. Regardless of the change taking place in banking, it is not recommended for Sally to quickly lay off the older employees.… Continue Reading...
Strategic Approach to Marketing Communications
When undertaking any business activity, it is important to have a strategic plan. A strategic plan will offer a guideline on the way specific activity should be approached. It will enable the staff, management, and the stakeholders to assess the level of achievement in the organization. The results obtained will be compared with the projections estimated in the strategic plan. Marketing communication is an important aspect of any organization (Cheung & Thadani, 2012). It involves the language and presentation used when creating product awareness and encouraging customers to buy products and services offered in the organization. In any business, the customer… Continue Reading...
will discuss the marketing strategies employed by CHI, its financial situation, partnerships and strategic planning.
Marketing Strategies
The marketing strategies used by CHI include TV, digital-marketing with content and social media, print ads and even outdoor advertising to help make CHI more popular among the different communities throughout the states in which it operates (CHI, 2018). As Doster (2013) and Jackson (2011) show, social media is one of the most popular forms of communication used among people today. CHI uses a variety of social marketing techniques, from social media publishing to outdoor advertising. Representatives also play a large role in promoting the company’s… Continue Reading...
world situations. The effectiveness and value of intelligence can only be realized through an excellent strategic plan and a risk based strategy to security. Intelligence must be mapped onto relevant priorities and goals the come out of strategic approach to security (Goldfarb, 2016). This way, organizations become more strategic and selective in their clamor for intelligence. The iterations and metrics of intelligence are defined by continued re-assessment and recapitulations. Successful intelligence information utilizes continuous reassessments, tune ups and updates depending on the challenges, risks and threats that must be mitigated. The bottom-line is that context is everything when it comes to intelligence (Goldfarb, 2016). It… Continue Reading...
CEO of the hospital, has requested all department heads to develop a strategic plan in the next one month detailing how they will implement the proposed changes. According to the CEO, there is a need for the hospital staff to start doing more with less. This would allow the hospital to address their current financial situation.
The issues at stake currently have to do with the Department of Psychiatry. It looks like the department is the hardest hit with the loss of funding from the state. The department has undergone numerous changes over the years all that had to do with the… Continue Reading...
Introduction
Performance scorecards provide a straightforward means of integrating metrics into a healthcare organization’s strategic planning. Scorecards are most effective when they have a clear purpose, identifying specific patient populations and outcome measures. According to Baker (2015), “savvy organizations select the best metrics to track that are appropriate to what the organizational staff members wish to measure,” which could include specific issues like patient vital signs or patient satisfaction survey outcomes (p. 224). Moreover, performance scorecards need to be simple, kept on a manageable scale so that the data gleaned can be readily communicated to inform organizational practices, policies, and procedures (Hansel, n.d.). The… Continue Reading...
DNR orders, discuss how the deontological ethical system applies appropriately well to the issue, and describe a strategic plan for addressing the issue at the national level.
Overview
Current Policy
There is currently no national policy on DNR. Yuen, Reid and Fetters (2011) note that DNR orders have been used by hospitals across the nation for more than 20 years but that “as currently implemented, they fail to adequately fulfill their two intended purposes—to support patient autonomy and to prevent non-beneficial interventions” (p. 791). One of the major problems that nurses have with DNR is that they find it difficult to sensitively broach the subject. Quite simply,… Continue Reading...
local governments must encourage cross-sector collaborations, develop workforce skills, revitalize local education, promote entrepreneurship, improve infrastructure, and craft regional economic strategic plans. At the federal level, there must be reforms in corporate taxation, immigration, international trade, communications and energy infrastructure, health care, and public education. Addressing these areas can significantly improve the business environment and the standards of the average citizen, thereby reversing the deteriorating competitiveness of the U.S. economy.
Tax Reform
Taxation is one of the major factors, according to Porter et al. (2016), that have negatively affected the competitiveness of… Continue Reading...
about New War directed at actors in the regime institutions and the strategic plans.
The two theories would gain from paying higher attention to the dynamics of conflict as opposed to causes that trigger conflict. This means attention should be paid to how issues of contention and political differences and arguments are slated to either contain the wars or escalate them. It is the leaders in political realms that make these choices.
Politics Influence Crime Rates among the Lower Class people.
It has long been acknowledged that social inequalities case conflict in society. Such great thinkers and writers as Edwin Sutherland postulated… Continue Reading...
organizations will encompass a wide range of specific skills and competencies, including those related to coordination, strategic planning, capital budgeting and cost accounting, marketing, advocacy, and interfacing with policymakers, community allies, and stakeholders.
The role of the senior manager is multifaceted and varied, and may shift on an almost daily or even hourly basis. At times, the senior manager will function as a visionary leader who devises strategies for planned organizational change. Other times, the senior manager embodies a transformational style of leadership to empower colleagues and subordinates, particularly in an institution with departmental divisions. The senior executive in an eldercare organization may also work with… Continue Reading...
management, the end customer, and engineering), as well as the organisation's strategic planning process and bottom line.
Demand Planning Issues Today
Businesses exist in a constantly changing environment. Customer tastes and preferences, technologies, regulatory requirements, markets, and the industry environment keep evolving, affecting demand planners in different ways (Stadtler, Kilger & Meyr, 2015). The challenge of constant change is that the change sometimes comes at the most unexpected of times, catching demand planners completely unaware. For instance, an unexpected legislation or economic catastrophe causing a revision of previously projected demand levels. In today's business world, therefore, it is more imperative than… Continue Reading...
