For this discussion, you will first read the following articles and watch the following video.

Article: How Google Motivates Their Employees With Rewards and Perks
Employers such as Google are going to great lengths to provide extrinsic and intrinsic motivators to keep their employees engaged, create a motivating culture, and attract the best talent.

Article: How Good Are Your Motivation Skills?
Read this article and take the self-assessment on key factors for building a motivated team. The results of your self-assessment can assist you with the discussion question for this module and provide a good overview on your motivation skills. This article supplements the textbook reading for this module.

Article: Power Is the Great Motivator
This article, from the Harvard Business Review, describes the different ways managers may be motivated and how these motivations align with an organization’s goals.

Harvard Business Publishing does not allow direct linking to articles in the Harvard Business Review from course management systems such as Blackboard. To locate the article, begin with the Shapiro Library homepage. Then copy and paste the title in the multi-search: “Power is the Great Motivator” – and access the pdf of the article via number 4 on the list. This article supplements the textbook reading for this module. As you read the article, consider the following:

What are the motivational factors for a manager from a personal and organizational level?
What motivational techniques can a manager use to manage and lead?
Consider which of the three motivational categories you might fall into.

Video: The Puzzle of Motivation
This TED Talk by Dan Pink challenges the traditional system of rewards and incentives and offers a different viewpoint that managers should consider related to intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. This video supplements the textbook reading for this module.

Next, imagine that you are a manager of a start-up company with limited cash and resources. In your initial post, describe the types of motivators that you might employ as you develop your culture and attract good talent to your company. Explain why you have selected these motivators.

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Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness

1. Choose one (1) public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
2. Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
3. Assess how the vision statementAssess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.
4. Evaluate how each category of stakeholderEvaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.
5. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

2. Create a power point presentation of the corporation you choose with note as you were going to present to an audience.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Determine ways in which the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm impact that firm’s overall success.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
• Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics

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In this assignment, you will create an outline of an onboarding process. Summarize what you feel are the 2 most important elements in onboarding in the global environment.

Write a one to two (1-2) page memorandum to your Human Resource Director in which you:

1. Explain why an on-boarding process needs to be created. Then create an outline of an on-boarding process. Include a brief explanation of each step and explain why it is important.
2. Summarize what you believe are the two (2) most critical elements to consider when on-boarding in the global environment.
3. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
   3. Use the APA format to reference your work, including in-text references when necessary.See the APA Guide located in the Student Center tab.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze international business strategy to identify human resource requirements and formulate supporting HRM plans that can improve productivity and contribute to the firm’s competitiveness.
• Select performance management processes to assess and improve performance throughout a multinational corporation.
• Propose training programs to improve performance throughout a multinational corporation and address the considerations for effective learning in a diverse workforce of expatriates, host country nationals, and third-country nationals.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in global HRM.
• Write clearly and concisely about global HRM using proper writing mechanics.

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to allow the student an opportunity to explain what it means to have an efficient capital market. Students will gain an understanding of the different levels of market efficiency and how behavioral finance can inhibit reaching market transparency.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Microsoft^® Word

Explain in 525 words what it means to have efficient capital market, including:

• Describe the behavioral challenges in achieving efficiency.
• Discuss the three forms of market efficiency.
• What are the implications to corporate finance?
• Would you consider the real estate market an efficient capital market? Please explain why or why not.

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Course Project – Mapping Strategic Goals

The stage is set for your strategic goal to become a reality. Before that can happen, you’ll need to think through and map out the tasks within the project. This assignment will focus on planning out the individual aspects of the project using the project management tools that you’ve previously learned. You will be able to use Word or Excel for this assignment. (Choose whichever you’re more familiar with.) It’s important to think through the goal you’re trying to accomplish and how you’ll reach it. The more detailed you can be with your tasks, the smoother the project management cycle will go. Your submission this week should accomplish the following:

• Create a basic chart that lists out at least 8 tasks required to complete your chosen strategic management goal and estimates on how long each will take to complete.
• Create a Gantt chart using the tasks listed in the previous chart.
• Create a network diagram using the tasks listed out in the previous chart.
• Analyze your created Gantt chart and network diagram. Identify two potential issues that may be a cause for concern when the project gets underway.

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Presenting your Technology Choices

We’ve learned how big of an advantage that technology can be in today’s business environment. Every major strategic management goal will make use of multiple types of technology during implementation. In this assignment, you will need to create a presentation for the upper management at your chosen course project business. The presentation will focus on suggesting two pieces of technology that you feel are essential to the implementation of your chosen strategic management goal. This presentation will be in PowerPoint and requires the recording of audio. Below is a detailed breakdown of what should be included in the presentation. Remember that presentations need to engage the audience through visual and auditory means. Use PowerPoint’s features to accomplish this.

• Create a title slide.
• Summarize the goal you are trying to accomplish and the value it will bring to the business.
• Identify two pieces of technology that you believe are essential to you accomplishing your chosen strategic management goal.
  • What are the strengths and weaknesses of each technology?
  • Why is each of these pieces of technology important to the implementation and execution of your chosen goal?
• Provide research that supports your technology choices.
  • Cite a minimum of 1 scholarly source.
    • Include a final APA works cited slide.
• Format the presentation so that it’s engaging and employs advanced formatting features such as templates, transitions, charts, or video.
• Use the “Audio” feature under the “Insert” tab in PowerPoint to record the audio for the presentation.
  • It’s important to be informative while still being persuasive. Focus on explaining the use of the technology and the value that the technology will bring to the business if used correctly.

*A note about scholarly and credible sources: Scholarly sources are peer reviewed or published in a recognized scholarly source, like a journal or a university publisher. You will find these through the Rasmussen Online Library. Credible sources are reliable, accurate, and trustworthy. These sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study (all scholarly sources are credible sources). You want to identify sources where the author of the article is listed, if they’ve referenced other information, the sources should be cited so that you can check for accuracy and support for what they have written. Wikipedia is not considered a credible source. For more information on credible sources, please visit the Rasmussen Online Library.

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