Month: February 2023

Write a 2- to 3-page memo to the CEO of the company you’ve been assessing throughout the course, outlining your plan to create economic, social, and environmental value. In your memo, include the following items:
An executive summary of the memo
A summary of the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, and recommendations for converting weaknesses into strengths
A summary of your Wk 3 findings on Porter’s Five Forces
A summary of your Wk 4 findings on the Diamond of National Advantage
A summary of your Wk 5 analysis of the firm as a learning organization
Strategic recommendations based on your previous work in this course. Include the opportunity identified in Wk 2, the move into the country identified in Wk 4, and any recommended moves toward being a learning organization. Provide a rationale for each recommendation.
Cite references to support your assignment.

Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
For the company you’ve been assessing throughout the course, identify the types of innovations it is pursuing.
Do the innovations tend to be incremental or radical? Product-related or process-related?
In what ways, no matter how minor, could you add value to such innovations?

Instructions
For this assignment, determine an effective process to evaluate the performance of one of your employees. As you have determined that periodic evaluations can be more beneficial than annual evaluations, you will be evaluating the mid-level manager who you hired and who has now been on board for 6 months. Your process should include an appropriate evaluation tool and a means of providing feedback on the employee’s performance issues.
There are three parts to this project. You will begin by developing a performance review form that contains a minimum of 10 points of criteria. This  template is a starting point and may be used as is or can be modified as you wish. The template has 10 points of criteria; however, you can add more if the specifics of the position warrant you doing so.
§  Provide an explanation for each of the criteria. Remember, these should directly represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) as well as the requirements for the position.
§  Develop a rating scale, and provide a legend that identifies the distinct performance rating definitions. There must be a minimum of three levels. (The template has three levels; however, you can add more.)
§  Next, you will fill out your newly created form to evaluate the mid-level manager. This is, of course, based on the input of the immediate supervisor and your own assessment.
§  Evaluate each criteria, and include a minimum of three criteria where the employee does not meet performance expectations.
§  Summarize the employee performance appraisal in the comments section.
§  Identify the employee’s strengths and weaknesses.
§  Offer feedback and coaching on ways that the employee can improve his or her performance.
§  Finally, you will write a one-page synopsis in which you explain the value of your evaluation process and new tool to your leadership team. Include the information below:
o    how the changes will benefit the organization,
o    how equal employment opportunity laws were considered, and
o    strategies that leaders can use to address unmet employee performance expectations.
§  Include two sources to support your explanation.
The template is only a guideline. You are encouraged to modify it as you wish, as long as it still meets all of the above listed requirements. Combine your completed template and the one-page synopsis into one document (.doc or .pdf) to upload in Blackboard. Ensure that you include a title page. Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment.