Marvin Bittle

Module DescriptionThis module is designed to help students understand and evaluate various aspects of Strategic Management in a global context. The module explores theories, models and frameworks to provide insight on how an organization’s life cycle evolves through various stages to achieve excellence. The module helps students to evaluate the relationship between organizational strategies, performance and stakeholder expectations. 1. Analyse the concepts and theories of strategic m...

Inefficiencies in the Healthcare Industry“Operational Strategies are the Key to Successful Outcomes in the Healthcare Industry” Operational Strategies are the methods companies use to reach their objectives. For the healthcare industry, this includes the administrative, financial, legal and clinical  activities that keep health systems caring for patients. There are several benefits to operational strategies. First, it allows organizations to be proactive rather than reactive...

Background on Transition to Agile HRIn many companies that�s happening gradually, almost organically, as a spillover from IT, where more than 90% of organizations already use agile practices. At the Bank of Montreal (BMO), for example, the shift began as tech employees joined cross-functional productdevelopment teams to make the bank more customer focused. The business side has learned agile principles from IT colleagues, and IT has learned about cus...

Chapter 11 of Nanomedicine: End-of-Chapter ProblemsRead Chapter 11. Do end-of-chapter problems (pp 380-381):  11.2, 11.3, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, 11.13, and 11.14. Read Chapter 11 1.What percent of the US population has their dna sequence deposited in the CODIS? 2.What is ‘grey goo’? 3.What is the statistical uncertainty in identifying an individual by DNA? 4.What are some behavioral traits alleged to be (to some degree) genetic in determination? 5.Describe how 3d printing c...

Short answer questions on the best analytical method to predict employment in different fields1.A colleague of yours is interested in studying which factors contribute to developing a career in one of three occupational fields – accounting, engineering, and health care. He has a dataset measuring thirty different variables related to job aptitude and wants to conduct an exploratory study to determine which of those variables predict employment in one of the three fields. He ...

The Link Between Trauma and Academic PerformanceAll types of trauma can undermine children’s abilities to learn, create healthy attachments, form supportive relationships, and follow classroom expectations Children who experience trauma are two-and-a-half times more likely to fail a grade in school than their nontraumatized peers.Children’s brains develop in their earliest experiences; their neural development and social interactions are interconnected It is imperative, therefore,...

Section A (Electrical)QA1 (a) A battery has an open-circuit voltage of 12 V and a full-load rated current of 1 A. When a load resistance R is connected across it drawing the full rated current of the battery, the load voltage is found to be 11 V. Determine the internal resistance of the battery and its voltage regulation. (b) Determine the resistance, at room temperature, of a copper wire having a diameter of 2.0 mm and a length of 500 m. You may assume that the resistivity of copper at room t...

Approaches to the PaperThis assignment asks you to respond to one simple question: "How will you bring who you are to what you do?" What is implied in that question is that we are talking about *what you do* in the context of organizational life.' For our purposes, this paper spans both leadership and ethics. Since students vary widely in terms of their perspectives on life, work, leadership, ethics, etc., expect that each project will reflect that diversity. Thus, there is *no* hard-and-fast...

Time Periods of Organizational DevelopmentApproaches To Change Prompt: Review Table 9.1 (Palmer, Dunford, Buchanan, 2017). Select one of the five listed time periods and describe this time period of organizational development in relation to your chosen company (course project). Articulate how the company would thrive (or not) through the lens of the corresponding developers. Lastly, include a paragraph of how the company in your chosen time period would prepare for post 2021. Professor&rsq...

Part I - Case StudyAfrica Felix Juice LLP is the first commercial fruit juice concentrate manufacturer in Sierra Leone, a West African country that has undergone more than a decade of post-war rebuilding. Launched in January 2011 it provides a very high-volume market to smallholder farmers in rural villages, uses local trucks for pick up and transportation of fruits to the factory, and makes immediate payment of the goods and services. The manufactured and packaged juice is exported to Europe...