External and Internal Environments, Assignment help

Assignment
2: External and Internal
Environments
Due Week 4

Choose an industry
you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded
corporation within that industry. 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 an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank
   highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these
   segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it
   operates.
2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you
   estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how
   well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to
   improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities
   available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should
   deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your
   answer.
5. Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most
   significant weaknesses.  Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should
   select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic
   the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your
   choices.
6. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
7. Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value
   using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
8. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia
   and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

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; 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 page length.

Assignment 2:
Training and Development in Small Businesses

Select a small
business with which you are familiar. Imagine that you have been called into
that business to provide a consultation on training. Create a comprehensive
training proposal for the business.

Write a six to eight
(6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze key elements of training and development geared toward improving the
   performance of the specific small business for which you are consulting.
2. Predict three to five (3-5) potential challenges that the managers or owners
   of the business could face in addressing organizational performance.
3. Justify the effects of detecting organizational gaps in small business,
   providing examples to explain the rationale.
4. Propose a competitive training strategy that will improve the position of
   the business in the market. The strategy should include, at a minimum, an agenda
   of training activities, rationale for instructional strategies used, and the
   return on investment (ROI) that will be gained from the strategy you have
   developed.
5. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment.
   Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic
   resources
6. 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, the student’s
      name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is
      not included in the required page length.
   3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format.
      The reference page is not included in the required page length.