This assignment focuses on how the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling are implemented in your workplace. Find three scholarly, peer reviewed and other credible sources that provide information on Amazon.com’s business structure.
Here is the scenario and situation:
Assume you are an employee working in the Amazon warehouse, and you pack orders and categorize them into small, medium, and large batches. You are considered a packer. You have experience packing all sizes and have been with the organization for two years. You are considered one of their best employees, you have a solid reputation for being a hard worker, and all of your orders are packed correctly. You have also been busy; you recently completed Amazon’s management training program, and you have completed your BABA degree at the Forbes School of Business and Technology at the university.
Congratulations: You have just been promoted to manager. You will be relocated to a new plant that is two hours away that employs 100 employees. You will oversee a team of 10 supervisors and 90 packers and will now oversee the entire warehouse operation. How will you work to use and apply the five functions of management?
Now let’s apply the five functions. In your paper, include the following sections:

• Planning: Examine the specific areas you will choose to manage that fall under the planning function.
  • For example, what might be some of the things you will plan to do and implement to build an effective team and culture? People are the most important resource in any business, what do you plan to do to build a positive team culture? What processes and systems do you plan to use?
• Organizing: Assess if the present structure that Amazon has set up is working.
  • Do you need to make or suggest any changes to make it more efficient and effective? What structure will you use and implement? Explain how you will use departmentalization in your organizational structure.
• Staffing: Analyze your staffing needs.
  • How do you intend to staff your organization and replace members that leave or are promoted? How does the HR process apply? What things (if any) will you suggest?
• Leading: Justify the leadership theory and style you will follow to ensure efficiency.
  • Will you use transformational or transactional leadership? Why or why not?
• Controls: Identify what controls and measures you will implement.
  • How will you apply the four steps of control (establishing standards, measuring performance, comparing performance, and making decisions)?

Be sure to integrate vocabulary such as (communication, social loafing, team building, feedback control, leadership, discipline, human resource planning, authority, job design, responsibility, strategic management, tactics, leading, organizing, planning, staffing) to support your analysis. The paper should be five to six double-spaced pages in length, must include at least three scholarly sources and be formatted according to APA style guidelines.
The Team Management Activity and Reflection paper

• Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least three scholarly, peer reviewed sources

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Assignment: Company Competitive Advantage Analysis: Part 2
XYZ Logo Farah AhmadYou are an IT analyst at XYZ Corporation, and the company has recently taken on a new client that wishes to understand how the organization can leverage its IT and IS functions as a form of competitive advantage. The company is small and would like to see some real-world evidence of this in order to arm themselves with information as they seek investors to grow their business. You have been asked by your manager, Farah Ahmad, to create a business analysis for the client company’s leadership in which you analyze the competitive landscape for a business and discuss the role of IT/IS in helping that company achieve a competitive advantage.
 
First, you should select a company, research two of its competitors, and create a report to present to the client in which you analyze the business’s current competitive standing within its industry using at least two competitive analysis models/tools with a focus on the role IT plays in determining its current competitive posture; one of the models used in the analysis must be Porter’s Five Forces. It is recommended that you search the Internet to identify industries/companies for which a Porter’s Five Forces analysis have been completed prior to selecting the company on which you will focus your response. Part 2 of your business analysis should be 11–16 paragraphs in length and include at least five references from the Walden Library or other scholarly academic sources.
 
Note: Last week, you submitted Part 1 of this Assignment. This week, you will complete and submit only Part 2.
 
To prepare for this Assignment:
 
Review this week’s Learning Resources.
Refer to the Academic Writing Expectations for 2000/3000-Level Courses as you compose your Assignment.
By Day 7
Submit Part 2 of your business analysis, to include the following.
 
Part 2: IT and Competitive Advantage
Illustrate the company’s use of information systems as part of its competitive business strategies. (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)
Analyze the company and its two competitors through the lens of Porter’s Five Forces. (225–300 words, or 3–4 paragraphs)
Analyze the company and its two competitors through the lens of one additional competitive analysis model or tool. (225–300 words, or 3–4 paragraphs)
Compare the three companies in light of your two completed analyses, including a discussion of which tool you feel was more useful in helping you to determine the competitive position for your selected company. (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)
Finally, present your analysis of the current competitive posture of your selected company. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)
Note: For each prompt, be sure to reference at least one scholarly source to support your answer. Use the Week 6 Assignment Template, provided in this week’s Learning Resources, to complete this Assignment.

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