A Consulting Firm’s Lost Paradise:You read about and practiced with various concepts regarding organizational structure and culture which affect employee behavior and success. Read the scenario carefully and provide your response regarding the organizational structure and culture in the fictional organization provided below.Scenario (fictional):An industry consulting firm has the following structure and culture:All the employees at this consulting firm work full-time. All the full-time consultants report to various industry directors depending on the industry contract. The company employees work mostly from home with directors or consultants renting temporary office space with or without videoconferencing when needed for either client meetings or vendor meetings. The company is very successful and has an expanding client base.The company CEO is extremely relaxed and extremely smart and expects everyone at the company to display a relaxed yet expert demeanor as well. There really are very few rules or expectations at the company as the CEO also believes in keeping processes very simple.The previous president retired about six months ago, and the CEO, together with a human resources firm, hired a new president. About two months ago the company’s employees (i.e., consultants) started receiving emails from the new president putting pressure on all of them to produce results in less time but pressuring them to charge the clients higher sums without making any more money for themselves. In addition, the new president wants the staff to come into the office now three times a week for meetings. Three months ago the new president hired thirty new full-time consultants that seem more like salespersons than consultants to existing employees. A few of the long-time consultants have been emailing the CEO about these changes and suggesting they may go elsewhere. In the meantime, the Finance Director has detected several anomalies in the contract terms and financial results from some of the new consultants and one or two of the existing consultants.Describe the organizational structure at this consulting firm and how it affects employee behavior.Describe how the changes to the organization’s culture might affect employee behavior.Provide a recommendation for any adjustments you think need to be made at this organization based on the Reading and explain why.After checking your spelling and grammar, upload your minimum 250-word response in a WordⓇ document to the Unit 9 Journal Dropbox. Be sure to use APA format (i.e., 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and 1 inch margins).

You have found the CEO, Joan, of Venus Widgets impatiently waiting outside of your door wanting to talk to you. You quickly finish up your latest meeting and invite the CEO into your office. Joan is talking a mile a minute, and you must do your best to calm her down. After taking a deep breath, the CEO tells you that they have decided that the time is right for greater expansion, not only on a national level but internationally as well. She wants to expand Venus Widgets across the globe and needs your help with making the decision.The CEO has tasked you with researching and presenting information that she can use to help make this important decision. You will write a paper covering the following areas:Discuss the benefits and risks of merging with another company or an acquisition that would allow Venus Widgets to expand globally.Discuss the different strategies that would need to be implemented in order to have a smooth merger.Discuss the strategies that would need to be implemented if the CEO and Board were to choose an acquisition instead of a merger. Would they be the same or different from the merger strategies? Why or why not?Discuss how a merger or acquisition would help the company expand its business so that the CEO may convince the board of directors.Your paper should be a minimum of 3 pages, using proper APA formatting and including at least 3 credible sources cited in your paper through in-text citations. Include an APA formatted title page and reference page. Your paper should also be free of grammatical errors.Suggested library databases to research these topics include Business Source Complete via EBSCO and Business via ProQuest for articles, and Safari Business eBooks and eBooks via EBSCO for eBooks.*A note about credible sources: Credible sources are reliable, accurate, and trustworthy. These sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study. 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 the accuracy of and support what they have written. Wikipedia is not considered a credible source.

Describe a project, list two tasks that may be performed in parallel, and two tasks that need to be performed sequentially.