TASK FORCE COMMITTEE REPORT: ISSUE AND SOLUTIONS Due Week 4, worth 150 points Leaders address issues and propose solutions. As a leader, you’ll need to stay on top of events that may facilitate or hinder productivity. You must create and implement solutions to address these issues. This assignment exposes you to complex modern organizational challenges. The solutions you devise should reflect your learning and research of organizational and individual influences in the workplace. PREPARATION 1. Select an organization Select an organization in which current events have adversely affected productivity, requiring management to resolve an issue related to: corporate culture, managing diversity, leading teamwork, and developing motivational strategies. The organization should be one with which you are familiar — where you work now or have worked previously (business, nonprofit, government, or military). You may also consider other organizations in the news, such as Macy’s for the retail industry, United for the airline industry, Wells Fargo for the banking industry, etc. The focus is on finding solutions, but you should be somewhat familiar with the organization or industry. 2. Plan your research Use research from the course textbook, company website, business websites (CNBC, Bloomberg, etc.), resources from the Strayer Library, or outside resources to develop solutions to the following questions as they relate to corporate culture, managing diversity, leading teamwork, and developing motivational strategies to achieve the organization's goals and objectives. Your recommendations must be fully articulated and supported with appropriate detail and sources. Note: Wikipedia and web-based blogs do not qualify as credible resources. INSTRUCTIONS Imagine yourself as the task force committee leader at this organization. You have been tasked with analyzing hindrances to organizational efficiency. You must propose strategic solutions. Create a full report in which you do the following: 1. Describe the Organization and the Issue to Resolve Provide a brief description of the organization you selected. Present the organizational issue that adversely affected productivity and that you, the task force leader, will review and resolve. 2. Analyze Current Corporate Culture How has the current corporate culture facilitated the development of the current issue? Research the organization, dig into the culture, and analyze how it contributed to this issue. Hint: Review the mission and vision statements as well as the corporate website. 3. Identify Areas of Weakness What are the organization’s areas of weakness? Using your research on organizational behavior approaches to corporate culture, diversity, teamwork, and motivational strategies, identify areas of weakness. 4. Propose Solutions What organizational practices would you modify? What solutions should your task force recommend to management? As the leader of the task force, identify the suggestions you would present to the organization’s leadership with regard to modifying current organizational practices to resolve the issue. 5. Prepare an Executive Summary Summarize your recommendations and research findings in a one-page executive summary that you will present to the CEO in an upcoming executive meeting. Note: An executive summary is a condensed version of your full report. It should summarize briefly all the main points in concise paragraphs. It should be written clearly and should use language appropriate for the audience.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word strategic objectives summary. Include your balanced scorecard and its impact on all stakeholders, and the communication plan.Identify key trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your final business model.Develop the strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a balanced scorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOT analysis and supply chain analysis.Consider the following four quadrants of the balanced scorecard when developing your strategic objectives:·Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:oMarket shareoRevenues and costsoProfitabilityoCompetitive position·Customer Value Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:oCustomer retention or turnoveroCustomer satisfactionoCustomer value·Process or Internal Operations Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:oMeasure of process performanceoProductivity or productivity improvementoOperations metricsoImpact of change on the organization·Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:oEmployee satisfactionoEmployee turnover or retentionoLevel of organizational capabilityoNature of organizational culture or climateoTechnological innovationEvaluate potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOT Analysis paper and table you completed in Week 3.Create at least three strategic objectives for each of the four balanced scorecard areas. Base your solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions that includes the following:·Identify potential risks and mitigation plans·Analyze a stakeholder and include mitigation and contingency strategies.·Incorporate ethical implicationsDevelop a metric and target for each strategic objective using a balanced scorecard format.·Example: a strategic objective in the shareholder or financial perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective of market share increase is, "The percentage of increase in market share." The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the metric of "Increase market share" could be "Increase market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years" of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.)Write a brief communication plan discussing how you will communicate the company's strategic objectives that includes the following:·Define the purpose.·Define the audience.·Identify the channel(s) of communication and why you selected that channel.Format paper consistent with APA guidelines.Include the scorecard and communication plan templates provided in your Student Materials.The paper must be written in 3rd person and thoroughly researched with a minimum of four acceptable references. Examples of acceptable sources include your selected organization's website and peer reviewed content from the UOP library. Failure to research your assignment will result in a significant loss of points.

Your supervising attorney has a client, Nick Nicely, who owns a recreational vehicle. The RV can be hooked up to his truck and taken camping if he chooses. Nick has come to the firm because the police conducted a warrantless search of his RV and located several pounds of marijuana. His previous attorney had him released from jail, but said that the warrantless search could not be grounds for the evidence to be thrown out. At the time of the search, the RV was sitting in the backyard of Nick’s friend, Mark. The RV was not hooked up to Nick’s truck, and had two flat tires, thus it was immoveable at the time. Locate and read the following two cases in Lexis:United States v. Adams, 845 F. Supp. 1531 (1994)California v. Carney, 471 U.S. 386 (1985)Discuss the ways in which each case is similar and different from our fact pattern. Which case precedent do you think a court would follow in our case? Would the court decide that the RV was a residence and thus the search unlawful, or that it is a vehicle and thus no warrant was necessary?In a response to your peers, you should argue the opposite of their conclusion. If your peer believes our court would follow Adams, argue that it should follow Carney, and the reasons why. If your peer believes our court would follow Carney, argue that it should follow Adams, and the reasons why.