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This assignment requires the writer to analyze service design and standard for a service company base on the choice made when you submit the profile. The report should be typed written in 12-point Times New Roman font and double-spaced. The word limit for the plan is 2,500 words (excluding executive summary, appendices and references). the writer should use appropriate services marketing concepts to describe and justify the strategies.

Answer the two-case/discussion questions below. Be sure as you answer the two discussion questions to apply theory and terminology from your text and outside readings. 1. What pressures and forces from the environment led Stringer to change the balance between centralizing and decentralizing authority at Sony? 2. How would you describe Stringer’s approach to organizing? Is he seeking to create a more mechanistic or organic structure, or what kind of balance between them? In addition, the response to the first question should demonstrate that you have knowledge regarding the difference between centralized and decentralized authority as you discuss it in terms of Sony. This can be demonstrated through your use of statements of the meanings of the terms, use of appropriate terminology and appropriate application of materials. Your analysis should be no more than six pages long, double-spaced. It should also include a minimum of 5 peer reviewed references. The references should be listed at the end of your analysis.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (Links to an external site.) publishes 10 survey programs that address a wide range of topics about various aspects of employee compensation and benefits. You will have the opportunity to work with some of these sources throughout this course. But first, you should become familiar with what is available. A summary of the compensation and benefits survey programs can be found on the BLS website (Links to an external site.) .

Review these summaries. Then, click on the links to learn more about each one and do the following: In a paragraph for each program, summarize the purpose in your own words. Assume that your summary will be read by others who do not have expertise in human resource management. For each program, list two variables included in the program (for example, pay rates). Provide a definition for each variable that you’ve listed in #2. You may use the definitions from the website verbatim, but please cite your source.

Benchmark

– Organizational Design, Structure, and Change Presentation Each year Fortune magazine publishes a “Most Admired” list of the top companies in the United States. Firms are rated on these eight dimensions: innovativeness, quality of management, long-term investment value, social responsibility to the community and the environment, people management, quality of products and services, financial soundness, wise use of corporate assets, and, if international, a ninth dimension: effectiveness in doing business globally. For this assignment, select a familiar organization (you are encouraged to select an organization in which you have been employed for at least 6 months).

Then, choose one of the eight dimensions used to rate top U.S. companies in which the organization appears to be underperforming. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation (12-15 slides) that addresses the following:

1. Identify a major issue the organization is facing and in which dimension (of the eight identified above) it is underperforming. Explain the ramifications the underperformance is currently having on the organization. Identify the likely consequence of failure to improve in the selected dimension.

2. Analyze the relevance of the current organizational structure, design, and culture and their influence on organizational effectiveness, especially in relationship to the dimension in which the organization is struggling.

3. Determine whether the organization embodies the principles and values of conscious culture and management and its relevance to improving organizational function.

4. Present a plan to bring about necessary improvement using Kotter’s 8-step change model.

5. Address possible challenges to the suggested change and your plans for managing those challenges.

6. Explain how different subsystems need to be realigned in order to bring about the change.

7. Detail any lessons learned and evaluate strategies that you as a manager will either avoid or engage in when designing the structure, building culture, and managing change in your organization.

8. Present evidence from at least three scholarly articles to support your position and proposed change initiative.