Aspects of the managers role to be considered:

The role senior managers play in linking resources and capabilities to strategy and competitive advantage.

Reasons why middle managers are better positioned than senior managers to bring about strategic success.

The role senior managers play in linking resources and capabilities to strategy and competitive advantage.

Senior level managers play a critical role in linking resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage. “In addition to deciding how to use resources and capabilities and configuring a firm’s value-chain activities, senior managers also set the context that determines how frontline and middle managers can add value.” (Carpenter & Sanders, 2008, p. 85). Senior level managers have various approaches in utilizing the resources, and allowing middle managers to have more decision-making and influence on carrying out strategy. Within each company are various processes in carrying out strategy and utilizing resources. These processes allow a firm to be dynamic, competitive, and gain competitive advantage in the market. There are three processes that Carpenter and Sanders (2008) share as strategies that senior level managers use to allow a firm to be effective: entrepreneurial, capability-building, and renewal processes. Each one of these processes help senior level managers maintain competitive advantage, utilize resources properly, as well as capitalize on the firm’s capabilities.

If I were to compare the three processes to my current company, I’d say we operate most similarly to the renewal process, “Where senior managers shake up the firm and challenge its historic ways of operating, by using information learned through current business activities.” (Carpenter & Sanders, 2008, p. 86). One example would be how we currently are changing how our procurement team orders inventory. We currently have min and max levels set for our inventory bins. When a kanban bin reaches its minimum quantity, an alert email is sent to our purchasing team to order more of that part to bring levels back to maximum quantity. We’ve decided to change by having that minimum quantity alert email be sent directly to the supplier to have them ship us more inventory. This cuts out the procurement team entirely on smaller stock, easily replenishable material. They can now focus on longer lead-time material, which can sometimes be challenging to get delivered on time. Management has made the decision to change how procurement orders material due to current activities taking place and identifying a way to make the process more efficient.

Reasons why middle managers are better positioned than senior managers to bring about strategic success.

According to Carpenter and Sanders (2008), there are four areas where middle managers are better positioned in a firm to contribute to overall competitive advantage. The first is entrepreneur, and in this area middle managers are on the front lines of business activities, processes, resources, and capabilities, allowing the middle level manager a clear understanding of the various dynamics occurring within the firm. This area allows the middle manager to make decisions and identify areas to improve due to seeing things first hand.

The second area is communicator, and in this area “middle managers are typically long tenured and have very broad social networks.” (Carpenter & Sanders, 208, p. 87). By being well networked this allows the middle manager to clearly be in tune with employees more easily, generate support internally, and generate change in a nonobstructive way (Carpenter & Sanders, 2008). A well liked, and well-networked manager gains more support from employees, therefore having more success in pushing change through the firm.

The third area is psychoanalyst. Middle manages provide support to employees when lots of change is occurring. Not all employees accept change well, and in this area middle managers understand what to say and how to put employees at ease to best prepare the team for a transition.

The last area is tightrope walker. In this are, middle managers must be able to balance dramatic change within the firm, but also balance the environment and the capabilities that go along with the change. This can be challenging, but with the right internal processing’s in place, along with the proper senior management support, middle managers are able to slow down the change and avoid chaos as the firm moves through a transition (Carpenter & Sanders, 2008).

Based on what I’ve experienced in my current company, middle managers have an advantage when it comes to carrying out competitive advantage because they know their teams and what motivates employees, are well connected with their resources and have a good understanding of their capabilities, and have the ability to effectively reach their employees to drive productive change for the future. “In the successful initiatives, MLMs served as levers of change, influencing those above and below them in the corporate hierarchy.” (Tabrizi, 2013, para. 3). All these components can be critical to the success of driving change and competitive advantage for a firm.

Carpenter, M.A. & Sanders, Wm., G. (2008). Strategic management: A dynamic perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall

Tabrizi, B. (2013). New research: What sets effective middle managers apart. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2013/05/reinventing-middle-managem…

Case and Discussion

A 60-year-old man comes to your office because of a persistent cough that has been bothering him for the past 3 months. His cough is dry and is more frequent during the evenings. He also notes frequent nasal congestion, especially when he is exposed to dust and cold weather. He reports no hemoptysis, weight loss, wheezing, fever, or changes in his appetite. What additional questions would you ask to learn more about his cough?

• How would you classify his cough based on the duration to help with the diagnosis?
• What diagnostic tests do you want to include to help you with your diagnosis?

Create a differential diagnosis flow sheet for this patient for this patient and include the diagnostics as well as the pharmacological management and rationale related to the differentials. Support your discussion with evidence-based research.

Minimum 3 references must be used APA format within 5 years.

Part 1. Please answer the following questions in your own words.

1. Explain each of the basic steps of the scientific process.
2. Describe the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?
3. Define empirical data. Provide and describe an example of something about Earth that we know because of empirical data.
4. You have observed that the sun rises in a different location at certain times of the year, and then back again. Describe a method of data collection that would help you define the range over the year for the sunrise on the horizon at your location.
5. Using empirical data, argue with a climate denial argument that, “it hasn’t warmed since 1998.” (http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-sto… )
6. Identify and describe one type of data collection that has an end, and one type of data collection that will always be ongoing.

Part 2. There has been very much in the news in recent years about increasing CO2 levels, and global warming. Using the Keeling Curve website (https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/ ), address the following.

1. Explain briefly the history of the Keeling Curve.
2. Explain how this is empirical data.
3. Starting with the current week, and working back to 800,000 years ago, explain the trends seen in the data.
4. How is the Keeling Curve an example of the scientific method?

Part 3. In your own field of study, identify and describe one way in which empirical data is collected and used.

Section 2 – Earthquakes, Geologic Structures, and Plate Tectonics
Part 1. Use your textbook and interactive lab lecture to answer the following questions about earthquake measurement.

1. Use figure 6.20, page 184 in your textbook to help you fill in the blanks: (I FILLED OUT)

S-P, sec	Magnitude	Amplitude mm
4	3	5
8	4	75
25	5.5	100
2		20

1. The Pacific plate is moving at an average of 5 cm per year, but this has changed over time. Use the following schematic to calculate the average rate of movement from Kilauea to:
   1. Midway
   2. Gardner
   3. Necker
   4. Oahu

*divide the number of km by number of millions of years, then multiply by 0.1 for conversion to cm/year

1. Describe the difference between the Mercalli Scale and Richter Scale.
2. How many times more ground shaking happens with a 6.0 earthquake over a 4.0 earthquake?
3. How many times more energy is release with a 6.0 over a 4.0 earthquake?
4. Describe the P waves, S waves, and surface waves.

Part 2. Use your textbook and interactive lab lecture to answer the following questions in your own words.

1. In a compressional regime, would we find more normal or more reverse faults, and why.
2. Would we find normal faults in a compressional regime or tensional regime, and why?
3. Describe the differences between a normal fault and a reverse fault.
4. Describe the differences between anticlines and synclines.
5. Describe the difference in the rock unit age relationship between domes and basins.
6. Describe a strike slip fault. Provide an example of one.
7. Which of the structures discussed above are the result of brittle deformation?
8. Which of the structures discussed above are the result of ductile deformation?
9. Using the diagrams below, which of these are the result of ductile deformation?
10. Which of these diagrams are brittle deformation?

Employers have been coming up with innovative employee rewards to boost morale and acknowledge employee needs for creativity and personal goal accomplishment. Some of the latest potential employee rewards include using the Internet at work for personal reasons such as shopping, communicating with friends, or personal finances; bringing a pet to work; instituting a controlled napping policy, and the sports and office betting pools.

Write an eight page paper in which you:

1. Determine how innovations in employee benefits can improve the overall competitive compensation strategy of the organization.
2. Explain how innovative benefits could be tied to specific jobs.
3. Critique the effectiveness of equity-based rewards systems versus those with more creative approaches.
4. Discuss the key elements of integrating innovation into a traditional total rewards program.
5. Recommend a process that optimizes an employee-based suggestion program to continually refresh the total rewards of the organization.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Just write down the 5 separate comments in a word file

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