Complete the “Evaluate Team Member Effectiveness” self-assessment.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word research paper in which you address the following:

• Do you agree with your results?
• Based on your self-assessment, what do you see as your strengths and weaknesses regarding working on a team?
• Have you ever engaged in social loafing while on a team? Why or why not? (research)
• How does working effectively on a team give you an advantage in the workplace?
• How do groups normally develop, including the stages of group development? (research)
• How does the effectiveness of the team members influence the group’s development process? (research)

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines, including the proper documentation of research sources.

Please include all references used.

Also, please use the attached Self Assessment as a guide for the assignment. Thank You!

INSTRUCTIONS: Please RESPOND to this answer from the Point of view as a student. Use credible sources and respond as if you are a manager of a marketing agency. Tell this student what your marketing agency would think of each of these answers from a Management perspective in about 4-5 paragraphs:

In hopes of bolstering growth and gaining competitive advantage, firms often seek to expand beyond domestic borders. The opportunities to capture clients & consumers in new markets, to secure geographic advantage, and to diversify risk, are all intriguing to firms seeking to improve their business by expanding internationally (Kokemuller, n.d., n.p.). Carpenter & Sanders (2008) have identified four key factors in international expansion: economies of scale and scope, location, multipoint competition, and learning. I will briefly explain the logic supporting why international expansion is not prudent for my firm at this point in their life cycle, particularly with respect to economies of scale and scope. One can understand how the reasoning also warrants dismissal of further analyses with respect to the key factors of multipoint competition as well as learning. An argument can be made that the only key factor that is attractive for my firm to expand internationally is location, but just as the other factors do not support international expansion, the location factor also does not.

The key factor of economies of scale and scope is to take advantage of economies of scale, and to translate that scale into operating efficiency. Economies of scale are defined as “the cost advantage that arises with increased output of a product” (Investopedia.com, n.d., n.p.). The commercial real estate firm I work for would not be able to take advantage of economies of scale in expanding abroad simply due to their concentration of resources in few locations. Expanding abroad would fragment the business. “…If these resources and activities are concentrated in a few locations, they can become isolated from key market, which may lead to delayed responses, to market changes” (Carpenter & Sanders, 2008, p. 208). Similar to the concept of economies of scale, economies of global scope is an “economic theory stating that the average total cost of production decreases as a result of increasing the number of different goods produced” (Investopedia.com, n.d., n.p.). Just as my firm would not be able to take advantage of economies of scale, they would also not be able to take advantage of economies of global scope.

As I have mentioned before, the three most important factors contributing to success in real estate are location, location, and location. Thus, investing and developing abroad could surely yield competitive advantage to commercial real estate firms, but not the one I work for. My company is small and localized, and the logical expansion would be to do so domestically before internationally. Prior to investing abroad a firm must delineate a strategy exemplifying the connection between resources, capabilities, and locations.

Carpenter, M., Sanders, Wm. (2008). Strategic Management: A Dynamic Perspective. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.

Investopedia.com. (N.d.). Economies of Scale. Retrieved November 10, 2016, from
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economiesofscale.asp

Investopedia.com. (N.d.). Economies of Scope. Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economiesofscope.asp

Kokemuller, N. (N.d.). Why Do Businesses Operate Internationally? Retrieved November 9, 2016, from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/businesses-operate-…

REQUIREMENTS:

Due Date: Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 3:00 pm Pacific

Deliverable Length: 900 words excluding the ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION stated below; (numbers 1-8) and excluding 3 verifiable references. The answers for the ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION stated below must be answered per each question asked. (numbers 1-8).

OBJECTIVES:

-Explain the challenges of managing a diverse, globally-based workforce.

-Evaluate how various legal, political, economic, ethical, and cultural systems affect business attitudes, norms, behaviors, practices, and philosophies.

-Analyze factors that influence an industry’s potential for globalization.

-Evaluate various international, multinational, and global strategic plans.

-Develop an international, multinational, and global management plan.

MAIN ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION:

Research a top multinational company in the world including its international strategy over the last 10 years. Using your research, write a report explaining its strategy, including a discussion of the following questions:

1. How do management practices, HR policies, and strategy decisions differ between multinational companies and local companies?
2. Identify some cultural, legal, political, and financial issues this multinational company may have based on their environment.
3. What sort of international orientation does it have?
4. Do you think it is ethno-, poly-, or geocentric?
5. What were the decision factors for the locations it chose to expand in?
6. Did it have the core capabilities to succeed in those markets?
   1. Think about its objectives, how it chose its countries, what opportunities and constraints were apparent at the time, and what it needed to do to succeed in those markets.
7. If you were going to compete with this company what would you use as an international marketing entry strategy (licensing, franchising, exporting, joint ventures, etc.) and justify your answer
8. Define what a value chain dispersal and integration strategy is, and then describe how the strategy is organized around it.

Chapter 9 Case Study: Vodafone – A Giant Global ERP Implementation

9-13 Identify and describe the problem discussed in this case. What management, organization, and technology factors contributed to the problem?

9-17 What were the business benefits of Vodafone’s global business transformation? How did it change decision making and the way the company operated?

*must be 1,000 words long minimum, have 2-3 references cited in APA properly.

Thank You