Paper Selection Criteria:

Select any small or midsize publicly traded company. The company must be listed on the stock market and its market value should be between 2 to 10 billion dollar OR has between 1000 to 8,000 employees.

Assume that you are being appointed as the CEO of this company. Based on what you have learnt in this course what issues would you analyze immediately and act on them to transform the company growth & performance. In your answer you must adhere to the outline below (including section numbers, etc)-

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Paper Outline must keep as it is with numbers and subtitles

1-Name of Company____________________

2- Your Name_________________________

3- Why did you select this company?

3.1

3.2

4- Company Size (revenue, number of employees, etc, use bullets)

5- Company Products and Services (Just list main productsless than 5, use bullets)

6a- Issues related to Company Culture (chapter 2)

6b- Company External Environment (see chapter 2)

7- Issues related to Decision-making processes (chapter 4)

8- Company Structure (chapter 8)

9- Issues related to Motivation (Ch 11)

10- Issues related to Communications (Ch 12)

11- Issues related to Leadership and Management (Ch 13, Ch 1)

12- Issues related to Control (Ch 14)

13- Issues related to Innovation & Information Management (Ch 6 & Ch 15)

14- Recent News and Major Issues related to the

15- Final Note: Comment on the quality of your paper

16- List of references you used to complete this paper (author, date, title)

17- Appendix

Max length - 1200 words excluding references and appendix