Posted: September 16th, 2017

Strategy management

Order Description
Question:
“The narrative approach emphasizes the way in which ‘strategy practitioners’ both subjectively construct and are constructed by stories.
This view recognizes that practitioners affirm their own identities, and assign subjective positions and roles to others through narrative sense making of their interactions, which includes that which is left unsaid and may be more important than that which is carefully articulated.
At the same time, narrative sense making is, at least partly, structured by broader narratives within which the practitioners’ own positions are located.
Understanding the role of narrative contributes to understanding how the overall thrust and direction of ‘organizing’ emerges, which may or may not be explicitly recognized as a ‘strategy.’
This also includes making sense of the accumulation of economic value by the organization.
Critically discuss this statement (above) in relation the movies The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
Question:
“The narrative approach emphasizes the way in which ‘strategy practitioners’ both subjectively construct and are constructed by stories.
This view recognizes that practitioners affirm their own identities, and assign subjective positions and roles to others through narrative sense making of their interactions, which includes that which is left unsaid and may be more important than that which is carefully articulated.
At the same time, narrative sense making is, at least partly, structured by broader narratives within which the practitioners’ own positions are located.
Understanding the role of narrative contributes to understanding how the overall thrust and direction of ‘organizing’ emerges, which may or may not be explicitly recognized as a ‘strategy.’
This also includes making sense of the accumulation of economic value by the organization.
Critically discuss this statement (above) in relation the movies The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
Read the statement very carefully.

Your response is to be a maximum of 2000 words, excluding references.

You will be assessed base on the following
1. Introduction
– Overview of issues
– Statement of purpose of essay
– Identification of key argument(s)
2. Understanding of question and context
– Critical reflection of essay question
– Identification of key authors and concepts
– Understanding of broader issues
– Content and critical analysis
3. Range of appropriate theories, concepts and examples covered
– Quality of sources to support argument (i.e. academic journal articles)
– Use of evidence to support argument
– Synthesis of established theories/concepts where relevant
– Appropriate use of examples from movie or book (appropriate, concise, relevant, timely, supportive of argument)
4. Professionalism and referencing
– In-text referencing
– Structure and flow of argument
– Clarity of writing
– Spelling and grammar
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INDIVIDUAL ESSAY TIPS
Tips on answering the essay:
• The focus of the essay is on critically discussing (don’t just analysis, please show your option, good? or bad?) the statement.

• You need to do some reading (use academic article to support your statements) on this topic (start with your text book, look up the foot notes, use our lecture materials, read several articles from the list below (Important!).

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• Based on your reading, you then need to critically discuss this statement. In forming your argument/views, you may wish to reflect upon other concepts such as Cohen, March and Olsen’s ‘garbage can model’ of decision making, bounded rationality, satisficing and Lindbom’s idea of “muddling through” (NB: you don’t have to use these concepts, nor to you have to use all of these in one essay).

• The focus is on critically discussing strategy and this statement, referring to academic articles, and then using the movie/book to provide illustrations/examples.
• Avoid writing a movie/book review (be critical); focus on strategic decision making, and use examples from the movie/book to support your answer.

• This is an essay and not a report, therefore it is advised that you do not use sub-headings or bullet points (unless where a short list is required). Try to set up your argument!!!! in the introduction, and also introduce how your essay will be structured. Use this to guide your writing. Be sure to include a reference list at the end of your essay (i.e. a listing of all in-text references that you have cited – and not a bibliography).
• Do not rely solely on your textbook. Higher grades will be achieved by doing original research and incorporating insights and analysis from other high quality academic papers.
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PARA3002 Decision Making in Paramedic Practice
Module 2 Assignment:
Build your own MCI
The purpose of this exercise is to ensure that you may demonstrate the key responsibilities you would need to undertake if faced by a mass casualty incident. These include:
• communication (the SITREP)
• managing the scene (a map of the incident an resource placement)
• The triage sieve and sort
I have asked you to design it yourself to allow you think more broadly about what would constitute a mass casualty incident and well as how to manage the incident. I am not looking for excellence in graphic art of cartography; rather I am making sure you have covered all the major learning points of the module. You will be marked by the clarity, accuracy and comprehensiveness the information.
Submit a MCI of your own design. You should have 20 patients with no more that 2 of those patients being dead. You will need to provide a description of the incident using the SITREP format. This should be followed by an incident map which shows all the relevant components of the incident and the management structure. Finally you will need to describe all your patients and allocate triage scores. The format of your work should be:
1. Your SITREP
2. Map:
This should be an A3 sized map of a fictitious or real location which details the incident, major structures/vehicles involved, locations of hospitals (and distances) locations of emergency services (and distances) and any local resources relevant to the incident, (e.g. nearby fuel depot, transport facilities, open spaces, refuge areas). You may hand draw the map or use a downloaded map (such as google maps).
On the map you should mark and label the following:
• Patients (or groups of patients if all in one place) with an identifier for each
o e.g. patient 6 or patients 6 – 10
o no more than 2 dead patients
• The layout of the incident according to the Mass Casualty Incident Management Guide
• Location of all the named roles according to the Mass Casualty Incident Management Guide
3. A list of all your casualties (1-20) detailed as follows:
Patient
Injuries/condition
Status & vitals
Triage Sieve score
Triage Sort Score / priority
Example:
patient 1
Head injury & facial lacerations
Walking: No
Breathing: Yes
Resp rate: 8
Pulse: 50
GCS: 5
Systolic BP: 130
Priority 1
7 / Priority 1
Build your own MCI
The purpose of this exercise is to ensure that you may demonstrate the key responsibilities you would need to undertake if faced by a mass casualty incident. These include:
• communication (the SITREP)
• managing the scene (a map of the incident an resource placement)
• The triage sieve and sort
I have asked you to design it yourself to allow you think more broadly about what would constitute a mass casualty incident and well as how to manage the incident. I am not looking for excellence in graphic art of cartography; rather I am making sure you have covered all the major learning points of the module. You will be marked by the clarity, accuracy and comprehensiveness the information.
Submit a MCI of your own design. You should have 20 patients with no more that 2 of those patients being dead. You will need to provide a description of the incident using the SITREP format. This should be followed by an incident map which shows all the relevant components of the incident and the management structure. Finally you will need to describe all your patients and allocate triage scores. The format of your work should be:
1. Your SITREP
2. Map:
This should be an A3 sized map of a fictitious or real location which details the incident, major structures/vehicles involved, locations of hospitals (and distances) locations of emergency services (and distances) and any local resources relevant to the incident, (e.g. nearby fuel depot, transport facilities, open spaces, refuge areas). You may hand draw the map or use a downloaded map (such as google maps).
On the map you should mark and label the following:
• Patients (or groups of patients if all in one place) with an identifier for each
o e.g. patient 6 or patients 6 – 10
o no more than 2 dead patients
• The layout of the incident according to the Mass Casualty Incident Management Guide
• Location of all the named roles according to the Mass Casualty Incident Management Guide
3. A list of all your casualties (1-20) detailed as follows:
Patient Injuries/condition Status & vitals Triage Sieve score Triage Sort Score / priority
Example:
patient 1 Head injury & facial lacerations Walking: No
Breathing: Yes
Resp rate: 8
Pulse: 50
GCS: 5
Systolic BP: 130 Priority 1 7 / Priority 1