Below is the Instructions for the assignment. it’s crucial that is up to Graduate school standard and Due on Friday at 12 noon.
Instructions:
Internal Environment Report for DOC
Complete an analysis of the key internal factors that have implications for successful implementation of Maryland Division of Corrections (M.D.O.C) or Division of Correction as a whole strategy and goals/objectives since this is your working organization. Submit your work in your assignment with an approximate 2,000-2500-word double-spaced APA-formatted paper. The title page, reference list, and any appendices are not included in this suggested word count. You do not need to include an abstract. This assignment Due Friday, March 9, 2018, at 12noon.
Your paper should address these topics:
Given the company’s Vision, Mission and Objectives (VMO), identify the company’s core competencies and assess which ones are rare, costly, or not easily imitated. Discuss how they are related to and critical to the VMO execution.
Present a summary of your organization’s strengths and weaknesses. Submit the SWOT format in Table form and add in some narrative to discuss the strengths and weaknesses in more detail. Explain in your discussion (not in the table) why you selected them and how they relate to the VMO and organization strategy. (Note: You will have an opportunity to complete a full SWOT analysis, including threats and opportunities, as part of your week 6 paper.).
You might find this resource helpful: Watch the video below:
https://youtu.be/GNXYI10Po6A
3. Apply the Resource-Based View (RBV) to help you identify both the tangible and intangible assets your organization may be able to use to accomplish its intended strategies. You can list them in a table form and then follow with a discussion of the assets, why you selected them and how they relate to the VMO and strategy. Watch the video below:
https://youtu.be/-KN81_oYl1s
4. Consider and discuss the things that may make your organization’s resources and capabilities difficult for others to imitate. Use Value Chain Analysis to help you deepen your understanding of the relative value of the resources and capabilities you have identified. Seek objective and independently verifiable evidence of potential rarity of the resources and capabilities.
IMPORTANT: Do not just use someone else’s SWOT or other analysis. We want you to think for yourself. Critically analyze your firm and write about your original conclusions. Imagine you have been asked by the organization’s CEO or top leader to offer an assessment of the organization and how well it is positioned (or not) to deliver on the VMO and strategy. This is a critical element, stand back and offer thoughtful criticism and recommendations.
Add in a strong conclusion that ensures the reader leaves your paper with a clear recap of your key points.
The following resources would be helpful and add more to it. Check Maryland DPSCS website for more information as well:
Barnat, R. (n. d.). Strategic goals and objectives. In strategic management: formulation and implementation. Retrieved from http://www.strategy-formulation.24xls.com/en210
Barnat, R. (n. d.). Tests of a winning strategy. In Strategic management: formulation and implementation. Retrieved from http://www.strategy-formulation.24xls.com/en317
Daft, R. L. (2013). Organizational theory & design. (11th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western, Cengage Learning
Dermol, V. (2012). Relationship between mission statement and company performance. Scientific Annals Of The ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ University Of Iasi: Economic Sciences Series, 59(1), 321-336.
DPSCS (n. d). About DPSCS. Retrieved from http://dpscs.maryland.gov/about
Maryland. (2007). Department Of Public Safety & Correctional Services: Fact Sheet. Retrieved from www.dpscs.state.md.us/publicinfo/publications/pdfs/DPPFactSheet06-30-07.pdf
Maryland.gov. (n. d.). Maryland’s recidivism rate based on DPSCS releases returned to corrections within one, two, and three years of release: 1999 – 2012. Retrieved from https://data.maryland.gov/Public-Safety/DPSCS-Releasees-Returned-to-Corrections-within-One/h3ax-xbn9/data
Maryland State Archives. (2017). Department Of Public Safety & Correctional Services: Origin. Retrieved from http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/22dpscs/html/dpscsf.html
Vision, mission, and goals. (2012). In Mastering strategic management. Washington, DC: Saylor Academy. Retrieved from https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_mastering-strategic-management/s06-01-vision-mission-and-goals.html
Use UMUC electronic library also. Below notice will be of help
Note: University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is the required scholarly references by the Professor. I would appreciate if you can use exact required scholarly references. I would not mind to give you my login details in the UMUC library for those references you will need. My login: Username: RBALOGUN1 and Password: Oreoluwa75. Go to www.umuc.edu and check the page to click library and log in to use UMUC electronic references for this response plus the references given above. Thanks.
FOLLOW THIS INTRODUCTION PLEASEEEEEEEE!
Please update the below introduction and please use the thesis and form the subheadings from the thesis, such as:
DPSCS-DOC’s Core Competencies
DPSCS-DOC Strengths and Weaknesses (Make a table for Strengths and Weaknesses)
DPSCS-DOC Strengths
DPSCS-DOC Weaknesses
Tangible and Intangible Resources of DPSCS-DOC (Make a table for Tangible and Intangible Resources of DPSCS-Doc)
Value Chain Analysis: what makes DPSCS-DOC resources and capabilities difficult for others to imitate.
Conclusion and then
References
An organization, company, or agency operates with the consciousness of its Vision, Mission and Objectives (VMO) which serve as the outline that help the organization in building and operating purpose-driven organization or agency. Therefore it is important to understand that organizational functionality depends on its capabilities and resources. For this reason, organization, on a regular basis must analyze and understand its Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT). An organization should regularly conduct SWOT analysis with the aim of taking the advantage of strengths and opportunities, strategically convert weaknesses into strengths and eliminate threats in order to appropriately advance the organization’s mission toward its vision utilizing its objectives (Bryson, 2011 & SWOT analysis, 2012).
In addition, it is crucial to point out that strength and weaknesses are internal, hence organization has control over them. Whereas opportunity and threats are external, hence organization cannot control them, but it is possible for the organization to impact them. Consequently, it is essential for the organization to understand and be able to capitalize on its strengths, turn the weaknesses into opportunities, invest in its opportunities and identify the threats to in order to develop strategic plans to counter them (Bryson, 2011 & SWOT analysis, 2012).
THESIS STATEMENT TO BE USED FOR THIS PAPER: In this paper, I will examine Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and Division of Parole and Probation (DPSCS-DOC) internal environment by looking at DPSCS-DOC’s core competencies, identify DPSCS-DOC strengths and weaknesses, identify both tangible and intangible assets of DPSCS-DOC, and finally used Value Chain Analysis (VCA) to discuss what makes DPSCS-DOC resources and capabilities difficult for others to imitate.