Week 1 Global Sourcing and Procurement

Prepare a 750-word paper in which you explain the role of stakeholders in implementing a quality management process.

Discuss each of the stakeholders and their specific roles in implementing a quality management process.

Provide two organizations as examples to support your answer.

Add personal application and analysis

Role of Stakeholder

Student’s Name

Month XX, 2014

Andy Weisel

Introduction (Subject Header 1)

The introduction should cover what you are going to talk about. At a minimum, it should include the topics in the assignment and how you will cover them. For this paper, it should say you are going to talk about two stakeholders and two organizations.

When I worked on my UOPX classes in 2002, I copied the assignment into the introduction and then filled in with my specifics. You need to be brief, but cover all topics

Stakeholders (Subject Header 2)

Your first topic of the assignment should have a subject header: Subject headers, Stakeholders and Introduction above and Stakeholders and Companies below are required. You need at least as many as there are topics in the assignment. For this assignment and full points, you would have needed at least Introduction, Stakeholder intro, Stakeholder 1, Stakeholder 2, Organization intro, Organization 1, Organization 2, and Conclusion.

Stakeholder 1 (Subject Header 3 - sub header)

All paragraphs need an indent for APA. Other APA things to remember can be found in the Center for Writing Excellence. There, you can find how to build a reference correctly, build an in-text citation correctly, etc. There is no reason to miss points on APA.

Stakeholder 2 (Subject Header 4 – sub header)

The in-text citation should be at least (author, year). For “direct quotes”, you also need the page/paragraph (author, year, page/para).

Organizations (Subject Header 5)

The second topic of the assignment should have another Subject headers: Paragraphs should not be very long….about 2-3 per double spaced page. If they are too long, they are hard to read. Break them up into equal parts. See the instructor policies at the end for my expectations on all things including Subject Headers, paper length (word count), paragraphs being the right length, etc.

Organization 1 (Subject Header 6 – sub header)

Each Subject Header section should be equally weighted (not including the intro and conclusion. They should be balanced and have strong points. You need to do research and have references per the assignment.

Organization 2 (Subject Header 7 – sub header)

The word count is a guide to get full points. If the word count is 600-750, that means you need to be in that range to get an A. It does not guarantee you full points. For instance, if your paper is not very well written with a lot of junk included that does not apply and gets to 750 words that do not get you full points. Likewise, if you write 600 words and it is very well written with great examples, personal application, references that support your opinions, and references that add value from other companies…that can get full points. As a rule of thumb, you should be near the upper range of the word count for full points. You can add by finding a company similar and adding information related to that company that supports your paper.

Conclusion (Subject Header 6)

The conclusion should cover what you talked about. At a minimum, it should include the topics in the assignment and how you covered them or linked them to the subject matter. For this paper, it should have say what you talked about including two stakeholders and two organizations.

References

Foster, S. T. (2007). Managing quality; Integrating the supply chain (3rd ed.), Upper Saddle

River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.