You are the manager of a retail store. You want to investigate how metrics can improve the way you manage your business.Use the Week 5 Data Set to create and calculate the following in Excel®:

• Identify one global issue currently in the news that might benefit from a macro-level intervention that includes a psychologist.

• Think about one bottom-up change strategy a psychologist might use to intervene and address the issue, one middle-out strategy, and one top-down strategy.

• For each strategy, consider which specific change strategy might be the most effective in addressing the issue you selected.

The Assignment (3–4 pages):

• Describe the global issue you selected.

• Determine the macro-level intervention (that includes a psychologist) that you assert will work best in this situation. Explain why you believe this intervention will work best.

• Provide examples of how a psychologist may use each of the following change strategies to address the situation:

  • Bottom-up

  • Middle-out

  • Top-down

• Explain which change strategy or which combination of strategies you believe would be the most effective in addressing the situation and why.