Month: July 2018

BUSI 642 Module 3 Case Study 2

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What should Howell do? How should D-Bart make reduction decisions when performance appraisals documents are inaccurate?

How can D-Bart improve its performance appraisal process?

 

BUSI 642 Module 1 Case Study I

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Case Study I – SHRM Religious Discrimination and Racial Harrassment: What Ever Happened to Marshawn DeMur?

Questions 1 -5

1. Identify and describe the specific issues Maalick encountered in the workplace. Do the actions of other workers at Treton represent discrimination and harassment? What elements of law are important for Treton to consider?

2.Evaluate the actions of the HR director, Marta Ford, in response to Maalick’s situation. What could she have done to prevent the situation and what more could she do to ensure that this type of situation would not occur in the future?

3.How would you characterize Clive Jenkin’s behavior and response to this situation?

4.What resolution to this situation might Judith Dixon suggest?

5.What are the broader implications of this situation for Treton? What type of organizational review might Dixon initiate or suggest from a corporate perspective?

BUSI 642 Module 6 HR Policy Research Paper

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HR Policy Research Paper

In a research paper, provide researched rationale for the nature and substance of your 4 selected, distinct policies. This paper is to be reflective of an academic research paper. You will not include specific references to the fictitious company in this paper. The research paper must address the reasoning or rationale for the inclusion of the selected policy elements in your policy manual.

The selected policies must correctly address employment legislation pertinent to the stated size of the company (15–25 employees). In elaborating on the rationale, you may want to consider the following questions: Why should these elements be in a policy manual? What laws or principles mandate an organization follow these guidelines? What cases have established precedent for this issue to be addressed clearly in an organization’s employee policy manual?

Support your rationale with at least 10 scholarly references in addition to the textbook and the Bible. Remember, government websites and previous/current court cases are useful but will not be included in the “scholarly” reference requirement.

The paper must be not less than 7 pages and not more than 10 pages in addition to the cover page, the abstract, and the references page. It must be written in current APA format. Three points will be deducted for each page over the 10-page limit (for the body of the paper). To earn full credit, the paper should be 10 pages in length (see the grading rubric).

Following are some examples of HR policy topics. These are only examples. You may identify/select other topics that would be relevant and appropriate for a general employee policy manual/handbook.

Dress Code

Technology Use

Code of Conduct

Confidentiality

Harassment

Benefits (This can be more specific to areas such as “paid time off,” health care benefits, and so forth.)

Training Opportunities/Expectations

 

Submit the HR Policy Research Paper by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 6.

BUSI 642 Module 7 Discussion Board 3

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Many managers have great technical skills; their technical capabilities may be the reason why they were promoted into the ranks of management. However, the usefulness of the people side of the business may not be clear to these managers. How could you link coaching to achieving performance goals for these managers? In other words, how can you convince managers of the usefulness of performance coaching?

Why are employers implementing policies that require employees to adopt healthier lifestyles?

 

 

BUSI 642 Module 5 Case Study 3

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Case Study 3

 

This case study is focused on how 2 different companies use total rewards to support the organizations’ missions and values and achieve strategic outcomes. Select only 1 of the companies as the basis for your case study response. (This is not meant to be a comparison of the companies but an exploration of how 2 different companies use their compensation and benefits structures to achieve organizational outcomes). The paper must specifically address the following areas:

How the company uses its own products or services to enhance the total compensation for its employees;

The internal and external strengths and weaknesses identified and how the company responded to these factors from a total rewards perspective;

Examples of traditional and non-traditional rewards and how they are used to meet organizational objectives;

How the company aligns its benefits with its corporate values; and

Recommendations regarding an expansion of the benefits programs offered at the company that would further align HR with the accomplishment of organizational goals and values.

Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 5.

BUSI 642 Module 8 Small Business HR Policy Manual

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Small Business HR Policy Manual

Assume that you are a member of an HR consulting team providing human resource management (HRM) consultation for a new small business that will have 15–25 employees (full-time and part-time). The business will open soon, and you are now developing a policy manual/employee handbook.

Select a minimum of 4 issues that you will want to include in the policy manual. These issues must correspond with the general topics addressed in the textbook and supported in the research paper. For each issue, write a relevant policy that you believe would be needed in your business. This is not to be an all-inclusive policy manual; you are only providing a few of the elements of a policy manual for the purpose of this course.

Write your policy for each issue and format it the way you would like to include it in your policy manual. Write a policy that is truly meaningful and useful to you and that reflects your personal philosophy. You are a strategic partner to the business owner and this must be an area that you want to make sure to cover. However, do not write it as a contract between 2 individuals. A policy manual is provided to employees from the standpoint of the organization.

In addition, include a cover page that is formatted as if the document were an authentic employee manual (i.e., do not format the cover page according to current APA standards).

Your submission for the policy manual must be 5–6 pages in addition to the cover page. Points will be deducted for each page over the 6-page limit.

(Note: You are encouraged to spend time researching other policy manuals to develop an understanding of how material is formatted and presented to potential employees. However, the policy manual submission must be completely original work. Cutting and pasting or utilizing content from other sources is not permitted and will be considered plagiarism.)

Submit the Small Business HR Policy Manual by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday of Module/Week 8.

 

BUSI 650 Module 1 Quiz 1

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Learning how to plan and control project activities to meet specifications for performance, schedule, and cost are among the subjects of Bartmess and Cerny (1996) identify three elements of a core capability that hinders imitation; which of the following is NOT one of these elements?

Which of the following is NOT considered a characteristic of a service?

What are the two trends in the range of accommodation to customers’ needs?

Customization occurs when

Which of the following uses techniques from Toyota Production System and JIT to eliminate waste and non­value­added activities?

 

Which of the following is NOT a mass customization strategy?

 

Which of the following is among the six major elements of a production system? Check all that apply

 

A purposeful collection of people, objects, and procedures for operating within an environment is known as a(n):

 

A distinction between normal goods and information/knowledge is that

 

Which form of transportation system utilizes group technology?

 

Balancing a production line includes the following tasks, except:

 

Why do continuous processes typically run 24 hours a day, seven days a week?

 

Which of the following is not a major element of a service guarantee?

 

The cost­volume­distance (CVD) model is suitable for layouts in which moving materials or people between departments is a major consideration

 

A/An ___ item is produced in batches of some size that is set by the customer, and then delivered upon its completion

 

Which of the following is not a basic form of transformation systems?

 

Which of the following is a major difference between continuous processes and flow shops?

 

A general characteristic of a job shop is that it requires a small variety of inputs, and minimal variations in the time it takes for a complete “job”

 

As the costs of fixed equipment investments rise with the volume produced, companies move from project to job, flow, and then cell transformation systems.

 

Which of the following is not a well­known problem in flow shops?

 

Which of the following has the lowest fixed costs?

 

Of the following, which form of transformation system has the lowest output variety but the highest batch size?

 

In the Service Matrix, to which quadrant does recreation belong?

 

In cellular production the cellular form allows for a level of customization usually found in job shops

BUSI 690 Module 1 DB Forum

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How can a person become a successful leader by being humble?

Why is it an important leadership trait to serve others first?

What is the importance of relying on Jesus’ will and ways as it relates to leadership?

 

BUSI 690 Module 2 Rothaermel Exercise 2

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Chapter 6

Question 6.1 – What are some drawbacks and risks to a broad generic business strategy? To a focused strategy?

Question 6.4 – In chapter 4, we discussed the internal value chain activities a firm can perform in its business model (see Exhibit 4.6). The value chain priorities can be quite different from firms taking different business strategies. Create examples of value chains for three firms: one using cost leadership, another using differentiation, and a third using an integration business-level strategy.

Chapter 7

Discussion Question 7.1 – Assume you work for a small firm that developed a better and faster operating system for netbooks than Microsoft Windows. What strategy might the firm use to unseat Windows in this market?

Question 7.2 – How does the industry life cycle affect business strategy? Detail your answer based on each stage: introduction, growth maturity, and decline.

Question 7.4 – Why are standards important in many industries? As standards get adapted and become dominate, how does this process influence the competitive nature of the industry?

Chapter 8

Question 8.1 – When Wal-Mart decided to incorporate grocery stores into some locations and created “supercenters,” was this a business-level strategy of differentiation or a corporate-level strategy of diversification? Why? Explain your answer

Chapter 9

Question 9.1 – Horizontal integration has benefits to the firms involved. Consider the consolidation in the event promotion business when Live Nation bought Ticketmaster in 2010. List some specific advantages of this acquisition for Live Nation. Do you see any downside to the merger?

Chapter 10

Discussion Question 10.1 – Multinational enterprise (MNEs) have an impact far beyond their firm boundaries. Assume you are working for a small firm that supplies a product or service to an MNE. How might your relationship change as the MNE moves from Globalization 2.0 to Globalization 3.0 operations?

BUSI 690 Module 3 Rothaermel Exercise 3

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Chapter 11

Question 11.1 – Why is it important for an organization to have alignment between its strategy and organizational structure?

Question 11.3 – Strategy Highlinght 11.2 (page 306) discusses the informal organizational structure of W. L. Gore & Associates. Go to the firm’s website (www.gore.com) and review the product scope of the firm. A) what commonalities across the products would likely be enhanced by flexible cross-functional teams? B) What would be your expectations of the type of norms found at W. L. Gore

Chapter 12

Question 12.1 – How can a firm lower the chances that key managers will pursue their own self-interest at the expense of the stockholders? At the expense of the employees?

Question 12.2 (NOTE: there are several parts to this 1 question.) – The chapter notes that in 2010, in roughly two-thirds of U.S. Firms, the CEO is also the chair of the board of directors. More broadly this can be viewed as an intermingling of management and ownership. Why are these two roles typically separated? Is it a positive development for so many firms to have a combined CEO and board chair?