Support your critical evaluation with the example of a real-world project that failed owing to poor project governance. Provide appropriate real-world recommendations that can ensure project success in such projects and prevent project failure.

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Importance and contribution of decision-making processes to the role of project governance

-Write a 1000-word report critically evaluating the importance and contribution of decision-making processes to the role of project governance in ensuring:

Project success

  • Preventing project failure
  • Support your critical evaluation with the example of a real-world project (physical infrastructure project or an IT project) that failed owing to poor project governance.
  • Provide appropriate real-world recommendations that can ensure project success in such projects and prevent project failure.
  • You are expected to use relevant academic theory (literature) from the recommended reading within the course as well as the literature addressed in the lecture material and your own self-
  • directed academic study to underpin your answer.

Introduction (125words)

(background about the topic)
(The aim of this report)
(What you have done)
(A brief explanation regarding your selected project)

Analysis using a real project as an example

1)Academic discussion on the topic (300-350 words)
– The importance and contribution of decision-making processes to the role of project governance in ensuring: Project success and Preventing project failure.

2) Critical Evaluation (300-350 words) support your critical evaluation with the example of the real-world project (physical infrastructure project or an IT project) that failed owing to poor project governance.

Recommendation (200-250 words)

-problem statement
– description of options
– Evaluation criteria and evaluations of each option
-final recommendation sould start with an action verb (create, establish, fund, facilitate, coordinate, ect.)

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you explain operation management’s role in business today. Define operations management. Refer to the course text.

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Operation management’s role in business today

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you explain operation management’s role in business today. (References do not count toward the total)

Include the following:

Define operations management. Refer to the course text.
Discuss the key events that have contributed to the evolution of operations management. Be sure to include specific events, time (year) and who was involved (the individual’s name or company). Provide at least three (3) factors and the events.
Explain how operations management’s role is applied to achieving an organization’s strategy.

Describe the scope of quality efforts in this organization. What is the role of the quality assurance department at Shiny Hill Farms? Does it promote the concept of total quality? What suggestions do you have for improving Shiny Hill Farms’ quality effort?

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Case – Shiny Hill Farms

Shiny Hill Farms is a major pork processor, specializing in smoked meats, hams, sausages, and luncheon meats. The firm’s largest facility slaughters more than 5,000 hogs each day.

Throughout the food industry, quality is a high priority, and Shiny Hill Farms is no exception.

The quality assurance department (QA) seeks to prevent any defective products from reaching the consumer. QA’s primary concern is for controlling product weight, appearance, and shelf life throughout the manufacturing operations. Production operators are held accountable for their cuts on specific meat products. The cuts must be performed according to quality assurance specifications in order to obtain high yields. (Yield is the percentage of the live weight of the hog that can be sold.)

Quality assurance monitors all operations, from the killing of hogs through packaging. QA personnel inspect incoming animals, work with USDA inspectors, and monitor cooking temperatures. They check scales daily to ensure they are providing correct weights. If products fall outside specifications, it is the responsibility of QA personnel to notify operators that changes need to be made to bring quality up to standard. Many QA personnel monitor weights of packaged boxes continuously to ensure that they conform to weight specifications. They open boxes and weigh the packages as well as checking them for defects such as rips, leaks, and pinholes. Weights of packages near the bottom, mid and top of each skid (pallet) are inspected.

If these packages conform to weight specifications, then the entire skid is accepted and sent to the warehouse. If not, the skid is tagged for 100 percent in on, and the process is studied to determine why the variations occurred. QA personnel analyze graphs of yields and packaging waste weekly. Other functions throughout the company focus on quality. The sanitation department, for example, sanitizes all manufacturing machines and work surfaces before initial production runs each day. The research and development department plays an important role in improving quality. For example, it is continually seeking out and testing new methods of curing meat and of killing bacteria more effectively and efficiently. R&D also helps to develop new packaging that may improve consumers’ perception of quality In addition, it develops new products, such as “lite” luncheon meats that contain less fat and cholesterol, enlisting the aid of focus groups and taste panels.

A food processing plant is an intense, high-speed manufacturing setting. Shiny Hill Farms operators may have to make as many as 10 cuts each minute on a conveyor line.

Engineering personnel replaced all old manufacturing fines with ergonomically correct lines. The production line was redesigned to a standard height with adjustable height workstations to better meet operators’ needs. Turnover of meat cutters averages between 30 and 40 percent. New cutters are shown a video on how to use machines and knives correctly in order to make quality cuts. On the line, they are expected to learn from experience-watching others and learning from their mistakes.

9.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

1. Describe the scope of quality efforts in this organization.

2. What is the role of the quality assurance department at Shiny Hill Farms? Does it promote the concept of total quality?

3. What suggestions do you have for improving Shiny Hill Farms’ quality effort?

 

 

Imagine that you’ve decided to become an entrepreneur and have set yourself the task of creating a global business plan. Choose one of the following products/services: a new mobile multi-user video game, a new line of upcycled clothing, or a vitamin-infused drink mix. What would your global business plan need to include? How would you go about breaking out the task of creating it?

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Creating a global business plan

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Imagine that you’ve decided to become an entrepreneur and have set yourself the task of creating a global business plan. Choose one of the following products/services: a new mobile multi-user video game, a new line of upcycled clothing, or a vitamin-infused drink mix. What would your global business plan need to include? How would you go about breaking out the task of creating it?

 

Assume the role of a banker, create a message that targets university students and persuades them to start a retirement account. Which kind of appeals did you use in this message? Would you consider this message to be catering more to emotion or logic? Explain.

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General Framework for the Ethics of Public Administration of an organization

Prepare a General Framework for the Ethics of Public Administration of an organization you are familiar with and discuss the codes of ethics and ways in which public administrators can combat corruption.

DISCUSS

NO – 1 MGT-324

Week 9: Interactive activity

9.1 Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the meaning of budget and different types of budgets.
  • Examine the requirements for effective budgeting.

  9.2 Action Required:

Watch the video at the following link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INnPo0QPXf4

 

 9.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

  • What is a budget?
  • What are the requirements for effective budgeting?

  9.4 Instructions

  • Answer both questions in the test your knowledge section.
  • Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below
  • (Week9:Interactive learning Discussion)

DISCUSS-NO2

  • MGT-324

Week 10: Interactive activity

10.1 Learning Outcomes:

  • Examine the importance of ethics in public administration

 10.2 Action Required:

  • Read the following statement:
  • “Ethics provides accountability between the public and the administration”

 10.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

  •  Does ethics provides accountability between the public and the administration”

 10.4 Instructions

  • Answer the above question in the test your knowledge section.
  • Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week10:Interactive learning Discussion)

Assignment no 2 -MGT-421

Assignment Question(s):

Part 1 (Marks)

  • Examine each of the following charts (Figures 1, and 2) and respond to the questions below:

Figure 1

 

Figure 2

Source: General Authority of Statics

  1. Evaluate each one in terms of:
  • title descriptiveness, (b) focal points, (c) information sufficiency, (d) ease of processing, and (e) takeaway message
  1. Describe at least one effective aspect for each chart.
  2. Make two recommendation for improving them.

Part 2 (8 Marks)

Persuading University Students to Start a Saving Account

  1. Assume the role of a banker, create a message that targets university students and persuades them to start a retirement account.
  2. Which psychological tools of influence (consistency, reciprocation, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity) did you use? Why?
  3. Which kind of appeals did you use in this message? Would you consider this message to be catering more to emotion or logic? Explain.

Persuading Human Resources Manager for Promotion

  1. Assume the role of an employee, create a message that targets the HR manger persuades him/her to promote you.
  2. Which psychological tools of influence (consistency, reciprocation, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity) did you use? Why?
  3. Which kind of appeals did you use in this message? Would you consider this message to be catering more to emotion or logic? Explain.

 

Reference:

(2017). Environment Economic Survey (Industry). General Authority of Statistic. https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/906

DISCUSSTION NO-3 MGT-422

10.1 Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this week’s activities, you will be able to:

 

  • Understand why social responsibility is essential to fundamental business strategy.
  • Articulate the types of corporate social responsibility.
  • Evaluate why socially responsible business is good business.

 

10.2 Action Required:

Watch the short video in the following link and answer the questions that follows:

10.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

 

With reference to the CSR pyramid, what are the implications of stopping at a particular pyramid level? For example, would it be all right, if a company took its sole responsibility to be the financial responsibility to its shareholders? Financial responsibility and legal responsibility? Do you agree that CSR is best represented by a pyramid? Why or why not? Can you think of a better way to graphically represent a company’s social responsibility?

 

10.4 Instructions

Answer the question in test your knowledge section.

Post your answer for the question in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week 10: Interactive learning Discussion)

 

Assignment NO-3 MGT-422

 Read the case given and answer the questions:

Grace

The W. R. Grace Company was founded by, yes, a man named W. R. Grace. He was Irish and it was a shipping enterprise he brought to New York in 1865. Energetic and ambitious, while his company grew on one side, he was getting civically involved on the other. Fifteen years after arriving, he was elected Mayor of New York City. Five years after that, he personally accepted a gift from a delegation representing the people of France. It was the Statue of Liberty.

The W. R. Grace Company was founded by, yes, a man named W. R. Grace. He was Irish and it was a shipping enterprise he brought to New York in 1865. Energetic and ambitious, while his company grew on one side, he was getting civically involved on the other. Fifteen years after arriving, he was elected Mayor of New York City. Five years after that, he personally accepted a gift from a delegation representing the people of France. It was the Statue of Liberty.

In 1945, grandson J. Peter Grace took control of the now worldwide shipping company. A decade later, it became a publicly traded corporation on the New York Stock Exchange. The business began shifting from shipping to chemical production.

By the 1980s, W. R. Grace had become a chemical and materials company, and it had come to light that one of its plants had been pouring toxins into the soil and water underneath the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts. The poisons worked their way into the town’s water supply and then into the townspeople. It caused leukemia in newborns. Lawsuits in civil court, and later investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency, cost the corporation millions. J. Peter Grace retired as CEO in 1992. After forty-eight years on the job, he’d become the longest-reigning CEO in the history of public companies. During that time, he also served as president of the Grace Institute.

The nonfiction novel A Civil Action came out in 1996. The best-selling, awardwinning chronicle of the Woburn disaster soon became a Hollywood movie. The movie, starring John Travolta, continues to appear on television with some regularity. To honor the Grace Institute, October 28 was designated “Grace Day” by New York City in 2009. On that day, the institute defined its mission this way: “In the tradition of its founding family, Grace Institute is dedicated to the development of the personal and business skills necessary for self-sufficiency, employability, and an improved quality of life.” “Our Mission,” Grace Institute, accessed June 1, 2011, http://www.graceinstitute.org/mission.asp.

 

QUESTIONS

  1. How are business leaders meant to organize the four responsibilities? Which ones take precedence over the others and why?      b. Judging the man named W. R. Grace through the lens of CSR, how well did he respond to his obligations? Explain.
  2. Judging the company’s more recent activities in the 1980s through the lens of CSR, how well did it respond to its obligations? Explain. The W. R. Grace company has a long history. From the information provided, what are some of the steps the company has taken to become economically sustainable? What are some of the steps the W. R. Grace company has taken to promote social sustainability? Explain.

 

DISCUSSTION NO-4 MGT-425 top urgent

 9.1 Learning Outcomes:

  • Find some structured ways of dealing with complex managerial decision problems.
  • Explain simple decision models and management science ideas that provide powerful and (often surprising) qualitative insight into a large spectrum of managerial problems.
  • Demonstrate the tools for deciding when and which decision models to use for specific problems.
  • Build an understanding of the kind of problems that are tackled using spreadsheet modeling and decision analysis.

 

 9.2 Action Required:

Read the following chapter of your Textbook.

Chapter 9: Linear Optimization

 9.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

  • What are the properties of Linear Functions?
  • Explain the Data Envelopment Analysis.

 9.4 Instructions

  • Answer both questions in the test your knowledge section.
  • Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week 9: Interactive learning Discussion)

Assignment NO-4 MGT-425 

  • Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website
  • On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases”
  • From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
  • In the Search Bar of EBSCO find the following article:

 Title: A Rough Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Supplier Selection under Vague Environment: A Case Study.

Author: Huiyun Lu , Shaojun Jiang , Wenyan Song, Xinguo Ming

Date: 26 July 2018

 Assignment Questions: (Marks 15)

Read the above case study and answer the following Questions:     

 Question 1: Explain the decision-making approach discussed in this case study (250-300) words)

Question 2: Why supplier selection is a typical multi-criteria decision-making process involving subjectivity and vagueness? (250-300 words)

Question 3: Discuss the Sustainable supplier selection that is required for manufacturing companies. (250-300 words)

Question 4: Why Supplier selection decisions are important for most of the manufacturing firms? (250-300 words)

Question 5: What is your opinion about this study and how it is connected to course and beneficial for you? (250-300 words)

What salary range would you recommend for the new job position? What other factors might influence your salary range recommendation decision?

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Salary Or New Position

You have been working with the HR department in the development of a job description and job specification for a fulltime, entry-level logistics/supply chain management supervisor position at one of your company’s warehouses. Since your boss wants to hire a recent undergraduate college graduate for the position, and knowing that your company tends to “lag the market” in the salaries they offer, HR has asked you to conduct an investigation to determine an appropriate salary range for the new position. “Appropriate” means your boss wants you to justify your salary range recommendation using nationally recognized sources of information.

  • What salary range would you recommend for the new job position?
  • Be sure to justify your recommendation in light of the company’s tendency to “lag the market” in the salaries they offer?
  • What other factors might influence your salary range recommendation decision?

Be sure to use this for reference: https://www.naceweb.org/uploadedfiles/content/static-assets/downloads/executive-summary/2013-student-survey-executive-summary.pdf

Write an essay implementing the United Nation’s Sustainable development goals in International business.

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United Nation’s Sustainable development goals

Write an essay implementing the United Nation’s Sustainable development goals in International business.

Reply to both discussions separately. Identify at least one strength and one weakness in their reasoning.

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Replies: EI

Reply to both discussions separately. Identify at least one strength and one weakness in their reasoning. Use a quote from the bible to prove your point, make sure to cite it.

What research would you conduct to determine why sales are lower? What data would you collect and analyze? Which employees would you contact?

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Week 1 Discussion BUS3059

Conducting Business Research

It is important to conduct business research in order to objectively make decisions. Assume you are a supervisor for a manufacturing company, which is experiencing lower sales this year compared to the same period last year.

What research would you conduct to determine why sales are lower?
What data would you collect and analyze?
Which employees would you contact?
Which outside consultants, if any, would you contact?
Justify your answers using examples and reasoning. Comment on the postings of at least two peers and state whether you agree or disagree with their views.

 

In your own words, respond to the discussion and comments of classmates. Grades will be based on effectual, concise and interactive feedback.

 

What is the relationship between quality assurance and quality control and explain how they are used to improve project quality. What statistical tool would you use for quality assurance and why?

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Improve project quality

Maximize its project benefits and minimize rework, your company wants to make sure that its IT projects align with its business goals and meet specified quality standards.

Quality assurance and quality control are used to improve project quality.

  • What is the relationship between quality assurance and quality control and explain how they are used to improve project quality.
  • What statistical tool would you use for quality assurance and why?
  • When is it appropriate to use cause-and-effect diagram (fish bone)?