Prepare a 1-2 page report on what you got out of the book in terms of hospitality, culture, etc. How does this relate to the hospitality industry?

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Setting the Table and the Hospitality Industry

Prepare a 1-2 page report on what you got out of the book (Setting the Table by Danny Myer) in terms of hospitality, culture, etc. How does this relate to the hospitality industry? The wedding catering industry? How does this benefit a business?

Based on your knowledge of ethics, indicate if you think the engineer who finally reported that the original tests had been altered acted ethically.

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Upper management of Green Cast

Based on your knowledge of ethics, indicate if you think the engineer who finally reported that the original tests had been altered acted ethically. In your answer consider which stakeholders were affected by the engineer’s decision and what ethical guideline was used in the decision.

Write a report to the upper management of Green Cast, Inc. that explains what happened in the Oven-Safe Classic line. Use the report writing guide from the course website. Explain the decision made and the basis of the decision.

To prepare for this case, you may want to review managerial accounting LDC concepts 2, 5 and 8; financial accounting concept 9; and business law concepts 2 and 9

 

How did the mediator deliver the opening statement? What type of questions did the mediator ask, and how did the parties respond to these questions? How did the mediator identify, present and set the agenda for the parties?

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Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald (Family/Custody-Visitation case). View Parts 1 & 2

Prepare a written assessment (approximately 8-10 pages in length) of the videotaped mediation of the Fitzerald case. The written assessment should identify the mediation skills and interventions used, an analysis of the effectiveness of the skills employed, and suggestions for what you may have tried differently and why. The assessment should integrate theory (with citations) and practice, and should emphasize the mediator’s application of the standard (facilitative) and adaptive mediation approaches. Your paper should be thorough but not redundant. Areas for discussion should include (but are not limited to):

How did the mediator deliver the opening statement?
What type of questions did the mediator ask, and how did the parties respond to these questions?
How did the mediator identify, present and set the agenda for the parties?
What were the main issues in dispute?
Were there important issues not discussed during the mediation?
How were emotions managed during the mediation?
Was there an impasse during the mediation? If so, how was it overcome?
Was a final agreement reached by the parties? If so, what was the agreement?
Did the mediator behave in a fair and impartial way?
Overall, what worked? What didn’t?
What lessons are you drawing from this mediation?

What made you a successful leader? Were there specific behaviors that were most important? What was your most challenging leadership event? How did you solve the problem?

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Leadership PPT

As we discussed in class, there are three student work groups each responsible for preparing and presenting their work at our Nov 2 class. Here are the details:

Each student in the group will interview a current or past leader by phone, Zoom, text, email, or in person asking probing questions regarding their leadership journey. Examples of questions are as follows:

  • 1. What made you a successful leader? Were there specific behaviors that were most important?
  • 2. What was your most challenging leadership event? How did you solve the problem?
  • 3. What were the areas of improvement needed to make you an even better leader?
  • 4. What advice would you give to aspiring leaders?

2. After the interviews are complete, compare the feedback to create one group PP that summarizes common qualities, behaviors, and challenges that the interviewee’s shared. This should not simply be a list of everything that was collected, rather a thoughtful analysis of what is really happening in the leadership space.

3. Include student name along with interviewee title and company or group affiliation (if any), and mode of interview. Keep your presentation to 10-15 minutes in duration. Only one group member should submit in BS.

 

Working as a social media professional, discuss with your colleagues how you can defend the necessity to modify your businesses’ social media strategy to support a mobile-first perspective?

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Discussion

Mobile technology gives businesses the ability to be in touch with anyone, anywhere, at any time. Innovative usage of social media networks and platforms can maximize the results of your mobile social media campaigns. It helps you boost brand and product awareness, improves user targeting, and increases engagement with customers. That is why social media professionals must follow format guidelines for each social media platform, including a mobile-friendly approach.

Working as a social media professional, discuss with your colleagues how you can defend the necessity to modify your businesses’ social media strategy to support a mobile-first perspective? Use specific examples from the course resources, your own research, and your experiences.
An effective mobile social media campaign was Coca-Cola’s “Share a Coke.” They made Coke bottles with different names. That campaign was geared towards social media users. Their ads featured the hashtag #ShareaCoke, and it invited users to take a photo with their Coke bottle and share it on social media. Coca-Cola’s social media campaign resulted in hundreds of thousands of user-generated photos, which made the campaign go viral on social media platforms. Why do you think it was so successful? In your post explain your rationale.

Sources:

https://medium.com/udonis/mobile-marketing-and-social-media-how-to-leverage-social-media-for-your-mobile-campaign-59257bd14c88

https://qeola-ennovatelab.medium.com/why-the-share-a-coke-campaign-was-so-successful-a0734c8bcb76

What are at least three levels of an organization, regardless of structure? Compare and contrast, according to Davenport (1993) and Dickenson (2003), the generic levels or types of processes within an organization.

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Case Assignment

Paste these instructions on the cover page of your case paper, using a small font.

After reviewing the required reading for this module (and if you have time, the optional reading) write a 5-page paper addressing the following questions/topics:

  1. What are at least three levels of an organization, regardless of structure?
  2. Compare and contrast, according to Davenport (1993) and Dickenson (2003), the generic levels or types of processes (tasks or routines) within an organization.
  3. According to Davenport and Short (1990), what types of organizational processes work within and across organizational boundaries?
  4. According to Van de Ven and Delbecq (1974), what are the two dimensions that a process (task) may demonstrate?
  5. According to Wijnberg, N.M., Van Den Ende, J., De Wit, O. (2002), what types of decisions are made at the three different levels of the organizations and how does IT enable these decisions (please use figure 1 in this document as a reference for discussion)?
  6. Articulate the importance of the five basic components of a business process (IDEF0) according to business process engineers (why are these needed?); present and defend your opinion on what would happen if anyone is removed.

 

What will you do to assure your team members that they have a voice and are free to challenge each other’s input? How will you align your team around the final decision, even if some members disagree with it?

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Week 1 of JWI 510: Leadership in the 21st Century

Scenario: Your company is introducing a change to technology or personnel that will affect your team’s working environment. You are tasked with gaining buy-in from your team, as well as learning if they have any objections to this change.You already know that certain team members have strong opinions about the change and are not going to agree with each other. You call the team together for a meeting.

Considering the course materials for this week, answer the following:
Describe the change to technology or personnel that requires your team’s buy-in.
How will you account for differences in your team’s personality types?

In your answer, refer to your results from the DiSC assessment you took in Week 1 of JWI 510: Leadership in the 21st Century.

What will you do to assure your team members that they have a voice and are free to challenge each other’s input?
How will you align your team around the final decision, even if some members disagree with it?

Are the dancers of the club entitled to the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act or are they independent contractors? Why?

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STRATEGIC COMPENSATION:A HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT BY JOSEPH MARTOCCHI

The exotic dancers at a nightclub sign independent contractor agreements at the beginning of their employment and are paid entirely by the tips they receive from appreciate customers. The club does not recruit dancers. Instead, women interested in working there come in for a dancing audition and “body check.” If selected, dancers must obtain, at their own cost, an adult entertainment license ($350 per year). Dancers must remit a house fee to the club for each night of work (between $30 and $100 depending on the day of the week and time of arrival) and tip the DJ (at least $20) and “house mom” ($5–10). On slow nights, dancers can suffer a net loss for the evening. Dancers also spend thousands of dollars a year on costumes, shoes, cosmetics, and hair care. However, they are not investors in the club and do not pay any of the other expenses associated with operation of the club, including facilities, advertising, the sound system, and food and drink. Schedules are worked out between dancers and the club, although there is a strong expectation that dancers will work at least four nights a week. The club has a rule book for contractors and employees, and dancers have been disciplined for violations of these rules. There are elaborate procedures for checking in and out of work, including appearance inspections by the house mom and a breathalyzer test at the end of shifts. A number of the dancers have worked at the club for at least a year, but shorter periods of employment are also common. Are the dancers of the club entitled to the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act or are they independent contractors? Why?

Identify each cost as variable, fixed, or step in relation to tickets sold. Determine the weighted average ticket price and contribution margin from the sales mix information.

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Read the case in the attachment file and answer question 2.

Using the budget prepared in Question 1:

Identify each cost as variable, fixed, or step in relation to tickets sold.  Hint: Determine the weighted average ticket price and contribution margin from the sales mix information (percentage of adult tickets vs. percentage of student and senior tickets).

In the first case, assume that all funds are to come from ticket sales only and that there are four shows in total. Compute the breakeven point in number of tickets to be sold and in U.S. dollars.

In the second case, assume the same in (b) but only three shows in total. Compute the breakeven point in number of tickets to be sold and in U.S. dollars.

In the third case, assume that SETU would receive sponsorship funds (cash and in-kind donations) in addition to ticket sales for four shows. Compute the breakeven point in number of tickets to be sold and in U.S. dollars.

In the fourth case, assume that SETU would receive sponsorship funds (cash and in-kind donations) in addition to ticket sales for three shows. Compute the breakeven point in number of tickets to be sold and in U.S. dollars.

Comment on the feasibility of the required number of ticket sales computed from above, keeping in mind the nature of the play, that it is staged by a community theater organization, and the ethnicity aspect. Suggest ways for SETU to achieve the necessary amount of ticket sales.