Select a research topic, generate testable hypotheses, review relevant literature, describe participant selection procedures, identify data collection methods, describe the proposed quantitative research design, address potential ethical problems, and describe limitations of your research proposal.

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Research Proposal: Step Two

Throughout the next six weeks, you will plan and propose a quantitative research design of your choice, which may (or may not) involve an area of interest for your doctoral dissertation. You will select a research topic, generate testable hypotheses, review relevant literature, describe participant selection procedures, identify data collection methods, describe the proposed quantitative research design, address potential ethical problems, and describe limitations of your research proposal.

This assignment is the second step toward completing your final research proposal in Week 6. Drawing on your topic area, research questions, and hypothesis from Step One, develop a 5-6 page literature review, in addition to the Title Page and References Page, using between 5-7 scholarly resources, including mostly research studies related to your topic. Information should be drawn from scholarly sources (preferably within the past 10 years), such as professional journals, books, and dissertations.

Writing a literature review requires not only summarizing individual studies, but also involves an examination or evaluation of studies in relation to the topic or research area. Some common purposes of literature reviews include: identifying and outlining relevant and existing knowledge on a topic; identifying gaps in research; evaluating and synthesizing information available in line with your own research topic; justifying a rationale for your own research; and evaluating current research. The Mongan & Rallis (2006) website and Appendix A in the textbook will provide you with guidelines and examples regarding how to develop a literature review.

Your literature review should include the following (steps 1, 2, 4 and 5 will be from your Step One Assignment):

Step 1: Rationale/Problem Statement for the research topic of your choice: Explain your topic. Make a case for why this topic is important to the field of psychology.

Step 2: Research questions you have developed for your topic: Conclude your discussion of the research topic by identifying specific research question(s) about the relationships between two or more concepts. Use both the textbook and the Pajares (2007) website to formulate specific research questions.

Step 3:
A 5-6 page literature review on the 5-7 articles you selected: Read your articles thoroughly and provide a literature review that synthesizes what was theorized and discovered about regarding your topic. Do not write separate “summaries” for each article; rather, find connected themes or relationships in the different areas you cover. Use these relationships to frame your discussion of how variables were indicated, samples were obtained, and research designs were constructed.

Are there any gaps or weaknesses present in the literature that can be investigated further? You will not necessarily refer to all the information from each article; instead, relate only that which is relevant to your topic and research question. Thus, your literature review should justify your study and support why conducting your proposed study would answer a problem that is not already well understood.

Step 4: Hypotheses that you want to test: Considering your research question or statement of the problem, formulate a hypothesis that states the relationships between the variables and answers the research question. Remember that hypotheses make statements or predictions about something that may be true.
Thus, they are hunches or intuitions about what the study’s results may show about the variables being tested.

Step 5: Dependent and independent variables: Operationally define the dependent and independent variables for each hypothesis

sing your topic for the final paper, describe the dependent and independent variables of your proposed study, define their levels of measurement, and provide operational definitions of each. Describe the rationale behind the definitions created, and how the adequacy of operational definitions can affect validity and reliability.

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Discrimination in the Workplace Variables and Operational Definitions

In order to carry out research, researchers must define variables in terms of the actual procedures that will be used to measure or manipulate them. Operational definitions provide details regarding the procedures needed to measure a variable and if written precisely, can increase the measurement’s reliability and validity.

Using your topic for the final paper, describe the dependent and independent variables of your proposed study, define their levels of measurement (i.e., nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio), and provide operational definitions of each.

Describe the rationale behind the definitions created, and how the adequacy of operational definitions can affect validity and reliability. Post should be at least 300 words.

Compare and contrast non experimental and experimental techniques with respect to their aim of the research, and their strengths and weaknesses. Consider the concepts of experimental control, causality, randomization, and the third variable problem in your discussion. Provide one example of when a non experimental method would be used and one example of when an experimental method would be used. Post should be at least 300 words.

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Non Experimental and Experimental Methods

Two critical factors that distinguish quantitative experimental research from quantitative non experimental research are manipulation of treatments and randomization. Experimental designs are often preferred, as they control for unwanted variance and reduce threats to internal validity.

However, sometimes the use of non experimental research is preferred when variables cannot be manipulated or random assignment is not possible. Compare and contrast non experimental and experimental techniques with respect to their aim of the research, and their strengths and weaknesses. Consider the concepts of experimental control, causality, randomization, and the third variable problem in your discussion.

Provide one example of when a non experimental method would be used and one example of when an experimental method would be used. Post should be at least 300 words.

What are the core products? How does the organization make money? What is the customer value proposition? What is the profit proposition? Analyze the corporate strategy of the company. Include the product, geographical, and vertical scope in which it operates. Has the company expanded from its original product line or field of operation? Does the company own vertically related activities along the value chain for its products?

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Business Strategy

Prepare a 7-10-page business analysis that explains the generic business strategies for an organization, analyzes the business strategy used and the company’s business model, analyzes the corporate strategy of the company and the overall corporate structure and management systems, and analyzes the strategic fit between the business and corporate strategies.

Introduction
AFI, VRIO, and value chain are just three concepts you need to understand as a business strategist. This assessment focuses on these important facets of business analysis.

Introduction
This portfolio work project will help you differentiate between business strategy and corporate strategy, and analyze the fit of a business strategy to an organization.

Scenario
Building on your work from Assessment 1, the vice president of strategy has now tasked you with providing a business analysis of the organization’s business strategy. This includes level of diversification (product scope), geographical and vertical scope, and the overall fit with the business strategy or strategies.

Your Role
You are a strategic analyst for the company you have selected to use in this course.

Requirements
Use information from the company’s website, the Capella library, and your course textbook to complete this assessment. Write a business analysis that includes the following:

Explain the generic business strategies for the company. Include cost, differentiation, and focus or hybrid information.
Analyze the business strategy the company uses in its marketplace approach. Provide examples of how the strategy is used to position the company in a competitive environment.
Analyze the company’s business model:
What are the core products?
How does the organization make money?
What is the customer value proposition?
What is the profit proposition?
Analyze the corporate strategy of the company. Include the product, geographical, and vertical scope in which it operates.
Has the company expanded from its original product line or field of operation?
Does the company own vertically related activities along the value chain for its products?
Analyze the overall corporate structure and key management systems.
Does the company employ diversification, vertical integration, or globalization?
Are global alliances part of the corporate strategy?
Analyze the strategic fit between the business and corporate strategies of the company.

Deliverable Format
The Business Strategy Analysis is a professional document and should therefore follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines, including single-spaced paragraphs.

Read Fixing the Health Care Plan .docx and submit a report that addresses what health care initiatives the company might take in order to deal with the rapidly escalating health care costs. Consider the affects the initiatives would have on the employees and their acceptance of the changes.

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Fixing the Health care plan

The purpose of this assignment is to look at how complex it is to determine what benefits can be offered and afforded by the employer without hurting the moral or finances of the employee.

Instructions

Complete the following steps:

Read Fixing the Health Care Plan .docx and submit a report that addresses what health care initiatives the company might take in order to deal with the rapidly escalating health care costs. Make certain you consider the affects the initiatives would have on the employees and their acceptance of the changes.

With at least 2 references

How will the scholarship impact your educational experience? Why are you a good candidate for this scholarship? What else would you like for the selection committee know and consider?

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Why i deserve the need- based scholarship

Write an essay answering these three questions on why you deserve the financial need based scholarship:

How will the scholarship impact your educational experience?
Why are you a good candidate for this scholarship?
What else would you like for the selection committee know and consider?

Describe a professional situation where you demonstrated one of the following leadership competencies: visionary, strategic, tactical, focused, persuasive, likable, decisive, ethical or inspirational. Describe a situation where you used your skills to solve real-world problems or describe any hardship or struggle you endured to get to where you are today.

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Personal Statement

Describe a professional situation where you demonstrated one of the following leadership competencies: visionary, strategic, tactical, focused, persuasive, likable, decisive, ethical or inspirational.
Describe a situation where you used your skills to solve real-world problems or describe any hardship or struggle you endured to get to where you are today.
Give us insight into an entrepreneurial endeavor you spearheaded or were a key contributor to.

Imagine that you are a strategic management analyst and prepare a report for the CEO. Who are the players? When to enter? How to enter? Where to enter?

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Discussion 3

INSTRUCTIONS (must be a paragraph response for each question)

Imagine that you are a strategic management analyst and prepare a report for the CEO.

(50 points): Chapter 3 (pages100-102) covers the choices firms make in entering new markets. Reflect on Chapter Case 3 (pages73-74 & 86) and discuss how Airbnb might have answered the questions in Exhibit 3.6.

See also the following websites:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqh6SJ0O0c

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6GBqqk2mY4

– Who are the players? (Identifying the competition, as well as, the external and internal stakeholders needed to make this work)

– When to enter? (Relates to time of entry: Is the market already established?)

– How to enter? (Leveraging existing assets, reconfigure value chains, or establish a niche)

– What type of entry? (In terms of product market (e.g., smartphones), value chain activity (e.g. R&D for smartphone development), geography, and type of business model such as subsidizing smartphones when providing services)

– Where to enter? (This is the more fine tuned approach such as product positioning (high end versus low end), pricing strategy, potential partners, etc.)

What is Tim Hortons’ value proposition? Defining what a value proposition is and explain how your description of Tim Hortons’ value proposition fits this definition. What is Tim Hortons’ product/market focus? Provide an example of what you think would be a core activity at Tim Hortons and explain why you think it is a core activity. Finally, describe the human capital that is required to carry out this core activity.

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Human Resources Planning

S2 2022 Case Study

SHRM 3430 Online Strategic Human Resources Planning

Instructor

Question 1 (25 points)

  1. What is Tim Hortons’ value proposition? Defining what a value proposition is and explain how your description of Tim Hortons’ value proposition fits this definition. What is Tim Hortons’ product/market focus?

 

  1. Make a statement about the level of threat that each component of the 5-forces model holds for Tim Hortons. For example, is the threat of buyers high, medium, or low, and why? Provide an example to justify your response to each of the components of the 5-forces model. Overall, is Tim Hortons’ value proposition in a strong position to provide a sustainable source of competitive advantage for the company? Why/why not?

 

  1. Provide an example of what you think would be a core activity at Tim Hortons and explain why you think it is a core activity. Finally, describe the human capital that is required to carry out this core activity.

 

Question 2 (25 points)

A struggling organization in the hotel services industry is looking to hire a new director of HR. The Rosebudd chain of 5 hotels offers services that are intended to make customers feel like they are staying in a family-run hotel. The employees know one another’s names, and they offer customers small perks such as a bottle of water when checking in, and various levels of room turndown services. Customers fill out what turndown services would like done in their room (ranging from nothing to fresh towels, new bedding, replenish toiletries, etc.) on the room card and hang the card on their door in the morning.

During your interview for the job of director, HR, the operations director and the managing director both agreed that they want the HR function to be more strategic, but they expressed different ideas for how they think the HR function can become strategic. The operations director wants the HR function to adopt a best practices approach to implementing HR policies. She believes that Rosebudd Hotels should hire consulting agencies with expertise in implementing best practices in recruitment and selection, employee development, training, and compensation, and follow their advice. The managing director believes that Rosebudd Hotels should look at what the other hotels chains are doing with their HR and emulate those practices. What is your advice; do you go with what the operations manager wants to do, what the managing director suggests, or do you have another idea? Provide a rationale for your decision around how to make the HR function more strategic at Rosebudd Hotels, and base that rationale in the course materials.

 

Question 4 (15 points)

The restaurant industry has obviously been through some very difficult market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Coffee shops like Tim Hortons and Starbucks have suffered in particular, as people are not going out for coffee as much and are not at work as much to pick up a quick lunch or midday coffee. Tim Hortons reported that business was down by more than 11% in 2020 year compared to previous year, and Starbucks was in a similar position. If you worked in corporate HR for Starbucks Canada, and were put in charge of estimating the demand for baristas over the next 2 years, how would you estimate the demand? Formulate a response using the methods laid out in the course for estimating demand and choose one or more methods to use. Justify your choice of method by explaining why the method(s) that you have chosen are more suitable than the others that are discussed in the course. You do not need to develop an actual estimate.

Post a 2- to 3-paragraph response in which you share one point about happiness where spiritual traditions are in conflict with science and contemporary life, and one point about happiness where spiritual traditions and science can be in concert with one another. Then, describe the role of advertising in our contemporary world and discuss what part you think it might play in people’s perceptions of their own happiness.

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Science and contemporary

Post a 2- to 3-paragraph response in which you share one point about happiness where spiritual traditions are in conflict with science and contemporary life, and one point about happiness where spiritual traditions and science can be in concert with one another. Then, describe the role of advertising in our contemporary world and discuss what part you think it might play in people’s perceptions of their own happiness. Support your assertions by making at least 2 references.