What process should they use for conflict resolution to ensure separation between family and business?

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Smooth Meal Prep

It was Nevell Provo’s journey as an athlete that led him to entrepreneurship. The idea for Smooth Meal Prep was inspired by Nevell’s mother Karen Provo who would prepare healthy meals for Nevell throughout his athletic career. Recognizing a desire for something similar from his peers, Nevell launched Smooth Meal Prep in 2018, a family business with his mother and brother. Starting from humble beginnings, the company now serves 1000’s of customers and generates over $500,000 in revenues annually. They have also launched a restaurant, R&B Kitchen.

One of the core values for the business is community. From its inception, Smooth Meal Prep has focused on providing jobs in their community of North Preston. The value of community extends to all Smooth Meal Prep’s customers. The team and family are committed to delivering convenient delicious and nutritious meals to their consumers, helping them reach fitness goals or just maintain a healthy life.

Question:What process should they use for conflict resolution to ensure separation between family and business?

What challenges face the System and what caused them? Can you expect to receive the level of benefits that current retirees receive? Why (not)?

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Social Security Assignment

Research the current and expected future state of the Social Security system. Then, respond to the following questions:

• What challenges face the System and what caused them?

• Can you expect to receive the level of benefits that current retirees receive? Why (not)?

What kind of solutions would you recommend for this serious matter? Should defined-benefit plans be replaced by defined-contribution plans, thereby avoiding the risk altogether?

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208 Defined Benefits Plan

• In recent years, many defined-benefit retirement funds have been unable to meet their obligations. These failures include both private companies and government funds (even the Ohio State Teachers Retirement fund has had to cut back on the benefits promised to teachers decades ago). There are many reasons, but often these failures are due to the same sort of issues that have caused Social Security to be in trouble (increasing lifespans, poor investment returns, and inadequate funding as future cash needs seem less urgent than current ones).

• What kind of solutions would you recommend for this serious matter?

• Should defined-benefit plans be replaced by defined-contribution plans, thereby avoiding the risk altogether?

Differentiate between open-end and closed-end mutual funds. Now imagine that you bought a mutual fund that had a beginning NAV of $10 per share. It paid dividends of $0.50 and distributed capital gains of $0.75. After one year, the ending NAV is $9.50.What is your total return?

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208: Mutual Funds

Respond to the following prompt and scenario:

• Differentiate between open-end and closed-end mutual funds. (Your response should be 1 – 2 paragraphs.)

• Now imagine that you bought a mutual fund that had a beginning NAV of $10 per share. It paid dividends of $0.50 and distributed capital gains of $0.75. After one year, the ending NAV is $9.50.What is your total return? (Do the math using MS Excel or the tables tool in MS Word to make your calculations and show all of your work. )

You must cite your sources. Be sure to respond in a business-like manner using proper spelling, grammar and sentence structure.

Discussion Forum Prompt

Post your answer to the questions below. Postings should be at least 1 – 2 complete paragraphs including in-depth content that demonstrates knowledge of the subject matter. Be sure to use correct grammar and spelling.

• Research mutual funds and choose a fund in which you might like to invest.

• Identify this fund and explain why you are interested.

• Be sure to address such issues as past returns, expected future returns, the amount of fees and expenses, and why its investment objectives are attractive to you.

Produce a model using Excel, which could be used by the Students’ Union Shop management team for evaluation of their performance using the data provided or any new data that becomes available in a similar format.

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Operations and Business Analytics

Produce a report which should review the current situation of the Students’ Union Shop (made up company) queueing system and suggest ways of improving the service level. Also, produce a model using Excel, which could be used by the Students’ Union Shop management team for evaluation of their performance using the data provided or any new data that becomes available in a similar format.

How do retailers employ disruptive technologies for customer acquisition and retention processes? Identify the disruptive technology or technologies and discuss how they disrupt the retail industry that you will discuss.

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Retail industry

Question: How do retailers employ disruptive technologies for customer acquisition and retention processes? Use academic journal articles and reputable publications, and examples to support your claims.

Identify the disruptive technology or technologies and discuss how they disrupt the retail industry that you will discuss.

Define retailing- Use academic journal articles

Which retail industry are you focusing on? Use academic journal articles

You must choose one type of retailing before starting the essay.

Define disruptive technology- Use definitions, and discuss the concept. Use academic journal articles

Choose disruptive technologies that are relevant to retailers. Use reputable Business and industry reports

Discuss how they are disrupting the specific retail industry. Use the criteria. Use academic journal articles

In retail industry, it is most likely they are using several disruptive technologies combined to create value. Then, discuss the combination of technologies in specific industry context. Use reputable Business and industry reports

What is customer acquisition? Use academic journal articles

Why is it important? Use academic journal articles

Which disruptive technologies are already using to acquire customers by retail industry? Use reputable industry/business articles
Or
Which disruptive technologies have the potential to use by the retailers to acquire customers in the future. Use reputable Industry/business articles

Provide examples – Use reputable industry/ business articles

What is customer retention? Use academic journal articles Use academic journal articles

Why is it important for companies to implement customer retention programmes? Use academic journal articles

What types of disruptive technologies available to marketers to use for customer retention? Use reputable industry/ business articles

Provide examples. Use reputable industry/ business articles

Summarise the key points of your arguments

Discuss how do you see use of disruptive technologies in future marketing practices in retail as well as other sectors. Be specific. Are there any contemporary issues?

Given the current situation, acting as the CEO of XYZ Corporation, how would you proceed in restoring a productive organization? Explain how you would improve employee morale, while still motivating employees to catch up on work that is behind schedule.

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OLB-7004 Week 4

For this week’s assignment, you will complete a case study. Review the following scenario to get started:

Right in the middle of the busy time of year, XYZ Corporation was suddenly struck by an all-encompassing technology failure. Its main website and internal systems went off-line for over 24 hours, causing an entire shutdown of production. Over the course of the next several days, leadership directed employees to attempt to resume fulfilling orders in addition to responding to customer complaints.

Unfortunately, the volume of work and number of customer complaints overwhelmed staff, leaving numerous orders unfulfilled and complaints ignored. Ideally, the organization needed to respond to each customer in a timelier manner and effectively deploy service recovery. Employees are beginning to lose trust in leaderships’ decision and were facing burn-out from working many extra hours.

Assignment criteria:
Given the current situation, acting as the CEO of XYZ Corporation, how would you proceed in restoring a productive organization? Explain how you would improve employee morale, while still motivating employees to catch up on work that is behind schedule. Help your employees compose responses to the various customer complaints and indicate how you would communicate with those customers. Include anything else you feel is important as the CEO in your response.

Do you agree with the author’s argument? Explain your response by describing what you find most convincing or lacking about the author’s argument?

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Social Geography Assignment

Merchant’s chapter on social ecology is extremely complex. Write a 250-word critique of the chapter. Try to focus on Marx and Engels, Bookchin, and O’Connor’s arguments on
how humans view nature and the relationships that are forged based on these beliefs.
Do you agree with the author’s argument? Explain your response by describing what you find most convincing or lacking about the author’s argument?

Your assignment is to provide a critique, NOT a summary of the articles or chapters.

Complete internet research on a nonprofit with a successful, mature and thriving planned giving program. Identify the name of the planned giving professional, position title, organization and organization website. Write two sentences on why you selected this organization and your connection to it or its mission.

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Bench Mark project

The purpose of the Benchmark Interview Project is multi-faceted. First, you will demonstrate your ability to conduct internet research and identify an organization with a thriving planned giving program. In addition, you will prepare for an informational interview with an established planned giving officer/professional. This connection will be very valuable as you design a planned giving program for the Capstone Applied Project. You will be able to gain insights on what elements make a planned giving programs successful, the stakeholders, real world examples, donors and potential career insights.
The Benchmark Interview Project is divided into four parts over the first three weeks of this course. (Note: concurrently, you will also be working on the Capstone Applied Project).

Part 1: (Module 1) Research a nonprofit organization with a mature planned, legacy or estate giving program. Research an organization which has thriving planned giving program. Identify the staff member (typically the planned gift officer) responsible for actively soliciting planned gifts. Large, established nonprofits, churches, universities, and hospitals are very likely to have dedicated planned giving professionals. The planned giving officer from the university that you graduated from is usually very willing to talk to alumni. Then submit the name of the staff member, position title, organization and organization website for instructor’s approval

Instructions for Part 1:
• Complete internet research on a nonprofit with a successful, mature and thriving planned giving program. See here for characteristics of mature giving programs.
• Identify the name of the planned giving professional, position title, organization and organization website. Write two sentences on why you selected this organization and your connection to it or its mission.
• Post to the discussion board. You do not need to respond to peers. However, you may be interested to see which organizations they select and view the corresponding websites to familiarize yourself with common elements of thriving planned giving programs.

Part 2: (Module 2) Contact the planned gift officer and schedule a phone or video conference (ex: Skype/Zoom) interview. You will submit day/time of the interview and the ten questions you prepared to facilitate your discussion about a career as a Planned Giving Officer.

The purpose of Part 2 of the Benchmark Interview is to use professional discourse to set up an informational interview and prepare for the interview by crafting 10 questions you would like the planned giving officer to answer. You may want to include specific or general questions about the person’s background, the organizations planned giving program and the person’s opinion what the essential elements are in designing a planned giving program. This interview is your opportunity to get an insider’s advice before creating a planned giving program for the Capstone Applied Project.

Instructions:
As you schedule and prepare for the interview with a planned giving officer, consider what you might want to know if you were designing a planned giving program for a nonprofit. This is your opportunity to get advice from an industry insider.

Schedule the informational interview with the planned giving officer you identified in Module 1. Confirm a date, time and method (phone or video conference for the interview). Write 10 questions that you plan to use to guide the informational interview. Allow the conversation to flow too. Please indicate what day and time you will be conducting your interview, with whom, and where they work.

To what extent are group-based interventions for the behavioural management of chronic health conditions a feasible and effective approach to care?

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Case study analysis

To what extent are group-based interventions for the behavioural management of chronic health conditions a feasible and effective approach to care? Choose up to two long-term conditions on which to base your answer.