Write an essay on how businesses can improve their employee retention rates and reduce turnover.

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How can bison improve

Write an essay on how businesses can improve their employee retention rates and reduce turnover.

Prepare and present internal and external reports. Monitor and evaluate performance. Recommend opportunities for performance improvements.

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9-1 Project Submission: Acquisition Proposal

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:

  • Prepare and present internal and external reports.
  • Monitor and evaluate performance.
  • Recommend opportunities for performance improvements.

Scenario
You are a former Navy officer and fighter pilot, and you are now the controller of a division of TransGlobal Airlines, a large organization that operates a fleet of corporate jets for charter at several airports in the southeast part of the United States. Your division’s private charter clients include several Fortune 500 companies in the region. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has informed you that the company is considering the acquisition of two smaller aviation firms in the region specializing in chartered flights for luxury vacations using light aircraft (60 passengers or less). The CFO has tasked you with assessing the organizational benefits of acquiring these aviation firms. The CFO intends to develop a new business plan for the organization if your analysis recommends moving forward with the acquisition.

After an initial assessment, the company has shortlisted two airlines, Company A and Company B, to examine further for acquisition. To understand all aspects of the two airlines under consideration, you have visited each proposed site to assess their performance. The assessment included creating a balanced scorecard for each airline with all four components, financial, internal processes, customers/market, and learning and growth, that will impact the acquisition of each firm.

The CFO has asked you to generate two scenarios for the proposed acquisition based on your analysis and governing or predictive assumptions. They include a worst-case scenario that considers the most serious outcomes that could occur if anticipated targets and assumptions are dramatically wrong; and a best-case scenario if anticipated targets and assumptions significantly exceed forecasts.

Based on your assessment and analysis of the companies in Milestones One and Two, you will create and deliver a PowerPoint Presentation for senior management’s review and analysis. You will also write an executive summary with your recommendations for the leadership team.

Directions
Part 1: Presentation

Record and submit a narrated PowerPoint presentation to share your analysis and recommendations for the proposed acquisitions. Use your data and analysis, along with feedback received from the milestone assignments, to complete your presentation. Note: Remember to use both on-screen text and narration in your PowerPoint slides to convey your information effectively. For example, you can use brief bulleted lists on the slide and include detailed explanations in your narration. A resource is provided under Supporting Materials to help you record your presentation. If you are unable to submit a presentation with narration, be sure to include detailed speaker notes with your submission.

Overview
Situation Analysis of TransGlobal Airlines (parent company). Use the information from the Supporting Materials section to highlight the parent company’s current business environment.
Internal environment: culture, leadership, internal processes, human resources, operations, and financial performance
External environment: competitive, market, regulatory, customers, suppliers, and other relevant stakeholders
Acquisition Rationale: Explain why your company is planning to acquire these airlines. What strategic objectives will the acquisition meet? How might the acquisition support the bigger picture goals of TransGlobal?

Proposed Acquisitions: Using the resources provided in the Supporting Materials section, provide an overview of the two companies under consideration to be acquired. Include the following information for each company:

  • Location, size, and age of the firm
  • Customer segment and target market
  • Major competitors
  • Company leadership
  • Current financial and market status

Analysis
Analysis of Company A. Present your data and analysis of Company A. Include the following in your analysis:
Balanced scorecard data: Share the balanced scorecard for Company A. Copy and paste the relevant sections from your Milestone One spreadsheet. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most impactful key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Internal processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Customers/market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Learning and growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Balanced scorecard analysis: Describe your analysis of Company A’s performance based on its balanced scorecard components. Perform a cost-benefit-risk analysis to explain whether the benefits justify the costs of acquisition.
Opportunity cost: What will it cost to move forward with this opportunity?
Risk: Identify and explain the magnitude (low, medium, or high) of the risks this acquisition poses to the parent company related to its market, financial, cultural, and operational environments.
Analysis of Company B. Present your data and analysis of Company B. Include the following in your analysis:
Balanced Scorecard Data: Share the balanced scorecard of Company B and highlight some key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share. Copy and paste the relevant sections from your Milestone One spreadsheet. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most impactful key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Internal processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Customers/market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant two key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Learning and growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Balanced scorecard analysis: Perform a cost-benefit-risk analysis for Company B based on its balanced scorecard components to explain whether the benefits justify the costs of acquisition.
Opportunity cost: What will it cost to move forward with this opportunity?
Risk: Identify and explain the magnitude (low, medium, or high) of the risks this acquisition poses to the parent company as related to its market, financial, cultural, and operational environments.
Proposal
Recommendation: Recommend whether TransGlobal Airlines should acquire one or both companies.
Rationale: Justify how your recommendation supports the company’s strategic objectives. This includes one or more of its financial, market, competitive, and cultural objectives.
Assumptions: Explain how your acquisition recommendation will impact the company’s success in different scenarios:
A worst-case scenario that considers the most serious outcomes that could occur if anticipated targets and assumptions are dramatically wrong; and
A best-case scenario that considers outcomes that significantly exceed anticipated targets and assumptions.

 

Part 2: Executive Summary
Submit a Word document summarizing your analysis and recommendations for both companies.

Situation assessment: Briefly summarize your company’s current internal and external business environments and the rationale for acquisition.
Data and analysis: Provide a brief overview of the two airlines under consideration, including your findings and analysis from your balanced scorecards.
Recommendation: Justify your recommendation for the acquisition and explain how it supports the company’s objectives.

Evaluate creative and innovative organizational structures. Recommend alternative innovations to solve an internal or market need. Implement creative and innovative processes within an organization.

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9-1 Project Submission: Organizational Structure and Culture

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

  • Evaluate creative and innovative organizational structures.
  • Recommend alternative innovations to solve an internal or market need.
  • Implement creative and innovative processes within an organization.

Scenario
You work as a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks.

The chief technology officer (CTO) of the company from the course scenario has been watching new technology developments that the company could integrate into its vehicles to enhance the usefulness of and access to the data acquired by the many digital sensors that have been integrated into vehicle subsystems over the past 20–30 years. The technology trend of particular interest is the internet of things (IoT)—the interconnection of embedded devices, such as sensors and computers, over the internet. By taking advantage of this trend, the CTO believes the company can seize an opportunity to provide better service and predictive maintenance to its customers, improving customer satisfaction and adding additional revenue streams.

Based on briefings by the CTO, senior management has decided to implement IoT in its product line. Your CTO has asked you to lead a cross-functional team to take this initiative forward. Your first task is to make a recommendation for how the company should approach this business problem. Do you recommend using incremental or discontinuous (that is, slow or fast) innovation? Specifically:

Why is object modeling important for system analysis and design? How are the object-oriented concepts of encapsulation and polymorphism related to object models? What are the differences between an object and a process model?

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CS-255-T4175 System Analysis & Design

You have reviewed the Module Four resources and spent some time learning about object models and Gantt charts. You will spend some time discussing these concepts with your classmates in order to gain a deeper understanding of the topics and how they apply to system analysis and design.

Before creating your initial post, you will need to create your Gantt chart for Project One. Review the “Schedule Planning” portion of the DriverPass Interview Transcript. There you will find a discussion about the different tasks and their prioritization. You will also find a table that lays out the different tasks. Using the CASE tool Lucidchart, create a Gantt chart of the tasks for the DriverPass project. Use the Lucidchart Tutorial to support you in this task. Download your Gantt chart as a PDF. Be sure to check the “Accessible PDF” box before downloading.

In your initial post, be sure to address each of the following:

  • Why is object modeling important for system analysis and design?
  • How are the object-oriented concepts of encapsulation and polymorphism related to object models?
  • What are the differences between an object and a process model?
  • What benefits do you see in using a Gantt chart for scheduling purposes?
  • What challenges did you experience when creating your Gantt chart?

Finally, be sure to attach a copy of your Gantt chart to your initial post.

In your response posts to your classmates, address the following:

  • Analyze the differences between process and object models and pose additional questions and comments based on your analysis of these two models.
  • What similarities and differences do you see between your Gantt chart and your classmate’s?
  • Share a strategy that might help your classmate overcome the challenge they experienced.

Explain what your investment portfolio would look like. Share what you believe is your risk tolerance.

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Discussion Financial Markets

Assignment Details

One aspect of investing is taking risks in the pursuit of greater returns on those investments. Keeping in mind the knowledge you gained from this week’s video on risk, return, and financial securities, consider what types of investments appeal to you and why.

Consider this week’s instructor video and reading assignments about diversification. Assume that you were given $100,000 to invest in financial assets, and discuss the following:

  • Explain what your investment portfolio would look like.
  • Share what you believe is your risk tolerance.

Consider your peers’ responses, and explain the reasons you would (or would not) take on risk when investing.

Review your peers’ responses on diversification, and discuss the differences you find between your position and theirs.

In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Requirements: main post (recommended minimum 300 words), and respond to at least 2 peers’ postings (recommended minimum 75 words

Identify 2 technology tools, and discuss their use by HR during the employee recruitment process.

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Technology Used in HRM

Assignment Details

There are many technology tools used during the recruitment process. Human resource (HR) departments are shouldering the responsibility of employee recruitment. It is essential to stay up-to-date on the many recruiting tools and technology now available.

  • Identify 2 technology tools, and discuss their use by HR during the employee recruitment process.

Review and consider the technology presented by your peers. One approach to replying to your peers is to share your thoughts on two of you peers’ responses and address additional reasons on the importance of the topics presented. Another approach is to 2 on the discussion by providing your perspective through the introduction of examples and possible outcomes.

In your own words, post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Choose a large DEPARTMENT STORE from your region or local context that has best supply chain practices with international partner and prepare a report for supply chain collaboration.

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Supply chain

QUESTION
Choose a large DEPARTMENT STORE from your region or local context that has best supply chain practices with international partner and prepare a report for supply chain collaboration. The report needs to include a clear introduction of the chosen large department store and analyse the challenges facing the department store regarding supply chain members’ different goals and culture challenges and suggest actions to be taken to tackle these challenges. It needs to clearly identify the goals in supply chain networks and critically evaluate the challenges that arise from multicultural collaboration as well as strategies used to deal with these challenges (word limit: 2000 words).

Upload a personal statement. In 600-800 words, describe the purpose for this application.

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Applying for Master of Arts – Leadership – Business at Trinity Western University Canada

Upload a personal statement. In 600-800 words, describe the purpose for this application.

Pay special attention to outlining the educational background, the reasons for selecting this program and key experiences that have led the applicant to apply at this time.

What is the difference (in your words) between groupthink and the Abilene Paradox? Which do you think it is easier to fall into and why? If you were leading a group and saw signs of Groupthink how would you handle it?

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Discussion post

Part 1

1. What is the difference (in your words) between groupthink and the Abilene Paradox?

2. Which do you think it is easier to fall into and why?

3. If you were leading a group and saw signs of Groupthink how would you handle it?

4. Are there any personal examples of any of these (Groupthink, Abilene Paradox, etc) decision blunders that you have been a part of and realize now?

Part 2

A large portion of our working lives is spent working in Teams. How we communicate with our team members is crucial to the success (or failure) of the team. In this week’s lesson, we looked at the Ego states (parent, adult, and child). We all know that effective teams operate in the Adult-Adult realm of conversation and feedback, however, sometimes a rift can occur and cause us to operate from a higher or lower level with each other. Then there are other ways to look at team dynamics.

Think back to some teams that you have been on that were especially dysfunctional or effective. Did they follow the team dynamics favored by Google or were they more directive in nature? What made them work (or not work)?

Prepare a sales point memo for a past public equity offering for your “client” company or another energy company if you have trouble finding an S1 or S3 registration statement for your “client” company.

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Business Question

Northern oil and gas

Prepare a sales point memo for a past public equity offering for your “client” company or another energy company if you have trouble finding an S1 or S3 registration statement for your “client” company. This document generally provides a summary/overview of an upcoming public equity offering that is used to educate the salesforce and trading department about the offering.