Have you had any experience working on Agile teams? If you have worked on Agile teams, what were the benefits and difficulties of the Agile approach? If you have not worked on Agile teams, using this exercise, what benefits and challenges do you foresee applying an Agile approach in your current or future workplace?

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Week 1 Discussion

Complete the collaboration warm-up exercise, Agile Product Development. A transcript of this interactive exercise is also available. The transcript is attached.

Consider what you learned in the experience and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Have you had any experience working on Agile teams?
If you have worked on Agile teams, what were the benefits and difficulties of the Agile approach?
If you have not worked on Agile teams, using this exercise, what benefits and challenges do you foresee applying an Agile approach in your current or future workplace?
How can the challenges of Agile be mitigated or overcome?

Discuss the pros and cons of employee’s organizing for union representation. Specifically, focus on Wal-Mart, Amazon or other large company. Are you pro or against unionization? Why? Include articles that support your stance.

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Collect bargaining

This week’s discussion will focus on collect bargaining. Read chapter 15 and discuss the pros and cons of employee’s organizing for union representation. Specifically, focus on Wal-Mart, Amazon or other large company. Are you pro or against unionization? Why? Include articles that support your stance. Take a look at this Amazon YouTube Video.

The link to the video is : https://youtu.be/T8fJpNBhEec

Engage in a planning process to explore the best practices, challenges and needs as well as the best way to fulfill their mission. Also engage in a risk analysis, crisis management plan, fundraising plan, and a communications plan.

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Human Rights Campaign

Assessment and Evaluation:

You will need to evaluate the structure, internal process, leadership structure and organization. Students need to provide information on the organization, need-based assessment, mission review, power structures, key actors, and any relevant information that you believe will be useful to improve its performance.

Planning and Process:

After evaluating the needs of your organization, you will need to engage in a planning process to explore the best practices, challenges and needs as well as the best way to fulfill their mission. You also need to engage in a risk
analysis, crisis management plan, fundraising plan, and a communications plan. A strategic plan must be included in the report as well as a fundraising plan. Incorporate leadership, management skills and organization’s culture/change theory and practice into your analysis, discussion, and strategies. Final Presentation will be the products of your engagement with the assigned organization and logical conclusions of your evaluation and recommendation process in which you have been engaging throughout the semester. Students will use the information, data and analysis from the reports developed for this course, as well as readings and tools learned/ improved in our classes, to write a Final Report with recommendations for the assigned organizations. With the report you will demonstrate an integrated understanding of the theories, concepts and fundamental issues involved within successful management and apply that knowledge to an organization. The assignment includes an in-class 5 minutes presentation with your finding and recommendations.

Determine how the process can be improved based on the results of your evaluation. Define metrics and measure the current process. Use process improvement techniques to improve the process. Create a flow chart of the improved process using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Vizio, or Excel.

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Process Improvement Flowchart

As-Is Process Flow Chart Evaluation
Select a process from an organization you work for or are familiar with. You will use this process in your Week 2 & Week 4 Signature Assignments as well.
Create a flowchart of the as-is process using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Vizio, or Excel.

Evaluate the efficacy of your process using process improvement techniques.

Process Improvement Flow Chart
Determine how the process can be improved based on the results of your evaluation.

Define metrics and measure the current process.

Use process improvement techniques to improve the process. Create a flow chart of the improved process using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Vizio, or Excel. Use your professional judgment to ascertain how the future process will perform according to your metrics.

Summary
Write a 525-word executive summary that includes the following:

A brief description of the process based on the flowchart of processes current state

The results of your process evaluation and how the weak points can be strengthened. Include a description of the process improvement technique(s) used.

A brief description of process improvements based on the process of the future state

How you anticipate the future process will perform based on metrics used to evaluate process current state

A description of your process improvement project to achieve the process future state

Have you had any experience working on Agile teams? If you have worked on Agile teams, what were the benefits and difficulties of the Agile approach? If you have not worked on Agile teams, using this exercise, what benefits and challenges do you foresee applying an Agile approach in your current or future workplace?

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Discussion Topic

The following exercise introduces you to the need for operations management and collaboration within the context of the Agile product development process.

Complete the collaboration warm-up exercise, Agile Product Development. A transcript of this interactive exercise is also available.

Consider what you learned in the experience and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words use one resource:

1. Have you had any experience working on Agile teams?

2. If you have worked on Agile teams, what were the benefits and difficulties of the Agile approach?

3. If you have not worked on Agile teams, using this exercise, what benefits and challenges do you foresee applying an Agile approach in your current or future workplace?

4. How can the challenges of Agile be mitigated or overcome?

-What is Agile team important? (Explain in 50 Words in your own words NO resources)

-Give some examples of Agile Approaches? (Explain in 50 Words in your own words NO resources)

Demonstrate knowledge of STP marketing planning process. Identify the key components of the marketing environment. Identify research requirements to begin to solve a business/marketing problem in a company.

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Brand Extension Report

Assignment task
Working in small teams to develop a 10 minute group presentation for a brand extension, you will then need to submit a group co–authored 1000 word report explaining the new brand extension.
This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 2 Demonstrate knowledge of STP marketing planning process.

LO 3 Identify the key components of the marketing environment.

LO 4 Identify research requirements to begin to solve a business/marketing problem in a company.

Explain the legal components in a job description as it relates to the EEOC. Describe at least two assessment methods that can be used when recruiting qualified candidates and how those two methods are appropriate for meeting organizational objectives.

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Job Description

[WLOs: 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 5]

A job description is a useful tool that describes all the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a position. The primary function of this assignment is to increase understanding of the critical elements in a job description and its alignment to the HRM process and to talent acquisition. Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the article Job Worth Doing: Update Descriptions, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook, the guide Best Practices and Emerging Trends in Recruitment and Selection, and the web page Employers from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

In your paper,

Discuss how a job description is a function of management.
Consider the following areas of a job description below and explain how these components contribute to an effective performance management system:
Tasks
Tools and technology
Knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs)
Education requirements
Explain the legal components in a job description as it relates to the EEOC.
Describe at least two assessment methods that can be used when recruiting qualified candidates and how those two methods are appropriate for meeting organizational objectives.
For additional support with completing this assignment, refer to the following tools:

Choose ONE of the following laws and explain why it is so important in the workplace?

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laws

Choose ONE of the following laws and explain why it is so important in the workplace?

a. The Equality Act
b. The General Data Protection Act
c. The Health and Safety at Work Act

Select an international organisation (of your choice – company A) and identify its closest competitor (company B). Present the two organisations and the criteria used for the identification of the competitor.

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Financial Performance management – UPS (Company A) FedEx (Company B)

Question 1 (35%).

Select an international organisation (of your choice – company A) and identify its closest competitor (company B). Present the two organisations and the criteria used for the identification of the competitor. Use ratio analysis technique to evaluate the financial performance of the two organizations; draw a comparative evaluation and critically discuss the findings. You need to access the annual financial statements of the last two years and provide
details of the ratio calculations. It is recommended to use graphs and tables to present your analysis, and cite academic
literature.

Question 2 (20%).

With reference to relevant literature, critically evaluate Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System.

Question 3 (35%).

Provide a critical analysis of the benefits and challenges of adopting Integrated Reporting (IR) for your selected organization (company A). Use academic literature and refer to the International Integrated Reporting <IR> framework to support your discussion.

Presentation (10%).

Mark awarded for presentation refers to overall structure and presentation, academic style of writing, use of Harvard style for references and in text citations. You need to use a comprehensive range of relevant (academic and professional) sources; use of online sources should be limited and the reliability of the source should be verified. All sources need to be acknowledged and referenced properly to ensure the originality of the work. The report needs to follow the below structure and address the three questions. The word limit for this assignment is 3,500 words (10% tolerance) excluding references and appendix.

Which is most important in an organisation? Control, power, or influence?

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Organization

Which is most important in an organization? Control, power, or influence?