Describe three (3) different ways that progress on construction projects can be monitored.

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Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling, and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double‐spaced pages; refer to the “Format Requirementsʺ page for specific format requirements.

1. Describe one (1) inherent advantage and one (1) disadvantage in measuring project duration in calendar days. Describe one (1) inherent advantage and one (1) disadvantage in measuring project duration in working days.

2. Describe three (3) different ways that progress on construction projects can be monitored. Which method do you believe is most efficient and effective? Provide two (2) supporting facts to justify your position.

3. Compare the cost risk and time risk in any typical construction project; include similarities, differences, means of identifying the risks, and responses to each.

4. To minimize the chance of losses, suggest one (1) methodology to follow when a delay, that has the potential of resulting in litigation, occurs on a construction project.

Analyze how supply chains and logistics create value for the selected business.

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Supply Chain Management Plan
Option 2
If you chose Option 2 for your assignments in Units 4 and 7, use the same business for this assignment, or select a different business. Note that it is recommended that you use the same business for each assignment in this course, using the following criteria for your selection:
• The company fits the assignment requirements and you have access to the information needed to complete the assignment.
• The business information is disclosed in the assignment for your instructor’s reference.
• You can distribute the business data without disclosing confidential information.
Contact your instructor with questions.
Your Role
Option 2
Your boss, a director, has tasked you with a supply chain management project. She is relying on you to prepare an analysis and recommendations for supply chain management that can be presented to the executive team of the company.
Requirements
Create a PowerPoint presentation of your supply chain management plan, which you will present to your business partners. Include the following:
• Analyze supply chain designs.
o Your analysis should detail two different supply chain scenarios for either Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business.
o Use a flow chart to indicate all inputs and outputs for each supply chain and to clearly indicate areas in the supply chain designs that are different.
• Analyze factors that impact supply chain success. What role does logistics play in each supply chain design? How would you overcome bottlenecks in the two supply chain designs?
• Analyze how supply chains and logistics create value for the selected business. Why is it important for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business to focus on supply chains?
• Recommend a supply chain design for the selected business.
o Include your rationale for the most appropriate supply chain for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business.
o Be sure to include any assumptions you had to make to develop the supply chain designs that support your recommendations.
Deliverable Format
Requirements:
• Presentation is 10–12 slides (in addition to title, reference, and appendix slides).
• Select a PowerPoint slide template appropriate for a professional presentation. Include the content of the slides as well as the supporting narrative. Do not overbuild your slides; information that supports what you will be saying should appear at the lower portion of each slide as notes.
Related company standards:
• The PowerPoint is a professional document and should therefore follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (available in the MBA Program Resources).
• Use 2–3 scholarly or academic sources, where applicable, one of which must come from the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, or MIT Sloan Management Review.
• Use APA formatting for citations and references.
****USE FORD AS THE COMPANY***

To what extent does the organisation effectively utilise learning and development to support individuals and teams to help it to operate high-performance working (HPW) in a high-performance culture?’

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Org – Tesco’s

Construct a Tesco’s UK Organizational chart

Mention about reward systems, appraisal systems, training programmed

construct appraisal, reward, training forms for team and individuals, Org

Harvard referencing to be used throughout

Intro to Org

Use Kolb’s Learning Cycle in theory, applying it to Org, plus insert a picture of kolb’s in the appendix, mentioning it in theory.

mention about (brief explanation) “Active, inactive, reactive and pro-active, and which one is present in Org, explaining the advantages/disadvantages as well.

Do a “Gap Analysis” (explanation) on the Org, where they are and where they want to be.

What are the performance Objectives in relation to Org business performance

Conclusion needed

Reccommendations x 4

Appendix

Bibliography (Harvard referenced)
You are recruited as an external Learning and Development Consultant by a large global
organisation [insert here either a given organisation or an organisation of your choice, students
should be encouraged to use their workplace for this assignment]. The Director of Human
Resources of this organisation requires you to produce an individual report which must address
the following question:

‘To what extent does the organisation effectively utilise learning and development to support
individuals and teams to help it to operate high-performance working (HPW) in a
high-performance culture?’

You are required to demonstrate the use of critical thinking to support a conclusion that justifies
your arguments. The report should cover the following:

An introduction to the selected organisation including comment on:
• Business performance objectives
• When it was established
• Locations
• Product and /or services
• Business structure
• Number of employees
• Values
• Culture
• Other factors you consider relevant to the report

L02
Task 1
Firstly analyse your own ORGANISATION’S APPROACH to organisational and individual learning, training and development. (P3)

Task 2
Identify and analyse your organisations NEEDS/GAPS in relation to continuous learning, training and development to drive sustainable business performance. (P4)

Task 3
To what extent does the organisation ensure that ALL ASPECTS OF THE LEARNING CYCLE are integrated within its approaches to continuous learning, training and development to drive sustainable business performance. (M2)

LO3
Task 4
Complete a High Performance Work Practices (HPWP) AUDIT of your organisation and ASSESS the extent to which HPWP’s contribute to (1) employee engagement and commitment and (2) competitive advantage. Make recommendations for improvements in HPWP’’s within your organisation.
(P5 and D2)

Task 5
Analyse the benefits of applying HPWP’s to a SPECIFIC PROBLEM within your organisation. (M3)

L04
Task 6
Select 3 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT approaches and critically evaluate their application within your organisation to support a high performance culture and commitment. (P6 & M4)

Write an individual executive report addressing the key issues relevant to one of the two topics below.

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1. Report Requirement

Write an individual executive report addressing the key issues relevant to one of the two topics below. The length of the executive report must be one page maximum excluding all appendix and references. Your work should appear professionally produced in terms of the quality and currency of the data, analysis and conclusions drawn.

2. Topic Selection
You are required to select and write about one of the two report topics given below:

1. Entering a new market overseas: For this topic, you are required to undertake appropriate research, select a case company, and prepare a report to critically assess its key success factor(s) of entering a foreign market (i.e. one country). You are encouraged to provide relevant future recommendations for the company in the new market.

2. Failure in a foreign market: For this topic, you are required to undertake appropriate research, select a case company, and prepare a report to critically assess its main reason(s) for failure in a foreign market (i.e. one country). You are also encouraged to provide valid and relevant recommendations for re-entering the same market.

Key pointers relating to the two topics:
• Choose only one company in one foreign country
• Undertake thorough literature research to determine a suitable case
• Must ensure to apply (aspects of) IB models/theories/concepts in your analysis (e.g. PESTLE framework, diamond model, resource-based view etc).
• Ensure the recommendations proposed are well-justified and relevant.
• The executive report should be precise and concise, analytical and descriptive information is kept at minimum.

3. Recommended Report Structure

1. Report Title
2. Introduction (keep it short)
3. Analysis of the company’s market entry in a foreign country (keep it precise and concise).

4. Future recommendation
5. References

4. Submission Requirement

When submitting the report, you must adhere to the following items:

• You must submit via SurreyLearn ONLY (under Assignment Turinitin Folder where it is clearly marked “Individual Report”)
• Only submissions made on time are accepted and marked.
• Submissions via other means will not be graded and therefore no mark will be given.
• When submitting the report, you must:
a) make sure when uploading the file, it is named after your full name (surname followed by first name, e.g. Zhao, Shasha) and followed by your student number.
• You should present your report professionally by following the instructions below:
1. the report title in full (on top of the page or in header)
2. ensure the report is one page long (excluding references and Appendix)

1. use the font size 11 or 12
2. word document ONLY (no PDFs or other formats are allowed)
3. put all all charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, etc in Appendix
4. use Harvard referencing style ONLY for references

Please note: it is your responsibility to make sure a backup copy is always made available in case of PC or network failure.

5. Coursework Feedback
Informal feedback can be sought via email, arranged zoom meetings, and during on-campus sessions. Formal feedback and marks for individual coursework will be available within 15 working days following submissions (Please note: this excludes public holidays and school holiday periods).

6. Marking Guideline

• Theoretical understanding of key concepts/frameworks/models
• Critical application of theoretical knowledge
• Quality of case study chosen
• Development of argument
• Overall presentation

Tips:

Which markets to enter

When to enter these markets

What is the scale of entry

Entry Modes:
Exporting
Franchising
Joint Ventures
Wholly Owned Subsidiaries

 

How can regulations harm consumers?

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Regulations often benefit consumers, but not always. How can regulations harm consumers? Please support your ideas with textbook reading assignments (cite the text and other sources).
Defend the position that advertising manipulates human needs and can create artificial ones. For this part, find at least ONE ADDITIONAL journal article with a study supporting your response. Please make sure to cite using the APA style.

Are seat belt and helmet regulations a good policy?

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Are seat belt and helmet regulations a good policy?

Explain how and why a business adheres to recruitment processes which are ethical and comply with current employment law.

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Your local newspaper has been publishing a series of insights into businesses in your area. JOHN LEWIS

You have been asked to write a case study of a large business that has 250+ employees. You will choose a business for this case study. This may be your work placement, where you have a part time job or any business that has a transparent easily accessible recruitment system.

The case study should evaluate the recruitment and selection processes, and link these to business success.
TASK
You will need to research a number of large businesses of 250+ employees to choose one to write about.

Using your research, write a case study that analyses and evaluates the recruitment and selection processes, drawing reasoned conclusions on how these processes contribute to the success of the business.

The case study should include a synopsis of the business, to include the scope of its business activities and its size, and demonstrate an understanding of its workforce planning, and the recruitment methods and processes to include the use of outside organisations, and ethical and legal considerations. Your case study will demonstrate how the recruitment process links to the success of the business. You will also consider the problems that impact on the business resulting from ineffective recruitment and from staff shortages

All conclusions will be fully justified by well-balanced, developed arguments, and supported by good use of research evidence.

● Evidence of research into the recruitment and selection processes of large businesses of 250+ employees
● An individual report that examines the recruitment and selection processes in a large business of 250+ employees.

To achieve the criteria, you must show that you are able to:
*Evaluate the recruitment processes used and how they contribute to the success of the selected business.
*Analyse the different recruitment methods used in a selected business.
*Explain how and why a business adheres to recruitment processes which are ethical and comply with current employment law.
*Explain how a large business recruits and selects giving reasons for their processes.

Use Porter’s Generic Strategies, Ansoffs Matrix and/or Nykiel’s fourteen hotel strategic growth options to critically examine the strategic growth alternatives for your chosen hotel within your chosen emerging market

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Assessment Task: This assessment affords you the opportunity to undertake research using a
wide range of source material into a hotel company of your choice and to assess the strategic

position of this chosen organization and examine strategic growth options to seek medium and
long term market growth in an emerging market of your choice.

OBJECTIVE 1: Select one of the up and coming hotel company and conduct a SWOT analysis of your selected
hotel company.

OBJECTIVE 2: Select one of the emerging markets of the world as taken from the WTM Industry report –and
UNWTO Tourism Highlights, which you feel is right for your hotel company to seek an entry into
that market and ultimately to seek medium and long term market growth.
Conduct a PEST analysis of the emerging market you have selected. All the PEST facts and
factors you have chosen to highlight must have a direct or indirect relevance to both the
hospitality industry both on a nationally and internationally level and the hotel company chosen.

OBJECTIVE 3: Use Porter’s Generic Strategies, Ansoffs Matrix and/or Nykiel’s fourteen hotel strategic growth
options to critically examine the strategic growth alternatives for your chosen hotel within your
chosen emerging market

Suggested Structure Layout Of Project:
• Introduction
• Background to the Hotel Company
• Strategic Position of the Hotel
• Analysis of SWOT
• Global Hospitality Markets and Emerging Markets
• PEST of selected emerging market and the global market
• Micro Environmental Analysis
• Market Growth Strategy to be adopted and to be implemented (using strategic model
and frameworks) within the entering market
• Justification, implementation of the strategy and moving forward
• Conclusion
• Reference List
• Appendices

What is synergy, and how do firms create it through mergers and acquisitions?

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What is synergy, and how do firms create it through mergers and acquisitions? In your opinion, how often do acquisitions create private synergy? What evidence can you cite to support your position? Your answer must apply concepts and principles from the readings. Concepts and principles must be properly cited and referenced in APA format.

Create a network that captures how oftenour salespeople go on sales

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For each measure, provide an intuition for the kind of centrality it captures. (Assumethat the measures are being computed for nodes in an unweighted, undirected network.)Your colleague continues,  create a network that captures how oftenour salespeople go on sales meetings together. In other words, two salespeople are linked ifthey attended the same pitch meeting for a client. And the more meetings they attendedtogether, the stronger their link should be.” You realize you need to provide your colleaguewith an explanation of different types of networks.2. How would you describe the difference between a directed and undirected network?3. How would you describe the the difference between a weighted and unweighted net-work?4. Given the type of network your colleague has described, what kind of network wouldyou advise creating (directed or undirected? weighted or unweighted?)