Research a company’s Annual Report or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report to determine the extent to which it values quality. Review the Annual Report or CSR Report of the company that you are studying. Identify areas in the report where they discuss quality.

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Unit 6 Assignment: Final Project Part III- Using Baldridge Criteria

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Points: 100

Overview:
Research a company’s Annual Report or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report to determine the extent to which it values quality. From there you will use Baldrige 7
 to guide the process of how the company is performing.

Final Project Overview:
In your final project, you will use the contents of Parts I, II, III, and IV in a final
PowerPoint presentation. Imagine you are giving this presentation to corporate.
• Unit 3 Assignment – Final Project Part I- Company Background & Quality Issues Paper
• Unit 4 Assignment – Final Project Part II- SWOT Analysis for the Company’s Product or Service
• Unit 6 Assignment – Final Project Part III- Using Baldridge Criteria
• Unit 7 Assignment – Final Project Part IV- Recommendations
• Unit 8 Assignment – Final Project Part V-Final Project PowerPoint Presentation to Corporate

Instructions:
Review the Annual Report or CSR Report of the company that you are studying. Identify areas in the report where they discuss quality. (Copy and paste the document in Word, and search for the word ‘quality’). See how many times they mentioned quality and for what reasons. More knowledge about the company should help you with your SWOT analysis to determine Strengths and Weaknesses.

Write a plan that details how KATE will meet EEO guidelines and procedures for KATE.

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Discussion Essay

Your research paper for this class assumes that you are newly hired to work in the human resources department of a small entrepreneurial venture called KATE, LLP. KATE has operated as a small private high school, but new owners decided to offer a full slate of classes online and transform the school primarily into an online high school. The offerings will include all mathematics, sciences, languages, social studies, humanities, foreign languages, and composition classes that would be available in a normal high school. The courses of study will be directed toward students who will be applying to colleges across the country. Consideration is

Target markets include the home school market, as well as Olympic hopefuls. The market for potential Olympic athletes is 50,000 annually. Inroads have been made with the largest home school association and the US Olympic and Paralympics Committee to encourage these students to take courses in KATE. Another market is smaller school public districts and private high schools that cannot justify hiring some specialty teachers like physics instructors. Credit for these classes will transfer seamlessly into the districts’ records for the students. Talks are in progress for dual enrollment classes to be provided by UT Martin. This agreement is expected to add more offerings for KATE.

While these markets appear to be lucrative, plans include development of an online tutoring operation that will employ high school teachers to tutor students online in the afternoons and evenings. These services will provide high quality tutoring for any student whether they are taking online classes from KATE or not. The profit potential for this segment of the company could exceed that of the high school.

The goal for KATE is to grow aggressively and offer an IPO on the NASDAQ in five years. Current financing is available to support these efforts.

These plans are expected to move KATE from a small-town school to a nationally recognized online high school. Exponential growth is expected. Previously, human resource management has been a one-person operation that covered benefit administration and some very basic human resource operations. Strategic management of human resources will be vital to ensure that KATE is successful. Following EEO procedures and guidelines is crucial to having a clean record as the firm approaches the IPO.

Your task is to write a plan that details how KATE will meet EEO guidelines and procedures for KATE. You have a limit of 10 pages, double spaced, 1-inch margins, using 10-point type. References are beyond this limit. Appendices are unlimited. Concentrate your writings on “how” and “what” to accomplish the goal of compliance rather than “why” the components are important.

Determine the difference between data, information, and knowledge. Define the point at which data become information and information becomes knowledge. Explain why meaningful and correct data analysis—statistics—is important in using the volumes of available business data.

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Discussion 1

Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub questions of each bullet point. The sub questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your classmates have already posted so that we can engage several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to re-use the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

In any business, the quality of decisions is often related to the quality of information. For instance, effective product marketing entails combining the right offering (keeping in mind that products are bundles of attributes and different bundles, or combinations of attributes, will appeal to different prospective buyers) with the right target buyer group. Knowing what constitutes the right offering and the right prospective buyer group usually involves data analysis. In general, using data to shape or guide business decisions entails a progression along the continuum of data → information → knowledge.
Determine the difference between data, information, and knowledge. Define the point at which data become information and information becomes knowledge.
Explain why meaningful and correct data analysis—statistics—is important in using the volumes of available business data. Support your discussion with relevant examples, research, and rationale.

Assume you are a marketing analyst working for a manufacturer of ready-to-eat cereal. You are given detailed sales data for the past year and asked to create a report showing the differences between the four sales regions (north, south, east, and west) in terms of sales volume, profitability, and changes in sales volume and profitability; marketing expenditures and changes in marketing expenditures; and per capita sales and marketing expenditures.
Evaluate which of the four types of data (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio) is the sales data you are working on.
Compare specific statistical techniques and charts you could use to depict differences, specifically addressing each of the categories constituting your report. Determine which techniques and charts you would use. Then explain why you believe that the techniques and charts you have chosen would be appropriate. Support your discussion with relevant examples, research, and rationale.

You are analyzing the cross-store sales of a grocery store chain. As part of your analysis, you compute two measures of central tendency—mean and median. The mean sales are $358.4 million, and the median sales are $163.1 million (per store). To quantify the average sales per store, evaluate which of the two measures would you use and why. Support your discussion with relevant examples, research, and rationale.

The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.

Why work? What’s work for? What does work mean? How does it relate to the individual, others, and society? What defines good or worthwhile work? What does money have to do with it? What do experience, growth, and fulfillment have to do with it?

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Common Read In-Class Activity #2

Workview/ Lifeview Reflection

The workview/lifeview reflection activity is a journey of internal exploration.

Workview is a manifesto – it’s the set of values you use to define what you think good work is and is not.  It is an articulated philosophy of what work means to you. A Workview may address such questions as:

  • Why work?
  • What’s work for?
  • What does work mean?
  • How does it relate to the individual, others, and society?
  • What defines good or worthwhile work?
  • What does money have to do with it?
  • What do experience, growth, and fulfillment have to do with it?
  • In 250 words or less reflect on your personal workview
  • What top values standout in your workview reflection?

 

What trends do you notice from the exchange rate table? How might these trends impact the company’s sales in eurozone countries? What advice would you give to the company to overcome exchange rate challenges and maximize exchange rate opportunities?

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The Impact of Currency Fluctuation presentation

A United States–based company trades extensively with various countries in the eurozone (these countries use the euro).

You have been hired as a consultant to evaluate the impact of currency fluctuations on sales in the eurozone in the last few months for this specific company.

Step one of the process is to create an exchange rate table for the daily exchange rates between the euro and the United States Dollar (USD) over the last three months:

What trends do you notice from the exchange rate table?
How might these trends impact the company’s sales in eurozone countries?
What advice would you give to the company to overcome exchange rate challenges and maximize exchange rate opportunities?
Create a 10-to-12-slide presentation (not including title and references slides) that you would present to the company that hired you as a consultant, to assist them in maximizing their eurozone sales.

What are the major differences between labor–management relations in Europe and those in the United States? Do high-performance work systems always result in a win-win situation for employers and their employees? Why or why not?

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Discussion Question

Chapter 15

LO 4 What are the major differences between labor–management relations in Europe and those in the United States?

Chapter 16

LO 4 Do high-performance work systems always result in a win-win situation for employers and their employees? Why or why not?

Describe your” On-boarding experience “. How could a technology improve the experience? How could have the use of Competency model improved your experience?

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Unit 6 Assignment :Share an On – Boarding Experience

Overview : for this assignment, it will reflect on a time that you went through and on boarding process ( starting a new job or school, joining a new club, etc.). Discuss how it could have been better and what you would have done to improve it.

Instructions :
Describe your” On-boarding experience “. Include the following in your discussion:
* The length of the on boarding process and who it was conducted by
* How could a technology improve the experience?
* How could have the use of Competency model improved your experience?

Requirements:
* Including an introduction in your paper
* Our work should be written in proper APA format

Your paper should be 2-3 pages with additional cover and reference pages. On your cover page, include the name of the assignment your name date and the course.

Discuss how communication impacts each level of the five stages of Tuckman’s Model of group development.

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Teamwork and Leadership

In a minimum of 300 words, respond to the following:

Discuss how communication impacts each level of the five stages of Tuckman’s Model of group development.

The assignment submission should be supported using the current APA formatting guidelines.

Do you prefer working in a group or team environment or working individually? What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in a group, team, and working individually?

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What is a Group?

In a minimum of 100 words, respond to the following:

Do you prefer working in a group or team environment or working individually?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in a group, team, and working individually?

Response to the DB should be supported using the current APA formatting guidelines.

Determine the averages for the net profit and number overbooked for taking appointments between 130 and 150 patients in increments of 2. What would you recommend?

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Homework 11

  1. A professional football team is preparing its budget for the next year. One component of the budget is the revenue that they can expect from ticket sales. The home venue, Dylan Stadium, has five different seating zones with different prices. Key information is provided. The demands are all assumed to be normally distributed. Determine the distribution of total revenue under these assumptions using 50 trials. What the min, mean, max and standard deviation of the total ticket revenue?
  2. Suppose that a small candy store makes Valentine’s Day gift boxes that cost $14.00 and sell for $21.00. In the past, at least 40 boxes have been sold by Valentine’s Day, but the actual amount is uncertain, and the owner has often run short or made too many. After the holiday, any unsold boxes are discounted 50% and are eventually sold. Set up and run a Monte Carlo simulation assuming that demand is triangular with minimum value=40, maximum value=50, and most likely value=47. Find the distribution of profit for order quantities between 40 and 50 to identify the best order quantity. Use 20 simulation trials.
  3. Analyze the simulation model, with 50 trials, for Koehler Vision Associates (KVA) with the following assumptions. Assume that the no show rate is uniform, between 10% and 20% of prospective patients fail to show up or cancel their exam at the last minute. A $250 charge is applied as a deposit for the actual procedure. Patients that do not show up are refunded the charged fee less a $25 processing fee. KVA can handle 125 patients per week and is considering overbooking its appointments to reduce the lost revenue associated with cancellations. However, any patient that is overbooked may spread unfavorable comments about the company; thus, the overbooking cost is estimated to be $125. Determine the averages for the net profit  and number overbooked for taking appointments between 130 and 150 patients in increments of 2. What would you recommend?