What job positions does the company need to operate? How many employees are needed to fill these job positions, in the kitchen, in order to complete the menu effectively? Are there any job positions that are needed but not part of the kitchen staff?

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Restaurant Project

Create an Organization Chart for your food service business.

Create and complete an organizational chart based on the concept of your groups Restaurant Project. To successfully complete this part of the assignment the student should presented the information in a chart form, review examples in week 6 for reference, and use the assignment template provided.

The template can be and should be manipulated to represent the student’s company structure.

The student should provide and think about the following:

  • The structure of the company: who is the boss and what the hierarchy of the employees?
  • What job positions does the company need to operate?
  • How many employees are needed to fill these job positions, in the kitchen, in order to complete the menu effectively?
  • Are there any job positions that are needed but not part of the kitchen staff?

Create a job description for the position of Sous Chef in your food service business.

To successfully complete this part of the assignment the student should follow the Job Description Guidelines and Overview for template document, use the assignment template provided, and review the content in week 6

The student should think about the following to complete the job description:

  • What are the main roles of a sous chef?
  • How should the sous chef act in a manager setting?
  • What type of experience should the sous chef have before accepting a position as a sous chef?

 

Choosing one specific social media platform as your focus—YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn—write an interoffice memo in Microsoft Word that touches on how this medium could be used, noting the different visual persuasion delivery methods.

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Communication strategies

Scenario

The company you work for uses numerous mediums to communicate to current clients, potential clients, and vendors, including direct mailings and email. However, you have noticed that the social media presence of your organization is minimal.

Though you’re new to the company, you’ve helped your previous employers produce effective communication strategies to increase clientele. To bring this to light, you decide to write a memo to your boss that provides a list of ways to create a more prominent social media presence targeting potential clients.

Instructions

For this project, you can pick what kind of products and/or services the company sells, as well as their primary target audience. This is important because you’ll need to decide which social media platform will be the most appropriate for that situation.

Choosing one specific social media platform as your focus—YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn—write an interoffice memo in Microsoft Word that touches on how this medium could be used, noting the different visual persuasion delivery methods. The memo should include the following:

  • How this medium could be used, and the motivations behind the medium.
  • How this medium differs from the others (direct mail and email).
  • Why your chosen social media platform should be used to leverage potential clients.
  • Briefly mention what products and/or services the company sells.
  • Explain the pros and cons of your chosen platform.
  • What visual techniques could help influence and persuade potential clients to choose your organization.

Write a memo using Microsoft Word. Your final memo should be 2–3 pages in length.

 

Using Microsoft Excel with the Solver application, determine the optimal levels of the seven products. Open the worksheet in Excel, create formulas as necessary, and use the Solver to determine the optimal levels for each product.

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Solver application

Using Microsoft Excel with the Solver application, determine the optimal levels of the seven products.

Open the worksheet in Excel, create formulas as necessary, and use the Solver to determine the optimal levels for each product.

 

As an HR manager, you are tasked with increasing the employee awareness and appreciation of the provided mandatory benefits and optional benefits. How would you accomplish this?

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Employee Benefits

Steps:
1. Employee benefits on average cost more than 30% of the employee compensation spending in companies – in other words, for every dollar spent on employees, more than thirty cents is spent on benefits. Many employees do not realize the cost to the employers of the benefits provided to employees.

2. Which benefits, beyond the mandatory ones, would you suggest for the optional benefits? These may include such benefits as retirement plans, various forms of insurance, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid sick days, sabbaticals, child care, elder care, wellness programs including gym membership, tuition reimbursement, moving expenses, and employee discounts.

3. As an HR manager, you are tasked with increasing the employee awareness and appreciation of the provided mandatory benefits and optional benefits. How would you accomplish this? Be specific.

4. Your original post is worth 30 points and is due Tuesday, November 8. Please respond to at least one of your classmate’s post.

What types of incentives would you choose for an employee in this position? Why? Would these incentives be based on the individual’s performance, a group’s performance, the organization’s performance, or a mix of these performance results?

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Decisions Concerning Pay and Incentives

Steps:
1. Use the position that you selected for your Selection Process Project to complete this discussion forum on pay and incentives.

2. Use sites such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://www.bls.gov) – this site is a valuable resource. For instance, you can look up “Wages by Area and Occupation” in the Pay and Benefits section. There are other research sites to investigate if you so desire.

3. You will research your selected position to answer the following questions:
-Identify the position and remind us why you selected it.
-List the mean (average) hourly wage and mean annual wage for this position in California.
-List the top paying state in the US for this position.
-List the metropolitan area in this country with the highest employment level in this occupation.

4. Answer why an organization might choose to pay more or less than the market rate for this position and the consequences of an organization paying more or less than the market rate.

5. What types of incentives would you choose for an employee in this position? Why? Be specific.

6. Would these incentives be based on the individual’s performance, a group’s performance, the organization’s performance, or a mix of these performance results?

7. Your original post is worth 30 points and is due Tuesday, November 8.

Draw the task relationships diagram, and identify earliest start/finish times, as well as latest start/finish times, slack, and critical path. Draw the Gantt chart and identify the critical path and slacks with different colors.

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A project is broken down into 8 tasks­–A to H–with given duration times and predecessors.

Task Duration Predecessor
A 3
B 4
C 4 A, B
D 5 A
E 2 A, B
F 8 C, D
G 4 D, E
H 3 F, G

 

  • Draw the task relationships diagram, and identify earliest start/finish times, as well as latest start/finish times, slack, and critical path. (60 points)
  • Draw the Gantt chart and identify the critical path and slacks with different colors. (40 points)

 

What general factors may have contributed to an organization or business implementing this practice? What are some potential negative repercussions of the practice on employees, the local community, or the business or organization?

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Cultural Comparisons and the Triple Bottom Line

DISCUSSION

CREATE A THREE SUBSTANTIALS PARAGRAPHS RESPONSES TO EACH PEER, AND ADD IN-TEXT CITATIONS AND REFERENCES.

In this module, you have learned about the ways organizations support their people, whether it be within the workplace or the local community. In this discussion, you will evaluate business practices that are not considerate of employees and communities, brainstorm reasons why the practices may have been established, and consider how they can be improved.

For your initial post, select one of the following practices to evaluate:

  • Employee pay is low.
  • Employee training is limited.
  • Employee benefits are minimal; there is little paid time off or sick time available.
  • The workplace culture is described by employees as stressful, competitive, or alienating.
  • A business doesn’t give back to the local community in any way.
  • A business outsources many of its suppliers even though many local suppliers are available.

In your initial post, evaluate your selected practice by addressing the following questions:

  • What general factors may have contributed to an organization or business implementing this practice?
  • What are some potential negative repercussions of the practice on employees, the local community, or the business or organization?
  • What benefits might employees, the local community, or the business or organization experience if a more people-friendly practice was incorporated?

In your replies to at least two peers, address the following questions:

  • What specific initiative, practice, or change to your peer’s evaluated practice could improve the community or employee support?
  • What are the benefits and risks of implementing your suggested initiative, practice, or change?
  • If you were the primary decision-maker, would you implement your suggested initiative, practice, or change? In other words, do you feel the benefits outweigh the risks? Why or why not?

 

Evaluate the website design focusing on the eight most important factors in successful ecommerce site design. Discuss possible suggestions to improve the site design.

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POWERPOINT

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Requirement:

This is a continuous activity for part A, keep working on the same website you have chosen in part A. In this part you are required to evaluate one of the websites below based on what you learn from this course and your perspective. The evaluation will cover the different aspects of ECommerce such as business idea, website design, marketing, security … etc.

You will need to analyze the business and provide suggestions to improve the current business situation.

The following questions require critical thinking to be answered successfully. The answers to these questions will drive the ways of improvement of the current e-commerce business.

⦁ Site Design 3 marks

⦁ Evaluate the website design focusing on the eight most important factors in successful ecommerce site design (ease of use, ease of purchase, simple graphics … etc.). You are required to evaluate each factor. (Refer to Chapter 3 – Page 212 in the book and/or Slide 43).

o Discuss possible suggestions to improve the site design.

⦁ Business software 2 marks

The development of an e-commerce website requires more interactive functionalities, such as the ability to respond to user input (name and address forms), capturing customer orders for goods and services, clearing credit card transactions on the fly, consolidating price and product databases, and even adjusting advertising on the screen based on user characteristics.

⦁ Explain the different types of software used on the website to perform the current functionalities.

  • What can be done to improve the software?

⦁ Payment and Security 3 marks

⦁ What are the methods of payment available in the online store?

(See the book: page 295-296)

o What other methods can be added? Explain why?

⦁ What are the technologies used on the website to secure the online transactions?

⦁ o What other technologies can be added? Explain why?

⦁ What is the current privacy policy of the online store? Outline how the information is collected and used? o What can be added to the privacy policy? Explain why?

⦁ Categorize marketing and advertising strategy and method. 2 marks

⦁ Explain the current online, offline, and social media marketing strategies of the e-commerce business? Provide photos or screenshots of your business marketing activities.

  • What can be done to improve the marketing aspects of the business?

⦁ Know your competitors. 3 marks

⦁ Choose a website of one competitor in the same industry (locally or globally) and compare it with your chosen company’s site. Indicate why the competitor’s website is better or worse than the chosen company’s website. Provide one competitor SWOT analysis with screenshots of their website activities.

o What can be done by learning from your competitor’s experience?

⦁ Conclude your report. 2 marks

Summarize the above points and include your recommendation to improve the e-commerce business.

 

Think of a specific topic and two specific kinds of audiences. Then write a short example (150–200 words) of how this topic might be presented to each of the two audiences. How does the intended audience influence the choice of words and use of language in a document?

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D2:L4 – Audience and Choice of Words

Instructions

  1. Think of a specific topic and two specific kinds of audiences.
  2. Then write a short example (150–200 words) of how this topic might be presented to each of the two audiences.
  3. How does the intended audience influence the choice of words and use of language in a document?

Share an example with your colleagues, about an organization you know about or one you have worked for where the analytical side and the creative side of digital marketing added value to the organization?

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Discussion

It is sometimes said, there are two kinds of marketers: analysts and artists–and both are needed for successful marketing organizations. Digital marketing analytics requires analytical thinkers who also understand the more subjective and creative aspects of marketing.
How might you demonstrate your analytical side and your creative side of digital marketing? Use specific examples from the course resources, your own research and experiences.
Share an example with your colleagues, about an organization you know about or one you have worked for where the analytical side and the creative side of digital marketing added value to the organization?

Sources:

  • https://www.adroll.com/blog/digital-marketing-analytics
  • https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/small-business/marketing-automation/articles/digital-marketing-analytics/