Briefly discuss the major impact this pandemic will have on Smithfield Custom Furniture’s Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling functions.

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Case Discussion: Smithfield Custom Furniture (Part 4 Conclusion)

This case discussion continues with the Smithfield Furniture Company. (You may desire to briefly review the facts provided to you in Discussions 1—3 to address this week’s discussion.)

It is now April 1, 2020. The 2015 purchase of You Figure it Out was culminated, and the planned integration of their manufacturing and sales, as described in Discussion 3, fully completed.

The company now has 411 stores and 24,000 employees. 344 of the 411 retail outlets all sell the upscale and moderately priced lines; 51 retail outlets (Texas (6), California (13), New York (15), Nevada (4), Florida (9), and North Carolina (4) sell only the You Figure it Out brand. These 51 stores employ 2,000 of the 24,000 workers.

There are 16 stores overseas, Spain (4), France (4), Germany (4), and England (4), that sell all 3 product lines. These stores employ 1,000 workers. Half of these employees work in retail stores. The other half work at various seaports in their countries, receiving furniture and delivering the furniture produced in the US to various stores and customers.

In 2015, Margot Smithfield and the 12-member board of directors purchased You Figure it Out, a moderately profitable 51 store chain of ultra-modern furniture. The furniture and furniture-related accessories of You Figure it Out were all made in China. Still, with the 2015 acquisition, all furniture is manufactured at 1 of the 5 furniture manufacturing plants in the United States. Their retail stores are located in Texas (6), California (13), New York (15), Nevada (4), Florida (9), and North Carolina (4).

Financial Info:

2019 Gross Sales (all product lines) – $1.6 Billion US.
2019 Net Profit – $440 Million
April 30, 2020 (Cash Reserves) – $2.8 Billion
Sixty percent (60%) of sales, gross revenues, and expenses are associated with the upscale product line.
Twenty-five percent (25%) of sales, gross revenues, and expenses are associated with the You Figure it Out product line.
Fifteen percent (15%) of sales, gross revenues, and expenses are associated with overseas outlets.
In other words, for this case activity, all 3 product lines are proportional in terms of revenue and expenses.

The Management Issue: Presently, it is believed that as early as March 2020, the possibility exists for the company to be in the throes of a worldwide rapidly spreading, highly contagious, debilitating, and often fatal viral pandemic. The company must plan for this eventuality to occur.

Your Task for Your Initial Post

Margot Smithfield has requested you, based on the course materials you have studied the past seven weeks related to Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling, to briefly discuss (supported by course materials. in-text citations, and references) the major impact this pandemic will have on Smithfield Custom Furniture’s Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling functions. You can assume a vaccine will be available and distributed worldwide 18 months from the start of the pandemic.

After you have discussed the major impact the pandemic will have on the company’s Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling functions, you must indicate for each of those functions the most significant action the company will need to take to ensure its survival, assuming the pandemic’s effects will last 18 months.

Choose a topic to write a Grant proposal for and then, research the below grant websites to determine if any grants are available. Create a 1-page step-by-step process for how you would go about applying for the Grant once found and chosen.

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Writing a Letter of Intent

Introduction:
Health care managers must ensure they have a solid grasp on grant management concepts, as well as where to search for such funding.

Directions:
Choose a topic to write a Grant proposal for and then, research the below grant websites to determine if any grants are available. Create a 1–page step–by–step process for how you would go about applying for the Grant once found and
chosen.

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search–grants.html
https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/fdo–search/results?activity=form&_new_search=1&wh=5c508&wt=15c3eb91&widget_url=https%253A%252F%252Fcandid.org%252Ffind–funding&organization_name=&organization_location=

Resources:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/grant_basics.htm
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/glossary.htm#F32
http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL28–09a7.pdf
http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/ssh/index.aspx?id=3130#WhatisGrant
http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/training/online/

How will you manage and monitor the programme during the construction stage and comply with NEC4 requirements for programme management. Identify areas where the programme could be improved to arrive at an earlier completion date.

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Construction project management

 

PROGRAMME DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT

Provide a detailed programme in the form of a Gantt chart and supporting methodology that demonstrates how the IST will manage the programme, considering all stages of the contract and sequencing of the works.
The Gantt chart should clearly indicate key tasks during the pre-construction, construction and post-handover stages including critical path, float, time risk allowance, dependent tasks and key milestones.
Please provide details of your methodology for programme management to ensure successful delivery of the works considering the Employer’s programme requirements and constraints particular to this project as outlined in the Works Information.

Your response should include project specific details to demonstrate the following:
• Your ability to plan and deliver the services and works by the Completion Date
• How you will manage and monitor the programme during the pre-construction stage of the project
• How you will manage and monitor the programme during the construction stage and comply with NEC4 requirements for programme management
• How you will implement measures to be taken if the programme is not being achieved during the Pre-Construction and Construction stages
• Identify areas where the programme could be improved to arrive at an earlier completion date.

Analyze a functional conflict and dysfunctional conflict that could exist because of structure.

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Functional and dysfunctional conflict

Topic: Analyze a functional conflict and dysfunctional conflict that could exist because of structure.

Format: Times New Roman, 12 font, 2x line spacing.

Coursebook: Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2018). Organizational Behavior, Global Edition. Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited

What ways can an employee be motivated? How can employees be motivated though recognition and awarding achievement and how it can be used as a motivator?

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Importance of Motivation on Employees Workplace Performance

Write:

A page: On what employee motivation is

A page: Why is motivation of employees useful.

A few pages on:

What ways can an employee be motivated:
How can employees be motivated though recognition and awarding achievement and how it can be used as a motivator.

How can employees be motivated thought incentives and how incentives can be used to motivator.

A page on:
how does motivation reduce turnover and create higher stronger employee satisfaction at work.
A page on:
How can motivation prevent employee burnout and how this can reduce cost in a business.

Analyze the techniques you would use to manage potential risks associated with the project of this magnitude.

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Generator installation Project

Assessment Description (Element 011)

Students are to write a report of not more than 1,500 words or its equivalence for this submission.

PROJECT BRIEF

Generator installation Project

The Highway Agency manages many maintenance facilities throughout the Country to provide repairs and preventative maintenance to motorway and trunk roads. One of these maintenance facilities is located in Essex and requires a new generator. To accomplish the objectives of this project, the Agency is looking to appoint a Project manager to coordinate the works of consultant and contractors to completion of the project as described in this Scope of Work.
The old generator and equipment will have to be removed and disposed of by the contractor. The generator will be replaced with a larger outside, weather proof, natural gas unit. The Highway Agency has specified that the new generator shall be large enough to accommodate 100% of the building electrical loads to back up as much equipment as necessary. The anticipated size of the new generator will be 150 or 200KW. The electric and natural gas service will have to be rerouted to the new generator location.

Work scope
-Old Generator and Equipment Removal: Remove existing indoor generator, 400A transfer switch and all power/control conductors. Remove 4’ x 4’ air intake dampers, generator exhaust ducts and remove or weatherproof wall louvers and exhaust pipe through roof. Repair roof openings. Remove natural gas line into the building.

-New Generator Pad: Design and Construction of a concrete pad for the new generator. This will require geotechnical testing which would include soil borings and a geotechnical report.

-New Generator and Switchgear: including evaluating the existing electrical distribution system and normal power interface and identifying all of the systems to be backed up. Design and installation of the new generator with weatherproof enclosure to provide backup power to 100% of building electrical loads.

-Provide all power and control wiring for the new generator including underground routing to new outdoor generator location. The Consultant will coordinate with the utility company regarding changes to gas service.

-Equipment Tests: The design documents shall include detailed test requirements of the new equipment and systems. The Contractor and a certified testing lab shall perform operational tests of the completed installation to certify their proper operation.

-Spare Parts: A critical spare parts list shall be prepared for all appropriate items and purchased as part of this project. This shall include provisions for the manufacture/ vendor of the equipment to provide critical spare and maintenance parts as part of this project.

Task 1
Due to the importance of this project, the client (Highway Agency) wants to ensure that the project is successful. As a result of this need, you have been assigned to this new project as the ‘Project Manager’. As a Project Manager, you are required to do the following: (i) develop a ‘Risk Log’ for the 5 possible risk that you must closely control throughout the project, explain your assumptions for probabilities and impacts used [10 Marks], (ii) Produce the network diagram for the project (Activities A –I) [20 Marks], (iii) Indicate the critical path [5 Marks], (iv) Indicate the float for each activity [5 Marks] (v) Write a commentary on the likely impact of a 3 week delay in finalizing permit applications, ‘activity C’ [10 Marks] – This is an equivalent submission of 900 words.

Task 2
As an industry leader, Rolls-Royce plans to develop a state-of-the-art turbofan aircraft engines for commercial aviation industry. The project will develop new technologies with the potential for high volume production that are capable of delivering benchmark performance in terms of cost, weight and sustainable use of materials.
Analyze the techniques you would use to manage potential risks associated with the project of this magnitude. [20 Marks – This is an equivalent submission of 300 words].

Task 3
Projects are executed under the constraints of time and cost.
Discuss the processes and techniques that you would use to monitor the budget of a project. [20 Marks – This is an equivalent submission of 300 words].

Presentation of the report (10 Marks)
The correctness of grammar and spellings would be checked. Also, the discussions and assertions should be backed/supported with relevant sources. Finally, Harvard referencing must be properly used throughout. It is important to paraphrase properly to avoid “plagiarism.

Write a short synopsis or summary of all your change recommendations for the people management process. Explain how the various recommendations will work together to create significant improvements to the existing people management processes at your organization.

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Assignment 4: People Management Scorecard

Prepare for this assignment by downloading the Scorecard tool, found in the Assignment Information folder for Week 9 of your course in Blackboard. Save the Scorecard file as a Word document, using your name and following the format shown below:

• LastName_FirstName_JWI520_Scorecard.docx
– e.g. Doe John_ JWI520_Scorecard.docx


Using the organization where you currently work, or an organization with which you are familiar:

• Write your Introduction in the first section of the Scorecard:
– In this section, provide a brief description of your organization, including its products or services, industry sector, location, number of employees, etc. Provide a brief, high–level summary of the organization’s current approach to people management and overall workforce strategy. This section must be no more than 300 words.

 

• Fill out all 7 sections in the Scorecard. Each section covers one component of people management or workforce strategy at your organization.

• For each item, complete all 3 columns:
o Column 1: provide a score of A, B, or C for that area of people management (A = Excellent / B= Satisfactory / C = Poor)
o Column 2: provide a brief rationale that clearly illustrates the reasons for your score
o Column 3: provide an actionable recommendation to improve or maintain performance


• Write your Recommendations Summary in the final section of the Scorecard:
o In this section, write a short synopsis or summary of all your change recommendations for the people management process. Explain how the various recommendations will work together to create significant improvements to the existing people management processes at your organization. This section must be no more than 300 words

Critically review world-class innovations and emerging technologies in Project, Portfolio, and Programme (3P).

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Advanced Project and Logistics Management

1. How Supply Chain disruption could affect the delivery of projects

First of all, and to continue on to the introduction, we should look into the EACH CHAPTER through the lens of four supply chain elements: Integration, Operations, Purchasing, and Distribution, and focus on how these are related with the chapter MAIN IDEA. But before we do that we should cover the MAIN IDEA (as per chapter title) in each chapter.

Also, at the beginning of EACH CHAPTER, we should cover the literature research findings that all of us have come up with.

At the beginning of this chapter, we should present how is the delivery of the projects is affected by supply chain disruptions as viewed by scholars, researchers, and industry experts.

At the same time, we should (as mentioned in the brief) display an understanding of the importance of innovation in Logistics and Project Management, Implement and critically evaluate advancements in Project Management and Logistics – all of this from the perspective of delivery of the project in this chapter.

We should be able to (as per brief) Analyse critically advances in Project and Programme management focusing on value generation including Agile, Lean, and Benefits Management,

Critically review world-class innovations and emerging technologies in Logistics (i.e. Additive Manufacturing, Big data analytics, drones, etc)

Critically review world-class innovations and emerging technologies in Project, Portfolio, and Programme (3P) i.e. Virtual technologies and augmented reality environments, Output driven Project management (Benefits Realisation, Target Value) – all of this from the perspective of delivery of the project in this chapter.

Reflect on yourself as a leader by critically analyzing and evaluating evidence to support your interpretation of what makes a good leader.

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Human Resource Management Leadership Skills

The assessment for this module is a reflective portfolio in the form of an essay of 3500 plus or minus 10% words in length encompassing the work covered during lectures and tutorials. You should select material from throughout the module and should discuss your plans with the module tutor at an early stage to ensure that your focus is appropriate and sufficiently critical. You must use module concepts and texts as a foundation for your work.

Reflect on yourself as a leader by critically analyzing and evaluating evidence to support your interpretation of what makes a good leader. Make recommendations to improve your leadership skills.

The reflective essay requires you to use the ideas, concepts, theories, frameworks and research findings studied to inform your evaluation. The assignment encourages you to take a strategic view of what good leadership entails and an evaluation of your leadership journey and skills.

Describe the theories – you need to discuss the theories and explain their key aspects in your own words. References are key here, as you are using academic sources.

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Case study of business

The Task

Your assessment will take the form of a 3,000 word (you are allowed to go over by 10% making it a maximum of 3,300 words) submission consisting of three parts in total. You should look at 5 cases of businesses that have attracted attention due to some aspect of practice. You should choose the ONE of these that interests you and complete the following.

Part 1-A REPORT

This part is based on the selected company. Please remember there are 5 company case studies available and you need to choose one.

The suggested word count for this part of your assignment is 1200—1400 WORDS without the references. The main materials could be found in weeks 1, 2 and 3.

This part should consist of five main sections:
Ethical issue or issues – you need to identify the ethical issue and explain, using relevant sources.
Role of business in society – you are asked to discuss how the company and the ethical issue identified affected the society.
Five Stakeholders – you need to outline five stakeholders in your case study and discuss how they have been affected by the ethical issue identified.
Examples of good and bad ethics – you are required to find two companies with good and bad ethical practices. Here the use of relevant materials is crucial. You might want to refer to such sources as BBC, Financial Times and other journals.
Recommendations – You need to provide a number of recommendations for the company, which are aligned with above discussion. Remember these are recommendations rather than conclusion.

Please provide a reference list for this part.

 

Part 1-B TWO THEORIES

This part is also based on your selected case study.

The suggested word count for this part is 900-1000 words. The key materials could be found in weeks 3, 4 and 5.

This part should consist of 4 sections:
Describe the theories – you need to discuss the theories and explain their key aspects in your own words. References are key here, as you are using academic sources. Do not copy and paste.
Apply the theories – you need to apply the theories to the case study you have selected.
Critique – you should provide advantages and disadvantages (pros and cons) of theories you have selected.
Recommendations – you are required to provide improvements for the ethical issue/issues identified in Part 1a, based on the two theories.

Provide a reference list for this part.

 

Part 2 Reflective essay

This part requires you to provide a reflective essay on ethical leadership management. This part is NOT related to the case study. This part of the assignment requires you to discuss what makes an ethical leader and how you would, as an ethical manager, manage your business and/or others to a high ethical standard.

The suggested word count should be 850-950 words. The key materials can be found in weeks 6, 8 and 9.

This part should include four sections:
You need to discuss what is an ethical leadership management is in an un/ethical organizational culture.
You need to analyse how to maintain integrity and compliance in an un/ethical business environment.
You need to reflect (hence reflective essay) on your own experience and knowledge. You may wish to provide examples from your own experience.
You need to provide a conclusion.