In addition to increased costs of wages and benefits for union employees, what are additional increased costs the organization may expect to incur due to unionization? Provide at least 3 examples.

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Union Representation Memo

As a HR manager, your employees conducted a campaign for unionization and your organization is now subject to union representation and a negotiated CBA is in place. You are tasked to write a memorandum to management n supervisors advising them of new expectations for management in the now unionized environment. Memo must address the following:

1. what are major differences, from organization’s perspective, in operating in a union-free environment vs a unionized environment? Discuss at least 3 changes for management in a union environment.

2. In the new unionized workplace, discuss at least 2 NLRA legal rights or prohibitions of Management, Employees, and Union Representative.

3. What’s the potential impact of unionization on the following administrative function? Discuss this in terms of how the new CBA potentially impacts each of the following management/supervisory functions:
– Performance Management/Evaluation of Employees
– Employee Discipline
– Job Security
– Wages and Benefits
– Health and Safety

4. In addition to increased costs of wages and benefits for union employees, what are additional increased costs the organization may expect to incur due to unionization? Provide at least 3 examples.

What are the operations performance objectives of the organisation? Is the operations strategy of the organisation aligned with these objectives? Is the operations strategy sustainable?

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MG104 2022/23 Final Assessment

An airline* has approached you and commissioned a report covering analysis of their operations and advice for the operational issues they are facing. You have agreed to provide them with a report satisfying the following conditions:

  • complying with the “Final Assessment Submission Rules”;
  • submitted no later than midday (12pm UK time) on Thursday 4 th May 2023
  • subject to a limit of 2,500 words; and
  • addressing the below areas and requirements.

I. An analysis of the four areas of operations management
You are required to collect secondary data relating to the organisation’s operations and provide an analysis of the areas (1) – (4) below. Secondary data can include information from sources such as annual report and financial statements, newspaper articles, academic readings, industry reports or any other resources relating to the organisation that you can find online or through the LSE Library. In addition to secondary data sources, you can use primary data sources (e.g., an interview or observations from a site visit) to support your arguments. However, you cannot rely solely on primary data sources for your analysis. Use of primary data sources is entirely optional. You will not necessarily get any extra credit for this. Your submissions will be judged at their own merit for the quality of the analysis and argumentation.

The organisation has provided some sample questions for each of these four areas. These questions are given to you as a guide, and you do not necessarily have to address them all. You can determine the key aspects that are critical to the organisation’s operations after your data collection and research, and focus your analysis on these key aspects within each of the four areas. Make sure you support your analysis for each of these four areas with evidence from the data you have collected and from relevant MG104 course materials.

(1) (10 marks) Operations strategy. e.g., What are the operations performance objectives of the organisation? Is the operations strategy of the organisation aligned with these objectives? Is the operations strategy sustainable?

(2) (10 marks) Operational processes. e.g., What are the key processes for the organisation’s operations? To what extent are these processes standardised? Is the design of processes aligned with the organisation’s operations strategy?

(3) (10 marks) Supply chains. e.g., What is the supply chain for this organisation? How is the supply chain organised and managed? What choices does this organisation make about managing their inventory?

(4) (10 marks) Operational improvements. e.g., Does the organisation implement any lean operations practices? Which design quality dimensions does this organisation focus on? How do they monitor and control quality?

II. Recommendations
(10 marks) Based on your analysis of the four areas of operations management, what are the TWO key operational issues (any inefficiencies or risks) for this organisation, and why?
* You can pick any airline that operates locally, nationally (in a country of your own choice) or internationally. It is part of the assignment and therefore for you to decide which airline you would like to analyse for your final assessment.

(40 marks) Make TWO recommendations for improvement to the organisation’s management, one for each of the key operational issues you have identified above. Explain the rationale for your recommendations. Your answers should be supported with evidence from your analysis and from relevant MG104 course materials.

(10 marks) Report Structure and Presentation

Further guidance for writing the report
The organisation has asked you to make sure that the following criteria are satisfied by the report:
• Briefly explain your method, i.e., make sure your report addresses why you chose to apply a specific operations management framework, model, or theory.
• Briefly explain your results, i.e., make sure your report covers what your results mean for the organisation you are advising.
• Make clear recommendations, i.e., make sure you clearly explain the aspects of their operations you suggest they should review, and why they should do this. You should also comment on what changes they should make in practice.
• Support the arguments and recommendations you make with evidence where relevant and applicable; and make sure you provide references to any data about the organisation you have identified as part of your own research, and any readings, models, theories, techniques, frameworks, or other materials from MG104.

When doing this:
(a) Always remember to critically assess the reliability of these resources;
(b) Ensure you comply with plagiarism regulations of LSE; and
(c) Ensure they are properly referenced at the end of your report.

Talk about a Health Disparity Uninsured/underinsured population in US. Write up about the problem in healthcare system with matrics, possible causes for it, any act or policy working for it and result , solutions to combat it in US.

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Healthcare Delivery

Talk about a Health Disparity Uninsured/underinsured population in US. Write up about the problem in healthcare system with matrics, possible causes for it, any act or policy working for it and result , solutions to combat it in US. Describe it in at least 3 pages with APA format and give 3 references.

How will you get feedback on your changed behavior? How will you know if you have succeeded in changing your behavior? When will you reward yourself? How will you reward yourself?

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Human Relations Plan

For this assignment, you will make a human relations plan. In order to improve human relations, a change in behavior is required. Create a human relations plan using the following steps:

Step 1. Assess your abilities and Skills
Select the one human relations area you need to improve on the most.

Step 2. Develop New Skills
What will help you to develop these skills and improve by using the behavior of developing new habits.

Step 3. Change your behavior
How will you get feedback on your changed behavior? How will you know if you have succeeded in changing your behavior? When will you reward yourself? How will you reward yourself?

Step 4. Get feedback and Reward Yourself
How will you get feedback on your changed behavior? How will you know if you have succeeded in changing your behavior? When will you reward yourself? How will you reward yourself?

Additional plans:
If you feel you can handle working on more than one change in human relations, follow the changing behavior steps and develop another plan. However, don’t try to make too many changes too quickly.

What did your analysis reveal? Did you find that you improved simply because you began to measure these “defects”? How did you feel about discussing your “defects” with others? How might such a process help in a work environment?

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OPM 370: Quality Management

Assignment

Instructions
• See general instructions on the course syllabus and on the course website.
• The assignment should be typed and submitted online on time. Late assignments won’t be considered.
• The assignment must be completed individually. Provide your answers neatly and professionally.
• The assignment must have a title page identifying student name, student id, and the course code.
• Plagiarism will be sanctioned with a grade of zero and disciplinary measures.

Develop your own “personal quality checklist” that you would like to achieve each day and analyze the results over an extended period of time (3 weeks, 21 days). The idea is inspired from the 21-90 rule that states that it takes 21 days to create a habit (Maxwell Maltz 1960) and 90 days to make it part of your lifestyle. After you complete the 90 days, the habit will be as much a part of your daily lifestyle as brushing your teeth.

The listing of possible checklist standards might include but they are not limited to:
• Reduce screen time by 50%, for instance, or to 90 minutes per day
• Avoid gossiping
• Avoid complaining
• Pray five prayers on time
• Do not delay Alfajr Prayer
• Review class notes after each class
• No text messaging during classes
• Limit phone calls to ten minutes
• No more than 1 hour per day spent on social networking websites
• No more than X hours of TV per week
• Update schedule daily on PDA or computer calendar
• Get up promptly-no snooze alarm
• Ensure that team members are informed on project progress, each day or each week
• Complete all reading assignments as due
• Inform professor of essential absences via e–mail, text, or phone message at least 24 hours in advance
• Work in library (or other quiet place) to avoid interruptions
• No more than one “junk food” snack per day
• Exercise in gym for at least one hour, twice per week
• Turn off cell phone during classes
• Prepare or buy, and eat, breakfast every day
• Eat 5 vegetables and fruits every day
• Be the reason someone smiles every day
• Ensure 20 minutes of me–time every day (walking, meditation, reading, yoga, shopping, cooking, etc)

Select/develop around ten items for personal tracking. Students are not required to use only items from this list. Whatever is meaningful to you may be tracked. Failure to adhere to these standards is considered a “defect”. After you have gathered data for three weeks, review the data for the purposes of analysis and improvement. Use charts to plot and analyze weekly results. Use the following guidelines.

• Each participant should initiate a personal quality improvement project and maintain and improve it during the rest of the study period.

• Consistent effort, rather than elegant precision in pursuing the project will be rewarded; that is, individual benefit, rather than “a grade,” or perfection, is to be the major objective.

• After a week’s data are gathered, plot a simple graph to determine the level of “defects” encountered.

• A suggested practice is that you share your personal checklist items and goals with your instructor, a colleague, spouse, or friend. Have that person ask you about your progress every week or so. If you are making regular progress, you should be happy to discuss it, and to show your charts and graphs. Even if your progress is uneven, you should be able to show that you’ve improved on one or two items, which is progress. Don’t be too self– critical!

• An intermediate progress report should be built into the process around the middle of the pilot study period (for your evaluation). The final report on the pilot project should be made at the end of the study period and submitted online. Consideration should be given to making personal quality a permanent part of your personal planning and improvement process.

TASK: After completing the project, answer these questions:
a. What did your analysis reveal?
b. Did you find that you improved simply because you began to measure these “defects”?
c. How did you feel about discussing your “defects” with others?
d. How might such a process help in a work environment?

Describe your Industry: Is it a growth industry? What long-term or short-term changes do you foresee in the industry? How will your company take advantage of it?

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MGT402-Entrepreneurship and small business

An entrepreneur Start-up

Business Plan

A business plan is any simple plan, not only limited to the business start-up plan that helps the management to understand the current situation of the enterprises (strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats) and look forward into the future. A start-up plan is a business plan which consists of the mission, vision, objectives and action plans for the future of the new enterprises while the business plan drawn during the operation of the firm is vital for running the firm effectively, acquire new customers, partners, loans and so on. According to Fiore (2005), a business plan involves two dimensions; an organizing tool to simplify and clarify your business goals and strategy, the second one is a selling document that sells the business idea and shows that a product or a service can make a profit and attract funding and company resources.

Imagine you started a new business as an entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia. Briefly mention the specific steps which you consider necessary to a successful business plan.

Think and share information on the following items:

1. Owners, capital structure and company profile (3 Marks)

  • a. Your Business Name, Address, E‐Mail
  • b. Form of ownership: What is the legal structure? Sole proprietor, Partnership, Corporation….
  • C. Investment capital

2. Company Business Description (300 – 400 words)

A. Scope and type of business (5 Marks)

What business will you be in? What will you do? What market segment will you choose?

  • Business idea: what is your big idea? Is it a product or a service? What makes your idea different?
  • Mission Statement
  • Company’s short-term and long-term goals and objectives.
  • Target market and demographics: Who will your customers be? Where do they live? What is your target market passionate about?

B. Business Philosophy (4 Marks)

What is important to you in your business?

  • Describe your Industry: Is it a growth industry? What long-term or short-term changes do you foresee in the industry? How will your company take advantage of it?
  • Describe your most important company strengths and core competencies: What factors will make the company succeed? What do you think your major competitive strengths will be? What background experience, skills, and strengths do you personally bring to this new venture?
  • Risk Assessment: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your business using SWOT.
  • Who is your competition and how do you beat them?

3. Products and Services (3 Marks)

  • a. Briefly discuss your products or services (Technical specification).
  • b. Size of business: how many employees? How many offices and retail facilities?
  • c. What factors will give you competitive advantages or disadvantages? Examples, include level of quality or unique or proprietary features.

Note: Use APA style of referencing

According to the author what is Problem Solver Profiles (PSPs). How the five different decision-making archetypes help you in improving decision-making and problem-solving skills? Explain in relation with the text you learnt in the course.

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Decision Making and Problem Solving

Assignment Question(s):(Marks 15)

Part-I

Read the article titled as “What Are Your Decision-Making Strengths and Blind Spots?” by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn published in Harvard Business Review, and answer the following Questions:

  1. Summarize the article and explain the main issues discussed in the article. (In 500-600 words) (Marks 5)
  2. According to the author what is Problem Solver Profiles (PSPs). How the five different decision-making archetypes help you in improving decision-making and problem-solving skills? Explain in relation with the text you learnt in the course. Use additional reference to support your argument. (In 400-500 words) (Marks 5)

 

Part-II- Critical Thinking Question

  1. “Problem-solving is a daily task in any business. But what to do when significant problems keep coming back? Think about the last major problem you encountered. Did you take the time to discover the actual underlying cause or did you implement a quick fix that dealt with the symptoms? Discuss in detail the about the root cause analysis. (Words 400-500) (Marks 5)

Discuss different types of strategies for competitive advantages (2), and then select and discuss the most appropriate strategies to improve the performance of the organization (2).

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ASSIGNMENT

Project Report Structure: Part 1

Submission: week 7 Thursday 04/05/2023                                                   

Marks: 17 Marks

  1. Cover Page (1 Mark).

This must contain topic title (0.25), student names and Students ID (0.5), section number and course name (0.25).

(You can find the cover page in the blackboard)

  1. Table of Contents (0.5 Mark).

Make sure the table of contents contains and corresponds to the headings in the text, figures, and tables.

  1. Executive Summary (2.5 Marks).

What does the assignment about (1), The name and field of the chosen company (0.5), and briefly explain the distinct features (1).

  1. Organizational Profile (3 Marks).                               

Brief background of the business including organization details (1), purpose (1), and organizational structure (1).

  1. Strategies (4 Marks).

Discuss different types of strategies for competitive advantages (2), and then select and discuss the most appropriate strategies to improve the performance of the organization (2).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and its related to your selected organization)

  1. Technology Involved (3 Marks).                         

How is the organization set up in terms of its IT infrastructure? Discuss the hardware (0.5), software (0.5), telecommunication (0.5), information security (0.5), networks (0.5), and other elements (0,5).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course, and it’s related to your selected organization)

  1. Data Management (2 Marks).

Discuss the methods the organization uses to manage and process data (1), and then give one advantage and one disadvantage of these methods (1).

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course (chapter 3) and link it to your selected organization)

  1. Identify the Stakeholders (1 Mark)

Who are the main individuals, groups, or departments affected by the information system?

(You can choose any stakeholder who has a major influence on the IS or vice versa. You can choose 1 stakeholder to discuss)

 

 

Project Report Structure: Part 2

Submission: End of week 12 Saturday 10/06/2023                                                  

Marks: 13 Marks

  1. Analysis of Existing System (5 Marks).

Analyze the key problems of the existing system used by the company (2). Also, discuss the Information Systems used within the company (3) for example:

  • Transaction processing systems (TPS)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
  • Functional Area Information Systems
  • Business intelligence
  • DSS

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and it’s related to your selected organization)

  1. System Evaluation (2 Marks).

Evaluate the current system that the company use (your chosen company) with one of the following options (1):

  • Success
  • Partial failure/partial success
  • Total failure

Then, State the reasons for your choice (1)

  1. Suggestions for the company (3 Marks)

Design or choose a system to help the company solve its main problems. State the following:

  • The new system name (1)
  • Its features (1)
  • Problems that will be solved (1)

(If the system that the company uses is successful and does not need to be changed, you can mention that (1), mention its features (1), and mention the problems that it solved or prevented from happening (1).)

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and it’s related to your selected organization)

  1. Conclusion (2 Marks).

 Summarize your report (including part 1)

  1. References (1 Mark).

 Use APA referencing style format

 

Project Presentation: Part 3

Submission: Instructors will manage the date and time for presentation during week 13                                                

Marks: 10 Marks

Make a power-point presentation of your Project work mentioning all the above contents and present in a group (All team members must participate ((1).  There must be minimum 10 slides in the presentation with a good background design (0.5), readable font size and style with an appropriate color (0.5).

Presentation must have the following format:

  • First slide: Group members name and Student id & Title of the Project (1)
  • Company Profile (1)
  • Strategies (1)
  • Technology Involved and Data Management (1)
  • Analysis of Existing System (1)
  • Evaluation and suggestions (1)
  • Conclusion (1)
  • References (1)

What struck you in particular as you explored the course materials this week? What insights have you had? What has caused you to struggle or feel confused?

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Week 2 Discussion 2

This discussion forum is an opportunity for you to explore topics that interest you, share critical insights and questions that have come to mind, share your struggles and triumphs, and discuss difficulties that may have arisen this week, hopefully finding solutions. Your initial post should describe your experiences in the course until now in a way that can prompt further discussion. You are required to post at least 150–250 words total in this forum this week. You can post once or 10 times, but the only requirements are that you post at least 150 words total and that you engage in positive, professional, and supportive conversation related to course content. You should address at least two of the following questions:

  • What struck you in particular as you explored the course materials this week?
  • What insights have you had?
  • What has caused you to struggle or feel confused?
  • What questions have come up for you at this point?
  • Do you have any helpful tips that you’ve picked up in this course or in a past course as a doctoral student?
  • Do you have questions about the assignments, discussions, or tasks that your classmates might be able to address? (Note: If you have a question for the instructor, be sure to contact your instructor through email.)

Explain what the Internet of Things (IoT) is and provide a brief history, in your own words, of the IoT. Discuss the potential impact that IoT can have on how people live.

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ECOM500 – Critical Thinking – M5

Collaborative Technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming increasingly popular in both business and everyday life.

  • Explain what the Internet of Things (IoT) is and provide a brief history, in your own words, of the IoT.
  • Discuss the potential impact that IoT can have on how people live.
  • Select a company and explain how the organization has benefited from the IoT. Detail specific examples of how the company benefited.
  • How has the IoT been impacted by the pandemic? Explain specific examples.

Your well-written report should be 4-5 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. To make it easier to read and therefore grade, make sure you clearly delineate each section of your answer so it can be matched with the relevant question. Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines, citing at least two references as appropriate. Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.