Discuss how training, informal learning, and knowledge management can contribute to continuous learning and companies’ business strategy. Explain the role of the manager in identifying training needs and supporting training on the job.

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

  • Discuss how training, informal learning, and knowledge management can contribute to continuous learning and companies’ business strategy.
  • Explain the role of the manager in identifying training needs and supporting training on the job.
  • Conduct a needs assessment.
  • Evaluate employees’ readiness for training.
  • Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of presentation, hands-on, and group training methods.
  • Identify the major parts of an effective performance management process.
  • Discuss the three general purposes of performance management.
  • Identify the five criteria for effective performance management systems.
  • Discuss the five approaches to performance management, the specific techniques used in each approach, and the way these approaches compare with the criteria for effective performance management systems.
  • Choose the most effective approach to performance measurement for a given situation.

7.2 Action Required:

Here are  five  behavioral critical thinking questions.

1 How do you go about completing a task without clear information?

2 What is the most difficult work-related decision you’ve had to make?

3 How do you respond to opposing viewpoints?

4 How quickly do you make decisions?

5 Have you ever anticipated a problem before it arose? How did you deal with it?

7.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

Pick two questions of  your choice and answer them in your own words

7.4 Instructions:

  • Answer  the question in test your knowledge section.
  • Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week7:Interactive learning Discussion

 

Learning Outcomes:

  • Explain how employee development contributes to strategies related to employee retention, development of intellectual capital, and business growth.
  • Discuss the steps in the development planning process.
  • Explain the employees’ and company’s responsibilities in planning development.
  • Discuss current trends in using formal education for development.
  • Relate how assessment of personality type, work behaviors, and job performance can be used for employee development.
  • Explain how job experiences can be used for skill development.
  • Develop successful mentoring programs.
  • Describe how to train managers to coach employees.
  • Discuss what companies are doing to melt the glass ceiling.
  • Use the 9-box grid for identifying where employees fit in a succession plan and construct appropriate development plans for them.

8.2 Action Required:

Use the 9-box grid for identifying where employees fit in a succession plan and construct appropriate development plans for them.

8.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

Use the 9-box grid for identifying where employees fit in a succession plan and construct appropriate development plans for them.

8.4 Instructions:

  • Answer  the question in test your knowledge section.
  • Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week8:Interactive learning Discussion

 

Write a reflection on your group work process in creating the team, choosing the tools, working on the tasks and reporting the strategy to the client.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Overview

Suppose your group works as a virtual team in a Saudi company that deals with local and global clients. The company main purpose is to provide digital marketing services and solutions. A task has been given to you by the CEO. The task includes building a connection with a South African brand that wants to open an office in AL Khobar, Eastern Province. The task is considered completed when you propose a strategy to the international company representative and receive their feedback.

Requirements

The group needs to be divided as follows: one team manager, one representative from the international brand, one technical support expert, and one or two general members.

Write a reflection on your group work process in creating the team, choosing the tools, working on the tasks and reporting the strategy to the client.

 

Reflection (due by Week 10) [20 marks]

The reflection should be written after you establish a successful virtual team. The reflection should describe the process of 4 main components of virtual management: team building, tools, procedures, and task management. Please use these guidelines on how to do so:

  1. Virtual Team: (5 marks)

In this section, you need to describe the workings of your virtual team.

  • Name your team.
  • Who are your team members, and what are their roles?
  • What are the personal objectives for each member?
  • What is the collective goal for your team?
  • Refer to the four different stages of team building? Have you experienced these stages (discuss)
  1. Virtual Tool (5 marks)

In this section, you describe the process of choosing a tool for your virtual team.

  • What virtual tool did you use to manage the tasks? (provide pictures)
  • Describe the features this tool has (provide pictures).
  • Why did you choose these tools? What are the other options?
  • Suppose your budget was SAR 10k; how did you use that budget to get the best possible tool?
  • How frequently does the team meet? How long is each meeting? (provide photos of the team meetings at different times)
  • What are the meeting minutes? How have they been used effectively? (provide an example of your team meeting minutes).
  1. Virtual work dynamics (5 marks)
  • How did you create a virtual office?
  • What are the challenges that you faced in your work? (discuss from different roles’ perspectives).
  • How did you utilize vacation time, holiday times?
  • How did you divide the workload?
  • What are the challenges that your team faced in communication? (discuss from different roles’ perspectives).
  1. Reports and presentations (5 marks)
  • Provide an example of a proposed strategy that your team worked on to make the marketing campaign successful for the international company.
  • The report should be 300 words that describe the best practices of doing virtual marketing in Saudi Arabia.

o The report should have an introduction, brief strategy, and conclusion.

  • Include graphs and statistics to support your report.
  • The international company representative in your team should provide his/her feedback on the report (one or two comments)
  • The rest of the team should address those comments.
  • Conclude your reflection.

Useful links:

  • http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparing-to-write-assignments.pdf
  • APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa
  • About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
  • About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

 

 

Explain the supply chain planning and control process. Analyze initiatives to overcome poor coordination in retail supply chains. Evaluate the material flow model in a supply chain.

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

  • Explain the supply chain planning and control process.
  • Analyze initiatives to overcome poor coordination in retail supply chains.
  • Evaluate the material flow model in a supply chain.

8.2 Action Required:

Read the research paper through the following link

  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228438411…

8.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

What is supply chain planning controls?

8.4 Instructions

Answer the question in the test your knowledge section.

 

Develop export procedures and import procedures in the U.S. Discuss supply chain risks and possible mitigations. Analyze which operations SWM would outsource and which operations SWM would directly manage and explain why.

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Supply Chain Question

Strategic Warehouse Management, Inc. (SWM) is a U.S. based warehousing organization in the construction and management of warehouse operations. The CEO’s market development team has determined that there is an opportunity to open a warehouse in Australia that could serve multiple businesses. The CEO plans to open a “non-resident company” (Land and Tax News, 2012). The CEO has also decided that the warehouse can be opened in any city in Australia. Some clients in Australia have also asked SWM to manage the flow of goods from Australia to U.S. locations. The CEO wants to get a preliminary plan developed as soon as possible before going further.

 

The CEO asked you to design a supply chain that includes warehouse operations in any city in Australia. In addition, the CEO has a number of items he’d like to see you cover in the report. He has asked you to:

  • Develop requirements for the warehouse design and to provide an organization structure to manage the warehouse in Australia.
  • Present considerations for Workforce Management
  • Investigate key regulations and other key issues (e.g. labor climate) related to managing a warehouse in Australia as a foreign entity.
  • Develop export procedures and import procedures in the U.S.
  • Discuss supply chain risks and possible mitigations.
  • Analyze which operations SWM would outsource and which operations SWM would directly manage and explain why.
  • Outline the budget line items that would need to be considered (it is not necessary to develop a budget with dollar figures).
  • Determine the metrics you would use to measure success of the warehouse and the total supply chain.

Your report should be an eight to ten page APA style paper (not including the title and reference pages) and submitted to the CEO (your instructor) by the last day of the class. You are required to include at least 6 scholarly sources

 

Identify supply chain aspects from both of your selected organizations like purchasing issues, supplier issues, logistics, information systems, quality, and customer service, and compare them.

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 Supply Chain Management

A supply chain is the sequence of organizations—their facilities, functions, and activities—that are involved in producing and delivering a product or service (Stevenson, 2021). A supply chain involves everything related to the product or service from the beginning to the end, which involves everything from the raw materials to the final customer.

  • Select two Middle Eastern organizations and identify their industry, and their products or services.
  • Identify supply chain aspects from both of your selected organizations like purchasing issues, supplier issues, logistics, information systems, quality, and customer service, and compare them.
  • Explain how Information Technology impacts the Supply Chain Management for both organizations.
  • Finally, based on your results, offer recommendations for improvements for each organization.

 

Complete an individual research paper over three separate assignments.

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Individual Research Paper: Topic Assignment Instructions

 Overview

Complete an individual research paper over three separate assignments.

Instructions

During Module 1: Week 1, review the list of topic options and pick one that is of interest to you.  When submitting your choice, include at least a 50-word explanation of why you want to research that topic.

  1. Recruitment & Retention Methods
  2. Diversity & Inclusion
  3. Managing Benefits for the Intergenerational Workforce
  4. Training Strategies
  5. Unionization in the 21st Century
  6. Workplace Health & Wellness Programs
  7. FMLA, ADA/ADAA and the FLSA
  8. Workplace Harassment
  9. Workplace Safety & Security
  10. Executive Compensation
  11. Succession Planning
  12. HR Information Systems
  13. Factors of Employee Satisfaction
  14. Person-Job Fit/Person-Organization-Fit
  15. Trends in Benefits OR Trends in Compensation

 

Discuss the key attributes within this knowledge area, see page 73 and 74 of the text for this list.

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Project integration management

-Thoroughly discuss the project integration management knowledge area and how it relates to the 5 process groups of a project.
-Discuss the key attributes within this knowledge area, see page 73 and 74 of the text for this list.
-Focus on the criticality of each in this knowledge area to project success, including reasons found within the text and in the additional references you have been asked to solicit from EBSCO or ProQuest.

Organize your paper around these key attributes for project integration management, please.

Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint presentation (supported by Excel and Word as needed), with detailed speaker notes.

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PowerPoint presentation

Apply project management tools and a PM outline type of your choice to structure and plan the project by defining, planning, and controlling. The project will be a continuation of how to improve the process you chose in Weeks 1 and 2.

Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint presentation (supported by Excel and Word as needed), with detailed speaker notes, that includes the following:

  • Project description
  • Project Management Charts (Critical Path, Gant Chart, etc.)
  • Improved Process Flowchart from Week 1
  • Meeting cadence/rhythm and timing
  • Metrics to measure the project’s success
  • Financial and budgetary considerations
  • Description of the project reporting structure

 

Explain the autonomous decision-making process, its advantages and disadvantages. Discuss the Centralized and De-centralized Decision-making Approaches with suitable examples.

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Title: “Modeling Autonomous Decision-Making on Energy and Environmental Management Using Petri-Net: Case Study”.

 Assignment Questions: (Marks 15)

Read the above case study and answer the following Questions:

Question 1: Explain the autonomous decision-making process, its advantages and disadvantages (250-300 words) (3-Marks).

Question 2: Discuss the Centralized and De-centralized Decision-making Approaches with suitable examples (250-300 words). (3-Marks).

Question 3: Explain the various stages of Decision-Making Cycle based on this case study (250-300 words) (3-Marks).

Question 4: Why are the most decisions made on energy and environmental management known as the decisions of community interest. (250-300 words) (3-Marks).

Question 5: What is your learning from this case study and how it is beneficial for you? (250-300 words) (3-Marks).

 

 

 

How is market research value to the small business owner?

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Entrepreneurship and small business

  • How is market research value to the small business owner?
  • don’t copy from any resource, writing by yourself