Discuss key resources, particularly any assessment tools that you have identified as valuable for your term project. What initial questions did you develop to determine what assessment tool(s) would be useful for the scope of work in your project?

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Week’s journal assignment

For this week’s journal assignment, you are expected to discuss key resources, particularly any assessment tools that you have identified as valuable for your term project. What initial questions did you develop to determine what assessment tool(s) would be useful for the scope of work in your project? What do you anticipate will be challenging about utilizing the specific tool(s) or resources. If you are deciding between a few particular resources, utilize this as an opportunity to discuss pros and cons.

  • Journal submissions should be between 350-500 words.
  • Writing in the first person is most appropriate for journal submissions and you are not required to include references.

As part of your exploration of the various assessment tools used by coaches and consultants, you are encouraged to share some additional resources with which you are familiar or curious about within the discussion forum. What do you find most fascinating about the assessment tool you shared and what do we know about its advantages and limitations?

Create a business memo and emails in your reading area. Apply what you learned by choosing a scenario from the options below and posting a business memo

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Creating a Business Memo

Instructions: You read about how to create a business memo and emails in your reading area. Now you will apply what you learned by choosing a scenario from the options below and posting a business memo containing a minimum of 250 words in the Assignments tab textbox. Be sure to include Date, To, From, and Subject items as illustrated in the unit reading area.

Scenarios: Choose a scenario and create your business memo:

  1. You have found a defect in a product you recently bought (your choice for the product). Now you are requesting a refund.
  2. You are writing a request to an employer to consider your resume and audio-visual presentation for a job (do some research on a job for this scenario).
  3. You are writing to a recruiter to consider your credentials for a particular position you saw online (do some research on a job for this scenario).
  4. You are writing to the team of volunteers helping you as volunteer supervisor at the “Clean the Beach” or “Clean the Neighborhood” day. You are informing them where and when to meet and how you will go about the cleanup of trash etc.

 

What action that anyone took related to the course that you find most affirming or helpful? What action that anyone took related to the course did you find most puzzling or confusing?

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End of Course Retrospective

Assignment:

Course: PROJECT DELIVERY APPLICATIONS

Now that we have reached the end of the course, it is time to reflect on our experiences (a/k/a lessons learned). Reflect on your learning and experience related to this course, then draft and post a response to the questions below.

  • At what moment in the course did you feel most engaged with what was happening?
  • At what moment in the course were you most distanced from what was happening?
  • What action that anyone (teacher, student, colleague, etc.) took related to the course that you find most affirming or helpful?
  • What action that anyone took related to the course did you find most puzzling or confusing?
  • What about this course surprised you the most? (This could be about your own reaction to what went on, something that someone did, or anything else that occurs.)
  • What did you do as a result of this class to enhance your own learning?
  • In the spirit of best practices, continuous improvement, and lessons learned, what changes to the course would you recommend?

 

Identify the revenues and costs that would be impacted by this outsourcing decision using ratio analysis. Use your best estimate on these revenue/cost values since the actual amounts are most likely not known to the public.

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Unit VIII Project

(a Weight: 9% of course grade EE Grading Rubric O Due: Tuesday, 11/29/2022 11:59 PM (CST)
Instructions Use your favorite search engine to locate an article about a company that has decided to outsource a part of its business operations. If you currently work for an organization that outsources or is thinking about outsourcing, you can use that instead.

Respond to the following four (4) prompts based on your knowledge from this unit’s material and the article you found.
1. State the name of the company you chose and your information source (link, employer, and so on). Describe the type of company it is, and explain which area it is planning to outsource or is already outsourcing.

2. Why did the company consider outsourcing in the first place? Explain in terms of the company’s sustainable income and the quality of its earnings.

3. Identify the revenues and costs that would be impacted by this outsourcing decision using ratio analysis. Use your best estimate on these revenue/cost values since the actual amounts are most likely not known to the public.

4. Identify the factors, based on horizonal analysis and vertical analysis, that could impact the company’s decision to outsource this business operation. Make your own assumptions and estimates regarding these factors.

Your project should consist of at least two pages, not counting a title page (if included). APA Style will not be required for this assignment.
Resources The following resource(s) may help you with this assignment.

Working together with your team, create a simple charter to complete the research and team presentation on distractions and how to avoid them.

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Directions: Working together with your team, create a simple charter to complete the research and team presentation on distractions and how to avoid them. All team members should contribute their ideas and work in collaboration to develop the team assignment.  Have your discussions in the class discussion areas for your team and upload your draft work and ideas there.

Team Number: Date:  
Member Name E-Mail Contact #, call no later than e.g.  8 p.m. EST
1.Keisha Cole    
2.Andrea    
3.Levelle    
4.Christopher    
5.    

 

Articulate an Initial Team Vision Statement:
Create a short team vision that summarizes what the team needs to accomplish and describes how it will interact in order to accomplish its mission. This should be a simple sentence or two.
Ground Rules to Communicate:
Come to agreement on how and when you will communicate. Be detailed. You’ll want to include things like expectations for response times, whether responses should be in the same format as prior contact (e.g. an email response to an email, a text response to a text message), whether individual side conversations are acceptable, etc.

 

Conflict Management:
Explain how the team will deal with conflict. What steps will you take to manage internal team conflict? What is the escalation process you’ll follow? Be detailed. This would benefit from a step-by-step process.

 

  • The next part of the plan will divvy up the research, slide development, and editing for clarity and accuracy. Remember to include every step of the process for idea development through submission. Be sure to consider your timeline (for example, the team members submitting research need to be done before the one who is responsible for submitting the final project). Depending on the task, some team members may have more than one responsibility.
Name Assigned Work Date Draft Posted to Team Area
1.Keisha    
2.Andrea    
3.Levelle    
4.Christopher    
5.    

 

Acknowledgment of Agreement
 

We actively participated in the development of this project plan and agree to abide by it. Each team member must type in their own name.
Member Signatures: Date:

 

 

Write the paper as if you were employed at a Fortune 500 company, a current organization that is in the news, or a past or present employer.

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Performance Appraisal System Final

Write the paper as if you were employed at a Fortune 500 company, a current organization that is in the news, or a past or present employer. Previous submission attached.
Write a well-researched paper, approximately 6-8 pages and double-spaced (not counting a title page, table of contents, references, or appendices).

The paper must contain the following elements:
a. Title Page (or letter of transmittal if a memorandum format is used)
b. Table of Contents (unless a memorandum format is used).
c. Introduction
d. Problem Statement (5-8 sentence paragraph that clearly defines the problem and why it needs to be researched).
e. Review of current practices (background of literature) in area
f. Strategic plan for change or creation of the anticipated change (use examples of where this approach has been successful in other organizations if pertinent).
g. Strategic approach for implementation of the change(s)
h. Final recommendations and possible outcomes (best and worst case scenarios)
i. Summary/Conclusions
j. References section
k. Appendix (if tables or charts or necessary)

Prepare a site inspection for the meeting planner for this event to conduct upon arrival at the event site. Describe how you will evaluate the event. Prepare a narrated power point presentation on the highlights of your project.

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Convention and Event Sales and Planning

Semester Project

 You are tasked with  preparing all aspects of an upcoming event. You will be  coordinating all aspects of the Annual Convention for the Meeting Planners Association.

Event details:

This is a 2-day event happening on May 9th and 10th, 2023.
200 guests are anticipated
All guests will require overnight accommodations
Guests will arrive at 10am on day 1
All guests will be invited to attend exhibits upon arrival.
A buffet lunch will be served to the attendees at 1:00.
The afternoon will consist of a group meeting followed by breakout sessions of approximately 25 people each.
That evening they will have a cocktail reception (open bar) with heavy hors d’oeuvres, a food station (pasta, carving, etc.) and a dessert / coffee table.
They will have a continental breakfast available the next morning, followed by check out at 11am.

Your project is to prepare the following:

  1.  Select a location (hotel) for this event.
  2. Prepare a welcome letter / schedule for guests to receive when they arrive at the hotel.  The welcome letter is from you, the event planner, to all the attendees.

(Schedule should include times and locations for all events)

  1. Prepare a site inspection for the meeting planner for this event to conduct upon arrival at the event site. (How will you know if everything is ready for your group to arrive and your event to be successful?)
  2. Coordinate room arrangements for this group (be sure to list room type and pricing)
  3. Develop a priced menu for all food service needs for your group – be sure to order enough food for the group!  This list of food needs to be specific from the hotel’s catering menu, not their restaurant menu! Be sure to break the food down for each event with pricing for each event
  4. A cost detail for this event that lists all costs and a total cost for this event. You should have a total cost for this event and break it down to a per person cost  for this event.  Remember, this is an association, so cost will be an issue!  People will be paying their own way.  You have a budget of $500 per person maximum to cover all expenses associated with this event. Be sure to include taxes and gratuities in your total.
  5. Describe how you will evaluate the event.  (How will you know if the event was successful?  Survey?  Comment Cards?  Meetings?)
  6. Prepare a narrated power point presentation on the highlights of your project. (8 – 12 slides)

 

Learning Objectives:
Identify the different conference market groups and assess how conference suppliers satisfy those groups meeting planning needs.

Develop sales documents for a convention site.

Plan and present a meeting plan to a client, incorporating a meeting schedule, event set up,food and beverage details, audio visual needs and housing specifications.

Research how technology is used by conference industry practitioners.

Calculate the budget for a meeting, ensuring profit guidelines are met.

 

 

 

 

 

Finalize your rough draft from the previous week and complete or refine any information that needs more work.

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Assignment Content

In this assignment you have to finalize your rough draft from the previous week and complete or refine any information that needs more work.

Assignment – Complete a 15 – 16 page final draft of your literature review (building off of the rough draft from the previous week’s paper (which means Session 4)

 

What was done right, what went wrong, what could have been done differently, why, and how? Explain what you learned about project management from the case. Include an explanation of how knowledge of the PMBOK could have helped alleviate the issues in the case.

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Case Study on Baggage Handling

One of the best ways to learn is to analyze a case; a particular situation that exemplifies the issues, strengths, and weaknesses that are faced when actually managing a project. This is a proven learning tool shown to reinforce understanding, and the application of knowledge.

Calleam Consulting Case Study on Denver Int’l Airport Baggage Handling will be used to complete Module 7 case study analysis.Even though other Project Management Knowledge Areas will present themselves in the case, the focus of the case study analysis are the following three Knowledge Areas; Communications, Risk and Procurement management (PMBOK 10,11, & 12). Together these are important knowledge Areas because a project cannot be managed successfully without effective communications, risk management and mitigation, and timely purchasing of necessary supplies.

Framework:

Introduce the case and offer a summary of the issues and the main concerns in the case.

Explain how the issues and concerns could impact the success of the project.

Drawing from the PMBOK Guide (Chapter 10,11, & 12) and most importantly your knowledge and expertise of project management:

Critique how the case was handled.

1. What was done right, what went wrong, what could have been done differently, why, and how?

2. Explain what you learned about project management from the case. Include an explanation of how knowledge of the PMBOK (Chapters 10, 11, & 12) could have helped alleviate the issues in the case.

3. Offer solid and defensible conclusion(s) and recommendations.

  • Must reference theory, concepts, material covered in the course, and Project Management material in general.
  • Must be in MLA stated citation/reference format with in-text citations and a bibliography/work cited page.
  • Must be at least 3 pages in length (not including the title page or reference page) double-spaced, 1 inch margins, with 12 point fonts, Times New Roman.

What is the underlying problem in this case from the perspective of federal government, the parents, and the prospective college students? Why do you think the parents were willing to play such a significant and risky role in their kid’s college admissions?

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The Manager’s Changing Work Environment and Ethical Responsibilities

Assignment Purposes/Learning Outcomes:

After completion of Assignment-1 students will able to understand the

LO 1.1: State the concept of management functions, roles, skills of a manager and the different theories of management.

LO 3.2: Demonstrate organization’s role in ethics, diversity, and social responsibility.

 

Assignment-1

Read the case “Who’s to Blame for the College Admissions Scandal?” given on Page number 112, Chapter 3– “The Manager’s Changing Work Environment and Ethical Responsibilities” available in your textbook/e-textbook “Management: A Practical Introduction” 10th edition by Angelo Kinicki, & Denise B. Soignet and answer the following questions:

 

QUESTIONS

Q1. What is the underlying problem in this case from the perspective of federal government, the parents, and the prospective college students?  (3 Marks)

Q2. Why do you think the parents were willing to play such a significant and risky role in their kid’s college admissions? (3 Marks)

Q3. How do you think the general environment, particularly economic, demographic, international and sociocultural forces, fed into the admissions scandal? (3 Marks)

Q4. Are the children who were aware of the cheating scheme purely victims in this situation, or should they also be considered unethical? Explain your answer using one of the four approaches to deciding ethical dilemmas. (3 Marks)

Q5. Based on what you have learned about Rick Singer, his involvement, and his decision to cooperate in the investigation, where would you place his level of moral development? Explain your answer. (3 Marks)