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Five potential negative aspects of promoting employees from within an organization
$10.00HTM150-QA: PROVIDE 1-2 PARAGRAPHS FOR EACH BULLET
Hiring and promoting from within is often seen as a positive motivational tool. It can be argued that there is a negative side to this practice. Outline five potential negative aspects of promoting employees from within an organization. Be sure to explain your reasoning.
Pretend you are interviewing candidates for a new front desk clerk in a luxury hotel. Determine the scope of responses that will convince you that the selected candidate is able to create a welcoming message for the luxury hotel instead of a motel chain.
In your opinion, identify the major factor that differentiates high-performing from low-performing organizations and justify your position.
From the employees’ viewpoint, working for a high-performing organization is easier. Agree or disagree with this statement and provide your rationale.
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS – Assignment 1(Project Management Maturity (P3M3))
$35.00Evaluate the Project Management Maturity of your organisation using the Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model P3M3. You only need to evaluate the PROJECT management maturity, not the programme or portfolio management maturity of your organisation.
You should consult the P3M3 website: http://www.p3m3-officialsite.com/home/home.asp and research how to conduct the evaluation.
Your assignment should be approx 1500 words in length and typed. Assessment significantly over this length may be penalised or returned for editing.
Preparatory Readings
1. The P3M3 website and relevant downloads.
2. The Unit Workbook (available on Blackboard).Required Reading:
Strategic Management of Projects Workbook.
Case study materials provided for assignments and the workshop (available on Blackboard).
Graham M Winch (2010) Managing Construction Projects, 2nd Edition Chichester, John Wiley & Sons.
Background reading:
Peter Morris, Jeffrey Pinto and Jonas Söderlund (2012) The Oxford Handbook of Project Management Oxford, OUP.
Peter Morris and Jeffrey Pinto, J. K. (eds.) (2004) The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects New York, Wiley. (This text available for download by chapter from Blackboard).
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS – Reflective Practice Paper
$55.00Research shows that experienced managers can make significant advances in developing their knowledge and capabilities through processes of reflective practice and experiential learning and this is in line with the increasing emphasis on facilitating reflective learning in higher education. Traditional forms of assessment are not always appropriate for busy managers on part-time programmes and the opportunity for managers to reflect on their own experience is highly relevant to professional development programmes where the emphasis is more on preparing people for the realities of real-world practice than on academic research. Moreover, this approach is completely aligned with the aims of the Global MBA programme as we make explicit the link between the course content built around project management concepts introduced by UoM faculty and the students’ current roles in their workplaces.
The reflective practice paper uses a dynamic learning framework to help structure the reflection process around each student’s current role and responsibilities, including their professional experience to date. An introduction to appropriate concepts is used as the source of questions for reflecting on the student’s own approach to managing projects, resulting in various insights and actions that the student might implement in future projects. The selection of relevant course concepts by the student is a crucial part of the process, but whatever concepts are chosen, they should always be specific to the student’s work role, thus enabling the learning process to be student-driven and directly centred on the student’s particular interests and concerns. In summary, the whole process is about enriching students’ current knowledge and experience through structured reflection and clearly connecting the codified knowledge discussed in the module materials and workshop and the tacit knowledge of managing projects.
The overall structure of the reflective practice paper is shown in figure 1. It has five elements:
A Student in Work Role The student poses structure questions about their current work role, and previous experience as appropriate.
B Module Concepts The student researches more deeply and fully understands module concepts appropriate to his or her current work role.
C Reflective Assessment: Ideas and Insights. This is about linking theory to practice and is therefore the core of the reflective practice paper where the student is asked to connect the first and second stages to generate new insights into how their role can be performed more effectively.
D Key Learning Points and Actions. This section summarises the learning through the reflective practice process and identifies potential routes for implementation.
E Critical Reflection. Here the student critically reviews the process of preparing the reflective practice experience and how it has developed their capability as a project manager with the aim of identifying what they would do differently in the future.
Please ensure you include your student number and the assignment reference (SMOP/Student
Number/July14/3 in all submitted assignments and that assignments are paginated. Failure to
do this may lead either to a grade not being assigned or being wrongly assigned
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Reasons some states do not charge sales tax for basic foods
$5.00First: enter this in the link bar:
http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073511447/student_view0/index.htmlThen on the right hand side click for Ch. 15, it will automatically bring you to the
module. , click on origin of ideaAfter your readings in the text, upload to the Week 8 Dropbox your answers to the following exercises:
Using your understanding of tax incidence from the interactive graph 16.1 as well as the content of chapter 15, explain why some states do not charge sales tax for basic foods. In the event the online graph is not viewable, the graph in Figure 16.7 on page 347 is identical and can be used in lieu of the online graph.- Explain how the elasticity of demand influences tax revenues?
- Define progressive, regressive and proportional taxes and give an example of each.
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Occupation Tax
$5.00We end this course with the same gentleman that we began the course with, Adam Smith. In the “Wealth of Nations”, Smith devotes a full third of his founding treatise on economics to political economy, justice, and taxation. In examining the different forms of taxation, Smith adheres to four maxims which a good tax should conform to:
“The subject of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State.”
“The tax each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to ever other person.”
“Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.”
“Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.”
Note first that Smith regards taxes as inevitable in a market economy and that “all should contribute to the support of the government”. . we need those public goods. Note also that Smith identifies with the “benefits received ” principle of taxation when he suggests that taxes should be paid by those whom have benefitted from things of value “enjoyed by the protection of the State.” He also identifies with the “ability to pay” principle of taxation in that he wants taxes to be “proportional to abilities” and income.
Finally, note that Smith is a clear advocate of minimizing taxes so as to minimize any distortions on productive and allocative efficiency as we have studied those concepts in this course . . and in order to preserve and promote free enterprise.
Instructions:
Pick a particular tax. You can use one as described in your text in Chapters Five and/or Thirty One or another at the Federal, State, or local level that you know of. But NOT ONE ALREADY POSTED BY A CLASSMATE! So first come, first serve on this one. Just read your fellow classmates postings beforehand. Also, everyone pick just one tax, keep the pool open for your classmates.
Indicate whether you think the tax meets Adam Smith’s criteria as identified and explained above. Is it efficient? Is it equitable and just?
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Employee Compensation and Benefits
$15.00Imagine that you have just been hired by a new company as the director of the HR department. You have been tasked to hire a new secretary for the department and to develop an employee compensation and benefits package that will be used for that position upon hire. Develop a PowerPoint presentation to present this information to your Vice President. Go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Website, located at www.bls.gov, for information regarding organizations and pay in your geographical area.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
1.Choose the type of organization for which you are designing the package.
2.Develop an employee compensation and benefits package for this new position. Support your ideas for the compensation/benefits package.
3.Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Section 1 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.3 Pages
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Choose a company with which you are familiar…
$35.00ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-11 WITH ONLY ONE (1) PARAGRAPH
Question 1:
Companies in Crisis.
Choose a company with which you are familiar and identify three important issues facing that company. Explain in detail why these issues are important.
Question 2:
Choose one of the issues you identified in the previous topic. Propose how each step in the issue management process (see “Issues Management” in Chapter 19) can help the firm deal with this issue.
Question 3:
Planning for a Crisis.
Successfully handling a crisis often depends on how well the firm has planned for the crisis in advance. Choose one crisis affecting a business that has been widely reported in the media. Explain in detail the ways in which this crisis could affect the business.
Question 4:
For the crisis you discussed in the previous topic, explain in detail how the five crisis planning issues (Chapter 19, “Planning in a Crisis”) could have helped the firm deal with the crisis.
Question 5:
Examine the similarities and differences between an ESOP, MBO, and a Family Transition Exit. Determine which one would be the easiest to successfully complete and which one would be the most difficult to complete. Support your answers.
Question 6:
Successfully transitioning a family business from one generation to another is a goal of most owners of family firms. Provide advice to a business owner who wants to have a family member take over the business. Create a checklist for the owner to follow and include an introduction and closing statement that provides a summary of your recommendations.
Question 7:
Determine the conditions and reasons why a company should consider a public offering. From the viewpoint of the owner of the business undertaking the Initial Public Offering (IPO), determine three advantages and three disadvantages of an IPO.
Question 8:
From an investor’s point of view, determine three advantages and three disadvantages of an IPO. Contrast these advantages and disadvantages with those from an owner’s point of view.
Question 9:
Examine the issues and suggest at least two (2) options for society to deal with children who display aggressive bullying behaviors toward other children.
Question 10:
Take a position for or against the statement: Parents should be held legally responsible for aggressive bullying behaviors if another child is hurt physically. Support your response with an example.
Question 11:
Examine the four (4) primary theories of prosocial behavior (a) empathy-altruism hypothesis, (b) negative-state relief, (c) empathetic joy, and (d) genetic determinism. Discuss the two (2) that you believe influence people most. Explain your reasons.
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Process innovation – Driving force behind the success of Star Wars
$42.50Process innovation as the driving force behind the success of Star Wars
The paper concentrates on process innovation as the driving force behind the success the chosen team in translating the ideas and concepts of the team leader.
15 Pages
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Theory of interest – Loanable funds theory
$5.00Theory of interest – Loanable funds theory
irst: enter this in the link bar:
http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073511447/student_view0/index.htmlthen on the right hand side click for Ch. 14, it will automatically bring you to the
module. , click on origin of ideaDropbox Assignments: After completing your readings in the text go to the Online Learning Center (click here). Upload to the Week 7 Dropbox your answers to the following exercises:
>Using the Chapter 14 “Origin of Idea” module, identify those who gave us the first “theory of interest” and briefly summarize this “loanable funds” theory in your own words.
> Identify at least one important Entrepreneur that you would consider an “Entrepreneurial Legend” and state why you consider the person to be (or have been) exemplary. Your reason for selecting the person should include examples of managerial economics and should include other criteria such as social responsibility and ethics. Remember to cite your authority.APA
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