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  • Non-franchised Small Business Analysis: Gentlemen’s Top Option

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    MGT 418 Week 3 Individual Assignment: Non Franchised Small Business Analysis

    · Select one of the following businesses to research on the Web:

    o Mel’s Country Cafe, Tomball, Texas
    o Hope Blooms Flowers and Things, Eagle, Idaho
    o Gentlemen’s Top Option, Burlington, Vermont

    · Write a 750 – to 1,050 – word paper in which you analyze the business as if you were considering its purchase. Explain your reasoning for each of these sections:

    o Evaluate the business model of the selected business.
    o Assess the necessity for training to be provided to you by the seller.
    o Identify all of the issues you should investigate in the process of performing a feasibility analysis and due diligence.
    o Identify the areas in purchasing the business that you would try to negotiate with the seller.
    o Explain the advantages and disadvantages associated with purchasing the business you selected rather than starting a new business in the same industry.

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  • MGMT 420 Module 7 Review Questions

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    1)  Scheduling and sequencing are typically viewed from a technical perspective; that is, they are focused on minimizing quantitative measures such as lateness or cost. However, schedules also have intangible effects on customers, employees, and the perception of service quality. Discuss what some of these intangible effects might be and how managers should consider them when constructing schedules.

    2)  Select two of Deming’s 14 Points and discuss the importance of them to operations managers (as well as all managers) in today’s business environment

    3)  Explain how service quality is measured. Specifically, discuss how you may have experienced each of the five SERVQUAL dimensions as a consumer of services.

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  • MGMT 420 Module 6 Review Questions

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    1)  List some products in your personal or family “inventory.” How do you manage them? (For instance, do you constantly run to the store for milk? Do you throw out a lot of milk because of spoilage?) How might the ideas in Chapter 12 change your way of managing these SKUs?

    2)  Identify a goods-producing or service-providing organization and discuss how it might make aggregate planning decisions using the variables described in Exhibit 13.3 (p. 283).

    3)  Provide an argument for or against adopting a chase strategy for a major airline call center.

    “A chase demand strategy sets the production rate equal to the demand in each time period” (Collier& Evans, 2013, pg. 285).

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  • MGT521 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection

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    Read the “Developing Your Empowering People (Delegating) Skill” Skills Exercise at the end of Ch. 10 of Management.

    Discuss the scenario with your Learning Team.

    Consider the five behaviors described for delegating to determine how to handle the scenario.

    Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word paper detailing how your team would handle the situation described in the scenario.

    Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

    SCENARIO: Ricky Lee is the manager of the contracts group of a large regional office supply distributor. His boss, Anne Zumwalt, has asked him to prepare by the end of the month the department’s new procedures manual that will outline the steps followed in negotiating contracts with office products manufacturers who supply the organization’s products. Because Ricky has another major project he’s working on, he went to Anne and asked her if it would be possible to assign the rewriting of the procedures manual to Bill Harmon, one of his employees who’s worked in the contracts group for about three years. Anne said she had no problems with Ricky reassigning the project as long as Bill knew the parameters and the expectations for the completion of the project. Ricky is preparing for his meeting in the morning with Bill regarding this assignment.

    1. Clarify the assignment. Determine what is to be delegated and to whom. You need to identify the person who’s most capable of doing the task and then determine whether he or she has the time and motivation to do the task. If you have a willing and able employee, it’s your responsibility to provide clear information on what is being delegated, the results you expect, and any time or performance expectations you may have. Unless there’s an overriding need to adhere to specific methods, you should delegate only the results expected. Get agreement on what is to be done and the results expected, but let the employee decide the best way to complete the task.

    2. Specify the employee’s range of discretion. Every situation of delegation comes with constraints. Although you’re delegating to an employee the authority to perform some task or tasks, you’re not delegating unlimited authority. You are delegating authority to act on certain issues within certain parameters. You need to specify what those parameters are so that employees know, without any doubt, the range of their discretion.

    3. Allow the employee to participate. One of the best ways to decide how much authority will be necessary to accomplish a task is to allow the employee who will be held accountable for that task to participate in that decision. Be aware, however, that allowing employees to participate can present its own set of potential problems as a result of employees’ self-interests and biases in evaluating their own abilities.

    4. Inform others that delegation has occurred. Delegation shouldn’t take place behind the scenes. Not only do the manager and employee need to know specifically what has been delegated and how much authority has been given, but so does anyone else who’s likely to be affected by the employee’s decisions and actions. This includes people inside and outside the organization. Essentially, you need to communicate what has been delegated (the task and amount of authority) and to whom.

    5. Establish feedback channels. To delegate without establishing feedback controls is inviting problems. The establishment of controls to monitor the employee’s performance increases the likelihood that important problems will be identified and that the task will be completed on time and to the desired specifications. Ideally, these controls should be determined at the time of the initial assignment. Agree on a specific time for the completion of the task and then set progress dates when the employee will report back on how well he or she is doing and any major problems that may have arisen. These controls can be supplemented with periodic checks to ensure that authority guidelines aren’t being abused, organizational policies are being followed, proper procedures are being met, and the like.

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  • MGT 498 week 4 Team Assignment Competitive Advantages Paper

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    Resources: Riordan Virtual Organization and Environmental Scan Paper

    Use the Riordan Virtual Organization and research from last week’s Environmental Scan Paper for this assignment.

    ·         Decide which competitive advantages Riordan has in common with the companies researched last week, and estimate which competitive strategies Riordan could use to improve innovation and sustainability of business operations both in the United States and in the global market.

    ·         Explain why you chose these competitive strategies and estimate how they might affect sustainability of long-term organizational performance.

    ·         Explain how the global market would affect the business strategy of Riordan.

    Summarize your findings in a 700- to 1,050-word paper.

    Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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  • MGMT 520 week 3

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    Questions:

    1. State the administrative agency, which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how?
    2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points)
    3. Write the public  comment,  which  you  would  submit  to  this  proposal.  If  the  proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points)
    4. Provide the “deadline” by which the public comment must be made. (If the date has already passed, please provide when the deadline was). (5 points).
      • a) Once you have submitted your comment, what will you are legally entitled to do later in the promulgation process (if you should choose to do so)?
      • b) If the proposal passes, identify and explain the five legal theories you could use in an attempt to have the regulation declared invalid and overturned in court.
      • c) Which of these challenges would be the best way to challenge the regulation you selected for this assignment if you wanted to have the regulation overturned and why?
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  • MGMT 520 Week 3 Assignment

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    Legal, Political, Ethical Dimensions of Business

    1. What court decided the case in the assignment?
    2. According to the case, what must a party establish to prevail on a motion for summary judgment?
    3. Briefly state the facts of this case
    4. According to the case, why was this not a case of negligent infliction of emotional distress?
    5. What tort did the court approve?
    6. According to the case, why didn’t the court approve summary judgment for product liability claims?
    7. Do you agree with this decision? Why or why not?
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  • MGMT 520 WEEK 2

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    1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means  you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1)  a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2)  a copy of the proposed regulation you used for  this assignment. (10 points)
    2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points)
    3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points)
    4. Provide the “deadline” by which the public comment must be made. (If the date has already passed, please provide when the deadline was). (5 points)
    5. a. Once you have submitted your comment, what will you be legally entitled to do later in the promulgation process (if you should choose to do so)? (See the textbook’s discussion of the Administrative Procedure Act.)

    a. If the proposal passes, identify and explain the five legal theories you could use in an attempt to have the regulation declared invalid and overturned in court.

    b. Which of these challenges would be the best way to challenge the regulation you selected for this assignment if you wanted to have the regulation overturned and why?

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  • Mgmt 404 Review Questions

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    Answer the following questions:
    1)What is the difference between a task dependency and a task constraint?

    2) Give a real-world situation when you might used the following task constraints:

    1. a) Start No Earlier Than
    2. b) Start No Later Than –
    3. c) Finish No Later Than –
    4. d) Finish No Earlier Than –
    5. e) Must Finish On –
    6. f) Must Start On –
    7. g) As Late As Possible –

    3) What is the importance of a baseline?

    4) What is an interim plan?

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