IM - Unit 1 Assignment - Annie Namgoong

Scenario Referencing the scenario provided in Assessment 1, and following the guidance provided by the Strategic consultant, Maria and her team are now prepared to proceed with finalizing their business plan to launch their company. Considering how competitive the business sector is today, it is important that they are aware of their alternative organizational strategies. It is also important that they understand how to develop a sustainable competitive advantage, so as to remain financially viable. The group is considering utilizing the strategy formulation framework to aid in developing the company and its products. Further to discussion with the Strategic Consultant, Maria is aware that there are certain habits that strategic leaders must encompass but is not sure what they are. For this assessment, your group is to assume the role of Maria and her team. In doing so, you are expected to complete the following: You are required to prepare a business implementation plan for your…

Company: ABC Civil Engineering - an engineering firmSituation: ABC company has recently made significant cuts in staff and the workload on existingemployees has increased. A major RFP is dueCharacters: Ted Waltz – Managing Director of ABC EngineeringElaine Tillman – Civil Engineer____________________________Elaine Tillman looked at her watch – it was 7:30 pm. Just then she knew she would not make it to her son’s final high school basketball game. It took her a moment to collect herself and wipe the tear that had started down her face and onto the ragged-edged 100 plus page RFP she was working on. The RFP,the largest opportunity that ABC Civil Engineering had a chance to bid on in 6 months, was far fromready for the 9:00 AM deadline the following day.Normally in this situation, Elaine would have collaborated with a proposal team putting together such a big proposal but, since the economic down turn hit, ABC has had to make significant cuts in its staff. It started with administrative…

Company: ABC Civil Engineering - an engineering firmSituation: ABC company has recently made significant cuts in staff and the workload on existingemployees has increased. A major RFP is dueCharacters: Ted Waltz – Managing Director of ABC EngineeringElaine Tillman – Civil Engineer____________________________Elaine Tillman looked at her watch – it was 7:30 pm. Just then she knew she would not make it to her son’s final high school basketball game. It took her a moment to collect herself and wipe the tear that had started down her face and onto the ragged-edged 100 plus page RFP she was working on. The RFP,the largest opportunity that ABC Civil Engineering had a chance to bid on in 6 months, was far fromready for the 9:00 AM deadline the following day.Normally in this situation, Elaine would have collaborated with a proposal team putting together such a big proposal but, since the economic down turn hit, ABC has had to make significant cuts in its staff. It started with administrative…

12- The DWCBA is most relevant when the society cares about the distribution the alternative projects under consideration have different scales most of the costs accrue to one group while most of the benefits are enjoyed by anther poor people receive low incomes there is a budget constraint a b. d. at:

After reading the above case study identify the major issues that Eskom is currently faced with which are the hindrance for them to meet their main objective with their talent management strategy.

Factors of Production of P&G (Procter&Gamble) Demonstrate your understanding of the five factors of production by providing two examples for each used by the business in the production of goods/products and services. Land/Natural Resources: Identify two natural resources the business uses and explain how each natural resource relates to specific products/services offered by the organization. Labor/Human Resources: Identify two human resources the business uses and explain how each human resource relates to specific products/services offered by the organization. Capital: Identify two uses of capital by the business and explain how each use of capital relates to products/services offered by the organization. Entrepreneurship: Identify two entrepreneurs and specifically state what each entrepreneur has done to start, grow or maintain the business. (You have the option to exchange one of the entrepreneurs with an intrapreneur who serves in a leadership role within the…

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CHOSEN COMPANIES: SM Malls and Ribinson’s 1. Choose two similar type of companies or organizations (for example Jollibee and McDonalds). Discuss how they provided the needs of their customers in terms of providing facilities and other additional services to the following groups: a. Parents with toddlers b. For an old person with a walking stick c. For someone in a wheelchair d. For heavily pregnant women. 2. Based on the current facilities and other additional services given by SM Malls and Robinson’s, suggest additional facilities or services that they can provide the group of people stated above. 3. From SM MALLS and ROBINSON’s describe how they provide customer service before the transaction, during the transaction, and after the transaction.

Read the case/senario below and answer the question(s) that follow. Auas primary school identifies a need for an assistant teacher to assist in lower primary classrooms three days a week at the school. The principal’s daughter is in her final year studying early childhood development and has been looking for a part time job for the past months without success.  He communicates this need to his wife at home and the wife is now asking him to hire their daughter. a) What type of ethical dilemma does this principal find himself in?  In detail, explain why do you say so?

As the incoming General Manager for a name property in our destination,(Spice Island Beach Resort ), you have requested a report from your Hotel Manager/ Resident Manager regarding the following: You are required to: 1. thoroughly  provide an overview of the resort in your destination.( target market , rating, type of hotel etc) 2. Provide an analysis of the operations of each department clearly outlining any challenges that are being faced, strategies to combat these challenges and a justification for the strategy. 3. With respect to the efficient management of the resort: (a) Identify the existing organizational chart and comment on whether key positions are shown and make recommendations for changes where necessary. (b) If the organizational chart is not available, create one based on the research you have

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The Organization of Outback Steakhouse Chris T. Sullivan, Bob Basham, Trudy Cooper, and Tim Gannon—co-founders of the Outback Steakhouse concept—began their restaurant careers as a busser, dishwasher, server, and chef’s assistant, respectively. So how did they manage to build one of the all-time most successful restaurant concepts? Their careers may have had humble beginnings, but they had the money to excel. Sullivan and Basham met at Bennigan’s. They honed their management skills under the mentorship of industry legend Norman Brinker, who later financed Sullivan and Basham’s franchised chain of Chili’s restaurants in Georgia and Florida. They later sold the Chili’s restaurants back to Brinker for $3 million. This seed money allowed them to develop a restaurant concept with which they had been toying. The concept was for a casual-themed steakhouse. Because the partners did not want to do a Western theme (it had already been done by others) and because at the time there was a lot of…

ThailandSelect an overseas country of your choosing and assume that you are employed in the human resources department for a large company. The company has just reached an agreement to open a new sales office in this foreign country in order to better serve customers in that market. Although support personnel will be hired locally, three sales representatives from headquarters will be transferred to this office for a period of two years in order to get it “up and running.” The national sales manager has asked you to prepare a report outlining the intercultural communication issues that these sales reps likely will face. Your team will be required to research the business communication in this country and write a report to your Board of Directors that addresses the following that may play a role in impacting the success of these sales representatives in establishing an office in the country. 1. Prevailing norms of communication 2. Nonverbal communication 3. High context and low context…

Management Science: XY Company manufactures and sells LCD monitor at P5000 each. The production officer reported the following: Sale price: P5000 per monitor direct materials cost: P1000 per unit direct labor cost: P550 per unit other overhead cost P950 per unit Fixed costs related to the production are also reported: salary of management: P200,000 rent for the factory: P150,000, other salaries: P140,000 depreciation of equipment: P12,000Compute the total variable cost

Management Science: XY Company manufactures and sells LCD monitor at P5000 each. The production officer reported the following: Sale price: P5000 per monitor direct materials cost: P1000 per unit direct labor cost: P550 per unit other overhead cost P950 per unit Fixed costs related to the production are also reported: salary of management: P200,000 rent for the factory: P150,000, other salaries: P140,000 depreciation of equipment: P12,000Compute total cost (TC) function

Help me please Q: You have learned in your management class about "porter's five forces". Discuss with sufficient explanation how these forces are acting (Al-Manaseer) gas stations.

What recommendations could you make to an organization to account for natural disasters in strategic planning?

32 Ms Fatima, General Manager of a company, she needs to develop a set of strategic objectives that will address the significant critical issues of the future. Identify the combination of criteria she has to consider while developing strategic plan: a. Available resources and SWOT Analysis b. Operation plan and SWOT Analysis c. Operation plan and available resources d. Bench marking and SWOT Analysis Clear my choice

Scenario: Amazon has a functional organisational structure that focuses on business functions for determining the interactions among the different parts of the company. Amazon’s corporate structure is best characterized as global function-based groups (most significant feature), a global hierarchy, and geographic divisions. This structure seems to fit with the size of Amazon’s business—43% of 2016 retail sales were in the United States. Seven segments, including information technology, human resources and legal operations, and heads of segments, report to Amazon’s CEO. “Senior management team include two CEOs, three Senior Vice Presidents and one Worldwide Controller, who are responsible for various vital aspects of the business reporting directly to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.” The strategic goal underlying this structure is to facilitate Amazon.com to successfully implement e-commerce operations management throughout the entire organisation   Based on what you have learnt in the unit…

briefly explain the 8 factors Fernandez and Rainey highlighted in their article.

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Referencing the scenario provided in Assessment 1, and following the guidance provided by the Strategic consultant, Peter and his team are now prepared to proceed with finalizing their business plan to launch their company. Considering how competitive the business sector is today, it is important that they are aware of their alternative organizational strategies. It is also important that they understand how to develop a sustainable competitive advantage, so as to remain financially viable. The group is considering utilizing the strategy formulation framework to aid in developing the company and its products. Further to discussion with the Strategic Consultant, Peter is aware that there are certain habits that strategic leaders must encompass but is not sure what they are. For this assessment, your group is to assume the role of Peter and his team. In doing so, you are expected to complete the following 3. Based on each category of alternative organizational Strategies as discussed in…

Referencing the scenario provided in Assessment 1, and following the guidance provided by the Strategic consultant, Peter and his team are now prepared to proceed with finalizing their business plan to launch their company. Considering how competitive the business sector is today, it is important that they are aware of their alternative organizational strategies. It is also important that they understand how to develop a sustainable competitive advantage, so as to remain financially viable. The group is considering utilizing the strategy formulation framework to aid in developing the company and its products. Further to discussion with the Strategic Consultant, Peter is aware that there are certain habits that strategic leaders must encompass but is not sure what they are. For this assessment, your group is to assume the role of Peter and his team. In doing so, you are expected to complete the following:  Identify four (4) conditions for sustainable competitive advantage which align…

Assume Bangladesh National Cricket Team needs to find a new head coach for the team. The cricket team’spresent and the future success largely depends on the formulations and implantation of the plans laid by thehead coach. The cricket board has given you the responsibility to prepare the job responsibilities of the newhead coach. You need to pinpoint very carefully which tasks he is supposed to do, as you also need to identifywhich skills and qualifications he must possess to do those required tasks smoothly. Prepare the job descriptionand job specification for the position of “Head Coach” of Bangladesh Cricket Team.

You have been asked to quantify the effects of removing a country's tariff on sugar.

can you please assist with teh following questions. Assume that your class group has been selected and hired by the FAO to manage this FAO Funded Aquaponics Project described in the article (above). Using expressed and implied information in the article, your project team is required to craft/develop some project documents and plans to help in the overall management of the Aquaponics Project, with specific focus on the components and questions/statements listed below. Groups are allowed to make reasonable assumptions.  7. Develop an initial stakeholder register and outline the communications and engagement strategies for each group of stakeholders (with a minimum of 5 key stakeholders).  5. Create a partial project schedule using a Gantt Chart (with a minimum of 10 tasks).