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    The strategic approach to job offers

    If the same job offer content is to be given to all offer receivers for a job, is there any need to use the strategic approach to job offers? Heneman, H, & Judge, T. (2009). Staffing organization. Burr Ridge, Ill: McGraw hill. MBA Human Resource course

    Comparing Forecasting to Budgeting: Anthony's Orchards

    Using the current year budget and master budgeted income statement from the Anthony's Orchards website, create and submit a budgeted balance sheet using the attached spread sheet. http://mym.cdn.laureate-media.com/2dett4d/Walden/ACCT/6130/mm/anthony_orchard_website/index.html (Use the included Excel file, please)

    Individual Presentation

    See the attached file. Each of us has a strongly held beliefs, values, passions and traditions which contribute to the lenses through which we see the world and to our ways of being in the world. Select one of these that reflects or contributes to who you are, how you live your life or how you fit in the world. Your selection

    Green and Sustainable Business

    Many businesses must comply with government regulations related to pollution and energy usage. Businesses may also voluntarily engage in other sustainable business practices. What is a business leader's motivation to engage in sustainable business practices? What are other ways besides regulations that the governme

    Business Research Data Mining Techniques

    1. What secondary research sources do you use in your position? Describe the type of data that you are able to pull from one of these sources and how you use this in your job. 2. What is data mining? What application do you see with this technique in your line of work? 3. What is exploratory research and how does it d

    Integrative work

    Discuss how the concept in Ivancevich, Konopaske, and Matteson's "Organizational Behavior and Management" are consistent or inconsistent with each of Kotter's "Leading Change" eight key themes and his reasoning. Cite references.

    The Four Functions of Management Theory

    Discuss some specific examples of firms that practiced these four functions. For a company with which you are familiar, use each of the four functions to do the following: Assess how the overall management team performed in terms of the four functions of management, which are as follows: Planning Organizing Leading Cont

    International Business

    Summarize the positive and negative aspects of offshoring, and state whether you support or are against offshoring and why. Include an experience that you or someone you know has had in which offshoring affected them positively/negatively.

    Positive and Negatives Aspects of Offshoring

    Summarize the positive and negative aspects of offshoring, and state whether you support or are against offshoring and why. Include an experience that you or someone you know has had in which offshoring affected them positively/negatively.

    Creative Thinking and Value Judgments

    Decide which of the following claims are true based on the following statement: Using torture to extract information from prisoners is immoral. a) states a value judgment not open to critical inspection, b) states a value judgment that is open to critical inspection (moral judgments), or c) is not a value judgment. If it

    Standards

    Deliverable Length: 700 words Details: There are many elements and measures for workforce effectiveness. One measure of effectiveness is that all employees within a specific job title, such as program assistant, are held to the same standards. You want to be sure that all employees within the position of program assistant

    Key Components of an Effective Workplace

    Deliverable Length: 6 - 8 slides (excluding title and reference slides) and speaker notes of 200â?"250 words per slide Details: A key component of an effective workplace is the ability of the groups to successfully collaborate. Choose a work group within your organization. Using a model of organizational improvement, plan a d

    Testing in the Workplace: Range, limitations, pitfalls

    Describe the range of testing that is allowed in the workplace. What are some of the limitations of workplace testing? What are some of the limitations of pre-employment testing? What are some of the potential pitfalls for management? What can management do to avoid the pitfalls?

    Strategic Management - mission and vision statement.

    Required Reading Welch, J., & Welch, S. (2008). State your business: Too many mission statements are loaded with fatheaded jargon. Play it straight. Business Week, (4066)80. Retrieved from: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_02/b4066080139784.htm?chan=search What constitutes a good mission and vision state

    Formatted Structure and Flow Topics

    Article Analysis Instructions Important All course assignments formatted per APA Article Analysis Instruction Each student will select an article, SEPARATE FROM COURSE READINGS, and submit a comprehensive article analysis. The article should relate to the topics discussed during the current week and must be a new article

    Business Systems Experiments

    Experiment with alternative web browsers and compare their utility and features. Compare the performance of your most commonly used browser, whatever it might be, to at least two others that you can either download or access directly online. If you mainly use one of the Big Three, it would be most beneficial for you probably

    Recommended Order Quantity

    The Fitness Shop is considering ordering a special model exercise machine. Each unit will cost the shop $410 and it will sell for $750. Any units not sold at the regular price will be sold at the year-end model clearance for $340. Assume that demand follows a normal probability distribution with mean = 20 and standard deviation

    Professional Development Plan

    Develop an 8-slide Power Point Presentation on what you believe to be the best method for delivering a professional development plan. Slides should be specific and pointed in the message. Include Speaker Notes.

    This posting addresses miscommunication issues in business.

    1- When you get interrupted or cut off, this can lead to frustration, but also miscommunication. What are some strategies that you and others can implement to reduce this "noise"? 2-Have you had a co-worker interrupt you while you're in the middle of a project and you were brief with your communication that you were perceive

    Widget sales - regressions. forecasting.

    Q4: Regress widget sales on time and add the (a) ...there is more see problem attached Q4: Regress widget sales on time and add the (a) line, (b) linear equation and (c) R2 (variance explained) to the graph you created in Question 3. Please explain the meaning of each. Also, please characterize the trend (if one appear

    Data Collection: Summarize four peer-reviewed articles

    Summarize the 4 peer-reviewed articles. 1. New Evidence on Gender Differences in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires http://ehis.ebscohost.com/eds/detail?sid=eb917d9d-0fe3-44f5-af02-17bdbc4dfdad%40sessionmgr11&vid=1&hid=20&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#db=bth&AN=25378333 2. Unequal Pay or Uneq

    Operations Management

    You understand that it is imperative to identify and manage bottlenecks in all types of processes, relate the capacity and performance measures of one process to another, and use that information to determine the firm's best service solution. Your company is setting up an assembly line to produce 192 units of bottles per 8-hou

    Green and Sustainable Business: Waste disposal practices, environment issues

    Many businesses engage in non-sustainable business practices related to business wastes. What are some examples of waste disposal practices in your industry? What ethical concerns do burning, burying, or dumping waste products into the environment raise? What are the immediate and long-term effects on the environmen

    Multicultural workplaces

    In the following paper the author discusses some generic approaches to making rigorous academic study relevant to practitioner readers. McGahan, A. M. (2007). Academic research that matters to managers: On zebras, dogs, lemmings, hammers, and turnips. Academy of Management Journal, 50(4), 748-753. Retrieved from Business Sour