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    Employee Training for Technology in the Workplace

    Choose a topic of choice, or one from any one of the topics/questions listed below: - Discuss how employee training needs to evolve due to immigration and related cultural changes. - In what ways has technology impacted the way(s) we train employees? - How might employee training differ from one country to another on a g

    Strategic management: Toys "R" Us

    How is Toys "R" Us positioning itself to be successful? Discuss the following: - ability to embrace change - creativity and innovation capabilities - being a world class organization

    Training methods

    Review and analyze the information on traditional training methods. Which do you think tend to be the most effective and why? Which do you think tend to be most ineffective and why?

    Job overseas

    Now that "jobs are going overseas." What does that mean to you now that you've encountered several aspects of international business? Should countries, including the United States, be pressured by interest groups to limit imports in order to keep the unemployment rate low?

    Comparative worth

    In Minnesota, for instance, firefighters in the city of St. Paul were ranked as having the comparable worth of the city's librarians. In Denver, nurses employed by the city say they should be paid as much as city tree-trimmers. As one recent graduate student noted: Is a fireman more valuable than a librarian? I guess it dep

    Management Control Process

    In a belt-tightening measure, the Sandalwood company is taking a close look at its four divisions with an eye toward closing any unprofitable ones. Costs incurred at the corporate headquarters level have been distributed to each division in proportion to sales revenue. All costs incurred by each division except the allocated cor

    Special Events Management in Hospitality and Tourism

    Please help with the following problem. Give a brief explanation with references. In relation to Special Events Management in Hospitality and Tourism, list and discuss the details you would include on a site inspection list. Explain your reasoning.

    Cost Management

    Downstream Brewery (B) Lawrence Grasso and Cindy Moeckel Required: 1. In answering the following questions, give C.D. sufficient details so that you can retire from this job in the near future and C.D. can continue without you. ? Using three processes of Boiling, Fermenting, and Shipping, what journal entries should b

    Vertical Integration for Expanding Firms

    My book says that vertical integration involves expanding the firm's range of value chain activities backward into sources of supply and/or forward end users (Gamble & Thompson Jr., pg. 122). You can pick any company to talk about. Is your company vertically integrated? If so, is it fully, or partially, integrated?

    Price Elasticity and Revenue Maximization

    You are the manager of the Chevrolet Motor Division of GMC. Your Marketing department estimates that the semi-annual demand for the Chevy Tahoe is Q=100,000-1.25 P. What price do you recommend that GM charge for its Tahoe if its desire is to maximize sales? Draw a graph that illustrates your recommendation.

    Achieving high performance within an organization

    Please help with the following problem. How difficult is it to get "high performance" from an organization's employees? Do you feel that most organizations have success obtaining high performance from their employees? Please support your substantive rationale with at least two outside references.

    Performance Based Compensation

    Can you comment on below? Are you agree or disagree? "I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad." (Terence) I believe that this can be true in the debate about performance-based pay. Hypothetically, an employee works for an organization where his/her pay is based 50% on performance. She is leader of 1 of appr

    Management: Electronic Business

    You have been asked to assist with the formation of a new e-business company. It is an educational site focused on children in grades 9-12. The business model is to provide online tutoring in several subjects in support of the federal No Child Left Behind law. The company has not chosen a name yet. - Discuss some of the issue

    Cash Flow Analysis

    Discussion Topic: Cash Flow Analysis After reading Chapter 4: Statements of Cash Flow & Analysis of Ratios, along with any other research conducted, please discuss why comprehending and managing cash flow is important for financial success.

    Use ABCD model to help a new employee

    This activity, though, serves as a great demonstrator that we really are NOT very good with clarifying our expectations, NOR are we very good at coaching people toward a higher level of performance! To that end, I'd like to share the ABCD's of performance expectations with you. A= Audience (To whom is this instruction being

    Implementing a Process Intervention in the Tech Division

    You are considering implementing a process intervention in the tech division, and you want to learn from others' experience. You go to your team's OD intervention seminar discussion board to raise the following issues: What are the types of interventions? Briefly describe each. How does employee empowerment maximize employe

    Research Paper: Corruption and Corporate and Personal Integrity

    See the attached file. Corruption and corporate and personal integrity are increasingly important in the global economy we live in today. Many national and multinational companies face serious cultural dilemmas including corruption and honesty/ integrity issues. Select two of the most corrupt/ low integrity countries in the

    Employee Data Collection Training

    Discuss employee data collection training. Your boss has asked you to help new employees understand uses of data in systems-operation management and the various statistical process controls they will experience on a daily basis. Choose and describe 5 to 7 of the following terms. o Core competencies o Division of lab

    Question Behind the Question

    What would some good QBQ's be for each of your selected statements? My manager doesn't even give me feedback. I don't know how I am doing! When is she going to start working as hard as the rest of us? My staff never does things the way I ask them to. I don't have enough time to get it all done! And now they a

    Bottlenecks and TOC scheduling

    1. What are the differences in how bottleneck and non-bottleneck work centers are scheduled under TOC? Why are these differences desirable? 2. Why should buffers be located in front of bottleneck work centers under TOC scheduling? How should the size of the buffers be determined? 3. What are the implications of not alloca

    Organizations as Political Systems - Outline for Paper

    See the attached file. Please assist with an outline to get started on this case: Management and Organizational Behavior The case for this module calls for you to look at an exercise in "leadership" and then analyze it in terms of its context, its execution, and its consequences. As we noted in the introduction to the m

    Organizations as Cultures Types

    Discuss the different types of cultures and how they would relate to a predominantly online university specializing in military students. Refer to the Dension Cultural Model. Attached document with links to material. Management and Organizational Behavior Organizational culture is one of those high-level things that affects

    Commenting on Management Situations

    Hi, I need some assistance commenting on the following postings relating to management, communication, culture and leadership. 1)The most obvious model introduced by thinking about organizations as "organisms" is the "life cycle" -- new organizations come into being, mature, age, and die, just live all living things from amo

    EEOC: Protect Jack from discrimination; Principle in Griggs v. Duke Power

    1. Jack is a 55 year-old American of Anglo-Saxon descent. What legislation is intended to protect Jack from discrimination? a. Title VII b. Equal Pay Act of 1963 c. Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 d. 12th Amendment of the US Constitution 2. Which of the following is not a principle established by Griggs