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    PR Strategy

    SCENARIO: "You were featured in a Newsweek article about working college students, which garnered much exposure. As a result, you were selected for a reality show where you are given $100, 000 to help your favorite social cause." Directions: Develop a small PR Campaign to help an established non-profit organization using the

    Rating Criteria for Business Plans

    If the following two criteria are said to be part of a rating system for assessing business plans. - Management and employee approval/ consensus for implementation exists for the proposed technology. - Organization has sufficient financial resources to complete the implementation plan. I would appreciate if you can comm

    Confronting boss

    You submitted what you thought was a masterful report to your boss over three weeks ago. The report analyzes current department productivity and recommends several steps that you think will improve employee output without increasing individual workloads. "Brilliant," you thought. But you haven't heard a word from your boss.

    Supervisor and Bargaining Unit

    Supervisors Performing the Work of Members of the Bargaining Unit Background The Antarctic Air-Conditioning Company produces window air-conditioning units at a relatively modern plant in Tennessee. There are several assembly lines along which the air conditioners are built by incorporating sub assemblies produced in other

    Pay for Performance and Employment

    Please review the below three job scenarios. What Pay-for-Performance Program would you recommend? Forklift Driver Person drives a forklift for a small metals manufacturer. Worker picks up parts that have been boxed and loaded onto pallets and delivers them to warehouse for shipping. Worker then returns and waits for t

    Business Presentations

    Find a Web site that details the attributes of an effective business presentation. Based on the contents of the Web site you find, share with me one or two "best practices" that you should consider when preparing the presentation in Week Six which stated that in my final paper I have to propose a solution to help Global Communic

    Models in Business - Practical Significance

    Models are useful in business as in many other applications, such as science. Let's say that two groups of analysts have created models to predict interest rates, and both models use the same input data. One model predicts higher interest rates for next year, while the other predicts that rates will drop. You are unable to exami

    Management Involvement in IT

    In IT world, the projects that have hands-on involvement from upper management can be considered similar to heavyweight project team in the manufacturing world. These projects get higher priority from other functional groups. Resources and budget allocation have never been an issue for these projects. Due the extensive involveme

    Job Interview Questions

    It is important that only questions pertinent to the job be asked in an interview. Construct several interview questions using the behavioral interviewing model and post them to the Discussion Board. Discuss the legality and appropriateness of questions. Reword questions as necessary to obtain as much information as possible so

    Business Description

    You have decided to open your own business and Dr. C will provide the funds to start your business. Accordingly, Dr. C is interested in specifics about your company. 1. What type of business will you open? (product or service, provide the name of your company, etc.) 2. How will you manage diversity in your company? 3. Ho

    Cost management strategies for business decisions

    Beaujolais Financial Group (BFG) segments its customers into premium members, who purchase extensive services, and standard members, who purchase minimal services. It offers premium members a 10 percent discount on the total package of services purchased but requires standard members to pay full price. BFG devotes one full-ti

    Hiring Process for an Assembly Worker

    Can you help me get started with this project? Formulate a plan, including a flowchart, and the participants' roles for the hiring process for an assembly worker for Hyundai. Include the following: recruiting resources interview questions location references

    Hiring Plan

    Assume you have been promoted to your "dream job." But, before you leave, you must recruit, select, and train your successor. Develop a plan for how you are going to do this. These should be thorough and very detail-oriented. Where will you advertise? What tests will the candidates need to do? What skills must he/she dem

    Reasonable Accommodations Effects

    The American with Disabilities Act requires that employers make reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. How might this requirement affect police officers and fire fighters?

    Academic perspective on Change

    - Based on the attached text, please comment on a academic perspective on Change and how to cope with it? Change Management, in recent years, has emerged a well defined field within management to manage change across the organization. The concepts are fairly general in the sense that they apply to organizations as well as the

    Analysis Tools

    At the monthly meeting, one of your coworkers stated that "Using the right analysis tool will compensate for inexperienced managers." How would you reply to your coworker? Consider the following items in your discussion: Do the tools help only in certain situations such as routine, daily or rather mundane decisions, like

    Does your organization use CVP analysis?

    Does your organization use CVP analysis as part of its planning or decision-making process? How does it use it? What other areas can you think of where this technique could be used?

    Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley: Performance and Management

    Using the "Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (A)" (Harvard Business Review article, no. 9-498-054) case: 1) What is your assessment of Rob Parson's performance? Should he be promoted? 2) Using the date in the case, please complete the Evaluation and Development Summary presented in Exhibit 3 of the Rob Parson (A) case. 3)

    Critical Thinking Simulation

    Do you have any suggestions for completing the following? Prepare a paper discussing a "real world example of critical thinking." This could cover any topic (environment, business, politics, etc)

    Prescreening Tests

    Research different types of prescreening tests and construct a report for the president of the company. Discuss the validity and reliability of each test. Recommend which tests should be used in your company's selection process.

    Exactly what is Emotional Intelligence?

    List and explain the five components of emotional intelligence, as described by Daniel Goleman in his 1994 article, his 1995 book, and later reviewed by the Harvard Business Review. (November/December, 1998).

    Environmental Analysis for CBS Corp

    For CBS Corp: An organization's external environment has three components: the remote environment, the industry environment, and the operating environment. Using the organization you have chosen for your Strategic Plan, you will conduct an Environmental Analysis. Describe several major changes that you expect to have a major