2. Do you have an academic or career-oriented goal? a. Explain your goal and explain why this goal is important to you. Be specific, and describe it in light of your overall goals as a university student. b. Self-assess your own goal. Is this goal realistic? Why or why not?

and How is your progress towards that goal? When the semester is over, do you think you will meet your goal or miss your goal? Or, will you meet it in part and miss it in part?

Do Media Influence Society?

Write a proposal to a company to implement blockchain technology for the company. Why would you implement that and get them to accept your proposal. (Atleast 6 pages). Technical writing

Discuss in detail the preservation of materials, causes of deterioration of materials in a warehouse and explain how the following common materials are preserved (show the sketches where required)
o   Paints
o   Rubber and Rubber Products
o   Fragile items

*the mejor is WAREHOUSE MANGEMENT*

This assignment will require you to do some outside research. Research the events surrounding the work stoppage (strike) which happened during the summer of 2014 at Market Basket - a grocery store chain in NE. Your research should involve an exploration of the events from a Human Resource perspective.

For the assignment you will write a 2-3 page double spaced paper (12 font) plus title and reference page. (for example: minimum 5 pages - title page 3 pages of content and reference page).  

For the content of the paper choose at least three Human Resource elements that were found in your research. Explain how they impacted the 2014 events and what significance they had. In the end, summarize your thoughts (again from an HR perspective) about the events.

What type of incentives can a company offer to its employees? And how do these effect employee recruiting and retention efforts? Do you think these incentives create a more skilled workforce? Why or why not?

Describe how organizations use surveys and market pay to set employees' pay and incentives.

This assignment will require you to do outside research. Research a company that you feel provided the best benefits - do NOT use GOOGLE as your example as we have talked about this in class already. This is similar to your last project. In your 1-2 page double spaced paper identify the company and explain in your own words the benefits they provide. In your opinion why are these benefits important to the employee, company, and its customers? Do you feel that all companies should provide the same type of benefits? Why or why not? Do you think that companies should only provide the government mandated benefits? Why or why not? Do you think benefits have increase, decreased or stayed the same over the past 20 years? Explain your answer.

From the power of six sigma by subir chowdhury

1. What company and division did Joe (the main character) work for?

2. Who is Larry Hogan? What company and division did Larry work for? How does Joe know Larry?

3. Who is Cathy Baker? What did she do that really benefited the company she worked for?
4. Larry said, “The real power of Six Sigma is simple because it combines _________ _________ with _________ _________.

5. According to Larry, what are the two ways to win a football game? What analogy does he make with football and a business?*
6. Larry said, “Six Sigma is a management ______________ focused on _______________ _____________, _______________, and _______________.” “It establishes a measurable status to achieve and embodies a _________________ _________-__________ ____________ to increase ______________ _______________ and dramatically enhance the ______________ _____________.”
7. What is DPMO? How many occur at 3 sigma? At 3.8 sigma, what amount of output is correct?
8. What was Larry’s point when Joe estimated that a burger restaurant on average “screwed up” a dozen hamburgers a day?
9. What are the two most common misconceptions about Six Sigma (according to Larry)?
10. Why does Larry say that focusing on customer retention is at least as important as attracting new customers?

11. Who determines what to do to make customers happier and increase profits?

12. Define each key role in Six Sigma (those with an “^*” should have a substantially greater explanation to clearly convey the role and duties.)
    1. Executive Leadership
    2. Executive Champion
    3. Deployment Champion
    4. Project Champion
    5. Master Black Belt^*
    6. Black Belt^*
    7. Green Belt^*

13. Who are the only people who work full-time on a Six Sigma project?
14. How many projects per year might each Black Belt complete? How much money can be saved doing this?
15. How many weeks of training for a black belt? Is it all at once? What happens during the period of time the black belt is under training that makes the preparation successful?
16. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the DEFINE phase of the Six Sigma process. Which of the problems should a business pick to work on?
17. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the MEASURE phase of the Six Sigma process. Why is it so important?
18. How does Larry say to measure “capability”? What is CTQ?
19. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the ANALYZE phase of the Six Sigma process. What are the two big questions to answer?
20. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the IMPROVE phase of the Six Sigma process.
21. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the CONTROL phase of the Six Sigma process.
22. Finish Larry’s sentence “Once the plan’s in place, it’s the Master Black Belt’s job to make sure the team _______________________________, ____________________________, and __________________________________.”

23. What was a major quality problem with the pizzas according to the customers? What was the measurement they did to understand the significance of this problem?
24. What about the process caused this problem? (There were multiple things.)
25. Why did management approve the major change suggested by Larry? What about the Six Sigma method was important to obtaining approval?
26. Besides eliminating defective pizzas, what positive benefit did American Pizza receive?

27. What was the next big problem for American Pizza to deal with?
28. How did the customer’s definition of this problem differ from what American Pizza’s definition? What was the measureable difference?
29. What did they do to improve this? How could they afford to spend that amount of money on doing those things?

Describe one other project undertaken by Larry for American Pizza

A large electronics manufacturing firm makes HD televisions for export around the world. The firm is fairly new. This industry is extremely price competitive; building a solid market share quickly is the only path to survival. The company makes a limited number of models so that manufacturing can be standardized. This also keeps quality high, which is a must. All employees work at the main factory, except for a handful of sales teams who have small offices in key cities around the world. Not much changes in the company from month-to-month, except that sales volume is steadily increasing. When designing their organization structure, what choices will support the goals and culture of this organization? Select the five choices that apply.

Provide a full paragraph biography on each top/key executive for General Motors (Do not include the CEO) Include pictures if possible. The company website is a good source. Based on the photos and backgrounds, how diverse do you feel the make up of the top executives is? Consider the female/male makeup, the ethnic make up and the different races of board members.

Provide a few strategies companies should consider to better cope with climate change disruptions.

Assume you are the logistics manager for fictional StayFresh Grocery Stores, in Cleveland, Ohio. You are responsible for seven stores in the metropolitan area.

*How might you employ cross-docking at your biggest regional warehouse to improve the distribution of goods to each of the stores?

*Identify how cross-docking works and how it could aid in on-time (and fresh) produce deliveries.

What is social business? Discuss its advantages using relevant examples.