Self-esteem in the work environment is crucial to the overall success of everyday business operations and functions for the employee and employer; therefore, it is important to identify healthy self-esteem development and how to overcome communication barriers.
Create a PowerPoint presentation (minimum of 10 slides) on how to overcome communication barriers—verbal and nonverbal (identify and explain with supported data and illustrations).
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Describe the matrix organizational form? What are its advantages and disadvantages? Discuss the importance of negotiations between project and functional managers?
Define each of the key elements of project planning? What is required in a project audit? What purpose do project audits serve?
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Define the terms ‘risk’, ‘certainty’ and ‘uncertainty’ as they relate to
managerial decision-making. Using examples from any published news
sources, describe what types of situations would count as risk, certainty and
uncertainty from a managerial perspective. 250 words or less
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Florida State
How can securities be registered in Florida List the cites of any statutes in Florida permitting the following:
a. Registration by filing
b. Registration by coordination
c. Registration by qualification
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Case Study: Evaluating the Training Effort
After trainees complete their training (or perhaps at planned intervals during the training), the program should be evaluated to see how well their objectives have been met. Thus, if assembler should be able to solder a junction in 30 seconds, or a Xerox technician repair a machine in 30 minutes, then the program`s effectiveness should be measured based on whether these objectives are met. For example, are your trainees learning as much as they can? Are they developing the preplanned skills? Is there a better way for managing the training process? These are some of the questions you can answer by properly evaluating you training effort. Many companies that invested heavily in workplace training have substantially improved their positions. While it may not be just the training, Xerox retained over 110,000 employees worldwide in the early 1980s and soon regained market share in its industry. General Motor is another firm that has used training to help recapture market share. A study conducted at General Electric`s in the early 2000s showed that the heavy investments in training between 1995 and 2000 resulted in noticeable improvements in employees` abilities and the quality of their products. Another study found that SG Bank has seen significant increases in its productivity growth after implementing new employee training program.
1. Consider the first bold statement in the text: (10 marks; 5 each)
a. To what type of training outcome does it refer? Justify your answer
b. Identify and discuss the theory of transfer of training applicable to this type of training outcome.
2. Consider the second bold statement in the text: (10 marks; 5 each)
a. To what kind of training evaluation does it refer? Justify your answer.
b. Discuss the effectiveness of this kind of training evaluation.
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In Thinking, Fast and Slow, you learn about several biases including the (1) availability bias, (2) anchoring effect, (3) hindsight bias, and (4) focusing illusion.
a. For each of these biases, discuss (one at a time) how each could affect your decision making as a manager or employee (choose the role - manager or employee - you feel is more appropriate for the discussion).
b. How can being aware of these biases help you in your role as a manager or employee (choose the role - manager or employee - you feel is more appropriate for the discussion)?
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Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have an impact far beyond their firm boundaries. Assume you are working for a small firm that supplies a product or service to an MNE. How might your relationship change as the MNE moves from Globalization 2.0 to Globalization 3.0 operations? Being a “small firm”, what are some examples of how this relationship change could potentially benefit the company? How might the change affect a small supplier in a negative way?
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This question contains two parts; be sure to answer both. First, identify and define the five sources of power. Second, imagine that the local branch of a national bank is located in your neighborhood, and you are the branch manager. You are having problems with the tellers who work the drive-through window; you are receiving complaints that they are very slow, and that they spend too much time talking to one another while long lines of cars build up. How might you wield each of the five types of power to solve the problem?
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You are the newly appointed HR Manager and must develop some programs, solutions, or interventions to address these issues. Ideally, there should be integration among the various problems. As such, you do not need to address EACH item, point-by-point.
1) The organization is in the decline stage of growth
2) Many of the top leaders on the verge of retirement (i.e., those in the highest leadership positions)
3) Many of the mid-level managers are aggressively pursuing other employment alternatives
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Infocomp Systems Lab is a research and development (R&D) company that develops computer systems and software primarily for the medical industry. The lab has proposals from its own researchers for eight new projects. Each of the proposed research projects requires limited resources, and it is not possible to undertake all of them. The following table shows the developmental budget, the number of researchers, and the expected annual sales from each project if successfully developed and implemented:
|
Project |
Developmental Budget ($1,000,000s) |
Number of Research Personnel |
Expected Annual Sales ($1,000,0005) |
|
1 |
$0.675 |
6 |
$0.82 |
|
2 |
1.050 |
5 |
1.75 |
|
3 |
0.725 |
7 |
1.60 |
|
4 |
0.430 |
8 |
1.90 |
|
5 |
1.240 |
10 |
0.93 |
|
6 |
0.890 |
6 |
1.70 |
|
7 |
1.620 |
7 |
1.30 |
|
8 |
1.200 |
6 |
1.80 |
The lab has developed the following set of prioritized goals for selecting which projects to initiate:
(1) The company would like to remain within a total developmental budget of $5,000,000.
(2) The number of available research personnel is 27, and Infocomp would like to avoid obtaining extra researchers.
(3) The company would like the expected future annual sales from the implemented projects to be at least $6,500,000.
(4) Projects 1, 3, 4, and 6 are considered offensive in that they represent new product initiatives, while projects 2, 5, 7, and 8 are existing product upgrades and thus defensive in nature. The lab would like to select at least two projects from each group.
(5) Projects 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 are considered the most risky of the projects, and the company would prefer not to select any more than three of these projects.
(6) The lab’s owner has indicated that she would like to see projects 5 and 6 initiated if doing so would not interfere with the achievement of any of the more important goals determined by the lab’s top management.
a. Formulate a goal programming model to determine which projects Infocomp Systems Lab should select to best achieve its goals.
No need to solve in excel. Looking for Decision variables, objective function and constraints.
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Q2. Read the paragraph and answer the following (write it down on a paper)
"A bottled water company want to change how they are selling their product by the traditional method. They want from their customers to have the option to buy from them directly instead of buying their products through Supermarkets or grocery stores".
- What are the options the company can take to allow customers to buy directly from them?
- How can they create a value to attract more customers to buy directly from them?
- Is there any advantage of using Technological factors to achieve their goal?
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write a counter argument on how is social media affecting young adults, parents, or teens for better or for worse
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As the HR Director, you are tasked with determining how to combine candidates' assessment scores (standardized interview, an intelligence test, and a work sample) and extending offers to the three most qualified candidates. Which method would you recommend for combining the scores? Why? What factors other than the assessment scores would you take into account before selecting the final candidates? Once the final candidates are selected, would it be fair to offer different starting salary rates if needed to get them to come aboard? Why or why not?
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