On December 31 of last year, Lauren burst into the family living room and announced that she and Connor (her college boyfriend) were going to be married. After recovering

from the shock, her mother hugged her and asked, “When?” The following conversation resulted:

Lauren: January 21.

Mom: What?

Dad: The Now Wedding will be the social hit of the year. Wait a minute. Why so soon?

Lauren: Because on January 30 Connor, who is in the National Guard, will be shipping out overseas. We want a week for a honeymoon.

Mom: But Honey, we can't possibly finish all the things that need to be done by then. Remember all the details that were involved in your sister's wedding?

Even if we start tomorrow, it takes a day to reserve the church and reception hall, and they need at least 14 days' notice. That has to be done before we can start decorating, which takes 3 days. An extra $200 on Sunday would probably cut that 14 day notice to 7 days, though.

Dad: Oh, boy!

Lauren: I want Jane Summers to be my maid of honor.

Dad: But she's in the Peace Corps in Guatemala, isn't she? It would take her 10

days to get ready and drive up here.

Lauren: But we could fly her up in 2 days and it would only cost $1,000.

Dad: Oh, boy!

Mom: And catering! It takes 2 days to choose the cake and decorations, and Jack's Catering wants at least 5 days' notice. Besides, we'd have to have those things before we could start decorating.

Lauren: Can I wear your wedding dress, Mom?

Mom: Well, we'd have to replace some lace, but you could wear it, yes. We could order the lace from New York when we order the material for the bridesmaids' dresses. It takes 8 days to order and receive the material. The pattern needs to be chosen first, and that would take 3 days.

Dad: We could get the material here in 5 days if we paid an extra $20 to airfreight it. Oh, boy!

Lauren: I want Mrs. Jacks to work on the dresses.

Mom: But she charges $48 a day.

Dad: Oh, boy!

Mom: If we did all the sewing we could finish the dresses in 11 days. If Mrs. Jacks helped we could cut that down to 6 days at a cost of $48 for each day less than 11 days. She is very good too.

Lauren: I don't want anyone but her.

Mom: It would take another 2 days to do the final fitting and 2 more days to clean and press the dresses. They would have to be ready by rehearsal night. We must have rehearsal the night before the wedding.

Dad: Everything should be ready rehearsal night.

Mom: We've forgotten something. The invitations!

Dad: We should order the invitations from Bob's Printing Shop, and that usually takes 7 days. I'll bet he would do it in 6 days if we slipped him an extra $20!

Mom: It would take us 2 days to choose the invitation style before we could order them and we want the envelopes printed with our return address.

Lauren: Oh! That will be elegant.

Mom: The invitations should go out at least 10 days before the wedding. If we let them go any later, some of the relatives would get theirs too late to come and that would make them mad. I'll bet that if we didn't get them out until 8 days before the wedding, Aunt Ethel couldn't make it and she would reduce her wedding gift by $200.

Dad: Oh, boy!!

Mom: We'll have to take them to the Post Office to mail them and that takes a day. Addressing would take 3 days unless we hired some part-time girls and we can't start until the printer is finished. If we hired the girls we could probably save 2 days by spending $40 for each day saved.

Lauren: We need to get gifts for the bridesmaids. I could spend a day and do that.

Mom: Before we can even start to write out those invitations we need a guest list. Heavens, that will take 4 days to get in order and only I can understand our address file.

Lauren: Oh, Mom, I'm so excited. We can start each of the relatives on a different job.

Mom: Honey, I don't see how we can do it. Why, I've got to choose the invitations and patterns and reserve the church and . . .

Dad: Why don't you just take $3,000 and elope. Your sister's wedding cost me $2,400 and she didn't have to fly people up from Guatemala, hire extra girls and Mrs. Jacks, use airfreight, or anything like that.

Considering the list of items Lauren and Mom plan for the wedding, identify a contingency plan for three key items essential to the wedding. The list may not include the three original items you suggested alternates for, but it may include the alternates since you may assume that Lauren loved your suggestions. Why are these items essential to the wedding and therefore in need of a contingency plan?

Whether and how the voting is the personal responsibility of every citizen,

and whether and how citizens have a social responsibility to consider how their individual vote will affect the diverse interests of the broader community?

E Price  
a) Identify the price point ranges for each product type for business to consumer and for business to business.
Create a table to summarize the products (services) and the price points.
It could be bronze, silver, gold or small, medium, and large etc for different product types coffee, tea, brownies etc or TV's, phones etc. If the service is free to consumers explain why? How does the company make money? What is the price they charge to businesses for the different services? Discuss if some services are provided free to consumers and if the service can be upgraded for a fee that might suggest a Good, Better, Best pricing strategy.

b) Discuss why or why not you feel their strategy is penetration pricing or skimming.  
c) Discuss if they segmented the market by price or some other segmentation approach.
d) What is the annual revenue for Facebook inc?

Describe the situation of the major Hispanic American groups in terms of acculturation and integration. Which groups are closest to equality? What factors or experiences might account for the differences between groups? In what ways might this statement be true: "Hispanic Americans are remaining pluralistic even while they assimilate"?

Transformational Leadership - List one organizational situation when this style will be Inappropriate/destructive?

It seems to be very common sense to not have HR practices that are competing with one another. Why does this happen and what would be your recommendations to managers to try to avoid this scenario?

Provide examples from your work experiences in which incongruent HR practices existed. What was the impact on performance, motivation, and turnover?

ABC drug company has hired you as a consultant to hire the following positions:

1. Production Supervisor (Factory)
2. Health and Safety Specialist
3. Financial Analyst
4. HRIS (Human Resource Information System) Specialist
5. Corporate Communication Director
6. Recruiter

ABC wants you to independently develop the job specification (KSAOs) of the jobs, and submit a proposal as how you would like to recruit, screen and then conduct employment testing prior to the final employment interview.

Instruction: for any four job of your choice from the above list and prepare the following:

1. Develop a job specification (KSAOs) of your picked job.

(if you are not sure about the job description and specification of your picked job, you can do some research in the internet using NOC, O*Net or other available resources. These specifications may vary from student to student. Its ok)

Based on your developed job specification (KSAOs) and course learning (lecture, text, class activities) answer the following:

2. Propose suitable recruitment sources (not more than 4) explaining the reasons behind your choices.

3. Propose a screening strategy, outlining each stage of screening and the resources and tools to be used. (Here you need to assume a reasonable volume of applications that you expect to receive)

4. Propose suitable employment tests for the screened candidates (not more than 4) with justifications and legal implications for using them.

5. Timing of recruitment plan indicating each stage of your initiatives up-to the completion of employment testing (Here, again, you need to have your estimates of candidates in each stage)

Categorize a firm you have worked with recently as a defender, prospector, or analyzer.

Discuss whether or not the staffing systems supported the strategy the firm utilized.

Given the emphasis on teams, cross functional responsibilities and non-traditional forms of jobs, what types of selection systems would you recommend to ensure newcomers have the requisite skills for such firms?

Give an example of an Unfair Labour Practice.

What are some of the important steps that an organization can follow to ensure a workplace free from sexual harassment

Product(Facebook Inc.)
Remember the brand is wrapped around the product and products can be tangible or intangible.
a) Describe fully the services provided by Facebook Inc. to consumers (B2C) and businesses (B2B).
Explain why Facebook Inc. product is either tangible or intangible?

For example, for Frito Lays Inc. some of the product types they sell are
potato chips, corn chips, and tortilla chips. For social media companies, there are different types of services.
b) Discuss where you think Facebook Inc. products are in the product life cycle and explain why.
c) Identify the corporate (parent) brand for Facebook Inc. and master brands and include pictures of the logos.   
The parent brand includes the words Company, Corporation, Inc., LLC etc. Sometimes one of the master brands might also include the parent brand name, but without the Inc., Company, Corporation etc. For example, Facebook Inc. and Facebook.
d) Discuss if Facebook Inc. strategy is multi-product branding, multi branding, or private branding and fully explain why based on what you observed and the concepts discussed in the textbook. Include pictures.  
e) Discuss and give examples of Facebook Inc. line extensions or brand extensions. Include pictures.
f) Identify the number of monthly active users and the percent of internet users reached for Facebook Inc.

Develop a 25 questionnaire Survey question on the topic "the Impact of Qualifications and Experience on Promotional Opportunities.

Explain Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. What does it tell us about employee motivation? Cite an example of what a company does to provide motivation for each of the levels within the hierarchy?

I believe having a diverse workforce is very valuable,as diversity is much needed in today's world.When in business you have people to be able to meet all needs which may require language, nationality, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.Is it a challenge for human resource managers yes.Having to learn and understand everyone's background and coming to an understanding with what works best for everyone to work together.I believe these challenges are overcome by open door policies and communication.If you are interviewing probably and knowing your teams weak and strong needs you are able to bring in the right fit to make everything balance in the work place.I also believe open door leaves room for employees and employers to discuss things properly without confrontation and understanding core values.

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