Select two UAE or other Gulf/Arab banks. You can find their financial statements at the website of the UAE central bank or at the website of Dubai Financial Market (http://www.dfm.ae/pages/default.aspx?c=1010 ) or Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange (http://adx.ae/ENGLISH/SECURITIES/Pages/ListedCompanies.aspx ). Be careful to select two banks with similar size (Total assets) and either two conventional banks or two Islamic banks. Do not compare a conventional bank with an Islamic bank. The comparison should be two Islamic banks with each other or conventional banks with each other. You have to analyze their performance in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018).

So, try to follow these points in the analysis: 1. Give a short description of the activity of each bank (when they were created, who are the shareholders, where do they operate, what kind of services they offer and so on)

How do you respond to the assertion that “the most important organization in the world is the company: It is the basis of the prosperity of the West and the best hope for the future of the rest of world”? If not the company, what else?

The book is Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility CSR chapter#7

Explain the logic used to determine which activity to reduce on a Project Network based on the cost slope and other relevant information.

What is the scope of Human Resource Planning (HRP) Exercise?

Benefit of Workforce Planning and effective HRP?

  Evolution of HRP Human Resource Planning?

Compute the capacity (bottleneck rate) in jobs per hour (jph) of the following configurations and record your numerical answers (in order) to the nearest tenth of jph. (Enter numbers only):

a. A station with two (2) machines operating in parallel with 5-minute process times (te) at each machine.

b. A balanced line with two (2) series single-machine stations, both with average processing times (te) of 10 minutes.

c. A line with four (4) single machine stations in series, where the average processing times are:

15, 18, 10, & 12 minutes respectively.

d. A four (4) station line with multi-machine stations A, B, C, & D, where the number of parallel machines are 2, 6 10, & 4 respectively. The average processing times (te) at each station are 10, 24, 40, & 18 minutes respectively (see table below).

Process Line with series stations & parallel machines per station Question (d)

The Nature and scope of Human Resource Planning is significantly different from that of the Traditional Manpower Planning exercise.”?

3.0 Manpower Planning

     3.1 Definitions of Manpower Planning

     3.2 Purpose of Manpower Planning

     3.3 Steps of Manpower Planning

      3.4 Benefits of Manpower Planning

      3.5 Limitations of Manpower Planning

Chapter 8 Case analysis:

Within your studies of the new product development process, look at the following mini cases and answer the questions that follow:                                                                               

McLobsters Case                                                                                                                                   
Fill in the blanks with the stage name of the new product development process :

When you're a giant company like McDonald's, with locations all over the globe, you can perform test marketing in your own stores. Take the McLobster for instance. I'm sure it began during an _____ _________. They must have said, "Hey, what is missing in our Canadian/New England market?" Or maybe it is coming from a consumer or supplier. Either way, the McLobster passed the ___________ stage "which helps spot good ideas and drop poor ones as soon as possible."

Next, came the _________________, "a detailed version of the idea stated in meaningful consumer terms." This would go something like, "The McLobster: real Atlantic lobster spread over the length of a bun and smothered in creamy, white McLobster sauce...mmm, I'm lovin' it!"

Eventually, after the _____________________ stage where McDonald's described their target market, the planned value proposition, and the sales, market share, and profit goals. Finally, they would have performed a ________________ on the McLobster, reviewing sales, costs, and profit projections to see if they fit with the objectives of the company.

McDonald's wouldn't then just commercialize the product to every McDonald's that serves to their target market, they would first have to do    _______________, by introducing the product and marketing program into real market conditions. Here, they would offer the McLobster at certain locations within their target market.

The McLobster must not have been profitable enough to mass commercialize, but to my understanding it has been re-introduced over the years as a seasonal product.

Now answer the following questions:

1. State 3 (three) of the external sources for ideas?

2. Explain two reasons for new products to fail.

3. Explain 2 important considerations in the commercialization stage. (2 mark)

4. As a marketing manager for McDonalds, explain how your company will apply the concept of social responsibility                                                                                                                    

explain in detail what crisis management plan is and why it is important for every firm to have one?

500 words/ 2 references in APA format

Human Resource Planning (HRP) represents a significant improvement on traditional Manpower Planning exercise.

To what extent does HRP represent an improvement towards an organisation’s assessment of it human resource needs?

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Human Resource Planning (HRP)

     2.1 Definition of Human Resource Planning

     2.2 Role of Human Resource Planning

     2.3 Objectives of Human Resource Planning

      2.4 Process of Human Resource Planning

1. Four most common layout formats (170, PPT 4-10) – describe the four most common layout formats. 2. workcenter (Job shop) Layout (170-174, PPT 11-20) – for a given workcenter layout, be able to assess the material handling cost/distance. 3. Assembly Line Layout (174-180, PPT 21-40) – be able to balance an assembly line: 1) draw a precedence diagram, 2) determine the workstation cycle time, 3) determine the theoretical minimum number of workstations, 4) using the longest task time rule to assign tasks to workstations, and 5) evaluate the efficiency. 4. Work Cell, Project, and other nonmanufacturing Layout (181-185) – illustrate how to develop a layout for work cell, project, and layouts in nonmanufacturing settings.

Chapter 12 – Six Sigma Quality 1. Defining Quality (299-303, PPT 4-16) – be able to define quality and TQM; understand the four categories of cost of quality (COQ). 2. Total Quality Management (PPT 17-36) – be able to describe each of the seven concepts for an effective TQM program. 3. Six Sigma (303-310, PPT 24-29) – understand the Six Sigma approach to improving quality and productivity. 4. Tools of TQM (PPT 37-49) – describe the seven tools for TQM – what they are and when to use them. 5. ISO (310-312, PPT 50-55) – describe the ISO international quality standards.

Develop the training manual on any courses, such as Financial Accounting, to be used by the freshmen. Material of this manual should include the following:

1. Training objectives

2. Training contents (2 chapters)

3. Learning models

4. Key learning points

5. Exercises, using different training methods, such as games, case studies, group exercises, etc.

6. Diagrams, pictures, graphs, etc.

7. Reference list