Upon reviewing the following video, “The Corporate Management Training Program at The Kraft Heinz Company”,share an example of an effective or ineffective training program or experience.

• In your opinion what factors made the training program effective or ineffective? State your reasons why you responded as you did.

McDonald’s Corporation

When most firms were struggling in 2008, McDonald’s increased its revenues from $22.7 billion in 2007 to $23.5 billion in 2008. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois McDonald’s net income nearly doubled during that time from $2.4 billion to $4.3 billion—quite impressive. Fortune magazine in 2009 rated McDonald’s as their 16th “Most Admired Company in the World” in terms of their management and performance.

McDonald’s added 650 new outlets in 2009 when many restaurants struggled to keep their doors open. McDonald’s low prices and expanded menu items have attracted millions of new customers away from sit-down chains and independent eateries. Jim Skinner, CEO of McDonald’s, says, “We do so well because our strategies have been so well planned out.” McDonald’s served about 60 million customers every day in 2009, 2 million more than in 2008. Nearly 80 percent of McDonald’s are run by franchisees (or affiliates).

McDonald’s in 2009 spent $2.1 billion to remodel many of its 32,000 restaurants and build new ones at a more rapid pace than in recent years. This is in stark contrast to most restaurant chains that are struggling to survive, laying off employees, closing restaurants, and reducing expansion plans. McDonald's restaurants are in 120 countries. Going out to eat is one of the first activities that customers cut in tough times. A rising U.S. dollar is another external factor that hurts McDonald’s. An internal weakness of McDonald’s is that the firm now offers upscale coffee drinks like lattes and cappuccinos in over 7,000 locations just as budget conscious consumers are cutting back on such extravagances.

About half of McDonald’s 31,000 locations are outside the United States. But McDonald’s top management team says everything the firm does is for the long term. McDonald’s for several years referred to their strategic plan as “Plan to Win.” This strategy has been to increase sales at existing locations by improving the menu, remodeling dining rooms, extending hours, and adding snacks. The company has avoided deep price cuts on its menu items. McDonald’s was only one of three large U.S. firms that saw its stock price rise in 2008.

The other two firms were Wal-Mart and Family Dollar Stores.

Other strategies being pursued currently by McDonald’s include replacing gasoline-powered cars with energy-efficient cars, lowering advertising rates, halting building new outlets on street corners where nearby development shows signs of weakness, boosting the firm’s coffee business, and improving the drive-through windows to increase sales and efficiency.

McDonald’s receives nearly two thirds of its revenues from outside the United States. The company has 14,000 U.S. outlets and 18,000 outlets outside the United States. McDonald’s feeds 58 million customers every day. The company operates Hamburger University in suburban Chicago. McDonald's reported that first quarter 2009 profits rose 4 percent and same-store sales rose 4.3 percent across the globe. Same-store sales in the second quarter of 2009 were up another 4.8 percent.

Questions:

1.      Which theory of organizational adaptation is applied at McDonald's (Theories to choose from: Institution Theory, Strategic choice perspective, and Organizational Learning Theory) ? Discuss.

2.      Conduct the environmental scanning of McDonald's through SWOT analysis.

3.      Discuss any 2 strategies used at McDonald's ( Strategies to choose from : Corporate strategy, Business Strategy, and Functional Strategy) . Elaborate.

4.      Under which strategic type (according to Miles and Snow) can McDonald’s be classified? Elaborate.

The structure of the hotel industry

1- Describe the organizational chart of a 68-room, economy class hotel, franchised under a major chain’s logo, which has no food and beverageservice, not even breakfast.
2- Sketch the floor plan of the same hotel described abov

FORECASTING AVAILABILITY AND OVERBOOKING

A- On October 6, a 300-room property had occupancy of 70%. What is forecasted occupancy for October 7 if:
• 10 rooms are put out-of-order at 9am on October 6
• 150 rooms are on reservation
• Registration information indicates 101 rooms will depart today
• The hotel as an historical 6% cancellation rate
• The hotel as an historical 10% no-show rate

B- Assume that a 200-room hotel sold 50% of its rooms last night. Today, we anticipate that 75 rooms will depart. We hold60 6pm reservations and 90 guaranteed reservations. There are no advance deposits. What is the forecasted number of rooms available for sale
C- Assume that a given property has 300 rooms. After accounting for the day's departures and arrivals, 100 roomsremain unsold. Of these 100 rooms available, 50 rooms cannot be sold because they are out-of-inventory. In this case, theforecasted occupancy percentage would be

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A US importer who owes and Belgian company 500,000 Euros payable in 30 days from today expects that the US Dollar will weaken during this period. What would you advise the importer to do? What would happen if the imported took your advice yet instead of the dollar weakening, the dollar actually strengthened?

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Assume you are about to start your own business. What would you do from the beginning to ensure that your employees will be satisfied and motivated?

in 300 words, Do you think the Bible outlines a particular economic system? If so, what does it look like? If not, do you think the Bible is completely neutral on the subject or does it lean more in one particular direction than another (e.g. toward a free enterprise system or a socialistic system)? Be sure to include some specific biblical texts in your discussion.

1. Assume these facts as true: Sen. Burr chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee. At a closed confidential hearing in late January, he heard dramatic evidence that the corona virus was likely to heavily impact the United States and its economy (which is what happened). The following day, Sen. Burr called his stockbroker and told him to sell all of his $2 million worth of stock holdings. Two weeks later, the danger of the corona virus became known to the public, and the stock market lost much value. Sen Burr saved $400,000. By selling his stock when he did. Was Sen Burr an “insider”. Did he violate the insider trading laws? Argue one way or the other but support your argument.

Assume these facts as true. Sen Loeffler attended the above described hearing chaired by Sen. Burr. When she returned home that evening, she told her husband about the hearing. Her husband is Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. The next day, without telling his wife, he sold $3.5 million worth of stock jointly owned with his wife. He saved $600,000.00 in losses by selling his stock then. Was Sen Loeffler or her husband an “insider”? Did either of them violate the insider trading laws? Argue one way or the other.

Imagine you have been contracted to consult on the recent developments at the Featherfall Medical Center. Featherfall has been struggling of late; it has had a series of problems that have prompted your hiring. It has faced the following issues:

1. Featherfall has recently violated several government regulations regarding the current state of its technology and how it is being used. The technology system is vastly out of date, and staff are not always using the technology that is in place or they are using the technology inappropriately. These problems have lost the institution lots of money for not meeting government regulations and have caused operational and ethical problems from inefficient and ineffective use of technology.

2. The staff at Featherfall are not well-trained on the use of technology and do not communicate appropriately about technology use. The roles that pertinent to your consult are the health information management team, the clinical staff (doctors, nurses, etc.), and administrative staff. The health information management team uses proper coding practices, and the current technology system serves them well, despite its age. However, other roles in the hospital have had issues with the system. Clinical staff, for instance, have had record-keeping issues both due to lack of training on the system and the system itself being out of date. Administrative staff within the organization have taken issue with the lack of communication about the technology and its use between the various roles. When the current technology system was chosen many years ago, the needs of these various roles were not considered.

Preparation for Consult: In this section of your final project, you will prepare for your consultation on the organization’s technology choice. To prepare, you will analyze the field of health information management for determining standard technologies and guidelines related to technology use in order to inform your technology selection.

A. Analyze key historical events in the field of health informatics for how technology has been used that could inform the management of health information. Be sure to support your response with appropriate examples.

B. Determine guidelines for technology use in the field of health information management that Featherfall could implement. Be sure to support your response with research.

C. Determine the standard technologies currently used in the field of health information management. Be sure to support your response with research. For example, what record-keeping technologies are typically used in the field?

D. Develop an overview of how the pertinent roles described at Featherfall would interact with technology.

E. Describe the process you would use to evaluate new health information technology systems. Be sure that your process will evaluate new systems based on how they meet the needs of the organization and how they are compliant with health regulations and laws.  

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1. The following data resulted from a study taken on a horizontal milling machine:

Pieces produced per cycle: 8.

Average measured cycle time: 8.36 minutes.

Average measured effort time per cycle: 4.62 minutes

. Average rapid traverse time: 0.08 minutes.

Average cutting time power feed: 3.66 minutes.

Performance rating: 115 percent.

Allowance (machine time): 10 percent

. Allowance (manual time): 15 percent.

The operator works on the job a full eight-hour day and produces 380 pieces. How many standard hours does the operator earn? What is her efficiency for the eight-hour day?

2. An analyst has estimated that there will be an 84% learning curve for an assembly operation. The first assembly takes 48 minutes and the standard time is set at 6 minutes.

a. How long will it take the operator to reach the standard time?

b. Unfortunately, the operator falls ill after the first week on the new assembly operation and returns after one week. What will be the estimated time for the operator to reach standard time now?

Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following:

1.What are some current trends in health care impacting organizational change? Provide specific examples.

2.What do you see happening with these trends in the future?

Summarize your evaluation of the alignment between what Caterpillar Inc. is currently doing and their mission, vision, or values statement. Would you propose any changes to Caterpillar Inc.'s mission, vision or values statements? Why or why not?