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Case study

The Bigga Izbetta retail group has 4 department stores, all located in New Zealand, at Invercargill, Dunedin and on the Kaikoura and Akaroa Coasts. It is a family-owned company run along traditional lines. Employees work under a hierarchical system, transfers and promotions are regulated by a seniority system, everyone works to a detailed job description and employees are paid according to a fixed salary schedule. George’s recent appointment as the head of the menswear department at the Kaikoura store follows his application and transfer from Dunedin. He is supervising five staff, all of whom have worked in the menswear department for at least 2 years. His second-in-charge, Monique, has worked there for 3 years and is very popular with the rest of the staff. In fact, Monique applied for the job to which George was appointed and everyone in the menswear department was disappointed when she missed out. George is putting a lot of effort into his role as head of the menswear department. He wants his department to be regarded as the most efficient and best-performing in the store and, hopefully, throughout the whole group. He hasn’t really had time to get to know his staff yet. Rather, he spends a lot of time planning and scheduling what needs to be done, assigning tasks to the staff in the department, giving directions and emphasizing sales targets and deadlines.

1.     How would you characterise George’s leadership style? Use at least two leadership theories/models in your answer.

2. Use Fiedler’s contingency theory of leadership to analyse the appropriateness of George’s behaviour in the given situation.

Employee Friendly Policies

A. Discuss three policies in each of the following categories:
     Family Issues
      Health Safety and Wellness
      Flexible work arrangement

open a new small business like frozen pizza, describe 4 types of plans and develop each one for your products

What are some good websites to undersand Supply Chain Practices for a company like Biomarin? ... Such as finding info on supplier qualtiy practices and methodology used for outsourcing of services (research, etcc).

Please using typing vision essay format. Under topic of supply chain management

Please have a detail introduction of USPS, talk about how the history and how of USPS start from the 1639 where it first start at Boston. And the purpose of UPSP formed.

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Find a news story or podcast about intellectual property issues involving a popular logo, brand, trade secret, or copyrighted work. Summarize the news story and explain how it relates to this week's content.

- The Athlete compensation student presentation asked if compensating student athletes for more than room and board is ethical. What is your personal stance on this issue? Provide a thorough explanation.

Employee Engagement

A. Define and discuss the Push-Pull and the 25-50-25 Philosophies of employee engagement.
B. Discuss four different ways that organizations can improve employee engagement.

In your own words submit a narrative (200 words/2 paragraphs for each) and explain each of the following seven (7) operational philosophies found in leisure-service agencies. Include an example to illustrate each philosophy. Which mix of these seven orientations would be most compatible, in your opinion, to a typical municipal recreation and park department's philosophy?

Quality-of-Life Approach

Marketing Approach

Human Services Approach

Prescriptive Approach

Resource Manager/Aesthetic/Preservationist Approach

Hedonist Approach

Benefits-Based Approach

Comfort Zone is a 60-bed, for-profit intermediate care facility in northern California. The reha-bilitative department manager, Jamie Richards, has been working at Comfort Zone for only 6months. She holds monthly staff meetings, as well as additional individual meetings with staff toaddress specific patient-related issues. On most days, she eats lunch in a quiet corner of the cafe-teria so that she can catch up on her paperwork at the same time.Catherine Williams, one of her staff members who has been working at the facility for morethan 25 years, spotted her in the cafeteria one day and sat down uninvited. Catherine has neverattended any of the monthly meetings and always has an excuse for not attending. Catherinesaid, “I’ve been waiting to tell you this ever since you began working here, but I wanted you to getadjusted first. Now we can finally talk. I have been here for a long time and have seen all kinds ofcomings and goings.”Catherine proceeded to tell Jamie about her staff who were constantly tardy or absent. She also told Jamie about the things the staff had been doing behind her back, such as using the Inter-net for personal matters, going shopping during lunch hour and coming back late, and going homeearly without permission. Catherine concluded with, “At your monthly meetings, the staff show up to tell you that everything’s just fine, when I know differently. I’m too busy working to attendthese meetings. If you want my opinion, I would fire them all since they are incompetent.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING-----

1.How should Jamie deal with the information that Catherine provided?

2.What do you think of Jamie’s methods of communicating with her staff?

3.Do you think that she should use a different form of communication with Catherine?

- Nestle was recently on the news this week for giving thousands of bottles of water to its community for which it takes water from during the covid-19 crisis. Does this show social responsibility? Do you believe they may have an alter-motive to these acts?

Profile of the enterprise
 Discuss the marketing practices (activities) that owner-managers undertake in the enterprise.
 How marketing is conducted.
 Challenges that are faced by entrepreneurs in terms of Human Resource Management: Recruitment and retention of employees.

- Do you have an opinion or suggestion for how to ethically allocate scare resources for Covid-19? Should there be ethical values for rationing health resources in a pandemic?

Feasibility Analyses and Business Plans Please respond to the following with a 250-300 word response: Develop an idea for a new business and conduct a feasibility analysis. Please be as creative as you like in the development of your idea (but as careful as you can be in your analysis of that idea). Analyze the steps involved in crafting a winning business plan and make at least one recommendation for improving the process. Explain your rationale for making the recommendation you did.