Individual Assignment #4: We have covered a great deal of ground and information between the last assignment and this assignment. I would like you to focus your time on two on the most forgotten areas of training and development. Those two areas include analysis and evaluation.

1. Define the term needs analysis and evaluation

2.Describe the components of a needs analysis

3.Explain how you would conduct a needs analysis at BP Amoco

4.Describe the levels of evaluation and which ones you would apply at BP Amoco

5.List and discuss the various designs that are possible for evaluation

1. Were the UN’s Millennium Development Goals a success? Explain.

2. Choose two of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and describe how business can play a role in helping to achieve them.

Identify and briefly discuss each of the three options for diversifying into another industry. Include in your answer the driving forces behind each option AND which one is used most frequently.

why do firms need to target multiple segments? how it will affect the competencies of the firm.

Training and Development -ETDP      

This case study is provided for those candidates who have no other means of generating evidence in support of ELO 7.

Define standards for assessment, education, training and development (ID 117856)

The term “standard” refers to a document that defines required outcomes of learning, associated assessment criteria and range statements, and any additional information that may be required in order to make an assessment judgement concerning learner competence.

You have been appointed to the SGB (standards generating body) responsible for developing qualifications and standards in your professional area. You have been designated task team leader to develop standards for your area of expertise.

You need to:

1.Develop a plan for the standards writing process.

The plan should provide details of target dates, areas of responsibility, mechanisms for consultation, and resources required.

Please complete a SWOT Analysis for Mexico in paragraph form. Please be as detailed as possible

if you successfully position your product as per your positioning plan, it is sure that you will succees in acheiveing your marketing objectives? if you are not sure what could be the reasons behind this failure,discuss any two such reason?

Jim rented an apartment from Bahama Beach Apartment. In the contract, it stated that the rent was due on the 1st of the month and there would be a $15 late fee for rent paid after the 5th of the month. Jim paid June’s rent on the 10th of the month. Bahama Beach Apartment did not charge him the later fee. When Jim was late in October, Bahama Beach charged him the late fee. Jim objected to the late fee and stated that the apartment complex had waived the late fees when he did not pay in June. Using IRAC determine whether the apartment complex waived all future late fees.

1. My neighbor decided to fix up his house. I was excited because that meant it would improve my properties value. My neighbor contracted with TDH Associates to repair his roof, paint his house and do some landscaping.   TDH Associates do not fulfill their obligations. Using IRAC, if I sue TDH Associates what is the outcome?

If you were going to run a business with a family member, how would you go about deciding on the organizational culture you want to create?

Email is becoming one of the most common forms of communication in the workplace. Although email is a main form of business communication, it is not always done well. Many employers complain of employees who send poorly written and confusing emails. Because of their extensive use, it is important to learn how to write emails professionally with informative subject lines, appropriate greetings, well-organized bodies, and complete closing information.

This assignment will allow you the opportunity to practice composing professionally written emails. The following Word document contains several job-related scenarios which require an email to be sent. Read each scenario and compose an appropriate email by applying the concepts discussed in the lesson. Be sure to analyze your audience, implement a you-attitude, and use positive emphasis.

Compose all your emails in the same document but write each each email on a page of its own

Include an informative subject line for each email

Include an appropriate greeting for each email

Include a formal closing for each email

The following are work-related scenarios which require an email to be sent. Read each scenario and compose an appropriate email by applying the concepts discussed in the lesson. Be sure to analyze your audience, implement a you-attitude, and use positive emphasis. Use a new page for each email.

Include an informative subject line

Include an appropriate greeting

Include a formal closing

Scenario 1:

You applied for a financial analyst job two weeks ago at the Acme Loan Company and haven’t heard back from the supervisor Mr. Hiram. You’ve been holding your breath and want to check in to get a status on if you’re going to get hired or not. Send a professional email to Mr. Hiram inquiring about the job.

Scenario 2:

You’ve been offered a job as a Branch Manager at Madden Incorporated and have determined that you do not want to accept it because you received a better offer elsewhere. Send a professional email to the supervisor, Ms. Eldridge, to turn down the position.

Scenario 3:

You’re working on a proposal for a new policy at work with your co-worker Marc. Your boss has given you a strict deadline which you are not on track of meeting because Marc is overcomplicating the process and it is slowing the entire project down. Write a casual but professional email to Marc expressing some ideas you want to share to simplify the process and work more efficiently to stay on the timeline.

Scenario 4:

You and your co-worker Dana are constantly having conflict in the office and it is affecting your ability to get your job done. You have made efforts to try to mend things be she is convinced she is not part of the problem. Now you have to get your boss Mrs. Freelander involved. Write a professional and tactful email to Mrs. Freelander asking her to meet with you so you can discuss with her what has been going on and ask her to step in to assist with the situation.

Scenario 5:

Your co-worker Ted has asked you to serve on a departmental planning committee at your job which is going to take up a lot of time you don’t have. You’re already running behind on the last project he assigned to you. Write Ted a professional email informing him that you will not be able to serve on the committee because you don’t want to overcommit.

Scenario 6:

You work in the customer relations department at a retail store. You have a customer who ordered some holiday gift baskets which were damaged on their way from the warehouse to the store due to an exceptionally turbulent flight. Write a professional email to the customer explaining the situation and ensuring them you are doing everything you can to deliver their order before the holiday. Try to maintain the relationship with the customer as much as possible.

why it is often difficult to identify the problems that create the planninggap? suggest atleast one such method to the marketing planner, how will you see that gap?

Using BP.

1. List 2- 3 strategies that your organization has successfully executed in your opinion.

2. Describe some of the leadership behaviors that you observed during the time in which these strategies were executed.

Environment pressure discusses to the force and institutions outside the organization that potentially affect the organization’s performance. The environment pressures outside forces that affect an organization in one war of another. Organization pressures pertains to internal factors that may disrupt and affect the organization’s operations and performance such as management change, change in organization’s structure etc. both environmental and organization pressure affect the performance. The external environmental pressures that affects contains specific and general environment; Specific environment refers is the environment directly relevant to achievement of an organization’s goals such as:

Competitors – they affect the organization through pricing strategies, new products and services, and incentives the competitors give to customers.

Pressure groups – these are groups around the organization and the management must recognize and meet their interests or else they may force the organization to slow operations and shut down

Suppliers -they provide input to business and managers must ensure they provide steady and reliable flow of inputs to meet organizational goals.

Customers - they absorb organization’s output, and represent uncertainty to organization because their tastes and preferences of products and services can change.

Management change, Organizational restructuring, and Entrepreneurship are all pressures that will affect an organization. Management change - new managers or CEOs can significantly affect corporate culture and understanding such risks is important Organizational restructuring - entails altering the existing organization structure to adopt to development of new strategic business units, new product lines or even global expansion and this means altering communication protocols, hierarchies and this impacts the business performance Entrepreneurship - an organizational pressure that involves new ideas from outside the organization, integrating the ideas, reallocation of resources etc. that will affect the general performance of the organization

QUESTION: What are some ways in which an organization can identify these pressures and head them off before they become a bigger problem? Why is it important to have a strategy to deal with these challenges?