Assignment Objectives:

Plan for onboarding, ensuring that new hires obtain the knowledge, skills and relationships they need to perform successfully.

Evaluate the difference between effective onboarding and orientation plans and ineffective ones.

Purpose: A successful onboarding process can make a big difference in not only how quickly a new employee reaches effective productivity levels, but also to their ultimate success in their role. As managers, we need to make sure new employees have not only a structured initial orientation, but also ongoing training that addresses their information and acclimation needs.

Assignment Description:  Based on the scenario entitled “Diary of a Troubled Onboarding Process” on pages 200-201 in the Hernandez and O’Connor text, assume that you are the new practice manager described in the scenario. Your task is to prepare an evaluation of the orientation and training that was provided to you in the scenario, and produce recommendations for a more effective onboarding program for new employees. Your paper should evaluate the effectiveness of the activities that are described in the scenario, and suggest an alternative plan for the following key elements of onboarding and training : Pre-Start Preparation, Employee’s First Day, Employee’s First Week.

Please organize your evaluation as follows, addressing each of the listed elements:

Introduction: In your opinion, how would you assess the overall effectiveness of the onboarding process described in the scenario?

Part 1: Evaluate the effectiveness of the activities that are described in the scenario for Pre-Start Preparation, and present a case for how the process should be improved. What changes do you recommend, what specific steps should be addressed before a new employee arrives? Assess the potential for improved productivity if your changes are implemented?

Part 2: Evaluate the effectiveness of the First Day Activities that are described in the scenario, and defend your suggestions for an improved process. (For example, should some of the standard information be offered in e-learning modules? Should new employees spend more of their first day in their new departments, as opposed to a facility-wide orientation? Should there be a schedule for more than one day of orientation?) Include recommendations for specific activities and timelines, feel free to create checklists as an evaluation guide. Assess the potential for improved productivity in your new approach compared to the scenario?

Conclusion: Justify why your new recommendations would have better outcomes than the onboarding/orientation that you received in the text scenario. Summarize the potential for improved productivity in your new approach compared to the scenario

Parameters: Your paper should be a minimum of 3 pages (excluding cover and reference pages) following APA 6th ed style. Include at least one outside reference in addition to your textbook.

Consider a supply chain consisting of a part supplier, a manufacturer (mfr.), the retailer, and the customer. Suppose the customer’s reservation price of the machine is $200. The retail price is $150. The wholesale price between the mfr. and the dealer is $100. The dealer’s other retail-related cost is $20. The mfr. produces the product at $30 as the production cost and pays the supplier $20 to buy the parts needed. The supplier’s production cost is $10.

Q1. Please calculate each supply chain member’s profit/surplus, and the supply chain surplus.

Q2. What is the relationship between the supply chain surplus and all members’ profit/surplus?   

With global marketing exploding, comment on the following:

1. What are 3 benefits for a firm to engage in global marketing?

2. Describe 3 alternatives for first time exporters to reach foreign consumers.

3. Explain an Economic Block with an example and cite 3 benefits of such an arrangement.

One of the things that some businesses do to minimize risk in this area is to use wired networking (as opposed to wireless networking). If you were an e-business owner would you consider using 100% wired networking? Why or why not?

In a civil case in Canada, such a tort claim, what must the Plaintiff do?

Question 8 options:

Question 1

Identify business processes from your own experience that may have been competitive at some stage, but which seem at this point to be unnecessarily complex or outdated given what competitors offer?

Question 2

Consider the following list and indicate which of these you would consider as process redesign initiatives. Motivate your answer and, if applicable, provide the links to the elements discussed.

An airline has seen its profits falling over the past year. It decides start a marketing campaign among its corporate clients in the hope that it can extend its profitable freight business.

A governmental agency notices that it is structurally late to respond to citizen’s queries. It decides to assign a manager to oversee this particular process and mandates her to take appropriate counter actions.

1. A "sniffer" is a software program that records information that passes through a computer or a connected router. If you owned an e-business with multiple employees would you use a sniffer? Why or why not?  

2. If you were going to use a sniffer program, would you notify employees about it? Why or why not?

Explain why Puerto Rico was chosen as the market to invest in

• Briefly describe the market in terms of their competitive environments.

• Do not describe the country in general, but focus on key factors that your client must take into account when offering the product in this new market. It’s not about what market you recommend, but why this market is better than other markets and what the client must know about the market to be successful there.

Let's say that you are living in a two-bedroom apartment in Newbury St. Boston, MA and you are looking for a roommate to split the cost of rent, Internet, utilities, etc. Your job is to find a new roommate using the Weighted Decision Matrix technique. Provide at least 4 criteria you would use to choose your future roommate. Use MS Excel to create the matrix. Examples of criteria for your new roommate could be is the person neat, respectful, friendly etc.

Lynn Curtis, a new designer here at SeeMoji, has added an emoji to our product line that was not really her design; the dancing emoji was created and copyrighted by a company called Party Planners. Lynn Curtis has been terminated effective immediately—and now we need to do damage control.

Write an email to customers who purchased the design. Let them know that, regrettably, they legally cannot use design and that their money will be refunded.

what is organizational development and what are some of its techniques

Summarize the history of the Cola Wars, spanning 100 years. Who has been winning the war? Who has been losing?