How should budgeting scheduling and resource loading or leveling be most logically accomplished in terms of their chronological order?

  • How should budgeting, scheduling, and resource loading or leveling be most logically accomplished in terms of their chronological order?
  • How would resource-constrained scheduling help, hinder, or change your recommendations?
  • What are some potential problems with the top-down and bottom-up budgeting processes? What are some ways of dealing with these potential problems?
  • In preparing a budget, what indirect costs should be considered?
  • What characteristic(s) of the critical path times makes them critical?
  • What two factors are compared by Gantt charting? How does the Gantt chart differ in purpose from the project master schedule?
  • Contrast total slack and free slack.
  • What is the average resource load factor? How is it used to determine project completion times?
  • What are two methods for addressing the constrained resource allocation problem?
  • How should budgeting, scheduling, and resource loading or leveling be most logically accomplished in terms of their chronological order?
  • How would resource-constrained scheduling help, hinder, or change your recommendations?
  • What are some potential problems with the top-down and bottom-up budgeting processes? What are some ways of dealing with these potential problems?
  • In preparing a budget, what indirect costs should be considered?
  • What characteristic(s) of the critical path times makes them critical?
  • What two factors are compared by Gantt charting? How does the Gantt chart differ in purpose from the project master schedule?
  • Contrast total slack and free slack.
  • What is the average resource load factor? How is it used to determine project completion times?
  • What are two methods for addressing the constrained resource allocation problem?

Describe Senge’s five disciplines.

The learning organization is affected by both the individual and the organizational climate. In a two- to three-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), describe Senge’s five disciplines and the characteristics of an organizational climate that promotes organizational learning. Include the following in your paper:

 

  1. Describe Senge’s five disciplines.
  1. Discuss characteristics of an organizational climate that supports organizational learning.
  1. Analyze how organizational climate and Senge’s disciplines are related to organizational learning.

Your paper must include in-text citations and references from at least two scholarly sources, excluding the textbook. You may use this week’s lecture as an additional resource. Your paper must be formatted according to APA Guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

The learning organization is affected by both the individual and the organizational climate. In a two- to three-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), describe Senge’s five disciplines and the characteristics of an organizational climate that promotes organizational learning. Include the following in your paper:

 

  1. Describe Senge’s five disciplines.
  1. Discuss characteristics of an organizational climate that supports organizational learning.
  1. Analyze how organizational climate and Senge’s disciplines are related to organizational learning.

Your paper must include in-text citations and references from at least two scholarly sources, excluding the textbook. You may use this week’s lecture as an additional resource. Your paper must be formatted according to APA Guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

MARKETING CAMPAIGN

Assignment Instructions

Over the past 4 weeks, we have discussed many forms of communication.  Last week, we specifically looked at visuals and the best way to make use of them.  We are, once again, going to focus this information on a specific area…Marketing.  Following, you will find links to several journal articles.  Please read all of them to give you a good idea of what you need to do to come up with a good marketing campaign.   I would like you to create a fictional company and come up with a marketing campaign to brand that company.  Make sure that you give me some background as to what the company sells and who you are trying to reach, your campaign should target that audience. Think of this as a pitch to the customer as to how you would like to brand their and why. I do not expect you to create an all-inclusive campaign, you just need to be able to clearly express your ideas to your client.  You will want to include some research to show your client that you have looked into their company as well as the market that they intend to sell. Please attach your paper as a Word document to this assignment.

Paper must include:

Cover Page
3-5 pages content

 

Globalization Argumentative Paper

Review the Writing Argumentative Essays section in Ch. 3 of Critical Thinking

 

NEED TO REVIEW CHAPTER 3 

 

Write an argumentative paper of 700-750 words that demonstrates why globalization is good or not good for a business. The paper should define the term good, and should identify the premises and conclusions.
Identify the premise and conclusion by placing a number in bold at the beginning of the sentence with the word premise or conclusion. For example: (1, Premise), (2, Premise), (1, Conclusion), (2, Conclusion), and so on.

  • Sentences labeled as “1, premise” are premises for the sentence labeled as “1, conclusion.”
  • All premises should be labeled for each conclusion in the article. If a sentence is a conclusion and a premise for another conclusion, place two labels.
  • At the end of the paper, identify one example of how you used deductive reasoning and one example of how you used inductive reasoning
  • Include a minimum of two references.

Write in third person

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Tax Research Assignment

Tax Research Assignment 2 Acct 6140 Students Only Fall 2013 Your assignment is to write a professional tax research memorandum that addresses the issue shown below. Mike is a salesperson who represents several companies. On January 2, 2014, he receives by mail a commission check from Produce Packaging Distributors, Inc. in the amount of $13,500 and dated December 30, 2013. Mike is concerned about the year in which the $13,500 is taxable. Although the check is dated 2013, he contends that it would have been unreasonable for him to drive the 55 miles to the Produce Packaging offices on a holiday to collect the check. Further, Mike maintains that even if he had made the trip to collect the check, by the time he returned home, his bank would have closed and he could not have received credit for the check until after the first of the year.Tax Research Assignment 2 Acct 6140 Students Only Fall 2013 Your assignment is to write a professional tax research memorandum that addresses the issue shown below. Mike is a salesperson who represents several companies. On January 2, 2014, he receives by mail a commission check from Produce Packaging Distributors, Inc. in the amount of $13,500 and dated December 30, 2013. Mike is concerned about the year in which the $13,500 is taxable. Although the check is dated 2013, he contends that it would have been unreasonable for him to drive the 55 miles to the Produce Packaging offices on a holiday to collect the check. Further, Mike maintains that even if he had made the trip to collect the check, by the time he returned home, his bank would have closed and he could not have received credit for the check until after the first of the year.

Discuss entry mode strategy in multinational business.

This last response deals with the topics of general strategy and entry mode strategy in multinational business. You will answer questions on concepts and analyze cases on Cemex of Mexico and Coca Cola. The “mini” research segment of this assignment involves your exploring the McDonald’s website to evaluate and identify differences in McDonald’s around the world.

This last response deals with the topics of general strategy and entry mode strategy in multinational business. You will answer questions on concepts and analyze cases on Cemex of Mexico and Coca Cola. The “mini” research segment of this assignment involves your exploring the McDonald’s website to evaluate and identify differences in McDonald’s around the world.

 

Meta-analysis made which development in the study of leadership possible?

Part 1 of 1 –

Question 1 of 20
Over the last century, the approaches to studying leadership have been largely:

A. changing, from trait-based views to behavioral views to developmental views.

B. changing, from a behavioral view to a liberational view to a trait-based view.

C. changing, from a behavioral view to a trait-based view to a situational view.

D. static, with a behavioral view.

Question 2 of 20
The majority of the challenges sales executives have to face have to do with:

A. managing people.

B. managing production.

C. managing technology.

D. managing ethics.

Question 3 of 20
Meta-analysis made which development in the study of leadership possible?

A. Isolating studies to separate out the results for the most important one

B. Comparing results of many studies to formulate better theories about leadership traits

C. Showing that a leader in one situation may not be a leader in another

D. Introducing the concepts of focus on people and focus on results

Question 4 of 20
What is a boundary spanner in terms of sales ?

A. An idea that replaces one discipline with another discipline

B. An idea that crosses two disciplines

C. A person who works with two different organizations

D. A person who works for one company but contracts with another company

Question 5 of 20
A salesperson lies about the product he sells and claims it can do things it cannot do. Which ethical breach is the salesperson committing?

A. Bribery

B. Puffery

C. Misrepresentation

D. Rogue purchasing

Question 6 of 20
Kotter hypothesized that we need more leadership now than in the past because:

A. there are more humans now than there were in the past, so we need more leaders.

B. technology is too complicated to be navigated by employees without managers to help them.

C. people were more self-directed in general in previous generations.

D. the more things change, the more leadership is required.

Question 7 of 20
A leader who spends most of her time communicating with the public about the company and interacting with her employees to ensure that they have what they need to do their jobs, but who does not engage in planning of activities or employee goals is engaging in which of the Situational Leader styles of leadership?

A. Directing

B. Coaching

C. Implementing

D. Supporting

Question 8 of 20
What makes salespeople unique in the ethical situations they find themselves in?

A. Salespeople are less likely to encounter ethical dilemmas than workers in other professions.

B. Salespeople are less honest than are psychologists, preachers, and professors.

C. Salespeople have extensive training in dealing with ethical questions and decisions.

D. Salespeople encounter ethical dilemmas both in the companies they work for and with the customers they sell to.

Question 9 of 20
Why do corporate codes of ethics often focus on salespeople?

A. Salespeople have more varied contacts, so they have more opportunities for ethical choices.

B. Salespeople tend to be less honest than other employees in the company.

C. Codes of ethics tend to be written by sales executives.

D. Professional organizations do not focus on salespeople, so corporate codes of ethics need to.

Question 10 of 20
The Great Man Theory of Leadership hypothesizes that:

A. only certain historic leaders had the true traits of leadership.

B. great leaders patterned themselves after the leaders who came before them, so modern people who wish to be leaders should pattern themselves after great leaders of the past.

C. by observing the great leaders we can compile a list of traits and work on teaching those traits to potential leaders.

D. by identifying the traits of great leaders we can predict who will be a leader because they have those traits.

Question 11 of 20
Which of the following is a weakness of the Golden Rule?

A. Despite your best efforts, you may not be able to treat others as you’d like to be treated.

B. The way you want to be treated may not be the way others want to be treated.

C. The way you want to be treated may not be the best possible way to treat someone else.

D. The way you want to be treated may cost too much in time and resources to be a practical way to treat others.

Question 12 of 20
Ethical problems occur when:

A. rules conflict with values.

B. values conflict with behavior.

C. behavior conflicts with culture.

D. culture conflicts with norms.

Question 13 of 20
Which of the following is a key difference between leading and managing?

A. Leadership focuses on change while management focuses on results.

B. Leadership focuses on results while management focuses on organization.

C. Leadership focuses on process while management focuses on product.

D. Leadership focuses on theory while management focuses on logistics.

Question 14 of 20
The inherent problem with the conventionalist approach to making ethical decisions is that:

A. what’s allowed may slowly have changed over a period of time.

B. what’s allowed is not able to be decided by the salesperson.

C. what’s allowed may not have anything to do with what’s ethical.

D. what’s allowed varies within a company and within a sales team.

Discuss on Business Management

Must answer the task questions and also meet the grading criteria after the task questions…DUE SUNDAY AT  6pm LOS ANGELES TIME!!!

 

Baking dog treats in her kitchen has been a simple process for Wanda to manage. She has two ovens, one sink, a refrigerator, and enough room for two people to work at the same time. However, when Wanda moves her business out of her home she will have a commercial kitchen that can accommodate as many as 6 people working simultaneously. She has never thought of her business as “production” until the realtor who shows her the space asks how many “production workers” she needs to accommodate. Suddenly Wanda realizes she will be running a production system as she expands her business. Even worse, she realizes that she has never even visited a manufacturing facility or stepped foot on a “real” production floor. How will she ever manage this process?

 

Your Task

Explain to Wanda the following:

  • How can she apply principles of operations management to make sure that her business remains successful?
  • What decisions does she need to make in terms of how her process will change from making treats in her kitchen?

Grading Criteria:

 

Apply principles of operations management to explain at least one recommended expansion strategy for Salty Pawz.

 

Describe process decisions required to expand the biscuit making process beyond Wanda’s kitchen.

 

Compare biscuit making processes (e.g., kitchen versus production system).

 

Generate a list of process changes required to transition production from the kitchen to a real production system.

 

Advanced Federal Contracts

Part 2: Determining Flowdowns

You are now a Subcontract Administrator for the Contractor that was awarded the USAF Enterprise Network contract as a result of the solicitation in Part 1 above (disregard any “revolving door” or Procurement Integrity Act implications).

Your company is a large business and has the qualifications to do almost all of the work, but must subcontract out for a small subset of specialized support.  Therefore, you are tasked to prepare a draft Subcontract Agreement that must include any necessary flowdowns from the USAF prime contract.  Your company has decided that a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) subcontract is appropriate for this subcontract, regardless of the prime contract type.  The relevant parts of the prime contract are attached.

  • Use this form to complete the flow downs:  Form to Complete Flowdowns
  • Using the “track changes” feature of Word/Wordperfect (preferred) or handwritten redlines (scanned for submission) identify which, if any, provisions you would not flow down (e.g., delete) and,
  • If applicable, identify and discuss how some of those provisions that you would flow down need to be modified.
  • Use the “Comments” function [Review>>Comments] to provide rationale for why or why not. You may also write a separate summary of your changes.

 

Rubric Name: Written Assignment (36%)

Criteria

Comments reflect a highly accomplished level of analysis, synthesis, evaluation and reasoning of the case material and case study facts resulting in accurate, thorough, and soundly reasoned conclusions.

(11.34 – 12.6)

Comments reflect an excellent level of analysis, synthesis, evaluation and reasoning of the case material and case study facts resulting in accurately reasoned conclusions.

(10.08 – 11.33)

Comments reflect a satisfactory level of analysis, synthesis, evaluation and reasoning of the case material and case study facts resulting in partially correct conclusions that lack development or detail that demonstrates insight into reasoning.

(8.82 – 10.07)

Comments reflect an unsatisfactory level of analysis, synthesis, evaluation and reasoning of the case material and case study facts, resulting in conclusions that are underdeveloped or lack soundly reasoned conclusions.

(7.56 – 8.81)

Comments reflect an unsatisfactory level of analysis, synthesis, evaluation and reasoning of the case material and case study facts, resulting in failure to draw little to no conclusions.

(0 – 7.55)

Presents exceptionally well-supported arguments or positions with evidence from the readings/experience; ideas go beyond the course material and recognize implications and extensions of the material and concepts.

Presents excellent arguments or positions that are mostly supported by evidence from the readings and course content; ideas presented demonstrate understanding of the material and concepts.

Satisfactory arguments or positions are presented but there is a mix of opinion or unclear view with supported arguments using course readings.  Case study facts are occasionally used but arguments would be much stronger with use of facts.

Arguments are frequently illogical and unsubstantiated; Limited use of facts in case study and essential information presented in course readings.

Arguments lack meaningful explanation or support of ideas.  Does not provide facts presented in case study.

Demonstrates exceptional understanding of requirements responding completely to each aspect of assignment including minor aspects of the assignment such as using third person writing, required use of course readings, and assignment format.

(4.86 -5.4)

Demonstrates excellent understanding of requirements; missed one minor aspect of assignment.

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Case Study About Quantitative Analysis

  • ·         A description of the impact of import quotas on prices, quantities supplied, and quantities demanded—Problem 7-1.
  • ·          A description of the impact of import quotas on consumers—Problem 7-1.
  • ·          A description of the effect of a complete trade ban on a country—Problem 7-8.
  • ·          A visual graph depicting scenarios 1 and 3; base your answer on the 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 charts. Create the charts using actual numbers.
  • ·         A description of the impact of import quotas on prices, quantities supplied, and quantities demanded—Problem 7-1.
  • ·          A description of the impact of import quotas on consumers—Problem 7-1.
  • ·          A description of the effect of a complete trade ban on a country—Problem 7-8.
  • ·          A visual graph depicting scenarios 1 and 3; base your answer on the 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 charts. Create the charts using actual numbers.