Author: chris

 

 

In the textbook, two main views of human resource development are examined. Discuss the similarities and differences between the views of performance-based and developmental HRD. Answer the following question: Which view do you believe is more relevant to your organization, and why?

 

Discussion 2

 

There are three types of knowledge discussed in the textbook: explicit, implicit, and tacit. Describe the three types of knowledge. Give an example of each of the three types of knowledge based on your position in your organization. Which of the three types of knowledge is the most difficult for a trainer to teach?

Vroom’s Model of Expectancy Theory

In a two- to three-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), examine how Vroom’s Model of Expectancy Theory can help with staffing issues in an organization. Include the following in your paper:

1. Describe Vroom’s Model of Expectancy Theory.
2. Describe how the model measures motivation.
3. Explain how the measure of valence can aid staffing issues in an organization.

Your paper must include in-text citations and references from at least two scholarly sources, excluding the textbook, and be formatted according to APA guidelines outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Choose an unethical psychological experiment and discuss your position why you think the experiment was unethical and what could have been done differently.

 

1- What contemporary forms of entertainment or art take the place of a formal mock epic such as Pope’s? How many current approaches to social satire can you identify, ranging from the rough to the more refined?

2.Satire is usually about very specific or “topical” subjects. What things/”artists” do you think most deserve a good “send-up” today, and what satirical or otherwise humorous approaches have you found most effective in getting across serious criticisms on those issues? Explain your reasoning.

Does religion oppose or enhance nationalism?

Using the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELP) from Arizona or from your state, select a stage (grade level) for a group of students you define. Create a content objective and a language objective using the AZ College & Career Ready Standards and the ELA Standards for your group of ELLs at the Basic Proficiency Level for each of the following domains:

1.Listening and Speaking

2.Reading

3.Writing

Include a 500-750-word summary below the chart (within the same document) that contains rationales for each of the three domains that describes how the objectives you wrote address the characteristics of a basic ELL level and accounts for the theoretical language acquisition principles mentioned in your required reading.

In this summary, explain how content area teachers can write lesson plans in which all of the standards (ELP and content) support one another and actually provide scaffolding opportunities for students.

 

Using your current work organization (or an organization of interest) and a second organization in the same industry as the subject matter, research the elements of business, compare and contrast the two selected organizations, and prepare an APA formatted paper that:

• Analyzes the basic legal, social, and economic environment in which the organizations operate
• Analyzes the managerial, operational, and financial issues impacting the organizations including:
  • Company Culture and Performance
  • Promotion Policies
  • Strategic Decisions Making
  • Decision-Making Style
  • Management Style
  • Leadership Style
  • Communication Style
  • Use of SWOT Tool
  • Operations Strategy Framework
• Assesses how the overall management teams perform in terms of the four functions of management.
• Identifies and explains the strong points of the managers.
• Identifies and explains areas in which improvements are needed.

Be sure to use a minimum of  5 external sources to support your analysis.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running head and title in all capital letters.
• Abstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third-person voice.
• Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page, and it must be double-spaced between paragraphs. The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3–4 pages. In-text academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.

Discuss the foundation and principles of restorative justice.

 

Directions: Please answer the following questions using complete sentences.  A minimum of one paragraph is required for each response.  Each paragraph must be five to seven sentences in length.

 

1. Explain the challenges involved in new-venture development.

 

2. Many entrepreneurs have a poor understanding of the finances associated with their new venture and/or have a venture that lacks uniqueness.  Why are these characteristics considered pitfalls of selecting new ventures?

 

3. Describe each of the five critical factors involved in the prestart-up and start-up phases of a new venture.

 

4. List and describe four major types of problems that new ventures confront.

 

5. In your own words, what is a market?  How can marketing research help an entrepreneur identify a market?

 

6. What are the five steps in the marketing research process?  Describe each.

 

7. Identify and describe three of the primary obstacles to undertaking marketing research.

 

8. How would an entrepreneur’s new-venture strategy differ under each of the following marketing philosophies: production driven, sales driven, consumer driven?  Be complete in your answer.

 

9. Identify and describe four of the major forces that shape buying decisions in the new century.

 

 

10. What are the five steps that are particularly helpful for developing a marketing plan?  Identify and describe each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOMEWORK 5

 

 

 

Directions: Read the cases below and answer the questions using complete sentences.  Your completed submission should be at least five pages in length in APA format.  Be sure to use and cite at least two outside, scholarly sources.  Visit the Academic Resource Center for helpful APA formatting techniques.

 

Case Study I: Nothing Unique to Offer

 

During the past four months, George Vazquez has been putting together his plan for a new venture.  George wants to open a pizzeria near the local university.  The area has three pizza enterprises, but George is convinced that demand is sufficient to support a forth.

 

The major competitor is a large national franchise unit that—in addition to its regular food-service menu of pizzas, salads, soft drinks, and desserts—offers door-to-door delivery.  This delivery service is very popular with the university students and has helped the franchise unit capture approximately 40 percent of the student market.  The second competitor is a “pizza wagon” that carries precooked pizzas.  The driver circles the university area and sells pizzas on a first-come, first-served basis.  The pizza wagon starts the evening with 50 pizzas of all varieties and sizes and usually sells 45 of them at full price.  The last 5 pizzas are sold for whatever they bring.  It generally takes the wagon all evening to sell the 50 pizzas, but the profit markup is much higher than that obtained from the typical pizza sales at the franchise unit.  The other competitor offers only in-house services, but it is well known for the quality of its food.

 

George does not believe that it is possible to offer anything unique.  However, he does believe that a combination of door-to-door delivery and high-quality, in-house service can help him win 15 to 20 percent of the local market.  “Once the customers begin to realize that ‘pizza is pizza,'” George told his partner, “we’ll begin to get more business.  After all, if there is no difference between one pizza place and another, they might just as well eat at our place.”

 

Before finalizing his plans, George would like to bring in one more partner.  “You can never have too much initial capital,” he said.  “You never know when you’ll have unexpected expenses.”  But the individual whom George would like as a partner is reluctant to invest in the venture.  “You really don’t have anything unique to offer the market,” he told George.  “You are just another ‘me too’ pizzeria, and you are not going to survive.”  George hopes he will be able to change the potential investor’s mind, but if he is not, George believes he can find someone else.  “I have 90 days before I intend to open the business, and that is more than enough time to line up the third partner and get the venture under way,” he told his wife yesterday.

 

1. Is there any truth to the potential investor’s comment?  Is the lack of uniqueness going to hurt George’s chances of success?  Is it possible the lack of uniqueness allows George to introduce a different value proposition? Explain.

 

2. If George were going to make his business venture unique, what steps might he take?  Is his venture already unique?  If so, in what ways?  If not, what can he do differently?  Provide a complete in your answer.

 

3. In addition to the uniqueness feature, what other critical factors is George overlooking?  Identify and describe three, and give your recommendations for what to do about them.  Does George’s idea have other merits that may be of interest to investors?  If so, what are they?

 

 

Case Study II: A New Spin on Music

 

Following his graduation from an excellent university with a degree in entrepreneurship, Brian Wright was eager to launch a business.  Brian always enjoyed working with new technologies as well as watching movies, playing video games, and listening to music.  Because of the proliferation of online movie and video game rental services, he believed that a service providing the online rental of CDs made perfect sense.

 

Brian was confident that the success of the other online rental services proved that there was a market for the online rental of entertainment media; therefore, renting CDs online would be an easy concept for customers to grasp.  Although MP3s and MP3 players were growing in popularity, Brian knew that he and his friends preferred to listen to an album in its entirety; after all, Brian believed that “any true fan of an artist would want the entire album.”

 

When calculating potential revenue, Brian concluded that the average retail price of a CD was approximately $14.  If he charged $2 per CD per rental—which would offer an 85 percent savings to the customer based on the full retail price of a CD—he could recoup his costs within seven rentals.  In addition, Brian believed that he could negotiate contracts with the music labels to purchase CDs in bulk at a discount, which would in turn reduce the time it would take for him to reach the break-even point.  He knew enough about music encryption technologies to know that restrictions could be built into the CDs to deter people from copying songs from them.  He decided that taking such precautions would alleviate any concerns that the music labels might have regarding piracy.

 

As Brian began discussing his idea with his friends, their enthusiasm convinced him that he needed to act quickly before someone else seized the opportunity.  At $2 per rental and an estimated two rentals per customer per month, he would only need a little over 20,000 customers to reach $1,000,000 in annual revenue.  After looking at his financial forecasts, Brian decided that it was time to bring his online CD rental service to market.

 

1. Has Brian completed the proper marketing research for this potential opportunity?  Why or why not?  What would you do differently than Brian? Explain.

 

2. Based on the case, are there key mistakes that you would caution Brian about? Are there things Brian is doing well?  What recommendations would you make to Brian?  Explain.

 

3. What specific steps would you recommend to Brian for him to better assess this opportunity?  What specific opportunity is available to Brian and how would you describe it to a potential investor?

The report focus on the following tasks:
1) Analyse the market situation of Depaul UK and the charities sector by undertaking a context analysis, quoting sources,which should include the following: the customers context, the business context, the internal context and the external context
2) write up to five new marketing communications objectives for depaul uk. ensure that these are SMART and are focused on the next year. Longer-term objectives may be discussed, but the focus should be on the next year
3)provide detail as to the nature of the communications strategy( push/pull/profile)
4)provide a dtailed description of the target audience for your campaign
5) identify what the key messages will be for the campaign
6) provide details of the marketing tools to be included in the campaign, discussing the advantages/disadvantages of each together with a justification for each
7) provide a detailed media schedule of your use of communications tools for the period April 2016- March 2017, include sourced media costs and a budget summary

Also it should contains sub headings for each new section.We will be expected to apply theory to the charity case study.

Unit learning outcomes assessed:
1) select media types to meet campaign reach and frequency objectives and evaluate their approaches
2)evaluate the critical importance of customer relationship marketing theory and the development of customer targeted communications
3)appriase the role of the tools and frameworks within the communications mix for planning in the context of the relationship between marketing strategy and marketing communications strategy
4) develop communications messages based on an appreciation of target groups, needs ad attitudes