Conduct a capacity analysis of the location(s) and logistics.

Scenario

You are the human resources (HR) manager for a public organization and you are conducting a New Hire Orientation session for all new employees. Last week, you analyzed the organization, including its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its mission, vision, goals, and objectives. This week, you have been asked to give a presentation on the business operations of the organization.

Instructions

Refer to the report you prepared on the organization for M1: Assignment 3.

Develop a PowerPoint presentation that accomplishes the following:

  1. Create a diagram of the organizational structure showing the hierarchy and chain of command.
  2. Develop a flowchart that analyzes the steps of the organization’s business processes.
  3. Conduct a capacity analysis of the location(s) and logistics. Your capacity analysis should address both short- and long-term implications regarding all aspects of the business process, including storage, production, processes, costs, and accessibility.

Develop a PowerPoint presentation. In addition to the slides, include a detailed outline in the speaker notes section explaining the content on each slide. Be sure to support your responses using at least two scholarly sources from the Argosy University online library resources or the Internet. Cite the sources for your information.

Make sure your presentation adheres to the following Presentation Guidelines:

  • Create a presentation that is professional and visually appealing.
  • Include a combination of text and graphics.
  • Do not write out your entire presentation on the slides. Use bullet points of keywords and short phrases instead of long sentences and paragraphs.
  • Create your presentation (slides and speaker notes) using language that can be easily understood by the intended audience.
  • Use APA formatting for your slides and Speaker Notes (outline).

Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner. Your response should demonstrate ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Identify an ethical dilemma that you might encounter as a leader in the area.

 

Leadership and Ethics

A government official is seen taking a bribe on videotape. A director of a nonprofit steals, for his/her own personal use, donations given by the public. These are just two examples of leaders making unethical choices. While these cases appear clear cut, ethical choices facing leaders are rarely that simple. To be an ethical leader, you must understand your personal values and the guidelines used to make ethical choices prior to being faced with a dilemma.

 

Think of a government organization (e.g., Department of Agriculture, Social Security Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, etc.) or nonprofit organization (e.g., American Red Cross, United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, etc.) in which you currently work or are interested in working.

 

Identify an ethical dilemma that you might encounter as a leader in the area.

 

Think about how you would address the ethical dilemma, using ethical guidelines.

 

Submit 150 – 500 word response: Due by Wednesday 11/18/15 a brief description of the government or nonprofit area you identified. Then explain one specific ethical dilemma you might encounter as a leader in the area. Finally, explain how you would address the ethical dilemma. Be sure to reference specific ethical guidelines from the ASPA Code of Ethics.

 

American Society of Public Administration. (2006). ASPA’s Code of Ethics. Retrieved from

http://www.aspanet.org/public/ASPA/Resources/Code_of_Ethics/ASPA/Resources/Code%20of%20Ethics1.aspx?hkey=acd40318-a945-4ffc-ba7b-18e037b1a858

 

Support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources. You are allowed to draw from additional sources to support your explanation, but you must cite using APA standards. All quoted material must be identified, cited, and referenced per APA standards.

Describe the process used to reach the solutions you determined.

A company is considering alternatives for improving profits: either develop new products or consolidate existing products. If the company decides to develop new products, it can either develop several products rapidly or take time to develop a few products more thoroughly. If the company chooses to consolidate existing products, it can either strengthen the products to improve profits or simply reap whatever gains are attainable without investing more time and money into the products. Scenario: The decision tree chart provided in the attached “QAT1 Task 5 Spreadsheet” shows the predicted gains from each decision alternative described above. Gains depend on how the market reacts to the action taken by the company. The probability of each market reaction is shown on the decision tree. A. Develop a response to the decision tree chart from the attached “QAT1 Task 5 Spreadsheet” in which you do the following: 1. Determine the expected value for each of the four decision branches. a. Describe the process used to reach the solutions you determined in part A1. 2. Determine the decision alternative that has the most favorable expected value. a. Compare the expected values of the decision alternatives.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of generating weights by individual interviews (and combining the results) or by a group-based method.

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1. Draw the cognitive map, without potential actions, to show the linkages between the five attributes listed in the paper (pp. 210, 211), with “total inventory cost” at the top of the map. Explain the rationale for your cognitive map. (25 marks) 2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of generating weights by individual interviews (and combining the results) or by a group-based method. (10 marks) 3. Using your individual data set provided on Blackboard, calculate the scores for each of the SKUs in an EXCEL spread sheet, using the approach described in the paper, and the specific weights listed in Table 2. Put the scores in order, identifying the top 10%, the next 20% and the remaining 70%. Discuss how you would work with the managers in the company to “check for plausibility” (see case study page 212-213). (20 marks) 4. Extend the EXCEL spread sheet to calculate the overall weighted Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error (SMAPE) for each of the three groups (top 10%, next 20%, remaining 70%). Suppose forecasting method A has a lower overall unweighted SMAPE than method B, but a higher weighted SMAPE. Which method would you recommend and why? (20 marks) 5. The approach adopted in this paper assumes that managers are able to identify the relative importance of five criteria. What approach would you take if the managers were not able to do this? (15 marks)

Explain the legislative body’s approval process needed to gain support (ie funding) for the policy and how stakeholders influence legislators’ decisions.

The policy I need my paper on is“Who should be required, if anyone, to cover contraception?” The instructions are below: Policies are constantly being reviewed and considered to help improve the federal, state, or local health care systems. Each one has the potential to affect each of us on a daily basis, so careful consideration must be given when policies are proposed. It is important to understand the process of how a topic eventually becomes a policy. Choose a health care topic for which a policy might be formed. *Note: be sure to look ahead and choose a policy topic that will be suitable for the second part of this assignment as well, due in Week Four. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on the complete process of how your chosen topic becomes a policy. In your paper, include the following information: State the objective of the policy. Define Formulation stage: Explain the process to formulate your policy and the involvement of stakeholders. Define Legislative stage: Explain the legislative body’s approval process needed to gain support (ie funding) for the policy and how stakeholders influence legislators’ decisions. Define Implementation stage: Identify the accountable parties and their roles in the various implementation stages of your policy. Cite a minimum of five references. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

How does government affect life?Explain.

Research Paper Assignment Choose one topic and complete at minimum 1200 word paper that includes appropriate citations and format. Instructions for the Critical Thinking Research Paper **** Choose your topic from the four listed on the Topics page back listed in this module **** Once you select your topic and begin your research, you must draft your final document with the following directions as your guide: Your paper must be at least 1200 words. Type your name and date in the upper-left-hand corner on the first page of the paper. You do not need a title page and abstract. Double-spaced with no smaller than a 12pt font. The rewording of someone else’s work and submitting it as your work without giving credit to the author is plagiarism. Such work will not be graded. It will be returned for rewrite. If this occurs, you will be given one week to submit the rewrite. Any thoughts, passages, ideas, and words of another should be documented appropriately in parenthetical citations and a reference page. You must use the APA style for citing in paper and for the reference page. Refer to The Little, Brown Handbook for examples of the APA style. You can access APA citation style handouts online through the SPC library online Web site. To access a page of links and information on the APA citation style, go to the SPC library online Web site at SPC Libraries Online Click on the Citation Help link under I Need to Find on the left side of the page then click APA style at the top of the page. You must have at least five different sources cited in the paper. You must have parenthetical citations and at least five publications cited on the reference page. Papers without citations in the body and a reference page will not be graded. Encyclopedias (World Book, Encyclopedia Britannica, and on-line encyclopedias) and Wikipedia are NOT acceptable as research sources. There are some reference books in the college library and in the eBook collection that have the word encyclopedia in the title you can use. You cannot cite material from commercial Web sites. Three of the sources you cite must come from databases SPC subscribes to through the SPC library online. If you submit a paper without references from databases, the paper will not be graded. To get to the databases, go to the SPC Libraries Online. Click articles/databases under I Need to Find on the left side of the page. On the page that comes up enter your borrower ID and pin. The page that comes up after you log on will have categories by subject for databases. You may want to start with Social Sciences. You cannot cite the American government textbook we are using. If you have extensive citations from one source, you will have to rewrite the paper. Remember, at least five sources used throughout the paper. Personal interviews, statements on television, radio, and in videos or movies are not acceptable. If the paper is turned in short of the word requirement, you will write another paper on a different topic. You will need to make arrangements with your instructor in order for the re-write to be accepted for full or partial credit. YOU MUST PROOF READ and SPELLCHECK your paper before you turn it in. Failure to follow these instructions will result in your paper being returned for rewrite and points subtracted from your total number of accumulated points. If you run in to problems with the assignment, please contact your instructor IMMEDIATELY via email before the posted due date. You must submit the paper in word (doc or docx), rtf or pdf document format into the Research Paper Drop Box also the subject needs to include all this from the topic Topic 1 – How does government affect your life? (include all subtopics in topic 1) What are the spheres or levels (not the branches – more along the lines of local, state, national) of government in the American Democracy? List and explain each one – use your knowledge of Federalism to explain. Define Federalism and explain why our founding fathers choose this arrangement. List and explain the arguments for and against federalism then and now. How close today is America to the founding fathers conception of federalism? Think about an average day in your life. What are the various government actions surrounding your daily activities? What is the purpose of these government actions? Do you think that the private sector could perform some of these actions or duties more efficiently? Explain why or why not. Are there some government actions that you think are unnecessary? Which ones? Why should government get out of or stay in those areas? Do you think most Americans understand the importance of government in their lives?