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Labor Relations

Please have complete and well thought out initial responses that are supported by the literature. I am looking for original input, so please share your own experiences and then add support from our book our outside resources. Your thoughts and experiences are important to our discussions, so we can all learn from them. Please make sure that you back up the posts with factual information from the book, work/life experiences, or elsewhere. A big part of management is convincing people about your point of view so this exercise should help. I am looking forward to some great discussions!

Question:

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS:

  • Should soldiers be allowed to join unions? (Hint: consider both the environment and ethics.) Support your answer with a couple of reasons why/why not.
  • Can an employer refuse that a Union is created in an organization? Why or why not?
  • Is joining a Union free to employees?
  • How can this information benefit you in the workplace?

MGMT 311

Once you pick a public company, (THE COMPANY IS AMAZON) tell me why you think some of the material in this class will be interesting to talk about with the company that you chose.  Tell me which topics in this class that you think might interest you most that relate to your company. (BELOW ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS)

  • Culture and Diversity; Self- Awareness, Personality, Emotions and Values; Perception and Attribution
  • Managing Conflict and Negotiations; Decision Making
  • Making a calculated decision using accounting concepts
  • Corporate Finance and Operational Risk Management
  • Organizational Strategy and Structure; Organizational Culture and Change

Project Proposal

Course Project Part 2 

For this assignment, you will finish developing your Product Buying Report, which will include all of the information a buyer needs to intelligently purchase the selected product identified in Week 6.

Continue with the specific product, component, or commodity that you selected to use to produce a Product Buying Report.

  • You will continue to create a Project Proposal to identify and discuss the product selected for project.

  • You will make any corrections to week 6’s assignment and then add the components required for week 7 to complete the assignment.

  • Your Project Proposal for week 7 should be no more than twelve pages, not including title and reference page and include all of the sections below. These sections included the focus on the product and focus on the supplier information.

Report Components

Your Product Buying Report must contain the following sections.

  • Title Page
  • Executive Summary: This is a one-page summary of your overall report. Recognizing that many executives will only read this portion of your report, you are expected to summarize the key information, critical data, and your final recommendation. You may need to adjust this when you submit the final paper in week 7.
  • Intended Use and Requirements: In this section, you are to outline the intended use for the product and the requirements to be met by the item purchased. To do this effectively, you should create a scenario explaining the background of these requirements, as well as all the buying influences that need to be considered. Note that this is an appropriate time to consider make versus buy versus partner factors; however, because this is a buying report, your analysis should support the attractiveness of the buy alternative.
  • Available Products: In this section, you are to catalog the available products that might meet these requirements and the characteristics of those products. These characteristics, which would include classifications, grades, and properties that distinguish one product from another, need to be defined. From this list of available products, you will select one for detailed investigation.
  • Technical Product Data: This is where you outline the technical data required to specify and inspect the quality and suitability of the selected product.
  • Analysis of the Product’s Sources and Availability: This is where you identify the various sources for this product, along with critical information about their abilities to source the product. If how the product is manufactured is an important consideration for your ability to select suppliers and appraise its quality, be sure to quality those requirements.
  • Supplier Selection Criteria: In this section, you are to discuss the basis by which supplier selection should be determined and why. For instance, is this product best sourced through the competitive bidding process, negotiation, collaboration with a partner, or some other mechanism?
  • Pricing Factors: Here you are to discuss factors that will affect product pricing, including supply, demand, pricing, and inventory requirements.
  • Supplier Relationship Management: In this section, you are to discuss how the relationship with the selected supplier should best be managed, including the associated costs and effort necessary to do so.
  • Legal and Ethical Considerations: Identify legal and/or ethical considerations that are appropriate for this decision. Be sure to discuss the expected contract type and key terms that need to be incorporated into the prospective agreement.
  • Recommendation: In previous sections, you have identified a prospective supplier and all the relevant operational and cost information necessary to make a decision about the viability of this procurement. In this final section, you are to provide your recommendation on the prospective purchase. Your recommendation needs to follow from the information you have presented above; for example, you should not logically recommend purchasing a product for which you have identified a number of shortcomings. However, it is possible that you may determine that the available product does not appear to be a viable solution for your intended use and requirements. If that is the case, you should recommend against the purchase but suggest alternatives that might be taken in a follow-up analysis.


References: You are to indicate the sources you included as citations in your paper.

Please leverage textbook: Purchasing and Supply Management by Fraser Johnson

memo

Find an article (electronic) on Technology and Sustainability in Casual Dining

From the article, you will write a very particular type of memo that is a proposal of how you would utilize this information in business.  The memo has to be in a proposal format.  It has to make business sense and demonstrate your ability to take information and utilize it in a hospitality/tourism/leisure business setting.

The memo should not just relay the facts of the article – the student must take the information and figure out how such information would be useful in a business. 

The first of these memos will be upward in the organization.  Later memos may go across the organization, peer to peer, in the organization (these must make sense for the other person to join you in a further proposal so that it would be a win –win for both of you).  Finally, a proposal will be a top down in the organization (these will be used to gain input from people below you in the organization structure).  The writer should make sure they are not an order or something you as the boss has already decided to do.  In making business sense, no memo should be about a meeting to decide what to do about a situation.  Memos that are just about a meeting to meet or FYI type of memos will receive an F. 

The memo should have three sections:

  • An opening sentence or two that states why the reader is getting the memo- The proposal
    • This should state the issue and your proposal to solve the business or the organization issue (in one sentence if possible)
      • Example: Due to the increase in gasoline prices, I believe we should review our marketing plans to include Family packages.
  • A middle section that supports the reason for the proposal
    • This should support the proposal from why it is good to why it makes business sense to do this. DO NOT give me the details of the proposal- give the business reasons on why this makes sense (3-4 reasons). You should look at this section as to what would be the good business results if you were allowed to go forward with the proposal.  Keep it simple
      • Example:
        • Family packages may:
          • Help to offset Total Vacation Cost and possibly extend times at our destination thus increasing profits.
  • An action closing that is sender based.
    • This section should have an assertive tone – one where you have set up a time and meeting. The goal is to get an answer as to whether your proposal is going forward.
      • Examples:
        • I have set up an appointment, through your office, for next Tuesday at10 AM.  I look forward to discussing the details and to gaining your input.
        • I am looking forward to our meeting next Tuesday at 10AM in your office.  Our goal would be to create the next steps for this concept.
    • In the meeting, you would actually begin to give the workings of your proposal- where it can be discussed in a two-way conversation.

Make sure your articles are current (within the last 12 months)

4P’s Analysis

  1. Conduct a 4P’s Analysis:
    Analyze how the local small business(Mama Daughters) applies each of the 4P’s of marketing. Your analysis should address the following: https://www.mamasdaughtersdiner.com/
    • Product:
      Describe the main products or services offered by the business. What are the unique features that set their offerings apart from competitors? Consider aspects like quality, variety, and any specialized products or services.
    • Price:
      Examine the pricing strategy of the business. How do they price their products or services compared to local competitors? Discuss any discounts, deals, or loyalty programs they offer to customers.
    • Place:
      Discuss the business’s location and distribution strategy. How do they make their products or services accessible to customers? Consider their physical location, hours of operation, and any delivery or online ordering options.
    • Promotion:
      Analyze the promotional efforts of the business. How do they market their products or services? What promotional channels do they use (e.g., local ads, social media, flyers)? Highlight any recent marketing campaigns or customer engagement strategies.
  • 2 pages APA format

Activity

Activity Directions:Understanding the selection process is key. Organizations want to source, recruit, select, and retain the best workers, specifically because a quality workforce is key to an organization’s short- and long-term success. This week, you are required to select one of the positions below:

  • Tenth grade math teacher
  • Dental hygienist
  • College admission counselor
  • Senior project manager for a technology firm
  • Human resource assistant

Based upon your selected position, you need to address the following requirements:

  • Explain what selection testing you would use when hiring for this position and why.
  • Justify why structured or less-structured interviews should be used.
  • Provide a list of three effective interview questions that could be asked of your candidate.
  • Explain what types of background investigation should be used and why.

Your assignment should be submitted in proper APA formatting and must be between 2- to 3-pages in length (not including your cover page or reference page). You are required to use Times New Roman 12-point font. Your paper must be double-spaced and use 1-inch margins. Before submitting your assignment, please ensure the following:

  1. You have included an APA formatted cover page.
  2. You have included properly formatted headings and subheadings.
  3. You have addressed all of the assignment requirements.
  4. You have used your textbook and two other scholarly sources to support your points (and have cited this content in-text and in the reference list).
  5. You have provided a properly formatted reference list.

Resources for Activity Completion:APA Sample Paper: APA Sample PaperLink to Heading and Subheading Formatting: Heading and Subheading SupportLink to a Sample Reference Page (Including Details of APA Rules): Creating a Reference PageLink to the UC Citation and Plagiarism: Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Website: Academic Policies and ExpectationsCritical Reminders: Please Note: Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Your assignments must be written in your own words. Quotes should be seldomly used. If you are using quotations, you need to properly cite the following in-text: (1) the author(s), (2) the year in which the quote was published, and (3) the page or paragraph in which the quote was located. Example: Smith et al. (2023) stated, “Citing content properly is essential” (p. 1). In addition to using proper in-text citations, you also need to properly reference the quotation in your reference list.

ROI Analysis

  • Conduct a comprehensive analysis to measure the return on investment (ROI) of the training program, comparing the costs and benefits associated with training implementation.
  • Quantify the impact of training on key performance indicators, such as employee retention, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability.
  • Use data-driven insights to inform decision-making and optimize future training initiatives.

Week 2

Sources

A minimum of two are required for the discussion each week, and a minimum of three are required for the Complete assignments.  Our book (the Read section) will count as the first scholarly source, so be sure to use it as the primary source for all posts. 

Information from outside sources should be compared/contrasted with the information available in the book, indicating where this agreement or disagreement. 

Outside sources should generally be from the Bethel library databases.  You may also use reputable business publications such as Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, or news articles from the business section of major news networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, BBC, etc.).  In addition, websites in .gov, .edu, .mil, and some .org domains may be used if they provide sufficiently broad coverage that could be considered scholarly. 

It is fine to use Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools such as ChatGPT, Scribe, Bard, Dall-E2, etc., but paraphrase and provide accurate citations.  Do not quote AI directly, and limit its use, combined with direct quotes from other sources, to no more than 20% of the material posted. AI generated information does not count toward the minimum requirements for scholarly sources.  The misuse of Generative AI will be reported to the university as academic dishonesty.

Word Count

Word count is based on the body of each post. Salutations (Hi John), retyping the questions, and references are not included in the word count.  Write succinctly to express ideas clearly. Avoid filler.

Space X

a.  5–6 page report (using APA fomat) that includes an assessment of the company’s vision statement, mission, and strategic issues that may hinder the achievement of strategic goals. 

b.  Report must feature an analysis of the Space X company’s vision, mission, and achievements in space explorationas part of the selection process. 

c.  Report must also include a recommended detailed action plan addressing identified strategic issues.

d.  See attached SpaceX memo for report details and assignment questions (that must be addressed) throughout the report.  

Applied Business Analytics

Applying Analytic Techniques to Business

Instructions:

In the last assessment, you were asked to prepare the first part of your analytics report by creating graphs and calculating some descriptive statistics. In this assessment, you will write your 5-8 page analytics report by interpreting those graphs and statistics, and explicitly connecting those interpretations to implications in the practical business context.

Introduction:

The first step in creating meaningful information from raw data is to represent the data effectively in graphical format and to calculate any required statistics. The second step is interpreting and explaining those graphs and statistics in order to apply them in the business context.

In the previous assessment, you were asked to create the first part of your analytics report by preparing graphs and calculating some descriptive statistics. In this assessment, you will complete your analytics report by interpreting those graphs and statistics, and connecting those interpretations explicitly to implications in the business context.

In business and applied analytics, oftentimes you are interested in drawing conclusions about a population of interest. However, it may not be feasible or practical to gather data on the entire population. In those cases, data is gathered from a sample or subset of the population. Analyses done on the sample are then used to draw inferences regarding the overall population; this mathematic process is referred to as inferential statistics. In this assessment, we begin discussing the topics of sampling and drawing inferences.

All the inferential statistical techniques and methods covered in this course are considered parametric techniques and require certain assumptions to be used and for the results to be reliable, many of which are assumptions about an underlying distribution. Nonparametric techniques require no assumption about underlying distributions and are often used when the assumptions of parametric techniques are not met. Although these are beyond the scope of this introductory course, they are a great option for additional reading and research.

Analytics projects often result in two distinct types of reports or summaries: one tailored to the executive level, which takes the form of a presentation, and the other, a detailed analytics report, which documents an analysis so thoroughly that another analyst can reproduce the analysis exactly. Many times, the latter type is referred to by other departments or analysts wishing to conduct a similar analysis on similar data or by the same analyst who wants to repeat the analysis on a new or revised set of data. In this assessment, you will learn the essential elements that should be included in a report at this level of detail and you will create your own analytics report addressing the business problem you have been working on.

Scenario:

The first step in creating meaningful information to develop a business report for decision making. The business report includes the analyzed raw data, effectively presents the analysis results in text and graphical format, as well as calculate any required statistics.

The second step is interpreting and explaining the graphs and statistics to understand the impact in the practical business context.

In the last assessment, you were asked to create the first part of your business analytics report by introducing a company, analyzing company stock data, developing graphs, and calculating some descriptive statistics.

In this assessment, you will adjust your business report to minimize limitations of one year’s worth of data. You will use the same company for this assessment and you will use 5 years of data!

You will also enhance your introduction or business context section of your business report based on your new graphs and your interpretation of the data graphs and descriptive statistics over a five year period. Your interpretation efforts of graphs and descriptive statistics will explicitly connect in the conclusion area. Conclusions and recommendations are the final effort in the development of a practical business report and should be supported by citations. Remember that opinion is not allowed.

Your Role:

Your supervisor has asked you to prepare a report for the quarterly company meeting. The first part of the task was to download the data and create scatterplots and histograms, and to calculate mean, median, and mode of 5 years of stock prices for your report. Now you must analyze and interpret those graphical representations of the company stock and write the report of your findings and recommendations for your supervisor.

You are an analyst using the same company and five years of stock data. Having accessed the company data and placed it in an appropriate graphical format, you must now use descriptive statistics and analysis to develop a report to inform business decisions.

Instructions:

After reviewing and integrating your instructor’s feedback on your previous Assessment, complete the report as follows:

· -For each graph you created, write at least one well supported paragraph interpreting the graph: What does that graph represent? What does the shape of the graph tell you about how the data have changed over time?

· -For each statistic you calculated, include at least two to three well-supported sentences explaining what the statistic represents:

*What does the mean tell you? How do you know?

 *What does it imply if the median is different from the mean?

*What does the standard deviation tell you about the volatility of the data?

-Write a new conclusions section in which you explain how these interpretations can be used in the company:

*What are some trends about which company leaders should be aware?

 *How might the information you have provided be used in decision making in the company?

 *What are other analysts indicating about the stock?

· -Explicitly connect other analysts’ comments and recommendations to your interpretations to possible impact to the business context

· -Lastly, should your company invest of partner with the company or stock being evaluated?

-Create a 5-8 page report containing:

·*APA-formatted title page.

*1-2 page introduction of your chosen company that you created in your previous assessment.

 *Section labeled Graphical Representations of Data that includes the four graphs you created as well as your interpretations of the graphs.

 *Section labeled Descriptive Statistics, with the statistics you calculated as well as your interpretations of the statistics.

 *One-page conclusion in which you describe the potential business applications of the data and interpretations.

*APA-formatted references page (remember to cite the source of your financial data, analyst comments and support for your interpretations).

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

· Assessment 3 Example [PDF] Download Assessment 3 Example [PDF].

Additional Requirements:

· -Include APA-formatted in-text citations where appropriate.

· -Follow the typical double-spaced analytics report format.

· -Make sure your written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 3: Apply data analytic techniques to make inferences about a business need.

o Interpret four different graphical representations of data.

o Interpret descriptive statistics for two different variables.

· Competency 4: Present the results of data analysis in clear and meaningful ways to multiple stakeholders.

o Explain the business applications from the interpretations of the data.

o Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.

o Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

Use the resources linked below to help complete this assessment.

Storytelling Using Data:

· -Lind, D. A., Marchal, W. G., & Wathen, S. A. (2022). Basic statistics for business and economics (10th ed.). McGraw-Hill.

o *Chapter 5, “A Survey of Probability Concepts.”

§ While previous chapters on descriptive statistics have concerned data on past phenomena, this chapter addresses computing the likelihood that something will occur in the future.

o *Chapter 8, “Sampling, Sampling Methods, and the Central Limit Theorem.”

§ Sampling a population gives us information to make judgments and inferences about the population. This chapter discusses methods of selecting a sample from a population and how to think about the distribution of the sample.

o *Chapter 9, “Estimation and Confidence Intervals.”

§ This chapter will help you think about different aspects of sampling, such as estimating a population value and the range of values, or the confidence interval.

· -Hewitt, F. (2015). Storytelling: The heart of leadership. New Zealand Management, 62(1), 26-27.

o *This article is a brief account of the importance of using personal connections to make data accessible in presentations.

· -Knaflic, C. N. (2015). Storytelling with data: A data visualization guide for business professionals. Wiley.

o *Chapter 1, “The Importance of Context.”

 The components of context are who, what, and how. This chapter offers strategies for interpreting context so you can communicate visually with data.

· -Stikeleather, J. (2013, April 24). How to tell a story with data. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2013/04/how-to-tell-a-story-with-data

o *This short post highlights five steps to tell a good story with data from the journalistic perspective, including a helpful categorization of the different types of audiences that you may be addressing with your data visualization.

· -Watson, H. J. (2017). Data visualization, data interpreters, and storytelling. Business Intelligence Journal, 22(1), 5-10.

o *This cautionary reading gives specific examples of what not to do when creating an executive presentation with data visualizations.

Technology Help:

Topic Resources:

These resources are optional and are provided to support and extend the learning in the course.