Category: Management

Manny Flavors CC, Inc. is a family owned company now in its fourth generation. The company began in 1889 making only one standard sugar cookie. Over the years it has prospered, and now it produces over 50 flavors of cookies. The company’s motto is “cookies for any occasion.” Rising sales revenues have brought in a lot of dough, so now money can be allocated to increasing line personnel and managerial staff. Manny, who is addressed as “Mr. Flavors” by employees, has finally added an HR specialist (you) to help with personnel and organizational behavior problems.

He has asked you to help with what he feels is a problem of worker morale in the operations division. Willie Keepum, VP of operations, has complained to Manny that most of his workers have bad attitudes and don’t seem to want to work. He says he’s prepared to fire them all if they don’t shape up. Willie has informed Manny of his intentions, and believes he (Willie) needs to “clean house” to show them who’s boss. Besides, he thinks a lot of them have become complacent and don’t care about quality.

Manny knows that Willie can be heavy-handed in his management style and that he believes workers come to work either motivated or not. Willie has told him “there’s nothing you can do to make them work if they don’t want to.” Knowing everything about cookies, but nothing about people, Manny isn’t sure whether it’s the workers or Willie that’s creating the problem. He wants to know that if it is Willie, can he be changed? Or is it hopeless? He wants you to tell him if you think Willie or the workers should go. If you think neither should, then what are the ingredients needed to cook up a solution? This thing’s getting on his nerves. He wants to get it behind him and get back to his cookies. Therefore, Manny asks you to analyze the situation using your knowledge of leadership theories, and recommend a possible solution so he can decide what to do.

1. Decide if either the workers or Willie should go
2. Analyze Willie’s management style and compare it to others that might be better
3. Consider whether the workers or Willie can be changed and if so, how to do it

1. As a major form of political risks, the world has witnessed the impact of terrorism on the operations of multinationals, especially within the past decade. Explain the different kinds of political risks and tools multinationals use in fighting them.
2. Entry-mode strategies indicate success or failure of a multinational corporation. A good entry-mode strategy can increase the opportunity for success and reduce barriers. Explain and provide examples of the different types of foreign country entry-mode strategies.
3. MNCs face a fundamental strategic dilemma when competing internationally. Explain the complexities of the global-local dilemma facing multinational organizations. Compare and contrast local-responsiveness solution and global integration solution. Do not forget to mention multidomestic strategy, transnational strategy, international strategy, and regional strategy in your answer.
4. Explain basic and generic strategies multinationals use in competing locally and internationally. How can generic strategies strengthen competitive advantage in multinational business?

Prepare a research paper on an Acquisitions Business issue of his or her choice. However, regardless of the student preference, the professor must approve the topic. The research paper should be 5-7 pages in length and include at least four bibliographic references in addition to the course text. References should be listed at the end of the paper and should follow the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting. The APA web site can be consulted for assistance

Some examples of topics are as follows:

– Discuss fully the principle of Acquisitions Management. What is most important? What do you think will become more important over the next two decades?

– Describe fully the policy-making process and the manager’s role in acquisitions.

– Describe the major types of relationships that exist today between the DoD and corporate America in the acquisitions field.

– Discuss the ethical problems in acquisitions and the effects that it may have on an organization.

– What can be done by Leaders/Commanders to make their organizations better in acquisitions?

– Explain the Lessons in “Leadership” and “Acquisitions” in organizations.

• Identify five metrics that you would include in measuring the success of an organization’s talent management function.
• Analyze each metric to determine its application and relevance for success.
• Would you assign an equal weight to the metrics you chose, or would you assign different weights? Why? If you would assign different weights, how would you weight them and why?

This assignment is designed to integrate the reflection of personal experience, and the information covered in the textbook. Assuming you are Juanita, answer the following questions:

• Some organizations use e-learning as a less expensive and more convenient alternative to classroom training. What are some of the most important advantages and disadvantages of e-learning for this organization?
• What types of goals are suitable for diversity training?
• How might a complete performance management system differ from our annual performance appraisals?
• Besides providing feedback, what steps can a manager take to improve employee performance?

 

You are a HR Consultant who has been contracted by the Fellows Company.

The Fellows Company would like to implement a HRIS. The company has 200 employees and plans on growing 100% over the next 3 years. Currently, Fellows utilizes Excel and Word for keeping track of employee files. Annually, the company spends $50,000 for the HR Department for the salaries of one HR employee who maintains the employee records. There is an accounts payable clerk who makes $45,000 a year and works on Payroll 2 days per week.

Your project is to help the Fellows Company determine the cost-savings and ROI for a new HRIS. Based on research and the Module Readings, determine the ROI of implementing a HRIS. Estimate the initial cost of implementation of an Employee Records/Payroll HRIS for the Fellows Company. You may make assumptions for costs, if you are unable to discover actual costs of HRIS systems.

Create a 3-4-page proposal that summarizes the benefits and the ROI of a new HRIS. Consider the following in your proposal:

1. What functions does the HRIS offer and how will it save Fellows time and money?
2. What will be the ROI for the investment? (Consider the initial investment as well as the cost per month/per employee)
3. What reassurances can you offer the company to help them feel confident in your recommendation?

The purpose of the Portfolio Project is to synthesize current project metrics research and make recommendations for how the knowledge can be applied in an organization. The final project is structured to help you demonstrate an understanding of the course material as well as the implications of new knowledge gained from outside research.

Click on the attached link to read the case study �Franklin Electronics� from your textbook. Based on the case study, answer the seven questions found at the end of the case study and write a proposal to Franklin Electronics describing how you would do to turn the project around. When writing the proposal, assume the role of a highly regarded project management consultant hired to review, analyze, and advise Franklin Electronics on the necessary direction to be used to get the project back on track. Your proposal should address the following:

Discuss Six Sigma process improvement for tracking time and cost, and the root cause of the problem. At a minimum, your discussion should include:
Problem
Cause and Effect
Solution
New approach to tracking Earned Value and Scope
New Schedule and timeline
Discuss your recommendations on how Franklin Electronics can use project management principles to meet their goal of improving efficiency and empowering management to make better and informed decisions through the use of Earned Value Management.
Discuss how an effective Earned Value Management System contributes to organizational effectiveness.
Finally, present your strategy on how Franklin Electronics can share best practices across the organization. The paper should be 7-10 pages in length, well-written, properly referenced, and in conformity with CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. The paper must be supported by at least six scholarly references. Please use the CSU Library as well as scholarly, online resources. One of the sources may be your textbook.
*Link to “Franklin Electronics” case study. Page 709 studyhttps://honestyets.pbworks.com/f/Project+Management+-+A+Systems+Approach+-+10thEd.pdf

In this assignment, you will explore how the organization and political environment of an agency or departments can impact the issue you selected in Assignment 1.

 

Using the issue you selected from Assignment 1 (Healthcare Reform), write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you respond to the following questions:

 

1. Examine the organization of the agency (Department of Health & Human Services) in which the issue resides. Describe the structure and departments within the agency and the manner in which the departments interact with each other.
2. Given the description you provided in Question 1, describe the primary ways the human resource management part of the organizational structure positively or negatively impacts the issue that you selected.
3. Given the description you provided in Question 1, describe the primary ways the budgeting part of the organizational structure positively or negatively impacts the issue you selected.
4. Given the description you provided in Question 1, analyze the political environment and explain (2) challenges that political responsiveness may present for management.
5. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in anything other than “.gov” do not qualify as academic resources

Discuss Six Sigma process improvement for tracking time and cost, and the root cause of the problem.
Discuss how an effective Earned Value Management System contributes to organizational effectiveness.

‘at its most basic level, every employment relationship is’ both an ‘economic exchange’ and a ‘power relationship’ between two parties, employers and employees. Because the exchange of labour power is different to any other commodity, the employment relationship is a continuous, open-ended authority relationship. The two sides are interdependent and display patterns of conflict and accommodation, ‘but the employer is in possession of greater power resources than the employee, creating an asymmetrical relationship between the parties’.
Blyton and Turnbull (2004, pp. 34, 13) Ackers (2005b)

Reflecting critically upon this statement discuss whether employees can work with their employers to seek to redress a balance of power and develop strategies for workplace cooperation. Justify your answer, drawing upon academic theory, empirical evidence and case studies.