Instructions:

This week’s assignment is to create a project plan using industry-standard software. 

In this assignment, you will be creating a Work Breakout Structure (WBS), GANTT Chart, and Network Diagram for your project using the software application you have chosen. Please include:

At Least 30 Activities, each with

• Duration/Dates
• Predecessors
• Resources
• A Critical Path
• Include a copy of the source file from your application. In the case of Smartsheet, include detailed screenshots embedded in a Word file.

extra websites for software

 Basecamp – https://basecamp.com (tutorials at: https://basecamp.com/help/2/videos (Links to an external site.)) Freedcamp – https://freedcamp.com (tutorial at: https://youtu.be/6S0jb6CnnH0 (Links to an external site.)) Flow – https://www.getflow.com (tutorials at: https://www.getflow.com/support (Links to an external site.)) Wrike – https://www.wrike.com (tutorials at: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/categories/201188625 (Links to an external site.)) 

Write a paper of 5–7 pages that describes the strategies that can facilitate a successful organizational transformation. Your description should be based on real life successes and documented research. Describe the change strategies as follows:

• Strategic: Driven by  environmental factors such as competition, technology, regulatory, and so forth 
• Incremental: Affecting portions of the organization to improve efficiency or effectiveness within  the strategic framework of the organization 
• Reactive: Changes made in response to a specific event or events 

Anticipatory: Changes made ahead of future events  

Scope Management and Health Checks

Your brother in-law is about to submit a scope statement to the town council for the July 4thparade and picnic he has volunteered to project manage. Your town has about 6,000 households, and this is the first time the town council gave a tentative approval for the parade and picnic. The council president thinks that about $1,500 can be allocated for the event. Since your brother in-law knows you are taking a project management class, he has asked that you to look over his draft scope statement. He knows that the scope statement should be professional so that the town council will see him as responsible and allocate the money for the parade and picnic. Here is his scope statement.

4th of July Parade and Picnic in Anytown, USA

Project Objective – to organize and hold both a parade and picnic from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on July 4th

• Deliverables
• Parade security
• Picnic security
• Hour parade
• Hour picnic
• Local business sponsors
• Food Trucks
• Latrine Arrangement
• Advertisement
• Volunteer Coordination

Milestones

1. Get permits for closing the parade route to traffic
2. Finalize venue location (local school or park)
3. Police
4. Fire Department
5. Sponsorships
6. Latrines
7. Food trucks
8. Set-up
9. Clean-up

Technical Requirements

1. Parking for parade
2. Parking for picnic
3. Audio system for music
4. Traffic control

Limitations

1. Maximum 20 automobiles/floats
2. Insurance
3. Food trucks donate 10% to town council
4. Fire marshall
5. Strict adherence to time limit of 10 a.m-2 p.m.

Provide input to your brother-in-law on:

• the scope statement,
• scope creep prevention,
• stakeholder management,
• metrics for success,
• ways to recover the project should it become distressed,
• how and when he should perform health checks, and,
• any other items he should consider from a project management perspective.

Support your statements and conclusions using at least one current, peer-reviewed scholarly article.

See attachments 3 assignments

Communication Skills – E Portfolio

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E-Portfolio (20 points) – Outcome 1 – Due: Tues. July 14 by 11:59pm

This e-portfolio assessment is designed to be used as both a learning tool and as a professional portfolio that you can include in your resume or applications for jobs. You want to begin developing your portfolio ideas during Week 3, even though it is not due until Week 8. In this assignment you are asked to choose any three of the four HRMN 302 course outcomes and reflect on your learning in our class.

There are two distinct parts to this assignment. The first is your reflective ideas about your learning for three of the four course goals. The second is the actual creation of the E-portfolio on the Google Site. There is a partially completed portfolio provided for you at the very end of these instructions.

For directions on how to create an E-portfolio/Google Site go to url https://goo.gl/pIMkbu

The four course outcomes for HRMN 302 are:

1. Apply appropriate communication media and methods to various situational needs in organizational settings.
2. Apply communication theories to organizational communication challenges.
3. Recognize and respond constructively to cultural differences in communication.
4. Analyze and assess the communication dynamics of an organization through the completion of a communication audit.

Once your portfolio site is created, follow the specific instructions below.

Begin with an Introduction page, develop at least one page for each of the three outcomes you’ve selected. Be sure to include a Reference page at the end.

You will have a minimum of 5 pages. 

On each outcome page:

• Provide the specific course outcome you’ve selected.
• Explain in your own words and 1-2 paragraphs how each outcome relates to what you have learned in class.
• Post one artifact for each outcome (video, paper, chart, or any type of file you wish to use) and that demonstrates your mastery of each outcome. NOTE: the artifacts do not have to be newly created. You can use work you’ve developed previously.
• Explain, in detailed sentences and approx. 2-3 paragraphs how each artifact relates to the course outcome.

Here is an example of a partially completed portfolio:

https://sites.google.com/site/hrmnportfolio2011/

To Submit Your E-Portfolio for Grading:

Copy and paste your E-Portfolio url into a word document. Then post your 1 page word document to the assignment folder Communication Skills- E Portfolio 

Due DateJul 14, 2020 11:59 PMHide Rubrics

Rubric Name: Communication Skills E-Portfolio

This table lists criteria and criteria group name in the first column. The first row lists level names and includes scores if the rubric uses a numeric scoring method.CriteriaMissing0 pointsBeginning4 pointsDeveloping4.667 pointsAccomplished5.334 pointsExemplary6.6667 pointsCriterion ScoreThree outcomes

Missing

The portfolio is missing three or more of the following:
course outcome 1, 2, or 3, one page for each outcome, an introduction
with the students name, citations

The portfolio is missing two of the following: course
outcome 1, 2, or 3, one page for each
outcome, an introduction with the students name, citations

The portfolio is missing one of the following: course
outcome 1, 2 or 3, one page for each outcome, an introduction with the students name, citations

Portfolio includes: three course outcomes, one
page for each outcome, an introduction with a title and student’s name, citations

/ 6.6667Content addresses the outcome

Missing

Portfolio is missing written content to explain each of the three outcomes or uses artifacts that do
not relate to the outcomes.

Portfolio content needs some clarification and a better
approach. Written details are provided. Content may be in a list and missing details to explain.

Portfolio features some discussion of key summary points, but requires some minor clarification. page content is not as logical or professionally presented as it should be

Portfolio provides details to fully describe the outcome as it relates to what was learned in class. content and format are logical and professional; appropriate amount of information is presented on each page

/ 6.6667Mechanics

Missing

Presentation has 4 or more typographical or grammatical errors; errors detract from the overall message

Presentation has three or less typographical or grammatical errors; errors do not detract from the overall message

There may be some errors in the amount of information presented on each slide; presentation
includes two typographical errors at most

There are no grammatical errors; proper formatting
is used throughout the presentation

/ 6.6667
 

View this Ethical Dilemma to learn more about Bill and Joe’s relationship. 

Joe has scheduled a meeting with his management team for next week to talk about the Peninsula Hotel chain contract. He hopes that he will be able to work with them to draft a contract favorable to Peninsula that will ensure its renewal for another year. He is reasonably sure that the contract renewal will ensure his continued success and employment with UWEAR. Bill invites Joe and his family to join them on his yacht for the weekend.

Joe is relieved to get the invitation from Bill because their relationship has been strained lately due to the contract negotiations.

Joe must decide how he will answer Bill’s invitation to join him and his family on their yacht.

Using ethical principles that you have learned thus far to justify your answers, please respond to the following questions in a paper of 500–700 words:  

• What are some reasons why Joe should turn down the invitation?
• What are some reasons why Joe could accept the invitation?
• Does Joe’s relationship with Bill meet the definition of a conflict of interest?

500 words 2 References

Discussion is to be submitted in 12-point Times New Roman font using APA format with a minimum of 350 words and minimum of two sources. 

Write a page answering the two questions in APA format including intext citation.

1. Compensation is a detailed concept, and many employers and employees view it’s components differently.

· Explain how perceptions of compensation differ among the various disciplinary concepts.

· Select at least three of those concepts and discuss how these concepts are evident in the compensation platform at your current or former employer (or another company you have researched).

2. Compensation discrimination can be costly to organizations and as such, companies must work hard to ensure that their compensation practices are in alignment with legislation.

· Locate an example of a company that has violated one of the compensation laws that was discussed in this module. Describe the violation and its outcome (so it is important that you do not select cases that that still pending).

· Discuss how the company can avoid similar violations in the future.

The center point of research studies is the body of data collected to answer the research question. These data must be measured, which is the act of taking an abstract concept (e.g., depression, anger, etc.), sorting them out and quantifying them in some cohesive way in order to construct meaning—but how can you measure something that is not easily quantifiable?

Choosing an appropriate measurement tool requires consideration of a number of different issues including reliability, validity, appropriateness for use with a specific group or culture, availability, and potential cost. Sometimes, social workers will attempt to create their own set of questions to tap into or measure a concept. This may appear to be an easy thing to do; however, writing questions to measure a phenomenon is more challenging than it would seem. For example, how do we know it measures what we want it to measure?  In the first discussion this week, you will have the opportunity to create your own questions to measure a phenomenon of your interest. In the second discussion, you will compare the measure you created with an existing instrument that measures the same phenomenon.

To prepare: Choose one phenomenon or issue that a client may be dealing with (for example, depression, anxiety, or family conflict). Consider how you would evaluate the client’s progress in this area. Create questions with response options that would capture this phenomenon or client issue.

• Identify the phenomenon you would measure and explain how you conceptualize this phenomenon.
• Provide at least 3 questions you would use to measure this phenomenon and explain how these questions operationalize the phenomenon.
• Define reliability in 2-3 sentences and give one example of how you would establish reliability for the questions you created.
• Define validity in 2-3 sentences and give one example of how you would establish validity for the questions you created.
• Create a measurement plan to assess the phenomenon.
  • Describe the methodology you would use to collect data using your measurement tool (your method for acquiring this research data).
  • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of your choices.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your ideas, analysis, and comments supported with application of course learning materials. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Review the UWEAR and PALEDENIM scenario found here.

You will first meet with the CEOs of each organization, Theresa Tramlin and Mike Miller, to help them understand their important leadership roles for the success of the merger.

The merger is a significant change for both organizations; there is growing anxiety and uncertainty among the employees of both organizations. The goal is to complete the merger in a way that maintains employee performance and allegiance to the merged organization. Both CEOs were promoted from managerial positions, so one of your tasks is to help them understand how to distinguish the two roles.

Please discuss the following with your classmates:

• In your opinion, what is the difference between being a manager and being a leader?
• Read research findings by Kabacoff (1998) that, although men and women are perceived as equally effective in leading, women tend to focus more on production, attaining results, and people, while men tend to focus on strategic planning, organization vision, and business tasks.
• Considering this, in your opinion, which leadership theory or style will be effective when leading the merger and why? 

Reference

Kabacoff, R. I. (1998). Gender differences in organizational leadership. Portland, ME: Management Research Group. Retrieved from https://proxy.cecybrary.com/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/446780574/abstract?source=fedsrch&accountid=144789