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 Determine if the employee will be exempt or nonexempt and discuss how overtime will be handled. 6. Suggest other benefits that might be considered within the next few months to enhance employee performance and provide job motivation. 7. Provide information on how government regulations will influence the compensation. 8. Examine data from two (2) organizations listed in the BLS Website with packages similar to yours, focusing on salary, compensation, and benefits 

You are to provide a paper (case studies) of a minimum of 2 pages and a maximum of 3 pages (not including your cover page, abstract, or reference page).

You need at least 3 references in addition to your text. The case study and the references are to be in APA format  

A staffing firm provides landscaping services for clients on an ongoing basis. The staffing firm selects and pays the workers, provides health insurance, and withholds taxes. The firm provides the equipment and supplies necessary to do the work. It also supervises the workers on the clients’ premises. Client A reserves the right to direct the staffing-firm workers to perform particular tasks at particular times or in a specified manner, although it does not generally exercise that authority. Client A evaluates the quality of the workers’ performance and regularly reports its findings to the firm. It can require the firm to remove a worker from the job assignment if it is dissatisfied.

How do you determine who is the employer of the workers?

A theme throughout this course has been that human and social services professionals constantly apply theories and processes to address issues and challenges. As a social change agent, leader, and advocate, you should be able to apply relevant theories and processes to implement and support change on a local and global scale. As always, codes of ethics should provide guidance as you attempt to bring about change. As the final step in the development of your strategic plan, you will develop an action plan for each year of the strategic plan. For example, your plan might start off with strategic goals at the local level with plans to take these goals national or international in following years of the strategic plan.

To prepare:

• Review the feedback from your Instructor regarding the components of your strategic plan in Weeks 3, 4, and 6–8.
• You should make any changes based on the feedback you received. You will include these elements as a whole this week for your final strategic plan.
• Finally this week, consider what actions you will take each year of the strategic plan.  

By Day 7

The Assignment (15–22 pages):

Guidelines for each section of the Assignment are provided below.

Part I. The Fundamentals (3–4 pages): The fundamentals of a strategic plan include identifying the core values, mission, and vision, which represent the organizational identification (ID). The Assignment requires you to develop the organizational ID for the agency, organization, or community for which you will develop a strategic plan.

1. Identify and describe the core values of the agency.
   1. Discuss the degree to which those core values are aligned with advocacy, leadership, or social change.
   2. Explain how those core values contribute to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
2. Identify and describe the mission of the agency, organization, or community.
   1. Evaluate whether the mission statement is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc.
   2. Describe whether the mission statement promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change.
   3. Discuss whether the mission statement provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
3. Identify and describe the vision of the agency.
   1. Evaluate whether the vision is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc.
   2. Describe whether the vision promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change.
   3. Discuss whether the vision provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
4. Identify and describe key stakeholders involved with the agency.
   1. Discuss whether each stakeholder is internal or external to the agency/organization.
   2. Describe the role each stakeholder has in the organization (i.e. leadership, management, staff, recipient of services, etc.).
   3. Discuss how each stakeholder can be an essential element for gathering information to develop the strategic plan.

Part II. Needs Assessment (2–3 pages): A needs assessment is a systematic way of determining the gap between what an agency, organization, or community has and what is desired to meet the needs of individuals, groups, communities, or societies. The needs assessment will reveal whether there may be unmet services. It can then provide information about those needs and help inform your planning to meet them. The needs assessment also consists of planning who you need to target, how you will effectively gather new data, and/or how you will use existing data to inform your planning decisions.
The Assignment:

1. Outline and describe steps you would take to conduct a needs assessment.
2. State which stakeholders you would contact and why you would contact the stakeholder.
3. Develop a stakeholder survey related to your professional or societal issue.
   1. The survey must contain at least 10 questions.
   2. Provide a justification for each question on the survey.
   3. Provide rationale for the type/format of questions on the survey.
   4. State how you would vary items on the survey based on the role of the stakeholders who would complete it (administration, leadership, staff, recipient of surveys).

Part III. Strategic Issues (4–6 pages):
After the needs assessment has been completed, the next element of the strategic plan involves developing the strategic issues. Key tasks associated with the strategic issues include conducting a gap analysis, performing an environmental scan, and developing stakeholder surveys. The actions are performed so that you can conduct a SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORUNITIES and THREATS. A SWOT analysis is used to help an agency, organization, or community better understand the business and environment in which it operates. The goal of developing strategic issues is to list or map out all of the strengths and weaknesses and then to do the same for all of the opportunities and threats. This helps the organization identify a strategy for planning. Opportunities that match the strengths are things that should be pursued. Threats that particularly align with weaknesses should be especially avoided when developing a strategic plan.

1. Conduct a SWOT analysis. This analysis focuses on the present state or condition of the organization and determining where the organization would like to be. The difference between the two represents the gap or the difference between where the organization is currently and where the organization would like to be. This gap could provide information on what might be the major focus of the strategic plan.
2. Describe plans for conducting an environmental scan. The environmental scan is a process that that gathers and interprets relevant data on an agency, organization, or community to identify external opportunities and threats.
   1. Identify and describe internal conditions that might impact the implementation of the strategic plan.
   2. Address on how you would minimize the impact of those conditions.
   3. Identify and describe external conditions or competitors that might impact the implementation of the strategic plan.
      1. Address how you would minimize the impact of those conditions.
      2. Consider how you might plan to work with competitors to meet the needs of your targeted agency, organization, or community.
3. Identify and describe at least three strengths of the agency, organization, or community.
   1. State why each item on the list is a strength.
   2. State how you plan to utilize each strength to positively the impact the development or implementation of the strategic plan.
4. Identify and describe at least three weaknesses of the agency, organization, or community.
   1. State what causes each item on the list to be a weakness.
   2. State how you plan to minimize the impact of the weakness.
5. Identify and describe at least three threats to the agency, organization, or community.
   1. State what causes each item on the list to be a threat.
   2. State how you plan to minimize the impact of the threat.
6. Identify and describe at least three opportunities for improvement for the agency, organization, or community.
   1. State what causes each item on the list to be an opportunity for improvement.
   2. State how you plan to incorporate the opportunity to the implementation of the strategic plan.

Part IV. The Technicals (4–6 pages): The technicals element includes items such as developing strategic goals, strategies, leading indicators of success, and performance targets for the strategic plan. The technical elements represent the executable part of the strategic plan. As you begin to develop the technical elements, the executable part of your strategic plan, consider the goals in relationship to internationalization and alliances.
Develop your strategic goals (Weeks 6 and 7). You must include at least three goals on the list. The goals must address the following:

1. Address issues such as globalization and how those issues might impact the strategic goals of the agency, organization, or community.
2. Identify potential alliances:
   1. Identify opportunities for alliances with other agencies or organizations.
   2. State why the alliances are important.
3. Develop strategies for implementing goals. You must have at identify at least two strategies for each identified goal. These goals must be specific, measurable, attainable, and realistic.
4. Address issues of accountability.
5. Describe how you will address accountability for each of the following: 
   1. Describe how your leadership will be held accountable for execution of the strategic plan.
   2. Discuss the following aspects of accountability for employee:
      1. Identify who will be responsible for executing specific aspects of the strategic plan.
6. Explain how employee accountability will be tracked.
7. Describe leading indicators of success. To determine whether the agency, organization, or community will benefit from the strategic plan, you must identify those things which would serve as indicators of success. These indicators must be observable, measurable, and quantifiable in some way.
   1. Identify four indicators that would signify success with regard to the strategic plan.
   2. Discuss specifically how you would measure each indicator.
8. Identify performance targets. Performance targets represent the level at which you would like to observe performance on each indicator. They represent the desired level of performance. For each performance indicator that you have identified, specify the targeted level of performance.

Part V. Action Plans (2–3 pages): Develop action plans for each year of the strategic plan. Your strategic plan should cover 3–5 years.

BM35S : Marketing Management

Question 1 

When consumers share a strong need that cannot be satisfied by an existing product, it is called _____ demand.

negative

latent

declining

irregular

Question 2

When demand is __________, it implies that more customers would like to buy the product than can be satisfied.

latent

irregular

overfull

full

Question 3

 A __________ is a direction or sequence of events that has some momentum and durability; it reveals the shape of the future and can provide strategic direction.

fad

fashion

trend

megatrend

Question 4

Which of the following would be the best illustration of a secondary belief or value?

Belief in work

Belief in giving to charity

Belief in getting married

Belief in getting married early

Question 5

Total customer satisfaction is measured based on the relationship of:

expected value and total customer benefit.

perceived performance and expectation.

advertised outcomes and real outcomes.

past experience and present experience.

Question 6

Identify the four pillars of brand equity, according to BrandAsset Valuator model.

Relevance, performance, bonding, and advantage

Presence, performance, advantage, and bonding

Energized differentiation, relevance, esteem, and knowledge

Brand salience, brand feelings, brand imagery, and brand performance

Question 7

The __________ attack offers the firm an opportunity to diversify into unrelated products, diversity into new geographical markets, and leapfrog into new technologies.

bypass

flank

frontal

guerrilla

Question 8

__________ is the ability of a company to prepare on a large-scale basis individually designed products, services, programs, and communications.

Mass customization

Reverse engineering

Interoperability

Backward compatibility

Question 9

Costs that do not vary with production levels or sales revenue are known as _____ costs.

overhead

variable

average

opportunity

Question 10

Which of the following is a form of mass communications channel?

Interactive marketing

Personal selling

Public relations

Word-of-mouth marketing

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The mix of debt and equity financing used by an organization is called its capital structure. Many managers struggle with finding a balance between these two options. It is a critical decision as it impacts the organization’s assets, liabilities, and bottom line.

You are the business office manager for Hope and Healing General Hospital. The radiology department is considering purchasing a new, high-tech diagnostic machine. It has a high resolution and has resulted in more accurate diagnoses. The machine costs $200,000 dollars. The three options for financing are obtaining a bank loan with interest (debt) for the entire purchase price, buying it outright with no debt, or using venture capitalists (equity). You have been asked to prepare a memorandum for the hospital’s executive director with your recommendation.

In your memorandum, start out by reminding the executive director what debt and equity financing are. You will then comment on the pros and cons of each method. Also note which option you feel is the safest and which is the least safe option. Be sure to state why.

Instructions:

1. Your initial post must include your memorandum.
2. Reply to your classmates, comparing and contrasting the different approaches to the memorandum.

Each assignment should be done on its own word document. Please read all instructions and follow all guidelines. Information for Ebook is posted also link to CSU Library is posted. If you have any questions please let me know. 

Unit III Assessment

1. List at least four potential problems in creating accurate duration estimates for activities. Describe at least two methods for dealing with each potential problem.
   Use at least 75 words to answer this essay. 
2. Describe the five factors that may limit how fast a project can be completed. Give an example of each.
   Use at least 75 words to answer this essay.
3. Identify what three time management processes need to be accomplished even if you use scheduling software and explain why.Use at least 75 words to answer this essay.
4. Identify advantages and disadvantages of Monte Carlo simulation. Also, define Monte Carlo simulation. Use at least 75 words to answer this essay.

Unit IV Research Paper

Instructions

Write a three-page research paper covering the following topics:

1. Define project cost terms and tell how each is used in estimating project cost.
2. Compare and contrast analogous, parametric, and bottom-up methods of estimating costs.
3. Describe issues in project cost estimating and how to deal with each.
4. Describe the earned value management terms.

E-BOOK  Contemporary Project Management, 3rd Edition

https://online.vitalsource.com 

[email protected]

Jamal2013!

Find at least two sources from the CSU Online Library  ( CSU Online Library Research Guide ), and you may also use your textbook to complete this research paper. Be sure to use APA format and cite resources used. Include a title page and a reference page (not included in the number count of pages).

Unit V Homework

Instructions

Example Project

Follow the instructions on page 286 of your textbook, and complete the example project which is at the bottom of the page. Create your own example for a project. Follow the instructions, and submit a no less than four-page Word document answering the questions for the project.

Be sure to use APA format and cite your work. When you get to the facilitating a discussion with the sponsor, use your imagination to create a discussion with a fictitious sponsor.

Unit VI Research Paper

E-BOOK  Contemporary Project Management, 3rd Edition

https://online.vitalsource.com 

[email protected]

Jamal2013!

Find at least two sources from the CSU Online Library  ( CSU Online Library Research Guide ), and you may also use your textbook to complete this research paper. Be sure to use APA format and cite resources used. Include a title page and a reference page (not included in the number count of pages).

Instructions

Conduct research using the CSU Online Library, and find at least two articles on handling project conflict management. In your paper, identify the different styles you found in your research, and compare and contrast each style. Identify either low, medium, or high for concern for self and concern for others in your paper. Also, include a synopsis of each article to include when appropriate for projects. See exhibit 13.11, located on page 371 of your textbook, for an example.

Be sure to use APA format and cite your work. Your paper should be at least three pages in length and will include a title and reference page which are not included in the page count.

250 min 

Read the following pamphlet from the director of the Family Acceptance Project on “Helping Families Support Their LGBT Children.”

https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/FamilySupportForLGBTChildrenGuidance.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Based on the findings from this pamphlet as well as what you have learned from the chapter, develop a hypothetical case management plan to assist a gay teen who has run away from home because of a negative coming out experience with his or her family members. The goal is to reunite the client with the family and to help the family and the teen to come to a mutual understanding and respect for the teen’s sexual identity.

1. List the approaches to case management that would be most useful for this client, with special attention to the challenges of working with minor youth, as well as the challenges related to a possible lack of a strong family support structure.
2. Discuss how you can simultaneously help the individual client increase his or her self-esteem and strengthen his or her support system while educating the teen’s parents and extended family, who may be hesitant to accept the client’s new sexual identity.

can someone have this assigment done around 6pm tomorrow evening

Discussion 1:

In light of our course readings regarding 4IR, what predicted changes  might impact your organization or an organization with which you are  familiar? Be specific. How might 4IR impact the future of unions? Or  not?

Provide at least one reference.

Interact with at least one classmate.

Discussion 2:

Suppose that you are a senior manager in a large unionized  organization. The global marketplace and potentially 4IR are placing  increasing demands on your organization to be agile and market change  responsive.  Select one “force” on Porter’s Five Forces Model to initiate a dialog with your union leadership. Your goal is to describe the potential impact of the force and how labor and management might collaborate for agility rather than win/lose battle lines. (This is typical today not only of the global marketplace but also in light of COVID 19)

Provide at least one reference.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2012/07/12/11900/the-top-10-economic-facts-of-diversity-in-the-workplace/

3.3 Multiculturalism and the Law

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/08/13/the-4th-industrial-revolution-is-here-are-you-ready/#374fc0b628b2

http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/porter.shtml

Think of an organization that personally caught your attention as a consumer because they did a great job or a poor job of marketing. Discuss what the organization did in the way of marketing that caught your attention.