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We have all worked in a group or team at some point in our careers. A team is brought together to achieve a common goal. The team needs to have members who have complementary skills and who are committed to a common purpose to achieve performance goals. However, teams don’t move immediately toward performing, but instead evolve over time. There are five stages of group and team development:

1. Forming: Getting oriented and getting acquainted. High degree of uncertainty as members as they try to figure out who is in charge.
2. Storming: Personalities start to emerge, along with roles and conflicts within the group.
3. Norming: In the third stage conflicts are resolved, relationships developed, harmony and unity surfaces.
4. Performing: The members concentrate on solving problems and completing the assigned task.
5. Adjourning: Members prepare to disband. Some members may be reassigned, terminated from the group or the group is resolved.

Think about a time when you joined a new group—it could be at work, in a family setting or with a social group.

We know that scope creep can be good or bad for our projects. Explain how you deal with scope change when the proposed change will be good for the firm, but your project sponsor has no willingness to approve the scope change.

                                       Section 1 – Subject Organization and Rationale

The purpose of the Portfolio Project is to synthesize current research about the project management office (PMO) for the purpose of developing a PMO recommendation. The Portfolio Project is structured to help you demonstrate understanding of the course material, as well as the implications of new knowledge gained from research beyond the course readings and lectures.

Your Portfolio Project will be developed in three independent but cohesive sections, which considered in whole constitutes your PMO recommendation. The three sections are:

• Section 1: Subject Organization and Rationale
• Section 2: PMO Mission, Charter, and Competency
• Section 3: PMO Recommendations

Section 1 and Section 2 will be submitted as Portfolio Project milestones in Module 3 and Module 6, respectively.

Section 3 will constitute your final Portfolio Project due at the end of the course in Module 8.

              **********Option #1: Recommendation for the Implementation of a New PMO**********

A key aspect of the Portfolio Project Section 1 is to secure instructor approval for the Portfolio Project subject organization selected, which is required before commencing with subsequent Portfolio Project sections.

Based on your research of the subject organization, substantively address the following key elements:

• Subject organization information:
  • Organization name
  • Organization’s mission, vision, and values statement
  • Industry type and organization demographics
  • Description of organization’s culture
  • Executive sponsor and key stakeholders
• PMO business case:
  • Assessment of existing project management:
    • Project management methods
    • Project management tools
    • Project management experience
    • Project management maturity
  • Perceived PMO benefits for the organization:
    • Overarching business rationale
    • Long term measurable goals (2-3)
    • First year specific goals and metrics
    • Quantified value proposition (short and long term)

Your essay should address the following requirements:

• Your well-written PMO recommendation essay thesis should be 4 pages in length, which does not include the title, reference, or appendix pages. You need to add headings associated and subheadings with each of the bullet points listed in the Section 1 requirements.
• Format your paper per the C (Links to an external site.)SU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.), which includes an introduction and conclusion.
• Include title and reference pages.
• In addition to your course textbook, cite at least three current (published within the past 5 years) scholarly resources (peer-reviewed, official governmental reports, and other scholarly sources) to support your suppositions, assertions, and conclusions. To enhance your learning experience, scholarly resources are available from the CSU Global library.
• Include an appendix for tables and figures as appropriate.

Please write clearly, concisely, and cohesively; use section level headers to organize the key elements of your thesis.

Respond and disagree. Try to choose a post that you respectfully disagree with. Respond from the perspective of either a union member or the manager of an organization. If your peer provided a real-world example, respond from the opposing perspective referred to in your peer’s post.

In the twentieth century unions played an important vital part in the labor movement by increasing employees wages, bettering working conditions, and providing employees a voice in the workplace. Unions were pertinent then because organized labor provided a policy by which employees could better broker these matters with employers. In the 21st century unions are more important today than they ever were. It is no secret that in a global economy, the nature of work is changing and some employers may be resisting unions . The one sector where unions remain relevant is the government. Today in the 21st century almost half of all union members now work in the public sector. The typical union member today works for the local, state, and federal governments, and not on the assembly line. Unions fit more comfortably into government workplaces than the private sector (Sherk, 2008). Labor unions represent just 6.4 percent of America’s private-sector workers and 10.5 percent of workers overall (Wertheim and Chakrabarti, 2019). This is the lowest percentage in more than a century, and has decreased from approximately 35 percent in the 1950s. The UAW union has dwindled to 430,000 members from its peak of 1.5 million in 1979. 

For unions to remain relevant in the 21st century they need to be able to adapt in today’s economy. In the present day, and in the future, labor unions will continue to play an important role in the United States labor force, and for the standard of life for working families today. Additionally, working families in the United States need the representation, collective bargaining power, satisfaction in their work, and equitable treatment in the workplace that they deserve.

There are some differences between unionized and non-unionized human resources departments in their handling of labor laws. In a nonunion company, labor laws aren’t much of a thought. This is due to human resources managers being more concerned with employment law, rather than the regulations that control unionized labor. In a unionized company, human resources managers need to have knowledge of labor law so that they can handle the relationship between employers, their managers, and the union that represents them. This assists the Human Resource department from overstepping its boundaries in important negotiations, which include everything from employees salaries, and pay raises for employees. This also goes hand in hand with hiring and termination.

This is an essay. attached is what needs to be done.

Read Case Study 10-2, “Must a Union Process a Grievance of a Nonunion Employee?” on page 463 of your textbook. Then, answer the questions provided. 

1. What are nonunion employee rights under the LMRA? 
2. What is meant by the union’s duty of fair representation? 
3. When has the union met its obligation of fair representation? 
4. Has the union in this case met its fair representation obligation? Explain. 

Your response to these questions should be a minimum of 1 page in length. Use APA format to cite and reference all quoted and paraphrased material, including your textbook. Please be sure to include your reference list on a separate page.

 Each student is to prepare a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 7 slides including the cover slide and the reference slide. Every slide needs to include 75 words in the Notes section. 

Please, ensure that your name is on the cover slide. You must use at least one reference, in addition to your book. You need to use in-text citations. Your in-text citation and your reference (on your reference slide) must be in APA format.

Topic for PowerPoint Presentation

The Civil Right Rights Act of 1964. Each group member will pick a topic and thoroughly discuss the chosen topic. You should tell (1) why it is important, (2) how it has impacted the workforce, and (3) if that topic has impacted you. 

I have a written assignment due. I will attach the requirements needed to complete this assignment. Please be advised that there is a 300 word minimum for this assignment. Must use required reading for in text-citations. Must use APA formatting.

Note: Only up to 20% of content in the written assignment can be quotes from third parties. 

COMPETITION – MARKET RESEARCH MANAGER ANALYSIS

Due Date

Week 10

Note: While representative of possible situations faced by Target & Walmart, all scenarios in this assignment are fictional.

Real Business

As you learned this week, understanding your competition and adjusting your own business accordingly is critical to a business’s success. A large discount retail store like Target competes not only with other discount retail store stores but also with those stores that offer just some of the products Target does, such as grocery stores. Keeping track of all these competitors is quite a task; that’s why large companies have a team of market researchers dedicated to managing that research.

Your Role

This week, you’ll assume the role of a Market Research Manager at Target.

WHAT IS A MARKET RESEARCH MANAGER?

Market Research Managers are responsible for creating and improving processes for gathering information on various market conditions, competitors, and consumer trends in their companies’ industries. They are typically responsible for managing a team of researchers and reporting their findings to the head of the department. Teams across the company then use these findings to help improve products, guide marketing efforts, and more.

As a Market Research Manager, part of your role is to consistently analyze Target’s position relative to its competitors and report on these findings. As part of this process, you complete a SWOT analysis for each of Target’s main competitors each quarter. The quarter is coming to a close, and your boss has asked for the latest SWOT analysis for Walmart.

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1: Research

Search online and find 1-3 articles that discuss the competition between Target and Walmart. For each article:

• Provide a link to the article.
• Identify which aspects of the article will be helpful as you conduct your SWOT analysis.

Step 2: Strengths

Based on your own experiences shopping at Target and Walmart and the research you conducted:

• Identify 1-2 strengths Target has in comparison to Walmart. For each strength, explain your rationale.

Step 3: Weaknesses

Based on your own experiences shopping at Target and Walmart and the research you conducted:

• Identify 1-2 weaknesses Target has in comparison to Walmart. For each weakness, explain your rationale.

Step 4: Opportunities

Based on your own experiences shopping at Target and Walmart and the research you conducted:

• Identify 1-2 possible opportunities Target has to be more competitive with Walmart. For each opportunity, explain your rationale.

Step 5: Threats

Based on your own experiences shopping at Target and Walmart and the research you conducted:

• Identify 1-2 possible threats that might diminish Target’s competitiveness with Walmart. For each threat, explain your rationale.

Step 6: Who Will Come Out Ahead?

Based on your SWOT analysis, do think that Target or Walmart is better positioned over the long term to come out ahead? Why?

Step 7: Real-World Application

Conduct a SWOT analysis for your company and one of its biggest competitors using the methodology outlined in Steps 1-6.

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