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 With your experience in face-to-face and online learning, together with synchronous and asynchronous discussion, you should be able to express your thoughts and provide recommendation to our program quality improvement (MS in Industrial Management or MS in Technology). To complete this part, students are required to think, analyze, and evaluate based on your past learning experience. There is no need to search for additional resources or any other supplements. Environmental scanning, internal and external factors, should be considered in your writing (e.g. student, faculty, course materials, technology, delivery methods, interaction among classmates, environment, and others). Answer the following questions with details and create diagrams (if needed). 

1. About the class virtual chat meeting, list advantages and disadvantages. Should each online class continue to have virtual meetings with students 2-3 times a month? What should be improved and What can faculty and students do to make it better? 

2. Within this program, what teaching strategies and/or teaching characteristics have been effective for you as a learner? Create a SWOT analysis of your program major based on your experience. 

3. Creating a quality model in MS in Industrial Management OR MS in Technology using a diagram (e.g. fishbone) and explaining in details of influencing factors.  Tips: to create a professional look diagram, you can use a template from asq.org (Learn/Learn about quality), or using SmartArt from Word Document. 

4. Any other helpful comments or suggestions? 

Discuss your thoughts on the importance of a performance appraisal.

Must be 200 words

Part 3: Budget, Budget Narrative, and Sustainability Plan (3–5 pages)

The project Budget delineates all expected costs associated with a project. The Budget Narrative expands upon the line items, offering further explanation of costs and needs as appropriate. A Sustainability Plan explains to funders how you will continue a project after funding has been exhausted.

Constructing a budget requires time and attention to detail. This section of the grant proposal should include the narrative or justification and the financial details associated with funding the project. While the tabulated costs address the financial requirements associated with the budget, the narrative or justification should explain anything that is not apparent in the itemized budget. Be careful not to get redundant with the budget narrative. It is best to review examples to understand the required balance. Finally, as you consider developing your budget, make sure that you have fully examined the requirements of the RFP. Determine the timeline of the grant as well as your activity timeline and management plan to ensure you have covered all the nuances of project work that has associated costs. Ask yourself: Does this budget reflect all activities? Are all the project costs as well as the in-kind donations and volunteer resources documented? Is this budget realistic?

For this Assignment:

• Review the Final Project Guidelines provided in this module’s Learning Resources.
• Carefully review the Learning Resources focused on project budgets. You also may find additional online information from reputable grant-related organizations.
• With consideration to feedback in Discussion 1 that you received from colleagues and your Instructor, and to your continued evaluation of the literature and funder guidelines, finalize your project Budget, Budget Narrative, and Sustainability Plan.

For your Assignment:

Part I: Budget Template

• Use the budget template provided in the Learning Resources.
  • Fill in the budget template for your project.
• Part II: Budget Narrative and Sustainability Plan
• The Budget Narrative expands on the line items of the budget, providing a reviewer detail and justification for how you arrived at the projected dollar amounts. For example: If hiring a consultant for $2,000 is a line item, the narrative might explain that this is based on 40 hours @ $50/hour.
• The Sustainability Plan explains how your agency plans to continue operating this program once the funding has run out.
• It also indicates where future funding and other resources might be obtained.

1. Explain personal Financial management and why it is important to your professional success. What tips could you give to a colleague who may be struggling with personal financial management.

2. Explain one of your goals using the specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) method. What is one area of strength and one area of weakness of your goal? What can you do to improve the weakness you identified

3. How would you describe your own personal learning style, and how does it affect your ability to communicate and remain professional in he workplace?

Each questions response must be at least 200 words in length

The BA.GST degree is a tremendous asset to your professional goals. The key will be persuading people to see the value of this degree. Now that you have started thinking about your personal brand, how are you going to pitch yourself to your potential employers? What is your thirty-second elevator speech?

Consider the following in your response:

• What makes this degree so important to your goals and how does it make you stand out from others?
• How will this degree reflect the skills that employers today are looking for in college graduates?
• In what ways have you effectively communicated this so far in your LinkedIn profile?

Discussion 1

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read the article A Case Method Approach of Teaching How Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis is connected to the Flexible Budgeting Process and Variance Analysis (Links to an external site.).

The authors, Machuga and Smith (2013), present in the article a multidisciplinary case-method approach to help students who want to start a successful business understand the steps necessary to achieve their desired profits using cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis. The case-method emphasizes on the importance of CVP analysis and how it ties directly into the planning and control processes any management must take to start a potentially successful business.

After reading the aforementioned Machuga and Smith article, in an initial post of at least 200 words, discuss how cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis and flexible budgeting can enable students to understand the different stages involved in starting up a business, projecting out results, and monitoring business performance (Machuga & Smith. 2013).

Guided Response: Review several of your peers’ posts. In a minimum post of at least 100 words, respond to at least two of your peers’ posts in a substantive manner. Provide information that they may have missed or may not have considered in regard to how CVP analysis directly ties into the planning and control processes management must take to start a potentially successful business. Do you agree with your peers’ findings? Why or why not?

Discussion 2

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read the Investing Newsletter of Forbes Operating Leverage (Links to an external site.). The Finnish company Rovio Entertainment Corporation (Links to an external site.) that produces and sells the game Angry Birds, following years of falling earnings, job cuts and divestments announced that its revenue increased 34% in 2016 to 190 million euros ($201 million dollars). According to Rosendahl, the operating result improved to a profit of 17.5 million euros from a loss of 21 million in 2015, increasing earnings by 83% (Rosendahl, 2017). In 2015, Rovio Entertainment Corporation announced that its revenues for 2014 decreased nine percent compared to those of 2013; even worse, its earnings had decreased by 73% (Read the article, Investors Take Flight After Angry Birds Maker Warns on Profit (Links to an external site.)).

After reading Forbes’ Investing Newsletter, in an initial post of at least 200 words, explain why relatively small changes in companies’ revenues can result in relatively large changes in their earnings or losses. In other words, if a company’s sales increase 12%, why do its earnings not also increase 12%?

Guided Response: Review several of your peers’ posts. In a post of at least 100 words, respond to at least two of your peers’ posts in a substantive manner. Provide information that they may have missed or may not have considered in regard to operating leverage. A company’s earnings can rise faster, as a percentage, than its revenue due to operating leverage, and operating leverage is due entirely to the fixed costs. Do you agree with your peers’ findings? Why or why not?

This assignment picks up where the last one left off.  Going back to your research paper,  tell us about where you work and how you would propose applying what you learned about your chosen topic to your organization. How, exactly, would you apply the best practices you identified and how would doing so benefit your organization?  Prepare this paper as a proposal (see guidelines for proposal writing attached).  Include five or more solid references in your paper.  Use APA style guidelines; double-space the paper; and aim for the paper to be approximately five pages long, excluding cover page and references.

PLEASE UTILIZE THE UMGC LIBRARY FOR SOURCES – DO NOT USE READINGS FROM THIS COURSE TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT.

From your previous the research paper.

Choose one of the topics below that interests you and, using the UMGC library, research best practices in this area.  Summarize your findings.  Please limit resources to those that are less than ten years old, and follow these guidelines for crafting your paper – Research Papers

Topics:  Choose one topic from the list below.  You can choose to explore a narrow issue relative to that topic – for example – if you choose diversity and inclusion, you may be interested in best practices in recruiting women into roles in technology.  Before starting your research, it may help to have a question in mind that you would like to answer – like – “I know companies are moving away from traditional performance reviews. Why is that and what are they replacing them with?”  I’d love to know the question you are trying to answer at the start of your paper.  It would be helpful to choose a topic that would apply to the organization you work for (or one that you most recently worked for) because assignment 2 will ask you to apply the best practices you learned about to your own organization!

• Diversity & Inclusion

 DISCUSSION 1

1. Review the following attachments: 

Appealing a Performance Appraisal

Handling a Performance Appraisal

2. Explain specifically which one you think gives better advice and why. Support your opinion with at least two sources.

3. Initial comments to this discussion topic are due by midnight Saturday and you must substantively respond to at least TWO student’s comments in this discussion topic no later than 10pm Tuesday. See Discussion Expectations for rules on discussion requirements.

• Module 3
• Administration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement 
• Why Do Employees File Discrimination Complaints and Grievances? Advice to Managers and Supervisors
• Arbitration
• What Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators Do

In the chapter review section, you are encouraged to do a social data report and a social history on yourself. “Build a case file” on someone you know. Gather data from your subject regarding his or her education and work history. Be sure to identify strengths in your “client.”

250 words min

  HR Management test questions
 

1. Describe the employment-at-will doctrine. – This is a common-law doctrine stating that employers have the right to hire, fire, demote, or promote whomever they choose, unless there is a law or a contract to the contrary.

2. List four major laws enacted since 1960 that directly impact the Human Resources function. Briefly describe each.
– Family and Medical Leave Act – Allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of leave for their serious health conditions or the birth or adoption of a child. . Injured employees may ask to use that leave time in addition to the leave time allowed under worker’ comp, even if it is unpaid.
– Americans with Disabilities Act – Prohibits discrimination based on disability
– Occupational Safety and Health Act – passed “to assure so far as possible every working man woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions and preserve our human resources.”
– Equal Pay Act of 1963 – Tries to depress sex discrimination as related to pay and commerce in the workplace.

3. Explain how a firm’s human resources influence organizational performance. –

4. Describe how firms can use HR initiatives to cope with workplaces changes and trends such as a more diverse workforce, the global economy, downsizing, and new legislation.