Category: Business and Management

Class presentation
SITUATION 2 (WEDNESDAY MORNING)
Juan Needs to Break the News to All Employees That Work Hours WIll Be Reduced
Juan Hernandez sighed in frustration. He’d slept poorly last night because of anxiety. Today was going to be a long day. He had lots of bad news to pass around-to employees, suppliers, and customers. Juan had delivered bad ne many times before, but it never got easy.
Juan gathered most of the employees for a 30-minute meeting. He broke the news that the company was tempora suspending any overtime work and cutting back on shifts. Juan knew some of the workers lived from month to mor and that these new changes would hurt them. When the meeting ended, Juan thought the employees still had som questions. Also, not all employees were at work today, so Juan needed to send out an email to clarify the news he delivered in the meeting. He definitely wanted to get out more complete information right away.
Task
How can Juan write a message to employees informing them that they will have reduced work hours without excessively reducing employee morale and commitment.
I am specifically tasked with delivering the bad news in a “timely manner”. Please be sure to show sympathy and understanding which is why we believe it is important not wait a long time before delivering the news to the employees at Marble Home Makers. My presentation should last a maximum of 2 minutes.
The presentation is 5-10 minutes. We are a group of 5 and my presentation is expected to be about two minutes and I have to use a reference while delivering the bad news.
Assignment:
We are assigned situation 2.
Purpose
This assignment is intended to help you learn to confidently present findings to management in a presentation.
Action Items
1. Read Application Exercise 15.10 “Presentation about Changes at Marble Home Makeovers” in Cardon (2021
This final presentation is based on the instructions and scenario listed for this exercise,
2. Prepare a 5- to 10-minute video presentation, including PowerPoint slides, based on the scenario below. Mal sure you first identify your key messages and analyze your audience based on information in the textbook.
Create a clear and compelling preview, view, and review (see Chapter 14).
• Presentation about Changes at Marble Home Makeovers. To begin, read the Chapter Case “Bad News at Marble Home Makeovers” in Chapter 11. Then, assume the role of Juan Hernandez, Create a presentation to employees about temporary changes in work shifts. You could base the presentation on Figure 11,4 in th textbook.
3. Locate 1 to 2 additional resources to use as references in the presentation, in addition to the textbook.
4. Make your presentation visually pleasing by using visuals and charts. Make sure you use references when us charts created by others. Use APA Formatting Support E› to help you create your references.
5. Check your work with Grammarly, E»
6. Submit your finished presentation by the due dates

As an HR consultant, how would you seek to uncover the pertinent leadership issues an organization is facing?
(Do not be afraid to use examples)
The etext is:
Robinson, Dana, G. et al. Performance Consulting. Available from: VitalSource Bookshelf, (3rd Edition). Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press), 2015.

Assignment Instrcutions : This is a short reflective paper (no more than 3 pages, double-spaced) about you and your personal leadership style from your own 
perspective. In addition, you are required to ask a friend and/or colleague their perception of 
your leadership style. Be sure to include their feedback in your paper. It can be just as simple as 
a sentence or two. There is no maximum number of words. Just be sure to respond to the 
bulleted items. This is not a research paper but a short informed reflection of your leadership 
style based upon your own perception along with application of course reading material from 
your text – especially from (but not exclusively) chapter 4.
To receive maximum points, you must apply/integrate some of the leadership theory that you 
have learned during the course from the text and/or other sources that relate to leadership. Reflect upon the opportunities that you have had to lead in a formal or informal situations. For 
example, as chair of a ministry; a club; community organization; a team or your family reunion committee. 
Or, you could be a team leader for a group in one of your classes at school.
When writing your reflections, please include the following:
1 – What is my leadership style like? For example, servant leader, transformational, etc.
2 – What are my leadership qualities that I can build upon?
3 – What are areas that I can build upon to become a more effective leader?
4 – How can I apply conceptual material learned in this course in my real life now and/or in 
the future?
5 – How has my gender, ethnicity, national culture influenced me as I think about leadership?
6 – How will I develop further as a leader?
7 – What might hinder me from being the kind of leader that I dream of becoming?
Grading Rubric: This assignment will be graded based upon the following criteria:
Completeness: All requirements completed ((90-100%); most completed (89-80%); some 
completed (79-70%); or, incomplete (69-60%).
Application/Links to Course Readings and/or Additional Research: Excellent analysis of 
your style with clearly documented application/links to course reading material (and/or 
outside reading) 90-100%; Good Analysis with documented application/links to material 
read (89-80%); Limited Analysis and documented application/links to any readings (79-
70%); Incomplete Analysis and links to any readings (69-60%).

Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation: By using Artificial Intelligence as a case study, Identify opportunities
arising from market disruptions. Investigate how entrepreneurs leverage this disruption to create innovative ventures. 
The Instruction is attached below.

I need to finalise our FYP. It’s a group project so my section is:
2000 words: Analysis and Discussion
1000 words: Conclusions and Recommendations
I have attached all the relevant files you can use to write analyses, discussions, and conclusions. I basically need to combine all of our research, what we found out etc and back it up with references. If you need any more infro, please text me.

Consider the following scenario: Life at Amalgamated Biscuit (AB) seems pretty good. The workforce appears generally happy, motivated, and productive. Over at Federated Biscuit (FB), the opposite is true. People at FB seem discouraged and demotivated. The respective chief executive officers are interested in quantifying the relative level of motivation in the workplace. Present two methods that can be used to measure motivation and morale in workplaces such as AB and FB. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your selected methods. Be sure to identify two specific methods, not motivational theories, to measure the motivation and morale.

Choose a change event and describe how the Intervention Strategy Model
might be applied. 
The Intervention Strategy Model (ISM) was introduced in Week 5 and is described fully in the course textbook.
(McCalman and Paton, 2016) 
1. Now walk through the event using ISM as a guide, following each step of the intervention, as appropriate, analysing how the change was managed.
You may also use other models and tools introduced in the course. Critically reflect on both the approach and outcome. 
2. Having framed a critique around ISM now suggest how you would have approached the event with the benefit of hindsight. Assess the performance
of the change management, recommending alternative courses of action and/or highlighting best practice.
You should adopt a report style: set the scene, detail the history, examine and critique the outcomes, detail the lessons learnt, and suggest a way forward.
It is your thoughts, reasoning, and recommendations that will count. Identify an element of your analysis that you consider key, then go deeper into this
element – depth not breadth. 
Support your arguments with articles from the course and associated readings, feel free to go beyond the course materials and conduct further research.
The word count is 2,500 +/- !0%, not including references, tables, diagrams, pictorial representations, appendices et al.
Change Event Definition
The change event that you choose is up to you. It might be a topical change event of interest to you or connected with your work. The trigger could be Zero
Emissions , Covid, or BREXIT. Analyse how you, an organisation, or an industry, is tackling the change. Identify and evaluate the rationale, objectives,
planning activities, and implementation strategies. 
Remember: It is important to make reference to the application of the principles of the Intervention Strategy Model.

17-Questions-That-Changed-My-Life.pdf
Download 17-Questions-That-Changed-My-Life.pdf
https://strategium.space/en/lesson/what-is-a-personal-strategy/ (Links to an external site.)
How Will You Measure Your Life.pdf  
Download How Will You Measure Your Life.pdf 
The goal of our final assignment is to begin the process of self definition and self direction by writing a five year personal brand plan based on the rubric below.
The three articles selected above provide some background to think about as you undertake this task.
Grading will not be based on any qualitative judgement about your goals. These are your goals, personal to you. 
You might, right now, not have a clear vision of what you want to do, or how to achieve it. That’s okay. Then your five year goal would be finding your career mission, and identifying the steps you will take in that discovery journey.
Grading will be based on the thoughtfulness you put into articulating your goals and the logic of your process. 

Firms use factors of production to produce goods and services.  This activity of production goes beyond manufacturing (i.e., making things). It includes any process or service that creates value, including transportation, distribution, wholesale and retail sales. Production involves a number of important decisions that define a firm’s outcomes. 
Conduct additional research and respond to the following discussion prompts. In your answer be sure to draw on all relevant readings and videos in this week’s materials.  Also, be sure to provide examples to support your answers.
Identify and define the factors of production.  Provide examples of each to support your response.
Select one firm and identify what factors of production they use to produce the good or service they produce.  Provide details to support your response.
Has there ever been a time when this firm was unable to produce those goods or services?  What were the circumstances of that situation?  

Prior to participating in this discussion forum read the following chapters from the required textbook: Chapter 5 discusses regional and global markets for business. It also discusses the management of those markets. Chapter 15 discusses the use of control systems and processes within organizations.
Based on the information presented in the readings,
What is the primary financial control tool used to manage the operations of an organization and how can it equip managers with the information they need to make decisions? How are financial controls different for a global organization? Provide three examples.