Category: Business and Management

Many Human Resource Managers claim to love their work because they like to work with people. Do you think that working with people is the most important ingredient in becoming a successful Human Resource Manager? Why or why not.
As a Human Resource Manager, how might you go about convincing top management that you should be heavily involved in the companies strategic planning process?
In order to be eligible for full credit, the responses must be comprehensive and contain information from the chapter and/or research (with citations).

Purpose:
The purpose of this assessment is to critically evaluate theories, frameworks and principles, apply circular economy and sustainable logistics and supply chain theories/frameworks/principles to existing/imaginary logistics systems and critique current circular and/or sustainable logistics policies, practices and terminology.
Details:
For this assessment you will be required to:
critically analyse and evaluate theories, frameworks and principles relating to circular and sustainable logistics and supply chains
deploy originality in the application of circular and sustainable theories, frameworks and principles to evaluate associated logistics and supply chain networks
demonstrate a critical awareness of current circular and sustainable logistics and supply chain policies, practices and terminology.
Instructions:
Write an essay to describe and critically evaluate an existing or imaginary logistics system, apply circular economy (CE) and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) theories/frameworks/principles to it and then critique current or potential circular and sustainable logistics policies, practices and/or terminology and critique the theories used.
You can imagine this paper as containing four parts:
Provide a description of a logistics system of a specific organisation (or a detailed description of an imagined one).
Apply theories/frameworks/principles of circular and sustainable logistics (as covered in the course and potentially extended by your own research), such as Carter and Rogers’ Facets model of SSCM (Carter and Rogers, 2008), the Planetary Boundaries framework (Steffen et al. 2015), the Waste Hierarchy (Gharfalkar et al. 2015), Life Cycle Analysis (Kucukvar et al. 2014) (or whichever one you are interested in from the module), etc.
Use these theories/frameworks/principles to critique the logistics system you have described.
Critique the theories/frameworks/principles you have used.
This structure would work out to approximately 400 words each section, plus references. However, this is not a strict requirement and you can either make each section longer or shorter within the total word count or adopt a different structure if it makes more sense to you. Diagrams/figures/tables can be added and do not count towards the word count. Using a real organisation and basing your description on good quality research into its actual logistics system is likely to be a less risky strategy than trying to make one up. However, if a strong, plausible, detailed description of an imagined logistics system can be given, then this will not suffer. Please just consider that such an imagined logistics system would need to be of a level of detail equivalent to that of a real one.
References
Carter, C. R. and Rogers, D. S., (2008). A framework of sustainable supply chain management: moving toward new theory. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 38(5), pp. 360–387. doi.org/10.1108/09600030810882816.
Gharfalkar, M., Court, R., Campbell, C., Ali, Z. and Hillier, G., (2015). Analysis of waste hierarchy in the European waste directive 2008/98/EC. Waste Management, 39, pp. 305–313.
Kucukvar, M., Egilmez, G. and Tatari, O., (2014). Evaluating environmental impacts of alternative construction waste management approaches using supply-chain-linked life-cycle analysis. Waste Management & Research, 32(6), pp. 500–508.
Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., Cornell, S. E., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E. M., … and Sörlin, S., (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science, 347(6223), 1259855.

COMPETENCIES
3082.1.1 : Emotional Intelligence
The graduate applies emotional intelligence (EI) to improve intrapersonal and interpersonal interactions.
3082.1.2 : Cultural Intelligence
The graduate demonstrates cultural intelligence (CI) within multicultural and contemporary business situations.
INTRODUCTION
As a business professional, it is not only essential that you apply the principles of emotional intelligence (EI), but also the principles of cultural intelligence (CI) to positively impact the effectiveness of an organization.
In this task, you will address a business scenario for a company that is wanting to become a more emotionally and culturally intelligent organization. You will be asked to first identify your own core values and assess whether your values will fit with the organization’s core values. Then, you will evaluate how you can apply the principles of EI and CI to successfully work with a diverse group of stakeholders.
SCENARIO
Corollary Marketing is a leadership development company known for its EI training programs. Corollary was recently hired by Alliah Company’s leadership to conduct emotional intelligence training for Alliah’s employees. Alliah Company recently received a rating of 10/100 on the A–Z List of Emotionally Intelligent Companies.
Company leadership is very concerned that this low rating could significantly impact its market share, access to talent, and customer satisfaction. This is especially concerning since Alliah revised its mission, ethics, and corporate social responsibility statements this year.
Mission Statement: Alliah Company will provide the most innovative products designed by the best and brightest talent in the technology industry.
Ethics Statement: Alliah Company is committed to ensuring that all employees, suppliers, contractors, and any other entities engaged in business with Alliah will do the right thing for stakeholders.
Corporate Social Responsibility Statement: Alliah Company is committed to reducing the environmental impact of the business.
In addition to revising its mission, ethics, and corporate social responsibility statements, Alliah’s leadership wants to create an innovative culture that approaches all ideas as possible customer solutions that could create the next profitable approach to market growth.
Employees are not surprised by Alliah’s rating of 10/100 on the A–Z List of Emotionally Intelligent Companies. In recent communications with company leadership, the human resources team has advised the leadership to consider certain best practices.
Understanding that employees are valuable not just for their ideas that could lead to profits but as individuals who are valuable on their own merits, can improve morale.
Increasing the diversity of the company’s employees, suppliers, and contractors could better reflect the customers that purchase Alliah’s products.
Reducing resistance to allowing employees to work remotely requires reconsidering expressed concerns over not being able to manage employees’ productivity if they work outside of the office.
Changing the way employees communicate with leadership from a chain of command approach of working through managers to having avenues for meeting with leadership could open communication channels and increase trust.
Corollary’s EI training session will be coordinated by the employees’ managers, and company leadership will not be in attendance. The leadership is expecting that the result of the training will be a move towards their desire for a culture of innovation, and that the next year’s rating on the A–Z List of Emotionally Intelligent Companies will be significantly higher.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A.  Explain your top four core values (e.g., accountability, honesty, integrity, respect, loyalty, fairness, etc.) with detail on why they are personally meaningful.
B.  Evaluate how each of your four core values from part A align or misalign to Alliah’s values and social responsibility.
C.  Evaluate how EI and CI impacts interactions within the Alliah Company by doing the following:
1.  Explain two potential ways the Alliah’s leadership will improve their cultural intelligence by working with a more diverse group of stakeholders.
2.  Explain, with a specific example, how you would overcome a potential challenge that may arise when working with Alliah’s diverse group of stakeholders.
3.  Explain how an aspect of Hofstede’s six-dimensions of culture can help you respectfully communicate with Alliah’s diverse work culture.
Note: Identify one of Hofstede’s six dimensions (Power Distance, Individualism versus Collectivism, Masculinity versus Femininity, Uncertainty Avoidance, Long versus Short Term Orientation, or Indulgence versus Restraint). Then, provide a detailed explanation of how someone within the organization could communicate, accommodate, and/or interact with others using the concepts that specifically apply to the selected dimension, given the corporation’s diverse work culture. 
D.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
use the template to write an essay. Look at the rubric 

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COMPETENCIES
304.2.1 : Graphical Charts
The graduate understands the types and uses of graphical charts in operations management.
SCENARIO
A shoe manufacturing company is having a problem with returns and customer complaints in their boot division. Top executives are meeting to figure out what these problems in the boot division are costing the company.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Create an affinity diagram with at least six types of cost centers to show where the boot division is costing the company money. Your diagram should include the following:
A.  The problem statement.
B.  At least six types of cost centers that are being affected by the boot division.
C.  Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. 
D.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Define your business, state its mission, and explain its general strategy. See the posted outline of this part under Course Materials. For strategy, the handout provides simple guidance, but refer to the Strategy Slides under Course Materials for deeper insights into the nature of the focused firm and the other generic strategies.
Remember to reply to two other students as well. An updated version of this part should form the first part of your actual business plan in Week 8, so take your fellow students’ advice to heart. The version that appears in your business plan should be an improvement from this one, rather than merely a duplicate.
The minimum length for this assignment is quite short (250 words), but write as much as seems to be necessary to convey your idea accurately. There is no penalty for writing a lot. You are the entrepreneur in this scenario, after all. You need to be free with your ideas. You are also free to change your mind about your idea along the way.
for my business plan idea you can come up with anything 

The first of my two points of interest from this weeks readings is with the different types of contracts. According to CMBOK 2015, the different types of contracts that are used are fixed price, cost reimbursement, incentive, and other. Fixed-based agreements have a set price for its deliverables, where the actual cost does not matter. This type of contract may be appropriate when deliverables/milestone are well-defined, cost estimate is solid, and funding will sufficiently cover all project expenses (Zhu, 2021).  For these contracts payment is focused on milestones and delivery of the goods, not any R&D costs associated with the work. On the other hand, cost reimbursable agreements are generally used when there is a lot of variables and when there a lot of unknowns. A good example of this is with R&D work, like the Manhattan Project, where there was no way of knowing if the weapon could be built and what was the way to build it. For these projects, the awardee is reimbursed for actual allowable, allocable and reasonable project costs in line with the approved budget (Zhu, 2021).
My second point of interest from this week’s readings is with the metrics that are measured for a project. Metrics are a specific measurable standard against which actual performance is compared (Gordon, 2016). They are broken down into what they attempt to measure, the past or future. To look forward, leading indicators originated from economics, where it is designed as a measurable factor that shifts prior to the economy following a trend (Marr, 2021). Whereas a lagging indicator shows the past, by looking at goals and targets that were either achieved or missed. Having a good view of both leading and lagging indicators, you are able to correct issues that have arisen, judge how a project is progressing and make timely decisions to drive the projects performance. 
References.
Contract Management Body of Knowledge (CMBOK). (2015). National Contract Management Association. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20220621080326/https://www.apu.apus.edu/academic/partners/_documents/cmbok-desktop-pocket-guide.pdf 
Gordon, R. (2016). Contracting, logistics, reverse logistics: The project, program and portfolio approach. Westphalia Press. Retrieved from https://apus.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=41212038 
Zhu, J. (2021). Cost reimbursable vs fixed-based agreement types. UCLA research administration. Retrieved from https://ora.research.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/RAF-2021-10-OCGA-agreement-types.pdf 

Article summary review guidelines
All current events selected should relate to the chapters
assigned for reading.
·      
Select a current event from
the newspapers, magazines, current internet story, or any other source where
something significant has occurred during the week.
Please
do the following once your current event has been located –
Identify the
article, the author, and where it appeared?
Type or
nature of industry, or business being discussed.
What is the
situation, issue, symptom, or problem being discussed?
How does the
article relate to the course?
How can you
compare, contrast, or develop the topic in context with what you have
studied in the course this week?
What do you
conclude from reading the article?
WRITTEN
REQUIREMENTS –
Cover page,
and Reference Page
2 pages of
actual text
Double
spaced

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Discussion Topic
You have been assigned to a project risk team of five members. Because this is the first time your organization has formally set up a project risk team, management hopes that your team will develop a process that can be used on all future projects. The first team meeting is next Monday morning. Each team member has been asked to prepare for the meeting by developing, in as much detail as possible, an outline that describes how you believe the team should proceed in handling project risks. Within this discussion, make sure to include:
Team objectives
Process for handling risk events
Team activities
Team outputs