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since this is an individual resit of a 12000 word team assignment we need more emphasis on THE MARKETING ANALYSIS and FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT

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Your submission must be no less than 1500 words. If you choose to submit the minimum work, you will receive an average score. Extra work is rewarded. You must include four (4) citations (no more…no less) within your paper and populate them on a separate “endnotes” page. You may only use a citation once; thus, you will need four separate citations. Citations do not count toward the word limit.  Formatting, including citations, must conform to ALL rules provided in the syllabus. Review the syllabus and sample paper if you must.
You must submit your work through Turnitin.
Tardy work will not be accepted! 

… John Lounsbury initiated an action against Camby and ProServ, Inc. (“ProServ”). Lounsbury alleges that, while a student at the University of Massachusetts and a member of its basketball team, Camby promised that he would sign an exclusive agency contract with [Lounsbury] when he ended his collegiate career if Lounsbury provided Camby, his friends and family with money, gifts, gratuities and services. At the time of the alleged agreement, Lounsbury was not a certified agent and therefore was not authorized, in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement between the Players Association and the National Basketball Association (NBA), to represent Camby in contract negotiations with any NBA team. In 1996 Camby signed an exclusive agency contract with ProServ to represent him in contract negotiations with the NBA team that drafted Camby … Lounsbury alleges that Camby breached his oral contract with him by signing with ProServ and that ProServ tortuously interfered with his agreement with Camby.
ProServ states that Lounsbury is basing his action … on conduct that violates Connecticut civil and criminal law with respect to prohibited acts of athlete agents. In Connecticut General Statutes § 20-555, Prohibited Acts are defined as:
An [athlete-agent] shall not:
Publish or cause to be published any false, fraudulent or misleading information, representation, notice or advertisement or give any false information or make any false promises or representations to any person concerning any employment;
Divide fees with or receive compensation from a professional sports league or franchise or its representative or employee;
Enter into any agreement, written or oral, by which the athlete agent offers anything of value to any employee of an institution of higher education located in this state in return for the referral of any athlete by that employee;
Enter into an oral or written agent contract or professional sport services contract with an athlete before the athlete’s eligibility for collegiate athletics expires; or
Give, offer or promise anything of value to an athlete, his guardian or to any member of the athlete’s immediate family before the athlete’s eligibility for collegiate athletics expires.
The statutory civil and criminal penalties for failing to comply with § 20-555 include,
The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may, after notice and conducting a hearing …revoke or suspend any certificate of registration.
The commissioner shall revoke any such certificate of registration held by any person.
The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may, after notice and conducting a hearing … order restitution or impose a civil penalty, or both … Any civil penalty imposed by the commissioner under this subsection shall not exceed one thousand dollars plus the amount of profits derived as a result of the violation minus any amount paid as restitution.
In addition to any other remedy provided any person who violates any provision shall [also] be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
Modified from Lounsbury v. Camby.

Your task for this assignment is to analyse and critically discuss the recruitment and selection processes, the purpose and effect of training and development, as well as the impact of performance evaluation process on actual performance improvement. Finally, you need to discuss and critically evaluate how all these functions are applied to the selected case study (5-star hotel or chain).

You are called to evaluate an international 5-star Hotel. Then proceed with analyzing the following topics in respective subsections

Respond to the following questions. You must rewrite each question and respond to each question with complete and thorough explanations, using additional resources, cited in APA format. Each answer should be at least 2 – 3 paragraphs in order to provide a complete answer. You do not need to weave each answer together in one essay but submit as one file using one title page and one reference list.

First, please take a moment to view this video from the CDC, titled: CDC in Action: Foodborne Outbreaks

https://www.cdc.gov/digital-social-media-tools/mobile/applications/sto/sto-web.html
Please choose one of the outbreaks (unless you play around for a while you will have to choose from Level 1) and work through the scenario. (Please try to choose different outbreaks – you should title your post with the name of the outbreak you have chosen)
Once you have worked through the “mission”, please begin your thread and share your results. What surprised you about the scenario? Did you have thoughts/ideas other than the actual cause at the beginning of the scenario? Did the scenario walk-through suggest investigating things you had not thought about?
Please share your thoughts about the scenario and whether or not it helped you to think critically about investigating the outbreak. 
After working through this scenario, do you have a deeper understanding about the challenges officials face when investigating a foodborne illness (or other type of illness) outbreak?

One of the strongest proponents of applying research evidence to management practice, Denise M. Rousseau, H. J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University, defines evidence-based management (EBMgt) as “the systematic, evidence-informed practice of management, incorporating scientific knowledge in the content and processes of making decisions.” EBMgt employs valid scientific findings in the context of critical thinking, decision-making, and judgment to help managers obtain and use the best and most reliable information available to increase managerial and organizational effectiveness.
But why is it important for managers to think critically about and incorporate current research findings into their management practices and decision-making? A good parallel comes from the field of medicine. You may naturally assume that medical doctors and health care practitioners use the latest and best research evidence available in the field of medicine to make their decisions. Yet despite the thousands of studies conducted and published in the field of medicine each year, studies suggest that only about 15% of doctors make evidence-based decisions. Instead, most rely on obsolete information they learned in school, unproven traditions, personal experiences, and information provided by vendors selling medical products and services. During the past two decades, however, evidence-based medicine has begun to revolutionize the way medical practitioners make decisions and prescribe treatments.
Stanford professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton argue that managers should take a similar evidence-based approach in making decisions, taking actions, and prescribing cures for organizational ills: “Managers are actually much more ignorant than doctors about which prescriptions are reliable—and they’re less eager to find out. If doctors practiced medicine like many companies practice management, there would be more unnecessarily sick or dead patients and many more doctors in jail or suffering other penalties for malpractice.”
Professor Rousseau suggests that EBMgt consists of four basic activities: (1) obtaining the best scientific information available, (2) systematically assessing organizational facts, (3) using critical thinking and reflective judgment to apply the research evidence, and (4) considering key ethical issues.33 Throughout the remainder of the text, you will be presented with current research evidence from the field of OB and asked to think critically about how you might apply these findings in your current or future career as a management practitioner.
Questions to Answer
What are some of the primary advantages of evidence-based management practices?
What makes it difficult for managers to be evidence based in their actions and decision-making?
What can hospitality organizations do to create a culture of evidence based decision-making?
Word Count & Depth 
400 – 600 Words
Research Quality 
3 + Sources

I have attached structure. In structure, i chose my group topic. Also there are my gruop PPT. Thank you so much!

Objectives
CO-1: Explain the purchasing function within different types of hospitality organizations.
Using a comparison format, students will explain purchasing activities related to Selection and purchasing activities related to Procurement in the context of food service vs. lodging. 
CO-2: Summarize generally accepted principles and procedures of selection and procurement as well as their applications in the hospitality industry.
Using the following equation as context, Selection + Procurement = Purchasing, students will identify and describe different principles, methods, and activities related to facilitating purchasing.
Instructions
Write an academic essay explaining and evaluating Selection and Procurement activities within Purchasing. After explaining Selection and Procurement, provide a comparison of how a food service owner or manager might facilitate Selection and Procurement versus how a lodging manager or owner would. Describe how restaurants and hotels are different in purchasing and how they are alike.As an additional consideration, identify and explain ethical considerations involved in purchasing as well as ramifications of product specification for a buyer in either.