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Crystal Messer
FIN 317
Table of Contents
1. Brief 2
i. Location 2
ii. Type of customers 2
iii. Competitors 2
2. Why this type of business interests you? 2
3. Why do you believe it would be successful 3
Cafe Grill
Brief
This business is from the food and beverage industry. Café grill would be a fast-food restaurant chain like Mc Donald, Burger King, KFC, and other fast-food restaurants. And the type of business I am planning to start would be a partnership as it doesn’t require paying income taxes as each partner would have to pay tax based on personal income and it would have increased pool of knowledge, capital, and expertise.
Location
The location of the business Warner Robins, Georgia, USA. Since this would be the best location as would be the best fit because people would love to try something new when coming to Mc Donald’s and most of the restaurants and because the area of your food business will affect about as much as the menu. If your restaurant is at an inappropriate spot, you won’t attract customers you will require so as to remain in business.
Type of customers
The type of customers of café grill would be fast food lovers such as youngsters(these are the people who would love to spend most of their pocket money with friends ) , children( because they don’t prefer homemade food every time) and office going people( who don’t have time to make food would prefer to drive-thru).
Competitors
The main competitors of café grill would be Mc Donald’s, KFC, Burger King, Subway, Dunkin Donuts, Pizza hut, Wendy’s and Taco Bell as they all are direct competitors of café grill as because they have an almost similar target market and also selling nearly similar food.
Why this type of business interests you?
As an entrepreneur, I love to do creative and innovative things and I have an interest in cooking and trying new recipes so it is the passion and creativity that lures me to open a restaurant. Not only this but I am also a sociable person so restaurant business falls into the hospitability category business so I love to meet new people (greeting customers and solving their problems). In Addition to this, I possess strong stamina for working long hours and solving uncertain problems.
Why do you believe it would be successful?
The reason behind taking restaurant business is that eatery business is one of the most beneficial business in view of its developing demand as nowadays people want to dine out more in comparison to cooking meal at home and as per market research more than twice a week people like to dine ...
Joint Venture for Burger Franchise by Investment Consulting USAAlfonsoEnriqueMoncad
This is a preliminary presentation of one of the Fast Casual Franchises that we offer. Costs are subject to change depending on location and other outside factors. Feel free to reach out to us if you want to know more!
Financial Analysis: La Paloma Restaurant & BarTemi Vasco
Variance analysis, financial ratios, common-sized statements, trend analysis and common sense evaluation to identify root causes and recommend possible solutions
Joint Venture for Burger Franchise by Investment Consulting USAAlfonsoEnriqueMoncad
This is a preliminary presentation of one of the Fast Casual Franchises that we offer. Costs are subject to change depending on location and other outside factors. Feel free to reach out to us if you want to know more!
Financial Analysis: La Paloma Restaurant & BarTemi Vasco
Variance analysis, financial ratios, common-sized statements, trend analysis and common sense evaluation to identify root causes and recommend possible solutions
cash Flows and Financial ForecastAs someone who already runs a b.docxtroutmanboris
cash Flows and Financial Forecast
As someone who already runs a business, it is hard to consider a new platform using an online store since my company is a service-oriented business. In fact, we do not offer any retail product However, as skilled craftsman, we do have the skill sets needed to create custom built wooden furniture for customers. This is a venture I have considered many times, but do not feel it is in our best interest to do so despite the potential earning capacity. I feel that the cannibalism to our niche will have too far an impact to change our operations in this way. For the purpose of this discussion, I will present a hypothetical 5-year financial forecast for the creation and sale of mission style living room furniture through an online marketplace.
To test the viability of the custom furniture market, we will only offer two products that can be purchased together as a set or separately. Coffee tables will sell for a price of $450 each and end tables will sell for a price of $325 each. We anticipate that we can manufacture no more than 2 of each of the products every month, totaling 24 per year. In order to start this project, we will need to invest in a new table saw for $3500. The saw has a salvage value of $500 and a life of 10 years. Using straight-line depreciation, the asset will depreciate at $300 per year during the initial 5-year period. We will assume a 28% tax rate for this venture leaving the after-tax cost of the saw $2520. To construct the tables, there will be an annual cost of $2,500 for lumber and $450 in finishing supplies and materials. Construction of tables will take an increased labor cost of $11,000 annually.
Projected Revenues and Expenses
Revenues
Year
1
2
3
4
5
End Tables @$325
$7,800.00
$7,800.00
$7,800.00
$7,800.00
$7,800.00
Coff. Tables @ $450
$10,800.00
$10,800.00
$10,800.00
$10,800.00
$10,800.00
Total Revenues
$18,600.00
$18,600.00
$18,600.00
$18,600.00
$18,600.00
Expenses
Year
1
2
3
4
5
Wages
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
Equipment
$3,500.00
$250.00
$250.00
$250.00
$250.00
Lumber
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
Finishing Supplies
$450.00
$450.00
$450.00
$450.00
$450.00
Depreciation
$300.00
$300.00
$300.00
$300.00
$300.00
Total Expenses
$17,750.00
$14,500.00
$14,500.00
$14,500.00
$14,500.00
Taxes, Profits, and Cash Flow
Year
1
2
3
4
5
Profit
$850.00
$4,100.00
$4,100.00
$4,100.00
$4,100.00
Taxes
$238.00
$1,148.00
$1,148.00
$1,148.00
$1,148.00
Net Profit
$612.00
$2,952.00
$2,952.00
$2,952.00
$2,952.00
Cash Flow
$912.00
$3,252.00
$3,252.00
$3,252.00
$3,252.00
The table above shows positive cash flows totaling $13,920 over the 5-year period. However, this number does not take into account the future value of present projections. We will assume an infla.
Before you begin mapping your financial targets and goals for 2019, you must plan your budget. The right budget can help you prepare for taxes, identify seasonal peaks and lulls, explore growth opportunities, gauge your small business’s performance, and achieve your 2018 goals.
To start a restaurant business, it requires passion, commitment, dedication, to be able to multitask and manage several moving parts. Your restaurant’s brand defines its identity and will continue to do so in perpetuity of the business. Hence, it is important to establish an identity that goes well with the theme and overall style of the restaurant.
Visit here to know more: https://vakilsearch.com/starting-food-business
How to Plan Your Yearly Small Business BudgetKabbage
Before you begin mapping your financial targets and goals for 2020, you must plan your budget. The right budget can help you prepare for taxes, identify seasonal peaks and lulls, explore growth opportunities, gauge your small business’s performance, and achieve your 2020 goals.
Business Plan AssignmentThe business plan is a document that proTawnaDelatorrejs
Business Plan Assignment
The business plan is a document that provides a detailed description of the critical aspects of your venture. It is not a static document and serves as a guiding document for venture launch and management. It also serves as a communication tool for potential investors and employees. For this class each major section of the business plan is assigned as the material is covered. Points are allotted for each section and for combining all the sections into a complete business plan.
Business Description/Model
· Utilizing your completed business model canvas summarize it into a 2-3 page business model section
Grading Rubric will be based on detail, completeness and clarity of the entire section. This section is worth 50 points.
Marketing Section
· Competitive Analysis
· Market Research
· Pricing Analysis
· Marketing plan
Grading Rubric will be based on detail, completeness and clarity of each of the four sections. Each section is worth 25 points for a total of 100 points.
Financials Section
· Cost Analysis Worksheet – Utilizing the worksheet posted on Blackboard complete a 3 year cost analysis.
· Revenue Projections Analysis – Using your market research data and other information forecast 3 years of sales.
· Complete pro forma income statements and balance sheets for 3 years. Examples are provided on Blackboard.
Grading Rubric: The overall points for this section is 100 points. Grading will be based on detail, completeness and clarity. Each section is worth 33.33 points.
Operations/Management Section
· Legal Structure
· Staffing,
· Location, Logistics, etc.
· Critical Risks
· Harvest Strategy
Grading Rubric: The overall points for this section is 100 points. Grading will be based on detail, completeness and clarity. Each part of this section is worth 20 points.
Business Plan Draft
· Include previously written sections and the following:
· Title page and table of contents
· Executive Summary for the beginning of the plan
· Business Model
· Marketing section
· Financial Section
· Operations/Management Section
· Appendices
Grading Rubric: The overall points for this section is 50 points. Grading will be based on detail, completeness and clarity. Grading of this assignment will be based on the student’s ability to integrate the various sections of the plan and add the front matter (title page, table of contents, executive summary) and the appendices. The goal of this assignment is to provide you with feedback on your business plan so you can improve it for the final grade. Grades will be assigned in the following manner:
Excellent = 47-50pts
High Quality = 44-46pts
Good = 40-43pts
Acceptable = 35-39pts
Needs Considerable Work = 30-34pts
Unacceptable = 0pts
Business Plan Final
Grading Rubric: The overall points for this section is 100 points. Grading will be based on detail, completeness and clarity. Grading of this assignment will be based on the student’s ability to integrate feedback from the instructor, improve det ...
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4-1 Explore the incentive pay approach.
Incentive pay
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rewards employees for partially or completely attaining a predetermined work objective.
Incentive or variable pay is defined as compensation, other than base wages or salaries that
fluctuate according to employees’ attainment of some standard, such as a preestablished
formula, individual or group goals, or company earnings.
Effective incentive pay systems are based on three assumptions:
Individual employees and work teams differ in how much they contribute to the
company, both in what they do as well as in how well they do it.
The company’s overall performance depends to a large degree on the performance of
individuals and groups within the company.
To attract, retain, and motivate high performers and to be fair to all employees, a
company needs to reward employees on the basis of their relative performance.
Much like seniority and merit pay approaches, incentive pay augments employees’ base pay,
but incentive pay appears as a one-time payment. Employees usually receive a combination
of recurring base pay and incentive pay, with base pay representing the greater portion of
core compensation. More employees are presently eligible for incentive pay than ever before,
as companies seek to control costs and motivate personnel continually to strive for exemplary
performance. Companies increasingly recognize the importance of applying incentive pay
programs to various kinds of employees as well, including production workers, technical
employees, and service workers.
Some companies use incentive pay extensively. Lincoln Electric Company, a manufacturer of
welding machines and motors, is renowned for its use of incentive pay plans. At Lincoln
Electric, production employees receive recurring base pay as well as incentive pay. The
company determines incentive pay awards according to five performance criteria: quality,
output, dependability, cooperation, and ideas. The company has awarded incentive payments
every year since 1934, through prosperous and poor economic times. In 2014, the average
profit sharing payment per employee was $33,984.
Coupled with average base
pay, total core compensation for Lincoln employees was $82,903. Over the past 10 years,
Lincoln’s profit-sharing payments averaged approximately 40 percent of annual salary.
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he authorities believe he slipped across the United States-Mexico
border sometime during the summer of 2016, likely deep in the
night. He carried no papers. The crossing happened in the rugged
backcountry of southeastern Arizona, where the main deterrent to
trespassers is the challenging nature of the terrain—not the metal
walls, checkpoints, and aerial surveillance that dominate much of the border.
But the border crosser was des-
ert-hardy and something of an expert
at camouflage. No one knows for cer-
tain how long he’d been in the United
States before a motion-activated cam-
era caught him walking a trail in the
Dos Cabezas Mountains on the night
of November 16. When a government
agency retrieved the photo in late Feb-
ruary, the image was plastered across
Arizona newspapers, causing an imme-
diate sensation.
The border crosser was a jaguar.
Jaguars once roamed throughout
the southwestern United States, but
are now quite rare. A core population
resides in the mountains of northern
Mexico, and occasionally an adventur-
ous jaguar will venture north of the bor-
der. When one of these elusive, graceful
cats makes an appearance stateside,
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usually via a motion-triggered camera,
it may get celebrity status.
“We’ve had positive identifications
of seven cats, alive and well, in the last
twenty years in the United States,” says
Diana Hadley of the Mexico-based
Northern Jaguar Project, which works
with people in both countries to pro-
tect the big cat. One of those cats be-
came known as El Jefe, after he took
up residence in 2011 in the Santa Rita
Mountains south of Tucson, Arizona.
His presence was proof that the United
States still had enough wild habitat to
support a jaguar.
The new cat was especially excit-
ing because, based on size and shape,
observers initially thought it might
be female. “A lot of people in Arizona
would be very happy to have jaguars
from Mexico breeding in Arizona,” re-
marks Hadley.
In September 2017, the Arizo-
na-based Center for Biological Di-
versity released new video of the cat,
apparently a male, caught on a mo-
tion-triggered camera ambling through
the oak scrub forest in the Chiricahua
Mountains. He’s been named Sombra,
or Shadow, by schoolkids in Tucson.
Such things will no longer ...
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Prototypes of Ethical Problems
Objectives
The reader should be able to:
• Recognize an ethical question and distinguish it from a strictly clinical or legal one.
• Identify three component parts of any ethical problem.
• Describe what an agent is and, more importantly, what it is to be a moral agent.
• Name two prototypical ethical problems.
• Distinguish between two varieties of moral distress.
• Compare the fundamental difference between moral distress and an ethical dilemma.
• Describe the role of emotions in moral distress and ethical dilemmas.
• Describe a type of ethical dilemma that challenges a professional’s desire (and duty) to treat everyone fairly and equitably.
• Discuss the role of locus of authority considerations in ethical problem solving.
• Identify four criteria to assist in deciding who should assume authority for a specific ethical decision to achieve a caring response.
• Describe how shared agency functions in ethical problem solving.
NEW TERMS AND IDEAS YOU WILL ENCOUNTER IN THIS CHAPTER
legal question
disability benefits
ethical question
prototype
clinical question
agent
moral agent
locus of authority
shared agency
moral distress
moral residue
ethical dilemma
Topics in this chapter introduced in earlier chapters
Topic
Introduced in chapter
Ethical problem
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Integrity
1
Interprofessional care team
1
Professional responsibility
2
A caring response
2
Accountability
2
Social determinants of care
2
Justice
2
Introduction
You have come a long way already and are prepared to take the next steps toward becoming skilled in the art of ethical decision making. The first part of this chapter guides you through an inquiry regarding how to know when you are faced with an ethical question instead of (or in addition to) a clinical or legal question. A further question is raised: How do you know whether the situation that raised the question is a problem that requires your involvement? This chapter helps you prepare to answer that question too. You will learn the basic components of an ethical problem and be introduced to two prototypes of ethical problems. We start with the story of Bill Boyd and Kate Lindy.
 The Story of Bill Boyd and Kate Lindy
Bill Boyd is a 25-year-old soldier who lives in a large city. Bill served in the U.S. Army for more than 6 years and was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan for multiple military missions in the past 4 years. During his final deployment, Bill suffered a blast injury in which he sustained significant shoulder and neck trauma and a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress. He was treated in an inpatient military hospital and transitioned back to his hometown, where he moved into his childhood home with his mother.
Kate Lindy is the outpatient psychologist who has been treating Bill for pain and posttraumatic stress. Bill is in a structured civilian reentry program. This competitive program is administered by a government subcontractor; its goal is to help in ...
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Bekalu, M. A., McCloud, R. F., & Viswanath, K. (2019). Association of Social Media Use With Social Well-Being, Positive Mental Health, and Self-Rated Health: Disentangling Routine Use From Emotional Connection to Use. Health Education & Behavior, 46(2_suppl), 69S-80S. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198119863768
It seems that this source is arguing the effect of social media on mental health. This source uses this evidence to support the argument: Provided studies focusing on why individuals use social media, types of social network platforms, and the value of social capital. A counterargument for this source is: Studies that focus more on statistical usage rather than emotion connection. Personally, I believe the source is doing a good job of supporting its arguments because it provides an abundance of study references and clearly portrays the information and intent. I think this source will be very helpful in supporting my argument because of the focus on emotional connection to social media and its effects on mental health.
Matsakis, L. (2019). How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters on Social Media. In Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. (Reprinted from How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters on Social Media, Wired, 2018, June 13) Retrieved from https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/apps/doc/UAZKKH366290962/OVIC?u=nhc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=2c90b7b5
It seems that this source is arguing that social media platforms are not doing enough to eliminate harmful pro-ED posts. This source uses this evidence to support the argument: Information about specific platforms and what they have done to moderate content, links for more information, and what constitutes as harmful content. A counterargument for this source is that it is too difficult for platforms to remove the content and to even find it. In addition, it is believed there may be harmful effects on vulnerable people posting this type of content. Personally, I believe the source is doing a good job of supporting its arguments because it provides opposing viewpoints as well as raising awareness of some of the dangers of social media posts. I think this source will be very helpful in supporting my argument because it provides information on specifically what is being done to moderate this type of content on social media, and what some of the difficulties in moderating are.
Investigators at University of Leeds Describe Findings in Eating Disorders (Pro-ana versus Pro-recovery: A Content Analytic Comparison of Social Media Users' Communication about Eating Disorders on Twitter and Tumblr). (2017, September 4). Mental Health Weekly Digest, 38. Retrieved from https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/apps/doc/A502914419/OVIC?u=nhc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=5e60152f
It seems that this source is arguing that there are more positive, anti-anorexia posts on social media than harmful, pro-ED content. ...
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NIMH: Opinion or Fact
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was formed in 1946 and is one of 27 institutes that form the National Institute of Health (NIH) (NIMH, 2019). The mission of the NIMH is “To transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.” (NIMH, 2019). There are many different mental illnesses discussed on the NIMH website to include Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The NIMH website about ADHD is effective at providing the public general information and meets the criteria of authority, objectivity, and currency.
The NIMH website about ADHD provides an overview of ADHD, discusses signs and symptoms, and risk factors. The NIMH continues with information about treatment and therapies. Information provided by the NIMH is intended for both children and adults. The NIMH concludes on the page with studies the public can join and more resources for the public such as booklets, brochures, research and clinical trials.
As described by Jim Kapoun authority can be identified by who or what institution/organization published the document and if the information in the document is cited correctly (Cornell, 2020). The information on the website is published by the NIMH which is the lead research institute related to mental health for the last 70 plus years (NIMH, 2019). On the page related to ADHD the NIMH references the program of Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) and provides a hyperlink to access the resources available with the agency (NIMH,2019). This link can be found under the support groups section in the treatment and therapies. On the website to the right of the area describing inattention the NIMH has a section on research. In this block there is a link to “PubMed: Journal Articles about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)” which will take you to a search of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) published by PubMed on ADHD (NIMH, 2019). Throughout the entire page the NIMH provides sources and hyperlinks to the sources as citations. Based on the reputation of the NIMH and the citations to the source material the website meets the criteria of authority.
According to Kapoun objectivity can be identified looking for areas where the author expresses his or her opinion (Cornell, 2020). Information provided on the NIMH page about ADHD does not express the opinion of the author. The author produces only factual information based on research. The NIMH makes it a point not to mention the names of medications when discussing treatments and only explains the medications fall in two categories stimulants and non-stimulants (NIMH, 2019). In this same area the NIMH provides hyperlinks to the NIMH Mental Health Medication and FDA website for information about medication. The extent at which the NIMH goes to not provide an opinion on the website meet ...
cash Flows and Financial ForecastAs someone who already runs a b.docxtroutmanboris
cash Flows and Financial Forecast
As someone who already runs a business, it is hard to consider a new platform using an online store since my company is a service-oriented business. In fact, we do not offer any retail product However, as skilled craftsman, we do have the skill sets needed to create custom built wooden furniture for customers. This is a venture I have considered many times, but do not feel it is in our best interest to do so despite the potential earning capacity. I feel that the cannibalism to our niche will have too far an impact to change our operations in this way. For the purpose of this discussion, I will present a hypothetical 5-year financial forecast for the creation and sale of mission style living room furniture through an online marketplace.
To test the viability of the custom furniture market, we will only offer two products that can be purchased together as a set or separately. Coffee tables will sell for a price of $450 each and end tables will sell for a price of $325 each. We anticipate that we can manufacture no more than 2 of each of the products every month, totaling 24 per year. In order to start this project, we will need to invest in a new table saw for $3500. The saw has a salvage value of $500 and a life of 10 years. Using straight-line depreciation, the asset will depreciate at $300 per year during the initial 5-year period. We will assume a 28% tax rate for this venture leaving the after-tax cost of the saw $2520. To construct the tables, there will be an annual cost of $2,500 for lumber and $450 in finishing supplies and materials. Construction of tables will take an increased labor cost of $11,000 annually.
Projected Revenues and Expenses
Revenues
Year
1
2
3
4
5
End Tables @$325
$7,800.00
$7,800.00
$7,800.00
$7,800.00
$7,800.00
Coff. Tables @ $450
$10,800.00
$10,800.00
$10,800.00
$10,800.00
$10,800.00
Total Revenues
$18,600.00
$18,600.00
$18,600.00
$18,600.00
$18,600.00
Expenses
Year
1
2
3
4
5
Wages
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
Equipment
$3,500.00
$250.00
$250.00
$250.00
$250.00
Lumber
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
Finishing Supplies
$450.00
$450.00
$450.00
$450.00
$450.00
Depreciation
$300.00
$300.00
$300.00
$300.00
$300.00
Total Expenses
$17,750.00
$14,500.00
$14,500.00
$14,500.00
$14,500.00
Taxes, Profits, and Cash Flow
Year
1
2
3
4
5
Profit
$850.00
$4,100.00
$4,100.00
$4,100.00
$4,100.00
Taxes
$238.00
$1,148.00
$1,148.00
$1,148.00
$1,148.00
Net Profit
$612.00
$2,952.00
$2,952.00
$2,952.00
$2,952.00
Cash Flow
$912.00
$3,252.00
$3,252.00
$3,252.00
$3,252.00
The table above shows positive cash flows totaling $13,920 over the 5-year period. However, this number does not take into account the future value of present projections. We will assume an infla.
Before you begin mapping your financial targets and goals for 2019, you must plan your budget. The right budget can help you prepare for taxes, identify seasonal peaks and lulls, explore growth opportunities, gauge your small business’s performance, and achieve your 2018 goals.
To start a restaurant business, it requires passion, commitment, dedication, to be able to multitask and manage several moving parts. Your restaurant’s brand defines its identity and will continue to do so in perpetuity of the business. Hence, it is important to establish an identity that goes well with the theme and overall style of the restaurant.
Visit here to know more: https://vakilsearch.com/starting-food-business
How to Plan Your Yearly Small Business BudgetKabbage
Before you begin mapping your financial targets and goals for 2020, you must plan your budget. The right budget can help you prepare for taxes, identify seasonal peaks and lulls, explore growth opportunities, gauge your small business’s performance, and achieve your 2020 goals.
Business Plan AssignmentThe business plan is a document that proTawnaDelatorrejs
Business Plan Assignment
The business plan is a document that provides a detailed description of the critical aspects of your venture. It is not a static document and serves as a guiding document for venture launch and management. It also serves as a communication tool for potential investors and employees. For this class each major section of the business plan is assigned as the material is covered. Points are allotted for each section and for combining all the sections into a complete business plan.
Business Description/Model
· Utilizing your completed business model canvas summarize it into a 2-3 page business model section
Grading Rubric will be based on detail, completeness and clarity of the entire section. This section is worth 50 points.
Marketing Section
· Competitive Analysis
· Market Research
· Pricing Analysis
· Marketing plan
Grading Rubric will be based on detail, completeness and clarity of each of the four sections. Each section is worth 25 points for a total of 100 points.
Financials Section
· Cost Analysis Worksheet – Utilizing the worksheet posted on Blackboard complete a 3 year cost analysis.
· Revenue Projections Analysis – Using your market research data and other information forecast 3 years of sales.
· Complete pro forma income statements and balance sheets for 3 years. Examples are provided on Blackboard.
Grading Rubric: The overall points for this section is 100 points. Grading will be based on detail, completeness and clarity. Each section is worth 33.33 points.
Operations/Management Section
· Legal Structure
· Staffing,
· Location, Logistics, etc.
· Critical Risks
· Harvest Strategy
Grading Rubric: The overall points for this section is 100 points. Grading will be based on detail, completeness and clarity. Each part of this section is worth 20 points.
Business Plan Draft
· Include previously written sections and the following:
· Title page and table of contents
· Executive Summary for the beginning of the plan
· Business Model
· Marketing section
· Financial Section
· Operations/Management Section
· Appendices
Grading Rubric: The overall points for this section is 50 points. Grading will be based on detail, completeness and clarity. Grading of this assignment will be based on the student’s ability to integrate the various sections of the plan and add the front matter (title page, table of contents, executive summary) and the appendices. The goal of this assignment is to provide you with feedback on your business plan so you can improve it for the final grade. Grades will be assigned in the following manner:
Excellent = 47-50pts
High Quality = 44-46pts
Good = 40-43pts
Acceptable = 35-39pts
Needs Considerable Work = 30-34pts
Unacceptable = 0pts
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Many people dream of owning and running their own small bakery business to become their own boss. So that their independence can give them more flexibility to earn money without depending on a full-time employment. Some fail in their efforts as soon as they realize that it is not as simple as they thought it would be. So plan your business carefully with the expertise team of Infocrest.
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4-1 Explore the incentive pay approach.
Incentive pay
(http://content.thuzelearning.com/books/Martocchio.7916.16.1/sections/bm01#bm01goss212) or
variable pay
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rewards employees for partially or completely attaining a predetermined work objective.
Incentive or variable pay is defined as compensation, other than base wages or salaries that
fluctuate according to employees’ attainment of some standard, such as a preestablished
formula, individual or group goals, or company earnings.
Effective incentive pay systems are based on three assumptions:
Individual employees and work teams differ in how much they contribute to the
company, both in what they do as well as in how well they do it.
The company’s overall performance depends to a large degree on the performance of
individuals and groups within the company.
To attract, retain, and motivate high performers and to be fair to all employees, a
company needs to reward employees on the basis of their relative performance.
Much like seniority and merit pay approaches, incentive pay augments employees’ base pay,
but incentive pay appears as a one-time payment. Employees usually receive a combination
of recurring base pay and incentive pay, with base pay representing the greater portion of
core compensation. More employees are presently eligible for incentive pay than ever before,
as companies seek to control costs and motivate personnel continually to strive for exemplary
performance. Companies increasingly recognize the importance of applying incentive pay
programs to various kinds of employees as well, including production workers, technical
employees, and service workers.
Some companies use incentive pay extensively. Lincoln Electric Company, a manufacturer of
welding machines and motors, is renowned for its use of incentive pay plans. At Lincoln
Electric, production employees receive recurring base pay as well as incentive pay. The
company determines incentive pay awards according to five performance criteria: quality,
output, dependability, cooperation, and ideas. The company has awarded incentive payments
every year since 1934, through prosperous and poor economic times. In 2014, the average
profit sharing payment per employee was $33,984.
Coupled with average base
pay, total core compensation for Lincoln employees was $82,903. Over the past 10 years,
Lincoln’s profit-sharing payments averaged approximately 40 percent of annual salary.
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he authorities believe he slipped across the United States-Mexico
border sometime during the summer of 2016, likely deep in the
night. He carried no papers. The crossing happened in the rugged
backcountry of southeastern Arizona, where the main deterrent to
trespassers is the challenging nature of the terrain—not the metal
walls, checkpoints, and aerial surveillance that dominate much of the border.
But the border crosser was des-
ert-hardy and something of an expert
at camouflage. No one knows for cer-
tain how long he’d been in the United
States before a motion-activated cam-
era caught him walking a trail in the
Dos Cabezas Mountains on the night
of November 16. When a government
agency retrieved the photo in late Feb-
ruary, the image was plastered across
Arizona newspapers, causing an imme-
diate sensation.
The border crosser was a jaguar.
Jaguars once roamed throughout
the southwestern United States, but
are now quite rare. A core population
resides in the mountains of northern
Mexico, and occasionally an adventur-
ous jaguar will venture north of the bor-
der. When one of these elusive, graceful
cats makes an appearance stateside,
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usually via a motion-triggered camera,
it may get celebrity status.
“We’ve had positive identifications
of seven cats, alive and well, in the last
twenty years in the United States,” says
Diana Hadley of the Mexico-based
Northern Jaguar Project, which works
with people in both countries to pro-
tect the big cat. One of those cats be-
came known as El Jefe, after he took
up residence in 2011 in the Santa Rita
Mountains south of Tucson, Arizona.
His presence was proof that the United
States still had enough wild habitat to
support a jaguar.
The new cat was especially excit-
ing because, based on size and shape,
observers initially thought it might
be female. “A lot of people in Arizona
would be very happy to have jaguars
from Mexico breeding in Arizona,” re-
marks Hadley.
In September 2017, the Arizo-
na-based Center for Biological Di-
versity released new video of the cat,
apparently a male, caught on a mo-
tion-triggered camera ambling through
the oak scrub forest in the Chiricahua
Mountains. He’s been named Sombra,
or Shadow, by schoolkids in Tucson.
Such things will no longer ...
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Prototypes of Ethical Problems
Objectives
The reader should be able to:
• Recognize an ethical question and distinguish it from a strictly clinical or legal one.
• Identify three component parts of any ethical problem.
• Describe what an agent is and, more importantly, what it is to be a moral agent.
• Name two prototypical ethical problems.
• Distinguish between two varieties of moral distress.
• Compare the fundamental difference between moral distress and an ethical dilemma.
• Describe the role of emotions in moral distress and ethical dilemmas.
• Describe a type of ethical dilemma that challenges a professional’s desire (and duty) to treat everyone fairly and equitably.
• Discuss the role of locus of authority considerations in ethical problem solving.
• Identify four criteria to assist in deciding who should assume authority for a specific ethical decision to achieve a caring response.
• Describe how shared agency functions in ethical problem solving.
NEW TERMS AND IDEAS YOU WILL ENCOUNTER IN THIS CHAPTER
legal question
disability benefits
ethical question
prototype
clinical question
agent
moral agent
locus of authority
shared agency
moral distress
moral residue
ethical dilemma
Topics in this chapter introduced in earlier chapters
Topic
Introduced in chapter
Ethical problem
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Integrity
1
Interprofessional care team
1
Professional responsibility
2
A caring response
2
Accountability
2
Social determinants of care
2
Justice
2
Introduction
You have come a long way already and are prepared to take the next steps toward becoming skilled in the art of ethical decision making. The first part of this chapter guides you through an inquiry regarding how to know when you are faced with an ethical question instead of (or in addition to) a clinical or legal question. A further question is raised: How do you know whether the situation that raised the question is a problem that requires your involvement? This chapter helps you prepare to answer that question too. You will learn the basic components of an ethical problem and be introduced to two prototypes of ethical problems. We start with the story of Bill Boyd and Kate Lindy.
 The Story of Bill Boyd and Kate Lindy
Bill Boyd is a 25-year-old soldier who lives in a large city. Bill served in the U.S. Army for more than 6 years and was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan for multiple military missions in the past 4 years. During his final deployment, Bill suffered a blast injury in which he sustained significant shoulder and neck trauma and a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress. He was treated in an inpatient military hospital and transitioned back to his hometown, where he moved into his childhood home with his mother.
Kate Lindy is the outpatient psychologist who has been treating Bill for pain and posttraumatic stress. Bill is in a structured civilian reentry program. This competitive program is administered by a government subcontractor; its goal is to help in ...
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Bekalu, M. A., McCloud, R. F., & Viswanath, K. (2019). Association of Social Media Use With Social Well-Being, Positive Mental Health, and Self-Rated Health: Disentangling Routine Use From Emotional Connection to Use. Health Education & Behavior, 46(2_suppl), 69S-80S. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198119863768
It seems that this source is arguing the effect of social media on mental health. This source uses this evidence to support the argument: Provided studies focusing on why individuals use social media, types of social network platforms, and the value of social capital. A counterargument for this source is: Studies that focus more on statistical usage rather than emotion connection. Personally, I believe the source is doing a good job of supporting its arguments because it provides an abundance of study references and clearly portrays the information and intent. I think this source will be very helpful in supporting my argument because of the focus on emotional connection to social media and its effects on mental health.
Matsakis, L. (2019). How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters on Social Media. In Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. (Reprinted from How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters on Social Media, Wired, 2018, June 13) Retrieved from https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/apps/doc/UAZKKH366290962/OVIC?u=nhc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=2c90b7b5
It seems that this source is arguing that social media platforms are not doing enough to eliminate harmful pro-ED posts. This source uses this evidence to support the argument: Information about specific platforms and what they have done to moderate content, links for more information, and what constitutes as harmful content. A counterargument for this source is that it is too difficult for platforms to remove the content and to even find it. In addition, it is believed there may be harmful effects on vulnerable people posting this type of content. Personally, I believe the source is doing a good job of supporting its arguments because it provides opposing viewpoints as well as raising awareness of some of the dangers of social media posts. I think this source will be very helpful in supporting my argument because it provides information on specifically what is being done to moderate this type of content on social media, and what some of the difficulties in moderating are.
Investigators at University of Leeds Describe Findings in Eating Disorders (Pro-ana versus Pro-recovery: A Content Analytic Comparison of Social Media Users' Communication about Eating Disorders on Twitter and Tumblr). (2017, September 4). Mental Health Weekly Digest, 38. Retrieved from https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/apps/doc/A502914419/OVIC?u=nhc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=5e60152f
It seems that this source is arguing that there are more positive, anti-anorexia posts on social media than harmful, pro-ED content. ...
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NIMH: Opinion or Fact
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was formed in 1946 and is one of 27 institutes that form the National Institute of Health (NIH) (NIMH, 2019). The mission of the NIMH is “To transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.” (NIMH, 2019). There are many different mental illnesses discussed on the NIMH website to include Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The NIMH website about ADHD is effective at providing the public general information and meets the criteria of authority, objectivity, and currency.
The NIMH website about ADHD provides an overview of ADHD, discusses signs and symptoms, and risk factors. The NIMH continues with information about treatment and therapies. Information provided by the NIMH is intended for both children and adults. The NIMH concludes on the page with studies the public can join and more resources for the public such as booklets, brochures, research and clinical trials.
As described by Jim Kapoun authority can be identified by who or what institution/organization published the document and if the information in the document is cited correctly (Cornell, 2020). The information on the website is published by the NIMH which is the lead research institute related to mental health for the last 70 plus years (NIMH, 2019). On the page related to ADHD the NIMH references the program of Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) and provides a hyperlink to access the resources available with the agency (NIMH,2019). This link can be found under the support groups section in the treatment and therapies. On the website to the right of the area describing inattention the NIMH has a section on research. In this block there is a link to “PubMed: Journal Articles about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)” which will take you to a search of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) published by PubMed on ADHD (NIMH, 2019). Throughout the entire page the NIMH provides sources and hyperlinks to the sources as citations. Based on the reputation of the NIMH and the citations to the source material the website meets the criteria of authority.
According to Kapoun objectivity can be identified looking for areas where the author expresses his or her opinion (Cornell, 2020). Information provided on the NIMH page about ADHD does not express the opinion of the author. The author produces only factual information based on research. The NIMH makes it a point not to mention the names of medications when discussing treatments and only explains the medications fall in two categories stimulants and non-stimulants (NIMH, 2019). In this same area the NIMH provides hyperlinks to the NIMH Mental Health Medication and FDA website for information about medication. The extent at which the NIMH goes to not provide an opinion on the website meet ...
4.1
Updated April-09
Lecture Notes
Chapter 4
Enterprise Excellence
Implementation
ENTERPRISE EXCELLENCE
4.2
Updated April-09
Learning Objectives
• Management & Operations Plans
• Enterprise Excellence Projects
• Enterprise Excellence Project decision Process
• Planning the Enterprise Excellence Project
• Tollgate Reviews
• Project Notebook
4.3
Updated April-09
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS PLANS
• The scope and complexity of the
implementation projects will vary from the
executive level, to the management level, to
the operational level
• Each plan, as it is developed and deployed,
will include projects to be accomplished
• Conflicts typically will occur amongst
requirements of quality, cost, and schedule
when executing a project
4.4
Updated April-09
ENTERPRISE EXCELLENCE PROJECTS
• An Enterprise Excellence project will be one of three
types:
1. Technology invention or innovation
2. New product, service, or process development
3. Product, service, or process improvement
• Enterprise Excellence uses the scientific method
• The scientific method is a process of organizing
empirical facts and their interrelationships in a
manner that allows a hypothesis to be developed and
tested
4.5
Updated April-09
ENTERPRISE EXCELLENCE PROJECTS
• The scientific method consists of the
following steps:
1. Observe and describe the situation
2. Formulate a hypothesis
3. Use the hypothesis to predict results
4. Perform controlled tests to confirm the hypothesis
4.6
Updated April-09
ENTERPRISE EXCELLENCE PROJECTS
• Figure 4.1 shows the project decision process
4.7
Updated April-09
ENTERPRISE EXCELLENCE PROJECT
DECISION PROCESS
• Inventing/Innovating Technology:
Technology development is accomplished using
system engineering
This system approach enables critical functional
parameters and responses to be quickly transferred
into now products, services, and processes
The process is a four-phase process (I2DOV):
Invention & Innovation – Develop – Optimize – Verify
4.8
Updated April-09
ENTERPRISE EXCELLENCE PROJECT
DECISION PROCESS
• Development of Products, Services, and
Processes
The Enterprise Excellence approach for developing
products, services, and processes is the Design for
Lean Six Sigma strategy.
This strategy helps to incorporate customer
requirements and expectations into the product
and/or service.
Concept – Design – Optimize - Verify (CDOV) is a
specific sequential design & development process
used to execute the design strategy.
4.9
Updated April-09
ENTERPRISE EXCELLENCE PROJECT
DECISION PROCESS
• Improving Products, Services, and Processes:
Improving products, services and processes usually
involves the effectiveness and efficiency of operations.
A product or service is said to be effective when it meets
all of its customer requirements.
Effectiveness can be simply expressed as "doing the
right things the first time ...
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George, D., & Mallery, P. (2016). IBM SPSS statistics 23 step by step: A simple guide and reference. New York, NY: Routledge.
Heeringa, S. G., West, B. T., & Berglund, P. A. (2017). Applied survey data analysis (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
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As you compose your email, keep in mind the following:
· You are addressing a group you will work with in a professional capacity for at least 15 weeks. Let us know something about you, but don't share anything you wouldn't want repeated.
· You should include what you perceive to be your relative strengths with regard to writing at work. What types of tasks would you feel most comfortable taking on?
· You should also include what aspects of writing at work make you feel least comfortable. What types of tasks would you not be as suited for?
· What do you hope to learn in the next several months?
Next, in an attachment, choose one of the following two prompts and write a letter, taking into account the purpose, audience, and appropriate style for the task.
1. Your organization has been contracted to complete a project for an important client, and you were charged with managing the project. It has unfortunately become clear that your team will not meet the deadline. Your supervisor has told you to contact the client in writing to alert them to the situation and wants to be cc'd on the message. Write a letter, which you will send via email, addressing the above.
2. After a year-long working relationship, your organization will no longer be making use of a freelancer's services due to no fault of their own. Write a letter alerting them to this fact.
Name:
HRT 4760 Assignment 01
Timeliness
First, you will choose one particular organization where you will conduct each of your 15 different observational assignments. Stick with this same organization throughout your coursework. (Do not switch around assignment locations at different organizations or locations.) The reason for continuing your observational assignments at the same organization is to give you a deeper understanding of this particular organization across the 15 different assignments. As you read on, you will get a more complete understanding as to how these 15 assignments come together.
Tip: Many students choose the organization where they are currently working. This works particularly well. If you are working there, you have much opportunity to gain access to the areas that will give you a more complete understanding of the quality of entire service package (the 15 different elements) that the organization offers to its customers.
This is one of a package of 15 different assignments that comprise the Elements of Service, which you will study this term. For this assignment, you will observe elements of service in almost any particular service establishment. A few examples of service establishments would include, but not be limited to these: Hotel, resort, private club, restaurant, airline, cruise line, grocery store, doctor’s office, coffee house, and scores of oth ...
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The headings below should guide your introduction, since they identify the topics to be addressed in your paper. The introduction is not a graded part of your rubric but it helps your reader to understand what your assignment will be about. We recommend that you write this part of your Introduction after you complete the other sections of your paper. It only needs to be one paragraph in length.
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- Contains any needed background information
2) Request
- The actual question, what you are to solve
3) Notes
- A space if you feel like including notes of any kind for the given question
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Premise:
You have a table named “TRADES” with the following six columns:
Column Name
Data Type
Description
Date
DATE
The calendar date on which the trade took place.
Firm
VARCHAR(255)
A symbol representing the Broker/Dealer who conducted the trade.
Symbol
VARCHAR(10)
The security traded.
Side
VARCHAR(1)
Denotes whether the trade was a buy (purchase) or a sell (sale) of a security.
Quantity
BIGINT
The number of shares involved in the trade.
Price
DECIMAL(18,8)
The dollar price per share traded.
You write a query looking for all trades in the month of August 2019. The query returns the following:
DATE
FIRM
SYMBOL
SIDE
QUANTITY
PRICE
8/5/2019
ABC
123
B
200
41
8/5/2019
CDE
456
B
601
60
8/5/2019
ABC
789
S
600
70
8/5/2019
CDE
789
S
600
70
8/5/2019
FGH
456
B
200
62
8/6/2019
3CDE
456
X
300
61
8/8/2019
ABC
123
B
300
40
8/9/2019
ABC
123
S
300
30
8/9/2019
FGH
789
B
2100
71
8/10/2019
CDE
456
S
1100
63
Questions:
1) Conduct an analysis of the data set returned by your query. Write a paragraph describing your analysis. Please also note any questions or assumptions made about this data.
2) Your business user asks you to show them a table output that includes an additional column categorizing the TRADES data into volume based Tiers, with a column named ‘Tier’. Quantities between 0-250 will be considered ‘Small’, quantities greater than ‘Small’ but less than or equal to 500 will be considered ‘Medium’, quantities greater than ‘Medium’ but less than or equal to 500 will be considered ‘Large’, and quantities greater than ‘Tier 3’ will be considered ‘Very Large’ .
a. Please write the SQL query you would use to add the column to the table output.
b. Please show the exact results you expect based on your SQL query.
3) Your business user asks you to show them a table output summarizing the TRADES data (Buy and Sell) on week-by-week basis.
a. Please write the SQL query you would use to query this table.
b. Please show the exact results you expect based on your SQL query.
Notes:
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Premise:
You need to describe in writing how to accomplish a task. Your audience has never completed this task before.
Question:
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HR Strategies
Key concepts and terms
High commitment management •
High performance management •
HR strategy •
High involvement management •
Horizontal fi t •
Vertical fi t •
On completing this chapter you should be able to defi ne these key concepts.
You should also understand:
Learning outcomes
T • he purpose of HR strategy
Specifi c HR strategy areas •
How HR strategy is formulated •
How the vertical integration of •
business and HR strategies is
achieved
How HR strategies can be set out •
General HR strategy areas •
The criteria for a successful HR •
strategy
The fundamental questions on •
the development of HR strategy
How horizontal fi t (bundling) is •
achieved
How HR strategies can be •
implemented
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48 Human Resource Management
Introduction
As described in Chapter 2, strategic HRM is a mindset that leads to strategic actions and reac-
tions, either in the form of overall or specifi c HR strategies or strategic behaviour on the part
of HR professionals. This chapter focuses on HR strategies and answers the following ques-
tions: What are HR strategies? What are the main types of overall HR strategies? What are the
main areas in which specifi c HR strategies are developed? What are the criteria for an effective
HR strategy? How should HR strategies be developed? How should HR strategies be
implemented?
What are HR strategies?
HR strategies set out what the organization intends to do about its human resource manage-
ment policies and practices and how they should be integrated with the business strategy and
each other. They are described by Dyer and Reeves (1995) as ‘internally consistent bundles of
human resource practices’. Richardson and Thompson (1999) suggest that:
A strategy, whether it is an HR strategy or any other kind of management strategy must
have two key elements: there must be strategic objectives (ie things the strategy is sup-
posed to achieve), and there must be a plan of action (ie the means by which it is pro-
posed that the objectives will be met).
The purpose of HR strategies is to articulate what an organization intends to do about its
human resource management policies and practices now and in the longer term, bearing in
mind the dictum of Fombrun et al (1984) that business and managers should perform well in
the present to succeed in the future. HR strategies aim to meet both business and human needs
in the organization.
HR strategies may set out intentions and provide a sense of purpose and direction, but they are
not just long-term plans. As Gratton (2000) commented: ‘There is no great strategy, only great
execution.’
Because all organizations are different, all HR strategies are different. There is no such thing as
a standard strategy and research into HR strategy conducted by Armstrong and Long (1994)
and Armstrong and Baron (2002) revealed many variations. Some strategies are simply very
general declarations of intent. Others go into much more detail. ...
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Implementing Change
Construction workers on scaffolding.
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
Summarize the nine steps in Ackerman and Anderson’s road map for change.
Analyze Cummings and Worley’s five dimensions of leading and managing change.
Describe how to align an organization with its new vision and future state.
Explain how roles/relationships and interventions are used to implement change.
Examine ways to interact with and influence stakeholders.
Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
—John F. Kennedy
Alan Mulally was selected to lead Ford in 2006 after he was bypassed as CEO at Boeing, where he had worked and was expected to become CEO. Insiders and top-level managers at Ford, some of whom had expected to become CEO, were initially suspicious and then outraged when Mulally was hired. They questioned what someone from the airplane industry would know about the car business (Kiley, 2009).
Chair William (Bill) Clay Ford, Jr.—who selected Mulally as CEO—told Ford’s officers that the company needed a fresh perspective and a shake-up, especially since it had lost $14.8 billion in 2008—the most in its 105-year history—and had burned through $21.2 billion, or 61%, of its cash (Kiley, 2009). Because Ford knew that the company’s upper echelon culture was closed, bureaucratic, and rejected outsiders and new ways of thinking, he was not surprised by his officers’ reactions. However, Ford’s managers had no idea that the company was fighting for its life. To succeed, Mulally would need Chair Ford’s full endorsement and support, and he got it.
The company’s biggest cultural challenge was to break down the silos that various executives had built. As we will discuss more in Chapter 4, silos are specific processes or departments in an organization that work independently of each other without strong communication between or among them. A lack of communication can often stifle productivity and innovation, and this was exactly what was happening at Ford.
Mulally devised a turnaround strategy and developed it into the Way Forward Plan. The plan centralized and modernized plants to handle several models at once, to be sold in several markets. The plan was designed to break up the fiefdoms of isolated cultures, in which leaders independently developed and decided where to sell cars. Mulally’s plan also kept managers in positions for longer periods of time to deepen their expertise and improve consistency of operations. The manager who ran the Mazda Motor affiliate commented, “I’m going into my fourth year in the same job. I’ve never had such consistency of purpose before” (as cited in Kiley, 2009, “Meetings About Meetings,” para. 2).
Mulally’s leadership style involved evaluating and analyzing a situation using data and facts and then earning individuals’ support with his determinatio ...
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Assignment Three: Purpose of the study and Research Questions
RES 9300
Recently, Autism has become a serious health concern to parents. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2018), about one in fifty nine United States children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder with one in six children developing developmental disability ranging from mild disabilities such as speech and language impairments to serious developmental disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and autism (CDC,2018). World Health Organization (2019) estimates that 1 in 160 children globally has autism making it one of the most prevalent diseases. Despite the disease prevalence, most population has little knowledge about the disease. Many health practitioners have proposed early care as a means to control the disease effects.
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this study is to determine whether early intervention services can help improve the development of children suffering from autism. This study also aims to explore the general public awareness and perception about autism disorder.
Research Questions
(1) How should service delivery for autistic patients be improved to promote their health? (2) What impact does early intervention services have on development of children suffering from autism? (3) How can public knowledge on autism improve support and care for autistic patients? (4) What effect will early intervention have on patient’s social skills?
References
Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Data & Statistics. Retrieved From https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html
World Health Organization. (2019). Autism Spectrum Disorders. Fact Sheet. Retrieved From https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/autism-spectrum-disorders
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Assignment Two: Theoretical Perspective and Literature Review
RES 9300
Literature Map
Parenting an Autism Child
(Dependent Variable)
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Mothers/Father Role
Education
Religious Beliefs
Gender/Age
Financial Resources
Maternal Relationship
Region
Public Awareness
Support
Ethnicity
Independent Variables
Secondary Source I Will Be Using In My Literature Review
Mother/Father Roles
Glynn, K. A. (2015). Predictors of parenting practices in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Religious Beliefs
Huang, C. Y., Yen, H. C., Tseng, M. H., Tung, L. C., Chen, Y. D., & Chen, K. L. (2014). Impacts of autistic behaviors, emotional and behavioral problems on parenting stress in caregivers of children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44(6), 1383-1390.
Education
Brezis, R. S., Weisner, T. S., Daley, T. C., Singhal, N., Barua, M., & Chollera, S. P. (2015). Parenting a child with autism in India: Narratives before and after a parent–child intervention program. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 39(2), 277-298.
Financial Resources
Zaidm ...
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Interpretations of Iron Age Architecture Brochs in Society/Social Identity
Archaeology is a historical field which has advanced over the years based on more discoveries still being experienced by the archaeologists who seek them. According to Kelly and Thomas (2010; p.5), the concession that life existed in more ancient times than stipulated by biblical scholars and human culture allowed the archaeologists to dig deeper into genealogical data. Iron Age architecture and social/society identity relate to one another. For instance, the population, based on their identity and perception will construct buildings that directly reflect their beliefs. This essay will discuss these archaeological concepts of Iron Age architecture and society/social identity. Need a paragraph on brochs and how many and where they are across Scotland with patcialur focus on the atlantc region, this is not relevant for masters essay. Must define broch from its architecture and how long it would take to build and note famous ones and note the ones that will be referred to in this essay – this could be Perhaps incorpated into the next paragraph.
Iron Age architecture has over the years been dominated by differing archaeological concepts and debates. It was defined by settlements and settlement structures such as duns, brochs, wheelhouses, hillforts, stone-built round houses and timber. The social and societal identity which is identified through material remains indicates aspects of differentiation, regional patterns and segregation. According to Kelly and Thomas (2010; p.28), people who existed in Iron Age Scotland were isolated. This is demonstrated by the presence of a burial followed by an assembled chariot at Newbridge. Northern and western Scotland have been the source of the well-structured developments that have provided cultural, architectural and social data over time. Maes Howe, which is the largest Orkney burial cairn, located between Stromne ...
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Chapter 7
Theories of Teaching
Introduction
Theories of learning are typically only useful to adult learning practitioners when they are applied to the facilitation of learning—a function assigned usually in our society to a person designated as teacher or trainer.
A distinction must be made between theories of learning and theories of teaching. Theories of learning deal with the ways in which people learn, whereas theories of teaching deal with the ways in which one person influences others to learn (Gage, 1972, p. 56).
Presumably, the learning theory subscribed to by a teacher will influence his or her teaching theory.
Early on, Hilgard resisted this fragmentation of learning theory. He identified 20 principles he believed to be universally acceptable from three different families of theories: Stimulus–Response (S–R) theory, cognitive theory, and motivation and personality theory. These principles are summarized in Table 7.1.
Hilgard’s conviction in his belief that his 20 principles would be “in large part acceptable to all parties” was grounded in his limited verification process. The “parties” with whom he checked out these principles were control-oriented theorists. In spite of their differences about the internal mechanics of learning, these theorists are fairly close in their conceptualization of the role of the teacher.
Table 7.1 Summary of Hilgard’s principles
Teaching Concepts Based on Animal and Child Learning Theories
Let’s examine the concepts of a variety of theories about the nature of teaching and the role of the teacher. First, we’ll look at the members of Hilgard’s jury. These include Thorndike, Guthrie, Skinner, Hull, Tolman, and Gagné.
Thorndike
Thorndike essentially saw teaching as the control of learning by the management of reward. The teacher and learner must know the characteristics of a good performance in order that practice may be appropriately arranged. Errors must be diagnosed so that they will not be repeated. The teacher is not primarily concerned with the internal states of the organism, but with structuring the situation so that rewards will operate to strengthen desired responses. The learner should be interested, problem-oriented, and attentive. However, the best way to obtain these conditions is to manipulate the learning situation so that the learner accepts the problem posed because of the rewards involved. Attention is maintained and appropriate S–R connections are strengthened through the precise application of rewards toward the goals set by the teacher. A teacher’s role is to cause appropriate S–R bonds to be built up in the learner’s behavior repertoire (Hilgard and Bower, 1966, pp. 22–23; Pittenger and Gooding, 1971, pp. 82–83).
Guthrie
Guthrie’s suggestions for teaching are summarized as follows:
1. If you wish to encourage a particular kind of behavior or discourage another, discover the cues leading to the behavior in question. In the one case, arrange the situation so that the desired be ...
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38 Monthly Labor Review • June 2012
Telecommuting
The hard truth about telecommuting
Telecommuting has not permeated the American workplace, and
where it has become commonly used, it is not helpful in reducing
work-family conflicts; telecommuting appears, instead, to have
become instrumental in the general expansion of work hours,
facilitating workers’ needs for additional worktime beyond the
standard workweek and/or the ability of employers to increase or
intensify work demands among their salaried employees
Mary C. Noonan
and
Jennifer L. Glass
Mary C. Noonan is an Associate
Professor at the Department of
Sociology, The University of Iowa;
Jennifer L. Glass is the Barbara
Bush Regents Professor of Liberal
Arts at the Department of Sociol-
ogy and Population Research
Center, University of Texas at
Austin. Email: [email protected]
uiowa.edu or [email protected]
austin.utexas.edu.
Telecommuting, defined here as work tasks regularly performed at home, has achieved enough
traction in the American workplace to
merit intensive scrutiny, with 24 percent
of employed Americans reporting in recent
surveys that they work at least some hours
at home each week.1 The definitions of
telecommuting are quite diverse. In this ar-
ticle, we define telecommuters as employ-
ees who work regularly, but not exclusively,
at home. In our definition, at-home work
activities do not need to be technologically
mediated nor do telecommuters need a
formal arrangement with their employer to
work at home.
Telecommuting is popular with policy
makers and activists, with proponents
pointing out the multiple ways in which
telecommuting can cut commuting time
and costs,2 reduce energy consumption
and traffic congestion, and contribute to
worklife balance for those with caregiving
responsibilities.3 Changes in the structure
of jobs that enable mothers to more effec-
tively compete in the workplace, such as
telecommuting, may be needed to finally
eliminate the gender gap in earnings and
direct more earned income to children,
both important public policy goals.4
Evidence also reveals that an increasing num-
ber of jobs in the American economy could be
performed at home if employers were willing
to allow employees to do so.5 Often, employees
can perform jobs at home without supervision
in the “high-tech” sector, in the financial sector,
and many in the communication sector that are
technology dependent. The obstacles or barriers
to telecommuting seem to be more organiza-
tional, stemming from the managers’ reluctance
to give up direct supervisory control of workers
and from their fears of shirking among workers
who telecommute.6
Where the impact of telecommuting has
been empirically evaluated, it seems to boost
productivity, decrease absenteeism, and increase
retention.7 But can telecommuting live up to its
promise as an effective work-family policy that
helps employees meet their nonwork responsi-
bilities? To do so, tel ...
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Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
2. 1. Brief2
i. Location 2
ii. Type of customers 2
iii. Competitors 2
2. Why this type of business interests you? 2
3. Why do you believe it would be successful 3
Cafe Grill
Brief
This business is from the food and beverage industry. Café grill
would be a fast-food restaurant chain like Mc Donald, Burger
King, KFC, and other fast-food restaurants. And the type of
business I am planning to start would be a partnership as it
doesn’t require paying income taxes as each partner would have
to pay tax based on personal income and it would have
increased pool of knowledge, capital, and expertise.
Location
The location of the business Warner Robins, Georgia, USA.
Since this would be the best location as would be the best fit
because people would love to try something new when coming
to Mc Donald’s and most of the restaurants and because the area
3. of your food business will affect about as much as the menu. If
your restaurant is at an inappropriate spot, you won’t attract
customers you will require so as to remain in business.
Type of customers
The type of customers of café grill would be fast food lovers
such as youngsters(these are the people who would love to
spend most of their pocket money with friends ) , children(
because they don’t prefer homemade food every time) and
office going people( who don’t have time to make food would
prefer to drive-thru).
Competitors
The main competitors of café grill would be Mc Donald’s, KFC,
Burger King, Subway, Dunkin Donuts, Pizza hut, Wendy’s and
Taco Bell as they all are direct competitors of café grill as
because they have an almost similar target market and also
selling nearly similar food.
Why this type of business interests you?
As an entrepreneur, I love to do creative and innovative things
and I have an interest in cooking and trying new recipes so it is
the passion and creativity that lures me to open a restaurant.
Not only this but I am also a sociable person so restaurant
business falls into the hospitability category business so I love
to meet new people (greeting customers and solving their
problems). In Addition to this, I possess strong stamina for
working long hours and solving uncertain problems.
Why do you believe it would be successful?
The reason behind taking restaurant business is that eatery
business is one of the most beneficial business in view of its
developing demand as nowadays people want to dine out more
in comparison to cooking meal at home and as per market
research more than twice a week people like to dine out and try
to taste new and tasty food and spend some quality time with
their family and peers as because routine is hectic there so they
find this solution as more appropriate as eating food while
having good time with family.
4. 3 | Page
Table of Contents
1. Financial Start Up Needs 2
a. Analysis 2
b. Rationale 3
2. Financing Options 3
3. Financial Ratios 4
1. Financial Start Up Needsa. Analysis
Start-up needs
Quantity
Total based on month
Amount
Cash at hand
200,000
30
6000,000
Set of cooking tools and Equipment’s
Total needed is 4 as each cost 300,000
0
12,00,000
Purchase of chicken and other needed raw material
5 kg per day and each kg is 1000 of chicken and 10,000 for
5. other material
150000+300000
450,000
Rent cost
250,000 monthly
250000
250000
Water and cold drink dispenser
100,000 per dispenser of water and cold drink. Total needed in
quantity is 2
400,000
400,000
Air conditioners
5 as each has a cost of 100,000
500000
500000
Tables and chairs
15 sets as each costs 150000
2250,000
2250,000
Standby generator
200000
0
200,000
Utility expenses (electricity bills, fuel etc)
100,000 per day
30
30,00,000
Labour cost
Total 20 working staff and each would be paid 50000, and for
executives 7 managers it needs to pay 120000
30000000+840000
30840000
Total
6. 42090,000b. Rationale
Café grill would require cash at hand of Rs. 200000 to meet day
to day operations and financial needs. And it also requires a set
of cooking tools and equipment in order to cook fries, burgers,
broasts and other needed stuff for cooking. Not only this it
would also require chicken and other raw material needed to
cook chicken and other stuff and it will also incur the cost of
rent as we will not go for the purchase of land and building
because it will incur an excessive cost as paying aren’t in a
month would be simple enough. Café grill would also need to
have water, and cold drink dispensers in order to serve drinks,
water and ice cream to customers. Since it also needs to have an
air conditioner in order to create a smooth and comfortable
environment for customers as because its competitors offer all
these facilities along with it will also need a standby generator
in case of electricity breakdown occurs so that our customers
don’t get dissatisfied with the environment we provide. Lastly,
it will incur some utility expenses such as electricity bills of
light, machines and needed equipment and incurrence of fuel
charges for generator.
2. Financing Options
There are many ways through which company can generate the
amount of money to cater its business needs as café grill can
also go for the joint stock company, loans from bank, peers or
friends, a sole proprietorship in case if he has his own saving
hence in my opinion and partnership. The best financing option
for café grill would be going for partnership among all of its
partners as it can obtain money by a partnership of 5 partners
among each other. As one of the options can be that each
partner must invest an equal amount of money in the business
and also invest sufficient expertise and time needed to run this
restaurant business. Since another option can be active partners
who may invest less amount of money and provide expertise and
knowledge in the business and sleeping partner must invest a
7. huge amount of investment and pay a very little time to manage
the day to day operations. And approaching through this type
of financing would be finding credible partners who may invest
a certain sum of money as these credible partners can be one of
your friends, relatives or colleagues.3. Financial Ratios
Although there are many direct ways to measure the
performance of the business as we can measure it by evaluating
the number of assets café grill have, low amount of liabilities it
has and etc. but the two most important rations in order to
measure the performance of the business is Return on Equity
ratio (ROE) and current assets (CA) ratio as firstly current
assets ratio means that the amount of currents assets it has in
comparison to its liabilities. In other words, A high proportion
shows a greater degree of protection, which expands flexibility
for the company And also high ratio indicates that company can
have good financial efficiency of using its assets efficiently to
create revenue and its capability to deal with those advantages
whereas return on equity refers to measuring the financial
efficiency that tells us how much company generate profits
relative to its stockholder investment as A rising ROE
recommends that an organization is expanding its capacity to
produce profits without requiring as much capital. It
additionally demonstrates how well an organization
administrates its investors' capital. Hence with these two ratios,
we can measure the company performance of how it is
performing.
Sheet1Pro forma balance sheet as at 31st december 2019Café
GrilAssets Liabilities Cash at hand 6000000rent3000000Sales
20000000labor costs 27350000Gnerator 400000Tables and
chairs 2250000Air conditioners 500000cooking tools
1200000Total 3035000030350000Proforma income statement
Cash receipts january february
mrchapriljunejulyaugustseptmberoctobernovemberdecember500
00006000000600000080000001000000010000000120000001200
9. Financial Metrics Café Grill
Crystal Messer
The proforma financial models have anticipated outcomes of a
transaction. Café Grill proforma balance sheet gives a summary
of the projected future of the business after all the transactions
based on the current financial status. Café Grill short total
assets, both short term, and long term equate to total liabilities
in the future, and hence the future balance sheet is realistic. The
next business profitability and risks are given out in the
proforma balance sheet. Solvency and liquidity of the business
dare calculated in risk analysis. Café Grill has enough cash to
10. meet all its obligations as portrayed in the balance sheet. Its
assets equate to the liabilities. The business solvency depicts
whether the company can be able to recover from losses. The
proforma balance sheet also looks into the future profitability
analysis in profitability ratios such as return on equity. (ROE).
The proforma income statement of Café Grill consists of
expenses and revenues alongside the resulting net loss or
income over a certain period from the company’s activities. The
proforma income statement of the business clearly shows the
management and investors whether the firm will make money or
not in the future. The future income statement has got a revenue
section that has inflows of cash as well as cash outflows. The
next net income is calculated by subtracting total expenses from
total revenue. Among the proforma expenses are; COGS (cost of
goods sold). This gives a future value of Café Grill’s direct
costs associated with the production and selling of goods. Other
costs such as expenses in development and research of products
are also included. Expected depreciation costs with respect to
the company’s fixed assets are also part of the proforma income
statement. The proforma non-operating expenses and revenues
include primary business losses such as foreign exchange rates
whereas revenues include patent income. A proforma analysis
on earnings per share, EPS is also calculated from the income
statement to give out the shareholders expected a profit for the
targeted period. The net income section in the proforma income
statement is critical as it represents the firm’s expected
profitability attributable to its shareholders. It determines the
production schedule. It also gives a sales projection as well as
computing other expenses.
The proforma cash flow gives out the expected amount of cash
outflows and inflows of the business. The proforma cash flow
statement illustrates Café Grill anticipated net cash flow over
the specified period. The cash balance on the proforma cash
statement shows improvement, and hence, the business will be
profitable. The proforma cash flow is composed of; operational
cash flows. This gives the expected cash receivership as a result
11. of Café Grill internal business activities. The cash earnings will
be net positive maintaining the company’s solvency. Investment
cash flows are also included in the proforma cash flow
statement of Café Grill. It estimates the amount of cash that will
be received from long-life assets and other investments.
Proforma financing cash flows will give the anticipated cash
receivership from equity and debt, or the cash paid out as share
repurchases and as dividends.
Café Grill expected rate of return is calculated from the
proforma cash flow statement as well as the net present value.
The two gives out a positive value; hence, the business is worth.
There are no problems with Café Grill’s proforma liquidity as
shown by the proforma cash budget. The company will have
enough cash and hence no probability of collapsing or going
bankrupt. Also, from the proforma cash budget, income
generated by accrual accounting of the firm is of quality. Café
Grill’s financial products risks are also anticipated to be low
based on the proforma cash budget.
Both the tangible and intangible costs of the business do not
exceed the gross income of the company; hence, the funding
source is well implemented.
A business would be worthwhile if it has a good return on
equity ratio (ROE). Return on equity ratio would measure the
effectiveness of the industry in using its equity to generate
income. Dividing the net profit with the equity gives this ratio
by the company’s equity. A return on equity ratio of about 15-
20% would make the enterprise worth as it gives the ability of
the management to generate income from the available equity.
(Saleem, 2011).
Operating margin will also provide a functional analysis of
whether the business is worthwhile. The ratio is calculated by
dividing the operating income with the company’s revenue. If
the industry happens to have a small ratio, then it is less
profitable and vice versa. If the operating margin of the
business is zero, then the company is not earning anything from
its sales. (Saleem, 2011).
12. Moreover, I would check on the business’s profit margin as the
operating margin ratio won’t be sufficient as a standalone. The
profit margin will measure the amount of profit the company
earns from its sales. The ratio is calculated by dividing profit by
sales. Both gross and net profit margins would be vital in
evaluating the profitability of the venture. Return on assets ratio
(ROA) would be crucial in measuring how the assets are being
effectively utilized to generate profit. The ratio would be made
by dividing the net income by the total assets. If the ratio is
high, then the business is effectively utilizing its assets to
generate profits. (Penman, 2007).
In conclusion, basic earning power ratio (BEP) of the business
is also considered. The ratio would be calculated by dividing
the business EBIT by its total number of assets. Generation of
income form the assets is effective if the ratio is high. EBIT
sums in all the income earned by the company in calculating the
BEP ratio and hence showing how the company makes money.
Comparison of tax situations with the business is done using
BEP ratio (Saleem, 2011).
References
Nissim D, Penman SH. (2001). Ratio analysis and equity
valuation: From research to practice. Review of accounting
studies.
Penman SH. (2007). Financial statement analysis and security
valuation.
Saleem Q, Rehman RU. (2011). Impacts of liquidity ratios on
profitability.