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 150 WORDS

In completing your final exam, please be sure that your work follows essay format. Your work should include significant responses that are supported by outside research. Each response should be a minimum of 150 words and should include a reference list. Your responses should include examples and should be entirely in your own words.

·  Using your knowledge from what you have learned this term, analyze and provide an example of how using evaluation results can improve human performance technology projects.

·  You have learned about non-profit organizations this term and the importance of the business practices. Using what you have learned, analyze the importance of shift to outcome measurement, impact evaluation, and sustainability from an administrative process.

·  You have learned this term that stakeholders play an important role in the success of an organization. Summarize how stakeholder analysis and the development of logic models are related to an evaluation plan.

·  Using what you have learned this term, define and analyze the implications of the five measurement and evaluation plans for the workplace.

·  Using your workplace as an example, select the appropriate measures of reaction, learning, and confidence that might be used in the evaluation process.

Purpose 

The purpose of this project is to introduce you to the planning process and to complete a SWOT analysis to determine a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.  Using the information gathered to complete the SWOT, you will begin to build a Strategic Plan identifying and discussing the company’s goals and objectives.

Outcome Met by Completing This Assignment

• employ effective planning processes to develop strategies, goals, and objectives in order to enhance performance and sustainability

Instructions:

You recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business.  You are a new hire at Silver Airways and your manager has asked you to assist him with building a Strategic Plan to reach the goal of merging with an airline carrier serving the Northeast US.  Using the course materials (weeks 1 – 3) and research on Silver Airways, you will create a SWOT table and conduct a SWOT analysis on the current state of Silver Airways to determine its Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.  You will then identify goals, explain these goals and identify and explain objectives for each goal.

Your manager has provided you with the following information about Silver Airways.

Silver Airways recently announced its purchase of Seaborne Airlines that is based in Puerto Rico.  Expanding its flight routes within the Caribbean, makes the company the highest volume airline to the Bahamas and the Caribbean from Florida.  In addition to its Bahama and Caribbean flights, Silver Airways serves the Southeast and a few Northeast states. 

In answering the requirements, you will support the reasoning and conclusions made, which means you will explain ‘why and how’ rather than relying on making statements. This is a most important requirement so do not overlook it.

Research

Review the links below to learn more about each airline, the merged map of flights, and the strategic plan that led to the merger.  Note that specific information about Seaborne Airlines may not be relevant to answering the questions below.

• Silver Airways
• Seaborne Airlines
• Silver Airways/SeaborneAirways
• Silver Airways Announces Major Strategic Growth Developments and New Leadership

You may do additional research related to Silver Airways.  Make sure to take notes and do not take the research lightly as the more research you do the more you will understand Silver Airways and the better the SWOT analysis will be.

Note:  Your report is based on the results of the research performed and not on any prepared documentation or website with SWOT information.  What this means is that you will research and draw your own conclusions that are supported by the research and the course materials rather than the use any source material that puts together a SWOT, goals or objectives whether from the Internet, for-pay websites or any pre-prepared document, video or source material.  A zero will be earned for not doing your own analysis.

How to Set Up the Paper

Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document that is double spaced.  Use 12-point font.  The final product will be 4-5 pages in length excluding the title page and reference page.  Write clearly and concisely. 

Create a title page that provides a title, your name, the course number and section number and instructor’s name.

Use the following headings and instructions to complete the project:

Introduction

• Write an Introduction paragraph.  The Introduction paragraph is the first paragraph of the paper and will be used to describe to the reader the intent of the paper explaining the main points covered in the paper.  This intent should be understood prior to reading the remainder of the paper so the reader knows exactly what is being covered in the paper.
• Consider writing the introduction last to ensure that all of the main points are covered.

SWOT Table

• Using the research from the websites provided and any additional research, complete a SWOT Table for Silver Airways using the following format.
• Provide a minimum of three strengths, three weaknesses, three opportunities and three threats (See grading rubric for specifics).
• Provide an in-text citation for each item presented in the SWOT Table.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

SWOT Analysis:  Silver Airways

• Write a paragraph for each quadrant in the SWOT explaining the rationale for each criterion within the quadrant.  Support the reasoning. Remember, there must be a minimum of three criteria in each quadrant.

Goals and Objectives

• You will now begin to build the framework for the Strategic Plan that will be developed upon approval of a merger.  Identify and explain three (3) major goals that the company should look to attain with the approval of the merger, with explanations as to the importance of each goal and why the goals are relevant to the company’s strategy.
• Make sure to use the research AND course materials to support what is presented.  Your research will guide you to create the goals and objectives.
• You will then define and discuss at least two objectives for each goal.

This framework must have the following items. 

STRATEGIC GOAL 1

Identification and explanation of Strategic Goal 1 – Provided by the student

Strategic Objectives:  Students will define and discuss at least two objectives to drive the Strategic Goal

STRATEGIC GOAL 2

Identification and explanation of Strategic Goal 2 – Provided by the student

Strategic Objectives:  Students will define and discuss at least two objectives to drive the Strategic Goal

STRATEGIC GOAL 3

Identification and explanation of Strategic Goal 3 – Provided by the student

Strategic Objectives:  Students will define and discuss at least two objectives to drive the Strategic Goal

Conclusion

• Create a concluding paragraph.  The Conclusion summarizes the main topics covered in the paper.       

References    

Review the Paper 

Read the paper to ensure all required elements are present.

The following are specific requirements that you will follow.  Use the checklist to mark off that you have followed each specific requirement.  

Checklist

Specific Project Requirements

Proofread your paper

Read and use the grading rubric while completing the paper to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade. 

Third person writing is required.  Third person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second person writing).  If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link:  http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person. 

Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.  

Paraphrase and do not use direct quotations.  Paraphrase means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document.  Removing quotation marks and citing is inappropriate.  Instead put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage to the source document.  There should be no passages with quotation marks.  Using more than four consecutive words from a source document would require direct quotation marks.  Changing words from a passage does not exclude the passage from having quotation marks.   If more than four consecutive words are used from source documents, this material will not be included in the grade.  

You are expected to use the research and weekly course materials to develop the analysis and support the reasoning.   There should be a robust use of the course material.  Material used from a source document must be cited and referenced.  A reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.  Changing words from a passage does not exclude the passage from having quotation marks.   

Use in-text citations and provide a reference list that contains the reference associated with each in-text citation.

You may not use books in completing this problem set unless part of the course material.  Also, do not use a dictionary, Wikipedia or Investopedia or similar sources.

Provide the page or paragraph number in every in-text citation presented.  Since the eBook does not have page numbers, include the chapter title and topic heading.  If using a video, provide the minutes and second of the cited material.

Step 3:  Submit the paper in the Assignment Folder (The assignment submitted to the Assignment Folder will be considered the student’s final product and therefore ready for grading by the instructor.  It is incumbent upon the student to verify the assignment is the correct submission.  No exceptions will be considered by the instructor).

Self-Plagiarism: Self-plagiarism is the act of reusing significant, identical or nearly identical portions of one’s own work.  You cannot re-use any portion of a paper or other graded work that was submitted to another class even if you are retaking this course.   You also will not reuse any portion of previously submitted work in this class.  A zero will be assigned to the assignment if self-plagiarized.  Faculty do not have the discretion to accept self-plagiarized work.

NOTE:  All submitted work is to be your original work. You may not use any work from another student, the Internet or an online clearinghouse.  You are expected to understand the Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism Policy, and know that it is your responsibility to learn about instructor and general academic expectations with regard to proper citation of sources as specified in the APA Publication Manual, 6th Ed. (Students are held accountable for in-text citations and an associated reference list only). 

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read The Wall Street Journal article Samsung’s New Challenge: Rising Component Costs, and the Business Insider article Samsung Introduced 10 Times as Many Phones as Apple Last Year, but Its Mobile Division Made Half as Much Revenue (Links to an external site.).

In a three- to four-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) assess how Samsung’s technological smartphone innovation accounts for the company’s sales growth of mobile devices worldwide.

In your paper, determine whether Samsung could benefit by implementing a global product line-up strategy to pursue profitability. To make the determination go to Samsung’s.com official website and locate the “Investor Relations” link to retrieve Samsung’s financial statements. Utilize the SEC filings and annual reports to summarize Samsung’s principal goods and services, market share, geographic locations where it operates, and major competitors.

Samsung is a leading smartphone vendor worldwide. In 2017, Samsung’s market share of the global smartphone market was at around 21.6% with Apple as its closest competitor in the market. As the world’s biggest smartphone maker, Samsung tries to keep profits up in its mainstay mobile phone business, but the rising costs of the components that go into its devices proves to be a challenge.

In your paper,

• Assess whether Samsung could benefit by using Activity Based Costing (ABC). Your evaluation should include
  • factor(s) that influenced your decision,
  • the ramifications of implementing ABC in the Global smartphone market, and
  • how you would structure the distribution of costs using ABC for Samsung. 
• Assess whether Samsung could benefit by using a standard cost system. Your evaluation should include
  • the factor(s) that influenced your decision,
  • the ramifications of costs, quantity, and variances, and
  • the ramifications of using standard costs in the global smartphone market.
• Explain how Samsung could benefit by product pricing in terms of cost-plus concepts. This explanation should include
  • Samsung’s future plans, such as, expansion, consolidation, and downsizing, and
  • how costs concepts could be used in the decision making.

The Samsung’s New Challenge: Rising Component Costs Final Paper

• Must be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style resource (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an Introduction and Conclusion paragraph. In the introduction paragraph indicate the purpose of your paper and provide an overview of the research design used. Introduce the various topics that will be addressed in the research paper. Identify the method(s) that will be used to collect the data for the topics and how that data will be evaluated.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
• Must add an APA heading (Level 1 or Level 2) for each one of the topics discussed in the research paper as shown:
  • Introduction (APA Level 1)
  • Samsung’s Principle Goods and Services (APA Level 1)
  • Global Market Share (APA Level 1)
  • Geographic Locations (APA Level 1)
  • Major Competitors (APA Level 1)
  • Activity Based Costing (ABC) (APA Level 1)
  • Production Costs of Cellphones (APA Level 2)
  • Samsung’s New Challenge: Cellphones Rising Component Costs (APA Level 2)
  • Standard Cost System (APA Level 1)
  • Cost-Plus Concepts (APA Level 1)
  • Samsung’s Future Plans (APA Level 1)

Use the following APA Style blog to read about the APA Five Levels of Headings (Links to an external site.)

• Must use at least five scholarly and/or credible articles from ProQuest Business, industry databases Nasdaq.com and EY.com, and comprehensive accounting databases FASB codification, AICPA, and SEC reference library sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper guide. (Links to an external site.)

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

***THE COMPANY IS GEICO 250 WORDS MAX***

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

Develop a 750-1,000 word high level staffing and compensation plan. The plan should contain an introduction and conclusion that make relevant connections to the course objectives.

The purpose of this assignment is to simulate the thought process that managers use when planning for staffing and compensating employees. Students are not expected to produce a detailed proposal. Rather, the expectation is that students demonstrate consideration of the multiple complexities involved in staffing and compensation.

Obtain the Instructor’s approval on the selected organization before writing the Staffing and Compensation Plan which should include:

1. Introduction.
2. Discussion of the staffing needs of your organization.
3. Explanation of the compensation plan for your organization.****
4. Description of the employee benefits offered.
5. Conclusion.

Incorporate three to five resources (including your textbook) to support your Staffing and Compensation Plan.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Instructions

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lectures:

• Small vs. Large Organizations
• Innovation through Change

Introduction

Organizations can manage their day-to-day work with ease. It is what they know and what they do best. Change, however, is more difficult to manage and coordinate. Anytime you make a change to one aspect of running a business, you discover that you must also make changes elsewhere within the organization.

Tasks

• Explain how the underlying values of organization development compare to the values underlying other types of change.
• Analyze what it means to say managers should organize for both exploration and exploitation.
• Evaluate when a company might be better off taking a more limited approach to open innovation.
• Identify how designing organization structure can improve market success.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details

• Create a 3–5-page Word document.
• Name your file as SU_HRM5090_W4_Project_LastName_FirstName.

Which party (union or management) would likely be in a stronger position to bargain for its preferred wage outcome under the following conditions, and why? 

• high profits, an expanding market share, a healthy economy, and the cost of living rising less than two percent per year 
• low profits, stagnant sales growth, uncertain economic conditions, and a projected four percent annual rise in cost of living 

Your response to these questions should be a minimum of 1 page in length. Use APA format to cite and reference all quoted and paraphrased material, including your textbook. Please be sure to include your reference list on a separate page.

Part 1

Carol Creedence, the plant manager of the Clearwater Company’s Revival plant, has prepared the following graph of the unit costs from the job cost reports for the plant’s highest volume product, Product CCR.  ( The Graph is attached to this question)

Job costing 

Instead of writing a memo to Carol, is to research on the differences between job order costing and process costing and the effects on unit costs on them.

Part 2

Strategic Planning:

Draft a strategic plan for your company from scratch (do not use any resources) you like to run (Grocery Store is my chosen company i like to run), Then research articles and other resources to improve your strategic plan (cite your resources), finalize your strategic plan.

Write 7-page single space using the executive summary below, and  reference the attached materials. You may have attachments in the  addendum (create a salary grid from a reputable job, or a job  classification family table. You may use APA or MLA format for citation.  TURNITIN IS USED FOR PLAGIARISM. 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Identify the Problem and Stakeholders

Job classification is the process of placing one or more jobs into a cluster or family of similar jobs. The jobs family is based on lines of authority, duties, and responsibilities of the work or behavioral requirements of the job. Job classification can be important for setting pay rates and selecting employees. Small companies are facing challenges more than ever before. Small companies used to serve local community in the past and that was kind of sufficient for those companies to survive. Nowadays, massive companies are dominating the market and extending to even small neighborhoods that used to be served by small companies. There is then a challenge for those small companies to recruit highly talented employees and create a job classification system in which they can compete with other larger companies. HR professional play a crucial role in creating the job classification systems that those small companies need. Position classification is the foundation document used to assign a position’s title, job duties, compensations, and grade level. Since small companies do not have a wide range of job that can be classified under the same jobs family, they face challenge as each job maybe considered a unique job. 

The impact of this touches employers and employees together as they each need to have a well-defined list of duties and responsibilities. The job classification sets the expectation for both parties and allows for a smooth task to be carried in workplace. 

The paper will finally discuss in details those challenges and how small companies can classify their jobs in order to compete with larger companies who have a more designed system for job classification. 

Research Methodology

For the purpose of this research, two methods, questionnaire and interview will be the first methods to use. Market research about small companies challenge to create job classifications comes third as well as journals from human resource subject will compliment the information needed for the entire research. 

Different Alternatives

Job analysis will be conducted in order to determine what can classified as family job and hence have the chance to create a classification system for those jobs. Also, standardizing the classification based on the job requirements and automate most of the tasks will make easy to classify a job and list the requirements. The use of duties as a mode of analysis may be helpful for such functions as job evaluation and classification or creation of job families. Small companies should strive to create a classification system that simultaneously treats the essential attributes of both jobs and people. Other alternatives based on market research will be in the paper as well.

Review Alternatives

The feasibility of the alternatives will be reviewed in the paper, and each will be given a weight as to how easily it can be implemented. The information used to evaluate the alternatives will be based on researching the market and finding more about how small companies deal with job classification and how they can create a reliable system for the same. 

Final Recommendation

The final recommendation is choosing one of the alternatives as the most appropriate method or creating a job classification based on using information from all alternatives presented. 

Assignment Content

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines. 

Include detailed speaker notes and at least 2 references. 

Imagine you are a consultant and are advising a group about their new health care startup. They have asked you to present training and education in a health care organization.

Create a 10- to 15-slide presentation about training and education in health care in which you:

• Explain why training and education are vital in health care.
• Explain the importance of measuring competencies.
• Describe the process for tracking and evaluating training effectiveness.

Paragraph Breakdown

l Introduction

l Overview of why training and education are vital in health care (please add 3examples/bullets with paragraph)

l 3 examples, one paragraph each, of explaining why training and education are vital in health care.

l Explain the importance of measuring competencies (please bullet key points)

l Overview of the process for tracking and evaluating training effectiveness (please include bullets)

l One separate paragraph for each process for tracking and evaluating training effectiveness

l Conclusion.

This is an essay. attached is what needs to be done.