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Identify a brand in your cabinet or pantry. Do you believe this brand will have a finite lifespan or one that lasts forever? Support your reasoning.

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Instructions:

1. Visit the Tech Republic  website – https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-decision-maker/why-critical-path-is-critical-to-project-management/

2. Read the article: “Why critical path is critical to project management”

There are several additional topics on critical path. Please read them and answer the following questions in a page:

· Which of the articles gave what you believe to be the most value in relationship to critical path?
Explain why.

· Based on what you have read in the chapters (copied below)

and in the articles do you see a relevant critical path for your project forming, if so explain what it might look like and roughly how many tasks will your project include?

· Will all of your critical tasks be deemed critical and will they potentially have dependencies? Explain

· Explain which of your tasks on a critical path can present the most risk to a project, and explain what types of contingencies you need to put in place to protect the success of a project? Provide substantive details.

Book info on critical path:

The critical path method (CPM) was developed by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. as a way to schedule the start-up and shutdown of major plants. Since these plant activities were repeated frequently, the times were fairly well known. However, the time of any activity could be compressed by expending more money. Thus, CPM assumes a time–cost trade-off rather than the probabilistic times used in PERT. The CPM method of project scheduling uses a time–cost function of the type shown in Figure 14.9 for each activity. The activity can be completed in proportionally less time if more money is spent. To express this assumed linear time–cost relationship, four figures are given for each activity: normal time, normal cost, crash time, and crash cost. The following definitions are provided. Normal time: the planned activity duration. Normal cost: the budgeted cost for the normal time. Crash time: the minimum activity duration for additional cost. Crash cost: the cost needed to achieve the crash time. The project network is solved initially by using normal times and normal costs for all activities. If the resulting project completion time and cost are satisfactory, all activities will be scheduled at their normal times. If the project completion time is too long, the project can be completed in less time at greater cost by crashing (using less time) for certain activities. 

Extra stuff– Youtube video explaining about critical paths if you need to learn more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF53ZZsP4ik&feature=emb_logo 

Topic:  Money, Banks, and the Federal Reserve System 

Please read and respond to the attachment.

Note: Only up to 20% of the content in the written response can be quotes from third parties. 

In Unit 2, you learned about a number of legal issues that impact the field of staffing. In this unit, you have seen that one critical tool for maintaining a legal staffing system is the job analysis. The “work product” of a job analysis that most of us see is a job description. Based on your current job (or one that you have previously applied for), use the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) to respond to the following:

• Did the job have a job analysis/job description? If so, was this document in writing? If not, how was it provided to you?
• Was the job description current? If so, describe how you knew it was up-to-date. If not, how did you know it was out-of-date? Explain whether the old information was critical to successful job performance.
• What three methods described in the UGESP (criterion, content, or construct validity) would you use to update this job analysis/job description? Justify why.
• How would using O*Net OnLine be better for generating the job analysis for this position? Describe the specific job title you researched on the website and what your findings were from this resource.

Assignment #4: “OD Application: Why Teams Are 14 Time Zones Apart” (2 pages of content) –  DUE AT END OF WEEK 7 (June 20th, 2020 at 11:59pm CST on Saturday). Read the “OD Application: Why Teams Are 14 Time Zones Apart” on page 344 of our Textbook. Write a brief paper summarizing the case and that addresses the following questions:1. What were the challenges faced in outsourcing work to India?2. Can you think of any other things that will help Indian and U.S. teams work better together? Remember to integrate references from at least two different sources to support all conclusions and recommendations. You may use the textbook as one of the sources/references needed.

1. What is the strategy? What strategic impact do they hope to have? Does this reflect what is currently happening in the health sector?
2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of TQM in this case?
3. What, if any, role does corporate headquarters have?
4. Is there support among various staff?
5. What should be done next?

4 pages

Find and interview two people who have managed organizational change, or who have been directly involved in change implementation. Design a “topic guide” for your interviews.

Further instructions on attached word document 

Instructions

In this homework assignment, you will develop a table on performance appraisals (PA) and how they are applied to training.

• In column 1, identify three different types of PAs that can be offered.
• In column 2, analyze how the PA can be applied to a training effort.
• In column 3, identify one type of training and one assessment tool for each PA that could be used to identify training success.

Use bullet points in the table. APA is not required for this homework assignment.  

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