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The last element of the strategic plan consists of constructing the technicals. The technicals element includes items such as developing strategic goals, strategies, leading indicators of success, and performance targets. The technical elements represent the executable part of the strategic plan. As you begin to develop the technical elements, consider the goals related to internationalization and alliances.
To prepare:

• Review Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan –Part 2: The Technical Elements media in the Weekly Resources.
• Review the results of your environmental scan and consider strategic goals that your agency might implement.
• Think about how the organization might leverage globalization and alliances in its strategic goals.

By Day 7

The Assignment (2–3 pages):

Developing the technical elements for your Capstone Project will be a two-part Assignment. The first part will be completed and submitted in Week 7. The second part will be completed and submitted in Week 8.

For this Assignment in Week 7:

• Develop your strategic goals (at least three). The goals must address the following:
  • Address issues such as globalization and how those issues might impact the strategic goals of the agency, organization, or community.
  • Identify potential alliances.
    • Identify opportunities for alliances with other agencies or organizations.
    • State why the alliances are important.
• Develop strategies for implementing goals. You must identify at least two strategies for each identified goal.
• Address issues of accountability. You must establish how and who will monitor the execution of the strategic plan. Describe how you will address accountability for each of the following: 
  • Describe how your leadership will be held accountable for execution of the strategic plan.
  • Discuss the following aspects of accountability for employee:
    • Identify who will be responsible for executing specific aspects of the strategic plan.
    • Explain how employee accountability will be tracked.
  • Client and stakeholder accountability:
    • Describe the clients’/stakeholders’ roles in accountability.
    • Discuss actions that will be taken to continually and actively engage the clients/stakeholders in ensuring accountability related to executing the strategic plan.

Personal statement.  

Please attach a personal statement of 750 – 1000 words that is a reflection of your ability to approach graduate-level work successfully, using creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research. Your statement should address the following:

• What is your purpose in pursuing this degree/certificate?
• How have you prepared yourself for this field of study?
• Specifically, how will this degree/certificate assist you in advancing both your professional and personal goals?
• Describe your research and study interests and any other aspects of your background, skills, or qualifications that would aid the Admissions Committee in evaluating your motivation for graduate study.

1. To attract, motivate, and retain good workers, companies need to define what an employee wants from the employment relationship. One way to define employee needs is to consider “total rewards,” which are everything an employee perceives to be of value resulting from working for the company. Benefits are a core element of total rewards and the ever-growing package of offerings have evolved. You must now work with the company to define precisely where the various programs will be categorized. 

   Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you: 

   • Identify and discuss at least three (3) important factors that almost always should be considered by organizations prior to providing employee benefits programs. Be sure the response is specific and relevant.  
   • Compare and contrast income protection programs and pay for time not worked programs, both of which are usual elements of benefits programs. How are the programs similar? Are they mandatory? 
   • Research and discuss at least four to five (4-5) of what may be referred as “Other Benefits” that you could recommend to the management team as necessary elements for the benefits package. HINT: Flextime and product/service discounts are good examples. 
   • Develop an employee benefits package for any exempt or non-exempt position level of your choosing,making sure you support the selection of your program elements. NOTE:The preferred method for presenting your benefits package information is using a table or exhibit, but either approach is not mandatory. HINT:http://www.isacs.org/uploads/file/Monographs/Business%20Operations/Benefits%20Plan.pdf 
     http://www.usbankhr.com/hr/docs/benefits/benefits-at-a-glance-next.pdf
   • Use a minimum of 3 academic quality references at least 1 being the assigned course textbook (required).
   • Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements: 
     1. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
     2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment (with running head), the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. 
     3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length. Use the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to locate additional sources to support your work. 
   1. The specific course outcome associated with this assignment is:  
   • Establish the importance of compensation and benefits, and how they support business strategy. 
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Analyze article and speech note

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review this week’s readings and Weekly Lecture.

The job description plays an important role for job evaluations, performance reviews, and the success of the individual within the organization. All areas of the process rely on the proper analysis and construction of the job description. There are times that the job description and the job posting are one in the same. For this exploration, we are going to look at job description templates and job postings and determine the effectiveness of the design and the impact on intended outcomes. Be sure to do some research on the key differences between job description and job postings.

Discover:

Job Descriptions: Search online for a minimum of two different job descriptions from various sources. Save and attach descriptions to your initial post. (If there is no option to save, copy and paste the whole job description template into a Word document and attach.)

Job Postings: Search online for a minimum of two job ads or postings from various sources. Copy and paste each job ad and/or posting to a Word document, and attach it to your initial post.

Dissect:

Job Descriptions: Review each job description template, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each. Compare and contrast the templates, looking for good aspects and poor aspects of each. What is missing for a solid understanding of what the job requires?

Job Postings: Review each posting, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each posting. Compare and contrast the postings, and define the unimportant pieces of the ads and the information that is lacking for a solid understanding of the expectations. Will the job posting attract the appropriate candidate pool? Why or why not?

Diagnose:

After reviewing job description templates and job postings, discuss the various components of the job description template and a job posting. Is it appropriate to use one template for both tasks?

As a human resource manager, assess the importance of job description templates and job posts in human resource planning and how that planning fits within a larger corporate strategy. What design would you recommend when posting for a position?

No word count

Part 1

Edward Seymour is a financial consultant to Cornish Inc., a real estate syndicate. Cornish finances and develops commercial real estate (office buildings) projects. The completed projects are then sold as limited partnership interests to individual investors. The syndicate makes a profit on the sale of these partnership interests. Edward provides financial information for prospective investors in a document called the offering “prospectus.” This document discusses the financial and legal details of the limited partnership investment.

One of the company’s current projects is called JEDI 2, and has the syndicate borrowing money from a local bank to build a commercial office building. The interest rate on the loan is 6.5% for the first four years. After four years, the interest rate jumps to 15% for the remaining 20 years of the loan. The interest expense is one of the major costs of this project and significantly affects the number of renters needed for the project to break even. In the prospectus, Edward has prominently reported that the break-even occupancy for the first four years is 65%. This is the amount of office space that must be leased to cover the interest and general upkeep costs during the first four years. The 65% break-even point is very low compared to similar projects and thus communicates a low risk to potential investors. Edward uses the 65% break-even rate as a major marketing tool in selling the limited partnership interests. Buried in the fine print of the prospectus is additional information that would allow an astute investor to determine that the break-even occupancy jumps to 95% after the fourth year when the interest rate on the loan increases to 15%. Edward believes prospective investors are adequately informed of the investment’s risk.

1. Is Edward behaving ethically? Explain your answer.

Part 2

The director of marketing for Starr Computer Co., Megan Hewitt, had the following discussion with the company controller, Cam Morley, on July 26 of the current year:

• Megan: Cam, it looks like I’m going to spend much less than indicated on my July budget.
• Cam: I’m glad to hear it.
• Megan: Well, I’m not so sure it’s good news. I’m concerned that the president will see that I’m under budget and reduce my budget in the future. The only reason that I look good is that we’ve delayed an advertising campaign. Once the campaign hits in September, I’m sure my actual expenditures will go up. You see, we are also having our sales convention in September. Having the advertising campaign and the convention at the same time is going to kill my September numbers.
• Cam: I don’t think that’s anything to worry about. We all expect some variation in actual spending month to month. What’s really important is staying within the budgeted targets for the year. Does that look as if it’s going to be a problem?
• Megan: I don’t think so, but just the same, I’d like to be on the safe side.
• Cam: What do you mean?
• Megan: Well, this is what I’d like to do. I want to pay the convention-related costs in advance this month. I’ll pay the hotel for room and convention space and purchase the airline tickets in advance. In this way, I can charge all these expenditures to July’s budget. This would cause my actual expenses to come close to budget for July. Moreover, when the big advertising campaign hits in September, I won’t have to worry about expenditures for the convention on my September budget as well. The convention costs will already be paid. Thus, my September expenses should be pretty close to budget.
• Cam: I can’t tell you when to make your convention purchases, but I’m not too sure that September items should be expensed in July’s budget.
• Megan: What’s the problem? It looks like “no harm, no foul” to me. I can’t see that there’s anything wrong with this—it’s just smart management.

1. How should Cam Morley respond to Megan Hewitt’s request to expense the advanced payments for convention-related costs against July’s budget?

Part 3

Cost Behavior:

Research an article from Baker College Online Library on Cost Behavior and discuss how it relates to the costs of products and services related to your company you like to run.

(Baker college library # 23504107367546)

Part 4

Teams are common in nearly every type of organization today; thus, finding appropriate ways to include team performance in the performance management process is important. As the HR Manager, how would you ensure that team performance is being evaluated in a fair and effective manner?

Part 5

Throughout this course, you have learned various aspects of performance effectiveness; including team collaboration, as you worked with your classmates in the group project. Discuss the top three elements that you can apply directly to your work/life now.

Each part should be 250-300 words each 

Topic:  Relationship Between Patient Care and Ability to Pay. 

Instructions

• Based on your rough draft of your capstone research project, develop your summary presentation (using MS PowerPoint) that will provide an overview of the key aspects of your project.
• Submit your draft capstone research presentation for review and feedback from your instructor.

8 slides

Textbook chapter  4 pages summary and please follow the instructions 

Activity 1: Case Study

This Activity is comprised of three (3) parts. Your Activity responses should be both grammatically and mechanically correct, and formatted in the same fashion as the Activity itself. If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc. In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document in a bibliography using APA style. (100 points) (A 4-page response is required for the combination of Parts A, B, and C.)

Read “David Neeleman Reinvents Airlines,” on page 26 of your text. After reading this case and conducting additional research (at least two (2) journal articles), discuss the following. 

Part A Do you think that David Neeleman best meets the definition of a manager or a leader? List and discuss three (3) reasons for your answer and provide three (3) examples of how David Neeleman does not fit the alternate definition. 

Part B What are the key elements of JetBlue’s culture?

Part C What role does the leader play in the development and maintenance of the culture 

Research suggests many expatriate employees encounter problems that limit both their effectiveness in foreign assignments and their contributions to the firm once they return home. What do you see as the primary causes and consequences of these problems? What can a firm do to reduce the occurrence of such problems?

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

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