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In the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, Bughin et al. (2017) stated “Construction is a key industry in countries across the world, but one that has struggled to evolve its approaches as other industries have done, and one whose productivity has suffered as a result. Even while other sectors from retail to manufacturing have transformed their efficiency, boosted their productivity, and embraced the digital age, construction appears to be stuck in a time warp. ” For your report, you will need to identify reasons why construction productivity has lagged behind other industries. Include information from your textbook, the MGI report, and additional resources. In addition, you will need to compare and contrast how the information in the MGI is similar AND different from the textbook and course materials. Include information about the various approaches to measuring and improving construction productivity. Compare AND contrast the similarities AND different of the various approaches AND explain the benefits of each.

Colgate Latin America has experienced in recent years a strong growth of its competition, which has managed to increase its consumption and preference in markets of which Colgate was the absolute leader before.The segment of children and adolescents is probably the most affected mainly by promotions and the use of movie characters in the products of the competition.Colgate will launch a series of child and adolescent care products with the desire to recover the lost market. For which we ask you to present an Advertising campaign focused on said target audience.Analyze its characteristics and look for which ones may be relevant for the development of the campaign.Formulate objectives and strategies and show your creative proposal applied in the different media in which you want to advertise.Explain your media plan according to your CIMAnalyze your campaign and share your KPIs to evaluate to achieve objectives.

BEFORE YOU WRITE:Consider your knowledge, skills and insights regarding small group communication, power and leadership by applying it to your own experiences and observations of times when you have worked in groups. What has worked? What would you do differently? What do you like and dislike about working in groups? and so on.DRAFTING THE ESSAY:Show mastery of the course content by using course terminology appropriately, describing and explaining specific incidents that have occurred in your ownexperiences informed by your course-related learning (use them as examples) .You should, as you did with your discussion of 12 Angry Men, select a particular aspect of small group communication on which to focus the essay. Keep the focus on an aspect of small group communication that enables you to identify and describe how one member can have personal impact, pro and con, and how one might become a more effective group member in future experiences.Examples of what you might focus on include:How to emerge as a leaderRecognizing task, social-maintenance, and dysfunctional roles and how the roles one member of a group fills can impact the groupDealing with a disruptive group memberMotivating the group to achieve its goalsand so onAs with earlier essays, use personal examples as support for larger ideas about communication, in this case as it occurs in a small group setting.Key wordsBrain stormingbreakout groupsconflict stagefocus groupsconsensusfocus groupforumproblem censussymposiumchain networktask normstask rolesocial rolessocial normssocialloafingrolesrulerewardpowerinformalrolegroupgroup goalsgatekeeprsformal roleconnection powerauthoritarian leadership style

Read Teamsters and UPS Strike a Deal for the 21st Century1.Based on the information given, which of the terms in the new contract are favorable for workers? Which terms are favorable for UPS?2. What effects, if any, do you think the employment contract will have on UPS’s ability to meet its goals for serving customers and improving efficiency?Write an essay of at least 300 words in APA style, with a reference page and cover page. APA requires double space. Your essay should be originality, but there is not a target for matching, but  will be assessing that you have used your own words with proper in-text citations and quotation marks for direct quotes.

Students will conduct a transferable skills analysis. O*NET Online and Job Accommodation Networks websites will also be critical to the completion of the assignment. O*NET ASSESSMENTS (Interest Profiler & Work Importance Profiler) The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) program https://www.onetonline.org/ is the primary source of occupational information online provided by the US Department of Labor. O*NET includes a set of free self-directed career exploration/assessment tools to help individuals consider and plan career options, preparation, and transitions more effectively. For this assignment, you will take an online version of the O*NET Interest Profiler and the O*NET Work Importance Profiler. The Interest and Work Importance Profilers are based mainly on theories discussed in this course and previous classes. These inventories will not be used in any way to determine the fit or appropriateness of your own career path, but rather to gain understanding about the use and understanding of career assessment tools and their connection to career development theory and how they are used to assist our consumers. 1. You will select a job/career in which to conduct a job analysis. This will require you to find an individual within the position and you would typically spend some time observing them perform the job.  In light of COVID-19, we may not have the ability to observe a person in real life, therefore you may use videos to see the performance of a job.   2. You will then meet with them, observe via video, and begin the analysis of the job. Use the template to guide your interview provided on Blackboard. (provided by the University of Houston). 3. Once you have completed the job analysis with the individual and the job selected. You will look up a disability of your choice. Your point of reference will be: What if my interviewee in which I completed the job analysis has acquired the chosen disability? How would this disability impact their ability to perform the current job? What are the limitations, and the strengths that they currently possess? Which of these skills, abilities, interests, and knowledge are transferable? 4. Utilize resources such as the ONET, & Dictionary of Occupational Titles https://occupationalinfo.org/ to develop a placement plan to transition this individual into a new career that you have determined as most appropriate once you have taken into account the acquired disability. Your Job Analysis Questionnaire will also inform the plan. 5. Including the Job Analysis Questionnaire, the assignment will be between 8-10 pages. You may utilize information from your Disorder Case Presentation. Refer to the “Job Analysis Template”. There is no expectation that you will complete every area of the template.  However, the template only serves to guide your content and organization of the paper. Please use headings in your paper for organizational purposes.  Omit the section with an organizational chart, and Section J & K.  It may be helpful to print the form as is off and use it during the actual observation of the job you choose to analyze. The use of ONET will help you in your efforts to identify the skills needed to perform each job.  The ONET uses language that is easy to understand when trying to get a better description of occupations.  This will be important when you are working on your analysis paper. 5.  You will need to select someone in which you will observe performing a job.  Once you’ve observed them, you are challenged to assess the job from the lens of “what if”.  In other words…What if they had a disability?  How might this impact their performance?  You completed a Disorder Case Presentation.  Use the information you’ve already collected in completing this assignment to frame a response to the “What IF? This is not a simple copy and paste.  Please make sure it flows within your paper.  Within your paper, please include a discussion of the chosen disability and how the disability would impact the performance of the job you chose to complete an analysis.  Discuss how the job might be modified or not, and any recommendations you may have.

NOTE:: Paper will be submitted to Google Originality checker QUESTION:: Provide three examples of the sublime, and explain what details indicate the presence of primary and secondary sublime traits for each example.  At least one of your examples must be a character, and at least one must be something other than a character, e.g. a setting, object or etc.  All examples must be from specific sources and at least two must be from works used in this class, e.g. assigned readings or utilized for essays. INFO:: Materials are included in the order. PowerPoint Slides and audio file, including the Reading material “Burke”

Assignment 2: Not-for-Profit Financial Reporting Review Due Week 9 and worth 120 points   Select one not-for-profit organization in an area of interest to you and review the financial statements and audit report for the organization. The financial statements and audit report of the not-for-profit organization should be readily and publicly available on an active website.   Write a three- to five-page paper in which you do the following: Analyze the selected not-for-profit’s financial statements to determine if the statements conform to Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) guidance in Statement No. 117, “Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations” (FASB ASC 958-205-45). Explain the selected organization’s use of the three fund categories. Recommend at least two areas of potential interest to the stakeholder concerning the status of revenue and expenses. Analyze the organization’s statement of cash flows. Explain the format that the organization utilizes, including any unique areas of emphasis that differ from the GAAP accounting format. Compare the organization’s reporting of pledges and contributions with its reporting of exchange transactions. Discuss the funds that are utilized. Assess the fiscal condition of the selected organization utilizing and interpreting ?nancial indicators, using ?nancial ratios that are widely accepted as being indicative of ?scal health. This assessment should also be expanded to include fund-raising analysis, program review, contributions, and grant analysis and revenue analysis.   Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides; citations and references. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.   The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are as follows: Evaluate the financial statements and fiscal condition of a not-for-profit organization relative to financial guidelines.

Please not less than 250 words. Module 8What Have You Learned? Module 8Think about all the chapters you have read and all the videos you watched. What did you learn and what did you like the best about this course? Describe the Saint Leo core value of Excellence in the development of a social entrepreneurship that solves a human problem.

300 Word Leadership Reflection  (30%) Write a personal reflection of your key learning throughout the semester and propose a leadership development plan for yourself beyond this OLE.  Consider what type of community leader will you be, what sort of leader does your community need you to be and are there unique types of leaders that you are drawn to after completing this OLE.  This can include: What was surprising, what was not? How did this impact you? How has your thinking changed or evolved after your research about a leader? What type of community leader would you like to be, and what sort of leadership development plan could you design for yourself beyond this OLE? What sort of leader does your community need you to be? Are there unique types of leaders that you are drawn to after completing this OLE?   reference https://theconversation.com/part-of-what-australians-think-is-good-leadership-might-just-be-anglo-traits-94969 https://hbr.org/2016/05/what-leadership-looks-like-in-different-cultures

This speaker looks at the human impulse to ignore the aphorism “Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today.”  The intent of this speech is both Process (how-to) and Humor.  As you watch, pay attention to his fairly constant hand gestures and facsics as nonverbal message agents.  And, with that in mind, answer these three questions:How does this topic still serve an audience member who is punctual in virtually every aspect of his or her life?How does Ted Urban’s integration of visuals serve to “ramp up” the comic effect of his words?As the speech draws to a close, how does he indicate his continued devotion to a life of procrastination despite his insistence that he recognizes the pitfalls of such an existence.https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator#t-9756 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.