Management

Using the Excel Spreadsheet Template at OM6 online (CengageBrain or CengageNow) forecast the demand for the sales of MP3 players at Just Say Music. Forecasts and actual sales of MP3 players at Just Say Music are as follows: Month Forecast Actual Sales March 150 170 April 220 229 May 205 192 June 256 241 July 250 238 August 260 210 September 270 225 October 280 179 1. Plot the data and provide insights about the time series. 2. What is the forecast for November, using a two-period moving average? 3. What is the forecast for November, using a three-period moving average?

A competency model is a set of knowledge, skills, behaviors, or attributes, which defines what is needed by a person to be effective in a particular leadership position. The two articles this week titled; A leadership competency model: Guiding the NAON process and Leadership Competencies from the SHRM website, introduce the concept of competency models and provides an example of a leadership competency model. Study the practice of competency modeling and existing leadership competency models. Using the Ashford University Library, search for a minimum of three scholarly sources on competency models and develop a competency model for a particular leadership position, such as college president, mayor, college athletic coach, or chief executive officer. In your paper Provide an overview of your competency model. List three to five specific skills, abilities, behaviors, attitudes, and/or knowledge areas you believe are important for success in the position. Clearly define and provide examples of each. Illustrate how you would go about evaluating leaders in a specific leadership position using your model. Discuss how your model of leadership assists in the development of leaders.

You have assumed the head leadership position over a small department within a public sector agency. You have inherited a small but diverse team of employees.Your staff consists of the following individuals:Melanie has been with the organization for close to 10 years and spends much of her day surfing social media sites. She enjoys her job for the perceived job security and benefits but has little interest in pushing herself for additional monetary gain. When confronted about her social media use and lack of a desire to advance herself, she complains that she does not have anyone to “look up to” within the organization.Patrick is the most senior employee. Although he has an excellent record, he is going through a very difficult divorce and is only about one year away from retirement. He has become increasingly preoccupied with these matters. Regardless, having previously served in the military and having worked public service for his entire professional life, he expects much out of himself and has expressed a keen desire to involve himself with your managerial decision-making processes as soon as he is able to sort out some of his home issues.Tom, the newest employee, is fresh out of college. He is young and energetic, although not a week goes by where you do not catch him browsing salary surveys or private sector job listings; nevertheless, he is an overly productive employee, and he confides in you that he is worried that he is producing much more than his salary seems to reflect. He also questions the impact that the organization’s work and his own work, in particular, are actually having on anyone.To complete this assignment, you will need address the components below.Develop a concise motivation profile on each of the staff members.Correlate motivational theories to this real-world scenario.Summarize leadership strategies related to such aspects as work life stages, expected responses to rewards and punishments, and the degree to which followers feel they fit the ideal motivation mold of public sector employees.Consider how not being mindful of appropriate leadership strategies can be harmful to organizations. Your case study findings and recommendations must be at least two pages in length, be double spaced, and be written in 12-point Times New Roman font.

Identify and briefly explain three capital sources for new ventures. Which capital source would be ideal for funding your business and why? Identify one positive and one negative impact of information technology on entrepreneurs. For your citation, you should use articles that show examples of traditional or new capital sources of funding businesses. You can also find articles from experts that suggest how information technology makes operating a business easier or challenging.

Weeks 5, 6 and 7 students take short self-assessments and receive feedback on the answers they provided while taking the assessment. Students personally reflect on the feedback they receive and also make a meaningful connection to course content that is in some way associated with the assessment questions, feedback received, or student reflection on the topic of the assessment. 1) Follow instructionsPreview the document for completing this assignment. Instructions are exactly the same as Portfolio 1. 2) Access the self-assessments through the Portfolio Assignment module. Each self-assessment is linked under the appropriate Portfolio. Look for the assessments under Portfolio 2: Parts 4 – 7 3) The grading rubricsPreview the document for this assignment are the same for all Portfolios. 4) Submit all areas of Portfolio 2 through the Submit tab on this page no later than the last day of week 7. See calendar for exact deadline. Resources for Completing Portfolio 2 Portfolio 2 Template Use this templatePreview the document. Actually type on the template. Students use this template to complete all areas of Portfolio 2. Each week, further complete the template. Portfolio 2 Assessments Part 4 – Week 5 There are two assessments this week. Assessment: Positive and Negative Affectivity Introduction: Affectivity is a person’s tendency to experience a particular mood or to react to things with certain emotions. Individuals with a high positive affectivity experience tend to experience more positive emotions, including cheerfulness or enthusiasm. Individuals higher in negative affectivity tend to experience more negative emotions, such as irritation or nervousness. Goal: Students consider their affectivity. Week 5 Connection to Subject Matter: Individual Values, Perceptions, and Reactions Chapter 4: Perception and Attribution section – Affect and Mood 4-2e MAKE SURE YOU ARE REFLECTING ON AFFECT CONTENT- NOT MOOD CONTENT Assessment: Do You Follow Your Feelings? Introduction: Emotions are intense, short-term physiological, behavioral, and psychological reactions to a specific object, person, or event that prepare us to respond to it. Emotions often play a larger role in our behaviors than does conscious reasoning. Goal: Students determine how much they are influenced by their emotions. Week 5 Connection to Subject Matter: Individual Values, Perceptions, and Reactions Chapter 4: Values and Emotions in Organizations section – The Role of Emotions in Behavior 4-2d Part 5 – Week 6 Assessment: What Is Your Preference for Teamwork? Introduction: One important characteristic team members should have is a positive attitude toward teamwork. Goal: Students consider their attitude toward teamwork. Week 6 Connection to Subject Matter: Groups and Teams Chapter 7: Types of Groups and Teams section- Teams 7-1b; Group Performance Factors section- Group Cohesiveness 7-2d; Managing Teams section- Teamwork Competencies 7-4c Part 6 – Week 7 Assessment: How Do You Approach Decisions? Introduction: Different people vary in how they approach decision making. For example, some are satisficers, ready to make a decision that is satisfactory rather than optimal, and others are maximizers who seek to make the ideal decision. Goal: Students gain insight into their approach to decision making. Week 7 Connection to Subject Matter: Decision Making and Problem Solving Chapter 8: The Rational Approach to Decision Making section 8-2a, 8-2b; The Behavioral Approach to Decision Making section 8-3a, 8-3b, 8-3c

Your Research Project (RP) Proposal Pro Forma should include the following sections: aim, objectives and feasibility of the research project; literature review; research methodology; list of references, and dissertation milestones. In your RP you discussed some of the required elements. However, some additional work and corrections are required both in terms of content and structure of your research proposal. It would be rewarding that your review of the discussed issues would be more detailed, go beyond general statements and descriptions of your ideas and involved more detailed explanations and critical evaluations. In particular: Please make sure that you are clearly identifying and theoretically justifying your research goals. It will help you with defining your research hypothesis and/or formulating your research questions. As of now your research proposal is lacking theoretical depth, particularly it applies to aims and methodology sections. All sections of your research proposal require improvement of their structure. They should be divided into several subsections per the content. In particular, for example, your aim section requires serious review. Firstly, you would need to divide it into several sub-sections, including: research background, research objectives and questions, and, finally, research feasibility. Your aims section overall require significant additional work. Pleas clearly distinguish between your research aims, objectives and questions here. Please identify your research project objectives, formulate your research project questions, and discuss and evaluate the feasibility and validity issues in your research project. Your research objectives require further clarification and narrowing down. When formulating them, please make sure that it is feasible to achieve your research object within the scope of your research project. Your research questions are not clearly proposed and formulated here. Your research feasibility issues are not addressed here. The literature review requires some additional work. As I have already stated above, please divide it into several subsections per the content. Literature review should contain a comprehensive critical analysis of existing sources. It’s not a simply a compilation of brief reviews of existing sources. Your literature should include and would benefit from focusing on critical analysis, adding theoretical depth and coherence. A detailed, focused and critical discussion and analysis of relevant existing concepts and theories in the field of your research helps increasing the quality and validity of your research. All reviews of conceptual elements relevant for your research project should be well linked together. Overall, your literature analysis would benefit from taking a more critical approach to synthesizing the discussed material. Moreover, it could be further improved by relying on up-to-date sources. You do not clearly identify the research gap that you are going to address with your research project. Please make sure that you also develop a research framework here. Your methodology section would benefit from both improving its structure and content. As I have already stated above, please divide it into several subsections per the content. A critical and more detailed discussions of epistemological stance and research paradigm is required here. A clearer, more critical and focused review of research approach and research strategy; research design, including sampling, data collection, and data analysis methods would help improving the quality of your RP. For example, firstly, you do not clearly state what research methodolyg you are employing in your research project. Moreover, the discussion of the above elements is lacking a detailed information and critical comparison with other available options and review of their advantages and disadvantages. The same applies to your sample review. Please make sure that you are clearly defining and justifying your choices of research methodology and methods you will be using for data collection. For example, please clarify and better justify your choice of research methods and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. You are claiming that your research will be quantitative and also state that you will conduct several case studies. Please address inconsistencies in and clarify your statements. Please make sure that you also address such issues as strengths and weaknesses of your research methodology, validity and reliability, and triangulation in more details and theoretically justify your statements. It would be useful to identify and analyze research risks associated with the adoption of your methodology as applied to your research project. Please make sure that you discuss in detail operationalization and development of the research instruments in your project. Please make sure that you discuss and provide detailed information about conducting a pilot study of your research instruments here. Further, in your RP Methodology chapter, you will discussed and explain how your research tools were changed based on the analysis of the results of your pilot study. Please make sure that you explain how your approach addresses the limitations of the previous studies and what the difference is between yours and the other authors’ approaches. Please make sure that you are critically evaluating your methodology in retrospect in your conclusion sub-sections within this section. Please make sure that all your choices, including research methodology, methods, sample size, data analysis, etc. are theoretically justified. I would also suggest that you were more intensively relying on the existing theoretical frameworks to justify your ideas and decisions. Please make sure that you are clearly defining the concepts and providing more detailed explanations, comparisons, criticism and evaluations of existing research and your proposed research project. Please make sure that you discuss your project in the context of the other authors’ research and clearly theoretically justify all your choice and ideas. Overall, it would be rewarding to see that your RP is built on a more intensive use of various alternative perspectives originating from multiple academic sources. Theoretically justifying your ideas and providing contrasting opinions of other researchers help you preparing a more comprehensive, yet concise and well structured, critical analysis of the problem you chose to study for your research project, of its most important elements, and some related issues. Your work could be further improved and solidified by incorporating an analysis of consistencies and gaps between theory and practice. Please continue to engage in the search for additional academic resources that could contribute and add value to your analysis. It would be rewarding to see that you continue working at improving your writing style to achieve proficiency in terms structuring your arguments, language command, and consistency in committing to academic writing style and scholarly tone suitable for both academic and professional audiences. Please make sure that you properly acknowledge all materials you used for preparing your assignment and include all references to all sources in Harvard Referencing Style. Please review the Harvard Referencing Style Guide to insure that all references are in compliance with Harvard referencing style requirements

Use MS Word document, Times new roman, front size 12 and 1.5-line space. Referencing Use APA or MLA format (minimum 2). Please answer each question in short paragraph.Answer the following questions: Q1. A- Identify the managerial roles and functions are consistent with the organizations and social business environment. (3+3 Marks) B- Discuss Taylor’s Scientific Theory used in organizations. (4 Marks) Q2. Describe the role of Effective leadership skills in contributing to the success of the organization. (5 Marks) Q3. Explain the effective ways of communication that leads to organizational success. (5marks) Q4. Describe job design approaches, and how they can create highly motivated employees in any selected institution. (5+5=10 Marks)

Using the organization below, prepare a written report that includes the following information: 1. Explain in detail how external factors affect the company’s structure. (25%) 2. Explain in detail HRM could support managers activities via an operational, a tactical and a strategic perspective in the company. (25%) 3. Explain in detail which leadership style is appropriate in the company to improve productivity and motivation levels with an organization. Contrast with other leadership styles (25%) 4. Explain in detail the role of team culture in the development of corporate social responsibility policies for your company. (25%)

lululemon is a popular yoga and activewear apparel company. The management and leadership challenges facing lululemon and write a report to the following questions. 1. What are the social and cultural factors impacting leaders within Lululemon? (450 words) – min 4 references 2. What are three recommendations that should be adopted by the leadership at Lululemon in managing people, raising morale, and ensuring improved motivation among staff? (700 words) – min 7 references 3. Using examples from the case what are the challenges confronting leaders/managers in today’s contemporary society? (1,100 words) – 10 references Task summary Examine and analyse the reading on the following page (Leadership, culture and transition at lululemon) and respond to three questions. The case material:- lululemon.pdf •References to other readings to support and contextualise your opinion is required. • You should have roughly 4 references per 500 words from the CQU library and Google scholar(general web sites are not academic sources). • Your report will be marked using the Case Study Rubric below. • APA style.

Write a 1,100- to 1,3575-word paper in which you complete the following: – Outline the responsibilities of a Human Resources department. Your response may include personal experiences with a Human Resources department. – Discuss employee turnover and the cost of hiring. Your response may include personal experiences in employee turnover and its financial impact on business. – Explain how SAP ERP systems distinguish between a task, job, and person.