Management

For the Applied Safety Training activity, complete the following: Determine a safety training topic that needs to be addressed by you, safety personnel, human resources, or supervisors within your work organization. If you are unable to do this or do not work for an organization, choose a required safety training requirement from the OSHA Standards and Training Guidelines (reviewed early in the module). If you cannot relate this to a work organization, develop a hypothetical situation/work case, but communicate this in your write-up. Identify why this training needs to be completed. In other words, develop and conduct a needs assessment and present this information supporting the need for the training. Develop and present a training plan in your write-up. You should discuss your intended audience, present your objectives for the training (make sure these objectives are written in a format that they can be evaluated), discuss how the training will be conducted and the proposed medium, along with a justification for the proposed methods. Develop a plan as to how you will evaluate your training program. Your evaluation plan should address how you plan to assess whether safety training objectives were met and should address the four levels established by Kirkpatrick’s method of evaluation. Further, discuss how you would assess return on investment for this training. You should address the above four activities and present your write-up in the form of a technical report. This report should be presented in APA format. Citations should be made in the text and your paper should include all references. The paper can include bulleted items, figures, and tables. See APA format for these inclusions. This paper should be between 3-5 pages, not including cover, reference page, figures, etc.

Describe the top 3 qualities you believe a person needs to be a good team player. Be sure to back up your thoughts with a reference for support. Don’t just give your opinion, but give an educated opinion backed up by evidence. Then, describe how you’ve seen someone exhibit one of these qualities in a team in which you’ve participated.

Identify and explain the relationship between training and strategic planning. (2) Explain how training and strategic planning relate to the agency’s budgeting process. Requirements: 250 words minimum

Think of a time when you were faced with an unethical communication situation. Describe the situation. How did you respond? What was the outcome? If you could face that situation again, what would you do differently and why? Write a 2-3page paper in APA format. Use one or more articles or credible sources from the CSU-Global library to support your ideas, assertions, and claims. Adhere to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.

Case Study -Harley-Davidson What is Harley-Davidson’s strategy? How successful has this strategy been? What resources and capabilities are needed to compete within the motorcycle industry? In relation to these resources and capabilities, how does Harley-Davidson compare with other leading motorcycle companies? How effectively does Harley’s strategy exploit its key strengths while protecting itself from its key weaknesses? What threats to continuing success does Harley-Davidson face?

Pick one of the following 3 companies: Knockaround, Glenfiddich, Prana Identify the B/L & C/L strategy of the that selected company. Justify your answer with supporting evidence. How do you know that company is using that strategy? No recommendation needed, only analysis. Use proper APA formatting in terms of references. Do not include a cover page, an abstract, a running head, or your contact info on the submission. You may only include 1 quote. Other evidence must take the form of paraphrase or summary. The class lecture book: Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization By: Michael A. Hitt; R. Duane Ireland; Robert E. Hoskisson The 13th Edition We have covered chapters 1-6

When producing an aggregate plan for a firm, managers have several strategies that they can use. In general, there are two groups of plans; ones that attempt to alter capacity and the other that attempts to smooth out demand patterns. Picking the right one is an art, not science. Many variables must be considered to find the right fit for your operation. Find an example of a company’s aggregate planning strategy. You can use the strategy from the firm where you currently work or where you have worked in the past; you can conduct an Internet search or use the Hunt Library resources. Analyze the company’s aggregate planning strategy and then provide the following in your discussion. Background on the company processes Outline their aggregate planning strategy, relating the strategy to the textbook Your opinion on whether the company is using the best aggregate planning strategy An alternate strategy that might also work for the company Advantages or disadvantages to the current and alternative strategies

the company that this assignment should be done on is Colgate: I. Closed World Select one of your company’s products or services and one process associated with it. 1. For the product/service- list the internal and external components (submit at least 6 internal and 4 external – as preparation for using the Subtraction tool) 2. For the process – list the stages in chronological order (as preparation for using the Division tool) II. Ideation Apply Subtraction on the product/service, and Division on the process. Submit one idea for Subtraction and one idea for Division. Your idea must be something totally new to the world (meaning, something that does not currently exist in the market). Show your work by following the FFF process for these tools. We recommend trying a few iterations, and submit the ideas you like best.

Prompt: For the first milestone of your final project, you will submit a managing operations case study analysis that uses the tools and techniques that operations managers use. This case study analysis will be incorporated into the final summative analysis. This milestone is due in Module Two. Refer to the case study (located in the Reading and Resources area of Module One), your own independent research, and the course materials to complete this milestone. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Generating Value A. Evaluate how the company in the case study uses operations management functions to provide products and generate value for its customers. Support your claims with examples from the case study or outside sources. B. Assess how this company achieves a competitive advantage using operations management. Provide examples found in the case study or outside sources to support your reasoning. C. Compare and contrast service operations and manufacturing operations at the company in the case study. How are they the same? How do they differ? How does each of these operations provide value for their customers? II. Theories and Techniques A. Compare and contrast the critical path method (CPM) and the program evaluation and review technique (PERT). What types of projects at this company would favor PERT over CPM? Why? What types of projects at this company would favor CPM over PERT? Why? B. Explain the steps used to develop a forecasting system. How would these steps be specifically utilized by this company? What do you predict would be the result of implementing a forecasting system for the top-selling product line at this company? C. List the major categories of supply chain risk and associated risk reduction tactics. How could the company mitigate exposure to supply chain disruptions caused by natural disasters? Guidelines for Submission: The format for this assignment will be a Word document using a business writing format of your choice. There is no minimum page length requirement, but the submission should be double spaced, and no more than four pages in total. Copy and paste any data analysis from Excel into your Word document for submission. You may include your original Excel documents as supplementary material if you believe this will strengthen your contribution.

Below are some real-life situations that present ethical questions in a business. Discuss at least two situations (of course you can discuss all of them) and look at it (a) from a strictly legal viewpoint, (b) from a moral and ethical viewpoint, and (c) from a point of view of what is best in the long run for the company. Look at each situation from the perspective of all groups concerned: customers, stockholders, employees, and community and not just your opinion of the situation. Discuss at least two situations. Be sure to consider both short? and long?range consequences. Situations: 1. You have the opportunity to offer a job to a friend who really needs it. Although you believe that the friend could perform adequately, there are more qualified applicants. From the different viewpoints stated above, would this be legal and ethical or illegal and unethical, or a combination of the two? How might you be viewed in the organization if you hire a less qualified person? What would you do? Explain your justification. 2. Because of a loophole in federal laws, you find that you could legally pay your workers less than the minimum wage. The cost savings you recommend may mean you’re getting a choice promotion. From the different viewpoints stated above, would this be legal and ethical or illegal and unethical, or a combination of the two? What would you do? Explain your justification.