Week 1 – Discussion 1

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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

Text Required Resources

Schwalbe, K. (2017). An introduction to project management, sixth edition: With a brief guide to Microsoft Project 2016. Retrieved from https://redshelf.com/

• Chapter 1: An Introduction to Project, Program, and Portfolio Management
• Chapter 2: Project, Program, and Portfolio Selection
• Chapter 3: Initiating Projects

Before beginning this discussion, read Chapters 1, 2, and 3 in your text, and review the Weekly Lecture. Explain what a project is and how projects differ from operations. List and describe the five project management process groups. Your initial response should contain at least 200 words and be supported by at least one additional Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Source (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (other than the textbook or required reading). Use this week’s required readings and Weekly Lecture as a basis for your post. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion.

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Barry University

Andreas School of Business

MGT 325 Business Processes and Supply Chain Management

Instructor: Professor Roman Wong, PhD, CPA, CVA

This project contains several phases:Data collection, data analysis, interpretation of results, organization of writing, and presentation.The data collection phase requires two students to work as a team.

The objective of this project is to study the arrival and service patterns of the drive-through facility of a selected service provider (e.g. the McDonald’s, Burger King, etc.).This project requires your group to visit the store at the same location at three different times. The guidelines below must be followed for this project:

• Choose the store for the project.The store you choose should have a drive-through facility which is observable from a reasonable and safe distance by your group.Since you need to conduct your field observation at this store for at least three times of one hour each, you should choose one that is reasonably accessible for your project partner.
• Decide on the time (e.g. 9:00 – 10:00 am) when your group will conduct the field observation. Stick with the same time and weekday for all the three weeks.
• Perform the observation on weekdays (i.e. Monday – Thursday). It is preferable not to pick a Monday as the beginning day of the week may show some unexpected activity patterns in terms of customer arrival patterns.
• Make sure you visit the same restaurant on the same weekday during the same one hour for consistency.
• Field observation activities: Each time you are there, one person will count the number of cars arriving at end of the line during each of the 5-minute time slots inthat one hour, while another person record the times each car starts and ends making its order.
• The beginning time and finish time for the ordering process MUST be recorded very clearly on the data collection sheets provided.
• Each day of observation should be carried out by both group members so that neither of the two members will be required to divide his or her attention for observing both the arrival number and the ordering times.
• You need to produce evidence such as photos for each day of field study to illustrate that BOTH member have attended the data collection.
• The data so collected should allow you to derive the amount of time each car spends at receiving the service, and the number of cars arrives to join the line.
• You need to collect a minimum of thirty-six (36) 5-minute slot observations for this assignment.
• You need to prepare and preprint the data collection forms for the documentation of your observation data (need to be turned in with your project).
• It is necessary for your group to take photos to help explaining how the group members share the project assignment, the location, and the environment for each day you spend on the site.

This is the first phase of the project, which should commence no later than next week, and definitely not later than within two weeks.

AND ALL THE FORMS YOU NEED IS ATTACHED BELOW.

THANKS

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You are an internal consultant working for a large organization. Top management believes all managers should understand how and why they operate the business in the manner they do. You have been asked to create a document to be used in an internal training program for newly appointed or newly hired managers. The company develops its strategic/business plans, objectives, and goals on the basis of competitor strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. The training program will focus on this process.

In a Microsoft Word document, respond to the four elements as described below, each in its own dedicated section.

• On the basis of the research, generically explain the difference between mission and vision statements. Provide two examples (of mission and vision statements) of two actual companies and compare and contrast the statements of the two companies.
• Explain the difference between the purpose of a business strategy and a business model. Provide examples (of the business strategy and the business model) of two actual companies, discussing them.
• After researching the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis, explain each element, describing how each might be used to gain a competitive advantage.
• Discuss why each level of an organization must set goals that support the overall organizational goals (i.e., goal alignment) and ramifications for the organization if they are not aligned.

Your final product should be a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document using a minimum of three scholarly sources. Be sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Use APA format.

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Please respond to the peer discussion. Min 300 words.

Peer discussion

This units’ readings and videos were interesting because it really gave me a better understanding of mental health issues and the system. My dad was a teacher in an all-boys juvenile corrections facility, most of which the population suffers from a severe mental health disorder. I grew up listening to all kinds of stories and at times worried about his safety. The elements of deviance include how people act and how they think. In the video “The New Asylums” it was clear that the prisoners that were incarcerated had a different way of thinking and acting than the general population. As soon as the medications were stopped the behavior would shine through and at times require several guards to help get the situation under control. The elements of deviance also include how people appear, some of these prisoners would appear offensive, strange and even evil to most of the outside public. The three important elements of deviance include an expectation: a behavior expectation that must exist, a norm that defines ideas and appropriate or acceptable behavior. A violation: an act that goes against what the normal expectations are, an accusation of wrongful doing, and a reaction: a person, group, or society must react to the deviance. The reaction may include avoidance, criticism, punishments, or treatment. It can be fact related or have little relation to what happened. If a person does not have an idea of what is appropriate, then deviance cannot exist (Newman, 2017). The examples in the video show us that these individuals did not have any control when they had episodes caused by their mental health disorders and lack of compliance with their medications. Some of these prisoners were incarcerated for minor violations or parole violations, but because the minimum and medium risk prisons cannot accommodate the severally mentally ill, they will end up in maximum security prisons do to not being able or not understanding how to follow the rules.

Power and labeling play into the situations presented in the videos because these prisoners have been defined, singled out, and reacted to as deviant in the eyes of others. Labeling them as criminals or mentally ill gives the ones who hold the power a way to discount and marginalize the ones who challenge the standard expectations. Often these people will serve sentences longer then they should be and obtaining parole can be very difficult. Because over half the nations psychiatric hospitals have shut down the prison system has become the new asylums.

It is hard to say if deviance is depoliticized in this context the definition according to the text book is the process of individualizing social problems that robs deviant behavior of its power to send a message about malfunctioning elements in society. The behavior lose power to make change when they are looked at as a defect or illness. One prisoner spent 16 years in prison for stealing a purse. The follow up from the video(s) “The Released” followed up on the prisoners and out of the six that were interviewed and followed in the video, only one of them is living outside of the prison system now. One is deceased by gun shot, the others have either stopped taking their medications and ended up back in prison. Some for violation, and one was back for rape. A crime was committed, but a sentence may harsher then what a person with out a mental health disorder would receive, but most of the prisoners were also repeat offenders. I lean more towards the opinion that in this context deviance was not depoliticized.

These situations fit into the act of medicalization because the behavior was most likely provoked by medical problem that mandated the medical profession to provide treatment such as medications and therapy but acts of crime were also committed which makes them fall into the model of criminalization. One prisoner stated that he committed the crime to go back to prison. I do feel that for some of the men in the video an asylum would be a better option over prison.

References

Newman, D. M. (2017). Sociology: exploring the architecture of everyday life (11th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

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watch this video and for the first discussion writing produce 200 words about it

Class, last week, we conducted a person analysis to determine common elements affecting performance. Then, we concluded that the employees at the call center definitely need some training and development opportunities to address the issues causing their performance gap.

This week we will start designing our training program. We should start by defining the objectives of our program. What do you think? Remember, training objectives refer to all the objectives that are developed for the training program. Do you remember how to create an effective training objective?

In Addition a response must be given back to the other students Andrea Mccolie and Gina DiCrescenza.

GINA DICRESCENZA

BUS407027 – WEEK..

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

IT WAS A GREAT WEEK OF LEARNING ABOUT TRAINING OBJECTIVES AND I FEEL SO MUCH MORE CONFIDENT NOW IN THIS PROCESS.

I FIRST LEARNED THAT ANY GOOD TRAINING OBJECTIVE PROGRAM SHOULD HAVE A GOOD TITLE OF WHAT IT IS YOU ARE COMMUNICATING SUCH AS THIS WEEK’S TRAINING PROGRAM SHOULD BE TITLED, “CALLING FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION”. THE NAME OF OUR TRAINING PROGRAM SHOULD BE CONNECTED TO OUR OBJECTIVE. BUT BEFORE WE DECIDED ON OUR NAME OF THE TRAINING, WE USED A PANEL OF EXPERTS TO VALIDATE THE ACCURACY OF THE TRAINING OBJECTIVE

I ALSO LEARNED THAT TRAINING OBJECTIVES OF OUR PROGRAM SHOULD CONSIST OF DESIRED OUTCOME, CONDITIONS AND STANDARDS. OUR TRAINING OBJECTIVES REFER TO ALL THE OBJECTIVES THAT ARE DEVELOPED FOR THE TRAINING PROGRAM.

AN EFFECTIVE TRAINING OBJECTIVE WOULD NEED THE FOLLOWING: REACTION, LEARNING, TRANSFER OF TRAINING, ORGANIZATION OUTCOME AND COMPONENTS OF AN OBJECTIVE SO THAT AT THE COMPLETION OF THE TRAINING, THE TRAINEE WILL BE ABLE TO USE THREE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES THAT FIT THE EMPLOYEE’S PERSONALITY TO ADDRESS A CONFLICT DURING A MANAGERIAL MEETING.

ANDREA MCCOLLIE

BUS407027 – WEEK..

DESIGN PHASE OF TRAINING

HI DR. CARROLL AND CLASS,

THIS WEEK WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT INTRODUCTION TO THE DESIGN OF TRAINING.

THE DESIGN PHASE OF TRAINING IS A PROCESS THAT ALLOW YOU TO DETERMINE THE REQUIREMENTS USED DURING THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE OF TRAINING. IT WILL BE THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE TRAINING MANUALS THAT WILL TEACH GUIDELINES OF HOW TO PERFORM JOB DUTIES BASED ON ORGANIZATIONAL STANDARDS. THIS WILL BE AN OUTLINE OF DEPARTMENTAL GOALS AND HOW TO FOLLOW STEP BY STEP PROCESS OF BEING SUFFICIENT ON THE JOB AND INCREASING COMPANY QUALITY SCORES AND TO PREVENT GAPS IN PERFORMANCE. THE DESIGN PHASE WILL DETERMINE REASONS THE TRAINING MODEL SHOULD BE USED IN ALL ORGANIZATIONS. IT ALSO DETERMINES WHO IS IN THE NEED OF TRAINING THIS SHOULD BE EVERY EMPLOYEE IF THE ORGANIZATION IS PERFORMING BELOW STANDARDS. DESIGN PHASE WILL DETERMINE THE AGENDA OF TRAINING AND HOW IT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED. DESIGN PHASE WILL FOCUS ON WHEN AND HOW LONG REQUIRED TO GET TO THE TARGET LEVEL THAT IS REQUIRED. DESIGN PHASE WILL NEED TO BE WELL PLANNED TO ASSURE ALL PROBLEM AREAS ARE COVERED.

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