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Prepare a plan for monitoring performance

Instruction for the student

This is an individual assessment. You are required to demonstrate skills and knowledge required to monitor and review operational/performance.

If you noel help understanding any questions. Ask your assessor to explain.

Procedure

In response to a simulated business scenario and using work completed in Assessment Task 1, you will develop, monitor and review performance System analyze performance, identify areas of underperformance, take prompt remedial EMI and report on operational performance.

In accordance with contingency planning developed in Assessment Task 1, you will take prompt action to adders, employee Underperformance. In a role-play, you will coach the employee in accordance such performance management systems.

You will then prepare and present a management report describing the performance system, performance result and recommendations for changes to operational plans, Also you will negotiate changes to operation Plant and gain approval for recommendations from the Operations General Manager (your assessor)

1 From a group of two people.

2 Read the simulated BBQfun scenario information provided in Appendix 1 of this task and in the business documentation provided by your assessor (the same documentation provided in Assessment Task 1).

3 Prepare a plan for monitoring performance from the start of implementation to the end of the financial year. You may use the action plan template (provided in Appendix 2) or create your own plan. Ensure you include plans for monitoring and/or documenting
a. budgetary and financial performance
b. productivity performance
c. employee performance in line with performance management policy
d. milestone achievement and performance against targets
e. dates for monitoring stream in line with scenario
f. resources for monitoring
g. progress reporting at the end of each quarter to the Operations General Manager
h. regular performance management of coring staff and lodgment of records with the HR Manager

4. Identify areas of employee underperformance, determine possible remedial actions and prepare to performance manage underperforming employees Refer to, follow, or adapt existing contingency plan for underperforming employees (developed in Assessment Task 1).

5 Follow your contingency plan and the BBQfun performance management policy to coach and performance manage an underperforming employee Arrange with your team member to role-Play the coaching session You may wish to use the performance management Man template and coaching plan template (provided in Appendices 3 and 4 of this task) to prepare for the coaching session Make sure you begin a coaching session with an explanation of your roe as a coach in supporting the employee to meet BBQfun’s organisational goals.

6. Analyse operational performance as described in scenario, and produces an Operational plan status rend based on the information provided in Appendix 1. You may wish to use the operational Status Roped template (provided in Appendix 5). You will also need to include in your report.
a . a description of budgetary and financial performance
b. a description of productivity performance
c. an analysis of millstone achievement and performance against targets
d. three recommendation for operation improvement.

7. Arrange a time to meet with your assessor to present your report to the Operations General Manner and negotiate recommendations – involving, for example, changes to plans, changes to implementation of plans, changes to budget, etc – and seek approval for the implementation of your recommendations.

8. Submit all your implementation documents Keep copes of your work for your records

To be deemed competent you will need to successfully demonstrate the following:

You must
– participate in a role-play coaching an underperforming employee
– present the lend to Operations General Manager for approval from your assessor
– submit all your documents includes:
a monitoring plan
a contingency plan (amended from Assessment Task 1) for manning employee underperformance
a coaching and performance management plan
an operational plan status report, including;
• a description of budgetary and financial performance
– a description of productivity performance
– an analysis of milestone achievement and performance against targets
– three recommendations for operational improvement

Appendix 1: Scenario – e-Commerce strategy

Scenario task

You will need to plan monitoring activities for ongoing customer service activities, website maintenance, and revenue generation over the financial year from the start of implementation.

You will then need to analyse performance data for the second Quarter of the financial year.

You will then need to coach an underperforming employee in accordance with the BBQfun Performance management policy and previously developed contingency planning (the planning developed for Assessment Task 1)

Finally, you will need to prepare and present a report with recommendations for operational improvement to the Operations General Manager.

Discuss the importance of developing a data migration plan

Project Plan

• Utilizing the information in the scenario, provide a project plan for electronic health record (EHR) implementation in your organization. The project plan should provide detailed information regarding set goals and objectives and clarify and prioritize the steps in the EHR implementation process and project staffing needs.

• Discuss the importance of developing a data migration plan and what may result if data migration is not considered in a project plan. This link provides a template of an EHR project plan. Use it to guide your responses for this week’s Individual Project.

• Describe the testing plan and documentation to demonstrate that solutions meet functional requirements (e.g. unit test, integrated test, stress test, acceptance test).

Reference

How to implement EHRs. (2014). HealthIT.gov. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/step-2-plan-your-approach

Identify the original author who is being mimicked

1. Identify the original author who is being mimicked.  Then, review the Rhetoric section of that specific author (pre-reading before the piece itself).  Can you identify these rhetorical strategies in your peer’s essay?
2. Which rhetorical strategies are most effectively executed?  Which need to be further explored?  Do you have specific suggestions to work on these?
3. Think about the level of imitating of overall structure.  Is the argument presented in a way that the original author presents it?  What “moves” does the author make to present the argument?
(For example, the philosophers in the textbook do not use the “five paragraph” essay structure.  While that could be a useful approach for some writing, we should not see that structure here in any of these drafts).
4. Authenticity of tone and word choice–i.e. does this sound like something the original author would write? Does the voice sound authentically like the original source?
5. What kind of evidence building through methods that the original author would use are present?  Does the original author’s philosophies come through effectively in this piece?
6. Now look at the essay as a whole: what are your thoughts about the overall execution of style, structure, tone, and rhetorical devices?
Reminder: this assignment should be well organized, relatively error-free, and in MLA format with a Works Cited page.

Define and explain unemployment

Define and explain unemployment

Be sure to show all of your work and how you arrived at your answer. Label your diagrams clearly (where applicable). Your work must be typed and submitted electronically (via eCampus). You may complete your work in the space provided in this worksheet. Include the worksheet and cover sheet in your uploaded final work

Note: You will receive no score if you fail to adhere to the above instructions.

Refer to the link below for info/tutorial on how to submit your work on eCampus. Click on the link or copy and paste the same to your browser

Question 1
A. Define and explain unemployment (10 points)

2014

2015

Population

224

227

Adult Population

168

170

#Unemployed

7

8

# Employed

105

104

B. From the given data above calculate and explain unemployment rates for 2014 and 2015(10 points)

Assessment Codes CT, WC, EQS

Given the national income (NI) data below (ALL figures are in billions of dollars) compute:

C. National Income (NI) (10 points)

National Income data

AMOUNT
Personal consumption
$9,269
Compensation of Employees (Wages and salaries)
$7,489
Gross private DOMESTIC INVESTMENT
$2,212
Government purchases of goods and services
$2,527
Corporate profits
$1,616
Depreciation
$1,576
Exports
$1,466
Imports
$2,229
Proprietors’ income
$1,015
Sales taxes
$913
Interest
$509
Rent
$77
Miscellaneous
$47

Inflation data

Year
Price of
Books $
Quantity of Books
Price of Pencils $
Quantity of Pencils
Price of Pens $
Quantity of Pens
2011
$50
10
1.00
100
$5
100

2012
$50
12
1.00
200
$10
50

2013
$60
12
1.50
250
$20
20

The Inflation data above shows the prices and the quantities consumed in a college bookstore. Using 2011 as the base year

Calculate the inflation rate between 2012 and 2013 using the CPI approach.
D. Calculate inflation using the GDP deflator index and explain why consumer price index (CPI) overstates inflation when compared to inflation rate determined by using GDP deflator (15 points)

Assessment Codes CT, WC, EQS

Question 2.
Using data from Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Tables 2 and 3 in the months of August
2015 Seasonally Adjusted, compare and contrast Labor force participation rates (LFPR)
of four demographic groups: Whites, African –American, Asian and Hispanic.
Evaluate and discuss the differences in their LFPR (25 points)

Assessment Codes CT, WC, EQS

Question 3
Different societies view unemployment differently. Some view it as a social ill and others as an economic problem. In 250 words discuss how unemployment is viewed in your culture. Compare and contrast unemployment remedies of your culture with that of any other culture. Cite your work. (30 points)

Assessment Codes WC, SR

Strengths and challenges of beck depression scale

What are some strengths and challenges of Beck’s Depression Scale for assessing emotional status? Do you feel that this scale is a good method to assess emotional status? Why or why not? Provide specific examples to support your position.

How would you describe the bounds of the essay? What limits exist on its scope (i.e. specific time period, demographic, region)

Essay #2 Peer Review
SCOPE
How would you describe the bounds of the essay? What limits exist on its scope (i.e. specific time period, demographic, region)? If the scope is large, how else could the author limit the focus? If the scope is narrow, what else might the author want to consider?

What is the difference between formal fallacy and informal fallacy?

philosophy 103 logic
CLEARLY IDENTIFY THE PREMISS (ES) AND CONCLUSION IN EACH OF THE 10 ARGUMENTATIVE PASSAGES

a) A well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state; and, as such, the rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall or must not be infringed upon.

a. Tortured prisoners will say or do anything in order not to relieve that tormenting and painful experience. As a result, torture is not a reliable method of interrogation.
b) Expectant mothers should never use recreational drugs,since the use of such recreational drugs can jeopardize the full development and health of the fetus.
c) Contrary to what many people think, a positive test for HIV is not necessarily a death sentence. For one reason, the time from the development of antibodies to clinical symptoms averages nearly ten years. And for another reason, many reports are suggesting that a significant number of people who test positive may never develop clinical AIDS.

d) Forbear to judge other people, for we are all sinners before God.

e) Wisdom is the most important thing in this life. So get wisdom and be happy in life.

f) Mad cow disease is spreading by feeding parts of infected animals to cows, and this practice has yet to be completely eradiated. Thus, mad cow disease continues to pose a threat to people who eat beef.

g) Thinking is a function of a human being’s immortal soul. Human beings have immortal soul and can think. Hence human beings are immortal and can also think.

h) Titanium combines readily with oxygen and other chemical substances can have an adverse effect on burning substances. In conclusion, titanium must not be processed in the vicinity of substances like nitrogen, hydrogen and similar elements.

i) The classroom teacher is crucial to the development and academic success of the average student, and administrators are simply ancillary to this effort. Hence, classroom teachers ought to be paid the equivalent of what the administrators and superintendents make.

3) IDENTIFY AND NAME THE SPECIFIC INFORMAL FALLACY/FALLACIES COMMITTED IN EACH OF THE THESE ARGUMENTATIVE PASSAGES

a) Ms. Oprah Winfrey is an incredibly popular television personality, very influential black entertainer, and one of the richest women in the world today. She said recently that taking Vitamin X & Z products are good and can reduce obesity. So if you do not feel well, take Vitamin X & Z! _______________________________________________

b) Everyone these days is on a low-crab diet. Therefore, you should go on a low-crab diet too in order to do what everyone else is doing! _________________________________

c) Television entertainer and social critic Mr. Bill Maher argues that religion is just a lot of foolish nonsense. But Mr. Maher is an arrogant, shameless, and self-righteous pig. His argument is not worth listening to. _________________________________________

d) Can I ask you this questions: “have you stopped cheating on our examinations, yet”? And also “why do you always like to cheat during examinations?” _____________________
e) Whoever trusts a knife into somebody else or uses it to cut another individual should be arrested and send to jail (prison). But medical doctors and some surgeons, at various medical clinics and hospitals, use knife to cut people up during surgeries or other medical procedures. Therefore, there is no question that surgeons and other medical professionals should be arrested and send to prison. _____________________________

f) The editors of the Daily Register have accused our company of being one of the city’s worst water polluters. But come to think about it, the Daily Register has been responsible for much more pollution than any other business enterprise in the area. After all, they own the Western Paper Company, and evidence shows that that company discharges tons of chemical residue into the city’s river or waterways every day and seven days a week. _____________________________

g) The position open in the accounting department should be given to Mr. Arah. He has six hungry children to feed, take care of and support. Worse still, his beautiful wife is about to divorce him, because he desperately needs an eye surgery to save his eyesight. Mr. Arah really needs some help! _____________________________________________

h) Surely, you are smart and we welcome you to our association with fantastic benefits for joining. If you had not joined, I would ask you to imagine or think of all the money that you could have lost from broken windows, overturned cars/trucks, and the damaged merchandize in your store by our young thugs. _______________________________

i) So many people have been trying for centuries to provide conclusive evidence for the claims of astrology, and no one has yet succeeded. So we must conclude that the truth of astrology is a lot of nonsense. _________________________________________

J) Successful business executives and corporate leaders everywhere are paid salaries in excess of $100.000 for working hard and making proper investments that enable them dress well and look sharp. As a result, the best way to ensure that students will become highly successful entrepreneurs is for them to dress well. ________________________

PART 4:

a) What is the difference between stipulative definition and lexical definition? __________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

b) What is the difference between fallacy of equivocation and fallacy of amphiboly? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

c) What is the difference between formal fallacy and informal fallacy? ________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

e) What have you learned so far from taking this philosophy/logic course? ______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

f) What have you learned so far in this course (in terms of the nature of the discipline, value or benefits of studying/majoring in philosophy, and being exposed to logic?

Case analysis – john smith

Assignment: Case Analysis: John Smith

Obtaining informed consent for services from clients is required of human services providers; however, it is not always an easy task. Clients typically grant consent by signing documents presented by the agency or the provider that, at minimum, explain the services that will be provided, the client rights, and information on the steps to rescind the consent.

In situations where minors or individuals under some form of guardianship are the clients, it is necessary to obtain consent from the legal guardian or authority. However, there are times when obtaining informed consent is not as simple as asking for a signature from the client or guardian. These situations require more thought by the human services providers with emphasis on balancing the client’s right to consent with other factors that might influence treatment outcomes or decisions.

In this assignment, you will review a case that illustrates the various facets of informed consent.

The Case:

Smith is a thirty-eight-year-old African American male referred for counseling by his mother to address recent incidents of aggression. Smith resides with his mother because he is not able to live on his own. Smith is unable to hold on to a job and has difficulty establishing and maintaining relationships with others. He is open to counseling but thinks his mother is overreacting to his anger outbursts because she is old and does not understand him. Recently, there have been notable conflicts between them due to Smith’s aggressive behaviors that were directed toward his mother.

Tasks:

Analyze the case and in a 2- to 3-page paper, address the following:

What steps would you, as the counselor, take for obtaining informed consent from Smith?

Would you, as the counselor, include his mother in the counseling sessions, if you believe it would help with Smith’s aggression problem? Why or why not?

Write reflection paper about event investing in your future

Five short essays

REQUIRMENTS: Each event needs a one page reflection paper, double space. You just talk about hows the experience and what do you think. you can do some research online, but more talk about personal feeling. (fake personal feeling), please save them individualy.

1. Friday, April 8, 3pm Falk College, room 175 “Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight – and What We Can Do About It” FST_Lecture_Harriet_Brown.pdf (Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. In Body of Truth, Harriet Brown unpacks the ways in which biology, psychology, media, and culture shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies, and how we can start to shift the way we think. She exposes the myths behind the rhetoric of obesity, gives historical and contemporary context for what it means to be “fat,” and offers readers ways to set aside the hysteria and think about weight and health in more nuanced, accurate, and productive ways. About the presenterHarriet Brown teaches Magazine Journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As a nonfiction writer, her works include Body of Truth, Brave Girl Eating, and Feed Me. She is well known for her publications and speaking on the topic of weight and health.

2. Investing in Your Future

Wednesday, April 6 at 6:45pm in 141 N3

Living on your own paycheck soon? You can do more than skip your $5 coffee once a week to plan for the future. Dr. Ravi Shukla gives free advice from a financial planner standpoint. Learn how to make more than your salary by:

investing early and wisely
using financial tools
understanding the risks and rewards of investing

If you have any questions, please reach out to Leah Strassburg at lstrass3@yahoo.com or Danielle Hay at daniellelaurenhay@gmail.com.

About: Ravi Shukla is an associate professor of finance at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at SU, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in finance and investments. Shukla’s research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, portfolio selection and mutual fund performance evaluation. His work has been published in leading academic finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Research and the Journal of Economics and Business. His recent work deals with attributes, composition and performance of mutual funds. Shukla was an editor of the Journal of Economics and Business and serves on the editorial advisory board of International Journal of Managerial Finance.

3. TUESDAYS WITH BLEIER

April 19, 2016

12:30 PM– Room 430, NCC3

In celebration of the New York primary on Tuesday, we’ll be watching the very first episode of THE APPRENTICE from January 8, 2004, before the advent of YouTube or Twitter. Among the surprises in store: the team that wins the first challenge is rewarded by an invitation to Trump’s apartment! Wrapped in gold, the place makes Vegas and Versailles look like understated minimalism, but all the contestants do their best to pretend they think it’s beautiful. If that weren’t enough, Melania shows up to greet them! You’ll meet Omarosa, one of the early instant reality TV stars, and the season’s runner-up, Kwame Jackson, who just dissed Trump in a press conference on Friday. Can Trump’s reality show reveal meaningful insights into the Trump campaign? You decide on Tuesday

4. Blogging in the Age of Obama, Wed, 4 pm, Dineen Hall

Wednesday marks our final Law Politics and the Media speaker for the semester. Matt Dickinson, political science professor and politics blogger, will speak at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, in Room 360, Dineen Hall. Lecture Poster – April 20.pdf (Matthew Dickinson is a professor of political science at Middlebury College, and is the author of the blog “Presidential Power.”Dickinson previously taught at Harvard University, where he also received his Ph.D. working under the supervision ofpresidential scholar, Richard Neustadt.)

5. TONIGHT – Lisa Arbetter, StyleWatch EIC, the Herg, 5:30pm

The Newhouse Magazine Department Speaker Series

presents
Lisa Arbetter
Editor, StyleWatch
TONIGHT, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
The Herg Auditorium, Newhouse 3

Last year, Lisa Arbetter, who graduated from SU in 1989 with a B.S. in magazine journalism, was named the editor of StyleWatch, the leading fashion media brand for millennials.

The appointment marks a return to StyleWatch for Arbetter, who played an integral role in its launch while serving as Deputy Editor.

She was later promoted to Deputy Editor of InStyle, a role she held for six years. During her tenure, InStyle was twice named among the top five media brands of the year by Advertising Age. Arbetter’s Time Inc. career began at InStyle where she earlier held the roles of Fashion Editor and Senior Editor.

Don’t miss this leading figure in fashion magazines in a conversation about fashion, magazines, and the changes buffeting both. A question/answer period to follow.

Impact of Globalization on Retail Malls

Impact of Globalization on Retail Malls

The main goal that countless have toward promoting globalization is to enhance trade across the geographical boundaries, improve their economic performance, and make the world a small place through efficient communication and sharing of information across the globe in matter of seconds or in real-time context (Pandey, Barik & Soni, 2015). The main foundation on which this globalization process has been built is the vast internet network and developed online platforms on which various crucial globalization elements are processed and completed. For instance, money transfer can take place in less than a minute across thousands of miles to pay for goods purchased in those areas for delivery. This development and promotion of the internet has eased most part of the people’s lives, including their shopping habits. Currently, most people can buy, and prefer buying goods at the comfort of the homes through the internet. Due to the various factors that the online shopping aspects have changed in the retail industry, most people are switching to online shopping and abandoning the shopping malls and retail property. This shift has negatively impacted to the retail malls and property leading to their demise (FRPT, 2014). In this paper, the focus will be on provision of an insight into the various major factors that are making people to increasingly prefer online shopping to visiting the retail malls and property to purchase their desired products and services.
While shopping for goods and services, every customer will search for the best access and convenience in the display or provision of these goods. Additionally, the world is highly price transparent, meaning that customers can use internet to easily and swiftly relate prices displayed in the online platforms. Using such websites as Shopbot and Static Ice, they can aggregate various retailers’ pricing and display in a sorted manner by price. From the comparison, the customer can choose the best price that suits or matches the quality of their desired product at a glance without any tiring efforts (Pandey, Barik & Soni, 2015). Moreover, the multinational retailers have been provided with a greater advantage of lower occupancy and labor costs thus have the capacity or room to offer their products cheaply online. Since the retail malls and property lack such services, the consumer has to visit several of them to compare prices; an activity that is time consuming and expensive (Hudson & O’Connell, 2009). Therefore, these consumers will find online shopping easily affordable and accessible in addition to being convenience. Therefore, more people move from shopping in the malls to shopping online, leading to collapse of these retail properties.
Various online retail sites such as Amazon have been established due to globalization. On these retail sites, there are no physical constraints preventing the retailers from placing their products on display and a wide range of goods can be displayed on a single page. A customer can view hundreds of thousands of goods available for them to buy on the internet within a few minutes and compare them against their substitutes and other related products at ease. The malls and other retail property cannot afford to get adequate space to have such a wide array of goods, which could possibly occupy more than the size of five football fields combined together. Also, the online retailers do not incur the costs of that these retailers get for keeping the goods on shelves and only get to pay postage and warehousing costs (Hudson & O’Connell, 2009). As an example, Amazon incurs only operational expenses to sales ratio half that of its in-store peer average (Barnes, 2005). Therefore, both the retailers in the industry and the consumers are shifting to online platform for business and closing down their malls to rent warehouses for storage.
The need for a customer to get the easiest access and convenience while shopping for their desired products, the whole experience highly influences their preference. Also, Both the retailers and consumers cite convenience as one of the significant reasons for shifting to online shopping and selling (Hudson & O’Connell, 2009). The retailers and consumers can do all their research on what products are demanded and offered, with their specifications and prices, order them and have them delivered to the consumers’ doorsteps without having to incur travelling costs (Barnes, 2005). All transactions are done over the mobile devices with internet connections or computers. The shopping malls thus get less visits thus very little sales written. Also, due to the availability of the capacity for the online retailers to economize on scale, they are able to offer their products to the customers at a cheaper price compared to retail mall sellers. This price relieve adds another advantage to the shopping experience.
Due to the developed technology, the online platform can comfortable accommodate the ever-increasing number of shoppers as opposed to malls that have very little capacity to grow. Moreover, as the queues at the malls increase, inconveniencing the shoppers, the internet is being made stronger to have more shoppers acquire goods simultaneously. Additionally, all the efforts are being made to develop the internet to have simultaneous transactions in a single system at the same time without causing delay or failure to the system (Hudson & O’Connell, 2009). Also, the mobile gadgets and the tablets or computers that the customers use to shop online have been enhanced to greater speeds of internet surfing thus easy to use the internet to shop online (Pandey, Barik & Soni, 2015).
From the above analysis, it is clear that online shopping is being preferred as a means to buy goods over retail malls due to the favorable price, a vast range of goods and services available, shopping experience convenience, and infrastructural capacity to support online shopping. From these factors, we can conclude without reasonable doubt that the retail malls are bound to entirely collapse in the near as they are already dying off slowly.
References
Barnes, N. G. (2005). The Fall of the Shopping Mall. Business Forum, 27(1), 4-7.
Hudson, K., & O’Connell, V. (2009, May 22). Recession Turns Malls into Ghost Towns. (Cover story). Wall Street Journal – Eastern Edition. pp. A1-A10.
Pandey, B. B., Barik, P., & Soni, V. (2015). Online shopping Catching Up Fast with The Trend-Chhattisgarh Context. Clear International Journal of Research in Commerce & Management, 6(4), 53-57.
Retail rentals halved from peak levels of 2007 due to less demand for shops in malls, customers preferring etailers. (2014). FRPT- Retail Snapshot, 1.