Essays on Feedback

1.0 Introduction Effective communication is important for every organization to achieve organizational goals (Jones 2007). Communication basically refers to transmission of meaning and information from group or individual (Guffey, Rogin and Rhodes 2009). 2.0 Forms of business communication at Sport ‘n’ Leisure At Sports ‘n’ Leisure both the two forms of communication are used. To communicate internally, an open door policy is used, i.e., employee- employer communication, discussion and feedback takes place openly which encourages employees to provide suggestions and promote ideas so that business could be improved (Heathfield 2015). In addition, the use of informal approach encourages employees ...

The lecture over chapter 8 went over different ways to control organizational input and output in a variety of ways. Managers can assess how well a control system works by setting target goals, watching the results of a particular control system, evaluate those results, and use several different feedback methods to gather information about how successful their control strategies are. Feed forward control allows managers to have information on potential problems before they occur, so that they can take preemptive measures to avoid any issues. Concurrent control gives managers quick feedback on how efficiently input is becoming output, and ...

Introduction

KIA Motors is a company that is run on a stringent Confucian culture and it is under a president. Byung Mo Ahn is the president of the company which has its headquarters at Korea. The company is known to have a culture a culture that is suffocating for the Americans. This is because it is defined as a culture where there is a King, who is the controller of everything and even worse he knows everything. The subjects just have to follow the militaristic system which according to numbers has worked for the company and its sister Hyundai.

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Compare and contrast the operations value chains of these two businesses as they pertain to the management of bicycles.

The two bike rental companies have the same value chain activities. The companies, however, have different ways to implement these strategies. The low-cost rental organization employs low-level business practices to sustenance its value chain. The low-cost company employs ancient methods of data collecting and storage. The low-rental enterprise also employs an outdated method of record keeping. These outdated methods may result in the company not keeping track of their bikes; therefore, provide low-quality services. The poor financial; and record management may also result in the bikes not being properly maintained. The high-end company has elaborate methods of supporting its ...

The ABC program aims to rehabilitate former convicts who were gang members though it proves quite a challenge. More than 70 percent of them tend to move back to their old ways. Some of the selling points of the ABC gang intervention program is provision of anger management classes. Ideally, the program should be in a position to reduce the recidivism. Hence, the research question revolves around the effectiveness of ABC in reducing recidivism. There are two main types of variables: independent and dependent. Independent variables tend to look at issues faced in the environment like job opportunities while ...

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Introduction

Oculus Rift is an application device from the field of Virtual Reality (VR) that potentially manipulates people's mind with a 3D experience. With virtual reality, it is now feasible to provide users with an experience that earlier would not have been possible. Virtual reality is a computerized simulated environment that through the help of some device gives the user an experience of that environment. The user through his mind experiences the virtual environment created and projected through the device enabling VR. The environment generated and perceived by ...

AN ANALYSIS OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR BOTTLED WATER

A supply chain is the link or network formed among different firms, producing, processing or distributing a certain product. This chain specifically covers the steps it takes to get a good product or service from the suppliers to the consumers. The management of a supply chain is an important process for many industries. Supply chains involve a series of companies. The series involves manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers. The effective management of supply chains and logistics gives companies the potential to reduce costs and to increase market share (Christopher 1999). The traditional supply chain also known as the open-loop supply ...

An Explorative Analysis of the Use of Mobile Device App for Communication between Physician and Patient in the Context of a Private Sector Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Introduction:

Mobile technology has produced many opportunities to increase the quality of health care services. The opportunity to mobile communication could create bountiful improvements in patient care but there are many questions left unanswered. Before a mobile communication app can be implemented the risks and limitations of the software need to be carefully analyzed. A hasty implementation could cause a great opportunity for patient care to fail. The proposed research program will ...

Abstract

The importance of social media websites is constantly increasing. Now they play a significant role in the daily life of every individual. Businesses are also involved in the social media, as these websites represent many opportunities for them, such as advertising, promotion, customer relations, receiving feedback, and etc. Due to the significant importance and time consuming of social networks, there appeared many issues related to them, e.g. the use of social media websites in the workplace, work productivity, and changes in the employer and employee relations. Nowadays employers face many issues with the use of such websites by their ...

Leveraging Facebook for Marketing Research: Questions 1-5

The advantages of using an online survey of a cross-section of Internet households include a large sample size and the opportunity to grow the company’s audience while simultaneously conducting research. The advantages of using an online survey presented only to the company’s Facebook likers are the higher rate of active engagement amongst the targeted group. The difference between likes and active engagement is the level of participation of the audience. Many people may like the page but will hardly participate and engage in the company’s messaging. While active participants become brand ambassadors as they engage in ...

Jeff Haden in his article tries to debunk the myth of following our passion. He said that it is easy to feel passionate about your goals until you are no longer passionate about it. People always confuse their hobby or interest with passion. According to him, a passion which can turn into a career is rare. I think the main them of the article is to enable one to differentiate passion from a hobby or a career option. He made the distinction between a job, a career, and a calling (Haden, 2012, paragraph 15). Jobs pay bills; careers are ...

Education is the key component of human life that is associated with the implementation process of sharing and gaining new knowledge. The value of education in human life is growing, and so it cannot be limited only to the period of studying in the education institutions. This process is accompanied by searching for new forms and methods that promote the correct formation of the world view and build proficient and competitive society. Nowadays education is a complicated and diverse social phenomenon, the scope of sharing and assimilating knowledge and social experience. Education integrates various types of activities into a ...

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Frequent Flyers Club Members, American Airlines Dear Valued Members: Greetings from American Airlines. In the current scenario, social media plays an important role to connect people by sharing information. American Airlines, making use of social media, endeavors to serve its customer better by being active on twitter. Twitter also helps the airlines to spread awareness and information among its flyers. The objective of our feeds is to keep customers updated, besides the routine affairs, about the changes likely to occur due to unexpected developments. For further information and help, our tweets have links ...

Agile , which means “the quality of being agile, readiness for motion, mibleness activity, dexterity in motion” is an alternative to conventional project management providing solution for light and fast software development required by business community, especially with rapidly developing Internet and mobile software areas (Abrahamsson et al. 7-17). Agile movement in software development possesses four core values. First, close relationship in a team of developers is much more important than processes and tools. Second, the most important goal for software developers is regularly release tested and improved software. Third, the emphasis is put on cooperative relationships between developers and ...

Introduction

The Hiring process should be basically rewarding compared to activities like making tough decisions, firing and disciplining. This is because the need to fill a new position indicates the growth and prosperity of a business. However, there exist challenges in the process for example in cases where human resource specialists believe that not hiring problem-causing employees is the best way to handle problematic workers. Therefore, good hiring requires effort from the human resources department. It involves ensuring that all components are working in order such that jobs posted have correct information, background checks have been carried out and evaluation ...

Introduction

Leadership endures relevance in virtually every field of life, and it cannot be overstated in the business world. The success and failure of every firm or organization rest on its leadership. This immense importance of leadership has garnered many interests around it for years, and this explains exhaustive researches in various fields and disciplines such as management, psychology, sociology, political science, educational and public administration (Yukl, 1989). Due to its importance and immense relevance, a lot of theories have been proposed which attempt to describe leadership based on several schools of thoughts. Each theory attempts to shed light on ...

Every individual loves to be praised while some prefer being criticized; they believe that criticism will help build them personally or professionally. However, by just giving criticism or praise is not enough to improve one's behavior or in the worst case change the behavior. Next time they do the same thing they will tend to repeat the same mistakes that they did before. Constructive feedback is a more useful and supportive tool than criticism and praise. It involves addressing particular concerns and giving factual information about a particular situation or subject while refraining from all kinds of personal feelings ( ...

Company profile

Hustream has been a game changer in the manner that businesses interact with their clients on the internet. Founded in 2008, Hustream runs a video production agency, which offers a wide range of interactive video solutions by blending web-based technology, video wizardry, and human psychology to improve engagement of the viewers. Rather than engaging in the creation of commercials, Hustream’s business is strictly tied to the development of conversations. By and large, Hustream aims to offer businesses with professional-tailored videos that have a heightened engagement with the audience, with a net result of increased revenues. Hustream’s clients ...

Literature Review: Cosmetic Brands

Literature Review

Ireland has one of the leading and the best cosmetics. For example most of the skincare brands come from Ireland. It provides a good platform for analyzing women’s perception regarding cosmetic brands. In the bid of doing this it takes an exercise of review literatures providing information regarding interest women have on cosmetic brands, their positive and negative experience and their opinion regarding how brand deals with them.

Why women are interested in the cosmetics brand

Sondor et al (2007, 89) asserts that women are interested in the brand because they want a product which will not affect them but one which has been ...

How might leadership and management practices differ from culture to culture? List at least 8 things managers should do to facilitate better interactions with cross-cultural teams. Leadership is possibly one of the most exhaustively researched and discussed management concepts in the business world today. Effective leadership is something that choses the most appropriate style of leadership based on the situation or challenge at hand as only then, success can be accomplished. However, most effective leaders that are globally renowned, are known to use a primary style of leadership in their management. An important point that needs to be noted ...

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Bottle Green Case Study Analysis

Question 1 Consumer behavior of Green Bottle users can be understood in two ways. First way of understanding consumer behavior defines purchasing decision of consumers due to habitual buying. This means that most of the consumers buy the company products because they are habitual of buying Bottle Green drinks (Solomon et al. 2014). They are not directly engaged in perceiving the company brands or products. Another reason to buy Bottle Green drink is the low price of the drinks as compared to the competitor brands. This implies that pricing of food item influences ...

Understanding of what motivates employees in the public sector has been an issue of concern in the recent past. The increase in competition and unpredictable world economy has forced many managers in the public sector to develop strategies that ensure that the public sector obtains high levels of output from the workforce (Matheson, 2011). According to Word and Carpenter (2013) work motivation is the internal and external force that acts as catalysts for the workers behavior. It is the desire of a person to work hard and remain committed to the organization’s goals. It is imperative for the ...

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Chapter 1: Introduction

The athletes’ performance requires the adequate level of competitiveness and support from team coach so that the reinforcement of the desired level of efforts can be implied. The coaches provide the guidance, motivation and goal determination to the athletes due to which the athletes utilize their skills in an effective manner to achieve the predetermined objectives (Gillet et al., 2012). The coach is also responsible to monitor the performance of athletes and provide adequate feedback in order to intrinsically motivate the athletes and hence, the extent of adequate feedback is considered as a crucial behavior that the ...

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Listening is an important aspect of successful communication. A good listener exhibits certain characteristics and behaviors that help them achieve success in terms of building connection with others. Some of these characteristics/behaviors include paying attention, providing positive encouragement to the speaker, and providing appropriate feedback. For instance, a good listener knows how to focus on the speaker and the message because he/she knows that distractions will affect the process of communication. Likewise, a good listener knows how to give positive encouragement whenever he/she feels that the speaker is having difficulties in getting the message across. Moreover, a ...

Introduction

There are two methodologies that are usually adopted in the management and implementation of software development projects, namely the waterfall and agile methodologies. In the waterfall method, the project development is conducted in a linear or sequential manner where each development phase has a distinct goal (“Waterfall Model,” n.d.). This means that the project development moves to the next phase once the current phase is completed and that it is not possible to go back to a previous phase. On the other hand, the agile methodology addresses unpredictability and complexity through iterative and incremental cadences termed as sprints (“Agile ...

List of Tables

List of Figures Figure 1: Product Breakdown Structure for SST BI Phase I 9 Figure 2: Deliverables Typically Produced for Each PMBOK Knowledge Areas 12 Figure 3: Summary Gantt Chart for SST BI Phase 1 18

SCOPE MANAGEMENT

This section gives a high level description of the scope covered by this project. The items that are in scope have been allocated to either BPC or to SST.

STRATEGY

For the SST BI Phase I project, SST will outsource certain aspects of the development to Business Process consulting. These are mentioned in the scope definitions section of this document. BPC will work independently ...

ABSTRACT

This paper revolves around the review of related literature involving the robustness of the Environmental Kuznets Curve. This economic theory discusses the relationship turning point of environmental degradation with respect to economic growth. The hypothesis was introduced by Grossman and Kreuger who developed a reduced-form approach to embody the linear correlation of economic growth to environmental quality. Further studies have tested and enhanced this theory by tweaking either or both sides of the equation. Environmental degradation and economic growth are represented by subjective indicators which are based on the findings and beliefs of the various authors. Most of the ...

1. Basing on the Alan’s interactions with his employees, it is necessary to suggest that the manager’s ability to listen actively is rather a poor one. It is known that active listener is the one who is able not just to listen to someone else’s speech, but the one who also has the ability to pay attention, to comprehend, to analyze, to evaluate, to remember the information which was heard and to give an appropriate feedback to the speaker (Wood, 2010). However, despite, sometimes, it might seem that Alan is trying to listen carefully to the ...

Structural parts of the Job-Specific Orientation Plan

Hiring the employees Preparation of the employees’ pre-arrival to the warehouse organization Introduction of the employee to the first day of one’s professional experience in the warehouse organization Professional orientation of the employee in ones’ department Conducting the monitoring of the success and professional engagement of the employee Procedures, which should be conducted as the employee is hired In the scope of this Job-Specific Orientation Plan for the warehouse organization, it is essential to outline five critical steps, which involve the major aspects of human resource management and encompass employment and gaining the continuous feedback from the senior ...

In Essay 2, you will make use of self-critique, peer review, and instructor feedback to revise your first essay. A portion of your grade on this essay, as well as on Essays 3 and 4, will be based on your ability to demonstrate significant revision of your work. You must submit a description of the revision process, including the sources of feedback you used and a description of the revisions you made to address the concerns raised by your reviewers. Self-critique: What did you want to change/revise about the original paper? Be specific about any “re-visioning” you did. Where ...

TQM project

TQM project Madeleine Chocolate Factory is a food processing company that deals with various chocolate-based processed foods such as chocolate, candy, and gum. At its inception, there was the creation of the customer service department that handles all customer complaints and acts as the liaison between other departments and the final consumer of the product. Though the company has only been operational for a few years, some areas need significant changes and improvements such as the customer service desk. Today the complaints are received through phone calls, letters, and emails (Akhtari, akhtari & Torfi, 2015). Complaints also arrive through if ...

This small summary will analyze the opinions, attitudes and behaviors of the U.S. millennials towards the smartphones and new brands in particular based on different secondary sources, which will help to make the conclusion whether the decision to “go or not go” with a launch of Xiaomi phones in the US. Millennials is an increasingly important segment for all the brands in the United States. Nielsen says there are about 80 million of millennials in the U.S. and they have $200 billion of U.S. buying power, which is huge, however, the mature consumers have $3.2 trillion buying power. Millennials ...

Executive Summary

The marketing plan is based on an event management company called “The Elegant event management Company”. The firm is a start-up organization based on partnership. The business is intended to offer multiple event management services to diverse sort of event customers from wedding events to the corporate and cultural event. The experience of the organization in different event management areas, good relations with complementary service providers, and knowledgeable and qualified workforce are the things that differentiate the organization from rivals. The firm is a complete pack of event management services and expert in providing quality services at affordable price. ...

Executive Summary

An interview with Debbie Curtis, Officer Manager for Central Pump Company in Center, Colorado revealed several flaws into the HR issues of the company which has about 20 employees. Though she handles almost all the issues such as training and development, succession of employees, the retention of quality employees, managing employee performance, resolving conflictions, correcting performances and disciplining performances, there are no formalities and policy documents to support the same. The strategic contribution of the current HR deliverables is basic and it cannot support the attainment of sustainable growth and development. At a personal level Debbie is contributing towards ...

It is simply amazing how our lives have been greatly revolutionized by the advent of the social media platforms as one of the core areas through which information can be relayed from a single point to another with very minimal effort involved therein (Powlen and Michael). It is evidently clear that social media has in a great way helped human beings close up the communication gap that existed before its invention. By way of definition, since this platform is composed of persons in the society interacting with one other in a social manner, it can therefore be described as ...

The introduction of technology to the world brought about significant changes in how people work. Industries and companies placed huge budgets on manpower and equipment necessary in creating their products or completing their work. At the time, what they received as returns were enough to sustain them though it was quite hectic. Technology made most of the processes easy to complete and automate. On a downside, it affected the job opportunities for most of the employees as it replaced their spots in the different companies. In recent years, the adoption of Information Technology in companies is on an increase ...

Group Interaction

Group C interaction involved a discussion of the videos, The Politics of Sociology and Planning a Playground. The group interaction, however, faced different challenges as the group lacked cohesion. The lack of cohesion was mainly because of poor communication amongst group members. Consequently, some group members were not fully prepared for the discussion. The issue of preparedness was, however, countered by allowing discussion of ideas by members who had already prepared in advance; therefore, allow the unprepared members time to compose their ideas. Due to issues of unpreparedness, there was unequal participation in the group. Two or three group ...

Every individual needs to set some goals towards the achievement of a desired result. Setting personal goals can provide greater achievement with the use of SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-oriented) goals which help the individual focus on what they want to learn or achieve. The objective of using SMART goals is helping plan for relevant learning activities and to allow one measure the results and progress in achieving the learning goals (College of Nurses of Ontaroio, 2014). This paper aims to help the author develop my own personal leadership development by learning how to use SMART goals ...

In an international context, the United States carries a long-standing reputation for boasting some of the highest quality health care and medical services available anywhere in the world. Despite appearances, however, health care in the United States remains imperfect. Not all medical services and hospital organizations attain the highest quality, despite what many think. The concern of this paper, therefore, is firmly grasp the core elements of quality and to assess their presence or lack thereof by analyzing two United States hospitals. Using available data via the Hospital Compare site from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services(CMS), two hospitals ...

Abstract

Ever since the internet was made available for public use in 1991, its popularity has increased manifold in the years that followed. In fact two of the most prominent landmark events during the 1990s that clearly demarcated two eras of the modern world are the advent of worldwide web and the idea of globalization. With the internet getting increasingly accessible to a much wider section of the population, along with improvement in speed, its applications started increasing and currently touches almost every aspect of our lives. In U.S. alone, the number of internet users per 100 people witnessed an ...

The case study from the CDC Get Smart Program Planner that has been selected for this discussion is the one titled ‘Clinic-Based Education for Patients and Providers’. This is the case study that focuses on the design and implementation of an antibiotic use campaign in one of the states in the US. It is mentioned that the campaign was funded by the CDC, and because these funds were limited, the people involved in the project knew that it was crucial to evaluate campaign efforts to make sure that the available resources were utilized wisely (Center for Disease Control and ...

Project Title

Policy Change for Caring of Neonates with Drug Withdrawal syndrome. A. Organizational approval letter is provided as an attachment. B. Preceptor agreement letter is provided as an attachment.

Problem Identification

In 2013 illicit drug use in pregnant women between the ages of 15-17 was as high as 14.6% as per the data published by National survey of drug use and health (Kelly, Zatzick, & Anders, 2014). It also revealed that 18-25 age group showed 8.6% and 26-44 age group showed an average of 3.2% pregnant women were using illicit drugs, during their pregnancy. The problem identified in this unit is the care ...

Assignment 1

Decision Support System & Customer Relationship Management at PepsiCo PepsiCo is one of the biggest names in beverages and snacks industry. It was established by the merger by Frito-Lay and Pepsi in 1965. It is also one of the most successful business organizations across the globe. ‘Knowledge is Power’ and it is nowhere more factual than in business world today. Timely and accurate information is all that’s required to change your sales chart and profit bars. Additionally, defined information is also vital for a business ability to plan, sell, make and respond to marketplace dynamics (King, 2015). PepsiCo has ...

Part one

Charlotte Hotel has a mission of improving the value of its shareholders by adjusting the net income. Similarly, the hotel also focuses on the revenue increase in different departments such as rooms, food and beverage among others. Concerning marketing and advertisement, Charlotte is portraying good performance. Therefore, the management has decided to maintain their advertising methods for the next coming years. However, the management has maintained the current facilities to manage the operations and maintenance of the hotel. Charlotte hotel also has a mission of exceeding the expectation of its guests by inspiring and rewarding its associates, and this ...

Introduction

In the United Kingdom, ten years ago the television was the major medium of entertainment. Now, in the era of technology laptops, PCs, mobiles, and tablets have become the dominant players of entertainment. The access of youngsters to the different devices has increased dramatically in the UK (Ellis and GreenBank, 2015) (See Appendix). These changing patterns created huge challenges for media and creative agencies. In the flow of the media, the boundaries between numerous media channel became blurred. It became more important for media agencies to determine that how these Medias individually operate with the aim of producing the ...

PERSONAL EXPERIMENTS

Outset of the Investigation Having entered the domain of sociological research I have often found myself asking why it is that the progressive generation of today of which I am part still lack in empathy towards the older generation, typically those in their sixties and after. The fast-paced growth of technology had made many so self-centred that they cannot pause to think of others, and become all out cyber prospectors. I have talked to many of my friends and many of them seem to shrug off the problem of the elderly. The genera mindset is that these lives are ...

In the 21st century the importance of considering the problem of cultural diversity in the context of different human activities increases. Nurses provide people with high quality medical care not only within the national boarders but within the complex system of the global society. Globalization poses a significant challenge to nurses whose services are crucial in order to save the lives of their patients. Transcultural nursing is an essential part of healthcare today because nurses need to appreciate cultural differences to provide personal individualized care. The professional competence of nurses depends on understanding cultural diversity, beliefs and other factors ...

Persuasion in Communication through Semantics

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6276184?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 Effective communication plays a vital role in persuasion, influence, and leadership, especially in the context of business management. Effective communication entails the utilization of techniques and methods to enhance feedback and action from the audience or listeners. Language, vocabulary, and semantics play a vital role in effective communication because the choice of words or phrases can enhance the meaning of the message. On the other hand, providing a reason for the audience can be an effective technique to receive the desired feedback or action. Melissa Dahl explains in her article that choosing particular words or phrases can influence ...

Introduction

The learning process demands a shift from a position of lack of knowledge to a position of knowledge adequacy. This, therefore, requires the analysis of past mistakes and learning from them in order to improve performance in future. Reflection offers the coach and the trainee an opportunity to review their current performance and identify areas in need of improvements (Hargreaves and Page, 2013, p.38). Reflection can occur before, during, or after practice to enable the assessment of the learning process. Reflection questions are useful in evaluating progress when the coach and the trainee attempt to respond based on their ...

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to discuss coaching, mentoring and counseling as the approaches taken by managers in order to benefit in the future. It was found that in any system of activity evaluation the result includes both a feedback on the performance of the work and development plans aimed at improving the individual employee in the future. There are three related roles, in which the manager may be involved in the feedback process and the development, namely coaching, counseling and mentoring. Every method was briefly described. Much has been written about coaching, and review of the literature ...

Introduction

Change management is an important concept for any organization working at any level. It is a continuous process of renewing structure, resources, direction of an organization with time. The aim of this essay is to know why the change management is necessary for contemporary organization. Change management in a contemporary organization is very important as it’s an important feature of an organizational life, whether present or in future. Therefore, the change in an organization cannot be regarded as unimportant and to manage the change is a necessary part of this process. These changes are now the part of ...

Business Analysis

Question 1 The research methodology is usually about the idea of the author for the objective of the study. The usage of an appropriate research methodology is useful to create a report with substantive content. For some study, qualitative data design can be utilized. This is to get detailed data which can be used to answer questions within the research. The qualitative design is usually a diverse kind of approach wherein the questions are not limited to a yes or no answer, but there will be explanation and details given by respondents (Sandelowski, 2000). The survey is used as ...

Part 1: Structure

Organizational chart Justification When designing constructing a new school in a growth corridor adjacent to a major Australian city, it is essential to take into consideration what school and schooling, in general, mean to students. Only in this way, it will become possible to decide how the school should be set up as well as what it should offer to students in the way of curriculum, and the contexts both physical and social in which students learn (Clarke & Pittaway, 2014). That is why the map provided above is designed in such a way that clearly reflects the basic needs ...

Work Sheet Proposal

This area focuses on the different possible needs or uses of a hypothetical recruiting company may have from an individual like me (i.e. the author of this paper). This section draws upon the results, findings, and realizations that I have made from two previous projects namely Big Project 1 and Mini Project 2. For starters, Big Project 1 focused entirely on the different avenues of my personal and personal development that I wanted to improve and focus on as I progress with my life while Mini Project 2 focused on the skills that may be needed by a Hotel ...

IMPLEMENTING A BEHAVIOR-BASED FOOD SAFETY PROGRAM IN A FOODSERVICE ORGANIZATION: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The goals of the organization are varied, and information was collected from internal sources within Roundy’s, Inc., to better understand the needs and the structures governing the overall state of affairs. The organization is a large food service organization but it has been suffering from some financial problems in recent years, and these financial problems have been associated with expansion. However, the leadership of the company is aware of the need for food safety protocol; the need for food safety protocol transcends the need to make a profit, as lax food safety protocol can be the downfall of ...

ASSIGNMENT OF UNIT 42 EMPLOYABILITY Skills

LO1 Responsibilities and Performance LO 1: 1.1 Own Responsibilities and Performance Objectives Responsibilities of a manager, in this case operations manager, are drawn from a range of sources including job description, mission statement, legal duties, and others (Hinkin, 2011). The mission statement conveys the core values and goals of the organisation. It is the duty and responsibility of the employee to uphold the values and goal included in the mission statement. As the name suggests, operations manager is responsible for the routine management of hotel operations. This blanket definition implies that, the operations manager will set policies, track productivity, ...

E-Business Strategy: Model Characteristics

The case for e-business cannot be overemphasized. In order for companies to perform sustainably in current business ecosystem, key characteristics are required for an integrated strategy. Further, an independent (but integrated) e-business strategy should be in place in order to manage products and/or service more effectively across different online and offline platforms and channels. For current purposes, focus is laid on key characteristics for an e-business strategy. Notably, an effective e-business strategy should cover main areas, namely: micro-targeting, personalization, content innovation, customized browsing experience, channel integration and investment in mobile (Evans). By identifying specific niche markets in an online ...

Tali Berglas-Shapiro

Weizmann Institute of Science Abstract Contemporary science education (at all levels) does not treat students as passive consumers of knowledges, skills, and other educational “products” anymore. Nowadays, learners must be active and productive participants of the educational process. That is why self-regulated learning (SRL) technologies form a very important key component of the contemporary educational system. Technology-enhanced learning environments (TELEs) are important tools mutually used by educators and learners to organize and develop the educational activity in its advanced form. In the present paper, investigating students' difficulties within the transition to the new model of education and acquiring of ...

In today’s rapidly changing and expanding business environment it is important for organizations to be competitive. Globalization of markets combined with rapidly evolving technology are forcing businesses to seek new methods to remain competitive and survive (“Managing Organization Change”). The widespread access to technology and “nano-second change” is no longer enough to provide organizations with a competitive advantage (Schawbel, 2012). Companies cannot survive solely on technology. Recent studies are pointing to organizational health as the new factor behind motivating employees to be more productive and aligning companies with their objectives (Schawbel, 2012). According to Schawbel, “The seminal difference ...

The SAIC organization does not directly tie customer satisfaction or loyalty to employee performance. Feedback providers largely consist of employees’ current and former direct supervisors. In this sense, feedback providers could incorporate customer feedback into employees’ performance reviews. In addition, employees and supervisors could incorporate customer feedback, satisfaction and loyalty into individual development plans. The individual development plans serve the purpose of mapping out career and professional development goals that are in alignment with the organization’s objectives (SAIC a). While managers have a tendency to use customer satisfaction and loyalty scores to define objectives and monitor performance, researchers ...