Day: December 11, 2019

Cost Benefit Analysis/ROI Project

Description

You will need to complete and submit this project individually. In class, you will be able share ideas and collaborate with other students selecting the same topic. But the written report must be you own work and submitted through an assignment dropbox using Turnitin antiplagiarism software. 

I. Select an HR project or program, e.g. implementing an HRIS, developing a new training program, outsourcing an HR function, etc.

II. Based on your research, provide a detailed list of all costs and benefits.

III. Conduct a cost-benefit analysis using NPV and Benefit/Cost Ratio.

V. Write a three-page report describing your analysis and rationale for your decision. The three pages need to include your Excel spreadsheet.

This report is for your company’s HR Executive Committee, must state your recommendation, and summarize your analysis. You can create a company that would potentially invest in this project and estimate the costs and benefits. The estimates should be grounded in your research. Your report including spreadsheet must not be more than three pages.

Paper should state purpose and recommendation up front and have informative
section headings.

Grading

Grades will be based on the quality of the:

Paper including the following:

a.  Analysis of cost and benefits.

b.  Net present value and whether it supports the investment.

c.  Benefit cost ratio and whether it supports the investment.

d.  Citation of at least three articles or reports to support your costs and benefits.

e.  Excel spreadsheet using the cost/benefit analysis template provided.

 

Possible Topics

Please choose ONE of the following topics:

1.  Building a training center instead of sending employees to external training providers

2.  Transitioning from classroom to online training

3.  Building an onsite daycare center for employees’ dependents

4.  Implementing a Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) division

5.  Building an inhouse recruitment center instead of using outside recruiting agencies

6.  Building an employee fitness center

Suggested Resources

American Society for Training and Development, astd.org
Businessweek, businessweek.com
Bloomberg (business news service), bloomberg.com
CNBC (business network), cnbc.com
CNN (cable news network), cnn.com
Financial Times (financial news service), ft.com/home/us
Fortune Magazine, fortune.com
Investopedia, Investopedia.com
New York Times, nyt.com
Society for Human Resources Management, shrm.org
New Jersey Star Ledger Newspaper (Job Finder section), nj.com/starledger
Wall Street Journal, wsj.com

Company websites and career sections

 

PLEASE READ THE ASSIGNMENT CAREFULLY

Plan to write ~5 paragraphs for essay, or approximately 600-800 words. Each essay requires discussion of 3 examples (if you’re not using course content-based examples, you’ll quickly lose points). Use diverse examples from different readings. Prove to me you know and understand the content by using extremely specific examples from the readings, and by backing them up with your own analysis. Be sure you’re answering the final “why does this matter” questions at the tail end of the essay! 

 

Deer camp as described by Mert Cowley highlights many of the social aspects of harvesting and growing food. Using the example of deer camp and two additional examples from the readings, discuss how food builds community and a social identity for groups of people. How do people create foodways, and foodways create people?

 

reading attachments are:

 

 

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Tsyunhehkw^, Oneida Nation, Wisconsin

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https://www.pbs.org/video/wisconsin-foodie-indian-summer-wild-rice/

 

 

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Gage, Cully. A Northwoods Reader. Excerpts. Marquette: Avery Color Studios.

 

 

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Cowley, Mert. 1993. Camp Foolishness. In Camps of Orange: Poetic Tales of Deer Hunting

from the Pearly Swamp Camp. Chetek, WI: Banksiana Publishing Co. 97-125. 

 

 

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Hufford, Mary. “American Ginseng and the Idea of the Commons.” The Food and Folklore

Reader: 409-419.

 

 

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Wisconsin Public Television. “Indian Summer & Wild Rice Harvest.” Wisconsin Foodie.

https://www.pbs.org/video/wisconsin-foodie-indian-summer-wild-rice/
Hoover, Elizabeth M. “Tsyunhehkw^, Oneida Nation, Wisconsin.”

 

 

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Tsyunhehkw^, Oneida Nation, Wisconsin

 

Discussion 1

Part 1: 

How can an early childhood professional link observation, assessment, and curriculum? Please give specific examples.

Part 2: 

How has assessment changed over time in the field of early childhood and how has this impacted education?

 

Discussion 2

Choose one of the chronic illnesses discussed in this module and explain how personality, emotions, stress, coping styles, and/or lifestyle factors play a part in the development and management of the specific illness that you have selected. Please feel free to describe any personal experiences that you may have had with this topic. The illnesses that we will focus upon include Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Hypertension, Stroke, HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, and Type 1 Diabetes.

 

Discussion 3

Part 1: 

For your Unit 5 Assignment, you will choose an issue or trend in early childhood. Discuss the issue or trend you have chosen for your Assignment and using the Library, locate a resource on this issue or trend and share in APA format.

Part 2: 

It is important for early childhood professionals to behave in a professional and ethical manner each day. The National Association for the Education of Young Children has composed the following Code that you will use for your Unit 5 Assignment and this discussion.

NAEYC. (2005, April). Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment. Retrieved from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSETH05.pdf

Using the issue or trend that you have chosen for your Unit 5 Assignment, use the “Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment” to discuss how professional ethics can affect this issue or trend and how.

You will choose and analyze a current issue/trend related to early childhood educational programming based on the research you have done on this topic. Using your research, and discussion you will write a 3–5-page paper.

Your paper should include a discussion on the issue or trend you chose and how this issue or trend has emerged and developed over time.

You will include an analysis of how educational theory has affected this issue or trend.

In addition, you will include an analysis of how professional ethics can affect this topic. This section needs to reflect ethical decision making that an early childhood professional would need to use based on the chosen topic. The NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment is a document that outlines how early childhood providers can ensure that their work with children and families is always based on ethical practices. You will use this resource to discuss how the decision making with your topic is based on ethical practice guidelines.

NAEYC. (2005, April). Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment. Retrieved from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSETH05.pdf

• Title page
• Main body of the paper (3–5 pages)
• Reference page with at least three references
• Correct APA formatting for in-text citations

You should follow these formatting guidelines in your paper:

• Use standard margins: 1” on all sides
• Use standard 12-point font size, Arial or Times New Roman
• Use standard double spacing
• Be sure your text is left justified