Day: February 19, 2020

Strategic HRM Plan

February 19, 2020 4 Comments APA, Business and Management

Write a 750-1,000 word strategic human resource management plan. The purpose of this assignment is to simulate the thought process managers use to connect unit goals with organizational strategy. The students are not expected to produce a detailed strategic plan (which in actual organizations can exceed 100 pages). Rather, the expectation is that students demonstrate consideration of the multiple complexities involved in strategic planning.

The assignment is centered on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) model of analysis, and the specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) model of goal setting.

Access the GCU Library, relevant course materials, and Internet resources to research SWOT analysis and SMART goals.

Select an organization to research that has a description of the organization and necessary information available to conduct a SWOT analysis and develop SMART goals.

The Strategic HRM Plan should be in the form of a professional report. There is no single, correct manner of presentation. Critical and creative thinking is expected. The formatting is secondary to the content and application of knowledge. However, the proposal should be organized in a readily comprehensible manner that conveys a thorough understanding of course objectives. Graphics, bulleted lists, and charts are acceptable. Include the following:

Introduction that outlines how the human resource goals support the organizational goals.
Summary of the organizational description.
A SWOT analysis.
Three human resource goals that fulfill the SMART criteria.
Alignment of human resources goals and strategic plans.
Proposal for a job design initiative or an organizational hiring goal to meets the needs of the human resource goals and organizational goals.
A conclusion that summarizes the highlights of the plan is presented.
Incorporate three to five resources (including your textbook) to support your Strategic HRM Plan.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Deliverable 5 – Special Focus on Business-to-Business

February 19, 2020 No Comments APA, Business and Management

As the year ends, the VP of Sales and Marketing asks you to review the current compensation program and to make a recommendation for the new year’s compensation program that will be presented to the full sales organization on a video conference at the end of the month. There are 8 members of the sales staff that are part of the compensation program.

For the current year, the sales staff (eight sales regional managers) was paid a base salary ($42,000) and then received a commission on a quarterly basis (6.1%) for all net invoiced orders in their region. The highest paid sales person received total salary and commission of $133,500, and the lowest paid sales person was paid $48,100. The total salary and commission for the sales team is $625,750. This resulted in profit of $1,757,500.

The company’s CFO was very happy with this program, but the VP of Sales & Marketing felt that the plan only focused on individual results. The VP felt that in order to encourage the sales staff to balance their efforts between the low-cost/high-volume items and the higher-margin new products, a new plan should reflect those goals. Both executives see the sales potential growing for the business. Both also want to begin “grooming” any current sales staff. Management wants to encourage current staff to be promoted or transferred to new opportunities. Management is aware of the growth expectation and they want the strongest team to be in place in the best positions.

You are to create a proposal that:

Outlines at least two compensation programs and then make a recommendation for which program would be more ideal.
Suggests a training program for regional sales managers to obtain leadership skills as well as reinforcing B2B skills that trainees can use to prepare for future promotional opportunities.
The training program may or may not be part of the compensation program. Identify and defend which approach you support.

Importance of Customer Service ( Strategic Sales and Sales Management )

February 19, 2020 7 Comments APA, Business and Management

As the regional sales manager, you are part of the Customer Service Task Force for IHE. During a monthly meeting, you became aware of a reoccurring challenge the customer service team is experiencing. When current or potential customers contact customer service to inquire about the new spice blend,’ the customer service team cannot answer basic questions or offer a level of service that your sales force often promotes in their communications with buyers. This occurs via telephone and email inquiries as well as when potential clients use your website and social media pages as a point of engagement.
In particular, the customer service team is unable to utilize the training that they have had on handling inquires such as these since the product offering is new and more complex than your day-to-day product offerings.
You need to prepare a training manual that focuses on the new product offering. The training manual will need to include:
    Introduction to build the value of the customer service team supporting the company’s sales efforts
    Key customer service skills and areas of expertise needed to be effective
    Establish a process to guide a customer service team to share basic sales information with customers/potential customers
    A recommendation to utilize customer service technology to enhance the experience for potential customers. (You can assume that the customer service teams have access to technologies such as a CRM package, social media accounts, website FAQ’s, etc.)

In cold blood week 5

February 19, 2020 1 Comment APA, English and Literature

Please respond to ONE of the following questions. Please include the number of the question in the subject line. Be sure to use textual support and include the page numbers in parenthetical citations.

1. How would you describe the range of viewpoints on capital punishment expressed in In Cold Blood, and what do you think would be Capote’s purpose in including that range? Connect the content of Part IV with the opening epigraph. Be sure to provide textual evidence.
2. In Part IV Capote includes considerable forensic psychiatric theory; e.g. the differentiation between sane and insane, and includes discussion of the article “Murder Without Apparent Motive–A Study in Personality Disorganization.” How does this information contribute to Capote’s portrayal of Perry Smith?

3. Once Smith and Hickock have been sentenced to death, Capote includes significant information about other prisoners on death row and psychiatric diagnoses, the M’Naghten Rule, the Durham Rule, and Christian doctrine. How do you think Capote wanted that information to affect readers? What makes you think that?

HIV case study

February 19, 2020 2 Comments APA, Health Care and Life Sciences

I have included a suggested organizational structure for the paper.  You do not have to follow this plan, but it might help you organize your thoughts.  Address the following questions in a 2-3 page essay in APA format. Include an additional title page, reference page and appendix as the Chart Note using the Nutrition Care Process -TEMPLATE ATTACHED)

Program Evaluation Proposal

February 19, 2020 2 Comments APA, Law

Topic – Florida’s Hazardous waste disposal

Describe how you would plan/propose to evaluate the policy or program by employing the methods, techniques, etc., which are covered in the course text. Do not evaluate the policy or program, you are only expected to describe how you would go about evaluating the policy or program.

Your proposal should address the following questions or issues. In all cases, defend or justify your answers or procedures, especially with specific references to relevant concepts, ideas, or passages in the assigned readings for the course, as well as to the references which you may have found in your library search. This assignment is not based on opinions, therefore academic sources must be utilized, and it ought to be written in the third person.

Each of the items in CAPS must be listed as a heading or a sub-heading in your evaluation proposal. If a question/issue does not apply, please explain why. The final product must include the following:

    Cover Page (consult an APA style guide)

    ABSTRACT (no more than 1 page, gives a brief overview of the contents of your paper, the abstract is written last after you have completed your entire paper)

    INTRODUCTION (2-3 pages in length)
    o    Include your thesis statement in first or second paragraph.
    o    Describe or summarize the policy or program which you intend to evaluate.
    o    What are the goals or desired outcomes of the policy or program?
    o    Why are the goals or outcomes important?
    o    Include your research questions at the end of the introduction.

    LITERATURE REVIEW (3-5 pages in length)
    o    This section of your paper corresponds directly to your research questions. Each question should be reflected in sub-headings in your literature review. If you dont have a research question about it dont include it in your paper.
    o    How have other researchers attempted to evaluate the policy or program? What were their conclusions? What might be replicated in your evaluation?
    o    What theory or theories connect the policy or program to its goals or desired outcomes?

    METHODOLOGY (2-4 pages in length, this is how you are going to evaluate this program/policy in the future)
    o    Of all evaluation techniques you have learned in the course which one will you use
to evaluate your policy or program?
    o    Is an experimental design relevant to your evaluation? If so, how? What form? If not, why not?
    o    Is your evaluation a process evaluation or an outcome evaluation? Why? How?
    o    What are the principal components of your evaluation design?
    o    STUDY VARIABLES
            Name your dependent, independent, and control variables.
    o    DATA COLLECTION
          Name your unit(s) of analysis.
          How do you propose to measure the factors, variables, goals, or outcomes which are relevant to your evaluation?
          What are the advantages and disadvantages of your proposed measures?
    o    SAMPLING and SURVEY INSTRUMENTS
          What are the principal sources of data and information which you propose to employ?
          What are the advantages and disadvantages of your proposed sources?
    o    DATA ANALYSIS
          How do you propose to analyze and to interpret the data and information which you collect? In other words, how will your analysis and/or interpretation show that the policy or program goals or outcomes have or have not been achieved?

    CONCLUSION (2-3 pages in length)
    o    Analyze what you have learned and inform the reader.
    o    What policy or programmatic recommendations might emerge from your evaluation?

    REFERENCES (must be in APA style, not all citation generation programs will produce a correct APA reference page, you must double check)

Revise the attached IEEE research paper

February 19, 2020 1 Comment APA, Other

FEEDBACK FROM TEACHER

The only issue I have is it’s missing some things like the framework of risk analysis, a comparison studies, a discussion the outcomes or results of the studies and future research directions. Not unless it’s in their and you can show me but I didn’t see it. I won’t get full credit unless I have those missing items if that makes any sense.

Financial Research Report

February 19, 2020 1 Comment APA, Business and Management

Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client. Think of a friend or a family member as a client. Define her or his characteristics and goals such as an employee or employer, relatively young (less than 40 years) or close to retirement, having some savings/property, a risk taker or risk averter, etc.

Next, research the stock of any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. Your investment should align with your client’s investment goals. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to complete this assignment. You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.)

1. Provide a rationale for the stock that you selected, indicating the significant economic, financial, and other factors that led you to consider this stock.

2. Suggest the primary reasons why the selected stock is a suitable investment for your client. Include a description of your client’s profile.

3. Just list five resources you’ll use to complete this assignment and begin to build your reference list. Remember you must use at least five quality academic resources for the final assignment.

Assignment 3 – Inheritance, Abstract Classes, Interfaces, and Polymorphism

February 19, 2020 1 Comment Computer science and IT assignments, Undergraduate

# Assignment 3 – Inheritance, Abstract Classes, Interfaces, and Polymorphism

## Due: 02-19-2020

## Author

## Description

The Jawas on Tatooine have recently opened a droid factory and they want to hire you to write a program to hold a list of the available droids, and the price of each droid. The price is based on the type: (protocol, utility, janitor, or astromech), the material used and the options selected by the Jawa creating the list.

The program will keep a list of Droids that are created. This list MUST be an Array. The array should be of a type that is high enough on the inheritance chain that all droids no matter what type they are can be stored in it (Think Polymorphism). Don’t make it of type ‘object’. That is too high on the inheritance chain. Also, just make the size of the array large enough that it can accommodate some droids. 100 is a good number that comes to mind. I’m not concerned with it being auto-resizing, or anything fancy.

A Jawa will be presented with a user interface to add a new Droid, or print the current Droid list. Adding a new Droid will require input from the Jawa to create the new droid. Once all of the needed information is added for the droid, the new droid will be added to the droid collection.

If a Jawa decides to print the collection of droids in inventory, the program should loop through all of the droids in the collection and print out the information from ToString, and the TotalCost for each droid. This should be accomplished using Polymorphism to reduce the amount of code needed.

All of the prices for the various aspects of a droid are left up to you to determine. If I was doing it though, I would probably have a small set price for each of the following general options, and not get too specific to save time. ie:
1. A price for model(protocol, utility, etc.)
2. A few different materials (Something Made up), each with a different price
3. A price for each additional option (One of the various option bools listed below. One price for all will work)
4. A price per quantity option such as: numberOfLanguages, and numberOfShips

The program comes with an Interface IDroid that must be implemented by subclasses. It contains a public method called CalculateTotalCost, and a public Property called TotalCost. CalculateTotalCost returns a void, so it’s job is to access the properties of the droid and literally calculate the total cost. It does not return the Total Cost. It only Calculates it.
TotalCost is how you will get access to the total cost of the droid. This will be zero until CalculateTotalCost is called. Then it will have a value.
I didn’t make CalculateTotalCost return the calculated value because I wanted you to have to implement both a method and a property in subclasses. This should also demonstrate how an Interface acts as a contract and requires you to write things a certain way. Even if you don’t agree with it.

You should put all of your UI into a UI class that will handle getting all of the necessary information from the Jawa, and display the feedback to the Jawa.

You should create a class for the collection of the Droids. The DroidCollection class should contain the array that holds the droids, and maintain any internal information needed to manage that array. It should have an add method that will do the work of determining which instance of a droid needs to be created and added to the array. The UI class will prompt for the needed information to add a droid, and then when it has all of the info, it will send it to the add method, which will then determine which type to add based on the ‘model’ that was entered. The add method might be a good place to do method overloading, though not required.

You should follow the concepts about inheritance talked about in class, and work hard at DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) Principles.

## Classes

The program should have a base abstract class called Droid with the following variables, properties, constructors, methods, etc that implements the IDroid interface.

Droid:

* Variables: material (string), color (string), baseCost (decimal), totalCost (decimal)
* Constructors: 2 parameter constructor (string, string)
* Property: TotalCost to return the cost of the droid (Required by the interface)
* Public Methods:
    * ToString: return a formatted string containing the variables
    * CalculateTotalCost: Required by the interface
* Protected Methods:
    * CalculateBaseCost: Determines the baseCost based on material and color.

There should be two derived classes from the abstract class Droid with appropriate variables, methods and properties.

Protocol:

* Variables: numberLanguages (int)
* Constant: costPerLanguage
* Constructors: 3 parameter constructor (string, string, int)
    * Uses the base class (Droid) constructor
* Public Methods:
    * ToString: return a formatted string containing the variables
    * CalculateTotalCost: Calculate the totalCost based on the number of languages and type, and then adds it to the base totalCost

Utility:

* Variables: toolbox (bool), computerConnection (bool), arm (bool)
* Constructors: 5 parameter constructor (string, string, bool, bool, bool)
    * Uses the base class (Droid) constructor
* Public Methods:
    * ToString: return a formatted string containing the variables
    * CalculateTotalCost: Calculates totalCost by calculating the cost of each selected option and type, and then add it to the base totalCost.

There should be two more derived classes from the class Utility with appropriate variables, methods and properties.

Janitor:

* Variables: trashCompactor (bool), vacuum (bool)
* Constructors: 7 parameter constructor (string, string, bool, bool, bool, bool, bool)
    * Uses the base class (Utility) constructor
* Public Methods:
    * ToString: return a formatted string containing the variables
    * CalculateTotalCost: Calculate totalCost by calculating the cost of each selected option and type, and then adds it to the base CalculateTotalCost

Astromech:

* Variables: fireExtinquisher (bool), numberShips (int)
* Constant: costPerShip
* Constructors: 7 parameter constructor (string, string, bool, bool, bool, bool, int)
    * Uses the base class (Utility) constructor
* Public Methods:
    * ToString: return a formatted string containing the variables
    * CalculateTotalCost: Calculate totalCost by calculating the cost of each selected option, the cost based on the number of ships, and the type. Then add all of that to the base CalculateTotalCost

![Droid Class Diagram](http://barnesbrothers.homeserver.com/cis237/assignmentImages/DroidClassDiagram.jpg “Droid Class Diagram”)

## Solution Requirements

Solution Must:

* Allow Jawa to add a new droid of either (Protocol, Utility, Janitor, or Astromech) to the list
* Allow Jawa to print the list of droids out.
* Create abstract class Droid that implements IDroid
* Derive two classes (Protocol and Utility) from the class Droid
* Derive two classes (Janitorial and Astromech) from the class Utility
* Each derived class (Protocol, Utility, Janitor, and Astromnech) must either implement or override the ToString and CalculateTotalCost methods
* Create a UI class
* Create a DroidCollection class
* Use private, public and protected appropriately.
* Use abstract, virtual, and override appropriately.
* Have sufficient comments about what you are doing in the code.

### Notes

If you did not do well on Assignment 1, you may want to look at the Assignment 1 Key that I did for some help related to UI classes, Collection classes, arrays, and structure.

It may be beneficial for you to create extra methods within the droid sub classes. You are not limited to the ones mentioned. You may even find it useful to make some additional ones that are protected and virtual.

## Grading
| Feature                    | Points |
| ————————– | —— |
| Droid Class                | 10    |
| Protocol / Utility        | 15    |
| Janitor / Astromech        | 15    |
| ToString / Total Cost      | 10    |
| UI Class                  | 10    |
| Droid Collection          | 10    |
| Add Droid / Print List    | 10    |
| Access Modifiers Correct  | 5      |
| Abstract / Virtual Correct | 5      |
| Documentation              | 5      |
| README                    | 5      |
| **Total**                  | **100**|

## Outside Resources Used
StackOverFlow.com
prior assingments or inclass work

## Known Problems, Issues, And/Or Errors in the Program