Author: chris

Training assessment is an important task for HR personnel. Use the Argosy University online library and textbooks to read about training assessments.

Then, consider the following scenario:

You have recently been appointed as a training manager for the southeast region of a major supermarket chain in the U.S. Your territory includes 15 retail stores. Your responsibility involves working directly with store managers and other stakeholders to develop training solutions to meet specific needs of employees in various stores. This includes, but is not limited to, performing needs assessments, determining appropriate instructional design and training delivery methods, as well as implementing and evaluating training initiatives.

Three of the stores in your territory have missed sales goals for the last two quarters. All three stores have received low customer satisfaction scores and are experiencing increased employee turnover rates. The high employee turnover has resulted in the store managers hiring many new and relatively inexperienced sales associates, which further contributes to the problem.

The senior management team of the supermarket chain believes that training and development may help decrease employee turnover and increase customer satisfaction. You have been asked to assess training needs and develop a proposal to address the situation in these three stores.

Instructions:

Use scholarly resources and your learning, address the following:

1. Identify, using simple heuristics, the indicators that show that the specific problems experienced by the three stores can be resolved through training.
2. Design a needs assessment plan and identify three specific training initiatives you would recommend for these employees. Include the expected outcomes for the three training initiatives in your proposal.
3. Select one of the specific training initiatives you identified and develop a budget of projected costs to implement this initiative.

Write a seven-to-nine-page training proposal in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Create a cost analysis, and develop a proposal for the company.

1. Write an five to seven (5-7) page proposal in which you:
   1. Recommend one (1) suitable network design.
   2. Suggest one (1) network architecture.
   3. Suggest LAN and Wireless LAN (WLAN) wiring considerations.
   4. Recommend hardware options and costs.
   5. Suggest security considerations for:
      1. Firewall
      2. Antivirus software
   6. Recommend software options and costs.
   7. Outline the labor costs, equipment costs, and service costs for your suggested design in table format.
   8. Identify the single point of failure, and recommend potential mitigation strategies.
   9. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Write a 4 pages essay.

Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation in which you address the following as they relate to the topic:

 

• How can socialization and mentoring be used to advance a career?
• How can socialization and mentoring help minimize resistance to change using the contingency approach?
• How can socialization and mentoring help people embrace these changes as a part of career advancement?
• Include Feldman’s three-phase model of socialization and the six socialization tactics as part of the discussion.

Cite a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed sources other than your textbook.

 

 

When you have chosen your article, write a review/critique of the study.

Your review should include the following:

• The main topic and focus or thesis of the journal article.
• The argument the author is making and its relevance to the focal/research question.
• The type of article—published, original research, meta-analysis, or reflection piece.
• The key findings of the study.
• Your opinion about the merits of the study, including future points of interest or research.

Your review should be approximately 100-150 words in length, should contain proper grammar and spelling, and should follow APA format regarding structure (e.g., title page and references page) and citation of sources.

 

You were recently hired as management director of the new I Can Business Incorporated (ICBI). You have been asked to establish policies and systems for the business. The first one you choose to work on is a financial reporting system.

For this assignment, you must develop a memo that you will deliver to the board of directors of ICBI. You will describe what a financial reporting system is and explain how management of ICBI should use an activity based budget instead of an operating budget. Be sure to explain the similarities and the differences of the two. Finally, give examples of budget guidelines for ICBI. You must answer the following questions:

• Describe the meaning and the components of a financial reporting system.
• Write a description of how management should use an activity based budget instead of an operating budget
  • Explain the similarities and differences of the two budgets
• Give an example of budget guidelines that ICBI should follow in order to successfully plan.
  • Identify and describe at least 5 basic budget guidelines.

Remember to use the library or other credible resources to support your argument. Be sure to cite your sources using the correct standard of APA.

Discuss a recent hotel or restaurant experience in which your perceptions far exceeded your expectations for the service received. Connect what you experience with your readings and class discussion on service management.

 

 

Need to be around 500 words

 

1) Discuss the differences between the constant opportunity cost and the increasing opportunity cost in terms of Production Possibility  Curve.  ie.) the shapes of PPC and the main assumption behind these two.

 

2) Discuss the differences between macroeconomics and microeconomics.

 

3) Describe six graphing workshops.

 

1. shifts in the demand curve

2. moving to equilibrium

3. equilibrium price and quantity

4. consumers’ surplus and producers’ surplus

5. a change in supply vs a change in quantity supplied

6. a change in demand vs a change in quantity demanded

 

4. analyze the content of Ben_Stein (attached) by relating into economic theories.

Students will read each case study and write a 500 word Case Study Journal on it.  The journal must:

 

1.    Identify the decision and the legal implications.

 

2.    Identify the parties that have an interest in the decision and why that matters.

 

3.    Analyze the possible choices and outcomes of the decisions.

 

4.    Suggest a decision and defend that based on biblical and legal considerations.

 

Case Study:

 

Fazio v. Cypress/GR Houston I, LP, Court of Appeals of Texas, First District, 2012 WL 5324842 (2012) [Course Book]

 

Simply Green Products (SGP) is a $10 million company that produces biodegradable packing materials that orchards use in the Shenandoah Valley to transport their apples, peaches, and pears nationwide. Biodegradable materials are more eco-friendly because they break down into the environment. Such packing materials are marketed under the name “SafePac,” which is heavily advertised in trade journals. Simply Green Products have had the name “SafePac” imprinted on all of their packing material since 2008. Although SGP never filed for either state or federal trademark protection, following the advice of one of their summer interns, they did register the domain name “SafePac.com.” With the movement toward more eco-friendly agricultural production, the fact that such packing materials are biodegradable provides a primary marketing advantage over non-biodegradable competitors.

 

Despite the fact that SGP is highly eco-friendly, it is not particularly technologically advanced. SGP mostly advertises in trade journals and magazines, with most orders coming via the mail or phone orders. Shep Howard, President of SGP realizes his company needs to increase its marketing presence and recently hired Betty Fuller, a recent Strayer graduate with an MBA, to be the new Director of Marketing for the company. Ms. Fuller has been charged with bringing SGP’s marketing plan into the 21st century.

 

In preparing the new Marketing plan, Ms. Fuller, quickly noticed that although SGP owned Safepac.com, the name SafePac, itself had never been registered with the Trademark and Patent Office. Accordingly, one of the first things Ms. Fuller did was start the registration process. When searching the USPTO office database to see if a mark has already been filed she found the following entries shown below:

 

 

She immediately realized SGP had a problem. Ms. Fuller did some additional research and found that a company called Safe Choices, Inc. uses the SafePack name to market an emergency weather kit in the form of a backpack; and had received a federal registration for the mark from the Patent and Trademark Office in 2002. This backpack is sold both online at SafePack.com and in sporting goods stores nationwide.

 

Note: “A complete search is one that will uncover all similar marks, not just those that are identical. In this regard, searching for trademark availability is not the same as searching to register a domain name. A domain name search may focus on exact or “dead on” hits, with no consideration given to similar names or use with related products and services. Basically, a domain address is either available or it is not. The trademark process, on the other hand, is more complex. As part of the overall examination process, the USPTO will search its database to determine whether registration must be refused because a similar mark is already registered for related products or services (i.e., even identical marks may co-exist if used on goods or services not considered to be related in any way). Please note that the USPTO does not offer advisory opinions on the availability of a mark prior to filing of an actual application.”

 

Legal Issues

 

Ms. Fuller contacted Shep Howard to discuss SGP intellectual property problems and to devise a plan on how to proceed. In her meeting with Howard Ms. Fuller explained the legal issues to Howard as follows:

 

1. SGP has been using the product name SafePac since 2008 but never trademarked or otherwise registered that named. A company called Safe Choice had registered the names SafePack and SafePacs back in 2002 and those names were listed live marks by the USPTO. Arguably, SafePac may be confusingly similar to Safe Choices marks to preclude registration of the marks. Moreover, use of the name may “constitutes a false designation of origin which is likely to confuse customers as to the source of the goods”. However, safe Choice and SGP are in different product lines and, therefore, arguably are not competitors, a requirement for infringement. The intellectual property issue at hand involves the Lanham Act.
2. Even if the USPTO finds that SGP’s proposed mark and Safe Choices marks are not similar or that SGP and Safe Choice are not competitors, registrations may nonetheless be denied under the provisions of the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(c). For additional information, see Duvall, S.A. (2007). The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006: balanced protection for famous brands. The Trademark Reporter, 97(6), 1252-1285.
3. Since we purchased the domain name SafePac.com, Safe Choice may attempt to accuse SGP of cybersquatting and try to have that domain name transferred to their control. Any such action would proceed under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d).

 

Finally, she outlined her plan on how to proceed with the marketing plan based on how she though the legal issues would be resolved. Mr. Howard then asked Ms. Fuller to put the information she had just given him in memo form.

 

Assignment Requirements

 

In the role of Betty Fuller, prepare the memorandum requested by Shep Howard. The memo should be three to four (3-4) pages in which you:

 

1. Decide whether or not SGP can register SafePac as a trademark given the issues discussed in “legal issue: a”.
2. Decide whether or not the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 would be violated if the USTPO granted SGP a trademark on SafePac.
3. Decide whether or not the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act would be violated by SGP’s use of safepac.com.
4. Describe how your resolution would affect the marketing options available to the company.
5. Use at least three (3) quality academic or legal resources in this assignment, such as a government Website, Law school Websites, Restatements of laws, and other treatises of Law.  Your paper must include internal citations indicating the sources of your legal statements.

   Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic or legal resources.

6. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
   3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.