Category: Essays

Review the portfolio link in the Reading & Study folder prior to commencing this activity.

A portfolio, for all practical purposes, is a “show-and-tell,” enlarged résumé, or a sophisticated scrapbook that offers you the unique opportunity of presenting your education, accomplishments, and skills. It is no longer true that primarily only people in the visual, communication, and education fields prepare portfolios. Times have truly changed and job seekers in all industries are taking advantage of the distinct edge that a well-prepared portfolio provides when interviewing. The résumé can get you the interview; the portfolio can get you the job!

For this assignment, you must create a PowerPoint portfolio with the following steps:

· Review the portfolio link in the Reading & Study folder prior to commencing this activity.

· Using Microsoft Word, you will prepare a cover letter to a particular company, as an interest letter in which you are seeking a specific position (real or created). This document should be constructed to look as if it were an email. Attach portfolio separately.

· Using PowerPoint, you will prepare your portfolio with the sections noted below. Be sure that any scanned items such as transcripts, etc. are clear and straight on the page. Be creative (color, visuals, transitions, etc.) but make your work clear and concise.

o 1st slide: Cover page

o 2nd slide: Table of contents

o Résumé

o Sections divided by titled slides (like tabs in a hard copy)

§ Basic Skills

§ Thinking Skills

§ Personal Qualities

§ Experience

§ Cognate Synthesis—a bulleted explanation of how your cognate areas can enhance your professional career choice.

§ NOTE: Be sure that all information within each section is concise but complete and presents you in a good light. Review all examples on the website PRIOR to completing this step.

· Copy and paste the cover letter and place this in the “notes” section of the Final Portfolio Presentation submission area

Review the portfolio link in the Reading & Study folder prior to commencing this activity.

A portfolio, for all practical purposes, is a “show-and-tell,” enlarged résumé, or a sophisticated scrapbook that offers you the unique opportunity of presenting your education, accomplishments, and skills. It is no longer true that primarily only people in the visual, communication, and education fields prepare portfolios. Times have truly changed and job seekers in all industries are taking advantage of the distinct edge that a well-prepared portfolio provides when interviewing. The résumé can get you the interview; the portfolio can get you the job!

For this assignment, you must create a PowerPoint portfolio with the following steps:

· Review the portfolio link in the Reading & Study folder prior to commencing this activity.

· Using Microsoft Word, you will prepare a cover letter to a particular company, as an interest letter in which you are seeking a specific position (real or created). This document should be constructed to look as if it were an email. Attach portfolio separately.

· Using PowerPoint, you will prepare your portfolio with the sections noted below. Be sure that any scanned items such as transcripts, etc. are clear and straight on the page. Be creative (color, visuals, transitions, etc.) but make your work clear and concise.

o 1st slide: Cover page

o 2nd slide: Table of contents

o Résumé

o Sections divided by titled slides (like tabs in a hard copy)

§ Basic Skills

§ Thinking Skills

§ Personal Qualities

§ Experience

§ Cognate Synthesis—a bulleted explanation of how your cognate areas can enhance your professional career choice.

§ NOTE: Be sure that all information within each section is concise but complete and presents you in a good light. Review all examples on the website PRIOR to completing this step.

· Copy and paste the cover letter and place this in the “notes” section of the Final Portfolio Presentation submission area.

Final Portfolio Presentation Instructions

A portfolio, for all practical purposes, is a “show-and-tell,” enlarged résumé, or a sophisticated scrapbook that offers you the unique opportunity of presenting your education, accomplishments, and skills. It is no longer true that primarily only people in the visual, communication, and education fields prepare portfolios. Times have truly changed and job seekers in all industries are taking advantage of the distinct edge that a well-prepared portfolio provides when interviewing. The résumé can get you the interview; the portfolio can get you the job!

For this assignment, you must create a PowerPoint portfolio with the following steps:

· Review the portfolio link in the Reading & Study folder prior to commencing this activity.

· Using Microsoft Word, you will prepare a cover letter to a particular company, as an interest letter in which you are seeking a specific position (real or created). This document should be constructed to look as if it were an email. Attach portfolio separately.

· Using PowerPoint, you will prepare your portfolio with the sections noted below. Be sure that any scanned items such as transcripts, etc. are clear and straight on the page. Be creative (color, visuals, transitions, etc.) but make your work clear and concise.

o 1st slide: Cover page

o 2nd slide: Table of contents

o Résumé

o Sections divided by titled slides (like tabs in a hard copy)

§ Basic Skills

§ Thinking Skills

§ Personal Qualities

§ Experience

§ Cognate Synthesis—a bulleted explanation of how your cognate areas can enhance your professional career choice.

§ NOTE: Be sure that all information within each section is concise but complete and presents you in a good light. Review all examples on the website PRIOR to completing this step.

Copy and paste the cover letter and place this in the “notes” section of the Final

Describe how leadership, employee behaviour and motivation may impact on the performance of Pars Food Ltd.

Describe how an effective marketing strategy may impact on Pars’ long term objectives.

You are required to look at lecture notes and other sources (such as textbooks and journal articles) to describe how Pars’ marketing strategy may effect its long term objectives as stated in the case study. You are advised to discuss both positive and negative impacts and in particular identify the impact on Pars’ financial objectives.

Task 2 (Max 1000 words):

Describe how leadership, employee behaviour and motivation may impact on the performance of Pars Food Ltd.

You are required to look at lecture notes and other sources (such as textbooks and journal articles) to describe how leadership style, employee behaviour and motivation may effect Pars’ performance. You are advised to specifically address how these human resource issues may impact on the operational, marketing and finance functions within Pars.

Address the following question making reference to both theory and examples.

Address the following question making reference to both theory and examples.

‘Critically discuss if the level of executive pay reflects rent seeking by managers’

Within your discussion please make reference to reading indicated in the lecture slides, contained in the additional reading folder on the Blackboard website and from your own research.

The information for this assessment can come from a range of sources including appropriately referenced academic papers, regulatory sources and the wider media.
The format of your answer must include an introduction, a conclusion and references. The report will be judged on the following criteria: a) Argument, understanding and analysis (e.g. addressing the task with relevant knowledge, understanding and insight; coherent, cogent and structured progression of argument); b) Sources and evidence (e.g. breadth and depth of reading; proper citation; use of primary and secondary data; appropriate use of qualitative/quantitative methods); and c) Written communication (e.g. layout, headings; spelling, grammar; paragraphing (overlong/too short); repetition; references).

Analyze the evidence from the research literature on split credit ratings.

Critically analyse the evidence from the research literature (academic journal articles) on the financial market impact of credit ratings actions.

Your answer must focus on at least two of the following: (i) equity markets; (ii) bond markets; (iii) credit derivatives; (iv) the foreign exchange market; (v) cross-country
spillovers.

(B)
Answer BOTH parts (i) and (ii).
(i) Critically analyze the evidence from the research literature on split credit ratings.
Your answer should include a focus on how financial markets deal with split ratings.
(50% weighting).

(ii) Critically analyze the evidence from the research literature on the relative timing of rating agencies’ actions i.e. the ratings lead-lag literature.
(50% weighting).

International Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior.

MN5131 International Human Resource Management and

Organizational Behavior 2014/15 (Resit assignment)

Please write an essay on ONE of the following topics. The upper word limit is 2,500 words (excluding references). Your essay must be submitted in accordance with the standard School of Management submission procedures. Working individually, choose ONE of the following case studies of companies which have undergone changes in their recent history (presented here with suggested readings to start with). Identify TWO aspects of HR involved in this change, discuss how they affected or were affected by the crisis, and consider the implications for wider HRM practice.

3) IKEA Anonymous (2009) China Teaches Ikea the Limits of Homogeneity. Strategic Direction 25 (11): 43. de Chernatony, L. and Tarnovskaya, V. (2011) Internalizing a brand across cultures: the case of IKEA. International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 39 (8): 598 – 618 .

Coursework requirements: Work must be typed, contain an accurate word count and use Harvard system of referencing. A successful essay is one that uses both theory and evidence to answer, directly, the set question. This requires that you read widely, not just the suggested texts for the chosen essay topic. Please keep a copy of all work submitted. You may not sit the exam without completing this work. Extensions are given in only exceptional circumstances, and work received late is subject to a range of penalties (see student handbook).