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Your task in this assignment is to build off of the work you completed in the previous three assignments in such a way that you are working for a financial services firm (potentially in one of your choices from assignment one) specializing in the product you developed, borrowed, and or created in assignments two and three. You were green-lighted on your proposal for the plan created in assignment three, and then, promoted as sales manager of this particular product/service line. You have 12 sales employees working for you in your division within the United States, some are existing and some you will get to hire. You will answer the following in a written discussion–be thorough and complete in your analysis..I am really looking for you to synthesize the course materials given in this assignment:

Introduction: What are you ‘doing’ in this work, and why?

Section One: What are the keys to success in time, territory, and self management for your respective division? Discuss the importance of the sales territory, explain the major elements involved in managing the sales territories, explain why salespeople need to segment their accounts by size, and calculate a salesperson’s break-even point per day, hour and year (it’s ok to make up the numbers…just be consistent and show me what you know).

Section Two: How are you going to be successful in planning, staffing, and training sales people?Discuss the relationship between a firm’s marketing plan, sales force, and the sales force budget. Describe the organization of your sales force. Explain the two major elements involved in staffing the sales force–personnel planning and employment planning, discuss what is involved in training your sales force.

Section Three: How will you motivate, compensate, evaluate and lead your sales people? Present and discuss the five elements of the motivation mix as related to your salesforce, explain the basic methods of compensating sales people and the method you have chosen for your own salesforce, review three approaches to leadership and suggest leadership techniques for improving your potential effectiveness as the sales manager of your division, discuss why salespeople must be evaluated, who should evaluate them, when they should be evaluated what performance criteria should be evaluated, and how you intend to conduct evaluations.

Conclusion: What did you accomplish in this work and summarize the major ‘take-aways’ from this assignment?

My assignment three was a bust and I was have been allowed to come up with a new proposal that will fit this assignment. This is a desperation attempt to get this done on time so please be quick to respond. 2 pages is plenty as I am not looking to get a perfect score just trying to avoid a failing grade.

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Select one theory that is useful to your practice setting. ( Use Dorothea Orem’s Nursing Theory ) Research the literature for refereed journal articles that discuss the use of the theory in practice.  (use chapter 3 of Parker & Smith to review theory) In a 6-8 page 6th edition APA paper (this does not include the title page and reference page): Provide an overview of the theory Discuss the rationale for selection of this theory Develop a plan to implement the theory Describe barriers and challenges to implementation How would you evaluate the effectiveness of care provided using this theory

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How does “Globalizaiton from the Ground Up” on BBLearn readings explain the process? Based upon the lectures, other readings, and film “A Place Called Chiapas”, how do globalization, neoliberalism, and the World Trade Organization impact on small scale societies?

Reading material see attached file “#1 Globalization from the Ground Up”

#2. Forum: Globalization, Agribusiness and Food

After reading the assigned articles in the textbook and BBLearn and watching the movie “Food Inc.”, explain what you find are the practices and policies that first have created the myriad of problems and suggest possible solutions to the food crisis.

Reading link: http://www.vox.com/2014/4/23/5627992/big-food-michael-pollan-thinks-wall-street-has-way-too-much-influence

Reading material see attached file “#2 CanGMOsnorganicexist”

#3. Forum: The water crisis

What are the causes of the water crisis world wide according to the movie “Blue Gold” and the assigned articles in your textbook and on BBLearn? What do you think are tenable public policies to correct this crisis? What effect do dams have on the supply of healthy fresh water?

Having many new members of the project team you feel it is important to have each member involved in the project team to understand the procurement portion of the project. Write a paper addressing the following points:

Summarize what project procurement management is.
Include in your summary the major project procurement processes.
Address why procurement management is a key part of the project management process.

Support your paper with a minimum of three (3) external resources In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 6-8 pages not including title and reference pages.

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards

Andrew worked as a chef in medium-sized restaurants until he decided to persue his interest in health food and went to work with an obesity clinic. That was five years ago and Andrew is now ready to start his own restaurant for people at risk for obesity or just those who want to watch their calories. Though health food can fetch higher prices, Andrew has decided to keep his rates reasonable considering the socioeconomic profile of obesity sufferers and the location of his restaurant.

Andrew plans to serve only the main meals. His restaurant can seat 15 customers at a time. Both lunch and dinner will be available for two hours and a diner is expected to occupy a seat for about 1 hour. The restaurant will be open Monday through Friday of each week throughout the year except for the first two weeks of July when Andrew vacations with his family.

COST TO RUN

Average revenue, including juices (per meal)……… $ 42

Average cost of the food (per meal)……………………. $ 12

Chef’s and waiters’ salaries (per year)………………… $59,920

Rent (premises, equipment) (per month)…………. $ 4,200

Cleaning (linen and premises) (per month)…………… $ 840

Replacement of dishes, cutlery, glasses (per month) $ 300

Utilities, advertising, telephone (per month)…………… …$ 2,000

Healthy Eating Trends

Obesity is a growing health concern in the U.S. As health awareness grows, people are more likely to eat health. However, Andrew’s restaurant will be the first of its kind in the area. His first concern is whether the idea will find enough takers. He accepts that he might lose money during the first few weeks, but wants to know how many people he must attract to break even.

Breakeven

The formulas are as follows:

Breakeven in units = Total fixed costs_______

Unit contribution margin

Unit contribution margin= Unit sales price – Variable cost per unit

= $42 – $12

= $30

The remaining cost items are considered fixed costs. The monthly cost items must be multiplied by 12 to convert them to yearly totals in order to calculate total fixed costs which amounts to $ 141,000.

Breakeven point in meals = 141,000 / 30 = 4700 meals

CVP Analysis

Review Decision Case 1 (Steve and Linda Hom) starting on page 984 of your text. In your initial post, answer the two case questions:

Compute the annual breakeven number of meals and sales revenue for the restaurant.
Compute the number of meals and the amount of sales revenue needed to earn operating income of $75,600 for the year.

In addition, address the following in one to two paragraphs:

Identify and discuss several qualitative factors that should be considered in the decision process in addition to the quantitative data already computed in the case assignment.
What are the potential benefits of applying CVP analysis to business decision making?
Provide an example of another business scenario that could benefit from CVP analysis and explain how you would apply CVP analysis in the decision-making process

HR ethics are important to organizations as they can have legal and moral implications. In this assignment, you will develop a plan to resolve some of the ethical and legal issues involved in a merger. Use the University online library and textbooks to read about ethical and legal issues.

Consider the following scenario:

As part of the employment contracts, employees have certain rights. For example, employees have the right to not be coerced into situations against their will. They expect to be able to access the information, which affects their job, company, and career. Such work situations can increase stress, lower self-esteem and productivity, cause loss of trust, and decrease efficiency.

Good employees who are looking for a more secure work environment may resign and take valuable tacit knowledge and talent with them. It is the responsibility of HR management to create an ethical work environment before, during, and after the merger.

Instructions:

As a strategic HR Director, you have been asked to identify ethical and legal issues involved in a merger and develop a plan to resolve these issues. Your plan should address the following:

Identify specific legal and ethical issues that should be considered before, during, and after the merger.
Develop an implementation plan for managing the potential legal and ethical concerns for the merger.
Explain how the proposed plan would help managers establish an ethical work environment.
Develop a plan for how to resolve ethical and legal issues.

Write a 4-to-5-page plan in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources

HR ethics are important to organizations as they can have legal and moral implications. In this assignment, you will develop a plan to resolve some of the ethical and legal issues involved in a merger. Use the University online library and textbooks to read about ethical and legal issues.

Consider the following scenario:

As part of the employment contracts, employees have certain rights. For example, employees have the right to not be coerced into situations against their will. They expect to be able to access the information, which affects their job, company, and career. Such work situations can increase stress, lower self-esteem and productivity, cause loss of trust, and decrease efficiency.

Good employees who are looking for a more secure work environment may resign and take valuable tacit knowledge and talent with them. It is the responsibility of HR management to create an ethical work environment before, during, and after the merger.

Instructions:

As a strategic HR Director, you have been asked to identify ethical and legal issues involved in a merger and develop a plan to resolve these issues. Your plan should address the following:

Identify specific legal and ethical issues that should be considered before, during, and after the merger.
Develop an implementation plan for managing the potential legal and ethical concerns for the merger.
Explain how the proposed plan would help managers establish an ethical work environment.
Develop a plan for how to resolve ethical and legal issues.

Write a 4-to-5-page plan in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources

Using the recommendation memo and network diagram, develop a high-level plan for implementing the changes and mitigating vulnerabilities and convergence issues. The high-level plan should include all the system development life cycle (SDLC) gates/decision points and all relevant tasks. Describe and relate the implementation solution to CIA and incorporate, people, processes and technology to this plan.

This is a combination of a paper and a detailed list of steps and resources that you would follow to implement and complete this project. Think about all of the actions, resources, and tasks that you would need in order to effect a successful implementation. These should also be included as part of the plan. The instructor may provide a template to use with this assignment. The minimum structure for this assignment is below: