Imagine you are the HR manager at a company, and a female employee came to you upset because she felt a male coworker was creating a hostile work environment by repeatedly asking her out on dates even after she said “no”. What would you do?

Write a one (1) page paper in which you:

Formulate the conversation you would have with the employee, based the concepts found in Chapter 2 in your textbook.

Summarize the conversation you would have with the employee’s male co-worker, based on the concepts found in Chapter 2 of your textbook.

Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

Discuss team cohesiveness dealing with:

Diversity

Benefits, problems/challenges of managing Diversity

Performance Review    

How do companies go about designing products and services?

What are some of the issues with product and services design?

What are some of the differences in designing products for manufacturing and services?

What is operations consulting and how can it help firms to become more efficient?

What are some of the tools used by operations consultants?

How can one execute the tools of operations consulting to improve business processes?

Watch the video titled “Fruit Guys ─ Strategy,”* also located in the Learn section of Week 3 of your Blackboard course. Identify two or three (2-3) businesses that could use the five (5) questions the Fruit Guys used to determine effectiveness. Provide a rationale for your answer. Reply to at least one (1) of your classmate’s posts.

Considering the Impact of Competition on HRM Within a Real Business (10 Points)

Pick an organization that you are familiar with and do a competitive environmental scan for it. Then answer and discuss the following questions:

How does the competitive environment for the company affect the organization’s HR function?

Which strategy would be best suited to address the effects discussed?

Provide a rationale for your answers. Reply to at least one (1) of your classmate’s posts.

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Microsoft® Excel® 

Select a business operations dataset from the internet or other sources which can be used for forecasting in the University Library. 

Develop a minimum of three quantitative forecasts using Microsoft® Excel®.

Compare and contrast each quantitative forecast you develop.

Choose the one forecast you determine would be the best for the firm and be prepared to explain why you chose this.

Evaluate the impact this forecast would have on the firm from a financial metrics standpoint.

Develop a 700-word report in which you describe your forecasting project including details on all the assignment steps.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. 

Develop a 2- to 3 – slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, including talking points, highlighting your work on the three phases of the Six Sigma process improvement project. 

Use the same business: Chick-Fil-A

Execute the analyze phase of the Six Sigma DMAIC project including the following:

Determine the most likely causes of defects.

Understand why defects are generated by identifying the key variables most likely to create process variation.

Identify necessary/unnecessary process steps.

Possible illegal discrimination at tractors, Inc.

As the new human resource manager, you have been asked to identify those areas of current performance management system that could face legal challenge. Develop a one page summantion,  the currentsystem identifying the potentially illegal aspect of the current system and your suggestion for making the current system more legally sound.

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Microsoft Excel®, Case Study: MBA Schools in Asia-Pacific 

Review the Case Study: MBA Schools in Asia-Pacific and the Case Study: MBA Schools in Asia-Pacific data set. 

Prepare a 1,050-word managerial report for your boss.

Use the following questions for guidelines and directions on what to include in the report:

What is the type of data (Quantitative or Qualitative) for each of the columns (variables) in the dataset? If quantitative, is the data discrete or continuous? Neatly summarize your response in a table for all the columns (variables).

Using Excel®, find the mean, median, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, and the three quartiles for each of the quantitative variables identified in part 1 above. Neatly summarize in a table on this document. Comment on what you observe.

What are the minimum and maximum full-time enrollments? Which schools have the minimum and maximum full-time enrollments?

What is the average number of students per faculty member? Is this low or high? What does this mean to prospective applicants who are interested in pursuing an MBA in one of the leading international business schools?

What are the mean, median, and modal ages? What does this mean to prospective applicants?

What is the mean percentage of foreign students? How many and which schools have 1% and 0% foreign students? Which schools have highest percentage of foreign students? Please state these percentages.

What percentage of schools require the GMAT test?

What percentage of schools require English tests such as Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)?

What percentage of schools require work experience? From this percentage, does this appear to be a significant factor in gaining admissions?

What are the mean and median starting salaries? Which schools have the minimum and maximum starting salaries? How much are these minimum and maximum salaries?

What are the mean tuition for foreign students and for local students? Does there appear to be a significant difference? What is the difference between the two means?

How many schools require work experience and how many of them don’t? What is the mean starting salary for schools requiring work experience? What is the mean starting salary for schools requiring no work experience?

How many schools require English tests and how many don’t? What is the mean starting salary for schools requiring English tests? What is the mean starting salary for schools requiring no English tests?

Comment on the skewness for the data on starting salaries:

Plot a histogram and determine the skewness.

Find the mean, median, and mode for starting salaries and compare the three measures to determine skewness.

Finally, use Empirical Rule on the starting salaries and determine whether the salaries follow the Empirical Rule.

Format your assignment consistent with APA format. 

You will  create a pamphlet to be used in presenting to a community or church group in order to solicit support for substance abuse/addiction treatment. In your presentation or pamphlet, discuss the prevalence of addiction and what communities can do to help. Use at least 3 statistics regarding addiction, and give at least 3 ideas of ways communities can help.  Make sure to document your sources in current APA format.

MY PAMPHLET NEEDS TO BE ON THE OPIOD EPEDIC IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE

Pamphlet Instructions:

Your pamphlet may be constructed in Microsoft Word and must have an attractive, appealing design. It may be bi-fold or tri-fold, but it must include the following:

·         Information on both sides of the paper;

·         8 ½ X 11 or 8 ½ X 14 paper size;

·         12-point Times New Roman font;

·         A minimum of 3 statistics and 3 suggestions for community help; and

·         A separate reference page to be submitted with the pamphlet.

Supply Chain Fundamentals and More Management Techniques: Evaluate how supply chain management affects the process of project management. Examine the impact SCM has on your project completion.