The Scenario

Imagine yourselves in the future. You have been married for fifteen happy and blissful years. Your spouse has been very supportive and helped you achieve both your personal and professional goals. As your fifteenth anniversary approaches, you have decided to buy your spouse a painting by a Parisian artist that he/she has always loved as a token of love and appreciation. (You want to thank her/him for standing by you since your days as an impoverished student).

You go to the web and you Google the artist. You find that she is represented by a gallery in France. The artist has a solid track record of exhibitions around the world, but she is far from being a household name.

You go to the Gallery’s website and browse through the selection of paintings that it lists by the artist. In that process, you notice that your spouse’s favorite artist is listed along several famous artists. The gallery’s website also has a section about the gallery’s heritage and long history of promoting French art around the world- especially in America and Japan. You find one painting that you especially like. The only problem is that there is no price or ordering information. You, therefore, contact the Gallery Director through the website.

After one week, you receive a response from a junior clerk at the art gallery. He says that the painting that you want is extremely expensive and the subject of many inquiries. He cannot, therefore, offer you that specific painting for sale, but he attaches photographs of several other paintings by the same artist that he says are smaller and priced more reasonably. He does not, however, list the price of the paintings. You write back to him, inquiring about the price of one of the paintings that you think your spouse might like. He responds after two days, saying that the painting is available for an exorbitant $15,000. That far exceeds your budget of $3,000. You are, nonetheless, determined to buy a painting by the artist as a gift for your spouse.

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What can you do in order to increase your leverage or power with the gallery to achieve the price you desire? (Please suggest at least four specific things that you could do).

What are the factors that allow the gallery to have a relatively condescending or dismissive attitude towards you and your budget? What can you do to change, blunt or moderate those sources of power?

Assignment Content

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   Refer to the following Week 1 – Required Learning Activities:

   • Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases, Ch. 1: What is Business Strategy?
   • Collins & Porras: Building Your Company’s Vision

   Purpose of Assignment
   The purpose of this assignment is to help students to begin the strategic planning process for the organization they choose to study, which begins with mission/vision. Here the student will identify and assess their organization’s mission, vision & values, working to assess how well these meet the criteria from our week 1 readings above. The student will then craft their own proposed improvements to their organization’s mission, vision & values, and/or craft and present their own mission, vision & values statements in their place. Note that if one or more of these statements are missing in this organization, the student should work to apply their learnings from the week 1 readings above to create their own proposed statement(s) for their organization.
   Assignment Steps
   Choose an organization that you would like to study and ultimately create your own strategic plan for. This should be either the organization that you work for currently, one that you most want to work for once you complete your Bachelor’s Degree, or one where you have worked in the past (do contact me in a Private Message before choosing an organization other than one of those above so we can discuss ahead of time).
   Write an approximately 700-1000 word paper in which you address the following:
   • Identify and provide a brief description of this organization, including its primary products/services and key markets/customers.
   • Look for the organization’s mission, vision & values statements, and apply specific learnings from the Chapter 1 and the Collins/Porras reading to assess these statements and identify any improvements you would recommendto them. Note – if the organization does not present a mission, vision or values statement, apply your learnings from the readings to craft your own proposed statement(s).
   • Identify and evaluate the organization’s approach to the strategic management, and any improvements you would propose to make it more effective.
   Cite 3 scholarly references from the UOPX Library, including at least one peer-reviewed references.
   Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
   Submit your assignment.
   Resources:

   • Center for Writing Excellence
   • Reference and Citation Generator
   • Grammar and Writing Guides
   • Learning Team Toolkit

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Format: 3 pages, double-spaced, typed, #12 font Content:

1. For the Career Research Paper, choose a career that interests you or one suggested by the career assessments done in the class. Answer these questions:
2. Describe the career. What are the typical job duties? Why are you interested in this career?
3. Are certain personality types and skills desired and/or required? How does your personality type match this career or not? Go back to your Do What You Are (DWYA) assessment in CollegeScope.
4. What are your interest codes for this career? How does your interests and values match this career? Go to Career Cruising.
5. What are some advantages and disadvantages of working in this career? What type of environment will you be working in?
6. What is a typical day, week, month, year? What is the salary or pay? Part time? Full time?
7. What is the job outlook? Is there a demand or not in this field? How difficult or not difficult is it to gain employment in this career?
8. What are the educational requirements? Licensures?
9. What are related majors or majors needed for this career?
10. What are related occupations for this career? Research other occupations similar that may be of interest.
11. What are the growth opportunities?
12. What interesting facts did you discover?
13. Extra: Find a job advertisement on this career and paste it on a piece of paper or download it from a website (extra)
14. To research your career, use at least 4 sources of information:

• Computer
• Texts, E-books, Articles, Library Research (see Discussion Five for a review of library resources).
• Informational Interview: It is encouraged you use an interview with a person in your career of interest. Included is a separate sheet that talks about Informational Interviews and possible questions to ask. See handout for Informational Interviewing under Additional Resources below.
• Career Cruising, Do What You Are (DWYA), and Multiple Intelligence (MI) Assessments you took in class. These will answer a variety of questions.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/ (Links to an external site.)
• Outlook Quarterly and Career Outlook Publications: https://stats.bls.gov/careeroutlook/ (Links to an external site.)

1. Include a “Works Cited” listing of the sources you used. At least two sources in the work cited page.

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Week 3 – Assignment 2: Calculate Investing in Productivity Improvements (HR)

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Instructions

Prepare a policy position that addresses the issue, “Does it make sense to invest in the productivity improvements offered by the HR module?” Access the Spreadsheet in this week’s Resources titled Activity 3 ROI Analysis.

For this exercise, you need the spreadsheet and both the Capstone Courier and Annual Report. Use the Round 2 reports for the analysis. Human Resources statistics like workforce complement and turnover rate are on Courier page 12. Use Annual Report Income Statement’s total Labor cost to estimate payroll costs.

Listed below are the assumptions for this exercise:

1. These are the maximums for recruiting and training costs:
   1. Recruiting costs per new worker are $5000.
   2. Each employee trains 80 hours per year at $20 per training hour.
   3. Workforce complement increases by 4.2% to cover the 80 hours people are in training.
2. Assume the following productivity payoffs:
   1. Round 2 – 102%
   2. Round 3 – 105%
   3. Round 4 – 108%
   4. Round 5 – 112%
   5. Round 6 – 115%
   6. Round 7 – 118%

Therefore, in Round 7 each worker would be 1.18 times as effective as the beginning worker, and your workforce complement would fall to 1/1.18 or 85% of its current level.

For a quick evaluation, assume your total labor expenditure from the Annual Report Income Statement will stay flat for the next 6 years.

Part 1: Using this week’s course readings and supplemental readings, summarize (1-2 paragraphs) the importance of reviewing ROI for investments in human resources

Part 2: How much of a cost savings might you expect in the seventh year? What are the savings for all 6 years? What are the Recruiting and Training costs? Would the total cost savings justify the necessary expenditures in recruiting and training made over time?

Part 3: Assume your turnover rate doubles and no increase in workforce size. Are the Recruitment and training costs still justified?

Length: 1 – 2 pages of analysis. Please submit a copy of your spreadsheet as well.

Resources: Supplement this weeks’ readings with a minimum of one additional scholarly article.

Your presentation 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 response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.