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• Identify a common, simple event that frequently occurs in your organization that you would like to evaluate.

• Consider how you would design a flowchart to represent the current workflow.

• Consider what metrics you would use to determine the effectiveness of the current workflow and identify areas of waste.

To complete:

Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:

• Create a simple flowchart of the activity you selected. (Review the Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office document found in this week’s Learning Resources for an example.)

• Next, in your paper:

o Explain the process you have diagrammed.

o For each step or decision point in the process, identify the following:

 Who does this step? (It can be several people.)

 What technology is used?

 What policies and rules are involved in determining how, when, why, or where the step is executed?

 What information is needed for the execution of this step?

o Describe the metric that is currently used to measure the soundness of the workflow. Is it effective?

o Describe any areas where improvements could occur and propose changes that could bring about these improvements in the workflow.

o Summarize why it is important to be aware of the flow of an activity.

• Remember to include a cover page, introduction, and summary for your paper.

This Assignment is due by Day 7 of Week 8.

Note: This paper will serve as the Portfolio Assignment for the course.

•U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.b). Workflow assessment for health IT toolkit. Retrieved, June 18, 2012, from http://healthit.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt/community/health_it_tools_and_resources/919/workflow_assessment_for_health_it_toolkit/27865

This article supplies a toolkit on the planning, design, implementation, and use of health information technology. The sections of the website provide a definition of workflow, examples of workflow tools, related anecdotes, and research.

•Document: Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office (Word document)

Note: You will use this document to complete this week’s Assignment.

Please respond the following:

Evaluate the effectiveness of both team-based performance management and individual-based performance management. Suggest three (3) pros and three (3) cons of each type of management. Justify your response.
Choose three (3) of the best practices for addressing the facets of team-based performance management. Recommend a strategy for your current or past organization to incorporate the identified practices. Provide a rationale for your response.

Does evil or suffering prove the non-existence of God?
Paper details

(i) State and explain the argument from evil and suffering for the nonexistence of God. (ii) State and explain the following objections to the argument: (a) Goof cannot exist without evil, (b) Evil is a necessary means to good and (c) The universe is better with some evil in it than it could be if there was no evil.
(iii) Explain Mackie’s replies to (a),(b),and (c).
(iv)Critically evaluate Mackie’s discussion: has he successfully rejected these replies to the argument, or does (a) or (b) or (c) show that the atheist’s argument fails? Discuss.
***Your essay must be 4-6 pages long (not including quotes from other authors.) Use a 12-point font, and double-space the lines except the space between paragraphs. Be sure to include page references to our text, but you do not require a bibliography. Introduce your essay tell me what you do. Write your page first and write introduction. Thesis statment, good or not? tell me your opinions and argue for a point. Each section answer each question.

Coursework 1 Referred assignment worth 30% of the module mark:
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation which explains in detail why:
a. it is important for a retail company to segment its target audience and what methods might be used to achieve this
b. how a retail company should plan its marketing mix to meet the needs of its prime target audience.
Your presentation should consist of 10 slides.
Each slide should have 5 critical points, together with between 100 and 150 words of explanation on the slides notes section.
The presentation should be uploaded via Moodle before the deadline.

Coursework 2 Referred assignment: worth 70% of the module mark
Write an essay of between 2000 and 2500 words which examines the following statement discussed in lecture #1 of the module:
Benchmarking is the practice of being humble enough to admit that someone else is better at something and wise enough to learn how to match and even surpass them at it.
O’Dell. C., Continuous Journey, April 1994
Explain why benchmarking is important and critically analyse the value for marketing planning. Use examples to support your arguments and cite relevant theories.

Choose ONE essay from the following three and write both part 1 and 2 for 2500 words totally.

1. The Marketing Environment and PEST Analysis

Part 1
Provide a PEST Analysis of any one international market. (50 marks)

Part 2
On the basis of your PEST Analysis, provide marketing advice to companies wishing to do business in the international market chosen in Part 1. (50 marks)
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2. Culture

Part 1
Outline and explain Geert Hofestede’s and Edward T. Hall’s theories on international culture. (50 marks)

Part 2
Apply one of these theories to the marketing of British university business degrees to overseas markets in two different countries with distinct cultures. (50 marks)

3. Standardisation vs Adaptation and Global Integrated Marketing Communication

Part 1
What are the advantages and disadvantages of applying a standardised or adapted approach to products and services in overseas markets? (50 marks)

Part 2
Choosing any market, what aspects of the integrated marketing communication mix of a brand of breakfast cereal of your choice would you standardise or adapt? (50 marks)

500words each for below 2 questions

1. Specify why organizational design is important and how this impacts organizational behaviour?

2. In what ways is the managerial role changing in the 21st Century?

1500words and chose one only from below questions:
3. In your view, does team working enhance or detract from enhanced organizational performance? Illustrate your key arguments with organizationally based examples.

4. What are the key mechanisms by which managers can improve the motivation of their teams and how will they know when they have succeeded? Illustrate your key arguments with organizationally based examples.

5. What is the informal organization and how does it relate to the formal organization? Illustrate your key arguments with organizationally based examples.

Discuss the main economic challenges for a developing country in becoming a more advanced economy.

These are my coursework learning outcomes: a) Identify the nature of resource cost structure and the practical significance of different costs;

b) Explain the factors influencing optimum size and the significance of demand and supply relationships;

c) Demonstrate an understanding of the relevance and limitations of

economic theory to management decisions.

The question needed to answer for this assignment is:

You should answer the question in report form with introduction, main body and conclusion.

Global oil prices have fallen sharply over the past year, leading to significant revenue shortfalls in many energy exporting nations, while consumers in many importing countries are likely to have to pay less to heat their homes or drive their cars.

Question: How oil prices affect the AD or AS of an economy?

one of the below:

1) The petrol exporting nations

2) 30% A Critical Analysis
Write a critical analysis of one of the texts on the course. The analysis should be critical rather than descriptive. Although the work should be mainly a close textual analysis of the text (written, musical, visual) your analysis would likely be enhanced by reference to other texts or a journal article(s) and could use some secondary material to put the text in critical, historical and cultural context.

Choose one text from week 1 – 12. but please avoid Film Noir and the Femme Fatale (AB)

Answer ONE of the following questions – length 3,000 words
1. Do multinational companies of different national origin have different approaches to IHRM? Discuss with reference to multinationals of at least two nationalities.

2. Discuss factors which might influence whether multinational companies (MNCs) are more likely to attempt to follow uniform HR policies across different national subsidiaries, or to follow different policies in different places.

3. ‘As China and India integrate into global capitalism, their labour reforms benefit multinational corporations to the detriment of labour’. Critically assess with reference to one or more of the following: labour markets, informal labour/migrants, industrial relations/trade unions; skills and training, rewards, and social security.

4. To what extent do Chinese institutional and cultural factors influence MNCs’ transfer of HR practices to their subsidiaries operating in China? Discuss with reference to one or more aspects of HRM/employment practice: for example, work organisation, labour control, pay and performance management systems, skills and training, employee involvement, etc.

5. The future for advanced capitalist economies is one of convergence towards a more Anglo-Saxon ‘liberal market’ type model of HRM. Critically evaluate this statement.

6. Compare and contrast two national models of skill formation and the challenges they face. Your answer should refer to one liberal market economy and one non-liberal market economy.