Staffing Plan for a Growing Business

Please choose from one (1) of the scenarios below. Note: The scenario that you choose in this assignment will be the one (1) with which you continue for Assignment 2.

Scenario 1

You are a Human Resources Manager of an expanding technology company consisting of 170 employees that develops and distributes small electronic devices. Over the past two (2) years, a research group formed, designed, and built prototypes of small remote surveillance cameras used for security. Recently, your company won a contract to build and provide these remote surveillance cameras to various government agencies. The contract will begin with your company supplying these cameras to agencies within your home state. If all orders are fulfilled sufficiently, the contract will be expanded to supplying agencies outside of your home state.

For the immediate future, you will need to secure a larger facility and hire more staff to sustain the first part of the contract. This staff will consist of ten (10) Assembly Technicians, one (1) Certified Quality Control Engineer, one (1) Contract Administrator, and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional. Meanwhile, there is a contract clause requiring that you provide a staffing plan in order to ensure future product deliveries and sustain the possible future growth. 

Scenario 2

You are a former certified education administrator who departed your former position to become the owner of a small, in-home day care consisting of you and a part-time assistant where you care for children from age three (3) to age ten (10). Over the course of time, your demographic population has increased due to significant business growth that has resulted in many families relocating to your area. With more businesses projected to move to the area and the building of new housing developments, it is projected that this growth could be long term.

You have decided that this is a good opportunity to expand your day care business as you have received many inquiries for childcare. In order to comply with your home state regulations, you will require a larger facility and will need to hire additional staff in order to sustain the larger demand for day care. This staff will consist of five (5) Certified Day Care Professionals, one (1) Registered Nurse Professional, five (5) After-School Assistants and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional. You have secured approval for a bank loan and qualify for future loans for future expansion if your current endeavor is successful. Meanwhile, the state in which you operate has requested that you provide a staffing plan before it will issue licensure for your expanded capacity.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments.

Select one (1) of the scenarios and write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Identify two (2) types of staffing models that could apply to your chosen scenario and determine which model would be best suited for efficiency, productivity, and possible future growth. Examine the significant effect of each identified staffing model on processes that may be occurring within the organization (e.g., outsourcing, contingent workers, consulting firms, etc.).
2. Predict the major potential legal issues that you may encounter when establishing equal employment opportunities and diversity within the workplace while still aiming to acquire employees with the needed certifications and credentials. Next, explain the method of achieving transparency within your staffing model. Justify your response.
3. Specify three (3) tasks that you need to perform to identify, analyze, and develop job requirements and task statements that you will include in formalized job descriptions. Next, predict the frequency with which you would need to review and adjust these job descriptions as your company progresses. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Describe three (3) methods to deal with high employee turnover and the availability of employees with required knowledge, skills, or abilities. Next, describe the primary manner in which the described succession-planning methods would be beneficial to your company. Justify your response.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies
 

Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
2. Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
3. Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor.  Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
4. Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

You are the manager of Acme Fireworks, a fireworks retailer who sells fireworks, puts on ground display fireworks, and large aerial display fireworks. The company started in the owner’s garage two years ago and now has 15 employees that you manage. The company started as a sole proprietorship, and the owner has never changed the entity. The owner has informed you that the company has received inquiries from several large businesses wondering if the company could create several fireworks displays on a regular basis. The owner told the inquirers that the company could fill such display orders, and a price per display was agreed upon. It was discussed that most of the cost for a fireworks display is for skilled labor, insurance, and the actual service of setting off the fireworks. No other details were discussed. The owner is anticipating that new employees will need to be hired, but he is worried that if the large orders for fireworks displays do not continue, the company will not have the funds to pay the new employees. The owner is now considering changing the business entity, but he does not know what entity to form or how to form it.
This is what the paper is wrote about need to answer these two question about this topic. 

• Analyze whether the owner formed a contract with the businesses, and apply the five essential elements of an enforceable contract.
• Explain the potential personal liability to Acme Fireworks if a spectator is injured by a stray firework from a fireworks display.

Need 2 pages no copying if use references please add them 

This Discussion Forum is available for posting during Weeks 6 and 7. The Final deadline to post here is Sunday, February 23 at 11:59 pm. You need only make one post during this time. As always, posts should be short and pithy, but insightful: if you exceed 300 words you are trying harder than necessary, and if you write less than 150 words you’re probably not trying hard enough.

Posts in this Board should react to ideas or concepts appearing in readings assigned during Weeks 6 and 7. Here are some suggested prompts:

• Your own topic: As always, if you don’t like any of the topics listed below, you can simply identify a concept from the reading that you do want to write about and go from there.
• The Visiting Gust Artist Lecture: As always, if you attend one of the weekly Guest Artist Lectures you may write about the ideas discussed during the talk. The lectures are always Thursday at 6:00.
  • February 13: Mary Kelly
  • February 20: Oscar Tuazon
• The impact of art can be very personal. Is there an idea in this week’s reading about “belonging”, about “emerging from shadows”, about recovering “neglected” stories that feels personal to your life or life’s experiences?
• Chang quotes mid-20th century artist Dong Kingman as saying his art is rooted “in between” west and east culture. Indeed, Kingman could not escape such perceptions whether he intended them or not. (p. x). Roughly 70 years have passed since these remarks. Do you think artists identifying or perceived as “ethnic” today are also fated to always be seen as bridging two cultures? Are they likely to share Kingman’s wish to “be myself”? (p. x)
• Trend defines elsewhere as having two distinct senses on his book’s first page. When you think about “elsewhere” in your own life, which of Trend’s two senses do you think best fits your own life?

Art Discussion:

[Directions: This discussion board will be open for comments during Weeks 6 and 7. You need only to comment here just one time–though be sure you also comment in Reading Discussion II. Your post may respond to a specific prompt below; or, you may reply to another student’s post; or you may initiate a topic of your own. Posts in all discussion boards should be between 150-300 words long. Final posting deadline: Sunday, February 23 at 11:59 pm.]

For Art Discussion Board II, please focus on the artists and artworks featured on the website The Art Story www.theartstory.org (Links to an external site.) Specifically, we are considering three of their Movement pages: pages for performance art, body art, and feminist art. These movements overlap somewhat in their timing; they display some similar values and goals; some of the artists may be associated with more than one of the movements.

Click here to read about:

• the movement in performance art (Links to an external site.)
• the movement in body art (Links to an external site.)
• the movement feminist art (Links to an external site.)

For planning purposes:

• Week 6 lectures will consider performance art.
• Week 7 lectures will consider feminist art.
• Body art will figure into both topics.

Sample prompts [copy and paste the prompt you choose into the opening of your post] :

• Identify two artists or two specific artworks and explain what about them interests or inspires or infuriates or entices you.
• Discuss a theme from one of these pages or artworks that you find interesting.
• Discuss whether the images speak to “divided culture”
• Discuss what they say about “belonging”
• Discuss what they say about identity
• Discuss ways in which they demonstrate political activism or political action.

After reading the assigned articles, you have two options to complete the assignment:

Option 1:

Write the answers to the questions (see below) in a Word document, and then submit your answers to your instructor.

Option 2:

Take some notes regarding the items below, and then schedule a Skype
conversation with your instructor to discuss your ideas and provide
examples of the identified concepts. Contact your instructor via email,
as early as possible in the week to inform her or him regarding how you
would like to complete this activity. If you chose the second option, be
sure to schedule the meeting with your instructor before the due date, Sunday by 11:59 p.m. (AZ time).

1. Briefly summarize the history of the profession: please address
   specific milestones in the profession. You can use the timeline (e.g.,
   60s, 70s, 80s) to organize your presentation or organize your
   presentation around several key names and events in the profession
   (e.g., names of prominent figures in the field).
2. Provide an original example (based on nature, a family, a community,
   etc.,) illustrating what systems thinkers mean when they talk about
   ‘homeostasis’ (Chabot, 175), and an ‘identified patient’ (Chabot, 175)
3. Provide an original example (based on nature, a family, a community,
   etc.,) illustrating what systems thinkers mean when they talk about
   first-order change and second-order change (Chabot, 176-177)
4. Provide a meaningful and clear original example illustrating what it
   means when systems theorists state that a group is more than the sum of
   its parts (referred to by Chabot on page 180)
5. Provide a meaningful and clear original example that illustrates any systemic concept that was touched upon in these readings

We are looking to assess your understanding of the history of the MFT
profession and your beginning understanding of some basic systemic
concepts. So approach this activity as if you were trying to explain
this to someone who has no understanding of systems and is requesting
your help.

Length: 2-3 pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas
and concepts that are 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.

Chabot, D. R. (2011). Family systems theories of psychotherapy. In J. C.
Norcross, G. R. VandenBos, D. K. Freedheim, J. C. Norcross, G. R.
VandenBos, D. K. Freedheim (Eds.), History of psychotherapy: Continuity
and change (2nd ed.) 173-202.

http://proxy1.ncu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pzh&AN=2010-09280-006&site=ehost-live

Rambo, A. H., & Green, S. (2005, Sept./Oct.). MFTs and Models: Some historical reflections.
MFTsandModels.pdf

AAMFT On-line Application Process. American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
http://www.aamft.org/imis15/content/membership/Join_AAMFT.aspx

Review Website

Aronson, D. Introduction to Systems Thinking.
http://www.thinking.net/Systems_Thinking/Intro_to_ST/intro_to_st.html

Guideline: At least 6 pages, APA Style Narrative

Background: Many individuals believe that ethical leadership is simply a matter of leaders having good character. By having “the right values” or being a person of “strong character,” the ethical leader can set the example for others and withstand any temptations that may occur along the way. Without denying the importance of good character and the right values, the reality of ethical leadership is far more complex and the stakes are much higher. Importantly, over the past 25 years, instruction, assessment, accountability, globalization, and incredible technological advance have changed the framework of educational leadership in the United States.

Assignment: In a six or more page essay, develop a framework for 21^st Century ethical school leadership that embodies the following leadership themes:

• Focus on Purpose, Vision, and Organizational Success
• Responsibility
• Performance
• Effective Leadership and the School Culture
• Relationships and Stakeholder Support
• Decision-making and Moral Reasoning
• Instructional Accountability, Policy Development, and Policy Implementation

Be sure to define ethical school leadership in your narrative. Use at least six resources (including your textbook) to frame a view of ethical leadership that takes into account not only the leader, but also his constituents (followers and key stakeholders), the context or situation that the leader and stakeholders face, the leader’s processes and skills, and the outcomes that result.

Use APA Writing Style