Assignment 2: Evaluation of Agency’s Public Personnel Administration, Part 2

Due Week 4 and worth 180 points

Refer to the Scenario for Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Revise the previous assignment based on your professor’s feedback.
2. Analyze the organizational design of the selected agency’s human resource management in relationship to the entire organization. Assess its strengths and weaknesses. (Title this section Organizational Design)
3. Assess the agency in terms of its global or international linkages, highlighting its application of theory to its approach to personnel management. (Title this section Global Linkages and Personnel Management)
4. Analyze at least three (3) of the major components of the agency’s human resource system’s goals and practices regarding the recruitment and hiring of a qualified workforce. (Title this section Personnel Recruitment and Hiring Practices)
5. Evaluate the agency’s approach to training and programs provided for new and existing employees for the development of knowledge, skills, and overall competencies, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses. (Title this section Employee Skills Training)
6. Recommend at least two (2) actions the agency could take to improve in the areas of recruiting and training a qualified workforce. (Title this section Recruiting and Training Recommendations)
7. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites (Include no more than one non-government Website)

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; citations and 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, revisions of the previous assignment, and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the major components of the personnel management system, procedures, and processes in the public sector.
• Analyze the linkages between theory, research, practice, and teaching in the field of public personnel management.
• Recommend improvements to processes involved in public personnel management and / or solutions to problems confronting those in the field.
• Develop a proposal for strategic public personnel management for a specific setting.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in public personnel management.
• Write clearly and concisely about public personnel management using proper writing mechanics.

ou are the elementary physical education teacher for School X in Grenville, GA. You have decided to expose your students to some curriculum materials in physical education you have learned while attending a professional development offered by your school district on instructional teaching designs. You were thinking about using some of them in your classes throughout the 2018 academic year, but there is one style that you would like to incorporate pretty soon in your classes for a unit plan that will start in two weeks: the directive teaching style. You think that this teaching style would be highly beneficial to your second and third grade physical education students. Now before you can actually use this approach in your classes, you come to the following conclusions: (1) this model has several essential elements. You should list and discuss each of them in your plan. (2) This model makes some clear assumptions about teaching. List and discuss them. (3) Also, this model has some assumptions about learning. List and discuss them. (4) In your opinion, what domains are most feasible for your students to be able to learn from this teaching style (e. g., cognitive, psychomotor, & affective, or perhaps all three of them)? (5) Finally, discuss the teaching and learning features for this teaching style.

This is a 2 part assignment Please read carefully!

Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling.

Assignment 1:

Your readings investigate the organization of the encouraging classroom. Topic include examination of how the encouraging classroom reduces school anxiety, the vital role of developmentally appropriate practices, physical layout of the encouraging classroom, organizing for prosocial development, and encouraging family members to volunteer.

Part 1: Essay

In your essay, provide a comprehensive explanation of: (each prompt should be 510 words a total of 1020 words)

• How to create an encouraging classroom that reduces school anxiety with specific, research-based examples and ideas
• The definition and examples of implementation of developmentally appropriate practices that promote an encouraging classroom.

Assignment 2: Discuss each Discussion Question….each question should be answered in 10-12 sentences each. Please number each question.

• What is the relationship of developmentally appropriate practice today and the encouraging classroom?
• How can the encouraging classroom benefit from family members and other classroom volunteers?
• Bullying is often a hot topic of discussion in modern media. How effectively do you feel that schools are dealing with this issue? Justify your response.
• How does the concept of emotional intelligence define the central guidance issue?
• How does the adult teach conflict management skills to children? What experience do you have in teaching this skill to children

Assignment 2: Marketing Plan

Due Week 6 and worth 100 points

This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a marketing plan and sales strategy, and a marketing budget. Note: You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment.

For the first six (6) months your company is in business—to give you time to perfect your product and to learn from actual customers—you will start marketing and selling in your own community, a radius of twenty-five (25) miles from where you live.

For most non-alcoholic beverages, marketing (as opposed to the actual product itself) is key to success. Cola drinks, for example, are fairly undifferentiated, as are many energy drinks, juices, bottled water, and the like. Companies producing these types of beverages differentiate themselves and attract market share through marketing and brand awareness—both of which are critical to success.

Section 1: Marketing Plan & Sales Strategy (MS Word or equivalent)

Write the three to five (3-5) page Marketing Plan & Sales Strategy section of your business plan, in which you:

1.Define your company’s target market.

oAnalyze the types of consumers who will be drinking your beverage in demographic terms (i.e., age, education level, income, gender, ethnic group, etc.). Support your analysis with actual data on the size of the demographic groups in your local community (nearby zip codes).

oOutline the demographic information for your company specified on the worksheet in the course text (p. 107 | Demographic Description). Click here for help accessing a specific page number in your eBook.

o Hints: At American FactFinder (http://census.gov), you will find demographic information on potential consumers in your area. If you are selling through other businesses (such as grocery stores), indicate the number of those businesses in your local area. You will find information about such businesses in your local area at County Business Patterns (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html). Check Chapter 2 of Successful Business Plan for more research sources.

1.Assess your company’s market competition.

oUse the factors listed in the course text graphic (p. 123 | Assess the Competition) to assess your company’s market competition.

oDefend your strategy to successfully compete against market leaders in your segment.

o Hints: For example, in the soft drink market, it is intimidating to try to compete against Coke and Pepsi. Newcomers in mature markets typically must pursue niche markets or even create new market categories, as Red Bull did with energy drinks.

oDefend your plan to differentiate yourself from the competition using the information detailed on the worksheet in the text (p. 131 | Market Share Distribution).

o Hints: Every business faces competition and the non-alcoholic beverage market is an especially crowded market.

3.Clarify your company’s message using the information provided on the worksheet in the text (p. 160 | The Five F’s).

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o Hints: Before you choose your marketing vehicles, you must determine the message you want to convey through those vehicles.

1.Identify the marketing vehicles you plan to use to build your company’s brand. Justify the key reasons why they will be effective. Provide examples of other non-alcoholic beverage companies that use these tactics effectively.

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o Hints: If you plan to use online marketing tactics, refer to the worksheet in the text (p.171 | Online Marketing Tactics) to aid your response. Remember that even if you’re selling through grocery stores you need to build your brand and social media is a major part of that in regard to beverages. Some of the marketing tactics that beverage companies use include: sampling in grocery stores, building a following on social media, sponsoring events, exhibiting at trade shows attended by retailers, and so on. You will use a combination of these tactics. For example, if you decide to give out samples in grocery stores, promote your sampling on your social media networks and those of the grocery store.

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o Hints: If you are planning to distribute through resellers, describe how you plan to reach them, for example, through industry trade shows or by establishing your own sales force. For information on trade shows, visit the Trade Show News Network (http://www.tsnn.com). You can exhibit or network at these shows.

5.Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:

a.Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise.

b.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.

c.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.

Section 2: Marketing Budget (MS Excel worksheets template)

Section 2 uses the “Business Plan Financials” MS Excel template (see: Course Required Files in Week 1). Use the “Business Plan Financials Guide” (see: Course Required Files in Week 1) to support your development of the Marketing Budget.

6.Complete the Marketing Budget worksheet for your company.

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o Hints: The goal of the marketing budget is to help you determine how much it will cost you to reach your market and achieve your sales goals.

o Hints: When filling out the “Marketing Budget” worksheet in the Excel spreadsheet:

§Begin in the current year and complete a marketing budget for the first year of your business. The information you enter in the marketing budget spreadsheet will flow through to your “Income Statement” in the Business Plan Financials.

§Leave the number at zero (0) for any marketing vehicles you do not intend to use.

§Remember that all marketing activities involve costs. If social media represents a significant portion of your marketing, assume you will have cost of advertising and that should be reflected on your budget. Even if a social media site charges nothing to use it, you will need to use company resources to manage the site, pay someone to execute your social media marketing campaigns, and will most likely pay for ads on that site.

§Do NOT leave the “Marketing Budget” blank, assuming you will not have any marketing costs.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Recommend effective business strategies based on an analysis of domestic and global operating environments, market dynamics, and internal capabilities.

Analyze competitive positions including foreign market entry and the resulting impact on business strategy.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic management.

Write clearly and concisely about strategic management using

Each student will select one company to research and, using David
Garvin’s Dimensions of Quality, determine how that company either meets
or perhaps fails to meet (Volkswagon, for example) customer
expectations and requirements.  The paper should be a MS Word Document,
4-5 pages in length, 12 pt. New Times Roman font and double spaced.
 You’ll use the Toulmin method of analysis on each
dimension that is applicable.  Every student (whether on line or in
class) will need to select a different company and forward their
selection to me.  In the event two students pick the same company, I’ll
use the time I received the e-mail as the selection criteria.  You can
pick any manufacturing or service related company and the greater the
variety the better.  I’ll be posting a grading rubric to help guide your
efforts.

For the on line students, the paper is due Tuesday,
August 2 by 1:30 Pacific Daylight Time.  You’ll need to make sure you’re
aware of the time zone differences.