Category: Business and Management

Identify the required pre-workshop activities.
Prepare a risk workshop agenda based on the Sample Agenda for a First Risk Assessment/Two-Day Risk Workshop (Figure B-8 in Practical Project Risk Management). Include suggested time intervals for each activity and justify why each agenda item is relevant for this case.
Determine the top five threats in a risk register following the Sample Simplified Risk Register Format (Figure B-11 in Practical Project Risk Management). Include information from the case for each threat.
Justify the assignment of probability and impacts for each threat identified.
Document the top three opportunities in a risk register following the Sample Simplified Risk Register Format (Figure B-11 in Practical Project Risk Management). Include information from the case for each opportunity.
Justify the assignment of probability and impacts for each opportunity identified.
Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Develop a short essay (minimum of 500 words) that answers the following:
Summarized the key points of the article
What is the objective of the article?
What are the basic concepts or terms being used? How these relate to Selecting Representatives Samples

Discussion Reply: Wk 5 Discussion – Competitive  Approach, Competitive Scope, Decision Models
You will reply to
one of your classmate’s thread. Minimum of 250 words in the body.
Minimum of 2 sources from the literature
in addition to course texts.
Use bolded headings below in the reply.
Current APA format must be used.
Use
the following Outline:
·        
Summary –  Sumarize
the author’s original thread in no less than 125 words.
·        
Critique – Discuss what you agreed with, did not
agree with and why in no less than 125 words.
Requires 6 references
Support your factual assertions with
citations.

Required Materials
Dessler, G., & Chhinzer, N. (2020). Human resources management in Canada (14th Canadian ed.). Pearson Canada Inc. 
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-485619-3 
Chapter 5
Case Incident: How to Downsize Successfully While Using HRP Fundamentals
A successful franchise owner of a prestigious sporting goods chain is
feeling the effects of technology, with more and more online sales and
less and less customers in the shops. Locally there are three stores,
and typically each store needs the following positions staffed for
optimum profitability and success: 
a store manager
an assistant manager
five department managers
and 20 customer service representatives, 
Averaging $1 200 000 in annual revenue. However, there has been a
trend of 20 percent sales decline in stores, with an increase of 30
percent sales online (last year the online revenue stream was $300
000). The franchise owner was able to handle all of the online sales
with a team of five full-time remote workers (working from home) last
year. 
The owner wants each store to maintain its productivity, which he
measures as the revenue per employee. He also thinks that there is
potential to grow the online business.
Please help the owner by answering the following questions.
Instructions
Research
Conduct research in order to get information to address the following
questions. Ensure you use some of the qualitative and quantitative
techniques described in the course textbook to help formulate your
answers.
a. Using your HR planning expertise, forecast the demand of labour in
the stores and the online environment over the next three years.
b. Assuming an annual 15 percent turnover level of in-store workers
and a 30 percent turnover level of online-focused employees, determine
overall HR supply estimates over the next three years.
c. Report the number of employees that will be surplus or shortages for each part of the business and for each year.
d. Report the numbers of any employees that will need to be
terminated each year and the services that should be provided for them.
e. Additionally, provide some suggestions of activities you could
engage in to determine supply details by internal vs. external
candidates.
Do you forecast a labour shortage or surplus? Develop a clear plan to help address the forecast labour shortage or surplus.
Part 1- Business Report
You are to gather the information and write a business report which
documents the results of your research above and presents it in a
logical manner for senior management of the franchise.
a. Your report must be concise (maximum of 1000 words, double spaced, 12-point font excluding cover page and references page).
b. It must be well-written, but in lay terms so anyone can fully
understand your reasoning. Follow APA format and include a proper
introduction that clearly outlines the purpose and flow of the essay,
and a strong conclusion are important elements.
c. You must also provide a properly cited reference page at the end of the report to support any of your conclusions.
d. You must also provide appropriate academic references (minimum 2)
to support your conclusions or recommendations to the owner. They should
be vetted journal articles and company prospectus information rather
than Internet sources.
e. Remember, your objective is to
provide an analysis on the labour forecast and turnover for the
franchise owner, not simply to answer a series of questions. The
questions are to help you focus your research. Your overall grade will
reflect the strength of your analysis.
NOTE: your plan will need to include three
strategies that focus on at least two of the following areas of HR:
Training, Career Development, Total Rewards, and Turnover Management.

This week our focus is on Project Communication Management, and you will deliver a The Communication Management Subplan.  Use the outline below as a Table of Contents for your assignment.  See the Sub-Plan Rubric for grading criteria.  
Sub-Plan Table of Contents
A. Purpose: (write a 150 – 200 word description informed by theory)
B. Project Management Tools: (Minimum of two tools per sub-plan)
1.  Tool (write 100 – 150 words describing the usefulness to the project team)
2.  Tool (write 100 – 150 words describing the usefulness to the project team)
C. Example: (Using the Disney case as context, complete one tools to build out the project plan)
D. Sources (Minimum of six in APA style)

Develop an essay in an APA formatted Word document and address the following:
Are blockchain and cryptocurrencies the same?
Create a glossary of at least 10 cryptocurrency terms. The definitions must be paraphrased and not quoted.
Submit your assignment in an APA formatted Word document.

Your task is to draw a process flow or process map diagram of the process for the following: 
-Requesting a personal Tax Refund ( Non-Canadian residents):
– Filing a tax refund from the CRA is the process of submitting one’s personal income tax return, then requesting a refund if you have overpaid your taxes. An individual would be owed tax refunds by the CRA if their benefits, credits or deductions exceed their amount payable in taxes.When an individual files their taxes, factors such as medical expenses, child benefits, disability tax credits, charitable donations, caregiver credits, withheld taxes etc. may make them eligible for tax refund after their Income tax payable is assessed against their benefits by the CRA. 
– Steps involved:
1.  Determining one’s eligibility to submit a personal income tax return for Canada. Ensuring one has a Canadian-source income that qualifies for Income Tax return and additional benefits such as deductions and refunds. 
2. Determining one’s residency status. Confirming one’s residency status as a non resident. Different statuses might have different tax obligations. 
3. Selecting a method of filing one’s tax refund as allowed by the CRA. Only through paper (mail) for non-residents. 
4. Gathering necessary documents and information such as income slips, receipts and forms for refund one intends to claim 
5. Completing the required forms for the income tax returns such as the Form 5013-R and tax refunds such as Form NR7-R for incorrectly withheld Part XIII Tax. 
6. Finding the appropriate tax centre address to mail one’s forms to as specified by the CRA and also choosing a reliable mailing company to use. 
7. Regularly checking one’s CRA account within the first 16 weeks to view notices or updates from the CRA. 
8. Reviewing the Notice of Assessment when received. Once the return is processed, the CRA will send an NOA detailing one’s tax refund if applicable.  

oligopoly market structure characterized by the small number of large firms that dominate an industry.

COMPETENCIES
3078.1.1 : Designing Effective Organizations
The graduate explains how the structure of an organization impacts its effectiveness in the context of critical circumstances.
INTRODUCTION
Today’s business environment requires leaders to have competency in designing organizations to effectively achieve strategic goals. In this task, you will choose an organizational structure that will positively affect a consulting firm’s ability to effectively achieve goals and explain your choice in relation to the four factors that affect organizational design. You will also be asked to evaluate the impact of an organizational structure on one of the consulting firm’s goals.
SCENARIO
You have decided to create a consulting business to address increasing market needs for sustainability and innovation in the community. You want to emphasize how businesses can make incremental changes in the workplace to achieve sustainable results that increase profitability and brand reputation. The mission of the company is to “facilitate sustainable social, economic, and environmental development opportunities for the good of businesses in the community.” Your goals for this company include the following:
•   Be a mission-driven, for-profit organization that will create partnerships that result in sustainable changes for the community.
•   Achieve a level of success so your consulting firm can raise your city’s ranking in the “Most Sustainable and Innovative Communities” list from the top 20% of all U.S. communities to the top 10%.
•   Assess the sustainability and innovation needs of 30 businesses in the local community in the first year. You will then share the results of those assessments with all business stakeholders to generate feedback that will be used to develop and implement proposals for consulting. 
•   Hire three university students as part-time interns to help you develop an organizational structure.
Before you design a business venture plan that includes its organizational design, you will identify how the business will generate revenue. You are interested in seeking investors in the business community who want to take a leadership role in the business and its decision-making.
You are excited about this opportunity and begin considering the organizational structure for your consulting business.
Note: Additional employees may be hired in the future.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A.   Describe the organizational structure you would choose for the consulting business in the scenario by doing the following:
1.   Describe the main features of one of the following organizational structures and how this structure applies to the scenario:
•   functional
•   divisional
•   matrix
•   teams
2.   Using the chosen organizational structure described in part A1, explain how each of the following four factors works within the chosen organizational structure for the consulting business in the scenario:
•   functions or departments
•   chain of command
•   centralized or decentralized structure
•   level of formality
B.   Describe one of the following organizational theories, including how it can be used to support the organizational structure described in part A1:
•   scientific management
•   bureaucratic
•   administrative
•   neoclassical
•   modern
•   contingency/situational
C.  Explain how organizational structure can impact business effectiveness by doing the following: 
1.  Identify one of the goals from the scenario for the consulting business.
2.   Explain how the chosen organizational structure from part A1 can impact the consulting business’s ability to meet the goal identified in part C1.
D.   Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
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There are many types of leadership. For your research paper, you will focus on transformational and servant leadership
The leader that is the focus of the research paper is Wangari Maathai – renowned founder/leader of the Greenbelt Movement and first African Woman Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. To help get started, please view videos that I have provided here about Wangari. Click on items links highlighted in blue: Maathai and video

https://www.pbs.org/video/independent-lens-wangari-maathai-sees-the-forest-for-the-trees/
Please read the attached document Short Research Paper and PPT for instructions. Contact me, if you have any questions.
A short research paper of 6 to 8 pages is required on the topic of transformational and servant leadership. In addition, a leader is assigned who represents transformational and/or servant leadership. That means that the paper will contain research about both the topic and the leader.
The paper must contain an introduction, body, and conclusion. Please make sure to carefully proofread your paper. Pay particular attention to spelling and grammar.
Please use APA style for format of your paper, citations, etc. A minimum of four (4) references/sources excluding your textbook are required. Type your paper in MS Word with double spacing using a regular 12-point font in Times New Roman.