Category: Business and management

• Prompt: This is a continued writing assignment of the Company Profile project, complete the Company Profile Section 3 Organizational Analysis (A, B, C). The instructions to complete the assignment are located in Appendix C.
• Requirements: APA format. No more than 8 full content pages (excluding title/reference page and graphs/tables)

(you did the provious 3 assisment)

Listen to (or read the transcript of) your organization’s or any publicly traded company’s most recent quarterly earnings call and respond to the following questions:

Tip: To find an earnings call or transcript, go to the “Investor Relations” section of the company’s website. There you will find links to financial reports and recordings of recent calls.

• Have you ever listened to an earnings call before?
• Identify the company you selected.
• What topics were included on the call?
• Which were most helpful or insightful?
• Was there a discussion of profit or EPS by Company Management? Explain what this implies, what was the driving force.
• Were there topics you wished were included or expanded upon? Explain
• Were the analysts’ questions aggressive and challenging or supportive and respectful? How well did management respond to the questions?
• What additional insights were you able to gain in regards to the company’s financial health, forward guidance, and strategic financial decisions?
• Was there any information or perspective shared that a competitor could benefit from?

additional resources:

https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/restatement

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/non-gaap-earnings.asp#:~:text=Key%20Takeaways-,Non%2DGAAP%20earnings%20are%20an%20alternative%20accounting%20method%20used%20to,such%20as%20an%20organizational%20restructuring.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-analysis/062716/gaap-vs-nongaap-which-should-you-consider-evaluation.asp

Design a self-development plan to become an effective individual contributor to an organization.

Student Success Criteria

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Scenario

You have recently joined a new retail organization as an HR Generalist. As part of your onboarding as a new employee, you are told that you must identify an area or areas in which you would like to develop behaviors or skills that you currently either do not possess or that are not developed to the level that is required for successful job performance.

The Director of Human Resources has instructed you to create an Individual Development Plan. Once you have created this, you will review it with the Director to revise, if necessary, and then will begin to implement the plan once you have completed your probationary period at the company.

Instructions

Create an Individual Development Plan that:

• Defines the area(s) you wish to improve or develop.
• Determines the work behaviors required for your chosen objective(s).
• Includes measures to track progress.
• Provides evidence of accomplishment of objective(s).
• Details an overall timeline for the plan as well as specific time milestones for reviewing progress.
• Provides attribution for credible sources used in the individual development plan.

Design a self-development plan to become an effective individual contributor to an organization.

Student Success Criteria

View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the This item is graded with a rubric link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

Scenario

You have recently joined a new retail organization as an HR Generalist. As part of your onboarding as a new employee, you are told that you must identify an area or areas in which you would like to develop behaviors or skills that you currently either do not possess or that are not developed to the level that is required for successful job performance.

The Director of Human Resources has instructed you to create an Individual Development Plan. Once you have created this, you will review it with the Director to revise, if necessary, and then will begin to implement the plan once you have completed your probationary period at the company.

Instructions

Create an Individual Development Plan that:

• Defines the area(s) you wish to improve or develop.
• Determines the work behaviors required for your chosen objective(s).
• Includes measures to track progress.
• Provides evidence of accomplishment of objective(s).
• Details an overall timeline for the plan as well as specific time milestones for reviewing progress.
• Provides attribution for credible sources used in the individual development plan.

Follow instructions on paper and make sure when you answer there are in text citations correctly. word document written. EXCEL SPREADSHEET INCLUDED AS WELL AS summary.

Follow instructions answers the questions in APA style within text citations within correct spots. As well as respond back to the two classmates post separately. Make sure that you follow the discussion board rubric.

After researching the benefits that volunteerism adds to an organization, you have realized that you need to begin researching the types of community service projects that might be a “good fit” for MoxieTogs.

Background and Overview

Read Chapter 5 in Writing that Works and review all of the Module 2 resources in preparation for completing this assignment in which you will use good design principles to revise an existing document. If design principles are new to you, you may find it helpful to complete the Module 2 Skill-Building Activity before beginning this assignment.

Estimated Time for Completion: 60 minutes

Target Course Objectives

• Utilize effective drafting, revising, and document design strategies to compose emails, letters, memos, reports, instructions, resumes, presentations, and proposals that meet standard English usage expectations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the context, audience, and purpose of the assigned writing task through the use of appropriate content, voice, and tone.
• Demonstrate time-management skills by submitting assignments by the specified due dates.

Instructions

1. Download and analyze the Source Document for Applying Design Principles attached below in Assignment Resources. The text was pulled from a blog post that did not employ any of the design principles you have been studying in Module 2.
2. Revise the document content by applying good design principles you have learned.
3. As you revise the document, imagine that you are re-creating the blogpost content as a PDF to be attached to an email you will send to the other members of your team–your direct reports on the organizational chart. Be careful to preserve the “live links” in the document so that recipients can access the information.
4. You can be conservative or creative; you just have to employ at least three recognizable design principles or practices.
5. Finally, at the end of your document, list at least three design principles or practices that you used intentionally in the design of your document.
6. Use the Save As function to save the file as a .pdf,and name your file Your Last Name_New Design.

For this assignment, you’ll choose a well-known brand and analyze its marketing strategy using the 4Ps–Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. In a written report, you’ll assess how the brand builds its identity, connects with consumers, and stays ahead of competitors.

You’ll also apply consumer behavior theories, marketing channels, and pricing strategies to evaluate its effectiveness and suggest improvements.

Background and Overview

“Design” is a part of everything in life, from art to engineering, from culinary creations to architecture, from fashion to film, etc. Chapter 5 in Writing That Works provides a deep dive for us into the many ways that design plays a part in effective business documents. The many types of text and visual design concepts presented in this chapter will apply in a myriad of ways across the varied disciplines and career paths that students in this class are pursuing.

Estimated Time for Completion: 30 minutes

Target Course Objectives

• Communicate persuasive, complex content that demonstrates the writers understanding of the subject.
• Demonstrate time-management skills by submitting assignments by the specified due dates.

Instructions

• Focus on one design concept or principle discussed in Chapter 5 of Writing That Works that was new to you.
• First, write a paragraph identifying the concept or principle that was new to you and briefly summarize the related textbook content.
• Next, write a paragraph explaining how you will apply what you have learned in your academic or workplace writing.
• Enclose any direct quotes from Writing That Works in quotation marks and include the page number in parentheses before the period. [“Quote” (p. #).].

Required Document Header:

Your Name

BSLS-3310, Semester / Year

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