Category: Management

You will be using this in your assignments.

You are managing the online ordering and billing system upgrade project. Tailoring the engagement of team members is a delicate and critical task. When done correctly, the team members will be excited about their role on the project, feel empowered, and feel integrated, and they can successfully complete the tasks assigned and know that they will have some conquerable challenges as they move through the project.

To effectively tailor engagement of and empower and integrate the project team, the project manager must perform the following:

• Identify the roles needing to be filled.
• Determine the skills and capabilities required for each role.
• Evaluate skills and capabilities of the team members, and identify potential gaps.
• Tailor the engagement of team members.

The objective for this assignment is to effectively tailor the engagement of and empower and integrate your team. You may form your project team from external resources and the following internal resources:

• Pat is available for 24 hours a week at $135 per hour. Pat was involved in similar upgrade projects and can act as a business analyst, developer, or tester. Pat is very comfortable with the legacy system and does not see the benefit of another system upgrade. He feels that the end users do not fully utilize the functionality that they already have and will not use this new functionality effectively. Pat is an agile expert.
• Terry is available for 24 hours a week at $130 per hour. Terry was involved in the original installation and has been part of every upgrade since then. She tends to be in developer or tester roles for this system but acts as a business analyst for other systems. She is very excited about the upgrade project and the functionality it provides. She is concerned, however, that the end users may not have the skills to use it. Terry is a waterfall expert.
• Robin is available for 30 hours per week at $130 per hour. She was involved in the last two upgrades as a business analyst and has been trying to become involved in other systems and business areas. She was actively involved in a few projects as a programmer. This was considered a skills development opportunity because her programming skills are not strong. Robin is an agile expert.
• Chris is available for 24 hours per week at $100 per hour. He is new to the company; he was previously a customer service representative. He just completed his undergraduate degree in computer science and has experience with programming and software testing techniques.
• Jan is available for 16 hours per week at $135 per hour. Jan is also new to the company. She was previously a consultant and was on process reengineering projects, including several for billing functions. She previously worked with the Web version product of the vendors competitor. Jan is a waterfall expert.

Assignment Guidelines

In this assignment, use an agile or waterfall methodology plan for filling the roles of the following positions:

• Business analyst
• Technical architect
• Programmer or tester
• Team leader

For each role, perform the following:

• Describe the main responsibilities of the role.
• Identify the skills and capabilities that are necessary.
• Select 1 of the candidates listed in the assignment description, and thoroughly explain why you have chosen each person for their role.
• Explain any conflicts or problems that you encountered while making your selections.
• Describe the required tailoring aspects.

Your references should be of solid academic quality. Use APA style to correctly format these references and their in-text citations to substantiate your information and positions, as well as to give credit to other authors’ work.

Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Thus far, you have explored project management process groups and procurement management activities. This week, you will examine project roles and how they are assigned, as well as evaluate and use team member characteristics in specific project roles.

Using what you have learn from the intellipath lessons in Unit 1, , and address the following:

• What team building exercises would you use to create a cohesive and high-performance project team? Share your experiences with successful and less than successful leadership practices.
• Explain resource planning differences and similarities in Waterfall versus Agile environments.
• As a project manager, how would you go about selecting the necessary project team members?

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 200-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting? What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

You are a consultant employed to criticallyevaluate the stakeholder engagement approach of this project. The audience foryour report is the sponsors. The sponsors are reasonably familiar with theproject. However, your audience deals with several projects and policy issuesand are very busy. You can structure the report as you think best, but it needsto be in a professional format.

– I want original text, no plagiarism.

– You can find the instructions in the file. Please read it carefully.

– APA Style

Thanks.

Textbook

• Title: Marketing
• Authors: Dhruv Grewal and Michael Levy
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2022
• ISBN: 978-1-260-71743-3

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Assignment for MGT401

1. For you personally, what was the most impactful thing that Nick Gipson shared regarding his nonprofit involvement?
2. From the assigned reading on Board Leadership, answer the following questions:
   1. What are some ways that a board can fulfill the role of engaging in outreach as a bridge and a buffer between the organization and the individuals it serves?
   2. What are some characteristics of a board that allow it to work as a high-performing group?
3. From the assigned reading on Executive Leadership, answer the following questions:
   1. The second paragraph of this article broadly describes the important role of a nonprofit leader (executive).
      1. Summarize that paragraph in your own words.
      2. What are some key things that paragraph mentions?
   2. At the end of this reading, the authors describe four strategies used by executives that are effective in their nonprofit duties. Summarize the four strategies.

      No Al

   3. No AI

Create a proposal to address operations management issues and decisions as they apply to a fictional bank.

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Introduction

Operations management is the core of any business. It is the management function that coordinates all the activities in relation to product and service reliability, quality, efficiencies, delivery, and meeting customers’ expectations.

Today’s global economy has forced companies to focus on how they deliver their product or service to their customers. Companies must now continuously evaluate better ways to reduce cost, improve quality, and give the customer more than was expected.

Operations management is an integral part of this process because it focuses on the transformation of needed inputs to desired outputs. This transformation includes office, production, manufacturing, and vendors or suppliers, as well as other things that affect the company’s ability to deliver superior quality products.

Operations management includes the use of the facilities, equipment, materials, technology, and, most importantly, the employees. These operational activities are designed relative to sustainability concerns. Understanding operations management will allow you to see the flow of the product or service delivered.

A product or a service starts with design. A key component of the design process is to determine whether a product or service can be offered at a price point that will produce a profit for a company. A key consideration in design is any cost or environmental impact affecting sustainability concerns.

Another aspect of operations management is that companies must strive to improve the work environment for their employees and enhance sustainability concerns. People are a company’s most important resource, and managers must take care of their employees in order to grow and maintain industry leadership.

Our fast-paced economy has shortened the product life cycle, by forcing companies to innovate more often in order to serve their customers and stay ahead of the competition. One tool used by many companies to help maintain a competitive advantage is the flowchart. This tool allows companies to diagram out all the processes needed to deliver their products. The flowchart diagram provides a visual illustration of the work down to the simplest step in the process. It allows management to constantly review processes to see where bottlenecks occur and to help determine how they can improve the process.

Some of the best practices used by companies that lead in their industries include:

• Break-even analysis.
• Benchmarking.
• Reverse engineering.
• Concurrent engineering.

Scenario

Consider the operations management aspects of the organization in the following scenario:

Madero Bank is a regional U.S. bank. Madero Bank’s managers decided on a business strategy emphasizing customer service, rather than on some other dimension such as customer financials (providing higher interest rates on savings accounts, lower interest rates on loan, and so forth). To help the bank implement that customer service strategy, the bank conducted a survey of its customers and found that the customers would like the bank to be open for more hours. As a result, Madero Bank decided to remain open later on Fridays, until 7:00 p.m., and open on Saturdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The expanded hours have presented challenges for Madero Bank’s operations management team, in staffing an adequate number of tellers to cover those additional hours without customers having to wait in long lines. Madero Bank’s managers are also considering additional approaches to support their customer service strategy, including the following:

• Providing additional hours of telephone customer support (which would involve securing additional telephone lines, customer support representatives, and telephone and computer equipment).
• Advancing the bank’s online banking functionality (including redesigning websites and developing an app on each of the leading mobile platforms).
• Redesigning the physical layout of the bank to better utilize high-contact areas (areas with significant customer traffic) and low-contact areas (areas with little or no customer traffic).
• Offering service bundles for the bank’s largest personal and business banking customers, such as a predefined set of accounts, services, and reduced fees for platinum-level customers.

Operations Management Proposal

Using the scenario above, create a proposal in which you provide answers to the following questions:

• How should operations management and associated improvements support Madero Bank’s strategy?
• How might service bundles be utilized in support of this strategy? How do they relate to the initial purpose of the bank?
• What are some of the key operations management decisions to be made at Madero Bank?
• What operations management changes would you recommend, and why? (These changes could be related to hours, facilities, equipment, and personnel.)

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Any references and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Assess the role of operations management within organizations.
  • Explain how operations management improvements support an organization’s strategy.
  • Explain how a service bundle relates to the initial purpose of a company.
  • Identify operations management decisions for an organization.
• Competency 2: Apply the tools and technology used in operations management.
  • Develop recommended changes for an organization’s operations management function.

Determine eligibility for available tax credits and complete an official worksheet for each credit, to demonstrate eligibility.

Note: Completing a tax form requires specific steps that need to be executed in a sequence. The assessments in this course are presented in a sequence and must be completed in order. Incorrect entries in previous assessments will result in incorrect entries in future assessments. Do not complete Assessment 5 until you have submitted and received faculty feedback for Assessment 4.

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Introduction

Tax credits work to lower taxpayer liability rather than provide refund incentives. A tax credit is subtracted directly from the taxpayer’s tax obligation, providing equal relief to all taxpayers. This can make the credit more valuable than a deduction taken during the filing process.

There are credits for foreign taxes paid, child and dependent care expenses, and for the elderly or disabled; credits for education, retirement savings contributions, and residential energy; and child tax credit, adoption, retirement savings, and earned income.

Note: The assessments in this course are presented in a sequence and must be completed in order. In Assessments 25, you will work step-by-step toward completing a 1040 tax return and all the necessary related forms, based on a provided scenario. Do not complete Assessment 5 until you have submitted and received faculty feedback for Assessment 4.

Preparation

This assessment will require significant research and critical thinking to complete each required form successfully. An incorrect entry on one form will create incorrect entries in other forms.

There are two parts to this assessment. Be sure to complete both parts and submit the necessary materials.

• Part 1: Determine eligible tax credits by completing official worksheets.
• Part 2: Complete Schedule A and the 1040.

Scenario

Jacob and Taylor Weaver, ages 45 and 42 respectively, are married and are filing jointly in 2021.

• They have three children, Ashley, age 9; Patrick, age 6; and John, age 17.
  • Social Security numbers are: Jacob, 222-33-4444; Taylor, 555-66-7777; Ashley, 888-99-1234; Patrick, 789-56-4321; John, 123-45-6789.
• Taylor works part-time as a paralegal.
  • She earned $31,000 in 2021.
• Income Taxes: $4,200 withheld.
• Interest received from Local Bank: $6,575.
• Estimated tax payments: $25,000.
  • $350 paid with their 2020 state tax return.
• Jacob and Taylor bought their first house in 2021.
  • Home mortgage interest: $12,246.
  • Property tax: $12,230.
• Federal income withholding: $2,350.
• Charities: $4,500.
• $435 to rent a moving truck.
• $8,000 to put new siding on the house.
• $11,600 for child care expenses ($5,800 for each child).
  • It was paid to Lil Tigers Daycare, 1115 S. Garrison St., Muncie, IN 47305 (EIN 98-7654321).
• Taylor is a part-time student at Ball State University in Muncie.
  • She received a 1098-T indicating tuition and fees for 2021 in the amount of $6,011.
• Health insurance for the family, through Taylor’s job, cost $7,500 for all 12 months of 2021.
  • They paid deductibles and co-payments of $2,550.

Instructions

• Read the information provided in the scenario above.
• Download the following tax forms and instructions from IRS.gov under reading list:
  • 1040.
  • Schedule A.
  • Schedule 1.
  • Schedule 3.
  • 2441.
  • 8863.

Part 1

Use the information in the scenario, on IRS.gov, and in the interactive IRS tools under reading list to interpret official rules and instructions to determine available tax credits.

• Complete an official worksheet for each tax credit to demonstrate eligibility.
• Submit each tax credit worksheet.

Part 2

Use the information in the scenario, on IRS.gov, and in the interactive IRS tools to Interpret official rules and instructions to complete the following:

• Complete Schedule A.
• Enter data from Schedule A into the 1040.
• Apply the rules and tax tables to calculate the tax owed and the amount of any refund.
• Submit Schedule A and the completed 1040.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze the background of the federal income tax system.
  • Interpret official rules and instructions to record correct entries on tax forms.
• Competency 2: Analyze the basics of individual income tax return preparation.
  • Analyze tax rules to complete tax credit worksheets to prove eligibility.
  • Apply laws and rules to correctly enter data on Schedule A.
  • Apply rules and tax tables to record the correct tax owed on the 1040.
  • Calculate the amount of a refund on the 1040.

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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Delivering feedback to the client is only one aspect of the feedback process. The consultant must also be willing to ask for and receive feedback. In your Discussion Board (DB) posting, address the following:
Reflect and identify when you have consciously asked for feedback from your client.
Tell your classmates about how and when you asked, describe the clients response, and share your reaction to the feedback.
If you have not yet asked for feedback, explain why. Also, identify when you will do so and how you will ask.

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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Critically review the following:
How can reward systems be designed for team or group projects and still recognize individual effort?

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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

With the expanding global business platform, managers are facing the challenge of how to lead in a global economy. Large companies have manufacturing, marketing, and sales in multiple countries. Discuss the following:
Relate the increasing new role of labor laws in Africa, China, and India with which an American manager must be ready to contend.