To prepare for your final essay, which is due in Unit 7, find a current events article from the last year which illustrates dysfunctional leadership and management in an organization. Make sure that the article you select comes from a credible newspaper or business magazine. The lists below include a range of credible sources that you may wish to examine […]

Sarah just joined the Human Resources department at Ima-Mess, Inc. She was brought on to update policies and procedures for the company. Unfortunately, her initial survey was disheartening. Documents were not updated regularly, when they were available for her initial evaluation at all. Many of the documents were not available to her because they were archived on personal hard drives, […]

CASE STUDY::: An eastern U.S. financial services company found itself way behind schedule and over budget on an important strategic program. Both the budget and schedule baselines had begun slipping almost from the beginning, and as the project progressed, the lags became severe enough to require the company to call in expert help in the form of a project management […]

Working individually, students should complete the Critical Thinking questions per the list assigned. Prepare responses to the questions below after viewing the Negotiation Strategy and Tactics Tutorial in this week’s Lesson. In drafting your answers to the questions, make sure that you apply course concepts in your answers (this means providing in-text references of your sources as well as bibliography […]

Shady Lane Inn Marietta was extremely glad that she had been hired as an apprentice at the prestigious Shady Lane Inn. She felt that her successful completion of the three-year apprenticeship in the kitchen would lead to opportunities in the nest restaurants around the country. Marietta had wanted to be a manager ever since she first began to help her […]

The overall goal of the Session Long Project in this course is to examine health care delivery in the United States from a personal perspective, and provide recommendations for improvement. As U.S. citizens, we have all interacted (and will continue to interact) with the delivery of health care. In fact, insurance plans/organizations are an important part of our healthcare delivery […]

CASE STUDY 1 – English Only Rule A group of 18 Hispanic workers were hired as housekeepers in a Catholic university. These workers spoke little or no English and Spanish was their primary language even though some of them were born in the United States. Some, however, were bilingual. During the course of their ten year employment, the Director of […]

Case studies are an important learning strategy in business classes as they provide an opportunity for you to critically analyze events that have taken place in real-life businesses. This develops your critical thinking and research skills as you research the competition and industry in which your business resides with an end goal of formulating a recommendation for the challenges faced […]

Talent Acquisition and Retention Programs For the Module 1 Milestone, create an overall strategy for an international talent acquisition program that includes a retention component. Include a framework for creating a workforce development and training program to apply in the international HR sector. While you are not required to create a detailed plan for each major component, you are required […]