Business management (PD) and Individual and Societies (MYP)

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PD1 Quiz SWOT & ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES CLICK ON THIS LINK AND YOU WILL BE DIRECTED TO THE QUIZ https://goo.gl/forms/EwSAAjtCXb55m04A2

Dear PD1 Students - please perform a SWOT analysis of Don Jonson Leisure Center. Categorize each factor and explain it in a short sentence. If you don't know a word, please look it up in a dictionary. This assignment must be pasted in your notebook. Answer should be clearly written. Please use the concepts and terms we discussed in class as well as all information in the book. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT). Don Jonson Leisure Center has hired you to help them with their  marketing decision making. Perform a  SWOT  analysis on Don Jonson Leisure Center, based upon the following issues: 1.     The Center is located within a two-minute walk of the main bus station, and is a fifteen-minute ride away from the local railway station. 2.     There is a competition standard swimming pool; although it has no wave machines or whirlpool equipment as do competing local facilities. 3.     It is located next to one of the largest shopping centers in Brit

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT INTERNAL ASSESSMENT PLEASE REVIEW CHAPTER 6.2 INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (pages 568-572)  STEP 1 FINDING THE RIGHT BUSINESS 1)     You should think about- a.      What’s the core business of the company? How the business works? Medium size companies are preferable. b.      Who will be your contact? Will he or she be able to give you information about the company? c.       Is the contact reliable? Will the contact be 100% available to you when you need him/her? d.      What possible business SITUATION is the company facing right now? In the near future? Is this a challenging ISSUE for the company (growth opportunities, structure re/organization, cutting back workforce, reducing or expanding business)? Is it possible to analyze this ISSUE and provide suggestions for a favorable outcome? 2)     You will need the business to- a.      Allow access to interview workers and/or management. b.      Provide you with financial information, such as 1. Budgets

Dear MYP3 Students, please read the following article by Mark Cartwright titled OLMEC CIVILIZATION. And answer the following questions- MYP3 Ancient Olmec Civlization Class Inquiry CLASSWORK THE OLMEC CIVILIZATION INQUIRY QUESTIONS Answer the following questions. Provide FULL answers ( in well written sentences ) 1.   In what time period did the Olmec live? 2.   How did they codify and record its gods and religious practices? 3.   Define de word precursor … 4.   Why do we say that the Olmec were the precursors of other civilizations? 5.   What were the major subsequent civilizations after the Olmec people? 6.   What kind of practices were passed on to sb 7.   The article talks about features in the Olmec culture like massive stone sculptures . Please name at least two more. 8.   The Olmecs also liked to mix animals to create weird and wonderful creatures such as the were-jaguar . A were-jaguar was a combination of _________ and __________? 9.   How h

Dear PD2 Students, please go to the following link and answer the questions. Thanks. PD2 Questions 2.3.2 and 2.3.3

MYP3 Mesoamerica PICTURES Please print and cut. Have the pictures ready to paste in class.

Dear PD1 Students. I have sent you the  Ethical Objectives and Corporate Social Responsibility  power point presentation to your emails. Please share it with those who don't have it yet. Remember to print, cut and paste the presentation into your notebook. Please read Pages 29-40 of the Business Management Book -  1.3 Organizational Objectives. HOMEWORK  Complete Questions 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 in your notebooks. Due date WEDNESDAY 27SEPT2017. 

Dear Business Management Students,  Considering that we didn't met on Friday 22/09 and won't meet on Monday 25/09 and 26/09, I have enclosed the  LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT  power point presentation so we can move forward. Please 1) Read chapter  2.3 Leadership and Management  (pages 163-171); and 2) Print, cut and paste the Leadership and Management power point presentation into your notebook. Try to print 3 or more slides in a page, so we can be eco-friendly.  Please do the following cases as homework:  Question 2.3.2 School Leadership and Management (p. 167) Question 2.3.3 Leadership and Management Styles (p. 169) Both assignments are due on Wednesday 27/09. We will have an on-line Quiz con Wednesday PM regarding Leadership and Management in business. Please check my blog for news.  Thank you. 

PD2 Question 2.2.2 Ferrari (b) Skills training is important at Ferrari because they produce expensive  tailored made cars. As with an expensive suit, no errors are allowed, as the fabric used is one of its kind and cannot be replaced easily. A demanding client won't wait. On top of all the benefits the book explains in page 120, one could also focus on the cost of not providing any training at all, and how this scenario might translate into 1) more mistakes in the manufacturing process, lower quality in the final product, and most probably - more complaints (or returns). These all translate into higher costs of production and extended times of delivery. None of which the company or the customer want to deal with. In the end, investing in training will be less expensive than fixing errors.   (c) Centralization is more effective with low-skilled workers in mass produced goods. This is not the case at Ferrari, where the final product is a piece of art that needs highly skilled

PD2 HOMEWORK Restructuring at Southmead College (a) If someone is denoted ( to lower someone or something in rank or position)   to classroom teacher, it means that he/she had previously hold the position of chairperson or head of an area, with administrative tasks. Middle managers at Southmead College are all those individuals who were heads of areas, held a relatively high ranking in the hierarchy structure (depending on how tall or flat the organization was), and had teachers (subordinates) reporting to them. These middle managers were held responsible for the teachers beneath them, and accountable for the whole's area performance. (b) It might have been a good decision if one considers that it cut costs and saved money, with minimal redundancies. Hopefully, the funds generated from the cost cutting exercise should finance training and some equipment improvement (in that order and priority). Flattening the structure should allow teachers to empower themselves in different de

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MYP3 QUIZ AGRICULTURE IS HERE

MYP5 SECTORS OF AN ECONOMY & IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN AN ECONOMY MYP5 004-18-09-17

PD1 VISION AND TYPES OF OBJECTIVES

PD2 HOMEWORK Question 2.1.5 Myspace Due: Monday 18.09.17 Please read case study MYSPACE and answer question (a) and (b). a) Redundancy - when job ceases to exist, or company cannot afford to employ a worker. Dismissal - termination of a worker's employment due to incompetence or a breach of contract. b) MySpace faces unpredictable times due to a decline in business, therefore future workforce planning can be unpredictable too.  To make the company lighter and adjustable for future scenarios, while retaining its core staff, MySpace can hire part-time employees (with finite contracts) or peripheral services to carry on the non-essential tasks.  Redundancies might be a reality for MySpace in the mid-term, but by having a flexible structure, the company is prepared to deal with them appropriately. 

DP2  REVISION CHECKLIST FUNCTIONS AND EVOLUTION OF HRM ·         HR planning is a strategy to ensure that employees are selected, used and developed in the most effective way. ·         Labour turnover is the movement of employees in and out of a business over a given period of time. ·         HR planning can be influenced by both internal and external factors. ·         The most common steps in the process of recruitment are identification, application and selection. ·         On-the-job training takes place as part day-to-day work. It is usually let by an experienced employee who can act as a mentor to the trainee. ·         Off-the-job training allows employees time off work to attend external training. ·         Cognitive training is not focused on a particular aspect of the business but helps employees to develop their thinking skills. ·         Behavioural training helps employees develop interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. ·         Appraisals allow employ

PRACTICE QUESTION FUNCTIONS AND EVOLUTION OF HRM DUE: MONDAY 18.09.17 KANE HOSPITAL IN NIGERIA Today, 13.000 nurses who were trained in the sub-Saharan African countries such as Nigeria work in Australia, The United Kingdom (UK), Canada and the United States (US). Recently, the UK has saved millions of US$ in the cost of training UK nurses by recruiting Nigerian ones. The government of Nigeria, however, had spent a similar amount in training the same nurses who now work in the UK. The migration of nurses is driven by workforce shortages in countries such as the US and the UK. Given these demographic changes, Kane Hospital in Nigeria is experiencing severe difficulty in recruiting locally trained nurses. Recruitment agencies in Nigeria have tried a number of different methods to encourage Nigerian nurses to come back home. They have used recruitment events and have set up a web site to attract nurses to fill vacancies. They also offer improved pay and working conditions, a

Summary FUNCTIONS OF A BUSINESS MYP 5 FUNCTIONS OF A BUSINESS Class Summary MYP5 003-14-09-17 WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF A BUSINESS? A business, in order to operate effectively, supports it operation on FOUR functions. These are HUMAN RESOURCES, FINANCE, MARKETING, and OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT or sometimes called PRODUCTION. The 4 functions must work together in order to achieve organizational goals. Human Resources (deals with people) – main focus: managing personnel. Most important tasks are: workforce planning (anticipating and meeting the company’s current and future needs of employees), recruitment (selecting the right person for a job), training (developing employees, not only professionally but also personally), appraisals (evaluating a workers job performance), termination or dismissal (managing when an employee leaves the company voluntarily or involuntarily), redundancies (dealing with the worker when a job ceases to exist), outsourcing (having another company or

Homework PD1 Mission and Vision & Lenovo Due date 15.09.07 PD1 003-14-09-17 Please answer questions 1.3.1 Mission and Vision Answer questions (a) and (b) Additionally - identify the 8 statements in this question. Determine if they are vision or mission statements. 1.3.2 Lenovo Answer questions (a), (b) and (c)

MYP 3 INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETIES CLASSWORK INQUIRY – THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE WORLD CRITERION B (ii and iii) AND C (ii) DUE DATE 14.09.17 INSTRUCTIONS 1.       WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzQFIZuNFY Human Prehistory 101 (Part 3 of 3): Agriculture Rocks Our World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVHD9wGlbho Mankind: The Story of All of Us: Birth of Farming | History 2.        COPY AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK ·          Why didn’t people continue hunting big animals? ·          With the appearance of agriculture, what happened to world population? ·          How was agriculture discovered? ·          Why is it meant that agriculture was a REVOLUTION for mankind?

MYP 3 UNIT 1 ABOGINAL AMERICA First Settlers of America Formative Quiz NAME _____________________________________ CLASS _____________________________________ DATE _____________ 1.        Answer . What does the Common Theory say about the way America was populated? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.        Describe the differences between a nomad community and a sedentary community, using the following criteria: CRITERIA NOMADIC PEOPLE SEDENTARY PEOPLE How did they get their food? 1. 2. 1. 2. Where did they sleep? How did they protect themselves from the environment? 1. 2. 1. 2.

MYP 5 THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF BUSINESS HOMEWORK MYP5 003-11-09-17 HOMEWORK QUESTION 1.1.1 The business of Education Education is a big business. Schools can earn revenue from numerous sources, such as tuition fees (for fee paying schools), grants from the government and fund raising events. They might also lease out their facilities (such as classrooms, sports hall, drama studios and swimming pool) during weekends and school holidays. Schools use the revenues to finance their cost of production, such as staff salaries and the maintenance of the buildings. Parents might also have to pay for items such as school uniform, textbooks, stationery, sports equipment and food. (a)     Distinguish between revenue and costs of production. (b)     Examine how business functions operate in an organization such as a school. [1] QUESTION 1.1.2 Production Sectors Study the data below and answer the questions that follow. A, B and C represent three countries: Germany, Pakista