...have also been provided on the Unit website on VU Collaborate which can be reached via the Student Portal at vu.edu.au/student-tools/myvu-student-por tal. It is important that you access your Unit website regularly. Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge and recognise the traditional owners, their Elders past and present, their descendants and kin as the custodians of this land. Introduction to the unit Unit Title: Applied Business Challenge Unit Code: BPD3100 Other details: Key staff Unit co-ordinator Name: Andrew Stein Location: CF1024 Contact number: 061-99194332 Contact email: Andrew.stein@vu.edu.au Name: Maria De Sensi Location: G425 Contact number: 061-99195484 Contact email: Maria.De Sensi@vu.edu.au Teaching team Campus: Days and times: Year: 2015 Semester/Dates: 1 Credit Points: 12 alagarania@sunway.edu.my Sunway KL Campus Hector.Elias@vu.edu.au VU Sydney Campus Petert@sunway.edu.my Sunway JB Campus Unit Guide Version Number: V17-5 Last Validation Date:February 5th 1/12/14 @ 2 PM Unit description This unit is the third unit in the Business Challenge stream covering three broad areas of specialised business knowledge, interna tionalisation, personal attributes and professional skills....
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...FOODCORP REFLECTION PAPER 1. INTRODUCTION In FoodCorp simulation, held on 22 nd of November, my position was VP Marketing Services and I worked under the head of SVP Service Group. Service group consisted of 4 people including one senior vice president and three vice presidents. As VP of Marketing Services, I was responsible for marketing communications in general. I also mention about organizational structure of FoodCorp to establish a basis for my latter discussions. FoodCorp has a matrix structure and also has a number of committees like executive committee, acquisition committee, new business committee and distribution committee. In this paper, I will give brief information about our simulation process and then provide my reflections about some specific moments. 2. SIMULATION PROCESS President’s Decision about Groups: At the beginning of the simulation, our president enabled us to introduce ourselves and give information about our roles. Then each group continued with small meetings with their own groups. After group meetings, we would continue with committee meetings according to the original agenda. However, we were divided into two groups: Those who have operational roles and those who have not and our president decided each group to held meetings according to that division. In the operational group there were 9 people while non-operational group was consisting of 3 people. Service Group Meeting: I think that we held a successful and effective meeting in...
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...Disability team. Lisa met her line manager, Jules, and her ASYE assessor, Frank, in her first week in the Newfield Children with Disability team. In the meeting they developed a learning agreement for Lisa’s ASYE. Lisa brought to the meeting a copy of a report from her final placement whilst at university. The report shows that Lisa is an enthusiastic and promising social worker with a good knowledge of social work theory; however, she has not worked in a Children with Disability team before so Frank and Jules agree to provide Lisa with a detailed induction. The learning agreement also set out that Frank and Lisa will meet on a monthly basis to review her work and draw together the assessment evidence for the year. This will be in addition to the supervision that Lisa will have with Jules; they will meet weekly for the first six weeks. In the section of the learning agreement on quality assurance, Jules is named as a third partner who will offer additional support and insight. Based on this, Lisa, Jules and Frank agree to meet together every other month. Lisa and Frank will also have formal review meetings at three and six months. At the end of Lisa’s second month at Newfield, she meets Frank to review her progress. As well as meeting to draw up the learning agreement, they have had a further meeting to discuss Lisa’s work and her capability to work at the required level. In the previous meeting Frank saw substantial potential in Lisa. However, informal reports from the new team suggest...
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...MGT 521 WEEK 6 To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/mgt-521-week-6/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM MGT 521 WEEK 6 MGT 521 Week 6 Balanced Scorecard, MGT 521 Week 6 Career Plan Reflection, MGT 521 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection,Week 6 Quiz 1- Write a reflection paper of no more than 350 words based on the Career Plan Building Activities completed throughout this course. In the paper, consider the following questions: What are the next steps in your career plan? What milestones have you established in the Career Plan to monitor your progress towards your career goals? Why do you think these steps are important in helping you progress? How can you focus your time and attention in future courses based on your career competencies and goals? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 2- Read Case Application 1, “Lessons from Lehman Brothers: Will We Ever Learn?” at the end of Ch. 5 of Management. Discuss the scenario with your team. Discuss the second, third, and fifth discussion questions at the end of the case with your team. Answer each question based on your team’s discussion in no more than 350 words per question. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 3-1. As a university student, your institution’s social principles and practices reflect on you, as a stakeholder, in the organization. Therefore, it is your right to question how these practices should be evaluated in relation...
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...2359 pm Wed, last 2 entries by 0800 following Mon. | WED 2359 pmWeek 1 | | Week 1 Application Assignment – Getting Started & Specific ExpectationsWeek 1 Progress Monitor | MON 0800Week 2 | Journal | Week 1 Journal Entry | MON 0800Week 2 | Week 2 | Discussion Board -First entry by 2359 pm Wed, last 2 entries by 0800 following Mon. | WED 2359 pmWeek 2 | | Week 2 Application Assignment – Personal Philosophy of NursingWeek 2 Progress Monitor | MON 0800Week 3 | Journal | Week 2 Journal Entry | MON 0800Week 3 | Week 3 | Discussion Board -First entry by 2359 pm Wed, last 2 entries by 0800 following Mon. | WED 2359 pmWeek 3 | | Week 3 Application Assignment – Information Retrieval Paper, Part 1Week 3 Progress Monitor | MON 0800Week 4 | Journal | Week 3 Journal Entry | MON 0800Week 4 | Week 4 | Discussion Board -First entry by 2359 pm Wed, last 2 entries by 0800 following Mon. | WED 2359 pmWeek 4 | | Week 4 Application Assignment – Team Dynamics & Information Retrieval Paper, Part 2Week 4 Progress Monitor | MON 0800Week 5 | Journal | Week 4 Journal Entry | MON 0800Week 5 | *Week 5Assignments due Saturday 0800Journal | Discussion Board -First entry by 2359 pm Wed, last 2 entries by 0800 following Mon. | WED 2359 pm | | Week 5 Reflection – Nursing Philosophy & ContributionsWeek 5 Progress Monitor | SAT 0800Week 5 | | Post-Course Self-Evaluation | SAT 0800Week 5 | | Week 5 Journal Entry | SAT 0800 Week 5 | ***There is...
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...Critical Reflection on current clinical knowledge and development Within this assignment I will critically reflect on my clinical knowledge to date and consider my future development needs with a focus on my final management placement and future career as a registered nurse. I have chosen two areas which I feel are relevant to my future development needs namely Quality Assurance and Multidisciplinary/Agency team working and using the Gibbs model (fig. 1)as a framework will reflect upon my own learning experiences and achievements to date and write an annotated reflection highlighting my development needs from which I will formulate a Personal Development Plan. This undertaking demonstrates my commitment to the need for continuing professional development in order to enhance my knowledge, skills values and attitude needed for effective nursing practice (proficiency 4.1) and will address deficits in my knowledge and skills and identify any shortcomings within my own or others practice and help me cope with practice related issues experienced within my previous placements. I have chosen Gibbs reflective model as a basis for reflection as I feel it is easily understood and encourages a clear description of the situation, analysis of feelings, evaluation of the experience, conclusion and reflection upon the experience to consider a solution if the situation arose again (Brooker & Nicol 2003). It has been advocated that reflective practices are a method of bridging the gap between...
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...Learning Team Reflection: Production and Cost Analysis Heather Bosack, Iris Cost, Joey Piester, Jennifer Stephenson, and Girlean Taylor ECO/365 February 11, 2013 Jeffrey Lesson Learning Team Reflection: Production and Cost Analysis For our team there were many different experiences that were share in reference to the objectives for this week. Girlean explained that she understood that productivity is the amount of goods and services being produced and that the cost of production is the expenses that occur during production of those goods and services. She also explained that these expenses include fixed cost, variable cost and total cost. The team member shared that she works in security where services are provided to banking institutions. The company has a type of monopoly where they contract other companies for security services and this monopoly has altered competition on the supply side. In this case, the prices are a fixed so that the company neither make nor lose money. Jennifer shared how law of diminishing marginal productivity and the difference between fixed and variable cost both would be important to a big corporation such as Wal-Mart. At Wal-Mart headquarters managers from each location would look at the information to determine the schedule for each employee and how many employees would need to be working at a certain time. The managers would also need to look at all variables to change the cost of an item in a store. This team member shared that she looks...
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...impede the learning of self or classmates or those that affect the preparedness of student “Checks” start over each week Consequences for behavior could include office referral, reflection paper, silent lunch, and/or parent contact Students with two or less checks for the week have an opportunity to participate on “Polar Pride” where students are rewarded with social, recess, or snack time; students with more than two checks participate in “Polar Plunge” which is a reflection time for the student to focus on what they could do...
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...* Team to arrange meeting with assigned teaching team member to discuss progress on developing their venture plan. * Discuss planned pitch. ------------------------------------------------- Week 10 – Teamventure Pitch Tutorial * Teams to pitch their venture idea to a panel and the classroom. * The best teams will be selected to pitch again to a panel of experts in week 11. ------------------------------------------------- Week 11 – Pitch tba * The best teams to pitch in an exclusive final judged by industry experts. Assessment details 10% IndividualComplete by 6 Feb | TeamMatch questionnaireAt the beginning of the semester you will be matched into a team using TeamMatch software. Instructions and a groupID for TeamMatch will be emailed to you in the week beginning 30 January. | 10% IndividualReady for your tutorial wb 13 Feb | Prepare a short presentation on a Business Model PatternFollowing on from Lecture 2 & 3, you will be asked to prepare a short presentation on a business model pattern for a company of your choice. Detailed brief will be posted on Studynet in the week beginning 6 Feb. | 10% IndividualReady for your tutorial wb 20 Feb | Prepare for Ideation workshopWork through the online lecture and prepare the tasks outlined. | 10% Individual5% TeamReady for your tutorial wb 12 Mar | My First MillionThe overall assessment will be based on a combination of the following criteria: * Completion of the multiple-choice exam after...
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...consideration. Please ensure you obtain a receipt from the student counter when submitting. Extensions cannot be granted by module tutors. Should you believe you have extenuating circumstances, you are advised to talk to your tutor and/or the assessment manager as soon as possible. 1. Business Portfolio (20%) Documents need to include, but not limited to: 1. Business name and organisational Statement 2. Contract 3. Entrepreneurial CVs 4. Minutes of all meetings 5. Activities 6. Pictures/Illustrations of trading 7. Financial statements (e.g. monies spent to date, sales) 8. Market research and demand evidence (e.g. orders, customer feedback) 9. Presentation slides (formative progress report weeks 9/10) 10. Reflections on formative presentation 11. Peer Assessment I (weeks 9/10) 12. Peer Assessment II (weeks 23/24) Portfolios need to be...
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...Developing Managerial Capabilities Learning Team Experience by 87807 Analysis of Team Experience We are the Asian Super Team. Our name is derived from the fact that all of us come from Asia, in particular East Asia. From the beginning, I was pretty apprehensive about the team experience. My expectations were bordering on guarded caution to indifference. The reason being that out of the four syndicates I had in the first semester, only one turned out to be really fruitful and enjoyable while the other three were terrible nightmares The first synergistic syndicate experience was actually the Organisations syndicate with members from diverse backgrounds. The other three were task-driven, had little group member satisfaction and achieved only mediocre work. The initiatives to align group members and to start on tasks fell mostly on my shoulders and I was terribly disappointed by the contrast between these groups and the Organisations syndicate. Therefore, to prevent such a re-occurrence, I kept my hopes down to a minimum. In the very first session, we established our team charter and operating norms. The team charter and operating norms are affixed in the appendix A. The 5th of July marks a momentous day in the life of the AST learning team. Basically, on the day of the Learning Team Self-Review, our learning team’s inadequateness and non-performance in some areas were exposed (A summary of the results of that review is in Appendix B). The wide...
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...Team D's Week Five Reflection Paper Human Capital Management HRM/531 Team D's Week Five Reflection Paper Continual training and development of employees from low-level to high-level is an integral part of an organization reaching for and achieving its goals. In order for an organization to be successful, collaboration between individuals and departments is imperative. Organizations may have their standard training and development programs to assist employees in reaching their ultimate level of performance; however monitoring of performance is necessary to ensure individual and organizational goals are met. The process of assessing an employee’s performance, managing employee opportunities and identifying areas of weakness is evaluated and handled in the performance improvement plan (PIP). The PIP spells out the areas of need, determines goals to improve these areas, and develops training and educational needs associated with successful performance enhancement development. The PIP addresses both the areas of behavioral and performance. In the reflection, Team “D” will address training and development and the PIP process in more detail to gain a better understand of the process. Assessing, implementing, and re-evaluating behaviors and goals will be addressed. Training and development of an employee are closely related but also very different. The goal is to achieve the tasks the organization requires and improve upon productivity and efficiency. The training...
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...member of the cross country team. I lettered my freshmen year, and to me that was a huge deal. As I continued through high school and made more friends through athletics, I was able to convince more of the female runners to come and try cross country. As the years went on, more people began joining both the men and women’s cross country teams, and by the time I was a senior, the cross country department was huge and demanding attention. So, with ability to connect with others and make friends through sport, I, along with the help of all the other runners, were to able build up a team that is currently one of the best ranked cross country teams in our district and region. The second experience that I had with sport was not necessarily a particular encounter, but a handful of separate accounts that I can remember. One of the most negative message that I have been fed as a female athlete and as a women pursuing a job in the sports industry is that women cannot “survive” and are “not successful” in the sports environment. I have been fed this belief by not only friends and coaches, but by my own family. While I understand their sentiment and the arguments that they present to support their case, it just continues to amaze me how women are still considered lesser athletes to this day. B. These experiences have influenced my outlook on two of the societal values mentioned in chapter one- progress and external conformity. Firstly, my outlook on progress has been taken to a much...
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...Week Three Reflection – Team B MGT/311 August 5, 2013 Mohammad Yunus Week Three Reflection – Team B Teamwork, effective communication, and conflict resolution surrounded not only this week's reading materials, but also the discussion threads. Corporations are moving towards a team environment rather than focusing on individual contributions as the means to be efficient, effective, and successful in the constantly evolving markets. As leaders or future leaders, our team has discovered skills necessary to manage, encourage, develop, and facilitate the growth of others. Two points of focus that our team discussed this week were group/team dynamics as well as ways to negotiate conflicts to a resolution. Developing Effective Groups and Teams Projects, events, and certain issues within a company experience better results when a team is designed for the sole purpose of handling that situation. A team has to understand though that there is a necessity for them to be cohesive rather than performing the tasks individually when producing their final project. Companies that create team environments tend to establish greater productivity and creativity versus those who rely on employees to perform single roles. When teams are formed, it is important for management to understand the personalities of the individuals selected to be on the team in addition to the expertise, experience and skills employees would contribute. Too many or too few outspoken people will hinder...
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...Background A popular social gaming service provider, Gamio was founded in June 2009 and headquartered in New York. This company has been developing online social games that can be accessed via social networking websites such as Facebook, Google+ and Tencent. Also, the games can be accessed via their website- Gamio.com Nate Waldroff, the founder and the CEO of the company, states its mission as “connecting the world through games”. True to its mission statement, this provider has launched some great series of online games, the best known being Mystic Trails. This game, was launched on Facebook in October 2009 and within seven weeks, reached 10 million daily active users (DAU). As of early January, 2012, three of the top five Facebook games (in terms of MAU, according to AppData) were Gamio titles. Overall, Gamio games had over 265 million monthly active users (MAU). Figures suggest that 80 percent of revenue for Gamio comes from Facebook users. This four year old company is one of the rare internet start ups that are profitable, earning $121 million since the start of 2010. It has emerged as the Web’s largest social gaming company, recording $828.9 million in revenue in the first nine months of 2011. The Rise of Gamio Creativity and Innovation gave way to some great, award winning and category defining games that took the social gaming industry by storm. The company had a first-mover advantage with a new concept behind their designs – new games for friends to play...
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