...[World Favours Resort Business Brief] Business: World Favours Resort Product: Hospitality service with world wide catering service Assessment Item 1 BSB115 - Management Word count :521 [Ho Fung Yuen] [08723311] The word limit is 500 words (plus or minus 10 percent). Any assignments with less or more than this allowance will be penalised 2 marks. Your cover sheet and reference list is not included in the word count but in text references are. Format: Ariel 11 or Times New Roman 12; 1.5 line spacing in a Word document 1.0 Introduction World favour resort is a great escape for food lovers, we mainly focus on the gourmet from all over the world and a remarkable luxury accomodation service, in the resort , we have two main types of staff working in the resort, frontline staff like reception ,concierge and back office staff which is responsible for administrative and management work. With the rise of the attention of the ergonomic needs in the workplace, it is becoming essential to find a way to help employees of our business to stay healthy. The aim of this business brief was to investigate what we could do to satisfy the ergonomic needs of the staffs of World Favours Resort . 2.0 Analysis of Issue 2.1 Summary of the issue The Issue we will investigate in this business brief will be related to the article “Employers should make staff stand for two hours a day” by Amy Corderoy .In the article, the author pointed out that all workplace should be...
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...What is actually virtual meeting on business? Recent years, advanced technology brought a lot of new opportunities in our life and on our businesses meanwhile these technological improvements get inside our life day by day. Virtual meeting is one of these opportunities which many businesses are using it and many of them will use in the future. Virtual meeting is having a meeting by using internet connection virtually with the other branches or other related companies that you work with. “Virtual meetings will never eradicate the need for traditional face-to-face meetings, but they often provide the least expensive means of bringing people together” (2011, Mittleman). As long as companies remain, people who work within these companies will travel to other countries or cities to have meetings but virtual meeting which is videoconferencing and telepresence will decrease these travels. What are the advantages of the virtual meetings on an organization? Maybe 15 years ago, if we talked about a virtual meeting, it would be so weird but now this is very common way to have a meeting and will be more than now. There are a lot of advantages of the virtual meetings first and important one for a business is saving time. The other important advantage is saving money. These two important things are actually main factors to consider for many businesses anytime. These virtual meetings will reduce your employees to travel for a meeting sometimes these meetings can last 1 week or...
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...dilemma as your family does not want to be relocated. The project has a six-month deadline. What factors should you consider in order to make this virtual assignment effective? Answer: First of all, virtual assignments is where the employees and managers are located in different areas as in this case, the Project Manager’s office is in London whereas the other six team members are in Munich. Thus, the Project Manager has to rely heavily on communication technologies such as telephone, email or video conference. In my opinion, the factors that has to be taken into consideration include effective use of technology, invest time in building relationships and trust, provide specific intercultural training and arrange face-to-face meeting occasionally. To bring a success to virtual assignments, I will need to be aware of the full range of technology tools available to us and become practices and proficient in their use. Without familiarizing the technology, it is difficult for managers to keep in touch with the team and it might end up slowing down the team performance. For instance, it will be a waste of time discovering the function of Skype tools during the virtual meeting. Besides that, as a newly-appointed Project Manager, trust and a comfortable level of social or personal interaction are enormously important for effective virtual assignments. It is crucial for me to find ways to engage with my members and create an appropriate and effective dynamic within the team. Initially...
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...Why Off-Sites Should Go Virtual: the Virt-Site By Keith Ferrazzi Organizations are all trying to do more with less. As the economic downturn drags on, companies have tightened their belts even further. Businesses continue to lay off thousands of workers; holiday parties are being drastically downscaled; executive perks like corporate jets have become history; and the list goes on. As part of that belt-tightening, some companies have begun to rethink their strategic off-sites. Instead of flying executives from around the world to an expensive three-day offsite location, why not just conduct everything virtually? The problem, though, has been that many companies have been trying to use videoconferencing, virtual reality technologies, and other tools to try to replicate physical off-sites. One idea was to encourage spontaneous conversations by simulating a “virtual cocktail hour. ” Wrong! The use of virtual technologies to replicate traditional physical off-sites misses a huge opportunity. Doing so results in a “poor man’s” version of the real thing, like online training courses that consist of nothing more than a video recording of an instructor followed by a test. Instead, companies need to be much smarter about how they conduct virtual off-sites. They need to leverage online’s unique characteristics to push beyond what’s possible in a physical setting and truly transform the process. Interviews with dozens of experts resulted in the following methodology, dubbed the virt-site...
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...Virtual Organization E-Business: Riordan Manufacturing BUS415 Virtual Organization E-Business: Riordan Manufacturing A global plastics manufacturer, Riordan Manufacturing employs over 500 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan Industries, Riordan Manufacturing’s parent company is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion. Riordan's major clientele include automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage makers and bottlers, and appliance manufacturers (Apollo Group, Inc., 2005). With manufacturing plants in Albany, Georgia, Pontiac, Michigan, and Hangzhou, China, Riordan’s e-business plays a vital role in continued growth. “E-business involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperation with business partners” (Wikipedia, n.d.). E-Business is taking new forms and enabling new business practices that may bring numerous risks. Protection of intellectual property is a major concern, but so are the value of contracts, domain names, and handling legal issues in a multinational environment. “Intellectual property rights, such as patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, trade names, and domain names are very valuable business assets. Federal and state laws protect intellectual property rights from misappropriation and infringement” (Cheeseman,...
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...share. Their philosophy is to be loyal to their clients, cooperate ethically with their competitors, and be truthful in their statements and advertisements and to not interfere with the exclusive contracted relationships that other agents have with their clients. In addition, FCR makes a conscious effort to attract and retain the very best of agents by offering the maximum commission plans available in the area; and sharing in company operating fees and overhead costs; all while offering the freedom to agents to operate their business independently with advanced support services. FCR stresses personal development among its agents; training is offered often and strongly encouraged so that everyone can be their best rather in a sales, management or support role. In addition; several discounts and services are available for agents to promote themselves individually as well. Initially, First Class Realty worked only the residential-side of the business, offering real estate listing and sales assistance - marketing single-family and town-homes, condos and four-unit or smaller multi-level buildings- in addition to foreclosure counseling and property management services. In 2001 they opened their commercial and land sales division; marketing multi-family properties – five units and above, office and industrial spaces, as well as retail establishments. Shortly after, in 2003, in alignment with the real estate boom; FCR embarked on a new...
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...showing another abstract computing platform to the users. VMware developed a range of products, most notable of which are their hypervisors (virtual machine manager). A virtual machine (VM) is a simulation of a machine that is usually different from the target or host workstation using a Virtual Player; which provides the means of running the virtual environment. Virtual machines emulate the computer architecture and functions of a real world computer. Virtual machines are separated into two major classifications, based on their use and degree of correspondence to any real machine: * A system virtual machine provides a complete system platform which supports the execution of a complete operating system. These usually emulate an existing architecture, and are built with either the purpose of providing a platform to run programs where the real hardware is not available for use (for example, executing software on otherwise obsolete platforms), or of having multiple instances of virtual machines lead to more efficient use of computing resources, both in terms of energy consumption and cost effectiveness (known as hardware virtualization, the key to a cloud computing environment), or both. * A process virtual machine (also, language virtual machine) is designed to run a single program, which means that it supports a single process. Such virtual machines are usually closely suited to one or more programming languages and built with the purpose of providing program...
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...management. The Section works closely with OIT to improve areas of operation which may be lacking, and provides input for future Campus IT initiatives. The current network includes 125+ PCs and 35 printers which all tie into the University backbone. Current projects include TimeTracker, an electronic interface allowing card swipe time to be recorded in both Peoplesoft and the internal Plant work management system EMPAC Echelon Services If you need a flexible, cost-effective cloud for delivering computing power, cloud services from Echelon can be your ideal solution. Let Echelon Synaptic Compute as a Service help you, we are able to build your virtual private cloud in a highly secure network. We’ve designed synaptic compute as a service with Vmware, vCloud, and Datacenter Service for you. Providing quick, secure access to virtual infrastructure, servers and storage; all while reducing cost, delays, and the hassles of adding physical hardware. Echelon offer unlimited computing capacity; allowing you provide and manage the operating system, database and application. To manage your service, choose either Graphical User Interface...
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...VIRTUAL REALITY Virtual reality-the very name conjures up fantastic visions of computer technology providing the ultimate out-of-body experience. What is VR? And what can we learn from studying the history of its development and the development of its early and present-day applications? The history of modern VR is the history of the technology that makes it possible-the computer, the head-mounted display, and the data glove. It is also the history of the people and organizations that developed the technology, hardware and software, and applications for that technology. And finally, the history of VR is a history of the social use of VR technology for entertainment, education, military, and commercial purposes. Defining VR Defining VR is an important first step in presenting a brief history of its development. It may also prove to be the most difficult since the combination of the two terms is itself oxymoronic. The phrase "virtual reality" is widely credited to Jaron Lanier who coined it in 1989 to describe the experience made possible by the use of the latest generation of goggles, gloves and related technologies. The role of perception in defining reality raises interesting issues of psychological, sociological, philosophical, and cognitive origins. In this postmodern age the concept of the real continues to have philosophical and practical significance for those who are engaged in the creation of artificial or virtual representations of reality. For some, the dawn of...
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...According to the first video, a virtual server runs on 3 virtual machines, with different operating systems and applications at the same time, such as, Windows, Unix, and Linux. This server does not need to realize that it’s running a virtualization environment. The second server is call a para-virtualization, which consist of 2 virtual machine. Each virtual machine version of operating system is modified to cooperate with the hypervisor. The two para-virtualized Linux offer a performance improvement. The third server is an operating system virtualization. This server creates their own form of virtualization at the current level. In these case, a virtual server are isolated from one another, but they all run the same operating system. 2. Why is virtualization important to a company like Hudson’s Bay Company? How did that factor into their decision to partner with IBM? Hudson’s Bay Company is a fast growing company that needed more power to run their operating system. Instead of having to add more server to their infrastructure IBM was able to provide HBC a blade server with a faster speed, which allowed them to do with less servers. The blade server has various capabilities, such as, multiple drivers on the blade in case of a failure of one driver, HBC can still be up and running. The server is a lot easier to maintain especially when it goes down. HBC can easily replace blade servers in minutes to reduce the downtime of running their business. Besides the capabilities...
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...Katie M Drinkall (u06a1) Unit 6 Assignment 1 Communication in Virtual Team Capella University September 26, 2013 Communication Communication is the activity of conveying information though the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information by speech, visuals, signals, writings or behaviors (Grosse, 2002). These processes are done over time, culture, and geographic boundaries, while this has become a common practice for organizations and has give rise to the concept of globally dispersed teams known as virtual teams (LaLonde, 2011). Communication is one of the most necessary components of leadership, without communication there would be no teams, nobody would know what their role on the team would be, there would be no procedures to go by for the test, and there would be no launching of a new team, so the team would never actually exists. Communication can be either verbal or nonverbal; there are many ways in which a speaker can present themselves without using any verbal form. This can be done though body language, hand gestures and facial expressions. Since a virtual team does not have the best ability to see all of these forms of nonverbal communication when partaking in a conference call or see the speaker’s body language when they are seated at their desk. While this can prevent a virtual team from being a successful team, it should not be the main reason why a team fails. Virtual teams are comprised of individual who work interdependently using computer-mediated...
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...An Instructional Manual for Virtual Teams Table of Contents So, You Want a Virtual Team, Huh? 3 Introduction 3 The Look of a Successful Virtual Team 4 The Leader's Relief 6 Establishing Team Purpose 7 The Virtual Team Start-up Meeting 8 Local vs. Virtual 9 Operating Principles 10 The Culture Thing 11 “The Safety Net" – Coping With Virtuality 12 Become An Effective Leader 12 Staying On Top Of Things 12 The Technical Needs of a Virtual Team 13 Learning and Technology 13 Selecting Technology 13 Examples of Real-Time Tools (Synchronous) 14 Examples of Asynchronous Tools 14 The Virtual Meeting 15 Planning Your Meeting 15 The Virtual Meeting, cont. 16 Facilitation Tips 16 Types of Virtual Meeting Software to Consider 16 Managing Issues In A Virtual Team 17 Conclusions and Closure for a Virtual Team 18 References 19 So, You Want a Virtual Team, Huh? An Instructional Manual for Virtual Teams Introduction John is so excited! He starts his new job on Monday. In his new job, John will take on a team for a Fortune 100 company. His new company is growing fast, and to keep up with the pressure of rapid growth, they have been expanding across the country. John is new to this matrix-type work culture and needs to adjust his style of work and leadership to accommodate. How will he setup technology and infrastructures to support his new team? What techniques can he use to build trust, agreement and purpose with his...
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...these “best practices” to obtain the benefits that virtualization offers. Copyright 2008, Association of Information Technology Professionals. Permission to copy for personal non-commercial use granted. When the paper is referenced or quoted, direct the reader to www.aitp.org. Special thanks to the following editor: Mike Hinton, Southwestern Illinois College AITP Research and Strategy Advisory Group October 14, 2008 Page 1 of 40 Virtualization and Its Benefits Executive Summary Virtualization has quickly evolved from concept to reality. The technologies that are used for servers, clients, storage, and networks are being virtualized to create flexible and cost effective IT infrastructures. The focus of this paper is the use of virtual technology for data center systems with management best practices. Given today‘s emphasis on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return On Investment (ROI), virtualization of servers is...
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...organizations. Groups can be small or large, local or remote, coached or self-directed. Teams are found at all levels of business, from a multi-billion dollar corporation that builds jets to a small waterpark employing lifeguards and clerks. Successful teams need some form of leadership, good communication, problem-solving skills, and a purpose. Successful groups can achieve tremendous results,. When teams work together, everyone is working toward one common goal and completing the project with successful results. Average groups do just enough to achieve a goal, and then there are groups that are extraordinary. They achieve superior results and team members come away from the group experience with a newfound respect of what he or she helped accomplish. A study revealed eight performance indicators linking extraordinary groups and group members agreed. Each team member agreed teams must: have a compelling purpose, a shared leadership role, team structure, full engagement among members, embrace member differences, learn the unexpected, build trusting relationships, and achieve outstanding results. Whether the team is for-profit or not, volunteers or employees, face-to-face or virtual, these eight indicators emerged (Bellman & Ryan, 2010). Athletics and businesses share many of the same qualities. The head coach sets goals for his team as does the business manager. Head coach and manager set out to accomplish a particular goal. The goal of the head coach may be winning the league...
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