Reference no: EM13842429
1 Find a business news article that relates to the topic of the week "Leading, Motivating & Empowering Employees ". Post a summary of no more than 2 short paragraphs summarizing the article and how you feel it relates to the week's topic. Include the URL for the article.
1-1 Leading, Motivating & Empowering Employees
1. Workers on the manufacturing floor are being replaced by robots and other machines. On the one hand, this lets companies compete with cheap labor form other countries. On the other hand, automation eliminates many jobs. Does this mean that we will see an increase in unemployment and under employment in the U.S.? Or do you see a way for the U.S. to deal with this trend to prevent these problems? Explain your answer.
2. Take a virtual tour of the Hershey Foods Corporation chocolate factory by going to www.hershey.com/tour_video.asp
3. Does Hershey use process manufacturing or the assembly process? Is the production of Hershey's chocolate an intermittant or continuous process? Explain your answers.
4. What location factors might go into the selection of a manufacturing site for Hershey chocolate?
5. One of the approaches in business has been to let employees work in self-managed teams. There is no reason why such teams could not be formed in colleges as well as well as business. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of dividing this class into self-managed teams for the purpose of studying, doing cases and completing assignments.
6. Would there be any differences between an in-classroom class and an online class - plus or minus?
7. Describe a time when you felt highly motivated and achieved a particular goal that you sought. What was the most significant thing or person that caused that motivation? Has that level of motivation continued for you? Explain your answers.
|
Collecting information security measures
: During this discussion, talk about and examine the process(es) of collecting information security measures, how often do they need to be collected, what are the downsides of collecting and reporting the measures too frequently or too seldom.
|
|
Leadership experience
: Read the Waite Pharmaceuticals case study found in Richard Daft’s book The Leadership Experience (link attached). Daft Chapter 12 Ignore the last paragraph and assume that Lassiter has given you permission to make a presentation to the Board of Dire..
|
|
Developing a firm financial forecast
: 1. Why are sales forecasts important to developing a firm's financial forecast? 2. Give some examples of spontaneous and discretionary sources of financing.
|
|
Planning to save for retirement
: Suppose you are planning to save for retirement, and you estimate that you can save/invest $2,000 at the end of each year while you are working. If you expect to earn an annual return of 8% on your savings/investments, how much money will you expe..
|
|
Does hershey use process manufacturing or assembly process
: Does Hershey use process manufacturing or the assembly process? Is the production of Hershey's chocolate an intermittant or continuous process?
|
|
Summaries the growing social foreign trade
: Summaries The Growing Social and Political Importance of Foreign Trade 1685
|
|
Describe levy eight goals of comprehensive planning
: Three major issues dominate the history of urban housing: tenure, cost and quality. Describe each. Describe Levy's eight goals of comprehensive planning
|
|
What is the accumulated interest
: 1. Assume that you deposit $5,000 in an account earning 6% simple interest for 3 years. Show your work. What is the accumulated interest at the end of 3rd year?___________________
|
|
List the advantages and disadvantages of becoming a manager
: List the advantages and disadvantages of becoming a manager. Does the size of business make a difference to managing?
|