Overview: This milestone is designed to begin a critical analysis applying knowledge gained within the course. This short paper assignment is the first step in the analysis of the company that will become your final project. For the final project, you will review the human resource management (HRM) in an organization through a real scenario. This case study will give you the opportunity to explore various roles and processes within the human resources profession. A key skill for any professional working in human resources is the ability to develop and implement processes that align with a company’s strategic plan and mission. Begin by reading the first 13 pages of the case study A.P. Moller-Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives (up to HR-Customer Initiative at Maersk). Harvard Business Publishing does not allow direct linking to articles in the Harvard Business Review from course management systems such as Blackboard. To locate this article, click on the article's title. This will open the search page for the Business Source Complete database. Type in the article title “A.P. MollerMaersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives” and click the “Search” button. That will bring up the article's record and link to its text. Start your short paper by briefly answering the following questions: 1. Explain why the human resource function should be aligned with an organization’s strategic plan (use ideas from the Module One discussion on this topic). 2. Explain how current global conditions in Maersk’s industry impact human resource management practices within this organization (use ideas from the Module One discussion on this topic). Then, using the material on recruitment strategies provided in this week’s lesson and the case study, address the following: 1. Compare and contrast recruitment and selection of internal versus external candidates in general. 2. Describe how Maersk has recruited and selected new employees who were aligned with the organization’s vision and goals over the years. 3. Assess the effectiveness of its recruitment process and determine what changes if any you would recommend to improve employee success and retention. Guidelines for Submission: Your submission should be 2–3 pages in length and double-spaced using 12-point Times New Roman font. Be sure to list your references at the end of your paper. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.I need this assignment to be done correctly. If it turns out it is not done correctly I will withdraw the money and find someone else.

Prepare a 7-page demand management plan, including a forecasting, inventory management, and scheduling analysis, as well as recommendations, for a provided scenario or business of your choice.IntroductionThis portfolio work project, a demand management plan, will help you demonstrate competency in forecasting, inventory management, and scheduling. ScenarioFor this assessment, choose either Option 1 or Option 2. You do not need to do both. You will apply one of these scenarios in the Requirements below. Both options will be graded using the same scoring guide.Option 1Wild Dog Coffee Company, a locally owned company with a single coffee shop location, serves a wide selection of espresso beverages, small breakfast and lunch menu items, and a limited evening menu. The company is planning to expand the business by adding an additional location. While different menu items may be tested at the new location, their core processes will remain the same. You have been working on a process improvement in preparation for the expansion and are now turning your attention to demand management. Option 2If you chose Option 2 for Assessment 1, use the same business for this assessment, or select a different business. Note that it is recommended that you use the same business for each assessment in this course, using the following criteria for your selection:The company fits the assessment requirements and you have access to the information needed to complete the assessment.The business information is disclosed in the assessment for faculty's reference.You can distribute the business data without disclosing confidential information.Contact faculty with questions. Your RoleOption 1As an owner of Wild Dog Coffee Company, you and your business partners are planning the opening of a second location. You need to prepare an analysis and recommendations for demand management, including forecasting, inventory, and scheduling, for your current location, so you can refine the model before opening the second location. Option 2Your boss, a director, has tasked you with a demand management project. She is relying on you to prepare an analysis and recommendations for demand management that can be presented to the executive team of the company. You completed a special project for her a few months ago that went very well, and you are pleased to have received this new assignment.RequirementsInclude the following in your demand management plan:Assess the impact of advertising on product demand.If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, the following basic assumptions will help you prepare a demand forecast:The other owners of Wild Dog Coffee Company handle the business' marketing and sales functions, and they believe that advertising expenditures impact the sale of coffee beverages. They want you to confirm whether or not their advertising dollars are driving sales. Here is what was agreed upon by all the owners:Wild Dog Coffee Business InformationQuestionsResponsesHow many espresso beverages are made each hour?30, on averageHow many ounces of espresso beans are used for each beverage?1.5 ouncesHow many hours per day is the coffee shop open?6:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., Sunday–SaturdayHow many days each month is the business open?364 days per year. The coffee shop is closed on Christmas day.You have the following six months of data to work with for pounds of espresso beans (y) used each month and monthly advertising expenditures (x):Espresso Bean Use and AdvertisingMonthLbs/Beans (y)Advertising Dollars (x)1987$1,05021,412$1,50031,020$1,00041,140$1,25051,322$1,50061,399$1,500Interpret the forecasting model for the selected product.Use a simple linear regression model to show your forecast.If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, forecast the pounds of espresso beans needed for month 7 if the advertising budget for month 7 is $1,350. Interpret the model and respond to the following questions for Wild Dog Coffee Company:How many espresso beverages will the company need to prepare, on average, each day?How many pounds of espresso beans will the company need, on average, each day?To what extent do advertising dollars predict the need for espresso beans?Prepare an inventory management analysis for the selected product.In your analysis, include two different approaches to inventory management. What are the pros and cons of each system you analyzed? If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, the following provides additional information you have gathered from the inventory management analysis:Since Wild Dog Coffee Company is small, the company must manage inventory very carefully. While larger companies can have lots of inventory on the shelf, Wild Dog simply does not have the cash to do that. As such, you have a number of pressures for small inventories. Wild Dog does not have the ability to store a lot of beans, to cover the cost of capital, or to withstand unnecessary expenditures for taxes, insurance, and shrinkage. Shrinkage is important because roasted espresso beans only maintain their optimal freshness for two weeks.Demand is approaching 1,400 pounds of espresso beans per month.Only one type of espresso bean is stocked.Demand is not constant on a daily or weekly basis.If you run out of espresso beans at any point, you will have to close the business until the next shipment of beans arrives.Espresso beans are shipped in 25-pound packages. (This is your base inventory unit.)The cost per pound of beans averages $9.00.Espresso beans are delivered seven (7) days after placing the order and on any day of the week.Shipping is free on orders over $250. Otherwise, shipping is $19.95 per order, regardless of weight. (This is the only ordering cost you incur.)Holding costs are 10 percent/year/unit.Standard deviation for daily demand is 1.84 pounds.Analyze the business’ scheduling management.In your analysis, detail two different staffing scenarios for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business. What are the pros and cons of each staffing scenario?Use a Word table or Excel spreadsheet to show both staffing scenarios for each day of the week. Include the daily and weekly total staffing costs and number of hours worked for each employee.If using Wild Dog Coffee Company, the following provides additional information you have gathered from the staffing analysis:Shifts have been scheduled according to who wants to work which shift. This has generally worked out well, but you realize you need to tighten up the scheduling process in order to optimize a staffing model. Two employees are required to make a coffee beverage. One employee takes the orders, and a barista makes the coffee drink and hands it to the customer.Baristas are paid $14/hour, regardless of whether they are full-time or part-time.Full-time employees (up to 40 hours/week), other than baristas, are paid $12/hour.Part-time employees (up to 20 hours/week), other than baristas, are paid $9/hour.All full-time employees receive company benefits that equate to 15 percent of their hourly rate. (This is known as a benefits load.)All full-time employees are paid at 150 percent of their regular rate for all hours worked over 40 hours per week. Full-time employees can only work a maximum of 50 hours per week. The benefits load is not applied to overtime hours.All part-time employees are paid at 150 percent of their regular rate for all hours worked over 20 hours per week. Part-time employees can only work a maximum of 26 hours per week.It costs $500 to hire each additional employee, and it costs $250 to terminate an employee.Full-time employees are likely to resign if moved to part-time status.The coffee shop is open 84 hours per week. There are two additional hours allocated each day for one employee to perform opening and closing activities. (That is, one hour is allocated for opening duties and one hour is allocated for closing duties.)Your current level of staffing for coffee beverages is as follows:Baristas – 1 full-time; 3 part-time.Non-barista – 1 full-time; 2 part-time. Recommend an inventory management system and staffing plan for a selected business and product. Detail the results of your analysis for Wild Dog Coffee Company or your selected business' product to substantiate your recommendations.Deliverable FormatRequirements:The demand management plan is to be a minimum of 7 pages, not including the title, reference, and appendix pages.Use a demand management plan template of your choice.Related company standards:The demand management plan is a professional document and should therefore follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (available in the MBA Program Resources), including single-spaced paragraphs.In addition to the title and reference pages, include the following in the appendix:Linear regression model for product forecasting.Word table or Excel spreadsheet for staffing scenarios.Use 2–3 scholarly or academic sources, where applicable, one of which must come from the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, or MIT Sloan Management Review.Use APA formatting for citations and references.EvaluationBy successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:Competency 1: Analyze how operations management theories and models effect the development and delivery of products or services to the marketplace.Interpret the forecasting model for the selected product.Competency 2: Use logistics and supply chain management tools to manage the distribution of products and services.Prepare an inventory management analysis for the selected product.Competency 3: Use data to evaluate the effect of operations management decisions on organizational goals.Assess the impact of advertising on product demand.Analyze the business’ scheduling management.Competency 4: Evaluate the effectiveness of operations management strategies to achieve quality and customer service goals.Recommend an inventory management system and staffing plan for a selected business and product. Competency 5: Communicate business needs, opportunities, and strategies with multiple stakeholders.Write coherently to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a business professional.

Cardigan HistoryCARDWARE is growing by leaps and bounds. It has now opened 10 new stores nationwide under the name “The Sporty One.” It has been agreed by the Board of Directors at CARDWARE Inc. that each store shall have a general manager and assistant manager who both were to act as sales persons and one additional sales person. The slogan the store advertises its sports ware with is “You don’t have to be an athlete to look and feel like one.” The current sports ware that “The Sporty One” carries shows a clothing distribution of 60% for females and 40% of its line is for males. However, it would eventually like for it to be a 50/50 distribution. The Cardigans research has demonstrated that the trend has been more female than male shoppers. Further, following the marketing theory of many high end clothing stores, CARDWARE prefers slender, young employees to work for it, so that the clothing line can keep with the image of being sporty.Petunia Rotunda, a middle aged, slightly plump woman saw an ad online for a salesperson for The Sporty One and applied for the position. The ad read as follows:WANTED: Salesperson experienced in retail sales or marketing preferred, energetic, youthful, athletic, and able to “sport” the clothing lines of The Sporty One with style. The Sporty One is a division of CARDWARE Inc. and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.Petunia has had 5 years of retail experience working in a garden shop that did have some flannel shirts and aprons as well as gardening gloves for sale. Noah Dahl, a college graduate in marketing also saw the ad and applied for the salesperson position at The Sporty One. Noah, a slender racquetball player has not had any retail experience but has had customer service experience for an online gaming company.After interviewing both applicants, CARDWARE’s General Manager, Chloe, one of the cousins of the Cardigan clan has decided to hire Noah. Petunia was outraged claiming that she should have been hired and that she has been discriminated against based on her age. CARDWARE contends that Noah was more qualified as per the advertisement as well as company image and future plans for the company; age had nothing to do with it.Noah began work the following week. Still angry, Petunia visited The Sporty One. She began to harass Noah to the point where other customers started to leave the store. Having had enough insults, Noah grabbed Petunia by the arm and shoved her towards the door. She stumbled and ran into one of the clothing racks and thereafter knocked over 92-year-old Hetty Whitestone who was passing by the mall store. Hetty suffered a concussion and died.Using the above facts given, please label with headings and discuss the following in this order:PART I:Did CARDWARE have genuine BFOQs (Bona Fide Occupational Job Qualifications) in its ad?Do not forget to review the company’s slogan as given in the above facts.Be sure to discuss Petunia’s point of view as well as CARDWARE’s position and defenses.Use legal authority to support your position as well.PART II:If Petunia brings a lawsuit based on negligence against CARDWARE and The Sporty One, will CARDWARE be responsible for Noah’s behavior? If so, under what theory?What defenses might CARDWARE assert?If Hetty Whitestone’s estate claims that CARDWARE should be responsible for Hetty’s death, will it?What defenses might CARDWARE utilize?Directions for Submitting Your Assignment:Before you submit your Assignment, you should save your work on your computer in a location and with a name that you will remember. Make sure your Assignment is in the appropriate format (Word), then, when you are ready, you may submit on the Dropbox page.Paper Submissions:APA manuscript style dictates how your paper should appear on the page. For more information on APA style, visit http://www.apastyle.org/faqs.htmlThere are two types of APA manuscripts: Copy manuscripts (those submitted for publication) and final manuscripts (those not submitted for publication). Copy manuscripts are much more formal and may contain multiple sections. Specifically, they will have an abstract (a 1-paragraph summary of the paper). The papers you produce for most Kaplan University classes will be final manuscripts. Unlike copy manuscripts, final manuscripts do not, unless specifically required by an instructor, require an abstract.They do include:A title pageThe paper itself (the discussion)A references pageA title page contains three items: A running head (a short version of the title), the paper's title, and the author's name. Traditionally, the author's affiliation (the university he or she attends or works for) appears below the author's name; however, many college instructors prefer students to put the course and section number in this place (because we all know which institution we are attending). The running title appears in the top right corner of every page, including the title page, right before the page number. The title, the author's name, and the author's affiliation (or course and section number) appear in the center of the title page.Additional Helpful Assignment Reminders:Be sure to avoid the use of first person. Instead convey your research utilizing third person.Keep all font color consistent throughout. If you copy and paste a link and it is in blue, hover your mouse over the link, right click, and select “REMOVE HYPERLINK” to keep the font color black like the rest of your submission.Use size 12 Times New Roman font.Utilize in-text citations. If a reference is listed in your reference page, it must be included within the body of your submission as well.Prepare an APA formatted reference page.Proofread your submission for any grammatical or sentence structure errors. Also, please refer to the rubric for this Assignment to make sure you have included that which you will be graded over before placing the same into the Dropbox.Submit your Assignment in a timely manner.Do not hesitate to ask for assistance should you need it.