CS204M2: Apply oral communication skills for promoting a professional image.

GEL-1.3: Demonstrate college-level communication through the oral delivery of original materials in Standard English.

GEL-4.03: Understand patterns of human behavior based upon real world observation.

PC-3.1: Conduct oneself to reflect the characteristics and culture of a given work setting.

For this assignment, you will complete an observation and analytical evaluation of an organization.

You will choose a business to observe either as an employee or as a customer/client. You will observe and evaluate the organization based on information you have learned about organizational culture. NOTE: Refer to the articles you have read during this module as well as the multimedia presentation about Company Culture in the Learning Activities area.

The assignment will be comprised of a PowerPoint with narration about your experiences in the observation and your analysis of the organization.

Bulleted Points on each slide should include brief points that identify the areas that will be addressed in the narration.

Your PowerPoint presentation should include a total of six slides using the following format:

Slide 1: Cover page that includes assignment title, your name, course, section number, and date.

Slide 2:  Introduction of Company (1 minute narration)

Introduce the presentation by explaining information about the organization and the observation that took place such as the name of the organization, type of organization, day and time of observation and your role as an observer (are you an employee, customer, etc.).
Slide 3: Professional Appearance of Employees and Company (1-2 minutes of narration)

Use these questions to guide your response:
How do the employees dress?
Is there anything about the appearance of the employees that distracts from their professionalism?
Does the employees appearance fit the nature of the business? Why or why not?
What does the working environment look like? (furnishings, artwork, lighting, sounds, etc.)
Do the physical surroundings fit the nature of the business? Why or why not?
How do the employees interact with each other and outside people within the workplace? (greetings, tone of conversation, non-verbal communication, etc.)
How do employees interact with each other?
Do the interactions of employees fit the nature of the business? Why or why not?
Slide 4: Analysis of Company (1-2 minutes of narration)

What inferences can you make from your observation? You should cover the following ideas in your explanation:
Analyze the company based on information you have learned about organizational culture in the class. Areas to include are to
categorize the type of organizational culture you feel the company follows and support this information with what you have learned about organizational culture
compare the work done at the company and the organizational culture and explain how this relates
research the mission of the company and explain if it aligns with what you have observed. Explain why or why not.
Slide 5: Evaluation of Your Fit (1-2 minutes of narration)

Based solely on what you have observed and researched about the company (not based on the field of the company), do you feel you would be a good fit for this company? Why or why not?
Support this information with what you have learned through your observation as well as what you have researched about the company.
Share at least 2-3 social and behavioral attributes you have that would be an asset to this company. Explain why.
Slide 6: Reference Slide follows APA guidelines

Narration Guidelines: Your narration for the slides should demonstrate the following:

Maintain a persuasive tone by summarizing observations and evaluations for each slide.
Words should be clearly enunciated and professional tone should be sustained throughout the presentation narration.
Audio recording should be free of background noise and interruptions.

GEL-1.3: Demonstrate college-level communication through the oral delivery of original materials in Standard English.

GEL-4.03: Understand patterns of human behavior based upon real world observation.

PC-3.1: Conduct oneself to reflect the characteristics and culture of a given work setting.

For this assignment, you will complete an observation and analytical evaluation of an organization.

You will choose a business to observe either as an employee or as a customer/client. You will observe and evaluate the organization based on information you have learned about organizational culture. NOTE: Refer to the articles you have read during this module as well as the multimedia presentation about Company Culture in the Learning Activities area.

The assignment will be comprised of a PowerPoint with narration about your experiences in the observation and your analysis of the organization.

Bulleted Points on each slide should include brief points that identify the areas that will be addressed in the narration.

Your PowerPoint presentation should include a total of six slides using the following format:

Slide 1: Cover page that includes assignment title, your name, course, section number, and date.

Slide 2:  Introduction of Company (1 minute narration)

Introduce the presentation by explaining information about the organization and the observation that took place such as the name of the organization, type of organization, day and time of observation and your role as an observer (are you an employee, customer, etc.).
Slide 3: Professional Appearance of Employees and Company (1-2 minutes of narration)

Use these questions to guide your response:
How do the employees dress?
Is there anything about the appearance of the employees that distracts from their professionalism?
Does the employees appearance fit the nature of the business? Why or why not?
What does the working environment look like? (furnishings, artwork, lighting, sounds, etc.)
Do the physical surroundings fit the nature of the business? Why or why not?
How do the employees interact with each other and outside people within the workplace? (greetings, tone of conversation, non-verbal communication, etc.)
How do employees interact with each other?
Do the interactions of employees fit the nature of the business? Why or why not?
Slide 4: Analysis of Company (1-2 minutes of narration)

What inferences can you make from your observation? You should cover the following ideas in your explanation:
Analyze the company based on information you have learned about organizational culture in the class. Areas to include are to
categorize the type of organizational culture you feel the company follows and support this information with what you have learned about organizational culture
compare the work done at the company and the organizational culture and explain how this relates
research the mission of the company and explain if it aligns with what you have observed. Explain why or why not.
Slide 5: Evaluation of Your Fit (1-2 minutes of narration)

Based solely on what you have observed and researched about the company (not based on the field of the company), do you feel you would be a good fit for this company? Why or why not?
Support this information with what you have learned through your observation as well as what you have researched about the company.
Share at least 2-3 social and behavioral attributes you have that would be an asset to this company. Explain why.
Slide 6: Reference Slide follows APA guidelines

Narration Guidelines: Your narration for the slides should demonstrate the following:

Maintain a persuasive tone by summarizing observations and evaluations for each slide.
Words should be clearly enunciated and professional tone should be sustained throughout the presentation narration.
Audio recording should be free of background noise and interruptions.
Use the PowerPoint template provided and submit your file to the Competency Assessment Dropbox.

Minimum Submission Requirements

PowerPoint Presentation with six slides.
Slides 2-5 should include detailed narration (see requirements above for length requirements). See information on slide 3 in the template which explains how to add narration to a PowerPoint slide (be sure to remove this slide before posting to the dropbox).
Bulleted points on each slide should include brief points that identify the areas that will be addressed in the narration.
Assignment should follow APA formatting guidelines which includes in-text citations in the body of the presentation and a reference slide.
Researched information should be included on Slides 4 and 5 (In-text citations should be included with any brief points that were researched from outside sources and the narration should fully explain the points).
Identify the source of any pictures you use.

Please chose only one question from the two below. please answer the question direct without too much of an introduction or conclusion. The main focus should be to answer the questions.

Discussion Question 1:

Spending by the consumer sector is the driving force in the US economic system. Although the business and government sectors make a considerable contribution to the success of the economy, it is the spending by the consumer or household sector of the economy that determines prosperity or recession in the economy.

Do you agree or disagree with this argument?
Why or why not?
How has the spending behavior of the government sector changed over the past decade, and what effect had these changes had on the economy?
Justify your answers
Discussion Question 2:

Decision making in a business environment requires an understanding of cost and revenue data. This includes an understanding of marginal and incremental analysis, as well as basic cost and revenue relationships. Explain how a basic understanding of these concepts, as well as of managerial economics, can enhance the managerial decision-making process. Justify your answer.

(1) Email-essay scenario: Impressed with your work from last week, your boss has tasked you with leading the data science team effort for this project. Your first task is to make a plan for data gathering and collection. Your boss wants you to determine what data is necessary to answer the business questions and achieve the project’s objective. Your boss has asked you to send a proposed plan as an email, for the *first 2 weeks* of data collection, including:

What datasets will be needed
Why these datasets? How does the information that they contain inform the decision or answer business questions?
Which datasets exist internally?
If any datasets don’t already exist, specify how they will be collected.
Suggestions

If the data collection you’re imagining for the project would take more than 2 weeks, restrict the email to what can be done in two weeks
Use your knowledge of the cases / how businesses work to imagine what likely exists already internally at Salesforce and Netflix. This week’s video “Delivering High Quality Analytics at Netflix” will give you a sense of what sorts of data exists at Netflix, and help you imagine what data may exist at Salesforce.
Specify the data that will be collected and not necessarily what will be calculated from it. For example, for Salesforce, don’t specify that the dataset is ratios of men-to-women, specify you want the HR dataset that contains all employee IDs/names and their gender.
Requirements:

Minimum 300 words
Minimum 1 reference and with in line citations as appropriate
Reference list

   
The Chi-squared test has been used earlier to test a hypothesis about a population variance. It is also a hypothesis testing procedure for when one or more variables in the research are categorical (nominal). During this week, we are covering the following two such Chi-squared tests:

`Chi-squared Goodness of Fit Test
`Chi-squared Test for Independency
1. Describe an example of a research question where a Chi-squared test has been used. Mention the two hypotheses of the problem and display a numerical demonstration of your example. In particular, interpret the test P value in the context of your research example.
2. Describe why the Chi-squared tests of the types mentioned above are always right-tailed hypothesis testing problems.