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Budget Project General Directions and Budget Part 1 Assignment
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The following assignment is the beginning of the Budget Project that you will be completing over the semester.
Read the Budget Project General Directions contained in attached file to learn more about the Budget Project assignment you will be working on this semester. Then click on the Budget Project Part 1file to read the directions for the assignment.
Follow the directions to complete the assignment. Type your assignment in Word or as a PDF.
When you create your document, remove the directions from the assignment so that they are not compared to the database and identified as plagiarized.
When you are finished, submit your Budget Project Part 1 by clicking on the underlined words “Budget Project General Directions and Budget Part 1 Assignment”
Packback Topic for Module 7
The topic for this Module’s Packback Topic for your Questions is Taxes.
To complete Packback, click on the How to Use Packback button on the left. Select the Packback that you are completing. A guide post with the topic for this Module is located at the top of the feed for this Packback assignment.
Your question is worth up to 3 points and your answers to the questions of two other students are worth up to a total of 3 points. (Refer to the syllabus for the breakdown of points that can be earned on Packback based on your curiosity scores on your question and your response to 1 other student).
Case Study Assignment
Read “Optima Air Filter Company: The Flood” on page 117 of the Dessler textbook. Please answer questions 4-14 & 4-15 according to directions provided in the ‘Case Study Information’. Initial post must be completed by Friday, March 1, 11:59 PM. Answers shall be posted within the ‘Discussions’ tab on Blackboard.
Replies to a (one) classmate’s questions (both of them) shall be completed by Sunday, March 3, 11:59 PM.
Optima Air Filter Company: The Flood
In May 2011, Mississippi River flooding hit Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the Optima Air Filter Company. Many employees’ homes were devastated. Optima found that it had to hire almost three completely new crews, one for each shift. The problem was that the “old-timers” had known their jobs so well that no one had ever bothered to draw up job descriptions for them. When about 30 new employees began taking their places, there was general confusion about what they should do and how they should do it.
The flood quickly became old news to the firm’s out-of-state customers, who wanted filters, not excuses. Phil Mann, the firm’s president, was at his wits’ end. He had about 30 new employees, 10 old-timers, and his original factory supervisor, Maybelline. He decided to meet with Linda Lowe, a consultant from the local university’s business school. She immediately had the old-timers fill out a job questionnaire that listed all their duties. Arguments ensued almost at once: Both Phil and Maybelline thought the old-timers were exaggerating to make themselves look more important, and the old-timers insisted that the lists faithfully reflected their duties. Meanwhile, the customers clamored for their filters.
Questions
4-14. Should Phil and Linda ignore the old-timers’ protests and write the job descriptions as they see fit? Why? Why not? How would you go about resolving the differences?
4-15. How would you have conducted the job analysis? What should Phil do now?
