...Castle Business Plan Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Susanna Vilim DeVry University HRM-340 1 Castle Business Plan Table of Contents Item Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Page # 2 3- 4 5 Company Review 6- 7 Business Analysis 8 - 11 HRIS Type/Comparison 12 - 14 HRIS Recommendation 15 - 17 Conclusion 18 Bibliography 19 2 Castle Business Plan Executive Summary Castle’s Family Restaurant being the successful family owned chain of restaurants completing in a dynamic yet economically challenged environment is to be commended. To continue to achieve the strategic business objectives of living out the corporate mission and expanding the current chain, the business plan set forth in detail will address current challenges being faced in payroll processes and the recommendations in addressing each of these needs so that the organization can meet and exceed current and future goals. Jay Morgan, operations manager, currently carries the responsibilities associated with payroll activities. Payroll processes are vital to the organization and the risks associated with implementing these activities are high. Implementing an automated Human Resource Information System (HRIS) will mitigate these risks and in turn will be beneficial to current and future objectives in growing the organization. Currently Castles utilize Compeat to address other aspects of the business; the recommendation...
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...Media Effects of Women’s Body Image This paper aimed at to help 15-30 years old women to build a healthy and positive attitude toward their body image. The research question that I raised is how do TV advertisements and fashion magazine affect 15-30 years old women to build their self-esteem and body image view in the U.S.? More specifically, I will examine the various aspects of negative effects that the television and fashion magazines bring to the 15-30 years old women. I proposed that the negative effects that television and fashion magazines bring to young women is more serious than people expected. I do intend to cite the relatively few statistic data and clinical studies that have been conducted on media’s negative effects on women’s body image. My audience will be the 15-30 years old women who do not aware enough of the problem that I describe or who was struggled by the problem that I describe for a long time. Nowadays, a woman’s identity is linked strongly to her physical appearance. In this situation, coverage of women in media mostly concerns women’s appearance and set them as sexual objects. Most social commentators agree that the media reflects current social norms (Grogan, 1999). Body image is the picture of the size, shape, and form of people’s bodies that people see in their mind’s eye (Honigman & Castle, 2007). It is also central to the self-concept and to self-esteem, influencing psychological functions and diverse behaviors (Cash & Pruzinsky...
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...Film History & Research Citizen Kane Film Essay Orson Welles' Citizen Kane Success the first time around is very uncommon. Orson Welles's first feature film richly realizes the full potential of excellent craftsmanship. Citizen Kane is almost indisputably the greatest achievement in the history of filming. In 1941, this film was considered by many as the best film ever made. This film is about the enormous conflict between two twentieth-century icons, publisher William Randolph Hearst and the prodigy of his time, Orson Welles. The rather overwhelming beginning of an opening sequence is still as electrifying as any in the history of movies. That tarnished sign on a forbidding black wire fence is the first thing we see in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane is a movie about perception and projection. Indeed, with the complex theme the whole movie seems to be placed in a kind of psychological trauma for the viewers. Citizen Kane is a portrait of a public and private figure that remains tantalizingly unfinished. Excellent acting was revealed for the first time as these new roles played out. Orson Welles was a director ahead of his time and his portrayal of Kane shows his acting ability. This film is one of the first films to rely heavily on style and visuals; Citizen Kane uses camera, lighting, and set techniques to show Kane's rise and fall from power. The movie as a whole, though as artistically satisfying as a picture can get...
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...The Myth of Dracula Jenny Martinez, Com 220 University of Phoenix Cole Chatterton January 9, 2008 THE MYTH OF DRACULA In October of 1999, a television series began that would run for approximately four and a half years. This series would again sate the American appetite for vampire stories begun by the likes of Bram Stoker, Anne Rice, Tanith Lee, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. The name of the series? Angel. The Premise? A vampire, originally named Angelus, had been cursed by a gypsy victim, with a soul, and could no longer kill humans. And if he fell in love with one, his dark side would return, which he feared more than anything else. The series featured many flashbacks to many centuries past because the vampires depicted were several centuries old. Not only that, but the vampire had true eye-appeal for the female audience. He was tall, dark, and handsome, just like almost every vampire in almost every myth America has ever heard (Angel site, 2004). But could such a creature truly exist? Although the vampire myth is present in many societies around the world through the centuries, there is a basis in science and fact, for this legend. To start off with, one of the most popular modern vampire stories, written in 1897, was Bram Stoker’s Dracula. To this day, it sets the bar for the modern vampire. Authors have a tendency to pull juicy pieces of many different tales together to patchwork them into something to hold the reader’s interest. ...
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...Emotional Benefits An emotional benefit relates to the ability of the brand to make the buyer or user of a brand feel something during the purchase process or user experience. “When I buy or use this brand, I feel ___.” Thus, a customer can feel safe in a Volvo, excited in a BMW, energetic with Coke or warm when receiving a Hallmark card. Evian, with its “Another day, another chance to feel healthy,” associated itself with the satisfied feeling that comes from a workout. Emotional benefits add richness and depth to the brand and the experience of owning and using the brand. Without the memories that Sun-Maid Raisins evoke, the brand would border on commodity status. The familiar red package links many users to happy days of helping Mom in the kitchen (or the idealized childhood for some who wished that they had such experiences). The result can be a different user experience, one with feelings, and a stronger brand. Self-expressive Benefits Brands and products, as symbols of a person’s self-concept, can provide a self- expressive benefit by providing a vehi- cle by which a person can express him- or herself. “When I buy or use this brand, I am___.” A brand does not have to be Harley to deliver self-expressive benefits. A person can be cool by buying clothes at Zara, successful by driving a Lexus, creative by using Apple, a nurturing mother by preparing Quaker Oats hot cereal, frugal and unpretentious by shopping at Kmart or adventurous and active by owning REI camping equipment...
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...Critical Reading 1. Preview. Look “around” the text before you start reading. ... 2. Annotate. Annotating puts you actively and immediately in a "dialogue” with an author and the issues and ideas you encounter in a written text. ... 3. Outline, Summarize, and Analyze. ... 4. Look for repetitions and patterns. ... 5. Contextualize. ... 6. Compare and Contrast. When you write about literature . . . Some Tips for Academic Writers Sentence Style 1. Use simple sentences as rubrics (pointers). 2. Use compound sentences to suggest balance and to present pairs of ideas of equal value. 3. Use complex sentence to emphasize the most important ideas and to subordinate less important ideas. 4. Avoid "empty" sentence frames that say little or restate the obvious. 5. Use present tense when referencing details in a literary work except for passages written in the past tense. 6. Incorporate short, key quoted phrases into analytical sentences. 7. Avoid the use of such words and phrases as "you" and "the reader" that often lead to wordiness. 8. Avoid the phrase, "In conclusion," when opening the concluding paragraph. 9. Avoid gratuitous complements and superlatives. Paragraph Development 1. Use Pattern 1 paragraph frames for most paragraphs in the body of academic essays. 2. Begin body paragraphs with claims as topic sentences that repeat key concepts from the thesis sentence. 3. Always introduce the speaker, context, and/or significance of block quotations. 4. Always...
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...2016 On-line test (due to be completed by Friday 18 December, 2015) Please note, the on-line test relates to 20 multiple choice questions prepared from the main text Millmore et al, 2007, Strategic human resource management: contemporary issues. Prentice Hall. To pass this test, you must have acquired a copy of this textbook. You can acquire a copy of the text by contacting the USQ cooperative bookshop where both your texts (i.e. Milmore and Davilla et al) have been packaged together to reduce the cost. Please see the study desk in week 1 under the heading ‘ON-LINE TEST’. A ‘Guidelines for the On-line Test’ will also be posted in this section. These guidelines will set out which chapters you should study to be able to answer the multiple choice questions. Further details will be posted for completing this test. Case study 1 Description Marks out of Wtg(%) Due date Case study 1 (2000 words) 100 40% Friday, 15 January 2016 (approximately 5 typed pages single spaced) You should write the case study in such a way that you start your answers from line 1. That is, there is no need for large introductions that we see in essays. You should apply the principles you have learned from lecture material/tutorials/readings that are specific to the case study. Case study 1 answers should be written in narrative form (i.e. sentences not bullet points), and should be 2000 words long, single spaced. Each case study should be referenced and show evidence of recommended...
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...Make-up Position Paper - Wk4, Ch7 - Political Participation ASSIGNMENT INTRODUCTION - SUBMIT AS MAKEUP ONLY - READ FOR AIC. Dear class, Welcome to this week's Makeup Position Paper on Public Opinion and Participation. This make-up assignment is reserved for students who have failed to submit at least one, required position paper. Students must submit two makeup position papers in order to makeup for the credit lost on one required paper. If you wish to submit this assignment, please be sure to disable the TFE and topic text links before doing so. Furthermore, be sure to submit it in the proper folder. ASSIGNMENT BACKGROUND - IMPORTANT POINTS As usual, before I direct you to the week's assignment questions, there are a few remarks I would like to make regarding important, related issues and/or background material. Please consider the comments below, which touch upon a number of topics addressed in our text and which include a number of related observations taken from my own research. Purposes of Elections Firstly, one key point to remember is that elections, originally designed in order to allow citizens to select their own leaders, are also used by governments in order to build support for their policies. This is particularly true of parliamentary governments, which generally require simple plurality votes in order to pass sweeping legislation. In parliamentary governments, political parties are represented in direct proportion to the percentage of votes that they...
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...by Friday 18 December, 2015) Please note, the on-line test relates to 20 multiple choice questions prepared from the main text Millmore et al, 2007, Strategic human resource management: contemporary issues. Prentice Hall. To pass this test, you must have acquired a copy of this textbook. You can acquire a copy of the text by contacting the USQ cooperative bookshop where both your texts (i.e. Milmore and Davilla et al) have been packaged together to reduce the cost. Please see the study desk in week 1 under the heading ‘ON-LINE TEST’. A ‘Guidelines for the On-line Test’ will also be posted in this section. These guidelines will set out which chapters you should study to be able to answer the multiple choice questions. Further details will be posted for completing this test. © University of Southern Queensland MGT8034 Assessment page 2 Case study 1 Description Case study 1 (2000 words) (approximately 5 typed pages single spaced) Marks out of Wtg(%) Due date 100 40% Friday, 15 January 2016 You should write the case study in such a way that you start your answers from line 1. That is, there is no need for large introductions that we see in essays. You should apply the principles you have learned from lecture material/tutorials/readings that are specific to the case study. Case study 1 answers should be written in narrative form (i.e....
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...FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY | H.H HOLMES | AMERICAS FIRST SERIAL KILLER | | Kevin Hutter | 10/20/2011 | H.H HOLMES, THE FIRST AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER, IN THE FOLLOW RESEARCH PAPER WE WILL BE LOOKING AT PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HIS CRIMES TROUGH HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD TILL HIS EXECUTION IN THE LATE 1800’S | Herman Webster Mudgett, better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. Mudgett was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire [4] to Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodore Page Price, both of whom were descended from the first non-native settlers in the area. According to the 2007 Most Evil profile on Holmes, his father was a violent alcoholic, and his mother was a devout Methodist who read the Bible to Herman. He claimed that, as a child, schoolmates forced him to view and touch a human skeleton after discovering his fear of the local doctor. The bullies initially brought him there to scare him, but instead he was utterly fascinated, and he soon became obsessed with death. Born to an affluent family, Holmes had a privileged childhood. It has been said that he appeared to be unusually intelligent at an early age. Still there were haunting signs of what was to come. He expressed an interest in medicine, which reportedly led him to practice surgery on animals. Some accounts indicate that he may have been responsible for the death of a friend. [2] Holmes also talked about his childhood...
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...domestic as well as international shipments to more than 48 countries. Amazon was one of the first big companies to sell goods over the Internet. Amazon serves a worldwide audience. Its website was launched in 1995 and is available in English, Chinese, French, German and Japanese. Amazon began as an online bookstore. This gave it the advantage of having more titles than the traditional brick-and-mortar stores. It has since grown way beyond this to sell all kinds of products. Amazon has branched into clothing, gourmet food, watches, jewelry, baby products and apparel, beauty products, sporting goods, music CD’s, DVD’s, video tapes, home appliances and electronics. In September 1997 Amazon.com opened an East Coast distribution center in New Castle, Delaware. This expansion improved and also increased the ability of the company to stock and ship items quicker. This gave way to the company’s goal of 95 percent same-day shipping. This allowed quicker shipping of orders to the customers much faster than before. In 1962, the first Waldenbooks was opened in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1971 as an international book and music retailer. It was founded by brothers Tom and Louis Borders during their undergraduate and graduate years at the University...
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...had been poor for the Indianapolis- based producer of flow controllers for process industries like chemicals, paper, and food. Sales were off, but earnings were off even more. Market share was down in all product lines. As the president called the meeting to order he had fire in his eyes. "The situation can't get much more serious," he proclaimed. "As you all know, over the past couple of years everything has gone to hell in a hand basket. We're in deep trouble, with both domestic and foreign competition preempting us at every turn. The only way to get out of this mess is for us to become customer driven or market oriented. I'm not even sure what that means, but I'm damn sure that we want to be there. I don't even know whether there's a difference between being market driven and customer oriented or customer driven and market oriented or whatever. We've just got to do a hell of a lot better." "I couldn't agree with you more, Frank," the marketing vice president put in. "I've been saying all along what we've got to be more marketing oriented. The marketing department has to be more involved in everything that goes on because we represent the customer and we've got an integrated view of the company" The CEO scowled at him. "I said market oriented, not marketing oriented! It's unclear to me what we get for all the overhead we have in marketing. Those sexy brochures of yours sure haven't been doing the job." Benson P. Shapiro is a professor and senior associate dean...
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...Delinquency in America: 1 A Search to Find Solutions to Delinquency in America Richard Micheal Stanford Criminal Justice 230 Delinquency in America: 2 Introduction A Search to Find Solutions to Delinquency in America In this paper, some of the factors that go into some of the things that happen in the lives of youth today will be examined. It will also look at what impact family and community have on youth and the morals of society. Together we can find possible solutions to drastically reduce delilnquency. Delinquency in America: 3 Family Structure, Life, and Involvement There is a rise in delinquency and a blatant lack of respect from the youth of today. This increase has been caused by a significant shift in the family dynamic since the 1950’s and 1960’s, today’s constantly changing society, the devaluation of morals in society, and desensitization caused by media and entertainment. As sad as it may be, this is the way things are today. When one thinks of the traditional American family they picture something like the Cleavers from Leave it to Beaver or the Cunninghams from Happy Days. The father would go to work all day and come home to dinner on the table. The mother would do her own equally important work keeping the household together daily. Children even had their duties; they would go to school, play some kind of sport, play in the neighborhood until dinner and just be kids. Let’s look at the role the father played fifty to sixty years ago. For the...
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...Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... 1 of 110 05-05-2013 19:50 Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... Heat Wave Richard Castle 2 of 110 05-05-2013 19:50 Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... To the extraordinary KB and all my friends at the 12th 3 of 110 05-05-2013 19:50 Heat Wave - Richard Castle file:///C:/Users/zainab/Downloads/Richard.Castle_Nikki.Heat.01_Hea... Contents One It was always the same for her when she arrived… Two Nikki Heat’s footsteps echoed back at her off the concrete… Three Heat and Rook trailed two steps behind Noah Paxton as… Four Nikki didn’t go home following the movie after all. She… Five There is very little chance of a high-speed pursuit on… Six Nikki stepped into the rooftop bar of the Soho House… Seven Even as she stood frozen in her hallway, Nikki’s first… Eight When Detective Heat nosed the Crown Vic out of underground… Nine Nikki Heat’s apartment building was not the Guilford. It was… Ten Nikki led him wordlessly into her bedroom and set the… Eleven Thirty minutes later, Detective Heat stepped off the Guilford’s elevator… Twelve The three detectives and Rook maintained a tense silence as… Thirteen In the precinct interrogation room, the biker, Brian Daniels, seemed… Fourteen Raley came back into the bullpen dangling...
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...Curriculum Design Word Count: 3300 Introduction: This essay serves as a guide to my Enterprise Market Stall Short Course. This is a Six-week course with the purpose of providing learners with the experience of forming, planning and then running their own business. This guide will begin with an overview of the course, its structure, aims and objectives. Next, the need for the course will be examined alongside the significance of the environment that has created the need for such a course. The curriculum approach will be discussed in order to determine the validity of the course. Finally, the feasibility of the course will be revealed, bringing the essay to an end with a conclusion that will confirm the future of such a course. Experiential Learning will be recurring theme throughout this guide, as the emphasis on the need for practical learning will be promoted. About The Course My proposed course is called, the Enterprise Market Stall Short Course. The aim of this course is to equip learners with the skills needed to contribute to the running of a project, including the planning, delivery and review phases. The course will cover resource planning for a project, communication with stakeholders along with individual and overall project performance review. Students will be challenged and will develop transferrable skills by engaging in real time live business opportunities and in most cases experience the realities of planning and launching their own enterprise...
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