Job Interviews and Non Verbal Communication (CH 2)

Chapter 2 - Job Interviews and Non Verbal Communication

Part 1: 
Locate an article on the internet that gives useful suggestions for ensuring that your nonverbal

behavior in a job interview makes a favorable impression. What does it say are important things to consider during interviews that are non verbal? A brief summary here will suffice. Just detail how important non verbal cues are in job interviews, and what are some good things to try and do, as well as try and stay away from?

Part 2:
A)What are some differences in non verbal behavior associated with different cultures?

B)What are some differences in non verbal communication between different Genders?

Barriers to Intercultural Communication (CH 1)

Objective: Although your book mentions 7 barriers to intercultural communication, many might argue there are way more than just 7. I would like to hear from you about 3 of these barriers on a more in depth level.

Instructions:

Part A) First list and briefly describe all 7 barriers to intercultural communication.

Part B) Take three of the barriers and explain in depth what they mean, why are they an issue, and what would a modern day example look like? How would you overcome a "real life" example of running into this barrier?

Part C) Explain ways to minimize or curtail the intercultural barriers. (Commonsense Guidelines)

Please post by EOC today, Thanks...

DFW: Stock Pick

Assignment: Using the internet, find a current "Stock" related article from a newspaper, magazine, or reliable web site. The goal of your post needs to act as a weekly stock pick. Many bloggers and investment brokers post weekly buy/sell opinions, which is what I want you to do. At the least, your summary must be two paragraphs in length.

In the first paragraph summarize the company. In the second paragraph explain why you feel your choice is a  good pick.

Citation: For any website you use, you MUST cite your source using APA format. Check out:

If you need citation assistance, use any source builder or head to Citationmachine.net

Proof read your summary and make sure it is error free before you publish. After you finish this assignment you might want to add the stock to your personal portfolio.

Submit your write up with rank by the end of class today

Bloomberg: Inside Chipotle

1. The first Chipotle was started where and in what year?

2.  Where did the furniture, accessories, and building style come from?

3.  What company helped Chipotle grow exponentially, and what is their relationship now? What was the given reason?

4.  Explain the "Fast Casual Category", and how does Chipotle succeed in this idea?

5.  What is Steve's outlook on his ingredients?

6.  As of today, how many Chipotle Locations are in the US?

7. What do investing critics say about Chipotle? What are some reasons for their skepticism?

8. What happened in 2010 with regards to a handful of Chipotle Employees?

9.  What is Chipotle Cultivate Festival? How does it fit into their Marketing/Adverising plan?

10.

A) What was the stock Price around August 2015?
B) What is the Current Stock Price?

Long Response:

Summarize the Chipotle & E Coli Incident...

After the Chipotle & E Coli incident. How has Chipotle changed their practices? What is their reasoning behind how the issues happened? How were consumers affected? What do they do differently now? Has this affected the way you view or utilize Chipotle in your life?

Ch 1: Communication Intro/Failure

BCOM Chapter 1: Communication Intro/Failure

This class is all about Business communication... What it is, how it works, and why it is important. In chapter one we will gain a background on bcom and specific details.

Objective: Define communication and describe the main purpose for communication in business.

On your blogs, please respond to the following questions.

1. What is business communication?
2. Why do you think we have a whole course associated with Business Communication?

Now we will look at Communication Failure in your textbook, Chapter 1.

3.     How can communication breakdown occur? Specific behaviors?

4.     There are three ways that messages or communications can be transmitted, what are these and what one do you think is the: best, worst, why?

5.     There are a handful of factors that can hinder communication, known as interferences or barriers. Talk about 3 to 5 of these barriers and in general, what could these cause if not taken into consideration?

Schmearton Part I

CCA Portfolio Assignment #1

Schmearton Technologies: Operations and Decision Making PART I

Introduction:

One thing is for certain about your career in operations, there is never any shortage of things to do. As the Chief Operating Officer of your company, Schmearton Technologies, there are always more things to be done than there is time in the work day. Fortunately, you are skilled at prioritizing and evaluating what needs to be done. If you can’t do it all, then you do the most important things.

You manage a manufacturing plant. The plant produces a product called the travel toothbrush. Today, when you arrived at work, you had several items on your ‘to do list.’ These included:

1.     Meeting with a supplier to renegotiate a contract for the toilet paper and cleaning supplies used in the restrooms of your business.

2.     Interviewing a candidate for an open position as a supervisor on the production line.

3.     Completing the monthly report that is due to your boss. Today is the deadline.

4.     Inspecting a critical portion of the production line.

Of course, before you even sat down in the chair in your office, a Vice President rushes in to tell you the delivery trucks that will move this week’s production of travel toothbrushes (2,000 cases) did not arrive. Now you have to call the Vice President of Transportation and find delivery trucks to move the travel toothbrushes. So, that gets added to your list, too.

After taking a few minutes to estimate the time it will take to complete each of the items on your “to do” list, you conclude that you only have time to complete three things, and the rest will have to wait. Now you have think about the factors that could make each a priority.

The cleaning supplies are not essential to the production line. You do have responsibility for keeping costs down, and the cleaning supplies are part of the costs that you control. They represent less than 1% of your overall budget. If you reschedule the meeting with the supplier, you won’t be able to save any money for a month. Your bonus for managing costs is paid out monthly.

The job opening on the production line is an important one. It has been vacant for six weeks. The position is for a Master Toothbrush technician. There are few people who can do this job. Since the job became vacant, productivity has gone down, and the average cost of producing a widget is starting to go up, which hurts the company’s profits. It is likely that the person you are interviewing is also interviewing someplace else. Chances are pretty good that if you don’t act soon, you may not be able to hire him.

Your boss, the President of the Schmearton Technologies, is very strict about deadlines. He has told you many times before that he takes your monthly report to the investors in the company whenever you submit it. There is an investor meeting tomorrow.

The problem on the production line has to do with errors. The cause has not been identified, but about 10% of the toothbrushes produced each week are defective and cannot be sold. This waste is driving up costs. Because the cause has not been identified, you are uncertain how big the problem is, and whether or not you can find a solution today.

Arranging for new transportation trucks will take time, but the company maintains a fleet of trucks. The deliveries will be late, so the customers who buy them will are entitled to a 10% discount. It is unlikely that you can get the deliveries on time now, even if the delivery trucks show up today.

The President of the company has given you his priorities of what is most important to get done. In order from most important to least important, his priorities are:

1.     Take care of our customer’s needs first.

2.     Ensure that nothing interrupts production schedules.

3.     Produce a high quality product.

4.     Keep costs as low as possible.

The Assignment:

There are three learning objectives for this assignment. The first objective is to critically think through prioritization. The second objective is to understand the workings of a company. The final objective is to recognize some key business terms/concepts.

For this situation, provide a full written explanation that covers the following: which items you will work on today and your rationale for the items you've chosen for the items you can’t accomplish today, provide your thoughts on what you might do to address them discuss the implications of your decisions

Please post this assignment directly onto your blog before the specified due date...

Welcome Back, now lets create some Blogs!!!

Students, Welcome Back!!!!

BCOM Blogger Project

Objective:

Create a blog that will be used throughout the semester as both a resource and a place to publish work, and collaborate with fellow students. This will be a great resource for the rest of your life, and will be a good place to start to think about jobs and careers. Your resumes, certificates, and work will go on this blog, so make sure you keep professional and appropriate content! Keep your nonsense and humor to your other blogs!

Instructions:

1. Make sure you are signed into your @aurorak12.org email address
2. Go to blogger.com

-Make sure your “Display Name” is your full name

3. Click “Create New”

                -Choose your Blog Title

-Your blog address should be your last name, then bus217

(Example: garciabus217.blogspot.com)

-Choose Template

4.Click This Button:

This is where you can change things such as template, information, layout, etc.

5.Click Layout, and add 3 gadgets.

                -The gadgets you choose must be relevant and appropriate. If you have any questions, ask me.

6. Click the “edit” of About Me section.

                -Fill this out with a detailed description

7. Spend some time adding to your blog to make it “yours” add any pictures, gadgets, or details you would like, as long as they are fitting for the course and subject of the blog.

8. After you are done editing the layout and such, you must add mine, and your fellow classmates blog to your “reading list”

-Under Reading list section, click add, then write or paste each classmates blog address into your

reading list. This is how you will get credit for commenting and collaborating.

9. Double check your blog address, then send it to me in an email.

(Example: http://vpbcom.blogspot.com/  )  <----- Add my blog to your reading list

10. After you have completed all of the steps above you are ready to start blogging! Find me  for your first blog assignment.