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To attract, motivate, and retain good workers, companies need to define what an employee wants from the employment relationship. One way to define employee needs is to consider “total rewards,” which are everything an employee perceives to be of value resulting from working for the company. Benefits are a core element of total rewards and the ever-growing package of offerings have evolved. You must now work with the company to define precisely where the various programs will be categorized. Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you: 1. Identify and discuss at least three (3) important variables that almost always should be considered by organizations when providing employee benefits programs (this is before the programs are implemented). Be sure the response is specific and relevant. 2. Compare and contrast income protection programs and pay for time not worked programs, both of which are usual elements of benefits programs. How are the programs similar? Are they mandatory 3. Research and discuss at least four to five (4-5) of what may be referred as “Other Benefits” that you could recommend to the management team as necessary elements for the benefits package. HINT: Flextime and product/service discounts are good examples. 4. Develop an employee benefits package for any exempt or non-exempt position level of your choosing, making sure you support the selection of your program elements. NOTE: The preferred method for presenting your benefits package information is using a table or exhibit, but either approach is not mandatory. HINT: http://www.isacs.org/uploads/file/Monographs/Business%20Operations/Benefits%20Plan.pdf or http://www.usbankhr.com/hr/docs/benefits/benefits-at-a-glance-next.pdf Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements: • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment (with running head), the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. • Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length. Use the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to locate additional sources to support your work. The specific course outcome associated with this assignment is: • Establish the importance of compensation and benefits, and how they support business strategy.

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Briefly discuss the ways a realistic budget will benefit the owner of Babycakes versus no budget at all. Be sure to use Babycakes as the company and any specific product details in your explanation. Prepare a sales budget for the LA Babycakes store for the fourth quarter of 2016. Present the number of units, sales price, and total sales for each month; include October, November, and December, and the total for the quarter. Use one half of the Valentine’s Day sales as the basis for a usual day in the new quarter. Use 30 days for each month. Calculate the total sales for each month for October, November, and December. Create three new products, one for each of the three holiday seasons in the fourth quarter. Estimate the sales units, sales price, and total sales for each month. Describe the assumptions used to make these estimates. Include an overview of the budget in the report, presenting the actual budget as an appendix with all the data and calculations. Add these amounts to your sales budget. The owner of Babycakes is interested in preparing a flexible budget rather than the static budget she currently uses. She does not understand why, when sales increase, her static budget often shows an unfavorable variance. Explain how a flexible budget will overcome this problem. Use the details of your newly prepared budget for the fourth quarter of 2016 to address her concern. Imagine that Babycakes is facing a financial challenge that is causing the actual amount of money that it spends to become significantly more than its budgeted amount. Include a discussion of your own unique cause of the overspending. Explain the corrective actions needed to address these challenges. Integrate relevant information from at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Please do not use your textbook as an academic resource. Also, Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as quality academic resources. You have access to Strayer University’s Online Library at https://research.strayer.edu and the iCampus University Library Research page at https://icampus.strayer.edu/library/research. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length. An abstract is not required. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are as follows: Assess how accounting tools and techniques influence business planning, decision-making, and control. Evaluate financial accounting tools and techniques that convert financial accounting data into information for decision-making.

use an appropriate chapter / subchapter structure

– screenshots are not necessary but can be included as an appendix (not counted in the page length) What have you learnt in these 2 days?

– The most interesting thing in SEO+SEM? – The most surprising thing in SEO+SEM?

– The most challenging thing in SEO+SEM? • Will you think more now about HOW you search online? – How do you formulate your search

– Where do you look in the results and why you click on one result and not another

– When do you look at the paid ads and why you would click on an ad instead of the organic results • Do you think online search will change in the next years? How will businesses need to adapt their marketing to this?

Prompt:

Your assignment this week is to prepare a PowerPoint presentation on one of the two tasks listed below. Here are the two scenarios you may choose from as the theme (subject) of your presentation: You have been asked by your local monthly “Entrepreneur’s Association” to prepare a short presentation that compares and contrasts the characteristics of a strong entrepreneurial leader and a weak or poor entrepreneurial leader. Return to your Reading & Resources section and review the characteristics of strong and weak leaders.

If there is insufficient information in these resources, head out into the Internet and find additional resources. Your boss, the owner of a franchise business, has asked you to do some research on the principles of managing and leading subordinates within the context of an entrepreneurial environment.

You are to prepare a PowerPoint lecture that can be presented to future franchise holders. This lecture should cover what you have learned to be the major skills, tactics, and principles of managing people in an entrepreneurial environment. Instructions: Include (a) a minimum of 15 slides; (b) a minimum of 3 credible resources; (c) a template appropriate to the subject matter; (d) a combination of artwork, photos, and clip art that illustrates the topic on the slide; and (e) include an intro slide, main body slides, a detailed summation slide, and a reference slide.

Search Engine Optimization and Marketing

– use an appropriate chapter / subchapter structure – screenshots are not necessary but can be included as an appendix (not counted in the page length) What have you learnt in these 2 days? – The most interesting thing in SEO+SEM? – The most surprising thing in SEO+SEM? – The most challenging thing in SEO+SEM? • Will you think more now about HOW you search online? – How do you formulate your search – Where do you look in the results and why you click on one result and not another – When do you look at the paid ads and why you would click on an ad instead of the organic results • Do you think online search will change in the next years? How will businesses need to adapt their marketing to this?