Legal Obligations for Reasonable Adjustments in Learning and Assessment Activities
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Complete the template, using knowledge of your workplace.
What sustainability strategy considerations have been expressed by your organization? These may be part of the company vision. The sustainable strategy considerations by our company is as follows: Understanding the importance of sustainability in the organization as this will help in saving the earth along with the environment Engaging with different stakeholders as this will help in engaging the employees with different influential groups and benefit the company Setting of commitments and goals is the other strategy wherein the company needs to understand the environmental and CSR related issues as this will help in solving issues in an effective manner Lastly, properly tracking the progress, communicating the actions and meet the different expectations in an effective manner as this will help in gaining competitive advantage What are the advantages and disadvantages of the systems you use? Advantages It helps in understanding the long term strategy in an effective manner It helps in improving the business culture in an effectual manner It helps in improving the public and marketing relations It helps in increasing the reputation of the company and productivity as well Disadvantages It can lead to green washing It can reduce the profits of the company The resources has to be used for non commercial activities |
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What are the supply chains that you access for raw materials for transforming them into products or services? Integrated make to stock Model Build to Order Model Continuous Replenishment Model Channel Assembly Model What are the processes for obtaining raw materials? The three step process is helpful in obtaining raw materials that include: Locating the resources with the help of aerial mapping along with geological surveys that helped in studying the structure of the earth in an effective manner Gathering resources is done in the methods that include drilling, harvesting and mining. Mining includes the drift and shaft mining that will help in gathering the resources in an effectual manner Transporting resources is essential as this will help in understanding the economical method that will be used to collect the raw materials effectively Are your finished products or services delivered through a distribution system? Yes, the finished products along with services are delivered through the distribution system that is known as wholesale sales as this will help in reaching to the merchant or the intermediaries and they will make it available to the different customers in a positive and effective manner. Which compliance and supply agreements and considerations are in place to govern the supply and use of raw materials? Supply Chain Compliance is the one that is used in order to govern the entire supply along with use of the raw materials in an effectual manner. The compliance is required in order to manage the business condition that has been evolved, as this will help in maintaining positive customer and supplier relationship in an effective manner. The compliance is required in order to understand the different kind of issues that is faced by the organizations and this will help in solving the entire issues in an effectual manner. One of the positive consequences of the shift in the market is that they spend to drive transparency organizations as this will amplify the issues in an effective manner. |
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What areas in your organisation are typically used for performance measures? Profitability of the organization Marketability of the organization Efficiency level of the organization These are the different kind of areas in the organization wherein the performance is measured in an effective manner. The performance is required to be measured as this will help in understanding the reputation along with the generation of the productivity of the organization in an overall manner What are the performance measure assessment tools and techniques used for? 360 degree feedback Management by objectives Balanced Scorecard Self Evaluation technique |
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What are performance reports used for? (Give three examples) It helps in setting benchmarks for the improved performance of the organization. The benchmark is set in comparison to the other companies in such a manner that this will motivate the organization to perform better as this will help in improving their productivity level in an efficient manner Proper measurement, control and monitor the entire workforce as this will help the organization to understand their loopholes in the competitive market. The different assessments are required to be made as this will help in solving the different issues in an effectual manner relating to performance of the individuals in the organization Learn and enhance the performance of the organization along with the different employees of the organization. The different employees has to be made understood the different improvement in the communication process as this will help in solving the different queries in an effective manner Give an example of a basic process for reporting. Choose a report and filter for the results in the internet Add the data columns as this will help in making the search clearer in nature Lastly search the appropriate data and complete the report in an appropriate manner One such basic example is relating to the search of report on supply chain management of an organization. In this case, the organization has to be selected and then the definition along with importance of the supply chain management has to be analysed in an effective manner. This will help in modifying the search and this will help the write to complete the report in an apt manner as well. |
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What is trend analysis? Trend analysis is defined as the aspect of technical kind of analysis that is required in order to predict the future movement of the stock that will be based on the past data in an effectual manner. Trend analysis is basically dependent on the past events and how will it take shape in the future as well as the past events provides an idea about the series that can take place in the future. How can you analyse changing trends and opportunities relevant to your organisation? When there is an increase or decrease in the sales of the company in regards to the past years When the stock of the company has gone down or went up in the competitive market and this can be checked as per the trend analysis as well What might your analysis of a trend be compared to? The analysis of a trend can be compared to the past events that has already been taken place in the organization. This will help in providing a brief idea on the performance of the company in the previous years and this can help in understanding the future of the company as well |
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What do you need to think about/ask yourself before you seek specialist advice on E-commerce? I need to understand whether the person concerned is actually connected with the ecommerce activities. The different kind of activities performed actually by the e-commerce specialists has to be ascertained as this will help in solving the different issues in an effectual manner. What sort of activities might a specialist work on? The E-commerce specialist is computer as well as web savvy professional who are having entire knowledge of the different business commerce. It is appropriate in nature to seek advice from the e-commerce specialist when he provides support to merchandising different requirements along with website management as it relates to plug-ins development and website as well. They are the ones who help in improving the website for the better experience of customers along with driving higher rate of sales as well. Perform a SWOT analysis for addressing your technology and e-commerce opportunity needs.
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What information do you need to give teams when briefing them? Describe your company Summarizing the project Explaining the different objectives Defining the target audiences Outline the different deliverables Identify the competition Specify the budget in an effective manner Include the details along with message and style List the key or main stakeholders What might you need to address if there is a problem with team performance? Properly understand the needs of the different employees in an effective manner Offer different kind of rewards and recognition as this will help in maintaining the team performance Focus on the different feedbacks as this will help in addressing the performance of the team Follow up and monitor the progress of the individuals as this will help in understanding the performance of the employees What is the relationship between innovation and competition? The relationship between the innovation and competition is inverted U shape in nature. Secondly, the equilibrium degree of technological neckness among the firms has to be decreased with PMC. Thirdly, the higher the average degree of neck and neckness among the entire industry, the steeper the inverted U relationship will be in nature. Lastly, the firms need to innovate the higher debt pressure that is relating to lower levels of PMC. |
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What is the difference between dependent and independent level groups? An independent variable is defined as the variable that is controlled or changed in a scientific experiment in order to test the effects on the dependent variable. A dependent variable is the variable that is being tested along with measured in a scientific experiment. What is involved in fostering a creative environment? Use the power of brainstorming Creation of the diverse teams Provide them large open spaces It has to be made sure that management helps in supporting creativity |
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How might you be able to encourage new ideas? Stress the importance of the creativity They has to be supportive in nature Challenges the way that will staff work Properly tolerate the different mistakes Make time for different brainstorming What is entrepreneurial behaviour? It is one of the two alternatives of behaviors that helps in underlying desire to undertake different innovations along with change the status quo. How does your organisation reward creativity? Understand the different requirements of the employees Provide them with week off along with different other non monetary rewards Provide extrinsic motivation as this will help in understanding the requirements of employees |
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What are the pros and cons of recognising and celebrating success through reward and incentive? Pros It is easy and seemingly essential method to influence specific kind of behavior It can be used as the tool for recruiting individuals It do not require personalization as all of the individuals get paid Cons It can be less effective than non monetary rewards Implementation of monetary rewards comes up with different costs It can become de motivating in nature |
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In groups, or as directed by the instructor, perform a risk assessment and a cost benefit analysis on an example of a new idea or innovation, preferably from your workplace. Alternatively, use an example of a new idea or innovation provided by the instructor. Introduction of the award winning system software Risk assessment is that the software can stop working and this can create chaos in the workplace Cost Benefit Analysis is wherein amount of funding for the same includes around $9.9 million dollar. Example of new idea or innovation Introduction of new sport in the organization that will motivate employees and increase productivity |
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What is your organisations approval process for new ideas and innovations? Consider using a flow chart to illustrate this process. Prepare in order to create process of approval Choose right kind of wizard to create approval process Add approval step to the process of approval Review and activate the approval process Who are the key people required in the approval process? Chief Executive officer and Chairperson of the company The department that is involved in the matter of approval Customers |
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What is continuous improvement and why is it important? It is the ongoing effort to improve the different products, services along with processes. These kind of efforts will help in seeking improvement in an incremental manner over time and breakthrough improvement at once Importance Helps in motivating individuals and enable people to share the different skills Why is sustainability important? It helps in saving the environment along with humans It helps in reducing the emission of carbon dioxide in the air |
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Using a workplace example (or an example given by your instructor) of a new idea or innovation that will be implemented, how might this change affect people? Award Winning software that can be implemented in the organization as this will help in changing the personality of the individuals and this will have affect on the performance of employees as well. What is the difference between transition and change? Change often involves frustration along with disruption along with anger and confusion. On the other hand, transition is internal human process that is gradual reorientation of change. What should your change management plan be designed to ensure? Change management plan has to b designed as to ensure that the innovation that will be taking place in organization is up to the mark and this will help in attracting the customers. The company’s productivity is other major reason that has to be analyzed in an effective manner. |
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What does a good contingency plan do? A good contingency plan is devised for the outcome other than the usual plan. It is used for risk management when there can be catastrophic consequences. Different businesses or governments often devise them. It helps the different organizations to return to daily operations and it helps in protecting different resources and minimizes the inconvenience of the customers in an effective manner. |
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What questions might you need to ask to determine the cause or causes of the failure, via an investigation? Vagueness about the different long range goals There is no understanding the amount of work required Inappropriate choice of the appropriate needs Poor language skills What are some examples of the challenges of innovative processes failure? MySpace was one of the major failures of innovation when it was taken over by rival Facebook in the year 2009 Google Glass is another major failure wherein the high price and the innovation were not up to the mark. Pebble was another huge flop in the innovation as the smart watch market was too small for pebble to survive What are your sources of opportunity? Process needs New knowledge Incongruity Market and industry change structure Demographics |
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What might be some examples of the advantages and disadvantages of a system that ensures that learning from activities are captured and managed? Learning from activities can help the individuals to understand about critical thinking and the interaction is faster in nature. This helps in solving different problems in an effective manner. However, learning from activities can be boring in nature and this can be irrelevant in nature as well. It consumes more time in nature and is less efficient in nature |
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of verbal reporting compared to written reporting? Advantages It helps in providing feedback in a short span of time and it is convenient It helps in understanding the clarity of the message It helps in saving time as this is directly done through speech Disadvantages It can create misunderstanding among different individuals It can generate irrelevant information It is not convenient for long messages What three questions regarding report writing should you ask yourself in preparation? What is the main aim and purpose of the report? What are the different techniques used for preparation of the report? What has to be delivered to the readers relating to resolving the solution that has been discussed in the report? |
The analytical skills can help in making the individuals marketable along with hirable individuals. The proper acquiring of the analytical skills can be helpful in completion of the tasks in an effective manner. The analytical skills will help in solving the different problems and tackling the cognitive challenges in an effectual manner. The analytical skills will encourage the critical kind of thinking, as this will help in improving the interpersonal connections.
The analytical skills will help in making the individuals confident enough as this will allow the individuals to perform and volunteer in different projects that are new and this will help in performing the tasks in an effectual manner. The cost-benefit analysis technique can be applied, as this will help in completion of tasks along with analysis of the functional requirements of business. It is used in order to determine different other options that will help in providing best kind of alternatives.
There are different aspects wherein the organization needs to struggle to cope with change along with causing negative impact are as follows:
- Loss of loyalty among the employees towards performing the tasks can cause negative impact on the organization as this will reduce and lowers the productivity of the organization
- Due to different kind of changes in the organizations such as lessened quality improvement and this can cause resistance to change among employees
- Due to conflict among the different colleagues, it can cause huge negative impact on the organizations
- Lastly, due to less innovative or creativity in the work performed at the workplace, this can cause huge issues in the organization in an ineffective manner
Due to these kinds of issues or negative changes in the organization, the organizations can introduce the Kotter’s change management theory or McKinsey 7-S Model as this will help in implementing the change in the organization in a strategic manner. The change management has to be positive in nature with implementing such theories, as this will help in reducing resistance of change among employees in an effectual manner.
Example of the creativity and flexibility at the workplace are as follows:
There can be different incidents of flexibility at the workplace such as when the team leader of a team is allowing the team member to work from home when it is feasible in nature to help them in balancing both home and work responsibilities in an effective manner.
Furthermore, the example of creativity is when one of the team members in the organization is wherein they tried to increase the share of the market of new product without increasing the budget of the existing marketing strategies.
The different learning options that will be required for continuous improvement are as follows:
- It will help in increasing the skills and sharing of knowledge as it is the essential goal of the continuous improvement program. This will help in enabling the individuals to share their skills along with knowledge in an effective manner
- It will help in increasing the opportunity for the different radical improvements as it is related to the Japanese concept known as Kaizenthat helps in continuous improvement. The entire strategy of continuous improvement
- It will help in maximizing the return on investment as this will help in understanding the concept of continuous improvement
This can be actively pursued in different learning options, as this will help in improving the flexibility and creativity among the individuals in an effectual manner. Kaizen concept is helpful in implementation of the continuous improvement, as this will help in understanding the requirement for improvement, as this will help in solving such issues in an effective manner.
What is Reasonable Adjustment and How it Applies to Participation in Learning and Assessment Activities?
The example that has been demonstrated leadership and teamwork skills as to foster the commitment to openness to innovation and quality is as follows:
When I used to work with an organization, I was appointed as the leader wherein under me there were six individuals who worked under me. I tried to communicate with them in an effective manner as this helped me in connecting with them and understanding their differences as well. I understood the perceptive of the needs of the team as this helped me in managing time and was committed towards the work and tasks performed with them. With appropriate leadership skills, it will help me in implementation of the conflict management and acknowledging others in the team is essential in nature, as this will help me in succeeding in an effective manner.
The different leadership theories can be applied in the organization such as transformational leadership or trait theory that will help the organization in performing well. The transactional theories is helpful in nature as this will help in generating ideas of the employees as this will help in performing the tasks together. The democratic approach can be applied by the team leaders wherein all the members are provided with opportunity to produce their views on different tasks performed by them in an effective manner.
With the help of appropriate leadership skills and teamwork capabilities, it will help in fostering the commitment to quality along with openness to the innovation. This will help in creating innovative decision making and solving the different issues with quality performance in an effectual manner.
One of the examples of improvement that the organization can make to the sustainability practices is as follows:
LinkedIn Company is one such company who involves of the employees in CSR activities. One Friday of each month wherein all employees of LinkedIn is to give feedback to the entire community through employee volunteerism along with resources. The main initiation of the CSR program of LinkedIn is discussing about global justice along with initiating different global learning programs in an effective manner.
This is one of the CSR activities that created a sustainable environment, it helped the society, and this has helped in making the other companies understand about the importance of such sustainable practices.
The different questions that can help in evaluating the effectiveness of the key sustainability systems are as follows:
- Is the research helpful in delivering the different outputs and outcomes as planned?
- Has the initiative being delivered to the clients in accordance to the budget?
- How has the entire project helped in influencing the community of stakeholders and what are the capacities that have been built?
- Is the entire project influencing the key groups along with issues that have been identified in the design of the project in a positive manner?
- To what extent did the different initiatives deliver against the requirements of the key stakeholders?
General questions that can be asked at beginning of the analysis are as follows:
- Who are you and what are you passionate about?
- What are the different achievements that you are proud?
- What can be different challenges that can be faced by you in conducting a proper analysis?
- What are the biggest kinds of actions in creating biggest results in your life?
Examples of Reasonable Adjustments in Learning and Assessment Activities
Different ways through which the objectives can be narrowed down are as follows:
- The first step is to narrow down the model as this will help in breaking them into categories that include W and H’s.
- What?
- Who?
- Where?
- When?
- Why?
- How?
- The second step is to consider the areas of question as this will help in generating ideas to narrow the topic that includes:
- Problems that has been faced?
- How to overcome the problems?
- Motives?
- Effects on the group?
- Groups effected and benefitted?
- Groups those are responsible for the same
- Finally, the third step is refining the ideas by considering O.C.R.A.P.R. model
- Similarities
- Opposites
- Contrasts
- Relationships
- Anthropomorphisms
- Personifications
- Repetition
The other processes that have to be identified and analyzed in order to review the programs, systems and processes are as follows:
- Proper conduct of competitor analysis is essential as this will help in understanding the position of their status in the market
- Proper conduct of market and customer analysis as this will help in understanding the tastes and preferences of the customers in an effective manner
- Proper reviewing of the financial position is helpful in nature as this will help in solving the different issues in the innovation techniques
- Proper usage and analysis of the skills is necessary as this will help in performing the programs in an effectual manner
The E-commerce specialist is computer as well as web savvy professional who is having entire knowledge of the different business commerce. It is appropriate in nature to seek advice from the e-commerce specialist when he provides support to merchandising different requirements along with website management as it relates to plug-ins development and website as well. They are the ones who help in improving the website for the better experience of customers along with driving higher rate of sales as well.
Kaizen’s method for success is defined as the good change that will happen to organizations and this will help in improving the entire productivity of the organization as well.
- Leadership is essential wherein the leaders are having huge role to play as this will help in continuous improvement in organizations
- Supporting Technology will help in working properly to improve and manage the different tasks in an effective manner
- Specific Methodology along with leadership is essential in nature as this will help in managing the Kaizen work in an effectual manner.
The contemporary organizations are structuring their organizations is wherein the structure of teams is self-managed of empowered employees. There are different specialists for the functional departments and the project managers assign the tasks to them. Proper matrix structures are prepared along with project structures, as this will help the employees to work continuously on different projects along with moving to different projects and they notice it when the different projects are completed in an effective manner. In contemporary organizations, it is boundary less organizations flexible in nature and there are no such external and internal boundaries or barriers.
The different techniques that can be used in order to encourage, recognize and test new ideas are as follows:
- Stressing the importance of creativity wherein all staffs have to provide chance to present their ideas
- Proper organizing of time is essential as this will help in brainstorming ad allocate time to emerge new kind of ideas in an effective manner
- Train the staffs in an effective manner as this will help in showing their talents and skills in an effective manner
- Lastly, motivate the individuals by creating and providing rewards to them in an effectual manner
Different kind of incentives that will help in rewarding to teams for success are as follows:
- Provide the employees with bonuses along with incentives as this will help them to motivate to perform better
- Provide the employees with spontaneous applause as this will help them in motivating the employees to perform their tasks in different unique techniques
- Providing the employees non monetary incentives such as week off from their duty as this will help them to motivate themselves effectively
Examples of risk that has to be managed are as follows:
- Reputational Risk
- Credit and Market Risk
- Business and Liquidity Risk
- Operational Risk
Implementation of innovation or new ideas is as follows:
- Proper selection of ideas
- Scrutiny of the all the different aspects
- Feedback
- Reaction of feedback
The things that have to be considered are as follows:
- Proper generation of the ideas
- Development of the ideas
- Execution of ideas
- Evaluation of the ideas
These are the different requirements that have to be considered, as this will help in implementing the innovative ideas in an effective manner. The different issues have to be sorted out, as this will help in understanding the main motives of the innovation that is required to be done.
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