Discussion Board 1

Primary Task Response: 

Within the Discussion Board area, write One page that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Role of Project Management

In the race for a competitive advantage, today’s organizations are often tasked with multiple large in-house and outsourcing responsibilities when it comes to project management.

Read the brief history of project management from this Web site. https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/brief-history-of-project-management.php

Then, respond to the following:

Explain what project management is, and how it evolved over time.

Explain at least 1 thing that has surprised you about the field of project management.

Reference

Haughey, D. (2013, April 21). A brief history of project management. Retrieved from http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/brief-history-of-project-management.html

Compensation is a controversial workplace topic. Throughout the years, specifically the past decade, average employee wages have not greatly risen. However, managerial and executive pay has steadily increased.

Despite current economic stability and low unemployment rates, U.S. businesses are constrained from raising employee salary and benefits due to low-wage foreign competition.  This week’s readings showcase a case study on pay compression at Envelop City and on how McDonalds uses praise (intrinsic factor) and individual incentive pay (extrinsic factor) to ensure satisfied and happy employees.

Discuss how an organization can motivate its employees to maintain/increase their productivity and performance without significantly increasing employees’ compensation.  Additionally, as a compensation consultant, how would you develop market value for positions within your organization? Propose a compensation plan to ensure that rewards (i.e., wages, benefits, and other compensation) match job duties, tasks, and responsibilities.

Answer the above using the question and answer (Q&A) format.  The Q&A format should include the original question along with your response. Within your post, support your responses with information from at least one peer-reviewed/scholarly source (not older than 3-5 years) from  CSU Global online library or the Internet, and provide the full citation at the end of your post. Use APA guidelines (at the CSU Global Writing Center )  to format your references. Your total word count must be at least 300 words excluding the original questions.

Shell Corporation Discussion

• Read: Out-of-state car buyers use Montana LLC’s to evade taxes (Links to an external site.)
  • See also: Shell Corporation (Links to an external site.)
• You may also wish to conduct additional research on LLCs and Shell Corporations.

Respond to the following in your initial post. In your opinion…

1. Do you agree with Robert Thomas’ creation of an LLC to purchase a vehicle? Why/why not.
2. Should Shell Companies be allowed to exist? Are they needed? Why/why not. 
3. Provide an example of another Shell Corporation and indicate why the company was created and how the person(s) involves benefit from such a corporation.

Provide a minimum of 10 PowerPoint slides with audio and audio notes and additional title and references slides.