Examine three of the functional areas of your business: production and operations, marketing, and distribution. You will work on four areas of your Blueprint document:
Part
Title
Marks
A
Human Resources and Labour Relations
25
B
Marketing—Your Customer
25
C
Marketing—Product/Service, Price, Place/Distribution, and Promotion/Communications
30
D
Production and Operations
20
Total
100
Instructions
Develop each part of your report by answering the questions that are applicable to your specific business concept. The word counts in each part give you a guideline about how detailed your report must be.
Send your completed assignment to your Open Learning Faculty Member when you have finished this module. If you are unsure about what is required in an assignment, contact your Open Learning Faculty Member.
Part A: Human Resources and Labour Relations
Prepare position descriptions for the top three jobs in your business. Include job qualifications, job details, level of responsibility, amount of authority, level of decision making, and reporting structure. If you will be doing all three jobs, estimate the amount of time you will devote to each job function.
Describe the strategies you will use to fulfill all the critical functions in your start-up business. Will you recruit family members? Will you contract virtual employees? Will you hire part-time, full-time staff or possibly contract-out some of the work? What critical functions MUST be fulfilled for your company to be successful?
What are the management and union strategies for dealing with conflict?