Apply: Team Performance Review

Imagine you are a team of HR generalists assigned to one of the five locations of a local fast food restaurant in your city. The owner has challenged you to create a new performance review.

Research different types of performance reviews and create two 175-word review forms that managers can use with their employees.

Include the following components:

• Competencies
• Performance requirements
• Engagement for two different types of employees (e.g. cooks, counter workers, drive-through, supervisors)

Explain in a total of 175 words why each of the questions that you included would be relevant based upon your research.

Cite any outside sources according to APA formatting guidelines.

Show what site you research informations

Overview of Assignment

You are the new project manager at Garden Decks of Beauty, a local company for the past 12 years in the Lexington, KY area. Your first assignment will be for the Melrose family (Todd and Margo, plus two yippy dogs to drive the neighbors nuts) who moved into their new home two years ago and now wish to replace the 8’ by 3’ slab of concrete (the stoop) which their backyard facing French Doors step onto with a new luxurious deck area with hot-tub and accoutrements. Their backyard is 80’ wide and 120’ deep and runs at a 5% slope straight down the back. By the way, Todd and Margo are Iron Triangle lovers – Time/Cost/Quality. Win them and you win their neighbors’ business.

Customer’s Basic Requirements

• A two-area deck with the upper level (will step on from the French Doors), being a 5 meter by 7-meter rectangular area
• One end of the upper level will have a 5 meter by 3 meters by 3.5-meter-tall pergola – you may use a kit or build and design from scratch
• You will have a single step down to the second circular area which will be 7 meters in diameter and have a 2.5 meter square hot-tub on the far side – this will need electrical, and you will acquire and facilitate the installation through the vendor
• You will be able to step from the circular area to the yard on a paving stone path which will run out to the garden – the path will be 7 meters long and 1 meter wide – this path will have electrical yard lights
• There will be a 25’ diameter area halfway down the path which will have a built in fire pit with seating (4 seats / benches) – the area will use gravel and border stones
• All deck areas will be edged with decorative railing
• The deck framing will set on 4”x4” footers which will be concreted 1 meter into the ground (below frost line) – you will used galvanized hangers to support frame supports
• The lower area will have built in flower boxes 2’x 3’ – three of them
• The upper area will have a gas grill with built in gas service
• You will need a building permit and it will cost 50 dollars
• All railing will have decorative lighting running along it
• Both main deck areas will be fully landscaped around the perimeter with plants, decorative stones, perennials, and bushes. – your team will do the landscaping
• You will have an experienced construction crew of 4 FTE’s which will cost $80/hour including benefits and 1.5-time overtime applies
• You will have a team of 2 experienced landscape professionals who will cost $75/ hour and overtime applies.
• Need a couple outdoor, 110 electrical outlets for Xmas lights, etc.
• You will need electrical you will vendor out – determine cost
• You will vendor out the hot-tub installation – determine cost
• You will need a vendor to install and run the gas-line – determine cost
• The deck will be fully sealed with a medium brown stain / preservative
• You will use treated lumber for all framing, and you will decide on what product to use for surface boards (wood, synthetic, etc.)
• The upper level will have two built in seats near the grill area (wood) – not under the pergola
• You will need to determine the timeline – will precipitate from the Work Breakdown Structure
• Assume you have all the tools you need
• Any requirements not specifically stated are at your discretion.
• A 5 foot by 12-foot 2×8 raised bed tomato and pepper area just to the left of where you might walk off the center of the upper deck with drip irrigation installed and drip irrigation faucet at one corner of the raised bed.

Project Deliverables (Documents to be created)

As a team, it is extremely important to all of you that you participate in the creation of every document listed below in some way. That you leave this course with the knowledge of what the document is for and what it typically contains. You will need to create all of the documents as a team and you will use those documents to create slides for your project status presentation using a Power Point.

Documents:

1. Project Charter
2. RACI (you can use EXCEL)
3. Statement of Work (SOW)
4. Scope Document
5. Very Basic Drawing https://financesonline.com/best-free-landscape-design-software/
6. Procurement Process (materials and vendors)
7. Assumptions and Constraints Document
8. Risk and Issues Log (you can use EXCEL)
9. Communication Plan (you can use EXCEL)
10. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (you can use EXCEL)
11. Quality Document
12. Change Request Process Document
13. Milestone Time-line Breakdown
14. Budget (this will come out of the WBS)
15. Project Status Report – this is prepared on a PowerPoint slide deck and will go to leadership. The report must contain:
    1. Color coded status
    2. Budget Section
    3. Risk Section
    4. Issues Section
    5. Current past achievements
    6. Work areas currently underway (WIP – work in progress)

Part 3 – How to Approach the Group Project

Internet Research – using the internet to research topics is a researcher’s best friend. Possible topics:

• Deck construction basics
• Hot tubs for sale and installation
• How to pick the best gas grill
• How to run a gas line to a grill
• Landscape planning
• Estimating construction labor costs
• Lowes or Home Depot sites for material costs
• How to build a fire-pit and cost of materials
• Procurement and contract basics
• Building a deck flower box
• Wayfair site for pergolas or patio furniture
• How to build a pergola (YouTube videos)

• Compose a three-four (3-4) page paper in which you do the following:
  1. Use third person point of view (POV) and the appropriate voice and tone throughout your paper.
     1. Did you use third person pronouns? (he, she, they, their)
     2. Does your personality carry over in your writing? Are your word choices personal and consistent? Is the tone formal?
     3. Does it express your attitude about the topic?
  2. Write an introduction paragraph, which includes your thesis statement. It is suggested that this paragraph contain 5-7 sentences.
     1. Does your introduction include solutions or approaches on the topic?
     2. Does your thesis statement include three supporting reasons that clearly express your stance on the topic?
     3. Is your thesis statement clear and concise?
     4. Does your introduction provide a preview of the rest of your essay?
  3. Write a supporting/body paragraph for each of the three (3) points/reasons from your thesis statement. It is suggest- ed that each paragraph contain at least 5-7 sentences.
     1. Do your body paragraphs support each point of your thesis with relevant examples or statistics?
     2. Do you address the opinions or concerns that your audience might have?
     3. Did you paraphrase, quote, or summarize properly to avoid plagiarism? Did you comment on each quotation?
  4. Write with logic and with transitions throughout your paper.
     1. Are your ideas consistent and well-organized, i.e., chronological order or order of importance?
     2. Do your ideas flow from one sentence to the next and one paragraph to the next, in the order presented in your thesis statement?
  5. Write a conclusion paragraph. It is suggested that this paragraph contain 5-7 sentences.
     1. Did you paraphrase or restate the thesis in a new way?
     2. Did you leave a lasting impression, so that your readers continue thinking about your topic after they have finished reading?
  6. Apply proper grammar, mechanics, punctuation and APA formatting throughout your paper.
     1. Did you check your grammar?
        1. The way words are put together to make units of meaning: Sentence structure, pronoun-agreement, etc.
     2. Did you check your essay for mechanics?
        1. All the “technical” stuff in writing: Spelling, capitalization, use of numbers and other symbols, etc.
     3. Did you check the punctuation?
        1. The “symbols” used to help people read/process sentences the way you want them to be heard and understood: Periods, question marks, commas, colons, etc

Consider any other one of this week’s poem’s in relation to “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by Eliot. The poems all examine different topics important to modernist writers, so you might not find similarities at the level of the subject of the poem. However, consider whether the speakers have anything in common such as attitudes, beliefs, cultural norms, etc. How about the audience they construct for their poems or the broader themes that they address? Remember to give examples that support your claims. Please directly cite the text. (Write a minimum of 2-3 paragraphs.) Correct grammar, spelling and sentence structure is expected. Please write more your thoughs, not from the cites.

READ THE FOLLOWING:

Modernism

T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 221-4

W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” p. 306

Constantine Kavafy: “Days of 1908” p. 238

W.H. Auden “September 1, 1939” (link)