General guidelines

Your class project requires you to start a fictitious small business (approximately 30 employees)

• It should be a business that is fun and interesting to you and your teammates
• Examples of businesses include a detective agency, cable-access TV series, advertising firm, modeling agency, cruise ship, entertainment firm, casino, retail shop, independent newspaper, radio station, and amusement park (but NOT a bar or restaurant)
• Choose a specific job within your business that you will hire for very frequently. Most of the project questions will focus on this job. This will be your central job. Try to choose a central job that represents one of the more interesting jobs in your business

IMPORTANT Tips as you write your answers. Make sure you always explain two aspects:

• Practice: Make sure you provide concrete examples of the theoretical content from class to YOUR specific business context, mission, and strategy: What do these concepts mean for your business?

Describe the business your group is going to start: Tennis teaching school for all ages and all abilities (tennis club)

13. You will want to check the validity of your measures, so you know whether to continue using them in the future or not (i.e., are these good measures to select among your job candidates?).

a. Describe exactly what steps you will take for the validation of your set of measures?

b. Justify your choice for choosing this validation method among others.

c. What are the drawbacks of your validation methods? Employee Development Based on the 8 KSAOs from Q4d of your employees working on the central job in your company:

22. Develop a career management system/process for your employees in the central job: Explain what you will do in each step and provide examples of 5 Smart goals targeted for development.

1. Data Gathering- We will explain to our coaches the central focus and goal for those who are attending our facility for training, offering our coaches tips and advice.

2. Feedback- We will critique our coaches on what they can improve during training, while also providing a wider variety of training methods they can attribute to their schedule with their trainee.

3. Goal Setting- Including our management and our coaches, we will specify how we want our facility to be ran, coaches to hold themselves around trainees and improvements we would like to see in customers as well

. 4. Action planning & follow up- We will follow up with management on how our coaches have improved in their training over time, as well as review coaches developments with their trainee. Specific: 90% of trainees should be able to see development amidst training Measurable goal: Coaches/trainers should be able to show progress in weekly reports/tests and making sure their athletes are showing improvement. Attainable goal: All coaches must be on pace with their schedule. Relevant goal: Increase trainee win rate by 30% during training. Time-based goal: Trainee feels confident in fields of training after 1 month. Performance Management

24. Which of the 5 measurement approaches (choose only one) are you going to use to evaluate the performance of the employees in your central job?

26. Choose two specific performance measures from the approach you chose in Q24 and provide detailed Figures of how your measures will concretely look like for your business central job.