Business
Food and Beverage Industry
The following articles provide an overview of the various responsibilities of managers that are commonly found in the hospitality and tourism industry.
• Career Paths of a Hospitality Management Student.
• A Day in the Life of David Lindahl, General Manager of Daily Diner Frogtown.
• A Day in the Life of a Hotel General Manager.
Instructions
Write a 4–5 page paper in which you:
• Describe the various types of management careers that can be offered within each industry (lodging, and food & beverage).
• Compare and contrast the differences between the General Management (GM) positions within the two industries.
• Analyze and describe the growth in overall employment within these two industries and how this overall growth is forecasted within the next 10 years.
• Recommend at least three human resource practices in which each industry can better recruit and retain management talent for their respective industry.
Business plan
During the In-Residence you will be presenting a business plan for an innovative venture to a panel of investors. Your final project in this course will go into greater depth on the culture portion of a business such that you will design a plan to encourage an innovative organizational culture in either a new venture or an existing business.
In order to help prepare you for both of these activities, you may need some help in deciding what type of business you would like to start. Read the online Girard article to get your creative juices flowing. You may find the live links within the article useful as well. Try at least one of the suggested exercises.
In your initial post, evaluate the exercise you tried and what came from it. Also, include any initial ideas you have for your innovative venture. In your response to your peers, point out both similar experiences you might have with your peers as well as where you might be different in terms of the types of businesses you’d like to start. Finally, try to both encourage your peers as well as provide them with constructive feedback that will better one another’s initial ideas.
Business communication
Find & Post (or post a link to) an example of business communication (such as a photo, short video, brief piece of writing, news release, song, etc, and that, based upon the aspects of effective communications. Either does a good job or a bad job at doing that. Write a 3 paragraph-long evaluation of the communication, citing why you think it either was or was not effective.
Nutrition Exercise and Stress Management
Read Chapter 14, Complementary and Alternative Strategies.
Create a journal entry of 200-250 words reflecting on your personal experiences or thoughts regarding alternative therapies, integrating content from the reading into your entry.
TEXTBOOK INFORMATION
MediaType: Title: Edition: Author: Publisher: Book ISBN: Ebook ISBN:
MediaType: Title: Edition: Author: Publisher: Book ISBN: Ebook ISBN:
Physical
Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials 5th (2012)
Fletcher, Robert and Fletcher, Suzanne Lippincott
978-1451144475
Physical
Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span 9th (2017)
Edelman, Kudzma and Mandle
Mosby 978-0-323416733
After completing this unit, you should be able to:
Analyze U.S. food aid programs for the economically disadvantaged and older adults.
Examine the prescriptions for and benefits of daily physical activity.
Develop evidenced-based stress management interventions that can be used in clinical practice.
Course Outcome practiced in this unit:
MN505-4: Develop an evidence-based health promotion program to reduce health risks of a vulnerable population.
Interventions for Health Promotion
In this unit you will examine the critical roles that physical activity, nutrition counseling, and stress management play in the role of prevention and health promotion.
Nutrition, Exercise, and Stress Management
Food and nutrition, along with exercise and stress management, play a vital role in a person’s overall health. This unit will examine a variety of subjects including the Healthy People 2020 and Dietary guidelines for Americans 2015-2020
Health-Related Quality of Life in Spain
Evidence that supports a conclusion is part of the research process. Literature reviews often accompany research papers in the form of a summary and synthesis of the published information about the research topic. Although this week’s assignment is not a literature review, it is designed to familiarize you with the practice of finding appropriate sources and information on a topic.
Find three original research articles that apply to your research topic. The articles must be
peer reviewed,
recent (published within 5 years), and
statistically significant.
Write a 260-word summary of each article in which you identify (include these as headings).