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1. Identify a small business you'd like to open. What types of products or services do you plan to offer?

• Describe trends, your target market and major competitors (size, demographics). 
• Conduct some research that supports your claims.  

2. Discussion Board 6: Organizational Structure, Managing Human Resource, Diversity, & Work Teams

Students will apply their knowledge of the human resource management function to the discussion question. Students will also consider internal factors and their relationship to human resource tasks and strategic management. Some critics claim that corporate HR departments have outlived their usefulness and are not there to help employees but to shield the organization from legal problems.

• What do you think?
• What benefits are there to having a formal HRM process?
• What are the drawbacks?

3. Discussion Board 7: Understanding Individual Behavior, Motivating & Rewarding Employees, Leadership & Trust

In this module, you applied your knowledge of communication (verbal and nonverbal). This discussion may also highlight differences in communication amongst people of different genders and ethnicities. For one day, track nonverbal communication that you notice in others.

• What types of communication did you observe?
• Was the nonverbal communication always consistent with the verbal communication taking place? Why or why not? Describe it?
• Describe differences in communication amongst people (consider differences such as age, gender, ethnicity). 

4. Discussion Board 7: Understanding Individual Behavior, Motivating & Rewarding Employees, Leadership & Trust

In this module, you applied your knowledge of communication (verbal and nonverbal). This discussion may also highlight differences in communication amongst people of different genders and ethnicities. For one day, track nonverbal communication that you notice in others.

• What types of communication did you observe?
• Was the nonverbal communication always consistent with the verbal communication taking place? Why or why not? Describe it?
• Describe differences in communication amongst people (consider differences such as age, gender, ethnicity).