Imagine your manager has requested that everyone in the company take the StrengthsFinder test. Now, your manager has asked you to put together a training tool on how to best coach and develop employees in the decision making process who have varied strengths.

Write a three to five (3-5) page document for your manager in which you:

1. Describe a decision-making process for employees with two different strengths. Determine how the process might be approached differently for each employee to produce the best results. Use scenarios to convey your idea.
2. Explain how a manager could develop employees with different strengths. Use scenarios to convey your idea.
3. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain the decision-making process management uses to develop viable courses of action to a variety of management situations.
• Explain the multiple aspects of the managerial planning process and the application of various business- and corporate-level strategies.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts.
• Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics.

Exercise 15-12

Lotoya Davis Corporation has 10.37 million shares of common stock issued and outstanding. On June 1, the board of directors voted an 63 cents per share cash dividend to stockholders of record as of June 14, payable June 30.(a) Prepare the journal entry for each of the dates above assuming the dividend represents a distribution of earnings. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select “No Entry” for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Date

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

6/1

 

6/14

 

6/30

 

(b) How would the entry differ if the dividend were a liquidating dividend?
(Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select “No Entry” for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

Exercise 15-4

Faith Evans Corporation is a regional company which is an SEC registrant. The corporation’s securities are thinly traded on NASDAQ. Faith Evans Corp. has issued 10,080 units. Each unit consists of a $504 par, 12% subordinated debenture and 10 shares of $5 par common stock. The investment banker has retained 403 units as the underwriting fee. The other 9,677 units were sold to outside investors for cash at $887 per unit. Prior to this sale, the 2-week ask price of common stock was $40 per share. Twelve percent is a reasonable market yield for the debentures, and therefore the par value of the bonds is equal to the fair value.(a)Prepare the journal entry to record Evans’ transaction, under the following conditions. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. $38,487. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select “No Entry” for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

(1) Employing the incremental method.
(2) Employing the proportional method, assuming the recent price quote on the common stock reflects fair value.

No.

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

1.

 

 

 

 

2.