During this course, you have developed many of the artifacts utilized by project managers. You have learned that, contrary to common misconceptions, project managers are involved in more than scheduling. In this paper, you will cover some of the other areas in which project managers are involved including procurement, change control, communication, and leadership.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Explain the project procurement process. 
2. Explain how change control is implemented in the information technology processes.
3. Analyze the required elements of a communication plan. 
4. Describe the different organizational structures as it relates to project management (i.e., functional, project-based, matrix).
5. Assess the importance of the project manager’s role in organizational leadership.
6. Examine the different leadership approaches and determine when each approach is best utilized.
7. Describe three (3) conflict resolution techniques that project managers can utilize to keep team members productive. 
8. Describe five (5) ethical situations that project managers may face in their role.
9. Explain the role of technology in project management.
10. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Assignment 3: Course Project—Sustainability at Top Shelf Shoes

In this course, you will work independently to analyze sustainability issues for a hypothetical organization. The assignments follow one another so that you can apply the methods and skills you learn in each module to develop your Course Project. Each week you will be asked to prepare a document that addresses the specified topics. In this assignment, you will begin your analysis.

Outlined below is the scenario for the organization that is the focus of your Course Project—Top Shelf Shoes.

Course Project Scenario: Top Shelf Shoes

Top Shelf was found in 1990 by Tie Woodward. Within five years, Top Shelf had established a solid presence in the global shoe business with production facilities in Asia and sales throughout the world. By 2000, Top Shelf had a share of 45 percent of the global market in shoe sales. In 2001, Top Shelf made the Fortune 500 list of privately held companies and Tie was awarded the coveted International Business Award. However, Tie claimed the real success of his firm could be seen in the stylish Top Shelf shoes being worn by everyone from villagers in Africa to rock stars in Hollywood.

In 2003, a major competitor of Top Shelf began a green marketing campaign to highlight its efforts to reduce its environmental footprint with its new “Green Shoe.” A simultaneous, growing concern for environmental issues helped spur the sales of Top Shelf’s competitor—it gained market share. As the competitor’s sales increased, news stories began to question the implications of Top Shelf’s business practices, especially as they related to low cost labor and environmental concerns. Within a fiscal quarter, Top Shelf sales were down by 10 percent. Tie responded by exclaiming on the Nightly Business Report that everyone had to wear shoes and Top Shelf made the best looking and most affordable foot fixtures on the planet. Sales fell another 5 percent the following quarter. Tie’s management team attributed this to the competition’s green efforts and the bad publicity received by Top Shelf.

Tie’s firm hired a middle manager for environmental affairs and launched a green campaign that touted a Top Shelf shoe-recycling program with the slogan “We make them, you wear them, we’ll recycle them. It’s good for your feet and good for the earth.” Sales climbed back up 7 percent over the next quarter, and the boss gave out bonuses to his management team.

While initial reaction to the marketing was positive, especially among longtime Top Shelf shoe wearers, two reporters, Burnstone and Woodwoe, broke a story about the impact of air and water pollution at Top Shelf’s shoe-recycling facility on the outskirts of a major city in Asia. Apparently, some of the shoes were recycled to produce energy. According to the report by Burnstone and Woodwoe, the shoes were being burned by low-wage workers without any precautions for the workers’ health. An increasing number of children and elderly in the region began showing up at clinics and hospitals with breathing problems, dizziness, and toxic blood poisoning. Then, a worker at the plant collapsed and died in front of the large kiln.

Global news organizations, bloggers, and YouTube broadcasters quickly picked up the story. The sales of Top Shelf began to plummet. By the end of the fiscal year, the company saw a 50 percent reduction in revenue as compared to the previous year. Growth was no longer the issue. Instead the company was faced with the problem of how to stay afloat despite the significant losses and depleting capital. This time, Tie made no public pronouncements. He laid off the manager of the recycling plant, shut down the kiln at the plant, and, on the advice of long-time friend Gifford Pinchot III, hired a reputable sustainable business consulting firm, Sustainable Growth Strategies, to advise Top Shelf on everything from public relations to substantive changes in the company’s labor and environmental policies.

Assume you are leading the consulting team for Sustainable Growth Strategies. You are responsible for the analysis leading to a report with a set of recommendations to put Top Shelf on the path to

sustainability. Your first task is to prepare a brief paper for Top Shelf that explains the meaning and use of sustainability within a business context.

Your team reports directly to Tie Woodward. He is a sharp, hardworking, and open-minded leader with a sense of humor. Tie realizes that every day without a genuine sustainability plan is bad for business. Therefore, he wants to show as soon as possible that the company is committed to sustainability. He realizes that there may be advantages in positioning Top Shelf as a sustainability leader in the long run.

Develop a comprehensive report that includes the following:

ï‚· An introduction to the concept of sustainability.

 Identification of and elaboration on the three main themes or pillars of sustainability—ecology, society, and economy.

ï‚· An explanation of how sustainability is being defined by businesses giving relevant examples.

ï‚· Identification and analysis of effective sustainability strategies employed by leading businesses.

ï‚· A discussion of how sustainability is being used as a public relations tool.

 An overview of the positive and negative reactions Tie’s firm might expect from supporters and critics.

 A compelling case for Tie’s firm to pursue sustainability.

To make sure you are up to date on the special guidelines the GASB has declared, your manager asked you to research GASB Statement No. 56. He also asked you to show him, side by side, how government accounting journal entries might differ from for-profit journal entries in these similar events.

• Write 500–750 words that addresses the following:
  • When was GASB Statement No. 56 initiated?
  • In your own words, what is the essence of the new ruling?
  • Why did the GASB probably deem it as being necessary?
  • How might GASB Statement No. 56 change the activities of any accountant performing governmental accounting?
• Create journal entries for all of the following situations.
  1. On 10/1/2010, a for-profit Company A provides $100,000 of service to Company B. Company B plans to pay their bill 90 days later.
     • Create the journal entry when the service is provided.
     • Create the journal entry when the cash is received.
  2. On 12/1/2010, the city’s recreation department receives a government grant of $100,000 specifically to use for next year’s park upgrades, which will begin on 1/1/2011.
     • Create the journal entry made when the cash is received.
     • Create the journal entry to be made on 1/1/2011.
  3. A for-profit retail store buys $200,000 of inventory on 9/1/2010.
     • Create the proper journal entry to show purchase of this inventory.
  4. A local city park buys $200,000 of food merchandise for later resale. It uses the purchase method to account for inventory.
     • Create the proper journal entry for when this purchase is made.
  5. A nonprofit organization receives a $250,000 donation on 12/1/2011, but the donor specifically wants it spent in 2012.
     • Create the journal entry or entries to show the proper recording of revenue (this may require more than on journal entry).
     • Create the subsequent journal entry to show spending of the funds.

Please read the attached images below and verify you understand what is required and can attempt both assignments before you respond. Thanks