This project was meant to showcase my ability to apply the essential functions of management, including staffing, planning, organizing, controlling, and leading, creating a scenario fundraiser to raise funds for new sports equipment. I based my scenario on my old high school, Columbia heights Highschool, in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, with the idea of a Columbia heights jamboree fair in mind. Instead of the funds going to the city, they would be collected for our sports equipment goal of $1,600 equipment cost. Each aspect of management includes real-time locations and survey responses to make this fundraiser as natural as it can be. Look at this artifact, and you tell me if you feel the functions of management were applied correctly and if you would be interested in an actual event like the one in this project. This project directly relates to my future career. I will need to know the five functions of management to open my own company and effectively and efficiently know how to pass my company down to my children.

In this Project, I assumed the role of a Human Resources (HR) Representative working for XYZ Imports. This small business has recently experienced a great deal of growth and expansion. The company I work for manages its payroll systems, but due to the growth in the company’s workforce, XYZ Imports has no choice but to outsource the payroll to a third-party organization called ADP. As the HR, I am responsible for collecting data requested from ADP, such as information related to each employee, as mandated under the Fair Labor Standards ACTS. I provide it in an excel spreadsheet format to set up payroll for our company XYZ through ADP. This project shows my ability to use Excel to design, create, and modify spreadsheets to create charts and macros, as well as apply spreadsheet and database principles to business problems, both skills required in any office administrative or self-employment occupation used in today’s work-from-home technology. As I am currently self-employed, I have practice with computer technology applications in working from a home office environment. Still, I aim to improve my workplace efficiency to open my own company someday. 

This project directly relates to my current occupation as a customer service sales associate by allowing me to analyze, process, and apply an ethical decision to three common work scenarios. In this paper, I showcased my ethical decision-making skills by writing what ethical actions I would take if I were to be presented with a scenario that could lead to unethical or legal consequences. All scenarios fall under my career choice in business.

For this portfolio project, I was to assume the role of Account Executive for an up-and-coming marketing firm, and I have just landed myself as the lead on a few large accounts. Before I can work with any of these accounts on a new strategy for the upcoming year, I must assess each of their current marketing plans – identifying the strengths and weaknesses and also determining if they properly address all components of the marketing mix (4 P’s). I must analyze the marketing plan of KitchenAid (craft Mixer) and Craftsman (tool Storage). My supervisor wanted the report to be directed to him. Even though the accounts were technically my audience, he wanted to receive my report (assessment and analysis) before I presented them in a meeting to each account. I was able to showcase my skills in selecting and applying current technology skills, such as using the Google search engine to identify the account’s products. I used Microsoft word to make the requested report and outlined the four marketing P’s for the said manager to take a look at before presenting to the accounts.