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This study investigated whether the balanced scorecard (BSC), a performance measurement system, has an impact on positive management (PM) in organizations. , which is defined as focusing on the current strengths of employees, not on their deficits and weaknesses, and on motivating them, caring about their well-being, and allowing them to feel appreciated. This study revealed whether the BSC is a strategic management tool that enables the education and development of employees and is concerned about their happiness. The impact of the BSC on positive management was investigated with both qualitative and quantitative measurement methods. The respondents who were surveyed for this study consisted of 27,334 employees of a public entity (the State of Michigan), and the survey data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 28. The results of the literature research showed that the BSC strategies implemented in the public entity improved the organizational performance from the four perspectives of finance, customers, internal process, and learning and growth. The statistical results of the surveys indicated that the BSC has an impact on positive management by 56.70% (Rsquared: 0.567). With the BSC strategy and the learning growth perspective that has been in effect for 20 years in the State of Michigan, employee productivity has increased, and positive management has been prioritized.

Happiness is a feeling generated by different aspects, for that reason it’s essential to analyze it and find out what generates it, which aspects most affect it and how we can work to increase it. The present project arises from the idea of applying Happiness research in the university field to reinvent the universities, encouraging and integrating all the individuals that are part of the university sector (teaching team, administrative team and students), using happiness as engine of change to turn universities into cutting-edge centers. The objective is to establish guidelines for transforming universities into centers of educational reference at all levels, in order to be more competitive, coherent and happy. To do this, after studying what aspects influence happiness and how to work them, pills have been proposed to viralize, promote and provoke movement in the organization, through concise proposals in the fields of Psychology, Social, Academic, Occupational and Physical.

For redacting this project, despite the lack of information, we could obtain much information about positive psychology, which has been essential for the execution of this project. As positive psychology is a science, we have plenty information, whereby we could see there are so many studies, from the clinical point of view, that shows the utility of using it in our current life. We realized that positive psychology has created many educational models to apply at schools, from childhood to primary, with excellent results. There also are lots of companies and organizations that enforce this well being techniques and the results are inspiring. Moreover, we also looked for information of Social Entrepreneurship, which from my point of view has similar values with the kind of education we want to give to our students. To capture all this theory and take it to a real level, we also expose at chapter 3 some of the institutions and schools that are also beginning this journey to the education of the future, in an international and national level. In chapter 4, we will give some examples of current organizations that focus on happiness and wellbeing, some of them big monsters like Google, but also national organizations like Mercadona. We also wanted to include real cases of entrepreneurs explaining how they rule their company applying wellbeing and their experiences from close-up. Among the psychological-spiritual aspects of happiness, we observed that those who practice gratitude -understood as an emotion of empathy, an attitude or a coping response directed at other people or nature (Teigen, 1997) - are more prone to happiness, vitality, optimism and hope, as well as greater satisfaction with life (Lazarus & Lazarus, 1994). Basically, this project is about how important is to apply happiness and well being at entrepreneur education, because these current students will one day be part of the occupational world. If we teach future entrepreneurs by our educational model, we are making the future companies at national and international level become an example to follow for the other institutions, creating a domino effect in which public and private companies join the innovation. In this way, we may succeed in building a world in which citizens are happy, at work, social, political and economic level.

El objetivo de este documento es presentar el plan de negocio de la compañía cortinArte para valorar la viabilidad y rentabilidad del proyecto a medio y largo plazo. cortinArte es una compañía dedicada al diseño y la creación de cortinas y objetos decorativos combinando los métodos manuales con aplicaciones informáticas. Los puntos fuertes considerados en cortinArte son:  La combinación entre artesanía y tecnología. El uso de la tecnología para precisamente fomentar y preservar el trabajo artesanal que en muchos casos se ve en peligro por el aumento de la tecnología en la sociedad.  La apuesta clara por la responsabilidad social. El modelo de negocio busca por supuesto la rentabilidad pero no a cualquier precio, no la pone por delante de la responsabilidad social.  La cercanía al cliente. El cliente puede personalizar su propio producto, puede expresar exactamente lo que quiere y sabe que va a recibir un producto totalmente artesanal. El plan de empresa cumple una función de carácter analítico debido a que fuerza al emprendedor a revisar los elementos internos y externos que determinan el funcionamiento de su puesta en marcha. Para los resultados económicos se ha optado por un escenario pesimista, con unas ventas de mínimos, resultando viable hasta para una sola persona y crecer a partir de ahí colaborando de forma modular y reproducible. Una de las conclusiones a aportar reside en que es de especial interés mantener las fortalezas propias de cortinArte, como la constante revisión y adaptación del producto ofrecido donde prima el diseño de nuevas ideas y donde su puesta en marcha está pensada para crear sinergias y colaboraciones fomentará el crecimiento de la empresa. Aunque sin duda la conclusión más importante que extraemos es que lo que hace fuerte y diferencia a cortinArte son los valores que fomenta, como la ayuda para que los diferentes colaboradores instalen zonas-taller propias y la auto gestión del tiempo, conciliando la vida personal y profesional junto al amor por las manualidades. English: The aim of this document is to present the business plan of the company cortinArte to assess the viability and profitability of the project in the medium and long term. cortinArte is a company dedicated to the design and creation of curtains and decorative objects combining manual methods with computer apps. The strengths of cortinArte are: - The combination of craftwork and technology. The use of technology to precisely encourage and preserve the craftwork that in many cases is actually jeopardized by the increasing use of technology in society. - The clear commitment to social responsibility. The business model seeks of course profitability, but not at any price, it is not putting it ahead of social responsibility. - The customer proximity. The customer can customize his own product, he can express exactly what he wants knowing that is going to receive a completely handcrafted product. The business plan plays an analytical function because it forces the entrepreneur to review internal and external elements that determine the functioning of its implementation. For the economical results, we have chosen a pessimistic scenario, with sales of minimal, being feasible even for one person only and growing from there, collaborating in a modular and reproducible way. One conclusion to make is that it is of special interest to keep cortinArte’s own strengths, like constant reviewing and adaptation of the product, where design and new ideas come first and where its implementation is intended to create synergies and collaborations encouraging the growth of the company. Although undoubtedly the most important conclusion we draw is that what differentiates and makes cortinArte strong are the values it promotes, such as helping the different partners to install their own workshop areas or the self-time management, reconciling personal and professional life along with the love for craftwork.

En primer lugar, el objetivo del estudio de viabilidad es determinar si el proyecto en cuestión es viable y, por tanto, si se puede llevar a cabo. Así pues, dicho estudio no puede ser interpretado como garante de que el proyecto pueda ser desarrollado sin problemas, sino que se debe considerar como referencia, dado que intervienen factores que siendo en un principio estimables pueden efectivamente verse alterados en cualquier momento y desestimar todas las previsiones realizadas. A lo largo del documento, se expone el estudio realizado al objeto de determinar la viabilidad del proyecto: construir y explotar un geriátrico en Mérida (México). Durante el estudio de viabilidad, se han analizado tres factores fundamentales: el estudio del solar, el estudio de mercado y el estudio financiero. Por un lado, el estudio del solar dictamina si el solar ofertado cumple con las exigencias del proyecto. Para realizar dicho dictamen, se han analizado todos los aspectos intrínsecos a éste como la situación, la superficie o el precio. No solo es importante analizar las características del terreno en sí, sino que también se han estudiado los aspectos jurídicos, legales y urbanísticos de éste, comprobando que no hay errores ni vicios ocultos que puedan suponer una traba en el desarrollo del proyecto. Por otro lado, el estudio de mercado determina si el proyecto tiene cabida en el sector. A lo largo de dicho estudio se han analizado tres variables fundamentales: la coyuntura socioeconómica en México, la competencia y la demanda existentes en la zona. Tras llevar a cabo el análisis de estas tres variables, se determina que la coyuntura socioeconómica es favorable para emprender, que la competencia no abarca el 100% del mercado y que la demanda existente supera la oferta en la zona. Finalmente, El estudio financiero permite decidir si el proyecto es rentable. El estudio ha sido dividido en dos partes: por un lado la operación inmobiliaria correspondiente a la construcción del centro y por otro, la explotación del negocio gerontológico. Para mostrar la viabilidad económica de las dos operaciones, se han analizado el timing de la inversión, la planificación financiera y la tesorería mediante la realización de presupuestos detallados, los cash flow correspondientes y la rentabilidad de ambas. Una vez analizados y estudiados estos tres factores principales, se puede determinar que todos ellos concluyen con resultado positivo. Podemos afirmar pues, que el estudio de viabilidad sobre un geriátrico en Mérida obtiene un resultado satisfactorio: el proyecto es viable.

El tema que se trata en este trabajo es el estudio sobre la vivienda, es un tema muy tratado y estudiado en la literatura de la Economía de la vivienda. Un gran número de trabajos han puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de analizar la decisión de demanda de la vivienda conjuntamente con la elección del régimen de tenencia, algunos más relevantes son en España son: Jaén y Molina (1994) han analizado estas dos decisiones sobre la vivienda para hogares de la Comunidad de Andalucía; Colom y Molés (1998) consideran además la elección entre un ámbito urbano y otro rural. En otro estudio, Duce (1995) efectúa un análisis de la elección del régimen de tenencia.

The project’s objective is to analyse the factors involved in the feasibility study of a business centre next to Barcelona’s international airport offering a restaurant, gym, spa, and other services. The business idea has emerged to the possible need to find an office for all executives who travel frequently and cannot find a place to do their jobs or meetings, creating offices in areas not intended for such use. Furthermore, the student believes there is a need to build a building with these services, because it is possible that in Barcelona this business idea does not currently exist, and instead, they have been located in other big business cities on United Kingdom and United States of America. Therefore, the objective of the business centre is to provide a temporary office including restaurants, gym, spa, garage and big areas for development meetings or events, offering these services to all people who look the comfort and speed in days working out of town. To meet this objective, the feasibility study is structured as follows: - A legal survey in which it has made visits to building site under study. Besides having consulted all the information on it though El Catastro and “El Registro de la propiedad de Barcelona”. - An urban survey, which was written by the Plan Parcial of Mas Blau Business Park. This plan has provided all regulations that influenced in the construction of the business centre. - A market survey, analyzing the current situation of El Prat de Llobregat, the Business Park and Europe. Besides the new ideas provided by the demand survey, the study of the offer in Barcelona and interviews with potential customers. - A SWOT analysis, with the sole purpose of finding those keys for the business idea. - A strategic plan, looking for the aspects related to the target audience of the business idea. A proposal for placement, analyzing how it will find the business center to hit the market. And the marketing mix, drawing conclusions about the keys that influence the real-state product. - An economic survey, which made estimates of income and expenses that will generate by the business idea, getting a product profitability. - A financial survey, analyzing the cash inflows and outflows, and getting the latest information to complete the feasibility study. For all this, the feasibility study of a business center in El Prat de Llobregat, offering these services and looking for potential customers, is acceptable and will be cost effective. Along with all this, the student wants to prove that investments in real-state should not end because the crisis, and that people with innovative ideas will be the only that will improve the country.