Based on your research, and your own opinion, answer the question, “Should affirmative action policies based on minority status, be eliminated? Why or why not?

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College admissions decisions

What are the core categories that colleges use when determining AA criteria in admissions decisions?
 Discuss arguments “For” and arguments “Against” AA in college admissions decisions.
 What are some of the rating or point scales colleges use when using AA in admissions decisions?
 Based on your research, and your own opinion, answer the question, “Should affirmative action policies based on minority status, be eliminated? Why or why not?

Which component of compensation is most essential to motivate executives to lead companies toward competitive advantage? Discuss your rationale.

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Discussion 11

Which component of compensation is most essential to motivate executives to lead companies toward competitive advantage? Discuss your rationale.

How does each of these apply to the three perspectives? What areas of technology are an issue for participants? What are the issues with organizational boundaries for participants?

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Technology Structures and Social Boundaries

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During this module, we review the concept of technology structures and social boundaries for organizations. Provide an overview of the technical and social terminology for organizations today.

Within your discussion be sure to address the following areas:
1.) How does each of these apply to the three perspectives (natural, rational, and open)?
2.) What areas of technology are an issue for participants?
3.) What are the issues with organizational boundaries for participants?
4.) What are your personal perspectives?

Include any theoretical viewpoints for each of these areas. You are not limited to these questions, they are simply to assist you in the evaluation process.

Would offering telecommuting as an option benefit MedEx? How? Are there any disadvantages or challenges in offering telecommuting? What do you recommend MedEx do? Why?

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Case 1: Telecommuting at MedEx

Harry Davis just finished interviewing a candidate to fill another medical billing specialist opening. As the human resources manager for MedEx, a medical billing company, Harry is concerned about the high turnover rate for the specialists. Turnover is very costly for the company, and Harry is trying to identify ways to lower the turnover rate. The candidate he just interviewed asked Harry if any of the specialists worked from home. Harry informed him that they do not right now, but telecommuting may be an option in the near future.

MedEx employs more than medical billing specialists in its office located in a busy downtown metropolitan area. Each specialist works on a group of specific accounts, coding medical records and entering them into the computer system. The specialist position requires an intense 3-week training program to learn the coding system, but once they are proficient at their work, the specialists work independently on their assigned accounts.

In an attempt to identify the cause of the high turnover rate, Harry asked the specialists to complete an employee survey that asked about their satisfaction with their pay, benefits, and working conditions. In general, the employees indicated satisfaction with pay levels and benefits, but were not satisfied in some other areas. In the 舠comments舡 section of the survey, several employees noted challenges in getting to work each day. Some mentioned heavy traffic that caused long commutes, while others noted the high cost of parking downtown. Further, many employees noted high stress levels due to trying to balance their work and personal responsibilities.

When asked for specific ideas on how to improve the work environment, more than half of the specialists noted the option to telecommute as a desirable benefit. Because the specialists work independently, telecommuting is a feasible option. The specialists would need to work in the office at least 1 or 2 days per week in order to get updates on their accounts, but it would be possible for the employees to work from home the other days. Harry now must carefully consider whether to recommend offering the telecommuting option.

 

Questions:

12-6. Would offering telecommuting as an option benefit MedEx? How?

12-7. Are there any disadvantages or challenges in offering telecommuting?

12-8. What do you recommend MedEx do? Why?

Prepare a Leadership Profile, examining the leader in each of the areas of leadership study presented this term.

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Self Leadership Profile Slideshow Presentation

Graduate students are expected to prepare a Leadership Profile, examining the leader in each of the areas of leadership study presented this term.

The leadership profile is to be on the graduate student (self) and should profile the student in their leadership capacity and propensity and include the following critical components from the course content.

The presentation should be professional and comprehensive. Students should present the Leadership Profile as a Power Point.

 

Define electronic commerce and identify the different categories of electronic commerce. Discuss how electronic commerce has evolved over time and its importance to the business environment.

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#1 – BAM570 – E-COMMERCE MANAGEMENT

Be sure to provide a citation and a reference for any materials used, including the required textbook.
It should be at least 4 – 5 sentences. Then the discussion/body of the essay elaborates on each of the main points, and it is at least 3 or 4 paragraphs of at least 4 – 5 sentences.
Before you write the conclusion, go back and read the question, then write the conclusion, summarizing the main points of the answer.

Essay Question:
Define electronic commerce and identify the different categories of electronic commerce.
Discuss how electronic commerce has evolved over time and its importance to the business environment.

Using your chosen company, identify Political, Economic, Sociocultural, Technological, Ecological and Legal pressures currently being exerted on the company.

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Pestel Analysis & Synthesis for Levi Strauss

This individual assignment requires you to perform an analysis of the company you have previously selected and approved by the instructor. Your paper should reflect your own original research, content and sources.

  1. Analysis: Perform a PESTEL analysis. Using your chosen company, identify Political, Economic, Sociocultural, Technological, Ecological and Legal pressures currently being exerted on the company.

REMEMBER: Your analysis should document actual observable examples of the model/framework’s components. Your observations should not be hypothetical examples.

  1. Synthesis: Synthesize your analysis. Using your analysis, your paper should respond to the following questions;

What elements of the PESTEL analysis,

are exerting the most or obvious pressure on the company currently?

are exerting the least or subtle pressure but should be monitored?

create the most compelling opportunities for the company? Why?

represent most significant potential threats to the company? Why?

 

Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable. Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile.

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Sophia Learning: Business Law Touchstone 2

ASSIGNMENT: In three to five (3-5) pages, advise Jim and Laura based on the above facts as presented and the material covered in the lessons. In your paper, be sure to address the following:
1. Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable.
2. Decide whether or not there was a contract for the purchase of the automobile.
3. Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile.
4. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Touchstone: Did Jim and Laura Buy a Car?
SCENARIO: Jim and Laura Buyer visit the local car dealership because they are interested in buying a new car. The car they currently have is aging and is starting to have mechanical problems. Jim and Laura would share the new car, and use it to go back and forth to work and school. Before going to the dealership, Jim and Laura decide that they can only afford $400.00 a month in car payments.

Once at the car dealership, Jim and Laura meet Stan Salesman. Stan shows them several vehicles and Jim and Laura test-drive several of the cars. Jim and Laura particularly like the blue 4-door sedan. Therefore, they agree to give Stan Salesman a $100.00 deposit to hold the car for a day. Stan Salesman does not give them the receipt but guarantees that the $100.00 is refundable. No documents were signed.

The next day, Stan Salesman calls Jim and Laura to ask them when they would like to take delivery of the car. Jim and Laura, on the way home from the dealership, decided that they were not going to buy the car because they did not want to spend that money each month. Therefore, Jim and Laura tell Stan Salesman that they have decided not to buy the car and request their $100.00 deposit back.

Stan insists that the $100.00 was a deposit on the car and was meant to be part of the contract to buy the car. Stan is very persistent and insistent that Jim and Laura have contracted to buy the car; therefore, the $100.00 will be applied to the purchase price of the car. Jim and Laura are shocked and angry as not only do they not want to spend the money, but now feel as though they are being duped by Stan Salesman.

Jim and Laura have an appointment to see a lawyer in a few days, but know you are a student taking a business law class and come to you for advice. They are very frazzled, and understandably upset that they may have just purchased a car. Since you have been taking business law, you have read and understand the elements of a contract and the defenses to a contract. Therefore, although you are not a lawyer, you provide some basic advice from what you’ve learned in your business law class.

In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any recycled work will be sent back with a 0, and you will be given one attempt to redo the touchstone

The course text “frequently emphasizes that successful companies engage in organizational learning. How do political tactics interfere with organizational learning objectives?”

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Organizational learning objectives

The course text “frequently emphasizes that successful companies engage in organizational learning. How do political tactics interfere with organizational learning objectives?”

 

How does the company describe its products and/or services? How does the company describe its industry? Is your company subject to seasonal cyclicality and/or dependent on the price of specific commodities?

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Steve Madden 10-k Scaenger Hunt

Read the directions in the document and answer the question using the link below.  sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/913241/000162828022004561/shoo-20211231.htm

Provide your answers in blue (RGB #0000FF) font. The use of tables or charts is acceptable if they will communicate your answer more clearly. Provide your answers in your own words whenever possible and refrain from directly copying and pasting information from the 10-K.

Provide the 10-K page number(s) from which you retrieved your answer under “Page(s)”. The questions below are designed to be broad and applicable to all companies assigned to you and your classmates. If a question does not apply to your company, please say so in the answer section, but please do your best to provide something, however indirectly it addresses the question.

Page(s) ⦁ Calculate LTM revenue as of Q2 (ended 06/30/22) using the relevant 10-Q and 10-K.

Page(s) ⦁ How does the company describe its products and/or services?

Page(s) ⦁ How does the company describe its industry?

Page(s) ⦁ Is your company subject to seasonal cyclicality and/or dependent on the price of specific commodities?

Page(s) ⦁ Select what you believe to be the three most significant risk factors your company lists and record them below. Briefly explain your rationale behind each choice.

Page(s) ⦁ What are the company’s business segments and what is its description of each?

Page(s) ⦁ What are the company’s reportable geographic segments?

Page(s) ⦁ What projections does the company make for the next fiscal year?

Page(s) ⦁ What core strategies are the company focusing on?

Page(s) ⦁ Does your company own or lease most equipment and facilities? Why do you think they do one as opposed to the other, or some combination of the two?

Page(s) ⦁ Does your company pay dividends and/or buy back shares? Plan on paying down its debt ahead of schedule? Does your company mention its strategy for returning value to shareholders in the future?

Page(s) ⦁ What were capital expenditures (or your company’s equivalent(s)) in the most recent fiscal year?

Page(s) ⦁ How many shares of the company were outstanding at the time of the filing?

Page(s) ⦁ Does your company have any expenses or expenditures you would consider non-recurring or adjustable?

Page(s) ⦁ Does the company have an executive or employee stock option plan? Briefly describe the mechanics of restricted stock awards.

Page(s)⦁ How many tranches of debt does the company have?

Page(s) ⦁ Does the company have a revolving credit facility? If so, how large is the facility and how much is currently drawn down?

Page(s) ⦁ Who is the current CEO? Who is the chairman of the board of directors? Briefly describe the recent developments in the CEO role.