What should her attitude be? What facts should she know? Which resolutions should she propose? Which resolutions should she be willing to accept?

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Module 4 – SLP INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INSURANCE, AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR)

After facing some initial problems in obtaining an additional supply of organic blueberries, Stacy’s business continues to flourish. As it happens, however, Stacy’s commercial kitchen in the industrial park had a visit from a local Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) inspector who discovered a few problems in the kitchen. As a result, Stacy is facing a $4,500 fine for some inadequate wiring and for not having appropriate safety shields on her mixers. Stacy received a notice from the local OSHA office explaining that she could ask for reconsideration of her fine—she would have to request a meeting with a local administrator to make that request. Also, according to the letter, if the initial meeting with the OSHA administrator did not produce an outcome with which Stacy was satisfied, Stacy could even move on to request mediation before ultimately having a right to request an administrative hearing about the fine.

Stacy didn’t want to pay the $4,500 fine and wanted to take advantage of the alternative dispute resolution mechanisms that the local OSHA office offered.

Stacy has asked you to help her prepare a plan for the initial meeting and possibly the mediation. A neighbor in the industrial park who had been fined by OSHA in the past told Stacy that the administrator who handles the initial meeting usually doesn’t make much, if any, reduction in the fine, so Stacy believes she needs to prepare for mediation also.

For this module 4 SLP assignment, review the background materials on alternative dispute resolution (ADR). You may want to do your own additional research as well. Prepare a 2- to 3-page paper that consists of a plan of action for Stacy to follow at the initial meeting (which will be a negotiation) and for a likely mediation. Start your paper by explaining the basics of negotiations and mediations to Stacy. Then, suggest to Stacy how she should approach these meetings. What should her attitude be? What facts should she know? Which resolutions should she propose? Which resolutions should she be willing to accept?

You are the owner of a restaurant and have a special recipe for a marinade that you use for rotisserie chicken. Your rotisserie chicken is a big hit, especially in the take-out market, and comprises some 60% of your business. You decide that you need some kind of intellectual property protection for your marinade recipe. Would you recommend a patent, trademark, copyright, or a trade secret? Explain your reasoning and the steps you might take to protect your marinade recipe from competitors.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INSURANCE, AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR)

Before you start on this assignment, make sure that you understand the distinctions and legal issues involved in the four main types of intellectual property—patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks, as discussed in the background readings. In addition, be sure to read the background material on business insurance. Cite at least one source from the background materials in each answer and include at least three total references from the background materials in your paper.

Case Assignment
Once you have thoroughly reviewed the readings in the background materials and are comfortable with the concepts of intellectual property and business insurance, write a full 4 pages (excluding title and references pages) addressing the questions in the five scenarios below. Include a minimum of 3 scholarly sources.

Scenarios:

1.You are the owner of a restaurant and have a special recipe for a marinade that you use for rotisserie chicken. Your rotisserie chicken is a big hit, especially in the take-out market, and comprises some 60% of your business. You decide that you need some kind of intellectual property protection for your marinade recipe. Would you recommend a patent, trademark, copyright, or a trade secret? Explain your reasoning and the steps you might take to protect your marinade recipe from competitors.

2. You are an aspiring singer/songwriter, and while surfing the Internet, you come across the sheet music for a song you think will display your talents well. You don’t see any notice of copyright on the webpage or the sheet music. You see the songwriter’s name and, after doing some internet research, determine that he has been dead for 22 years. You record a video of yourself singing the song and post it to a YouTube-like internet site. A few weeks later, you receive an email from an attorney informing you that you are in violation of copyright law, and if you do not immediately take down the video, the songwriter’s estate will pursue legal remedies. What do you think? Did you do anything wrong? Are you in violation of copyright law? Explain.

3. When you bought a business, a complicated custom-made packing machine was included in the sale. You estimate that if the machine were destroyed it would cost $125,000 to replace. You are changing your property insurance, and the new insurance agent is relying on you to provide a value for the packing machine. You are considering two policy options. The first insures your machinery for $50,000. You figure this policy has a lower premium, and it will save money on your insurance bills. Plus, you don’t think the machine will fail anytime soon. The other option is to insure your machinery for $200,000. With this policy, you figure you will pay more for the insurance, but if your machinery is destroyed, you will receive enough money to purchase new machinery and get a $75,000 bonus. For both of these options, what kind of payment do you think you would receive if your machinery is destroyed and the actual value of your machinery is established? Explain your answers.

4. You own a warehouse in an industrial district. This year you’ve installed the latest sprinkler and other fire remediation measures. You’re proud of the preventive steps you’ve taken, especially when you consider the neighboring warehouse where the owner has installed the bare minimum to comply with fire department regulations. You call your insurance agent and ask if you can take out fire insurance on the neighboring warehouse. Your insurance agent is sympathetic to having a neighbor who doesn’t seem to care as much as you about fire safety, but he tells you he can’t sell you such insurance, and he doesn’t think any ethical agent will. Why not? What principle of insurance law is involved?

5. You run into a friend who has a new idea for a business or product every time you see him. This time, he is convinced he has invented a cutting-edge management system called “Beverage-Based Management,” in which employees improve their performance by drinking high-caffeine energy drinks with a shot of vodka during their lunch breaks. Your friend provides research studies showing that caffeine can increase alertness and productivity, while alcohol can reduce inhibitions and increase communication between employees. You are skeptical of his idea but think some companies might buy his system (at least for comedy purposes). Your friend wants to get a patent on “Beverage-Based Management.” Based on your reading in this module, do you think his idea could be patented? Explain why or why not. If you do not think a patent is possible, discuss if there would be another way to protect his “Beverage-Based Management” idea.

Given that you have already a selected strategy from Section VI, do you have ideas about its implementation: what programs do you think are necessary to implement your selected strategy?

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Discussion Question

Given that you have already a selected strategy from Section VI, do you have ideas about its implementation: what programs do you think are necessary to implement your selected strategy?

What is the company’s main business? What value does the company deliver to the customer? Is the company currently profitable? What are the company’s main strengths to be leveraged to create a new product or service? What is unique about the new product or service? How can the new product or service improve profitability?

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Blog: Project Analysis

Overview
Raising money to invest in innovation is hard. Companies both large and small work to strike a balance between executing an existing business model and thinking ahead to advance their business. As individuals think critically about how their business should move forward, they should first get a 360-degree view of their environment. This journey starts with research on the current state of the business and critical thinking questions that can help leaders drill down deeper.

Prompt
In this blog post, you will take on the role of the recently-promoted chief innovation officer (CIO) of an established U.S.-based company of your choosing. It is within your responsibilities to discover new ways to improve an existing product or service in North America, or to introduce a new product or service to the market that will give the company a market edge over competition and fit within the company’s core competencies. For the purposes of this blog post, and for this entire course, you will do the latter.

The new product or service must be something that cannot be easily duplicated and takes into account consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP). If a consumer doesn’t have a problem or need for the product or service offered, they will not be willing to exchange money for the solution.

The first step of such an undertaking requires research and an examination of the selected company’s financials and current resources. Moreover, this new product or service offering must leverage the strengths of the company.

Using MarketLine, Yahoo Finance, and the investor relations page on the company’s website, select and research an established company of your choice. Specifically, look at the company’s 10K Report with a focus on the company’s business in North America. You will continue to research and work with this company throughout this course in the milestones and project.

In your blog post, identify the company you researched and describe its potential new and unique product or service. Include an image of the company’s current SWOT from the Shapiro Library and address the following questions:

Value proposition: What is the company’s main business? What value does the company deliver to the customer?
Profitability: Is the company currently profitable?
SWOT analysis strengths: What are the company’s main strengths to be leveraged to create a new product or service?
Product or service singularity: What is unique about the new product or service?
New product or service projections: How can the new product or service improve profitability?

Note: this is an estimation based on research of the company’s current market position

Describe and explain in detail all challenges in food supply chain. Give examples. Provide chart/picture. Include solutions to prevent these challenges.

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Challenges in Food Supply Chain

Describe and explain in detail all challenges in food supply chain. Give examples. Provide chart/picture. Include solutions to prevent these challenges.

Suppose you’re the manager of a Multinational; what strategies would you adopt to better integrate into the conditions of the host country; compare and contrast your strategies with those of existing Multinationals.

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Assess the Future of the Multinational Organization in the International Business Market

For your signature assignment, conduct an independent research study on the challenges of multinationals in the modern era. To develop your paper, review chapters 9 and 14 of your text book and the related articles. Discuss the challenges multinationals face in the real world setting. How they can overcome those challenges and how they can better integrate into the conditions of the host countries to avoid conflict of interests. Suppose you’re the owner of a Multinational, what strategies would you adopt to be a successful company? Reflect on those strategies and discuss any differences you may see between your strategies and those adopted by others. . Compare and contrast your challenges with those raised in the case studies in the previous assignments. What do you see as the most important difficulties? What are the lessons that can be drawn and recommendations that can be made about successful multinational management in the future, based on your analysis? Your analysis should be a reflection of previous assignments and your contribution to the subject since this week assignment constitutes the signature assignment for the course.

In your assignment respond to the following questions:
Reflect on the case studies in the previous assignments and conceptualize the lessons that can be drawn from the experiences of Multinationals. (5 points)

Suppose you’re the manager of a Multinational; what strategies would you adopt to better integrate into the conditions of the host country; compare and contrast your strategies with those of existing Multinationals. (5 points)

Conceptualize the future of Multinationals and their challenges; what role they will play in the globalization process and in the development of different regions, particularly in Africa, Latin America, and Middle East (5 points)

Support your paper with at least five (5) resources.

Does your selected business have differentiated products or services? If so, what is the basis for this differentiation from the competition? Does your firm have a cost-leadership position in this business? If so, can you identify which cost drivers it uses effectively to hold this position? What is your firm’s approach to the market? If it segments the market, identify the scope of competition it is using.

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Strategy Formulation

In this assignment, you will examine the company you selected for your Unit 3 assignment, with a focus on the business model it uses. You will analyze its business-level strategy, corporate strategy, innovation strategy, and global strategy to see if it is appropriate for the company’s strategic position. If your firm is a large multi-business entity, you will choose one of the major businesses of the firm for this analysis. In prior units, you collected information about this firm’s external environment and some of its internal competitive advantages. Using this information and strategies you have learned in this unit, address the following questions.

Part One: Evaluate Business Strategy

  • Does your selected business have differentiated products or services? If so, what is the basis for this differentiation from the competition?
  • Does your firm have a cost-leadership position in this business? If so, can you identify which cost drivers it uses effectively to hold this position?
  • What is your firm’s approach to the market? If it segments the market, identify the scope of competition it is using.
  • Using the answers to the preceding questions, identify which generic business strategies your firm is employing. Is the firm leveraging the appropriate value and cost drivers for the business strategy you identified? Explain why or why not.

Part Two: Evaluate Corporate Strategy

The following questions help you to study your selected firm’s use of acquisitions and alliances to grow or change its business.

  • Has your firm participated in any mergers or acquisitions in the past three years? What was the nature of these actions? Did they result in a consolidation of competitors?
  • Research what strategic alliances your firm has entered in the past three years. If there are several of these, choose the one you identify as the most important for further analysis. Based on company press releases and business journal reports for the alliance, what do you find to be the main reason the firm entered these alliances?
  • Do you think each of the three alliances achieves the original intent, and therefore is successful? Why or why not?

Part Three: Evaluate Global Strategy

The following question will help you to study your firm’s global strategy, or a strategy it should pursue globally.

If your firm is already engaged in international activities, answer the following questions:

  • Is your company varying its product or service to adapt to differences in countries? Is the marketing approach different among the nations involved? Should it be?
  • Which of the four global strategies is the firm using? Is this the best strategy for it to use? Why or why not?

If your firm is not currently engaged internationally, answer the following questions:

  • Would your firm’s product or service need to be modified or marketed differently if it expanded beyond the home country?
  • Does your firm have the potential to access larger markets by expanding internationally? Does it have the possibility of lowering input factors with such expansion? Please explain why or why not.

Prepare a business or project plan for a social enterprise venture. Create a high end luxury consevation resort in Ladakh in the Hemis national park in similar lines to the gorilla’s nest in rwanda but with more focus on the social aspect and to create a business that will not help persrve the snow leapord and its habitat but also provide employment oppurunities to the peopple living there.

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Leapord Mountain Conservation Resort

Prepare a business or project plan for a social enterprise venture.
In creating your plan ensure that you address the following:

  • summary
  • brief history
  • the product or service
  • markets and competitors
  • marketing plan
  • production and operations
  • management and its objectives
  • finance
  • risk, return and exit
  • social impact plan
  • critical reflection on the business/project planning process
  • references.

The plan is to create a high end luxury consevation resort in Ladakh in the Hemis national park in similar lines to the gorilla’s nest in rwanda but with more focus on the social aspect and to create a business that will not help persrve the snow leapord and its habitat but also provide employment oppurunities to the peopple living there. Everything in the resort as much as possible will be done by local artisans. be in this list

https://www.euronews.com/green/2019/09/10/5-incredible-eco-resorts-helping-to-save-endangered-animals.

How does Covid-19 Pandemic Challenges HR Practices in Relation to Employees Social Wellbeing?

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Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic

How does Covid-19 Pandemic Challenges HR Practices in Relation to Employees Social Well being?

Reflect on the Keller book “Every Good Endeavor” and think about God’s plan for how we should handle challenging work, the problems we can face at work, and better ways to honor God with our work. Provide introduction to your thread and discuss the work required to conduct meaningful and accurate quantitative analysis analysis.

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Integrating Faith and Learning

Reflect on the course content and think about the level of knowledge and skill required to effectively conduct meaningful and accurate quantitative analysis.

Reflect on the Keller book “Every Good Endeavor” and think about God’s plan for how we should handle challenging work, the problems we can face at work, and better ways to honor God with our work. Provide introduction to your thread and discuss the work required to conduct meaningful and accurate quantitative analysis analysis; God’s perspective on that work to include how we should manage it and potential problems we might; better ways to honor God as we accomplish this, and provide your conclusion.