Based on the video, why is it very risky for organizations to ignore or fail to respond to external factors of change? In the scenario provided in the video, what is the relationship between the external and internal factors?

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Factors that Drive Change

To complete this Milestone Activity, refer back to the “Change Drivers” Learning Activity. In this activity, you watched a video regarding the impact of change on an organization. Based on the video, why is it very risky for organizations to ignore or fail to respond to external factors of change? In the scenario provided in the video, what is the relationship between the external and internal factors? Select one of the actions Cassandra took that led to a successful change. Discuss your selection to support your position.

 

Evaluate how the financial markets work to allocate capital within a domestic economy and internationally for trade, investment, and development purposes. Using an economy of your choice critically evaluate what are the key challenges that country faces due to industrialisation and trade policies?

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International trade and development

You are a junior consultant working for an international investment organisation. The firm has some new prospective clients visiting the Head Office in London. Your manager, the Head of International Markets, is very keen to sign the clients but wants to improve their understanding of international trade, finance, and investment matters.

You are tasked with writing a comprehensive report on the following:

Finance is considered as the life blood or the engine of growth for international trade and development.

a. Evaluate how the financial markets work to allocate capital within a domestic economy and internationally for trade, investment, and development purposes.

b. Using an economy of your choice critically evaluate what are the key challenges that country faces due to industrialisation and trade policies?

What did you struggle with in learning to write for the workplace? How have you overcome these difficulties? What evidence of overcoming these difficulties can you show from your work? What areas of writing or collaboration do you still need to work on? Evidence?

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Personal self-reflection or evaluation

One common workplace writing genre you will use in the future is the personal self-reflection or evaluation. Most likely, you will use this type of argument during workplace performance reviews, when you ask for a raise or a benefit, or any time your employer or others need to have written evidence of accountability for your progress. Here is a brief reading to get you started.

As a way to practice this type of workplace writing, your last assignment of the semester will be to review your performance in terms of the course objectives. In order to write a successful Performance Review, you will need to use the following strategies:

Review the course objectives from the syllabus.

What do you feel you have achieved?
Can you find concrete evidence of this through your work? Looking back at your process work, class discussions, and major projects may prove helpful.
Demonstrate how your efforts this quarter have been aligned with the course objectives.

Review the stages you went through to create documents for the course.
Compare older drafts to newer drafts. What did you learn from peer review comments? What did you learn from the revision process? You should quote or paraphrase examples from your work.

Was your time used wisely? How might you improve for future workplace writing projects?
A performance review should remain upbeat. However, overly positive reviews show a lack of reflection and potential delusion on the part of the writer.

What did you struggle with in learning to write for the workplace?
How have you overcome these difficulties? What evidence of overcoming these difficulties can you show from your work?
What areas of writing or collaboration do you still need to work on? Evidence?

Which predictors are considered significant if we work with α=0.05? Which predictors can be eliminated? What is the final model if we only use FloorArea and Offices as predictors? What wouldbe the assessed value of a medical office building with a floor area of 3500 sq. ft., 2 offices, that was built 15 years ago? Is this assessed value consistent with what appears in the database?

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Regression Modeling

Purpose 

This assignment provides an opportunity to develop, evaluate, and apply bivariate and multivariate linear regression models.

Resources: Microsoft Excel®, DAT565_v3_Wk5_Data_File

Instructions:

The Excel file for this assignment contains a database with information about the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings in a city. The following is a list of the variables in the database:

  • FloorArea: square feet of floor space
  • Offices: number of offices in the building
  • Entrances: number of customer entrances
  • Age: age of the building (years)
  • AssessedValue: tax assessment value (thousands of dollars)

Use the data to construct a model that predicts the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings with specific characteristics.

  • Construct a scatter plot in Excel with FloorArea as the independent variable and AssessmentValue as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and r^2 in your graph. Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2 variables?
  • Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of FloorArea and AssessmentValue. Is FloorArea a significant predictor of AssessmentValue?
  • Construct a scatter plot in Excel with Age as the independent variable and AssessmentValue as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and r^2 in your graph. Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2 variables?
  • Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of Age and Assessment Value. Is Age a significant predictor of AssessmentValue?

Construct a multiple regression model.

  • Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis with AssessmentValue as the dependent variable and FloorArea, Offices, Entrances, and Age as independent variables. What is the overall fit r^2? What is the adjusted r^2?
  • Which predictors are considered significant if we work with α=0.05? Which predictors can be eliminated?
  • What is the final model if we only use FloorArea and Offices as predictors?
  • Suppose our final model is:
  • AssessedValue = 115.9 + 0.26 x FloorArea + 78.34 x Offices
  • What wouldbe the assessed value of a medical office building with a floor area of 3500 sq. ft., 2 offices, that was built 15 years ago? Is this assessed value consistent with what appears in the database?

Describe the actual industry in which the business will operate. You may need to broaden the industry such as using the “history of baking” or “history of a bakery” rather than the “history of a cupcake shop”. In addition, you may have multiple industries, such as human resource consulting. In this case, you can use the main industry, such as human resources, or you could discuss both the human resources and the consulting industry.

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History of Accounting Services and Consulting

• Describe the actual industry in which the business will operate. You may need to broaden the industry such as using the “history of baking” or “history of a bakery” rather than the “history of a cupcake shop”. In addition, you may have multiple industries, such as human resource consulting. In this case, you can use the main industry, such as human resources, or you could discuss both the human resources and the consulting industry.

• Be sure to give an overview of the history of your industry and not a history of your hypothetical company. This section could include, but is not limited to, a discussion of key events, dates, technological advancements, people that have contributed to the growth of the industry, government regulation, etc. Timelines work very well for this section.

• This section will require outside sources (including corresponding citations within this section), as you will want to base this information on the actual history of the industry (e.g. facts, dates, figures, etc.).

Identify an international organization. yze the financial viability of the organization in the current international financial environment.

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Analyzing the Financial Situation of an International Organization (Pepsi Co) Presentation

-Identify an international organization –
-Analyze the financial viability of the organization in the current (i.e., the last 2 to 3 years) international financial environment.
-Discuss the effects of instability in the foreign currency markets on your selected organization’s elements such as the supply chain, manufacturing, and production.
-Explain how the organization mitigates the inherent risks in international currency.

How does it relate to your potential choice of industry or profession? Why do you prefer this job opportunity over another one? Is it a new or emerging role and will it be likely future proofed?

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Career Research Report

Introduction

Provide a brief paragraph outlining the aims of the report and what profession/industry you will talk about in the assignment. This can be written in 1st person

General trends influencing the chosen industry or profession

What changes are happening in your chosen profession on industry that might impact on the jobs you apply for and the skills and knowledge you need. Consider the impact of globalization and technology for example. This section will be based on secondary research but can include comments or overview of your primary research data (someone you interview). This is a formal report section, written in 3rd person.

The required skills, experience and knowledge

Using information from secondary research, relevant professional bodies, and relevant job ads, you need to provide a summary based on the data collected. Look at key skills, knowledge and experience expected from an applicant at this stage in their career. This can be supported by primary research (interview results). You should aim for at least 5 personal skills and 2 areas of knowledge and expertise.

Evaluation

You need to identify an appropriate vacancy from your chosen industry or profession. Include the advertisement in full (not just a website link) containing job description, skills and all relevant information. The picture of the ad should be placed in the appendices. Within the report explain why this is of interest to you. How does it relate to your potential choice of industry or profession? Why do you prefer this job opportunity over another one? Is it a new or emerging role and will it be likely future proofed? As this is a reflection, you can write in 1st person.

Conclusion

Short summary of the main points of your report. The most significant future trends and explanation of the effect on the chosen industry or role.

 

Demonstrated proper use of grammar, spelling, punctuation, citation style, etc. Demonstrated an understanding of course content and key concepts, as discussed in the text. Examine, assess, evaluate, and/or analyze course content and key concepts.

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DOM HCA320 essay #4

1. On each page: Student Name, ID Number, Course Number, Course Title, and Unit Number.

2. Responses typed, using a standard font, 12-point type size, double-spaced, with overall neatness and readability.

3. Restatement of the question and question number (exactly as stated in the Study Guide).

Writing Assignment Evaluation

  1.  Student used standard essay format: Introduction/Body/Conclusion.
  2. Student demonstrated proper use of grammar, spelling, punctuation, citation style, etc.
  3.  Student demonstrated an understanding of course content and key concepts, as discussed in the text.
  4.  Student was able to examine, assess, evaluate, and/or analyze course content and key concepts.
  5.  Student provided a clear and well-developed response to the question.

 

Briefly describe the organization and the community in which it operates. Analyze the organization’s social and economic impacts on the community (positive or negative). Provide specific examples to support your analysis.

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The Social and Economic Impacts of Business

Organizations can directly and indirectly affect communities in both positive and negative ways. Their impacts can be simple, such as donating to a local school or sponsoring a neighborhood event, or they can be so profound that the organization shapes or reshapes the landscape of a community—or even the world—for generations. Perhaps an organization pollutes the local waterways or closes a factory that employed half the town, or an organization decides to build a theme park in an underdeveloped area that, in 50 years’ time, could become a top tourist destination. In this Discussion, you will explore the social and economic impact of an organization with which you are familiar or that you have researched.

To prepare for this Discussion:

  • Consider an organization with which you are familiar that had a social and economic impact on a community. The community can be one you are familiar with, or you can locate an example of another community through your research. Additionally, the organization’s impact on the community could have been positive or negative.

PROBLEM QUESTION.     

Post your analysis of the social and/or economic impacts of a business organization, to include the following:

  • Briefly describe the organization and the community in which it operates.
  • Analyze the organization’s social and economic impacts on the community (positive or negative). Provide specific examples to support your analysis.
  • Analyze how the benefits or consequences of this social and economic impact on the community shapes your perception and others’ perceptions of the organization.

What are the past experiences (or interests) you have in this area? How would you ensure the required outcomes of your course of study are being met? How would you manage and monitor your academic activities to ensure a successful conclusion of your course of study?

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Gibb’s Reflective Model in my life;

 

  1. The reflection should addres the following questions:
    • How did your experiences (academic and/or work) prepare you for the current course of study?
  • What are the past experiences (or interests) you have in this area?
  • How would you ensure the required outcomes of your course of study are being met?
  • How would you manage and monitor your academic activities to ensure a successful conclusion of your course of study?
  • Looking into the future, what are the implications of your current course of study in later life (post-career)?
  • What are the goals you would like to set for yourself, with respect to your current course of study?
  1. Key points to consider:
    • Start the reflection with a brief description of your initial understanding of business environment, reflective practices, economic principles and others. With reference to these subject contents, justify your choice of current course of study, identify how your course of study relates to your own experiences, and how you may apply your knowledge in the future.
  • You are expected to carefully analyse your previous experiences and current expectations. Your reflection should be clear and succinct, and demonstrate that you have short-term and long- term goals, including an understanding of what you want to do with your degree.
  • Note that the reflection is about your course of study and career/professional projections. You need to integrate some theoretical implications of this subject into your reflection. For example, if the reason for embarking on an MBA program is to change your profession, start a new business, or advance your career, you may need to reflect on the consequences/implications of some business environment issues — stakeholders, business structures, macro- and micro environments, etc.
  1. Structure and Format:
  • Structure the reflection as follows:
    Cover sheet: You MUST use the formal Torrens University cover sheet.

Introduction:

Brief (one sentence) aim of the assessment, and how you intend to achieve it (brief outline of your adopted reflective model [e.g., Driscoll, 1994] and its stages).

Main body:

Use the reflective model stages as your main headings (e.g., Driscoll, 1994 — what, so what and now what) to address the suggested reflective points.

Conclusion

  1. You are strongly advised to frequently read through the rubric as you write because it is the evaluation guide, with criteria for grading your assignment.