Give your suggestions on how policy makers in the US should address the issue of income inequality.

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Write a well-integrated essay using the materials covered in class (you may use additional citations) on the issue of income inequality in the United States. Include the following in your essay: the definition of income inequality, the basic factors (causes) that have lead to income in equality in the US, the impact of income inequality on infrastructure; and, the impact of income inequality on society. Finally, give your suggestions on how policy makers in the US should address the issue of income inequality.

Define 1 new unique business opportunity the company can do to increase their competitive advantage.

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Working in business management means taking on responsibility to lead your organization in a variety of situations. Part of that responsibility is understanding where an organization has been and where it’s going. In this course, you put yourself in the shoes of a manager and use resources to make decisions on where an organization is heading in respect to business needs, organizational structure, leadership strategies, and change management. Some of the information needed may be easy to locate, but other information may take time and effort to find. Some may even need assumptions based on research. These research and strategizing skills will be useful in your business management career.

Select a company and learn about its history. This will prepare you for your Wk 2 Analysis.

Note: Some reports are more recent than others. It’s in your best interest to find a company with a recent (within 2 years) report.

Select 1 global company from “Business Source Complete: SWOT Analyses” located in the University Library to use for the next 5 weeks (this will sometimes be referred to as “your company”).

Create a chart or outline that conveys the following information:

  • Name of company
  • Industry
  • Brief history of company
  • At least 3 milestones from the company’s history
  • 3 resources (in addition to Business Source Complete) where you can locate company information in future weeks. This may include company websites, current employees, journals, etc.
  • Define 1 new unique business opportunity the company can do to increase their competitive advantage.
  • Identify a function of management that is needed for this opportunity.

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Use one Resource from textbook Contemporary Management 11th Edition Chapter 1-6*

 

 

 

What is the best way to get your product/service into the hands of targeted consumers?

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Research the following questions for your marketing plan.

Who are your competitors? What features distinguish your product/service from theirs?

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What is your product/service?

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What is the best way to get your product/service into the hands of targeted consumers?

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Determine two ways these requirements could impact staffing at your organization.

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In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario that you chose in the Staffing Plan for a Growing Business Assignment.

Note: You may create and/or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments.

Requirements
Using the scenario from the Staffing Plan for a Growing Business Assignment, write a 6–7 page paper in which you:

Identify three job requirements (e.g., needed certifications, previous work experience, external influences, etc.) that could apply to your chosen scenario. Determine two ways these requirements could impact staffing at your organization. Next, suggest one strategy that you could utilize to ensure that all applicants meet the identified job requirements for your organization. Justify your response.
Outline a long-term recruitment plan that contains at least four components, is aligned with your company’s recruitment strategy, but also addresses possible job skill or credential shortages. Note: Consider concepts such as succession planning and hiring retirees.
Describe three branding strategies that you would employ to attract qualified applicants to your organization. Next, suggest three communication methods that you would utilize to reach out to applicants. Predict the outcome of integrating your branding strategies and communication methods at your organization. Provide a rationale for your response.
Determine two selection processes for recruiting new employees that could apply to your chosen scenario and then identify five selection criteria that you could use when hiring new employees. Next, analyze the effect of the five identified selection criteria on long-term employee retention and preservation of organizational knowledge. Justify your response.
Suggest two assessment methods that you could employ to select new employees for your organization and then analyze the validity and reliability of each method in regards to the job your organization is offering. Next, identify four job predictors that you believe can assess candidates’ knowledge, skills, abilities, and other skills and experiences (KSAOs). Provide support for your rationale.
Go to Strayer Library to locate at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

Compare the deontological and consequentialist perspectives and how each perspective would approach the dilemma from the scenario.

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You are a sales representative for a medical device company that manufactures artificial joints. Your company has developed an artificial knee joint that is less expensive than the competition and will dramatically reduce healing time for patients. However, it is also known to produce a serious and potentially lethal infection in a small percentage of patients. The company refuses to disclose this potential side effect. You feel you have a duty to divulge this issue, but you signed a nondisclosure agreement when you were hired and worry about possible repercussions.

A. Select a nonfictional leader who you feel has exhibited exemplary ethical conduct and do the following:

1. Discuss two ethical traits your chosen leader has demonstrated.

2. Explain how your chosen leader has exhibited ethical conduct.

B. Compare the deontological and consequentialist perspectives and how each perspective would approach the dilemma from the scenario.

C. Explain which level of cognitive moral development (i.e., preconventional, conventional, or postconventional) is represented in the scenario for each of the following questions:

• Which action would most likely serve the greater good in society?

• If I reveal this information, will I get into trouble and possibly even lose my job?

• Which action best aligns with my long-held belief in the principle of justice?

• What do the laws say, and what would a law-abiding citizen do?

• If I keep quiet will I get some sort of reward?

D. Reflect on your Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI) by doing the following:

1. Explain your preferred ethical lens, or what it means to have a center perspective relevant to the ELI.

a. Analyze whether you have the same preferred lens in different settings (e.g., work, personal, social).

2. Explain both your primary values and classical virtue(s) from the ELI.

a. Compare two primary values and one classical virtue from part D2 individually with three of the top five values from the Clarifying Your Values exercise.

3. Describe one of the following from the ELI: your blind spot, risk, double standard, or vice.

a. Discuss three steps you can take to mitigate the blind spot, risk, double standard, or vice described in part D3 in order to make better ethical decisions in the future.

4. Discuss how you plan to use the ethical lens(es) to approach ethical situations throughout your professional life.

Determine whether the expectation that female respondents have evaluated the brand alliance between htc and Swatch higher than male respondents is supported.

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Introduction of new lines (e.g., Coca Cola light, Colgate toothpaste for children) or brands (e.g., financial services by Sainsbury, men’s grooming by Harley Davidson) are widely adopted extension strategies. Compared to single brand strategies collaborations between two or more brands represent an alternative strategy designed to take advantage of complementarities and inter-brand synergies. Probably the most widely quoted example is between Dell and Intel while recent efforts include Apple and Nike (Apple Watch Nike+) and GoPro and Red Bull (GoPro:Red Bull Stratos). According to Simonin and Ruth (1988, p. 30), brand alliances represent ‘the short- or long-term association or combination of two or more individual brands, products, and/or other distinctive proprietary assets.’
Seminal research by Simonin and Ruth (1998) identified attitudes towards the parent (or collaborating) brands, perceptions of product fit (functional similarity) and brand fit (image similarity) between the parent brands to be significant determinants of evaluations of brand alliances. Unlike extant research that considers brand fit to be a single variable a study is carried out that partitions brand fit into the following five types: economic fit (fit in terms of perceived price and value for money), symbolic fit (benefits resulting from the possession of a brand), sensory fit (feelings towards a brand), futuristic fit (technological and design aspects of a brand), and utilitarian fit (quality of a brand).
Using an electronic cross sectional survey data are collected from a random sample of UK consumers on the below three brand alliances. BA_BF.sav contains data collected from 312 respondents and specification of the variables.

You are required to –
• Part 1 – Comment on the summary statistics, including the main distribution characteristics, of the Evaluation_AB variable.
• Part 2 –
o Determine whether the expectation that female respondents have evaluated the brand alliance between htc and Swatch higher than male respondents is supported.
o Examine whether the data provides evidence of significant differences in the evaluations of the four brand alliances. Comment on the pattern of any identified significant differences.
• Part 3 – Using attitudes towards the two parent brands, product fit and the sixe types of brand fit as predictors develop the ‘best’ model to explain/predict evaluation of the brand alliance.

The focus must be on interpretation of results and clearly stating and explaining any underlying assumptions. Formulae are not required! Avoid including irrelevant and unnecessary information in your assignment; supporting information may be placed in appendices.
Criteria Ratings Pts
Part 1
Are the implications of the summary statistics explained (rather than described)? Has any necessary remedial action been undertaken (e.g. identifying and removing outliers) and explained? This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion. 10.0
Part 2
Have appropriate tests been selected? Are hypotheses stated and correctly phrased? Is the process of testing hypotheses and reaching a conclusion clear? Have conclusions been drawn from the results of the hypothesis tests (i.e. does the answer go beyond reject / retain the null hypothesis)? This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion. 40.0
Part 3
Have regression’s underpinning assumptions been tested and any necessary remedial action taken? Are the regression results reported and explained clearly? Have clear conclusions been drawn from the results? This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion. 40.0
Total points: 100.0

Write in the form of an essay, a 5,000 word critical literature review based on a synthesis of business practice and academic theory on an individual topic of your choice.

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As an Accounting&Finance Student the subject should be related to accounting or finance.
You are required to write, in the form of an essay, a 5,000 word critical literature review based on a synthesis of business practice and academic theory on an individual topic of your choice. Your essay should include:

• An appropriate title
• An abstract (maximum 300 words) and a set of related keywords.
• An introduction justifying the contemporary nature (importance) of the topic selected.
• A coherent and sectionalized structure covering the chosen topic (and title) and associated sub-themes.
• A summary/conclusion section including linkages between business practice and academic theory.
• A reference list and associate application using the APA referencing convention.

Marking criteria:
The marking scheme for the assessment is provided in grid form indicating the weighting for the respective components of the assignment presented. In short, this comprises:
• Essay structure and general presentation (10%).
• Abstract and keywords (10%).
• References (10%).
• Body of the paper (50%).
• Summary/Conclusions (20%).

Based on what you find, determine whether the business is declining on account of an an external factor

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Research a business that financial analysts predict will be GONE in the very near future. You may choose one of the following companies or research another company that business analysts think is on its way out. Note: If you select a company that is not on this list, you must provide the source for your research.J.C. Penny
Sprint/Nextel
The Container Store
New York & Company (Retail Clothing)
Jamba Juice
Elizabeth Arden (Cosmetics)
Sears
Aerospostale
Rosetta Stone
PacSun
Based on what you find, determine whether the business is declining on account of an an external factor (i.e., shift in demographics, competition, consumer demand) or an internal factor (i.e., poor management, poor quality, lack of cost control). It may be a combination of both, in which case you should include this insight in your paper. Either way, be sure to explain in detail how this factor has negatively impacted the business.
If you discover an external factor, was there anything the company could have done to adapt? If you discover an internal factor, why do you think the company didn’t address it before it got so serious?
Use 12 pt. font, double spaced, 1 inch margins.

Briefly discuss potential sources of inefficiencies in the flu vaccine supply chain.

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This is the case for which you will submit an assignment and we will discuss. Please read the case and consider the following questions.

1-Briefly discuss potential sources of inefficiencies in the flu vaccine supply chain. Is the supply chain for flue vaccine more similar to  supply chain for pediatric vaccines or fashion apparel? Why?

2-Briefly discuss pros and cons of the fixed time and fixed quantity contracts qualitatively. Which one would you recommend? How much should they order? Hint: You may make some assumptions and use the quantitative case data to calculate the optimal order quantity to maximize profits. Assume a constant demand of 20000 doses over the flu season for your calculations.

Please note that you are expected to submit a   two-page (max.)  document responding to the above questions based on analysis. This assignment needs to be done   individually  and submitted prior to the case discussion via the  turnitin assignment link provided in the Assesments section

 

In what ways would you claim responsibility for these ethical issues?

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Section 1)​Extracting the question(s):
​​a) As far as you are concerned, what ethical question(s) arose from the film of your/the ​​​ group’s choice?—parse out the intricacies of the question(s) as you see it/them
​​b) As far as you are concerned, what ethical question(s) were addressed insufficiently or ​​​ not at all (but should have been)?
Section 2)​Response to the question(s):
​​a) Having identified and fleshed out your question(s), what are your thoughts?
• In what ways would you (would you?) claim responsibility for these ethical issues?
• How does this response square with your worldview?
Section 3)​What soft claim can you make toward some resolve of the ethical issue(s)?
Section 4)​What new questions arise for you from sections 1-3?