Why would companies choose to move beyond compliance and develop more sustainable methods of fracking?

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Read the case at the end of Ch. 10 HYDRAULIC FRACTURING – CAN THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS BE REDUCED? and watch the following video.
Prompt:
In your educated opinion: why would companies choose to move beyond compliance and develop more sustainable methods of fracking? Do you think that this is possible?
Discussion Requirements
Your posts in the discussion area should exhibit careful thought and logical reasoning and provide evidence for your position. Each post should be a well-developed response approximately 150-200 words, unless otherwise indicated. Use correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. The discussions must be completed by the due dates specified on the assignment.

Why is employee job satisfaction important from a managerial or organizational perspective?

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please watch the Ted Talk below and provide a written response to the following three sets of questions. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work?language=en (Links to an external site.) 1. What is job satisfaction? Why is employee job satisfaction important from a managerial or organizational perspective? 2. Based on this talk, the assigned readings, and our class discussion, what factors contribute to employee job satisfaction? Why? 3. Briefly summarize the findings of the Lego study, the paperwork study, and the origami study in this talk. Based on these findings, what can managers do to increase employee job satisfaction in an organization? Your paper should be between 3 and 4 pages (double-spaced). It will be graded on the following three dimensions: 1) argumentation (e.g., are evidence and/or explanations used to support your arguments?); 2) applied learning (e.g., have you effectively incorporated ideas, concepts, and/or examples from readings and/or class discussions?); 3) written communication (e.g., did you utilize a concise writing style, including correct spelling and grammar, proper punctuation, and adequate formatting?)

What is the purpose of a monitoring and adjustment plan?

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In a 750-800 words, develop a performance measurement tool for your business plan. Cover the following information:
• What is the purpose of a monitoring and adjustment plan?
• Analyze and describe three different performance measurement tools. Which one will work best for your business plan?
• What metrics will you be monitoring and why?
• What goals have you set for the selected metrics? What is your rationale for these goals?
• What are three barriers that could cause a need to adjust your plan?
Include an example of your performance measurement tool at end of slide your paper.
Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed references. No foreign sources is allowed.

What does Personal Leadership Mean?

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without using words that are too complex, write a 4 page essay. Include intro and conclusion. Make sure to answer the questions completely. Pay attention to grammar. Again, be sure to not make it sound too complex. This is a high school level essay so use simple daily words.
I. What does Personal Leadership Mean?
There are two dimensions to this question. The first, “What is leadership?” is a general question. Use this question to begin to explore, through reading and dialogue, the ideas that other people have on leadership. The second, “What does leadership mean to me?” is designed to make the first question more personal. It is the transition between an abstract understanding of leadership, and the attributes of and beliefs about leadership that you will internalize and make your own.
IIa. What is Leadership?
Using the course content and readings that you select, describe your understanding of the nature of leadership. Leadership is a topic on which many articles and books have been written. There are clearly many ways of thinking about leadership and of approaching the development of leadership skills. In your reading and study, what is your understanding of leadership?
IIb. What Does Leadership Mean to Me?
Having thought about and reflected on the ideas of others, begin to internalize your thoughts on leadership and give it personal meaning. This is both a self-centered and other-centered exercise. Self-centered in the sense of making meaning for yourself, and other-centered in the sense of beginning to gain insight into the impact you have on others.
The Personal Leadership component will be evaluated using the following rubric:
Component
Points
Introduction, conclusion, professional
What is leadership?
What does leadership mean to me?

Brainstorm the best way to approach an employer whom you wish to persuade to start a tuition/books reimbursement program.

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Read: After working a few years, you would like to extend your college education on a part-time basis. You know that your education can benefit your employer, but you can’t really afford the fees for tuition and books. You have heard that many companies offer reimburse- ment for fees and books when employees complete approved courses with a grade of C or higher.
Your Task: Brainstorm the best way to approach an employer whom you wish to persuade to start a tuition/books reimbursement program. How could such a program help the employer? Remember that the most successful requests help receivers see what’s in it for them. What objections might your employer raise? How can you counter them? After thinking of strategies, write a persuasive letter to your boss (for a company where you now work or one with which you are familiar). (make one up). Persuade her or him to act on your persuasive request.

Describe how they might want to launch these services and associate them with their branding.

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Expanding a Business into Services

This Competency Assessment assesses the following outcome:

MT450M6-6: Apply Marketing Mix principles to business or consumer services.

Environmentalgear is an office and home products company available online, through a catalog mailed out every 6 months, and advertising via business magazines. “We make life healthier” is their motto.

Founded 2 years ago by a scientist, a product engineer, and a retail marketing expert, they started out with office products and have moved on to home devices since this startup is such a success.

Their newest home product is a sleep-enhancing bed, which involves a soft, but supportive bed with a detachable eye mask and neck collar that are both recyclable. The neck collar is preset to be the right temperature to induce sleep. The bed provides a choice of soft mantras or meditative sounds on very low volume for the best amount of time per scientific sleep research. The consumer can set the sleep time and soft volume choice of sounds that begin to gradually wake them up. The temperature of the bed adjusts automatically throughout the night to be the right temperature. It comes in navy blue, black, grey, pale green, and white, as do all their products.

Current home products:

  • Indoor doghouses that have environmentally friendly bedding and autofill water and dry food bowls with adjustable dispenser settings.
  • Window shades that auto-adjust to your time schedule and the light and provide insulation.
  • Kitchen mats that are supportive, sustainable, and natural, while providing cushioning for joints.
  • Outside house lighting fixtures that are solar powered and adjust to the light outside. They also store extra light, which is then transmitted to inside light fixtures that provide general ceiling or wall lighting.

Current business products:

Office lighting fixtures that adjust to the light outside, the time of day, and work or shift schedule to reduce blue light as you head towards sleep time and provide optional lighting for winter climates.

Screens for all types of monitors that protect your eyes from blue light, especially needed for those at computers all day.

Office furniture (i.e., desks, bookshelves, ergonomic chairs that auto-adjust to the occupant’s needs and body weight and/or height and provide support, depending on the product).
Desks that can adjust to any height at the push of a button or remote control.

The company now wants to expand into services:

  1. Consumer service: They want to add an at-home service whereby a home ambience consultant will visit you at home to help you adjust their home products and make other recommendations for improving the home environment.
  2. Business service: They also want to add office consultants who can improve the office ambiance so it is more conducive to the company’s goals, comfort, and productivity.
  • Choose business service or consumer service from above.
  • Provide a synopsis of your research on the Internet regarding any competition.
  • Explain why they might want to add services to their business.
  • Using the marketing mix, provide the 4 P’s of this new consulting service for home or office, developing the particulars that make sense based on the scenario and the real world.
  • Describe how they might want to launch these services and associate them with their branding.
  • Respond in a minimum 600-word paper with additional title and reference pages in APA format and citation style.

Minimum Submission Requirement

  • Respond to all the checklist items in a thorough manner.
  • Submit your response using correct English grammar and spelling.

 

Describe what you need to know about three cultural differences that would help you open a subsidiary, hire staff, and manage it for your corporation successfully in that country.

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Choose a city in one of the following countries: Taiwan, Spain, Uruguay, Australia, or Turkey. Research the culture of the chosen city, and write a two-page essay to describe what you need to know about three cultural differences that would help you open a subsidiary, hire staff, and manage it for your corporation successfully in that country.
Your essay should be properly formatted to include a title page and reference list, which will not be included in the minimum page count. The paper should follow APA guidelines for all resources for in-text citations, paraphrasing, and references. Remember to use the CSU Online Library to assist you in the research for this assignment.

Describe and comparetwo of the below perspectives on organizational change:

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The individual essay is used to evaluate to what extent you know and understand the main theoretical perspectives on organizational change. The individual essay is based on the study materials described in section 6 of this course manual.

  1. Describe and comparetwo of the below perspectives on organizational change:
  2. Episodic / radical change
  3. Continuous / incremental change

iii. Top- down change

  1. Bottom-up change
  2. Middle- in and middle-out change
  3. a) Describethe chosen perspectives and detail the main underlying assumptions of the two approaches – name and explain at least3 underlying assumptions for each perspective
  4. b) Compare the two chosen approaches by outlining their main differences andin terms of the dimensions of change that are changing under the perspectives (g. routines and practices, cognitions and identities, power relationships) – discuss at least 3 differences anddiscuss all the 3 dimensions of change as they relate to your two chosen perspectives based on the literature.
  5. Applyyour chosen perspectives to a business case of your own choice and critically reflect on their value for making sense of the change in the case. The business case needs to be a “real” example, i.e. and actual organization needs to have undergone the change. You need to have sufficient detail on the case to be able to reflect on the change, i.e. you need to know what triggered the change, who was involved in initiating and implementing the change, how the change unfolded and what the outcomes of the change were. The business case can be either one of the cases discussed as part of the course, a case from the study material or a case of your own choice (from the news for example).
  6. a) Briefly describeyour chosen business case by focussing on the following: what triggered the change, who was involved in initiating and implementing the change, how did the change unfold and what were the outcomes of the change.
  7. b) Applyyour chosen two perspectives to the business case and explain how the change from your case can be understood by applying the chosen perspectives. Critically reflecton the value of the chosen perspectives for the business case – which perspective is better suited to explain the change that unfolded in your business case and why? Explain at least three reasons why you think your preferred perspective is better suited to explain the change.

Please note that the maximum word count is 3,000 words (excluding references) – you cannot use more than that (no 10% rule – please note: more words does not necessarily make a better assignment). It is up to you to decide how many words you need for each part.

Assessment criteria: 60 percent of overall grade; see assessment scheme in the appendix for more information about the assessment criteria. Use Times New Roman, font size 12, line spacing 1.5 for the assignment. Please use the Journal of Management style guide for referencing.

Submission: Hand in your assignment via Canvas before Thursday, October 22, 18:00. A hardcopy is not required.

 

Write a generic letter to all passengers explaining what happened, why it happened, what the cruise line intends to do to prevent the situation from happening again, and the remedy to appease each passenger.

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First, read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/05/22/the-four-keys-you-need-to-achieve-strategic-agility/#57c869b27da8

Second, Research a reasonable example of “strategic agility” as it relates to business practices and place the url on discussions with your post of a one paragraph reflection.

PAIBOC stands for purpose, audience, information, benefits, objections and context.

Read:

You are the owner of the second largest cruise line in the world. You have 7 different cruise ships that sail all areas of the globe. As second, one of your main goals is to become #1. Your company prides itself on customer service and you believe that this avenue affords you the best opportunity to become #1.
Your largest ship, the “World Traveler” can accommodate 10,000 passengers. During a November cruise in the Southern Caribbean, while docked at Barbados Islands, 5,500 passengers became sick from food poisoning. People from America, Mexico, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy were all part of those who got sick. As it turns out, over 3000 people reported sick but only after returning from excursions on the island.
This situation could represent a possible setback to achieving your #1 position in the world unless it is handled properly. So after extensive discussions with your board of directors, it was decided to not only fully refund all passengers that were aboard this cruise (whether they got sick or not), but to provide for a free cruise on any of your ships at any time throughout the year in any part of the world for up to a 7 days and 8 night’s cruise. Passengers are responsible for the cost of getting to and from the point of debarkation to meet the ship.
Instructions:
Develop a PAIBOC that displays your intent as the owner to address the customer service issues encountered by this outbreak of food poisoning. Then, write a generic letter to all passengers explaining what happened, why it happened, what the cruise line intends to do to prevent the situation from happening again, and the remedy to appease each passenger. You will need to be sensitive to the diversity of the passenger pool from three perspectives: gender, race, and nationality. It is extremely important that you do not offend one or more of these groups of passengers in your attempt to keep them as part of your customer base. Note: pay particular attention to the in-class discussion about the subtleties of this problem before beginning this assignment. Turn in your PAIBOC with your written paper.

Write a cover letter (suggested length of 1 page) for a job you applied for online, using business writing techniques to justify why you should be hired.

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Write a cover letter (suggested length of 1 page) for a job you applied for online, using business writing techniques to justify why you should be hired.

Note: Consider the following questions when composing your cover letter:

• Why is this position of interest to you?

• What qualifies you for this position?

• Why are you a good fit for this specific position?

• Why are you a good fit for the company as a whole?