How do US corporations run their business ethically in globalized world?

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How do US corporations run their business ethically in globalized world?

Write a paper in which you consider the nature of leadership, the significance of the concepts presented in the book, and implications for practice and application.

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Students will choose between 2 paper options.
Option 1: Choose a book on leadership. Write a paper in which you consider the nature of leadership, the significance of the concepts presented in the book, and implications for practice and application. Your paper should also include a discussion on which leadership theories (review Ch. 2 of your text) are represented in the book you chose. You must receive permission from me for your book choice. Be sure to submit your choice early (via email). I can also offer suggestions. The paper should be written as a scholarly argument, not a personal reflection on the book’s topic or author.
Option 2: Choose one of the leadership theories presented in Chapter 2 of your textbook. Write a scholarly argument in which you explore the history and development of the theory, and implications for practice and application
All papers must be in APA 7th edition format. For assistance with APA, visit the Style and Grammar guidelines section of the APA official website: https://apastyle.apa.org/
Papers must be 6-9 pages in length, not including the title page, abstract, and references pages.
Papers should be in Times New Roman (12 point), Calibri (11 point), or Arial (11 point) font, double-spaced. Be sure to remove the extra spacing after paragraphs as MS Word inserts this automatically.
Use APA style headings, as appropriate.
Papers should include at least 6 scholarly references in addition to the textbook for this course.
This is the textbook for the course:
Bolden, R., Hawkins, B., Gosling, J., & Taylor, S. (2011). Exploring
leadership: Individual, organizational, and societal perspectives. Oxford
University Press. ISBN (Paperback Edition) 9780199547661

Describe the four components of an information system. Why is it important to consider each of them when designing and installing an information system?

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Describe the four components of an information system. Why is it important to consider each of them when designing and installing an information system?

Discuss (briefly) options for improving profitability based on your analysis in the first bullet.

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 Case Study

Strobe Inc. is a large trendy warehouse nightclub in Melbourne’s inner Eastern suburbs. Here, patrons can enjoy a dance floor where DJs play loud electronic music and bars with a variety of non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages.

The business is jointly owned by friends, Jose and Ellie, who met in an information systems workshop during their undergrad at RMIT. Jose takes care of the accounts/finances whilst Ellie manages Strobe Inc.’s nightly operations. They employ 3 security guards, 5 bar staff and 1 cleaner who are paid by the hour. Security and bar staff finish work depending on how busy the venue is so their hours can vary a little. Staff receive pay rises which apply from the 1st Jan each year. The DJ is paid a flat fee depending on the nights worked e.g. it varies from $500 on Thursday up to $800 Saturday. Jose and Ellie pay themselves out of the profit of the business.

Since opening in 2018 business has been booming, with upwards of 300 patrons on most nights. Strobe Inc. is open from 7:00pm to 7:00am nightly, Thursday evening to Monday morning. They charge an entry fee after 11:00pm which depends on the night- Friday and Saturday $30 and Thursday, Sunday $15. Currently they serve packaged snacks (eg chips and nuts) but no cooked or fresh food, mainly because they don’t have proper kitchen facilities.  They keep their pricing simple with a profit percentage on all drinks and snacks.

Recently (since Jan 2020), leasing and other costs have increased significantly and  Jose and Ellie are concerned this will put the business at risk of shutting down. Additionally, with construction completed on an apartment block next door, they have been receiving noise complaints from their new neighbours. They have not kept detailed financial records of the business- just nightly takings of drinks, snacks and entry fees. They pay their staff cash at the end of each night based on hours worked and have recorded the hours and pay for each staff member.

They have a spare, noise insulated band practice room that is currently used for storage. They have considered opening up the band practice room as another music option for earlier in the evening or on the quieter nights to increase business. The band room can accommodate roughly 100 audience members. Jose and Ellie have not done a thorough analysis yet but they think they would need at least 1 more junior security staff to manage the band room and  at least 1 more junior bar staff. Of course they would have to pay for bands (usually about $1000 per night) so an entry fee to the band room might be required to cover the costs or perhaps they just pay for the bands out of current profits. They’ve also estimated a setup cost of $350,000 to get it ready e.g. renovations, a small bar, furnishings, etc, which they would fund from their own savings.

Jose and Ellie love what they do and want to remain open. To do this, they seek your consultation. They not sure how been profitable they’ve been so far, for the current and the past financial year and they’re not sure if they’re going to be profitable in the last financial quarter of 2020 given the increasing staff costs and lease expenses.  Perhaps the band practice room is a good idea – if it makes them more profitable however they don’t know the analysis to conduct to ensure it is sensible. They’d have to work out to charge customers to make sure that they earn their $350000 back within 5 years.  Are they charging enough for their current product sales?  Are there problems with the staffing?

A spreadsheet has been provided containing data for the business. A “financial year” usually runs from 1st July until 30th June the following year. Josie and Ellie have recorded data from July 2018 until March 2020.

They have also provided some cost information and point out that some of their costs change on the 1st January each calendar year rather than the 1st July financial year.

As a business they haven’t really kept track of how many units of drinks are sold (This can be hard to know how many pints from a keg, or how many glasses from a bottle of wine) but they  keep track of sales figures in $ amounts for each category and they have given the profit% for each category.

Some of the data and calculations have been completed for you and you are guided to some of the other calculations and tools.

You will need to calculate Patron Revenue and Product Profits on the Nightly Takings worksheet. There are three additional columns at the end of the Calculations worksheet you will also need to complete, plus any additional calculations you may think the business needs.  A summary sheet has been started for you. You may continue to use these or you may make your calculations using any Excel methods/tools you are comfortable with.

Report Requirements

You are expected to undertake descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analysis of the data that Jose has provided and use Excel to analyse the data. The results of the analysis are then required to be presented in a professionally organized report that analyses and discusses both profitability so far and the various options available to help increase future profitability. Some specific expectations are as follows:

  • Analyse the past two financial year’s sales figures – has the business been profitable? Identify the key variables/features (eg products, costs, customer revenues, time, etc.) which have lead to this outcome.
  • Predict the likely profits for the final quarter of the financial year of 2020 (April – June) and for the following financial year July 2020 – June 2021 (predictive analysis)
  • Discuss (briefly) options for improving profitability based on your analysis in the first bullet.
  • Identify at least one business issue you have identified from your analysis that the business should further explore. Clearly explain your reasoning using data to support your discussion
  • Advise them on their expansion plans – Is it feasible to repay the $350000 costs within 5 years from the profits of the band room expansion given current interest rates? What should they charge? Justify your answer with calculations.
  • Make two specific recommendations with regard to improving profitability which are based on your previous analysis. Briefly justify these recommendations (i.e. prescribe what should be done and why this would be helpful, drawing on your previous predictive and descriptive analysis). (These are in addition to the expansion plans)

Describe four key current facts that a retailer could learn from this section of the website.

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Visit the “Charts & Data” section of Internet Retailer’s Web site (www.internetretailer.com) by clicking on the tab. Describe four key current facts that a retailer could learn from this section of the website. This should be a least 1 page.

Compare and contrast your interviewee’s experience with what you found in the literature

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interview a person from a culture that is not your own. Review the following questions and select 6-8 of these questions. You can add other questions that you would like to ask. Once the interview is completed write 6 to 8 pages. The paper structure is outlined below.
1. APA style title page, with APA style title
2. APA style abstract page
3. Introduction
Briefly describe the context of the interview-who you interviewed, why they were selected and where the interview took place. (e.g., racial background, gender, age, social-economic status, nationality, country of residence, cultural background)
4. Main Body
1) Literature review
– Do a brief literature review on your interviewee’s member group
– Review at least 3-5 academic articles on the group
2) Findings from interview
– Analyze the responses from the interview and present a summary of your findings.
– Compare and contrast your interviewee’s experience with what you found in the literature
5. Conclusion
6. References page

Develop a business strategy plan for a local organization of your choice.

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develop a business strategy plan for a local organization of your choice. This should be an established organization in your area and may be one you are familiar with or one you want to learn about.
Your work should include the following:
· Conduct an interview with the business owner or manager of the organization. Use this as an opportunity to learn more about the business.
· Evaluate the organization’s motivation, innovation strategy and people strategy.
· Explain how the organization monitors ethics.
· Discuss the organization’s corporate social responsibility plan.
· Discuss the culture of the organization.
· Analyze an organization’s environment.
· Evaluate the organization’s competitive position and possibilities, potential generic strategies for an organization, potential value disciplines for an organization, and potential grand strategies for an organization.
· Discuss the organizational change management strategies the company has in place.
· Create a recommendation for improvement in the area’s in which you feel the company could improve.
· Your proposal should be a minimum of 12 written pages following APA format.

Create a compensation and benefits package using this business proposal formatPreview the document.

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Now that you have considered how to recruit and retain the employees you want in your organization, create a compensation and benefits package using this business proposal formatPreview the document. The package must be consistent with the objectives of job satisfaction for the valuable employees in an organization of your design.
this should be based off of the customer service field
Include the following:
Salaries and benefits packages of comparable organizations in the same industry.
What employees working in the 21st century consider to be benefits (see this week’s recommended readings for a start).
What helps to keep employees engaged in their work.
Your business proposal must be formatted according to APA style as outlined. must include a separate reference page, and must include citations from the text and at least four scholarly sources

What drug discovery area has the most intrigue for you?

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What drug discovery area has the most intrigue for you?

If you were starting up a new drug company, what area of research would you focus on and why?
Please look at the pdf file before you answer the question.
Thank you

Explain how the organization is structured and comment about the ways the organization handles its cause.

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For this assignment, write a two-page paper addressing the following:

* Pick an organization from Socialbrite (Links to an external site.) and write an overview of the organization.

*Explain how the organization is structured and comment about the ways the organization handles its cause.

Use Stecker (2014), Internal Revenue Services “Lifecycle of an Exempt Organization,” (Links to an external site.) and 2017 Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS): Chapter 82—Nonprofit Corporations (Links to an external site.) to support your paper.

For the first bullet of the assignment, please give a thorough overview of the organization, including what they do, who they provide services to, what kind of services they provide, and any other overview information to explain the organization.
For the second bullet, you will explain the overall structure and how the organization handles its cause. There are two links provided beneath this bullet. The assignment calls for the integration of these sources to inform your paper, which are the IRS website and a website of the Nevada Revised Statutes on Nonprofit Corporations. I know these websites can be confusing and overwhelming, in general, so I want to provide more clarification on the use of these:
The reason that these websites are included is to help provide context and definitions of the different types of organizations, which are as follows:
On the Nevada Revised Statutes website, you will find the definition of a corporation.
On the IRS website, you’ll find the definitions and characterizations of charitable organizations (both public and private foundations), and social welfare organizations. There are a couple other types of organizations listed on this site too, which you will not need to use or refer to.
The way you will integrate the information on the IRS and Nevada Revised Statute websites is by doing the following:
You will use the information from these websites to provide detail on the type of organization it is, based on what you see on their website about their operations and how it appears they respond to their cause.
Some organizational websites will state what kind of organization they are (public charity, private foundation, etc.); and some will not. What you want to do is use the definitions and characteristics from the IRS and Nevada website to inform this.
For example, if the organization states that it is a private foundation, you would refer to this definition on the IRS website and discuss how/where you see the organization aligned with this structure.
Or, if the website you select does NOT indicate what type of organization they are, you will use the definitions from the IRS and Nevada websites to determine what kind it is. Important note: If you do this, please know that I’m looking for your critical analysis of the organization based on the definitions, while understanding that some websites include limited information about their structure. In these cases, please make your best judgment of the type of organization it is based on the definitions form the websites, and tell me why you came to that conclusion. I know it can be tough to find all details on the organizations, so please provide what information you can.