Briefly describe the circumstances of a difficult face-to-face conversation you have had in a professional setting.

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First, briefly describe the circumstances of a difficult face-to-face conversation you have had in a professional setting. Then recount the specific actions you took to try to resolve the situation, and explain whether or not those actions were effective and why.
Applying the learning resources from the week, analyze the difficult conversation and explain what it taught you about your own approach to communication, and the strategies that would help you improve your communication skills. Be sure to provide a rationale as to why you think these strategies would be effective for you and lead to better results in these types of circumstances.
If you were to face a similar difficult conversation today, explain how you would prepare for it. Use the weekly Learning Resources and, where appropriate, your personal and professional experiences to support conclusions.
Finally, how would you prepare for a similar conversation in a virtual setting? How would you handle the difficult conversation differently in a virtual setting versus a face-to-face setting?

What is interactive leadership

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What is interactive leadership and why might this approach be increasingly important for all leaders in the twenty-first century?

Evaluate the challenges of use of project management tools within a particular project-based organization.

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For this assignment, you are to evaluate the challenges of use of project management tools within a particular project-based organization. You will create an outline of an integrated project plan to submit as an Appendix at the end of your paper.

Refer to “Teradyne Corporation: The Jaguar Project” case in the study materials for this topic.

In a 2,000-2,250-word paper, analyze the case from a project management perspective by responding to the following questions below. Be sure to formulate your responses based the project management concepts you have learned from experience and on the content thus far in the course:

  1. Provide a brief introduction (short paragraph) outlining your paper. Do not summarize the case.
  2. Prior to implementation of the new strategy and structure at Teradyne, what specific product development challenges existed?
  3. Referring to the issues facing the software development team (see third paragraph from the bottom on page 9 on the case), how would you as a project manager address the situation?
  4. Create an integrated project plan outline as an appendix to your paper. Address ideas that would have prevented the situation in the case.
  5. Referring to “Reflections on the Project,” provide three key challenges moving forward for the organization and how you, as project manager, would attempt to address them.
  6. Provide a brief conclusion (short paragraph) summarizing your paper.
  7. Provide a references list and cite each reference at least once in your paper. Provide at least six citations, excluding the citations listed in this assignment (no Wikipedia citations allowed).

Ensure that your last name is in the file name and submit your completed Word file by the end of this week.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competency:

MBA Project Management

5.1: Create project plans using appropriate project management techniques.

Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable.

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In three to five (3-5) pages, advise Jim and Laura based on the facts as presented, the material provided in the text, and material covered in the lecture. In your paper, be sure to address the following:

1. Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable.
2. Decide whether or not there was a contract for the purchase of the automobile.
3. Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile.

Extensively compare non-profits and businesses?

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Extensively compare non-profits and businesses? What is profit? (5 points) Are non-profit organizations allowed to generate a profit? Why or why not? (10 points) Why don’t we as a society push for every business to be turned into a non-profit with the goal of improving society? (10 points) Explain how one’s view of money, and particularly what non-profits should be doing with donations might affect one’s view of the Mormon Church’s $100 billion investment fund? (10 points) This answer should be at least 1.5 pages, double-spaced.
Do not have to site answers.

Discuss the process by which you decided upon the variables to include in your dataset.

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Consider the dataset that you created last week. Review the variables/data through the lens of the readings provided in chapters 6 & 7 – particularly the concept of the “want versus should selves.”
Discuss the process by which you decided upon the variables to include in your dataset. Do the variables  represent data points that you “want” to analyze or know more about? Or……does your dataset actually have information that the firm “should” be reviewing? In other words, were the variables that you selected influenced by your own internal bias/conflict between what you “want” to see/analyze, versus what you “should” be measuring? Did you select variables that were “conventional?” Organizations often analyze “conventional” data metrics because these represent the industry norm, as opposed to what they actually “should” be measuring in alignment with their specific mission. Ironically, “conventional” data is often the most “convenient” – thus the same root.

How might you convince stakeholders that a new analytics system/process was needed?

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After reviewing chapter 7 of the text, prepare a 350-word (minimum) essay describing how the “escalation of commitment” has influenced the data collection, measurement, and analysis process at your own organization. Has this helped or hindered the decision-making efforts and strategic planning at your firm? If you were responsible for analyzing the performance data at your organization and recognized that the metrics being used were irrelevant and/or antiquated, how might you convince stakeholders that a new analytics system/process was needed? If the organization has already invested resources to evaluate “conventional” metrics (i.e. escalation of commitment), what would be your strategy for helping the firm move from a “conventional” (convenient) analytics process toward something more innovative (unconventional and/or inconvenient)?
Here is the Book being referred to:
Bazerman, M. H. (2012). Judgment in Managerial Decision Making. [VitalSource Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781118543139/

Compare and contrast the perspectives of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber regarding conflict and social change.

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Please choose a question, you only need to select one question from the list below:
Compare and contrast the perspectives of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber regarding conflict and social change.
Compare and contrast the functionalist perspectives on culture with the conflict perspectives.
Explain the process of gender socialization and racial socialization, including when they occur and the types and forms of messages that are involved.

Identify the company and copy and paste your completed table in your main thread.

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Tasks
Choose a publicly traded company. To view a short list of suggestions for selecting a publicly traded company, click List.
Download and complete the tablePreview the document for this discussion.
Visit MSNMoney.com website (Links to an external site.). Enter the name of your chosen company in the search box.Click the Analysis Scroll down to the Financial Health Tab. Record the following information for the Current year and the Industry
Current Ratio
Quick ratio
Then select the Management Effectiveness Record the inventory turnover for the Current year and the Industry.
Compute the Days Sales in Inventory. The formula is: Days Sales = 365/Inventory Turnover
Discussion Questions

Please discuss the following in your initial post:

Identify the company and copy and paste your completed table in your main thread.
After reviewing, the results in your table, what information does the current and quick ratios provide about this company?
What additional information does knowing the Days Sales in Inventory give Sam & Martin about this company?
How does the company that you researched compare with its Industry?
Please cite your sources using the APA style guide.

State and address what industry it belongs to and how much of the industry it occupies.

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You will be writing a minimum of 2 paragraphs, must total at least 1 full page, not including cover and references page, on the Bank of America Corporation.
Your paper must address/include the following:
1.) Brief summary/intro about the organization (the Bank of America Corporation).
2.) State and address what industry it belongs to and how much of the industry it occupies.
3.) After reviewing Porter’s five forces model and PESTLE analysis, see attached “list of references,” provide a brief overview of how BOTH of these analyses are useful in analyzing the Bank of America Corporation.
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Other IMPORTANT reminders:
-Make sure you refer to the “list of references,” attached, on your paper. Make sure you are citing your references both in-text AND on the references page, per APA guidelines.
-You are welcome to use your own references, BUT you must use at least 2 of the references listed in the attached “list of references.”
-Make sure you are answering/covering ALL parts of the question prompt, make sure you have covered all 3 listed above, in its entirety!
Thank You!