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Discusses how managers should select and balance their R&D portfolio, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of some of the most often used tools for project evaluation.

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Interactive learning Discussion

6.1 Learning Outcomes:

  1. Familiarize with the wide variety of methods available (both quantitative and qualitative) to evaluate innovation projects.
  2. Highlight the important role played by managerial assumptions in the accuracy and utility of any measure used.
  3. Emphasize the importance of a balanced R&D project portfolio (i.e. advanced R&D, breakthrough, platform, and derivative).

 

6.2 Action Required:

  • Watch the short video in the following link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QOdd45aZ1o

6.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

Q. Discusses how managers should select and balance their R&D portfolio, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of some of the most often used tools for project evaluation.

6.4 Instructions

  • Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week6: Interactive learning Discussion)
  • Your answers should not exceed word limit of 100-120

Should a U.S. or European company take advantage of a country’s weak approach to business and political ethics? Would your answer change if your decision saved your company $1 million?

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Business Ethics Case Study 500-700 words

PROMPT: Is It Ethical to Dump Toxic Waste in Countries That Allow It? Should a multinational company take advantage of another country’s lack of regulation or enforcement if it saves money to do so? A New York Times news correspondent reporting from Nigeria found a collection of steel drums stacked behind a village’s family living compound. In this mid-1990s case, ten thousand barrels of toxic waste had been dumped where children live, eat, and drink.

As safety and environmental hazard regulations in the United States and Europe have driven toxic waste disposal costs up to $3,000 per ton, toxic waste brokers are looking for the poorest nations with the weakest laws, often in West Africa, where the costs might be closer to $3 per ton. The companies in this incident were looking for cheap waste-dumping sites, and Nigeria agreed to take the toxic chemical waste without notifying local residents. Local people wearing shorts, t-shirts, and sandals unloaded barrels of polychlorinated biphenyls, placing them next to a residential area. Nigeria has often been near the top of the United Nations’ list of most corrupt nations, with government leaders cutting deals to line their own pockets while exposing their citizens to environmental hazards. A more recent example occurred in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in 2006, when residents discovered that hundreds of tons of “slops” (chemicals) from a foreign-owned ship had been dumped near Abidjan, the country’s commercial capital. The ship was owned by a multinational energy company named Trafigura. According to a report from Amnesty International, more than 100,000 residents were sickened, leading to fifteen deaths. Trafigura had illegally dumped the toxic waste in Côte d’Ivoire after searching for a disposal site in several other countries.

43 Critical Thinking

  • Should a U.S. or European company take advantage of a country’s weak approach to business and political ethics?
  • Would your answer change if your decision saved your company $1 million?

Write a five-paragraph essay about one of the following topics. For many of the prompt choices, the topic is very broad, so it will need to be narrowed enough to be appropriate for a five-paragraph essay.

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How to improve the place you work

Process writing involves demonstrating the steps it takes to complete the process.

Write a five-paragraph essay about one of the following topics. For many of the prompt choices, the topic is very broad, so it will need to be narrowed enough to be appropriate for a five-paragraph essay.

Choose one:

  • How to improve the place you work
  • How to stop procrastinating
  • How to improve study skills
  • How to show appreciation for others

Write a 7-8-double-spaced-page analysis of two scholarly arguments regarding a current debate or topic of academic study (student’s choice). Develop an argument by comparing and/or contrasting two different viewpoints or positions related to your topic.

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Comparative Analysis

Write a 7-8-double-spaced-page analysis of two scholarly arguments regarding a current debate or topic of academic study (student’s choice). Develop an argument by comparing and/or contrasting two different viewpoints or positions related to your topic. Include a separate works cited page documenting a minimum of FIVE scholarly sources.

What is the research question for the article? What did the authors find—what is their conclusion? What is the theory—what do the authors think explains what they are examining, and why? Would you say that this article is an “interpretivist” or “positivist” thesis about the subject?

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Writing Question

In 3-5 pages, answer the following questions for each of the articles uploaded on Canvas:

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  • https://www.studypool.com/questions/download?id=2830771&path=uploads/questions/1025034/20230501185556moral_machine_short.pdf&fileDownloadName=attachment_2
  • https://www.studypool.com/questions/download?id=2830771&path=uploads/questions/1025034/20230501185559chong.1993.pdf&fileDownloadName=attachment_3
  • https://www.studypool.com/questions/download?id=2830771&path=uploads/questions/1025034/20230501185600sven_and_ferguson_on_toy_guns.pdf&fileDownloadName=attachment_4

What is the research question for the article?

What did the authors find—what is their conclusion?

What is the theory—what do the authors think explains what they are examining, and why?

Would you say that this article is an “interpretivist” or “positivist” thesis about the subject?

Is this an article that focuses on individual-level explanations or institutional/group-level (holism) explanations?

For each category of Employee, count the number of employees in that category, and the average salary of that category. Find the average number of orders placed by Customer. Find all the customers who purchased the Popular-Product.

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Show the SQL statement of the following Queries.

  1. For each category of Employee, count the number of employees in that category, and the average salary of that category.
  2. Find the average number of orders placed by Customer.
  3. Find all the customers who purchased the Popular-Product.
  4. Find the store that has most different products in stock.
  5. Find the floor staff who has taken charge of all the floors in the past 1 week.
  6. For each product, list all the stores selling it, and the price of the product at the stores.
  7. Find the floor that have the most number of stores located.
  8. List the schedule of the Gold-Store.
  9. Find the store that produces the most amount of sale in the past 1 week.
  10. Find the employee who supervises the most number of floor staffs
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Define new public management as an approach to performance management. Define new public service as an approach to performance management.

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Week 7: Interactive activity

7.1 Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand new public management as an approach to performance management
  • Understand new public service as an approach to performance management

7.2 Action Required:

Watch the video at the following link

 

7.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

  • Define new public management as an approach to performance management.
  • Define new public service as an approach to performance management.

 

7.4 Instructions

  • Answer both questions in the test your knowledge section.
  • Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week7:Interactive learning Discussion)

Identify the task, social, and individual roles in your group. When naming a role for the first time, define it first. Be sure to identify your roles and then some of those of your group (if this is a large group, you may not need to identify everyone). How well do your r`oles work in your group?

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Final Paper: Profile of Your and Your Group’s Communication Styles

Task: You are then to write a paper where you use what you observed and report what is happening in your group. You are to write a 4–5 page paper (written work, not including cover page and references) analyzing communication behavior in your small group, and attach your field notes at the end of your paper. Since this paper is being turned in as a document, you do not need to worry about using an accessible online font. Instead, follow APA guidelines and use 12 point Times New Roman font with double spacing. You will need to have a cover page, running head, intext citations, and a reference page (See APA info on D2L).

I. Cover Page

II. Introduction (1/2 a page): Introduce yourself, identify the group and the members you have interacted with. Suggest that you will be integrating course material in your analysis of your group. By the end of the intro I should have a clear idea of what you did and there should be a thesis statement. *While you can say “I” in this paper, it still needs to be written professionally. Sample thesis sentence: This paper will analyze my experience as a group member in an online health chatroom. This analysis will identify roles, norms, and power among member. (You should fill in the underlined area with the content and focus of your paper).

III. Body (3–4 pages): Discus what you have observed in light of the theories that you’ve read about and discussed in class by responding to each of the four questions below.
1. Identify the task, social, and individual roles in your group. When naming a role for the first time, define it first. Be sure to identify your roles and then some of those of your group (if this is a large group, you may not need to identify everyone). How well do your r`oles work in your group?
2. Identify one implicit and one explicit norm in your group, be sure to explain or define what an implicit and explicit norm is first. Provide examples of how these norms are communicated and enforced. Again, what do people say and do?
3. Identify the type of power you and others exhibit in your group using specific examples of your communication behavior to explain it. When using a type of power for the first time, be sure to define it.
4. What do you perceive to be your group’s strengths and weaknesses– at least 1 of each? (Use specific concepts from course material. Label and define the concept then show how it is a strength or weakness)

IV. Conclusion (.5): Answer the question below. Then, close by summarizing what you learned about groups and how it applied to the group you were part of.
1. At this point, what might you do to become a more effective and competent communicator in your group?

Thoroughly explain your chosen theory. Describe a real-life situation and apply the theory to the real-life situation. Use the theory to analyze the real-life situation and defend your analysis.

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Communications Theory Writing

Thoroughly explain your chosen theory. Describe a real-life situation and apply the theory to the real-life situation. Use the theory to analyze the real-life situation and defend your analysis. Include a reference page listing all the sources you used.

  • https://www.studypool.com/questions/download?id=2830861&path=uploads/questions/1285634/20230501195445attachment_1__1_.pdf&fileDownloadName=attachment_1

The minimum page limit for this writing is three pages, excluding the references page(s).

Use a minimum of two peer-reviewed scholarly journal sources.

 

Review the Dynamic System’s Theory in modules. Write 4 separate activities/ games and give at least 2 task, 2 person, and 2 environmental modifications for each activity or game you come up with.

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Dynamic Systems Theory.

Review the Dynamic System’s Theory in modules. Write 4 separate activities/ games and give at least 2 task, 2 person, and 2 environmental modifications for each activity or game you come up with.