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What sort of thing does a company like Amazon need to communicate to its employees? To what extent is such communication successful and positive for employees? What goes wrong with it? How might it be improved?

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Amazon’s leadership

QUESTIONS ON AMAZON – CHOOSE ONE AND ANSWER IT AS AN ESSAY

  1. Communication

What sort of thing does a company like Amazon need to communicate to its employees? To what extent is such communication successful and positive for employees? What goes wrong with it? How might it be improved?

Use relevant theory and evidence from your Amazon case study materials to analyse the methods of communication between management and employees to answer these questions as an essay.

  1. Structure

The most significant features of Amazon’s structure are said to be:

  1. Global function-based groups (most significant feature)
  2. Global hierarchy
  3. Geographic divisions

Provide two examples of dissatisfaction expressed by Amazon employees and use theory of organisational structure to show how the company’s structure might lead to such dissatisfaction. Give two recommendations for changes to structural design that would improve employee experience.

  1. Culture

According to Amazon’s website (March 2022) Amazon is “Number 1 in Most Popular Graduate Recruiter in Online Retail Services by UK Target Jobs Graduate Awards 2021”

Apply suitable theory in organisational cultures to features of the organisation to show to what extent employees in graduate positions might be likely to vote it the “Most Popular Graduate Recruiter in Online Retail Services by UK Target Jobs Graduate Awards 2021”

  1. Ethics

In March 2022, a current UK Amazon employee working in the Midlands wrote this job review on the Indeed.com website:

“Not worth the stress. Management don’t care about you and would rather see you fail. They will find small little things to be able to fire you and when you try and progress (unless you’re a mate of a manager) you will not progress – and I mean you won’t even make team lead.”

Apply appropriate theory of organisational ethics to two examples of employee experiences to show to what extent Amazon treats its workers ethically.

 

  1. Motivation

Use case study materials the company website, news media and online reviews, evaluating theory and practice to show to what extent Amazon employees seem motivated to work towards the company’s objectives?

Answer this question by using theory to analyse examples from the Amazon case study materials to demonstrate what motivates the company’s employees and what demotivates them.

  1. Leadership

The Amazon website claims that:

“Our Leadership Principles aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging.”

Apply leadership theory to an analysis of four of the fourteen Leadership principles to show to what extent they contribute to the organisation’s success.

What might happen if the company was not regulated? To what extent does regulation lead to equilibrium price and output levels that are consistent with production and allocation efficiencies? Do you think the local community would be better served if the industry was no longer regulated and entry was available to any other company wanting to serve the community?

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Evaluating Firm Behavior and Industry Performance With Imperfect Competition

What distinguishes a natural monopoly from other monopolies? What are the pros and cons of regulating natural monopolies? Does your answer differ depending on the specific product or industry being regulated? Your response should be at least 75–150 words (1–2 paragraphs) in length.

Assume Acme Corporation is a typical monopoly:

Construct a graph illustrating Acme’s average and marginal cost curves and the demand curve facing it. Identify profit maximizing output and price, total revenues, total costs, and total profits.

Assume the economy moves into a recession and the demand for Acme’s product falls. On the same graph, show the effect of the recession on equilibrium price, output, and profits.

Your response should be one graph and at least 75 words (1 paragraph) that includes an explanation for the graph.

Consider a local public utility, such as the water utility or scavenger company, that is regulated. Provide a diagram or graph illustrating the typical price and output set by regulators. Then respond to the following questions:

What might happen if the company was not regulated?

To what extent does regulation lead to equilibrium price and output levels that are consistent with production and allocation efficiencies?

Do you think the local community would be better served if the industry was no longer regulated and entry was available to any other company wanting to serve the community?

Your response should be at least 150–225 words (2–3 paragraphs) in length, including graph with an explanation.

What are the key differentiating characteristics of a market characterized by oligopoly versus monopolistic competition? Provide one specific example of each type of industry and defend your assignment of the industry to monopolistic competition or oligopoly. Your response should be at least 75–150 words (1–2 paragraphs).

What makes the monopolistic competition model different from the monopoly model? Explain how the differences affect short- and long-run equilibrium. Your response should be at least 75 words (1 paragraph).

Use the following Payoff Matrix for Company A and Company B, the only two companies that produce widgets, to answer the following questions. Your response should be at least 150–225 words (2–3 paragraphs) in length.

What is the expected outcome of this one-time (not repeated) game? Defend your answer.

How might your answer change if the game is repeated indefinitely?

To what extent does this example illustrate why firms in some concentrated oligopolies exhibit cooperative or collusive behavior even though they don’t explicitly collude?

  • Company B Lowers Price Company B Does Not Lower Price
  • Company A Lowers Price Company B’s Payoff: $100
  • Company A’s Payoff: $100 Company B’s Payoff: -$100
  • Company A’s Payoff: $1,000
  • Company A Does Not Lower Price Company B’s Payoff: $1000
  • Company A’s Payoff: -$100 Company B’s Payoff: $500
  • Company A’s Payoff: $500

Describe at least two benefits to companies implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and shared value strategies. Include at least two examples of companies that have adopted CSR or shared value, and discuss how they benefited from them. Your response should be at least 150–225 words (2–3 paragraphs) in length.

What are the differences between the utopic and dystopic versions of the American dream that we can find in the work of American literature?Explain

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The American Dream in Literature.

Research Question:

What are the differences between the utopic and dystopic versions of the American dream that we can find in the work of American literature?Explain

Identify two people, at two different levels (upstream, lateral, downstream) that you need to communicate with for your project and compare/contrast your communication with them based on each of the five rights of communication.

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Collaboration Cafe: Communication in Project Management

Think about all of the stakeholders and colleagues that must be kept up to date on the status of your project. The recipient of your communication may be upstream (higher on the organizational chart), lateral (an equal organizationally), or downstream (i.e. end user) in relation to the project. A student in a prior CGE course compared communication in project management to the five rights of medication administration…we need to give:

The right person
The right information
(via) the right route
(at) the right time
(in) the right dose

Identify two people, at two different levels (upstream, lateral, downstream) that you need to communicate with for your project and compare/contrast your communication with them based on each of the five rights of communication.

Write a learn note on safe medication application on Congestive Heart Failure patients in the cardiology unit in the hospital setting and what precautions you could take as a nurse before administering any medication prescribed to this patient. Explain at least four common medications that CHF patients use and why?

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LEARN NOTE

Write a learn note on safe medication application on Congestive Heart Failure patients in the cardiology unit in the hospital setting and what precautions you could take as a nurse before administering any medication prescribed to this patient. Also, explain at least four common medications that CHF patients use and why? Use 3 peer-reviewed articles to complete this assignment. Watch these two videos to guide you and help you better understand CHF and nursing interventions for safe medication administration.

Videos link:

Explain at least two major HR areas impacted by supply demand planning in order to establish a workforce that can deliver a company’s business strategy.

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Delivering on Strategy—Effective Tools

Gap analysis is as important in organizational effectiveness as it is in other HR approaches. You cannot improve an organization’s effectiveness without having a good grasp of the gaps between the current and ideal state of your organization. The HR leader may need to factor into gap identification several strategies and tools to ensure their interventions are effective.

Provide an introduction and conclusion and address the following in detail:

1) Differentiate five benefits of benchmarking that help an organization strengthen their position in a market.

2) Describe the four categories of a SWOT analysis.

3) Explain three major steps HR should take in conducting a SWOT analysis.

4) Distinguish at least three simple steps in conducting an HR gap analysis.

5) Explain at least two major HR areas impacted by supply demand planning in order to establish a workforce that can deliver a company’s business strategy.

Critically analyse the impact of the mental health condition on the psychosocial wellbeing of the client and whanau. Critique how well your chosen theory or model of care enhanced this client’s quality of life toward recovery

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Task one: 1000 words Case Study
Integrate a clinical case study to provide a brief overview of the client including neuroscience and psychopathology diagnosis, and the mental health and psychosocial assessments undertaken.
• Critically analyse the impact of the mental health condition on the psychosocial well being of the client and whanau.
• Critique how well your chosen theory or model of care enhanced this client’s quality of life toward recovery
• Critically analyse whether the use of theories or models of care are appropriate for the delivery of care in a mental health setting
• Word count 1000.

Use the client 1(see attached file client1) for this case study. Consider using the CHIME frame work and CBT therapy for this client. Create some scenarios to meet the assignment requirement. Please refer to attached the examples given(LO 6 example Tidal-wrap and LO6 example CBT) .

Task two: 2 reflection or case study (1000 each) which illustrate how the 4 learning outcomes (see attached nursing competencies self-assessment) were achieved in practice. GIBBS reflection cycle can be used. You can use any of the three clients provided. The 2 pieces of writing need to cover all 4 domains of learning outcomes. Please indicate clearly which items are achieved in the writing, such as 1.1, 1.2, 2.5……see the student sample work. You can refer to my self-assessment form and my clinical educator’s comment on me, but you surely need to create some scenarios and stories for this.

Write a 2000 words essay that critically appraises the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of the Professional Nursing Advocate in relation to enhancing self-efficacy and personal effectiveness to support safe and effective nursing practice and improving mental wellbeing / practice outcomes.

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Reflective summative assignment

Write a 2000 words essay that critically appraises the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of the Professional Nursing Advocate in relation to enhancing self-efficacy and personal effectiveness to support safe and effective nursing practice and improving mental well being / practice outcomes.

In order to do this well—regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him—you will need to clearly explain what he believes to be the major ‘ills’ of democracy as well as his reasons for rejecting the better democracy solution.

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Overdoing Democracy

Talisse’s position in this book is that the cure for democracy’s ills cannot be more and better and democracy (in other words, he rejects what he calls the ‘better democracy response’). Engage with the relevant material in the book and present an argument showing why Talisse is either right or wrong about this position. In order to do this well—regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him—you will need to clearly explain what he believes to be the major ‘ills’ of democracy as well as his reasons for rejecting the better democracy solution.

By formulating five (5) rules, how can you integrate the theories of Freud, Adler, Jung, Fromm, Rogers, and Maslow using the ideas of meaning and purpose in life, sacred emotions, and religious experiences? How can you incorporate your rules into promoting an authentic and optimal personality?

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Optimal personality

Reference the book using in-text citations. The book is
Compton, W., & Hoffman, E. (2019). Positive psychology: the science of happiness and flourishing, (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. ISBN: 9781544322926

You can get information regarding this assignment in chapters 9 & 10

The purpose of this assignment is to have to integrate your thinking about optimal personality in relation to some of the major theorists, wisdom, and the psychology of prayer and spirituality.

Step 1: By formulating five (5) rules, how can you integrate the theories of Freud, Adler, Jung, Fromm, Rogers, and Maslow using the ideas of meaning and purpose in life, sacred emotions, and religious experiences?

Step 2: How can you incorporate your rules into promoting an authentic and optimal personality?

Step 3: Relating to your final synthesis goal, describe a plan in which you incorporate information from the chapter regarding the promotion of a “wisdom path” as a part of your life plan to promote positive mental health.

Step 4: The psychology of prayer describes the impact of prayer on one’s functioning. Devise a practical approach to using prayer for personal change. Design an example of a prayer project for your personal change goal. You can select one aspect of your goal and describe the issue that needs to change. Your prayer project should incorporate the following: Types of prayer, the acts of praying, a rationale for why this would promote change, how to address a sense of meaning and purpose, how to promote the sacred emotions, and how to promote religious experiences.