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Hamburgers come to Africa

Read the article “Hamburgers Come to Africa” .  Answer the following questions in 3-4 paragraphs.
A) What were the main factors behind these companies’ strategic decisions to enter Africa?
B)  In your opinion, were these factors strong enough to justify the decisions?
C)  What factors do you think these companies may have ignored or not given enough weight to when defining their new strategies?
D)  Do you predict these new strategies will be successful/unsuccessful?  Why?
DO NOT USE ANY SOURCES OTHER THAN THE ARTICLE ITSELF.(not even Google).

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Education Assignment

Purpose
The concept of “educating for social reconstruction” speaks to the humanitarian side of the teaching profession. We live in a world engulfed in wars, disease, hunger, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, and global warming, to name a few of the problems that afflict people around the world.
Instructions
For this Assignment, you will write a paper on the subject of global education. Your paper should draw upon the ideas of philosophers like John Dewey (1916), Paolo Freire (1970), Henry Giroux (1981), and other academics who seek to improve the world through education.
Focus on one of these topics for your paper:

  • What reasons justify that we (American educators) should take a global view of education? Are there any reasons why we should NOT take this view?
  • How does global education differ from “multicultural education” in both purpose and form?
  • How does global education affect the methodologies that are present in our classrooms today? Do they support or diminish their effective influence on student achievement?
  • How does a global view of education coincide with the academic expectations of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) for the education of all students? Is this legislation a threat to the idea of incorporating a global view of education within American schools today? Why or why not?
  • Compared to the other pedagogical philosophies you have read and discussed in this course, how much support does global education have among today’s educators? Does today’s educator embrace all that a global education can offer to our students or have we completely taken on a 21st Century idealistic perspective of how education should look within our schools?

The outline might look something like this:

    1. Introduction: Define and describe global education and give a brief summary of what this paper will be about.
    2. Body: This is where you will address the questions in the Assignment directions. This will be 6-8 pages and you will support your ideas with the sources you identified for your Annotated Bibliography.
    3. Conclusion: Wrap up your paper here. Discuss why the topic of global education is important in the 21stCentury. Remember that technology is a big factor in why schools should be concerned with globalization and teaching America’s children about other cultures and countries.

Format
Your paper should be 8-10 pages, including a title page and a reference page. Follow APA formatting and writing guidelines

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Global Education

You are excited about the idea of global education. However, you are not sure where to begin when incorporating it into your classroom. Your principal suggests that you start by revising one of your current units:

  • Choose a thematic unit that you might teach in your current or future classroom.
  • Offer a brief description of the unit to your classmates.
  • Explain how you could revise the unit and activities to incorporate theories of global education.

Use the information you viewed in the World Economic Forum Global Education Initiative 2008 video to help you formulate ideas.
When reading your classmates’ posts, offer them feedback and suggestions to help them improve upon their thematic unit ideas.
 

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PowerPoint Assignment – Statistical Software Tools

A data analyst would like to adopt a software system that will help to calculate statistics, write reports, and perform analysis on data. You have been asked to prepare a PowerPoint slideshow to help the data analyst evaluate several options.
Your presentation should be a minimum of 7 slides (including a Title slide and References slide) and address the following:
 

  1. Describe 5 different software tools.
  2. Provide details about the functions of each system and include images.
  3. Include APA formatted citations for your references.
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Health Care Systems

Introduction

Managers of healthcare organizations have a lot to learn from the management practices and breakthrough ideas from other industries. Your Final Project Report should identify three “big ideas” that represent great opportunities to improve the performance of healthcare organizations.
Your Final Project should define the management practice or breakthrough idea, discuss the expected impact on improved patient outcomes, higher levels of customer satisfaction, lower costs, etc., and identify the critical success factors associated with implementing these programs in a health services organization. You should identify which of these management practices or breakthrough ideas has, in your judgment, the greatest, second greatest, and third greatest potential benefit for healthcare organizations. Clearly explain the rationale for your rankings.
You are free to consider any management practices or breakthrough ideas so long as they originated outside the healthcare industry. Some examples you might consider include:

  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Time-based Strategic Management
  • Total Quality Management (TQM)
  • Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
  • Core Competency-Based Strategic Management
  • Service Level Agreements
  • Virtual Teaming
  • Just in Time Manufacturing Systems
  • Team-based Organizations and Performance Management Systems
  • Competency-based Human Resource Systems
  • Outsourcing
  • The Internet

Deliverable

Your final report should not be fewer than eight pages in length or more than twelve pages. In terms of organization, your final report should contain the following sections:

Executive Summary

For each management practice or breakthrough idea:

  • Definition and Discussion of the Management Practice or Breakthrough Idea
  • Expected Benefits for a Healthcare Services Organization
  • Implementation Challenges and Critical Success Factors.