Please choose one assignment from the following options to submit for this week’s response. Please type up your response according to the guidelines listed in the syllabus (12 point, Times New Roman font, with 1 inch margins and double-spacing).
Your response will be evaluated on the basis of: a) how well you demonstrate an understanding of and engagement with the course material; b) the clarity and quality of your writing; c) your overall effort on the assignment. Remember that quality of writing is valued over quantity. The assignment will be graded on a scale of 0-10 points, and the grader’s comments and grade should be available to you within one week of the original posting date.
The assignment is due on Saturday, February 17th at 3pm without being penalized.
The weekly assignments correspond with the assigned readings and lecture material for the week. The questions posed in each option are designed to help guide your thinking and response. You are not required to respond to all (or even any) of the listed questions, although your responses should be organized in some way. As with any writing assignment, providing sufficient background information to your topic and offering specific examples to support your views will make your ideas clearer and more convincing.
You are welcome to write beyond the minimum page requirement for the assignment.
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Option 1:
If procrastination is one of your more significant time-management issues, write a 2-page response in which you discuss what you get fromprocrastinating. Discuss specifically what you are doing when you procrastinate (for example, are you looking up your friends on Facebook, playing video games or spending too much time in the cafeteria?), what benefits you get out of this, and whether or not the benefits of procrastinating are worth it in the long run. If you think the downsides of procrastination outweigh the benefits, discuss what concrete steps you can take to reduce your procrastination. Be specific about what messages you will tell yourself or what action items you will take in the moment when the temptation to procrastinate strikes. Also discuss how you will feel when you resist the temptation to procrastinate and follow through with the tasks and goals you set out for yourself.
Option 2:
Both the lectures for this week and the assigned readings give many suggestions about how to better manage your time and improve your study skills. Go back to your lecture notes and to the book (Chapter 3 of Andreatta) and review specific study, reading, note-taking and time-management strategies. Which suggestions do you already engage with? Are they useful strategies for improving your time-management and study skills? Which tips are unfamiliar to you, but appeal to you? Why? How can you implement them for the remainder of this quarter? What challenges do you think you might face in undertaking these strategies? How can you overcome these challenges to practice these academic skills? Write a 2-page paper responding to some of these questions.
Option 3:
After reading the assigned texts for this week, think of one upcoming major assignment in one of your current classes. Break down the assignment into smaller tasks and list each step that you will take towards completing the assignment. Also list what study/academic skills (see Andreatta, Ch. 3) you need or will be helpful for you to use at each step of the assignment. Give yourself due dates for each ‘smaller’ step of the assignment, and one for completing the assignment. In a 2-page paper, describe the assignment and discuss how you have broken it down, what skills you listed as necessary (and why) and the mini-due dates you’ve given for yourself leading up to the assignment. Discuss any obstacles that may still stand in the way of you completing the assignment as you laid it out, and what you will do to avoid those obstacles.
Option 4:
Look at the ‘@myU’ box on pp. 73 of Andreatta. Read the directions and fill out the textbox accordingly, to reflect upon the study/academic strategies you used to complete your first set of major exams/assignments in 3-4 of your classes this term. If you did not do well on your first set of major assignments, jot down what you did to prepare for those major assignments, what need to change in order to improve your performance, and how you will make the proposed changes. If you did do well on your first set of assignments, explain what specifically you did in order to do well and what you should continue doing in order to ensure future success. Write a 2-page paper responding to some of these issues.
DFI to Achieve Economies of Scale Bear Co. and Viking, Inc., are automobile manufacturers that desire to benefit from economies of scale. Bear Co. has decided to establish distributorship subsidiaries in various countries, while Viking, Inc., has decided to establish manufacturing subsidiaries in various countries. Which firm is more likely to benefit from economies of scale?
Chapter 13:
3.) DFI to Achieve Economies of Scale Bear Co. and Viking, Inc., are automobile manufacturers that desire to benefit from economies of scale. Bear Co. has decided to establish distributorship subsidiaries in various countries, while Viking, Inc., has decided to establish manufacturing subsidiaries in various countries. Which firm is more likely to benefit from economies of scale?
9.) DFI Strategy Bronco Corp. has decided to establish a subsidiary in Taiwan that will produce stereos and sell them there. It expects that its cost of producing these stereos will be one-third the cost of producing them in the United States. Assuming that its production cost estimates are accurate, is Bronco’s strategy sensible? Explain.
Chapter 14:
6.) Impact of Financing on NPV Explain how the financing decision can influence the sensitivity of the net present value to exchange rate forecasts.
17.) PepsiCo’s Project in Brazil PepsiCo recently decided to invest more than $300 million for expansion in Brazil. Brazil offers considerable potential because it has 150 million people and their demand for soft drinks is increasing. However, the soft drink consumption is still only about one-fifth of the soft drink consumption in the United States. PepsiCo’s initial outlay was used to purchase three production plants and a distribution network of almost 1,000 trucks to distribute its products to retail stores in Brazil. The expansion in Brazil was expected to make PepsiCo’s products more accessible to Brazilian consumers.
Research at least two articles on the topic of big data and its business impacts. Write a brief synthesis and summary of the two articles. How are the topics of the two articles related? What information was relevant and why?
1)Research at least two articles on the topic of big data and its business impacts. Write a brief synthesis and summary of the two articles. How are the topics of the two articles related? What information was relevant and why?
Your initial discussion post should be 300 words long and cited per APA. Respond to at least one other posting with at least 25 words.
Compare And Contrast Two Countries Using Hofstede’s Six Dimensions -Consider how the cultural differences between these two countries impact work relationships
Option #1: Compare and Contrast Two Countries Using Hofstede’s Six Dimensions
Follow the steps below to write a compare and contrast paper on Hofstede’s six dimensions:
- Review the information provided on Hofstede’s Six Dimensions of Culture in this week’s lecture.
- Choose two countries to compare using Hofstede’s Six Dimensions of Culture.
- To compare the countries, access the Country Comparison section of The Hofstede Center website. Select one country in the dropdown menu to see that country’s values for the six dimensions. After you have selected that country, you can then select a second country to see a comparison of their scores.
- Consider how the cultural differences between these two countries impact work relationships.
Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length. Use the compare and contrast essay guidelines presented in this week’s lecture. Be sure to conform to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. Include at least two additional references in addition to those in your required readings. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.
Provide clear grounds for identifying the relationships or social interactions as implementations of the specific relational model(s) that you believe to be involved
You and a Zande friend are walking along and suddenly a tree branch falls, injuring you both. You consider going to a doctor and then suing for damages, while your friend considers going to a bone-setter and then consulting an oracle to find out who is the witch responsible for the misfortune. Compare and contrast your respective responses to this misfortune. Which one of the relational models (i.e. Communal sharing; Authority Ranking; Equality Matching; and Market Pricing) better represents your response to the misfortune? Which one that of your Azande friend? Draw explicitly and clearly on readings and lectures to conceptualize your answer.
(It could be more than one relational model for each case)
Provide clear grounds for identifying the relationships or social interactions as implementations of the specific relational model(s) that you believe to be involved. That is, rather than just saying, X is, for example, authority ranking, you must show that it is, imagining that you have to persuade a moderately skeptical reader. Your essay should demonstrate how relational models theory helps in illuminating yours and an Azande life and beliefs.
Audience: Write this paper as if you were explaining it to a peer in this class. They are relatively aware of the theoretical ideas, but you should explain the concepts briefly, and persuasively demonstrate how they illuminate the phenomenon.
Purpose: Our aim in giving you this assignment is for you to learn how to carefully and rigorously apply a theory to understand some aspect of human life.
Citation: Please cite all your sources.
E.g. (Evans-Pritchard 1976, pg.); (Fiske, Lecture, date)
Give your essay an appropriate, meaningful title, and put your name, TA’s name, and section letter in the heading. Your essay should be at round two pages, but you may write up to a maximum of 3 pages. It should be double-spaced, paginated, pages stapled together, with your name on each page. Use Times New Roman, 12pt. font, 1-inch margins all around. Make sure you have proofread the paper at least twice.
How does Cooley’s three-part theory of the looking-glass self connect to the development of culture or socialization?
Instructions
- You are going to expand your ideas for an ideal society to include culture and socialization. Your paper will cover three sections: key components, theory, and the people.Project Sections (Be sure to address the following questions in each section.)
Key Components:- What is culture? How do values, norms, and beliefs apply?
- What is socialization?
- Theory:
- How does Cooley’s three-part theory of the looking-glass self connect to the development of culture or socialization?
- How does Mead’s theory of the formation of self connect to the development of culture or socialization?
- There are three basic theories within sociology: functionalism, conflict, and symbolic interactionism. How can these connect to the development of culture or socialization?
- People:
- How do people learn about their culture?
- How do ethnocentrism and cultural relativism impact how people view cultures? How might these impact the development of an ideal society?
- How do people develop their sense of self? How do genetic components and social interactions impact development of people?
- How does culture affect human interaction? How do people change culture?
- What types of subcultures and countercultures appear within an ideal society? How can these relate to the dominant culture?
- The paper should be at least 3 pages (the title page and reference page do not count as part of the page requirement). The content should include information addressing the main questions, and a well-argued introduction and conclusion.
- Please include proper formatting throughout the paper. Use APA Style to format the title page, reference page, and citations. Use third-person language, double-spacing, a 12-point font, and one-inch margins. See the Writing Guide for writing help.
You have been asked to join the Board of a large corporation. What are some of the first questions that you should ask, what are the answers that you are seeking?
Business Ethics
- You have been asked to join the Board of a large corporation. What are some of the first questions that you should ask, what are the answers that you are seeking? (At least 200 word)
Political Science
"Victoria's Secret Boss Bets on a Radical Idea: Smartphones Will Fade", Sadfar, Feb. 5: "Hackers and a Shrinking Talent Pool Top CEO Concerns for 2018", Lublin and Furhmans, Jan 3
“Victoria’s Secret Boss Bets on a Radical Idea: Smartphones Will Fade”, Sadfar, Feb. 5
- Who is Leslie Wexner? How much experience does he have? How seriously do you take his expertise?
- What is his vision for Victoria’s Secret? Where is he investing and why? Where is he not investing and why?
“Hackers and a Shrinking Talent Pool Top CEO Concerns for 2018”, Lublin and Furhmans, Jan 3
- What are the top concerns for leaders in 2018?
- Why are companies experiencing high turnover of leadership? How do you think this turnover impacts employees?
- Find any current business article and summarize in 8 sentences or more. Remember to cite source, author, date and title of article.
Variances typically result in schedule delays and increase in costs. Variance may also be associated to project risks. Support with examples the importance of identifying variances as they relate to risks. What are some common variances and risks that may occur in the implementation of health IT projects? Provide examples.
Variances and Risk Methods
Variances typically result in schedule delays and increase in costs. Variance may also be associated to project risks. Support with examples the importance of identifying variances as they relate to risks. What are some common variances and risks that may occur in the implementation of health IT projects? Provide examples.
Also discuss the relationship some common analysis methods, such as qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
Business Improvement Project: Business Case Study-Case studies provide an opportunity to bring real world practices into the classroom and boardroom for further study. You have had the opportunity to analyze and scrutinize a variety of case studies in this course, as well as others over your BBA studies, and you now have the opportunity to develop your own case study related to a change initiative at an organization :Walmart Canada.
FOLLOW All the instruction and components . NO PLAGIARISM. Used each of the components of the case study format.
Objectives:
Build upon analytical and development skills when preparing a case study Identify change initiatives to incorporate into the case study
Description:
Case studies provide an opportunity to bring real world practices into the classroom and boardroom for further study. You have had the opportunity to analyze and scrutinize a variety of case studies in this course, as well as others over your BBA studies, and you now have the opportunity to develop your own case study related to a change initiative at an organization :Walmart Canada.
Resources:
Utilize this resource in order to gather information about the development of a case study:
Monash University Library (2007) “How to Write a Case Study,” Retrieved January 22, 2014 from http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/quickrefs/27-case-study.pdf
Instructions:
Prepare a business case study outlining a change initiative in an organization, using the information below as a guide.
- Maximum length: 15 double-spaced pages.
- Follow APA standards for style, citations, and references (a minimum of 8 academic sources).
- Your case study report should have the following components in this order:
- Cover Page
- Executive Summary (Focus on key points/findings – often written last).
- Background Information (A brief history of the organization and a current situation analysis outlining where the organization currently finds itself).
- Identified the Need for Change in the Organization.
- Identified the process used to facilitate change in the organization.
- Results.
- Conclusions (Should include where the organization might go from here, and/or how the sustainability of the change can be ensured).
- References.
- Appendices (Any charts, financials, visuals, or other related items can be placed here and referenced in the report).