Tag: Business Essay

ABC Company, Inc. has been in existence for 10 years. They have 50 employees, currently have one location, and they only manufacture one product: widgets. They have managed to stay in business by holding onto a small portion of the widget market, but they are far from the market leader. Over the last 5 years, their market share has stayed more or less stagnant. The president of the company is an older gentleman and mostly works from home. He makes decisions through meetings with his managers over the phone and is rarely seen at the company. Mid-level managers don’t have much contact with each other and basically focus exclusively on their individual departments. The rest of the staff members are very distrustful of management and there has recently been a lot of turnover.  Outside of interoffice griping, there is rarely any company wide communication. Recent economic developments and technological advances in the widget industry have resulted in a greater demand for widgets in emerging markets, as well as in the U.S. In order to stay competitive, ABC Company is considering expanding its operation globally. ABC has come to you, an expert on organizational change, for consulting advice. Evaluate ABC’s current OCC. What advice would you provide in order to better position ABC to successfully implement this change? Be as thorough and specific as possible, covering as many issues as you can.

The Chairwoman of Board of Directors has selected you to lead the effort to create an international internship program for your organization. You will be leading a cross-cultural virtual team, including the vice president (VP) of human resources and department heads from all areas of the organization from its locations throughout the United States. The team is responsible for developing a 3-month summer program for 50 international interns. The international interns will be selected from university programs in their home country, will travel to the organization’s U.S. locations, will live and work in the United States, and then may have the potential to be offered a permanent position with the organization.
Using the Bloomberg Businessweek B-school connection program, research global organizational culture and respond to the following questions:

• What best practices do you recommend for leading a virtual cross-cultural team? What is the difference between leading a U.S.-based virtual cross-cultural team and a global virtual cross-cultural team?
• What are the legal or regulatory factors that the team needs to consider for the interns to be employed in the United States?
• How will the organization onboard the interns and introduce them to U.S. culture? What types of activities can be hosted for the interns to celebrate their diversity?
• What are the benefits of the international internship program to the interns and to the organization?

Provide a reference list at the end of your primary task response of at least 5 articles from Bloomberg Businessweek B-school connection program, and include in-text citations for the articles in APA format.
 

topic :
  if a business drops its price will it always increase demand-and will it make profit
use   Apa referencing

 
Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
 
In this course, you will be creating a Supply Chain Management Improvement Proposal. Your proposal will include the following sections:
 
Click here to open and download a detailed description of the procurement improvement project plan for this course.
 
Each week, you will create one or more sections of your proposal. The final proposal will be 12–15 pages long, not including the Title page and Reference section. Because this proposal is written for academic purposes, you are required to follow APA guidelines in creating your proposal; do not use the traditional business writing approach. Use bullets only to support your narrative, not as a source of narrative.
 
Assignment Description
 
Identify an organization that operates domestically as well as globally that could benefit from an improvement in its supply chain process. This organization will be the subject of your project for this course. Discuss the following:
 

• Explain why you have chosen this company.
• What makes you think it needs improvement in its supply chain process?

 
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
 

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

Watch the short video on basic corporate structure and business entities. The video helps explain some of the legal nuances of a corporation and compares the corporation to other types of business entities discussed in the text. Understanding Corporate Structure (1:07) https://blackboard.strayer.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-61255151-dt-message-rid-108131344_4/institution/LEG/100/1158/Week7/Week%207%20Discussion%202.htmlhttp://www.investopedia.com/video/play/corporate-structure/ A friend has asked you to help her decide how to protect her soon-to-be-opened bakery from liability, while still maintaining a business structure that fits her needs. Compare and contrast two (2) different possible business entities that would be suitable for her and explain why. Be sure to support your response with legal reasoning.

Word limit: 1500 words
Formatting: 1.5 line spacing; 12 point font; Times New Roman or Arial
Task: Individual
TASK INFORMATION
You need to choose a business sector to focus on, and address how business
ethics is managed within that sector (e.g. Financial; Mining; Agriculture; Retail;
Service; Education; Tourism etc.).
The list of sections below provides the issues that you need to consider:
(1) Discuss major challenges, relating to business ethics, facing the
sector. You are expected to focus briefly on the following issues:
a. ethical issues facing the sector
b. sustainability focus of the sector
c. major stakeholders in the sector
(2) Explain what factors are driving the sector to manage the business
ethics more effectively.
(3) Elaborate how managing business ethics has helped the sector.
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Assignment 1 Template
Cover Page
Ensure a cover page is attached to the front of your report, showing unit
name, your name, date of submission, and your student ID number.
Abstract (approx. 100 words; not included in word count)
Type in a short abstract that briefly describes the purpose of the project,
and what the main findings are. (You may want to do the abstract once the
assignment is done.)
Introduction (approx. 150 words)
This section must cover two main things
(a) a brief introduction and background to the study
(b) the objectives of the study
For the introduction and background, you must provide a brief introduction
to the reader about the assignment, its relevance and importance etc.
Objectives: You need to clearly state the key objectives (2-3) of the
assignment.
Analysis of Sector (approx. 1200 words)
Address the 3 sections representing the issues that you need to consider.
Conclusion (approx. 150 words)
Write a short concluding comment which reminds the reader what the main
purpose of the research was, how you went about addressing the
objectives of the study, what data you used and the main findings were.
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Also write a short paragraph on the main limitations of the study…i.e. what
is/are the main weaknesses of the study which you would like to bring to the
attention of the readers.
References
Include a list of relevant references in alphabetical order, using Harvard
style.
Appendix (optional)
Additional Information
Submission of Report
Students are required to submit only an electronic copy of their report (in
MS Word) in the area provided on Cloud Deakin by 23h59 on the due date.
Supporting diagrams
Use tables and diagrams where appropriate. All tables and diagrams must
be numbered, labeled and briefly explained in the text of your paper e.g.
“Table 2 shows the GDP growth of the main economies ….”
Font
Use a 12 point font. (Times New Roman or Arial). The report should be 1.5
line spaced with an extra line space between each paragraph. Please use
page numbers and indicate at the end of your report the word count.
Word Count
The word limit is 1500 and will be strictly adhered to. A 10% penalty (from
the available marks) will apply for deviating from this word limit. The
following sections are NOT included in the word count:
Cover Page; Abstract; References; Appendices.

1. Briefly explain the ethical problem(s) in the case study. 2. Compare and contrast the utilitarian, libertarian, deontological, and virtue ethics prespective on the etchical problem(s) you have identified. 3. Identify, explain and justify an ethical perspective that you think would help provide a solution to the problem – you may want to use a combination of ethical perspectives. Please use : Use diagrams to illustrate your answer Do some additional research on the detail of the case Use atleast 4 journal articles to support your arguments You might want to combine two perspectives – but take care to make sure they are compatible. You must make some good arguments that are supported by the literature. This is the case study:https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/14/sea-to-plate-plastic-got-into-fish?CMP=new_1194&CMP;=