Day: October 26, 2020

Answer the following questions:

1. Think of an Ethical situation you have faced and compare what happened to the Process for Ethical Decision-Making to what extent did it meet the suggested process steps? Include a ‘Stakeholder analysis’ of the situation and upload it. This analysis should be a ‘backward’ look at the situation and how it could have been (better) solved.

2. With a total number of 23 students in our class of Quantitative Business Methods, during the first class the following ages were given by the participants. I would like to ask you to calculate and answer the following estimations for the whole class using the following sample of ages from the first webinar:

Sample (41, 27, 40, 43, 34, 28, 32, 26, 40, 47, 44 42, 45)

–  Calculate the mean, the mode and the median for our class?

–    Calculate the standard deviation for this class?

–  Mention your age and answer if you are considered relatively older, relatively younger or you have a normal age for this group?

3. comment if you agree or disagree with these answers:

1.

Mean: 37.62

Median: 40

Mode: 40

2) 7,29

3) My age: 28 and I am relatively younger because I am under the avarage/median age for this Group.

Essay Assignment: Chapter 2 Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis
Chapter 2 is one of the longest and most dense chapters in our textbook. The concepts that are introduced assist us in making financial decision based on a company’s financial statements and reports. As you are likely aware, there is a very close relationship between finance and accounting, and in order to understand finance, it is critically important to comprehend basic accounting terminology and procedures. Please write a 1 page essay, double spaced, no less than 450 words, explaining the close relationship between accounting and finance. This essay should use accounting terminology, new terms we learn in Chapter 2, as well as examples of the importance of understanding accounting in a finance setting.

Part 1

Discuss what a marketing plan is and describe the different components of the marketing plan in your own words (see figure 16.2 in the text). Also explain how the marketing plan is helpful to the organization. You do not have to put together a marketing plan for this assignment

Part2

Identify the elements/components such as the SWOT, goals/objectives, etc. and translate/apply them into how they would be carried out into the execution of a marketing strategy.

For instance (note that these examples may not be used in your assignment):

In a SWOT analysis you determined that one of the strengths of a company was that weekly team meetings were held where ideas are exchanged and commendations are awarded to team members who have met or exceeded goals or expectations for the week. How can we translate or incorporate that Strength into a marketing strategy?

Since the ideas being exchanged in the weekly meeting are to foster growth and innovation, camaraderie, excitement, and motivation, they can also be used to generate new ideas for promotion. This weekly team meeting can be leveraged to spur perhaps a name of a new product that company X has been trying to launch for considerable amount of time but just haven’t thought of the right one.

A real world example, Lays Potato Chips reached out to the general public using their social media strength to ask them to come up with a new flavor of potato chip. This combined the strengths the company had with the need to execute a new marketing strategy. Through this process, a consumer won $1mm for coming up with a new potato chip flavor, and Lay’s of course won tons of new customers and multiple millions in sales of new product.

Instructions

Team Project (Team Grade): 30%

Please Note: Please Note: This Power Point is to be posted in the Forum no later than Tuesday, April 28th 11:55pm.  This is so your peers can review and respond and/or ask questions.  The Written Paper is due Saturday, Friday, May 8 at 11:55pm.  Please Note that only one person per group needs to post it to the forum as well as submit both, the power point and written papers for grading via the assignment link. 

Each team will come up with and select a different case of an organization confronting managing complex change. The team will be responsible for devising a comprehensive change plan, informed by everything they have learned regarding the formulation and execution of successful complex change initiatives.  If you need help with coming up with an organization, please let the Instructor know.

Team Project Criteria

The criteria for evaluation of both the case work itself and the team process are as follows:

Quality of issue analysis (40% of project grade): Is the analysis insightful, comprehensive, and thoughtful, going beyond superficial descriptions and organizational symptoms to identify root cases that need addressing?
Quality of recommendations (35% of project grade): Are the recommendations and implementation process sound, well thought through, and appropriate to the problem, integrating the specifics of the case and organizational change “best practices?  Pay special attention to:
Comprehensiveness and thoughtfulness of change plan design
Anticipated effectiveness of the change strategy based on implementation plan completeness and plausibility
Attention to the management of conflicts and tradeoffs, and innovativeness.

It is important to emphasize that, as with any realworld change project, there is no single “correct” answer. Therefore, a broad range of solutions are expected and acceptable, provided they are supported by solid and well reasoned assessment of the presenting challenges, and a sound theoretical and practical rationale for the solutions proposed and their implementation.

Strategic context (15% of project grade):
Team mutual accountability (5% of project grade): Is each member “carrying their weight”, or are one or two members carrying the team?  Is the team holding itself accountable to driving an inclusive, collective performance?
Team intelligent risktaking and Innovation (5% of project grade): Is the teams thinking limited to its acquired learning from our materials, or is the team being creative in taking their thinking to a higher level?

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: our team has choose Google as our target firm and our project idea which is coming up with an organizational change plan to change the culture at Google. Google has been having issues with company culture in recent years, and the group wants to dissect the issue and come up with solutions.

There are seven parts in our group essay:

  #1 Introduction
  #2 Problem Definition
  #3 Key Facts
  #4 Need for Change
  #5 Solution Recommendations
  #6 Desired Outcome
  #7 Conclusions

I will be charge on #1 and #2. So you have to write 4-pages essay about introduction and problem definition please~

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this essay, thank you!