discussion 2 is lacking. I’ll upload it as soon as posible.
please finish “discussion 3” in 34 hrs. (discussion 3 and 4 are powerpoint)
comments on their post.
Do you agree with their ideas.
How do you like it.
what parts they did good or not good.
150 words for each of them.
You will continue to use one of the following company duos for this assignment:
Option 1. Amazon and Zappos
Option 2. CVS and Walgreens
SLP Assignment
Review the background material, including the video about Tuckmans steps for group formation. Begin the assignment by reading the Stretch (2016) reference as well as chapters 9 and 10 in the Organization Behavior textbook found below and on the Background page of this Module.
The focus of this assignment is on group (or team) formation to improve team performance and resolve group conflict. The easiest way to learn about this is to put a group or team togetherbut you must first decide if you need a group or a team.
MindToolsVideos. (2018, September 19). How to use SWOT analysis [Viedo file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/embed/EJ4uVsSqQ9k Standard YouTube License.
Research your selected company duo. Select the one company in that duo that you want to conduct a quick SWOT analysis on (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats). Select one of the identified Weaknesses to develop a group or team that will conduct an investigation into a possible solution for the weakness.
Your 2-page essay will cover the following topics:
Did you select to form a group or a team? (Explain the difference between them)
What weakness did you select to research and why did you select it?
What steps will you take to develop the right team to turn this weakness into a strength?
What will you do if there are conflicts in the group?
The essay assignment calls for a paper that is 2 pages, not counting the cover and reference page.
Organizational behavior. (2017). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Edition. Chapter 9 & 10. Retrieved from http://open.lib.umn.edu/organizationalbehavior/. CC BY-NC-SA License.
Require reading below:
Review this video on the stages of team development:
Alanis Business Academy. (2014, March 10). Tuckmans stages of team development [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhSI6oBQmQA. Standard YouTube License. Permission to use video received 8/12/19 from Alanis Business Academy.
Required Reading
Organizational behavior. (2017). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Edition. Retrieved from http://open.lib.umn.edu/organizationalbehavior/. CC BY-NC-SA License.
Read the following sections in Chapter 9:
Section 9.2 Group Dynamics
Section 9.3 Understanding Team Design Characteristics
Section 9.4 Management of Teams
Section 9.5 Barriers to Effective Teams
Read the following sections in Chapter 10:
Section 10.2 Understanding Conflict
Section 10.3 Causes and Outcomes of Conflict
Section 10.4 Conflict Management
Read the following section in Chapter 11:
Section 11.4 Decision Making in Groups
Stretch, R. (2016, June 23). How to use personality tests to build a productive team. Zapier. Retrieved from https://zapier.com/blog/personality-tests/
It is a revise work: Take look at the excel doc, and also what I have right now in the word doc, revise the yellow part of the writing (only purchasing and inventory). Keep it around 500 words. Base on the introductions that my teammates write, revise my work and make it good and fits the excel doc. Please add 2 charts in my part of writing (important)!
Should refer to a company or a country case studies. In case of a company, information should be available in public sources.
Justify the choice of solution, among all justify the most important way.
Apply leadership theories in the essay
More materials and information will be provided upon assignment
Paper Topic:
Each student is required to write a paper 5 7 pages long of text pertaining to a topic that encompasses both law and business. Students are required to select topics from the list below.
Topics: trademarks, copyrights, corporations, patents, sole-proprietorships, partnerships
Paper Format:
The paper should be formatted with a title page (with name of paper, student name, and date), introduction, 5 – 7 pages of text (required), conclusion, and reference page. The papers should be double-spaced with one-inch (top, side, and bottom) margins, written in APA Format and contain at least five (5) references. The students may add addition information as it fits the paper. This additional information may include items such as exhibits with charts and graphs. The students may number the pages at the bottom right corner.
Percentage of Grade:
The paper will be worth 20% of each students grade.
Point Distribution of Paper Grade:
Title Page: 5 points
Table of Contents: 5 points
Introduction: 15 points
Text: 50 points
Conclusion: 10 points
Reference Page: 15 points
Review the attached essay and please comment on the following and be as specific as possible. Play “devil’s advocate” if that helps you point places for possible improvement.
– Thesis: Clear, compelling, unexpected, “right-sized” (good fit with analysis)?
– Analysis: Clear organizing contrast and sub-categories? Specific textual evidence?
– Organization: Easy to follow? Clear organizational pattern and topic sentences?
– Conclusion: Clear wrap-up and take-away? Justification for why it matters or connects with a larger research questions?
Showed needed! Must know how to do the calculations for MBA accounting Finance and investments. I have attached an example of a previous paper done. DO NOT plagiarizer it. Please follow the rubric completely, and use references from data bases that are legitimate and trusted.
The Allied Group is considering two investments. The first investment involves a packaging machine, which can be used to package garments for shipping orders to customers. The second possible investment would be a molding machine that would be used to mold the mannequin parts.
The first possible investment is the packaging machine, which will cost $14,000. The second investment, the molding machine, would cost $12,000. The expected cash flows for the two projects are given below and the cost of capital to the firm is 15%. Both machines will be unusable after five years and have no salvage value.
The net cash flows for the two possible projects are given in the following table:
Year Packaging Machine Molding Machine
0 ($14000) ($12,000)
1 4100 3200
2 3300 2800
3 2900 2800
4 2200 2200
5 1200 2200
Address all of the following questions in a brief but thorough manner.
What is each project’s payback period? Provide a detailed explanation of how you calculated the payback period for each.
What is the NPV for each project? Provide a detailed explanation of how you calculated the payback period for each.
What is the IRR for each project? Provide a detailed explanation of how you calculated the internal rate of return (IRR) for each.
If both of the projects can be selected, then should both be selected? Why or why not? Explain why or why not.If the two projects are mutually exclusive, which project, if any, should be selected? Explain why.
Professional paper
Reference with citation
200 – 250 world only
Please reply to the below:
When Professor Lynch advised that global must be made and delivered local (Lynch, 2010) he meant that the consumer market, trends, wants and expectations should be considered and catered to when providing services. Ensuring customers receive products that suit their taste profiles and culture.
Using McDonalds advertising as an example; some countries do not eat beef for cultural and religious reasons. Therefore, if McDonalds were to continue marketing and pushing beef products as the pinnacle of their campaigns, and not make alternative products the priority then there would be a high volume of wastage, and customers would go to alternative fast-food providers to get the product they do want.
McDonalds has CEOs in each country to lead and drive the business forward. The CEO is expected to have local knowledge which they can use alongside the global marketing strategy to build their local marketing approach in line with organisational policy. This is not easy, as explained by the UK CEO, as it is difficult to find a balance between offering new products and services while maintaining a consistent experience (Fleming, 2020).
I work in the automotive industry for a global company. This provides me with access to the different bid approaches used in each country and to the complete global strategy. Our clients have factories in each country, building local and using local resources to provide parts for their cars. Do you think this approach of using local resources is what consumers want?
Do you think it is important to maintain global standards, global consistency but provide a local feel for MNEs to be successful? Is having a local approach to the global marketing strategy a route that works for McDonalds or does the use of local marketing cause issues in consistency?
Professional paper
Reference with citation
200-250 words only
Please reply to the below:
The term global must be made and delivered local by Professor Lynch refers to the organisation adapting their business operations towards their target market. Organisations may be influenced to adapt products or services due to external factors such as governmental and economical or internal factors.
Within the food industry, adapting products to suit consumer tastes enhances an organisations attractiveness in new countries. With McDonalds expanding from an American organisation to worldwide, the products they served in the US are not always well received in other countries. This could be to cultural tastes and products used such as type of meat. To therefore leverage their influence in a new region, McDonalds had to adapt its products.
Hollsensen details that using the ERPG framework, there are four strategic orientations an organisation can use when diversifying in to newer markets;
Ethnocentric: the home country is superior and the needs of the home country are most relevant
Polycentric: each country is unique and should therefore be targeted in a different way
Regiocentric: the world consists of regions
Geocentric: the world is getting smaller and smaller. (Hollsensen, 2016: 20).
By using these four orientations, organisations such as McDonalds are able to design competitive marketing strategies.
Regiocentric is the approach that McDonalds have taken by tailoring their approach to the products they provide. Upadhyay confirms that through globalization and internationalization, McDonalds was able to develop marketing strategies, while at the same time customizing them for different regions in accordance to the cultural and national variations in order to serve specific target markets (Upadhyay, 2015)
Do you agree with the above categorisation?
Students will read the following set of articles, then choose an industry of personal interest and discuss how the concept of social media and collaboration impact that industry during the pandemic, where remote work becomes the norm.
Kirby, Sarah. 5 Ways COVID-19 has changed workforce management. World Economic Forum, June 2, 2020. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/covid-homeworking-symptom-of-changing-face-of-workforce-management/
Shaw, John. Without An Office, What Defines a Workplace? World Economic Forum Job Reset Summit. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/covid19-coronavirus-employment-workforce-office/
Aliosi, Silvia. Unsuited to the New Normal? Formal Fashion Hangs By a Thread. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-formal-fashion-industry-supply/
After reading the articles, incorporate them into a bibliography, then read four other articles related to the industry of your choice. Discuss how the pandemic is impacting business, and how management has created new ways for employees to continue working, despite being barred from attending the workplace.
