Category: Business and Management

Under group and company-wide incentive programs, do you believe it is possible for poor performers to benefit without making substantial contributions to group or company goals? What can companies do to ensure that poor performers do not benefit?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Identify and evaluate five reasons for budgetary reform in the area of defense spending in the United States. Explain and assess the likelihood of success and benefits for such efforts. what limitations might you face? Evaluate the sources of your information for Bias. What were your findings and how would you reduce instances of Bias Reporting.

Instructions
Part One

Create a chart to compare and contrast the major legislative influences on the labor relations process. Your chart must contain at least five major legislative acts and how they affect management and unions. Columns should include the law, coverage, major provisions, and federal agencies.

Part Two

Find a recent Supreme Court or U.S. Court of Appeals decision concerning a labor law issue. Summarize the case. Findlaw Legal Information Center is a good commercial site for researching case law. You can also use the CSU library, LexisNexis, or Westlaw, for example.

What legal principles does the court rely upon in determining the case decision?
Be sure to support your response with specific examples.
Use one resource from the CSU online library.
This homework assignment should be a minimum of two pages in length.

Facebook has had thousands of users complain about the lack of privacy and thousands of users have deleted their accounts on Facebook because of this issue. Facebook collects a massive amount of data from its user population and uses the data to sell advertising. Would this collection of data benefit you or Facebook? How or how not? Identify one other organization that collects your user data and discuss what they do with the information. Do you agree with how they handle the data? Why or why not? Yahoo collects a lot of personal information. They also have some privacy issues.

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Imagine you are working with a partner to plan and host a workshop on leadership. There will be 100 people attending. Within this assignment you will be creating a document that discusses the main components of leadership and corporate culture.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

Address a key leadership trait that can assist in managing conflict.
Discuss a tool or strategy a leader can adopt for improving communication within the organization.
Describe some methods for motivating employees and improving behaviors within the workplace.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Describe the primary functions of management (planning, organizing, leading, controlling) and the associated skills, tools, and theoretical approaches that can be used to accomplish these functions.
Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation, and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and motivating individual and group behavior.
Describe actions to improve communications, manage conflict, develop strong organizational culture, and improve the ethical behavior in organizations.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts.
Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics.

In lieu of a written and final examination, the final examination will be in the form of a final PowerPoint project.  Each student should identify a minimum of ten salient topics learn throughout the MGT/214 Securities and Investments course.  Each of these topics should be described, along with an example of how this newfound learning will be used in the students own financial plans.

The 7-10 slide presentation, should include SPEAKER NOTES (aka Presenter Notes), and be supported through academic evidence and example (i.e., references).  It is also suggested the PowerPoint presentation contain a standalone cover slide, an agenda slide, the 5-7 content slides with speaker notes), a standalone summary slide, and a reference slide.

Franchise Business Final Report

So you have done the Research proposal (3 pages) and the Literature Review (about 12 pages) for me and now is the Final report (around 8 pages) so it will be about 20-25 pages in total. I had upload them below which you can do the final report refer to that. And also I upload one of the example that you did for the final report (The last file).

The Final report must focus on a specific research question. (You did two research questions at the end of the literature review but is too broad, need a specific one which i can discuss with you later)

Here are some ideas from the tutor:
1. Compare different Franchise (successful / unsuccessful) business
2. Characteristics of : successful / unsuccessful franchise business in Australia
3. Ethics increasing problem / Things improved
4. Franchise agreement: lead to Franchise satisfaction / dissatisfaction
5. When franchise work, when not. Learn from failure
5. Consumer behavior, specific organisation, industry
Case study: detailed, base on existing study

Proquest:
1. Analysis of Franchise Performance through use of a Typology: An Australian Investigation
2. Making Franchising Work: A Framework Based on a systematic Review

First part: Board discussion
Second part: Focus on major study
Research, Design, Recommend

BACKGROUND

Please visit https://www.starbucks.com to learn more about the Starbucks brand.
Pretend that Starbucks has contacted you, an aspiring marketing researcher, to oversee their global marketing research efforts. The marketing research will be used by Starbucks to develop a strategic marketing plan for the Starbucks brand for the year 2025. Therefore, they need good data and useful information for making informed decisions about the future of the brand. The next five years are crucial for the Starbucks brand as competitors emerge. Starbucks challenge is to retain current customers, attract new ones, enhance Starbucks services, develop a signature experiential aspect to Starbucks, and extend the brand into new areas. Overall, their goal is to continue to build the brand equity of Starbucks. However, as noted, they need to conduct extensive marketing research before making key strategic marketing decisions.
INSTRUCTIONS

In your analysis, please address the following:

1.In your opinion, what is Starbucks marketing strategy in 2025? More specifically, please discuss you opinion on the following as they strategize towards 2025: 1) product strategy, 2) pricing strategy, 3) communication strategy, and 4) distribution strategy.

2.Pretend that you developed a 15-20 item survey instrument that can be used to potentially assess how they should move forward with their: 1) products, 2) pricing, 3) communication, and 4) distribution. What method of administration do you recommend, and why?

3.Describe the sampling technique you recommend for Question #2. Also, discuss why you selected this technique.

Compared to domestic firms, MNCs are more exposed to risks and uncertainty in overseas markets. Please discuss how the risks and uncertainty MNCs confront shapes MNCs strategy. For example, under uncertain condition, how firms choose their entry mode and investment size. Please relate your argument to relevant theoretical perspectives and provide empirical evidence.

NB
It is crucial that the assignments are based on a wide-ranging reading of the relevant literature, and most importantly evidence of critical reflection on the key issues. Assignments that simply have evaluations using standard textbook based analytic tools will receive a low mark. It is essential that thought and critical reflection on the literature is used to answer the questions. 

Format of assignment 
    The assignment should have the following format.
    The assignments should follow the standard format for writing academic papers and have
an abstract that summarises the content of the paper see examples of abstract in any published academic paper. The abstract is included in word counts.
    An introduction that sets out topics to be discussed in the assignment and a short summary of the main sections in the assignment NB an introduction is not the same thing as an abstract see examples of introduction in any published academic paper.
    The assignment should follow the structure summarised in the introduction and should have headings for each of the main sections of the assignment NB do not have a large number of headings.
    The conclusion should provide a short summary of the major answers that you have provided in the assignment see examples of conclusions in any published academic paper   
    A reference list this should not be a bibliography all the references in the main body of the assignment should be in the reference list and all the references in the reference list should be referred to in the main body of the assignment.
    Any appendices used in the assignment should be at the end of the assignment and  clearly labelled
    The assignments should be double spaced with a font size of 12.

   

Referencing
There is often confusion between references and bibliographies. NB There should be no bibliography in the assignment.

A bibliography is simply a list of material consulted during the research process. References, on the other hand, relate to those texts that are expressly referred to within the text. For example:
Bloggs (2012) suggests that European managers are ill prepared for managing across cultures within the new European environment.
or
Managers are thought ill prepared for cross-cultural management within the new Europe (Bloggs, 2012).

This is how the reference should appear in the text of the assignment, and the full reference should appear in the reference list as –
Bloggs, J (2012) Cross cultural management in Europe, European Management Journal, 1(8), pp. 207-234.

It is crucial that you reference all sources used in the assignment. Every entry in the reference list must be cited in the text of the report.
It is essential that you place any material that you directly quote from published works in quotation marks and put in the page number where the quoted material appears. Quoted material from published work should be referenced as follows
The technological base in most host countries has often been found to be enhanced by direct foreign investment. (Smith, et al, 2010, p34).

Quoted material from Internet sites should be referenced as follows
The evidence from World Bank studies indicates that approximately two hundred million Chinese have been removed from $2 a day poverty in the period 1990 to 2004 (Jones, 2006, in www.iie.org/wp108 p45 – access on 12/02/2015).

Books and articles that have informed the arguments that you make in your report, but which you do not directly quote, should be referenced as follows
The growth of international trade has been found to increase income inequality in some developing countries (Smith and Smith, 2008; Jones and Jones, 2010) and to have adversely affected the growth of the incomes of unskilled workers in developed countries (Smith and Jones, 2007; Brown, et al, 2013). 

All tables, figures and diagrams that have been taken from published sources must be fully referenced. Any tables, figures and diagrams that have been taken from published sources (that you have modified) should be referenced with the words based on Smith, et al, 2004, p42.

It is important that your assignment is not mainly composed of quoted material from published sources. You should only use quoted material to illustrate the points that you make in your report. The report must be your work not mainly a series of quotes from published sources.

You should use the Harvard Referencing System.  This requires a citation (partial reference) within the text and a list of full references at the end of the assignment.
Harvard is an Author Date system.  So the citation shows the name of the author(s) followed by the year of publication, for example:
Blundel and Ippolito (2008) suggest that cultural diversity is a valuable feature of society.
Or
Cultural diversity can create barriers to effective communication (Blundel and Ippolito 2008).