Category: Business and Management

Please chose only one question from the two below. please answer the question direct without too much of an introduction or conclusion. The main focus should be to answer the questions.

Discussion Question 1:

Spending by the consumer sector is the driving force in the US economic system. Although the business and government sectors make a considerable contribution to the success of the economy, it is the spending by the consumer or household sector of the economy that determines prosperity or recession in the economy.

Do you agree or disagree with this argument?
Why or why not?
How has the spending behavior of the government sector changed over the past decade, and what effect had these changes had on the economy?
Justify your answers
Discussion Question 2:

Decision making in a business environment requires an understanding of cost and revenue data. This includes an understanding of marginal and incremental analysis, as well as basic cost and revenue relationships. Explain how a basic understanding of these concepts, as well as of managerial economics, can enhance the managerial decision-making process. Justify your answer.

(1) Email-essay scenario: Impressed with your work from last week, your boss has tasked you with leading the data science team effort for this project. Your first task is to make a plan for data gathering and collection. Your boss wants you to determine what data is necessary to answer the business questions and achieve the project’s objective. Your boss has asked you to send a proposed plan as an email, for the *first 2 weeks* of data collection, including:

What datasets will be needed
Why these datasets? How does the information that they contain inform the decision or answer business questions?
Which datasets exist internally?
If any datasets don’t already exist, specify how they will be collected.
Suggestions

If the data collection you’re imagining for the project would take more than 2 weeks, restrict the email to what can be done in two weeks
Use your knowledge of the cases / how businesses work to imagine what likely exists already internally at Salesforce and Netflix. This week’s video “Delivering High Quality Analytics at Netflix” will give you a sense of what sorts of data exists at Netflix, and help you imagine what data may exist at Salesforce.
Specify the data that will be collected and not necessarily what will be calculated from it. For example, for Salesforce, don’t specify that the dataset is ratios of men-to-women, specify you want the HR dataset that contains all employee IDs/names and their gender.
Requirements:

Minimum 300 words
Minimum 1 reference and with in line citations as appropriate
Reference list

   
The Chi-squared test has been used earlier to test a hypothesis about a population variance. It is also a hypothesis testing procedure for when one or more variables in the research are categorical (nominal). During this week, we are covering the following two such Chi-squared tests:

`Chi-squared Goodness of Fit Test
`Chi-squared Test for Independency
1. Describe an example of a research question where a Chi-squared test has been used. Mention the two hypotheses of the problem and display a numerical demonstration of your example. In particular, interpret the test P value in the context of your research example.
2. Describe why the Chi-squared tests of the types mentioned above are always right-tailed hypothesis testing problems.

Identify the laws of employment practices that managers follow.

Introduction: In your Reading in Chapters 1, 3, and 15, you examined some of the laws impacting the human resources function. In this Assessment, you will read a scenario and identify the laws and actions to be addressed by this hospital in order to be in legal compliance.

Scenario: Wings Hospital has had a busy week. Two issues have arisen: (1) an employee was dismissed just prior to unionization, and (2) a veteran was interviewed but not hired for a position and is alleging discrimination and harassment.

The hospital has just been unionized, and an employee was dismissed who was a designated union representative. The employer said she was found chatting with other employees on social media about the union during the lunch break on company computers 24 hours before the union was voted in, and the former employee filed a charge with the regional labor relations office.

In addition, the companys CEO has received a charge of discrimination and harassment regarding a female veteran who was interviewed but not hired for an insurance coordinator position. The veteran claims the interviewer was making unseemly gestures towards her during the interview.

You can consult both your assigned chapter reading and the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) website to address the checklist items below:

Checklist:

Identify the labor relations law(s) pertaining to the two dismissed employees.
State the potential steps that will be taken by the NLRB regarding the charges filed by the former employee.
Identify the EEOC laws related to the alleged discrimination and harassment charges brought by the veteran who was interviewed but not hired.
State remedies or actions needed to be taken by the HR Department/Wings Hospital to comply with the EEOC and labor relations laws that applied to this scenario.
Access the MT203M1 Competency Assessment rubric. 

Write your original response in a minimum of a 2-page paper (i.e., 500 words) with additional title and reference pages in APA format and citation style, addressing the checklist items.

For additional help with APA, see Academic Writer in the Academic Tools area.

Minimum Submission Requirements

  This Assessment should be submitted in a Microsoft Word (minimum 500 words) document with additional title and reference pages and the paper should follow APA format and citation style.

  Respond to all of the checklist items in a thorough manner.

Read the attachment and thoroughly answer the following questions:

Carter Racing Preparation

1. Do you plan to race or not race?
2. What are the pros in support of racing? (Be specific.)
3. What are the cons associated with racing? (Be specific.)
4. How did you weight the pros and cons you identified?  In short, how did you approach determining whether or not to race? 

Explain how financial managers use financial calculators, Microsoft Excel, and financial statements to measure the financial performance of a business entity.

PC-1.1: Engage in a team setting with professional integrity and respect.

Understanding the classification and definitions of financial statement accounts is a fundamental requirement in assessing business management. Assessment of financial data provides the quantitative measures allowing managers to use past and present data to make effective decisions.

Directions

In Part 1 of this Assessment, you will define and classify accounts into an Income Statement or Balance Sheet. In Parts 2 and 3 you will assume the role of a financial manager who has been tasked to report to senior management in an upcoming finance meeting. Senior management is particularly interested in learning the performance of the company in two particular areas. The first focus of your discussion with management, Part 2 of this Assessment, relates to the markup on Cost of Goods Sold (COGS). The second focus of your discussion with management, Part 3 of this Assessment, relates to capital structure.

Part 1

To properly measure financial statements managers must know account definitions and classifications. Using the accounts below, define each and classify each as an Income Statement or Balance Sheet account.

1. Cash
2. Notes payable/Short term debt
3. Inventory
4. Property, plant, and equipment
5. Long term note-debt
6. Stockholders equity
7. Interest and taxes
8. Sales
9. Cost of Goods Sold
10. Selling and general administrative expenses
11. Gross profit
12. Earnings before interest and taxes
13. Net income
14. Accounts receivable
15. Accounts payable

Before you move on to Part 2 and Part 3 below, you must first complete the following Excel Spreadsheet. You must complete the Income Statement tab and the Balance Sheet tab. Then, answer the following questions in Part 2 and Part 3 below.

Part 2

After completing the Income Statement, you should be able to measure a companys COGS and its effect on the Gross Profit Margin (GPM). Based on your assessment of the firms Income Statement, you are to report to senior management on these key components:

a. What is the markup on COGS?

b. Compare this companys markup to a COGS Industry Standard of 70%. What is the result?

c. Explain how the difference in this companys markup and industry markup rates affect profitability, or levels of the GPM?

Part 3

After completing the Balance Sheet in the Excel Spreadsheet hyperlinked above, you should be able to measure a companys capital structure. Based on your assessment of the firm’s Balance Sheet, you are to report to senior management on these key components:

a. What is the nature of this company’s capital structure? Include percentages in your commentary?

b. Compare this capitalization structure percent to an industry standard of 50%. What is the result?

c. To what extent is this company ‘leveraged’?

Minimum Submission Requirements

This Assessment should be in a separate Microsoft Word document. Use this template for your Assessment.

Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your paper should be highly organized, logical, and focused.

Your paper must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, grammar, and mechanics.

Your paper should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.

Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.

A separate page at the end of your paper should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and/or the internet for research.

Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations were appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. Review the APA formatting and citation style resources found in the Writing Center. The Writing Center can be found in the Academic Success Center in the Academic Tools area of your course. (It should be in Times New Roman 12-point font, include correct citations, Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors, and correct references at the bottom of the last page.)

If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.

Read the attachment and answer the following questions thoroughly.

Why Should My Conscience Bother Me Discussion Preparation

1. Who is principally to blame for the unethical behavior? (Select two individuals that are most responsible for the brake situation that developed at Goodrich.)

2. Which ONE of the pitfalls or risks identified by Bazerman and Tenbrunsel best accounts for Lawsons and each of his coworkers decisions and actions (or lack thereof)? Briefly justify your selection.

3. What could Lawson have done differently to prevent the production of a flawed brake?  Be specific.

4. Have you ever contemplated “blowing the whistle”–either internally to someone within the organization or externally to someone outside the organization–in response to a situation at work (or elsewhere)?
    -List the factors and/or considerations that ultimately influenced your decision to engage in whistle blowing (or not), or would influence your decision did you ever find yourself confronted with such a situation.
    -Briefly explain how these factors and/or considerations did (or would) influence your ultimate decision whether or not to engage in some kind of formal whistle blowing activity.

5. Reflecting on your own experience and what you have learned from the readings, what can management do to promote ethical behavior?

    Writing Style: First person (you are writing this marketing plan as though you will be presenting it to management in the organization)
    Font: Calibri, Arial, or Times New Roman; 12-point font size
    Margins: 1 inch left/right and top/bottom margins
    Spacing
    Single space the body of the report
    Double Space (1 blank) between paragraphs
    Triple Space (2 blank) between major headings and the first line of a new section
    Headings
    Major Headings: Bolded, underlined 14pt type and left justified
    Secondary Headings: Bolded, underlined 12 pt type and left justified
    A minimum of three lines of copy at the bottom and top of pages
    Pagination
    Upper or lower right hand corner or center bottom, including landscaped pages
    Include page numbers of all appendices pages
    APA style citations

Complete the following for this assignment:

Read CASE 2-5 in Chapter 2 of your text.
Read CASE 3-4 in Chapter 3 of your text.
Read CASE 6-7 in Chapter 6 of your text.
Read CASE 7-2 in Chapter 7 of your text (You may want to also look at CASE 3-1 in Chapter 3).
Read CASE 9-3 in Chapter 9 of your text.
Prepare a case brief for each case.
Refer to this Web page http://www.4lawschool.com/howto.htm  when preparing your case brief.

Include 57 academic, peer-reviewed references that are relevant to and support the deliverable.

Reference

4 Law School. (n.d.). How to brief a case. Retrieved from http://www.4lawschool.com/howto.htm

Influence Processes

You have been encouraged by a colleague to write an article about “CEOs and presidents” for a management journal. You have decided to compare the leadership styles of three leaders. Using the Library, the Internet, and your course materials, write a 7-10 page report that elaborates on the following:

In your article, provide the following:

An introduction to the concept of influence processes
An explanation of the role of influence in contemporary leadership
A discussion of the various types of influence processes and the factors that can affect them
The methodology used to identify and research the leaders selected for this report
An analysis of the influence processes used by the three leaders. Identify the processes that the leaders and top management team are using or have used to impact their organization.
A discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the influence processes used by the three leaders relative to current and future challenges facing leaders in global organizations.
A summary of the key attributes of the influence processes employed by these leaders to effect positive organizational change or improved performance.
Use the Library or other Web resources to support your argument. Be sure to cite your sources using APA Style 6th edition guidelines.

Your report MUST include a reference list. All research should be cited in the body of the paper. Individual Projects without references and citations may not earn any higher grade than a ‘C’ letter grade. Your report should contain an abstract, an introduction, and conclusion in addition to the body of the paper. Please note that if you have a source in your reference section, you need to cite it in the body of the paper per APA guidelines and vice-versa.7