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This week 2 Discussions and assignment for 30

Overview

Activity	Due Date	Format	Grading Percent
Elements of a Contract	Day 3 (1st Post)	Discussion	3
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)	Day 3 (1st Post)	Discussion	3
Week Two Quiz	Day 6	Quiz	5
Critical Analysis Paper	Day 7	Assignment	10

For help with the Course Calendar, review the overview video in

Learning Outcomes

This week students will:

1. Describe the importance of the elements of a valid contract.
2. Apply the elements of a valid contract to a set of facts.
3. Evaluate remedies for breach of contract.
4. Assess the role the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) plays in contracts for the sale of goods.

Introduction

During Week 2, the course learning transitions from general principles of law to specific areas related to business law. Week 2 is focused on the elements of a contract. By the end of this week, students should be able to describe and apply the elements of a valid contract; and, evaluate remedies for breach of contract. Additionally, students should be able to assess the role the Uniform Commercial Code plays in contracts for the sale of goods. A two to three page Critical Analysis Paper is due on Day 7 to provide students the opportunity to implement the learned concepts by applying the elements of a contract and identifying available remedies for breach of contract to a contract the student has entered into or someone they know has entered into. Finally, a quiz will be due on Day 6 to reinforce the learning for this week.

 

Every product or service has a buying process, even digital products and services. In this assignment, you will research and analyze the buying process for an online product or service, with which you (as a consumer) are familiar, from a business point of view.

 

Begin by researching an online consumer product or service (such as an e-Book from the Kindle store or a movie from the iTunes store). Choose an online product or service with which you are familiar and have purchased in the past.

 

Next, write a report to evaluate its buying process from the marketer’s point of view using the five stages of the buying decision process.

 

Remember, the five stages are as follows:

 

1. Problem recognition
2. Search and determination of alternatives
3. Evaluation of alternatives
4. Purchase decision
5. Post-purchase evaluation

Note: Use the grading criteria for this assignment to guide your report. Be sure to include these details within your evaluation to support your ideas.

Write a 6–8-page report in Word format.

 

 

Assignment Component	Proficiency	Maximum Points
Content Knowledge: Understanding Communicates an understanding of how to identify the problem and describe differences between current and ideal state, what drives it, and how it can benefit the buyer.	Response incorporates analysis and synthesis of central concepts of the assigned topic. Response reflects understanding of the nature of the specific topic within the discipline and its applications in contemporary times. Response provides necessary details and specific examples.	40
Content Knowledge: Understanding Communicates an understanding of how to describe the product and explain the internal and external sources.	Response incorporates analysis and synthesis of central concepts of the assigned topic. Response reflects understanding of the nature of the specific topic within the discipline and its applications in contemporary times. Response provides necessary details and specific examples.	40
Content Knowledge: Understanding Communicates an understanding of how to evaluate the alternatives, defined in terms of consumer needs, product benefits, and/or attributes. Identifies selection criteria.	Response incorporates analysis and synthesis of central concepts of the assigned topic. Response reflects understanding of the nature of the specific topic within the discipline and its applications in contemporary times. Response provides necessary details and specific examples.	40
Content Knowledge: Application Component 1 Communicates the ability to define the purchase decision and identify the high-level factors that interrupt or deter a purchase.	Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge. Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples. Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real-world contexts. Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature.	40
Content Knowledge: Application Component 2 Communicates the ability to evaluate post-purchase evaluation.	Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge. Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples. Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real-world contexts. Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature.	20
Written Communication/ Personal Effectiveness Conveys through, written word understanding, and application of academic writing has proper grammar, spelling, and attribution.	Writing is concise and clear in content, language use, grammar, organization, and sentence structure. Writing is free of major grammatical and usage errors.

Barbara Maddock, the Director of Information Technology, stopped you on your way to lunch to inquire about ways to evaluate some training. She is planning some training in the area of providing better customer service in the technical support center. You had to rush off to a meeting, so you told her that you would send her a memo outlining some ways to evaluate the training.

Write a brief memo explaining the major concepts of evaluating and validating training to the Barbara Maddock, the Director of Information Technology.

• Be sure to explain the concepts in such a way that someone without a comprehensive background in training will understand the ideas and be able to apply them. (If you must use training jargon, be sure to provide an explanation).
• Address the 4 levels of evaluation
• You should include an example to help demonstrate each level.

Please submit your assignment.

Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. Click here to view the grading rubric.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

A major challenge for any police administrator is to determine how to allocate the limited resources of the police department to meet the law enforcement needs of the community being served. There is no facet of policing that better demonstrates this challenge than the patrol function. An administrator must not only assess the purpose and capability of the patrol function within the department, but also determine what the patrol will look like in the community, and when and where it will do so. Everyone would like to see a cop drive down their street from time to time. But does everyone need a cop in their neighborhood? What purpose and interests are being served by having patrol officers in one area of town instead of another? Does it make sense to saturate some areas with coverage, even if other areas will go unpatrolled? These are the real choices confronting police chiefs and sheriffs today.

Instructions:

In this assignment, assume the role of an assistant chief in the Centervale Police Department (CPD). The police chief has asked you to develop a position paper to reflect a patrol strategy for the department which will best serve the needs of Centervale. The chief wants you to consider everything you know about the effectiveness of preventive patrol, directed patrol, broken windows theory, notions of fairness and equity, and other considerations you deem important.

Here are some basic facts about Centervale that will help guide your patrol strategy:

• Centervale is a fairly large, suburban, working class community near a major American city. Your police department includes 100 patrol officers.
• 50% of the population lives north of the railroad tracks; 50% lives south of the railroad tracks.
• 80% of the crime occurs north of the railroad tracks; 20% occurs south of the tracks.
• 20% of the tax base can be found north of the railroad tracks; 80% is south of the tracks (that is, most of the money paying for town services is generated in the south).
• Crime rates in town go up significantly at night; however, the population of the town goes up significantly during the day (due to an influx of reverse commuters and vibrant retail activity).
• On average, it takes ten minutes for an officer to arrive to a call when dispatched from the south side of town to the north, or vice versa; however, on average it takes only five minutes to arrive to a call when the officer is already on the correct side of the tracks for the call.

What You Need to Do . . .

Write a 3-4 page position paper for the chief’s consideration which outlines your belief as to how patrol resources should be allocated in Centervale. In other words, where and when would you place your patrol officers in the community?

Further, justify your approach based on current research and existing literature about preventive and directed patrol, notions of fairness and equity, the importance of response times, and any other considerations you deem important.

In any case, cite at least two additional sources of information beyond the assigned readings. Feel free to make additional assumptions about conditions within Centervale that are not presented in the assignment (for example, the type of crime that is prevalent in the city). However, if you do so, make sure you state those assumptions up front in your assignment as a note to the instructor.

Assignment Criteria:

In your paper, be sure to demonstrate:

• An understanding of current research regarding police patrol functions
• The meaning of preventive patrol, directed patrol, broken windows, and/or other patrol models
• An understanding of competing legitimate interests within the community and a rational approach toward reconciling these interests despite limited resources
• Clear, concise writing which reflects critical thinking skills

Submission Details:

 

Successful Projects

Assume the project sponsor within a major corporation has championed a project for the past year, and the concept was finally approved. Of the strategies a sponsor would use to ensure project success, describe three that you think are the most important, and discuss how the strategies are applied.

Assume the project manager within the same firm mentioned above was assigned to a new project sponsored by a senior manager.  Of the strategies a project manager would use to ensure project success, desc

Assignment 1: Social Performance of Organizations

 

 

According to the textbook, the current world economy is increasingly becoming integrated and interdependent; as a result, the relationship between business and society is becoming more complex. Use the Internet to research Apple. Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a maximum of a five to seven (5-7) minute dynamic video on the topics detailed below. Alternatively, you may submit a four to six (4-6) page paper instead of the video submission.

 

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

 

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, view the Kaltura video tutorial found in your online course shell (Week 4).

 

Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

 

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Social Performance of Organizations

Tags: BUS475, Social Performance

Description: First Name, Last Name – BUS475 Assignment 1 (Date Uploaded ex. 11-14-2014)

Prepare and present a video that is a maximum of five to seven (5-7) minutes OR write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

 

Specify the nature, structure, and types of products or services of Apple, and identify two (2) key factors in the organization’s external environment that can affect its success. Provide explanation to support the rationale.

Suggest five (5) ways in which the primary stakeholders can influence the organization’s financial performance. Provide support for the response.

Specify one (1) controversial corporate social responsibility concern associated with Apple.

Submit a reference page with at least four (4) quality references that you have used for this presentation / paper. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

If you choose the written paper, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

Analyze the relationship between business and society, and the ways in which they are part of an interactive system.

Recommend ways stakeholders can influence the destiny of both business and society.

Analyze the various primary and secondary stakeholder groups, their roles, and relationships.

Compare and contrast the concepts of corporate social responsibility and citizenship.

Analyze ways ethical challenges affect the multiple functions of business.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in business and society.

Write clearly and concisely about business and society using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

the article is attached. paper must be 650 to 800 words APA FORMAT

Writing Assignment #1 will be a critique essay.

The critique essay asks you to look at a source with a critical eye and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. It will incorporate source material summary into its discussion but will also evaluate that source material.

Please click here for a video that briefly describes and outlines this writing assignment.

Please write your critique essay on the following article.  This article is available to you in the ereserves section of our class.

Kiefer, K. (2007). Chapter 8: Do students lose more than they gain in online writing classes? In, Brave New Classrooms (pp. 141-151). Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.

Considerations for this Essay:

You are taking WRTG 391 online or in hybrid format.  In either case, you are involved significantly in online instruction in your class.

Kiefer argues in her essay that writing courses may not work well online.  She provides various reasons for making her argument.

You might agree with her.  Or you might agree with her on some points but question her on other points.  Or you might disagree with her entirely.  In this essay, you will evaluate her arguments and critique them.

In this essay, you will do the following:

• Introduce the topic and introduce the author and essay.  Then state your thesis.
• Summarize the author’s argument or arguments.  Your opinion is not included here.  You simply summarize the author’s points.
• Critique the author.
  • Evaluate the author’s argument or arguments.
  • Respond to the author.  Note what you agree with and what you disagree with.  You will incorporate at least two other sources into this evaluation and response.
• Conclude the essay.

Module 1 in our class, which can be accessed in Content, provides additional advice on organizing the critique.

In addition, click here for a video tutorial on organizing a critique essay.

 

Submitting the assignment:

Using the guidelines provided by the texts, please post a rough draft of your critique essay as your instructor directs you.  Please use at least two credible sources other than Kiefer to help support your critique. Remember that a critique doesn’t necessarily need to be “negative” in order to be successful. You need to show that you are able to determine the validity of the material that you read.

After receiving feedback from your instructor on your critique essay, please use the comments from your instructor in revising the draft.

Please post your final draft of the Critique Essay as your instructor directs you.  The final draft should be approximately 650-800 words.  It should follow standard APA guidelines in citing the sources and should include a “References” page at the end of the essay to list the sources.

 

 

The following is a suggested rubric.  Instructors may adjust the rubric as desired.

 

The introduction identifies the author and article in the introduction	5
The introduction states a solid thesis in the introduction	10
The essay adequately summarizes the author’s position without stating the writer’s position in the summary	25
The essay critiques the author’s position by evaluating the author’s argument	10
The essay critiques the author’s position by adequately developing the student’s response	10
The essay integrates at least two other sources in critiquing the author’s position	10
The essay uses accurate grammar and mechanics	20
The essay uses accurate APA format	10

MUST BE 400 word count FOR EACH ASSIGNMENT (TWO ASSIGNMENTS TOTAL)

 

 

THIS PAPER IS DUE 7 HOURS FROM NOW THE SOONER THE BETTER NO LATE WORK NO PLAGIARISM AND USE PROPER WRITING SENTENCING/PRONUNCIATIONS ALSO..

 

ASSIGNMENT 1  

 

The base rate of managerial incompetence is estimated to be 50 to 75%. This means that a majority of people in positions of authority have difficulties getting a group of people to work effectively together or get results.

ANSWER ALL LETTERS BELOW THOROUGHLY

1. What do you think about this percentage? For example, is it too high or too low, and why?
2. Think about the effective and ineffective leaders for whom you have worked. Using the overview of leader traits and skills provided in this week’s lecture and readings, what traits did the effective leaders possess and/or what behaviors did they exhibit that caused them to get results?
3. What traits and/or behaviors did the ineffective leaders demonstrate?

ASSIGNMENT 2

 

 

A critical component of a leader’s success is his or her ability to develop effective relationships with superiors, coworkers, and subordinates.

 

ANSWER THE ALL LETTERS BELOW THOROUGHLY

 

A. Propose and discuss at least three strategies a leader should adopt to enhance his or her relationships with superiors, coworkers, and subordinates. 

 

B. Discuss the importance of developing relationships within all levels of the organization.

 

 

THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE TODAY 7 HOURS FROM NOW THE SOONER THE BETTER ANY OUTSIDE SOURCES MUST BE IN APA FORM THROUGHOUT THE PAPER AND WITH AN REFERENCE PAGE.  ALL SOURCES MUST BE FROM SCHOLARLY ARTICLES…

Concern among the public sector is the demand for public organizations to be transparent about their budgets and spending habits. You have been scheduled to conduct a presentation for the State Budgeting Committee about the type of budget that the organization operates under. Identify the type of public organization for which you work, as well as what types of services, goods, or activities the organization provides to the public. Identify the size and scope of the organization.

Construct a budget using Excel that will provide a breakdown of the various budget items. Copy and paste the Excel spreadsheet of your budget into a Word document. Finally, explain how the budget is made available to the public for review. For example, is the budget made available at public meetings, on a special request, published in a newsletter, on the organization’s premises during regular business hours, via the organization’s Web site, or by some other means? If the budget is not available for the public to review, explain why. Furthermore, are there any provisions in place regarding the budget being made available for public view? Explain in detail.

Assignment Guidelines

• Address the following in 750–1,000 words:
  • Identify the type of public organization for which you work, as well as what types of services, goods, or activities the organization provides to the public. Identify the size and scope of the organization.
  • Construct a budget using Excel that will provide a breakdown of the various organizational budget items.
    • Copy and paste the Excel spreadsheet of your budget into a Word document.
  • Is the budget made available to the public for review?
    • If yes, explain how in detail.
    • If no, explain in detail why it is not.
  • Are there any types of provisions in place regarding the budget being made available for public view? Identify and explain.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Select one of the major topics listed below using course topics previously referenced as the basis for the paper.

• Debt securities are common investment vehicles and are exchanged (purchased and sold) in markets including numerous exchanges. Since (fixed rate) values are market determined, how are price changes reflected in the investment account for a security classified when held to maturity? What are the FASB accounting requirements for securities held to maturity? How does price influence return? What happens if the securities were purchased for the purpose of selling them? Provide a discussion of all potential scenarios and the relevant accounting requirements.
• What is a lease and how is it used as a financing vehicle? How are leases accounted for within the firm’s financial reports? What is the difference between a capital lease and an operating lease? What is residual value? What are executory costs? What considerations are relevant in a lease or sell decision? Provide a discussion of all potential scenarios and the relevant accounting requirements.
• What is a pension plan as used in a firm and related to employee compensation? What is the difference between a defined contribution plan and a defined benefit plan? What is accumulated benefit obligation and how is such associated with a projected benefit obligation? What is the funded status and where is it reported? How does a firm report post-retirement benefits in accounting statements? What is an actuary and what is the actuary’s duty in this process? Provide a discussion of all potential scenarios and the relevant accounting requirements.
• What is shareholder’s equity, how is it calculated, and where and how is it reported? What is comprehensive income and how does it influence equity? What happens to shareholder’s equity when the firm issues more shares or buys back shares in the open market? What are retained earnings and how and where are they accounted? What are corporate dividends and how are they distributed and accounted for? Provide a discussion of all potential scenarios and the relevant accounting requirements.

• What is the Statement of Cash Flows and how do decision makers use it to assess the viability of the firm? What types of elements are incorporated into a statement of cash flows? What constitutes inflows and outflows reported on the statement of cash flows? How would you represent such activities in a report and what activity notes would be incorporated? Provide a discussion of all potential scenarios and the relevant accounting requirements.

Your paper must:

1. Identify the main issues in the chosen area and accurately respond to each of the questions from the chosen area.
2. Build upon class activities by referencing new learning that has occurred.
3. Present specific current and/or future applications and relevance to the typical workplace.

 

 

• Paper must be seven to ten (7-10) double-spaced pages in length, exclusive of Appendix, References, Exhibits, etc.
• Formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide (including title page and reference list).
• Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
• Must include at least three other appropriately documented, related articles drawn from the University’s library (excluding your textbook