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Research and select a publicly traded organization or MNC that you have not previously used in this course as a case study for this discussion.

Discussion

Identify and briefly describe the organization you have selected. Based on your assigned unit readings, answer the following about the organization:

• How would you define the organization’s approach for growth?
• What have been the growth strategies over the last 3–5 years? Is the organization a first mover, fast follower, or something else?
• How successful has the organization been?
• Has the organization used mergers and acquisitions as part of its strategy? For example, Cisco Systems uses acquisitions as a primary means of growth and building strategic competencies.

Your discussion post should be a minimum of 250 words and incorporate at least one scholarly reference along with citations from the required readings

Preparation

Research and select an industry that you have not used previously in this course. Within this industry, you should be able to identify a new entrant or product that brings new competition to the market because of emerging trends or changing trends.

Discussion

Trends, changes, regulatory mandates, and shifts that occur in the market are likely to have big impact on an organization. It is important to be proactively aware of the threats and opportunities such events present.

Use the industry you selected in the context of the following scenario:

Assume you are the leader of an organization that is being threatened by new competition. Describe how the new entrant or product provides increased competition and how you as a leader might develop and implement sustaining strategies and possible opportunities.

Your discussion post should be a minimum of 250 words and incorporate at least one scholarly reference along with citations from one of the required readings.

 

Sorry for the time that were some misunderstanding between us. but i am going to explain to you one more time.

 

this assignment is about China. I have already done 3 homeworks about China. the last one is about writing 400-600 words reflictive essay. basically you have to inculde some examples from the previous assignment. you have to follow only the one below as the teacher will grade the assignment based on assignment #4.

 

please do not mix up between the other assignment that i gave you. this one is based china (( Global sustainbility)).   All what you need is down below , i meant the three assignments. please again do include the attachments that i have provided down. 

 

Write a 400-600 word self-reflective “learning essay” in which you summarize and evaluate what you have learned about the global sustainability of the place (i.e., country) that you have studied over the course of this semester for the first three assignments.  The format of this learning essay should be based on that used for an “I-Search” paper.  Therefore, it should have the following three sections, each of which addresses the topics mentioned below (note: each section may be put on its own slide–i.e., you would have 3 slides for this concluding assignment):

1. The Search Story – What you already knew, what you wanted to learn, and how you went about learning it.  For our purposes, this should include the following:

• Engage the reader’s attention and interest; explain why learning more about this place was personally important for you—i.e., why was this one of the places that you chose to study for this course?
• Explain what you already knew about the place before you even started researching.
• Let readers know what you wanted/hoped to learn about the global sustainability of this place and why.
• Retrace your research steps by describing the search terms and sources you used.  In our case, this means retracing the highlights of what you did for each of the first three assignments, but it can also include what you learned from the textbook readings and class sessions that could be applied to your place of study.  Discuss things that went well and things that were challenging.

• Search Results – What you learned.
• Summarize at least 3 specific examples of the things that you learned about the global sustainability of this place that either addressed one of the topics you wanted/hoped to learn or that you simply found most interesting or important to share with others.
• Give support for each of these examples by citing at least one piece of information regarding it that you included in one of the previous assignments (e.g., a fact, figure, picture, graph, etc.).  Note: Feel free to also include information that you might have learned from our textbook or other course materials or that you have found by doing your own additional research about the place.
• In addition, you should include ONE (and only one) image to represent/illustrate each of these examples (i.e., you should include a total of 3 images).  These images may be a photograph, map, or graph.

• Search Reflections (i.e., “How this learning is significant to you personally, why you think it might be significant to others, and what you would still like to learn about it”)
• Discuss how/why what you learned from your research experience is significant to you, personally, and why you think it might be important for others to know.  In particular, how does your learning connect with one (or more) of the Core Learning Outcomes for this course or perhaps even to one of the major outcomes for LE courses (see the syllabus)?
• Evaluate how the information you have gathered for these assignments has changed your original perceptions of the global sustainability of this place, in particular, and the Earth as a whole.
• Briefly discuss what you would still like to learn about this topic/place.

In addition, be sure to include a final Bibliography slide at the end of your document that provides an alphabetical listing ofALL of the sources that you used throughout the semester for your place assignments (including the ones specified for certain assignments).  Do not forget to include any that you may have consulted for completing this final assignment, as well.

 

Directions:  Answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double-spaced pages. No Plagarism.

 

Respond to the items below.

 

1. What is traditional utilitarianism? With traditional utilitarianism, how do you determine what the moral thing to do on any particular occasion might be? Include mention of the four (4) considerations to determine what the moral thing to do on any particular occasion might be.

 

2. Why is utilitarianism attractive to many? Discuss three (3) reasons.

 

3. What is the ecological ethic?

 

 

4. How does utilitarianism support the ecological ethic?

Assignment Length: 2–3 pages

The executive leadership of an organization has hired your firm to work with them; largely for your firm’s ability to support recommendations made with current research on systems and leadership management and theory. The client would like your firm to model and describe their organization based on recent developments in both systems and leadership management and theory.

The notion of tipping points is related to systems as that point in which a system changes from one state to another. While there is a mathematical description for a tipping point, it is out of scope for this class. Instead, consider a tipping point as simply a break from the current state of a system to a new state. For example, if a company were to be acquired by another company, it would experience a tipping point. If a company were to radically downscale, then it would experience another tipping point. Tipping points are a common feature of systems, such as ecological systems, climate systems, insect colonies, and human social systems.

For this Final Project component, select an organization with which you are familiar. The organization can be a corporation, a nonprofit, a community organization, a government agency/sub-agency, a military organization, or other entity involving people, resources, and goals, such as a city, county, state, or country.

This week, you begin your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for details about this week’s Final Project component.

 

Please include the following in 2–3 pages:

Using the PowerPoint template, model the following for your organization (this model will be inserted as a figure into your Final Project Template or attached as a separate file, which is likely the best option as the number of slides increases):

• Inputs (information, materials, and energy)
• Top-level organizational process
• Outputs (information, materials, and energy)
• Two or more thresholds or tipping points beyond which the organization would become unrecognizable
• Explain the organization in detail to interpret your model.
• Explain how general systems theory and Boulding’s hierarchy of systems might inform the executive leaderships’ understanding of its organization’s and leadership/management’s thinking.

Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your rationale to the executive leadership.

 

Section 2–Systems Dynamics (Stocks, Flows, and Feedback Loops)

The Assignment:

This week, you continue your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for details about this week’s Final Project component.

 

Please include the following in 2–3 pages:

• Evaluate at least three stocks and associated flows in your selected organization.
• Evaluate at least one positive feedback loop in your selected organization.
• Evaluate at least two examples of how understanding stocks, flows, and feedback loops might improve decision making within the organization.

Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your explanations to the executive leadership.

 

Section 3—Learning Disciplines

The Assignment:

This week, you continue working on your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Please review the Final Project Template for details for this week’s component.

Please include the following in a 2- to 3-page summary to the executive leadership:

• Briefly describe the learning disciplines (systems theory, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning).
• Provide one example of each of the learning disciplines at work in your selected organization.
• Explain how each of these disciplines might inform leadership, management, and decision making in the organization.
• Recommend how the organization could improve its use of each discipline.

Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your explanations and recommendations to the executive leadership.

 

Section 4—Systems Archetypes

The Assignment:

This week, you continue your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for this week’s component.

In 2–3 pages:

• Explain at least three archetypes observed in your selected organization.
• Explain the problems indicated by these archetypes.
• Recommend potential solutions to the executive leadership for the problems indicated by these archetypes.

Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your explanations and recommendations to the executive leadership.

 

 

Section 5—Networks

The Assignment:

This week, you will continue your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for this week’s component.

In 2–3 pages:

• Identify and explain three different networks found in your selected organization.
• Explain how each of the three networks might inform decision making in leadership and management.
• Recommend how the leadership may use knowledge of the networks or network structures to improve the organization.

Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your explanations and recommendations to the executive leadership.

 

Section 6—Adding Complexity

The Assignment:

This week, you continue your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for proper APA formatting and details for this week’s component.

In 3–4 pages, complete the following:

• Using your original PowerPoint model, expand your model of the organization to include the following (this model will be inserted as a figure into your Final Project Template):

Detectors

Effectors

Networks

• Expand your description of the organization by:

Describing three or four agents (including detectors and effectors).

Explaining the relationships among three or four agents.

Explaining the flow of information, material, or energy across networks.

Explaining how two or three agents may be aggregated.

Explaining two or three nonlinear (positive or negative) feedback loops.

Explaining three or four key organizational processes.

Explain how this new model might help leaders better understand the organization.

Explain how this new model might help leaders improve their decision-making skills.

Recommend how the organization might improve with a better understanding of the various structures and processes in the organization.

Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your explanations and recommendations to the executive leadership.

 

Section 7—Resilience

The Assignment:

This week, you continue your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for proper APA formatting and details for this week’s component.

In 4–6 pages, complete the following:

• Use the World Economic Forum matrix, located in this week’s resources, to explore resilience in your selected organization. Describe your organization or one with which you are familiar in terms of each of the cells found in the matrix in a narrative format.
• Explain why you do or do not believe the organization you selected is resilient.
• Furthermore explain how the organization may be resilient in some ways but not in others. Give illustrative examples supporting your conclusions.
• Explain how the executive leadership might use this information about resilience to improve its decision-making behavior.

Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your explanations and recommendations to the executive leadership.

 

 

Section 8—Summary and Conclusion

The Assignment:

This week, you finalize and submit all sections of your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for proper APA formatting and details for this week’s Assignment. Be sure to include the revised content based on your Instructor’s feedback.

Complete the following:

• Include an abstract of your report in the opening pages. Be sure to relate the project to Walden’s mission of positive social change.
• Include a summary at the conclusion of your report that summarizes your Final Project and your findings in one or two paragraphs. Be sure to relate Walden’s mission of positive social change to your concluding thoughts.
• Provide any other concluding remarks on your work for the organization.

dentify a publicly held multinational company of your choice. Research its filings to the SEC, particularly the 10-K and 10-Qs. Also, examine its annual report online. Then, answer the following questions:

1. Describe how the annual report differs from the 10-K. What is contained in the annual report that is not in the 10-K? What is contained in the 10-K that is not in the annual report?
2. How does the 10-K report differ in content from the 10-Q? What is the reason for the difference?
3. Describe 2 disclosures in the 10-K that were surprising or interesting to you. Why were they interesting or surprising to you?

Please submit your assignment.

Grading Criteria
Describe how the annual report differs from the 10-K.  What is contained in the annual report that is not in the 10-K? What is contained in the 10-K that is not in the annual report?	32%
How does the 10-K report differ in content from the 10-Q? What is the reason for the difference?	32%
Describe 2 disclosures in the 10-K that were surprising or interesting to you. Why were they interesting

The following are the criteria for this assignment:

• To have a better appreciation of the differences between U.S. corporate financial statements and foreign corporate financial statements, complete the following:
  • Choose the annual report of a foreign company that you have an interest in.
  • Identify the differences between the foreign corporation’s financial statements and a typical U.S. corporate financial statement.
    • Identify at least 5 differences found in the balance sheet.
    • Identify at least 5 differences found in the income statement.
  • Review the notes to the consolidated financial statements of the foreign corporation.
    • Note any differences in the information provided by the foreign corporation versus that typically provided by a U.S. corporation.
  • Share your overall impression of the foreign corporate financial statements.
• Identify 5 major classifications of accounting models that are used in different geographic regions. Are these classifications consistent with U.S. GAAP. Why or why not?

Please submit your assignment.

Grading Criteria
Question 1: Identify the differences in the balance sheet. Identify the differences in the income statement. Identify the differences in the information provided by the foreign corporation versus that typically provided by a U.S. corporation.	60%
Question 2: Identify 5 major classifications of accounting models that are used in different geographic regions. Are

In a single PowerPoint presentation document, submit a portfolio of your research and learning regarding the cultural geography of the place that you selected to study for the assignments this semester.  You may use the slides that you created for the assignments, however, you should correct/enhance any shortcomings that they may have had.  In addition, you must conclude your presentation document with the following:

Write a 400-600 word self-reflective “learning essay” in which you summarize and evaluate what you have learned about the cultural geography of the place (i.e., country) that you have studied over the course of this semester for the first three assignments.  The format of this learning essay should be based on that used for an “I-Search” paper.  Therefore, it should have the following three sections, each of which addresses the topics mentioned below (note: each section may be put on separate slides):

1. The Search Story – What you already knew, what you wanted to learn, and how you went about learning it.  For our purposes, this should include the following:

• Engage the reader’s attention and interest; explain why learning more about this place was personally important for you—i.e., why was this one of the places that you chose to study for this course?
• Explain what you already knew about the place before you even started researching.
• Let readers know what you wanted/hoped to learn about the cultural geography of this place and why.
• Retrace your research steps by describing the search terms and sources you used.  In our case, this means retracing the highlights of what you did for each of the first three assignments.  Discuss things that went well and things that were challenging.
• Search Results – What you learned.

• Summarize at least 3 specific examples of the things that you learned about the cultural geography of this place that either addressed one of the topics you wanted/hoped to learn or that you simply found most interesting or important to share with others.
• Give support for each of these examples by citing at least one piece of information regarding it that you included in one of the previous assignments (e.g., a fact, figure, picture, graph, etc.).  Note: Feel free to also include information that you might have learned from our textbook or other course materials or that you have found by doing your own additional research about the place.
• In addition, you should include ONE (and only one) image to represent/illustrate each of these examples (i.e., you should include a total of 3 images).  These images may be a photograph, map, or graph.
• Search Reflections (i.e., “How this learning is significant to you personally, why you think it might be significant to others, and what you would still like to learn about it”)

• Discuss how/why what you learned from your research experience is significant to you, personally, and why you think it might be important for others to know.
• Evaluate how the information you have gathered for these assignments has changed your original perceptions of the cultural geography of this place.
• Briefly discuss what you would still like to learn about this topic/place.

In addition, be sure to include a final Bibliography slide at the end of your document that provides an alphabetical listing of ALL of the sources that you used throughout the semester for your place assignments (including the ones specified for certain assignments).  Do not forget to include any that you may have consulted for completing this final assignment, as well.

This is a simple Question and answer

– Distinguish between the single step income statements versus the multiple step income statement

-Describe the difference between perpetual and periodic inventory.

-Share some examples of when a company might want to use lower of cost or market in valuing the inventory.

– What are the three different inventory cost flow assumptions commonly used in commerce and allowed by generally accepted accounting principles?

– How would you describe the key internal controls that should be in place to protect cash in a cash rich environment such as a merchandiser?

 

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper addressing the following:

• Identify two jobs within the company of your choice.
• Describe the general function of performance management systems. If your assigned company does not use a performance management system, would you recommend it use one? Why or why not?
• Suggest two job evaluation methods for each of the positions. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of these methods, based on the positions you have selected?
• Compare possible compensation plans for the two positions.
• Explain the importance of providing employee benefit plans to employees working in the chosen positions.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.