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Research Paper

The final assignment for the course will be a research paper.  The Research Paper will contribute 25% to the course grade.

Focus of the Research Paper

This final research paper must demonstrate the understanding of new learning in the field of project management and how it relates to purchasing and supply management.  This is an assignment with a length of 10 – 12 pages that should integrate the reading, multi-media, and class discussion boards.  It is mandatory to have research from the classroom text as well as at least five sources from reputable sources or online library to support your views.

Consider the validity of your resources carefully before using them in academic papers.  It is recommended to use examples from your professional experience where possible or build from your learning in the discussion boards.  Use at least one project of which you have been a team member or a project manager as an example to describe the topics below:

The following topics must be included in order for the paper to be complete:

• Summarize the concepts of procurement and contract management and the importance to the business world.
• Evaluate RFP selection tools and how to improve the assessment of proposals.
• Summarize the concept of procurement planning and evaluate the various strategies necessary for project success.
• Assess how to select the most qualified vendor in a proposal.
• Appraise the contract and in particular, the legal aspects of procurement within the contract.
• Compare the critical elements of a contract including relationships between the client, supplier, completion terms and payment terms.

The final Research Paper for the course must be submitted by to the instructor by 11:59 p.m. of the time zone in which you reside on the last day of the class.

Writing the Research Paper

The Paper:

• Must be 10 – 12 double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.
• Must include a cover page that includes:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• 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 use at least four scholarly sources, including a minimum of two from the Ashford Online Library, in addition to the textbook.
• Must use APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide to document all sources.
• Must include, on the final page, a Reference Page that is completed according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Report 8 (this company is VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC)

This report summarizes your findings from the data presented in Report 7, and examines in depth any salient features of that data.

Audience: Think of this as a report for potential investors from a disinterested advisor. You are not trying to sell the company, rather you are giving an objective overview in the following order:

Introduce your company and give a little background about its history and performance.

Summarize how your company’s stock performed relative to the S&P 500 over the entire period, and how your company performed in the recession and recovery. Be sure to refer to the relevant graphs and/or tables explicitly. Discuss any other salient features of your company revealed in the data. You should refer to each graph and table at least once. For example, did your company stop paying dividends? If so, try to find out why. Does your company have a usually high or low Tobin’s Q value? If so, try to investigate what might be behind this measure. Identify any events or developments that help explain sharp decreases or increases in your company’s stock over the period, as identified in your first graph. You may also look at daily stock data from wrdrs site, if there was a particular news event that impacted your company’s stock. You may add a graph depicting daily stock movements to enhance your explanation.

Briefly conclude where you think this company is headed. If you dare, predict the stock return in the coming years.

We will discuss the many possible resources for this report in class. General Guidelines: Maximum length 2 pages, double spaced, with normal 12 point font, not including outside sources which should be cited in standard format. When you refer to or quote a specific reference, give enough detail to find the source in your citations. Don’t use footnotes, since this is only a short paper. For example, you may write: According to the Wall Street Journal (Sept. 24, 2011), Company X fired their chief executive office, Jane Doe, causing a sharp increase in stock price we can see in Figure 1 between September and October 2011.

Then list the Wall Street Journal article by name, date, and author in a list of your sources at the end.

This assignment will provide you with firsthand experience in developing a strategic marketing plan for entering a new international market. Choose a global company that you are familiar with for this paper. Note: Do not use a company from a previous assignments or discussions.

Use the Internet or  Library to research the following components of the global company that you have chosen:

–        Company Profile (History & Analysis)

–        Product(s)

–        Financial Status

–        Market Position

–        Analysis of current global operating environments

–        Integrated marketing communication (IMC) Strategy

–        Strengths and Weaknesses Analysis

–        Sustainable Competitive Advantage(s) enjoyed by the firm

–        Sources of funds for the project

–        Pro-Forma Balance Sheet & Income Statement for five (5) years

–        Cash-Flow Statement

 

Note: You may also use the following resource for your research:

• Financial profiles for global companies:

(http://news.morningstar.com/stockReturns/CapWtdIndustryReturns.html)

 

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Choose a country into which the company you selected may expand. Note: Ensure that the country you chose is currently not doing business with the selected company in any capacity (e.g., exporting, FDI, or contract manufacturing).
2. Develop a brief profile of the country that you have chosen. The summary should include:

1. Geographic and historical data regarding international business
2. Political and legal environment for conducting international business
3. Business customs and practices
4. Economic environment
5. Socio-economic analysis which should include the factors of concern (e.g., population characteristics, language, GDP, taxation, personal income, labor, industries, communication networks, imports / exports, and major trading partners’ countries).

Note: Refer the following resource to complete this criterion of the assignment:

• A Basic Guide to Exporting Contents

(http://export.gov/basicguide/eg_main_017244.asp)

1. Ascertain the possibility and feasibility of integrating ecommerce into the company’s offering. Your research should include:

1. Impact of regional and global trade integration
2. Potential volume of trade
3. The marketing mix components
4. Key cultural dimensions affecting marketing operations

1. Analyze the key reasons why the entering the market in the country that you have chosen is justified. Include your research and analysis from Criteria 1 and 2 of this assignment to support the response.
2. Determine at least three (3) potential risks of foreign market expansion using ecommerce for the country that you have chosen (e.g., language barriers, regulatory, taxation, expropriation, etc.). Suggest one (1) strategy to mitigate each risk that you have determined using weighted metrics with a baseline number(s).
3. Suggest at least two (2) ways in which you would adapt the operational strategies of your chosen company both to fit the changing dynamics of foreign markets and to foster a competitive advantage for the company.
4. Use at least six (6) academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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:

• Formulate, implement, and evaluate effective marketing strategies based on an analysis of global operating environments, market dynamics, and internal capabilities.
• Analyze the major economic, cultural, and political / legal aspects of the international business environment, including the economic dynamics of foreign trade, impact of regional and global trade integration, and key cultural dimensions affecting marketing operations.
• Assess the potential risks and benefits of various international markets and formulate effective market entry strategies to support foreign market expansion.
• Integrate global information systems in the use of market research.
• Integrate the concepts of market segmentation, product development, and pricing policies into viable marketing strategy to fit a variety of international market environments.
• Construct product distribution channels and logistics to meet marketing objectives and fit a variety of global market environments.
• Analyze an integrated marketing communication (IMC) strategy to support global marketing operations.
• Integrate global e-Commerce into the marketing strategy.
• Evaluate and adapt corporate marketing strategies to fit the changing dynamics of foreign markets and foster a competitive advantage.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in international marketing.
• Write clearly and concisely about international marketing using proper writing mechanics.

HRM 1101 Final Assignments
( worth 20 % of total semester grade )
( take home assignments—due in one week at midnight )
( Typed answers send to riemertr @aol.com as word attachment)

Components —-Three Parts
8 Leadership questions @ 60 % value of your grade.
2 Leadership Situations @ 20% value of your grade.
1 Proposal type question @ 20 % value of your grade.

Questions—Part One
Motivation—Chapter 3—You are promoted into a position previously held by a poor performing manager/leader who was fired. Employees did not respect and thus did not work hard for this manager just fired. How will you specifically motivate the 15 employees now working for you ? Give me the five ( 5 ) most important things you will do to motivate them ? –one line for each of the 5.
Tell me the five ( 5 ) most important ways Leaders fail? —5 one line statements.
Culture—Chapter 13—In your job search after Temple, what type of culture will you seek and hope to work in because you know you will be happier and more productive. List 5 important values that will help most young people just out of college be more productive.
Lessons from TV report / Book Report you did. —Give me the number one lesson you learned from this assignment that you will follow in your work life? Then tell me why this was so important and how you will use this lesson ? Be concise.
Riemer’s Hurdles—Which Hurdle has professor Riemer continuously stated as a big weakness for most executives. ? Then tell me in one well thought out sentence why this is such a big weakness to a Leader?
Chapter 8—Creativity & Innovation—Assume you and your partners are in a technology business and you want your employees to work in a culture that welcomes creativity, innovation and new ideas. Give me five ( 5 ) actions Leaders will take to encourage Creativity and Innovation?—One action per line.
Chapter 4-Communications—Effective Leaders often have a talent for reading people’s emotions—for listening and sizing up people well—this helps them be an excellent communicator. This excellence in communications helps them in many ways. Give me there ( 3 ) ways in 3 one line statements ?
Chapter 5—Planning—So that you understand the important difference between Strategic and Tactical—write me a personal
Strategic Statement Overall Goal
2 specific Tactical goals to achieve the Strategic Goal ?

Part Two—- Two Situations
Situation # 1—You take over in 2016 as the new District Manager of 20 stores in Eastern PA. and South Jersey and Delaware. ( business you are in is irrelevant). Nearly all 20 stores are performing below company standards in their financial profit and sales/marketing revenue goals. This failure is now your job to turn around. One issue for sure is employee turnover is at an extreme high rate. Too many employees are leaving your company to work elsewhere compared to competitors who have much lower turnover rates. So with this knowledge, you have called for a meeting of all 20 store managers to come to the corporate office in Philadelphia where your office is located. There you will conduct your first all Store Manager meeting since you started just a few weeks ago. There is so much you want to tell them plus ask them questions but clearly even with this limited knowledge, there are strong messages you want to send to all 20 Managers. What three ( 3 ) messages will you as a Leader want to tell them ? one line for each message.
Situation # 2—You and your 2 partners from college days of Temple start a new Technology Service business and are convinced this business will grow fast, very fast. You and your partners plan to soon add many offices of regional customer service centers across America from California to Denver to Chicago to the east coast. As partners in this venture, what type of organization structure will you decide on in the early few years until the growth slows down? –Centralized or Decentralized? Then tell me why is a short bullet list why you decided what you decided ?
Your decision of what structure to use is _______. ? ?
Then the bullet list.

Part Three—Leading a High Performing Function in your Organization. Let’s suppose you desire to be recognized as an excellent Leader of whatever function you are in charge of in your organization. To achieve the status of being called a great Leader what 10 things must you do to achieve this recognition? Put those 10 statements in order of importance with 1 being the most Important.

OVERALL INSTRUCTIONS for this Final Assignment.
On separate 3 pages, you do not need to type out the questions.
Just make sure on Part One—you list the numbers 1 to 8 to avoid confusion.
On Page 2—Part 2—Just type in the words Situation # 1 and Situation # 2.
For Part Three—just type in Part Three and then your listing of 1 to 10.
Email by due date to –riemertr @aol.com with word attachment. Thank You

 

 

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that includes, on a single slide, a flowchart of the procurement management process. Include in your flowchart at least six process steps starting with the identification of what services and items are needed by the Project Manager and ending with the confirmation by the Project Manager that the items and services required for the project have been received.  After the slide on which the overall flowchart is presented, provide a single slide for each process step identified in the flowchart.  For example, a flowchart containing six process steps should be followed by six process slides, each of which describes one of the six process steps in the flowchart.

Provide examples of what will take place in each process step from Your Selected Course Project (refer to the Week 1 Introduction for an explanation of Your Selected Course Project).

 

Find a Project Procurement Management Plan example or template on the Internet.  Compare and contrast it with your process flowchart by identifying major elements included in one that are not included in the other.  Provide one slide of bullets and speaker notes reflecting on your comparative analysis.

 

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as “speaker notes” (at least 100 words) for each slide other than the Cover, Agenda, Conclusion, and References slides.

 

The required length of the PowerPoint presentation option for this assignment is 13-16 slides.

 

The presentation must include Cover, Agenda, Conclusion, and References slides, as well as a Flowchart slide and slides for each of the process steps identified on the Flowchart slide. Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style.

 

15 page research paper including title page, abstract, introduction, citations, references etc. Has to include analyzed data from SPSS lab. Comes with guidelines and rubric. I will attach all of the sources and information provided by the professor. The article the paper is to be about is Emmons & McCullough 2003. Deadline 12-07-2015.
THANK YOU!!!

Plagiarism Quiz
You should complete the quiz and also visit the Skills@Library website for more information on academic integrity.

Your work will be uploaded to Turnitin. If you plagiarise, you will be caught. Several students have been excluded from the University over the last couple of years for plagiarism. Don’t let it be you!

Your report will also contain your code. This mini-project is an individual piece of work. Do not let your friends and classmates copy your code. This is collusion.

Report Outline
Create your report in Word or similar software. Use the following structure:

Title Page (include your name and SID)
Contents Page
Introduction
Hardware Description
Software Description
Results and Testing
Conclusion
References
Appendix
Use relevant subsections as you see fit i.e. 4.1 LCD Display

The suggested length is 10 to 14 pages. The appendix does not count towards the page length.

Introduction
This is your opportunity to set your report in context.
What is an embedded system?
What is a microcontroller?
What are the possible applications of your project?
List a set of clear aims and objectives for your project.
To get the best marks, you are expected to do further reading and not just rely on the lab notes.

Hardware Description
Present an overall system block diagram.
Discuss each block in depth (use sub-sections).
Include images of each block.
Link the operation of each block to the underlying theory.
To get the best marks, you are expected to do further reading and not just rely on the lab notes (e.g. how does the LCD interface work?).

Software Description
If you followed good software engineering practice, your code should be split into different functions.
Present flowchart of the overall software flow.
You should not create a flowchart that mirrors the code line-by-line, it is more of a general overview.
If the flowchart is too simple, the reader would not be able implement the algorithm.
If the flowchart is too complex, it can be difficult for the reader to follow. Find the right balance.
Present flowcharts of each function.

Results and Testing
This corresponds to the technical merit of the project in the report rubric.

Present the testing of the temperature logger.
You can take images of the LCD screen using a camera demonstrating the functionality.
To achieve the highest marks, you are required to implement original features – ensure these are discussed here to obtain credit for them.

Conclusion
Discuss each of the aims and objectives presented in the introduction.
If you did not meet them, explain why.
Discuss how you could expand the project in fututre.

References
Reference any resources you have used.
Avoid the use of Wikipedia.
Use IEEE referencing style. There are good examples on the University of York website.

Appendix
Paste your code into the appendix so that it can be run through Turnitin and checked for plagiarism/similarity with your classmates.

Formatting
Do not use colourful/jazzy Word templates. They look amateurish and detract from the technical content.
Use sections and sub-sections to break the text up. Technical reports are not like essays. Section titles are normally bold and can be slightly larger font.
Use a consistent size for your images. Ensure they are of sufficient resolution. This is especially important for images with text in.
Create your own images, avoid copying from online. If you do, respect copyright and include a reference.
Taking pictures of images on the monitor using your smartphone is terrible practice and makes the report look amateurish. Use screen-shots.
If you take pictures of hardware, do it on a clear background (e.g. white paper) and clip as much as the background out as possible. Pictures of PCB’s on a messy lab bench look awful in a report!
Place images in between paragraphs. Do not embed them within paragraphs.
Write in the passive voice.
The multiplexer circuit was designed…

Do not write in the first person
I designed the multiplexer circuit…

Include page numbers and a table of contents.
Use consistent formatting. Do not jump between different fonts and font sizes within the body of the text (this usually happens when you cut-and-paste i.e. plagiarism!).
Write in full sentences. Avoid informal language.
The first time you use an abbreviation, you should include the expanded form e.g. SPI (Serial Peripheral Information).
Write clearly. I appreciate that English may not be your first language, but you are studying at an English-speaking University. If an explanation does not make sense, it detracts from the technical content.
For students who are registered with DSAS, your work is marked for content only.

NOTE: PLEASE MAKE SURE IN THE FRONT PAGE I NEED YOU TO WRITE IN THE CENTER
TOPIC NAME:
NAME : NADIA MATAR
SID : 200815986

AND I WILL UPLOAD YOU MY REPORT I WANT THE DESIGN TO BE THE SAME AS IT IS AND IT SHOULD BE IN PDF NOT WORD !

THANK YOU

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Findings chapter<br>
Big structural changes needed so the chapter/subheadings reflect the cycles of action research. The findings chapter needs to match the methodology chapter. In the methodology I said that I would look at generating meaning over time as cumulative cycles feed into the next to create the findings through action research process. At this time the findings are static they do not feed into each other and read as if each stage rather than cycle ends with a definite conclusion and does not flow into the next cycle or offer implications for it. Stating the number of people said x does not fit with the methodology. The chapter needs transparency for how the themes were reached and analysed. It must be a self contained chapter that can be understood fully through reading just this and not the rest of the thesis. Signposting is required as to how sources fit together, justification of them and their implications for the next cycle of action research. Analytical coding – tabulation should be in the appendices. The chapter must reflect the phases of action research within cycles of data gathering. Phases are informing each other to reveal themes eg. The first stage focused on x and the data from this generated xx and was used to inform cycle 2 xxx. Reflect on the stages of the research and the sources of evidence. The core purpose of the study is to look at the process to improve practice to uncover understandings. In the introduction to the chapter reflect on the processes and relate stages to action research cycle and summarise. Do not talk about frequency of response as it must match the analysis that I use which is cycles to generate themes. Start by identifying key themes then develop my discussion and link this to literature. Provide headings for all of the tables in the chapter and refer to them in the text. I have groups of quotes must explain how I arrived at these labels. Check the mode of analysis is consistent between chapters. Provide citations when say something is evident from responses of students. Avoid general statements and support all statements with the sources of evidence over time and for initial analysis. Do not use words such as half/most as these are too general and not justified. Explain how all of the points arise and how themes appear over time and across action research cycles. Be specific over what opportunities means especially when used in relation to teamwork. Do not use the words results as it is cumulative over time. Which cycle of the research do points link to? Return to research design and cycles throughout chapter. What determined the choices made? Must be careful that the analysis of how things are reached is not methodological as it is a findings chapter.

The results should be a concise text divided into number of subsections. Each subsection should present fully processed data/results related to a specific aim or set of aims/objectives of the practical. You must decide how many sections should be presented and how best to structure and order them to enable a logical progression through the experiments performed, to the ‘final result’ achieved.
Figures and tables: For this report the results sections MUST contain at least the following figures and tables.
Figure 1 qRT-PCR results: This figure should have 2 parts:
Figure 1(A) fully processed qPCR bar graph from the class results
Figure 1(B) fully processed qPCR bar graph from your individual results
Bar graphs for these figures must be created using the BioRad CFX manager program
Tables. For this report the results sections MUST contain at least one data table. This table should present fully processed data of your qPCR results and the class results. The table must contain a statistical analysis of the data (SEM and p value) for the BCR/ABL and EG controls. The data for this table will be derived from the class data file.
NOTE: All figures and/or tables must cross referenced from the results text and must ‘support and compliment’ the text results presented. Each figure must be presented on a single page, not ‘fitted within’ the text sections of the results. Each figure must have a suitable title and legend (below the figure); which must provide note form information on all key data/points in the figure. The legend should enable the figure to ‘stand alone’ i.e. the reader should not have to refer back to the main text for key information on how to interpret or understand the main findings presented in the figure.
Discussion
The discussion should have at least 3 subsections. Subsection 1 should be a discussion of the final results you obtained for each stage of the practical. Clearly explain the main findings from each stage and how one results section leads on to the next. Highlight any issues that may have affected the accuracy/precision of the class and/or your results and/or progression from one stage to the next stage. This section should be a logical progression of the ‘flow’ of the whole experiment/practical from start to finish. Subsection 2 should be a final conclusion discussion point as to the success or otherwise of the entire experiment(s). Discuss what conclusions can you draw from the data and the final results. Subsection 3 should discuss what would you and/or other researches could/should do next with your findings. Discuss what’s been previously published in the literature in relation to your findings and what clinical significance these results would have if they were from derived from a patient suffering from Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.

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– In Memo format, answer the assignment.<br>
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– In the uploaded file docs (Economics Analysis Assignment), you will find the assignment.<br>
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– In the uploaded docs file(Update thermostat system research you will find the idea of the project. <br>
* And there is an estimation of some of the costs in this file that may help. and the rest estimate them based on your research.<br>
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– We have 55 heaters in the building we are trying to update the thermostat system in it. It is 2 floors building. 24 of them are in the second floor.(use this information if it is needed in calculations)<br>
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– Please include the steps of answering if possible.<br>
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– In the uploaded Excel file (Economics_worksheet), you will find an class example that you will use the yellow highlighted numbers in solving the assignment.<br>
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– There is extra files uploaded to help you solving this assignment.<br>
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– Use IEEE format for references of this assignment if needed. <br>
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– Please contact me for further information if needed.