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As an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, prepare a 4–5 page opinion for the Court based on the following facts: James Smith was arrested for burglarizing his next door neighbor’s apartment in the state of California. And without the benefit of a warrant, the neighbor, who is a friend of Mr. Smith, forced open the front door to Mr. Smith’s apartment and saw his property. The neighbor called the police, and they immediately arrested Mr. Smith for burglary and possession of stolen property out of fear that he would get rid of the property before they returned with a search warrant. Mr. Smith’s conviction in the state and federal courts were upheld, and it is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Prepare the Court’s response to this constitutional challenge that Mr. Smith was denied equal protection under the law.

• Identify specific examples in the language of prior decisions.
• Examine some of the arguments used by the framers of the Constitution while debating the language of the document.
• Include any philosophical underpinning that might influence the court’s ruling.
• Include any social force(s) that could be useful to guide the decision.
• Outline major philosophical arguments of the U.S. Supreme Court in such cases as Weeks v. United States (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=232&invol=383) and Mapp v. Ohio (http://supreme.justia.com/us/367/643/case.html).
• Use specific references to support your position from the U.S. Constitution.

Please note that the U.S. Bill of Rights brings a philosophical perspective that should not be lost and has helped to shape constitutional law in the United States.

You will be graded on the clarity of your decision, the presentation of your position, use of proper APA format, and

Business Unit Analysis

Directions: Create a Feasibility Study for Harley-Davidson using the following outline:

Part I: Differentiation Strategies

The analysis of current strategy and competitor analysis you conducted last module impressed the senior vice president. She now needs you to delve into the brands and analyze them by conducting a business unit analysis and presenting your findings in a three-part PowerPoint presentation.

Research the Harley-Davidson (H-D) Web site for each brand, and review the annual report for relevant details of the size, scope, target market, services and amenities, and other salient points of differentiation. Include these details in Part I of your PowerPoint presentation.

From the research and analysis of the business units, identify:

• • A description of each brand or business unit that provides a clear picture of the brand and its place in the overall portfolio of Harley-Davidson.

• • The target market of each brand.

• • How the brands are alike and how they differ.

• • A preliminary analysis of any gaps that exist in the portfolio that might lead to opportunities to add to the brands.

• Your analysis of possible merger/acquisition/joint venture possibilities and what would be achieved or accomplished through the merger/acquisition/joint venture.

Part II: SWOT Analysis

Perform a SWOT analysis for Harley-Davidson and include this information in Part II of your PowerPoint presentation.

• Based on the internal analyses of the SWOT analysis, assess the functional areas, resources, capabilities, and strengths H-D possesses. Please be sure to cover the following functional areas in your assessment:
  • • Marketing: New product development, integrated marketing planning, marketing communications, and building customer loyalty.
  • • Operations: Quality, service, and consistent execution.
  • • Human Resources: Hiring, training, developing talent, and performance planning. Avoided lawsuits and bad PR due to its hiring practices. Is ethical in its HR practices.
  • • Executive Leadership: Industry knowledge and experience, vision about where the industry is heading, and strategy execution.
  • • Supply Chain Optimization: Strategic sourcing of input, vendor management, integrated IS, and joint forecasting with suppliers.
  • • Corporate Responsibility and Ethics: Concern for corporate citizenship and the environment. Present any potential ethical concerns as well.
  • Safety and Quality: How the motorcycle industry is dealing with safety and quality issues.

Part III: Growth and Profitability Strategies

In addition, the executive board is interested in your ideas about bold strategies for the future. The strategies you recommend will have to contribute to growth and profitability, as outlined in the Annual Report.

You will want to pay special attention to exploring vertical integration, strategic alliances, and the internal growth of new brands entering new geographic markets, and/or additional acquisitions.

Consider the following:

• • Is Harley-Davidson, Inc., (H-D) competing in the right businesses, given the opportunities and threats present in the external environment? If not, how can H-D realign its diversification strategy to achieve a competitive advantage?

    This may include additional diversification to take advantage of opportunities such as further vertical integration.

• Is the corporation managing its portfolio in a way that creates synergy among its businesses? If so, what additional businesses should it consider adding to its portfolio?

After you have reviewed the growth and profitability strategies, create a list of possible strategies to present a full range of ideas.

Part III of your presentation should include your complete list—all potential ideas—for the senior vice president. This is your chance to be creative.

Next, rank your ideas from best to worst. To do this, keep in mind several things such as fit with current strategy, resources and capabilities, and difficulty of execution.

For each of your top five ideas, add the following:

• • Briefly describe the strategy.

• Why you picked it as one of the top five.

Think about such things as:

• Does the strategy build on current competencies and foster horizontal relationships among brands? In other words, what can be leveraged or shared? What are the pros and cons of this strategy?

Your PowerPoint Feasibility Study presentation will also include slides pertaining to the following assessments:

• • Part I: Identification of size, scope, target market, services, amenities, and points of differentiation.

• • Part II: SWOT analysis that includes marketing, operations, human resources, executive leadership, supply chain optimization, corporate responsibility, ethics, safety, and quality.

• Part III: Growth and profitability strategies, including your top five strategic ideas and support.

Submit the PowerPoint Feasibility Study presentation to the senior vice president so that she can review the alternatives and provide you with feedback about your ideas.

Submit your presentation to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, November 11, 2015.

Need a Project Company Analysis – 

In APA format

• Name of the organization and all subsidiaries or strategic business units
• Historical perspective on the organization.
• Scope of the business and current products or services provided
• Scope of market distribution – are they global or regional etc.
• Overview of the leadership and management structure and individuals
• Need a Project Company Analysis – 

  In APA format

  • Name of the organization and all subsidiaries or strategic business units
  • Historical perspective on the organization.
  • Scope of the business and current products or services provided
  • Scope of market distribution – are they global or regional etc.
  • Overview of the leadership and management structure and individuals
  • Identify current issues that may affect the future of the organization
  • Properly cited sources and reference page
• Properly cited sources and reference page

Hello,

*Important Note:-

Please if you can’t finish it by this time do not start it, because it will be useless. Thank you.

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This paper should be in the following format:
• 1” margins
• double-spaced
• 12-pt font, times new roman
• 4-5 pages in length
• grammatically correct sentences and accurate spelling
• no late papers accepted
• clearly labeled with headings: Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
• Put your name and page number on each page in the header.
• Use a Cover Page
• Please bring 2 stapled copies of your paper to turn in.

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Watch the video first and then read the two articles:
-1 **Video LINK**
Richard Wilkinson Lecture

(link:- http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html)

-2 *This article had been attached below*

Is the U.S. Income Gap Wider Thank You Think,

-3 *Article #2*
Why Everyone Suffers in Unequal Societies ?

(Article Link:-
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/want-the-good-life-your-neighbors-need-it-too)

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Section 1 (1 page)

Hello,

*Important Note:-

Please if you can’t finish it by this time do not start it, because it will be useless. Thank you.

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This paper should be in the following format:
• 1” margins
• double-spaced
• 12-pt font, times new roman
• 4-5 pages in length
• grammatically correct sentences and accurate spelling
• no late papers accepted
• clearly labeled with headings: Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
• Put your name and page number on each page in the header.
• Use a Cover Page
• Please bring 2 stapled copies of your paper to turn in.

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Watch the video first and then read the two articles:
-1 **Video LINK**
Richard Wilkinson Lecture

(link:- http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html)

-2 *This article had been attached below*

Is the U.S. Income Gap Wider Thank You Think,

-3 *Article #2*
Why Everyone Suffers in Unequal Societies ?

(Article Link:-
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/want-the-good-life-your-neighbors-need-it-too)

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Section 1 (1 page)

Richard Wilkinson states in his video, “If you want to live the American Dream, go to Denmark.” What does this mean? Use information from this video and the 2 articles to substantiate your answer.

Section 2 (2 pages)

Deservedness is defined as something that is justly or rightly earned or something that someone is entitled to.

How do the stereotypes about the poor, and your ideas about deservedness help and hinder your progress toward Cultural Competence?

Section 3 (1-2 pages)

What were the most important lessons you learned from
• Is the U.S. Income Gap Wider Thank You Think, (Article had been attached)
• Why Everyone Suffers in Unequal Societies (Article link above)
• Richard Wilkinson Lecture (online video link above) What does this mean? Use information from this video and the 2 articles to substantiate your answer.

Section 2 (2 pages)

Deservedness is defined as something that is justly or rightly earned or something that someone is entitled to.

How do the stereotypes about the poor, and your ideas about deservedness help and hinder your progress toward Cultural Competence?

Section 3 (1-2 pages)

What were the most important lessons you learned from
• Is the U.S. Income Gap Wider Thank You Think, (Article had been attached)
• Why Everyone Suffers in Unequal Societies (Article link above)
• Richard Wilkinson Lecture (online video link above)

This is the instructions provided by the Professor: Please it must be considered.

Each student group will be required to do a research project that will be at least 10 pages in length and will cover a current topic of human resources management. The students group must get approval from the instructor on the appropriate topic. To give a few examples, research topics could address issues such as HR Planning in the Public sector, Discrimination Laws or Merit System Promotion. These papers should include the following aspects:

1) Introduction of the topic (what is the issue for human resource management?)

2) Why is this topic important for public organizations?

3) What other issues interrelate to the main topic being addressed.

4) How are managers currently addressing the issue in public organizations?

5) Conclusion (what does the future hold for this issue in public organizations?)

Format:

1- Font: TimeNewsRoman
2- Font size: 12, with 1.5 spacing between lines
3- Proper Harvard Referencing

Assessment:
A separate rubric document is attached on report writing criteria.

1- Why should managers use ethical criteria to guide their decision making?

2- Designing or structuring an organization is not an easy task for the success of the organization. How does an organization handle this task? What factors need to be considered? Who should be involved in the process? Please be specific in your answer.

3- Research suggests that a useful way of conceptualizing how the organizational design of a subunit achieves its effectiveness is in terms of the three way “fit” (“the perfect fit”). Discuss the meaning of “fit” , the concept, and its importance to the organization. Once you set up the “three way fit” is there a need to constantly monitor same? Why?

4- Please comment on the following:
a.) Strategy follows structure.
b.) In business today it is best to use the classic (also known as the economic) theory of decision making.
c.) Because managers today are very busy it is not wise to use the responsibility chart in delegation.
d.) To be fair and equitable, “subordinates should be given an equal opportunity to tackle a delegated assignment, even though the delegator knows that one or two people will do a superior job while one or two may be below par”
e.) Generally, it is sound management policy for managers to put off making decisions for as long as possible.
f.) Restructuring should be problem-driven.
g.) “Delegating upwards” is not only (a) common practice but (b) a desirable management technique.
h.) The SWAT analysis, while much used in the past, is now very seldom used in business because it is time consuming with very little benefit.

5- What did the Hawthorne studies contribute to management thinking?

6- In what ways have manager’s jobs changed the most over the last 12-15 years? Please be specific. Why have these changes occurred?

7- a.) Control is necessary for an organization to achieve its objectives. How can managers deal with the potential conflict between the needs for personal autonomy and for organizational control?
b.) There are four main sources, also referred to as the main determinates of business ethics. one is societal ethics. What are the other three?

8- a.) please clearly state the purpose of the Responsibility chart in Delegation which was discussed in class.
b.) Please name the BIG five personality traits.
c.) Please name the Building Blocks of competitive advantage.

9- Please read the following case and answer the questions.
Case name (Talking with George)
Source: James Stoner, Management. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978. (If needed email me for the case).
Case questions:
a.) Would you like to work for George- you being his subordinate? Why? Please use principles discussed in class to support you answer.
b.) Would you like to have George work for you – to be your subordinate? Why? Support you answer using managerial theory.
c.) What do you think is the key management problem in this case? Please briefly discuss the problem and reason for same.
d.) What should the company do with George? Why? Please base your answer on managerial principles.

I have attached quiz paper that has five questions, so I want you to read it peacefully.
1. there are two books I want you used and two documents that I have attached it, please used them when you do my order
2. if you use quotation, please write page number and the name of author
3. my ideas will focus of the Environment
1. To begin: Identify a pair of compatible figures with respect to something significant they address. So, for example, Frankfurt and Munitz (as both place great weight on individuals identifying for themselves what they most care about), or Frankfurt and Kant (an odd pair in that HF argues against Kant, but what about their focus on positive freedom), perhaps Zee and the Stoics (with thoughts about self-mastery), and so on. There’s no “right answer with regard to pairings: look for useful affinities and connections important ideas they might share in common. It’s fine if in many other ways they disagree (as with Frankfurt and Kant)

2. For the pair and topic that you have selected, provide a brief, clear account of what they would likely agree upon as an important consideration regarding the relationship of education and human flourishing. How do their perspectives complement one another and align?

3. With your findings in number 2 in mind, identify some aspect of current educational practices or school reform policies that the aligned thinkers help to call into question. What concerns do they help to raise about what is taking place, and/or what alternative vision of what should take place do they help to bring into view?

4. Once practical issues have come into view in number 3, dig a little deeper: identify one or two more thinkers from the list who would provide an additional perspective on the practical issue in question. What do they add to the mix? What new questions or complications come into view?

5. Finally, and briefly, at this point in the inquiry, where do you stand? What position or question regarding the topics at hand is most on your mind at this point?

Game Face Competition, Your Inner Kiddo, Power Posing & How to Calm Things Down
You must complete all 4 of the activities below (Game Face Competition, Kris Carr Your Inner Kiddo -Vlog # 5 video viewing/reaction, Dr. Amy Cuddy Power Posing video viewing/experience & reaction, and Joe Navarro video viewing & reaction) in order to receive credit
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1. Managing Stress requires emotional composure; particularly the
ability to regulate your emotions when you are under pressure. Talented athletes, as well as strong leaders, are able to manage their emotions, during competition for the athlete, and in times of crisis for good leaders. I want you to practice putting on your game face when you are under stress this week; particularly for those of you who tend to overreact to things. Maintain your composure, think clearly and do not let your emotions get the best of you. Finally have a friend take a photo of you showing your best game face (head shot only as we want to really see your game face). Post your game face photos in the DBF. The winning game face will have 3 points added to his/her exam three points earned. Remember a good game face simply means we cannot read you; it is NOT about looking angry or mean. Think poker face/neutral. If you would prefer not to submit a game face photo, as an alternative, you may write about your experience with putting on a game face in a situation where you were under pressure and needed to maintain composure. If you do submit a game face photo, you do not need to share an experience where you put on a game face.

***No need face photo just write a short paragraph

2. · View and discuss Kris Carr’s Health and Wellness Vlog # 5.

video from youtube (www.youtube.com) and type in the search engine : Kris Carr’s Health and Wellness Vlog #5: Your Inner Kiddo. The vlog runs 4:23

*** A short reaction paragraph

3. View and Discuss the Following Game Changers Clip by Dr. Amy Cuddy (run time 5:59 minutes)

access www.youtube.com and type in the search engine: Game Changers – Game Changer: Amy Cuddy, Power Poser. The video was posted by Time and runs 5:59 minutes. After viewing the video try the expansive postures utilized in Dr. Cuddy’s research (see photo below of power poses from research). Discuss your experience with power posing. Keep in mind Dr. Cuddy is not recommending power posing in inappropriate settings (i.e. actually in a job interview). However, it may be useful to put on your game face and try power posing prior to stressful encounters!

https://www.google.com/search?q=amy+cuddy+power+pose&biw=1072&bih=509&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI5vnkt4X6yAIVT_RjCh3VcAm1#imgrc=yOB4IoTiBFsxeM%3A

*** Short paragraph ( Discuss your experience with power posing)

4. View the following clip featuring retired FBI agent, Joe Navarro. If the clip fails to open type in the youtube search engine: How to Calm Things Down – Joe Navarro (run time 1:17).

Share in you had an opportunity to try Joe’s technique for calming things down. Write A paragraph