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Essay questions… please answer all of them

1.      Explain how and why the process of developing a marketing plan might be more important than the marketing plan document itself. What are the benefits of the planning process irrespective of the actual outcomes of the process?

2.      What is a product and what do we mean by the four different types of utility?

3.      What do we mean by organization mission and vision?

4.            4.Why have ethics and social responsibility become so important in recent years? Why is it important that marketing ethics be incorporated into the firm’s strategic plan?

5.      Identify and explain each element of the 5W model for customer analysis. What role does this analysis play in an overall situation analysis?

6.            6. Discuss each of the three competitive advantage strategies (operational excellence, product leadership, customer intimacy) and explain why most firms pursue only one of these strategies.

The United States (U.S.) and United Kingdom (U.K.) are two very interesting countries. They have shared many direct interactions over the last three centuries and have many political similarities and differences. For example, these two democratic countries utilize both similar and different political systems, structures, and functions. A study of these systems, structures, and functions will certainly expand your understanding of comparative politics.

Write a research paper comparing the political systems, structures, and functions of the U.K. and the U.S. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of each political system. Explain how and why different socialization agents affected the structure of these political systems. Evaluate one U.S. policy program and one U.K. policy program to determine if they meet the needs of their respective populations.

The paper should be organized into the five following sections:

 

1. Introduction and thesis.
2. Comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of U.S. and U.K. political systems.
3. Explanation of how and why different socialization agents affected the structure of the U.S. and U.K. political systems.
4. Evaluation of one U.S. policy program and one U.K. policy program to determine if they meet the needs of their respective populations.
5. Conclusion.

The paper must be 1 page in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least three scholarly resources other than the textbook to support your claims and subclaims. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar.

Marketing Implementation
Structural Issues
Overall Approach
Firm’s Structure
Internal Marketing Activities (HR)
Tactical Marketing Activities
Details of Marketing Strategy and How it will be Executed
Victoria

This is for a business plan for a car finder app. You can make up the information. This app can be offered on IPhone and Android phones. They currently have several on the market. Please put this paper in APA format.. Thanks

After performing an economic review, the analyst must become familiar with the industry to which he/she is assigned.  The way to obtain this knowledge is by performing a complete industry analysis.

 

Our focus will be on the foodindustry.  For purposes of this class, we will define the industry based on five companies:

 

• Kellogg (K)
• General Mills (GIS)
• Mondelez (MDLZ)
• JM Smucker (SJM)
• Campbell Soup (CPB)

 

Guidelines:

 

Use complete sentences and paragraphs.  Please endnote any source you use to justify your answers (including the textbook).  Feel free to bring in other sources to support your answers (just be sure to endnote those sources).

 

 

Use ARIAL type font, 12 point, double-spaced. 6 pages. Please use the data in the excel I have attached.

 

This project is worth 100 points.  Again, be thorough with your answers.

 

Instructions:

 

Using the material from class as your guideline, put together a report on this industry.

Data and charts are in addition to and should not be considered part of the 6 page requirement.

 

 

REQUIRED:

 

As part of the assignment, you need to use Telemet to perform a comparative (industry) ratio analysis.  You should select important ratios like DuPont, leverage ratios, profitability ratios, growth ratios (e.g. revenue growth), and other balance sheet and income statement ratios.  Select the 10 ratios that you believe best describe the industry.

 

If Telemet has already computed ratios, you do not need to compute them yourself.  Just cite that’s where the ratios came from.  You should build your own tables, however, and have at least 5 years of data.

 

Note:  Compute your own industry/peer averages or medians for each ratio using the five companies mentioned above as the total industry.

 

Summary of Instructions:

 

When writing your paper on the industry, you can use the following as a guide.  This is a simple list, and not all-inclusive – your analysis should go beyond what’s written below.  Feel free to consider and discuss other factors you believe to be important.

 

1. Start off with a description of the industry.
2. Find or calculate comparative industry ratios.
3. Determine what factors most affect the industry.
4. Understand the competitive level of the industry, barriers to entry, etc.
5. What are the major challenges and opportunities?
6. How does changing technology impact this industry?
7. How do you think this industry will fare going forward?

 

This project should give you a healthy understanding of the assigned industry.

 

Sources of Information:

 

Some sources were listed in the PowerPoint presentation.  You can use any source you can find to bolster your knowledge of the industry.  Be sure to endnote your sources!  Also, check out each company’s websites and MD&A sections of their annual report or quarterly reports.

This assignment is due Tuesday October 20th 2015 @ 15:30 eastern

please follow directions below. No plagiarism please

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the assignment cannot be late, please no offer if you donot intend on submitting by the due date. Thank you

Complete the Assurance of Learning Exercise 3D on page 87 of the course textbook. In addition to completing Steps 1-3, summarize your findings in a two page APA formatted paper and discuss your views of McDonald’s strategic prospects based upon your analysis of the external assessment and consideration of the opportunities to grow, as well as threats from competitors and the macro environment. Please complete Step 2 as follows, go to An online Library and make a copy of an industry survey for the restaurant industry from the Business Source Complete or ABI/Inform Complete database. The document you select should contain excellent information for developing a list of external opportunities and threats facing MCD.

 

You have just met with two new clients, and have asked them to collect information regarding their financial position and some other information. You gave them a fact finder to complete. They return with the form filled to the best of their knowledge. Your task is to develop a full financial plan for Peter and Carly Richards The components for a plan are set out in chapter 15 of the McKeown et al. Financial Planning 2014.

 

If you feel your organisation will provide other information that is acceptable. The plan should evaluate where Peter and Carly are currently and where they want to be in the short and long term. You are to make recommendations and any products that you recommended must be accompanied by a product disclosure statement.

 

The product disclosure statements should not be printed but saved to a storage device (CD or USB) and handed in with the plan. Any projections must be shown and any assumptions regarding these projections must be stated and justified. For any missing information, assumptions can be made; however, these must be justifiable.

The normal procedure is to contact the client and ask questions.

 

Our client is available for questions via a discussion folder in Blackboard. You can ask the client a question by posting it in the folder on Blackboard. This is the only way you can communicate with the client. Do NOT email the lecturer for this unit, as he/she will not respond. Questions will only be answered on Blackboard. Task 3 After submitting a copy of the plan to the client, the group needs to present their recommendations to the clients.

 

You are to prepare a 20-minute presentation using PowerPoint (or anything other presentation software) to sell the plan to the client. Note the presentation only relates to Task 2 not Task 1. Remember this presentation is a summary of the major points contained within the plan and is not just cut and pasting of sections of the plan. It is aimed at the client so keep it simple to understand but must cover all major parts of the plan and its recommendations. At the end of the presentation the client will have 10 minutes to ask any of the members of the group questions regarding the plan.

 

The report should have at least 35 pages, which includes;

 

Components of a Statement of advice

Covering letter

Contents Page

Executive Summary

Scope of Advice

Where you are now (Client)

What you want to achieve

How to get there and why

 

Cash flow projections

Income tax Planning

Risk management and insurance S

Social security matters

Investment planning

Superannuation and retirement planning

Estate Planning

Resource: Strategic Planning and HR Planning: Linking the Process & Figure 2.1 in Ch. 2 of Managing Human Resources

Choose a company with which you are familiar.

Create a 10- to 15- slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation to explain the integration of the HR planning process and strategic process to new employees in your company.

Analyze each major HR responsibility in a company. Provide your analysis of these responsibilities to new employees, along with an explanation of how these integrate into the strategic planning process.

• For Local Campus students, these are 15- to 20-minute oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentations.
• For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentations with notes.

Format your memo and presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Agency Observation

In this assignment, you will turn in your final project documents, analysis, and evaluation of your community agency observation.

Tasks:

Create a report by compiling and reviewing all your documents and research related to the project. Your final submission should include the following:

Analysis and Assessment:

In an 8- to 10-page report, complete the following:

1. Describe the organization in which the service learning took place, including its policies, procedures, and services. In the description, include the following:
   1. The organization’s community:

• What services do they provide?
• Who uses the services?

The organization’s location:

• How accessible is your agency?
• Must they walk or take public transportation?
• Must they cross ethnic, racial, class, or gang boundaries? For example, low-income women of color may be hesitant to visit an agency located at a university in an affluent, predominantly white setting.

The organization’s décor:

• Is the décor, including the waiting area or reading materials, culturally responsive to diverse populations?

The organization’s staff composition:

• What is the ethnic, racial, or class background of the staff?
• Does the staff seem culturally aware and responsive?

Assess the multicultural organizational development of the institution where the service learning took place. Make sure that you describe:

1. The mission statement and programs: Does the agency reflect a commitment to diversity? Is this commitment exemplified by its programs?

Summarize a few critical incidents when multicultural aspects were addressed (directly or indirectly).Explain how the activities and staff demonstrated multicultural sensitivity when identifying problems and responding to symptoms and help-seeking behaviors.Analyze how those critical incidents affected your cultural self-awareness and professional relationship, specific to the provision of culturally competent services.Apply a multicultural and interdisciplinary approach to generate a proposal for what the organization can do to improve its sensitivity to multicultural issues.

Contribution and Reflection:

In a 1- to 2-page report, complete the following:

• Summarize the leader’s review of your contribution to the organization.
• Explain how you felt that you contributed to the organization. This means expanding on the leader’s review by providing supporting evidence.

Appendix:

Include the following documents as individual appendices.

• Service learning weekly self-reflection process worksheets (one for each module after the proposal)
• Leader’s 1-page review

This assessment task requires that you synthesise the understanding of organisational culture and leadership with your theoretical and practical knowledge of Organizational Behaviour in Australian organisations. The focus of this activity is to determine how the practice of Organizational Behaviour must be redesigned and realigned in multiethnic/multicultural contexts to ensure cultural appropriateness and to achieve organisational effectiveness.

Scenario:

Australia has one of the world’s most culturally diverse workforces. Managing different cultural workgroups has ongoing implications on the success of the organisation. However, cultural differences leading to conflicts caused by ineffective communication and increasing moral and ethical degradation at workplaces continue to be issues of growing concern. Furthermore, as the workforce becomes more diverse and multigenerational, labour power may force improvement in the employment relationship and call for different kinds of leaderships. Recently, exploratory studies conducted in Australia have examined the blend of leadership styles/behaviours that different cultural workgroups preferred their managers to exhibit.

Using both literature and publicly available data:

1. Identify and critically analyse and discuss the communication challenges that a leader would expect to encounter in relation to the cultural diversity of many Australian organisations.

2. Critically discuss how leaders can address the ethical issues related to the cultural diversity in many Australian organisations.

3. Identify, synthesise and critically discuss an optimal mix of leadership styles/behaviours which would be aligned with managing culturally diverse workplaces; these should be sufficiently flexible, and able to be appropriately adopted in Australian organisations.

The purpose of the assignment is to build up a specific understanding of managing a multicultural workforce and behavioural practices. This is a multi-strand knowledge gathering research that focuses on critical strategic issues in leadership and employee behaviour.

This assessment assesses the following subject learning objectives:

-be able to critically examine assumptions and propositions of theorising about organisational behaviour in general;

-be able to compare and analyse the strengths and weaknesses of organisational behaviour theories relevant to managers with human resource responsibilities;

-be able to critique and to apply organisational behaviour theories and concepts to case studies and/or issues in their own workplaces;

– and be able to evaluate current organisation practice and to develop strategies that may assist in the understanding and management of employee behaviour.

There are three key themes to be addressed, all in relation to culturally diverse Australian organisations.

1. Identifiy, critically analyse and discuss the communication challenges that a leader would expect to encounter in culturally diverse Australian organisations (Information; Critique; Application).

2. Critically discuss how leaders can confront the ethical issues related to culturally diverse workforces in Australian organisations ( Information; Critique; Application).

3. Identify and critically discuss the appropriate leadership models/styles for managing culturally diverse workplaces in Australian organisations(Information; Critique; Application).

4. Correct use of spelling, puncuation, grammar, syntax, and sematics; well-organised structure; the use of academic style of writing and the correct use of APA6 referencing.

The assignment should be in the form of an academic essay. Use a concise title that reflects the key issues. Use appropriate subheadings to organise the material.

The essay should begin with an Introduction that orientates the reader towards how you are going to approach the material that you intend to cover. It provides a brief overview of the key questions, the logical progression of the argument, and main conclusion/s.

The Discussion section should integrate your research and ideas into key arguments.

The Conclusion should comment on the significance of the arguments in relation to the key issues and consider the implication for practice

***APA style – references needed

Many companies find they are forced to remodel their traditional hierarchical structures, which were originally built around functional specialization and centralized authority, to compete in today’s marketplace. Companies often draw on the following five tools of organizational design to make their organizations leaner, flatter, and more responsive to change. The five tools are:

• Empower managers and workers
• Reengineer work processes
• Implementing self-directed work teams
• Rapid incorporation of Internet technology applications
• Networking with outsiders to improve existing capabilities and create new ones

In addition, there are many managerial tasks that shape corporate culture and the leadership skills needed to engage the full organization to produce great results. Examine the dynamics of the elements that must be brought together to create a corporate culture, such as core values and business principles, operating practices and behaviors, ethical standards and attitudes, and work climate and people management practices.

Considering the five tools of organizational design, managerial tasks and leadership skills, examine the practices followed by your selected organization and include the following in a 8–10 page APA formatted paper in MS Word:

Describe which of the five tools of organizational design your selected organization uses to maintain and improve productivity while achieving cost savings. Use detailed examples in your response.

Explain how work groups are utilized in your organization to accomplish the stated goals of the company.

Describe the motivational practices used by the organization to promote better strategy execution. Include some illustrative examples in your response.

Explain how, if at all, the reward system in the organization ties incentives directly to achieving higher productivity and performance targets.

Explain the evaluation and feedback process used in your company to assess employee performance.

Identify the elements in the organization that affect how cultural change is implemented.

Describe the ethical model being used by the company.

Present your overall opinion of the organization’s corporate strategy approach. Is the strategy execution effort delivering the expected results? Explain and illustrate your conclusions.

Describe what specific actions have been taken to delegate authority to middle and junior managers and to create a sense of empowerment among employees. Explain and illustrate your answers.

Submit your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox by Monday, October 19, 2015.