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Assignment 2: Challenges in the Global Business Environment

According to the textbook, ongoing challenges in the global business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Imagine that you have been appointed as Apple’s Chief Compliance Officer and must prepare a video presentation for Apple’s suppliers regarding Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct to deliver via a web meeting. To prepare for your presentation, review Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct, located athttps://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/. Next, use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a maximum of a five to seven (5-7) minute dynamic video on Apple’s Code of Conduct. Alternatively, you may submit a four to six (4-6) page paper instead of the video submission.

In addition to the recorded video, you must also create a presentation using PowerPoint (or other equivalent software) summarizing the important changes and explanations regarding the code of conduct that you communicated in your video presentation to email to the suppliers after the meeting for future reference.

You must submit both parts of the assignment to receive full credit.

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

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, view the Kaltura video tutorial found in your online course shell (Week 9).

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

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Challenges in the Business Environment
Tags: BUS475, Business Environment
Description: First Name, Last Name – BUS475 Assignment 2 (Date Uploaded ex. 11-14-2014)

Part 1: Video Presentation OR Paper

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

List specific changes that Apple has made to its Code of Conduct in recent years. Provide at least one (1) example of each change.
Explain the identified changes to the suppliers in such a way that they will understand the standards that Apple requires in order to maintain their relationship with the company.

Part 2: PowerPoint Presentation

Create a six to eight (6-8) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

Summarize Apple’s Supplier Responsibility information.
Discuss Apple’s stance on each of the following areas:

Empowering workers
Labor and Human Rights
Health and Safety
The Environment
Accountability

Identify the key ways that Apple’s Progress Report has changed since last year.
Examine the manner in which Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.
Provide detailed speaker notes of what you would say if you were delivering the presentation.
Submit a reference page with at least two (2) quality references that you have used for this presentation / paper. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Prioritize the most significant components of a social media campaign according to the level of influence each could have on the new product launch.

Assignment 4: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property

You are a new associate at the law firm of Dewey, Chetum, and Howe. John, a former researcher at PharmaCARE, comes to your office. He has concerns about PharmaCARE’s use of AD23, one of the company’s top-selling diabetes drugs. Two (2) years ago, after PharmaCARE’s research indicated that AD23 might also slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, John and his team of pharmacists began reformulating the drug to maximize that effect. In order to avoid the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) scrutiny, PharmaCARE established a wholly-owned subsidiary, CompCARE, to operate as a compounding pharmacy to sell the new formulation to individuals on a prescription basis. CompCARE established itself in a suburban office park near its parent’s headquarters. To conserve money and time, CompCARE did a quick, low-cost renovation.

CompCARE benefited from PharmaCARE’s reputation, databases, networks, and sales and marketing expertise, and within six (6) months had the medical community buzzing about AD23. Demand soared, particularly among Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs patients. Seeing the opportunity to realize even more profit, CompCARE began advertising AD23 directly to consumers and marketing the drug directly to hospitals, clinics, and physician offices, even though compounding pharmacies are not permitted to sell drugs in bulk for general use. To circumvent this technicality, CompCARE encouraged doctors to fax lists of fictitious patient names to CompCARE. PharmaCARE sold CompCARE to WellCo, a large drugstore chain, just weeks before AD23 was publicly linked to over 200 cardiac deaths.

As CompCARE and its new parent company enjoyed record profits and PharmaCARE’s stock price approached $300 per share, reports started surfacing that people who received AD23 seemed to be suffering heart attacks at an alarming rate. The company ignored this data and continued filling large orders and paying huge bonuses to all the executives and managers, including John, whose wife recently died from a heart attack after using AD23.

Module 8 Homework Assignments for Society and Technology and Business Communications and Check your understanding for Society and Technology.

Consider the government’s role in alternative energy.

Create this assignment as either:

Option One: A graphic organizer
Option Two: A 700- to 1,050-word paper

Address the following:

Explain various viewpoints on climate change.
Explain and justify, briefly, your viewpoint on the issue of climate change.
Describe command and control regulations versus incentive based regulations, and provide the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Identify each type of energy source (both fossil fuels and alternative) and its relative abundance and environmental impact.
Evaluate the economic and ethical issues of each energy source
Describe which type of regulation you would advocate if you were in the Federal Congress or Administration and why.

Unit 6 Assignment: PowerPoint Presentation

For this assignment, imagine that you are the director of a child care facility for children ages 3 to 5. As part of a staff development night, you are going to create a PowerPoint presentation to educate your staff on three common disabilities and their characteristics found in this age group. You will also discuss the importance of family involvement in children with disabilities and how your staff members can partner with parents to facilitate family involvement in your center.

You PowerPoint presentation should be a minimum of seven slides, which includes a title slide and reference slide. Click on the resources icon below for the assignment template.

Be sure to include the following information in your presentation:

Discuss three disabilities common in children ages 3- 5 and their characteristics.
Discuss the importance of family involvement in educational settings for children with disabilities.
Discuss how Early Childhood Professionals can partner with families to facilitate family involvement.

Introduction

Safety is key to the continued success of the aviation industry.
Instructions

Your paper should clearly illustrate how your desired career (Air Traffic Control) contributes to the safety of the industry as a whole. Additionally you should discuss how professionals in your career stay up to date, why they need to stay up to date, and how lifelong learning helps contribute to advancing their career and improving safety. As you research for this paper consider the following questions.

Where does safety fit within your chosen career?
How is it ensured?
Is safety integrated into initial training?
How is recurrent training carried out?
How does your chosen career interact with other sectors of the industry?
Where does safety fit within this relationship?
How do people in your career field stay up to date with current safety practices and technologies?
How do professionals within your chosen career field stay up to date?
What are the benefits of continued education? Networking? Best practice?
What are some of the available options? Organizations?
How did your interviewee stay up to date?

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Complete the following:

Identify at least 3 risk assessment documents that should be created or examined when assessing organizational risk.

Note: These are risk assessment documents, not business documents such as human resources records, contracts, or sales data.

Conduct research to determine what to look for to identify risks to corporate information systems and intellectual property.

A1.1 – Book Review: Inductive Bible Study

This is the book review of Inductive Bible Study by Bauer and Traina. Please follow the instructions below:

Please read Inductive Bible Study: A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice of Hermeneutics, by Dr. David R. Bauer and Dr. Robert A. Traina (pgs. 1-399) and write a book review addressing the following:

– Explain the advantages of an inductive approach to the Bible over against a deductive approach
– Describe the IBS spirit as taught by Bauer and Traina
– Outline the IBS method, step by step, and provide a one-three sentence explanation for each major step
Your review should be 3-5 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font

In order to do this assignment you must be able to obtain this book:

Oden, Thomas C. (2009-07-23). Classic Christianity (Systematic Theology). HarperCollins.

Your department receives a tip that there may be fraud occurring at a local town hall. The tipster, who left an anonymous and detailed voice message, indicated that funds being collected for the town were inappropriately being diverted away from the town for personal use by at least one employee in the town hall.

The message included details of sample transactions where taxpayers made delinquent taxes payments to the tax collector’s office and had their tax accounts updated to reflect the payments received. Subsequent to receiving the payments, someone in the department of six individuals stole the payments intended for the town and didn’t include them in the deposits for the town. Payments received in cash were being substituted with checks received from other taxpayers to help conceal the thefts.

The caller also indicated that some of the hours recorded on the town’s payroll system for employees of the tax collector’s office did not reflect the hours actually worked by the employees.

The message ended with the caller stating that the town, in financial straits along with most every town, could not afford to be losing the amount of funds it was losing. Something needed to be done.

1 Describe why it is important upon receiving information that you should perform a preliminary fraud inquiry prior to launching a full-scale fraud investigation. What risks and benefits could the preliminary fraud inquiry generate? What risks and benefits could be generated if a preliminary fraud inquiry was not completed?

2 Could observation skills be utilized in this scenario, and if so, how could they be utilized?

3 What other fact-finding procedures could be performed?

4 Based on the call received, develop a plan that identifies what steps and measures you, as the fraud investigator, could take to conduct a preliminary fraud inquiry into the allegations in order to ascertain whether the tip received was valid. List each step or measure in the ideal order in which you believe each should be performed.

5 If you believe additional resources will be needed to assist you as part of your plan, identify what resources you suggest adding along with when each resource would be added and how they would benefit the procedures you would perform.

TEXT(S): Fraud 101: Techniques and Strategies for Understanding Fraud, 3rd Edition. Stephen Pedneault (2009). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.