Author: chris

1. In the lecture, I discussed seven key ethical issues in strategic management: self-dealing, information manipulation, anticompetitive behavior, opportunistic exploitation, substandard working conditions, environmental degradation and corruption. I would like you to search newspapers and magazines and find ONE news articles that are related to one of these ethical issues. It would be good if the article is less than two years old. Once you find the article, please discuss: how could the company have avoided the unethical practice? 200 Words

2. Compare the three neglected disease areas that HAND initiatives undertook. Make sure you consider both corporate social responsibility and business opportunity aspects of these disease areas. 200words

part 1

Power Rules.” Please respond to the following:

Agency power combines the executive and legislative powers with respect to rule making and the legislative and judicial powers with respect to adjudication. Pick two agencies and compare and contrast the power each agency has in enforcing the regulations they are asked to uphold. Discuss why it is challenging for some agencies to enforce regulations and why it may be easy for other agencies to enforce regulations.
Evaluate Bring v. North Carolina State Bar. Apply the court’s ruling on delegation to another situation of your choice to determine at what point delegation should stop.

Part 2

“Judicial Review.” Please respond to the following:

It has been stated, “Judicial review is concerned, not with the decision, but with the decision-making process.” Take a position on whether it should or should not be true. Support your position with examples or evidence.
Imagine a Libertarian is voted into the White House at the next presidential election. Speculate what this could do for any agency’s judicial review process.

The CEO has said he does not want anyone to lose his or her job. Some may need to be retrained, but no one will be let go. The merger will take place in two weeks, but the timing for blending the organizations will be over several months.

Change is inevitable in organizations and your organization is about to go through a major change with the new merger.

In a 1-2 page paper, cover the following:

What is the importance of Change Management?
How will you effectively manage the change in your organization?
What kind of hurdles will you encounter and how will you overcome them?
Provide 2 sources.
APA FORMAT WITH INTEXT CITATIONS (REFERENCE PAGE)

You read an article, “Joe Willis: Feeling the Heat in Thailand” this module. Take another look at the article and answer the following questions in a 1-2 page paper:

How does change affect leaders in an organization?
How does change affect employees in an organization?
How can leaders transition change smoothly and keep their employees on board with the changes taking place?
Provide 2 other sources to support your answers.
APA FORMAT WITH INTEXT CITATION AND REFERENCE PAGE

Word document of 2 pages, APA format (excludes APA cover page and abstract; include reference page as applicable)

GiGi’s has now grown into an east-coast chain with hundreds of locations. Each location has one Windows Server 2012 R2 and many Windows 8.1 Point-of-Sale (POS) desktop computers.

It is your job to instruct management on the following areas that they are concerned with:

GiGi’s IT department wants to upgrade Office 2007 to Office 2013 at each location as efficiently as possible.
Create a tutorial on how to do this using group policy objects.
For the benefit of management, explain the advantages and disadvantages of 3 group policies that would increase security for GiGi’s.
How far should management go to increase security using group policy?

Adhere to APA formatting and reference guidelines when writing your response. Additionally, your response should be free of grammatical errors, use complete sentences, and give specific details to support statements.

In a one page synopsis explain the following statement:

“A monopolist can control the price or the quantity sold, but cannot control both.”

Considering children and adolescents at various developmental levels, describe a deficit in learning or memory. What brain structures and circuits are related to your selected deficit? How would the deficit impair daily functioning in academic, social, and emotional domains? What assessments and interventions would be used to detect and treat the dysfunction?

Conduct some independent research on Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA). Write a 1-2 page APA formatted paper with citations and references comparing BI and Business Analytics. Within your paper, discuss the differences between Business Intelligence and Business Analytics and briefly describe the three main components of Business Analytics. Provide a table within your document comparing BI and BA.

Resources: Electronic Reserve Readings, the Internet, or other resources

Locate a current article on a contemporary government program or issue.

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word analysis of your article.

Identify a major public administration theory and relate it to the topic discussed in your article as part of your analysis.

Cite your references within your analysis and be prepared to discuss your analysis in class.

Format your analysis consistent with APA guidelines

Based on ONLY uploaded files that are: lecture notes, pdf handout, PPT, pdf book, and the below linke that locates the recorded lectures for the class. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c8m1ksd0ces3qcw/AACiN0d2ro32Yd8_bwQKXON1a?dl=0 You shall answer the following questions and you should answer each question as long as it takes. HOWEVER, YOU MUST Answer according to the uploaded files and the recorded lectures in the above link: 1. Based on Anselm’s ontological argument, what is the nature of the contradiction in the state of mind of an atheist? Gaunilo claims that, for Anselm, the conceivability of any concept X logically implies its actual existence. Is that a correct interpretation of Anselm? Explain your answer. (You may find the answers in the handout and the first parts of recorded files) 2. Give brief account of the two a posteriori theistic arguments that we covered in class. How are such arguments different from an a priory theistic argument? How do current scientific theories (e.g. evolution and multiple universes) challenge the two a posteriori theistic arguments? 3. According to Aristotle, there are four causes. One of such causes is the efficient cause. What is the efficient cause? How did Aquinas use such a concept in his formulation of a theistic argument? (Part 2) 4. Give accounts of three of Hume’s criticism of the teleological argument? 5. Considering that God, for Pascal, is infinitely incomprehensible, what then is the role of Pascal’s Wager in the formation of a belief in God’s existence? Does theoretical reason have role in the formation of such a belief? Give an account of Pascal’s psychology of belief or his understanding of the belief-formation process. 6. What is evil? What are two kinds of evil? briefly state the reason why the reality of evil is a problem for the idea of the classical god. Give accounts of the two formulations of the problem of evil. 7. What is the significance of Hume’s thought experiments about the person who was briefed about the nature of God prior to birth and the one who was not briefed about the nature of god prior to birth ?based on the reading from hume, what are the four circumstances of evil? What is the relevance of such circumstances in Hume’s formulation of the problem of evil? 8. What are the differences between Augustinian theodicy and Irenaean theodicy? Which of two kinds of theodicy does hick favor? Why does he favor? Why does he favor one over the other ? What is Hick’s soul-making theodicy?