Author: chris

Imagine you are part of a strategic planning group at a large corporation that is considering developing a new proposed product. The marketing director has asked your team to do a competitive market analysis to determine the product’s potential success. The analysis will focus on your primary competitor in the product’s market.

Select a potential competitive organization and a product in that organization.

Write a word paper analyzing the current market conditions. Address the following topics:

A short history of the organization and a description of their product
Factors that affect demand, supply, and prices in the market in which the competitor organization operates
Define the market for your chosen product, including an analysis of its competitors, and customers.
Any issues or opportunities your organization faces that affect its competitiveness and long-term profitability with regards to your product: This may include but is not limited to the following elements:
Price elasticity of demand
Technological innovation
The relationship between the amount of labor & capital employed and the law of diminishing marginal productivity
Cost structure
Factors affecting variable costs, including productivity and others that change the supply of and demand for labor
Factors affecting fixed costs

In view of the weak economy of the last several years, explain which of the four (4) components of GDP had, or is having, the greatest positive impact in our economy. Use the following historical tables to support your response.

Go to the Bureau of Economic Analysis at www.bea.gov Navigate on the home page to where it states “National,” then select “Gross Domestic Product”. Next, select “GDP and the National Income and Product Account (NIPA) Historical Tables”. The direct Web address is http://bea.gov/national/index.htm#gdp

Recently, some courts and some judges have ordered punishments that “shame” defendants as a result of the crimes these defendants have committed.

For example, people have been ordered to hold “idiot” signs and in Utah the mother of a 13-year-old girl was ordered to cut the ponytail of her daughter in order to reduce a community service requirement.

In a 2-3-page paper, using APA format, address the issue “Is Shaming Right?”

You should identify the purposes of criminal punishment, trends in punishment, and then examine whether or not shaming can punish, educate and/or rehabilitate.

Finally, you should address whether or not shaming punishments should be used in the criminal punishment process and provide support for your reasoning.

You should use detailed examples in you paper and explain your analysis thoroughly. You are required to use 2-3 outside sources and incorporate those into your paper.

Please be sure to include a reference page at the end of your paper.

Female Offending

The number of females involved in juvenile offending has seen and increase in the last 10 to 20 years.

Write a 750 – 1000 word, APA sytyle page paper discussing the characteristics associated with the typical female juvenile offender.

In your paper answer the following question:

What factors have contributed to the growing number of females coming into the juvenile justice system?

In your paper include a title sheet and 2-3 references. Only one reference may be found on the internet.

Resource: Case Brief Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., et al. in Ch. 2, section 2-6, “Commerce Powers,” of the text.

Write a word paper in which you define the functions and role of law in business and society. Discuss the functions and role of law in your past or present job or industry. Properly cite at least two references from your reading.

“Advertising Media and Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)” Please respond to the following:.

1. From the scenario, distinguish between two to three (2-3) different types of advertising media available for the new product launch. Provide two (2) suggestions for the marketing intern that will help her to create an advertising budget.

2. From the e-Activity, create a new advertising message for a company of your choice using Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action (AIDA). Determine the fundamental manner in which you will measure the effectiveness of the advertising message and how it aligns with corporate strategy (e-Activity: Use the Internet to research the current advertising message(s) for a company of your choice. Be prepared to discuss)

What is diplomacy? Under what circumstances is the president’s foreign policy most likely to rely on diplomacy? Under what circumstances is the president most likely to rely on military action instead of diplomacy? Give an example of when the United States has relied on diplomacy and when it has relied on military action. Which U.S. political party is most likely to rely on diplomacy rather than military action when executing foreign policy? Provide a justification for your answer

The president has many executive branch advisors to assist with making foreign and defense policy. To what extent is the president’s foreign policy strength related to this large cadre of advisors? In what situations would the president be most likely to consult with each of the following: the vice president, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the secretary of Homeland Security, the director of National Intelligence, the National Security Council, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

What are the president’s foreign policy powers? What are Congress’s foreign policy powers? Who has more foreign policy powers and why? Is the existing balance of power between Congress and the president appropriate, or would the United States be better off if one branch’s powers were to increase and the other branch’s powers decrease? Provide a justification for your answer

1. Imagine you are a new employee in a human resource (HR) department. Your first task is to develop a stress management seminar for the employees. Determine the topics that should be covered in the seminar. Support your selection of the topics.
2. Develop criteria to assist in selecting the vendor to use for the training.

3. From the e-Activity, determine if Southwest’s method of training is an effective way to conduct training. Support your position. Provide one recommendation for improvement. (e-Activity: Go to the Chief Learning Officer’s (CLO) Website and read the article titled “Southwest Airlines: Employee Education Takes Flight” , located at http://clomedia.com/articles/view/southwest_airlines_employee_education_takes_flight. Be prepared to discuss.)

4. Compare the following training methods: presentations, case studies, simulations, and discussions. Determine which training method you believe to be the most effective and explain why

Instructional Objectives for this activity:

Enumerate the principles of personal ethical decision making

Summarize the factors that affect an organization’s ethical culture

An organization can improve its ethical climate by providing leadership from management, implementing ethics programs, and appointing ethics officers. The organization can also set realistic objectives, utilize codes of conduct, discipline violators, and employ a variety of other methods.

In Business and Society:

Complete Discussion Questions 1-7 on pages 264-265.

Assignment should be three pages in length.

For citation guidelines, please refer to the table in the APA Style section of the syllabus.

Save your document with a file name that includes your name, course code, section number, and title.

(For example: JaneSmith MAN5066-12 Week 5.docx)

If you are not using Microsoft Word, save your document with the .rtf file extension (Rich Text Format).

Submit this document to the Week 5: Individual Work basket in the Dropbox.

Scenario

You have been asked to create an action plan and facility design that will integrate spiritual, religious, therapeutic, and health care functions into a new, culturally diverse assisted-living/long-term care facility for elderly people. The building is planned to house 150 people. There will be 75 assisted-living apartments and 50 rooms for residents in long-term care; of these rooms, 25 will be single-occupancy, and the other 25 will be double occupancy.

Action Plan Components

Your action plan you must:

1. Create a Spiritual Assessment Questionnaire that includes a minimum of 10 questions.

a. Discussion each question detailing why the question is important, and what information will be gleaned from the client’s answer.

b. Explain how the answer will apply to a spiritual intervention and/or therapy plan.

2. Identity Needs of Individuals: The action plan should identify how to integrate spiritual and religious practices, therapeutic activities, and health care to address the needs of the following:

a. Residents who share a double-occupancy room

b. Residents who are culturally diverse

c. Residents who lack a specific spiritual identity

d. Residents who are grieving for another resident who passed away

e. Privacy concerns for all residents

f. Employees, who are equally a part of the environment

3. Facility Plans: Design plans for the facility need to include spiritual elements and sacred spaces throughout the common areas from a variety of religious/spiritual perspectives, and will address:

a. Dining room(s)

b. Social hall where all the residents can assemble at one time