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Path-Goal Style

Write a three to four page paper (not including the title and reference pages) about a contemporary leadership situation that is familiar to you. You may use the same situation from the week two assignment. Your paper needs to:

Define path-goal leadership.Identify the path-goal leadership style used in this situation; provide the tasks, and the subordinates’ characteristics. Support your position with specific examples. Explain whether the action taken was appropriate and effective.Discuss if the path-goal leadership approach would be useful in understanding the leadership applied to the situation. Use three scholarly sources.

Module 1 – SLP
Accounting Cost Systems and Cost Behavior
You are applying for a managerial position at an innovative and rapidly growing company. This is a dynamic company that wants an individual who adds value to the organization. Managers at this company wear many hats, so the position requires managing products, people, and financial aspects of running the company.
As part of the interview process, you are required to make a presentation covering four different topics, one per module for this course.
You choose the company and the new product that you want to showcase in your presentation. It can be real or fictitious (based on an industry). This is for background purposes only. The presentation is to showcase your abilities and what you can contribute to the organization.
IBIS World and BizStats have estimates of cost of goods sold and some other categories of operating expenses. Information about contribution margins are not available, but adding new products typically mean incurring both fixed and variable costs. Consequently, cost of goods sold is a reasonable estimate. Net operating income as a percentage of sales or some variation thereof may also be relevant if the new product is expected to contribute significantly to the bottom line. As a candidate for a position you would not have internal information available, but being resourceful and being a skilled researcher are desired traits for the position. IBIS World also have a wealth of other market statistics that may be helpful. Use listed background material and other resources as needed.
Required:
Include the following items in your presentation.
• Present an idea for a new product.
• Describe the product.
• Show some cost estimates and pricing suggestion for this product based on research.
• What approach would you use to determine selling price (for example cost plus or target costing)? It is important when choosing a design.
• Explain your rationale for the pricing approach.
• Show expectations of growth and potential profit.

European Studies: The Protestant Reformation
Paper details

1600-2000 word Research paper on the context and significance of the European event of the Protestant Reformation with at least one primary source and one secondary source published in the last 25 years.

The Role of Information Security Policy
Paper details

Using the paper in Weeks 2 and 3 add an additional 3-to 4-pages describing the importance of policies and standards for maintaining information systems security.
Include a discussion of the role employees–and others working for the organization–play in this effort.
Examine the different levels of security and how an organization can provide the proper level of effort to meet each information security need and how this relates to what is in an organization’s information security policy.
Describe how the organization’s policies and standards would be administered to meet the key requirements of accepted industry standards.
Discuss how organizations manage the different levels of security required for differing levels of personnel.

Considering Genesis Energy’s aggressive growth plan, Sensible Essentials suggested that its client should broaden the scope of financing beyond short-term loans and consider long-term financing options. These options would greatly enhance the ability of the operations management team to fund the capital investments and growth in operating expenses.

One option is selling more equity in the company. A public stock offering might be a possibility; however, a company as young and small as Genesis Energy might be hard to value. Sensible Essentials believes that another private investor might require preferred stock dividends in order to mitigate some of the financial risk. Another option is a long-term bank loan.

Acting as the finance expert for Sensible Essentials, respond to the following:

· Determine the cost of debt and equity for Genesis Energy and its weighted average cost of capital. Go to www.yahoofinance.com and look under SEC filings. Use a US publicly traded company, such as Apple, Google, DuPont, etc. On this question you will determine cost only for Genesis Energy, look it up at yahoo finance, do not got to the SEC website, it will only confuse you and do not look up any of the other companies. You simply use your readings about cost of capital, look at formulas and then determine cost of debt and equity for Genesis Energy which you will find at Yahoo Finance.

· Identify the sources of long-term financing for Genesis Energy. Here you will identify and discuss sources of long-term financing for the same Company. You need to define long term financing and list some of the options you have to accomplish this (debt options and equity options) be detailed in your discussion of this.

· Analyze the potential costs and benefits of each option. Here based upon the previous question and answer, tell us the potential costs and benefits of both debt financing and equity financing, be detailed and clear in your responses.

· Explain how relative risk (from the investor’s perspective) impacts the cost of capital for Genesis Energy. In this question you should position yourself as the investor and discuss how relative risk impacts the cost of capital for Genesis. This is a risk vs reward question and you should talk about this aspect.

Week 2: The Role of Leadership (300–400 words)
In any personal experience or a real-life story found on the Internet, discuss senior management’s role in successful quality improvement programs.
In general, what is senior management’s specific role in these large-scale strategic quality programs? Cheerleader? Role model? Decision maker? Resource provider? What else?
Why must firms adopt the roles that you identified? What would happen if they did not fill those roles
How should senior and middle management derive the metrics that they want to use to both monitor and communicate performance?

Based on the data-collection procedures chosen in the Module 5 assignment, write a paper of 1,000-1,250 words explaining how you would analyze and report the data collected. Use language that can be understood by someone without training in statistics and research methods. The adequacy of your response depends on its technical correctness and its appropriateness to the intended audience. Do the following in your paper:

Specify and describe the statistical analysis techniques that will be used to compile and summarize the data gathered to determine how the program is operating and whether the program is fulfilling its goals and objectives.
Explain how the qualitative data would be analyzed in order to identify trends and patterns in the qualitative responses collected.
Explain the benefits of the analysis type selected for the evaluation.

DB3 BADM Due in 9 hours

Discuss the following points regarding the total quality management (TQM) concept:

Using personal experience in regard to the quality improvement programs that you discussed in the previous week, which of the following specific quality program tactics were involved?
Increased or decreased inspection
Designing quality in
5S
Kaizen
Mistake-proofing
Other
Describe the specifics of what was done

Business Strategy

In a paper of 750-1,000 words, describe the strategic marketing process and its three key phases of planning, implementation, and control. Address the following:

How does the marketing mix help businesses create market segments?
How does this in turn help to create customer loyalty?

Recruiting

Assignment 3: Recruiting

Due Week 5 and worth 200 points

Imagine you are presenting a new global recruiting strategy to your boss. Choose either Japan or Saudi Arabia, and research business strategies for recruiting in your chosen region. Identify the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in the country you chose. Close with a persuasive summary on why you believe these factors are important. Close with a persuasive summary that explains why these factors are important. Demonstrate your findings to your boss in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.

Create a four to eight (4-8) slide PowerPoint in which you:

Summarize your findings about recruiting in either Japan or Saudi Arabia.
Identify the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in your chosen region.
Develop a persuasive closing summary that describes why the factors you identified are important.
Include links or references to one to three (1-3) quality resources based on your research. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

a. Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and one (1) relevant graphic (photograph, graph, clip art, etc.). Ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from up to 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

b. Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date.