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Imagine that you have been asked to write a research-based blog post for a human resource management website.
-Discuss one of the major personality theories and how this theory is used to conduct assessment.
-Discuss what stood out to you about personality assessment practices.
-Reflect on current research trends that utilize this information and how the interpretation of these findings may vary across cultures.
-Create three insightful questions based on the readings that your audience may also be wondering, and provide responses from the research you have reviewed in relation to this topic.

Compare the best practices presented in the WHI study and the other article listed.
Explain how the differences in best practices might impact women’s health.
Explain whether you think the current best practices in the article you selected should be used in clinical practice.
Support your position with evidence-based research.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute & Women’s Health Initiative; US. (2000). NHLBI Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). Bethesda, Md: National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Examination of self‐determination for First Nations people as a pathway to health equity HIV/AIDS among Indigenous people in Canada – underlying causes and effects.The paper should have an introduction and thesis statement; discussion and analysis portion; and conclusion.
All information should be properly cited. Failure to do so is considered plagiarism.

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?
Use examples and references to support your articulation.

Please read the attached case study: – Apple Inc. in 2012: Can it Sustain Its Growth and Defend Against New Competitive Threats? (Case -14) and solve the questions from this strategic scenario:
You have been hired by Apple as a consultant to analyze the current strategic position of the operation. Your contract stipulates that you must provide appropriate recommendations that pertain to the marketplace growth, operations, and decisive strategy against imports. Your firm has been empowered to furnish critical information and data to the corporate decision process.

The following questions need to be addressed as a result of your analysis:
What are the chief elements of Apple’s overall competitive strategy? How well do the pieces fit together? Is the strategy evolving?
What are the key elements of Apple’s strategy in computers, personal media players, tablet computers, and smartphones? Have its strategies in its core businesses yielded success? Explain for each segment.
What does a competitive strength assessment reveal about Apple’s computer business, as compared to the leaders in the computer industry? Use the methodology in Table 4.4 to support your answer. Does it appear that the company’s competitive positions in personal media players, tablet computers, and smartphones are stronger or weaker than its position in computers?
Does it make good strategic sense for Apple to be a competitor in the computer, personal media player, smartphone, and tablet computer industries? Which of the four products lines – computers, tablet computers, personal media players, or smartphones – do you think is most important to Apple’s future growth and profitability – please explain?
What is your assessment of Apple Computer’s financial performance the past three years? (Use the financial ratios in the Appendix of the text as a guide in doing your financial analysis.)
What recommendations would you make to allow Apple to strengthen its position in its most important markets? What steps should it take to ensure that the iPad becomes a major contributor to the company’s overall performance?

Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.

•Using the organizational metaphors of Morgan. Identify one which you think might be applied appropriately to Virgin Atlantic, and one to Ryanair. How you justify your choices?
•Identify the different demands which might be made of managers to achieve organizational effectiveness in each business. What are the implications for the role and development of managers in each case?

Interdisciplinary Research – Discipline Map
OBJECTIVE A:
Disciplinary Spectrum: I major in Communication Studies as my preliminary discipline. Communication Studies is an essential subject that is applicable in various fields of study such as the humanities and social sciences among others. Communication Studies deals with how individuals generate meaning through messages in different media channels, cultures, and contexts. Communication Studies helps in promoting ethical and effective practices in human interactions.
Phenomena: Communication Studies involves a wide variety of study areas ranging from Applied Communication and Education to Visual Communication and Theatre and Drama. The typical “situation” or “event” observed under Communication Studies and considered for this investigation is Interpersonal Communication. Interpersonal Communication refers to the processes through which information, meanings, and feelings are shared between individuals through non-verbal and verbal means. Employees must develop effective interpersonal communication skills to avoid getting into conflicts with their colleagues. Such skills are crucial in preventing and addressing conflicts between co-workers. A recent example of an incidence highlighting the need for good interpersonal communication skills is the recent sacking of Jeremy Clarkson from BBC. Clarkson is a renowned presenter of the “Top Gear” program and had been hosting it for more than two decades. BBC dismissed Clarkson and refused to renew his contract for attacking and insulting Oisin Tymon – the producer of Top Gear. Apparently, Clarkson was disappointed about the lack of warm food and he directed his anger on Tymon. Witnesses of the incident note that Clarkson physically attacked Tymon and verbally abused him using threats and strong expletives. Although Clarkson was a gifted presenter who made Top Gear a favorite show, has been accused of using foul language or gestures during his show. BBC producers and editors have defended Clarkson over his conduct but finally decided to release him after he physically and verbally attacked his producer.
Perspective: Interpersonal Communication is crucial during the interactions between individuals since it enables people of various backgrounds to share information and meanings. Different cultures have different interpretations of both verbal and non-verbal communications, and it is necessary for communicators to ensure that their audiences receive the intended meanings. Such understanding helps in preventing conflicts between individuals.
Assumptions: Communication Studies’ value proposition is that it helps people from different background to interact and avoid misunderstandings. Communication Studies acknowledge the differences between cultures as well as how different people interpret verbal and non-verbal gestures.
Concepts: The majors in Communication Studies include strategies, self-disclosure, and reverse pattern. Strategies in communication studies refer to the methods used by individuals to approach others or learn about them. Self-disclosure enables people interacting to understand and trust each other. Reverse pattern explains how interpersonal relationships breakdown.
Theories: There are several methods considered in Communication Studies. However, the Cognitive Dissonance theory suggests that people become uncomfortable in situations that are in conflict with their beliefs, behaviors, or attitudes. The theory is relevant to interpersonal communication studies where it argues that communication breakdown occurs when people do not want to hear things that contradict their opinions or expectations.
Methods: Both qualitative and quantitative methods involving surveys, research in journals, and interviews with people are used to collected data in Communication Studies
Epistemology: Communication Studies include the study of anthropology, human behavior, rhetoric, and persuasion to offer proof or evidence.

Philosophy 484: Global Business Ethics, Spring 2015

Text: Thomas Donaldson and Thomas W. Dunfee, Ties that Bind: A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999), chapter 2.

Directions: The suit of your card will determine what you are to do for this RAW assignment.

 If you drew a heart, construct a list of the most important words or concepts, and their definition. Cite a quote from the text to support the definition. The number of items in your list should be equal to the card’s number.

Summarize  “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns” by Molly Ivins the  and then explain how it supports, broadens ,challenges, contradicts or changes your understanding of the social issue that the article address “pulling out” at least two points to comment on. Although you will need to provide a short overview of the op-ed somewhere in the beginning of your essay, you should focus on what new information you have acquired and how the professional journalists discussion of the issue has affect/ impacted your understanding of the topic. Further more you will research and select an academic source that will support, demonstrate, challenge and or expand on your analysis and document that source according to MLAspecifications.

The topic of the essay you working with is “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns” by Molly Ivins. Contact me for any questions