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Article Review

Review the following article from ProQuest: Avery, S. (2009, February). MRO sourcing goes global. Purchasing, 138(2), 48-52. Retrieved from ProQuest Database.

In a two-to-three page paper (not including the title and reference pages), identify how your organization or an organization you are familiar with, can improve in the following best practice areas represented in the article:

• Identification of spend types in your purchasing.
• Identify suppliers with capabilities for global business.
• Strategy of integrated supply approach with distributors.
• Processes to track performance of suppliers including cost of ownership and outsourcing.

Submit to your instructor your two-to-three page Word document (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide, and should cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

2 pages

You, Mike, and Tiffany meet in a conference room to begin to assemble your final presentation.

This presentation will be the project deliverable, so you want to make sure you have provided all of the requirements.

Mike begins, “I think we’ve done some pretty good analysis on our strategy. We just have to put the pieces together before the final presentation.”

“We do have some solid information, but we have to look at all the parts to see if we can remain competitive,” Tiffany adds.

Complete the following:

• What are the considerations that you need to be aware of to remain competitive?
• Based on the research that you have done, can you compete in the market that you have chosen? Why or why not?
• What primary factors led you to this decision?
• What would you say to someone who would dispute your position?
• How do you plan on evaluating the global marketplace in the future?

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Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.

Assignment 1: Social Performance of Organizations

 

According to the textbook, the current world economy is increasingly becoming integrated and interdependent; as a result, the relationship between business and society is becoming more complex. Use the Internet to research Apple. 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 the topics detailed below. Alternatively, you may submit a four to six (4-6) page paper instead of the video submission.

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 4).

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 – Social Performance of Organizations
• Tags: BUS475, Social Performance
• Description: First Name, Last Name – BUS475 Assignment 1 (Date Uploaded ex. 11-14-2014)

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:

1. Specify the nature, structure, and types of products or services of Apple, and identify two (2) key factors in the organization’s external environment that can affect its success. Provide explanation to support the rationale.
2. Suggest five (5) ways in which the primary stakeholders can influence the organization’s financial performance. Provide support for the response.
3. Specify one (1) controversial corporate social responsibility concern associated with Apple.
4. Submit a reference page with at least four (4) quality references that you have used for this presentation / paper. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

If you choose the written paper, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the relationship between business and society, and the ways in which they are part of an interactive system.
• Recommend ways stakeholders can influence the destiny of both business and society.
• Analyze the various primary and secondary stakeholder groups, their roles, and relationships.
• Compare and contrast the concepts of corporate social responsibility and citizenship.
• Analyze ways ethical challenges affect the multiple functions of business.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business and society.
• Write clearly and concisely about business and society using proper writing mechanics.

Understanding Groupthink

A Yale psychologist, Irving Janis, coined the term groupthink in the early 1970s (1972).* Groupthink occurs when group cohesion and agreement become so important that the members of the group are not able to dissent, even if that means that the members of the group make irrational decisions. Janis argued that groupthink was especially a problem for government decisions such as policy choices. Knowing the group dynamics and symptoms of groupthink can help leaders avoid the pitfalls from decisions that can result from groupthink.

 

*Janis, Irving L. (1972). Victims of groupthink: A psychological study of foreign-policy decisions and fiascoes. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.

 

Read the Janis article introducing the concept of groupthink.

 

Using the Internet, search for and find an example of groupthink. Think about strategies that can be used to overcome groupthink.

 

Submit 150 – 500 word response: Due by Thursday 11/12/15 a brief definition of groupthink. Provide an example of groupthink from your experience or research. Then, explain how groupthink can lead to unethical decisions. Finally, offer three strategies that might be used to avoid or overcome groupthink.

 

Support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources. You are allowed to draw from additional sources to support your explanation, but you must cite using APA standards. All quoted material must be identified, cited, and referenced per APA standards.

 

 

 

Journal

 

 

 

Explain a time in your life that you participated in, or were the recipient of, “groupthink.” Based on what you learned this week, explain your insights regarding your experience.

(2–3 paragraphs)

Application: Ethics at St. Michael’s

 

How do you make an ethical decision? What guides your thinking and helps you through a dilemma you may be faced with in your professional or personal life? Individuals may use a wide range of methods to help them make an ethical decision. This may include personal values, codes of ethics, or societal norms. Models of ethical decision making can help guide you through ethical dilemmas that test your moral compass. Your examination of the case of St. Michael’s Hospital provides an opportunity to apply decision-making models to ethical dilemmas and understand the complexity of ethics in practice.

 

Read the case study “A Controversial Gift to St. Michael’s” and think about how models of ethical decision making can be used to guide your thinking. Evaluate the connection between ethical leadership and processes of ethical decision making at both the individual and institutional levels. (See attachment)

 

 

Analyze and apply models of ethical decision making and the different guidelines (e.g., values, consequences, principles) for judging what is ethical.

 

 

 

Choose one of the models of ethical decision making suggested in Chapter 6 of The Ethics Challenge in Public Service. . (See attachment)

 

 

 

 

 

Briefly describe the ethical dilemma facing the leaders of St. Michael’s Hospital.

 

Choose one of the models of ethical decision making suggested in Chapter 6 of The Ethics Challenge in Public Service.

 

Apply the model of ethical decision making you selected to the ethical dilemma at St. Michael’s Hospital.

 

Justify your response with the literature and Learning Resources.

 

Support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources. You are allowed to draw from additional sources to support your explanation, but you must cite using APA standards. All quoted material must be identified, cited, and referenced per APA standards.

Return to the website for the Society for Technical Communicationand research the jobs associated with the technical communication field.

Select one job or career field for further research.

Write a 200- to 350-word summary describing your selected job’s or career field’s educational requirements; types of programs or software knowledge needed; and the required professional experience.

Describe, in your summary, an action plan for acquiring more skills to add to your qualifications in the future

“A Plague of Tics” David Sedaris.

 

“A plague of Tics” by David Sedaris is a very interesting and personal story that looks into the life of someone with OCD .David Sedaris uses his trademark irony in “A Plague of Tics” in order to describe and laugh at the obsessive compulsive behaviors of his youth. His essay begins in his third grade math teachers room, and him pressing his nose up against his desk, following by licking the light switch. On his need to count his steps and do certain tasks. Sedaris describes his third grade teacher, whose disapproval is particularly directed at his urges to lick her light switch  as ” odd woman”, or jab his show to his head in his crowded classroom.  His actions were so intensely private, he  had always assumed they were somehow invisible.Sedaris humorously describes his routine walk home from school and all his tics that he had the urge to do. It’s bluntly obvious from reading the chapter that as a child he suffered from OCD ” His “tics” or what he referred to as his “duties” were “intensely private” to him though he would constantly do them in front of other people.

 

 

Sedaris explores the use of hyperboles to explain his situation. ecause this is a true story about the author, it makes you feel more connected to the character being described; he is writing about himself, so it is easy for him to develop the character. While reading the story, his mother does not want to come to terms on why he is doing the actions he is. He explained that while waiting for their house to finish renovation they were living in a different house in the mean time which he states that his mother called, “our own little corner of hell. .” It was not the house that was her hell, it was her son’s “tics.” The house was where most of the “tics” occurred, causing the entire family distress. She explained how he “never slept,” and how in the “middle of the night” he would bang around the house, “jabbing at things.” Claiming that the house was “hell” was all she could do to cope with the “tics” of her child. That way she was able to blame an object for her frustration and not her son.

 

 

 

 

    “A Plague of Tics” essay uses irony to demonstrate oddity of his obsessions and to add humor to his essay this humor works to both strengthen the ethos of the writer, showing that he is willing to poke fun at himself and putting the audience at ease in the otherwise uncomfortable topic of Sedaris’ mental condition. Irony, understatements and hyperboles were great ways to convey his story to the audience. The irony helped the readers to understand that he was not able to be aware about how his “tics” affected other people. Each device which David Sedaris uses in “A Plague of Tics” enhance the way we view his life. From these we can see the extent that a troubled mind will .go to find stability, and he displays how many forms of living exist because there are many forms of people. Each device which David Sedaris uses in “A Plague of Tics” enhance the way we view his life. From these we can see the extent that a troubled mind will go to find stability, and he displays how many forms of living exist because there are many forms of people. ach device which David Sedaris uses in “A Plague of Tics” enhance the way we view his life. From these we can see the extent that a troubled mind will go to find stability, and he displays how many forms of living exist because there are many forms of people. Each device which David Sedaris uses in “A Plague of Tics” enhance the way we view his life. From these we can see the extent that a troubled mind will go to find stability, and he displays how many forms of living exist because there are many forms of people. ach device which David Sedaris uses in “A Plague of Tics” enhance the way we view his life. From these we can see the extent that a troubled mind will go to find stability, and he displays how many forms of living exist because there are many forms of people. Each device which David Sedaris uses in “A Plague of Tics” enhance the way we view his life. From these we can see the extent that a troubled mind will go to find stability, and he displays how many forms of living exist because there are many forms of people. Each device which David Sedaris uses in “A Plague of Tics” enhance the way we view his life. From these we can see the extent that a troubled mind will go to find stability, and he displays how many forms of living exist because there are many forms of people.

• Prepare a description of the agency, the population it serves, and the services it provides.
• Identify the person you are going to interview by title and provide a brief description of this person’s duties and/or role in the agency or organization.
• Create a list of at least ten interview questions to use when interviewing this person for your course project. Include questions to solicit information about the agency, staff, services, and population served. Here are some pointers to keep in mind:
  • Use complete sentences and work to make most of your questions open-ended (rather than yes/no questions) so that you are able to solicit sufficient information to understand the agency and the population it serves.
  • Do not use these questions to solicit information (for example, the location of the agency) that you can find elsewhere, for example on their Web site. Rather, design questions to help you gain an “insider” or expert view of the agency and the population(s) it serves.
  • Remember to include some interview “opener” questions or statements to help establish rapport.

I want the Issue in the Case Study to be Managers who aren’t prepared to manage, whether they were young supervisors who were thrown into the position to manage and/or they haven’t developed good managerial skills because they haven’t been properly trained.

 

Find an article addressing bad management to refer to and also pull from the Module Required Readings I have attached

 

The Case Study will focus on a historic or current leadership issue in your discipline or major.  You will discuss and assess the leadership issue.  The case study issue will lead to the Research Paper where you will develop a plan to resolve the issues identified. The purpose of the case study is to identify leadership issues related to a public safety event.  The more issues you identify with leader(s) involved of the event, the easier the Research Paper will be.

 

Do the following:

• Make sure the case study is leadership based and not just a problem
• Select a public safety event which you will use as a lens through which you will assess applicable leadership issues associated with the actions leaders took in response to the event.
• Incorporate the course materials into your assessment of leadership issues

Avoid the following:

• Selecting an organization as the subject of your Case Study (remember to pick a public safety event)
• Conducting an organizational assessment (don’t confuse an organizational with leadership assessment)
• Identifying technical, management and/or organizational deficiencies and describing them as leadership issues (refer Module 2, especially Table 2.1, to identify true leadership issues)
• Attempting to solve the problems identified in your case study here (save all of that for the research paper)

The body of the Case Study shall be 6-8 pages, excluding other material such as the cover page, table of contents, graphics and tables, and references.  The paper shall be presented in APA (6th edition) format, all margins shall be 1”, 12 point font, and be in either Arial or New Times Roman font style. In the following descending order of preference, information sources must be either peer-reviewed articles, government reports, or other sources approved by your instructor. Internet information sources from other than authoritative sources are discouraged. See the Case Study grading rubric for more information.

Introduction: Have you ever ridden or seen a roller coaster in action? Did you know that the algebra that you have learned in this unit is related to the math that engineers use to design roller coasters? Engineers want roller coasters to be fun and scary, but also safe. Directions: For this portfolio, you will use your knowledge of functions to design a roller coaster. You will draw a short roller coaster on graph paper, plot ordered pairs on its path, and determine the slope, or rate of change, along the ride. Roller Coaster Design Instructions Submit responses to the following items, and be sure to show all of your work. 1. Draw the side view of your roller coaster on graph paper. For the sake of simplicity, assume that your roller coaster track never turns left or right. o In order to gain speed, the roller coaster should have an initial climb, at least two hills, and one loop. 2. Label the x- and y-axes. The value of x measures the horizontal distance from the roller coaster cart to the starting point, and the value of y represents the height of the roller coaster cart. 3. Plot ordered pairs on the initial climb and determine the slope. 4. What is the equation of the line that represents your initial climb? 5. What is the domain and range of your roller coaster? 6. Plot ordered pairs at the top and the end of each hill. Find the rate of change to determine which hill is steeper? How do you know that hill is steeper? 7. Is your roller coaster a function? Why or why not?