Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 1

Select an issue, opportunity, or problem facing an organization.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word proposal that addresses the following questions:

Describe the selected issue, opportunity, or problem facing the organization.
Discuss the significance, scope, magnitude, and feasibility of finding a solution to the issue, opportunity, or problem.
Justify why the chosen issue, opportunity, or problem facing the organization is important to be researched and whether it can be solved with business research.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 2

Build on the business problem identified in Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 1.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the following questions:

What are the key business objectives?
What are the questions that must be researched?
What are the hypotheses and variables that must be considered?
What ethical considerations must you take into account?
Define the purpose of the research.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 3

Build on the work you conducted in Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Parts 1-2.

Discuss whether your business problem could primarily be solved using a qualitative or quantitative research design and also discuss the benefits of using a both designs in your research.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the following questions:

Which design (qualitative or quantitative) will become the primary research design?
How can you most effectively use the power of both designs?
What are the drawbacks of just using one design to research the problem?

Discuss the insights each type of design will generate and the importance of having those insights to solve the business problem.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 4

Build on the work you conducted in Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Parts 1-3.

Develop or select the instruments your team will use to collect data and conduct interviews and the appropriate sampling or research methods for your quantitative design.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the following questions:

Develop the overall data analysis approach and quantitative and qualitative result reporting:

How will you have access to the population to be sampled or interviewed?
What are the instruments you will use to collect data or qualitative information?
What is the appropriate sampling method?
What sampling frame will be used?
What is the appropriate sampling size?
How will the sample size be determined?
Which qualitative methods will be used and why?
Which statistical tests will be used and why?
How will the results and insights be displayed?
What conclusions should be made if the hypothesis is found to be correct or if it is incorrect?

Discuss the timing and resources required to conduct this research effort and how you will use the insights developed from the study to influence an improvement in the business process or attempt further research.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Combine the four parts of the Preparing to Conduct Business Research assignment to develop a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation of at least 4-6 slides representing a research brief to senior management.

Include the following elements:

Business problem being solved through research
Significance, scope, magnitude, and feasibility of finding a solution to the issue, opportunity, or problem
Research question, hypothesis, and variables
Research design
Instrument you developed or selected
Sampling method
Overall data analysis approach
Result reporting
Ethical considerations

What obstacles do they face?

 

• Why is relationship or personal selling the best way to promote in business marketing?

• Please discuss “How does Hormel use its web site (www.hormel.com) to promote its store brands? Is the site designed more to promote the company or it’s brands? Check out the Spam web site at www.spam.com. How do you think Hormel is able to successfully sustain this brand that is often the punch line to a joke?

   

  3.More than twenty-five years ago, Tim and Nina Zagat began publishing leisure guides containing reviews of restaurants. Today, the renowned Zagat guides still contain reviews of restaurants, but they also rate hotels, entertainment, nightlife, movies, shopping, and even music. In your opinion, are Zagat survey guides goods or services? Explain your reasoning.

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  Please discuss the following from Chapter 13 “What kind of marketing channel functions can be performed over the internet? Why do you think so?”

   

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  Please discuss ” Do you think blogging is a truly disruptive communication channel, or i

 

Conflict resolution is a necessary skill for any manager or leader. In this assignment, you will examine the difference between conflict and competition. You will also explore ways of determining when conflict resolution is necessary and explain ways to resolve conflict.

Research the role of conflict and competition using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Select two resources for use in this assignment. Reflect on your experiences with conflict. If you have no business related experiences with conflict, apply your personal experiences to a common workplace situation.

Review the following video:

• Ury W. (2010, October). The walk from “no” to “yes” [Video File]. TED Conferences, LLC. Retrieved fromhttp://www.ted.com/talks/william_ury.html

Using the selected resources and examples from your experiences respond to the following:

• Explain the difference between conflict and competition.
• Describe a situation where competition is healthy. How does that relate to a business environment?
• Describe a situation where competition could lead to conflict and might not be healthy.
• What methods could you use to resolve the conflict?
• What leadership techniques would you use to resolve a conflict?
• In resolving conflict, use an example to describe a “best case” scenario.

You will apply important microeconomics concepts toward the competitive strategies of an organization that operates in an industry of your choice. You will evaluate the differences between market structures and identify a group of competitive strategies consistent with the market structure that best aligns with the market in which the organization competes. You will assess how the market structure positively and negatively affects the organization’s ability to earn an economic profit over time and evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s competitive strategies.

Select an industry. Identify an organization in that industry. Your selected organization must be submitted for instructor approval.

Identify the market structure in which this organization competes. Clearly indicate why the market structure was decided upon and how this market structure differentiates from the other alternatives.

Describe the level of competition the organization will face if under each of the following market structures:

• Oligopoly
• Perfect competition
• Monopoly
• Monopolistic competition

Identify three or more competitive strategies of your choice that may be used by the organization to maximize its profits over the long run. Evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies in the market structure you identified. Consider the following:

• Expected changes in supply and demand
• Price elasticity of demand
• Market structure
• Government regulations

Make recommendations related to the strategies the organization might consider to maximize its profits and consider the following:

• What are the ethical implications of these strategies?
• Does this strategy align with the organization’s current values?
• Does this strategy align with your own values?

Cite a minimum of 3 peer reviewed sources.

Select one of the following two assignment options:

 

Option 1: Paper:

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper.

Format consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

 

Option 2: PowerPoint® Presentation:

 

Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research a company for whom you would like to work. Focus your research on the selected company’s approach to recruiting, selecting, training, and managing its workers.

 

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

 

1. Briefly describe the company you researched.
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of the company’s recruiting efforts and suggest two (2) recommendations for improvement.
3. Analyze the selection process of the company you researched and recommend two (2) areas for improvement.
4. Assess the effectiveness of human resource planning and performance management systems in general.
5. Determine the level of influence that training and talent management have on the labor force of the selected company.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

 

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; 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 page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• • Assess the effectiveness of human resource planning and performance management systems.
  • Explain how training and talent management contribute to an effective labor force.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in employee and labor relations.
  • Write clearly and concisely about employee and labor relations using proper writing mechanics

Discussion 2: Marketing Ethics and Children

• Describe ethical considerations with regard to marketing to children. 
• When the marketers’ pitch includes a cause component, such as a breakfast cereal that promises to provide breakfasts to undernourished school children, explain whether this is ethical or unethical marketing.  Explain your viewpoint (with your own voice) and support your assertions with scholarly resources. 

• You must use the text and at least one additional scholarly source.

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• Do not copy and paste information from the Google search, or internet pages, or your text book. If you want to quote something (with proper citation), you should then add your thoughts and discuss how you find that information related to your viewpoint. Do not repeat the facts of the text or DQ.

Identify an organization familiar to the members of the Learning Team.  If using a real company, disguise the company name with a pseudonym (e.g. Company X).

 

Identify one independent variable and one dependent variable based on the business. Operationalize these variables if they are too abstract to measure.

 

Create a 350- to 700-word real or realistic scenario for the introduction based on the company selected and the two variables.Include a background, a business problem, and the team’s role.

 

Create a research question based on the two variables.

 

Develop hypothesis statements based on the research question.

 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Milestone Four of your final project is now based on a workplace analysis. You should use your previous milestone submissions regarding the case study to inform your workplace analysis. This milestone considers actual work experience and asks you to conduct a detailed and in-depth version of a root cause analysis applied to your own workplace experience.

This milestone will cover Section IV, Parts A, B, and C of the final project and should include the following critical elements:

Explain actual workplace organizational issues drawing from your own experience.
Analyze root causes from a human behavior perspective and validate the analysis with supportive research evidence.
Examine the impact of poorly aligned and administrated human behavior theories and concepts.

This week, the principal of the town’s high school has asked you to speak on traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). One of the students sustained a left frontal lobe injury after a skateboarding accident 6 months ago. He is now about to return to school and the principal wants the students to be prepared for the possible changes in his physical and mental behavior. Complete the following:

• Identify the major parts of the brain.
• Include at least 2 images of the brain
• Define the term traumatic brain injury (TBI).
• Define the functions of the lobes of the brain.
• Explain how a TBI might affect each lobe in terms of behavior and/or physical movements.
• Provide citations and references in APA format.