Author: chris

Question 1

How do you think culture could affect an opinion of a public? Gender? Race? Ethnicity? Religion/Faith?

Question 2

What are the advantages of combining qualitative and quantitative research? Explain.

Question 3

Explain how a PR practitioner can become more culturally literate through practice and the use of the internet as an educational tool.

Question 4

Give a present day example of a company facing ethical and moral issues in the press. (i.e. BP) How effectively is the company’s PR team handling the crisis? Based on what you’ve learned from the text and class discussions, what recommendations would you make and why?

 

Part One: Corporate Governance

Click here to visit Southwest Airlines Investor Relations.

Review the information the company has provided including the company profile, corporate government guidelines and policies, news and events, financials, and investor resources.

Required:

1. Identify what Southwest Airlines sought to accomplish for its stakeholders.
2. Evaluate Southwest Airlines’ actions with respect to employees and customers.
3. Assess Southwest Airlines’ achievements in the area of corporate governance.
4. Have the actions and initiatives undertaken by Southwest Airlines made in a positive impact on its profitability? Explain with specific examples and financial data. Cite your sources using APA format.

Part Two: Final Project Week 5: Relationships and Financial Performance; Company Investment Analysis; Final Report and Presentation of Findings

Required:

1. What is the relationship between your companies and their respective employees and investors?  How do these relationships affect financial performance?  Are there any issues outstanding for your companies? Provide a rationale for your assessment.
2. Compare and contrast your two companies using the financial statements for the two firms and the accumulated data and analysis completed so far.

   If you were going to make an investment in one of the two companies, which one would you select? Why? Explain your answer and include financial and nonfinancial reasons for your conclusion.

3. Prepare a comprehensive final report that summarizes your research and analysis of the two companies you selected for your Final Project over all weeks of this course. Use good form and cite all sources in APA format.
4. Create a 10-15 slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that summarizes your findings and conclusions for your Final Project over the past five weeks.

Transfer Pricing Decisions

As a manager, you may be tasked with making recommendations as to how your organization should structure its transfer pricing. This is especially true in cases when both variable or full cost transfer pricing is acceptable, and the choice is not obvious.

For this Assignment, take a moment to review your course text. Reflect on the scenario presented and consider how transfer pricing decisions might apply to organizational decision making.

Phipps manufactures circuit boards in Division A, a country with a 30% income tax rate, and transfers them to Division B, a country with a 40% income tax. An import duty of 15% of the transfer price is paid on all imported products. The import duty is not deductible in computing taxable income. The circuit boards’ full cost is $1,000 and variable cost is $700; they are sold by Division B for $1,200. The tax authorities in both countries allow firms to use either variable cost or full cost as the transfer price.

The Assignment:

• Part 1: Analyze the effect of both full-cost and variable-cost transfer pricing methods on Phipps’ cash flows using a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
• Part 2: Make your recommendation as to how the organization should proceed, being sure to justify your recommendation with examples form this week’s resources, and/or additional research. Complete this aspect of the Assignment by using a word processing program such as Word.

 

To submit your Assignment, do the following:

• Save Part 1 of your Assignment as a “.xls” file with the filename “WK4AssgnP1+last name+first initial.xls”. Sally Ride’s filename would be “WK4AssgnP1RideS.xls”.
• Save Part 2 of your Assignment as a ”.doc” file with the filename “WK4AssgnP2+last name+first initial.doc”. Sally Ride’s filename would be “WK4AssgnP2RideS.doc”.
• To upload Part 1 of your Assignment, click on Assignments on the course navigation menu, and then click the Assignment Part 1 – Week 4 link.
• To upload Part 2 of your Assignment, click on Assignments on the course navigation menu, and then click the Assignment Part 2 Turnitin – Week 4 link.

General Guidance on Application Length:

Your Application, due by Day 4, will typically be 4-6 paragraphs in length as a general expectation/estimate for each bullet point. Refer to the rubric for the Week 4 Application for grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use the rubric to assess your work.

Choose a company that you have worked for or one that you currently work for to use for the analysis. If you have not worked for a company, choose one that you know some basics about. Write a needs analysis where you discuss current practices and HRIS requirements. The paper needs to be 3-4-pages (not counting the cover page and reference page) that include the following paper headings, which are denoted in all caps.

• INTRODUCTION: Explains the content that will be reviewed in the paper.
• BUSINESS ASSESSMENT: Describes the business (size, structure, etc.) and if there are unknowns, make assumptions based on typical companies from similar fields and of similar size.
• IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS: Consider the HR problems/challenges of the organizations. Make a list of HR functions that you believe could be more efficient based on your own experience. Make assumptions if needed. Choose one HR function for analysis.
• HRIS NEEDS ANALYSIS: Review the shortfalls and challenges of the chosen area. Refer to the course reading for additional information on conducting a needs analysis. Answer the following: How might an HRIS application assist the business? What elements should the HRIS contain in order to help the company be more efficient and productive?
• CONCLUSION: End the paper with a concise summary of your findings and recommendations for next steps for the company.
• APA format, Correct Spelling.

Use the Internet or Strayer Library to research instances of whistleblowing in publicly traded companies within the last 12 months.

 

Write a two  (2) page paper in which you:

 

1. Describe the key characteristics of a whistleblower, and briefly summarize one (1) researched instance of whistleblowing in one (1) publicly traded company within the last 12 months. Include the details of the issue that the whistleblower reported and the effect of the whistleblower’s actions on both the whistleblower himself and the company.
2. Decide whether or not the whistleblower was justified in reporting the company’s actions. Provide a rationale for your response.
3. Examine the extent to which the whistleblower would be protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Justify your response.
4. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

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:

 

• Determine the underlying causes for passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and determine protections afforded to whistleblowers.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.
• Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanics.

Imagine you are a Compensation Manager at a large service organization.   Roughly 700 of your employees are paid the MWR (Minimum Wage Rate), which is presently $7.25 per hour.  The CEO recently came to the CFO (your boss) in a highly excited state.  He was upset, because he had learned that local legislators were preparing to propose an increase to the local MWR to $7.75.  His frustration was obvious as he declared, “This will put us out of business!”

 

The CFO wants you to prepare a brief that will make the CEO feel better.  He wants  you to hit all of the following areas:

 

1.  Changes in cost to the organization brought about should the legislation pass.

2.  What legal issues arise if you opt to convert some minimum wage positions to positions that might not be subject to the FLSA?

3.  What other HR strategies might be used to minimize cost?

4.  Since the vast majority of your minimum wage workers are females, do you have any discrimination concerns?

5.  What might this do to your competitiveness in the region?

6.  Any additonal issues you might want to raise that will calm the CEO.

 

Your assignment is to submit that brief.

 

Expect to that approximately 2-3 pages written in APA format double spaced, 12-point font) to comlete this assignment.  Your work will be graded on completeness, clarity, originality, interest, APA format, grammar, and spelling and puctuation.

 

Directions:

Taking on the role of a CEO, develop a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 15 slides that explains how you would adapt the Western leadership strategies of either Heifetz and Linsky or Drucker in your approach to managing an international organization on the brink of structural change and expansion.  One of your main goals will be to motivate and communicate a vision while connecting to the firm’s mission for all stakeholders, including your Board of Directors. A brief profile of the organization is as follows:

• The company is a manufacturing firm with annual earnings in excess of $350 million.
• It is headquartered in the United States, has two branches in the United Kingdom, and one expansion branch set to open in China.
• A new branch will provide more innovative technologies to infuse the firm’s declining market share while also presenting cultural management and organizational integration challenges.

Your presentation should contain the following components:

• Identification of your chosen leadership philosophy with justification of your choice.
• Using Porter’s Five Forces as a strategic guide, please explain how you will approach Foreign Direct Investment and Financial Risk Assessment.
• Complete a Financial Risk Assessment for acquiring the new technology company by identification and explanation of at least four risks which could impact your organization.
• Identification and explanation of the key internal structures (at least 3) that will be designed to enhance the culture within your organization
• Explanation of how projected global and market trends over the next 10-15 years will impact your company’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage.

Choose two Organisational Theory perspectives. Based on your selected perspectives, identify and draw out the two readings out of the given list that match your chosen perspectives.

Critically analyse the two readings and evaluate how their ontological and epistemological positions result in a different understanding and narrative of technology within organisations.

 

 

1. Select two from the four Organisational Theory Perspectives.
2. Critically evaluate how your two chosen perspectives contribute a different understanding and narrative of technology within organisations.
3. Use readings from your own research and the textbook to form substantive arguments

chose one to write about for 3pages

Cross Training Staff

The practice of cross training staff (learning another type of job) is an old and often successful practice at hospitals.

Using the Online Library or the Internet, research cross training techniques. Based on your research and training, respond to the following:

What steps would you take in deciding whether or not to cross train lab technicians as x-ray technicians?
What are the negative and positive financial considerations in making this decision?
What steps will you take to deal with a weekend staffing crisis whereby your small hospital has no x-ray technicians in-house, yet the demand for their services is very high including 30 percent of the need emanating from critical care units?