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Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Discuss the current economic situation in the U.S. as compared to five (5) years ago. Include interest rates, inflation, and unemployment rate in your explanation.
2. Explain the changes in interest rates, inflation, and unemployment rates that your research yielded. Explain one reason for each of the changes in interest rates, inflation, and unemployment rates that you identified in Question 1.
3. Identify two (2) strategies based on fiscal and monetary policy that would encourage people to spend money in order to create economic growth.
4. Explain how the two (2) strategies that you identified in Question 3 could affect the unemployment, inflation, and interest rates.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.

 

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 imperfectly competitive markets – monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly – to understand their profit-maximizing decisions.
• Explain the factors and mechanisms of growth.
• Explain how governments use monetary and fiscal policy to manage the economy.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in principles of economics.
• Write clearly and concisely about principles of economics using proper writing mechanics.

Consider the marketing materials that you intend to use. According to the textbook, marketing materials are collateral used to promote your business or products. Promotional strategy may include free trial offers, money-back guarantees, and buy two (2) for the price of one (1) type of deals. Write a five to seven (5-7) paragraph journal entry in which you:

1. Determine the distribution strategy relative to your target market, location, and selection of distribution channels. Indicate whether or not you will leverage the following strategies: a.use stores located in different regions b.sell online c.hire a sales team to sell directly to suppliers and door-to-door
2. Recommend three (3) strategy options that you could use in order to get your product or services out to your customer base.
3. Outline your main marketing goals for promotions, offers, and giveaways. Discuss the key types of marketing materials that you intend to develop and share.
4. Propose three (3) action steps that you can use to move your plan forward. Consider how, when, and who will be involved in the execution of this plan.
5. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

 

Organizational leaders are expected to create realistic visions for their companies and the employees they guide, but these visions often have characteristics or properties that differ. There is, therefore, the realization that there is no one best leadership style to guide employees toward accomplishing organizational goals.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

 

1. Analyze the leadership style(s) of a senior executive (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, etc.) in your current or previous organization who made a positive or negative impact on you.

 

2. Analyze the organizational structure and culture of the company for which you work (or would like to work) to determine its approach to team development, and whether that approach helped to enhance your relationship skills in the workplace.

 

3. Evaluate the performance of your selected leader based on his or her ethical conduct and effective communication to determine if this leader was successful in motivating and empowering you to improve on your work performance. Explain your answer.

 

4. Determine three (3) best practices organizational leaders can use to motivate employees and discuss their potential benefits.

 

5. Discuss some of the challenges leaders encounter when managing diversity and how diversity helps business organizations better compete in global markets.

 

6. Develop an effective business strategy to address the challenges and issues you have identified above.

 

7. Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources

 

You will now complete your secondary market research and consider what distinguishes your company from your competitors, their products, and / or the price of their products and services.

Use the Internet to research your customer demographics and market segment from Journal 2. Consider what you think you know versus what you know to be true based on research from reports, publications, course content, etc.

Write a four to six (4-6) paragraph journal entry in which you:

1. Describe your unique selling proposition (USP). Next, explain the key aspects of your business, products, or services that make them unique when compared to your competition (e.g., Southwest Airlines’ USP is providing customers with low airfare without compromising service and comfort).

2. Describe the marketing objectives of your company. Your marketing objectives should, at a minimum, address potential customer profile and market segmentation. Explain the manner in which you conducted your secondary market research.

3. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Note: Insert the information from the completed Journal 3 entry into “Section 3: Unique Selling Proposition” in the provided Marketing Plan Template (located in Week 1).

 

Like so many working parents, Shanna takes her children to day care and arrives at the call center 30 minutes before she is required to clock in. Shanna learned during her new employee orientation that the company expectation is that at the 8:00 a.m. start time employees are to be taking calls on their systems. This means logging into the systems and setting up her desk with materials she needs to answer customer service questions; this is in addition to reading any information or instructions her manager or team lead placed on her desk. What do you think of this company’s expectations? Have you ever experienced this type of situation at your workplace?

MHR6451 Unit V Assessment 

Question 1

Discuss compensation options available to employers when transferring an employee from a low cost-of-living area to a high cost-of-living area.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

 

Question 2

 Define wrongful termination. Describe how an employer can avoid wrongful discharge suits.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

Question 3

Compare and contrast competency-based pay with traditional job-based pay.

 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

 

Question 4

 

Explain the point method of job evaluation and why it is problematic for firms concerning comparable worth.

 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

 

Please explain the measures of central tendency giving formulas in each.

Discussion

Even if you have a unique approach to drafting your writing, you need to generate ideas at the beginning of the writing process. To help your writing have a positive impact on your audience, now is a good time to begin doing preparatory work. These activities include gaining inspiration and generating ideas about issues in your community or workplace that would benefit from positive change. While you are not required to use the ideas you produce in this unit for future Assignments, it is a good idea to invest time and thought into viable topics for an argument for change.

After reviewing the Learning Activities, including the TED Talks on generating ideas, begin developing ideas for creating change in your community or workplace and sharing them on the Discussion Board. Your detailed ideas should be related to an issue or problem that interests you in the community or workplace. You are welcome to share several different ideas in order to receive feedback on them. Please respond to the following questions in at least two well-developed paragraphs:

• Explain your typical idea generation process. How does it compare to those described in the TED Talks or prewriting phases covered in this week’s Learning Activities?
• Describe a problem you would like to solve in your community or workplace. Why do you think this topic would be interesting to others, why is it important, and do you think you can find research on this topic?

If you are directly quoting the Learning Activities or another source, be sure to use quotation marks and cite the source using proper APA in-text citations and full references.

 

 

 

SAMPLE DISCUSSION:

Please note that this is a sample Discussion post to help inspire and guide your own original writing of the Assignment. Your Assignment does not need to look exactly like the sample, as this sample is just a possible response to the Assignment prompt. Be sure to review the Reading and grading rubric, complete each task in the instructions, and contact the instructor with any questions.

DISCUSSION:

My writing process definitely changes depending upon the writing situation. I just started a blog with informal movie reviews, and I find that I write my posts best when I have just seen the movie and have details fresh in my mind. I might jot down notes about scenes I really enjoyed or parts that disappointed me, but I do not need to do any formal prewriting. For a school assignment or work-related project, I try to do more preparation, but too often, I write my school assignments with less preparation than a blog post. I think the main change I need to make to my writing process for this class will be reviewing the discussion and assignment instructions very carefully prior to writing. I have a tendency to glance at an assignment and just start writing, and too often, I end up leaving out an important part of the assignment.

My idea generating process is pretty scattered at this point, but I felt encouraged by the subtitle of Boone’s article, “from mess to masterpiece” (2011). To get inspiration, I reviewed Steve Johnson’s (2010) TED Talk “Where Good Ideas Come From.” I loved his point that ideas do not have to come in a single “illuminating moment” but instead usually emerge from a “network” where people and their environment inspire each other to come up with solutions to problems, like the “neonurture device” made from car parts (Johnson, 2010). I don’t have to have all of the answers right away; this class and my professor will help me nurture my ideas.

Trying to come up with a problem to tackle is a little intimidating, but I do have several issues that interest me. The one I think I will write about for this unit is rooted in my personal experience and tied to my future career. I have a son on the autism spectrum who is nonverbal, and I am studying to become an ABA (applied behavior analyst) therapist so I can work with other children on the spectrum and be better equipped to help my own son. I believe that this topic is interesting to a lot of people given the increasing number of kids with autism and ADHD, and I know I can find research on this topic on the internet and in the KU Library since I have already been reading some articles on this topic for my education classes.

References

Boone, J. (2011). Prewriting: From potential mess to masterpiece. Retrieved from https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/DocumentStore/Docs11/pdf/WC/Prewriting_March2011. pdf.

The diversity movement suggests that our differences should not have economic, social, or political consequences and that we should be entitled to the same access to resources and opportunities regardless of our differences. However, the human suffering resulting from Hurricane Katrina and the images of victims have stimulated a debate about differential access to resources.

Using the Internet, research about the differential treatment and access to resources. Based on your research, create a 3- to 4-page report in a Microsoft Word document that includes answers to the following questions:

• What are the potential ethical issues that researchers may face when conducting public health research targeting vulnerable populations?
• What are the specific vulnerable groups that are potentially at risk as a result of the disaster? Why?
• What are the specific strategies that you would propose to ensure equity? Explain.
• What are the strategies that you would recommend to prevent potential human rights violations? Explain.

In a command or planned economy, the government, not the market, regulates the factors of production and economic activities considered essential to the function of the economy.  Economic decisions including what goods and services to produce (supply), how resources are allocated and regulated and how profits are distributed are made and implemented by the government.

How is the U.S. economy different from a command economy? Can the U.S. economy be called a true free market economy? Explain your answer by discussing the ways in which the federal government interacts with and regulates the U.S. economy in the context of both a command and free market economy.

APA style

A company’s margin of safety is defined by the sales volume and dollars which exceed its breakeven point. The degree of operating leverage is defined by the contribution margin divided by operating income. For this discussion:

• How might the calculation of the margin of safety be used for decision-making during a period of economic downturn?
• How might the degree of operating leverage be used for decision-making during a period of economic downturn?