Author: chris

 

The 20th and 21st centuries have produced many business leaders, such as corporate giants like Jack Welch of GE, Daymond John of FUBU, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Herb Kelleher of Southwest. In addition, many hip-hop moguls have risen to prominence, such as Sean Combs, aka P Diddy, of Bad Boy Records; Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam; and Sean Carter, aka Jay Z, of Rock Nation.

 

Regardless of their business models and industries, organizational leaders are expected to create realistic visions for their companies and the people that they guide. However, such visions often result in vastly different leadership styles. Therefore, experts have concluded that there is no one best leadership style geared towards guiding employees and companies to accomplishing organizational goals.

Using the Internet and Strayer databases, research your favorite senior executive (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, President, Founder, etc.) from any organization that has made a strong impact on his or her industry (fashion, music, food, banking, technology, automotive, etc.).

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

 

1. Describe the overall leadership style(s) of your chosen senior executive.
2. Analyze the organizational structure and culture of the company your chosen executive has led, or is currently leading, and determine the company’s approach to human capital management and employee development. Next, explain whether or not you believe your chosen senior executive’s leadership approach has enhanced workplace productivity and the shared vision of the organization. Provide one to two (1-2) examples of your chosen senior executive’s actions to support your response.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of your selected leader’s performance, based on his or her ethical conduct and effective communication. Next, determine whether the chosen leader was successful in motivating and empowering his or her employees and gaining customer loyalty.
4. Determine three (3) best practices that other organizational leaders can use in order to motivate employees and transform their company, based on practices that you believe made your chosen leader successful at his or her company and within his or her industry. Support your rationale with an explanation of the potential benefits that other business leaders may reap from your chosen best practices.
5. Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar 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:

 

• Explain the multiple aspects of the managerial planning process and the application of various business- and corporate-level strategies.
• Analyze the importance of ethical behavior to an organization’s culture and the new ethical dilemmas created by globalization.

 

• Determine viable organizational structures by addressing the key considerations in organizational structure, applying the process of division of labor, and adapting basic structural formats.
• Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation, and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and motivating individual and group behavior.

 

• Describe actions to improve communications, manage conflict, develop strong organizational culture, and improve the ethical behavior in organizations.

 

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts.

 

• Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics.

 

Final Paper

The purpose of the Final Paper is to assemble learning achieved into a scholarly presentation demonstrating your understanding and application of knowledge in the area of consumer behavior.

Sources of information for your paper include reading assignments, discussions, thoughtful interchange of ideas with your colleagues, and original research. The purpose of this research is to learn something new of interest.

Focus of the Final Paper:

Consumer needs and wants are what drive marketers to succeed in selling their products or services through a variety of methods. Describe the process from consumer need to purchase behavior. Then, discuss how each of the following items impacts the process of decision making.

• The type of decision in the decision-making process (i.e., high involvement versus low involvement)
• Motivation and values
• The power of attitudes
• The type of message
• Issues related to purchase and post-purchase activities
• The family and culture

For each item, support your discussion with a personal example of the purchase of a product or service. Your paper must be eight to ten double-spaced pages (not including the title and reference pages) and must follow APA formatting as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. You must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

1. Must be eight to ten- double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
2. Must include a cover page that includes:
   • Student’s name
   • Course name and number
   • Title of paper
   • Instructor’s name
   • Date submitted
3. Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
6. Must use a minimum of five scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook.
7. Must use APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center to document all sources.
8. Must include, on the final page, a Reference Page that is completed according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

A long religious tradition in the West says that human beings have non-material souls.  Neurophysiologists today generally doubt that.  Read over the list of concepts about the inner self given on p. 228 of the text.  Pick whichever is closest to your own belief or ideas. (You can modify one or more, if you like.)  Then explain why you opt for that idea.  Are there any significant implications if you choose one over another? How would you respond to one of the major assertions about the nature of human identity offered today by neurophysiologists?

 

Spend time observing or participating in a garage sale in your neighborhood and describe how the sale was organized, the relationships between the organizers, between organizers and buyers, the kinds of things that were sold, who bought them, and so forth. Are there any particular customs about how garage sales should be conducted? Did any bargaining take place, and what were the rules of bargaining? What purposes or functions do garage sales seem to serve? Do you see any similarities between garage sales and any of the economic exchanges discussed in class or in your book?

 

-make sure you use anthropogy terms (economics exchange)

-3 pages double space

– due in 6 hours from the time posted   . Thanks

prepare a 3 – 4 page double-spaced paper that describes the marketing communication plan for your product or service. After discussing the characteristics of your target market, identify and rank three (3) promotion strategies, discuss specific uses of social media, and provide a competitive analysis. Support your analysis with three (3) academic sources, which may include your textbook, and/or credible business journals such as Barrons, The Wall Street Journal and/or Business Week. Your analysis should include: • Briefly describe your target market identifying unique characteristics and/or preferences of that market supporting your analysis with credible data • Compare and contrast three promotion strategies assessing the probable effectiveness of each. Rank order promotion strategies supporting your analysis with credible data. • Describe how you would incorporate social media to promote your product or service; be specific in identifying which social media you would use and why. Support your analysis with credible data. • Discuss how your marketing communication plan will differentiate your product or service from current and/or anticipated competition. Support your analysis with credible data

Identification of Health Related Issues

Identify health related issues relevant to the Afican American population. Use multiple resources, such that you include at least three journal articles from the South University Online Library. Be sure to consider psychosocial needs. Submit both your analysis and a summary in a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document.

Three stories related to ” Optics ” from chapter 6 of the “Flying Circus of Physics” website

” http://www.flyingcircusofphysics.com/News/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=42 ”

*Describe the story and explain the physics as clearly and detailed as possible The stories must be a one and half page each typed, please use 1 or 1.5 spacing , Include the number and the title of the story .

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper addressing the following:

• Identify two jobs within the company of your choice.
• Describe the general function of performance management systems. If your assigned company does not use a performance management system, would you recommend it use one? Why or why not?
• Suggest two job evaluation methods for each of the positions. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of these methods, based on the positions you have selected?
• Compare possible compensation plans for the two positions.
• Explain the importance of providing employee benefit plans to employees working in the chosen positions.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

This paper must have in text citations, and a conclusion, each bullet point must be included in the paper. 

 

 

Literature Review

E – Commerce Strategies.

 

Definition and origin of Omni-channel retailing:

 

1. What is Omni-channel retailing?

Omni-channel refers to a multichannel approach to sales that seeks to provide the customer with seamless shopping experiences. It provides the customer with the capability of either buying products online from a mobile device or a desktop. Also, customers can shop in bricks and mortar store or by telephone.

1. Describe the origin of Omni-channel? Its reason for implementing it?

It is a marketing strategy that begun way back 2003 whereby it has evolved from unfamiliar concept to trendy buzzword, to a critical component of successful marketing. Omni-channel began and mainly based itself on Customer Centricity in stores.

Its origin was figured out by Best Buy when they realized they could not beat Walmart on price. Therefore, the strategy ventured by Best Buy aimed at competing with Walmart to out do them in online retailing.  It is in this regard that technology can blur the distinction between online and physical retailing, hence enabling the retailers and their supply chain partners rethink their competitive strategies.

 

References

Morse, G. (2011). Retail Isn’t Broken. Stores Are. Harvard Business Review, 89(12), 78-82.

Bernstein, F., Song, J., & Zheng, X. (2008). “bricks-and-mortar” vs. “clicks-and-mortar”: An equilibrium analysis. European  Journal of Operational Research, 187(3), 671-690.

Brynjolfsson,  E., Hu,  Y. , & Rahman,  M. (2013). Competing in the age of Omni-channel retailing. MIT Sloan Management Review, 54(4), 23-29.

 

Current issues in Omni-channel retailing:

 

1. What are the current issues of retailers and merchants?

Currently, most retailers and merchants are “Omni-channel” in their behavior and outlook. It is because they are majorly venturing into the offline and online retails channel to do their marketing and sales to clients. Merchants and Retailers in new environment flourish through re-examining their strategies for delivering products and information to their customers.

1. What are the impacts of online-offline integration of Omni-channel retailing?

There is a rise of non-significant cannibalization of the physical stores, the small merchants and retailers from the channel integration. The retailers mostly advocate a competitive advantage through channel integration of both offline and online retailing. It has led to the willingness of the customers paying across channels.

iii.                        Outline general consideration of innovation in regards to Omni-channel retailing?

Innovations have to address industry, consumer, and regulatory-based challenges in order

to facilitate the globalization of markets. Distinct changes have to be incorporated in the current mature, emerging and less developed markets. Innovations have to be responsive as they are critical to the success of the globalizing retailers.

References

 

Bell, D., Gallia, S., & Moreno, A. (2014). How to win in an omnichannel world. MIT Sloan Management Review,56(1), 45.

 

Herhausen, D., Binder, J., Schoegel, M., & Hermann, A. (2015). Integrating bricks with clicks: Retailer-Level and channel-level outcomes of online-offline channel integration. Journal of Retailing, 91(1), 309-325.

Reinartz, W. , Dellaert, B. , Krafft, M. , Kumar, V. , & Varadarajan, R. (2011). Retailing innovations in a globalizing retail market environment. Journal of Retailing, 87, S53-S66.

 

 

Future of omnichannel retailing:

 

1. Why is future of Omni-channel retail shopping viewed to be more involving and what leads to that conclusion?Future shopping in Omni-channel retailing will be much more involving due to the expandability of E- Commerce sale. The morphing of digital retailing will lead to more and new tactics of Omni-channel retailing. Customers will be interacting with retailers in countless various channels such as websites, direct mail, physical stores, social media, mobile devices, networked appliances, catalogs and many more thus shopping will be more involving.
2. The importance of innovation in the future retailing?

The importance of innovation has brought new techniques that have led to the convergence of physical retail formats, E –Commerce, and digital services. Therefore, Retailers will be able to confront the need of customers and will be able to deliver a correct and full integrated shopper experience from initial point to final state.

iii.                        What will make the traditional brick and mortar stores obsolete?  The promptness and constant development of technology and social media in the current and future retail sector as compared to the mortar store. The retailing industry is changing and modifying their behavior due to technology, as compared o traditional and mortar store face more challenges. M-commerce and E-commerce can offer the possibility of customizing services and products to clients’ needs and thus provides a more convenient, faster and easier way of shopping.

References

 

Rigby, D., 2011. The Future of Shopping. Harvard Business Review, [online] Available at <http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-future-of-shopping/ar/pr>

Balasescu, M. (2013). The influence of innovations and technology on the future of retail. Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Economic Sciences. Series V, 6(2), 9-14.

Demko-Rihter,  J., & Halle,  I. (2015). The revival of high street retailing – the added value of shopping apps. Amfiteatru Economic, 17(39), 632-645.

Your friend Mary wants to be involved in ministry at her church. Before she commits, she has a few questions about the role of women in the church in light of the debate between egalitarianism and complementarianism.

Keeping this scenario in mind, answer the following questions in your essay:

What is the New Testament definition of “elder” and “deacon,” and what are the biblical requirements for each office?
Can a woman be an elder or a deacon? Support your rationale with proper interpretation (and not merely quotations) of the relevant texts, including Gal. 3:28, 1 Tim. 2:11–15 and 3:2, 1 Cor. 14:34–35, and Rom. 16:1 and 16:7.
How does your interpretation of these passages differ from those who hold to a different view? Interact with the arguments and exegeses from those who disagree with your view.
If limitations on women in the church exist, do they also apply to life outside the church (e.g., in the workplace)?
What contributions, if any, can a woman make to theology, leadership, and management in the local church?