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Analyze the differences between the current supply chain and the proposed turnkey strategy.

For this assignment, use your coursepack to review the case of “Elizabeth Arden: Executing Global Supply Chain Re-Engineering” by Gao and Wood. In 2–4 double-spaced pages, analyze this case and address the following questions:

Analyze the differences between the current supply chain and the proposed turnkey strategy.
What will the change mean for suppliers and their roles? What will it mean for current employees and their roles?
Calculate the total financial impact for the re-engineering effort. What does this mean for Elizabeth Arden and its shareholders?
Assume the role of Pierre Pirard, what would you do and why?

Analyze your project company’s current situation and future prospects.

Company Analysis Part 2:  Organizational SWOT Analysis

Prepare a complete SWOT Analysis that analyzes your project company’s current situation and future prospects.

 

Be sure to include the following information in your project company SWOT analysis:

  • Introduction/Overview
  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • Opportunities
  • Threats
  • External Factors Impacting Decisions
  • Possible Future Scenarios
  • Recommendations for Changes in Culture, Leadership, and/or Structure
  • Summary/Conclusions

Referenced research is required and assignment should be properly formatted in APA style.

Explain the variety of motivational theories and job design considerations.

Motivation is a complex subject, but its understanding and application is central to the success of management and the organization. Imagine that the CEO of your organization (current or past) has tasked you with recommending actions to promote employee’s involvement. This is a very important task. We recommend you start by drafting an outline of you potential ideas. Thereafter, you can explain in detail your proposal to the CEO. The outline should not be a reiteration of motivation theory, but should provide succinct points that cover the key topics of motivation and provides a road map that management can implement to improve motivation within the organization.

HINT: Review Chapter 8, page 226. Also, you might want to think about a specific job or unit you worked previously.

PREWORK:

Review the following videos about how to create an outline:

Watch the following videos as supplemental materials:

  1. Understanding what motivates and engages employees (3 min 58 s)
  1. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation (4 min 17 s)
  1. Communicate to motivate (3 min 58 s)

 

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

  1. Create a one (1) page outline in which you select topics and subtopics around your recommendations to improve the employee’s involvement.
  2. Explain three (3) of the most critical topics you have included in your outline, and propose a potential course of implementation. (3-4 pages)
  3. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources you have located using the Strayer Library resources / databases in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource, and neither do web-based blogs.
  4. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
    1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
    2. 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 is not included in the required page length.
    3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

  • Analyze the relationship between the basic organizational behavior models of individual, group, and organizational processes, and the productivity of an organization.
  • Explain the variety of motivational theories and job design considerations.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in leadership and organizational behavior.
  • Write clearly and concisely about leadership and organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics

What would happen if a species of lizard were suddenly split into 2 groups by a hurricane resulting in the isolation of a small group of individuals on an island far from the mainland? Explain.

Instructions: You will need to write a 1–page lab report using the scientific method to answer the following question:

• What would happen if a species of lizard were suddenly split into 2 groups by a hurricane resulting in the isolation of a small group of individuals on an island far from the mainland? 

 

Part I: Use the animated time progression of speciation to help you write up your lab report.

Part II: Write a 1-page lab report using the following scientific method sections: 

• Purpose
o State the purpose of the lab. 
• Introduction
o This is an investigation of what is currently known about the question being asked. Use background information from credible references to write a short summary about concepts in the lab. List and cite references in APA style. 
• Hypothesis/Predicted Outcome
o A hypothesis is an educated guess. Based on what you have learned and written about in the Introduction, state what you expect to be the results of the lab procedures. 
• Methods
o Summarize the procedures that you used in the lab. The Methods section should also state clearly how data (numbers) were collected during the lab; this will be reported in the Results/Outcome section. 
• Results/Outcome
o Provide here any results or data that were generated while doing the lab procedure. 
• Discussion/Analysis
o In this section, state clearly whether you obtained the expected results, and if the outcome was as expected.
o Note: You can use the lab data to help you discuss the results and what you learned. 

Provide references in APA format. This includes a reference list and in-text citations for references used in the Introduction section. 

Give your paper a title and number, and identify each section as specified above. Although the hypothesis will be a 1-sentence answer, the other sections will need to be paragraphs to adequately explain your experiment. 

When your lab report is complete, post it in Submitted Assignment files.

 

Part 1:

Species

In biological terms, a species is defined as a group of organisms that are able to interbreed to produce fertile and viable offspring under natural conditions. This description of a species can further be characterized as reproductive isolation, where physical and sometimes behavioral traits of an organism will only allow them to reproduce with an organism that has the same traits. Using the aforementioned definition of a species, different breeds of dogs are able to produce fertile and viable offspring because they are all the same species, but dogs and cats are unable to interbreed because they are two different species.

Population

Now, extend the definition of a species to a group of the same species living in the same geographic area. This would represent a population. What would happen if the species within this population were suddenly split into two groups by an earthquake, creating a physical barrier such as a canyon? If a population is divided indefinitely by a barrier, members of the divided population will not have the opportunity to breed with each other.

Impacts

Over many years, the abiotic (nonliving) and biotic (living) conditions on either side of the physical barrier will vary from one another. As a result, natural selection will cause different selective and adaptive pressures to occur between the two divided populations, and they will evolve differently. Over time, this will result in speciation, which is the creation of two new species. This occurs because of reproductive isolation.

Should companies start monitoring labor standards within their global supply chain? Explain.

  1. One of the most common entry strategies for MNCs is the joint venture. Why are so many companies opting for this strategy as they attempt to expand into overseas markets (E.g. US based Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, entered Brazil in 1995 by forming a 60:40 joint venture with one of the country’s leading business conglomerates, Grupo Garantia)? Please provide specific examples and a rationale for your response.
  2. What is the base (or bottom) of the pyramid strategy? Do you think this approach can be beneficial for a multi-national firm? Provide specific examples and a rationale for your response.

     

  3. Two prominent economic arguments against free trade are 1) the need to protect domestic industries and 2) the need to shield infant industries. Do you agree with this argument? Please provide a rationale and specific examples for your response.

     

  4. Should companies start monitoring labor standards within their global supply chain? Please provide a rationale and specific examples for your response.

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of partnerships and corporations.

Limited Liability Companies share some of characteristics of partnerships and some of the

 

characteristics of corporations. Write a 4-5 paragraph essay describing the advantages and

 

disadvantages of partnerships and corporations. Identify the essential LLC characteristics

 

regarding liability, tax, profit and loss sharing and explain how the LLC statute is a better choice

 

for most businesses.

Justify the threat cyber terrorism poses to society.

Today, there are many industries that remain vulnerable to electronic fraud.  For this assignment, you will need to research the Internet for organizations that remain vulnerable and the hacking or fraud techniques they have encountered in the recent years.

Write a 3-4 page paper in which you:

  1. Identify and describe at least two forms of fraud techniques from your research. Include the identity of the government agencies that provide awareness for these types of fraud techniques.
  2. Justify the threat cyber terrorism poses to society. Provide examples to support your justification.
  3. Prioritize steps that should be completed in order to preserve evidence so that it may be used in court cases for trials against computer fraud offenders.
  4. Defend or oppose the legal processes of civil law used to resolve cases against computer crimes offenders. Justify your decision.
  5. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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 techniques of computer criminals and hackers.
  • Describe organized crime and cyber terrorism crime.
  • Categorize the civil matters related to computer crime.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in the investigation of computer crime.
  • Write clearly and concisely about computer crime investigation topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.