Acknowledge cultural Heritage
1- What ethnic group, socioeconomic class, religion, age group, and community do you belong to?
2- What experiences have you had with people from ethnic groups, socioeconomic classes, religions, age groups, or communities different from your own? what were those experiences like? How did you feel about them?
3- When you were growing up what did parents and significant others say about people who were different from your family?
4- What about your ethnic group, socioeconomic class, religion, age or community do you find embarrassing or wish you could change? why?
5- What sociocultural factors in your background might contribute to being rejected by members of other cultures?
6- What personal qualities do you have that will help you establish an interpersonal relationship with persons from other cultural groups? What personal qualities may be detrimental?
-Provide an introduction, All assessment guides questions are addressed, content is clearly written and easy to understand, content is discussed in sufficient depth, results of self-awareness exercises are adequately discussed, paper is well organized, all assessment guide questions are addressed, conclusion. APA format minimum of three references. I would like to talk the writer.

Examine each of this areas of the case for evidence to use during your analysis and consider the following question for each area:

1 Accounting: what are the economics of the alternatives? Think of impacts on revenues, costs, and profitability.
2. Administrative Studies: assign a probability to each alternative you suggest and calculate an expected value for each alternative. What alternative has the highest expected value?
3. Economics: what is the state of the various global economies where you suggest alternatives? (or the state of the US economy)? What is the potential impact of the economy(ies) on the alternatives?
4. Finance: What impact will you suggestion have on the evaluation of the stock and financial reporting of the company? Con you calculate any discounted cash flows or revenues?
5. Legal: What are some of the legal and environmental concerns surrounding the options? Are there any regulatory issues?
6. Management: What is the impact of your suggestion on the structure and staffing for the company?
7. Marketing: What would be your target markets? Develop a basic marketing strategy for the markets.
8. MIS: Are there any systems that your company can use to help in manage the new efforts and better integrate?

As you craft your arguments, think of the functional areas for evidence to support your claims/arguments, ask yourself the following questions:
What claims am I making? This could take the form of the central theme or the case… this about the issues or issues faced by the company and whether or not they can take the form of claims.
What evidence do I need to present to justify those claims?
Was it adequate to establish a causal link?
Did the evidence presented come from a credible and reliable source?
Did they provide enough evidence to adequately establish causality?
Is so, explain. If not, what evidence needs to be present that establishes causality?
What persuasive techniques can I use to get the reader to agree with me?

Description
1. Explain Concrete Operational Thought using Classification, Seriation, Transitivity.
2. Describe 2 applications of Concrete Operations to education during late childhood.
3. Compare Convergent and Divergent thinking using a real world example.
4. Describe metamemory and knowledge about strategies as Metacognition.
5. Why might children high on Creative and Practical Intelligences not relate well to school demands? Do you agree with that based on your experience, why or why not?

6. Summarize the arguments for and against Multiple Intelligences. What is your perspective on the definition of Intelligence based on your experience?
7. What are 3 reasons culture-fair tests are hard to create?

8. Compare Whole Language and Phonics.
9. Compare Mastery, Helpless, and Performance Orientations using the definitions and personal examples. 9 What do Mastery-Oriented children often instruct themselves?

10. Compare Fixed and Growth Mindsets. What do individuals’ mindsets influence? Why and how do these mindsets develop based on your experience?
5. Select a scenario such as stealing, lying, or cheating. And explain the Moral Reasoning (ie, should the child do it….yes or no…why or why not) for each level of Kohlberg’s Stages.
a. Pre-Conventional: Do it or not, why?
b. Conventional: Do it or not, why?
c. Post Conventional: Do it or not, why?

11. Describe Erikson’s “Industry vs Inferiority.”

A. Go to YouTube and find a How to Video. It can be on any topic you choose. (Post the video in your blog by using the MASHUPS button in the text editor.) You can just post the link on the paper work and I will place it in my blog.
Write a short review of the video regarding its effectiveness, accuracy, and usefulness. (100 word minimum)
B. Write a brief process description explaining something that you do well. In explaining the process, you are giving instructions so that others can follow the process. Identify the key steps and describe each step in order, from first to last. Choose anything you feel comfortable with explaining: cooking a favorite meal, changing a tire, performing a task at work, hosting a party, or catching a fish. The possibilities are endless! (250 words minimum)

Apply: Litigation Cost-Benefit Analysis and Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements

Resources: Ch. 3 and Ch. 4 of Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues; law libraries and databases from the internet.

Scenario: Solar Co. Inc., a solar panel manufacturing and installation company, has recently encountered a series of scandals and bad publicity relating to defective solar panels, poor workmanship, and employee allegations of harassment by executives within the company. One claim resulted in a two-year trial which Solar Co. lost; all other claims were settled out of court.

Solar Co. enters into a contract with XYZ Media to prepare a 6-month national advertising and public relations campaign to help restore its tarnished reputation at a cost of $600,000. XYZ Media launches the campaign, and it is successful for the first two months until XYZ’s computer servers are hacked and all client information is lost because XYZ failed to have adequate backup systems in place. In addition, social media account information and passwords were compromised, resulting in derogatory and inappropriate posts being made on all of XYZ’s social media accounts for several hours. Because XYZ was managing Solar Co.’s social media presence at the time, Solar Co.’s social media accounts were also taken over by the hackers for a brief time and filled with damaging posts.

XYZ issues a public apology; however, Solar Co. wishes to terminate the contract with XYZ and receive a refund of the $200,000 it paid for the first two months of the campaign due to the damages caused by the computer hack. XYZ refuses to cancel the contract or issue a refund, insisting that it can successfully continue the campaign and re-create all of the material that was lost. Solar Co. refuses to pay any further amounts due under the contract and has already begun seeking a new media relations firm to re-launch the campaign.

Part I

Write a 525- to 700-word recommendation to Solar Co.’s CEO advising whether Solar Co. should:

file a lawsuit and proceed to trial
try to reach a settlement with XYZ Media, or
use a method of alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Your analysis should specifically discuss each of the nine factors provided in the “Contemporary Environment Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Lawsuit” feature found in Ch. 4, “Judicial, Alternative, and E-Dispute Resolution.” Provide a clear explanation and reasoning for your recommendation based on the facts of the scenario.

Would your recommendation be different if you were advising XYZ Media’s CEO? If so, how?

Part II

Solar Co. intends to use arbitration agreements with all clients, subcontractors and employees in the future.

Write a 350- to 525-word memo to Solar Co.’s CEO explaining the arbitration procedure and the enforceability of arbitration provisions under the Federal Arbitration Act.

Include a recommendation as to whether arbitration agreements should be used in the future to reduce Solar Co.’s legal risk and why.

Identify a news article available on the web that can be analysed using specific ideas from ONE of the following readings in Huff et al, Strategic Management (Logic and Action):
Chapter 1 – Defining Strategy,
Chapter 2 – Developing Resources
Chapter 3 – Serving Customers.

Write a memo to your classmates that 1) summarises a few important concepts from the chapter you chose and 2) uses them to describe and analyse the situation described in your article. 3) Conclude with at least one strategic suggestion for an involved actor.

You may organise the report as you wish. For example, you might begin with the ideas that you choose from the text and then summarize and analyse the situation in your article. Or, you might begin by describing the example in the article and then link it to chapter concepts. These and other decisions should be made on the basis of what you feel will interest your classmates. The memo should be written in an organisational (not school or academic) style. See examples posted on Loop, though note that these were written in response to other assignments.

Formatting guidelines:

Label (File Name): Your full first and last name then student number, the words Memo 1,’ and the chapter from which you draw concepts. [example: ArwaAliami17234567Memo1Chapter3]
Subject Heading of the memo itself: Should include the url address for the article you describe (please also provide a copy of the article as an appendix to your submission)
Layout: Headings, sub-headings, short paragraphs with strong topic sentences, bullets, underlining, text boxes, and other devices for highlighting major points are expected in this kind of business writing.
Referencing: All sources should be footnoted at the bottom of the relevant page for easy reference and summarized at the end of report, using Harvard Style referencing.
Length: Approximately 1,500 words (roughly 4-5 pages, 11-point font, single spaced on A4 paper.

Submission Online:

File Type: Microsoft word document, not pdf
Where: Turn-it-in Link on DCU Loop
When: on 2 October

Loop will automatically reduce the mark received by 10% per day or partial day late and marks will also be lost for submitting in the wrong format. My suggestion is that you submit at least 24 hours early so you are sure you understand this system
Evaluation:

Based on an assessment of:

Following all directions in the assignment (not doing so can lead to a reduction in your mark)

Communication effectiveness (30%)
• Professional appearance
• Tone and content suitable for audience (your classmates)
• Ease of identifying major points made and conclusions reached
• Engaging writing and examples

Analysis (70%)
• Logic of your analysis
• Useful detail (given short length of report)
• Evidence of understanding key ideas of strategic analysis
• Footnoted citations to information found in public sources
• Critical thinking about complex effect of innovations

You must select one of the following questions

1- Based on your academic research, critically evaluate the concept of customer experience and how it should be managed either online or offline. Furthermore, select three organisations that demonstrate good or bad examples in applying customer experience and show how theories can be applied these organisations.
Based on your academic research, critically evaluate the concept of brand love and how it should be applied to enhance customer loyalty. Furthermore, select three organisations that demonstrate good and/or bad examples of managing brands, and show how theories can be applied to these organisations.
Academic databases: Business Source Complete, Sage. Emerald and Science Direct
Practitioners’ databases: Marketing Week, Brand republic, TED, Economist, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Financial Times
CW Steps:
1. Decide on the topic of your CW (Customer Experience or Brand Love)

2. Read and review the relevant theories

3. Decide which theories you want to apply and why

4. Select three organisations based on examples/case studies/reports from the
practitioners’ databases

5. Apply your selected theories to these companies and show how they are doing/not
doing what the theories, you have reviewed, suggested

6. Provide recommendations based on theory to enhance their business

Learning Outcomes Assessed:
1. Undertake a critical analysis of current marketing issues

2. Synthesise emerging issues and concepts from a range of academic journals, and
relevant texts.

Content of the report:
• Executive summary: less than one A4 page

• Table of contents

• Introduction

• Main body

• Conclusion

• Recommendation

• References

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Report format
• Times New Roman, Arial or Calibri size 12 points

• 1.5 line spacing

• Include page numbers
Marking Scheme:

• Structure 10%: Content is organised and appropriate; coherent; flow of information,
arguments, and concepts

• Knowledge and Understanding 30%: Identifies, explains, draws on appropriate
theories, models, literature to demonstrate depth and breadth of reading to address
the question

• Application 30% Application of theory or practical examples given appropriate to
context

• Analysis and Recommendations 20%: Evaluation and critical analysis of the topic,
synthesis of ideas/concepts, appropriate conclusions, justified recommendations

• Presentation 10%: Spelling, punctuation, grammar, layout, accurate CU Harvard
Referencing style, writing style academic/professional

Return of Marked Work
Marked work will be returned. You can expect to have marked work returned to you by 2 teaching weeks after the submission date.
PLAGIARISM WARNING! – Assignments should not be copied in part or in whole from any other source, except for any marked up quotations, that clearly distinguish what has been quoted from your own work. All references used must be given, and the specific page number used should also be given for any direct quotations, which should be in inverted commas. Students found copying from the internet or other sources will get zero marks and may be excluded from the university.

For Essay 3, you must write an argumentative research paper.
Research Paper will be on Abortion and needs to be fact based.
That is, the paper must:
a) Argue for or against something, present a solution to a problem,
b) Or defend a position, and
c) It may not just present information on a subject.
For your own research paper:
1. Write a research paper that tries to convince the reader of a position. In other words, to repeat, your paper should not just inform your reader about a topic, but instead it must convince your reader of something. Think of an argumentative paper as writing FOR or AGAINST something.
2. You may choose your own topic, but to promote writing across the curriculum, choose from the following:
• Don’t be afraid to think outside the box. An art student, for instance, may not be sure at first what argumentative topic to tackle, but perhaps he or she could write an argument about the use of sex in advertisement, etc. Ultimately, choose a topic that will be of real interest of you.
• Think of a problem or issue you faced then or are facing now, a policy with which you disagree, etc.
For the purposes of academic discourse, you are each, of course, entitled to your own personal beliefs. However, it will best for this course to depend on academic sources that are independent of personal faith.
Your final research paper must be 1500 words and adhere to MLA formatting.
Source guidelines:
• The paper must incorporate formal research.
• A minimum of three (3) sources must be used.
• Only ONE (1) source may come from a direct website; this does not mean that you cannot conduct all of your research online — you can, but your other sources must be academic ones (books, newspaper articles, journal articles, etc.).
• Within the paper itself, you must cite each source from which you paraphrase, summarize, or quote. All in-text citations must adhere to MLA formatting. Although this is a research paper assignment, the bulk of the paper should still come from your own original ideas, interpretations, evaluations, and suggestions. Roughly, no more than 30% of the paper should come from source material.
• An accompanying Works Cited page is required: papers submitted without one will automatically earn a zero (0).
• Accompanying multi-media materials can be incorporated and are encouraged, but should be in addition to, not in place of, other formal source material and own content.
Also:
An argumentative paper cannot just present information.

• It cannot just, for example, give a lot of facts about how much health care costs in the United States or what percentage of Americans live in poverty (though these facts may be used in your essay to help support an argumentative opinion).
• An argumentative paper has to argue for or against something, defend a position, confront the reader with something you see as a problem, etc.
• Your essay will need to have a clearly written argumentative thesis that takes a stand on. That thesis is the answer to a question. You have to ask the question first. You ask the question because you’re not sure of the answer.
• One suggestion for beginning the question is “Is it true that….?”
• For example, Prensky’s question might have been:
“Is it true that American colleges should stop using paper textbooks?”
• Another good suggestion is to begin your question with “Should…?” as in “Should American colleges stop using paper textbooks?” This kind of question forces an answer that is an opinion (an argument) – in this case, that yes, they should; or no, they should not. The paper would then go on to defend the one chosen answer.

I. Background:
Operations Management (OM) is an important aspect of business (Slack et al, 2013; Greasley, 2013; Patton et al, 2011). Both service and manufacturing organisations use OM to ensure they are competitive and assist in providing and maintaining good levels of customer service (Johnson et al, 2012). Developing a system of an organisations operation can be advantageous both for both the customer and organisation (Bamford and Forrester, 2010). Subsequently, once a system has been developed and understood it should be possible to determine why the system works well, or not well, and to recommend possible production related improvements that will assist both parties concerned.

II. Task:
In this assignment you need to analyse a production system (service or manufacturing based) with which you are familiar. The assignment should address the following questions:
1. Critically appraise how well the inventories and/or assets within the production system are currently managed.
• The analyse should focus principally – but not limited – to the functions of the operations in the chosen process
2. Provide a detailed illustration of the key operations involved within your chosen production system presenting a logical operational flow.
• drawing a diagram with the main operations in the process and when this is clear you can move on to the other points
3. From the illustration in point two, identify two points where the organisation’s delivery system may fail to align its operational performance measures, clearly demonstrating your reasoning and understanding behind this.
4. Discuss how a lean approach could be utilised in the production system to potentially reduce the failings discussed in point three.
5. Identify three key findings discussing the extent to which the lean approach chosen may assist the production system with aligning its operational performance measures.

III. Format:
1- It should be in a report format, being clearly structured using headings, sub-headings etc.
2- It should be presented using Times New Roman (TNR) 12 font, 1.5 line spacing, and it should be 3,000 words in length. The word count is from the introduction to the end of the conclusion section.
3- You must cite all sources on which you have relied, for example textbooks, journal articles, web pages etc. Please use the Harvard Bibliographic referencing system (Harvard – Anglia 2008” style) or (APA style).
4- Please I want this work to be free plagiarism.
IV. Note:
1. Please answering all the questions that addressed in the task.
• Might seem obvious, but … it is not. For this particular assignment, with several points clearly identified, they should be easier to follow. Make sure you structure the paper accordingly and address the key points.
• You must endeavour to use theory explicitly at all stages, but do not spend too much time describing a theory. While you must be explicit about the theories, models, techniques etc. that you use, you can assume that the reader is familiar with them. What the reader requires is evidence of your ability to understand and apply the theory, and learn from in order to support the development of your findings and/or ideas.
2. Please use a wide literature research (through many in-text references).
• Is something that with experience in the field related to the course material sometimes have difficulty with. Simply knowing things from your experience is not enough for a good demonstration of understanding. You have to support your analysis with references to the literature as much as possible.
3. You have complete freedom in the choice of the case study company.
• The only limitation I would set is the size of the company. For example, one could not properly discuss the distribution aspect of MacDonalds due to the shear size and complexity involved. Remember that the purpose this assignment is to demonstrate understanding of the discussed concepts. If half the paper is spent describing the company and the processes involved, then there is little remaining for addressing the actual points. One could, for example, limit the discussion to the manufacturing of the food in one MacDonalds shop, instead. This limited scope would allow for a clear discussion addressing all points. You may use International brands as well. Just be sure that you can capture clearly the entire process under the tasks section (point 2).
4. Please do use diagrams, illustrations, tables, graphics etc. wherever these are helpful, and remember that these do not count towards your word limit.
• If you do use these, please do not put them in the appendices if they are part of your discussion. Appendices are the appropriate places to put supporting material, however, remember if the reader is satisfied with the main points of your discussion; the supporting information within the appendices may not even be reviewed.
Here are some examples of good uses:
• When using a case-study company, instead of placing a 600 words description of the company in the body of the paper, I recommend including only a few sentences that only present the information needed for understanding the analysis, while the long description is placed in the Appendix for the interested reader.
• If you have an example table of more than 3 lines (for example, a risk register), then you can place the full table in the Appendix, whereas the body only keeps 2-4 lines that demonstrate the use of that tool.
• In general, any material that does not directly contribute value to the paper should be considered for the Appendix section.

V. Outline the assignment:
It should follow the following formatting and structuring rules:
1. Abstract section.
2. Introduction – Keep this one short (less than a page). It should set the context of the paper, define the scope of the analysis and give an indication of the structure used.
3. Body of the paper with clear section headings.
4. Conclusion – summarizing the main points of the analysis and expressing the understanding gained at the end of the research and report.
5. Appendix sections – as needed. The Appendix sections are not included in the word count (3000 words), but they are also not considered as part of the analysis, so you have to be careful about using them.
6. List of References.

VI. Marking Criteria
Your assignment will be marked against the following criteria:
1. Evidence of your ability to use Operations Management (OM) theory in order to help you think in a critical way, and to develop an understanding of how key operational decisions are made within the chosen production system. (20%)
2. Evidence of your understanding of how different OM and Lean approaches could contribute to addressing the aim of your assignment. (20%)
3. Evidence of your understanding of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in various OM and Lean approaches in your chosen production system. (15%)
4. Evidence of your understanding of the limitations placed upon the OM and Lean options available to your chosen production system. (20%)
5. Your ability to convey your conclusions and recommendations in a reasoned, supported and credible manner. (15%)
6. Accurate grammatical and economical use of English. A good presentation standard using the report format. Appropriate citation of sources using the Harvard Bibliographic Referencing System. (10%)

Analyse below five firms and assess in turn four topics, namely strategy, corporate organization, core capabilities, and the role of government.
1) Secom – Japan
2) Mitsubishi Corporation – Japan
3) Toyota – Japan
4) Hitachi Corporation – Japan
5) Samsung Electronics – Korea

400-500 words in length for each firm

When you are analysing, for example, Japanese multinationals in the electronics industry, your comparisons do not have to be limited to Japanese rivals. Comparisons with Asia Pacific and European multinationals may be more apt and useful. The same point applies to Korea.
Consider a number of perspectives, including the aims of Japanese multinationals in relation to global strategies; the aims of Korean and international business strategies; differences between industries and types of business; the degree of global versus regional control, and changes in operational control over time; the competitive advantages of these multinationals compared to those of rivals; variations in management, organization, and operations between home country and host nations; the ability of Japanese, Korean multinationals to compete in Europe, Asia and North America, and their ability to adapt to changes in policy and markets; and the policies of host governments and the relevance of the EU.