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Describe your ethical beliefs.

Write a 400-500 word paper describing your understanding of the origin of the values you hold important. Try to describe your ethical beliefs. Offer a story to illustrate your ethical behavior if you can. Try to explain the roots of your ethical beliefs, where they came from, how you were influenced, whether any particular events in your life greatly impacted your beliefs. Have your ethical beliefs undergone any major changes? If so, describe what they were and why they changed. This exercise is designed to get you to dig deeper for these answers. Knowing your ethical self now will help you as you move through this class. Attached is the rubrics.

Identify your fixed and variable costs at your fast-food restaurant, and explain the changes to each of these costs given the increased demand.

You are the owner of a fast-food restaurant. Given a new item that you recently advertised, you experience additional demand for your business that you do not want to ignore. Identify your fixed and variable costs at your fast-food restaurant, and explain the changes to each of these costs given the increased demand.

 

Examine a perfectly competitive firm that you have recently purchased a product from, focusing specifically on how the firm operates relative to the characteristics of the market.

What does the president and congress do to stimulate the economy?

Select an organization that both U.S. and international presences.

 

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you answer address the following:

  • What does the president and congress do to stimulate the economy? What does the president and congress do to contract the economy?
  • What does the Federal Reserve do to stimulate the economy? What does the Federal Reserve do to contract the economy?
  • What motivates policymakers to stimulate the economy or contract the economy?
  • Based on your research, what does the Federal Reserve say about its policy goals?
  • What does the Federal Reserve say about the strength of the economy?
  • How does the strength of other economies outside of the U.S. affect your organization?
  • Based on your research, recommend changes in your organization’s competitive strategies or supply chain. 

Discuss its connection or relationship to each of the two major political parties in your state.

Consider this scenario: You are working as an aide for a representative in your state legislature, and he or she has asked you for a summary of information on a particular interest group. Use the following to prepare your Microsoft® PowerPoint® or Prezi presentation to the representative:

Identify and provide a description of one interest group.

Discuss its connection or relationship to each of the two major political parties in your state.

Analyze the interest group’s relationship with the two major political parties by addressing these questions:

  • How does the group influence the state government?
  • What techniques does the group use?
  • How important is the interest group to your representative?

Summarize the information you found regarding this interest group and provide a recommendation to the representative for responding to the issue with which the interest group is most concerned.

What are the key elements of strategy formulation?

Application: The Strategic Planning Process Revisited

At the beginning of this course, you developed a graphic representation of the strategic-planning process. How has your understanding of this process grown? For this Application Assignment, you will integrate ideas and perspectives presented throughout this course as you expand upon your initial graphic.

Prepare for this Application Assignment as follows:

  • What insights have you gained about the strategic planning process throughout this course? Consider the following questions:
    • What new insights about the internal and external factors that influence strategic planning have you gained?
    • What are the key elements of strategy formulation?
    • How do organizations translate their strategic objectives into operational realities?
    • What factors contribute to successful implementation or create barriers that need to be addressed?
    • Why it is important for marketing to be aligned with strategic planning?
    • Why is it important to have the monitoring and evaluation criteria in mind throughout the strategic planning process?
    • How has your awareness of the relationships and connections among various aspects of strategic planning grown?

 

  • What insights gained throughout this course that a health care manger should incorporate in their career.
  • Revisit the graphic representation of the strategic-planning process you created for the Week 1 Application. How would you revise your assessment of the strategic-planning cycle in light of what you have learned throughout this course?What recommendations do you now have for creating a strategic-planning process that is flexible yet sets the long-term direction for an organization?

Then write a 2- to 3-page paperthat addresses the following:

  • Create a graphic representation of the strategic-planning process in a health care organization. (This may be a revised version of your Week 1 Application Assignment.)
  • Describe in writing any elements of the strategic-planning process that you are not able to capture in your graphic representation.
  • Describe how your view of the strategic-planning process has grown, including one or more key insights that will guide your future work in health care organizations.

Explain the counterterrorism strategies you think are most effective for combating Hezbollah, Hamas, and al-Qaeda.

QU 5

Explain the counterterrorism strategies you think are most effective for combating Hezbollah, Hamas, and al-Qaeda. Explain why different strategies are necessary for combating each group, and explain why some strategies may work well for combating more than one group.

The initial response should be 250-300 words in length. Use APA (6th Edition) and no plagiarism. There must be one reference (source) with in-text citation.

 

QU 6

Explain which steps of intelligence collection and counterterrorism are more human dependent and which are more technology dependent. Explain whether or not you think it is a good idea to remove humans from intelligence and counterterrorism operations, making it solely computer/technology based, and why.