Author: chris

Energy Choices

Worldwide energy consumption varies dramatically, but the impacts are shared by all. The most commonly used fuel sources for energy around the world are the fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. Combustion of fossil fuels releases pollutants to the atmosphere, where the emissions from all countries combine to cause local, regional, and global issues. One of the primary pollutants of concern is carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for climate change and governments around the world have taken steps to control pollution, but not all countries are successful in reducing carbon emissions.

While all countries produce pollution and emit greenhouse gasses, the emissions are greatly unequal across the globe. Consider what kinds of factors would determine how much energy is used by a country, a region, a household, or an individual. What factors would influence the fuel choices made by these people and institutions?

Conduct research to determine the common fuel sources, emissions, and total energy consumption by the United States and a developing country of your choice, such as China, India, or Brazil. Please include some information on the state of Florida at least in the introduction.

CIA. (2015). The world factbook. Retrieved fromhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2015). International energy statistics. Retrieved fromhttp://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=44&pid=44&aid=2

Your Assignment should be written in an essay format, with an introduction and conclusion. The paper will require you to include details from research including the course materials and sources you locate on your own. Use APA format to cite your sources of information, both within parenthetical citations and also within a reference page at the end of the project.

Basic Writing Expectations:

Marketing Plan

At the end of this course, you will have created a marketing plan for a hypothetical product-based company. Each assignment focuses on a different section of the overall marketing plan. For Assignment 1, you will compile information on the company’s background information, an environmental analysis, your company’s short and long-term goals, and a SWOT analysis.

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Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a five to five (5) page paper in which you:

1. Write an introduction to your company. Describe your company, its location (Virginia Beach, VA, and the product it makes or the service it provides.
2. Develop an environmental analysis that includes competitive, economic, political, legal, technological, and sociocultural forces.
3. Determine the primary and secondary target markets for your company. Next, analyze the primary and secondary target markets that you identified for your company. Be sure to cover the 4Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion), 5Cs ( Customer, Company, Competition, Collaborators, Context) and STP (Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning).
4. Decide the main goals that you would like to achieve within the next year (short term) and the mains goals that you would like to achieve within the next five (5) years (long term). Determine the most appropriate ways to measure both short- and long-term goals. Note: Consider the following metrics: tracking downloads of Website content, Website visitors, increases in market share, customer value, new product adoption rates, retention, rate of growth compared to competition and the market, margin, and customer engagement.
5. Develop both a SWOT analysis and needs analysis for your product. Each analysis should examine four (4) strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for your company.
6. Use at least four (4) academic resources as quantitative marketing research to determine the feasibility of your product / service. These resources should be industry specific and relate to your chosen product / service. Note: Wikipedia and other 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.

You have been appointed the vice president of the human resources department at a fictional multinational organization. It is your job to design the framework for a communications manual for this organization.  The communications manual should contain best practices, company recommendations and scenarios all targeted at organizational communication.

The board of directors wants to have an overview of what you plan.  Your job, in this assignment, is to prepare that overview in the form of a table of contents for the manual with a brief description of each section.

Please begin by naming your organization and defining your organization’s primary business.

Prepare a table of contents as an outline for your communications manual.  Include at least five sections (communications topics) in the manual.   Each section should have a heading and subheading. The heading should include a description of the topic.  The subheading should include a) an example scenario of how this topic should be handled in your company b) a description of why this section is important to organizational communication and c) an explanation of how this communication policy will benefit both the employee and the organization.

Follow the table of contents with a one page action plan on how you will ensure that this communications manual is effectively implemented at your organization.

Your table of contents and action plan combined should be four to five pages in length with descriptions in Word format. Apply APA standards for writing style and references to the descriptions. Use the following file naming convention:LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, January 27, 2016 deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Step 1) Select a country (NOT the United States, Canada, Mexico, or China). Look up information about employee benefit practices in that country.  Select specific employee benefits and compare and contrast them with similar benefits in the United States.  Provide industry and/or employer examples (by name), if possible.   Also focus on different benefits (if possible) .

Step 2) Answer the following 5 questions using question and answer (Q&A) format for your response; in other words, include the original question along with your response.  Within your post support your responses with information from at least 2 reputable sources (library and/or Web-based), and provide the full citation at the end.  Use APA format for your references.

1        .1     What country other than the United States, Mexico, Canada, or China did you analyze?

2        . 2          What specific benefit did you analyze? Describe it.

3.        3  How does the benefit work in the United States?
4. How is the benefit in the country identified in #1 similar to the benefit in the United States?

5     5 .       How is the benefit in the country identified in #1 different from the benefit in the United States?

Assignment 1: LASA 2 Strategic Plan and Self-Reflection Summary

Review the initial scenario and the Strategic Business Plan presented in Module 1 to make sure that the requirements of the Board and the Part II Strategic Plan are met. In order to meet the requirements of the Board, you will prepare the final Strategic Business Plan—Part II—Strategic Plan to the Executive Board. Ensure your strategic plan is thorough, succinct, and complete. Challenge yourself to link the targets to specific initiatives you have identified in the Strategic Plan you are developing for H-D.

Your written report should include a title page, table of contents, executive summary, and each of the following sections in an 8- to 12-page report:

Part I: Global Economy & Factors Affecting H-D  

1. 1. Identify H-D’s Motivations & Risks

• • • Motivations for Expansion
    • Risks in Expansion

1. 2. Explain H-D’s competitive advantage in Global Markets
   3. Determine and explain entry strategies for global expansion
   4. Recommend an Internet approach/strategy for H-D

• • • How the Internet adds value
    • Internet Business Models
    • Competitive Strategies
    • Leverage E-Business Capabilities

Part II: Corporate Leadership

Develop the following: Current Direction Setting

1. Organizational Culture: In addition, evaluate the culture at Harley-Davidson (H-D) and define what attributes you think team members should possess in reaching the business goals set forth by the organization. If you were part of the management team at H-D, what motivational techniques would you implement to make these teams successful?
2. Organizational Design: As you have been completing the Strategic Business

   Plan, the management at Harley-Davidson has decided to take a team-oriented approach in various departments rather than the traditional, functional structure. Based on your knowledge of different types of teams and their focus, suggest what kinds of team strategies should be applied to each department. Be sure to explain your recommendations in detail.

3. Leadership Traits
4. Ethical Organization Characteristics

• Identify elements
• Identify missing elements

Learning Organization Characteristics

• Identify elements
• Identify missing elements

Part III: Strategic Plan Summary

• Conclusions
• Recommendations
• Implementation
  • Discuss how you will implement your strategic plans, including how teams should be implemented in each department
  • Develop a brief roadmap for implementation
  • Identify the primary benchmarks to assess success or failure
• Risks

Part IV:  Self-Reflection Summary

Self-reflection is the key to good leadership and good management. Reflect on what you have learned in this class and on what you gained from your Bachelor of Science program. Based on your reflections, discuss the following:

• Five or six key “lessons” learned from the textbook and the content that will help you in your career.
• Consider what you have learned throughout this program. Discuss career opportunities that interest you in business.
• Include what you have learned about yourself.

Evaluate how your personal biases and assumptions have affected your work in the past and how you plan to manage them in the future. Your final product will be in an MS Word document approximately 8–12 pages in length and utilizing approximately 4–6 scholarly/professional sources. Your document should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Hillyard Company, an office supplies specialty store, prepares its master budget on a quarterly basis.  The following data have been assembled to assist in preparing the master budget for the first quarter:

1. As of December 31, (the end of the prior quarter), the company’s general ledger showed the following account balances:

   Cash $48,000 (debit)

   Accounts receivable $224,000 (debit)

   Inventory $60,000 (debit)

   Buildings and equipment, net $370,000 (debit)

   Accounts payable $93,000 (credit)

   Capital stock $500,000 (credit)

   Retained earnings $109,000 (credit)

2. Actual sales for December and budgeted sales for the next four months are as follows:  December $280,000, January $400,000, February $600,000, March $300,000 and April $200,000.
3. Sales are 20% for cash and 80% on credit.  All payments on credit sales are collected in the month following sale.  The accounts receivable at December 31 are a result of December credit sales.
4. The company’s gross margin is 40% of sales.  (In other words, cost of goods sold is 60% of sales.)
5. Monthly expenses are budgeted as follows:  salaries and wages, $27,000 per month; advertising, $70,000 per month; shipping, 5% of sales; other expenses, 3% of sales.  Depreciation, including depreciation on new assets acquired during the quarter, will be $42,000 per quarter.
6. Each month’s ending inventory should equal 25% of the following month’s cost of goods sold.
7. One-half of the month’s inventory purchases is paid for in the month of purchase; the other half is paid in the following month.
8. During February, the company will purchase a new copy machine for $1,700 cash.  During March, other equipment will be purchased for cash at a cost of $84,500.
9. During January, the company will declare and pay $45,000 in cash dividends.
10. Management wants to maintain a minimum cash balance of $30,000.  The company has an agreement with a local bank that allows the company to borrow in increments of $1,000 at the beginning of each month.  The interest rate on these loans is 1% per month and for simplicity we will assume that interest is not compounded.  The company would, as far as it is able, repay the loan plus accumulated interest at the end of the quarter.

Required:

Using the data above, complete the following statements and schedules for the first quarter. Submit your responses in an Excel spreadsheet:

1. Schedule of expected cash collections
2. Merchandise purchases budget

3. Schedule of expected cash disbursements-merchandise purchases

4. Schedule of expected cash disbursements-selling and administrative expenses

5. Cash budget:

Provide your answers in a clearly organized Excel spreadsheet. Provide your answers in a clearly organized Excel spreadsheet

ORIGINAL WORK! TURNINI REQURIED NOT OVER25%

NON PLAGARISM

Global Business Today – The Hofstede Study

140 points

Refer to Hofstede model in Chapter 4 of the textbook and the Global Business Today Interaction located below, and complete this assignment. Note: You must have a Flash-enabled browser to view the Global Business Today Interaction.

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

1. Imagine you are a consultant for a regional company wishing to move into an international market.  Present an overview of the regional company, its products and services, the location, brief financial information, etc.
2. Utilize the Hofsetede module to discuss the company’s offerings in regards to how the United States (Home Country) views the products and services.  Use the following links to help you.  http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html and https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
3. Choose two (2) countries as potential locations for your company of choice to set up new international offices.  Develop a set of specific recommendations for the company. In your recommendations review the 2 countries using the Hofsetede module http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html
4. Provide an analysis of the differences or similarities between US and the 2 countries.
5. Demonstrate the most important dimensions of the Hofstede model for a U.S. company to consider when opening in the countries chosen.
6. Predict the economic opportunities of your recommendations.
7. Speculate on the main potential risks inherent in relocating to the countries that you are considering.
8. Suggest at least two (2) approaches that your company’s leadership could leverage to mitigate the potential risks that you have identified.

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:

• Formulate, implement, and evaluate effective marketing strategies based on an analysis of global operating environments, market dynamics, and internal capabilities.
• Analyze the major economic, cultural, and political / legal aspects of the international business environment, including the economic dynamics of foreign trade, impact of regional and global trade integration, and key cultural dimensions affecting marketing operations.
• Assess the potential risks and benefits of various international markets and formulate effective market entry strategies to support foreign market expansion.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in international marketing.
• Write clearly and concisely about international marketing using proper writing mechanics.

To prepare for your assignment, review “Career Paths of a Hospitality Management Student”, located at http://www.hcareers.com/us/resourcecenter/tabid/306/articleid/573/default.aspx. This article provides an overview of the various responsibilities of managers that are commonly found in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Next, read “A Day in the Life of David Lindahl, General Manager of Daily Diner Frogtown”, located at http://minneapolis.eater.com/2013/7/19/6399397/a-day-in-the-life-of-david-lindahl-general-manager-of-daily-diner. Then, read “The Day in the Life of a Hotel GM vs. CEO”, located at: http://hospitality.cvent.com/blog/charmed-by-hospitality-marketing/the-day-in-the-life-of-a-hotel-gm-vs-ceo.

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

1. Describe the various types of management careers that can be offered within each industry (lodging, and food and beverage).
2. Compare and contrast the differences between the General Management (GM) positions within the two industries.
3. Analyze and describe the growth in overall employment within these two industries and how this overall growth is forecasted within the next ten years.
4. Recommend at least three human resource practices in which each industry can better recruit and retain management talent for their respective industry.
5. Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not quality as academic resources.
6. 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:

• Discuss various career opportunities in the food service and lodging industries.
• Describe the significant trends impacting the hospitality industry.
• Analyze the basic procedures involved in managing a restaurant operation.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in hospitality and tourism management.
• Write clearly and concisely about hospitality and tourism management using proper writing mechanics.

Need assisitance with Diversity paper.  I have attached the assignment and the rubics.

Please follw the instructions.

Assignment

Week 10 | Diversity in the Health Care Organization

Details:

1) Providers must learn new tools to eliminate disparities, build trust with patients, and understand how international biases and pre-established stereotypes affect quality of care. Write a paper (1,000-1,250 words) that identifies and defines various tools and measurements that can be used to measure the effectiveness of diversity programs and policies established by the organization.

2) Address how each of the following must be considered when considering how to implement an environment of diversity:

a) Government regulations.

b) Social pressures.

c) Industry and company ethical codes.

d) Tension between personal standards and the goals of the organization.

3) Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

4) This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.