Describe how the four functions of management relate to each other.
The assessment should be double-spaced, in 11-point Georgia font, and no fewer than 500 words, not including the title page and reference page.
Scenario (fictional):
SuperPetPlus (SPP) supplies premier pet supplies to predominantly cat and dog owners across the globe via their website and social media. On their website, they say, “Our mission is to provide superior quality pet supplies to everyone everywhere.” The company’s vision statement says, “We will improve the well-being of pets, creating environmentally friendly and affordable products.”
Their values are also listed on the website as:
“We value our customers’ needs and wants regarding their pets.”
“We provide transparent processes and materials to improve pets’ well-being and the environment.”
“Our employees, our customers, and their pets are our priority.”
The CEO is in the process of shifting to retirement and has not been a hands-on CEO for some time. They are considering appointing the finance director to the CEO position in their place. The company’s strategy is to use innovative natural materials to create practical pet supplies. These pet supplies are tested by employees to ensure they really address customers’ needs. But due to escalating prices, there have been complaints on social media. The comments include negative posts regarding the lack of affordability, which impacts sales and shows up in the customer service comments database. In addition, due to pressure from the managers to reduce costs from the finance director, the plants have been receiving material that has not always been environmentally friendly.
The headquarters is located in Madison, Wisconsin, for the executive staff. The rest of the employees are either virtual (like sales, marketing, customer service, and human resources), while their manufacturing plants are located in both Oklahoma (Western Division) and West Virginia (Eastern Division).
Assessment Checklist:
· Describe how the four functions of management relate to each other.
· Introduce SuperPetPlus’s current corporate mission, vision, and values in light of reality at this company.
· Keeping in mind the organization’s mission and vision, identify and describe one strategic and relevant goal.
· Identify and describe a tactical goal that the company will need to address to successfully reach the strategic goal you identified. Include one example.
· Identify and describe one operational goal that the company will need to address to successfully reach the strategic goal you identified.
· Explain the appropriate position title of the employee in the organization responsible for managing the goals at each level (i.e., strategic, tactical, and operational).
· Explain what form of power would be most useful at each level (i.e., strategic, tactical, and operational).
· Describe at least one formal control that would aid in evaluating progress toward the operational goal you identified. Be sure to indicate how you would measure the control.
Identify the genes that may be associated with the development of the disease.
Case Study Analysis
An understanding of cells and cell behavior is a critically important component of disease diagnosis and treatment. But some diseases can be complex in nature, with a variety of factors and circumstances impacting their emergence and severity.
Effective disease analysis often requires an understanding that goes beyond isolated cell behavior. Genes, the environments in which cell processes operate, the impact of patient characteristics, and racial and ethnic variables all can have an important impact.
An understanding of the signals and symptoms of alterations in cellular processes is a critical step in the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. For APRNs, this understanding can also help educate patients and guide them through their treatment plans.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Evaluate cellular processes and alterations within cellular processes
- Analyze alterations in the immune system that result in disease processes
- Identify racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning
- Evaluate the impact of patient characteristics on disorders and altered physiology
In this Assignment, you examine a case study and analyze the symptoms presented. You identify cell, gene, and/or process elements that may be factors in the diagnosis, and you explain the implications to patient health.
The Assignment (2-page case study analysis)
Develop a 1- to 2-page case study analysis in which you:
- Explain why you think the patient presented the symptoms described.
- Identify the genes that may be associated with the development of the disease.
- Explain the process of immunosuppression and the effect it has on body systems.
REQUIRED READING
McCance, K. L. & Huether, S. E. (2019). Pathophysiology: The biologic basis for disease in adults and children (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby/Elsevier.
- Chapter 1: Cellular Biology; Summary Review
- Chapter 2: Altered Cellular and Tissue Biology: Environmental Agents(pp. 46-61; begin again with Manifestations of Cellular Injury pp. 83-97); Summary Review
- Chapter 3: The Cellular Environment: Fluids and Electrolytes, Acids, and Bases,
- Chapter 4: Genes and Genetic Diseases (stop at Elements of formal genetics); Summary Review
- Chapter 5: Genes, Environment-Lifestyle, and Common Diseases (stop at Genetics of common diseases); Summary Review
- Chapter 7: Innate Immunity: Inflammation and Wound Healing
- Chapter 8: Adaptive Immunity (stop at Generation of clonal diversity); Summary Review
- Chapter 9: Alterations in Immunity and Inflammation (stop at Deficiencies in immunity); Summary Review
- Chapter 10: Infection (stop at Infectious parasites and protozoans); (start at HIV); Summary Review
- Chapter 11: Stress and Disease (stop at Stress, illness & coping); Summary Review
- Chapter 12: Cancer Biology (stop at Resistance to destruction); Summary Review
- Chapter 13: Cancer Epidemiology (stop at Environmental-Lifestyle factors); Summary Review
What constitutes identities in general
Make clear points about the way identity (race, gender, or class) relates to success in America. You will need to consider factors that shaped the identities of Americans like Malcolm X and Federick Douglass and reflect on
1. What constitutes identities in general
2. make an argument characterizing one significant influence on people’s identities
3. describe its practical, real-world consequences on education and particularly language
N/B length; 2 pages
Focus; Introductory paragraph, thesis statement, topic sentence, content
List the problems faced by today’s police departments that were also present during the early days of policing.
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Siegel/Worrall
Chapter 5
List the problems faced by today’s police departments that were also present during the early days of policing.
Chapter 6
Intelligence-led policing is considered to be the newest initiative in law enforcement. Read this article https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bja/210681.pdf (Links to an external site.) and discuss the following:
2. What are the differences between tactical and strategic intelligence?
3. How can police departments blend intelligence with problem-oriented policing?
Chapter 7
Can a search and seizure be reasonable if it is not authorized by a warrant?
Chapter 8
What is the purpose of the Miranda warning?
What if criminal justice professionals had no discretion?
What if criminal justice professionals had no discretion? What if police officers were required to arrest every suspect? What if judges were required to incarcerate every defendant found guilty? In what ways would the criminal justice system change?
What are the determinants of a population’s health status and what are the role of health promotion and disease management?..
What are the determinants of a population’s health status and what are the role of health promotion and disease management?..
PLEASE USE APA 7 EDITION,
AT LEAST 3 REFERENCES WITH A MAXIMUM OF 5 YEARS
500 WORDS
How would you explain OFDMA to non-IT executive at your company?
Research online to find how much cabling of higher categories would cost. Choose a higher category that offers better throughput for reasonable costs. Consider whether you would be able to use existing connectors on devices or if devices would need adapters or replacement. What target cable category did you choose? How much does this cabling cost, on average, per meter?
Question about Wi-Fi Innovations
· How would you explain OFDMA to non-IT executive at your company?
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· 1.We need 200 words of Discussion Forum for the above AND References.
· 2.We need 2 sets of 100 words of each comments. Total 400 words Please check plagiarism in Turnitin tool.
Compare and contrast how your MNC operates in the home and a host (pick one) country.
Course Project Criteria
INTL 500
Multi-National Corporation (MNC) – Course Project Overview
Notes: The foreign-based Multinational Corporation (MNC) I have choosen is Toyota Manufacturing Company Ltd. (Toyota Motor Corporation).
Do a deep dive analysis on a large well known Multi-National Corporation (MNC) headquartered overseas “Toyota”.
Section |
Points |
Description |
| Section I | 20 | Introduce your MNC. Provide some sound financial indicators from company annual reports or use secondary sources to provide some financial background (yearly revenues, profits, dividends, etc).
Complete an assessment of the political system and economic system of both the home and host country of your MNC. Compare and contrast how your MNC operates in the home and a host (pick one) country. Indicate also, where your countries rank with HDI (Human Development Index), Freedom Index, Doing Business Index, and other indexes you deem appropriate. |
| Section II | 20 | Compare and contrast the legal systems of the MNC’s country of origin (home) and host country. Variables to consider include corruption, intellectual property, and product safety & liability, and ethics. |
| Section III | 20 | Complete an assessment of values, culture, and norms. How does this influence the culture and operations of one of the countries your MNC operates in? Use the Hofstede Cultural Dimensions to showcase the comparisons of the host and home countries, available at: https://www.hofstede-insights.com/ .
What advantage and disadvantages does this country provide to the MNC? How does your MNC market their product or service differently comparatively due to these issues?
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| Section IV | 20 | Conduct an analysis on the conditions of trade. Indicate opportunities and challenges that affect your MNC; including any current policies or agreements that have been recently passed. Here you could examine the regional trade agreements of the host/home countries. Do they have Free Trade Agreements? Please make sure your data you provide here is current. |
| Section V | 20 | Examine your MNC’s international strategy. Which of the four international business strategies does your MNC use in the host country? How have they approached globalization, expansion, challenges, and opportunities? Provide an example of how your MNC has entered the host country market ( by using one of the six entry modes).
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| Section VI | 20 | Examine your MNC’s outsourcing issues. Does your MNC outsource work? Address immigration policy in your MNC home country and host country. What does this immigration policy and outsourcing policy tell you about your MNC? |
| Section VII
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30 | Lessons Learned, Coming Clean Journal
Students will journal freely on their final course project. What did you learn that particularly interested you? What were some of your biggest lessons learned regarding your MNC? On the course in general? How have your thoughts of globalization changed now that you have completed this class? How have your thoughts changed after taking this class? Students are encouraged to reflect their thoughts honestly and provide your opinions here. |
| Use of Style, Multi-Media, APA & References, and Artifacts | 30 | Each student will create an artifact that appropriately meets the criteria of the project. Students are encouraged to weave current multimedia and technology in their projects. Examples may include appropriate usage of video clips, PowerPoint with audio, written documentation, Prezi, animation, film, music, data, charts, graphs and photography.
Examples: · PPTX with no less than 12 slides and no more than 18 slides with audio for each slide (provide some video clip somewhere of your MNC you found); · Kaltura multimedia presentation (see your canvas shell for instructions on how to use Kaltura; · Prezi · Your final project will use APA to appropriately, including a full list of references. Choose references judiciously and cite them accurately. The student is in control of grammar and style, including spelling and appropriate usage of data and graphs. |
What does the APA Ethics Code say about the importance of culture-neutral assessment?
Exam Content
An ethical decision-making model is a tool that can be used by professionals in psychology to help develop the ability to think through an ethical dilemma and arrive at a responsible and ethical decision. This assignment assesses your application of ethical decision-making by requiring critical thinking and analysis through your recommendations to an ethical dilemma.
Read the following scenario:
You work for a large corporation in human resources as a psychologist. In that capacity, it is your job to select and administer psychological tests that measure intelligence and cognitive ability as part of the employee selection process. The company has been hiring engineers and you notice that in the next group of prospects, many are recent immigrants from Pakistan, Korea, and India. You realize that the standardized tests you have been using do not seem to be culture-neutral and are biased toward native English speakers.
Develop an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation to corporate managers with detailed speaker notes on the selection process of a culture-neutral assessment. To be clear, a slide should have 5 to 7 concise bullet points. Speaker notes should be included in the speaker’s notes section (on the bottom) of each slide. Speaker notes should be your ‘speech’ and should be no less than 1 to 3 full paragraphs for each slide. In-text citations should be included on every slide and in all speaker notes. An APA formatted reference slide should be included at the end of your presentation. Your cover slide and your reference slide do not count in the 8 to 10 slide count.
Address the following questions or objectives:
Should you use different tests that are less culture-bound?
How would you select assessments that are culture-neutral?
What criteria would you use? What, if any, ethical issues are involved?
How and why would using culturally biased tests be an ethical issue here?
What does the APA Ethics Code say about the importance of culture-neutral assessment?
Include examples of ways in which culture-biased assessments have been problematic.
How would you select tests that are culture-neutral?
Include examples of when culture-biased assessments have been problematic
Explain the consequences of not following the selection process for both the client and psychologist
Describe how the APA decision-making process facilitates more ethical professional behavior.