in some collectivist cultures, intense romantic love is viewed as immature and threatening to the family structure. How might you explain this finding?

Consider these questions and how you would answer them, and why. (You will not be asked to share this information.) After reading the textbook and considering your own beliefs on these issues, respond to the following questions:

  1. Levine and colleagues found that members of individualist cultures were more likely than members of collectivist cultures to view love as important in decisions about marriage. In fact, in some collectivist cultures, intense romantic love is viewed as immature and threatening to the family structure. How might you explain this finding? Be sure to explain the finding for both collectivistic and individualistic cultures.
  2. Levine and colleagues also reported a distinction among collectivist cultures, with members of more economically developed countries (such as Japan and Hong Kong) attributing greater importance to love than less economically developed collectivist cultures (such as India, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines). How might you explain these findings? Make sure to explain the finding for both more and less economically developed collectivist cultures.
Discuss the impact of external environmental factors on your chosen using PESTEL analysis for chosen business.

Assignment brief:

Businesses employ number of strategies to gain competitive advantage over their competitors. Many times the outcome is influenced by the strategies of their competitors, changes in the business environment and ability of the leadership influences the businesses’ strategy and response. There is also increasing importance of CSR is also influencing business like never seen before.

Assessment Task Description

For this assignment, you are required to select any company from the list given below (Focus only on their UK operations) and perform the following tasks.

  1. Zara
  2. Marks and Spencer
  • Primark
  1. Next
  2. H&M

 

  1. Discuss the impact of external environmental factors on your chosen using PESTEL analysis for chosen business. (approx. 500 words)
If a man (woman) had all the other qualities you desired, would you marry this person if you were not in love with him (her)? (No or Yes)

Love and Marriage

Details: This assignment explores cultural differences in beliefs about love and marriage. In your textbook (on p. 375), research conducted by Levine, Sato, Hashimoto, and Verma (1995) is described. As part of their research, they asked college students in 11 countries to complete questions regarding their views about love and marriage. Specifically, they were asked:

If a man (woman) had all the other qualities you desired, would you marry this person if you were not in love with him (her)? (No or Yes)

If love has completely disappeared from a marriage, I think it is probably best for the couple to make a clean break and start new lives? (Agree or Disagree)

In my opinion, the disappearance of love is not a sufficient reason for ending a marriage and should not be viewed as such. (Agree or Disagree)

Consider these questions and how you would answer them, and why. (You will not be asked to share this information.)

Identify where your chosen organisation is particularly vulnerable to a possible threat to their sustainability and responsibility due to their weaknesses and propose a defensive strategy that addresses weaknesses and/or avoids a threat.

Description

Internal analysis: Undertake an internal analysis of your chosen organisation to identify its strengths and weaknesses with regard to sustainability and responsibility, using properly referenced sources. External analysis: Undertake an external analysis of your chosen organisation to identify potential opportunities to be more sustainable and responsible and threats to the ongoing sustainability and responsibility of your organization. Aggressive strategy: Undertake matching of strengths and opportunities to identify a competitive advantage that your chosen organisation has to be more sustainable and responsible and propose an aggressive strategy to leverage this. Defensive strategy: Identify where your chosen organisation is particularly vulnerable to a possible threat to their sustainability and responsibility due to their weaknesses and propose a defensive strategy that addresses weaknesses and/or avoids a threat.

identify a resource or set of resources that can provide a sustainable competitive advantage for your client organization in being a leader in corporate social responsibility and/or sustainability, identifying how the resource or set of resources are Valuable, Rare, Inimitable and Organised (VRIO)

Summative Assessment (100% contribution to module grade): Sustainability and Responsibility Case Study Report

 

You have been hired as a sustainability and responsibility consultant for a organisation of your choice (appropriate for your degree).

TIP 1: You will be well served to select a high profile organisation as this will provide you with greater information and evidence to incorporate into your report. The information that your use should not just be from the company’s perspectives. Look for what the company’s critics say about them also.

You are required to prepare a highly visual (e.g., heavy use of infographics) case study report that covers the following:

TIP 2: For style examples, please see reports from Sainsbury’s (https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/~/media/Files/S/Sainsburys/Sustainability%20Update%202020-21.pdf) and Coca-Cola (https://www.coca-colacompany.com/content/dam/journey/us/en/reports/coca-cola-business-environmental-social-governance-report-2020.pdf).

  1.    Executive summary: A summary of the key points from report (Word guide: 200).

TIP 3: Write this last of all.

  1.    Internal analysis:Using properly referenced sources, undertake an internal analysis of your client organisation to (i) identify a resource or set of resources that can provide a sustainable competitive advantage for your client organization in being a leader in corporate social responsibility and/or sustainability, identifying how the resource or set of resources are Valuable, Rare, Inimitable and Organised (VRIO) and (ii) a weakness or vulnerability that limits your client organisation’s ability to be a leader in corporate social responsibility and/or sustainability (Word guide: 800).

TIP 4: Although your research may cover multiple resources that ultimately do not meet the VRIO criteria, only write up the VRIO analysis for the resource(s) that you decide to focus your report upon. Use a table to present your VRIO analysis.

  1.    External analysis: Using properly referenced sources, undertake an external analysis of macro-environmental factors (e.g., political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors) to identify potential opportunities to be more socially responsible and/or sustainable and potential threats to the ongoing sustainability and responsibility of your client organization (Word guide: 600).

TIP 5: It is not expected that you go through a complete PESTEL analysis. PESTEL should be used to facilitate environmental scanning, but (as with the VRIO write up) only write up your research into the opportunities and threats that make it into strategies.

4.    Aggressive strategy: Undertake matching of your previously identified resource or set of resources that can provide a sustainable competitive advantage for your client organization in being a leader in corporate social responsibility and/or sustainability and a previously identified opportunity to be more socially responsible and/or sustainable to propose an aggressive strategy to establish your client organization as a leader in corporate social responsibility and/or sustainability (Word guide: 200).

  1.    Defensive strategy: Undertake converting by identifying where your client organisation is particularly vulnerable to a possible threat to being socially responsible and sustainable due to a weaknesses and propose a defensive strategy that addresses weaknesses and/or avoids a threat (Word guide: 200).

TIP 6: Rather than following a linear process, you would be well-served to undertake this assessment iteratively. In other words, have a complete picture of your report before you undertake the full write-up. This will help you to only focus on the important content, such as selecting the resources,

Identify the ways to achieve competitive advantage based on lower costs.

Generic and Corporate Strategies. Learn the three generic strategies used for building competitive advantage and delivering value to customers. Learn why and how companies diversify and how diversification can deliver competitive advantage.

Objectives:

  1. Understand what distinguishes each of the three generic strategies and why some of these strategies work better in certain industries and competitive conditions.
  2. Identify the ways to achieve competitive advantage based on lower costs.
  3. Identify ways to develop competitive advantage based on differentiation.
  4. Identify ways to develop competitive advantage based on focus.
  5. Understand when and how diversifying into multiple businesses can enhance shareholder value.
  6. Understand how related diversification strategies can produce competitive advantage.

Introduction

A company’s competitive strategy is management’s plan for competing successfully. The chances are remote that any two companies—even those in the same industry—will employ the exact same competitive strategy. However, Michael Porter developed three generic competitive strategies, which can be used singly or in combination, that consist of whether a company’s target market is broad or narrow and whether the company is pursuing a competitive advantage related to lower costs or differentiation (Porter, 1996). “Porter states that the strategies are generic because they are applicable to a large variety of situations and contexts…. The generic strategies provide direction for firms in designing incentive systems, control procedures, and organizational arrangements” (“Generic competitive strategies,” 2009).

In his role as the facilitator of IC oversight, does the DNI have an increasing leadership role in providing top cover for the IC in dealing with an increasingly complicated Congress that has become more polarized and partisan?

Question:

Executive Order 12333, United States Intelligence Activities is the executive order that directs the IC’s authority to conduct Intelligence activities. The ODNI is the IC’s lead for Intelligence oversight.  The Office of General Counsel, the IC Inspector General, and the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency all have delegated responsibilities to ensure that ODNI is in accordance with the Constitution and other laws, regulations, executive orders and directives or policies.

The lectures, readings and discussions over the last six weeks have been directly related to IC leadership.   A critical function of leadership is oversight and accountability, and one of the primary reasons that ODNI was established. In his role as the facilitator of IC oversight, does the DNI have an increasing leadership role in providing top cover for the IC in dealing with an increasingly complicated Congress that has become more polarized and partisan?

 

 Analyze the findings of the market research using a wide range of statistical techniques and comment on confidence levels.

Task

Assess the limitations of the data collected and justify research planning process improvements in light of the work undertaken

Analyze the findings of the market research using a wide range of statistical techniques and comment on confidence levels.

P5 Interpret findings from the market research undertaken, presenting them in a range of different formats

 

Primary research findings

Write up the findings from your Primary Research data collected on Monday. You should aim to produce bar/pie charts to visually represent the results from questions asked.

Under each question write your own analysis and explain what you have learnt from these results.

You need to conclude your report by choosing a location for the new Horsebox coffee business. To reach the higher grades you need to justify the reasons for your choice and back up with clear evidence.

 

Final Report – Evaluation on process

Finally, produce a report assessing the limitations of the data/findings and your Market research carried out .

 

Write about the pros and cons of the following:

 

  • the accuracy of the data,
  • whether it is subjective in any way,
  • if there is bias present and whether the findings are reliable.
  • The effectiveness of the process you carried out
  • The original marketing objectives – Did you meet them? Why? How?

 

You need to then write a lengthy conclusion making clear recommendations for improvements should you do this again. Ensure you make good suggestions on how the process could be done better and why this would work. Think about your Primary, Secondary and Sampling methods in this conclusion including other aspects like time of day, target market, time of year etc

 

Data Analysis:

To analyse th

 

 

 

 

 

What are the positive characteristics of designing a crisis plan prior to experiencing a crisis such as creating an evacuation plan for a hurricane or if a company computer system is hacked?

Description

This week we delve into a discussion on leadership during crisis. Every leader approaches crisis in different ways. Please identify and discuss the important role a top-ranking leader plays when they are physically present/on-site in the midst of a crisis situation. What are the positive characteristics of designing a crisis plan prior to experiencing a crisis such as creating an evacuation plan for a hurricane or if a company computer system is hacked? Then research and identify an example from the news of a top leader responding during crisis (i.e. President Bush response during 9/11). Remember to cite the news source reporting on the crisis. Lussier, R. N., & Achua, C. F. (2015). Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development (6th Edition).