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Compare and Contrast the concept of discipline provided by Foucault and the concept of front stage and backstage performances provided by Goffman
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Please use textbook to cite sources.
In this week’s assignment, you focus on using healthy competition and rewards to drive employees to perform their best. This will be the third part of your Motivational Game Plan.
In your new position as General Manager for Hometown Cars, you are responsible for increasing your company’s profits by 10% for the year.
1. Design two competitions with rewards, one for the sales teams (both new- and used-car) and one for the service and parts team. Keeping the larger company goal in mind, develop parameters for the competitions. Refer to the Coach’s Huddles and Read About It in Weeks 5 and 7 for information about healthy competition and rewards.
2. For each team competition, create a one-page flyer that details the parameters of the competition to the relevant team.
3. In 1–2 well-organized paragraphs, explain the following about the competitions on a separate page:
Explain whether the competition you are creating for each of the teams is direct or cooperative.
Explain how the rewards or recognition you will offer are appropriate for the competitions.
Explain how you will communicate the details of your competition and the rewards offered to both the sales and service teams.
Explain why competition works as a motivational strategy.
Be sure to justify your responses using course learning materials
Financing an Expansion
Your business is named Betty’s. It is a small mom and pop store located in Hernando, Ms. It is owned and operated by family members. In this assignment you are now in the business for over 10 years and are now ready to expand and now purchase a huge competitor such as sam’s grocery, Walmart, Kroger, cotsco, etc….
After 12 years, your business is wildly successful, with multiple locations throughout the region. You are now ready to think big. You want to purchase a huge competitor. (Note: You determine whether the competitor is a privately or publicly held company.) To expand, you will need additional capital from the debt or equity market, or both.
Instructions
Write a 6–8 page paper in which you:
1. Use one of the valuation techniques to calculate the value of the competitor you wish to purchase. Please search different foms of valuation techniques and choose and explain which one and why it was picked. Note: You will have to make assumptions; however, your assumptions need to be rationally supported.
2. Analyze the various financial tools available to you to determine which tools will be most helpful in assessing whether your company can afford to purchase the competitor. Support your response..
3.
Imagine you can indeed afford to purchase the competitor; however, you will need an additional $100 million.
1. Examine the options available to you to finance the competitor through the debt market, recommending the best alternative as a result of your analysis. Provide support for your recommendation.
2. Examine the options available to you to finance the competitor through the equity market, recommending the best alternative as a result of your analysis. Provide support for your recommendation.
3. Conduct a cross-comparison of your debt and equity examinations to determine where to ideally obtain the additional $100 million funding needed to make the purchase and the approach that you would take to securing the funds. Provide support for your recommendation.
IT332-5: Recommend data storage and data protection technology for a computer system.
Purpose
In this assignment, you will conduct research about the various technologies for file systems. You will create a comparison table presenting the different storage mediums and associated methods to access the data, file system constraints, and how these constraints can affect performance. You also will learn about the differences between a logical file system and a physical file system and the purpose of each.
Assignment Instructions:
A number of physical storage mediums are available in today’s computing world, including hard disk, flash drive, DVD, and tape, to name a few. These mediums might have different file allocation methods and size constraints. Discuss the various mediums and associated methods and constraints. Additionally, for each medium, discuss the concept of fragmentation, why it occurs, what devices are more susceptible to it, if there are file systems that are able to avoid it, and how to prevent and fix fragmented space.
The minimum concepts to cover and explain in the paper are contiguous and non-contiguous, allocation table, indexing, tape allocation, disk allocation, storage allocation, partitions, volumes, fragmentation, and defragmentation.
Include a comparison table for the different mediums and associated methods and constraints.
Assignment Requirements
Your paper should be 3 pages in length, including a comparison table for each of the storage mediums. Be sure to use the appropriate APA format and cite your textbook or other sources that you used in your paper.
The paper should contain sufficient information to adequately answer the questions and contain no spelling, grammar, or APA errors. Points deducted from the grade for each writing, spelling, or grammar error are at your instructor’s discretion.
For assistance with APA requirements, please go to Academic Writer. You will find the link in the Academic Tools section of the course.
Also, review the university policy on plagiarism. If you have any questions, please contact your professor.
Directions for Submitting Your Assignment
Compose your assignment in a Word document, including screenshots as appropriate.
The Job Characteristics Theory uses “five motivational properties of tasks” and “three critical psychological states to improve outcomes”. Explain each as stated in the textbook.
Instructions:
You must provide the
textbook chapter with your answer. You will be deducted .50 points if not
provided.
Your initial post must
be at least 200 words. You will be deducted .50 point if not
provided.
IT402-5: Create a project proposal with a unique vision.
Purpose
Every action taken on or interaction with data should be conducted with a lens of
security to help ensure the security, privacy and availability of our customers’ data. To achieve this goal, organizations need to create a culture of security that touches virtually every angle of the company.
Assignment Instructions
Please note: In this assignment, you will be referring to the result of your Unit 4 Team Collaboration assignment, but this is an individual assignment.
Based on the case example in which you participated in Unit 4 Team Collaboration assignment, write a Communication to the client (either “O’Reilly Design” or “Anglia Vending Services”), explaining the increasingly number of cybercrimes incidents and the need to take a proactive stance. Examples of cybercrime related incidents include, illegal computer intrusions to intellectual property rights abuses, economic espionage, online extortion, identity theft, denial of service, cyber stalking, virus and worms, and phishing to mention just a few. Choose one (minimum) of the aforementioned incidents and make a convincing argument to the client about the potential risks and dire consequences if the organization becomes hacked. Assume for this assignment that the client has a web presence. To further make your case, illustrate with graphics or charts statistical data or reports about the trends and occurrences of the current cybercrimes. Lastly, provide a sound recommendation to the client about proactive steps that they need to implement to help lessen the possibility of being hacked.
Assignment Requirements
This assignment should be 3-4 pages long not including the cover page and the references. Use a Times Roman or Arial 12-size font and 1.5 line spacing. Use APA writing style, in text citations where appropriate, and include a minimum of two Web references. Use your own words.
On the first page, include the case exercise name that was assigned to you in Unit 4, course description, student name, assignment number, and date.
On the second page, include an Introduction at the top of the page.
For more information on APA style formatting, go to APA Style Central under Academic
Resources of this course or visit the Writing Center.
Also review the university policy on plagiarism. If you have any questions, please contact your professor.
Compare the attitude of the Roman Council of the Gods with that of the Annunaki: their self image, their decision making process, their view of humanity, the results of their decisions. What does this tell us about the keepers of the myths? 1000 words double spaced
Instructions:
You must provide the textbook chapter with your answer (.25 points will be deducted if not provided).
Your initial post must be at least 120 words. You will be deducted .25 points if not provided.
You must also reply to at least two classmates and provide their names when replying to them.
Your replies to each of your classmates must be at least 60 words. You will be deducted .25 points if not provided.
You will be deducted .10 points if classmates’ names are not provided in your replies.
You will be deducted .25 points on each non-classmate reply.
Do not provide the same reply to your classmates, .25 points will be deducted for each same reply.
Prepare a 2-3 page case study that explains the current and various methods of airport emergency plans for infectious diseases.
· Research additional sources and comment on what you have found regarding the challenges presented.
· Use the following questions as a guide:
o What is Annex 14?
o What emergencies does it address in addition to those of public health?
o Is it necessary for there to be a separate public health emergency airport plan (separate from the aerodrome emergency plan)?
o Which global entity requires an aerodrome or airport to have an emergency plan?
o Which entity oversees its contents?
o Which entity issues an aerodrome certificate for those aerodromes that are in compliance with the ICAO standards and recommended practice?
o What is the advantage of having an aerodrome public health emergency plan?
o Who has the responsibility for activities at an airport in response to a public health event?
o In developing an aerodrome emergency plan, which entities need to be involved?
o With the arrival of an affected aircraft, where should it be parked?
o Is there a need to have a Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) for the arrival of an affected aircraft?
· Conclude with your assessment of potential solutions to the challenges.
· The assignment should be written according to the current APA format.
Utilize some of the resources listed below:
https://www.iata.org/contentassets/f1163430bba94512a583eb6d6b24aa56/airlines-erp-checklist.pdf
https://www.icao.int/safety/aviation-medicine/guidelines/AvInfluenza_guidelines.pdf
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/271309/PMC3646347.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241547772
https://www.icao.int/sustainability/Documents/COVID-19/ICAO_Coronavirus_Econ_Impact.pdf
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241510165
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331488/WHO-2019-nCoV-Aviation-2020.1-eng.pdf
You have decided to open a cupcake bakery and move your home-based business into a storefront. Recently, you met with SBA National, a non-profit, that focuses on helping entrepreneurs start their business with funding and guidance. The non-profit also hosts a business pitch competition to anyone who is a client. One of the requirements of the SBA business pitch competition is that each participant must do a Business Development Roadmap to document the process that you will use to create a business development strategy.
Develop a Business Development Roadmap using the provided template.
MAN6500 Business Dev Template_Revised