Category: Business and Management

Summarize Chapter 16 (motivational theories). Don’t copy and paste from the slides. Use font 12 times new roman and double spaced.

Explain what the product life cycle is and then
List each stage of the cycle and list a product that is currently in that phase
Post your ONE initial Response 
Respond to TWO of your classmates – ONCE YOU RESPOND YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR CLASSMATES RESPOND 

Assignment on Performance Measurement and Management PUB 415: Attempt a Comprehensive analysis of the Concept of Performance Based Salary Scheme in the Nigerian Public Service.

This week, you’re demonstrating your change management skills as a management consultant hired by the corporation you chose in Week 5 to develop strategies and supporting tactics to implement positive organizational changes in the company. You will create a change management plan presentation for the company’s Board of Directors.
Start by reviewing your analysis of the company’s change process from Week 5 to be sure you have a thorough understanding of the change and the need for the change.
Assessment Deliverable
Create a 12- to 13-slide Change Management Plan Presentation. Include the following:
Evaluate why this change needed to occur.
Evaluate how this change impacts the company on a global scale.
Evaluate how this change impacts employees.
Using Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, chart strategies and tactics for positively implementing the organizational change. Include the following in your chart:
Develop strategies for each of the 8 steps in Kotter’s model.
Develop tactics to support each strategy.
Support each strategy you develop with a rationale for why the strategy and its tactics is expected to be effective.
Explain how this positive organizational change will help the company sustain a competitive advantage in the global market.
Include speaker notes to include additional details that are not present on each slide.
Format any citations and references according to APA guidelines.
You have a PPT on Change Management due this week. The PPT should be between 12-13 slides and cover these items:
Evaluate why this change needed to occur.
Discuss how this change impacts the company on a global scale.
Discuss how this change impacts employees.
Using Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, chart strategies and tactics for positively implementing the organizational change. In your chart, complete the following:
Develop strategies for each of the 8 steps in Kotter’s model
Develop tactics to support each strategy
Justify the effectiveness of each strategy and tactic with a rationale.
Conclude your presentation with an explanation of how this positive organizational change will help the company sustain a competitive advantage in the global market.
Hint- In the past, I have found students miss pieces of this assignment because they do not have a slide for each of the key bullets listed above. 
This is a signature assignment, include speaker notes to provide additional details not already present on each slide. Your PPT should also have a reference page.

Read the case study below. Use the notes to write an email in Microsoft Word. The email must demostrate the skills listed in case study instructions.
I can send additional reading material once I connected with my tutor. Thank you.

The discussion questions this week focus on warranties, consumer protection, business organization, and bankruptcy. You will need to utilize the Internet to answer several of these questions. Please remember to adhere to the
400-word minimum in your responses
See attatched files for questions. 

Imagine yourself owning a small business that repairs and refinishes antique furniture. You employ a staff of 15 and have been in business for about 10 years. During that time, you have built a reputation for yourself by only delivering the highest quality restorations. In the past year, you have fallen on hard times because of a slumping economy. 
One Friday, your office manager comes to you and says, “We won’t have enough money to make payroll unless we deliver the following five jobs, but the production foreman just told me that they all have flaws.” You inspect the jobs and think you can pass the workmanship off to the customer if you lie and tell them some of the defects were there when the furniture was brought in. Your only other option is to not deliver the jobs and tell your employees you cannot pay them.
What do you do, why will you do it and what will be the outcome of your decision (how will it affect your employees, your business and your view of yourself)?
Rules: It’s an either-or; you can’t borrow from the bank again. You can’t borrow from your friends. You can’t steal the money. You can’t sell your car or do a “go fund me”. You have to make a choice from the two options presented and defend your decision. You will also need to discuss the fallout from your decision and tell how you will deal with it. This is not an easy decision but it is one that many small business owners face and is one that you may face in the future. I ask that you look into yourself before answering this quesiton and answer honestly. Your grade is based upon your level of self reflection and how in-depth you answer the question.
Please send me your 1.15 spaced, two page response formatted in Microsoft Word.
Critical Thinking Rubric (1)
Critical Thinking Rubric (1)
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeContent and Development
– Content is comprehensive, accurate, and persuasive. – Major points are stated clearly and are well supported. – Research is adequate, timely and addresses course concepts. – Content and purpose of the writing are clear.
12 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGrammar, Punctuation and Spelling
– Rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation are followed; spelling is correct. – Language is clear and precise; sentences display consistently strong, varied structure.
3 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormat
– Paper follows designated guidelines. – Paper is the appropriate length as described for the assignment.
3 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStructure and Organization
– Structure of the paper is clear and easy to follow.
2 pts
Total Points: 20
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Scenario
You work as a director of leadership and learning for an organization that makes prosthetics. This year’s employee engagement survey results for the organization show that some leadership practices are rated lower, while some practices were rated higher. The new chief human resources officer (CHRO) met with the team to discuss the general results. Everyone agrees that the company’s focus should be on both specific leadership development areas perceived as strengths and on those rated as areas for improvement, primarily regarding social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and the interpersonal skills of effective leaders.
To help this initiative, your manager, the vice president of leadership and learning, asked you to create an adaptive leadership toolkit that can be used throughout the organization. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment and turned this into a personal development plan. Then you shared this artifact with your manager. Your manager was impressed with the thoroughness of the personal development plan and saw value in incorporating it as an exemplar within the adaptive leadership toolkit for use by all people leaders in the organization. After receiving such positive feedback from your manager, you are now ready to move forward on developing the adaptive leadership toolkit that will be shared with your manager and chief human resources officer (CHRO) of the organization.
Prompt
Summarize the business problems the organization is currently facing and describe how the adaptive leadership toolkit will address these problems.
Based on the employee satisfaction survey, identify the skills and behaviors that are current strengths exhibited by leadership and explain how these strengths are critical to the success of the organization.
Based on the employee satisfaction survey, identify the skills and behaviors that are current areas of weakness for leadership and explain how these areas may be improved by applying the self-assessment you used to create your own personal development plan.
Describe the importance of including a personal development plan as an exemplar in the adaptive leadership toolkit and explain how SMART goal setting can help to improve the areas of weakness for leaders within the organization.
Explain how the personal development plan and SMART goal setting could help develop the leadership styles of the leaders within the organization.
What to Submit
Submit a 3- to 4-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

quantitative marketing research
report: results, discussion, and recommendations Assignment instructions
Overview
In today’s fiercely competitive
business environment, companies cannot afford to make decisions based on
guesswork or assumptions. They need reliable qualitative or quantitative data
and insights to develop effective marketing strategies, understand consumer
needs and preferences, identify market trends, and stay ahead of their
competitors. Marketing research provides organizations with valuable
information about their target audience, allowing them to make informed
decisions and tailor their offerings accordingly. This assignment provides the
student with the opportunity to practice developing marketing research reports.
Instructions
In 850–1,150 words, you will
write the results, discussion, and recommendation section of the
paper. The current APA heading of this section must
be “Discussion, Conclusions, and Recommendations”.
Results: 
Begin by
restating the research question and
hypotheses. Then, use Microsoft Excel’s statistical
functions to obtain the descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, and
standard deviation) and the inferential statistics (one-sample
t-test). You will conduct a one-sample t-test to determine if the
average response of the sample population you surveyed is
significantly greater or less than the hypothesized population
mean.   
One Sample T test Steps: 
Steps to
calculating a one sample T test can be found in Module 6: Week 6 –
Data Preparation for Analysis. 
A quick
way to calculate a T test: 
1.    
Create an Excel
spreadsheet with two columns. 
2.    
The first column
should have all of the responses from the survey except for the
demographic data. For example,
type your data into cells A1:A30.  
3.    
Calculate the average
of your data in the first column.  (This data will be used in
step 4). 
4.    
Type the average
calculated in step 3 into the second column. For example, type
the average into cells B1:B30.
5.    
Enter the following
syntax directly into an empty cell: =T.TEST then double
click.
6.    
After double clicking
you will see T.TEST(array1,array2,tails,type). 
7.    
Here, array1 refers to
the data in the first column (e.g. A1:A30), array2
is (B1:B30), tails refers to
whether you want to run a one- or two tailed test (for  
this statistical test you are
running a two tailed test so number 2 is entered,
indicating a two-tailed test;), and
the type refers to: 1 = paired test 2 = two sample
equal variance test 3 = two sample
unequal variance test.
8.    
Based on the given
data set example, the formula should be
=T.TEST(A1:A3, B2:B30,2,2).
After the
statistical analysis of the descriptive statistics is
completed, you will summarize the data for each question by
presenting at least 1 form of central tendency (or
average), that is, either the mean, median, or mode, and the
standard deviation (e.g., the mean age of the 32 participants
was 40 to 60, SD = 4). 
Discussion: 
Lastly,
summarize the inferential or t-test results by explaining if the
researcher rejects or fails to reject the null hypotheses based
on the “p” value (e.g., a one-sample t-test was conducted to
determine the p-value is p = 2.6, which is greater than
0.05.   Since the “p” value
is greater than 0.05, we fail to reject the null
hypothesis that price increases had no effect on the sales of grills at Home
Depot). 
Recommendations: 
After
analyzing the results, provide a summary of the key findings of the research
and formulate your recommendations to the leadership within the
selected company for resolving the issue. Make sure to highlight
specific strategies for implementing the recommendation.  
Incorporate
at least 3 scholarly or peer-reviewed resources. 
Note: Your assignment will be checked
for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

The Location-Based Assignment (LBA) serves as your final assignment for IBS212.
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Choose an organization you have interacted with in your city and use the concepts you’ve learned in IBS212 to:
analyze their marketing strategy (how does the local environment influence them), or
create a hypothetical go-to-market strategy for expanding that organization’s offerings into a new country.
This assignment is intentionally open-ended; the point is to connect what you have learned in the classroom with your real-world, location-based experiences. Therefore, it would be best to choose an organization and a topic you are excited to write about (and your Professor would be interested in reading about). Be sure to highlight 3 of the course’s LOs precisely and incorporate at least one research paper (with appropriate citations).
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Notes:
All LOs could serve as focused outcomes; you can select the subset most relevant to your topic.
The topic is open-ended, so please feel free to reach out to your Professor if you’d like to run your idea by them.
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As business majors, your communication skills are crucial — we want you to write well and expect that your work is clear, concise, and not only proofread but iterated with multiple drafts. To that end, review the IBS: Business Communication Writing Tips (Upper-Level) Guide for additional support when writing a solid paper.
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In upper-level classes, please focus on the LOs because they are the core components of the course. Building your paper around the LOs is much better than writing a paper and then shoving in LO footnotes. You may tag LOs with a footnote to make it clear to you and the Professor where you are trying to highlight specific concepts, but do not explain your application in a footnote. Everything you need to prove this is a good use of the LO should be in the main text.
Assignment Information
Length:
1000 words
Weight:
15%
Learning Outcomes that most be applied and achived in the writing (Its mandtory ) 
flatWorld: Evaluate the “flat-world” debate and apply it to business strategy issues.
whyGlobal: Explain and evaluate the motivations for why a business exists in the global marketplace.
howGlobal: Analyze the utility, costs, and implementation of global value chains.
poliStrat: Analyze how political and legal environments influence business strategy.
econStrat: Analyze how economic and financial environments influence business strategy.
socioCulturalStrat: Analyze how social and cultural environments influence business strategy.
globalSegmentation: Utilize segmentation strategies to identify new global markets.
intCompetitiveness: Analyze the factors influencing a firm’s international competitiveness.
localGlobalMix: Analyze the interaction between global and local considerations when developing the marketing mix.