Category: Business and Management

Journal: Developing Your Leadership Traits
Journals are used to keep track of thoughts, ideas, and occurrences. In this course, you will use journal entries to take a personal look into a specific topic from the unit. Your journal entries may be helpful in formulating ideas for other written assignments.
You should post a minimum of 250 words to the textbox.
For your Unit 1 Journal entry, you will assess some of your leadership traits. This will be accomplished by using the Leadership Self-Assessments found in Chapter 2 of the text (DuBrin, 2023) including:
Quiz 2-1: Self-Evaluation of My humility 
Quiz 2-2: Behaviors and Attitudes of a Trustworthy Leader
Quiz 2-3: My Tendencies Toward Being a Proactive Personality
Quiz 2-4: How Big is My Thinking?
Briefly share what you learned from the assessments and determine the one (1) trait that you believe is most critical for you to develop at this time and explain the reason for your selection.
Using your text and one other current and reliable source (a peer reviewed article is not required), explore ideas and recommendations for improving this trait over the next 3–6 months.
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Company is Kroger
The following resources will help you complete this discussion and may be useful in completing your second assignment:
In Strategic Management, read:
Chapter 5, “Competitive Advantage, Firm Performance, and Business Models.”
The following required readings are available full-text in the Capella University Library:
Johnson, M. W., Christensen, C. M., & Kagermann, H. (2008). Reinventing your business model. Harvard Business Review, 86(12), 50–59.
Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (1992) The balanced scorecard: Measures that drive performance. Harvard Business Review, 70(1), 71–79.
Discussion Instructions
The focus of strategic management activities is to gain and sustain competitive advantage over competitors. Competitive advantage is related to firm performance and key performance indicators such as accounting profitability, shareholder value creation, and economic value creation. Use the discussion resources and your own research to support your statements. Follow APA guidelines for all citations and references.
For the company you have selected to use in this course:
Identify a meaningful measure of performance for the company.
Identify key competitors.
Briefly explain how the company uses its business model to gain and sustain competitive advantage. What are the key elements of the business model to consider?
Relate these concepts to your career growth. Why not create a personal SWOT analysis. Give some thought to these areas throughout your program. Uncover opportunities to capitalize on your talents and further develop others that can set you apart from your colleagues.

Assessment 2 Part 1 Business Report
This assessment is an individually written business report that requires you to examine the business of the online fashion retail company, Shein, to identify issues that are ethically problematic and develop potential resolutions to these issues from the standpoint of responsible management. You will conduct an analysis, and report on the responsibility of business in the fast-fashion industry based on the concepts, theories, and frameworks discussed in class and in the readings in Weeks 4 – 8. The assessment will be explained to you at the Week 6 Workshop.  Submission will be via Canvas on Sunday, Week 9 at 11:59 pm.
You will take the perspective of an Ethics Officer hired by the company to critically examine the business of fast-fashion. You must evaluate key issues that relate to business ethics, responsible management, and corporate social responsibility (CSR), develop conclusions about the company’s business practices, and offer recommendations on how the firm can (better) practice responsible management. You are expected to conduct secondary research on the company and the fast-fashion industry by gathering online information and publicly available data. You must analyse the information gathered using course concepts, theories, and frameworks.  
The report must be well structured and concisely written. It must include essential information to enable the reader to understand the report findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The report must contain the following:
Provide a brief description of  Shein and the fast-fashion business worldwide – How does Shein’s business model work? How much revenue does the company make? Where does Shein mostly manufacture its products? How many employees does the company employ? Who are Shein’s direct competitors? Who are its target customers? Why is Shein a highly profitable business? 
Identify and describe ethical business issues (Week 4) pertaining to responsible management using the B Impact Assessment criteria (Week 5).
Identify key stakeholders involved in these issues and discuss their power and interests in the business (Week 6).
Evaluate the business based on Carroll’s model of corporate social responsibility (CSR), paying close attention to the link between ethical issues and key business stakeholders (Weeks 5, 6, 7 & 8).
Write your conclusions about the company’s practices – Do the company’s business practices reflect those of a responsible business?
Propose and justify at least two recommendations to address the ethical issues you have identified and to protect stakeholder interests according to the concept of business responsibility
Include citations using APA 7th edition where appropriate
Include a table of contents, a reference list in APA 7th format, and appendices
The report has a word limit of 1,500 (+/- 10%) – table of contents, references and appendices are not counted.
The suggested format is as follows:
Table of Contents
Introduction – introduce the topic and purpose of the report
Brief description of the business and the industry – provide only information relevant to the analysis
Discussion – discuss information relevant to the report’s objectives, analyse the information, and report your findings
Note: This is the longest section of the report. Use headings and subheadings to organise the topics therein.
Conclusion – synthesise the discussion and state the significance of your findings
Recommendations – make suggestions based on the findings/evaluation in the report
References
Appendices – relevant graphs, tables, images that support the analysis

You should be making headway on AT LEAST the first three following items:
Introduction
Identify the firm; briefly discuss its history; and describe the industry within which it competes.
Problem, Issue, or Opportunity Statement
The firm faces problems, issues,
and/or opportunities; pick one and explain its impact. State an explicit
problem, issue, or opportunity.
Internal Organizational Analysis
Provide a brief introductory paragraph or slide, to explain the purpose of an internal analysis.
Mission, Vision, & Core Values
State and evaluate the firm’s mission, vision, and values statements, by applying the 9 mission statement evaluation criteria.
Resources & Capabilities
Identify key organizational resources and capabilities, complete a VRIN analysis.
Financial Ratios
Present recent financial ratios
(i.e., at least one cash flow, liquidity, leverage, activity,
profitability, and growth) and explain the meaning of each indices.
Strength/Weakness (S/W) Opportunities and Threats (O/T)
Complete a S/W assessment, explaining the relevance of each strength and weakness identified.
Markets Served
Describe the market(s) served by the firm, including chief competitors, products, prices, etc.
PESTEL-DC Analysis
Complete a PESTEL-DC analysis>
Industry Driving Forces Analysis
First, identify and explain
significant forces (i.e., technology changes, declining or growing
markets, etc.), which influence/impact the industry
Next, describe the impact on the firm.
Industry Key Success Factors
First, know that every successful
firm, competing in a market- place, displays certain characteristics
(e.g., superior customer service, comfortable environment, convenient
locations, etc.); list and explain these.
Second, explain how the firm does or does not show these characteristics, explaining why or why not.
Porter’s Five Forces
Identify & describe each of the
five forces (supplier power, buyer power, competitive rivalry, threat of
substitution, & threat of new entry) impacting the firm; describe
the impact on the firm.
Strategic Analysis Firm’s Current Strategic Strategies
Identify, name (using the list below), and describe the current strategies being used by the firm.
The strategies to choose from are:
Cooperative strategies (e.g. alliance, joint venture, partnership, outsourcing, licensing);
Intensive strategies (Market Penetration, Market Development, Product Development);
Integration Strategies (Vertical / Horizontal, Forward/Backward);
Diversification Strategies, Related/Unrelated;
Defensive Strategies (Retrenchment/Divestiture/Liquidation); or
Mergers/Acquisitions. Also, consider Porter’s generic strategies: cost leader, differentiation leader, or focus strategies.)
Strategic Options
Based on the internal and external
analyses, recommend some specific strategic options for the firm to
consider solving the problem, capitalize on the opportunity, or resolve
the issue identified. Pick from the strategies listed above. Give
specific examples of actions for each strategic option the firm can
deploy.

Essay question #1
Describe how you plan to use this degree in your career. (500 words or less)
Essay question #2 (optional)
Please provide any additional information you would like to bring to the attention of the admission committee. (500 words or less)

Hi, I wrote an essay and 78 % has AI use detected,  It  was rejected and asked to rewrite it . 
I attached it here. The brief is in the second file attached, also I attached four files from the
course, the powerpoint presentations  contain main resources.
BRIEF explained :
You are an external consultant, and you are required to identify a potential change (planned change :
Moving from a pay graded system to a performance related pay system )
issue that your organisation  may be facing or encounter due to forces of change.  ( @ coffee roasters 3FE from Dublin )
Discuss (Thinking critically)
the triggers or potential triggers/forces for change, 
the change issues and draw up a change plan to manage it, including the communication of it and how you would manage potential resistance to change.
In your answer, consider the theories and concepts covered in class and through further 
reading and apply to the change plan.  
You are to discuss work related attitudes and personality. Namely the ideal personality traits of managers and employees best suited to managing, coping, dealing with and adapting to organisational change. 
Assignment: 2,500 words excluding bibliography. 
Email: 300 words 
data collection and analysis table below which may be used in the essay.
Originality 
Plagiarism check 
AI detection check 
Turnit in check 
Please let me know if possible . Thank you 

Summarize the case study of Panera Bread. What was the issue and what was the solution?  Identify the PESTEL factors in the Panera Bread case study. Write a text entry 500-1000 words. 
https://portionbalance.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/panera-bread-case-study-final.pdf 

Panera Bread Case Study

https://www.slideshare.net/sazzad128/case-solving-1-case-study-of-panera-bread

Create a list of the actions you took in Q4 and the rationale behind each of those. These only need to be bullet points; however, you should make actions based on the data that you are seeing in your balanced scorecard in Marketplace including your sales, brand judgment (how your designs meet customer needs), ad judgment, price judgment and store location effectiveness.
https://play.marketplace-simulation.com/mpl/web7/engine.php?tpl=student&quarter=4&language=en-us&resource=summaryofdecisions&tab=workspace 

the first file is the first assignment, the one you are to complete is a continued version of it. Use the materials in the first file to complete the template. Use the template that i have given to write your answers

Research Paper
Each student will on a first-come, first-served
basis, select a collective bargaining agreement from the list of contracts on
the Ohio State Employment Relations Board website and state the party the
student would represent; employer or union.
serb.ohio.gov/wps/portal/serb/documents-and-decisions/collective-bargaining-agreements/collective-bargaining-agreements
The student will
then prepare a paper listing at least five (5) improvements he/she would seek
to make in the collective bargaining agreement, explaining the reason for each
suggested improvement from either the management or labor side and explain the
process by which the student would attempt to achieve those improvements.