Category: Business and Management

Please review these videos
Why McDonald’s Is Thriving In China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD5ac-e2SO8Links to an external site.
McDonald’s in China | Inside China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHHmUd6xfoLinks to an external site.
This is similar to the KFC case study: China
Why China Loves KFC

After reviewing these videos what were some internal and external factors in China? Think of PESTEL. Why was McDonald’s so successful in China? Are they utilizing similar strategies that KFC used? Compare and contrast KFC and Mcdonalds in china and why they are the fastest growing market in China vs the U.S. What were some of the PESEL factors? Please describe in detail with 500-1000 words

You have just submitted your presentation to the potential employer who now offers you the job. However, the salary is too low in your opinion.
Before you start this section, review these negotiation steps from Robbins and Judge (2013) in the Learn area.
Decide on the salary you will negotiate with this potential employer since you want the job.
What if the employer is not amenable to raising the salary per your request, how else might you negotiate? Explain.
Explain how your counter-offer would allow for a win-win situation.
Copy the three prompts above into a Word document and then submit your original answers to those questions in a minimum total of 250 words in a Microsoft® Word® document. Be sure to add a title page in the current APA format.

applying the four disciplines of execution to promote cultural change in the NICU.
Create themes that will be used as subheadings in your literature review. Consult at least five academic resources on your research topic, which is Exploring the perceived impact of the four disciplines of execution: a cross-sectional qualitative study of large companies in South Africa using interviews.
Do a literature review for this article.

Module 2 – Case
ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
Assignment Overview
Moving Toward an Ethical Workplace
As you can see from your reading for the Case Assignment Lockheed Martin has a very interesting history and this history has had an impact on where the company is today with respect to its existing ethics program.
Case Assignment
After reading Chapter 2 of the text, please write a 4- to 5-page essay that addresses the following:
Lockheed has an interesting history that seemed innocent enough up until around the 1950s. You’ll note on p. 56 of Terris’ book that the company began to engage in some questionable sales strategies with other nations in an effort sell the F-104 Starfighter so as to recoup costs when their U.S. sales strategy failed. 
Describe some of the unorthodox strategies covered by Terris during this era that made Lockheed become “…a byword for the shady practices of American multi-national corporations, and a major impetus for new legislation…”. 
On the issue of overseas bribes, Terris asks the questions, “Who was hurt by the [overseas bribes to secure sales of aircraft]? The competitors, of course, but what was unethical about beating out the competition that was playing by the same rules?” (p.59). What do you think about a situation where underhanded and back-door deals are the way the game is played if everybody is on the same playing field? That is to say, if everybody is playing by the same shady rules, is it unethical to compete?
In your reading you will note that defense contractors continued to find themselves in hot water well into the 1970s as a result of overpricing and additional charges of bribery. In the late ’70s Lockheed established its first code of ethics and later the major defense contractors came to the table to level the playing field with the Defense Industry Initiative (DII), by agreeing on a set of ethical principles. This was an important turning point as was bringing Norman Augustine on board. 
Why was the DII so important to the eventual success of Lockheed Martin’s ethics program? 
Discuss Norman Augustine’s and Dilbert’s contribution in helping Lockheed Martin turn the corner with its ethics program.  
Assignment Expectations
Your paper should be 4 to 5 pages, be double-spaced, and in 12-point type size.
Your paper should have a separate cover page and a separate reference page. Make sure you cite your sources. 
Use APA style, and proofread your paper.
Upload your paper to by the end of the module.

Overall Feedback
This submission failed to meet minimum graduate-level submission standards. First, see my notes about Level 1 and Level 2 headings. Second, see my notes to you about citing sources when introducing external facts, and properly citing quoted material. Third, see my note in Section 2 about vision statement. See also my Announcement in class. Also, relating to Section 2, you failed to meet minimum support requirements.
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The paper is in a Microsoft® Word® (minimum 4–6 pages) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
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The paper was written in Standard English and demonstrated exceptional content, organization, style, grammar, and mechanics.
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The paper provided a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
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The writing was well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
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The material is paraphrased and used in-text citations to justify the discussion. Avoids using quotations. Properly paraphrased from the sources.
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Section 2 supports thoughts with at least two sources from the readings, as well as two other sources based on research. For this section, you may use sources that are not considered scholarly as your additional sources.
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Uses scholarly, high quality, and current Purdue Global Library sources, in addition to the course materials.
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Responds to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. The paper was highly organized, logical, and focused.
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References for all sources were included on the reference page, and in-text citations were cited appropriately. The sources and content followed current APA citation style.
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Includes a title page and reference page.
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The paper is free of spelling or punctuation errors.
Introduction:
Redman (2019) states that the world is changing quickly, change is hard, and many change efforts fail. A leader must have a good plan in place to navigate through these changes to stay successful. Now you will apply that knowledge to a company scenario, building an implementation plan into the process so it is actionable. Select one business from the current winners from any of the categories in the Great Places To Work list. Assume that you are the new CEO of this business who has goals of expanding your business. Depending on your choice, you can select one or more from the following list:
Expand nationally or internationally
Change your business offering(s) or target customers
Merger or acquisition
Another goal of your choice
For this 4- to 6-page APA-compliant paper (not including title and reference pages) respond to the following:
Section 1- Overview and Goal Description
Select the company that you will use for this paper. Provide an explanation and rationale for your choice. As there are many categories in the Great Places To Work site, you may want to explore an industry you know well or look to expand your knowledge by selecting an industry you are unfamiliar with for increased learning and knowledge building.
Describe the vision, mission, and values as individual components in the current state of the company. Explain the systems relationship of these elements, and how they are related to help the company achieve success.
Provide any additional background information (i.e., financials, primary products and services, etc.) to ensure the funding agency has an overview of the organization.
As the new CEO, identify the growth goal(s) you would like to achieve including a rationale for this choice(s).
Section 2- Vision Integration into Current State
Describe the current vision of the company. You may reuse the content from Section 1.
In your readings, you saw how a personal vision statement can be a foundation for creating a business venture and/or incorporation into the current vision of a company you will be leading. For this section, you will present a plan for how you would integrate your vision into what currently exists for the company you have selected for analysis. Support your thoughts with at least two sources from the readings, as well as two other sources you uncover in your research. For this section, you may use sources that are not considered scholarly as your additional sources.
Include in this section:
Your personal vision and process you used for your personal vision creation
A draft of your revised vision, incorporating your vision into the current company vision
The process you will use to involve all stakeholders in the new vision creation based on your draft. You may use both descriptive and graphic representation tools (i.e., flow chart) to present this process
The measurement process you will use to determine the effectiveness of your new vision on organizational success.
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Overall instructions:
Each section has guidelines for length and the total possible points.  Please write this as if it could be handed to a client – well written, complete sentences, good grammar and punctuation, use bold headings to differentiate sections for clarity, use bullets as applicable.   Single space, use Helvetica or Arial 11 or 12 font.  Please get started right away – do not wait to try to do all at once in the end.
Business Entities                                                                                                                                                           
You have three clients that are all starting businesses and are asking your advice on what corporate form (if any) to use.  Please note you are expected to do additional research and not just answer from information only in the book.  You also must cite your sources.
Write out what you would tell your clients structured as overall information and advice that you will tell all three, following by specific advice for each unique client scenario.
The following questions 1 through 7 will be answered only once as it will be the overview and information that you provide all three clients regardless of their situation and scenario (so only write this part out once):
A brief overview of the legal entities that a firm can take.     One to two pages  100 points
What is the relative use of each form of a business in United States and how that has changed over time (This will require research and be sure refer to and cite your sources)   One to three paragraphs and chart(s) and/or graph(s).    50 points
Why would someone use an LLC instead of a S-Corporation? Include in your answer the limitations on who can own an S Corporation.    Two paragraphs to a one page     50 points
What form or form of business is immediately not applicable if they want to protect their personal assets from any financial risk and explain why. 50 points
Explain how they can legally use more than one name for their firm by filing a DBA (doing business as also known as a fictitious name statement) and what that filing process entails. Approximately ½ to one page    50 points.
What business form do venture capitalists typically prefer and why?  Approximately ½ page    40 points.
What business form are the companies that trade on the publicly traded exchanges (such as NASDAQ or NY Stock Exchange) and why Approximately ½ page    40 points.
Note: 1 thru 7 above you only need to write out once at it will be the same for each scenario.  
The following questions you will do each one three times – one answer per  question for each Scenario A, B and C.
Scenario A:   Three engineering graduate students have developed a new technology that has huge promise for energy storage.   They plan to file for a patent and will need to raise money to fund the development of the prototype and subsequent launch of the product.
What corporate or business form you recommend that they use given their circumstances and why it is the best for their situation.   2/3 to one page  100 points
What a possible alternative form may be and compare and contrast the two options. One to 1 ½  pages (can use charts as well)  100 points
Scenario B:   This client has been running their own business providing bicycle repair and tune-up services to corporations who in turn offer that as an employee benefit for their staff.  The business is one year old and the client wants to open another branch in another city which will be run by someone else, and if that goes well will expand into additional cities. As it grows he would like to offer the managers at the various locations slight ownership in the firms as an incentive.
What corporate or business form you recommend that they use given their circumstances and why it is the best for their situation.   2/3 to one page  100 points
What a possible alternative form may be and compare and contrast the two options. One to 1 ½  pages (can use charts as well)  100 points
Scenario C:   The client and their partner wants to buy an existing restaurant.  
What corporate or business form you recommend that they use given their circumstances and why it is the best for their situation.   2/3 to one page  100 points
What a possible alternative form may be and compare and contrast the two options. One to 1 ½  pages (can use charts as well)  100 points

I need an argumentative essay with an introduction on the topic and then with 3 arguments for why it is possible for people to boycott fast fashion (going from the least to the most important one) and then a conclusion explaining the subject of the essay
Here are some links to use as references : 

What Is Fast Fashion and Why Is It So Bad?

https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/behind-the-seams-shocking-fast-fashion-statistics-you-need-to-know
https://sustainablereview.com/exploring-the-consequences-of-fast-fashion-on-garment-workers/#:~:text=Workers%20are%20exposed%20to%20hazardous,garment%20labourers%27%20well%2Dbeing.
https://gitnux.org/fast-fashion-statistics/
https://ohsevendays.com/blogs/news/six-ways-to-boycott-fast-fashion
https://www.fashiondive.com/news/sustainable-fashion-consumer-demographics-gen-z/650864/#:~:text=About%2054%25%20of%20Gen%20Z,fashion%20in%20the%20past%20year.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10479-020-03703-8
https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/garment-workers-fashion-boycott/

Handball is a physically demanding sport like soccer. It requires all physical fitness elements likes strength, speed, agility and endurance. Conditioning exercise is a major part of the training which prepare the participants for the physical need for the sport.
warm up drill, dynamic warm up like arm circle, leg swing, high knee, butt kick, pogo jump, squat jump, power skip…
function training like medicine ball or landmine 2 sets of 8 to 10 reps
strength training, traditional full body training for 3 sets of 10 to 12 reps each
Trunk conditioning, 2 sets of isometric contraction from 30 to 60s
conditioning exercise focus on fast glycolysis to slow glycolysis energy system e.g. 25meter sprint. work: rest ratio from 1:3 to 1:1

PROJECT 2
MILESTONES FOR PROFESSOR DUCOFFE TO REVIEW – Team Chester
Mostly
good job on the WBS Outline of tasks and sub-tasks for each part of the store
construction and opening, Team Chester!
You included the items that must be
completed and carefully thought through the order of the tasks. HOWEVER, we
like to see more categories of MAIN tasks and then more detailed sub-tasks
beneath each. We typically like to see at least six of these
main tasks such as: Design the Store, Obtain Permits, Construct Interior,
Construct Exterior, Stock with Inventory, Staff the Store, etc. Then, under
“Design the Store,” you might have sub-tasks including designing the
interior, designing the garden center, designing the parking lot, etc. (and
then further sub-tasks beneath those).
So,
you need more DETAIL here in this part of your plan since the client would want
to see the steps with more specificity.
Your
revised Excel file will become an appendix in your final plan and you will need
to summarize it in a couple of pages within the plan.
the Professor gave us the answers for the WBS.
The six milestones are:
Design the Store
Obtain Permits
Construct Interior
Construct Exterior
Stock with Inventory
Staff the Store
Example:
Milestone: Design the Store
Subtask1: Design interior
Subtask2: Design Garden Center
Subtask 3: Design the Parking Lot
Etc…
It is important that the subtasks all align to
what the scope of work. This is all in the Project Charter.
Note: You can also have subtasks of subtasks
…maybe add 1 or 2 to eahch…where it makes sense. It will show how detailed
we are.
Step 5: Create
the Work Breakdown Structure
In the previous step, you identified and analyzed all
stakeholders, both internal and external to your team, and created a
communication plan to manage their expectations. Now your team must consider
how you will handle the work breakdown structure (WBS). 
Using MS Excel create a high-level of the work breakdown
structure for your project that covers the key facets set out in the statement
of work, such as the design of the new store. A sample of WBS which
you can use as a template is provided. 
When you create your WBS remember the following rules:
Include 100%
of the work necessary to complete the goal and don’t include the work that
is out of your project scope. 
Provide a
sufficient level of detail. 
Don’t
account for any amount of work twice. 
Focus on
outcomes, not actions.
For feedback from your instructor, submit your project
charter, stakeholder management plan, and WBS to your team’s group discussion
area only. Then continue to the next step, where your team will develop a
project schedule (Gantt chart).
Step 6: Create
the Project Schedule (Gantt Chart)
This morning you
received an email from Jillian Best.
INBOX:
1 Message
Subject: TCS project:
good progress
From: Jillian Best
To: You
Dear
Team,
I’m
happy with the progress on the TCS project. It is nice to see that the work
breakdown structure is properly align with the project requirements. You should
use it as a basis for preparing other components of the project management
plan.
Keep
up the good work.
I
look forward to updates in a week.
Jillian Best, CEO
MCS
From your experience and knowledge, you understand that for
a good schedule (Gantt chart) you need to
define all project activities and their attributes (including their durations),
establish logical dependencies between them, integrate project milestones in
the schedule, etc. The WBS will serve you well in determining your project
activities and preparing your schedule. The Microsoft Project software will
allow you to visually present your schedule with the Gantt chart. Ensure that your Gantt chart indicates
the critical path in
red. If you need help, please follow these Microsoft Project guidelines.
There are additional resources (videos) on how to use MS
Project in the class Discussions area.  
To get more benefits from the MS Project the following
requirements should be observed:
·      
You
should use auto-scheduled task mode for all your activities/tasks. 
·      
The
hierarchical structure of your WBS should be presented in the MS Project
file. 
·      
All
task dependencies should be established. Every activity and milestone except
the first and the last should be connected to at least one predecessor and one
successor. Don’t link summary tasks because it might negatively affect your
schedule quality and result in incorrect presentation of the critical
path.  
·      
It
is better to establish task durations than their start and end dates. The
duration of summary tasks will be automatically calculated by the software.
Additionally, it will be easier to modify your schedule, if needed, without
losing its logic.
When you have completed your project Gantt chart
(schedule), continue to the next step, where you will develop a project cost
estimate.
Your teams will next complete/create
the remaining two templates–a risk assessment and a procurement plan. Then, as
a team, you will write your team project management plan using the template for
the plan provided in your project guidelines. The previously-completed
templates and the current two for this week will become appendices in the plan
with the WBS attached as an Excel file and the Gantt attached as a .mpp file.
In your written plan, you will need to cover each area in
written or narrative form (by summarizing what was in your templates), justify
your decisions, and include any citations where needed as support for your
decisions.
In summary
1.      
Modify WBS to include the six-milestone highlighted
above with subtasks per prof feedback..
2.      
A Gantt chart with critical path in red.
3.      
A summarized narrative and citation on what is
in the template with justification on decisions made.

The title of the project should not be more than 12 words in length. The complete Project Work should be submitted in 15000-30000 words. You are supposed to submit project work along with an extended abstract and project guide resume simultaneously.
You must be careful about the Originality and Relevance of the Project Topic to avoid Project Rejection at a later stage. Therefore, you are required to submit a plagiarism report acknowledging 85% originality
Project Guide must be a graduate with a minimum of 10 years of work experience Ensure to include signed & scanned copies of the following essential certificates
From Project Guide: Certifying bonafides of project work carried out under his/her supervision
From a student: Certifying that submitted project work is an original piece of work and has not been submitted earlier
Viva Questions will be accessible after uploading Project Work.
Project submission will be accepted only after the Project file is uploaded and Viva questions are answered Generally, it takes four to six weeks to complete the process of evaluation of project work.