Category: Business

Final exam essay questions that need to be answered in APA format and contain 7 references, 4 of which need to be peer reviewed. The essay needs to follow a strict format, which I have attached below. Must include title page, abstract and reference page.

The following video may help you respond to this week’s discussion question:
Best Place to Work [Video]Links to an external site.. (1 min, 4 secs)
Please respond to the following in your discussion post:
What performance management factors might make a company such as Edward Jones a “Best Place to Work” environment? Why?
Video Link: https://youtu.be/axQ_AxU6RT8?si=wHEYtcoj7pBXU4MH

In your own words, answer this unit’s discussion questions in a main post (recommended minimum 300 words), and respond to at least 2 peers’ postings (recommended minimum 75 words).
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Assignment Details
Project scheduling is a critical task that will determine the success of a project. The process starts with establishing the objectives for the project. The scope must be considered, and a plan with milestones and the final goal should be set in place. One critical part of a schedule is resource allocation. Knowledge of resource planning and resource allocation in project management could help alleviate increasing costs.
Maintaining cost is a crucial portion of project scheduling. Based on your experiences, suggest techniques that could be used to maintain cost in scheduling.
After posting your response, respond to at least 2 of your peers with substantive posts that elaborate on their thoughts or further the conversation. When responding to their posts, you should share your thoughts by connecting the content to your professional life.

The following video may help you respond to this week’s discussion question:
How Wegmans’s Upskilling Program Benefited Employees, the Company, and the Community [Video]Links to an external site.. (3 mins, 49 secs)
Respond to the following in your discussion post:
What are some of the objectives of development programs, such as the one at Wegman’s?
Video link: https://youtu.be/q2Ad8l4u2jU?si=47U9aZH7M72xTGjo

Today’s business environment is characterized by a competitive intensity that requires innovative thinking and strategic decision-making competencies. As a business professional, it is essential that you apply the principles of strategic decision-making and design thinking to positively influence the effectiveness of a business in its markets.
In this task, you will act as a consultant for the company in the given scenario. As you complete the task, think about the materials you encountered in the course or past projects you have worked on that required innovative thinking and effective, strategic decision-making. You will be required to provide a market entry overview for the hypothetical company in the following scenario. As part of this market entry overview, you will
• assess the internal factors and aspects of the company,
• explain how elements of the emerging market influence the design of the company’s product, and
• apply the results of your analysis to the market entry strategy.A U.S. fishing boat manufacturer is known throughout the United States for its innovative approach to product design, lean manufacturing, and responsive customer service since its start three years ago. The mission statement of the company is “We will provide the most innovative customer-driven design and growth in the industry.” The founders’ ideals for the company are described in the vision statement: “We will be the most sustainable company in the industry.” The company’s ethical statement that guides all conduct and decision-making is “We will make decisions that are sustainable for customers and the environment.”
The company’s founders have created an organizational culture of innovation in which employees and founders are considered equal partners. The founders have provided incentives for employees’ creative ideas and created testing laboratories where customers use the products and provide design feedback. The founders have also invited innovators in other industries, such as gaming and information technology, to improve on the designs.
The company’s organizational structure is decentralized and provides all employees with decision-making responsibilities. All company decisions are evaluated by all employees to ensure that everyone is committed to the decisions. Additionally, all employees can access the company founders at any time for collaboration, shared decision-making, or relationship building.
The company has identified an emerging global market opportunity in India for its products. Successful sales in India could represent a critical moment for the company if the company establishes strategic partnerships that will increase the likelihood of product success. The founders hope to capture profits and market share and expand into other parts of Asia within the first year of selling products in India.
Research indicates market potential for the company’s sales in India because of the importance of the fishing industry in the country. Fishing and aquaculture are primary industries in the coastal regions of India. Economic zones have been established to support the over 14 million people who are an important part of the fishing industry. This industry makes up 1% of the nation’s gross domestic product and 6.56% of global fish exports (Department of Fisheries, 2019).
The company’s goal of the market expansion is to be the first foldable fishing boat manufacturer in India. An origami-inspired foldable fishing boat is the company’s most popular product. This boat comes designed as a plastic carrying case that unfolds into the water like an origami paper boat. This boat is suitable for use in calm water, and the boat can be recycled. The product retails for USD$200.
Traditional fishers in India use nonmechanized boats, which would be ideal for the foldable boat’s entry into the market. Laws and regulations surrounding the use of nonmechanized boats favor importing foldable boats, which would be easy for fishers to carry from home to the water. The business climate in India is open to new partnerships to improve the fishing experience for those who preserve the natural ecosystem with nonmotorized boats. The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) promotes the use of natural fishing equipment to reduce disruption to the fishing ecosystem in India (National Fisheries Development Board, n.d.).
The U.S. boat manufacturer’s founders met with the NFDB to request an endorsement for their foldable boats because of the product’s sustainable design and net-zero environmental impact. The founders discovered that the NFDB would only endorse the boat if it was made of plastics used in India in order to reduce the waste products in the nation’s landfills.
This endeavor would require the U.S. company to make a significant investment in India. The company would need to purchase or build a manufacturing facility, or it would need to contract with a facility owner to secure a manufacturing location. It would need to employ Indian workers. Lastly, the company would need to manufacture a new foldable boat made from used plastics in India with an environmentally friendly waterproof coating.
The new foldable boat could be designed in several ways, and the company would need to test a series of plastic products and waterproof coatings to determine which would be suitable for fishers in India. The fishers range in age from 13 to 70, so the design would need to be comfortable and portable enough for all fishers in this target group.
The company decides to hire Indian fishers to help design the product to reach this market. These fishers will provide qualitative, open-ended conversations and data that will be valuable in communicating the product’s features and benefits to other fishers. The product will be tested by a variety of fishers who represent different sectors of the fishing industry, different regions, and different cultural segments. Testing will provide generalizable qualitative data about the product’s use and effectiveness.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A. Analyze the internal organizational aspects of the company from the scenario by doing the following:
1. Discuss in detail whether the organizational culture is an advantage or disadvantage to the company and explain why.
2. Discuss in detail whether the organizational structure is an advantage or disadvantage to the company and explain why.
3. Describe in detail how each of the following organizational aspects in the scenario influences how the company makes strategic decisions:
a. organizational culture
b. organizational structure
c. mission and vision statements
d. ethical statement
B. Discuss innovations to the company’s product from the scenario by doing the following:
1. Describe two specific characteristics of the emerging market in the scenario.
2. Discuss two product redesign ideas, one unique redesign idea for each of the characteristics you identified in part B1.
a. For each of your two redesign ideas, explain how each redesign idea addresses the related characteristic described in part B1, using supporting details from the scenario.
3. Discuss in detail each of the six stages of the design thinking process the company would undergo to implement at least one of your redesign ideas discussed in part B2.
Note: The six stages of the design thinking process are empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and implement.
a. Choose three of the following aspects from the scenario and discuss in detail how each selected aspect would influence at least one of the six stages of the design thinking process discussed in part B3.
• organizational culture
• organizational structure
• company ethics
• emerging market culture
• emerging market ethics
• global legal systems
C. Explain how the company’s organizational culture and ethical statement described in part A3 influence the company’s market entry strategy in the scenario.
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Under the Strategic Recommendations subtitle, on page 11, please add a paragraph describing how the leadership team of Square asked your team to do an analysis of the company and make some strategic recommendations. Your team did a thorough analysis of the company and is now making three recommendations based on what you believe are the three most salient issues.

Essay: Developers and the Development Process Assignment Instructions
Overview
Real estate development involves coordinating multiple steps within the development project to maximize its financial success. In the development process outlined in our text this week, milestone 8 discusses debt financing.
Essay: Developers and the Development Process Draft Submission Assignment
After you complete your Essay: Developers and the Development Process Final Submission Assignment you should submit your assignment to the Essay: Developers and the Development Process Draft Submission Assignment to check your Turnitin report and make any adjustments prior to your final Submission. After reviewing your Turnitin results, make any edits necessary to your assignment prior to submitting for a grade. Instructions
Using the electronic databases provided by the Liberty University Library and other sources, search for journal articles in professional (peer reviewed) journals that engage in scholarly research relating to real estate finance in the development process. Limit your search results to articles published within the last 5 years. Prepare a research-based essay that is 500–750 words and discusses some of the more common forms of short and long-term project financing and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Include a section in your paper on the integration of a Christian worldview relating to real estate finance.
Your paper should reflect professional writing, current APA standards, and include at least 5 scholarly references (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles). You may also use non-scholarly references such as trade publications in addition to your 5 scholarly sources. Example peer-reviewed journals: • The Journal of Real Estate Research
• Journal of Real Estate Literature
• Journal of Corporate Real Estate
• Real Estate Economics
• Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

This portfolio work project will give you practice with professional writing expectations, as well as motivating and persuading others by telling a story. Create a brief slide presentation, with graphics, and preferably your voice presenting, that analyzes the tools and strategies that leaders can use to build trust and collaboration, and explains why you believe storytelling is one effective tool for you to use to lead your team. The Creating a Presentation in the MBA Program Resources and the Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PDF] Download Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PDF]document will help you with this presentation. The Ariel Group explains that a story needs to follow a basic four-step format that gently leads the audience into the story, through the story, and connecting the story: Executive Essentials: Storytelling. Use this format, based on page 9 of the Ariel group resource, to create six slides (not including cover page and references): Slide 1. Cover slide with title and your name, and a graphic for interest (be sure to credit graphic artist in the reference slide). Slide 2. Introduce the subject matter or business content, much as the introduction to a paper would do. Example: “NASA has a reputation for communication issues among teammates, but our team is going to change all of that. This presentation does this and that.” Slide 3. Building Trust and Collaboration. Discuss the importance of trust and collaboration in the workplace, then identify and discuss at least two tools or strategies (other than storytelling) leaders can use for building trust and fostering collaboration. Slide 4. Storytelling. Explain ways in which leaders can use storytelling to build trust and relationships. Slide 5. Transition into the story. This slide should transition into your story, setting the expectations of the audience of what is to come. Example: “I once worked at another company that had some major communications issues. It wasn’t life or death like here at NASA, but we did have some serious problems in communications that impacted our ability to be effective. Let me share with you a story to illustrate a vision of how we can work together . . .” Slide 6. Tell the Story. This slide should actually tell your story: Set the stage. Describe the conflict. Describe the resolution. Example: “About 10 years ago I was working as a shift leader at a manufacturing facility where safety was supposedly part of the culture, yet we had a frighteningly bad safety record . . .” Continue the story. Slide 7. Connect the story to a teaching point or subject matter. This slide should bring your story back to the issue at hand. Example: “In this situation, we learned this and that. Here at NASA, we can do the same thing. We can prove that communications this and that.” Think of this like explaining the moral of the story. Slide 8. References. Include references here.

• 4. The Society of Human Resource Management Code of Ethics suggest that as an HR professional, steps should be taken to minimize “conflicts of interest or the appearance thereof”. 6 The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics calls for “[S]ocial workers behave in a trustworthy manner”. 7 With this in mind, what steps would you recommend for the actors of this scenario to be in harmony with these philosophies? • 5. Does the fact that there are no complaints about the citizens’ care or administration of the finances matter in the decision making process? How and why? • 6. Assume that it is discovered that Mr. Front is giving the case assignments to favored agents rather than approved agents but is not receiving any form of bribe or kickback for the placements. Should the agency take any action?

Write a workable business plan for a daycare center. The center will consist of a manager, a director 10 employees and 7 classrooms. The center will be open from 6 am until 6 pm Monday through Friday. Your paper will be graded on whether this plan can be carried out by a beginner starting a daycare for the very first time. What is the first step?