Category: Business

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary. 1. Please go over the word length requirement (maybe 220 words minimum) 2. Please submit proof of no AI/Plagiarism Thank you!

Module Objectives
The purpose of this module is to expose students to knowledge and principles of conducting business research and coming up with information to aid decision-making
Objectives At the end of this module, students should be able to:
Enumerate the process of researching for business research
Discuss the various sources of sources of data in conducting research
discuss how to effectively organize research results. Module Content Assignment 8
1)in one and a half-page-spaced font size 12 essay, discuss the steps involved in conducting a business research 2)Explain the CRAAP Test and state what it is used for in research

DIAGNOSIS PAPER: The theories and concepts taught in this course will only contribute to your business success if you apply what you have learned in the classroom to your everyday experiences. The objective of the diagnosis paper, due on July 15, is to give you some practice in looking at your life through an organizational behavior lens. For this assignment, you will reflect on an organizational problem that you have experienced. I use the term “organizational” quite broadly; you can write about an experience at a summer job, on a sports team, a school workgroup, or any other situation in which you worked with other people for the purposes of completing a collective task. Once you have selected an organizational problem from your past, you should describe and diagnose the problem using concepts from the course, outline the factors that contributed to the situation, and discuss how the concepts could have helped you and/or others deal with the situation more effectively. The paper should be between 5 and 8 pages, double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font with 1” margins around. The Diagnosis Paper will be graded on the following criteria:
Organization and structure: The paper employs a logical framework and analyzes a critical issue (i.e., well defined organizational problem).
Depth of analysis: The paper demonstrates a thorough diagnosis of the organizational problem. The paper draws on, applies, and extends OB concepts covered in the class, and is well integrated with course readings, lectures, and discussions.
Creativity and insight: The material is presented in an original, engaging, and interesting manner, and is presented in a persuasive style.
Style: The paper is professionally written, using appropriate grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Evidence-Based Conclusions: Students should support their conclusions with evidence as opposed to relying solely on intuition. The best evidence is to source academic work via Google Scholar, Galileo, etc. Practitioner websites are generally considered weak and biased.
Academic honesty is expected in this course. Please be aware that plagiarism is a serious violation. There are still more powerpoints of the material but I could only upload 5 so I will send you the rest later.

Create a 4–5-page departmental plan to address the corporate initiative of doubling sales outlined in a scenario.
Choose one of the following functional areas on which to base your assessment work. Sales and marketing.
Operations and production.
Accounting and finance I choose Sales and Marketing!!!
Imagine that your application to Atha was successful and have been working as a manager for a short time in the department you chose above when the Atha CEO shares the following communications with staff:
Create your department’s response plan (4–5 pages) to the new corporate initiative of doubling sales and the information presented in the file Ceo sales goal announcement Format: Submit a professional and well-organized Word document.
Length: 4–5 double-spaced pages.
APA format: Use the current APA style and formatting guidelines
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze the characteristics and behaviors of effective managers.Analyze a decision and the top consideration in addressing it.
Competency 2: Apply managerial principles to planning, organization, control, leadership, and communication.Explain how stated strategic departmental objectives or goals support corporate goals.
Explain why identified support activities are critical for achieving departmental goals.
Specify a timeline with realistic milestones that support stated objectives.
Explain how a specified reorganization is an effective response to a business challenge.
Competency 3: Communicate effectively and professionally.Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Use In citations if used!!!!!!

A Competitive Pay and Benefits Plan
For this assignment, use the organization and the specific job you selected as the subject in your Conducting a Job Analysis (Week 4), Selecting a Job Evaluation Method (Week 5), and Reviewing a Salary Structure (Week 6) assignments.
Assume you have already created a budget for your pay and benefits program.
In a 5–6 page paper:
Create a compensation philosophy statement for the organization.
Address the following questions and justify your responses using the job you selected in the Week 4 assignment:Will this position be full time or part time, and exempt or non-exempt?
What will the pay for this position be?
Will there be incentive pay as well?
Analyze the major laws with which your compensation program must comply.
Describe the legally mandated benefits you will include in your benefits package. Identify the state in which this business operates and identify any specific state-mandated benefits as well.
Describe the discretionary benefits you will include in your benefits package.
Analyze the major laws or acts with which your benefits program must comply.
Analyze the employer cost of benefits as a percentage of the total compensation package.
Analyze the trends that affect the cost of benefits.
Evaluate the effectiveness of your compensation and benefits program to attract and retain talent.
Additional Requirements
Your paper should also meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Formatting: One-inch margins, appropriate headers, and a title page.
Length: 5–6 double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
In addition to reviewing the assignment instructions, please review the A Competitive Pay and Benefits Plan rubric for this assignment to familiarize yourself with the required criteria for this assignment.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Evaluate the importance of compensation and benefits plans in attracting and retaining the most qualified talent.Create a compensation philosophy statement for the organization.
Evaluate the effectiveness of a compensation and benefits program to attract and retain talent.
Competency 2: Analyze base pay programs and the major laws and acts that govern employee pay.Analyze the major laws with which the compensation program must comply.
Analyze the employer cost of benefits as a percentage of the total compensation package.
Competency 3: Analyze base benefit plans and the primary laws and acts that govern employee benefits.Describe the legally mandated benefits included in a benefits package.
Describe the discretionary benefits included in a benefits package.
Analyze the major laws or acts with which a benefits program must comply.
Competency 4: Create a base pay and a base benefit plan.Analyze the trends that affect the cost of benefits.
Competency 5: Apply the Capella Writing Standards to support professional practice.Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
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The county is Indonesia.
In
this discussion board. You are to post a minimum 5 paragraph overview of the country;
I have assigned you. You will be using the country in future discussion boards.
(25 points)
Responses
must be numbered.
You
are not limited to the following, however, include the following:
1. 
Where in the world is the country located? Include a map. (Induce maps of
all the cities) (who are the neighboring countries and what body of water is on
the coastline of the county)
2. 
What is the population? ( You can you the CIA FACTBOOK)
3. 
What are the main languages spoken within the country? What percentages?( You can you the CIA FACTBOOK)
4. 
What is the climate of the country? (1 paragraph)
5. 
Explain the ethnic mix within the country. What percentages? If any?
Start a new posting, remember to number your responses.
(Add any notes from the CIA FACTBOOK) website
Cite
sources of information using  guidelines for the postings, outlined in the
syllabus. You may not
use Wikipedia as a source.
Please
be sure  you provide your sources within the text, as well as at the end
of the post.
Be
sure that the sources are identified after each sentence or passage, even if
the info all comes from the same source.
In
other words, do not just list the sources at the end of posting.
Poorly
documented posts will result in point deductions.  Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.
Please
note the (CIA FACTBOOK) website looks different as shown in the second video.

The textbook that we are using for this class is BCOM, 11th edition, Lehman, DuFrene, Cengage Publishing. ISBN: 9780357901243. I have included Chapters 5 & 6 PowerPoint Slides & Learning Objectives and attached the video for the assignment.
Assignment:
Although the video attached is a few years old, it illustrates that a business and its employees must utilize electronic communications such as social media to interact with customers and potential customers. Examples include email, text messaging, instant messaging, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs. In at least 150 words, discuss at least two means of electronic interactions with customers. Be sure to include the pros and cons. If possible, include personal observations from your work history.
Chapters 5 & 6 PowerPoint Slides & Learning Objectives
Chapter 5:
1 Understand the importance of safeguarding information communicated electronically.
2 Ensure that a technological communication channel is appropriate for your message.
3 Discuss the effective use of email, instant messaging, and text messaging in business communication.
4 Explain the principles of writing effectively for the web.
5 The effective use of voice and wireless technologies in business communication.
6 Use virtual collaboration tools to achieve your business communication goals.
Chapter 6:
1 Describe the deductive outline for good and neutral news and its adaptations for specific situations and for international audiences
2 Prepare messages that convey good news, including thank-you and appreciation messages
3 Write messages presenting routine claims and requests, and favorable responses to them
4 Write messages acknowledging customer orders, providing credit information, and extending credit
5 Prepare procedural messages that ensure clear and consistent application

Create an 8-12-slide PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the AFI Framework and the results of the internal and external analyses. Your presentation must also include a SWOT matrix for the company and your recommendations for strategies to move the company forward that align with organizational structure and governance, and reflect ethical responsibility.
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Introduction
This portfolio work project will help you demonstrate your understanding of strategy and the factors that must be considered when formulating and implementing strategy.
This assessment will help you demonstrate your understanding of strategy and the factors that must be considered when formulating and implementing strategy.
Scenario
Organizational leadership of your company has requested that you present your analyses of the company, as well as recommend potential strategic actions that could be taken to address issues raised by your analyses.
Your Role
You are a strategic analyst for the company you have selected to use in this course.
Requirements
Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 8-12 slides that synthesize the work you did on Assessments 1 and 2. Use the speaker’s notes sections of each slide to expand your talking points. Be sure your presentation includes:
A summary of the AFI framework.
Results from your internal analysis (VRIO or Value Chain)
Results from your external analysis (PESTLE and Five Forces)
A SWOT matrix for the company.
Recommendations:Do the current strategies need to be changed?
What strategies will move the organization forward?
How do your recommendations align with organizational structure and governance?
Do your recommendations reflect ethical responsibility?
Deliverable Format
PowerPoint presentation:
8-12 content slides (in addition to the title and references slides).
Include additional details on each slide in the speaker’s notes section.
Additional requirements.
Title slide.
References slide.
APA formatted references from at least ten sources.
Be sure you consider the audience.
Evaluation
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Assess the importance of strategic management for supporting long term success and sustained competitive advantage.Summarize the strategic framework for a company.
Competency 2: Apply strategic thinking approaches to resolve business-related challenges.Develop a SWOT matrix for a company.
Competency 3: Analyze the internal and external environments of an organization in order to formulate and implement successful strategies.Summarize the findings of an internal environmental analysis.
Summarize the findings of an external environmental analysis.
Competency 4: Apply strategic concepts and models to ensure the fit between strategy, organizational structure, capabilities, and goals; and the external environment.Recommend strategic actions for a company that align with organizational structure and governance and reflect ethical responsibility.
Competency 5: Communicate business needs, opportweekies, and strategies with multiple stakeholders.Address assessment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.

Overview
An important aspect of a change management strategy is to consider how different alternatives may impact future outcomes. Organizations often use the business case method to explore strategic alternatives as it helps simulate a real situation. Such simulations help with identifying business issues and provide critical information that organizations can then use to arrive at their own conclusions.
The VP of business development has asked you to analyze other organizations that have gone through the exit process. Doing so will help you identify common risks, challenges, and best practices related to mergers and acquisitions and apply this knowledge to guide the change management strategy of the life sciences organization. For example, if two merging organizations have extremely different communication styles or organizational cultures, it may often lead to conflict between the management and the employees. The same is true when one organization is acquiring another organization. Therefore, it is important that you identify all potential risks and challenges and include the best practices to avoid similar conflicts in your organization after it has been acquired.
You have decided to research a business case that may help you learn from the experiences of another organization.
The focus of your analysis should be on change management and the associated best practices that impacted the transformation of the organization in the case.
Prompt
Review the case study Bumpy Road Ahead: The Automotive Interiors Merger That Wasn’t. Next, consider the following steps to complete your analysis of the automotive case and apply your findings from the case analysis to your work in the life sciences organization in the course scenario.
Specifically, you must address the following criteria:
Case Study Review
Provide a brief overview of the two organizations in the case study that addresses the following:
Identify common characteristics of each organization.
Explain how the products and services of the two organizations differ.
Describe the key issues that affected the merger plan and its implementation.
What were the key issues related to organizational cultures and structural integration that created problems after the merger of the two organizations? Support your response with information from the case.
Evaluate the postmerger integration and change management strategies used in the case. Your response should address the following:
How did the key decision makers respond to the challenges with the postmerger integration?
What led to the challenges faced by the organization after the merger?
Could these challenges have been prevented using different change management strategies? Explain.
Recommendations
Based on your findings from the case study, describe specific areas that may lead to post-acquisition risks and challenges for the life sciences organization in the course scenario. Support your response.
Recommend change management best practices the life sciences organization can use for managing post-acquisition integration in a planned manner and avoid the risks and challenges you’ve identified above.
What to Submit
Submit a 3 to 5-page Word document using double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Submit a written paper that examines the following: Examine your three financial measures (KPIs) that you will track through your simulation (note – this assignment will repeat for every round that you run). Financial Measures can be found in the various reports that Capsim creates after you have completed a round. Include a 4th financial measure of your choice that adds to your understanding of the company’s performance. See page 1 of the Courier for some ideas for different financial measures to examine. In each round, you are making some of your decisions based on the Customer Buying Criteria – what do the customers expect in the products that they purchase? This information for each of your products in the five product segments can be found on pages 5-9 of the Courier. Report on a different Customer Buying Criteria each week. For example, for this assignment look at Size for your product Able in the Traditional segment. Identify the criteria, define the criteria (the Capsim Help & Support can help with this). Then explain what the customer expectations are and what you set for your product on that dimension. Finally, compare your position with the Customer expectations and how the competitors set that number for their products.