Business Studies

Business Studies may be defined as a combination of inter-related business subjects which lead to learning of basic knowledge and skills. It is a course in education that is designed to cover the basic elementary knowledge and skills in organizing business enterprises as well as general office administration.

Staffing Startegy

Staffing Startegy

You are the Director of Human Resources for a rapidly growing technology firm. In the past three weeks, your organization has seen a huge increase in profitability and has contracted with 30 new corporate clients. Your employees are doing the best that they can to ensure the success of your organization during this time of being understaffed, but the CEO, CFO, managerial staff, etc. know that the company needs to hire new employees.

For this Critical Thinking Assignment, please do the following:

  1. Provide information about the technology industry. Specifically, explain details, through conducting research, regarding the competitive nature of this industry.
  2. Make a case for hiring either full-time, contingent, or contract employees. Explain the benefits and drawbacks of hiring your selected workforce type(s).
  3. Since you will need to recruit over 100+ technology employees, given organizational growth, explain if you believe that the recruitment function should be kept in house or outsourced. Justify your rationale.

Requirements:

  • Write a 5-7 page paper, or about 2300 words, not including the title and reference pages, which are required. Using the attached.
  • Your paper must be properly cited and formatted according to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
  • Include a formal references page. This is an individual paper; however, you should reflect on our discussion forums and incorporate ideas from there, as appropriate.
  • You must support your analysis with at least three scholarly references, and can add resource from
    • A scholarly or peer-reviewed journal article.
    • A government-based website or publication.
    • A trade or industry journal article, publication, or website, including those from trade organizations such as SHRM.org and TD.org.

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Trait, Skills, and Behavioral Approaches to Leadership

Trait, Skills, and Behavioral Approaches to Leadership

For this assignment, you are asked to determine your own personal leadership style. Start by taking the self-assessment from the MindTools website: (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/leadership-style-quiz.htm). Next, complete the required Goleman reading. Develop an understanding of your leadership style.

Goleman, D. (2000, March-April). Leadership that gets results. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from http://www.enterprisingminds.ca/download/leadershi…

Based on your experiences, current readings, work experience, education, and use of self-assessment instruments, describe what you think your personal leadership styles are. Include the following in your response:

  • Develop an understanding of your leadership style(s).
  • What is/are your style(s) and give an example of when you have applied your leadership style(s)?
  • In what ways will this/these style(s) help you achieve your goals?
  • Evaluate yourself relative to emotional intelligence (Goleman article) and explain how you will expand your emotional intelligence.
  • What areas of leadership styles may be shortcomings and how will you improve your leadership?

Directions:

  • Write an essay that includes an introduction paragraph, the essay’s body, and a conclusion paragraph to address the assignment’s guide questions. Do not address the questions using a question-and-answer format.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Be 4-5 pages in length, which does not include the title and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
  • Use APA style guidelines.
  • Support your submission with 5 resources.

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MAN551 International Business

MAN551 International Business

Note: Please check the syllabus for all assignment due dates.

Week 3 Case Study (of a company)

Introduction: Ethics in business is critical for trust, however, there are many grey areas of what is, and is not, ethical. The business world has always relied heavily on contractual agreements while conducting business. These contracts while written in ink are set in stone. Many multinationals have been charged with unethical behaviors.

Choose an International or multinational company (example: NIKE, Nestles, Wal-Mart, BP, Siemens, etc.) that was accused of unethical practices and write 4 – 5 pages of TEXT on what led up to the accusation and recommendations to the company. You may go over a few lines but not under. Plus the cover page or references. Grade 10%

Policy: Use peer-reviewed articles from 2009 – present to support your research, in APA format.

No Wikipedia, BLOGS with ads from yahoo.com or google.com, UKEssay.com; www.buzzle.com; study.com or site that challenge as they present a biased opinion.

Please submit your assignment to SafeAsign to check originaliity.

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database management system

database management system

Discussion board

The purpose of this assignment is to help you learn more about databases in real life.

Brief Introduction

Databases are important in businesses and organizations because they provide a highly efficient method for handling data. Some of the data that are easily managed include: employee records, student information, payroll, accounting, project management and inventory, etc. A database management system stores, organizes and manages a large amount of information.

Action Items

  • You are requested to submit one example of application where databases are used and discuss one relation from this database. You need to illustrate attributes and keys.

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Executive summary and company analysis

Executive summary and company analysis

Need the completed pieces below (must be 2 pages and APA Format with citations):

  1. Executive Summary:
  2. Company Analysis:
    • Brief background on the business (products, services, target market, brand image)
    • Objectives/Mission statement
    • Business model(s) currently used

Description of product is below as well as on the attached PowerPoint:

I would like to focus on ChevronTexaco for the project. I feel that ChevronTexaco has a lot of information behind it and has a very extensive history. The new product idea will be RoboPump. This product will essentially be an automatic gas pump that you pull up to and pumps your gas for you. Once you pull up to the pump, you will control the rest of the process through an app where you will put in the gas station location, pump number, and type of gas you want to put in your car. You can also control how many gallons of gas you would like to put in your car if don’t want a full tank. This product will completely take over the pumping process so that you do not even have to get out of your car.

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