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.

BUS Capstone: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness

BUS Capstone: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness

OVERVIEW

Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions. Use the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

REQUIREMENTS

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you address the following:

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. (This is attached)

Also attached is the Writing Assignment Template with all of the instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is the following:

Requirements: OTHER | Capstone | 5 pages, Double spaced

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Generating Growth

Generating Growth

Using the company you have selected for your Strategy Development Project(McDonald’s), describe one idea to generate substantial top line revenue growth. As you describe and assess this potential move, refer specifically to Figure 4.1 (p. 77) in Chapter 4 of Sherman and to the other readings from this week to support your response.

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This assignment allows you to apply the fundamentals

This assignment allows you to apply the fundamentals

Other Question

This assignment allows you to apply the fundamentals of the three-step writing process (planning, writing, completing) to basic business communication messages.

Imagine you are planning a series of trainings for your team on best practices in workplace communication. Your first step is to send out an e-mail highlighting the topics of your upcoming series of trainings.

Write a 350- to 525-word e-mail message to your coworkers that discusses the topics to be covered in the upcoming trainings.

Your email should:

Apply the fundamentals of the three-step writing process as you write your message.


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BUS409 Compensation Strategies, Best Practices, and Challenges Presentation

BUS409 Compensation Strategies, Best Practices, and Challenges Presentation

For this assignment, assume you are a compensation analyst in a large financial services company. You have been in your role for almost a year. At your weekly one-on-one with your boss, she tells you that the human resources representatives at the company are fielding a number of questions from employees and applicants about compensation. The human resource representatives’ knowledge of compensation is not deep.

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She asks that you prepare and deliver a 10- to 15-minute PowerPoint presentation (10–15 slides) at an upcoming departmental meeting that provides basic information about what is going on in the compensation field today. Specifically, she wants you to address compensation strategies that companies employ, note three of their best compensation practices, and examine three compensation challenges today’s companies are facing.

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Develop and deliver a 10–15 minute audio PowerPoint presentation (10 to 15 slides) in which you:

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    1. Analyze the compensation strategies companies use to attract and retain talent.
    2. Determine three best compensation practices used by companies.
      • Be sure to provide your rationale for selecting these best practices as opposed to others.
    3. Examine three compensation-related challenges companies face.
      • Be sure to provide your rationale for selecting these compensation challenges as opposed to others.
    4. Explain what discretionary benefits are and how companies use them to benefit the company and its stakeholders.
    5. Examine how laws, labor unions, and market factors impact companies’ compensation strategies and practices.
    6. Deliver a succinct, engaging, and informative presentation on compensation strategies, best practices, and challenges.
      • Note: Be sure to include additional detail about what you will say as you deliver your presentation on the notes pages in PowerPoint.
      • Consult Use Kaltura [PDF] for help in recording your presentation and uploading it to the assignment area.
    7. Integrate at least three quality resources using in-text citations and a reference page in your assignment.
      • Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources

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