This writing assignment requires you to write a paper identifying all apparent and real conflicts of interest related to the Case Study in the attached articles and make recommendations for managing, eliminating, or reducing the conflicts of interest.
This assignment must be 3 to 5 pages in length, single-spaced, 12 point font, and 1 inch margins. References are to be listed in a separate final page of the assignment.
a) Summarize the business of Visa Inc. and identify the strategy it is pursuing. Consider relevant competitive forces and use SWOT Analysis to analyze the company. Identify, describe and evaluate the key strategic risks(2-3 risks)the company is facing as well as their potential upside/downside implications.
(b) Recommend approaches to mitigate the risks you identified. Identify one strategic risk that is common to both companies. (Mastercard and Visa) Contrast the different ways both companies address this risk.
(c) Determine which company’s strategy is more likely to be successful, and state the rationale for your decision.
(d) Based on your overall assessment in this memo, focusing on the strategy and the strategic risk posture of the firms, should the Pierre Group complete the acquisition of Mastercard, Visa, acquire both companies or neither. Why?
Discuss theinfluences and interrelationships among and between work, family, and other life roles and factors, including the role of multicultural issues in career development as you see it throughout your own life.
Discuss the role that career and educational planning, placement, follow-up and evaluation have played in your own life. Discuss how intentional and unintentional events in your life have influenced where you are today. Was there a school or college counselor, relative, friend, employer, etc. who helped guide you? If not, this is ok, but share how this impacted you.
Assessments and Activities
Discuss assessment instruments and techniques relevant to career planning and decision making (Discuss in depth the instruments that you took and interpreted in class which include: the RIASEC, Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI), and CDMSE. In addition, you are to discuss any classroom activities (genogram, card sort, My Career Story, etc.) we completed in class. How do you see these instruments to be useful in personal or professional use? In other words, how do these assessments work for you? Do the results fit with what you expected? Be sure to use and cite references for your work in this section.
Theories
Discuss in depth how you see your life and your assessment results through the lenses of one of the career theories that we have discussed in depth this semester. Identify specific models or concepts that you identify in your personal career path and how you see them manifesting themselves (i.e., self-concept, Super’s developmental stages, self-efficacy, Holland’s hexagon, etc.) Be sure to use and cite references for your work in this section.
Credit will be deducted for misspellings, poor grammar, sloppy formats, etc.
Further instructions in attachment uploaded below.
Read the chapters and answer the following questions. #6
You are required to answer the following questions. You should save your answers in a Word document for submission. Please do not repeat the questions on your answer sheet. Instead, please list the answers numerically/sequentially by simply utilizing 1, 2, 3, and 4. Each assignment must have a cover page listing your name, the name of the assignment, and the date. The cover page does not count towards the word count. For each assignment, you are expected to answer the assigned questions in your own words. Each assignment paper should be at least 250 words. Papers less than the required 250 words will get zero. This does not mean each question requires a 250-word response; rather, the total number of words for answering the questions must total more than 250 words.
In this final assignment, you will develop a paper that reviews some of the main topics covered in the course. Compose an essay to address the elements listed below.
Identify the components of an information system (IS) using the five-component framework, and provide a brief summary of each.
Management IS (MIS) incorporate software and hardware technologies to provide useful information for decision-making. Explain each of the following IS, and use at least one example in each to support your discussion:
Identify and discuss one technical and one human safeguard to protect against IS security threats.
There are several processes that can be used to develop IS and applications such as systems development life cycle (SDLC) and scrum (agile development). Provide a brief description of SDLC and scrum, and then discuss at least one similarity and one difference between SDLC and scrum
Sum up your paper by discussing the importance of MIS.
Your paper must be at least three pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages), and you must use at least two resources. Be sure to cite all sources used in APA format, and format your essay in APA style.
Every child needs someone who believes in them. As an educator, you are in a unique position to both identify and understand the individual needs of a student. However, advocating for what’s best for a student is not only a teacher’s responsibility, it is shared among parents, caregivers, other professionals, and the student themselves. This assignment is meant for you to determine definitions, descriptions, and best practice tips for advocacy in special education.
Create a 6-panel brochure about effective advocacy that includes the following topics:
Ability to collect, evaluate and synthesize consumer’s data to make objective and informed marketing decisions (Lo 2.7)
Ability to deliver and communicate marketing messages in coherent and professional manner (Lo 4.4)
Case Study
Read the Chapter Case Study entitled “From the Counterculture to the Runway: How Did Birkenstocks Become Fashionable?” from Chapter- 11 “Product, Branding and Packaging decisions” Page: – 358 given in your textbook – “Marketing” (7th Edition) by Dhruv. Grewal and Michael. Levy (2020) and answer the following Questions:
Assignment Question(s):
Visit the company website (https://www.birkenstockusa.com/) and identify and describe the different product lines that it markets. (1.5 Marks, Minimum 150 Words)
Review the different product categories in each of the company’s product lines. Which has the greatest depth? Which has the least? (1.5 Marks, Minimum 150 Words)
How has the company positioned its brand? How does it go about communicating its position? Explain. (2 Marks, Minimum 400 Words)
Note:Support your Answers with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
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Important Notes :
Attachment is in the attachment, the solution is required to have no similarity ratio.
The assignment must be completed within one or two days as a maximum.
add at least 3 references.APA style. 1 (The reference must be added in the text, the author’s name and the date) and 2 The reference should also be added at the end)
Attachment is in the attachment, the solution is required to have no similarity ratio.
add at least 3 references.APA style. 1 (The reference must be added in the text, the author’s name and the date) and 2 The reference should also be added at the end)
Gottman (1999) identifies the “four horsemen of the apocalypse” (Hocker and Wilmot, pages 22-28). When these behaviors are present in a relationship, the end is near.
Discuss how you have seen these used in relationships.
How have you felt when these were used on you?
Which of these behaviors do you use, with whom do you use these and in what circumstances?
In your responses to other students you will want to be sure to share research, speak for yourself and share your own experiences. Do not use any of these horsemen in your discussions!
. Your initial post (your response to the topic) must contain a citation. It is your ideas supported by research. Please refer to the APA Power Point in the Start Here section of the classroom for information on proper formatting. There will be a deduction of 20 points for failure to cite a source within your initial post and to provide a reference at the end of your initial post.
3. Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words
As the newly appointed Executive Director of an organization identify and describe 5 techniques that you would use to manage organizational change as the current system transforms itself to an ideal system.
Identify two strategic planning methods and describe what the methods are, and in what type of situations would you utilize those models. Also, research and describe when someone else has found success utilizing those methods. What were their working situations before implementing their chosen methods? What were their outcomes after implementation of their methods?
Organization Change by Systems Thinking: This PowerPoint presentation walks you through different organizational change strategies. This will be helpful for your Mini Assignment this week and your Final Paper.
a) Identify and discuss three concepts you learned from this course? do you see these concepts as beneficial to your day-to-day risk management functions?
b) What did you find most value (assignments, labs, discussion and projects) in this course and why?
Students are requested to read chapter 9 “Protecting Innovation” from their book Strategic Management of Technological Innovation.
Based on the conceptual knowledge and understanding obtained from the readings –
1-Select a world renowned company give a brief introduction and identify the legal protection mechanisms (patents copyright, trademarks & service marks) used by it to safeguard its intellectual property. (2.5 Marks) (Max 750- Min 500 Words)
2- With a thorough research of your selected company identify and explain an incident when trade secrets were more useful than the legal protection measures identified above. (2.5 Marks) (Max 750 – Min 500 Words)
NOTE: It is mandatory for the students to mention their references, sources and support each answer with at least 2 peer reviewed journal.
Management and Supervision in Criminal Justice U1 Research
Write an in-depth research paper on that topic. In Unit I you will submit your research topic with a one-page synopsis detailing the goal of your paper for approval by your instructor.
Note:This is often the most difficult part of the research process. Here are some tips to getting started with your research paper:
-Write down multiple research topics and choose which you find most appealing. (2 already Picked: Positiveness and Productivity at work & Trust)
-Your topic should be at least 1 page, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with appropriate APA style writing
Positiveness and Productivity at Work
Over the past decade, Gallup surveyed more than 10 million people worldwide on the topic of employee engagement being positive and productive at work, and only one-third “strongly agree” with the statement, “Of work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.” This means that a lot of workers do not get to focus on what they do best—their strengths.
People who do have the opportunity to focus on their strengths are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than three times as likely to report having above average life satisfaction.
Here are some recent findings about supervisors who primarily focus on either employees’ strengths and weaknesses or ignore them. The chances of your being actively disengaged (negative and a poor performer) if your boss: (1) ignores you 40%; (2) focuses on your weaknesses 22%; and (3) focuses on your strengths 1%. Look at how much a supervisor who focuses on your strengths decreases the odds of your being miserable on the job.
This data convincingly shows us that the active disengagement we see in work places every day is a curable disease . . . if we will help our staff develop their strengths as well as our own.
Trust
Every police supervisor I’ve trained or worked with talks freely and frequently about the importance of trust as the paramount operational asset. No one seems to doubt how important trust is to professional or personal relationships, and everyone seems equally aware of the tremendous costs of distrust. Yet, despite enlightened rhetoric about trust, a few police employees (supervisors and managers too) regularly engage in conduct that undermines trust and damages credibility, demonstrating a lack of character and/or competence as a leader.
Trust is the genesis of all human relationships.
If there is a lack of trust between a supervisor and his or her staff, the working relationship is doomed. Trust is the glue that holds relationships together. Likewise, it is a binding agent for police organizations. Without it, they fail to meet their mission and fulfill their potential. Specifically, character and competency are the primal pillars of police leadership and supervision. The deeper, the larger, the stronger these twin pillars are, the greater the strengths of a leader and the better the performance of a supervisor.
Lack of trust guarantees disaster for a police organization. Some believe that the only things needed for success are talent, skills, energy, and personality. This is wrong thinking. Experience has repeatedly shown us and continues to teach us that who we are is more important than who we appear to be.
The Industrial Age (1830–1947) provided an operational path of personality, technology, situational ethics, and an emphasis on the “bottom line.” The slogan of the age was “What’s in it for me?” I sense a new path emerging as police leaders experience the miserable fruits of a personality ethic and a valueless organizational culture. More and more departments are recognizing the urgency of building trustworthiness through a demonstration of both character and competency. First, forging a work environment that manifests trust is a matter of personal relationship. Can I trust you? Can you trust me?Second, it is a matter of organizational systems and procedures. Do we trust our department? Does our department trust us? Third, it is a matter of human communication. Am I being heard? Am I hearing you?
We’ve learned how important foundational trust is to the daily operation of a police agency. We’ve also learned that this comes from employees being trustworthy. Now, how do we best measure the trustworthiness of others? To repeat, the answer is: by watching them walk their talk.
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a set of business applications that are integrated to provide support for core business process activities. Core business process activities may include actions around manufacturing production, logistics, sales, marketing, finance, accounting, human resources, and others. Implementation of an ERP system aids the organizational units in sharing data and knowledge, reducing costs, and improving management of the business processes. Yet, ERP implementations still fail.
Read the chapters and answer the following questions. #7
You are required to answer the following questions. You should save your answers in a Word document for submission. Please do not repeat the questions on your answer sheet. Instead, please list the answers numerically/sequentially by simply utilizing 1, 2, 3, and 4. Each assignment must have a cover page listing your name, the name of the assignment, and the date. The cover page does not count towards the word count. For each assignment, you are expected to answer the assigned questions in your own words. Each assignment paper should be at least 250 words. Papers less than the required 250 words will get zero. This does not mean each question requires a 250-word response; rather, the total number of words for answering the questions must total more than 250 words.
Choose Topic: Management
Select number of pages: 4
Question Description: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive, clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. Conduct research on the subject matter and provide at least two scholarly resources as references with corresponding citations meeting APA standards.
In your reading assignment, you were introduced to organizational behavior, scientific management, the human relations school, and other classical ways of looking at people in organizations. Conduct research on the subject matter and provide at least two scholarly resources as references with corresponding citations meeting APA standards.
Describe differing theories of organizational behavior, scientific management, and the human relations school. Then, compare and contrast the theories by providing strengths and weaknesses and pros and cons for the theories.
What do you see or what have you experienced in your organizational life that reflects current-day adaptations of the classical organizational behavior, scientific management, and human relations theories of looking at people in organizations? Be specific and provide 1–2 examples that reflect each of the 3 classical categories.
Each question has specific instructions for your required references and each must have totally different references and NO textbooks/books.
You will answer each question, using WORD format, and at the end of each question you will place the references used for your response and then do the same for each response to each question. You can then put all four responses together and submit as one:
1. Answer the following question, in detail.
Based upon the knowledge you have gained from this course and relating to fraud examination and the fraud triangle, explain what professor “Understand the Person, Understand the Fraud” concept, means to you.
Remember to defend your response by using a minimum of 4 scholarly or peer reviewed articles, NOT textbooks or books, as in-text citations within your response to this question. Your response to this question should be a minimum of one page using WORD document format and in APA, with references at the end of your response.
2. Answer the following question, in detail.
“Based upon the knowledge you have gained from this course relating to fraud examination and the fraud triangle, discuss how you, a fraud examiner, would approach and conduct an interview of a fraud suspect(s) in a case you have been assigned. (You may use any of the suspects from the prior threaded discussions). Remember to include techniques, theory and approaches in your answer. Make sure your answer demonstrates your understanding of the fraud triangle and fraud examination.”
You must include a minimum of 4 scholarly peer reviewed articles, not textbooks or books, as in-text citations within your response to this question. Your response to this question should be a minimum of one page using WORD document format and in APA, with references at the end of your response.
3. Answer the following question in detail.
Some have argued that while pressure and opportunity can be ascertained about the subject, how useful is rationalization as an indicator leading to the identification of the fraud suspect?
You must include a minimum of 4 scholarly peer reviewed articles, not textbooks or books, as in-text citations within your response to this question. Your response to this question should be a minimum of one page using WORD document format and in APA, with references at the end of your response.
i don’t have reading for that, we have a group project, i can send you the topic and powerpoint to you.
we created the Fraud Scenario:
Merchandise Inc is a clothing and accessory retailer with multiple locations.
This case involves the Miami location. There are four employees at the Miami location.
They have a salary + commission three person sales staff. The salary is paid as a draw against commission.
The three salespeople are Jack, Jill and Mickey.
Mickey oversees scheduling and payroll but cannot make accounting entries and also makes 20% commission when he makes a sales.
Minnie oversees the purchasing and accounting function.
All four employees have access to the register with their own unique four-digit code.
Over the last four quarters sales have increased but net profit has decreased.
The owner of Merchandise Inc suspects fraud! Dun dun dun!!!!!
Here they are:
Jack:
Sales Associate/College student
Lives with his parents and needs this job to pay his way through college
Works a lot of overtime
Has been with the company for 6 months.
Jack takes the bus to work.
Base salary is $15/hr + 20% commission on sales over $150
Jill:
Sales Associate/Recently graduated from college
Engaged.
Has been working fewer hours lately to plan for the wedding and the overflow has fallen to Jack.
Has been with the company for two years and has always been the “star salesperson”. Lately her sales have fallen as a result of the reduced hours.
Drives a 2018 Camry.
Base salary is $16/hr (because she has been there longer) + 20% commission on sales over $150
Minnie:
Store Manager
Married and has a young son
Drives a 2018 BMW
Wears very stylish clothing to work
Makes $70,000 annually + Bonus which is 5% of net income
Mickey:
New assistant manager
Drives a 2010 Lexus
Has been working overtime recently
Always volunteers to open and close the store
Makes $17/hour plus 20% commission on sales over $150
Always talks to Minnie about recommending him for a promotion to be manager of the Boca location of Merchandise Inc.
after we created this, and we did interview for both group members.
