Federal Housing Administration
Please locate a real estate related current event, news article, or other related material. Additionally, you may also attend an open house, a broker’s open, or meet a real estate professional at a social event. For this assignment, please provide a brief paragraph detailing what the article or encounter meant to you.
Instructions
Please include the following in the reply box below:
For a news article or other media, please include the link or source. For an open house or social event, please provide the contact information of the real estate professional and office affiliation.
Provide at least a single paragraph explaining why you chose this article and what it means to real estate today. What did you learn from the article?
Practice interviewing
Instructions
Create a PowerPoint presentation describing ways to prepare for a job interview. Please address the following topics:
Describe ways to prepare for an interview.
List three different types of interview questions and tips for answering them.
Describe ways to close the interview.
Explain how to follow up after the interview.
Conclude your presentation with any additional recommendations you can give someone who is just starting their job search.
Your complete PowerPoint presentation must be at least eight slides in length, this does not include the title slide and reference slide. Notes are not required for this assignment. You must use at least two outside sources, one of which must be from the CSU Online Library. Please use in-text citations in the body of your slides and do not place them in the notes section. Adhere to APA
Human Resource
LO 5 Why is it often difficult for a firm to match its strategy to HR deliverables?
The posts should be 200-500 words as a good guideline.
Business plan
During the In-Residence you will be presenting a business plan for an innovative venture to a panel of investors. Your final project in this course will go into greater depth on the culture portion of a business such that you will design a plan to encourage an innovative organizational culture in either a new venture or an existing business.
In order to help prepare you for both of these activities, you may need some help in deciding what type of business you would like to start. Read the online Girard article to get your creative juices flowing. You may find the live links within the article useful as well. Try at least one of the suggested exercises.
In your initial post, evaluate the exercise you tried and what came from it. Also, include any initial ideas you have for your innovative venture. In your response to your peers, point out both similar experiences you might have with your peers as well as where you might be different in terms of the types of businesses you’d like to start. Finally, try to both encourage your peers as well as provide them with constructive feedback that will better one another’s initial ideas.
Business communication
Find & Post (or post a link to) an example of business communication (such as a photo, short video, brief piece of writing, news release, song, etc, and that, based upon the aspects of effective communications. Either does a good job or a bad job at doing that. Write a 3 paragraph-long evaluation of the communication, citing why you think it either was or was not effective.
Ethical leaders practice
Assignment 2 Ethics and Leadership (Due Week 3; 20 points)
The purpose of this assignment is to explore and critically present your views about ethics and its role in leadership.
Consider your views, experiences, and readings about ethics. In a paper (4-5 pages, excluding your title page and reference list), discuss the following:
Definition of ethics. Support comments with three or more relevant references.
Provide an overview about the role of and need for ethics in leadership.
Identify the main ethical responsibilities in your professional field and position.
Describe the main ethical challenges posed in your field of work, profession.
Rubric:
Element
Not Met (3-0 points)
Met (4 points)
Exceede
Executive officers and junior employees
Popular press and media accounts generally suggest that executives are overpaid. For example: the average yearly salary of a CEO of Fortune 500 company in 2018 was $14.5 million. The average yearly salary of a regular worker was $39,888.
Justify why the CEO’s pay is appropriate.
Support your response with specifics.
Requirements: two paragraphs
Mergers and acquisitions
Review Jack Welch’s article “The Six Deadly Sins of Mergers and Acquisitions”
Locate and post a link to an article published in the last 5 years in the The Wall Street Journal, or another reputable source, about a merger that did not go as planned.
Which of these “sins” were committed, what issues arose as a result, and what behaviors could the organization have employed to prevent these errors?
Competitive advantage
Successful businesses regularly analyze their processes to ensure they’re operating as efficiently as possible and maintaining their competitive advantages. Although you can assess a company in many ways, a common technique is the SWOT analysis. In this assignment, you will practice using a SWOT analysis to better understand the factors involved in making business decisions that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
Select and research a company from the 2019 Fortune 500 list that demonstrates a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Evaluate the selected company’s sustainable competitive advantage using the SWOT analysis technique.
Pay and Benefits Outside the United States
Respond to the following:
If you were asked to work in another country, which country would you choose and why?
What type of benefit(s) would be most important to you in this country?
Support your response with specific examples.
Requirements: two paragraphs
if you have the book Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach, read:
Chapter 13, “Compensating Expatriates.”
Chapter 14, “Pay and Benefits Outside the United States.