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How will you address the discrepancy between the market value and the demands of the management team?

Assignment 1: Discussion—What You Want and What You Can Get

The purpose of this assignment is to examine how negotiation takes place in a team and how to increase awareness of the additional challenges and complexities posed by negotiating in such a setting.

Consider that you are the team leader for a group of six volunteers that has to negotiate the purchase of land and real estate for a midsize nonprofit organization. You have been given a budget of $1.5 million. However, the property that your management is interested in costs $2 million. A successful negotiation would entail a thorough exploration of the situation. Respond to the following questions:

How will you address the discrepancy between the market value and the demands of the management team?
How will you achieve a mutually acceptable solution?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a team in this kind of setting?

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Assignment 2: Negotiation, Ethics and Effective Leadership

The purpose of this assignment is to examine the relationship between negotiation, ethics, and effective leadership.

Use the Argosy University online resources or other credible sources on the Internet to locate and explore examples of President Obama’s negotiation and leadership skills with Iranian leaders in 2009. Evaluate how effective or ineffective his skills are in regard to U.S. relations with Iran and complete the following tasks:

Explore the role of deception and ethics in negotiation. Cite at least two examples of possible deception in the President Obama and Iranian leaders’ negotiation.
Discuss the effectiveness of President Obama’s negotiation tactics and explain how interests, goals, power and style impact the negotiation skills of a leader.
Describe and explain at least two tactics such as threats, ultimatums, bullying, blocking etc. which may have been used to derail the negotiation between the President and Iranian leaders.
Describe which rules of negotiation may have been broken during these negotiations. Use examples to support your response.
Discuss at least two strategies or actions which could have been adopted by the President to improve these negotiations. Justify your response.

Complete a 3 page research essay in Word format, citing at least three credible sources of information. Apply current APA standards for writing style to your work

Identify at least one area/item that should be added to your checklist to enhance the evaluation.

Creating a strong ethics program requires that our systems and policies build a foundation that can be combined to allow for ethical behavior. The major challenge that managers face is to develop a program that enhances ethical behavior in a consistent and systematic way. When a systematic approach is used to develop and evaluate an ethics program, the organization can consistently support ethical behavior. While this does not guarantee ethical behavior, it creates an environment that supports the behavior, and this protects the organization in the public view.

Review the following articles:

Nel, P., Nel, L., & du Plessis, A. (2011). Implications for human resources and employment relations practice with regard to the integration of corporate ethics programmes into the culture of organizations. International Employment Relations Review, 17(2), 55-74.
Kaptein, M. (2009). Ethics programs and ethical culture: A next step in unraveling their multi-faceted relationship. Journal of Business Ethics, 89(2), 261-281. doi:10.2307/40295054

For your discussion:

Create an evaluation checklist for a corporate ethics program.
Identify an organization to evaluate (note: do not use Enron).
Apply your evaluation checklist to this organization.
Identify at least two strengths of the organization’s ethics program, as indicated from your checklist.
Identify at least one area/item that should be added to your checklist to enhance the evaluation

What problems can you think of that might have arisen due to the manner in which the Indian Reservation land was set up?

Click the first link “Native American Removal.”  Click on the map key items to the left of the map and examine the Native American removal process.  Which tribe appears to have had the least difficult route to the Indian Reservations?  Based on your examination of the map, why did some Cherokee first travel north before heading west to the Indian Reservations?  Discovery: Click here or type http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/usa-maps/USA-MajorCities.jpg in your browser to locate a U.S. map that shows major cities o Compare this map with the Native American Removal interactive map from this assignment. o Which major U.S. cities are located within the areas that are described as “Ceded Lands”? Is there a relationship between the ceded areas and major cities? If not, why might these areas have been determined to be desirable? o What problems can you think of that might have arisen due to the manner in which the Indian Reservation land was set up?

Examine the main reasons why people are attracted to urban areas in the developing world, and select the key issues that make this rural to urban migration such a difficult problem for governments to deal with.

Name two (2) similarities and two (2) differences between mitosis and meiosis I and II. Next state three (3) benefits of genetic variation which result from meiosis. Which benefit do you believe is most significant? Justify your response.

Examine the main reasons why people are attracted to urban areas in the developing world, and select the key issues that make this rural to urban migration such a difficult problem for governments to deal with.

Which of the following is an example of a factory overhead cost?

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The cost of a manufactured product generally consists of which of the following costs?
Select one:
a. Direct materials cost and factory overhead cost
b. Direct materials cost and direct labor cost
c. Direct labor cost, direct materials cost, and factory overhead cost
d. Direct labor cost and factory overhead cost
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Which of the following is an example of direct labor cost for an airplane manufacturer?
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a. Cost of wages of assembly worker
b. Cost of jet engines
c. Salary of plant supervisor
d. Cost of oil lubricants for factory machinery
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Which of the following is an example of a factory overhead cost?
Select one:
a. Factory heating and lighting cost
b. Insurance premiums on salespersons’ automobiles
c. Repair and maintenance cost on the administrative building
d. President’s salary
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Which of the following is expensed as incurred in a manufacturing setting?
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a. Direct materials used
b. Depreciation of factory buildings
c. Sales commissions
d. Factory supervisor’s salary
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What is the purpose of the Statement of Cost of Goods Manufactured?
Select one:
a. to determine the amounts transferred to finished goods
b. to determine the ending materials inventory
c. to determine the ending work in process inventory
d. all of the answers are true
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Which of the following budgets allow for adjustments in activity levels?
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a. Static Budget
b. Flexible Budget
c. Continuous Budget
d. Zero-Based Budget
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McCabe Manufacturing Co.’s static budget at 8,000 units of production includes $40,000 for direct labor and $4,000 for electric power. Total fixed costs are $23,000. At 9,000 units of production, a flexible budget would show:
Select one:
a. variable and fixed costs totaling $75,375
b. variable costs of $44,000 and $23,000 of fixed costs
c. variable costs of $49,500 and $23,000 of fixed costs
d. variable costs of $49,500 and $25,875 of fixed costs
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The production budgets are used to prepare which of the following budgets?
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a. Sales in dollars
b. Direct materials purchases, direct labor cost, factory overhead cost
c. Operating expenses
d. Sales in units
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Principal components of a master budget include which of the following?
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a. Direct materials budget
b. Sales budget
c. Production budget
d. All of the above
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The first budget customarily prepared as part of an entity’s master budget is the:
Select one:
a. cash budget
b. direct materials purchases
c. production budget
d. sales budge

What word is the best description of the author’s attitude toward the importance of literacy (reading and writing) in their life?

Literacy Narrative Essay (CAN#3)

1. Purpose: Write a thoughtful MLA formatted essay about the importance of written and spoken English to the author’s professional career and their feeling of success.

2. Assignment Requirements:

A. Select one of these authors: Malcolm X, Sherman Alexie or Mike Rose. Use the reading in the book and only a dictionary as sources for this assignment. Do not use outside sources to research the author.

B. What word is the best description of the author’s attitude toward the importance of literacy (reading and writing) in their life? Use this word in your thesis statement in the first paragraph of your essay to explain why the author was successful.

C. Build your discussion with supporting quotes and facts from the reading using MLA citation. Discuss the author’s path to literacy with consideration to their character, and the influence of others on their education. Was their path to literacy easy? Why or why not? How was their attitude shaped? How much of their success can be attributed to their own perseverance? What obstacles interfered? Why did they succeed? How does the author measure their own success?

3. General Requirements

A. Write in a formal, academic manner, you are the expert. Go to Canvas Files, open the folder, Helpful Resources and review the “No-No List,” “Useful Verbs,” the “Grading Rubric” and other documents.

B. Write at least (600) words of discussion in MLA format, in the 3rd person (no ‘I’ or ‘me’) with a final Works Cited page that contains only two entries: the textbook source of the reading and the source of the literacy definition.

C. Turnitin will be used. Students should view their Turnitin report, revise the essay if needed, and resubmit it by the due date. The Turnitin originality score should be below 10%.

D. Students are encouraged to visit with an ARC tutor or use www.Etutor.org.

E. These elements are particularly important: interesting introduction, clear thesis, essential background, good support, insightful discussion, logical organization, clever conclusion and few, if any, errors in grammar, mechanics or MLA formatting

Describe how the systematic application of the framework helps you effectively and ethically deal with the complexity of the global component.

We share a global marketplace that allows us the opportunity to expand our organizational boundaries. This can lead to increased profit margins and employee opportunities. However, there is also a responsibility attached to this opportunity. We must go beyond the superficial cultural differences that we often focus on in order to increase our market share to a deeper understanding of cultural values that affect ethical behavior. The results of organizational behavior move across national borders through consumer, employee, political/trade, and economic interactions. As the Ethics in Global Market video states, our business organizations have more of an effect on livelihoods than governments.

Review the videos and readings for this module before starting this activity.

For your discussion:

Use the EC Virtual Library to locate an article that addresses a contemporary ethics issue and highlights the global component.
Create an ethical and moral framework, using the ethics theories from this course.
HINT: This framework should provide you with a way to evaluate the ethics issue and deal with the complexity.
Apply the created framework to the contemporary ethics issue, addressing the global component within the analysis.
Describe how the application of your framework helps you to address the issue.
Describe how the systematic application of the framework helps you effectively and ethically deal with the complexity of the global component.

What factors account for the rise of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth century?

Questions for consideration in this forum:

1. What was the role of the railroads in the settlement of the Great West?

2. What factors account for the rise of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth century?

3. Why did the AFL prevail over the Knights of Labor?

4. It would be hard to imagine American voters today getting excited about the money supply. So why was free silver the hot topic of the 1896 election?

5. Why was Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, which was strictly about biology, important in the development of the ideology of conservatism