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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important component of the strategy developed by every company. The need to address social issues and community needs should be a part of the development of a sound approach to the marketplace. However, this raises questions about the type of responsibility a company has to the community. This case analysis asks you to ponder the types of responsibility we expect from a company. Should a company like McDonald’s be responsible for clientele getting fat and unhealthy when eating their product? What level of responsibility do consumers have to make wise and healthy choices? What impact does maintaining a global competitive advantage have on the expectations of CSR?

As a company moves into a global marketplace, their approach may vary, leading to different levels of CSR. This might mean that a company is extremely involved in CSR initiatives in one country and not in another. This could lead to issues associated with public perception, due to our communication capabilities. A company’s choices in one country are no longer protected because of distance.

In New York City, the government has taken a step to ban all large drinks. They are viewing people’s unhealthy choices as a public policy issue, because of the associated costs of health care. This is a national/public policy issue, because of the tax dollars spent on long-term care. Where do we draw the lines of CSR? Answering these questions is an important part of discussing CSR. Only when we evaluate the ethics of our own expectations can we hold companies to an ideal. Clarifying our expectations for CSR provides a foundation for a sound argument for CSR policies as a strategic necessity.

View:

McDonalds. (2007, July 9). Corporate social responsibility-Making progress / Sustainability [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_bgP3ASUM4&feature=youtu.be

Read:

Schrempf, J. (2014). A social connection approach to corporate responsibility: The case of the fast-food industry and obesity. Business & Society, 53(2), 300-332. doi:10.1177/0007650312449577.
Jacobs, H. (2004, February 7). McDonald’s counters super size me attack. Asia’s Media & Marketing Newspaper,16.
Trecroci, D. (2005). Did you see ‘super size me’ and decide that Morgan Spurlock’s move was a bunch of baloney? Diabetes Health, 14(3), 26.
(2012, June). New York bans large colas in war on fat. Daily Mail, p.13.

Use your text to create a foundation for the ethics theory, relationship to CSR principles, and the global impacts of CSR choices. This must be a concise evaluation of the case, so provide information on your understanding of the application of theory and expectations of fast food restaurants’ CSR initiatives. Focus on the responsibility of fast food companies to address the health of consumers.

Consider these questions while completing your case analysis:

Should a company like McDonald’s be responsible for clientele getting fat and unhealthy when eating their product?
What level of responsibility do consumers have to make wise and healthy choices?
What impact does maintaining a global competitive advantage have on the expectations of CSR?

Prepare a case analysis on the topic.

Develop your case analysis using the five following sections:

Section 1: Introduction and situational analysis: Describe the ethical dilemma, giving appropriate background information. The term “dilemma” implies that there are pros and cons to various options, even if some are clearly more socially acceptable than others. This is also where you do your situational analysis – identifying factors related to the individual(s) involved (consider the readings from this module), company and managerial practices and policies, external factors such as economic pressure, and any other aspects of the situation that you believe helped create the dilemma.

Section 2: Stakeholder analysis: Identify the key stakeholders and how they are potentially affected by the various options inherent in the dilemma.

Section 3: Analysis based on ethical theories: Analyze the ethical dilemma from the perspective of cultural relativism (how it relates to cultural norms – what society would view as acceptable, as well as what is legal), teleology (looking at consequences and acting for the greater good), deontology (duties and principles), and virtue.

Note that the stakeholder analysis is particularly pertinent to the consequentialist approach, and that one of the challenges is estimating positive and negative impacts on relevant stakeholders. Do the best you can, looking at both good and bad consequences for each stakeholder group. Make sure you summarize the overall situation and come to a conclusion about the greater good.

Section 4: Conclusion and recommendations. Up to now, you have been analyzing and comparing options. Here is where you pull together the different threads of your analysis and determine whether or not the company did the right thing. Also, make recommendations about what the company should have done. Make sure your justifications clearly flow from your analysis. Make managerial and policy recommendations that would help avoid similar ethical dilemmas in the future and provide guidance to help those facing a similar dilemma.

Section 5: References. List at least three sources (other than the articles provided, your text, or the case articles) where you located additional information about the company and the associated ethical dilemma(s).

General guidance: Include a title page, and label the five sections. Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. All citations should be in APA 6th Edition format. Double space your paper, and use Times New Roman, 12-point font, with one inch margins. For more information, link to APA Tip Sheet, 6th ed. [PDF file size 177 KB]

Compose your work using a word processor (or other software as appropriate) and save it frequently to your computer. When you’re ready to submit your work, click Browse My Computer and find your file. Once you’ve located your file click Open and, if successful, the file name will appear under the Attached files heading. Scroll to the bottom of the page, click Submit and you’re done. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it.

Review the SBT Case Analysis Rubric located in the “Start Here” section of the course for more information on grading criteria.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important component of the strategy developed by every company. The need to address social issues and community needs should be a part of the development of a sound approach to the marketplace. However, this raises questions about the type of responsibility a company has to the community. This case analysis asks you to ponder the types of responsibility we expect from a company. Should a company like McDonald’s be responsible for clientele getting fat and unhealthy when eating their product? What level of responsibility do consumers have to make wise and healthy choices? What impact does maintaining a global competitive advantage have on the expectations of CSR?

As a company moves into a global marketplace, their approach may vary, leading to different levels of CSR. This might mean that a company is extremely involved in CSR initiatives in one country and not in another. This could lead to issues associated with public perception, due to our communication capabilities. A company’s choices in one country are no longer protected because of distance.

In New York City, the government has taken a step to ban all large drinks. They are viewing people’s unhealthy choices as a public policy issue, because of the associated costs of health care. This is a national/public policy issue, because of the tax dollars spent on long-term care. Where do we draw the lines of CSR? Answering these questions is an important part of discussing CSR. Only when we evaluate the ethics of our own expectations can we hold companies to an ideal. Clarifying our expectations for CSR provides a foundation for a sound argument for CSR policies as a strategic necessity.

View:

McDonalds. (2007, July 9). Corporate social responsibility-Making progress / Sustainability [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_bgP3ASUM4&feature=youtu.be

Read:

Schrempf, J. (2014). A social connection approach to corporate responsibility: The case of the fast-food industry and obesity. Business & Society, 53(2), 300-332. doi:10.1177/0007650312449577.
Jacobs, H. (2004, February 7). McDonald’s counters super size me attack. Asia’s Media & Marketing Newspaper,16.
Trecroci, D. (2005). Did you see ‘super size me’ and decide that Morgan Spurlock’s move was a bunch of baloney? Diabetes Health, 14(3), 26.
(2012, June). New York bans large colas in war on fat. Daily Mail, p.13.

Use your text to create a foundation for the ethics theory, relationship to CSR principles, and the global impacts of CSR choices. This must be a concise evaluation of the case, so provide information on your understanding of the application of theory and expectations of fast food restaurants’ CSR initiatives. Focus on the responsibility of fast food companies to address the health of consumers.

Consider these questions while completing your case analysis:

Should a company like McDonald’s be responsible for clientele getting fat and unhealthy when eating their product?
What level of responsibility do consumers have to make wise and healthy choices?
What impact does maintaining a global competitive advantage have on the expectations of CSR?

Prepare a case analysis on the topic.

Develop your case analysis using the five following sections:

Section 1: Introduction and situational analysis: Describe the ethical dilemma, giving appropriate background information. The term “dilemma” implies that there are pros and cons to various options, even if some are clearly more socially acceptable than others. This is also where you do your situational analysis – identifying factors related to the individual(s) involved (consider the readings from this module), company and managerial practices and policies, external factors such as economic pressure, and any other aspects of the situation that you believe helped create the dilemma.

Section 2: Stakeholder analysis: Identify the key stakeholders and how they are potentially affected by the various options inherent in the dilemma.

Section 3: Analysis based on ethical theories: Analyze the ethical dilemma from the perspective of cultural relativism (how it relates to cultural norms – what society would view as acceptable, as well as what is legal), teleology (looking at consequences and acting for the greater good), deontology (duties and principles), and virtue.

Note that the stakeholder analysis is particularly pertinent to the consequentialist approach, and that one of the challenges is estimating positive and negative impacts on relevant stakeholders. Do the best you can, looking at both good and bad consequences for each stakeholder group. Make sure you summarize the overall situation and come to a conclusion about the greater good.

Section 4: Conclusion and recommendations. Up to now, you have been analyzing and comparing options. Here is where you pull together the different threads of your analysis and determine whether or not the company did the right thing. Also, make recommendations about what the company should have done. Make sure your justifications clearly flow from your analysis. Make managerial and policy recommendations that would help avoid similar ethical dilemmas in the future and provide guidance to help those facing a similar dilemma.

Section 5: References. List at least three sources (other than the articles provided, your text, or the case articles) where you located additional information about the company and the associated ethical dilemma(s).

General guidance: Include a title page, and label the five sections. Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. All citations should be in APA 6th Edition format. Double space your paper, and use Times New Roman, 12-point font, with one inch margins. For more information, link to APA Tip Sheet, 6th ed. [PDF file size 177 KB]

Compose your work using a word processor (or other software as appropriate) and save it frequently to your computer. When you’re ready to submit your work, click Browse My Computer and find your file. Once you’ve located your file click Open and, if successful, the file name will appear under the Attached files heading. Scroll to the bottom of the page, click Submit and you’re done. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it.

Review the SBT Case Analysis Rubric located in the “Start Here” section of the course for more information on grading criteria.

who read the story named “The Minority Report” by Phillip K. Dick .

Does free will exisit? “The Minority Report” by Phillip K. Dick is about a future where the police force arrests criminals before they have a chance to commit a violent crime. Violent crime has been abolished thanks to the Precogs who are mutants with the ability to see one week into the future. The story focuses on a police commissioner, John Anderton, who discovers that the Precogs predict that he will kill someone in one week, someone he does not even know. To arrest someone before they commit a crime brings up the philosophical question of free will vs. determinism. If you know what you are going to do in the near future, do you have any choice over whether to do it or not? What side does the author come down on this issue of free will vs. fate? Write a 300 words journal entry addressing these questions. Include specific examples from the short story to support your opinion

Review the case of Southwest (noted at the end of the textbook, p. 574). What evidence exists to demonstrate that Southwest manages their employees fairly and legally?

Conflicts of interest arise in all organizations. This module shows that no organization, whether public or private, is exempt from issues related to conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest result in being pulled in two different directions. Good people can make bad decisions that result in bad actions, especially when a conflict of interest exists. Our own sense of self-interest can negatively affect ethical decision making. As explored by Gunia et al. (2012), self-interested conversation leads to less ethical decisions, while contemplation and moral conversation lead to more ethical decisions.

For your discussion:

We all have faced conflicts of interest within our workplace. Often, these conflicts are not even consciously considered or evaluated as part of our decision-making process. Identify problems that you, as an employee, must deal with on a daily basis. Consider possible conflicts of interest you or others in your workplace must face. How does this affect decision making? Are these types of conflicts of interest avoidable? If so, how? If not, what can be done to minimize the possible unethical impact?

What if you have knowledge of serious wrongdoing and are not in a position to stop it yourself? Whistleblowing potentially involves serious risks – to your reputation, career, and financial stability. Before you take this step, you should consider the importance of the issue to you, your intentions, and the risks and benefits of acting or not acting. When planning the action, it is important to review the power structure of the organization, consider timing issues, develop alternatives, and carefully strategize about how you will communicate the issue.

When blowing the whistle, you should try to respect the chain of command. That means starting with your immediate manager and then going to the next level if you are not satisfied with the results. If you still don’t get a response, this is the point where you should use the company’s internal ethics reporting system, if one exists. Only after these options are exhausted should you consider going outside the chain of command. And it is only when all else fails that you should consider going outside the company.

For your discussion:

Locate an article in the EC Library databases that discusses whistleblowing. Discuss the situation that led to an employee blowing the whistle on the organization. Should employees have freedom of conscience? Why or why not? Considering the long-term effects on employees of blowing the whistle, when should they engage in whistleblowing tactics? Identify some reasons why external whistleblowing occurs in any given situation

FInancial Management

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Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client. Use the Strayer Learning Resource Center to research the stock of any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. Your investment should align with your client’s investment goals. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to complete this assignment. You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.)

The assignment covers the following topics:

Rationale for choosing the company for which to invest
Ratio analysis
Stock price analysis
Recommendations

Refer to the following resources to assist with completing your assignment:

Stock Selection

Forbes – “Six Rules to Follow When Picking Stocks”
CNN Money – “Stocks: Investing in stocks”
The Motley Fool – “13 Steps to Investing Foolishly”
Seeking Alpha – “The Graham And Dodd Method For Valuing Stocks”
Investopedia – “Guide to Stock-Picking Strategies”
Seeking Alpha – “Get Your Smart Beta Here! Dividend Growth Stocks As ‘Strategic Beta’ Investments”

Market and Company Information

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – “Market Structure”
Yahoo! Finance
Mergent Online (Note: This resource is also available through the Strayer Learning Resource Center.)
Seeking Alpha (Note: Also available through the Android or iTunes App store.)
Morningstar (Note: You can create a no-cost Basic Access account.)
Research Hub, located in the left menu of your course in Blackboard.

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

Provide a rationale for the stock that you selected, indicating the significant economic, financial, and other factors that led you to consider this stock.
Suggest the primary reasons why the selected stock is a suitable investment for your client. Include a description of your client’s profile.
Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the selected financial ratios for the company; you may obtain this information from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the stock from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.
Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment opportunity. Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed articles, material from the Strayer Learning Resource Center, and reviews by market analysts.
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Critique financial management strategies that support business operations in various market environments.
Analyze financial statements for key ratios, cash flow positions, and taxation effects.
Review fixed income strategies using time value of money concept, bond valuation methods, and interest rate calculations.
Estimate the risk and return on financial investments.
Apply financial management options to corporate finance.
Determine the cost of capital and how to maximize returns.
Formulate cash flow analysis for capital projects including project risks and returns.
Evaluate how corporate valuation and forecasting affect financial management.
Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices impact financial management.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial management.
Write clearly and concisely about financial management using proper writing mechanics.

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday, and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.

Key Assignment

Note: All character and company names are fictional and are not intended to depict any actual person or business.

Your work with UWEAR and PALEDENIM has been completed. You have sent an e-mail to the client requesting feedback on any final requests before you close the project. Tom Tramlin, the chief executive officer (CEO), has sent you the following e-mail in response:

It has been a pleasure working with you on this project. For your final deliverable, we are requesting a comprehensive code of conduct framework that we can use to build upon as we move forward. What I envision is an outline that includes the 3 policies that you have drafted during your work here, along with basic standard policies that we should implement, as follows:

Reporting violations
Compliance with laws and regulatory orders
Any additional policies that you feel are pertinent

You review the work that you have completed to date for UWEAR and PALEDENIM and consider what you should include in your final submission. Answer the following in a paper of 3–5 pages:

What would be the best possible deliverable that you could offer to your client?
What do you know about their code of conduct?
What should be included that you have not already established?
What standard policies could be incorporated for UWEAR and PALEDENIM that they can utilize?

The materials found in the MUSE may help you with this assignment such as the audio file Culture of Ethics. This file provides real world experience which may help you with this assignmen

communications class help

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discussion question

How might the communications needs of a virtual worker differ from those of a more traditional office worker? Based on these needs, how would you structure various types of communications–memo, voice mail message, and so forth–for a virtual worker? Discuss how a manager’s style might need to change if he or she supervises a virtual staff

Given how widely e-commerce has spread, provide examples of businesses that do not have an e-commerce component. What communication characteristics do these businesses share?