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You will apply important microeconomics concepts toward the competitive strategies of an organization that operates in an industry of your choice. You will evaluate the differences between market structures and identify a group of competitive strategies consistent with the market structure that best aligns with the market in which the organization competes. You will assess how the market structure positively and negatively affects the organization’s ability to earn an economic profit over time and evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s competitive strategies.

Select an industry. Identify an organization in that industry. Your selected organization must be submitted for instructor approval.

Identify the market structure in which this organization competes. Clearly indicate why the market structure was decided upon and how this market structure differentiates from the other alternatives.

Describe the level of competition the organization will face if under each of the following market structures:

Oligopoly
Perfect competition
Monopoly
Monopolistic competition

Identify three or more competitive strategies of your choice that may be used by the organization to maximize its profits over the long run. Evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies in the market structure you identified. Consider the following:

Expected changes in supply and demand
Price elasticity of demand
Market structure
Government regulations

Make recommendations related to the strategies the organization might consider to maximize its profits and consider the following:

What are the ethical implications of these strategies?
Does this strategy align with the organization’s current values?
Does this strategy align with your own values?

Cite a minimum of 3 peer reviewed sources

What is a functional strategy?

Your response should be at least 75 words in length

Question 2

Discuss the more popular stability strategies.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length.

Question 3

What are the trade-offs (pros and cons) between an internal and an external growth strategy? Which approach is best as an international strategy? Why?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Question 4

What is outsourcing? What are the seven major outsourcing errors that should be avoided?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length

This week, you will finalize your marketing plan for your selected product or service. Do not incorporate Part I in this week’s submission. However, in preparing for Part II, you may have to consider some of the suggestions made by the instructor in Part I.

Complete the following for your marketing plan:

Justify the pricing strategy you will employ. Perform a breakeven analysis to determine how many customers you will need to make your business financially viable.
Defend your distribution strategy. Determine if there are additional channels you should pursue and why.
Justify your integrated marketing communications plan. Discuss the key themes of your campaign and link them to how your business, service, or product will satisfy your target market needs. Describe each element of the promotional mix in detail and explain how you will integrate the different elements of your promotional mix toward the target market using the key themes. This includes the following elements:
Advertising
Public relations
Sales promotion
Personal selling
Direct marketing
Interactive marketing
Defend an implementation schedule for your marketing plan. Outline the time frame for the different media campaigns and specify milestones. You should outline who will be responsible for each action item and how you will track the deadlines to ensure the plan stays on schedule.
Justified an evaluation process for the effectiveness of the marketing plan, including use of a marketing dashboard. Evaluation plan also included a sample dashboard.
In table format, synthesized estimates for the marketing budget.

Submit a 5- to 6-page paper written in APA format. Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles for your paper.

Additionally, you have been asked to prepare a budget. The budget should include estimates of forecasted sales, direct cost of sales, and your marketing expense budget. (Create an Excel sheet with the budget estimates and then copy/paste into your Word document.)

DO NOT INCLUDE THE ATTACHMENT HOWEVER USE THE INFORMATION FROM THE ATTACHMENT TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMEN

You work in the HR department of a nationwide department store chain. Normally, you work as a recruiter, but since the start of the most recent hiring freeze, you are assigned to help produce a case study review. Your first meeting on the report is with the HR Director, the VP of Sales, and an internal project manager.

This group will soon be making recommendations to the board of directors about ideas for the new employee motivation program. They ask you to do some academic research and produce a report that will help them prepare for their meeting. They tell you that the department store has found the average ages of both the employees and customers are steadily rising. “Most people on the sales floor are late 40s or early 60s,” says the VP of Sales, “I just need to know how to motivate them,” he says. As the meeting comes to a close, your HR director hands you a sheet of paper with instructions and a list of academic journals.

Instructions

Review articles from at least 2 different journals on the list below. Choose information from these sources to help prepare your organization to motivate the aging workforce. Summarize at least 2 articles, and consider one or more of the following topics discussed in the meeting about this specialized workforce:

What motivation factors are most likely to make an impact?
What types of stress might they face?
How would they best learn and set goals?

Use only journals from the list below. Format your paper and references using APA style. Page length is 2–3 pages plus cover page and references page.

Journal choices

Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Group and Organization Studies, Human Resource Management, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Occupational Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Environmental health

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Environmental justice is a concept regarding as an equal distribution of environmental hazards and adverse healthy facts from these hazards . Environmental justice works to ensure that all people are active participant in developing , preventing and enforcing by environmental laws .This is an important concept as we think about disparities in local environmental health issues , and who may be adversely affected .

in this assignment will focus on food access as an environmental justice issue . As public health professionals we are at the aware at relationship that food has to disease especially obesity. Eating well and an exercising are important to maintain wellness as well as prevent disease . Access to healthy food options physical ,economically or both is an emerging environmental justice issue .You’ll explore food access in this assignment and connected to environmental health ,as back ground you can investigate the united states department of agriculture food access map to evaluate your our community. on your word :

1.please define food desert and present some reasons why food desert exist .

2.Explain some health implications of food deserts and propose solutions to alleviate this issue .

As you have learned in your readings, Piaget, Erikson, Skinner, and Vygotsky took different approaches to child development. One’s theoretical perspective influences approaches to child development. The Jacksons are a young couple living in Centervale. They have approached Keith, the child development consultant, for advice on how to promote and nurture the cognitive development of their preschooler Jasmine.

Watch the following video to learn more about the similarities and differences of developmental theories. Study of the Child: Theories of Development I, produced by Herzog, Milan & Herzog, Shanta (Learning Seed, 1997), 29:02 mins obtained from Alexander Street Press Education in Video from AUO Library.

Compare and contrast the approaches of each of the four perspectives (Piaget, Erikson, Skinner, and Vygotsky).
Explain how each theorist would approach the issue of cognitive development in early childhood. Describe how Keith’s advice to Jasmine’s parents might vary depending on his theoretical perspective.
What role would society and family play in Jasmine’s cognitive development at this stage of development? What cultural, psychosocial and physical influences will be seen?
Incorporate information learned in your readings and at least one peer-reviewed* article from the AUO library to support your conclusions.

* Peer reviewed means an article from a reputable journal, which can be found in the library. Peer reviewed indicates that other professionals in the field have reviewed and deemed it worthy of publication, in contrast to much if what we find online: someone posting something they want, without someone else verifying that their methods were rigorous enough and the study is valid. Use your book and course lectures as your primary resources, as well as articles from our library. If you must supplement from a website, do NOT use .coms. Instead, look for .org, .gov, and sometimes .edu for more reputable sources. Never use Wikipedia or about.com.

Write a 6-7 page paper in Word format. Be sure to include introductory and concluding paragraphs in your paper, a title page and a reference page. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_LASA1.doc.

Review the initial scenario and the Strategic Business Plan presented in Module 1 to make sure that the requirements of the Board and the Part II Strategic Plan are met. In order to meet the requirements of the Board, you will prepare the final Strategic Business Plan—Part II—Strategic Plan to the Executive Board. Ensure your strategic plan is thorough, succinct, and complete. Challenge yourself to link the targets to specific initiatives you have identified in the Strategic Plan you are developing for H-D.

Your written report should include a title page, table of contents, executive summary, and each of the following sections in an 8- to 12-page report:

Part I: Global Economy & Factors Affecting H-D

Identify H-D’s Motivations & Risks

Motivations for Expansion
Risks in Expansion

Explain H-D’s competitive advantage in Global Markets
Determine and explain entry strategies for global expansion
Recommend an Internet approach/strategy for H-D

How the Internet adds value
Internet Business Models
Competitive Strategies
Leverage E-Business Capabilities

Part II: Corporate Leadership

Develop the following: Current Direction Setting

Organizational Culture: In addition, evaluate the culture at Harley-Davidson (H-D) and define what attributes you think team members should possess in reaching the business goals set forth by the organization. If you were part of the management team at H-D, what motivational techniques would you implement to make these teams successful?
Organizational Design: As you have been completing the Strategic Business

Plan, the management at Harley-Davidson has decided to take a team-oriented approach in various departments rather than the traditional, functional structure. Based on your knowledge of different types of teams and their focus, suggest what kinds of team strategies should be applied to each department. Be sure to explain your recommendations in detail.
Leadership Traits
Ethical Organization Characteristics

Identify elements
Identify missing elements

Learning Organization Characteristics

Identify elements
Identify missing elements

Part III: Strategic Plan Summary

Conclusions
Recommendations
Implementation
Discuss how you will implement your strategic plans, including how teams should be implemented in each department
Develop a brief roadmap for implementation
Identify the primary benchmarks to assess success or failure
Risks

Part IV: Self-Reflection Summary

Self-reflection is the key to good leadership and good management. Reflect on what you have learned in this class and on what you gained from your Bachelor of Science program. Based on your reflections, discuss the following:

Five or six key “lessons” learned from the textbook and the content that will help you in your career.
Consider what you have learned throughout this program. Discuss career opportunities that interest you in business.
Include what you have learned about yourself.

Evaluate how your personal biases and assumptions have affected your work in the past and how you plan to manage them in the future. Your final product will be in an MS Word document approximately 8–12 pages in length and utilizing approximately 4–6 scholarly/professional sources. Your document should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

Describe the various types of management careers that can be offered within each industry (lodging, and food and beverage).
Compare and contrast the differences between the General Management (GM) positions within the two industries.
Analyze and describe the growth in overall employment within these two industries and how this overall growth is forecasted within the next ten years.
Recommend at least three human resource practices in which each industry can better recruit and retain management talent for their respective industry.
Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not quality as academic resources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
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 is not included in the required page length.
Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Discuss various career opportunities in the food service and lodging industries.
Describe the significant trends impacting the hospitality industry.
Analyze the basic procedures involved in managing a restaurant operation.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in hospitality and tourism management.
Write clearly and concisely about hospitality and tourism management using proper writing mechanics

Global Business Today – The Hofstede Study

140 points

Refer to Hofstede model in Chapter 4 of the textbook and the Global Business Today Interaction located below, and complete this assignment. Note: You must have a Flash-enabled browser to view the Global Business Today Interaction.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

Imagine you are a consultant for a regional company wishing to move into an international market. Present an overview of the regional company, its products and services, the location, brief financial information, etc.
Utilize the Hofsetede module to discuss the company’s offerings in regards to how the United States (Home Country) views the products and services. Use the following links to help you. http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html and https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Choose two (2) countries as potential locations for your company of choice to set up new international offices. Develop a set of specific recommendations for the company. In your recommendations review the 2 countries using the Hofsetede module http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html
Provide an analysis of the differences or similarities between US and the 2 countries.
Demonstrate the most important dimensions of the Hofstede model for a U.S. company to consider when opening in the countries chosen.
Predict the economic opportunities of your recommendations.
Speculate on the main potential risks inherent in relocating to the countries that you are considering.
Suggest at least two (2) approaches that your company’s leadership could leverage to mitigate the potential risks that you have identified.

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:

Formulate, implement, and evaluate effective marketing strategies based on an analysis of global operating environments, market dynamics, and internal capabilities.
Analyze the major economic, cultural, and political / legal aspects of the international business environment, including the economic dynamics of foreign trade, impact of regional and global trade integration, and key cultural dimensions affecting marketing operations.
Assess the potential risks and benefits of various international markets and formulate effective market entry strategies to support foreign market expansion.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in international marketing.
Write clearly and concisely about international marketing using proper writing mechanics.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following:

Explain why the 3 types of goals are important to the strategy of an organization.
Explain why the different types of planning are important to the strategy of an organization.
Examine the elements or factors involved in creating an effective strategy for an organization.

Cite a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed sources and include examples from one or more Fortune 500 companies to illustrate your points.