Category: Essays

Choose a company that you have worked for or one that you currently work for to use for the analysis. If you have not worked for a company, choose one that you know some basics about. Write a needs analysis where you discuss current practices and HRIS requirements. The paper needs to be 3-4-pages (not counting the cover page and reference page) that include the following paper headings, which are denoted in all caps.

INTRODUCTION: Explains the content that will be reviewed in the paper.
BUSINESS ASSESSMENT: Describes the business (size, structure, etc.) and if there are unknowns, make assumptions based on typical companies from similar fields and of similar size.
IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS: Consider the HR problems/challenges of the organizations. Make a list of HR functions that you believe could be more efficient based on your own experience. Make assumptions if needed. Choose one HR function for analysis.
HRIS NEEDS ANALYSIS: Review the shortfalls and challenges of the chosen area. Refer to the course reading for additional information on conducting a needs analysis. Answer the following: How might an HRIS application assist the business? What elements should the HRIS contain in order to help the company be more efficient and productive?
CONCLUSION: End the paper with a concise summary of your findings and recommendations for next steps for the company

Transfer Pricing Decisions

As a manager, you may be tasked with making recommendations as to how your organization should structure its transfer pricing. This is especially true in cases when both variable or full cost transfer pricing is acceptable, and the choice is not obvious.

For this Assignment, take a moment to review your course text. Reflect on the scenario presented and consider how transfer pricing decisions might apply to organizational decision making.

Phipps manufactures circuit boards in Division A, a country with a 30% income tax rate, and transfers them to Division B, a country with a 40% income tax. An import duty of 15% of the transfer price is paid on all imported products. The import duty is not deductible in computing taxable income. The circuit boards’ full cost is $1,000 and variable cost is $700; they are sold by Division B for $1,200. The tax authorities in both countries allow firms to use either variable cost or full cost as the transfer price.

The Assignment:

Part 1: Analyze the effect of both full-cost and variable-cost transfer pricing methods on Phipps’ cash flows using a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
Part 2: Make your recommendation as to how the organization should proceed, being sure to justify your recommendation with examples form this week’s resources, and/or additional research. Complete this aspect of the Assignment by using a word processing program such as Word.

To submit your Assignment, do the following:

Save Part 1 of your Assignment as a “.xls” file with the filename “WK4AssgnP1+last name+first initial.xls”. Sally Ride’s filename would be “WK4AssgnP1RideS.xls”.
Save Part 2 of your Assignment as a ”.doc” file with the filename “WK4AssgnP2+last name+first initial.doc”. Sally Ride’s filename would be “WK4AssgnP2RideS.doc”.
To upload Part 1 of your Assignment, click on Assignments on the course navigation menu, and then click the Assignment Part 1 – Week 4 link.
To upload Part 2 of your Assignment, click on Assignments on the course navigation menu, and then click the Assignment Part 2 Turnitin – Week 4 link.

General Guidance on Application Length:

Your Application, due by Day 4, will typically be 4-6 paragraphs in length as a general expectation/estimate for each bullet point. Refer to the rubric for the Week 4 Application for grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use the rubric to assess your work.

Choose two Organisational Theory perspectives. Based on your selected perspectives, identify and draw out the two readings out of the given list that match your chosen perspectives.

Critically analyse the two readings and evaluate how their ontological and epistemological positions result in a different understanding and narrative of technology within organisations.

1. Select two from the four Organisational Theory Perspectives.

2. Critically evaluate how your two chosen perspectives contribute a different understanding and narrative of technology within organizations.

3. Use readings from your own research and the textbook to form substantive arguments

Leadership Strategies

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Leadership Strategies Presentation

Directions:

Taking on the role of a CEO, develop a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 15 slides that explains how you would adapt the Western leadership strategies of either Heifetz and Linsky or Drucker in your approach to managing an international organization on the brink of structural change and expansion. One of your main goals will be to motivate and communicate a vision while connecting to the firm’s mission for all stakeholders, including your Board of Directors. A brief profile of the organization is as follows:

The company is a manufacturing firm with annual earnings in excess of $350 million.
It is headquartered in the United States, has two branches in the United Kingdom, and one expansion branch set to open in China.
A new branch will provide more innovative technologies to infuse the firm’s declining market share while also presenting cultural management and organizational integration challenges.

Your presentation should contain the following components:

Identification of your chosen leadership philosophy with justification of your choice.
Using Porter’s Five Forces as a strategic guide, please explain how you will approach Foreign Direct Investment and Financial Risk Assessment.
Complete a Financial Risk Assessment for acquiring the new technology company by identification and explanation of at least four risks which could impact your organization.
Identification and explanation of the key internal structures (at least 3) that will be designed to enhance the culture within your organization
Explanation of how projected global and market trends over the next 10-15 years will impact your company’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage.

Submit to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Tuesday, January 26, 2016.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Identify and justify a chosen leadership philosophy.

16

Explain an approach to foreign direct investment and foreign risk assessment using Porter’s Five Forces.

36

Complete a Financial Risk Assessment for acquiring the new technology company; explain at least 4 risks which could impact the company.

36

Identify and explain the key internal structures to enhance organizational culture.

32

Explain how projected global and market trends over the next 10-15 years will impact the company’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage.

36

Written Components: Organization, usage and mechanics, APA elements, style

Use the Internet to research one developing nation from the list at the bottom of this paragraph. Your research must include an examination of how weak institutions contribute to underdevelopment and draw from the material covered by the Webtext, as well as the lectures in Weeks 1 through 3.

Countries you may write about are as follows and no other country will be acceptable. Note: Haiti, Rwanda, Sudan, Egypt, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Columbia, Brazil, Burma, Thailand and China are not on this list. See list in STUDENT COURSE GUIDE.

2.) Write at least a three page research paper in which you:

Identify the weak institutions that make it so difficult to advance development in the Third World country that you have selected. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you have cited.
Analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by institutional failure and conflict.
Discuss whether or not the state’s internal institutions are working to improve development in the selected country. Support your response with examples.
Use at least five good academic resources in this assignment, excluding Wikipedia, blogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other nonacademic material that do not qualify as respectable resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion.

When referencing the selected resources, please use the following format:

Webtext Format:
Name of the author. Name of title. Retrieved from website URL.
Example:

Soomo. Understanding Development [Webtext]. Retrieved from http://www.webtexts.com/courses/9218-cathey.

Lecture Format:
Name of the Author. Name of the lecture [lecture type]. Retrieved from lecture URL.
Example:

Strayer University. (2013). Understanding Development [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved fromhttps://blackboard.strayer.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/SOC/300/1136/Week1/lecture/story.html.

Internet Resources:
Author’s Name. (Date of publication). Title of the resource. Retrieved from website URL.
Example:

Wuestewald, Eric. (2014). Portraits of People Living on a Dollar a Day. Retrieved from http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/04/living-on-a-dollar-a-day-photos-renee-byer-thomas-nazario.

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 the APA 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:

Analyze how funding in the form of aid, investment, and loans moves from industrialized nations to the developing world to alleviate the problems caused by warfare.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology of developing countries.

Write clearly and concisely about sociology of developing countries using proper writing mechanics

Web Censoring Methods

Analyze the technical methods governments use to censor (such as censorware) and filter Web sites.
Pick 2 different countries and analyze the government’s success with web censoring. Why or why is it not successful?
Do you personally feel governments should place controls on their citizen’s use of certain Web sites? Why or why not

Write about 500 words about the “the southern question” according to the ppt. I give you. If you refer to the content of the ppt. please cite it clearly.

Southern Question refers to the social and economic disparities (duality) that exist between the Northern and Southern regions of Italy. These differences, as well as their causes, have been the subject of research from a number of disciplines: anthropology, sociology, politics and economics. If you cite content of the ppt. please cite it clearly.

2. write about 500 words watching response to the “the bicycle chief”. Give me some details from the film and discuss it related to the social backgroun

Review the Wiedmer article regarding workplace bullying.

Develop a two- to three-page APA- formatted paper that responds to the following:

Provide a review of the article. Describe the impact of workplace bullying on both the victims and the organization.
Reflect on a time when you may have witnessed workplace bullying. Discuss at least two practices of workplace bullying addressed in the article that were applicable to your scenario.
Recommend at least two techniques from the article that management should implement to provide a positive impact on workplace bullying. Support your response with additional information from the textbook or additional research.

Your paper must be two to three pages (not including title and reference pages) and must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. You must cite two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

You are the supervisor of a newly formed arson investigation unit. Although you have some personnel with basic crime scene training, you must start from the ground up to train them in elements of arson fire investigation. You start your training by handing out a white paper that will provide information to them about fire, fuel, and accelerants.

Address the following in 3 pages with references and no more then 25% plaigiarism:
Describe what a fire is in terms of its physical properties.
Identify and explain the 3 elements that make up the fire triangle.
Explain the oxidation process.
How is the process affected by how fast the oxidation occurs?
What are the primary accelerants? Identify and describe them.
What do they leave behind chemically after they burn? Explain.
How can investigators search for and find trace elements of the accelerants?
What are they looking for at the scene that indicates accelerants were used?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style

Must use article in the link below. Must complete the Web Assignment as assigned. The assignment should be done in the form of an essay to include a cover page and a reference page, both in APA format. The body of the essay should be 300-350 words in length and conform to APA format to include proper in text citation. Students must use at least two peer-reviewed references in addition to the assigned reading materials.

Compare and contrast the different components of the business perspective as a collective whole vs. individual parts.
Defend or criticize the required and/or promoted social responsibility of companies.
Hypothesize situations and dilemmas that constitute conflicts of social or ethical responsibility