Category: Essays

One of the most important challenges for current and future business leaders involves finding the thinking space and courage to keep the long view in mind for their organisations. Leaders are increasingly in the public eye, with numerous stakeholder groups enforcing their entitlements. This challenge becomes increasingly important and difficult as business practitioners rise through the ranks of their organisations and take on more general management and strategic leadership roles.
In this weeks Key Concept Exercise, you will continue further exploration of the ideas and issues you studied in previous weeks. You will explore challenges and opportunities to improve leadership practice and analyse the advantages of effective leadership practice. You will also evaluate how leaders manage teams and how teams shape the requirements for effective leadership.
To prepare for this Key Concept Exercise:
Read the Required Learning Resources for Week 7 and do further readings through the Library. (use a minimum of 13 references)
see attachment some references
Reflect on the specific challenges of global leadership.
Identify and retrieve one peer-reviewed academic journal article and one professional or trade journal article from the Library. These articles should be related to leadership theories and frameworks (the academic article) and leadership practices (the professional or trade journal) that you think are relevant to one of the global challenges you chose to address in Week 5 (). The articles must have been published within the last two years.
Consider how each of your chosen articles discusses the meaning, influence and importance of leadership.
To complete this Key Concept Exercise, in an approximately 500-word response, address the following issues/questions:
Analyse the challenges and opportunities to improve leadership practice with regards to your identified global challenge. In your analysis, explain the advantages effective leadership practice would bring to the meeting of that challenge. Additionally, explain how each of your chosen articles relates to your analysis.
In formulating your Key Concept Exercise, consider the following questions:
Why did you choose this global challenge and these two articles?
What specific leadership practices and behaviors might help you overcome those global challenges and create opportunities?
How do the two leadership articles relate to the challenge you have identified and how can they help meet the challenge?
How can leadership practice be improved in general?
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Some references provided to be used. Key references to be used is \”Northouse\”

Hello ! Our teacher asked us to write the coursework by using the following concepts( an example will be attached) : Perfect competition, Monopoly , Competing on Price, Competing with Capacity constraints, Product differitation , Information Goods, Value Ecosystems.

The Instructions From the teacher are :

– Identify and describe a real-world business example/case
– Connect this example with the given concepts ( Perfect Monopoly,….etc.); apply the theory to identify the mechanisms at play, highlight the tension present, and/or suggested likely outcomes;
– Explain how the theory enriches your understanding of this business example. You may highlight limitations of the theory or additional factors that should be taken into account.
-Be articulate and concise

Coursework assessment will be based on the following criteria:

– Use of interesting/original business examples
– Good mapping of examples to concepts
– Quality of analisys and synthesis
-Drawing meangful implications from the theory
-Understand the limitations of the theory
-Coherence and clarity of exposition

Please take to the note that my written English is equal to IELTS 6.5
Please don’t hesitate to ask me any questions
An example will be attached in Word – document soon
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Please, find attached an example of the coursework

Read through the unit pages.
Click on the orange links to access the film clips and the external websites.
Watch the clips.
Look over the external websites.

Answer the following questions (approx. 500 words):
What is the effect of using still photographs for the stylistic system of La Jete? How does this contribute to the narrative, and how does it affect your interpretation of the film?
How are Ballet Mchanique and Koyaanisquatsi different? How are they similar? Explain.
How would you interpret Koyaanisquatsi? Is this an experimental film? A documentary?

Link to the material:
http://filmstudiesonline.com/FS101/Units%20and%20PDFS/FS101%20Unit%2015.pdf

.Describe at least two different types of mass murderer, indicating differences in their styles of homicide, choices of weapons, victims, and other relevant data and differences.
The question was to describe two different TYPES of mass murderer, not two different mass murderers
2. Identify and discuss arguments for and against hate crime legislation as it pertains to violent crime/homicide

Interviewee: Andres Vargas
How long have you been a member of the UofA Industrial engineering community?

I started studying Industrial engineering in 2011 however I was enrolled in a different University. I transferred to the UofA in January 2012. I finished my undergrad 3 years after moving to Fayetteville. Currently I am enrolled as IE grad student and this will be my second semester. So I have been a member of this community for about 4 years

Why did you choose to be part of it?

I chose it because I had been studying IE in Bolivia, and wanted to pursue the same career in the US. I looked at the program and became interested plus I was offered an scholarship
What does [add lexis] mean?

Lean: Lean is a mental framework and a way
JIT: just in time processing
Time Study: A collection of data
System: A composition of

How did you learn to write academic papers and lab reports?

I learned going instruction in classes Composition 1 and Physics 1

How did you learn to write dissertations?

I learned through trial and error I am still in the process of learning.

How do you communicate with other grad and undergrad students on your free time?

Medium: Texts, Calls, real life. Way: Informal

How do you communicate with other grad and undergrad students when dealing with academic issues?

Informal

How do you communicate with instructors on your free time?

Semi-formal. Real life interaction.

How do you communicate with instructors when dealing with academic?

Formal. Mostly emails. Meetings from time to time

Choose a discourse community that has made an impact on you or one that interests you (such as the academic discipline which you’ve chosen as a major) and find a preliminary answer to this research question: “How are the goals and characteristics of the chosen community reflected in its discourse?” Write a four-to-five page report that tries to answer your research question based on careful observation of the community and a rhetorical analysis of its expressive choices.

STAGE I: Data Collection
Observe members of the discourse community while they are engaged in a shared activity; take detailed notes. (What are they doing? What kinds of things do they say? What do they write? How do you know who is “in” and who is “out”?)
Collect anything people in that community read or write (their genres)—even very short things like forms, sketches, notes, IMs, and text messages.
Interview at least one member of the discourse community. Record and transcribe the interview. You might ask these questions: “How long have you been a member of this [scholarly] community? Why did you choose to be part of it? What do [mention words from the lexis] mean? How did you learn to write [mention particular genres]? How do you communicate with other people in [mention specific situations, settings, roles, or purposes]?”

STAGE II: Data Analysis
First, try analyzing the data you collect using the six characteristics of Swales’s discourse community:
What are the shared goals of the [scholarly] community; why does this group exist and what does it do?
What mechanisms do members use to communicate with each other (meetings, phone calls, e-mail, text messages, newsletters, reports, evaluations forms, video-conferencing, published articles, etc.)?
What are the purposes of each of these mechanisms of communication (to improve performance, make money, grow better roses, share research, and so forth)?
Which of the above mechanisms of communication can be considered genres (textual responses to recurring situations that all group members recognize and understand)?
What kinds of specialized language (lexis) do group members use in their conversation and in their genres? Name some examples—TESOL, “on the fly,” “86,” and so on. What communicative function does this lexis serve? (That is, why say “86” instead of “we are out of this”?)
Who are the “old-timers” with expertise? Who are the newcomers with less expertise? How do newcomers learn the appropriate language, genres, knowledge of the group?

Then, use Gee, Covino & Jolliffe, and Wardle for further ideas on how to analyze your data:
Are there conflicts within the community? If so, why?
Do some participants in the community have difficulty? Why?
Who has authority here, and where does that authority come from?
What are the “modes of belonging” that newcomers are attempting to use?
What sorts of “multiliteracies” do members of this community possess?
Are members of this community stereotyped in any way in regard to their literacy knowledge? If so, why?

STAGE III: Planning and Drafting
As you develop answers to some of these questions, start setting some priorities. Given all you have learned above, what do you want to focus on in your essay? Is there something interesting regarding the goals of the community, its rhetorical strategies, or the types of literacies it requires? What is interesting about its lexis and mediating genres?

Decide what your refined research question is and how you will answer it. Your paper ought to have the following parts or make the following moves (unless there’s a good reason not to):
Begin with a very brief review of the existing literature (published research) on the topic (“We know X about discourse communities” [cite Swales, Gee, Covino & Jolliffe, Wardle, and other relevant sources]).
Name a niche (“But we don’t know Y” or “No one has looked at X”).
Explain how you will occupy the niche.
Describe your research methods.
Discuss your findings in detail (use Wardle as an example of how to do this—quote from your notes, your interview, the texts you collected, and so on).

What Makes It Good?
Your assignment will be most successful if you’ve carefully collected the required data and if you’ve really focused on your research question in trying to answer it. The assignment asks you to show a clear understanding of what discourse communities are and to demonstrate your ability to analyze their expressive choices and forms of communication carefully and thoughtfully. And, of course, your paper should be a strong example of craft: thoughtfully organized, fluent in its integration of supporting sources, insightful in its analysis, and well edited.

Documenting Sources
Use one documentation style (i.e., MLA) consistently to attribute information and expression of ideas to your sources. Every time you quote or paraphrase from the sources provide the corresponding parenthetical citation. The last page of your essay should be a “Works Cited” page, which, as the name indicates, lists the sources to which you made reference in your essay.

Maximum page length: 6 pages / 1500 words
Due date: Monday, December 14

⦁ Please apply your own personal characteristics in the credit scoring model and calculate your own credit score. Will you qualify for a loan?

⦁ A higher score can qualify you and give you a better rate for a loan application. How could you improve your credit score, according to the scoring model, in six months? In two years? Please examine each characteristic.

Draw upon literature and course material to critically assess your own entrepreneurial characteristics and tendencies. Include theory as well as practice in your answer. Wider reading tends to be associated with higher marks.

lease read Book X of Plato’s Republic (http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.11.x.html) and answer the question: “Socrates ends the Republic by asserting that we need to learn to distinguish what sort of life is good, and hence will make us happy, and what sort is bad, and hence will make us unhappy. He doesn’t just say that, though, he actually says that we need to learn who we can learn this from. Do you think this is something that we need to learn from others or do you think people can find out all by themselves what sort of life is good and what sort is bad?”. If you need to use any sources, please just use form the Book X. Thank you so much.

As highlighted in Chapter 9 of your course text, three research methods are available (descriptive, analytic, and evaluative). Discuss these methods and give one example of how each would be used when conducting research using homeless individuals as subjects. Analyze regulatory, accreditation, ethical, and legal issues and challenges related to each research method