Analyze the complexities of the derivative markets and how the reporting of derivatives may be deceiving to investors.
Make a suggestion for improving the methods for valuing derivatives so that the reporting becomes more transparent for investors
ou manage a small advertising agency that employs two illustrators, two copywriters, and two account executives. Business has been down lately because of the economy, and your employees have been a bit nervous about possible layoffs, citing that because there are two of each of them in these respective roles that it is possible the agency may have to reduce the staff by at least two specialists in the coming months. You have noticed stress in the office, including everything from office fighting, to stealing creative ideas from one another, to higher-than-usual absenteeism.
At a recent campaign review with your premier client, CheapThings.com, you found out that the copy and graphics of several proposed ads needed to be recrafted. You found out that the client is unhappy with the campaign, noting that it is stale and uninteresting and does not represent what the company is doing online: selling all types of cheap things that people can buy at a discount.
On second look, you understand what the client is saying. Interpersonal communication skills are essential in your client and staff relationships. Although you understand that advertising campaigns often need to be tweaked to deliver what the client wants and needs, you believe that the employee problem may be masquerading as a business problem. You start to see that stress in the office is starting to reveal itself in your agency’s creative work. This is a huge problem because the agency cannot afford to lose a client or possible future projects. You decide to research some possible creative process theories for this situation to solve the business problem.
State the business problem and why you believe it is the core problem. For example, are people creatively burned out? Is there a communication problem between the client and the account executive?
Analyze 3 creative processes that could get the agency back on track with on-point client deliverables.
For each, briefly explain what the process is and why it fits the stated business problem.
Select what you believe to the best creative process for this situation.
Explain how you will implement your chosen creative process.
Explain your prediction on how your chosen creative process can help start to solve some of the problems
To prepare the new staff for the upcoming tax season, you have decided to hold 1-week training.
Prepare a short PowerPoint presentation of 4-5 slides outlining the following:
What type of tax rate structure does the U.S. tax system apply?
What are the individual tax forms, and what factors are used to determine which one to use?
What is taxable income, and how is it determined
Creating and evaluating ethics programs is a crucial component of a strong ethical corporate culture. Without a focus on the creation of an ethics program that allows a healthy ethical culture to develop, the ability of individuals to behave ethically is often severely damaged. Understanding a strong ethics program that supports ethical behavior requires that we first evaluate companies that have failed spectacularly. Perhaps one of the most well known corporate failures related to unethical behavior is Enron.
Enron is interesting for several reasons. First, the organization had a very well-written ethics policy that espoused ethics as an important and valued part of their corporate culture. However, the unethical behavior that was rampant within the company clearly illustrates the need to embed into the culture an ethics program based on the espoused ethics policies. Second, the unethical behavior became embedded in all levels within the organization.
View:
ABC News. (2011, February 28). A cautionary tale [Video file]
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSt9Ovt9ksY
Read:
Sims, R., & Brinkman, J. (2003). Enron ethics (Or: Culture matters more than codes). Journal of Business Ethics, 45(3), 243-256.
Using your text, the readings from this module, and at least three additional resources, evaluate Enron’s corporate ethics policies, ethics programs (if any existed), and corporate culture.
Consider the following questions in your case analysis:
What cultural elements within Enron supported unethical behavior?
Imagine that the company survived the scandal. What changes would have to be made to the ethics program to shift the corporate culture to one that valued ethical behavior?
Based on what you have learned from this case, how would you evaluate a company’s ethics program? Make sure that you use what you have learned from ethics theories and the material throughout the course to support your argument. Be specific in the conclusion and recommendations section of your paper.
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 impacted 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 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 (in addition to the Dowie’s article and your text) 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, 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]
Using the movie “Her” to write a six pages paper. How we can use the movie to analysis humanity? What is humanity? How technology has impact on our lifes? and what is relationship?
Write a 300-word paper summarizing how you intend to solve the problem selected below.
Explain the Five-Step Model in Ch. 3 of Thinking Critically, giving a brief description of each step. This should be no more than 50 words of the 300-word minimum.
Select a personal problem from the list below:
Finances
Health
Employment
Education
Ask your instructor for approval of a personal problem about which you would like to write
Apply the Five-Step Model to solve it.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
The Five-Step Model in Ch. 3 of Thinking Critically; Method for Making Decisions
Step 1: Define the decision clearly.
Step 2: Consider all the possible choices.
Step 3: Gather all relevant information and evaluate the pros and cons of each possible choice.
Step 4: Select the choice that seems to best meet the needs of the situation.
Step 5: Impl
Homesteading is a major theme in the settling of the American West.
Write a factual essay that:
(a) explains the major ideas/philosophies that led to homesteading laws and who
originated them
(b) list how the U.S. was assembled – how was the land acquired and what did
each acquisition cost?
(c) lists and briefly discusses three major homesteading laws/bills that disposed of former
Indian land and transferred them to settlers or resource developers
(d) explains two myths about climate that made people believe they could farm in
the arid West
Compare and contrast the psychological âcampsâ of Behaviorism and Cognitivism based on scholarly materials including the required resources for this…
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Compare and contrast the psychological “camps” of Behaviorism and Cognitivism based on scholarly materials including the required resources for this week.
Analyze how each learning theory applies to real-life situations, and provide two examples for each.
Behaviorism example – Every time the chickens get on the porch, they are sprayed with water. After time, the chickens learn not to be on the porch.
Demonstrate your further understanding of these theoretical perspectives by including implications to learning posed by each theory.
Based on the evidence presented in this week’s resources, what are the major strengths and weaknesses of each theory in relation to how we learn? In your comparison, do you see where one type of training might work better than the other based on situations (e.g., differing age groups, differing learning abilities, or differing skill level/rigor)?
Compare and Contrast the two versions of the myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Archaic Greek poet Homer’s Odyssey (EH 298-314) and in the Hellenistic poet Theocritus’ poem (Idyll 11) (ACM 399-401). How does the Roman poet Ovid combine elements from each of these earlier poets’ versions to make his own version of the myth in his poem, the Metamorphoses (OM 374-381)
Explain in detail the processes of a job analysis then explain why this process is important to human resources management as well as corporate effeciency and profitability.
Your essay should be well thought out using information from the text as well as one or two additional sources which are clearly cited. The matrix for grading is below. There is no upper limit for length however a good essay will be at least 2 pages long. Be sure to write your paper outside of Blackboard using word processing software and then save it as a document. The best manner of placing into Blackboard is to copy and paste so that the document is immediately available to read and doesn’t require clicking to open.
While other students will not see your score/grade, they will be able to read your essay and I suggest that all students take the time to read the essays of others in their group as a way to better understand the subject as well as how other people interpret assignments.
Grading Possibilities:
70% Content
10% Use of source material
10% Depth of opinion
10% Spelling, grammar, sentence structure
Follow the requirement above and modify the paper in the attachment. I already finished the paper, you just need modify the grammar the structure of the essay.