Category: Essays

Of course having solid control processes is essential for any successful organization. Some organizations like to seek formal recognition for their control functions through independent certifications such as ISO 9000. In order to receive ISO certification, you need to extensively follow and document a long list of published standards and then have an outside evaluator certify that you are meeting these standards.

ISO certification has both proponents and critics. Proponents argue that meeting ISO standards through certification will improve organizational control functions, and also help signal to the outside world that you are running a solid operation with high standards. However, critics point to the huge amount of time and money spent on documentation that may be excessive. Critics also say that ISO focuses on documentation of processes rather than the actual quality/efficiency of the process.

For this assignment, first review the background materials on the control function of management and pay close attention to all of the steps involved in this function. Especially important are the Pearson tutorial and Ramasamy (2010).

Here are some articles on ISO certification to get you started:

Seddon, J. (1997). Ten arguments against ISO 9000, Managing Service Quality 7(4), pp. 162-168. [ProQuest]

Wahid, R.,& Corner, J. (2009). Critical success factors and problems in ISO 9000 maintenance. The International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 26 (9), pp. 881-893.

After doing research on ISO 9000 and carefully reviewing the background readings on the control function of management write a four to five page paper addressing the following questions:

What aspects of the control function of management do you think will most benefit from ISO 9000 implementation? Consider setting standards, measuring performance, comparing performance to standards, and correcting deviations. Refer to at least one of the three book chapters from the required background readings in your answer.

Take a close look at the discussion of “Requirements of an Effective Control System” and “Techniques of Control” on pages 134-138 of Ramasamy (2010). Which of these requirements or techniques do you think will helped the most by ISO 9000? Which ones the least?

Carefully consider both the benefits of ISO 9000 to the control function of management as well as the costs of ISO 9000 implementation. Overall do you think the benefits outweigh the costs? Refer to Seddon (1997) and Wahid and Corner (2009) as part of your answer.

Answer the assignment questions directly.

Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the Internet, make sure they are from a credible source.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Assignment Overview

In this assignment please read the article by Popa & Salanta. Then, please provide an overview in which you integrate your SLP readings on stakeholder theory, ethical decision making, ethics program leadership and the most recent reading on corporate social responsibility.

Assignment Instructions

In a 4- to 5-page paper discuss how, and to what extent these ethics based concepts intertwine in ethically grounded organizations? That is, what role does stakeholder management play? What must be done to make sure employees are ethically grounded when facing difficult situations? What role does the Ethics Officer play in orchestrating the ethics related efforts of the organization? And how does the operational efforts related to organizational ethics tie to the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (if at all)?

Popa, M., & Salanta, I. (2014). Corporate social responsibility versus corporate social irresponsibility. Management & Marketing, 9(2), 117-154.

Unit III PowerPoint Presentation

Open Source Software Research Project

Research an open source software project. I want to use Microsoft office

In MS PowerPoint, create a presentation with slides that describe the open source software and how it works. Discuss the role this open source software has in management information systems.

Remember, management information systems is the management and use of information systems that help organizations achieve their strategies (page 10 of your textbook).

Your PowerPoint must have a minimum of four slides. Be sure to use the 7X7 rule in PowerPoint: no more than 7 lines per slide and no more than 7 words per line. Use of images, graphics, and diagrams is encouraged. Be sure to include your sources on a references slide in APA forma

Spend time observing or participating in a garage sale in your neighborhood and describe how the sale was organized, the relationships between the organizers, between organizers and buyers, the kinds of things that were sold, who bought them, and so forth. Are there any particular customs about how garage sales should be conducted? Did any bargaining take place, and what were the rules of bargaining? What purposes or functions do garage sales seem to serve? Do you see any similarities between garage sales and any of the economic exchanges discussed in class or in your book?

-make sure you use anthropogy terms (economics exchange)

-3 pages double space

– due in 6 hours from the time posted . Thanks

Your Portfolio Project synthesizes information gathered from an interview you will conduct with a manager of your choosing, the knowledge you’ve gained in this course, and your own experience to create a research and reflection paper.

Be sure to thoroughly read the Portfolio Project description below before beginning to work on the project.

Interview Subject and Summary of Theories (20 points of the Portfolio Project)

Select which of the two Portfolio Project options you will complete and submit. Before midnight on Sunday, submit the name of the person who will be your interview subject, along with a summary of the theories that you plan to cover. These theories can change as you progress through your project, so the information you provide for this Week 2 deliverable is not set in stone. Instead, this assignment provides an opportunity to begin thinking about your Portfolio Project and record your preliminary ideas. Your submission should be 200-300 words in length.

: Portfolio Project Outline (20 points of the Portfolio Project)

Submit an outline of your Portfolio Project. Your outline should include bullet points, in the form of sentences or phrases describing each major argument you want to make, organized as the final project will be organized. This should by no means be a complete or final document, but should be sufficiently advanced to serve as a guide for a working draft of your project drafts to ensure that your writing is clear, thoughtful, and precise.

Interview

Choose a manager to interview with whom you are familiar—ideally, someone whom you admire and aspire to emulate. Ask her or him for some time—perhaps you can sit down for coffee—during which you can describe your course learning objectives and discuss what you have so far taken away from the class (in brief) Ask the manager what insights she or he has to offer to you at this point in your career.

The goal of the interview is to gain insight into what makes a good manager from the perspective of someone in a management position. Some topics to touch on in the interview could include the following:

How did your interviewee come to be a manager (i.e., what career path she or he followed)?
Has your interviewee found that professional certifications, volunteering, and continued education are important factors to career development?
What has surprised your interviewee most about what it means to be an effective leader (as opposed to the popular view of what a successful leader is and/or does)?
What roles are played by managerial goals, objectives, decision-making, and communication on the job?
How does the interviewee handle change management at his/her organization and what specific challenges has she or he encountered?
What advice does your interviewee offer to someone in your position and with your short- and long-term goals?

At the close of the interview, be sure to thank your interviewee for her or his time and assistance!

Note: Any documentation resulting from personal interviews by students are for the sole purposes of fulfilling a course assignment and will not be used as part of a larger study, published, or distributed outside of the course environment.

Research and Reflection Paper

In the next phase, ruminate on what you learned in your interview—especially anything that helped you to gain a deeper insight into the topics you studied in the course—and write a research and reflection paper in which you draw upon learning shared with your instructor and colleagues, your individual learning, and knowledge you have gained from the interview to demonstrate a more in-depth understanding of the foundational principles of management. In your paper, go beyond recitation of memorized facts or regurgitation of information; strive to synthesize the most important topics of management (i.e., leadership, personality, motivation, decision-making, communication, and the importance of good management to yourself and to society) into a hybrid research and reflection paper.

Your paper should integrate responses to each of the following questions in a well-organized and coherent paper:

What leadership precepts did your interviewee impart to you (or what can you glean on the topic as a result of your interview), and how do those dovetail with one or more of the modern theories of leadership?
How do the personalities of workers, colleagues, managers, and subordinates impact your performance in, and experience of, the workplace? How do they interact with one or more leadership models to create the most effective work environment?
In light of your interview, the leadership model(s) you’ve discussed, and your own personality, what one or two tenets of motivation theory have you taken away from the course?
How do your understandings of motivation theories impact your conceptions of the best practices when it comes to making decisions and communicating at work?
Based on your interview and on learning from this course, what does it take to be an effective employee, a successful manager, and an exemplary citizen of society?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

8-10 pages in length
Formatted according to the APA requirements
Cite at least three scholarly sources, at least one of which is not provided in, or linked from, the course, to support your assertions and strengthen your arguments.

Refer to the Portfolio Project rubric on the Course Information page for grading criteria. Please proofread your paper to ensure the sentences, paragraphs, and ideas flow well and are logical, concise, and grammatically error-free

Analyze the ad (will send separately) for uses of rhetorical devices or fallacies. Explain which devices you see in the ad, making sure to be specific in your analysis. You must clearly identify the specific parts of the advertisement that you find rhetorical or fallacious.

In addition to identifying any rhetorical devices and fallacies, analyze the ad in terms of the following:

Who is targeted in the ad (who is the target audience?)?

What psychological effect does the ad have on the audience?

What subconscious needs or desires among the audience does the ad seem to be playing upon?

The written analysis must be at least 1000 words

Now, create a new ad (actually make the new ad) for the product advertized in the original ad. Your new ad should be targeted toward a critical thinker. Therefore, your new ad should not use any rhetorical devices or fallacies to persuade the audience. Instead, your new ad should present a well-reasoned, well-supported argument for why a critical thinker should buy the product. You will probably have to do research to create the argument. You may also need to change the visual images or pictures from the original add (feel free to use pictures from whatever source you like….just be sure that the images you choose do not have any manipulative rhetorical effect on the audience.)

Write notes of each of the following (6-7 sentences each)

a-political parties (define,where do you find them, what kind of system they have, example .. etc)

b- political cultural (define , why its important, and how it different from country to country, and examples… etc)

c-political socialization ( those factors that influence the socialization process, how people become socialize, …etc)

d- public opinion ( define, how its shaped, )

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the next following at least ¾ page

2-Discuss the tactics employed by interest group in pursuit of their goals ?

(what the interest group are,and how its different from political party,what their goals , list the tactics … etc)

3- what factors influence voting behavior ?

(why voting is important in democratic system, examples etc)

4- what are the function of political parties ?

( what do they do, etc

The Impact of the 2009 Stimulus Bill of the Obama Administration on Economic Recovery”

1. WHAT

The Obama administration initiated ‘‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009’’ making

supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy

efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal

year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. The study investigates the impact of this

Stimulus Bill on the economic recovery on income or output and employment.

2. WHY

This provides a good exercise to apply the concept of IS-LM curve for an expansionary policy at the time of

a great depression. This stimulus package generates consumption and investment, which create output

and employment, and expedite economic recovery.

3. HOW

@ The use of diagrams clarifies the movement of IS-LM curves by the expansionary policy.

@ The use of equations is essential to understand monetary and fiscal policies

@ The use of empirical data and explanation to explain the policy impact.

@ Summary and Conclusion are required to finalize the term paper.

4. OTHER CONSIDERATION

If there is any additional information needed, please describe

Complete the following assignment. Submit your responses in MSWord as one document. Label each section clearly. If you choose to use an Excel spreadsheet for question 2, please copy and paste your spreadsheet into your Word document. For written answers, please make sure your responses are well written, conform to CSU-Global guidelines for APA formatting, and have proper citations, if needed.

What is the concept of current rate method of translation and temporal method of translation? How does balance sheet exposure differ under these two methods?

The 2010 financial statement of Child Co. Inc (Mexico), a subsidiary of Parent Co. Inc (United States), reveals the following information

1. Create a multilevel work breakdown structure (WBS) and detailed project schedule based upon the information from Appendix 13.2.

Part B: Written Response

(Submit as a Microsoft Word file)

Write a one to two (1-2) page response in which you:

1. Summarize the project’s performance in terms of schedule and costs.
2. Recommend corrective actions (at least two [2] total) to improve the project’s performance.
3. Give your opinion on what you foresee as the greatest risk to the project.
4. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements