Future Investing

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Description Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you: 1. Describe (3) ways you will invest in your future based on the principles of finance. Include terminology from finance and use citations as necessary to support your explanation of the terminology. 2. Discuss one of the (3) ways you feel most confident as a way to invest in your future. Explain your level of confidence. 3. Of the (3) ways you will invest in your future, discuss the one you perceive might be the most challenging. Then, discuss how you might overcome some of those challenges. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

Business and Society – Assignment: Poster

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Assignment

Overview An academic poster is a textual and graphic means of presenting information in a concise and persuasive way. In the workplace, you may be asked to present a poster to your peers. This way of presenting information can also allow for valuable networking opportunities with other stakeholders involved in a project. Poster presentations can give an opportunity for you to showcase work at business conferences and meetings.

Your task is to create a poster that examines stakeholder tensions and priorities in a public–private partnership (PPP). You will need to examine and identify the role of various stakeholders in your chosen PPP and explore the relationship between key internal and external stakeholders. You should investigate actual or potential stakeholder tensions that can arise from PPPs and explore the specific skill-sets required for managers in this setting. – Assignment is two-fold: written research (1500 words) + visual ‘poster’ for presentation. Any tool can be used however not PowerPoint. – All additional materials/document to be uploaded seperately.

Improving development plans

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Company Background You will continue using the same scenario from the previous assignment. You have been brought in to consult with Green-Plus Industries, a growing organization that is preparing to open a new regional office. Currently, Green-Plus Industries has eight facilities in other regions; in fact, this new facility will be the first of three new regional offices slated to open in the next three years. This new facility will be a multipurpose regional office with over a thousand employees in a variety of disciplines. Green-Plus Industries is planning to hire for a range of positions, including: Regional vice president and senior staff functions. A customer service team. A distribution/warehouse team of about 400 employees. As the organization continues to grow it is finding increasing difficulty in recruiting qualified employees to fill key management positions and positions at all levels of the organization. Current Employee Development The training department has these programs that are used to conduct employee development: The 5-day management development program was created in 1995 by the former training director. It is conducted several times a year and “up and comers” are sent to this program when it is offered. This program focuses on planning, controlling, organizing, delegating, and employee discipline. The job shadowing program is for the same employees. It involves a two-week planned shadow of selected employees with the goal of exposing trainees to key jobs and the duties involved. Individual departments also set up and run their own department-level training programs. Your Role Based on your role as an external consultant, your next goal is to recommend a development program that focuses lower-level management development program. These training programs could include the development of specific skills, and leadership programs and areas beyond simple training programs; such as coaching, on-the-job training, mentoring and career development, et cetera. Examples of the kind of program that is needed would be developing new department supervisors for the distribution centers. Assignment Description As a first step, develop a supervisor training program for both internal candidates and newly hired supervisors. Consider the following: Analyze a coaching program based on current research models. Recommend a coaching program, including how you would select and train the coaches, using research from at least two applied and research articles. Explain the advantages of this program, and any issues you foresee in using this program. Compare three additional components of a development program. Recommend at least one additional component to this development program, based on research. Describe the details of this program and why you would select this program over other options. Recommend a supervisory training program based on current research. Conduct a benchmark analysis by looking at how other organizations handle this type of development program. Recommend a needs analysis program to identify specific employee needs. Recommend a type of program (internal or external instructor, onsite or remote, et cetera). Justify your plan. Include metrics and a plan for analyzing the success of the training program. Deliverable Format Create a professional report that tells your client: A coaching plan that identifies how coaches would be selected and trained. A comparison of at least three additional components (beyond the coaching) that you believe would be the best options to include in a development program. Recommendations for a supervisory training program that includes the benchmarking and identifies employee needs, program type, and how to measure the success of the training program.

Recommending a hiring policy

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While the new operation will be hiring many candidates externally, there are a number of jobs that would be attractive to employees from the eight similar operations. For example, the HR department will have a staff of about 15, six of whom will be at the managerial level and there are distinct advantages to promoting employees from a similar operation elsewhere in the company. A key element of an effective performance management program is creating opportunities for employees to move up within the organizational structure. Some key elements of a successful performance management program would be: A succession planning program to fill key positions quickly after they become open. A career path program for individual employees. An internal promotion program. As an external expert in this area, you have been asked to work with a group of subject matter experts (SMEs) to develop a succession planning program, a career path program for employees, and an internal promotion program. You intend to base these plans on current research and on the facility described below:

 

The new facility will be a multi-purpose regional office with 1500 employees in a variety of disciplines. The new employees will be hired for all positions, ranging from a regional VP and senior staff functions, to the customer service team, and the distribution/warehouse team with 400 employees. The new facility will be similar to eight existing facilities in other regions. Instructions Describe the advantages of promoting from within the organization, based on current information from both application and research articles in the fields of staffing and promotion. Include examples of organizations that successfully use internal recruiting. Select an area of the facility described above and recommend a succession plan for at least two levels of the facility (for example, manager, two assistant managers, six department supervisors).

Create effective development plans to prepare people to move into these higher level positions, based on current information from both application and research articles from the areas of human resource development and staffing. Propose how you would integrate a research-based career path program into the succession plan. Justify your recommendation with research.

White Paper (report/proposal) presenting the Pros/Cons of positioning and expanding the Company’s strategy and operational direction in the Global Markets

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Instructions The Topic is: Prepare a “White Paper (report/proposal) presenting the Pros/Cons of positioning and expanding the Company’s strategy and operational direction in the Global Markets. This “report” is to be exclusively a narrative paper; however, can have supporting graphs/charts in its appendix to support statements within the “white paper.” The audience to receive this “report” is Senior Executive Management. This report will be a reference source for the President of the company to prepare his presentation to the Board of Directors on the same subject. The written assignment should be a minimum of 5 pages (body of paper). These 5 pages do NOT include the cover page, table of contents, reference page, appendix and tables.

The Consumer Decision-Making Process

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Whether you realize it or not, you’ve been a consumer all your life. The types and costs of your purchases have changed over time, but you’ve learned from watching others and experiencing the sensation of choosing an item and making the purchase. What you may not realize is that you’ve likely followed a consumer-purchase process. For this assignment, you will do a three-part deep dive into the consumer decision-making process. Part One. Complete the following: Identify and discuss the process, taking care to explain each step. Walk your reader through each step of the consumer purchase process, defining each step. Choose a major purchase that you plan to make in the future (e.g., a vacation, a car, a smartphone, a computer, a Hermes handbag, a horse, etc.). Apply each step to your purchase (e.g., identify why you find yourself making this purchase, perform an information search, evaluate alternatives using a table, make a choice and justify it, and so forth.). You are not expected to actually make the purchase, so you may predict the outcome, as opposed to actually describing it. Part Two. In this section, you will identify and analyze the factors that have influenced your actions and decisions throughout the process. These include: Personal factors that affect your perspective (e.g., faith, age, lifestyle, location) Pricing and personal accounting The type of purchase—functional versus hedonistic Family influence Ethical considerations Image Ease and place of purchase Part Three. For this final section, synthesize your findings and analysis from Parts One and Two. Consider the following questions: What factors are strongest and least likely to change your purchase decisions? What factors are more variable? How can marketers use these insights to attract new customers and deepen relations with existing ones? Your paper should meet the following requirements: Be 10-12 pages in length. Be formatted according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.). Include at least four outside sources, preferably peer-reviewed journal articles, in addition to the case study. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these sources.

Discuss the promotion strategies and the competitive advantage of Tesla Inc. Promotion

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Description

Complete a comprehensive marketing plan researching Tesla Motors, Inc. Research and discuss the promotion strategies and the competitive advantage of Tesla Inc. Promotion

This section will provide a comprehensive look at the promotional strategies of Tesla Inc. Begin with a look at the promotional objectives or themes used by this company.

From there, review the promotional mix. This should include a preliminary discussion of the importance of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) to Tesla Inc. Promotion methods such as personal selling, mass selling (advertising and publicity), and sales promotion should all be addressed in detail. Competitive Advantage in Promotion

Discuss whether your company has a competitive advantage WITH RESPECT TO PROMOTION.

The idea is to discuss whether your company has a competitive advantage with respect to how they promote their products. Again, this section should only discuss whether your company has a competitive advantage with respect to promotion (product, price and place are discussed in other sections). Once you have stated your position, remember to include your rationale. Your submission should be a minimum of two pages in length, double-spaced with a reference page and title page. References should include at least two credible sources. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations and cited per APA guidelines. Include the use of subheadings; Promotion and Competitive Advantage in Promotion.

Analyze various approaches to marketing management

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Description

Students will define a company. The company may or may not be in the fashion industry. This is up to the student to decide what company they will select and define. By define I mean tell us about the company, what products and services they offer, etc. Provide an overview of what the company does.

Students will be required to analyze various approaches to marketing management by researching and presenting an essay comparing how two different business models practice marketing management in the 21st century. For example, one might be am internet only store and the other sells through a store location and the internet. One might be B2B and the other B2C, etc Each student is to select two companies of their choosing and prepare a listing examples of marketing messages the company disseminates through their various communication channels.

This might include public relations, television advertisements, and internet advertising, print messages. Students should collect the samples and review the materials looking for a common message (IMC examples). What sort of commonality of message, preference for one form of communication over another (by frequency), or series of non-related messages? Students might also consider selecting companies that may make key marketing management members available for them to speak with. Not required Grades will be based on originality of thought, ability to research and provide multiple sources and examine and compare two different business models and how they each implement functions of marketing management.

Essays will be evaluated using MLA format requirements. Students should exhibit the ability to apply evaluative and interpretive skills learned in the course. All papers should have a title page, table of contents, an introduction, a summary and several references presented on a separate page with the title References. Be sure to include the cover, table of contents, an introduction, a summary and several references (12 would be impressive) on a separate page called References. I expect research papers to be well researched and include several references and in-body citations.

Business Plan for Venture Capitalist

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Description

*** The instructions below are the general instructions for the assignment, but only the Financial parts (those marked with *THIS*) is what needs to be done, as it is a group assignment and the Financial part is my part*** The Business Plan should include the following components:

Executive Summary Review of financial and market performance during the past year (THIS) Assessment of current situation and the market (use data to support your analysis) Customers Competition Company’s strengths and weaknesses Major problems/opportunities to be dealt with in next year Strategy for the next year in business (What will it take to get ahead or stay ahead?) (use data to support your projections/plans) Marketing Strategy Sales Channel Strategy Human Resource Strategy Manufacturing Strategy Financial Strategy (THIS) Financial request (THIS) Amount of money being sought (THIS) Projected ROI at end of year two (THIS) Desired stock price and share of company being offered (THIS) Pro forma cash flow, balance sheet and income statement (Quarters 1 to 8) (THIS) Tactical plan (Quarters 1 to 8)

**Attached is the Business Plan with the other sections completed so you can have an idea and work on the Financial Part*** *Attached are also the Financials for the past year so that you can use the numbers for the analysis and review

Litigation and Corporations

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Description

ASSESSMENT TASK 1 – REPORT Accessing and drawing upon professional journals, popular media (including printed or online), court press releases or personal knowledge and experience in a professional capacity, identify and briefly analyse a recent (ie within the last 2 or 3 years) case involving a corporation dealing with topical and interesting legal issues. In your analysis discuss the following: o In what capacity was the corporation involved?

o What were the triggers and circumstances that led to the litigation? o What remedies were being sought? o What was the outcome? o Could the case have been avoided? o Were there any aspects of the case which may have been dealt with differently if, instead of being a corporation, the party was a natural person? What do you think the medium and long term consequences of the case may be, either generally or to the individual corporation(s) specifically involved?

The report must be based on Australian litigation.

Referencing Law assessments must be referenced in accordance with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC). WORD LIMIT To encourage clear, concise and efficient writing, assessments will be subject to a word limit. Unless instructed otherwise the following apply: the word count must be accurately stated on the cover sheet; the specific word limit requirements for each unit of study are mandatory and there is no 10% leeway policy. to ensure fairness to all students a unit assessor has the discretion to either refuse to mark the words that exceed the word limit or to impose a penalty if the word limit is exceeded; footnotes that contain only citations or bibliographic information are not included in the word court.

However, where footnotes include text and commentary, the additional words may be counted. As a general rule, the length of your footnotes should never exceed 10% of the prescribed length of the assignment; the bibliography is not included in the word count; all other text including headings and quotations are included in the word c