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Consider financial markets as complex systems. Which challenges do agents face? Agents are autonomous entities that interact to carry out their specific tasks. These agents are adaptive and must be able to react to their given environments and alter behavior accordingly. In particular, make sure to consider some different aspects of information, and what agents have to take into account about information and their interpretation of the information they encounter when they act in financial markets.

Pike’s Fish Market Video Case

To assess your ability to describe effective communication strategies within organizational hierarchies. Overview Effective communication is critical to all organizations because it supports work coordination, employee well-being, knowledge management, and decision making. Action Items Watch the multimedia clip, Pike’s Fish Market. You can reference this video in your Week 4 Final paper as follows: MacLean, B.N. (Producer), & Luchtman, K. (Director). (2003) Management by inspiration: Seattle’s world famous Pike Place Fish [Video file]. McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Write a 2 page (minimum) paper that answer the following questions: How do employees and managers communicate with each other so that service quality is enhanced for customers? How do employees and managers communicate with each other so that productive relationships are maintained with each other? Include 1-2 scholarly resources to support your answer. Cite and reference your sources using APA format. Note: Websites are not scholarly references, use your textbook, weekly enrichment readings, and library resources. http://video.franklin.edu/Franklin/BSAD/325/pikePlaceFishMarket.html

To assess your ability to: Identify common communication barriers.

Describe effective communication strategies within organizational hierarchies. Discuss structured sources of conflict in organizations and methods to manage conflict. Overview The purpose of this writing assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the content covered in Week 4 and to connect that understanding with the real world. Please note each of these papers contributes key findings that help support the depth and breadth of your final course paper.

You are encouraged to note these organizational behavior items week to week in order to produce anew, original and substantive final paper report Week 6. Action Items Reflect on the information gleaned from the Week 4 assigned readings, literature review, and your own personal experiences. Prepare a 2-3 page paper titled Influencing Individuals and Groups. Compose your paper in Microsoft Word. Include your name, the assignment name and number, the course and section number, and the date on your title page.

Format your paper and cite ALL sources according to APA guidelines. Discuss the following in your paper (Note: Use headings to separate your paper sections): What methods does your organization use to communicate with employees? Are these methods effective? Why or why not? Identify a minimum of 1 communication barrier that you have observed in your organization. Discuss 1 or 2 strategies that you would use to resolve this problem. Generate a list of 2-3 sources of conflict in your organization.

Discuss the impact that these conflicts have on production or service of the organization. State and justify the methods you would use to effectively manage these conflicts. Support your analysis with a minimum of 2-3 appropriate, scholarly references from your textbook and other scholarly articles. Note: Websites are not scholarly references, use your textbook, weekly enrichment readings, and library resources.

Instructions:

Assume you are the packaging engineer for a large consumer products company. In this company, the Packaging Design Briefs are initiated by the marketing group and forwarded to the Package Engineering group.

You currently are working on one of the packaging design briefs. Note that the marketing department has completed some information on each brief and the Package Engineering department will complete the remaining information. 1. Using what you have learned in the class, complete the information needed on the design brief. Please include justification of your responses when requested. You are making judgment calls based on the information that you have been given and also based on what we have learned in the class. 2. Complete a Power Point Presentation. The Power Point presentation should reflect the outcome of completing the design brief as well as other aspects you deem necessary in presenting, you need to have at least 6 slides, not including an introduction slide and a reference and 2 page essay summarizing your work not including the title and reference page.

Apple (Antitrust) Spotify v. Apple Vincent, J. (2019, March 13). Spotify files antitrust complaint over “Apple tax.” The Verge.

Retrieved from https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263453/spotify-apple-app-store-antitrust-complaint-ec-30-percent-cut-unfair And Lapowsky, I. (2019, March 13). Spotify’s Apple complaint cuts to a core antitrust issue. Wired. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/story/spotify-apple-complaint-warren-antitrust-issue/ For the other topics, look into Apple’s employment practices, contract practices, privacy protections, corporate social responsibility, ethical code, etc. 1. In an introductory paragraph identify the company, the topic and a well crafted thesis statement. 2. Briefly describe the company and the nature of its business and corporate business environment. Do not spend a lot of time on the history of the company, but do describe sufficiently to create meaningful context. This should only need to be a paragraph. 3. Research, define and discuss the legal issues and regulatory environment for the company’s consumer or antitrust issue. (i.e., What are the laws involved?) Include case law. 4. Ethical dilemma and frameworks: Identify the ethical dilemma that the company presents with respect to its antitrust or consumer problem. This should be encapsulated in a single sentence. Evaluate two ethical frameworks with respect to the company’s management’s decisions that led to the situation. One of these should be the ethical framework you identify as the framework the company followed in its decision-making. The other should be a contrasting framework that might have produced a different situation for the company. 5. Other legal topics that relate to the company’s business: Also, clearly define and evaluate three (3) additional legal topics (NOT antitrust or consumer protection) that we covered this term — and that are explained in your text and required readings, and apply them to the company’s business. (Hint: Review the legal topics in the textbook and cite to the the text in your analysis. We covered many subjects. Examples: contracts, torts, product liability, bankruptcy, securities & stocks trading, employment issues, defamation, privacy, ADR, etc. Include illustrative case law.) 6. General recommendations for business leadership and managers that you have learned from this study (not just for the company you have selected, but for running a business). 7. Conclusion. 8. References list Further Guidance: 1. Organize your paper with appropriate subheadings/headings 2. Do not write in 1st or 2nd person. Paper must be written in 3rd person. 3. Do not use contractions. 4. All sources on References list must be correctly cited in the text of the paper and vice versa Mandatory References: Mayer, D., Warner, D., Siedel, G. Lieberman, J., & Martina, A. (n.d.) Business law and the legal environment. Washington, D. C.: Saylor Foundation. Available at: https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-law-and-the-legal-environment-v1.0-a/