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Evaluate the diversity of vehicle types and sizes that are sold under the Chevrolet brand name. What strengths and weaknesses are evident in chevys product mix?How has Chevrolet strategically managed its brand and reputation over the last 100 years? What opportunities and threats will affect Chevys branding and reputation in the future?What specific marketing strategies would you recommend that might help Chevrolet last another 100 years? How important is Chevys legacy of innovation to the brand’s future?

The Internet of Things (CIS112)In today’s world, many people have home appliances and other devices that are controlled remotely and connected to the internet. These items are part of the vast network of interconnected devices known as the “Internet of Things” (IoT). There are a number of examples of this “interconnected” technology. Consider what IoT technology can do for home, work, and play.Read the following article:What is the Internet of Things? (Opensource.com, n.d.)Opensource.com (n.d.). What is the Internet of ThingsThen post your answers to the following questions on the discussion board:Do you currently use any IoT devices now? If so, what are they? If not, which IoT devices have you heard of or would you like to try?If you do not use any IoT devices, do you know anyone who does?What type(s) of IoT devices do you think most people will use? Why?How are you concerned with IoT security?What are some of the downsides to the Internet of Things?

InstructionsPersonal Leadership Training Plan: SkillsIn Unit II, you started your Personal Leadership Training Plan and focused on attributes; in Unit IV, you focused on knowledge. In this unit, you will add skills to your plan.Within your presentation, respond to the following points:What skills do you have that you can apply to the Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership Model (SLM) and the Vroom-Yetton Normative Decision Model?What skills would be needed to implement the SLM and the normative decision model?How could you explain the differences between the SLM and the normative decision model?Your completed PowerPoint presentation must be a minimum of 10 slides in length, not counting the title and reference slides. Additionally, a minimum of three peer-reviewed or academic resources must be used. Keep the text on the slides concise, and use the notes section to fully explain your ideas. All sources used must be cited and referenced according to APA style.** Please add notes to slide presentation.

What market segments sit on the edge of this business— Tony‘s express in the freight trucking industry http://www.tonysexpress.com/ (use its offerings reluctantly and/or minimally)?

Labor Management Relations Posted 3-17-2021 Due 3-24-2021Assignment #5 – Based on Topic 5 Labor Management Strategies, Structures and ConstraintsUtilizing the textbook, presentations, and research answer ALL of the following questions directly on this form. Use substantive & cogent responses (complete sentences in paragraph format). Save the Form as a Word doc or PDF and attach it in the “Assignments Due Here” Forum on Blackboard by 11:59 PM on Wednesday 3-24-2021. For consideration, you must answer all of the questions including subsets of each question. Failure to answer any of the questions or subset of a question may result in rejection of the entire assignment. You must also clearly identify what you are answering. Cite your sources (textbook, PPT, research). Unless otherwise approved, unauthorized late submissions and e-mailed versions will not be accepted.Topic 5:1. Based on your textbook and the presentation, compare the traditional U.S. union strategies (especially business unionism, job control unionism, and the servicing model) and their alternatives (especially social unionism, employee empowerment unionism, and the organizing model).2. Discuss the pros and cons of union mergers for: (a) two unions that represent workers in the same industry, and (b) two unions that represent workers in different industries. c) Should U.S. law encourage, discourage, or remain neutral on union mergers?3. Describe the range of possible management strategies toward labor unions and how they relate to human resource strategies and business strategies.4. a) List and briefly describe the six key ethical theories mentioned in the Chapter. b) Explain how the Labor Relations environment, including ethics, influences and constrains labor relations outcomes.5. Find and explore the websites for the AFL–CIO and Change to Win. a) In what ways are the messages and strategies of the two federations similar? b) In what ways are they different? c) Are workers better off when the labor movement has a single, unified federation or multiple, competing national federations? Explain

Managing Change and Innovation (MGT105 Principles of Management)As a manager, your team is very diverse and some personalities like the status quo. Your goal is to move forward an important project to its completion. Think broadly and reflect on the chapter. How can you reduce some of your team’s resistance to change? Include and describe in your response at least one technique you have personally used, or can use, in order to spur innovation with your team.

Why is supply chain integration important to organizations?

Servant leadership is a term that often, as stated by Northouse, “seems contradictoryand challenges our traditional beliefs about leadership” (2019, p. 227). The literaldefinition of a leader is to point the direction for others to follow, and for a servant tofollow those they serve.That said, servant leadership has become a key philosophy within leadership. In thisdiscussion thread, assess how a leader can be both a leader and a servant at the sametime, and present two specific strategies a person can follow to ensure they become aleader and a servant that influences others to follow.Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories (including supportingcitations) along with at least one current, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article. Youmay find that your discussion of leadership characteristics is easily supported with suchcurrent scholarly research, while the information about how your chosen leader exhibitsthose leadership characteristics is supported by popular research.ReferencesNorthouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage Publications.

Please write a short (limit 1000 words) essay on the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 2017 report on the financialization of housing (relevant links below). You may either agree or disagree with the report. Your grade should not depend on which side you take, just on how well argued your case is. Try to consider principles from this course about the functioning of financial markets, whose purposes they serve, and how they can solve fundamental economic problems, or, perversely, worsen them.

Judgement in Managerial Decision MakingBased on examples from one of the recommended articles selected by you, the lecture notes, the text, and other sources, discuss one or several of the themes: the nature of managerial decision making, the steps in the managerial decision making, organizational learning and creativity, judgmental heuristics, common biases in managerial decision making, bounds of human judgment, strategies for making better decisions.