Business

A. Organization Description  Describe an existing organization with which you have had personal experience and where you have either had direct access to a leader or have been able to observe a leader.  Describe the organization’s objectives. The organization can be a for-profit or a nonprofit business, and you may represent any level of the organization (e.g., the team, department, division, or whole) in your analysis. You must change the name of the organization and employee names. Provide a detailed discussion of the organization.  Discuss the history and background of the organization.  Discuss the vision and mission of the organization.  Discuss the purpose and objectives of the organization. Think of the goals, financial objectives, and strategic objectives of the organization. Provide citations where needed. A1.Leadership Practices In this section, you will provide specific descriptions of three leadership practices of the current leader. The current leader must be someone other than yourself. Provide specific examples that illustrate the practice. Clearly state the leader’s title and (fictitious) name. The leader analyzed in A1 will be the same leader analyzed in C1, C2, and C3. Write a separate paragraph on each of the three practices. Note: A leadership practice (or function) is different from a leadership theory. This section, A1, only discusses practice, not theory.   Example: One leadership practice of the CEO is to provide strategic leadership to the organization. In the performance of this responsibility, the CEO forms the organization’s vision and mission, while forming and implementing strategy. The value of strategic leadership is determining the organization’s direction by effectively managing the organization’s resources in pursuit of the organization’s vision. (This is a small draft of the leadership practice narrative. You are required to illustrate further how the individual performs the leadership responsibility and what value the responsibility provides to the organization).      A2. Effects of Current Leader on Culture In this section, discuss how the current leader of the organization has affected the culture based on his or her underlying beliefs, assumptions, and values. A leader’s values and beliefs shape the culture of an organization. Organizational culture is defined as the underlying beliefs, assumptions, values, and ways of interacting that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization. Describe how the leader has affected the organization’s culture in a positive or negative manner. Provide examples to support your analysis. B.SWOT Analysis In this section, conduct a SWOT analysis of the chosen organization. In this analysis please address the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to the organization. Remember, strengths are positive, weaknesses are negative, opportunities are unmet, and threats are unresolved.   The SWOT Analysis should be at the same level of the organization used in the organization description from Section A (e.g., the team, department, division, or whole). B1. Current Strengths In this section, discuss two of the organization’s current strengths including specific details. Address how the strengths you identify have a positive impact on the organization. When assessing the strengths, think about the various functions such as finance, marketing, research and development, etc.  Write a separate paragraph for each of the two strengths.  B2.Current Weaknesses In this section, discuss two of the organization’s current weaknesses including specific details. Address how the weaknesses you identify have a negative impact on the organization. When assessing the weaknesses, think about the various functions such as finance, marketing, research and development, and so forth.   Write a separate paragraph for each of the two weaknesses.   B3.Current Opportunities In this section, discuss two of the organization’s current unmet opportunities, include specific details on how the opportunities have the potential to benefit or improve the organization.   When assessing the opportunities, think about the various areas of potential benefit or improvement for the organization such as technology, human resources, finance, marketing, and so forth.  Write a separate paragraph for each of the two opportunities. B4. Current Threats In this section, discuss two of the organization’s current unresolved threats. Include specific details on how the threats identified have the potential to threaten or harm the organization.   When assessing the threats, think about the various areas of potential threat or harm such as technology, competitors, finance, government, and so forth.   Write a separate paragraph for each of the two threats. C1. Leadership Evaluation In this section, perform a leadership analysis of your current leader’s top three strengths and weaknesses, and make three recommendations to improve his or her leadership effectiveness. Apply one theory to all three sections: C1, C2, and C3. The theory you choose should be different from the theory you chose in task one. Transformational leadership Note: It is highly recommended that you use at least three distinct and unique scholarly sources to support the scholarly Transformational leadership theory. C1. Strengths of the Current Leader In this section, discuss three strengths of your chosen leader, describing in detail how the three strengths you identified align with the chosen scholarly leadership theory. This section of the task requires scholarly research.   Provide specific examples to support each strength, and include at least one in-text citation using a scholarly source. Write a separate paragraph for each of the three strengths.   Note: A scholarly source could be a reputable journal, a published book, any source from a business leader or university faculty member. Scholarly sources also include any article or book in the WGU library. C2. Weaknesses of the Current Leader In this section, discuss three weaknesses of your chosen leader, describing in detail how the three weaknesses that you identified align with the chosen scholarly leadership theory.   This section of the task requires scholarly research. Use the same scholarly leadership theory you used in C1.  Provide specific examples to support each weaknesses, and include at least one in-text citation using a scholarly source. Write a separate paragraph for each of the three weaknesses.   C3. Recommendations for the Current Leader Now that you have evaluated the current leaders’ strengths and weaknesses, recommend three specific actions, behaviors, or practices that would improve the current leader’s effectiveness in leading people and organizations. The recommendations address the current leaders identified leadership weaknesses and align with the chosen scholarly leadership theory. This section of the task requires scholarly research. Use the same scholarly leadership theory you used in C1.   Provide specific examples to support each actionable item, and include at least one in-text citation using scholarly source. Write a separate paragraph for each of the three recommendations.  D. Sources (Reference Page) Your paper is required to include in-text citations that correlate to your reference page. All sources require a corresponding in-text citation and all in-text citations require a corresponding source on the reference page.

Part 1: One common point of debate in law is whether laws should be changed based upon the times or circumstances. It has been a consideration since the Founding Fathers created the Constitution. For this debate discussion, your task is to consider this issue, as it relates specifically to two particular laws. The topic up for debate: should the Dodd-Frank Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act be flexible and change based upon the times or circumstances. Read   https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2015/08/16/regulations-work-benefits-of-sox-and-dodd-frank/#639585161157 and then https://www.sec.gov/answers/about-lawsshtml.html  from the SEC on these Acts, and conduct a brief analysis of each, to demonstrate your understanding of both. Part 2: First initial A-L: Provide an argument for the value in changing these two laws based on times/circumstances. Submit your position by posting in the Unit 2 Debate forum under the for topic

Go to the content section and read “Canadian flight crews demand protective suits as more than a dozen fall ill with Covid-19”.  With reference to chapter 10, Operations Management & chapter 13 Union Issues, discuss a key concept from each chapter that is most relevant to the case. Be sure to justify your response; write in paragraph format, two paragraphs consisting of 6-10 sentences. Include APA in-text citations in the written content and a reference list after the second paragraph. Go to the content section and read “The TTC needs fixing. Here are five transit systems from around the world that are doing it right”. Choose one of the transit systems discussed in the article and make a case to TTC with reference to chapter 8, Management & Leadership and chapter 12 Human Resources, about what they should do using a key concept from each chapter that is most relevant to the case to support your response. Be sure to write in paragraph format, two paragraphs consisting of 6-10 sentences. Include APA in-text citations in the written content and a reference list after the second paragraph.

identify the company of choice that will seek an expansion opportunity to an overseas area of choice.  Provide an introduction and overview of the selected company along with an initial analysis of the growth opportunity. Identify the following: Country of choice Mode of entry Submission Requirements: Submit a two- to three-page Word document using 12-pt. font and APA format

Purpose of this assignment:  To help you think through the real meaning and the elements of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and why it is essential for brand promotional success.  BACKGROUND: When this IMC concept was first developed in academic marketing circles, it focused on “not putting your eggs all in one basket”.  It meant if you do television advertising, make sure you also use another medium, like print and/or audio.  The theory was that people become aware, interested and will take action if you reach them through different senses.  The choice is yours which combination to pick, but the key is that the message is consistent. The idea is that the billboard or direct mail or print ad in a magazine should support your streaming or pop up or television or radio ads.  Consistency and continuity are the keys to success. You have been assigned to read Chapters 1  PROMO 2 textbook.  You have read about Brands and Positioning and Segmenting and the vastness of Internet communication possibilities.  With that as a background, re-read the first two pages of Chapter 1 in your PROMO 2 textbook.  Things are different today, right?  Consumers seek the information they want in a variety of ways.  They don’t just sit back and wait for information that companies decide to send them.  They are exposed to that, but mostly they go seek it. Assignment Instructions: Answer thoughtfully and thoroughly. In two pages, single-spaced, your team should collectively recreate your version of paragraph one in Chapter 1 of the textbook.  That means describe products and services that interest everyone on your team.  Now write a story about the many marketing communications, ads, blogs, influencers that find you, and you actually seek yourselves.    Use a combination of current products and your own real-life examples as analogies to explain your understanding of IMC.   Be specific.   What do you as the targeted customer want or need?  How do companies go about getting that information to you in this digital age? How do you go about finding the pre-buying information you need in this digital age?  Also, reflect on the ads and texts and intrusions into your life that you get about products and services that have absolutely no interest to you (at least right now at this stage of your life).  Make sure every member of your team contributes to all this.  You can each do a story of your own personal experiences with IMC if you want to approach it that way.  But then make sure you have an Introduction paragraph explaining that, and then a Conclusion paragraph that ties it all together and reflects on the similarities (and the differences if they exist) of each student’s experience.

one page essay exploring the idea of Business Communications.  Feel free to talk about yourself and how you think you will utilize business communications in your future career. It has to center around me owning my own group home with a degree in social work.

Pick any company (international or domestic) that is new, started no earlier than 2011 to 2017. Your paper should include;  1) a brief explanation of company/product  2) positives  3) negatives  4) will this company change the industry? 5) what the outlook will be, success or failure? Your paper should be between seven-ten pages in length (plus your reference page) Please limit your citations in this paper. I will allow a maximum of 20% of your paper to be cited. Anything more will highly impact your grade negatively. Please note that I use www.turnitin.com to analyze each paper and it shows an exact percentage of work cited. Additionally, Wikipedia is not considered a credible source for referencing so please do not use.

“Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars” – when we communicate whether at home or in the office, it often seems that men and women are indeed from different planets!  In addition to gender, consider the differences that result between different generations  and the challenge for effective communication becomes even greater. Research effective communication strategies for two specific groups: gender and generation (i.e. Baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Z, Millennials, Silent,9/11). Compare and contrast how communication can be altered to improve the ways that information is received and processed for both of these groups. Feel free to incorporate work examples or experiences to support your position.

When this IMC concept was first developed in academic marketing circles, it focused on “not putting your eggs all in one basket”.  It meant if you do television advertising, make sure you also use another medium, like print and/or audio.  The theory was that people become aware, interested and will take action if you reach them through different senses.  The choice is yours which combination to pick, but the key is that the message is consistent. The idea is that the billboard or direct mail or print ad in a magazine should support your streaming or pop up or television or radio ads.  Consistency and continuity are the keys to success. You have been assigned to read Chapters 1  PROMO 2 textbook.  You have read about Brands and Positioning and Segmenting and the vastness of Internet communication possibilities.  With that as a background, re-read the first two pages of Chapter 1 in your PROMO 2 textbook.  Things are different today, right?  Consumers seek the information they want in a variety of ways.  They don’t just sit back and wait for information that companies decide to send them.  They are exposed to that, but mostly they go seek it. Assignment Instructions: Answer thoughtfully and thoroughly. In two pages, single-spaced, your team should collectively recreate your version of paragraph one in Chapter 1 of the textbook.  That means describe products and services that interest everyone on your team.  Now write a story about the many marketing communications, ads, blogs, influencers that find you, and you actually seek yourselves.    Use a combination of current products and your own real-life examples as analogies to explain your understanding of IMC.   Be specific.   What do you as the targeted customer want or need?  How do companies go about getting that information to you in this digital age? How do you go about finding the pre-buying information you need in this digital age?  Also, reflect on the ads and texts and intrusions into your life that you get about products and services that have absolutely no interest to you (at least right now at this stage of your life).  Make sure every member of your team contributes to all this.  You can each do a story of your own personal experiences with IMC if you want to approach it that way.  But then make sure you have an Introduction paragraph explaining that, and then a Conclusion paragraph that ties it all together and reflects on the similarities (and the differences if they exist) of each student’s experience.

When this IMC concept was first developed in academic marketing circles, it focused on “not putting your eggs all in one basket”.  It meant if you do television advertising, make sure you also use another medium, like print and/or audio.  The theory was that people become aware, interested and will take action if you reach them through different senses.  The choice is yours which combination to pick, but the key is that the message is consistent. The idea is that the billboard or direct mail or print ad in a magazine should support your streaming or pop up or television or radio ads.  Consistency and continuity are the keys to success. You have been assigned to read Chapters 1  PROMO 2 textbook.  You have read about Brands and Positioning and Segmenting and the vastness of Internet communication possibilities.  With that as a background, re-read the first two pages of Chapter 1 in your PROMO 2 textbook.  Things are different today, right?  Consumers seek the information they want in a variety of ways.  They don’t just sit back and wait for information that companies decide to send them.  They are exposed to that, but mostly they go seek it. Assignment Instructions: Answer thoughtfully and thoroughly. In two pages, single-spaced, your team should collectively recreate your version of paragraph one in Chapter 1 of the textbook.  That means describe products and services that interest everyone on your team.  Now write a story about the many marketing communications, ads, blogs, influencers that find you, and you actually seek yourselves.    Use a combination of current products and your own real-life examples as analogies to explain your understanding of IMC.   Be specific.   What do you as the targeted customer want or need?  How do companies go about getting that information to you in this digital age? How do you go about finding the pre-buying information you need in this digital age?  Also, reflect on the ads and texts and intrusions into your life that you get about products and services that have absolutely no interest to you (at least right now at this stage of your life).  Make sure every member of your team contributes to all this.  You can each do a story of your own personal experiences with IMC if you want to approach it that way.  But then make sure you have an Introduction paragraph explaining that, and then a Conclusion paragraph that ties it all together and reflects on the similarities (and the differences if they exist) of each student’s experience.