Once again, we can use our discussion as a place to try integrating separate topics—in this case organizational culture and change. Note that the Ralph Sink article and Netfix slide deck are relevant to these challenging and important issues.

1. Suppose you wanted to change your organization’s culture. What sort of resistance would you expect from employees? How would you deal with this resistance? To what extent is culture manageable? Changeable?

2. Moving from cultural change (question 1) to general change, answer the following: Can organizations prevent resistance to change? If so, how? How is your answer to his question different from the similar part of question 1? Does organizational culture have a role in significant change?

3. At the end of chapter 15, the second cautionary note on page 577 suggests that the personality of the chief executive may create a dysfunctional personality for the organization. Thinking about any organization in your past, have you seen evidence that a key leader has been partially responsible for one or more of the listed symptoms?Or for symptoms of a strong and functional culture? Did this influence come through artifacts, values, or assumptions (p. 592) and or through any of the five leader roles identified by Edgar Schein (p. 601-604)?

Textbooks:
Nelson, D. L. & Quick, J. C. (2013). Organizational behavior: Science, the real world, and you. (8th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning. ISBN-10:1-111-82586-6; ISBN-13: 978-1-111-825867

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Your research project should be 6 – 8 pages long, double-spaced. Please understand that you are not graded on the length of your projects, but rather on the quality and thoroughness of your projects. Consider 6 pages the minimum, and take it from there. All sources should be cited – let me know where you got your information from. I’m also looking for the ability to think for yourself and the demonstration of problem-solving skills. It’s perfectly fine to voice your opinion – I want you to stretch your cognitive abilities here, not simply parrot something you’ve read.

Graphics (charts, graphs, pictures) are a plus, and they count towards your 6-page minimum, within reason. Don’t send me 4 pages of pictures and expect to get a good grade. If you think that I’ll think you’ve used too many graphics, or that your paper is basically pointless, you’re probably right.

Although your projects aren’t due until the end of the quarter, the earlier you turn them in, the better chance you’ll have, if there’s a problem with your project, of doing it over or adding to it or changing it in an effort to improve your grade.

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ECO 550 Week 1 DQ1

Managerial Economic Decision Making” Please respond to the following:

From the e-Activity, assess how business leaders use managerial economics to make business decisions indicating how profits may be impacted. Analyze the principal-agent problem to determine how the relationship could be less adversarial. Provide support for your rationale.

ECO 550 Week 1 DQ2

“Fundamental Economic Concepts” Please respond to the following:

Pick a recently released good or service. Then, determine the factors that must be evaluated regarding the product’s supply and demand. Analyze how these factors impact the decision to supply the product indicating the significance of each in the decision-making process. Using the same product example above, analyzing how the risk tolerance factors play in supplying the good or service and how this should influence management’s decisions

ECO 550 Week 2 DQ1

“Demand Analysis” Please respond to the following:

From the e-Activity, if you were a manager in a tobacco company, analyze the elasticity of demand for tobacco products. Evaluate the factors involved in making decisions about pricing tobacco products indicating which would be the most influential.  Using the same scenario above, discuss how the elasticity influence the short-term and long-term decisions of the company and the impact to the decision made related to profitability.

ECO 550 Week 2 DQ2

“Estimating Demand” Please respond to the following:

Provide an example when it would be appropriate to conduct a time-series or cross sectional data. Discuss the potential problems that may arise with your example and identify strategies for minimizing the impact of the potential problems. Discuss the meaning of the regression coefficient of the independent variable(s) and how it could be used to estimate the elasticities of each of these variables. Discuss how managers use the elasticities measurements to make managerial decisions.

ECO 550 Week 3 DQ1

“Business and Economic Forecasting” Please respond to the following: • From the e-Activity, develop a regression equation using the data you collected from your research. Use the regression equation to focus the demand for the product you chose for the next three periods. Assess what the results of the regression equation tells managers and how it is likely to impact decisions made related to maximizing profitability. • Imagine you are a manager for the good or service used above. From the results of the regression equation, suggest strategies to either maintain demand (if an increase over three periods occurs) or improve demand (if a decrease over three periods occurs). Provide support for your recommendations

ECO 550 Week 3 DQ2

“Managing in the Global Economy” Please respond to the following:

Evaluate the relationship between the European Euro crisis in 2012 and the American economy. Assess how this affects American businesses and decisions made by mangers related to sustainable profitability. Provide examples with your response. Aside from maximizing profits, assess the factors that managers must consider when making the decision to outsource or integrate forwards or backwards considering which factor would be most influential for decision-making.

ECO 550 Week 4 DQ1

“Production Economics” Please respond to the following:

From the e-Activity, determine the environmental variable most likely to affect the short-run production over the next 12 months. Determine what managers can do to prepare for the possible change in short-run production. Pick a real or fictitious business. Create a scenario around this business in which a manager would decide to either stop operations in the short-run or going out of business in the long-run. Provide a rationale with your response

ECO 550 Week 4 DQ2

General Questions – General General Questions

“Cost Analysis” Please respond to the following:

Pick a good or service. Distinguish between the short-run and the long-run production and cost function for that good or service. Discuss how price plays a role in short-run and the long-run decisions and how managers are likely to respond in each case.

Using the same good or service from above. Identify the fixed and variables costs are for the good or service. Based upon the costs identified, recommend whether to produce or not produce the good or service. Provide a rationale with your response

ECO 550 Week 5 DQ1

“Applications of Cost Theory” Please respond to the following:

Imagine you are a manager of a chemical company. An accident has occurred in which chemicals leaked into the ground water nearby, the community is unaware. Assess the costs involved in cleaning up the water immediately (confessing) versus hiding the fact and possibly paying more in the future. Discuss the impact on profitability in both situations. From the first e-Activity, assess the factors involved in conducting a break-even analysis. Determine the conditions that may exist for a manager of this good or service may decide to move forward with operations even with the initial costs of operations is more than the potential revenue

ECO 550 Week 5 DQ2

“Prices, Output and Strategy” Please respond to the following:

Pick a good or service you are familiar. Speculate how the price for that good or service may have been set and how well this price maximizes profit for the company and determine what shifts the company should made in its pricing strategy.  Provide support for your recommendations. From the second e-Activity, discuss how the company you selected should increase its competitive stance in the marketplace and how management would implement the recommendations. Provide specific examples to support your response

ECO 550 Week 6 DQ1

WEEK 6 DQ1

“Monopolies” Please respond to the following:

From the first e-Activity, imagine this company acting as a monopoly was to have a new competitor arrive in the marketplace. Assess how the monopoly would likely change its pricing strategy to compensate for the new competition.

From the first e-Activity, speculate how the monopolist could be more efficient in the long-run considering new competition has entered the marketplace

ECO 550 Week 6 DQ2

Week 6 DQ2:

“Oligopoly” Please respond to the following:

From the second e-Activity, assess the marketing and pricing strategies, for example rebates, to determine the goal(s) of the marketing and pricing strategies for one of the companies you researched. Make one recommendation for changes that the company should make to better maximize profits. The Internet has made shopping for airline tickets efficient for the consumer. As a result, the industry overall is price sensitive. Suggest how the airlines can maximize profits while avoiding price wars.

ECO 550 Week 7 DQ1

“Game Theory”

Please respond to the following: • Demand for airline tickets fluctuates throughout the year, which affects the price of an airline ticket. Suggest the type of game that may be most appropriate for a specific airline to play to address the differences in demand and elasticity and the resulting impact on profitability. Provide support for your reply. • From the first e-Activity, propose a short-term and long-term pricing strategy for the product or service you researched including how the strategies would be implemented. Assess how your proposal ultimately maximizes profits

ECO 550 Week 7 DQ2

“Pricing Techniques” Please respond to the following:

From the second e-Activity, propose the new target market segment for the product and its accompanying pricing strategy (for example, bundling and couponing). Provide a rational for why you feel the new target market and pricing strategy would be successful and the likely impact to the profitability of the firm. The pharmaceutical industry often has the luxury of implementing pricing strategies that appear high to consumers. Take a position on the fairness of the industry’s approach to pricing pharmaceutical products including offering an alternative strategy that may be more palatable to consumers. Provide a rationale with your position

ECO 550 Week 8 DQ1

“Contracting” Please respond to the following:

From the e-Activity, propose a methodology for assessing the risk in business contracts. Assess the economic impact this methodology may have for the organization. Analyze a situation in which both parties entering into a contract could benefit, economically or otherwise, from slightly ambiguous language contained in the contract. Provide specific examples to support your response.

ECO 550 Week 8 DQ2

“Organization Form” Please respond to the following:

Analyze the potential downfalls of any team effort and make at least one recommendation for minimizing risk. Provide specific examples to support your response. Evaluate the organization form that would be most efficient in minimizing the principal-agent problem. Provide a rationale with your response

ECO 550 Week 9 DQ1

“Government Regulation” Please respond to the following:

From the e-Activity, take a position on whether more government regulation is needed in the banking industry. Support your position with evidence or examples. Provide an example of how government regulation is either constraining or enabling for a particular company indicating the impact to the operational efficiency of the company. Discuss how your response impacts maximizing shareholder wealth

ECO 550 Week 9 DQ2

“Antitrust and Licensing” Please respond to the following:

Imagine how managerial decisions may be easier or more difficult if there were no antitrust restrictions in the U.S. Provide an example to support your response. The IT industry is full of patents. There are some companies, referred to as patent trolls, whom purchase these patents in hopes of making money by enforcing patents against alleged infringers. Determine the impact of government regulation against patent trolls. Identify who wins and who loses if regulation was adopted

ECO 550 Week 10 DQ1

“Capital Investments” Please respond to the following:

With the current U.S. economy in a weakened state, many companies are reluctant to implement any capital improvements or capital expenditures in fear of the economic uncertainty that exists that may negatively impact the cashflow of the organization. Assess the impact of this behavior on productivity, cost efficiency, diversification of assets, or impact to future cashflows that may emerge if companies continue this mindset indicating the long-term risk to profitability. Provide an example or scenario to support your response. Analyze the challenges that companies face in entering global markets. Identify the potential impact to capital budgets in making the decision to move into a global market

ECO 550 Week 10 DQ2

“Cost-Benefit Analysis” Please respond to the following:

Provide a cost-benefit analysis for a company which has to decide whether to hire more staff or hire temporary workers to meet production.schedules. Determine how managers would use your cost-benefit analysis to make this decision. Conduct a cost-benefit analysis of obtaining a graduate degree. Assess both the short-term and the long-term costs and benefits to determine why some people obtain the extra education while others do not

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There are many kinds of input controls. Write a 4 page paper in which you:
1. Explain the function of input controls.
2. Identify four (4) types of input control and explain the function of each.
3. Give an example of a data integrity error that could occur if each of these types of input control
were not in place.
4. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of restricting user interfaces. (User interfaces can
often be restricted, limiting the user’s ability to navigate to other areas of the system, or out of the
system.)
5. Design and build a graphical representation of a Web-based input for making a hotel reservation,
using Visio or PowerPoint or an equivalent

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The topic I chose was “Child behavior is worse today than it was ten years ago”. The reason I chose this topic is because I am appalled at the behavior children demonstrate today. The four ideas are the following:

Brainstorming “Ways in writing an efficient paper”

1. Gather information regarding child psychology

2. Conduct interviews with parents

3. Research information regarding child abuse

4. Gather information regarding adolescent behavior problems within the last ten years

Starbursting

1. What are some of the factors contributing to child behavior?

2. Does television play a major part in a child’s behavior?

3. Does the child reside with two respectable parents? Or a single parent

4. What is the child’s respect level for authority?

 

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1. Overview – The major written project will challenge each student in analyzing, comparing, contrasting and evaluating positioning, strategy and prospects for a shipping business sector / segment / type of company selected by the instructor.  The student’s personal interpretation of the prevailing conditions, recommendations and well founded assumptions about the future prospects are –even if not specifically asked- welcome and should also be offered.  The topic to be developed  is the following;

 

“Thoroughly examine the structure of the shipbuilding industry, identify the trends and evaluate the current conditions and future prospects”.

 

 

2.   Learning Outcomes — Successful completion of this project will contribute to the student’s proficiency in the following learning outcomes:

 

• Discuss the differences between liner and tramp shipping and their effects on company structure and administration
• Solve problems arising in shipping practice
• Explain the market dynamics affecting the freight rate mechanism
• Explain the mechanism leading to the creation of shipping cycles, formulate scenarios about the future development of the market and recommend management actions
• Assess the financial performance, including strategic and operational decisions, affecting the results of shipping companies
• Integrate all the above in an internationally competitive context operating in conformity with the existing framework on marine environment

 

 

     3.   Content  – The following content is suggested for the analysis of the

topic in question.  You must, of course, use you own good judgment, also, as the content and material should be presented in a way that is most clear and helpful to the reader/decision maker.  Please remember that the following are suggestions, but you are not limited to them. Your work should be robust.

 

• Framework and structure: market identification, historical background, services rendered, specialization, major players (leading countries and yards), role of governments.

 

• Market analysis and trends: market size and value, orderbook and values/prices for different vessel types / market segments. Relationship of these trends with theories concerning newbuilding prices, the mechanism of freight rates, shipping cycles (application of theories to explain the trends).

 

·         Current conditions: Assess the current phase of the shipping & shipbuilding cycle. Address the challenges faced and the industry’s reaction. Question the impact of market developments associated with financing/refinancing, new order placement, shipyard capacity utilization, cancellations, restructuring of deals.

• Future prospects: after thorough evaluation and in the light of the shipbuilding sector’s current context and challenges, examine the prospects and likely future developments.

 

 

4.   Format – Each student will prepare the major written project using       the following required format:

 

• Title page – include the title of the project, (no name should be included on the project title page or anywhere else in the project), the course number and name, the project due date, and the instructor’s name
• Table of Contents – identifies the sections in the written project and the associated page number for each section; a table of contents with no page numbers is not useful
• Introduction – includes a brief statement of what you intend to accomplish in the project, and a summary of what follows in main body
• Main Body – see minimum content requirements above; the main body should at least address all of those issues identified in the content described in section 3 above
• Conclusion – includes a brief statement of what you have accomplished through your discussion in the main body of the project
• References – identifies the academic sources and other published information which you have used; please refrain from using Wikipedia and other wiki sources, as generally, they are not considered to be academic sources
• Graphics and Visual Aids – use visual aids and graphics appropriately and effectively within your text
• Attachments – includes written material, visual aids and graphics that you choose not to place in the main text but that is necessary for the reader
• Appendix – includes related material not deemed necessary to be in the main text
• Folder – Place the project in a folder of your choice; it should not be submitted only with the pages stapled or clipped together in the upper left corner

 

 

9.  Originality and Authenticity – The rules of academic ethics apply when undertaking this major written project, including the requirements that the student undertakes the major written project without improper or unauthorized assistance from anyone.  If it is determined that the project is not done individually and solely by the student, the instructor may grade the major written project as an F.

10.Turnitin – Each student must submit electronically the major written project to Turnitin prior to submitting it to the academic staff.   

 

 

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Instructions for the Literary Theme Paper
Write an essay interpreting some literary aspect of 1984 such as character, setting, plot
structure, point of view, or literary motif. Aim to convince readers that your view of the story is
interesting and adds to the ongoing conversation among those who read and write about this
novel. Back up your interpretation with reasons and support from the story. If you need help
starting this assignment, review Chapter 10 in St. Martin’s—with special attention to pp. 545-
558.
As will always be the case, this assignment is to be in APA format: 12-point font, Times
New Roman typeface, one-inch margins, etc. This assignment does require that there be a
reference page even though you may only be citing the novel 1984. However, keep in mind that
there are plenty of essays about this novel floating around in the Spring Arbor University
databases. Citing a published scholar adds rhetorical weight to your paper. Your essay must be
between five and six pages long—not including the reference or title pages—to be considered
complete. Incomplete assignments will not be graded. Peer reviewing of this assignment will
take place in Week 4. Be sure to bring at least two copies of your draft on Week 4 because I
would like a copy as well. I will not be grading the draft; I want to look it over so that I can give
you some feedback. The final draft will be due in Week 5.

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1. Overview – The major written project will challenge each student in analyzing and evaluating different ship financing methods as addressed by the topic selected by the instructor. The student’s personal interpretation of the prevailing conditions and well founded assumptions about the future prospects are welcome and should also be offered. The topic to be analyzed is “Challenges and prospects of conventional ship finance in the current context of the shipping industry”.

 

2. Learning Outcomes — Successful completion of this project will contribute to the student’s proficiency in the following learning outcomes:

 

• Describe the fundamentals of shipping finance market.
• Identify the structure of typical banking loans.
• Assess a ship finance transaction.
• Integrate other pertinent issues involved in shipping finance, e.g. legal framework, tax, environment and insurance related aspects.

 

 

1. 3.    Content – The following content is suggested for the analysis of the topic proposed.  You must, of course, use you own good judgment, also, as the content and material should be presented in a way that is most clear and helpful to the reader/decision maker.  Please remember that the following are suggestions, but you are not limited to them. Your work should be robust.

 

• Market conditions: Recognize the current state of the shipping industry (i.e. phase and characteristics of the shipping cycle) and identify the respective ship financing landscape.

 

Placing special emphasis on today’s economic climate

• Analyze the global ship finance market.

 

·         Examine the trends and challenges of bank lending.

 

·         Question the alternatives to traditional ship lending and assess their attractiveness and effectiveness.

 

·         Evaluate the existing context and propose a likely scenario for the ship finance market in the short term.

 

 

1. 4.    Format – Each student will prepare the major written project using the following required format:

 

• Title page – includes the title of the project, the student’s DEREE identification number only (no name should be included on the project title page or anywhere else in the project), the course number and name (e.g., MG 3216 Al L6 Shipping Finance), the project due date, and the instructor’s name
• Table of Contents – identifies the sections in the written project and the associated page number for each section; a table of contents with no page numbers is not useful
• Introduction – includes a brief statement of what you intend to accomplish in the project, and a summary of what follows in main body
• Main Body – see content requirements above; the main body should include all of those sections identified in the content described in section 3 above
• Conclusion – includes a brief statement of what you have accomplished through your discussion in the main body of the project
• References – identifies the academic sources and other published information which you have used; please refrain from using Wikipedia and other wiki sources, as generally, they are not considered to be academic sources
• Graphics and Visual Aids – use visual aids and graphics appropriately and effectively within your text
• Attachments – includes written material, visual aids and graphics that you choose not to place in the main text but that is necessary for the reader
• Appendix – includes related material not deemed necessary to be in the main text
• Folder – Place the project in a folder of your choice; it should not be submitted only with the pages stapled or clipped together in the upper left corner

 

5. Mechanics – Each student should adhere to the following technical requirements:

 

• Documentation:  APA style

 

 

9. Originality and Authenticity – The rules of academic ethics apply when undertaking this major written project, including the requirements that the student undertakes the major written project without improper or unauthorized assistance from anyone.  If it is determined that the project is not done individually and solely by the student, the instructor may grade the major written project as an F.

10. Turnitin – Each student must submit electronically the major written project to Turnitin prior to submitting it to the academic staff.   

 

 

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choose two iof the following Theorists to research. Write a 2 to 3 page essay on their theory. What is your opinion? I should include both theorist in the 2 to 3 page essay, by sure to write your opinion of each theorist.

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but am supporting the motion that girl are more useful than boy

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