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Please share a link to a current financial news story regarding your industry that you think is important. (Please no duplicates.) What is important about this article? Why did you select it?
And - respond to one or more of the following questions:

What did you learn from this article that will help you create a better project? How does this news affect the recommendation your team is making?
What in the financial news has the most significance to your life? What in the financial news has the potential to create the most harm or benefit to your industry?
Did you find it easier to write the body of the report before providing conclusions, recommendations, or an introduction? Why or why not?
Read the Business Style handout on the Resources page. What are some things you learned about business writing style? How will you incorporate what you have learned into your paper?

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Although the Ethics Resource Center conveyed, as of 2013, that 41% of employees reported having witnessed misconduct in the workplace—down from 45% in 2011—this percentage remains alarmingly significant (McGregor, 2014). In fact, these statistics seem to indicate an ongoing need to continue to strengthen commitment to ethical business practice. Business professionals and scholars need to know how to face ethical dilemmas and make sound ethical decisions. As a DBA independent scholar and global change agent, you should have a basic understanding of various ethical frameworks and understand how these frameworks influence real-world business decisions. Northouse (2016) stated, “Ethical theories that deal with the conduct of leaders are in turn divided into two kinds: theories that stress the consequences of leaders’ actions and those that emphasize the duty or rules governing leaders’ actions” (p. 333). Business leaders apply their ethical values daily for decision making in business. Understanding and analyzing various ethical frameworks can help you as you work to solve ethical dilemmas.
To prepare for this Discussion, consider Case 13.2, “How Safe Is Safe?” on pages 357-358 of Northouse (2019) and review the Albert, Reynolds, and Turan (2015), Lawton and Páez (2015), Hoover and Pepper (2015), and Gustafson (2013) articles provided in this week’s Learning Resources.
By Day 3
Post your application of ethical frameworks to the ethical dilemma posed in the case study. In your application, do the following:
Justify your proposed solution, and explain the reasoning you used to arrive at your solution.
Incorporate the justifications you provided in response to the Case 13.2.
Apply the ethical framework(s) outlined in the Learning Resources or in other scholarly literature that aligns with your reasoning. Explain how your reasoning aligns with those frameworks.
Be sure to support your work with a minimum of two specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and one or more additional scholarly sources.
Refer to the Week 6 Discussion Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this rubric to assess your work.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Case 13.2: How Safe Is Safe?
Perfect Plastics Incorporated (PPI) is a small injection molding plastics company that employs 50 people. The company is 10 years old, has a healthy balance sheet, and does about $4 million a year in sales. The company has a good safety record, and the insurance company that has PPI’s liability policy has not had to pay any claims to employees for several years. There have been no major injuries of any kind since the company began.
Tom Griffin, the owner, takes great pride in the interior design and working conditions at PPI. He describes the interior of the plant as being like a hospital compared with his competitors. Order, efficiency, and cleanliness are top priorities at PPI. It is a remarkably well-organized manufacturing company.
PPI has a unique approach to guaranteeing safe working conditions. Each year, management brings in outside consultants from the insurance industry and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to audit the plant for unsafe conditions. Each year, the inspections reveal a variety of concerns, which are then addressed through new equipment, repairs, and changed work-flow designs. Although the inspectors continue to find opportunities for improvement, the overall safety improves each year.
The attorneys for PPI are very opposed to the company’s approach to safety. The lawyers are vehemently against the procedure of having outside auditors. If a lawsuit were to be brought against PPI, the attorneys argue that any previous issues could be used as evidence of a historical pattern and knowledge of unsafe conditions. In effect, the audits that PPI conducts voluntarily could be used by plaintiffs to strengthen a case against the company.
The president and management recognize the potential downside of outside audits, but they point out that the periodic reviews are critical to the ongoing improvement of the safety of everyone in the plant. The purpose of the audits is to make the shop a secure place, and that is what has occurred. Management also points out that PPI employees have responded positively to the audits and to the changes that result.

(At least use 2 citation from the PDF provided)

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Training the Assistant

For this assignment, we are returning to the scenario of your promotion to manager. As a result of your significant work and successes, the department is flourishing. In fact, it is doing so well that your direct supervisor has agreed to create an assistant manager position. The one caveat is that your boss wants the assistant to handle the vast majority of the paperwork. This includes the creation and subsequent monitoring of the department’s budgets; both short term and long term. Your supervisor has asked you to create a training module to be delivered to your assistant. While your supervisor understands that you can do this face to face, she wants your assistant to be able to refer back to information as needed in case you are unavailable. When you ask your supervisor for further guidance as to what the training module should encompass, she provides you with the following email: As we discussed on the phone, I want you to create a training module that your assistant will be able to refer back to on an as-needed basis. Also, one thing I failed to tell you is that if this assistant manager position does as well as I think it will, the company will more than likely expand this position into other departments and a training module will end up being a necessity. As I envision this position in my head, I want the main responsibilities of the assistant to simply revolve around financial performance. Therefore, I think we need to minimally cover: 1) Budgets a. Specifically, what steps are needed to create a budget i. You may want to consider a checklist of the items contained in a basic budget? Up to you. b. Differences between flexible and static budgets c. Operational budgets and their purpose d. Time frames of budgets 2) Expenses a. Capital expenditures – what are they and why they are normally separated Training the Assistant For this assignment, we are returning to the scenario of your promotion to manager. As a result of your significant work and successes, the department is flourishing. In fact, it is doing so well that your direct supervisor has agreed to create an assistant manager position. The one caveat is that your boss wants the assistant to handle the vast majority of the paperwork. This includes the creation and subsequent monitoring of the department’s budgets; both short term and long term. Your supervisor has asked you to create a training module to be delivered to your assistant. While your supervisor understands that you can do this face to face, she wants your assistant to be able to refer back to information as needed in case you are unavailable. When you ask your supervisor for further guidance as to what the training module should encompass, she provides you with the following email: As we discussed on the phone, I want you to create a training module that your assistant will be able to refer back to on an as-needed basis. Also, one thing I failed to tell you is that if this assistant manager position does as well as I think it will, the company will more than likely expand this position into other departments and a training module will end up being a necessity. As I envision this position in my head, I want the main responsibilities of the assistant to simply revolve around financial performance. Therefore, I think we need to minimally cover: 1) Budgets a. Specifically, what steps are needed to create a budget i. You may want to consider a checklist of the items contained in a basic budget? Up to you. b. Differences between flexible and static budgets c. Operational budgets and their purpose d. Time frames of budgets 2) Expenses a. Capital expenditures – what are they and why they are normally separated i. Existing assets versus need to purchase b. Monitoring overall department expenses – perhaps use a spenddown? i. If you don’t know what a spenddown is, you may need to do a little research as they are new to our company As for formatting, create a PowerPoint with detailed notes. Be sure to include detailed steps and assume that your new assistant will NOT have a financial background. i. Existing assets versus need to purchase b. Monitoring overall department expenses – perhaps use a spenddown? i. If you don’t know what a spenddown is, you may need to do a little research as they are new to our company As for formatting, create a PowerPoint with detailed notes. Be sure to include detailed steps and assume that your new assistant will NOT have a financial background.

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health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, car insurance, property insurance, short term saving, and long term saving

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please write a short response that summarizes the questions/issues explored in the readings, and identify at least one key insight that you learned.

Here attached some sample answers:

1. The first article, "Challenging 'Resistance to Change'", illustrates a mental model that is generally accepted by all classes but will cause the company to fall into chaos, inefficiency and affect the success of the change: the idea that there is resistance to change and that managers must overcome it. However, this model affects the understanding of change dynamics. Because change is complicated, one should not think about it simply. Managers should consider more comprehensively. The author also proposed the possibility of replacement. This mental model should be abandoned and a more useful dynamic change model should be considered.

The second article, "Resistance to Change: The Rest of the Story", proposes that resistance has two sides and emphasizes the positive side. At the same time, the author proposes that if the change agent contributes resistance through their own actions and inactions, then this resistance may become a help in the change. In this regard, the author also expanded this idea by analyzing relevant cases.

In the third reading, "An affect-based model of recipients' responses to organizational change events", the author focuses on the experience and reflection of change recipients, rather than the actions of change agents. All along, people think that the receiver of change is in a passive position to face the change. However, the affect-based model is proposed here, how to organize the change through the reaction of the receiver of the change in the active position. In the article, the author divides the receiver's response into different types, and the resistance of change is one of them. Meanwhile, the first step in the success of change is to shorten the psychological gap between change recipients and change.

These three articles discuss the resistance of change from different dimensions and angles. And the biggest feeling I get from it is that change is to ring out the old and ring in the new. Whether it is a change agent or a change recipient, one should not understand the change in accordance with the inherent public thinking. Changes are complex, dynamic, and continuous, and every change is associated. Change is not an individual action, but an organized group activity. Before the change, change yourself.



2. "Challenging 'Resistance to Change’” examines the origin and development of the concept: 'resistance to change'. It traces the emergence of this mental model and describes the unusual things which make the phrase much more accepted than it should have been. It shows that this term has gone through a transformation from a systems concept to a psychological one. In the end, the author discusses that labeling difficulties as resistance to change would impede the change. The author thinks organizational change is complex and requires dynamic consideration.

'Resistance to Change: The Rest of the Story’ proposes change agents contribute to the occurrence of resistance and resistance might be restructured and can be a resource of change. The author expands the idea with providing analysis of multiple approaches for change agents to positively contribute, for e.g. breakdowns the communication process into components and examines the potential effect to the changes. 

'An affect-based model of recipients' responses to organizational change events’ highlights the change recipients as active roles playing in organizational changes. The author builds models which distinguish organizational change categories by dimensions of valence and activation, and concludes the predictors to the responses of change events. This provides a very different perspective of how the changes develop and the response according to the changes. One implication is that change agents should appreciate recipients’ activated response instead of downplay them. The second implication is managing change should be taken into consideration especially between stages of change.

Key insights:  I would now take change as a process of interaction of multiple parties. Previously I thought change is made by leadership and employees should follow. In fact, every element that is affected by the change is also leading the change, sometimes in a positive way. The change makers shouldn’t simply take the resistance of change recipients as obstacles but consider dynamically how the whole system is affected.


3. The first reading “Challenging ‘Resistance to Change’” reviewed the origin and development process of the generally accepted model of “managers must overcome resistance to change”. The author believes that this belief confuses the understanding of the change dynamics. It has led to various inefficient behaviors in the organization over the past 30 years. Therefore, the author recommends abandoning this useless framework for change management.

        The second reading “Resistance to Change: The Rest of the Story” reexamined the concept of resistance to change and its role in organizational change. The author believes this view is biased because it does not consider that resistance may be the behavior and communication of change subjects to change recipients. Recommendations are made for reorganization resistance, which is focusing on doing things for change recipients rather than agents.

        The third reading “An affect-based model of recipients' responses to organizational change events” emphasized the central and positive role played by the recipient in organizational change. Their reaction attitude can affect the progress and even the success of changes. There are four types of reactions: change resistance, change proactivity, change disengagement, and change acceptance. The most important way to promote change is to narrow the psychological distance between change recipients and change.

  I got 3 key insights from these readings:

It is managers who need the most change to overcome resistance. Managers must understand the change from the perspective of their employees.
When people perceive themselves as being treated or treated fairly, they develop relationships and behaviors associated with successful change and vice versa.
By gaining the emotional identity of change recipients, one can implement change more effectively and make it more meaningful.

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Essay: Successful and dynamic organizations

Objective: Effective Change management in the organization: Understanding Organizational Behavior and Change

Introduction:

This lesson examines the characteristics of successful and dynamic organizations, with a focus on organizational behavior (OB) and the application of strategic practices to implement effective organizational change.

Deliverables: 

The essay for this lesson is required to be a minimum of 1,000 words (excluding title and reference pages) which clearly demonstrate your understanding of the activity. Essays should have a clear introduction, thesis statement and conclusion, written in APA format (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/). A minimum of three sources, at least two from the lesson, must be cited in-text and in the Reference list.

Activity Details:

Step 1: Read the following questions, and use what you have learned about OB and change management Issues to summarize your responses.

How can an understanding and application of the concepts of organizational behavior help managers work in global organizations?

Discuss how managers in global organizations can effectively apply OB theory and practices to manage workforce diversity within their home country, and manage offsite employees?

Today’s managers face a myriad of challenges that leaders might not have experienced several decades ago or dreamed could exist. Identify at least six major categories of challenges and opportunities that managers face in applying organizational behavior concepts and leveraging organizational change. Include both internal and external environmental factors and provide examples.

Step 2: Write your essay

Write your essay to address all the questions above.

Use these writing guidelines:

Include a cover page and references in addition to your required page count.
Use correct APA format.
Double-space text.
Use size 12 pt. Times New Roman type.
Use section headings to organize. (optional)
Indent paragraphs.
Include in-text citations.
Use correct spelling, grammar, sentence structure, and verb tense

References

Organization Behavior, from Hiriyappa, B. (2008). Organizational Behavior

Professional discourses and resistance to change from Caniël, M. and Pieterse, J., (2013) Journal of Organizational Change Management, 25(6), pp.798-818

Amoros, A., Tippelt, R. (2012) Managing Change and Innovation A Challenge for Modern Organizations. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), 1-30.

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Select a company’s financial information (you may use the company that you work for or look up information on the internet):
Locate the company’s footnotes to the financial statements. 
Explain the type of information contained in the footnotes.
Explain why this information is important and to who and why.
What role does the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 play in the financial statements?

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You have been working on an organization for your course project and should have done considerable research to complete the first two parts of the project. Continue to use the company you selected (Volkswagen) to complete this part of the course project. You will need to select one host country where the company operates to compare with the home country.

Prepare a report on the following topics:

Evaluate three areas of potential diversity between the home country and host country. What is the company’s policy on diversity? As the leader, develop a plan for managing the areas of diversity.
You are in charge of leading a multicultural virtual team of employees in the home and host country. Assess team conflict, collaboration, and trust in multicultural virtual team. How will you manage the issues and empower your team?
Compare and contrast the role of women in leadership positions in the home and host countries of the organization selected.
Using the lectures, assigned reading, and research, construct a brief plan of how you would conduct training to prepare a manager in the home country for his or her new assignment in the host country.
Analyze the situations in which the organization can capitalize on synergy in the workplace.
Select one of the five cross-cultural management strategies from the Week 5 lectures. Apply the strategy to your organization, justifying why you selected the strategy.

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The goal of this assignment is twofold: (1) to explore attitudes about ethics and morality and (2) to determine the role various media play in morality. The overarching purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate that it can gather, synthesize and present findings to create an evidence-supported “convincing” argument. Because you are studying a topic that resonates with your own experience and views, you must work to set aside your own biases. Be careful not to “pollute” your research subjects’ responses with your own point of view. 

You should consider both secondary and primary research as part of this assignment (you may not rely on the Internet alone for secondary sources – make use of Galileo and/or Henderson Library sources – I will be looking for peer reviewed articles and scholarly books to be cited in your paper). What articles or studies can you find that deal with this topic in a scholarly manner (meaning the evidence and research is cited)? You will need to consult a minimum of six secondary sources (more will make the project stronger) that are peer reviewed or scholarly books. News articles do not count. You may have more sources if you have news articles, or information from the Internet. You can use the articles that I have given you in class. Your primary research should consist of qualitative interviews, and a minimum of five should be conducted.

Qualitative interviews will help explain “why.” These are interviews that last a half hour to 45 minutes and ask questions that encourage the interviewee to talk about his or her rationale for acting in a certain way or believing certain things. You should record these, then go back and listen to them so you can cite relevant statements.

Be careful not to prompt your interviewee in certain directions regarding the topic – don’t give them your answer or opinion; see what what develops from the interview. Simply ask neutrally worded questions. Do not ask Yes or No questions. Phrase questions that encourage the interviewee to explain his/her views. You will summarize your findings in a 12-page paper (this doesn’t include your title page, abstract, question or references). You will need to include with the paper: a title page, an abstract, an APA-style bibliography, and a list of the interview questions.

You will need an introduction, a review of the literature, a summary of findings, and a discussion/conclusion section. I expect the summary of findings to be the longest section of your paper

Introduction - Should be 1 to 2 pages where you set up the purpose of the paper. Tell me why you are studying the ethical issue you are studying and why it is important area to study. Tell my why I should care about the issue. Have a purpose statement to set up the paper. Everything should relate to the purpose statement. 
Literature Review - Should be 4 - 5 pages where you talk about the previous peer reviewed literature you found. You have to have six scholarly sources. So look up your topic in Galileo and find what others have written about it. Look at Media Ethics journals to find out how other scholars have investigated your topic. 
Summary of Findings - Should be 5 to 7 pages. This is where you will summarize the findings of the interviews you did. I mentioned before, and I will say it again, do not just list what people said. Synthesis the responses. Tell me how all the people agree with one question, but they differed in other areas. You may use direct quotes from the interview subject, but only if they are really good direct quote. You should not have more than 1 direct quote per page. The rest should be paraphrasing. 
Discussion and Conclusion - Should be 2 to 3 pages. This is where you explained how your research ties to the previous literature you found, and more importantly, your purpose of your paper. Tell me what is important about the findings, and how it relates to other research. 
Reference List - Please have a reference list which includes both the research articles you used as well as the people you interviewed. I need contact interview for each subject. Do not put them in the paper. Just refer to them as Person A, Person B, etc. Let me know in the reference who is who in the paper. 
Appendix - Please give me a list of the questions you asked the participants. 
Hints: When writing up your findings, I want you to demonstrate both synthesis and analysis. Don’t tell me that Person A said this and then Person B said that. You need to look for patterns and you need to summarize your results thematically across participants and you need to provide examples in the form of direct quotes from your participants. However, I want the quotes to be illustrations for the themes that you identify, and I don’t want direct quote after direct quote after direct quote. Generally, the direct quotes should be two or three sentences. If you use a larger quote, it must be a very, very good quote.You can use one direct quote every page at most. My suggest is paraphrase most, with direct quotes sparingly. 

Here are some possible questions. Modify these or create others that are appropriate based on the interviewees’ answers. Each interview should be about 30 minutes, so you will have to think of other questions that pertain to your topic.

Questions for participants:

We have had several major shootings in the past year. Of the 300 or so mass shootings in the last year, only two were perpetrated by Muslims. Many Media Practitioners have complained about the coverage the media gives to major shootings. Do you think the media is being fair in the portrayal of these shootings? How should the media handle shootings? 
Do you think the media is being ethical? Why or why not? 
What should the media do to be ethical? Why or why not? 
The shootings involving the Muslims can be tied to ISIS, a terrorist organization in the Middle East, while the shootings involving other people cannot. That means the shootings involving Muslims can be tied to each other, while the shootings involving others do not tie together. Do you think the media should focus more attention on these shootings involving ISIS? Why or Why not? 
The media oftentimes focus attention on the shooter, rather than the victims. Is this ethical? Should the media focus more on the victims? Why or why not? 
What are the ethics surrounding media coverage of a shooting? What should the media focus on? How much attention should the media provide of shootings? Why or why not?

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For this week’s assignment, you will be preparing a written essay using APA format. Refer to the APA resources provided in the classroom and in our online library for formatting questions. Be sure to review the feedback from your previous assignments. Your essay should be 2 – 4 pages of written content, along with a properly formatted title page and reference page. An abstract should not be included. The content for your essay is described below.

Choosing a professional organization focused on a specific segment of the hospitality industry that you are interested in (American Hotel & Lodging Association, National Restaurant Association, ARAMARK, and Compass Group are examples), describe and assess their role and influence within the industry segment. 

For the writing assignment, discuss who the group is, their roots, how they influence the industry, and analyze their role in reacting to or preventing a specific issue related to the industry.  An example would be how the AH&LA has been engaged with immigration reform or minimum wage or how ARAMARK is incorporating "green" business practices to reduce environmental harm.

Use the school’s online library to conduct further research on this issue. Your essay should outline how this issue came to be important to the industry, what the organization recommends as far as this legislative issue and why, and how this issue has impacted the industry.

Be sure that you clearly define the issue, using a clear thesis statement. A thesis statement basically states what you are proving in the essay.  Develop the issue within your essay and include a concluding paragraph.  All the supporting resources within the essay should add support to that thesis statement.

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Supply chain integration is a major contributing factor to organizational success. The goal of supply chain integration is alignment within the supply chain. As a business leader, how can you achieve greater supply chain integration with suppliers and customers?

Amazon is a prime example of a company that has successfully managed its supply chain to achieve growth and profitability. Research the progression of Amazon's supply chain integration. Write a 1,000-1,250-word paper that address the following questions:

How do sales and operations planning in supply chain integration impact the company overall? What would Amazon's medium- and long-term forecast inform the operations management department? How do logistics, transportation modes, and warehouse locations impact Amazon's competitiveness?
How does global sourcing and procurement impact the overall effectiveness of the supply chain? What are the benefits and challenges that have occurred when outsourcing logistic and other functions?
How has Amazon successfully leveraged e-commerce strategies to promote supply chain integration and boost sales and growth for the organization? Which strategies have been particularly effective and why?
Do you feel that Amazon sets an example for other companies to model regarding supply chain integration? Be sure to explain your rationale. Consider the ethical implications in your response.
Incorporate five to seven resources to support your paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

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https://www.hks.harvard.edu/virtual-book-tour/jeffrey-seglins-simple-art-business-etiquette-how-rise-top-playing-nice (Links to an external site.)

For this assignment, write a detailed essay of at least 3 pages addressing the following issues/questions from the discussion text, The Simple Art of Business Etiquette. Cite relevant ideas, research, and passages from the text as well as including your own experiences and observations. Assignments should be written in 12 point Times New Roman and be double-spaced. Include a header on the first page with your name, the date, unit number, and assignment title.

In Part one, “The Best You,” the author proposes some of the ways that you can demonstrate etiquette and professionalism in the workplace.

What does it mean to be “The Best You” at your internship?
What steps have you taken (or plan to take) to be “The Best You” at your work place?
What messages have you received at your internship that have provided you with an idea of what is appropriate or inappropriate?
In Part two, “Office Culture,” the author describes office culture as ‘established norms of behavior in the workplace,” as well as discusses some of the elements that constitute office culture.

How would you describe the office culture?
What are some of the elements that constitute the office culture at your internship?
To assist in understanding the topics of this text section, please find at least one external article and cite it in your paper. A reference sheet in APA format is expected to be included as an additional page to the required page limit. You may select any article you please, but please make sure it is from a trusted and relevant source (i.e. not from Wikipedia) and that is was published within the last three years.