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Explain how Starbucks considered their Macro -environment (culture, demographics, Social, Economic, Political, legal and technology) when they made decisions about their business Strategy.

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How can a crisis situation make collaboration and trust stronger between leaders and followers in an organization? What principles of servant leadership should be used in a crisis situation?

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Greenleaf has been quoted as saying the true test of the servant leader comes when those who are being led themselves become servant leaders. How can this be accomplished in organizations? What are some challenges that could hinder this?

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Choose a failed dot-com company. That is, choose to research a company that pursued electronic commerce on the Web, but which has subsequently recently (within last 5 years) gone out of business (even if their assets were subsequently acquired by another company). Describe what business they pursued, what they proposed to do for customers, and why they shut down.

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Earlier today, you attended a meeting with Shawn Williams, the new VP of global human capital management at Atlantis Global Corporation (AGC), and John Dawson, the company's chief executive officer (CEO). John was very concerned about the financial losses at AGC. John’s main concerns were product market share and the threat of losing AGC's market position as the top manufacturer of electronic circuit boards for high-definition television screens. However, John did not mention any issues relating to the employees who work at AGC. Last month, the general manager of one of AGC’s global subsidiaries told Shawn that it is difficult to recruit talent for AGC, that employees are not happy, and that many are leaving AGC to work for other organizations. Shawn discussed developing a new recognition-and-rewards program to attract talent, motivate employees, and improve job satisfaction. When Shawn brought the up human capital concerns at AGC in the meeting, John was not very interested and thought that employee-related issues are not critical to AGC’s performance. Shawn thinks that it will be challenging to work with John to implement a global human capital management strategy. 

You and Shawn are scheduled to meet next week with John and the board of directors at AGC. Due to the urgency of the company’s situation, you and Shawn decide to create a briefing about the value and need for an optimized program for the management of global human capital. 

Review the AGC scenario for this course and with your classmates; discuss the following questions that will help you and Shawn prepare for the briefing:

What are the differences between the leadership styles of Shawn and John? What are the pros and cons of each style? 

What is your own leadership style? During the briefing, how will you use your leadership style to illustrate the intrinsic value of human capital?  

What human capital management strategies will you recommend to John and the board of directors? What examples from other organizations can you provide to strengthen the 
board’s knowledge of global human capital trends and problems?

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Using the knowledge that you have acquired during the course, you will need to prepare a
research paper analyzing a specific corporation, country, investment fund, derivatives
trader/investor or local government involved in a derivative structured product or
situation where significant derivative losses have been suffered.
You will need to describe the background of involved parties, provide a detailed analysis of the
situation, and explain the specifics of the derivative transaction.
Note that the most important aspect of this project is to demonstrate a thorough understanding of
the derivatives situation that you choose for your paper, not just presenting the numbers,
formulae, and existing facts.
Your paper MUST include your conclusion regarding the situation, and offer an alternative
strategy, stating how the described situation could have been prevented. It also MUST
include a bibliography of information and works cited.
The papers should contain between 12-15 pages.
The paper should be prepared using the APA writing style and guideline for references’ format.
You must provide a bibliography, and all direct quotations and data sources must be
properly cited. The Department uses the APA style to facilitate both, reading the paper
and understanding references without being cumbersome as some of the other styles
(such as Chicago or MLA). Students can download the student style guide from the
American Psychological Association http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html) web site or
you can purchase the APA style guide from the book store. There is even a help disk that
can be purchased for about $ 40 (http://www.apa.org/software/ ) that will walk you
through the process as you write the paper if you desire a more “personal assistance”.
Papers are to be RESEARCH PAPERS. Remember that work that you use from other
authors MUST be referenced. Since it is assumed that you are not an authority on the
topic that you are writing, it is expected that this paper is an overview of many different
sources of information. These must be contributed to the author using the APA format.
This is your paper and not the cut and paste of someone else's work. The internet has led
to a false sense of what research is all about. Those new to research tend to think that it
means spending an afternoon surfing the internet and then an afternoon cutting from
material available. Keep in mind that the Internet is: (1) not quality-oriented as it has
good materials and not so good materials, and the Internet does not know the difference;
(2) the Internet is NOT a sole source location. In particular, sources such as Wikipedia
are the works of individual submitters that are not reviewed. Thus while many entries
provide excellent information, some are fundamentally flawed or just plain wrong. Keep
in mind that the Boston University Library, as well as your local, state and the national
US Library of Congress, have extensive online services. USE THEM.

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Biblical Integration Exercise
Biblical integration is more than just putting a Bible verse or other religious connection into a project.  True integration of this type requires the author to address a topic with God’s character in mind.  Looking at life situations, and the people involved in this manner should help direct leaders to a better solution than he or she might select on his or her own.

Read and respond to the Biblical Integration Case Study provided (see attached)  You are required to answer the questions in a 900 word paper written in APA format.  This assignment requires the use of six (6) scholarly sources.  Limit your literature search to the last five (5) years and select only sources that are full text – PDF.  Include a standard APA reference page.

As part of this project, prepare an annotated bibliography.  The bibliography will be structured as follows: APA formatted reference (minimum 250 words per reference) followed by summary of key points, evaluation of the quality of the publication, evaluation of the quality of the author(s), where this fits into the assignment, and the library database in which you found the article.  The annotated bibliography will be turned in with the associated paper.

Recall that doctoral-level writing expects you to not form an opinion and then find evidence to support your position, but rather that you weigh the evidence and respond accordingly.  This requires considering at least two views of a situation.

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Pick one of the following types of disasters in the United States, and present how disaster response and emergency management have changed (or not changed) over the last 100 years for that type of disaster:
hurricanes,
earthquakes,
tornadoes,
flooding,
fires, or
man-made accident disasters (not terrorism).

Recommend further improvements in your concluding slide. Describe how lessons learned from 1900 to present time contributed to improved disaster planning and response.

Your presentation should be a minimum of 10 slides, not counting the title slide or reference slide. You must include a minimum of five images in your presentation. These images should be appropriate and support the content of the presentation. In addition, you are required to include speaker notes that further explain the content of the slides. You should include at least three sources, and cite and reference any information from those sources in APA format.

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Final Paper Comm. 3078 Spring 2020
This (8-page minimum) paper (title pages and Works Cited pages don't count in the total)

In Chapter 9 in our textbook, the authors discuss violence in the media, a subject researched since 1930, when former U.S. Postmaster General Will H. Hays was appointed by The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) to monitor films for sex and violence. (for a brief overview, check out this web page: https://ncac.org/resource/a-brief-history-of-film-censorship) Recent studies have looked particularly at the effects of extreme violence in video games. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 signed into state law a bill that banned the sale or rental of video games determined to be violent to minors under the age of 17. A rating system was imposed. There were also penalties imposed on those who sold or rented these video games to minors. Bandura’s social learning theory is used to investigate violence in video games. 

But not all viewers are affected the same way after seeing violence or sex in the media. Some researchers say laws such as those passed by Governor Schwarzenegger are misguided since not all minors respond the same way to violence and sex. Also, there is so much violence in our media, regulating it in cartoons, soap operas, TV shows, and video games are impossible. 

In this paper, and after reading academic research, discuss this question: If we recognize that media violence and sex (and especially sexual violence) is impacting children & teens, then how can institutions and others mitigate the possible effects of this violence in media? Has mitigation been tried? Has it worked? Have other countries had success in mitigating the effects?

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BMM has never had an HR department, and is experiencing more and more issues in this area. These issues include performance issues caused by a lack of performance management, potential unionization due to compensation and lack of benefits, and the possible need to downsize some of the staff, which could lead to legal issues. You are an HR professional who has been hired by BMM to develop a plan to address these issues.


In your analysis, you believe that the optimal workforce is as follows:

CEO
General Admin
Accountant
HR professional
4 cross-trained manufacturing technicians
6 installation technicians
4 outside salespeople including Maxime
3 inside salespeople including Robert
3 mechanics

You also believe that marketing and purchasing should be redistributed – the CEO will handle marketing, and the accountant will handle purchasing.

Create a plan to address the issues facing the company. 

Your plan must address staffing levels, compensation and benefits, and performance management. You must also include what options the company has regarding the potential union activity. If you decide that staff must be cut, identify which staff members should be laid off and why, and how BMM should deal with the aftermath of staff cuts. If you decide that staff should be increased, you must justify that and identify in which positions personnel should be added. You must adhere to British Columbia labour law in all your decisions. Breaking any Federal or Provincial labour laws will lead to a 50% deduction from your final grade.

All recommendations must be supported and explained, with sources cited. You are not expected to provide accurate costs for any recommendations, but some mention should be made of any cost increases or cost savings associated with any recommendation.

The paper should be double-spaced, with reasonable margins and font.  The paper does not have a length requirement, except that it should not exceed 10 pages plus any exhibits and a reference page.  Handwritten papers will not be accepted.  Fancy fonts and graphics should not be used.

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The case study also illustrates how stress management goes hand-in-hand with anger management because stress can lead to anger. The purpose of this activity is to apply correctly the key concepts, principles, and suggestions to the case study.
Read the following case study and the instructions that follow it.
“With my wife Elena, I’ve been unhappy and stressed out over the fact that she may leave me. We have been a couple since early high school. I can’t imagine anyone else as my wife. Note that the husband does not seem to realize that this uncertainty is making him edgy and irritable. Everything she does right now is getting to me. I don’t like it that she doesn’t have any time for fun anymore. We don’t go out to eat or do Happy Hours out anymore. We haven’t had a date night in months now. I’ve been unemployed for several months. I’ve had a couple of leads on jobs, but they haven’t gotten anywhere. I am trying very hard to find a good job. In the meantime, my wife has been working overtime to try to keep us out of debt. She expects me to do her “honey-dos” around the house. If we were both working, she wouldn’t expect as much. She has accused me of not doing anything at all around the house except play games on my computer. I have to do that as an escape from all I am going through. When she came home last night and got upset because the house wasn’t clean, I got so frustrated that I grabbed the computer and slammed it down on the table and threw it the length of our living room. She ran into the bedroom and locked the door. I don’t know what came over me. I walked straight out of the house, got in the car, and drove to the Silver Dollar Bar.”
The original version of this case study appears in Cahn, D., & Abigail, R.A. (2014), Managing conflict through communication (5th Edition), p. 200.
People tend to manage their anger in one of the following three different ways: anger-ins, anger-outs, or anger controllers. For this discussion, please engage in the following:
1.    Read the case study
a.    Which ways of dealing with anger are illustrated in the case study?
b.    Was the conflict managed constructively or destructively?
c.    How might it be better managed?
2.    Jot down what TWO concepts from the following list might apply to this scenario
•    accommodating
•    avoidance
•    behavioral issues
•    collaboration
•    communication apprehension
•    communication considerations
•    competitive conflict escalation cycle
•    compromising
•    conflict communication options
•    conflict issues
•    confrontation avoidance/accommodation cycle
•    gunny‐sacking
•    intangible conflict issues
•    passive–aggressive communication
•    personality issue
•    personal stress
•    relationship issues
•    relationship stress
•    schismogenesis
•    scripts
•    undesired repetitive pattern (URP)
3.    Define what the concept(s) is that fits this case
4.    State what behaviors you see happening that substantiate why you chose the concepts you have identified

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This essay is about face management. The intent is to analyze and apply the concepts from the following list:
•    accommodating
•    avoidance
•    behavioral issues
•    collaboration
•    communication apprehension
•    communication considerations
•    competitive conflict escalation cycle
•    compromising
•    conflict communication options
•    conflict issues
•    confrontation avoidance/accommodation cycle
•    gunny‐sacking
•    intangible conflict issues
•    passive–aggressive communication
•    personality issue
•    personal stress
•    relationship issues
•    relationship stress
•    schismogenesis
•    scripts
•    undesired repetitive pattern (URP)

Several options are available:
1.    Describe a personal experience, one of your own or one that you’ve witnessed. Please do not use real names. Describe the details of the situation, the personalities of the people involved, and the conversation. Find relevant pictures to help the reader understand the narrative you’re telling.
Requirements:
•    Write thought provoking information 
•    Identify concepts from the above list, clearly define and apply them to person.
•    Discuss actions, thoughts, and words of the character or person under analysis. Please use specific quotes from the person.
•    Include  references. Be sure to include an APA reference page at the end.
•    Essay should have (introduction, the body, and conclusion).