Our business partner in your start-up has emailed all of the employees, asking them to write glowing reviews about the product on online shopping and social media sites. You are worried about how this will affect the company in the long run, so you decide to send a second email to all of the employees about this. How will you word the email to discourage employees from posting fake reviews, without making your partner look bad?
Knowing how much online product reviews can shape consumer behavior, the other cofounder of your company has just sent an internal email message with the not-so-subtle hint that everyone in your small startup should pose as happy customers and post glowing reviews of your new product on Amazon and other shopping sites. You’re horrified at the idea –not only is this highly unethical, but if (or more likely when) the scheme is exposed, the company’s reputation will be severely damaged.
As you know from your understanding of media selection, this situation should be addressed in a private conversation; however, since your partner has already emailed everyone, you have no choice but to also email everyone in the company before anyone acts on the suggestion. Write a response, explaining why this is a bad idea and telling employees not to do it. Keep in mind that you are chastising your business partner in front of all of your employees. Because this is a hypothetical situation, you may make up information as needed to complete the assignment. Just be careful that the information that you make up is reasonable and is limited to what you need to write the assignment to your standards.
For your midterm, you created a business that relied on selling its products or services online. The only system you needed at the time was the online platform to sell them.
However, your business has been very successful, with a revenue of one million dollars a year. This means that you might need to reshape your business and invest more on it.
Your original website solution was not able to handle the workload, so you decided to invest on a SuperMicro SuperServer 2028U-TR4T+ running Windows for an Apache Webserver, and a MySQL database. You hired a small consultant firm to create a database that handles your customers, orders, invoices and inventory, along with proprietary applications which interact with your Apache Webserver (for those students who decided to offer digital services, such as videogames, they are hosted in this server as well).
The system has been able to handle the load, but you have it sitting at home and you have noticed that it is getting very hot as the operations increase. In addition, consultants charge you $300 an hour, which makes it very expensive to maintain. To make things worse, you just learned that similar setups were hacked, and that viruses could infect Windows servers.
Based on the above, please create an IT strategy based on the following:
You can invest up to 25 percent of your current yearly revenue in your IT solution You expect your business to triple in the next year You will use a cloud based solution for most of your systems and applications There is a platform independent AI application running on your current server, which allows you to perform data analytics on your customer base, for marketing purposes. You want to keep that one as it is in the same server, but you will move everything else out of it From the above, notice you will keep one server in an on premise model.
IT Services
Find a datacenter which can host your server, and share how much would it cost per year (remember it may be based on the size of your server) You will replace Windows with Linux. Which flavor would you select and why? List all the applications and services your company need (at least you will have applications for customers, products, inventory, orders, and invoicing) Determine whether the above will be offered as IaaS, PaaS or SaaS (Each service can use a different delivery model) Why did you select that delivery model for your services (IaaS instead of SaaS, for example)? Based on the delivery model for your services: which parts of the stack will you be responsible for? Who would be responsible for patching? Determine which cloud vendors will host your services and why you selected them. (They can be hosted with different vendors, and they can be sold as different services) If possible, share how much would each of those services cost Do you need dedicated broadband for your line of business? If so, which vendor would you use and how much would it cost? Does your cloud vendor provide assistance with migrating your services from your current solution to what you are about to acquire? If not, how will you do it? Will you migrate all services at once? Would your migration be in parallel? Justify your answer How will you plan for your expected growth?
Security
Which strategies will you use to protect your business from cyber threats? Please identify which strategies will take place at the infrastructure or system design level, and which ones will take place at the end user level How will you make sure your customer’s private and financial information are safe?
Disaster Recovery Planning
Select a DRP vendor that can adapt to your budget and strategy Will you choose another cloud option? Do you prefer an alternate site? Please justify your answers
Implementation Timeline and Cost
Add a timeline (estimated), including but not limited to the following: New system planning New system design Set up of the cloud environment Testing Migration Go Live
Important: The questions act as a guide for your paper, but write it in an essay format
Bonus questions:
Explain which metrics you will use to monitor your system’s performance and why Add a diagram of your complete solution
Please note the following:
The due date for the final paper is: Monday, December 3rd at 11:55pm The paper must be between two and four pages long (including graphics), and can be single or double line. Cover page and references do not count towards the limit (you can have six pages: one cover, four pages for content, and one page for references) Review your assignment thoroughly before sending it in. There will be no resubmissions. As this is the final exam, papers will not be accepted past the due date.
Remember:
You must use the assignment template available in the Resources section of the classroom Do not forget to add references. The list of references may be on a second page. Your paper will be reviewed against plagiarism with Turnitin
Course Objectives: •CO1 Define the legal environment that is applicable to the business world. •CO2 Review basic business law concepts •CO3 Describe the litigation system in the United States CO4 Apply legal concepts to business to business scenarios •CO5 Analyze the differences between major forms of intellectual property protection, and current ethical issues that arise under intellectual property law •CO6 Identify antitrust issues in business decisions •CO7 Analyze what a contract is, how a contract is formed, the types of law that govern contracts, the elements of common-law contract formation, and defenses to contracts •CO8 Identify various forms of business structure •CO9 Evaluate employment laws affecting business •CO10 Define ethical environment that is applicable to the business world. •CO11 Identify means to avoid alter ego liability •CO12 Evaluate how the Sarbanes Oxley Act applies to business.
Instructions:
The essay is due no later than the end of week seven. Students are encouraged to submit the essay before the due date.
Essay topic: Reflecting on the concepts you have studied in the course, research a company and discuss the legal and ethical issues surrounding it. You will need to research the company through the University library. Your essay should include the following four sections:
1) Identify and discuss two to three specific laws that apply to the company. For example, the laws mentioned in the EEOC readings.
2) Apply three general legal topics that were discussed in the required readings, i.e. Appendix B. Make sure you include in-text citations to the course materials, as failing to cite your sources will result in no credit in this section. The weekly lessons are not the required readings. The required readings are listed in the lessons section under "Required Readings."
3) Discuss how the philosophy of economist Milton Friedman may have influenced the executives of the company.
4) Identify an ethical framework other than the shareholder theory that applies to this situation and discuss how it may have influenced the executives of the company.
Solyndra and British Petroleum may not be used as your company for this assignment.
Your essay should be 1800 - 2450 words and in APA format. Use at least seven credible sources for your essay, including at least two new sources from the University library (in addition to the course materials.) Submit this essay as a Microsoft Word attachment in the Assignment section of the class, no later than Sunday of week seven.
You must support your statements with materials from the required readings in the course, as well as outside research. Cite your sources in APA format. An abstract is not needed. A great source for those unfamiliar with APA formatting is http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx. All material must be appropriately cited with an in-text citation (author, date) and a reference page listing.
Include your last name in the file name. For instance, if your name is Jane Smith your document should be saved as "Smith_JWeek7Essay.docx"
The focus on this essay should be on the legal concepts. Your discussion of the history of the company should consist of no more than one page of the essay.
Unoriginal Content:
Your essay may contain no more than 10% quotes from other sources. Paraphrase what you read instead of copying and pasting. You may not re-use work that you have submitted in previous classes. All work in this class must be original.
Essays that contain more than 50% unoriginal content will not earn any credit. Essays that contain between 10% - 49% unoriginal content will receive a substantial point deduction. Paraphrase instead of copying and pasting. Please note there is a difference between unoriginal content and plagiarism. Unoriginal content is correctly quoted and cited. Plagiarized sentences and paragraphs are not correctly quoted or cited. Plagiarism will result in an automatic zero for this assignment.
Please take a moment to review the rubric provided prior to developing your paper for submission.
You are employed at a large global high-tech company that has offices worldwide in such places as Tokyo, London, Bombay, Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, and Seattle to name a few. Although sales have been reasonable these past few months even with the global economic crises, an internal crisis exists related to employee morale being at an all-time low. There are many different beliefs on what is right and what is wrong across the board, especially when it comes to the cultural and communication differences and the technological equipment challenges. There are also concerns regarding the selfishness of the employees; where the employees do not enjoy working as a team. Your supervisor has tasked you as the as the VP of the Service Department to prepare a research paper that will communicate information and solutions as well as provide a foundation of knowledge so that you can work with your peers and employees to solve these problems. At a minimum, your research paper must:
What steps can management take to make the teams cohesive? Evaluate the steps that are necessary in this scenario to create high performing teams. Evaluate the importance of the internal environmental factors that include the cultural, language, political, and technological differences that will affect the team building process. What can be done to overcome the communication barriers between locations? What are the best practices that should be implemented going forward?
Using the terms from this week's reading, please explain how this relates to an organization that you are familiar with (past or present employment). Is this organization successful in dealing with diversity? How? What is the culture within this company? While you are not required to formally cite your sources within the forum, you should make sure that you are incorporating information from the readings into your responses. Your responses should clearly show that you have read the material.
Research an actual arbitration case involving a company and its union by choosing a case from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) website that was issued in the last two years. Discuss the key relevant issues. Discuss the arbiter's ruling. Do you think the arbiter’s ruling was fair? Why, or why not? What broader ramifications might this ruling have had for that company and that union?
TOPIC EMPLOYER PROVIDED FITNESS PROGRAM. I AM PROVIDING MY PAPER SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE A LITTLE BACKGROUND.
Every program has risks associated with it. This week, I want you to review your idea and provide a risk analysis. What are the potential risks involved with this program, and what processes can be put in place to manage these risks? One specific risk that I want you to discuss is related to cultural differences. Please assume that your company is a multinational corporation…will this program work in all areas of the business? If not, how can it be adapted for the other country/countries involved?
The planning for the community building session is almost complete. The last details are how to conduct the plenary sessions for sharing information across groups to develop key priorities and themes that will need to be addressed.
There are 2 sessions that need to be planned. One is to review the work done by intact work teams. In this larger session, the goal is to spot patterns and identify themes that can be used to plan actions. These patterns or themes will come from the stop–continue–start charts developed by each functional group. In this way, not only will the changes that need to happen be identified, but aspects of effective work (those things that work well and should be continued) can also be reinforced.
The external consulting team strongly recommended a "cross-functional, by-level grouping" for the first step. Their aim is to promote understanding of priorities and show how different issues at different levels of the organization can be aligned. The internal consulting team is excited about being the primary facilitators for these sessions. Everyone recognizes that a structured approach will be critical (for timing and to control decision–making inputs). The approach called Nominal Group Technique (NGT) seems to be ideally suited to this task.
You want to prepare yourself for conducting the session. Use the library, Internet, or other resources to research NGT. Because each grouping will be of a differing size, you want to tailor the overall steps of NGT to the situation you will facilitate. To do this, you must create a meeting session plan (a document of 4–5 pages) that will answer the following questions:
What is the goal of the session? How will the nominal group technique be used to achieve this goal? How will the members of the team work together (guidelines for effective participation)? What specific steps and tasks will be involved in achieving the goal? How much time will be allocated to each step or task? What voting mechanism is most appropriate for the size of the group and the specific stage of the process? What will the outcome look like? What will the group present to the other levels? Download a sample format here. Your assignment is to complete the missing sections (in red) and develop any additional participant materials or instructions to assist the group in completing the task.
Initial Post: 2 Paragraphs minimum APA Format for Citing Resources 2 Scholarly Resources Required
Please read and respond to the above question.
From theory, what are some communication channels and barriers? Now from professional experiences, what are some communication channels and barriers? As management practitioners, how do we overcome communication barriersto be our strengths?
PART II Replies to two Posts:
One Paragraph per response
Note: When answering or responding to discussion questions be sure write, compelling arguments and to cite brief references other than the textbooks where appropriate. Also, be sure to consistently establish a linkage between the material being discussed, your workplace, or individual research. Most importantly, be specific on your response, no short answers allowed, and use proper spelling and grammar in all responses in the discussion forum.
Post 1: When most people think of communication within a workplace, usually, it’s about group meetings around a long table or wordy E-mails. However, as time moves on, it is becoming more common to use direct methods such as instant messaging group chats. In an informal setting, people tend to keep things simple and to the point using language that would be understood within their circles. A workplace chat will still have language that is nuanced to that place of business but will have more of a professional tone. Newman (2015) writes, “For short messages and quick questions, these channels are ideal” (p. 14). The use of instant messaging provides a quick and easy way for a company to communicate matters that would otherwise not call for a lengthy E-mail. Although the temptation to speak plainly when using IM can be high, it is important to separate the everyday from the workplace! One of the top priorities for managers today is hiring a diverse selection of employees. Having a mixed group of people can be useful for providing different perspectives on company values and policies. It can also lead to confusion when communicating daily. When a company seeks a diverse workplace, this usually comes with the price of cultural differentiation. Language barriers are the most common type of communication block. Newman (2015) states that businesses should keep company communication in the local language, while having systems in place to handle non-local affairs (p. 10). Understanding the daily mannerisms of co-workers is a useful skill for any modern-day employee. Someone who can effectively communicate with a variety amount of people can be an asset to any working environment. Taking the time to learn at least one language could prove very useful in the long term. Also, staying up to date with new technology and how it can be used to further business contact methods.
Post two: In theory, some communication channels are direct and indirect. Verbal, written, face to face and electronic are some examples. Verbal communication barriers would consist of language use such as jargon, rambling, and too much information resulting in “information overload.” Language ability would include not understanding an accent from the sender. Written communication barriers would consist of insufficient information, jargon, grammatical errors, vocabulary. Face to Face communication barriers would consist of listening, body language, verbal, auditory, and lack of interest. Electronic communication barriers would consist of emails, texts, images, networking connections being lost, insufficient information, and “information overload”. From my own professional experience, our office consists of several communication channels: Verbal, written, face to face, and electronic. Our office consists of seven people. Our network manager will convey information to her six subordinates which includes me. The subordinates will convey information to the network manager and each other. Our communication barriers are limited in our office. I think for the most part, everyone is consistent with effective communication within the office. The only barrier we usual have are with face to face communication with some customers who walk in our office. This is only difficult when there are no representatives in our office that speak another language. We would have to contact our headquarters in Chicago and have someone get in contact with the customer days later. This is very frustrating to the customer. Our company decided that we will now call our representatives who speak a foreign language and they will speak to the customers via phone.
This assignment is intended to provide you with a short version of what will become the introduction section to your final paper. (If you can't think of a topic, consider distracted driving, but remember that the topic is yours to choose.)
The more detail and research you add, the less expansion you will have to do to complete your introduction section.
In this paper, include at least the following sections:
1. What is your research topic? Describe two if you can't narrow it down to one. Don't just tell me what it is; describe it a little. It might help to pretend that your audience is an intelligent corporate executive who has read nothing of the work in your field, and you're asking for corporate funding to run a study. The topic should clearly relate to the study description at the end. (5 pts) 2. Why is your topic important? Use authoritative, published material to describe current effects of the problem or the current state of society. If it helps, pretend I'm that smart but ignorant corporate executive who is deciding whether you get the funding to study this topic. (10 pts) 3. Why do you think current research is insufficient to cover this topic? You should be able to describe enough current research to convince me that you're moving in the right direction for your final paper. The goal for this portion in your introduction is to convince the smart but ignorant corporate executive that you are knowledgeable enough to know what questions to study. (Often, the papers that you're reading describe questions that remained when they were published.) (10 pts) 4. How would you go about studying this? Just give me a general description; something you could describe to your boss as you're riding the elevator somewhere. You will have time to change or improve your ideas before you write the Methods section of your final research proposal, but I'd already like you to be thinking about what variables you might want to study--even if you're not completely settled on how to measure them yet. (5 pts) I will also assign points from these two categories:
Amount of research (10 points): One point per source, up to a maximum of 10 points. Only sources referenced in-text count, even if you list more at the end of your paper. If you cite an article that talks about a published study and I can find the published study on the Penn State library's website, you will not get credit for that source.
General quality (10 points): This is a holistic category intended to capture the general quality of your paper. Using professional language, good grammar, numbering pages, and other hallmarks of good writing is the emphasis here.
This is also the category where I will look at your styling. You have 2 options:
Option 1: APA styling
Many academic publications continue to make use of APA style conventions. This choice will probably be useful in a variety of college courses and preparing you for a formal publication process. If you choose this option, you should have:
-APA in-text references -An APA references page -APA-style page numbers -Double-spacing, as expected in APA format -An APA title page -Proper placement of document title on the first page following your title page
Option 2: Beautiful styling
Even if you choose not to follow all aspects of APA style, you will still use APA-style to do citations. You must still use:
-APA in-text references -An APA references page For other aspects of style, actively make choices about your document construction. The main purpose is to expose you to capabilities in word processing software and to think about how the parts that you control can enhance your writing's communication.
If you choose this option, you must change the default settings from your word processing software for all of the following:
-Font -Font size -Line spacing -Margins You must prepare a creative title page. A creative title page would not have only text on it. Consider something like this as an inspiration: https://www.shrm.org/academicinitiatives/universities/TeachingResources/Documents/Recruitment%20and%20Selection%20IM.pdf
Select one of the U.S. Federal Pay Regulations. Conduct additional research on one of the regulations. Your research project should be a minimum of three pages and should include a literature review. Page count does not include the title page or reference page. Include in your research:
History of the Act Why it was created How it influenced the area of human resources and compensation What the future holds for the act How it affected the employer and the employee Do you agree with this act? Why or why not? Your paper should follow APA Guidelines and all references should be cited.
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