What does the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission do? Discuss in detail.

1. What factors make it particularly difficult for workers in the nail industry to organize to improve their own conditions and how can these factors be overcome? What, if anything, can consumers, do?

2. What factors make it particularly difficult for government policy makers and regulators to make rules for the nail industry and enforce them, and how could these factors be overcome? What, if anything, can activists, do?

Using the material covered in virtual lecture, PPTs, and the course text, describe the minimum entitlements afford to employees under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? In addition, identify three (3) conditions under which a company would not be required to provide FMLA benefit(s) to its employees (Section 13-2)

Which type of organizational commitment (affective-continuance or nominative) do you think is most important to the majority of employees?

Using the classification system presented in the chapter, what types of pollution are generated by fracking?

Using the classification system presented in the chapter, what types of government regulations have been used to address the pollution generated by fracking?

What policy approaches do you believe might be most effective?

1. The DoubleDown Donut shop has decided to produce 15 dozen of its favorite chocolate donut every day. The shop manager has gathered data for a few months and found the distribution of demand is as follows:

Each dozen costs DoubleDown $5.60 to produce and is sold for $9.99. Any leftover donuts at the end of the day are sold to a local homeless shelter for $3.00 per dozen.

• Create a simulation model to calculate daily profit. The profit model should be similar to those that were set up for Ch 10, however run them horizontally – each day on a separate row.

• Simulate 30 days (a month) of operation.

• Calculate the monthly profit

• Replicate the simulation 12 times

• Calculate the average monthly profit using the results of the replications

Chapter 14

McDonald’s is one of the known fast food organizations around the world. Its corporate culture emphasizes human resource development while achieving high levels of efficiency, which have been achieved thorough adopting innovations in almost everything the organization does.

1. Elaborate on McDonald’s corporate culture and how it affects its innovation (500 words, 50 marks)
2. Elaborate on the contextual influences on McDonald’s which affect its innovation capabilities and competitiveness (500 words, 50 marks)

Izabella Investments uses a proprietary algorithm to establish a measure of risk for its funds based on the historical volatility of the investments. The higher the volatility, the greater the risk. The company recommends that no more than $200,000 be invested in any individual fund, that at least $50,000 be invested in each of the multinational and balanced funds, and that the total amount invested in income equity and balanced funds be at least 40% of the total investment, or $200,000. The client would like to have an average return of at least 5% but would like to minimize risk (total risk would be the sum of the dollar amount invested in each fund times each risk measure, divided by the total amount invested. What portfolio would achieve this? Please post excel formulas

The health of our national environment has been in the news lately with some daunting and dire predictions.

Does “trading” emissions support Porter’s way of viewing the competitiveness-environment link? Would it be enough to stop climate change?

Porter suggests countries with tougher environmental laws like Germany should become the more competitive. Is the U.S. destined to lose competitiveness if it fails to adopt tougher standards (or has this happened already)? You may wish to research this question.

Did you find Porter's ideas compelling?

Target Marketing and Segmentation

Analyze marketplace dynamics impacting sales and marketing efforts.

marketing manager in your organization, you first need to educate the management team with regard to the importance of targeting and segmentation. Therefore, you have decided to prepare a 800-1000 word report to share with the decision-makers in your organization. In your report you will be addressing the following concerns:

What are the characteristics of markets and market segments?

What is the importance of market segmentation?

What are some of the criteria for successful marketing segmentation?

What are some of the common bases used to segment consumer markets?

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What are some of the strategies for selecting target markets?

Your report will be shared with the rest of the organization in an attempt to educate your fellow managers on the importance of these marketing activities.

1. Explain the role and relative importance of relationship-building in different countries. 2. What are some of the differences in risk tolerance around the world? (Give examples of specific countries, companies, or people.) What is the role of risk propensity in the decision-making process?

Explain why it is necessary to prepare comprehensively for international negotiations. Provide a list of issues you would research before leaving home.

What are the primary logistic functions in a supply chain? How are they related to each other? How do they interface with the firm’s overall business strategy?

ou are employed as a business analyst at Marketing Department in XYZ company (a company in any field that you may be interested in working there upon your graduation). Your department director has asked you to come up with a draft marketing plan for a new (or an existing improved) product that would be available for consumers in year 2022 in United States.

In general, marketing plans are developed annually, exceptions of longer period do exist for some big-ticket industrial products such as commercial aircraft, as well as to some highly volatile industries such as telecommunications or electronics which may require diligent planning semi annually or quarterly.  

Plans typically follow a format similar to that outlined in Exhibit 1.10 "Contents of a Marketing Plan" on page 15 (also in Canvas under "Files") in Chapter One which including ten (10) parts:

1. Executive summary
2. Current situation and trends
3. Performance review (for an existing product or service only)
4. Key issues
5. Objectives
6. Marketing strategy
7. Action plans
8. Projected profit-and-loss statement
9. Controls
10. Contingency plans

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