Chinese consumers are increasingly being influenced by video bloggers, columnists, and photobloggers on social media platforms including Instagram, WeChat and Weibo. Becky Li, with more than 7.5 million combined followers on WeChat and Weibo, is one of China’s top fashion bloggers in China. She is regarded as one of China’s influencers in the fashion world and offers good content of shopping and experience advice.

Another well-respected Chinese fashion blogger Zhang Dayi has her own clothing and beauty brand which she sells on the Alibaba Group’s Taobao e-commerce platform. Zhang Dayi allows customers to post reviews of the fashion items it sells and customers can add each other as friends, share wish list items, and recommend products to each other. In this situation, consumers form a structured set of relationships involving a particular brand online – for Zhang Dayi’s online brand. These fashion influencers have become very successful because they help Chinese consumers to choose style for self-expression

a) Name and explain the source of social influence used to describe Becky Li and Zhang Dayi. Describe the characteristics of your identified source of social influence.

b) Give TWO reasons why the source of social influence identified in (a) can bring influences on consumers. Illustrate EACH reason with ONE supporting reference from the case.

c) Name the source of social influence used in the above case of which “consumers form a structured set of relationships involving a particular brand online – for Zhang Dayi’s online brand”. Discuss the characteristics of your identified source of social influence.

COURSE: COMMERCIAL LAW

In your answer, please refer to judicial approaches to statutory interpretation, intrinsic and extrinsic aids for interpretation, and any relevant maxims of interpretation.

After a series of fights at children’s weekend sports games Parliament passed the Safety in Sports Act 2012. The Minister of Sport and Recreation during the Safety in Sports Bill’s first reading stated that:

“This Bill will protect players, spectators and officials who attend sporting matches. Some spectators, in particular parents, have got carried away at sports games and fights have broken out. If spectators and players bring weapons to games the risk is that serious injury and even death may occur if weapons are used during fights. Even the sight of such weapons can be intimidating or lead to the escalation of tensions at a sports match. I am determined to ensure sports matches are safe for everyone. ”

Section 5 of the Safety in Sports Act states that:

The purpose of this Act is to protect players, officials and spectators by preventing people from bringing dangerous weapons to sports games.

Section 2 provides that:

“Sports event” means a game of organised sport run by a sports organisation.

“Weapon” includes a knife, gun, baseball bat or any other weapon.

Section 10 states that:

“It is an offence for any person to be in possession of a weapon at any sports event and is punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.”

Section 11 states that,

“Searches under this Act may be conducted by a member of the New Zealand Police Force or an official of a sports organisation.”

Max is 16 years old. On 1 June 2012 he brought a replica plastic pistol to his Saturday morning soccer game for the Tohunga Football Club (TFC) at Grey Lynn Park. It was a birthday present from his uncle and he wanted to show it off to his friends. The pistol looked real, but it was made of plastic and could not harm anyone.

Max showed the pistol to his team mates before the game and then put it in his sports bag which his mother, Mary, held during the game. During the game the president and a member of the organising committee of the TFC conducted a search of the spectators. The pistol was found and confiscated.

Mary was charged with breaching s10 of the Safety in Sports Act 2012.

Max was expelled from the TFC for breaching s10 of the Safety in Sports Act 2012.

Steve is also at Grey Lynn Park at the same time having a casual game of touch rugby with a few friends.

They were playing 300 metres away from the Tohunga soccer match. Steve had a hammer in a backpack

which was on the ground next to where he was playing.

Steve was a builder and was going to work straight after the game. Steve never left his tools in his car as he

had had tools stolen from his car on a number of occasions.

Steve’s bag was searched by an employee of Blackwater, a security company employed by the TFC and the

hammer was discovered. Steve was charged with breaching s10 of the Safety in Sports Act 2012.

Required:

Advise whether Mary, Max and Steve have breached the Safety in Sports Act 2012?

1. Why do you think the UCC is or is not important to merchants in order to effectively do business? Be sure to give examples. (Hint: Discuss how a common law contract is different from a contract between merchants under the UCC. Then explain why you feel the UCC difference is or is not important to merchants.)

Provide a brief overview of how analytics impacts you in your current career or will impact you in your future career. Present five ways you use or will use analytics in your work and at least three things you'd like to learn more about to support this work. Provide as much or as little information, but be clear about how analytics is important in your job/career, five ways you use or will use analytics, and the things you'd like to learn more about.

Case 3

Stacy is planning for her summer holidays to Germany next summer, but she has difficulties to decide the destination because her boyfriend prefers to go to Australia instead of Germany. Some of her friends went to Germany during last Christmas and they had an enjoyable shopping experience there. Stacy went to Australia before for her business trip and unfortunately, she has some rather unhappy experiences there so that she prefers going to German for holidays instead of Australia. They are now collecting additional information for making their decision choices on the final destination.

a) Explain the SEVEN types of consumer biases in Stacy’s judgement process when planning for her summer holidays.

b) Discuss the cognitive decision-making models based on high effort that can be used by Stacy when making decisions for her summer holidays. provide ONE reason.

Case 2

Jolly Burger is a medium-sized handmade burger shop selling seafood burgers in Wanchai. All the handmade seafood burgers are filled with fresh ingredients, grilled shrimps, onion rings, French beans, pineapples, tomatoes, mushrooms, herbed mayo and more. The target customers are the nearby business executives and office ladies.

The third-party delivery services like Foodpanda, Deliveroo, and UberEATS have been gaining popularity in recent years. Jolly Burger is planning to penetrate into a new online take-away segment through using their delivery services, by targeting families with children. In doing so, more insights are required on the roles of family members as well as children for online food ordering decisions.

a) Explain the FOUR roles of spouse and decisions in a family’s online food ordering decisions.

b) Explain the SIX roles of parents. Explain whether you agree or disagree that children can have significant influences on parents’ online food ordering decisions by providing TWO supporting reasons.

Marketing Project
Corona Extra Beer in the Unites States: Size of product category (dollar or unit sales) and the major competitors. What is the market share of the major competitors and your brand? What other information can you provide which can help to understand what is happening in the market? Please write 3 or more paragraphs

1. Explore the possibility of starting a business in Oman without an Omani partner. You must explain the relevant provisions of Foreign Capital Investment Law to
support your advice.

2. The Government of Oman is providing several incentives to encourage multinational companies to invest in Oman. You are required to identify these
incentives and advise Brogan on how they can benefit from them.

3. There are many forms of business structures which Foreign Companies can use to start operations in Oman. As Brogan’s legal consultant you must recommend to
them a suitable form of business organization.

4. Evaluate the tax implications for Brogan Group’s business establishment in Oman.

As an HR practitioner, How would you balance between creating a healthy and safe work environment for the workers and minimizing cost on the part of the organisation.

''The performance of a warehouse can be measured using KPIs (key performance indicator) that reflects customer satisfaction.''

(a) Propose one (1) warehouse KPI that reflects customer satisfaction.[10 marks]

(b) Support your proposal in part (a) above with a suitable example.[5 marks]

(c) Propose one (1) unit of measurement for your proposal in part (a).[5 marks]

Further background

Refer to the Project Vision Document submitted in Assessment Item 1 regarding MyHousing project. In this assignment, you are required to prepare a proposal that describes the various system analysis activities for proposed system.

Complete the Following

Please refer to the marking guide when preparing your response to see what criteria and standards will be used to assess your work and your progress.

Amongst the information sought are answers to the following questions:

1. Identify and briefly describe the functional and non-functional requirements for the proposed system. (3 pages, times new roman, size 12)

2. List the domain classes and their attributes for the proposed system and draw a domain model class diagram. Be creative and add those domain classes you think should be included to make the system useful and appealing.

3. Write a fully developed use case description using any use case for the proposed system.

4. Develop system sequence diagrams for any two use cases, one diagram for each use case. Be creative, use opt frame and alt frame (if-else) where possible.

Case Study: Housing NSW

Housing NSW is an agency of the Department of Family and Community Services that is responsible for the provision and management of public housing services with the aim to prevent homelessness in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Housing NSW provides a range of services including public and community housing, housing for people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, support services for people with special needs linked to government and non-government agencies, private rental assistance and subsidies, advice and assistance for home-buyers, the development of affordable housing, community regeneration, and development and regulation of social housing policies.

“Our vision is a simple client experience, where modern technology and straightforward processes empower staff to deliver great client service and enable clients to choose how they interact with us and manage their own information”.

Imagine that you are the system analyst in the initial stages of the project. The projects aim is to build a system ‘MyHousing’ that will allow clients to submit applications online, clients can apply for housing assistance or make a change to their application, quickly and easily. This service is available 24/7. It enables clients to upload supporting documents and confirm identity and income information online. Client application forms are then integrated automatically into back end systems, significantly reducing administrative tasks.

Note: This is a real project, so there will be many sources of information available for you to research. This MyHousing project is actually complete and in use, however, when you are completing this assessment and writing the vision document assume the project is in the early stages and the system has not yet been built.

What are the differences between espoused (publicly declared) values and values in use (the unwritten rules that actors follow)?

The ABC company is considering the establishment of production and distribution facilities abroad. The vice-president for corporate development asserts that because the production technology of their product is easily imitated, the investment should be undertaken based on grounds of appropriability. The vice president for marketing, objects, argues that because markets for information on the production of their product are perfect, the firm should consider a licensing or franchising arrangement on grounds of internalization. Can you help these people?

Scenario:
You have recently gained employment as a Trainee Engineering Manager with a large multinational company which manufactures electrical machines and transducers, including transformers, motors, generators, sensors and actuators.
Your line manager has tasked you with creating a report to indicate your level of knowledge in engineering management.

Activity
You have specifically been instructed to provide written solutions to the following questions.
Tasks:
a) Investigate at least THREE Management theories and techniques which are used within engineering organisations. Be sure to reference your theories clearly and justify how the techniques could influence operational planning, managerial process and the organisational culture and communication practices.

b) Analyse at least THREE Leadership theories and techniques which are used within engineering organisations. Consider using real life examples to demonstrate your understanding of the different theories, techniques and identify their impact on behaviour, culture and effectiveness.

c) Explain the effects of change within an organisation on its culture and behaviour.
Consider the importance of communication and the impact on performance.

d) Describe the role of Risk and Quality management and assess their impact on organisations. How do these processes encourage performance improvements? Consider risk mapping and risk matrix, how they contribute to quality management and continuous improvement? Justify why some of these processes are better than others in certain circumstances.