Question 4 (Leadership): A national State-Owned Entity is in trouble. It needs to return to profitability, cut costs, retain talent, improve operational efficiency and revive a culture that has been undermined by ineffective governance. The President has decided to turn to the private sector in South Africa. He can pick any CEO or Board Chairperson to head up the failing parastatal. a. Who would you pick and what leadership traits have influenced your decision? b. Discuss any one of the following in terms of what the leader needs to do: i. Situational leadership ii. Turnaround strategy iii. Political mechanisms

Compare and contrast the differences and the similarities between workplace incivility and workplace bullying (the definition of bullying and some examples of it are described in this chapter of the text.) Is there a relationship between bullying and incivility? If so what would it be?

Having done well in his job as a staff accountant in the accounts payable department of a major industrial firm for several years since his college graduation, Steven was relaxed as he entered the employee lounge to attend the late-afternoon welcoming reception for his new supervisor, Kristin.

At the reception, Kristen circulated through the room, introducing herself to her new direct reports and asking each of them if they had suggestions that would help make the accounts payable department a better place to work. When she approached Steven, he told her about something that had been on his mind lately: that people seemed to gain promotions and be given paid overtime opportunities based on who liked them, and not on the quality of their work. Kristen politely thanked him for his comment and noted that she would look into it.

Upon his arrival at work the next day, Kristen called Steven into her office. As he sat down, Kristen said, “I will not tolerate individuals in this organization who are not good team players. Yesterday afternoon you led me to believe that there are people in this office who are not acting in the best interests of this company. I want you to tell me the names of the managers you were referring to, or I’ve got to think that you’re part of the problems around here.” Stunned by both the tone and content of her statement, Steven tried to think of a way to respond.

Place yourself in the position of Steven and respond to the following question. Make sure you explain your answer.

4. Analyze Steven’s ethical dilemma from the perspective of the deontological decision-making approach.

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Research on the current state of Toyota's Company quality management covers the following topics, demonstrate your theoretical understanding and skills in evaluating existing operational management issues, and use a quality management framework for analysis.

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Discussion Forum - Compensation

As you are likely aware, executive compensation varies tremendously in the U.S. So, in this interactivity, we’re going to research their past and current compensation schedules.

It was reported in the news that the average pay for most university presidents was around $250,000 per year, but that a few earned much more. For example, the president of Yale University received more than $1 million in 2012.

Discuss why you would (or would not) pay university presidents as much as or more than many corporate CEOs.

Having done well in his job as a staff accountant in the accounts payable department of a major industrial firm for several years since his college graduation, Steven was relaxed as he entered the employee lounge to attend the late-afternoon welcoming reception for his new supervisor, Kristin.

At the reception, Kristen circulated through the room, introducing herself to her new direct reports and asking each of them if they had suggestions that would help make the accounts payable department a better place to work. When she approached Steven, he told her about something that had been on his mind lately: that people seemed to gain promotions and be given paid overtime opportunities based on who liked them, and not on the quality of their work. Kristen politely thanked him for his comment and noted that she would look into it.

Upon his arrival at work the next day, Kristen called Steven into her office. As he sat down, Kristen said, “I will not tolerate individuals in this organization who are not good team players. Yesterday afternoon you led me to believe that there are people in this office who are not acting in the best interests of this company. I want you to tell me the names of the managers you were referring to, or I’ve got to think that you’re part of the problems around here.” Stunned by both the tone and content of her statement, Steven tried to think of a way to respond.

Place yourself in the position of Steven and respond to the following question. Make sure you explain your answer.

2. Who are the relevant stakeholders in this dilemma?

You are the CEO of an organisation that is developing a new strategy. However, you fear that the culture might not be well suited to support the implementation of the strategy. Describe how you would go about analysing the behavioural, physical and symbolic manifestations of the culture and propose potential fixes across these dimensions.

Hudson Group is a one of the largest and most recognizable travel retailers in North America. we own and manage over 1,000 duty-paid and duty-free stores in 89 locations, including airports, commuter terminals, hotels and some of the most visited landmarks and tourist destinations in the world.
In 2019 we initiated the Hudson Next Project, one of the key pillars being the completion of design and implementation of four new brands within the current Business Operating Model.
These brands include: Speciality stores, Newsstands, Book stores & Brook stone stores
The new Specitity stores will be based out of the LAX airport. They will cost approximately $19 million to contruct and will require approximately 50 employees to operate. The Newstands, located in Newark, New Jersey, will be based out of the airport - less than 15 miles outside of New York City, will cost $6.5 million to construct and 20 employees to operate. The bookstores, located in Houston, will require⁶ $8 million to construct and 15 employees to operate. Located in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the new Brookstones stores will cost $12 million to construct and 50 employees to operate across all stores.
Hudson Group will pledge 75.5 million in new construction and hire no more than 260 employees. Annually, Specialty stores are a 9.5 million operation, Newstands are a $2.4 million operation, bookstores are a 1.2 million operation and the new Brookstones stores net 3.3 million in volume and growing.
If Hudson Group wasnts to maximize it’s annual revenue, how many of each for brands should they build?

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Steve Jobs once famously responded when asked what his strategy was to reposition Apple, by saying “I’m going to wait for the next big thing”. Explain what level of strategy Jobs was operating at and why.

How does a manager's leadership style impact employee success?

John, following a familiar pattern, has discovered a new diet; this one is based primarily, on meat. He must eat 1 ounce of fat with each 3 ounces of lean. Since cost is an important aspect of all-meat diet, he decides to find out how cheaply he can buy a nominal quantity – at least 10 pounds, say – of the right mixture of fat and lean, in order to try it out.

Dantzig’s Butcher Shop carries three kinds of meat which John is willing to eat. These contain, 1, 5 and 10 ounces of fat per pound and retail at $1.35, $0.85, and $0.65, respectively

Using Solver, setup and solve this optimization problem.

Hint: You want to minimize cost while changing the quantities (in pounds) of each of the three types of meat.

Hint: 1 pound = 16 oz of meat

Hint: Cost = SUMPRODUCT (Amount purchased for each meat, cost/pound for each meat)

Hint: Constraint 1: The sum of the number of pounds purchased has to equal 10

Hint: Constraint 2: You must have 3 ounces of lean with each ounce of fat. You want to compare the count of lean ounces purchased against 3*Fat ounces purchased

Hint: Lean ounces purchased =SUMPRODUCT(pounds purchased of each meat, lean ounces per pound for each meat). Fat ounces are similar.

Hint: the final cost is less than $10

Save all the Solver Reports

Answer the following Questions in your spread sheet on the same spreadsheet where you entered your data:

1. How much should John buy of each meat?
2. How much should John pay for the meat?

A head office of a beer company is based in Mauritius and wants to expand abroad. What are the factors that you should take into consideration before a new branch is opened abroad.

1. Background of the beer company.

2. Mission and vision the company

3. The product itself, raw materials, organic diagram

4. Structure of the company/strategy of the company.

5. Advantages and disadvantages

6. Findings and analysis

7. Recommendations

Explain the danger to a company or organization if a manager bypasses the control function.

Among using technology in USA to improve tracking of Covid-19.

What are some of the challenges associated with implemented the technology? How about he risks associated with using the technology? Cybersecurity issues? Do you think the benefits outweigh the risks/challenges? Can we as a country mitigate those risks?

Take on the role of a service marketing consultant to the Alabama Tourism Department with a further focus on developing and marketing an existing but modified tourist place in Auburn or Tuskegee. Please consider the following issues in relation to the development and marketing of this tourist attraction.

A. For the recommended location and your selected place in Auburn or Tuskegee, discuss how the market for your services within the place can be segmented, and from these segments recommend the target market(s) of your services. Also discuss what different services currently available and how you can improve them. Please also justify why you are suggesting these extended services.

B. Develop service marketing strategies for this modified and expanded services of this tourist attraction and for your previously identified recommended target market(s) by answering the following questions.

1. Explain the service innovation and development Process for this tourist attraction.
2. Do you need to modify the services in any way for the different target markets for an example for local or national tourists?
3. How would you position the services included in the tourist attraction and for your target market? What are the community-of-origin attitudes likely to be for your services?
4. How would you locate the offered services within the area? What marketing channel systems and physical distribution issues need to be considered? Why?
5. What physical evidence to be considered for this tourist attraction to generate maximum amount of traffic locally and nationally.
6. How would you use the service marketing triangle to maximising profit as well as enhancing tourists satisfaction?
7. How do you think tourists may contribute to the service quality and satisfaction of this tourist attraction?
8. Do you have any issues pertaining to capacity of this tourist attraction? What strategies would you use in order to face such situations?
9. What are your pricing objectives, strategies and what environmental influences are there on your pricing decisions for these services (existing and extended)?
10. How would you promote this place and the services that you would like to offer? What promotion mix tools, media and communication messages would you use?