Technology Oligopoly

Companies like Amazon and Facebook and Google are so dominant that they really have very little competition. Even when new companies like Zappos and Diapers.com threatened it, Amazon bought up both companies. Facebook did that with Whats-App and Instagram. Is that healthy competition or monopoly/oligopoly power? Discuss.

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• Preparing sandwiches

• Baking bread and cookies

• Making sure that shelves and displays are organized and attractive

• Working at the cash register

• Assisting customers with their questions about merchandise

• Providing efficient service

• Helping customers during checkout

Employees are expected to be helpful, friendly, and fun. The company emphasizes good quality customer service to build customer loyalty.

If you were designing a performance management system for this company, what would it look like? Assuming that the company is interested in providing feedback to employees on a regular basis but also in tying pay to performance, propose a performance management system for the company. Please make sure that your answer includes specific details such as the forms to be used and the criteria with which performance will be measured.

What factors determine success in the semiconductor industry?

Develop a job description and person specification for a volunteer working at an event information kiosk.

Explain the following terms – what they mean, when you would use them, and why they’re important, in plain English.

1. Producer’s Risk
2. Consumer’s Risk
3. Acceptable Quality Level

Find three examples of pricing impacts that you have seen as a result of Coronavirus.

How is it possible for a company to lose sight of a project’s purpose in favor of keeping its own technical identity?

Jill was an intern working in a community development agency located in an urban downtown area that was seeing considerable change. Several developers were buying real estate in the region with hopes of attracting young professionals who wanted to be close to the shore and NYC. Jill's supervisor was new and had strong ties to a new and upcoming gentrification movement.

At the same time, on the west side of the city there was a rapid influx of Central American immigrants. Tensions were growing among the various stakeholders and Jill's supervisor asked her to network within the Latino community to find key leaders who might work on an advisory board to help improve relationships and cooperation. Jill worked in the Latino community in a high school tutoring program, but as a new intern, she didn't have any real connections in the Latino or blue collar communities there.

Jill was very interested in expanding her professional network so this could help her with future jobs in community development.

1. Describe the steps Jill should take to organize the community advisory group. Be specific and think carefully about who she will need, how she will connect with them, and how she will engage them in this project if they feel disenfranchised.
2. How will she use the high visibility that this project offers to promote herself without looking self-serving?

4. What are Covey's seven habits?

5. Please identify the six styles of Project Leadership?