What are the relevant learnings that you have acquired that are new and can be reflected in your studies in the MBA program so far.

Please answer in 350 words and owrd format only.

THANKS

Discuss the Competitive advantage Strategy (temporary, Sustainable) at Emirates NBD bank

An organisation [ABC] is currently undertaking a recruitment drive to provide staffing requirements for a new site. ABC is a large multinational organisation in the manufacturing industry. The recruitment drive is part of an overall restructure of the organisation’s operations. As part of this restructure, the organisation intends to reduce the staff numbers at several other sites which have been earmarked for closure over the next five years. Total sites included in the organisation number 20, and are located throughout Australia and South-East Asia. Staffing requirements for the new site include all levels of positions, from the most junior level to senior operational management. You have been hired as a consultant to plan and deliver the project.

What are some of the steps that you would undertake to complete this project? ------- 1500 words

What would be your strategy for considering legal and ethical issues surrounding privacy, confidentiality, and security when considering web hosting and services?

Advertising is one of the five forms of a company’s major promotion tools. Marketers often use creative ways to execute advertising messages, which catch consumers’ attention. We learned in Chapter 12 that advertising appeals should be meaningful, believable, and distinctive.

For example, Budweiser promotes its brand using TV advertisements every year during the Super Bowl. In the past, Budweiser created an ad that received positive consumer responses (see the following video link):

Funny Budweiser Clydesdales Superbowl Ad Hank the Clydesdale (Links to an external site.)

This TV commercial uses a horse, Hank and a dog, his friend. Through these characters, Budweiser communicates different messages. For instance: 1.) We can reach our dreams if we work hard (i.e., American dream is possible); 2.) a friend is always there to help you during difficult times; 3.) Budweiser enriches people’s lives, etc.,… you may also have different interpretations. Overall, these messages are meaningful, believable, and distinctive.

I would like you to think about your favorite advertisement (e.g., TV commercial). Please describe this ad, tell us why you like it, and analyze it based on message strategy and message execution style.

Jericho Vehicles is considering making a bid for a mobile rocket-launching system for the U.S. military. However, the company has almost no experience in producing this type of vehicle. In an effort to develop a learning curve for the production of this new mobile weapon system,

Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow. [20 marks] Steinhoff Accounting Scandal The Steinhoff accounting scandal has raised concern on a number of levels, from the quality of corporate governance to checks and balances in the investment management business and even race relations in SA, writes Legalbrief. Two separate articles on The Conversation site explore the gaps exposed by Steinhoff’s fall from grace and also the lessons to be learnt from the debacle that threatens to wipe out billions of rand belonging to SA investors. Interviewed in the first piece, Jannie Rossouw, head of the School of Economic & Business Sciences at Wits University, notes: ‘The Steinhoff scandal is disturbing because it points to a serious gap in the checks and balances in the investment management space. A scandal of this magnitude should not have occurred if the systems with their multiple layers were working. This includes auditors, asset managers and non-executive directors who in their different roles should ensure that the company’s accounts are as close to the truth as possible.’ Rossouw asks why most fund and asset managers in SA and across the globe, which draw enormous fees, failed to pick up the alleged irregularities. He notes that every time a major scandal surfaces, regulatory gaps are identified and new measures are put in place to plug the apparent holes. But the scandals keep coming. He notes, however, that it’s impossible to regulate for integrity and ethical behaviour. ‘The one effective way that behaviour can be changed is through legal process and by means of tough punishment.’ The scandal would do SA a huge service if it made the point that corruption and mismanagement have nothing to do with race, Steven Friedman, professor of political studies at the University of Johannesburg, notes in a second article on The Conversation site. Friedman says it would also help if it alerted everyone in the marketplace to watch as carefully over private companies as they do over government MODULE BUSINESS AND SOCIETY TOTAL MARKS 20 MARKS departments. He writes: ‘But, given how entrenched racial attitudes are, it is more likely that it will be dismissed as a once-off freak by those who assume that white-led business is always competent and as further evidence of white prejudice by black people reacting to the label often stuck to them. If that happens, some private businesses will continue to get away with behaviour which would never be tolerated in government.’ Steinhoff’s woes continue to pile up. A Fin24 report says Steinhoff International Holdings, the group’s Amsterdam-registered parent company, announced last week in an investor update that more of its already-published financial results would need to be restated and could not be relied on. Steinhoff last month said that its 2017 audited results had been put on hold while PwC conducts an independent investigation into ‘accounting irregularities’. It has also previously warned investors to not rely on the figures contained in its 2016 results. Last week, it added the 2015 financial results of Steinhoff International Holdings Propriety Limited, the conglomerate’s former listed umbrella holding company, could not be relied on. The former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste left his mentor and business partner Christo Wiese on the hook for more than R200m is mentioned to a great detail in a Moneyweb report. It says the papers filed before the Western Cape High Court last month by Absa bank to have Jooste’s Mayfair Speculators liquidated reveal how he removed nearly all the assets from the company before leaving Wiese on the hook for more than R200m. The report notes that in December 2016, Mayfair, represented by Jooste’s son-in-law Stefan Potgieter, and Absa concluded a financing arrangement, which saw the bank providing Mayfair with an overdraft facility amounting to R335.6m and bank guarantees of a further R14.4m (in total R350m). Matter unravelled quickly following the upheaval on 6 December last year, when Jooste resigned as CEO. The Steinhoff share price collapsed, leaving Mayfair in breach of its loan agreement. Moneyweb says the court papers reveal that Upington Investment Holdings, Wiese’s investment vehicle for his share in Steinhoff, stood behind any and all Mayfair’s obligations up to R350m.

Source: (legalbrief.co.za/diary/legalbrief-forensic/story/steinhoff-scandal-raises-thorny.../pdf/date of accession July 30th 2019)

Question1
Does the Steinhoff case represent a failure in terms of Corporate Governance? Explain.

Question 2
Define Corporate Governance. Elaborate on the measures to prevent fraud in line with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Question 3

Mention the recommendations for improving the system of setting compensation levels in
companies.

identify and discuss the VRIO Analysis
and SCP Model (structure, conduct , Performance) for Emirates NBD bank

Develop a Communication Plan for educating staff on the changes and their implementation, including what communication activities will be undertaken, by whom and when, and what the key messages of the communication activity will be.

Explain in your own words how you would go about developing a behaviorally anchored rating scale

for a business model project about Tesla still need to answer those:
-Tesla’s growth strategies
-Description of the business process of Tesla
-A list of Tesla's resources

what can I write about them?
Thanks in advance,

As a managing director of an organisation in the days of covid 19.

Discuss the strategies you intend to implement in your organisation during the days of covid 19 and after to keep your organization competitive .

Rob and Candice are a married couple who live in Wisconsin and after 12 years of marriage have decided to divorce. Candice moves to Detroit and files for divorce and is granted it. Under the terms of the divorce Candice will be given the family home in Wisconsin as well as the family car. Rob believes that the home and car are his because he still lives in it and drives the car. Rob files a lawsuit in Wisconsin to have the state of Wisconsin declare ownership. Who wins and why?

A Michigan state law requires the use of snow tires if more than 4 inches of snow falls per hour. Paul, an Illinois driver owns a car where snow tires cost $1000 per tire so Paul decides not to purchase them. Last month during a surprise snowstorm Paul found himself in Michigan when 6 inches of snow fell in less than an hour. Michigan state troopers stop Paula and confiscate his car. Paul sues. Discuss whether Michigan violated any of Pauls constitutional rights.