Discuss factors affecting the adoption of environmentally friendly technological innovation among firms.

From your perspective what is the most important factor?

Support your answer with realistic examples.

Imagine CEO Gerd Finger wishes to introduce a new line of music equipment at Newskool Grooves and that several of the other managers do not like his idea.

1. Based on various perspectives and models of leadership, how would you describe the leadership style of the CEO Gerd Finger? Why would you associate him with form of leadership?

2. Why is Path-Goal Theory considered a contingency theory of leadership?

3. Using Path-Goal Theory, provide examples of leadership behaviours enacted by CEO Gerd Finger.

4. Of the contingencies from Path-Goal Theory, which two are most important for deciding how to best lead employees are Newskool Groove? Why?

The Brampton store has customers arrive every 95 seconds and average service rate of 55 customers per hour. What is the average number of customers waiting in line? Answer to 2 decimal places.The Hamilton store has an arrival rate of 30. If the store wanted the average time in the system to be 6 minutes, what would the service rate have to be? Answer to one decimal place.The Brantford store has a service rate of 60 customers per hour. What is the probability that checkout time will take between 1 and 3 minutes.

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As B2B e-commerce continues to grow, companies are placing more emphasis on upgrading their e-commerce infrastructure, taking many cues from B2C companies in the process. Streamlining their online stores and ensuring that potential customers can make purchases across a variety of channels has become just as important for B2B companies as it is for B2C companies. B2B e-commerce accounted for $6.7 trillion of the total $14.6 trillion in B2B trade in 2016, and that B2B e-commerce is expected to increase to around $9 trillion by 2020. For B2B e-commerce companies, there’s a lot at stake.Sana Commerce is a B2B e-commerce software company founded in 2008 and headquartered in the Netherlands. Sana provides B2B enterprise multichannel e-commerce, which is integrated with ERP systems. This means that Sana allows its clients to initiate transactions from physical stores, online stores, mobile app stores, telephone sales, or any other method. A number of companies offer these types of services, but Sana is unique in that it integrates within already installed enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Sana Commerce allows businesses to achieve better customer service, higher sales efficiency, and increased revenue. It’s compatible with many major ERP systems, including most versions of Microsoft Dynamics and SAP systems, and its Webshop is installed within that system, as opposed to functioning separately and interfacing with that system externally. This ensures that companies using Sana don’t have to make large investments in new ERP systems. Sana uses the pre-existing ERP’s business logic and information rather than forcing a complicated integration.This feature of Sana Commerce appeals to many companies, including Mechan Groep, distributor of agricultural machinery, wholesale goods, and aftersales supplies. Mechan Groep is based in Achterveld, Netherlands, employs 180 people, with clients in both the Netherlands and Belgium. The company earns 180 million euro per year, according to Mechan Groep CFO Rene Schwiete, who is featured in the video.Mechan Groep’s aftersales department uses Sana to better serve the needs of its dealers. Mechan Groep implemented Sana because of its preexisting use of SAP ERP software, and Sana’s Webshop worked within its larger SAP systems flawlessly. There are 105 dealers in Mechan Groep’s network. These dealers use Sana’s Webshop to access Mechan Groep supplies. Dealers can view inventory on a daily basis and select the urgency with which they need supplies. Mechan Groep’s custom Webshop offers over 700,000 items to Mechan Groep’s dealers.

1.How does Mechan Groep staff fulfill each order as it comes in on Sana Webshop?

2.What type of clients does Mechan Groep serve? Why is the speed of Sana Webshop important?

3.What types of B2B e-commerce companies is Sana best suited for?

Below are returns on the stock A and S&P500 index. All numbers are in decimals (-0.0222 is equivalent to -2.22%). A S_P500 -0.0222 0.0032 -0.0048 -0.0058 0.1333 0.0434 0.0765 0.1081 -0.0161 -0.0121 0.1250 0.1400 0.0145 0.0368 -0.0475 -0.0454 0.0430 0.0577 -0.0260 -0.1374 0.0071 0.0064 0.0249 0.0186 0.0850 0.0215 -0.0624 -0.0752 0.0933 0.0365 0.0456 0.0528 -0.0632 -0.0131 0.0450 0.0009 0.0200 0.0017 0.0280 0.0985 What is the sample standard deviation of the S&P500 returns? Please write an answer in decimals. For example, 12.34% would be 0.1234. Also, round your answer to the fourth decimal

A) What is “Strategic Workforce Planning”?

B) In 5 sentences or less, in your opinion, what is the most critical aspect of Strategic Workforce Planning?

Select three US companies that are publicly traded using your knowledge and experience and make sure you are practicing good diversification. Jim Cramer, Money Manager, on CNBC, plays a game at the end of his show called "Am I Diversified." Check out the short clip, Am I Diversified - Mad Money [Video], to get a sense of industry diversification.

Ideas for Sources of Information: There are many ways to find such companies and the stock prices, including the New York Stock Exchange, Google Finance, NASDAQ, andYahoo! Finance.

Describe how you will divide $25,000 across the three companies (e.g. $10,000 in Company 1, $10,000 in Company 2, and $5,000 in Company 3).

You decide the amount you are investing in each company. You do not have to provide any analysis to justify your decisions.

Provide a reason for picking each company.

For example, you might invest in Ford because that company gets a lot of your money and you hear that Ford is doing well, and will continue to do well.

Identify the number of shares you are buying, and the price of the shares you are buying for each company.

Once you decide the companies and the amount for each company, determine how many shares you can buy. For example, if Company 1 is selling for $42.16, then you may buy $10,000/$42.16, or 237.19 shares. But you cannot buy a part of a share, so you decide to buy either 237 or 238. In this example, you buy 237 shares at $42.16 per share, investing $9,991.92. You won’t be able to buy exactly $10,000, or $5,000, or $25,000, but it will be relatively close.

Q1. What is:

Quality? Total Quality? Total Quality Management? And Quality Culture?

Q2. Explain the role of the leadership and top management in total quality.

Q3. Explain the role of the customer in total quality.

Q4. Explain the role of the employees in total quality.

Q5. List four benefits of total quality management.

How can we prioritize Responsibility from Relationships in practicing ethics . Explain with examples

Why are brands so important and under what circumstances would you use family branding versus individual branding? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

In the classification of the types of consumer goods, what are the types of convenience goods?

What is the difference between brand extension and product extension? What are the advantages and problems associated with these strategies?

Describe what metrics marketers interested in knowing that are not reported in the standard financial statement?

Unit Exercise 1 One argument in the debate surrounding globalization is about the inequality between developed and developing nations. Explain how reduced barriers to trade and investment might help reduce this inequality.

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You would like to expand overseas into a country like India. What issues do you have to be concerned about in marketing your product in a foreign county?   What avenues or services are available to you if you wanted to market your product overseas? Describe each of the ways.