also well known in the housing estate industry. Its products include household furniture, office furniture

and industrial furniture. In the housing estate industry, it has partnership agreements with contractors to roof houses, fix doors and windows and provide all the furniture in the estate houses and office accommodation units that are being constructed by the latter. Its unique finishings are enhanced by the modern equipment, well-trained and flexible workforce including carpenters, joiners and other staff that are in its workshops and showrooms spread around the country.

The success of Unique Furniture is partly driven by its parent company, PK Wood Processing, a timber processing company based in Samboa that supplies quality wood to the latter on a regular basis and at a reduced cost. From the supply of materials through processing, transportation of finished products and installations, the company appears to have a perfect coordination of activities that is making it perform better than its competitors. The company has a five-year maintenance free policy with its customers.

Required:

1. Describe how Unique Furniture is using the following strategies to perform better than its competitors:

1. Cost reduction
2. Quality products
3. Capacity and location of business   

(b) Draw a value chain to illustrate the activities of Unique Furniture Limited.       

Unique Furniture Limited is one of the leading producers of wood furniture in Ghana and is also well known in the housing estate industry. Its products include household furniture, office furniture

and industrial furniture. In the housing estate industry, it has partnership agreements with contractors to roof houses, fix doors and windows and provide all the furniture in the estate houses and office accommodation units that are being constructed by the latter. Its unique finishings are enhanced by the modern equipment, well-trained and flexible workforce including carpenters, joiners and other staff that are in its workshops and showrooms spread around the country.

The success of Unique Furniture is partly driven by its parent company, PK Wood Processing, a timber processing company based in Samboa that supplies quality wood to the latter on a regular basis and at a reduced cost. From the supply of materials through processing, transportation of finished products and installations, the company appears to have a perfect coordination of activities that is making it perform better than its competitors. The company has a five-year maintenance free policy with its customers.

Required:

1. Describe how Unique Furniture is using the following strategies to perform better than its competitors:

1. Cost reduction
2. Quality products
3. Capacity and location of business                                                        

(b) Draw a value chain to illustrate the activities of Unique Furniture Limited.

Professional Development Event Review

Carrier- information Technology (IT)

Part of developing as a professional in any career path is attending events that can further your knowledge of a field. This can be in the form of seminars, webinars, conferences, workshops, and sometimes online training if you are learning a new technical skill. The completion of this assignment requires two parts, which should take up 3-4 pages.

Part 1: Attend 3 (or more) events related to the computing profession and reflect on them. These could be workshops, seminars, training, information sessions, conferences, panels, etc. The Career Fair does not count as a professional development event. Describe what you learned in the event and how it can help you in the future of your career. Also, critique the event and explain how it could have been made better and/or what you particularly liked about it. If you are already working with a company that offers professional development, that will be a great resource to pull from!

Part 2: Imagine that you are an employer in charge of creating a seminar to train or help develop new professionals in your company. Explain your seminar. Some questions to consider answering: What would it be about? Who would it be for? How would you go about presenting it? What do you hope your new employees will gain from the seminar? How will you know they got something from the event?

According to Frederick Brooks (The Mythical Man-Month), how should the distribution of effort for each of the primary phases (as fractions of the total) be scheduled in a software development project? How does this differ from conventional scheduling?

you will read and discuss Chapter 2 of Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature. How Flexible is My Moral Code?

Summarize the general themes or summary of the chapter.

What are 6 to 8 discussion questions which address core issues of the chapter? (With each discussion question, you should provide an answer with page numbers cited.)

What are practical applications or "take-aways" from the chapter?

Question 3

Why does a global sales forces cause special compensation problems? Suggest some alternative solutions.

Question 16

Why do companies include an evaluation of an employee’s family among selection criteria for an expatriate assignment?

Resource: Impact of Online Crowdsourcing on Marketing Strategy Grading Guide Evaluate an online crowdsourcing site. Examples include, Dell's Idea storm, and Starbucks. Write a paper in which you review a crowdsourcing site. Marketing has evolved in its relationship to customers. Marketing to consumers has shifted to marketing for consumers. Marketing for consumers has the power to choose whether they want to create a dialogue. • How has the organization leading the crowdsourcing utilized consumers to help build its organization? • How does this option of crowdsourcing influence marketing strategy? • What is the impact of mobile and social media campaigns on marketing strategy for this organization?

Question 1 options:

Below is a table of times for Taxis (A to H) to reach Customers (1 to 8) who need a ride home after a night on the town. The goal is to Minimize the time it takes for all of the Taxis to reach their Customers. Only one Taxi will be sent to each Customer and each Customer needs only one Taxi.

The optimal solution to this problem requires the following:


Taxi A picks up Customer

Taxi B picks up Customer

Taxi C picks up Customer

Taxi D picks up Customer

Taxi E picks up Customer

Taxi F picks up Customer

Taxi G picks up Customer

Taxi H picks up Customer

Minimum Cost =

Hint: Your cost should be between 33 and 39

How do operations management terminology like operations strategy, planning, organizational management, capacity, productivity, throughput, time, efficiency, technology, human resources, other resources, costs, backlogs, bottlenecks, quality, and supply chains relate to Covid19 testing?

Assignment Scenario:

The Vice President of Human Resources for the international position you pretended to apply for in the International Job Search experiential exercise is trying to determine the appropriate compensation for the job. Based on the key components of an international compensation program mentioned in your textbook, you are being asked to develop a compensation package for the position you pretended to apply for. Explain the rationale for your design. Your recommendations must include numerical data, percentages, etc. based on the text and research, and must include your response to the following instructions:

1. a) Identify and describe the compensation approach you believe is best for the position you have applied for? (Going Rate Approach or the Balance Sheet Approach) b) Keeping the international firm’s location in mind, detail the advantages and disadvantages of this approach as they relate to the position you applied for.

1. a) How much of a base salary will you propose for the position? b) What percentage of base salary will the inducement comprise?  Be specific – express the computations in percentage (%) and in the currency amounts (Pesos, Euros, Etc.) from the region for which you have applied.

Question 21 40 pts

(TCO 1) How should an information security policy be introduced within an organization, and who should be involved in the review and approval process?

Question 3

Someone once commented that advertising is America’s greatest export. Discuss.

Question 8

How can advertisers overcome the problems of low literacy in their markets?

Question 18

Take each of the steps in the communications process and give an example of how culture differences can affect the final message received.