Explain the difference between a “pull” promotional strategy and a “push” promotional strategy. Under what conditions should each strategy be used?

What are the two major strategic group competitors for Better World Books and what are the significant future actions of each competitor?

What does spirituality mean to you?(350 words)

In management, what are the most important general environment factors to be considered for Better World Books and what is their effect, positive-negative-neutral?

Based on your readings and work with the InnRoad Simulation, what are key reports for the housekeeping and maintenance departments

How does proper forecasting for manufacturing of a product aid the business in meeting demand of that product? In your answer discuss how season trends and cyclical products are impacted with these manufacturing decisions.

Please do it by type not pic.

1.       The Heart Association plans t install a free blood pressure testing booth at the Palouse mall for a week. Previous experience indicates that, on average, 10 persons per hour request a test and the arrivals are Poisson distributed from an infinite population. Blood pressure measurements are exponential with an average time of 5 minutes per exam.

a.      What is the average number of people in line?

b.      What is the average number of people in the system?

c.      What is the average amount of time a person can expect to spend in line?

d.      What is the average amount of time it will take to measure a person's blood pressure, including waiting in line?

e.      What is the probability of having 3 people in line ?

How can you apply the concepts of Strategic Planning, Bench-marking, Employee Assessment, and Performance Budgeting to an accounting position in the public sector.

What questions can strategic planning answer that will help us to position this new program to succeed in its environment?

How could bench-marking help us to set performance and cost standards for this program?

How can we incorporate bench-marking standards into an individual’s employee assessment process?

How would we use the basic budget for this new program and expand it to be useful as a performance budget?

illustrate some examples to demonstrate good and poor leaders in health care

do you believe that leadership skills are natural or learned. given that perspective, give some examples stratergies that help to hone one's own leadership skills.

Caterpillar is the world's leading maker of earth-moving machinery and supplier of agricultural equipment. Caterpillar wants to end its support for its Dealer Business System (DBS), which it licenses to its dealers to help them run their business. The software in this system is becoming outdated and senior management want to transfer support for the hosted version of the software to Accenture Consultants so it can concentrate on its core business. Caterpillar never required its dealers to use DBS, but the system has become a de facto standard for doing business with the company. The majority if its 50 Cat dealers in North America use some version of DBS, as do about the half of the other too or so Cat dealers in the rest of the world. Before Caterpillar turns the product over to Accenture, they call you in as a change consultant.

1. What factors and issues should it consider? What are the pluses and minuses?

2. What questions should it ask?

3. What questions should it ask its dealers?

4. How would you recommend that Caterpillar implement this change?

what are some of the leadership challenges a healthcare professional most likely to encounter in terms of individual skills and team skills

Are international strategies always just a special case of diversification strategies that a firm might pursue? What, if anything, is different between international strategies and diversification strategies? Answer in 300 words and provide resources used.

Explain how case law Right of Ontario v Ron Engineering & Construction (Eastern) Ltd. [1981] S.C.R. 111 played a pivotal role in establishing new contract concepts in Canada?

-  details and key facts of the claim

- contribution of the court’s decision to establish new bidding rules and laws

Please respond to questions1 and 2.

1.Why is planning and Forecasting a global workforce so difficult?

2.Why are so many countries bothered by their “brain drains “?

Please respond to questions 1,2 and 3.

1.If you are given the opportunity in your next job to go on an extended foreign assignment, what types of support programs would you expect or ask for?

2.If you ever have the responsibility to select an associate for a foreign assignment, how would you go about doing that and what characteristics would you look for to ensure success?

3.What do you think is the most significant challenge for IHRM in managing international assignees? Why?

Please write not less than 500 words and also give two references.