Public Speaking

•Preparation:

1.What do you do to prepare for your speeches?

2.What might you have done differently in order to be more effective?

•Introduction:

1.How effective were your attention-getting strategies?

2.How well did you relate your topics to your audience?

•Body:

1.Were you clear in your themes?

2.Overall, were your ideas developed thoroughly? Explain when and why.

3.How would you revise your speech so that you could improve it?

•Conclusion:

1.Overall, did you leave your audience with lasting impressions?

•Delivery:

1.What were your strengths?

2.What do you need to improve?

There are four (4) questions based on the following article from the ABA Journal. The Ohio Supreme Court has reversed an award of more than $360,000 in a suit against a grocery store chain that provided a motorized shopping cart to a customer who caused a collision and injured the plaintiff. The court said Giant Eagle wasn’t liable because there is insufficient evidence that its actions caused the incident. The plaintiff in the case, Barbara Rieger, was injured in December 2012 at a Giant Eagle in Brook Park, Ohio, when another shopper, Ruth Kurka, hit Rieger’s shopping cart with her motorized cart, according to the Ohio Supreme Court’s September 19th opinion. Rieger, who had been standing at the bakery counter, was knocked to the ground and taken to the hospital by ambulance, incurring $11,511 in medical bills. Kurka died before trial, and her estate settled with Rieger for $8,500. At trial, Rieger provided deposition testimony by Kurka’s husband, who said his wife had never been trained on how to operate the motorized cart. Rieger also presented evidence that there were 117 incidents involving motorized cars at Giant Eagle stores from 2004 to 2012. Deposition testimony by a Giant Eagle representative submitted at trial established that there are no instructions for operation on the motorized carts, and Giant Eagle assumes that people who use the carts know how to drive them. Jurors also heard evidence that Kurka had been driving motorized carts for more than a year and had no prior incidents. Jurors awarded $121,000 in compensatory damages and nearly $1.2 million in punitive damages. An appeals court lowered the punitive damages to $242,000. On appeal, Giant Eagle contended that the appeals court had eliminated the need to prove negligence and made the store an insurer for motorized cart incidents when it affirmed the verdict. The Ohio Supreme Court agreed with Giant Eagle and said a trial judge should have granted a directed verdict to the grocery store chain. It isn’t enough for a plaintiff to assert or speculate that a defendant’s actions or failure to act might have caused an injury, the court said. Instead, the plaintiff has to show that the harm would not have occurred but for the defendant’s behavior. “Despite the fact that Giant Eagle does not provide training for its customers who use the motorized carts, there is no evidence that training would have prevented the accident in this case,” the court said.

Giant Eagle took exception to the decision of the appeals court when it “eliminated the need to prove negligence and made the store an insurer for motorized cart incidents when it affirmed the verdict.” Since it was a negligence case, which requirement to prove negligence is demonstrated by the Ohio Supreme Court’s statement that “Giant Eagle wasn’t liable because there is insufficient evidence that its actions caused the incident”?

Group of answer choices

Unreasonable Behavior

Proximate Causation

Duty of Care

Causation in Fact

Describe value analysis. What are the desirable outcomes of value analysis to the firm?
To customers?

You have been invited by a large global health foundation to advise them on how to spend $10 million on a global health program. They want the program to address today’s most important global health concern. How would you advise them to spend this money? Please justify your answer using relevant data.

• The use of incentives and rewards is the single most powerful tool at management's disposal to win strong employee commitment to carrying out the strategic plan. True or false? Explain

• Provide three examples of nonmonetary motivation and rewards practices that have the capability to foster good strategy execution and explain how they act to produce such a result.

Research a company that has successfully embraced diversity in their workforce. Highlight their reasons for success, examples of inclusive programs, and identify three core competencies for inclusion.

1. Define personal selling and discuss its role in a company’s promotion mix. List an example of when you were sold something using a personal selling approach, what was your experience as the buyer like?

2. Discuss the benefits of direct and digital marketing to buyers and sellers. Would you agree that direct and digital marketing are methods that influence your buying behavior? Use an example.

3. Define competitive advantage. How do companies go about finding their competitive advantage? Identify a product or service you use and list the competitive advantage. Why did this influence you?

4. What environmental factors must international marketers consider when enter foreign markets? Explain why certain factors are more important than others. Do you agree/disagree?

In an organization, the worst situation for the manager is a highly cohesive group with low-performance norms which is a total nightmare scenario. How should the company handle this situation? ( decreasing the cohesiveness or increasing the personal norms are the answers but how?)

The company has had an unrelenting focus on the pursuit of quality. As the company has grown and matured, so too has its approach to managing quality. Benchmarking quality in terms of defect rates against the best high-end Swiss watch-makers was the initial starting point. These quality control processes quickly gave way to quality assurance systems, which have then progressed into industry leading total quality management (TQM) and an incorporation of Kaizen to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of watches at Killer Time. Killer Time has come to set the industry standard for design, craftsmanship and quality –all factors that Mrs Jacobson attributes to the young company being able to steadily increase its market share.

Question: Evaluate the roles of total quality management (TQM) and the Kaizen system of continuous improvement in Killer Time Ltd.

1. During Christmas, What types of products a planner/worker for Target might need to plan for more inventory and list out 5 products that would be highly affected by the Christmas shopping season.

2. Describe what resources the Planner/Buyer would use in order to make the best forecast.

Some organizations have adopted a pay leadership position, in which they pay at a substantially higher rate than do their competitors. Examples of such companies include Zingerman’s Deli, Moo Cluck Moo restaurant, Gravity Payments, CostCo, and Ivar’s Salmon House.

a. Explain three possible reasons for companies’ adoption of a pay leadership policy.

b. Evaluate the validity of these possible reasons and their underlying assumptions.

c. Discuss two factors that will affect whether a pay leadership policy will be successful or not. Give examples of particular organizations to illustrate your analysis.

identify one or two provisions from the major laws and regulations governing equal employment opportunity that you believe are most challenging for organizations to adhere to.What factors should organizations considering orderto meet the requirements of these provisions?

In a Word document, you will type a response letter to the position of manager, accountant, administrative/medical assistant, or health professional. The position requires an associate's degree or higher, at least one year of work experience, and proficiency with Microsoft Office. Excellent communication skills are required. Second language a plus. Be sure to include an inside address and salutation. You are typing a letter to a company that you have made up. I am not asking you to look up a position on the web site or the newspaper. You are making up a company. However, you are applying for a job as either a manager, accountant, administrative/medical assistant, or health care professional. You are to choose one of these positions.

1)Over the past 12 weeks, demand and orders at Michael’s Metals are as follows. Calculate the bullwhip measure for the 12-week period.

a)0.41

b)2.42

c)3.15

d)1.1

2)The following tasks lie on the critical path of a project:

a.The above task gives the mean completion time of each task (in days) and the standard deviation. Based on this information, what is the probability that the project will be completed in 23 days or less?

a)less than 5% but more than 3%

b)Less than 3%

c)More than 5% but less than 10%

d)More than 10%

b.The above task gives the mean completion time of each task (in days) and the standard deviation. Based on this information, with 99% probability, in how many days will the project be completed?

3) A firm X is evaluating disaster risk in the supply chain. If the probability of the super even S=0.1 and the probability of the unique event U=0.05, what is the lowest possible probability of supply chain disruption that firm X can achieve (regardless of the suppliers)?

a)0.1

b)0.12

c)0.14

d)0.08

Choose a job in your field from one of the job search sites. Using Word, describe how you would network to get the position you chose. Submit to the Job Search and Networking Folder below.