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Anyone know this case?? need help what happens in this case and what is the begin and the end in this case. Thank you for helping!!!

what is the best leadership theories also besides the theory does the business need good leaders?

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: Discuss the CAGE Distance Framework that firms should consider when choosing which foreign markets to enter. What conditions help managers determine which type of distance is most likely to affect the success of an international expansion? Provide an example.

Case presentation. "Working conditions in China"

In 2008, the National Labor Committee sponsored an investigation into working conditions in two factories in China that make computer equipment, including keyboards and printer cases, for Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, and Microsoft. The report, which was published in early 2009, describes working conditions that are extremely harsh by Western standards. According to the report, in the Metai factory in Guangdong, the workers sit on wooden stools, without backrests, as 500 computer keyboards an hour move down the assembly line, 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with just two days off a month. Every 7.2 seconds a keyboard passes each worker, who has to snap six or seven keys into place-one key every 1.1 seconds. The assembly line never stops. The workplace is frantic, monotonous, numbing, and relentless. Each worker inserts 3,250 keys an hour; 35,750 keys during the official 11-hour shift; 250,250 a week, performing more than 1 million operations a month. Workers are paid 1/50th of a cent for each operation they complete. While work- ing, employees cannot talk, listen to music, or even lift their heads to look around. Workers needing to use the bathroom must hold it until there is a break. Security guards spy on the workers, who are prohibited from putting their hands in their pockets and are searched when they enter and leave the factory. The factory operates 24 hours a day on two 12-hour shifts, with the workers rotating between day and night shifts each month. The workers are at the factory for up to 87 hours a week, and all overtime is mandatory. There are two half-hour meal breaks per shift, but after racing to the cafeteria and lining up to get food, the workers have only about 15 minutes to eat. The base wage is 64 cents an hour, which after deductions for primitive room and board drops to a take-home wage of just 41 cents an hour. The workers get up about 6:00 AM. When they return to their dorm, sometime between 9:00 and 9:30 P.M., they bathe using a small plastic bucket. Summer tempera- tures routinely reach into the high 90s. During the winter, workers have to walk down several flights of stairs to fetch hot water in their buckets. Ten to twelve workers share each crowded dorm room, sleeping on narrow metal bunk beds that line the walls. Workers drape old sheets over their cubicle openings for privacy. Comments from the workers at this factory, most of whom are young women be- tween 18 and their mid-20s, reinforce how harsh the conditions are. One stated, "Every day I enter the factory and I assemble keyboards. My hands are moving constantly and i can't stop for a second. Our fingers, hands and arms are swollen and sore. Every day I do this for 12 hours. What makes it even worse is the constant pressure and boring monoto of the work," Another notes. "The factory rules are really like a private law. We are forced obey and endure management's harsh treatment. Some young workers have boyfriende and girlfriends outside the factory and if they want to go on a date, we have to ben the boss for mercy to be able to leave the factory compound." Another said simply. "We feel like we are serving prison sentences." When informed of these findings, a spokesman for Microsoft said the factory supplied one of its contract manufacturers, but Microsoft would investigate. Representatives from Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo also stated the factory was not a direct supplier, but supplied their suppliers. However, they too said they would look into the issue. A spokesman for Dell, for whom the factory is a direct supplier, said it was actively investigating conditions. The spokesman went on to say, "I can tell you that any reports of poor working conditions in Dell's supply chain are investigated and appropriate action is taken.

Q1) what are the recommendations FOR THIS PROBLEM? what should be done?

agree or not?

Wealthy countries have spent more than $ 9 trillion on overcoming the economic impact of COVID-19. And costs are currently increasing as governments try to ensure the functioning of the economy after a pandemic. The damage done can go beyond the financial crisis and possibly even the Great Depression. This is the worst economic crisis in 70 years. Now investors are rushing to a safe place. 11-year growth in US stock markets has ended. And there is one reliable harbor that everyone is counting on, and that is not gold. This is the dollar. Despite all the talk that the dollar will lose its reserve currency status, it turned out to be just that, talk Emerging markets suffered a major blow to the dollar. The Indonesian rupee has lost nearly 14 percent of its value since the beginning of the year. The Russian ruble and the Mexican peso lost a fifth of their value. The problem for emerging markets is that they may want to lower interest rates to stimulate the coronavirus-affected economy, but it will further undermine their currencies. And interest payments on dollar debts have just grown, having unbalanced finances. The pound fell more than 10 percent, the level that was last seen in 1985. The United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union violated the stability of the pound, which is believed to have been tied to the fate of the continent. The best currency is the Argentine peso, the best in the sense that it fell the least compared to other Latin American countries. The fact that he introduced capital controls restricts cash flows from the country to overcome the economic crisis certainly helped. The dollar has been the leading currency in the world for more than a century. Today, more than 60 percent of all foreign bank reserves and 40 percent of all debts are held in US dollars.

1. You have been hired as the new Loan Department Manager in a bank that has been having troubles in the loan department as identified by the federal auditors. You task is to clean the procedures, the lending policies and reduce the problematic loans so that profitability is restored and the CAMELS score improves. Please take me through the process and set up clear policies and procedures

agree or not?

Do you think an international monetary system with currencies valued on the basis of gold would work today? Why or why not?

I don’t think that an international monetary system with currencies valued on the basis of gold would work today because in the past when the nations involved in the first world war needed to finance their wars expenses, they needed to print more money and that is impossible to do when the money is tied to a fix rate such as gold. Furthermore, doing so would cause rapid inflations. Imagine if the world monetary system was tied to gold during this pandemic of the covid-19, nations wouldn’t been able to print more money to boost the economy, companies would have to close for good, and a raise in unemployment would have been unavoidable. U.S. would have being unable to get a stimulus package worth trillions of dollars to help families and businesses (Wild and Wild, 2019).

Do you think implementing a global version of the old European monetary system would work today? Why or why not?  

I don’t believe that an old European monetary system would work in today’s economy because it requires for members to de-and revalue their currencies if necessary. Any monetary system that is based on speculation, in my opinion is soon to be doomed. We could see how this type of system failed in the past and how it could fail again in the future when both the British pound and the Italian lira had been on the lower fringe of the allowable 2.25 percent fluctuation range with the German mark and currency speculators began unloading their pounds and lira. When the central banks of neither Britain nor Italy had enough money to buy their currencies back, their currencies plummet and they were forced to leave they ERM (Wild and Wild, 2019).

Are cryptocurrencies the future?

I do believe that cryptocurrencies have the potential to become a monetary system for the future. If cryptocurrencies are able to find a way to have a central authority that could ensure that things could run smoothly or back the value, then they could become the future of currencies. Another thing that cryptocurrencies should work on before it could become widely acceptable is to find a way to keep the value more steadily instead of the wildly swings that it’s possible to have in its value. I believe the closest to become a cryptocurrency of the future is Libra. Libra is a blockchain technology just like bitcoin but with a stable value backed by a reserve of assets made up cash or cash equivalents and very short-term government securities. The idea was introduced by Facebook associates and other companies that were named as the Libra Association first members and the reserve basket would be made up 50% U.S. dollar, 18% Euro, 14% Japanese yen, 11% Pound sterling and 7% Singapore dollar (libra.org, n.d.)

Describe the roles of the president, congress, and states in formulating health policies

Sam Nolan clicked the mouse for one more round of solitaire on the computer in his den. He’d been at it for more than an hour, and his wife had long ago given up trying to persuade him to join her for a movie or are Saturday night on the town. The mind-numbering game seemed to be all that calmed Sam down enough to stop thinking about work and how his job seemed to get worse every day.

Nolan was chief information officer at Century Medical, a large medical products company based in Connecticut. He had joined the company four years ago, and since that time Century had made great progress integrating technology into its systems and processes. Nolan had already led projects to design and build two highly successful systems for century. One was a benefits-administration system for the company’s HR department. The other was a complex Web-based purchasing system that stream-lined the process of purchasing supplies and capital goods. Although the system had been up and running for only a few months, modest projects were that it would save Century nearly $2 million annually. Previously, Century’s purchasing managers were bogged down with shuffling and processing paper. The purchasing process would begin when an employee filled out a materials request form. Then the form would travel through various offices for approval and signatures before eventually being converted into a purchase order. The new web-based system allowed employees to fill out electronic request forms that were automatically e-mailed to everyone whose approval was needed. The time for processing request forms was cut from weeks to days or even hours. When authorization was complete, the system would automatically launch a purchase order to the appropriate supplier. In addition, because the new system had dramatically cut the time purchasing managers spent shuffling paper, they now had more time to work collaboratively with key stakeholders to identify and select the best suppliers and negotiate better deals.

Nolan thought wearily of all the hours he had put in developing trust with people throughout the company and showing them how technology could not only save time and money but also support team-based work and give people more control over their own jobs. He smiled briefly she recalled one long-term HR employee, 61-year-old Ethel Morre. She had been terrified when Nolan first began showing her the company’s intranet, but she was now one of his biggest supporters. In fact, it had been Ethel who had first approached him with idea about a web-based job posting system. The two had pulled together a team and developed an idea for linking century managers, internal recruiters, and job applicants using artificial intelligence software on top of an integrated web-based system. When Nolan had presented the idea to his boss, executive vice-president Sandra Ivey, she had enthusiastically endorsed it, and within a few weeks the team had authorization to proceed with the project.

But everything began to change when Ivey resigned her position six months later to take a plum job in New York. Ivey’s successor, Tom carr, seemed to have little interest in the project. During their first meeting, Carr had openly referred to the project as a waste of time and money. He immediately disapproved several new features suggested by the company’s internal recruiters, even though the project team argued that the features could double internal hiring and save millions in training costs. “Just stick to the original plan and get it done. All this stuff needs to be handled on a personal basis anyway,” Carr countered. “you can’t learn more from a computer than you can talking to real people – and as for internal recruiting, it shouldn’t be so hard to talk to people if they’re already working right here in the company.” Carr seemed to have no understanding of how and why technology was being used. He became irritated when Ethel Moore referred to the system as “web-based”. He boasted that he had never visited Century’s intranet site and suggested that “this internet fad” would blow over in a year or so anyway. Even Ethel’s enthusiasm couldn’t get through to him. She tried to show him some of the HR resources visible on the intranet and explain how it had benefited the department and the company, but he waved her away. “Technology is for those people in the IS department. My job is people, and yours should be, too”. Ethel was crushed, and Nolan realized it would be like beating his head against a brick wall to try to persuade Carr to the team’s point of view. Near the end of the meeting, Carr even jokingly suggested that the project team should just buy a couple of filing cabinets and save everyone some time and money.

Just when the team thought things couldn’t get any worse, Carr dropped the other bomb. They would no longer be allowed to gather input from uses of the new system. Nolan feared that without the input of potential users, the system wouldn’t meet their needs, or even that users would boycott the system because they hadn’t been allowed to participate. No doubt that would put a great big “I told you so” smile right on Carr’s face.

Nolan sighed and leaned back in his chair. The project had begun to feel like joke. The vibrant and innovative human resources department his team had imagined now seemed like nothing more than a pipe dream. But despite his frustration, a new thought entered Nolan’s mind: “Is Carr just stubborn and narrow-minded or does he have a point that HR is a people business that doesn’t need a high-tech job posting system?”

questions:

1. Development of Alternatives to Address the Problem Statement
2. Evaluation of Alternatives, and Recommend One
3. Implementation Plan of Chosen Alternative:
4. Evaluation of Chosen Alternative For Effectiveness

What steps can a small business owner take to differentiate their products?

Compose a one-page, double-spaced theme in Word that lists two companies that utilize Supply Chain Management. You cannot use the following companies mentioned in this chapter. Coca-Cola, Farms.com, Powersourceonline.com, abcfurniture.com, New England Wood (Links to an external site.), Vermont Hardware or Furniture Distribution Company. You also cannot use the two vendors listed in the video: Justine's Shoes and Safeway. For each of the two companies you list, write about what improvements the SCM software brought to their companies. Remember to cite your sources, using the Adding Citations directions that follow.

You are an HR Manager for an international company with locations in the US, Australia, UK, Brazil, and China. You have been tasked to develop and implement a new performance appraisal at each of your locations. What do you do?

Describe, discuss, compare and contrast job enlargement and job enrichment. Give examples of each.