If we take the phrase of studying history not to repeat our mistakes and apply it to what is going on today (pademic), how do you think our leaders will be judged in the history books? Will they be judged favorably or unfavorably? Why do you believe this?

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of job specialization. Give examples of each. Does job specialization provide organizations a net benefit or a net loss? Explain.

Describe, discuss, and give examples of the differences between normal work groups and teams.

Discuss the primary conditions that foster the development of groupthink. Outline at least four symptoms of a group in which groupthink has taken hold.

Argue for and against the trait theory of leadership. give examples.

CarpetPlus sells and installs floor covering for commercial buildings. Brad Sweeney, a CarpetPlus account executive, was just awarded the contract for five jobs. Brad must now assign a CarpetPlus installation crew to each of the five jobs. Because the commission Brad will earn depends on the profit CarpetPlus makes, Brad would like to determine an assignment that will minimize total installation costs. Currently, five installation crews are available for assignment. Each crew is identified by a color code, which aids in tracking of job progress on a large white board. The following table shows the costs (in hundreds of dollars) for each crew to complete each of the five jobs:
   Job

   Crew    1 2 3 4 5

   Red 30 44 38    47 31

   White 25 32 45 44 25

Blue 23 40 37 39 29

   Green 26 38 37    45 28

Brown 26 34    44    43    28

a. Develop a network representation of the problem. b. Formulate and solve a linear programming model to determine the minimum cost assignment

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As a business manager, you may encounter situations that require a wide variety of communication responses. For this assessment, you will be creating a portfolio of communication documents. Please appropriately format each communication for the message type.

Scenario 3:

You are a manager of a research company. Your research team has developed a transition package that allows a gas-powered engine to transition to running on biofuels. The availability and low cost of biofuels make the transition package a potential game changer in the automobile market. You have named the product Sparkit.

In addition to tests completed by your staff, you have partnered with a large automobile producer to ensure the transition package works with many different types of vehicles. The large automobile producer remains a partner in the product as a result of their involvement, and you anticipate that future vehicles from the producer may use the technology when initially built. With the producer's assistance, you anticipate 50% of cars currently on the road can potentially be retrofitted with your product. The producer has created a guide for your sales force to ensure that Sparkit is not sold to customers whose cars are not compatible with the product.

This is the first big product developed by your company. Your sales and service teams do not have current relationships with potential buyers. One potential risk is that purchasers may choose to install the transition package on their own rather than choose a knowledgeable automotive professional to install it. You anticipate there may be issues with installation as a result.

The success of Sparkit relies upon an external business partner, Autojor, who manufactures a filter critical to the proper operation of the transition package. As the result of a natural disaster, Autojor recently lost a manufacturing plant that was responsible for producing 25% of your inventory. You will need to work closely with this partner to ensure their manufacturing operation is able to continue supporting the just-in-time environment to meet sales demands. Your contact’s name at Autojor is Mateo Kalani.

You have received a customer complaint via the company’s social media page. The customer is extremely dissatisfied, and the complaint has negatively impacted the company’s image. The customer’s complaint is as follows: “I bought and installed Sparkit. It doesn’t work! The instructions do not match my engine’s layout, and now my car doesn’t work at all. This was supposed to save me money, but now my car won’t run. I’ll have to put more money into getting it fixed. This is ridiculous. I have told all my friends, and now I am telling the world—do not buy this product! If you do, you will regret it.”

Requirements Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide. You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. Create a portfolio of communication documents based on one of the scenarios by doing the following:

Compose an informational email to external stakeholders (i.e., investors, shareholders) that discusses two distinct organizational and/or financial impacts the product will create.

Compose a persuasive letter to the business partner to discuss their challenges in meeting your production needs.

Evaluate the communication strategies and methods (i.e., email, letter, blog, and social media) used in items A–E by doing the following: Explain how the communication strategies support or do not support the desired outcomes and provide examples to support your conclusion. Explain how the four communication methods effectively or ineffectively serve the target audience and provide examples to support your conclusion.

Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

describe employees retention strategies essay style with work cited?

Scenario: Sam Smith was standing on a platform of B&O Railroad after buying a ticket to go to San Antonio Beach. A train stopped at the station, bound for another place. Two women ran forward to catch it. One of the women reached the platform of the car without incident, though the train was already moving. The other woman, carrying a package, jumped aboard the car but seemed unsteady as if about to fall. One of the guards on the car, who had held the door open, reached forward to help her in, and another guard on the platform pushed her from behind. In this act, the package was let go and fell onto the rails. The package was not big, and was within a plastic bag. The package, later, was determined to have fireworks within it. The fireworks when they fell exploded. The shock of the explosion threw down some scales at the other end of the platform, many feet away. The scales struck the plaintiff, causing injuries for which Sam Smith is suing.

• Identify the type of tort or crime to be charged
• If a tort, examine the elements needed to meet this tort and if all elements were met.
• Evaluate and Recommend which parties should be held liable for the injuries suffered, if anyone?

Starbucks does have optimistic status for their great company culture. Do you believe customers can sense a difference between company owned stores and franchisee/licensee institutions? That would not be great for business as whole, particularly when that culture has some impact on selling $5+ lattes.

Find an example in your own experience of a communication-related challenge stemming from the difference between high and low context in culture. Identify any potential misunderstanding or difficulty that you may have observed in interpreting an individual’s intended meaning. For example, if someone from a different culture seems too direct (low context), the exchange can seem, incorrectly, to imply a harsh tone, while being too indirect (high context) can seem, incorrectly, to reflect fear or hesitation. Try to reason how some knowledge of high versus low context in different cultures might have helped avoid any confusion. [Week 4 Video 2.] Consider the various cultural dimensions under the broad heading of proxemics, including proxemics itself (physical distance), oculesics (eye contact, such as length of gaze), vocalics (use of voice, such as inflection or loudness), chronemics (time-sequencing in conversation), kinesics (body language), or haptics (physical touch as a part of regular communication). Identify an example from your own experience in which one or more of these dimensions was at play in creating some manner of confusion in interpreting someone’s intent. For example, ample misunderstandings can result from failing to understand hand-holding between men in certain cultures, touching the other person’s arm during a normal conversation, or appearing to gaze a bit too long due to different cultural norms. Please use at least 2 references and in text citation.

Identify a product that would fit in each of the following stages of the product life cycle. 1) introduction, 2) Growth, 3) maturity, 4) decline.

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You are in charge of leading a meeting for the newest changes for the HEB you work at. The changes needing to be discussed are:

- The new soap dispensers for hands free washing,
- Changing the benefits and pay structures,
- The purchasing of 500 new carts, and
- Employee birthdays that month.

With your knowledge of conducting effective meetings a) generate an appropriate agenda for this meeting, explain why you chose this layout for topics, and describe how you would use your “Closing and Follow up” notes

Discuss three of the ten S-D logic premises with relevant examples of how each is applied in practice.

1. Service is the fundamental basis of exchange
2. Indirect exchange masks the fundamental basis of exchange
3. Goods are a distribution mechanism for service provision
4. Operant (vs Operational) resources are the fundamental source of competitive advantage
5. All economies are service economies

6. The customer is always a co creator of value
7. The enterprise cannot deliver value, but only offer value propositions
8. A service-centred view is inherently customer oriented and relational
9. All social and economic actors are resource integrators
10. Value is always uniquely determined by the beneficiary