What do you think are the most important trends that will influence marketing in domestic and international markets?

Upward mobility is important to all organizations and particularly critical to employees. Traditional career paths emphasize strict upward mobility within an organization. How does mobility differ in organizations with innovative career paths? List the career paths discussed in our text, sharing not only how mobility occurs in each, but also how you might have observed such practices or the lack of them in your own experience. How do you feel about these innovative career paths?

an evaluation of the effectiveness of transactional and transformational leadership in business. In your evaluation, do the following:

• Describe two well-known business leaders who respectively exhibit transactional and transformational business leadership behavior, and explain how each business leader exemplifies the identified type of leadership.
• Explain whether you believe that transformational leadership is the most effective type of business leadership and why. Be sure to include specific examples, if any, in which transactional leadership might be more appropriate.
• Describe any potential negative consequences of transformational leadership

Alice smith purchased a toy chest at Target. Once she got home, she assembled the toy chest, but neglected to read the instructions provided by the manufacturer, Let's Play!. Unfortunately, at the end she realized she had some parts left over. Not wanting to start over, she decided that the chest worked well enough and filled it with toys. She threw out the remaining parts. The next day, Alice and her mother, Alexandra Miler, spent the afternoon playing with children in the living room, where the toy chest was located. As they were tidying up, they opened the lid to the toy chest. As they were doing so, the lid on the chest, unexpectedly slammed shut on Alexandra's arm causing bruises, scraps and cuts as well as broken bones.

Alexandra sues Let's Play! for $100,000 in damages based on a claim of strict product liability. What does Miller have to establish to prove her case of strict product liability? List all elements she must show to prove her claim. Apply the elements to the facts in the case. Judgment for whom?

A. What are the three key components/categories of effective teams?

B. Under each of these categories, discuss briefly a few of factors that add or detract from team effectiveness and why.

People have done some amazing things to get or keep money! Think of a potential or real issue of an ethical dilemma in compensation. Define the issue and think about what you did or might do under similar circumstances. What would an HR professional and company need to do to avoid or put systems in place to guard against this type of problem, especially with pay for performance plans.  

do you believe that geographical region, occupation, and role in your occupation make a difference in how you handle conflict? Why?

A. What is the difference between formal and informal groups? Give an example of each.

B. There are at least 7 ways group cohesiveness can be increased. Pick three and describe them.

C. What is social loafing, and why does it occur (name at least two possible causes) ?

Our text tells us that the behavior of group members is shaped by the workgroups, which " help explain individual behaviors as well as the performance of the group." ( Robbins & Judge, p.139) There are several defining group properties including roles, norms, status, size, cohesiveness, and diversity. Pick three and give a brief explanation of how each might affects the workgroup positively and/or negatively.

Motivation is one of the major areas of interest in organizational behavior (OB). Properly motivating a workforce can lead to gains in productivity, innovation, and employee retention. There are three key elements of motivation. Please describe them.

When a Body Meets a Body

What a day! A traveling couple has stopped overnight at this airport hotel to break up 27 hours of travel from almost around the world. It is already late, almost 11:00 pm when they finally get to their room. What’s that noise? A party in the room across the hall. After giving the partygoers an additional hour to finish up, the distraught guest calls the desk. No answer after some 10 rings. Every 10 minutes the caller rings the desk because the party has grown louder and louder and it is now well past 1 am. No answer. No answer. No answer. More than 2 hours after arriving, the man puts on his clothing and walks down to the lobby. The lobby is pitch dark except for emergency lighting. “Wow, something has happened. Oh Gosh! There’s a body on the sofa!” The guest is startled even more when the night auditor jumps up from the sofa and his deep sleep, mumbling something about; “sorry I must have fallen asleep.”

Questions:

1. Was there a management failure here? If so, what?

2. What is the hotel’s immediate response (or action) to the incident?

3. What further, long-run action should management take? If any?

Improving Decision Making: Making the Rent vs. Buy Decision for Hardware and Software

This project provides an opportunity for you to help a real-world make a decision about whether to rent or buy new technology. You’ll use spreadsheet software to compare the total three-year cost of licensing and maintaining new manufacturing software or renting the software from an application service provider.

Dirt Bikes would like to implement new production planning, quality control, and scheduling software for use by 25 members of its manufacturing staff. Management is trying to determine whether to purchase the software from a commercial vendor along with any hardware required to run the software, or to use a hosted software solution from an application service provider. (The hosted software runs on the ASP’s computer.) You have been asked to help management with the rent-versus-buy decision by calculating the total cost of each option over a three-year period.

The costs of purchasing the software (actually for purchasing a license from the vendor to use its software package) include the initial purchase price of the software (licensing fee of $100,000 paid in the first year), the cost of implementing and customizing the software in the first year ($20,000), one new server to run the software (a first-year purchase of $4,000), one information systems specialist devoting half or his or her time to supporting the software ($55,000 in full-time annual salary and benefits with a 3% annual salary increase each year after the first year), user training in the first year ($10,000), and the cost of annual software upgrades ($5,000).

The cost of renting hosted software are the rental fees ($2,500 annually per user), implementation and customization costs ($12,000 in the first year), and training ($10,000 in the first year).

Use your spreadsheet software to calculate the total cost of renting or purchasing this software over a three-year period. Identify the lowest price alternative that meets Dirt Bike’s requirements.

What other factors should Dirt Bikes consider besides costs in determining whether to rent or buy the software?

Please Use Excel to solve this problem.. Please list the steps used in your solution.

There are some basic steps in a criminal trial. I want you to walk me through a trial and then I want you to tell me what you consider to be the most important step and support your thoughts using our library databases.

1. What are the primary functions of computer technology in the dentist’s office? In your answer, refer to clinical, administrative, and special-purpose applications.

2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using virtual reality simulations in health care education. Provide examples.

3. Given the many uses of information technology in health care today, anyone entering a health care field must be computer literate and computer competent. Discuss this statement and provide examples.