Q1:Explain what companies should do to make employees   contribute towards the strategic management process in the organization.

Q2: Why many organizations fail to implement plans successfully?

Q 3&4 : Case : Maestro Pizza the food industry nowadays became harder than before. The people now pay extra attention to even small details when it comes to food. The variety of food kinds, the way the food being served, the quality of food, the price and even the place decoration! Furthermore, there are tons of restaurants (competitors) those being in the food industry for decades which makes it even harder to compete them. Not to mention if a new restaurant will serve one kind of food that already being served by other expert restaurants.

Here we talk about a new restaurant in Saudi Arabia that successfully entered the food industry and managed to compete existed restaurants who are serving the same kind of food for a long time and even considered the best in the world of serving such food! The restaurant's name is Maestro Pizza which is locally founded and operated by Saudi people. This restaurant has successfully dominated the market and stole the throne from underneath of many other pizza restaurants like Pizza Hut and Domino’s Pizza and others.

In the context of the above case analyze and provide solution to the following:

Q3. Bargaining power of consumers .

Q4. Suggest strategies to differentiate Maestro Pizza products and services with its competitors

Since its detection in China in December 2019, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has quickly spread all over the world, affecting 199 countries and territories around the world. As of April 4, 2020, more than 1.2 M people had been infected and more than 65 thousand people died. Numerous countries around the globe have adopted unprecedented measures to limit the further spread of the virus and reduce the number of future victims. The novel coronavirus has an enormous influence on international financial, social, managerial, and economic development in many regions and countries, and poses a great challenge to local epidemic control and prevention systems. (Journal of Research in Emerging Markets, March 2020)

Your Assignment Write an essay about the sudden change in consumer habits in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

In your essay, discuss what happened to the external as well as internal influences, lifestyle, and situational influences. Also, please write about how companies have changed their communication strategies as well as distribution strategies in response to the current situation. Mention examples of companies that demonstrated corporate social responsibility to get closer to their customers and fulfill their values (International and local).

Keep consumer behavior as a core thought in your writing applying the concepts you have learnt this semester about consumer behavior from chapter 1 until chapter 14.

Mercury, Inc., produces cell phones at its plant in Texas. In recent years, the company’s market share has been eroded by stiff competition from overseas. Price and product quality are the two key areas in which companies compete in this market.

A year ago, the company’s cell phones had been ranked low in product quality in a consumer survey. Shocked by this result, Jorge Gomez, Mercury’s president, initiated an intense effort to improve product quality. Gomez set up a task force to implement a formal quality improvement program. Included on this task force were representatives from the Engineering, Marketing, Customer Service, Production, and Accounting departments. The broad representation was needed because Gomez believed that this was a companywide program and that all employees should share the responsibility for its success.

After the first meeting of the task force, Holly Elsoe, manager of the Marketing Department, asked John Tran, production manager, what he thought of the proposed program. Tran replied, “I have reservations. Quality is too abstract to be attaching costs to it and then to be holding you and me responsible for cost improvements. I like to work with goals that I can see and count! I’m nervous about having my annual bonus based on a decrease in quality costs; there are too many variables that we have no control over.”

Mercury’s quality improvement program has now been in operation for one year. The company’s most recent quality cost report is shown below.

As they were reviewing the report, Elsoe asked Tran what he now thought of the quality improvement program. Tran replied. “I’m relieved that the new quality improvement program hasn’t hurt our bonuses, but the program has increased the workload in the Production Department. It is true that customer returns are way down, but the cell phones that were returned by customers to retail outlets were rarely sent back to us for rework.”

Required:

1. Expand the company’s quality cost report by showing the costs in both years as percentages of both total production cost and total quality cost. (Round your percentage answers to 1 decimal place (i.e 0.1234 should be entered as 12.3).)

Introduction- reasons for proposal and writer's qualifications

Background- IDs problem and goals/purposes of project

Proposal- plan for solving the problem

Staffing- credentials/expertise of project leaders

Budget- list of project costs

Authorization request- request for approval or authorization of proposal

Letter or memo of transmittal

Abstract and/or executive summary

Title page

Table of contents

List of figures

Appendix

Introduction

Body

Conclusions

Recommendations

Title page

Letter or memo of transmittal

Table of contents

List of figures

Executive summar

Body of Report

Introduction

Background

Problem or purpose

Significance and scope

Sources and methods

Organization

Discussion of findings

Summary, conclusions, recommendations

Supplementary Parts of a Formal Report

Footnotes or endnotes

Works Cited, References, or Bibliography

Appendix

This research aimed to evaluate whether a self-management program promoted healthy lifestyle behaviors (HLBs) and improved health outcomes among Thai elderly with hypertension. Participants were randomly allocated to either an intervention group (n= 20), that received an 8-week selfmanagement program that included home visits, or a control group (n=20). The data were analyzed by a chi-square analysis, a mixed-model repeated measure MANOVA, and MANCOVAs. There were significant differences in the mean scores of healthy lifestyle behaviors at posttest and follow-up between the two groups (p <0.01) . Moreover, the experimental participants showed statistically significant decrease in BMI as compared to the control group participants in posttest and follow-up ( p <0. 001) . There was a statistically significant reduction in blood pressure in the experimental participants, compared with the control participants at follow-up (p <0.001). Furthermore, healthy lifestyle behaviors increased significantly in the experimental participants compared with the control participants and baseline ( p < 0. 001) . In addition, BMI and blood pressure decreased in the experimental participants compared with the control participants and baseline ( p < 0. 001) . The self-managementprogram resulted in improved healthy lifestyle behaviors, and health outcomes among the elderly with hypertension, and has implications for health promotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PLEASE ANSWER THE BELOW QUESTIONS

• What is the intended purpose of the study?
• How does the research questions/hypotheses address the problem as detailed by the researcher?
• How does the content in the purpose statement and research questions define the methodology used in the study?
• How was the data collected and analyzed?
• What was the benefit of using the selected statistical test?
• What was the outcome of the study?

Analyze the health status of a specific minority group. Select a minority group that is represented in the United States (examples include American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian American, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander).

In an essay of 750-1,000 words, compare and contrast the health status of the minority group you have selected to the national average. Consider the cultural, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical barriers to health. How do race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and education influence health for the minority group you have selected? Address the following in your essay:

What is the current health status of this minority group?

How is health promotion defined by this group?

What health disparities exist for this group?

Describe at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) that is likely to be the most effective given the unique needs of the minority group you have selected. Provide an explanation of why it might be the most effective choice.

Cite a minimum of three references in the paper.

You will find important health information regarding minority groups by exploring the following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) links:

Minority Health: http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/index.html

Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH): http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/aag/reach.htm

Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations: http://www.samhsa.gov/specific-populations/racial-ethnic-minority

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

In this assignment, you will be writing a 1,000-1,250 word paper describing the differing approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues in practice. To complete this assignment, do the followin

In this assignment, you will be writing a 1,000-1,250 word paper describing the differing approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues in practice. To complete this assignment, do the following:

1. Select an issue from the following list: bullying, unit closers and restructuring, floating, nurse turnover, nurse staffing ratios, use of contract employees (i.e., registry and travel nurses), or magnet designation.
2. Describe the selected issue. Discuss how it impacts quality of care and patient safety in the setting in which it occurs.
3. Discuss how professional standards of practice should be demonstrated in this situation to help rectify the issue or maintain professional conduct.
4. Explain the differing roles of nursing leaders and nursing managers in this instance and discuss the different approaches they take to address the selected issue and promote patient safety and quality care. Support your rationale by using the theories, principles, skills, and roles of the leader versus manager described in your readings.
5. Discuss what additional aspects managers and leaders would need to initiate in order to ensure professionalism throughout diverse health care settings while addressing the selected issue.
6. Describe a leadership style that would best address the chosen issue. Explain why this style could be successful in this setting.

Use at least three peer-reviewed journal articles other than those presented in your text or provided in the course.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

2. The Versatech Corporation has decided to produce three new products. Five branch plants now have excess production capacity. The unit manufacturing cost of the first product would be $31, $29, $32, $28, and $29 in Plants 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively. The unit manufacturing cost of the second product would be $45, $41, $46, $42, and $43 in Plants 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively. The unit manufacturing cost of the third product would be $38, $35, and $40 in Plants 1, 2, and 3, respectively, whereas Plants 4 and 5 do not have the capability for producing this product. Sales forecasts indicate that 600, 1000, and 800 units of products 1, 2, and 3, respectively, should be produced per day. Plants 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 have the capacity to produce 400, 600, 400, 600, and 1000 units daily, respectively, regardless of the product or combination of products involved. Assume that any plant having the capability and capacity to produce them can produce any combination of the products in any quantity.

3. (a) Write down an optimization formulation for this problem. Remark: You need to write down the abstract optimization formulation, explain the meaning of each optimization variable and explain what are the data.

4. (b) There is no “transportation” in the problem statement (there is no “truck”, no “route”). Nevertheless, the formulation is similar to a transportation problem. Ex- plain how to view this problem as a transportation problem.

5. (c) Solve the problem and report the optimal solution and optimal cost. You can use software to solve the problem; if so, please provide the code (e.g. copy the code to the solution file, or take a snapshot and paste the picture in the solution file).

write program that develop a Java class Dictionary to support the following public methods of an abstract data type:

public class Dictionary {

// insert a (key, value) pair into the Dictionary, key value must be unique, the value is associated with the key; only the last value inserted for a key will be kept public void insert(String key, String value);

// return the value associated with the key value public String lookup(String key);

// delete the (key, value) pair public void delete (String key);

}

You will declare a class Pair to represent the (key, value) pair, and use an array of the Pair objects to keep the values in the dictionary. Your array of Pair objects should be able to be sorted by java.util.Arrays.sort(). You can decide whether to store the Pair values in the array sorted or not according to the key values.

Write the main() method to create an instance of the Dictionary object, insert 50 random (key, value) pairs, update some values behind the same key, and delete some (key, value) pairs.

2. Rewrite Your class Dictionary so it can support values of any data type, and show that it works with different value data types.

3. Discuss advantages and disadvantages for storing the Pair objects sorted or not in the Dictionary class.

4. What is running time for each method of your Dictionary class in terms of Big-O notation?

5. Trace method heapSort(T[] w) with sequence of diagrams with both heap tree view and 1-D array view how to sort integers 8, 4, 1, 2, 5, 3, 10, 7, 5, 9, 1, 12, and 5.