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

Participate in a discussion with your classmates regarding natural unemployment. Review the “EYE on Your Life” caption titled, Natural Unemployment, on page 209 in the textbook. Now that we have learned that potential GDP is the value of real GDP when all the economy’s factors of production - labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurial ability - are fully employed, discuss how these factors render natural unemployment as productive when considering potential GDP. Please apply the production function and labor market concepts as explained in the textbook when sharing your discussion.

Eye on your life Natural Unemployement:

You will encounter natural unemployment at many points in you life. If you now have a job you probably went through a spell of natural unemployment as you searched for the job. When you graduate and look for a full-time job, you will most likely spend some more time searching for the best match for you skills and location preferences. In today's world of rapid technological change, most of us must retool and change our jobs at least once and for many of us, more than once. You might know an older worker who has recently lost a job and is going through the agony of figuring out what to do next. Although natural unemployment can be painful for people who experience it, from a social perspective, it is productive. It enables scarce labor resources to be re-allocated to their most valuable uses.

The Six basic steps in decision making:

1-Define the Problem

2- Determine the Objective

3- Explore the Alternatives

4- Predict the Consequences

5- Make a Choice

6- Perform Sensitivity Analysis

Write 300 to 400 words on “Determine the Objective.” Describe your own motives and what your short or long term plans are (please explain short term and long term plans separately) after completing your MBA? Knowing you “can’t always get what you want” what can you get? What can you change? Explain how you have to make these decisions under uncertainty. Cite the textbook at least twice applying concepts from the text.

Excel please I don't know how to do it.

6-13. From a sample of 22 graduate students, the mean number of months of work experience prior to entering an MBA program was 34.86. The national standard deviation is known to be 19 months. What is a 95% confidence interval for the population mean? Compute the confidence interval using the appropriate formula and verify your results using the Excel Confidence Intervals template.

6-15. A survey of 26 college freshmen found that they average 6.85 hours of sleep each night. A 90% confidence interval had a margin of error of 0.497.

      a. What are the lower and upper limits of the confidence interval?
b. What was the standard deviation, assuming that the population standard deviation is known?

In 2008, the Board of Directors and shareholders of Anheuser Busch agreed to be acquired by a Belgian Brewer (InBev). Prior to the merger, InBev made many pledges to AB regarding how the company would operate after the merger, how its employees would be treated, and so on. With some stipulations, the U.S. Government agreed to allow the merger.

Since the merger, InBev has laid off a significant number of Anheuser Busch employees, most of whom worked at the St. Louis headquarters. Where the merger created duplication of job duties, those being terminated have to-date been from AB, not InBev. There is a great deal of speculation and trepidation around the St. Louis area about the long-term fate of the remaining employees, as well as worry about how the new company will view the many and varied civic contributions the company has made to St. Louis and the many other U.S. areas in which it has operations.

View 1 - AB acted as a well-managed business that takes the actions necessary to remain competitive in a very competitive market. If AB had not approved the merger, its profits and stock price would have fallen, and investment capital would have fled the company. As difficult as the decision was, AB operates in a very competitive environment and owes its stockholders the best return it can provide.

View 2 - The decision to sell the company was both short-sighted and, ultimately, a bad business decision. Any short term benefits AB stockholders reaped from the merger will be more than offset by U.S. job losses, lower tax revenues for States and the U.S. Government, and damage to the U.S. communities in which the company operates. Employees whose employers are loyal to them during difficult times repay that loyalty to the company through hard work. Employees who view themselves as economic pawns to be added or discarded as needed will feel only a marginal commitment to the new AB and their work performance will reflect the negative opinion they hold of their employer.

Let's hear your thoughts. Don't just tell us what you think personally, but bring Managerial Economic theory to bear on this issue.

Oriole Company reported the following on its income statement:

An analysis of the income statement revealed that interest expense was $100000. Oriole Company's times interest earned was

Retained Earnings:

A. is decreased by a stock split.

B. represents an amount of cash available to pay shareholders.

C. represents the total amount of net income earned by the company during its existence.

D. can be subject to appropriation by a corporation's directors to limit dividends.

P3-45: Assessing Financial Statement Effects of Transactions and Adjustments.

The following information related to December 31 accounting adjustment for fulton fast print company. The firm’s fiscal year ends on December 31.

1. Weekly salaries for a five-day week total 3,600 payable on Fridays. December 31 of the current year is a Tuesday.

2. Fulton Fast Print has 20,000 of notes payable outstanding at December 31. Interest of $200 has accrued on these notes by December 31 but will not be paid until the notes mature next year.

3. During December, Fulton Fast Print provided $900 of printing services to clients who will be billed on January 2. The firm uses the fees receivable account to reflect amounts earned but not yet billed.

4. Starting December 1, all maintenance work on Fulton Fast Print’s equipment is handled by Richardson Repair Company under an agreement whereby Fulton Fast Print pays a fixed monthly charge of $400. Fulton Fast Print paid six months’ service charge of 2,400 cash in advance on December 1 and increased its Prepaid maintenance amount by 2,400.

5. The firm paid $900 cash on December 15 for a series of radio commercials to run during December and January. One-third of the commercials aired by December 31. The $900 payment was in its prepaid advertising account.

6. Starting December 16, Fulton Fast Print rented 800 square feet of storage space from a neighboring business. The monthly rent of $0.80 per square foot is due in advance on the first of each month. Nothing was paid in December to the January 1 payment.

7. Fulton Fast Print invested 5,000 cash in securities on December 1 and earned interest of $38 on these securities by December 31. No interest will be received until January.

8. Annual depreciation on the firm’s equipment is 2,175. No depreciation has been recorded during the year.

Required

Prepare Fulton Fast Print Company’s accounting adjustments required at December 31 using the financial statement effects template.

P3-46: Preparing Accounting Adjustments Refer to the information in P3-45. Prepare accounting adjustments required at December 31 using journal entries.

NOTE: Only P3-46 IS REQUIRED, but you needed the information from P3-45 to complete this problem

Jeffrey Lopez began a professional practice on June 1 and plans to prepare financial statements at the end of June. During June, the firm completed the following transactions:

Owner invested $60K cash in the company along with equipment that had a $15K market value in exchange for its common stock

The company paid $1,500 cash for rent for the month of June

The company purchased $10K of additional equipment on credit (payment due in 30 days)

The company completed work for a client and immediately collected the $2,500 cash earned

The company completed work for a client and sent a bill for $8K to be received within 30 days

The company purchased additional equipment for $6K cash

The company paid an assistant cash $3K cash as wages for the month

The company collected $5K cash as partial payment from the customer in transaction e above

The company paid $10K cash to settle the liability created in transaction c

The company paid $1K cash dividends to its owner (sole shareholder)

You are required to:

(1) Summarize and post the above transactions

(2) Prepare an income statement

(3) Prepare a balance sheet

The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) has established guidelines for the ethical practice of engineering. Discuss how these guidelines would apply to (a) an engineering company, and (b) an individual engineer working for an industrial firm.