Benefits of Business Ethics

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A minimum of 1200 words for numbers 1-4…….3 scholarly sources……..no plagarism

1. Developing an Organizational and Global Ethical Culture and the Benefits of Business Ethics

Define what is meant by an organizational ethical culture. Then, identify and describe the four primary benefits of business ethics.

2. Resolving Ethical Business Challenges – Acme Corporation

Read the Acme Corporation scenario on pp. 26-27, paying particular attention to the trips to Cancun and Las Vegas. Answer the following:

1) How do those trips fit with the organizational culture at Acme?
2) Amber clearly thinks that there is nothing wrong. Describe where you think the line should be drawn between developing better customer relationships and your own personal values.


3. Avid Life Media

Read the Chapter Two debate issue on page 37. Using a stakeholder perspective, clearly state whether you think the services offered by Avid Life Media (ALM) are socially responsible or not. Defend your recommendations using a stakeholder perspective to show how the positive and negative impacts balance out for various stakeholder groups.

4. Resolving Ethical Business Challenges – Bounce Corporation

Read the Bounce Corporation scenario on pp. 54-55, paying particular attention to the ethical issues related to the Breakaway project. Answer the following:

1) What are the three primary ethical issues?
2) Describe the socially responsible action that the Breakaway project should follow for each of those issues. Defend your recommendations using a stakeholder perspective to show how the positive and negative impacts balance out for various stakeholder groups.

Audience Analysis for Persuasive Speech

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Assignment Instructions

Outline + Audience Analysis for Persuasive Speech

This is a two-part assignment that you will turn in using one file: Audience Analysis & Persuasive Speech Outline.

Choose one of the following scenarios as the basis for both Assignments in Modules 5 & 7.

  • Scenario 1: Imagine that you have been invited to an upper-level management meeting at the company that you work for (currently or one you hope to work for). You are going to deliver a persuasive speech to persuade the management team to either change a policy or add a specific resource to their company budget.
    or
  • Scenario 2: Imagine that you have been invited to deliver a speech at a town hall meeting. You are going to deliver a persuasive speech to persuade citizens in your community to vote yes toward the allocation of city funds towards a project or cause that you believe will benefit all members of your community.

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Part 1: Audience Analysis (DUE MODULE 5)

Based on the scenario you chose for your persuasive speech for this class, analyze your audience. Describe your audience and determine how you might tailor your content to appeal to your specific audience. Full sentences are not required in your Audience Analysis.

  1. Re-read Chapter 11 from your online textbook and the Six Minutes blog posts by Andrew Dlugan to help you understand more fully what is required in your analysis.
  2. Complete the provided template based on your analysis.
    1. Audience Demographics: complete both columns at least half of the criteria.
    2. Audience Attitudes: complete both columns for the one criterion.
    3. Audience Expectations: complete both columns at least half of the criteria.

Part 2: Persuasive Speech Outline (Using Monroe’s Motivated Sequence) – The outline is due in Module 5. The speech itself is due Module 7

Create a complete preparation outline using the template provided, using the five steps of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence (Attention, Need, Satisfaction, Visualization and Action) in order in your outline.

  1. Re-read the information in the Module 6 Lecture Notes to help you understand more fully what Monroe’s Motivated Sequence is and how to use it. (Be sure to watch both videos, too.)
  2. Use full sentences throughout your outline.
  3. Your Supporting Materials should have a full sentence each, plus an APA-formatted in-text citation for each. (See Purdue’s Online Writing Lab article In-Text Citations: The Basics for assistance.)
    1. If you use phrases or sentences word-for-word from one of your sources, you must put quotation marks around the words and also provide an in-text citation. (Not doing do is a form of plagiarism, which will cause you to earn zero points on the assignment.)
    2. If you paraphrase material from a source, you will still need to include an in-text citation. (Not doing do is a form of plagiarism, which will cause you to earn zero points on the assignment.)
  4. All sources that you cite in your outline should have a corresponding entry on your Reference page. (See Purdue’s Online Writing Lab article Reference List: Basic Rules for assistance.)

Sewer Treatment Project

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Sewer Treatment Project

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For this assignment, you will provide a four to six (4-6) page paper, in which you must:

  1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
  2. Identify and discuss your project’s greatest challenges (at least three) and provide a recommendation for addressing each of the challenges.
  3. Examine how you manage your project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM). Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.
  4. Discuss your plan to properly close your project when it is over.
  5. Use at least three (3) academic resources for this assignment. These resources should be related to your chosen project and the content provided in Assignment 3. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the key concepts, processes, and components of project management.
  • Develop a process for managing & controlling a project.
  • Develop a process for measuring the progress of a project in order to determine its effectiveness.
  • Develop a process for coordinating project closure and determining the project’s effectiveness

Nike, Inc Project Discussion

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Nike, Inc Project Discussion

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In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for Assignments 1, 2, and 3. The corporation is NIKE, INC.

Consider the corporation you have selected to use in your first three assignments. Identify one of the firm’s major competitors that you would consider working for.

Research the corporation on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

You will do a 15 minutes presentation to the Board of Directors of the corporation. Develop an eight to twelve slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes or record a video based upon Assignments 1 through 4. You may choose to compare your chosen corporation to a major competitor with whom you would like to work. You will make recommendations to the Board of Directors based upon your analysis and decision on why the corporation remains or is not a good fit for you.

Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success as a competitive employer in the industry.

Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.

Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.

Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.

Develop an executive level Power Point presentation with 8 -12 slides with speaker notes and appropriate graphics or professional video.

Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.

Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Motivation and Culture

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Motivation and Culture

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 PowerPoint Presentation: 8–10 slides not including title and reference (100 to 150 words per slide of speaker notes)

CMA rebounded and continued to manufacture and sell its components to computer manufacturers worldwide. The company structure was divided into product divisions, with each division focused on specific components. For the company, this structure was meant to streamline sales and delivery worldwide.

As happens on occasion, there were some factors that had an effect on company profits, but the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jared Smith, was in a position to focus on several internal strategic areas, including structure, work design, motivation, conflict, and company culture as a whole. To stay profitable, the company had to eliminate several management positions in an effort to flatten the organizational chart. Many of the responsibilities fell to the employees, and many people resisted the change.

The vice presidents (VPs) are reading the information about theories of motivation that you sent them. You know, because they have been asking questions, most of which revolve around expatriates. These questions from the VPs tell you that they are now ready to address cultural differences and how they relate to preparing staff for cross-cultural work environments.

Again, Jared, your CEO, states that “the presentation you will create will explain cultural differences, intercultural differences, and culture and diversity. I’ll also need you to include a slide about steps that managers at CMA should take to prepare expatriates for assignments overseas.”

If there are any questions on any of this, reach out to your instructor and also be sure to attend or listen to the chats as that is where you will be able to ask questions and gain many insights in what is being asked for here.

critical thinking assignment

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critical thinking assignment

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Critical Thinking – Learning Unit 3

Purpose of the Assessment

During the course of this Learning Units, we have looked at Ethics in the Workplace from a number of different angles. Viewing the nature of employment, how individuals are treated in the workplace, rights to privacy, drug testing, and other issues are all relevant topics. The purpose of this assessment will focus on looking at ethical dilemmas from an Individual point of view or a Communal point of view.

Goal of the Assessment

After reading the Ethics in Organization article, you will use your knowledge and skill set to assess how ethical dilemmas are treated at your current (or former) place of work.

Components of the Assignments

Part One

  1. Read the Ethics in Organizations article that is found in Blackboard, or via the following link (https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/ethics-in-organizations/)

Part Two

  1. Provide analysis on what you believe to be the conclusions of Marvin Brown’s article. This question is purposely left open to your interpretation.
  2. Select one area of Employment Ethics to further explore. Privacy in the Workplace, Diversity, Affirmative Action, Drug Testing, are all valid choices but you may select anything that is of interest to you.
  3. Write about the topic from the Individual Point of View and then the Communal Point of View. Is there a best practice when it comes to implementing your topic of choice? Your analysis should include positives and negatives from each point of view, ranking of stakeholders, potential pitfalls, and how the topic has been implemented in the real world.

Creating Data Driven Instruction Discussion

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Creating Data-Driven Instruction

Reading/Literacy specialists need to be able to understand assessment data to determine appropriate instructional strategies. Often, data is addressed collaboratively during PLC meetings or grade level team meetings to support all students within a grade level. The outcome of the meetings is an action plan for recommendations to support learning both within the classroom environment and during tiered support groups.

Obtain classroom reading assessment data from the mentor teacher. After analyzing the data, create a 500-750 word handout for the classroom teacher with recommended reading and writing instructional strategies based on assessment data. To protect the student’s identity and privacy use pseudonyms in place of their names.

Include the following:

  • Summary of the assessment data.
  • Recommendations for students who scored below grade level.
  • Recommendations for students who scored at grade level.
  • Recommendations for students who scored above grade level.

While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Financial Investment Project

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Financial Investment Project

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In this exercise, you need to pick three public traded companies of your choice, calculate and compare the ratios as stated in the attached .pdf file, and write a short essay to explain these ratios as well as provide ranking of financial performance of these three companies. Please do not plagiarize

Here is a student example of this exercise but I recommend you to add the explanation of each company’s ratios into your analysis:

Here is the instruction and an example of this project

Financial Investment Project There are two basic types of investments: equity and debt. Equity is when you own something – usually common stock in a company, but also real estate and commodities such as gold. Debt, such as a bond, is when you loan money to others and receive interest in return. As a general rule, equity is risky because stocks rise and fall. Debt is safer because in order to lose your principle ( the amount you invested in the first place), the government or company that owes you would have to actually default on the loan. You need to take reasonable risk in order to grow your wealth. In general, the risk you take with equity is rewarded with a better return in the long term. When you buy stock, you become a part owner in the company that issued the stock, and you are entitled to vote for officers, among other privileges. In the United States, the two most widely known markets are the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, which is short for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. Even if you never buy individual stocks, it’s a good idea to understand how stock performance is measured. In this exercise, you need to pick 2-3 stocks from NYSE and/or NASDAQ and compare their stock primer below: Revenues: are what a company brings in for whatever it sells. It does not tell you precisely how well a company is doing, but it is a good sign if revenues are growing from year to year. P/E ratio: the price/earnings ratio quantifies the price of a stock relative to its earnings. So if a company’s stock costs $100 per share and the earning is $4 per share, you would divide 100 by 4 to get a P/E ratio of 25. Debt to owner’s equity ratio: Most companies take on debt to grow their business, although some take on more than others. If a company takes on too much debt, interest payments can eat into profits. As shown on page 483 of our textbook, Debt to Owner’s Equity Ratio is the total debt relative to the value of outstanding shares. Ideally, this number should be a fraction less than 1. Current Ratio ( page 482), Earning per share ( page 484), ROS and ROE ratios ( page 484-485). Read the definitions of these ratios from our textbook and calculate the ratios of the companies of your choice. Compare the stock primer below and explain which company has better financial health. As an investor, which stock are you interested in investing? Please provide a short essay to support your conclusion. Revenue Company Name #1 and stock symbol Company Name #2 and stock symbol Company Name #3 and stock symbol P/E Ratio Debt to Equity Ratio Current Ratio Earning per Share ROS ROE Financial Ratio Project I have chosen to look at their stock opportunities of three companies. Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., and Caterpillar Inc. I wanted to pick very diverse companies at least 20 years old. All numbers come from the end of 2017. The ratios and numbers are rather complicated when looked at all at once. Each one, by itself is not a complete picture. Even when looking at them together shows different aspects of the same picture, and not everything. For example, a company can be both healthy and shrinking in size at the same time. Therefore I have created a ranking system. It is best to try and find an apples to apples comparison, like Current Ratio, Return On Sales, so that comparisons of very different industries can get numbers that are more meaningful when compared to each other, but doe to the diverse industries, these comparisons may be misleading (Like ROE specially). The ranks I have chosen are simple 1 to 3, in order of least desirable to most desirable. The goal is to tally up all the numbers and get a final ranking in order of least likely to most likely to buy. The scores will be total Sum, Average, and Median. The final results show IBM is the clear winner, with Caterpillar second, and Amazon not too far behind. The results are the same for all three methods of calculating a score (Sum, Average, Median). There probably should be some weighting involved in calculating the final score, but this requires knowledge beyond my capabilities. All Dates 12/31/2017 Data from: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/research Name Amazon.com Inc. IBM Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Revenue $ 177.866 $ 79.139 $ 45.462 P/E Ratio 190.16 24.20 123.10 D/E Ratio 3.7 6.1 4.6 Total Current Ratio 1.04 1.33 1.35 Earnings Per Share $ 6.15 $ 6.14 $ 1.26 ROS 2.31% 13.06% 11.11% ROE 10.9% 32.5% 5.5% Equity 27.709 17.725 13.766 EBIT 4.106 10.332 5.052 Net Income 3.033 5.753 0.754 Current Symbol AMZN IBM CAT Assets 131.31 125.356 76.962 Liabilities 103.601 107.631 63.196 Assets 60.197 49.735 36.244 Rank 1-3 Revenue P/E D/E Current Ratio EPS ROS ROE Score (Sum) Score (Average) Score (Median) AMZN 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 11 1.6 1 IBM 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 18 2.6 3 CAT 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 13 1.9 2 Liabilities 57.883 37.363 26.931 (Not profit.) Higher better Lower Better Leverage = Risk Liquidity – 2:1 Good, 5:1 Inefficient Profitability. Higher better Operational efficiency. Higher better Operational efficiency. Higher better Price $ 1,169.47 $ 148.61 $ 155.11
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Ethical Issue matrix concerning privacy

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Paper B1: a matrix mapping of a key IT-related organizational ethical issue concerning privacy.

This assignment gives you an opportunity to analyze a key IT-related organizational ethical issue, related to privacy subject to relevant laws, regulations, and policies. Both of the following sites provide sources, and an excellent backdrop for issues relating to privacy protection and the law.

See EPIC Privacy Issues at: http://epic.org/privacy/ See List on left and/or: EFF Privacy at https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy [see list in center on this page].

This includes sub-topics discussing information privacy, privacy laws, applications and court rulings (case law is usually an extension of the basic law based on the facts from specific cases and real-world court decisions), and key privacy and anonymity issues. While the sites provide many interesting topics, be sure to focus on our class IT topics.

  1. Use the template below and the list of suggested workforce privacy topics from one of the sites above to produce a matrix to map a key organizational ethical (or personal, if not in the job force) issue and how this issue is affected by laws, regulations, and policies. Use the list of normative ethics principles below to help you complete the matrix. Choose any three (only three) of the following list of twelve (12) principles of normative ethics described below.
  2. Prepare the Ethical Issue matrix and include the following explanation (200 words) —double-space your narrative—below the matrix:
    1. Why I chose the dilemma;
    2. Why I chose the three principles; and
    3. An analysis of the research used to identify the actions in the matrix.

The completed matrix allows you to weigh the different issues involved and assign a rank as to the importance of the actions based on the effect on the stakeholders.

  1. Submit the matrix for grading to the LEO Assignments Module.
  2. Indicate appropriate APA in-text and source citations for all sources. In addition to critical thinking and analysis skills, your assignment should reflect appropriate grammar and spelling, good organization, and proper business-writing style.

This assignment is directly related to Paper-B2. The ethical issue identified in this assignment will be used in your Paper B2 Assignment. Paper B2 asks you to write a policy that corrects the ethical issue described in Paper B1.

Normative Ethics List

Autonomy: is the duty to maximize the individual’s right to make his or her own decisions.

Beneficence: is the duty to do good both individually and for all.

Confidentiality: is the duty to respect privacy of information and action.

Equality: is the duty to view all people as moral equals.

Finality: is the duty to take action that may override the demands of law, religion, and social customs.

Justice: is the duty to treat all fairly, distributing the risks and benefits equally.
Non-maleficence: is the duty to cause no harm, both individually and for all.
Understanding/Tolerance: is the duty to understand and to accept another viewpoint if reason dictates doing so is warranted.

Publicity: is the duty to take actions based on ethical standards that must be known and recognized by all who are involved.

Respect for persons: is the duty to honor others, their rights, and their responsibilities. Showing respect others implies that we do not treat them as a mere means to our end.

Universality: is the duty to take actions that hold for everyone, regardless of time, place, or people involved. This concept is similar to the Categorical Imperative.

Veracity: is the duty to tell the truth.

A sample template for the matrix is shown below. To reconstruct the sample template, you may use the Table Tool in MS Word or copy and paste this template.

Ethical issue:
Stakeholders (Principle 1) (Principle 2) (Principle 3)
1
2
3
4

Step 1: Identify the ethical issue that you want to analyze, as described above. An example might be the falsification of your personal profile in a social networking site.

Step 2: Identify the stakeholders involved. You, someone who reads your personal profile in a social network site, potential employers, etc. Be sure that each stakeholder category is unique and not similar to another category you use.

Step 3: Choose any three (only three) of the principles that might apply to your issue such as autonomy, publicity, and veracity.

Step 4: identify how the ethical issue affects each stakeholder based on the principles you identified. Put this statement in the matrix next to the stakeholder.

Sample Completed Matrix

Ethical issue: falsifying your profile on a social networking site
Stakeholders autonomy publicity veracity
1: Yourself You have the duty to maximize the right to make your own decisions. You have the duty to take actions based on ethical standards that must be known and recognized by all who are involved. You have the duty to tell the truth
2: Other users of the networking site They have the duty to make their own decisions They make these decisions based on ethical standards that should be recognized by the person falsifying their profile They assume that the person falsifying the profile has the duty to tell the truth.
3: The social networking site The autonomy of the site is limited by law (Goldman, 2007) Users of social networking sites are content publishers, as such the site must take actions based on legal and ethical standards and must notify users of these standards so they are known by all. As providers of content the site must conform to the laws regarding truth or be held responsible for legal issues as defamation (making harmful false statements about someone else) or copyright infringement. (Goldman, 2007)

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This paper will be composed of two parts:

Part I: State your overall company strategy to support the business goal of your chosen business idea, product, or service in technical terms such as pricing, differentiation, and responsiveness.

Part II: Provide an initial demand forecast for your product/service for the first six months of operation. Discuss the technical rationale for your forecasting method and why it is better than other methods of forecasting.

Attached please see the guidelines and rubrics.

Guidelines for Submission:

This short paper should adhere to the following formatting requirements: It is submitted as a Word document, 1 to 2 pages (not including title and reference pages), double-spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins. All APA citations should reference the coursetext and at least two additional resources.