BMGT 364 Project 2 (Week 4) – Organizational Culture and Structure

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Purpose

In this project, you will view a video and discuss the organizational culture and organizational structure of the assigned organization.

Outcome Met by Completing This Assignment

• organize human, physical, and financial resources for the effective and efficient attainment of organizational goals

How to Set Up the Paper

Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document that is double-spaced using 12-point font. The final product will be 3-4 pages in length excluding the title page and reference page. Write clearly and concisely.

Instructions:

You have been hired as an associate in a software company that offers support solutions and customer service to more than 500 businesses in the United States. The company has recently started to experience significant growth and will need to hire many new associate positions. Your manager, Jack, has asked you to help create a recruiting video for the company that emphasizes the company as having a positive corporate culture in which employees live the company’s core values and like coming to work. Jack provides you with a recruiting video for Zendesk, a favorite company of his, and has asked you to view the video to gain an understanding of the concepts, organizational culture and organizational structure. Jack knows the value of seeing is believing but also knows the value in a person who is able to articulate what is seen.

Jack has asked you to view the video on Zendesk: https://youtu.be/l0uaSU6IVN4

Use this link, Project 2 Template to complete the project.

Read the paper to ensure all required elements are present. The following are specific requirements that you will follow. Use the checklist to mark off that you have followed each specific requirement.

1. (25 pts) Choose a company that has recently (in 2019) had an initial public offering of its common stock.
2. What company did you choose and what was your reason for choosing it? Go to yahoo finance.com and then put in the name or ticker symbol of your company. Below is what you would see if you chose Lyft, for instance. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LYFT?p=LYFT&.tsrc=fin-srch (Links to an external site.)

Please provide, as part of the project, a screen shot of the summary page you will see when you open the site.

1. Which investment banking firm served as the managing underwriter? Explain the services that a managing underwriter provides in an IPO.
2. What was the performance of the stock immediately after the company went public? Comment on the likely reaction to that performance by the following IPO participants: company management, investors and underwriter?
3. (25 pts) Suppose you plan to buy 1,000 shares in your company today.
4. Which market does the company’s stock trade on. Chances are it will be either the NYSE or NASDAQ. What is the difference between those two markets? Speculate on why your company may have made the choice that it did.
5. Based on the differences between a discount firm and a full service firm, how would you decide which kind of investment firm to use.
6. (Extra credit: If you purchased your shares through a discount firm that made a profit based on acting as a dealer, what would be your maximum dollar cost of the transaction?)
7. Would you enter a market order or a limit order? (This can be an arbitrary decision.)
8. If you decide to purchase the stock through a market order, discuss some of the paths that the order might take to fill your order. What about the path of a limit order?
9. What are the main kinds of limit orders and what purpose do they serve for the investor?
10. (Extra credit: From your textbook and/or other sources, describe what dark pools and ECNs are and who uses them.)

1. (20 pts) Suppose you have a great deal of confidence that the 1,000 shares you want to buy are selling at a real bargain price and you would like to purchase more than 1,000 shares by using a margin account. Assume the call rate is 5% and the Fed has established 50% as the maximum about you can borrow against the stock.
   1. Using the current price of the stock, what will be your annualized return on a 1,000 share investment if the stock goes up in price by 20%, at which time you sell it. What will that return be if the stock goes down by 20% in two months and you sell it then?
   2. Given the facts above, what will be your annualized return if you purchase twice the number of shares by borrowing with a 50% margin. (Make the calculations using the two assumptions in a. above)
2. (15 pts) Suppose you have the opposite view and you think that the shares will fall in value and that you can make money by entering into a short sale using current prices.
   1. What will be your profit if you are correct and the price of the stock falls by 30% in the next two months, at which time you close out your short position.
   2. What will be your loss if you are wrong and the price of the stock increases by 30?
   3. (Extra credit: Is there a limit to the amount of money you can lose if you guess wrong in a short sale. Explain.)
3. (15 pts) Go to the Yahoo Finance summary page and select “Options” in the top bar.
   1. Select a call option expiring in November allowing exercise at a price slightly higher than today’s price. If the price of the stock goes substantially above the exercise price, will you make a profit? Give an example to illustrate the amount of profit you could make. What will be your profit if the price of the stock does not go above the exercise price prior to expiration
   2. Now select a put option expiring in November. Give an example to illustrate how much money you could make if the price of the stock goes well below the exercise price. What will be your profit if the price of the stock does not go below the exercise price prior to expiration

Directions: Read the Case Scenario and answer the questions using course materials to support your reasoning and conclusions. Post the answers to your questions in the Week 6 Discussion by Thursday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time.

Respond to a minimum of three classmates by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time in the following manner: select ONE of the recommendations provided by your classmate and explain why you think this recommendation would work, or why it would not work. Use course materials to support your opinion, reasoning and conclusions.

Case Scenario

Mr. Barney, the CEO, has received your memo request to be considered for further leadership positions. He has decided to put you to the test! He assigns you to help his Director of Payroll, Loretta Cash with a problem.

You walk over to Payroll and visit Loretta. She is visibly upset. She has just received her annual performance review from her manager. This is a 6-month review, as Loretta was recently assigned to this role after working with great success for 10 years in another area of the Accounting Department. As part of this review, her manager interviewed the six members of the Payroll Department, who all answer to Loretta. Loretta shares with you some of their comments:

“Loretta marched in here thinking she knows everything. She doesn’t want to listen to any of our ideas. It’s her way or the highway.”

“We really don’t know Loretta all that well. She keeps to herself…except of course when payroll deadlines are due, and then she’s all over our backs.”

“She acts as if she is perfect. I’m scared of getting yelled at when I make a mistake.”

“Most times, Loretta is fine, but when we have a deadline she micromanages us. I literally dread coming in to work on days payroll is due because I know Loretta will be watching over us like a hawk.”

Answer the following questions, and support your answers with the course materials:

1. What is the root cause of Loretta’s problem?
2. List three specific recommendations that Loretta can do today to turn this situation around. Make sure the three recommendations are actionable (in other words, Loretta can take your advice and put it into practice immediately) and specific (in other words, not too general that it cannot be easily understood). For example, “improve communication skills” is not actionable today, and too general to be clearly understood. However, “give immediate feedback to demonstrate she is actively listening” can be put into practice today and is specific enough to be understood. (Do not use this example in your answer!).

Completing the Discussion

• Read the grading rubric for the project. Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.

• Third person writing is required. Third person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person.

• Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.

• Paraphrase and do not use direct quotation marks. Paraphrase means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document, but put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage to the source document. Not using direct quotation marks means that there should be no passages with quotation marks and instead the source material is paraphrased as stated above.

• Provide the page or paragraph number when using in-text citations. Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.

• You may only use the course material from the classroom. You may not use books or any resource from the Internet.

Self-Plagiarism: Self-plagiarism is the act of reusing significant, identical or nearly identical portions of one’s own work. You cannot re-use any portion of a paper or other graded work that was submitted to another class even if you are retaking this course. You also will not reuse any portion of previously submitted work in this class. A zero will be assigned to the assignment if self-plagiarized. Faculty do not have the discretion to accept self-plagiarized work.

i will be providing all the required material.

2,500 words

Question: Compare and contrast TWO case studies in communication (PR, journalism, media production) for what they tell us about the importance of legal considerations to professional practice – i.e. why do your chosen cases teach you something, and what do they teach you?

NB: What you are engaging in with this assignment is Reflective Practice. This means reflecting on actual examples and applying your informed observations to an argument about professional communication.

You can select examples from the unit topics from Contempt of Court through to Copyright, but the idea is not to mention every unit topic for the sake of it, but to select the material that does relate, and drive your analysis.

Advice and Guidance

This will be easier if you a) keep up with the Topic content and readings, and b) start the assignment early, recognising that it does require research of scholarly and media material.

Be careful not to use unacknowledged material from a previous assignment in this unit, or from the internet, as this will be detected (even if words are changed) and/or manual checking of references by marker(s). We are obligated by policy to report any suspected plagiarism and/or collusion.

Note: Assessors are not permitted to correspond with students directly after submissions are referred to the Faculty Integrity Committee.

On Content and Format

On Approach

Previous students have written about, for e.g.–

o Defamation and the truth defence in Australia via major case(s) review and discussion

o Media freedom and the use of confidential sources/whistle- blowers

o Political interests in media ownership in India and the impact on journalism/media freedom

o A country case study (e.g. India, Philippines) in relation to advertising legal restraints or lack of them, comparison of Australian and American defamation cases; PR major case study (e.g. McLibel, BP Deepwater Horizon)