Team-building

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You have been asked to lead a ten-person team within your department. You know that several of these team members have not worked well together on previous group projects, so you have decided to put the team through a series of team-building activities.

Review the important themes within the sub questions of each bullet point. The sub questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your classmates have already posted so that we can engage several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to re-use the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

–   Define your top three goals or objectives for the team-building activities for the scenario. Defend why those goals are appropriate. Also assess at least two other possible goals and justify why they did not make your top-three list.

–   Select two articles that discuss whether team-building activities really help. Briefly note what you learned from the articles. Did they guide you to select the best activities, or did they warn you away from certain activities? Justify three best practices for team building activities that emerge from the articles.

–   Team dynamics include both productivity (task) and cohesiveness (relationship) components. Identify three team building activities and assess the extent each influences on productivity and cohesion. Evaluate how cohesion and productivity are linked.

The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.

Team Leadership Best Practices – IP

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You will create this assignment following the Assignment Detail instructions below.

Review the tutorial How to Submit an Individual Project.

This week, you will develop a plan by thinking about how to develop teams in your workplace. What analysis can be applied to teams? In other words, what needs assessment can you do at the team level? How will you enhance the performance of teams?

Planning and Execution

How cohesive is your team? (Cohesion is a measurement of relationship, togetherness, and belongingness experienced by the team members.)

What evidence can you provide to support your conclusions about team cohesion? Are there any pieces of evidence that might contradict your conclusion?

How might you increase the amount of team cohesion (in essence, what intervention methods, such as role-playing and so forth, would you use)?

  • How productive is your team? (Productivity is a measurement of task fulfillment by team members.)

What evidence can you provide to support your conclusions about team productivity? Are there any pieces of evidence that might contradict your conclusion?

How might you increase the amount of team productivity (e.g., what intervention methods would you use)?

  • Who needs to be involved in the team development plan for it to be a success?
  • What is the time frame for implementing your plan?
  • Prepare a 5-page team plan that addresses the following issues:

What is the organization you are working with (to remind your readers)?

What is the team cohesion need that should be addressed, and what is the intervention for that need?

  • What is the team productivity need that should be addressed, and what is the intervention for that need?
  • Who will need to participate (at any level) in the training and development initiative?
  • When will the initiative take place?
  • What is the basic schedule for rolling out your initiative?

Political, Legal, and Technical Decision-Making

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Module 02: Critical Thinking Assignment

Student Advocacy and “Sweatshop” Labor: The Case of Russell Athletics

Using the Six Steps of Decision-Making framework from this week’s content, please develop an essay responding to the following questions related to the case study Student Advocacy and “Sweatshop” Labor: The Case of Russell Athletic (p. 109).

Recognize decision requirements: What are the factors to consider in a corporation when deciding to outsource labor to developing countries? Include the following:

Diagnosis and analysis of causes: If labor outsourcing to developing countries is a legitimate business strategy, how can it be handled without risk of running into a sweatshop scandal?

Development of alternatives: What are other countries doing to avoid, reduce or eliminate sweatshops?

Selection of desired alternative: Decide on alternatives for outsourcing for companies in developed countries, including whether or not to maintain or implement the same high labor standards and regulations as in the home countries.

Implementation of alternatives: Which alternatives would be best for outsourcing for companies in the United States?

Evaluation and feedback: Have your recommendations been implemented in other countries? Are they working? What has been the outcome? 

In this course, you will have six Critical Thinking assignments where you will respond to assignment questions to develop an essay. Essays have an introduction (to the topic of the assignment), a body (where you will integrate your responses), and a conclusion (your thoughts on the assignment). Please do not just answer the questions as is. It is best to use APA (7th ed) headings to capture the essence of the questions as a way to make sure you have integrated all of the responses in your essay. Also, make sure you are using an APA (7th ed) paper template as a starting point. 

WHEN A RETURN IS SUFFICIENT TO START THE STATUE OF LIMITATIONS

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TEAM ASSIGNMENT 1: DETERMINING WHEN A RETURN IS SUFFICIENT TO
START THE STATUE OF LIMITATIONS. (rev’d 090721).

Determining the Statute of Limitations: While the statute of limitations for examination is
generally three years from the date a return is filed, the statue can be automatically extended, can
be voluntarily extended, or tolled under various provisions provided in the code, regulations,
rulings and court cases. Your job is to advise your clients as to the applicable statute of
limitations based on the fact pattern to be provided to you below. Remember: the date a return is
deemed filed is a question of both fact and law.
It is October 1, 2021. The clients have not filed their joint current year’s tax return. No
extension has been filed. Your clients have filed timely in the past and there is no reason to
suspect that there is unreported income (once the return is filed). They live in Florida and have
been unaffected by a hurricane or other severe weather event. Your team must write a
memorandum to the client explaining when a tax return filing will be deemed sufficient to start
the statute of limitations for both examination and assessment purposes. In addition, the clients
have asked if they should file a joint tax return under the facts above. You should cite, as
appropriate, the code, regulations, rulings, court cases… etc. Make sure that the memo addresses
all the following questions for both types of returns:

Just Questions 3 & 4

3. What are the exceptions to the general statute of limitations on Assessment?
4. When is a return deemed sufficient to start the statute of limitations?


BUL4060CBE Section 01CBE Business Law and Ethical Behavior (11 Weeks)

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Deliverable 4 – Intellectual Property Flowchart

Assignment Content

Competency
Analyze the impact of intellectual property on business functions. Student Success Criteria
View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information page. Scenario
Your U.S. based company is a new start-up and they sell packaged consumer goods from dish detergent to fabric softener to air fresheners. They want to become the one-stop-shop for all household cleaning needs. Every product is guaranteed to be organic, sustainable, environmentally friendly, and will cost only $4.50 each. You work in the legal department and are assigned the duty to research what it will take to protect the company’s intellectual property rights; specifically, a trademark for their logo. Instructions
Prepare a flowchart in Microsoft Word for the given business situation that analyzes the impact intellectual property has on various business functions. Address the following using full detail and text within the flowchart:

Start the flowchart by identifying the different intellectual property opportunities available to the company (such as registering trademarks, trade secrets and patents) and the process a company needs to undertake to secure its rights to those assets.

Next, include in the flowchart the requirements to maintain intellectual property protections (such as renewal efforts) under federal, state (students should use their own state of residence regulations) and international laws as well as any other practical measures the company should undertake to protect their intellectual property rights.

Provide a summary to the flowchart with an assessment of the impact of the digital era on intellectual property rights that the company needs to consider.

Be sure the flowchart and summary display proper grammar,spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and APA references.

Econ102 Macroeconomics

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Assignment 1: Demand-side Policies and the Great Recession of 2008

Macroeconomic analysis deals with the crucial issue of government involvement in the operation of “free market economy.” The Keynesian model suggests that it is the responsibility of the government to help to stabilize the economy. Stabilization policies (demand-side and supply-side policies) are undertaken by the federal government to counteract business cycle fluctuations and prevent high rates of unemployment and inflation. Demand side policies are government attempts to alter aggregate demand (AD) through using fiscal (cutting taxes and increasing government spending) or monetary policy (reducing interest rates). To shift the AD to the right, the government has to increase the government spending (the G-component of AD) causing consumer expenditures (the C-component of AD) to increase. Alternatively the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates reducing the cost of borrowing thereby encouraging consumer spending and investment borrowing. Both policies will lead to an increase in AD.

Develop an essay discussing the fiscal and the monetary policies adopted and implemented by the federal during the Great Recession and their impacts on the U.S. economy. Complete this essay in a Microsoft Word document, and in APA format. Note your submission will automatically be submitted through “TurnItIn” for plagiarism review. Please note that a minimum of 1500 words for your essay is required.

Your paper should be structured as follows

1. Cover page with a running head 

2. Introduction: What is the economic meaning of a recession? 

· A brief discussion of fiscal policies

· A brief discussion of monetary policies 

3. Conclusions: Discuss the extent to which the use of demand side policies (fiscal policy and monetary policy) during the Great Recession of 2008 has been successful in restoring economic growth and reducing unemployment 

DB – Industry Evolution and Change

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Module 07: Industry Evolution and Change

In this module, you will consider the systemic nature of change and change management in strategic planning. As we know, creating the strategic plan is just the beginning. Implementing the plan determines the strength of the plan’s ability to generate competitive advantage. Change is a feature of life and business and it’s also an inherent part of strategy and strategy implementation. It has a systemic nature that permeates all avenues of business and industry. Understanding the influences that drive industry evolution can assist with strategy planning, formulation, and implementation.

Discussion Question

Question Requirements:

The Nature of Change

In this module, we learned that everything is in a state of constant change. This is a challenge of strategic management, as the industry environment is driven by technology, consumer needs, politics, economic conditions, and many other influences.

Read Case 8 Eastman Kodak’s Quest for a Digital Future. Please see attached.

Discuss the key factors that drove the evolution of the photography industry, and how did these factors impact Kodak’s business model?

Based on your understanding of the industry life cycle, discuss the stage the photography industry was in during Kodak’s quest for a digital future.

Discuss the strategies that Kodak employed to adapt to the changing industry environment, and how effective were these strategies?

Discuss what strategies would have been most appropriate for Kodak to pursue at that stage?

How did Kodak’s organizational ambidexterity, or lack thereof, impact its ability to manage strategic change and respond to disruptive technologies?

Directions:

Discuss the concepts, principles, and theories from your textbook. Cite your textbooks and cite any other sources.

Write the discuss that includes an introduction paragraph, the body, and a conclusion paragraph to address the assignment’s guide questions.

do the following for coms

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After comprehensively reading Chapter 11 of your textbook, please respond to these questions. Your responses can be brief and informal, but do make sure that they are thoughtful and reflect a thorough and comprehensive reading of this chapter.

1. Reflect on your learning here at {Will tell you school once accepted} and use Bloom’s Taxonomy to analyze your experience here. At what level of Bloom’s Taxonomy do you believe most of your learning has occurred? Why? Is that positive or negative or mixed? Blooms Taxonomy videos that you have to plz watch: 

2. Continuing to reflect on your leering at {Will tell you school once accepted}, at what level do you think your learning, at least part of the time, should be (in other words, what do you find the best, most useful, most desirable level on Bloom’s Taxonomy)? Why do you think that? What could be changed at {Will tell you school once accepted} to move your learning more toward that level of Bloom’s Taxonomy?

3. Finally, use the “Learning, Pedagogy, and Training Effectiveness” model discussed in Chapter 11 to continue to reflect on your learning here at {Will tell you school once accepted}. To what extent do you believe your “head,” “heart,” and “hand” has been engaged here? What is the balance between these three factors — are they attended to equally or is there one or more that is more of a focus than others? Is that a good thing, bad thing, or mixed thing? Why? To what extent is creating a synthesis between head, heart, and had the responsibility of the educational institution and to what extent do you believe this is your responsibility? Why?

Role of Mentoring

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The Role of Mentoring and Trusted Advisors in Personal and Professional Growth

Introduction:

In a world where continuous growth is not just valued but essential for success, the role of mentors and trusted advisors becomes increasingly significant. This chapter highlights the indispensable value of mentorship and trusted advisory relationships in facilitating personal, career, spiritual, and intellectual growth. It underscores the importance of both seeking guidance and providing it, illustrating how these relationships fulfill our basic human needs for connection, growth, and mutual success.

Discussion Question:

Reflect on a time when a mentor or trusted advisor had a profound impact on your personal or professional development. How did this relationship help you overcome challenges, clarify your vision, or achieve your goals? Contrast this with a time when you had to navigate your growth path alone. Based on your experiences and insights from the chapter, discuss the importance of mentorship and advisory relationships in achieving personal and professional success. Support your argument with research on the benefits of mentorship and the outcomes of effective mentoring relationships. How do you envision implementing these strategies to both seek and provide mentorship throughout your career and life?

Instructions:

Write a minimum of reflecting on the questions posed.

Support your argument with research, citing at least one academic source. This could be an article, book, or study that discusses the benefits and outcomes of mentorship and trusted advisory relationships.

  • Consider how the concept of mentorship and trusted advisors aligns with your own values, purpose, and career vision.
  • Reflect on how you can contribute to this cycle of growth and support by serving as a mentor or advisor to others in your professional or personal life.

BB3 – Fieldnotes

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COMM 462: Field Notes

Identify a site of study for participant observation. Practice thick Question and self-reflexivity in your field notes. Include your research question at the top of the page.

Include the following three sections in your field notes: (Chiseri-Strater & Sunstein, 1997):

1. Thick Question of everything you can remember about the occasion you are writing about – a meal, a ritual, a meeting, a sequence of events, etc. While it is useful to focus primarily on things you did or observed which relate to the guiding research question, some amount of general information is also helpful. This information might help in writing a general Question of the site later, but it may also help to link related phenomena to one another or to point our useful research directions later.

Self-Reflection on what you learned of a personal nature. What was it like for you to be doing this research? What felt comfortable for you about being in this site and what felt uncomfortable? In what ways did you connect with informants, and in what ways didn’t you? While this is extremely important information, be especially careful to separate it from analysis.

Analysis of what you learned in the setting regarding your guiding question and other related points. This is how you will make links between the details described in section 2 above and the larger things you are learning about how culture works in this context. What themes can you begin to identify regarding your guiding question? What questions do you have to help focus your observation on subsequent visits? Can you begin to draw preliminary connections or potential conclusions based on what you learned?