Intercultural communication – Culture shock

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“Culture shock moment – describe one culture shock moment you have experienced. Describe the situation of the stakeholders involved and analyze why it was a shock for you, but apparently normal for the other person/s involved.
Connect your experiences to the applicable stages of the U or W Curve.

Question of the incident(s):
– Describe the situation/context when and where it happened in detail, and describe the non-verbal or verbal communication involved – maybe write down the dialogue itself.

Analyisation:
– Conclude why it happened, and analyze your own beliefs, norms, and behaviors prevalent which led to the miscommunication or the culture shock experience – refer to lessons from class for example to non-verbal behaviors, language barriers, stereotypes, and other concepts discussed. They must fit to explain your incident. = up to 40 points
– You may explain your feelings and if you solved the situation how it worked

HW1 – Business Data Management

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QUESTION – QUESTION

I choose a business scenario (one page). I want you to  start the database modeling process by following these steps:

Discover all business rules for your organization.

Use the business rules to identify all entities, attributes, relationships, and constraints for the selected business.

  • Draw the ER diagram at the conceptual level.

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  • Instructions:  ·      

Read the selected scenario carefully, use other resources to understand the business problem and then prepare a report that contains the following: 

  • 1.     A list of all necessary business rules. The list should include at least one sound constraint. 

2.     Entity relationship Diagram complete with all entities, suitable attributes including keys, and proper relationships. 

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You can make reasonable and realistic assumptions when needed. 

Use Microsoft Visio or any other tool to draw the ERD model.

Ensure originality! Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Assignment will be rejected for any Plagiarized paragraph and will be assigned zero mark.

Week 2 Case Study – Data Visualization and Descriptive Statistics (Case Study #2)

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QUESTION

This assignment will assess your ability to apply the concepts of chapters 1-3 to conduct an analysis of data on 4 variables collected from the 50 United States (Week 2 Case Study #2 attached). You will calculate various descriptive statistics, create summary tables and create various charts to summarize the data for a company. Finally, you will create a written report for company leadership summarizing your findings. You will need to enable the Data Analysis ToolPak Add-in on your Data Ribbon in Excel to perform the necessary analyses. Refer to the video on how to enable the Data Analysis Add-in. Note: If you use a Mac, the Data Analysis ToolPak is only available in Excel 2016 or higher.

Please refer to the videos on how to create box plots, create histograms, create scatterplots, run descriptive statistics and run a correlation matrix in Excel.

Exercise II

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Depreciation methods

Answer the following questions and solve the problem:

1. How to calculate straight line depreciation step by step?

2. How to calculate unite of production depreciation step by step?

3. How to calculate the declining-balance method also known as the double-declining-balance method step by step?

On January 2, 2015 Gillette Co. purchases and installs a new machine
costing $300,000 with a five-year life and an estimated $50,000 salvage
value. Management estimates the machine will produce 190,000 units of
product during its life. Actual production of units is as follows: year
2015 – 34,000 units; year 2016 – 46,000 units; year 2017 – 56,000 units; year 2018 – 28,000 units; year 2019 – 26,000 units, etc.

Compute depreciation expense, accumulate depreciation, and book value
for the first four years using the following depreciation methods:

(1) the straight-line method,

(2) the units-of-production method, and

(3) the declining-balance method also known as the double-declining-balance method.

Marketing management 201 Saudi electronic university Read the Chapter Case Study “McDonald’s

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Part-A:Case Study(Max Marks-7)

Read the Chapter Case Study “McDonald’s—Colonel Sanders would be Proud, KFC is a Global Brand” from Chapter No- 8 entitled “Global Marketing” given in your textbook/E-book “Marketing” (8th ed.) by Dhruv. Grewal and Michael Levy (2022) and answer the following Questions:

While expanding globally, which sociocultural factors you think have affected KFC? 

On what basis you may differentiate the growth strategies taken by KFC in the United States and China?

Based on you understanding of the BRIC nations, should KFC consider expanding more aggressively into (a) India, (b) Brazil, and (c) Russia?  What national features of these countries would provide reasons to support or contradict such an expansion strategy?

Part-B:Critical Thinking                   (Max Marks-3)

Think about the various soft drinks that you know from your local market (like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, 7-Up, etc.). Critically examine how do these various brands position themselves in the Saudi Arabian market? (CH-9)

mgt404

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QUESTION

9.2 Action Required:

Required Readings:

  • Chapter 12: Restructuring Organizations.

Chapter 13: Employee Involvement.

TEXTBOOK: Cummings, T., & Worley, C. (2015). Organization development and change. (10th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning. ISBN#: 13 9781133190455 (print), ISBN#: 13 9781285800967 (e-text).

Recommended Readings:

  • Marwa, Moses & Namusonge, Mary & Kilika, James. (2019). Influence Of Technostructural Interventions On Organizational Performance: A Case Study Of Commercial Banks In Kenya. International Journal of Scientific Research and Management. 7. 10.18535/ijsrm/v7i6.em03.

https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/123456789/20077/Technostructural%20Interventions%20and%20Performance.pdf?sequence=1

Amah, Edwinah & Ahiauzu, Augustine. (2013). Employee involvement and organizational effectiveness. The Journal of Management Development. 32. 10.1108/JMD-09-2010-0064.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263379250_Employee_involvement_and_organizational_effectiveness

Videos:

Organizational Restructuring

9.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

  • Discuss the downsizing process in your own words and provide an example.

Discuss the reengineering process in your own words and provide an example.

Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the common organizational structures.

Discuss the importance of employee involvement in the decision-making process and its impact on the organization performance.

PSY 211- Discussion Post

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QUESTION

In this module, you will explore the concept of attachment style as it occurs in early life-span development.

For your initial post, review Infants and Toddlers in Foster Care and answer the following questions. Consider aspects of your own experience and knowledge in formulating your response.

What aspects of research in attachment are important to consider in foster care placements or systems?

What are some of the everyday situations in early life-span development that influence attachment style?

In what way is attachment a bidirectional process?

  • How do the lives of children with disorganized attachment look different from children with healthier attachments?
  • How does attachment style early in life influence our attachments later on in adulthood?
  • How does the concept of attachment style apply to any of the following programmatic themes? You may want to review the Programmatic Themes PDF document. 
  • Self-care
  • Social justice
  • Emotional intelligence

Career connections

MGT404M Discussion

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QUESTION

9.2 Action Required:

Required Readings:

Chapter 12: Restructuring Organizations.

  • Chapter 13: Employee Involvement. 

TEXTBOOK: Cummings, T., & Worley, C. (2015). Organization development and change. (10th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning. ISBN#: 13 9781133190455 (print), ISBN#: 13 9781285800967 (e-text).

Recommended Readings:

Marwa,  Moses & Namusonge, Mary & Kilika, James. (2019). Influence Of  Technostructural Interventions On Organizational Performance: A Case  Study Of Commercial Banks In Kenya. International Journal of Scientific Research and Management. 7. 10.18535/ijsrm/v7i6.em03.

https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/123456789/20077/Technostructural%20Interventions%20and%20Performance.pdf?sequence=1

Amah, Edwinah & Ahiauzu, Augustine. (2013). Employee involvement and organizational effectiveness. The Journal of Management Development. 32. 10.1108/JMD-09-2010-0064.

Videos:

Organizational Restructuring

9.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

Discuss the downsizing process in your own words and provide an example.

Discuss the reengineering process in your own words and provide an example.

Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the common organizational structures. 

Discuss the importance of employee involvement in the decision-making process and its impact on the organization performance.

MBA 510 CREATING AND IMPLEMENTING MARKETING STRATEGIES

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QUESTION – QUESTION

This project allows you to use your creative skills and also to get you set up for a format to “fill in the blanks” for your final project in which is delivering a marketing strategy for Audio Partners. The G-StIC model will be used to develop a marketing strategy. This includes:

G – developing a set of goals,

S – developing a strategy to meet the goals,

T- determine tactics to accomplish the strategy and then

I – implementing the plan and

C – developing the measurements and controls for the strategy.

https://indiafreenotes.com/the-g-stic-frame-work-for-marketing-planning-goal-strategy-tactics/Links to an external site.

Submission Requirements:

Cover Page (develop a creative design for the page that intrigues the reader, this can include developing a logo and finding the right font for your company.

Table of Contents

Goals for Audio Partners 

Focus

Benchmarks

Strategy (2-3 pages)

Target Market

Value Proposition

Tactics (5-6 pages)

Product/Service

Brand

Incentives

  • Price
  • Communications
  • Distribution

Implementation (2-3 pages)

  • Organization
  • Processes
  • Schedule

Control (2-3 pages)

  • Evaluate
  • Monitor

Memo

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QUESTION – QUESTION

Your reading this week has opened your eyes as it relates to program management. You realize now that your organization does not clearly understand the difference between program management, project management, and portfolio management.

To help educate your organization, create a memo that explains the differences between program management, project management, and portfolio management.

  • Use the Purdue OWL Memo FormatLinks to an external site..
  • Your memo should be at least one full page but no more than 2 pages.
  • Your memo should be created specifically for the organization you work for (If you aren’t employed, you can use DeVry University or use an organization you worked for in the past or an organization you want to work for in the future).

In addition to our reading, find 3 other scholarly sources to help you build your memo’s argument.