Develop a response to the post below highlighted in yellow. As a reference, after the yellow highlighting is the post orignally submitted by me – use this as a reference only.
The response must be a mínimum of 550 words (2 FULL PAGES);
Must include the integration of at least 4 peer-reviewed source citations reference published within the past five years (such as the textbook, or an article from a scholarly, peer-reviewed academic journal – NOT websites, newspapers, magazines, or blogs, etc) with corresponding APA-formatted in-text citations and reference list;
Must include at least 1 integration of biblical principle;
No quotations – only use if necessary but these words will not be counted towards the minimim Word count required;
Identify at least 1 strength and 1 weakness in the reasoning of each posting. The response should NOT be a critique of the student’s post, nor should you acknowledge if they responded to the question. The purpose is to add value to the post in an effort to continue the conversation;
The response must demonstrate a substantive discusión;
Narrative prose only – no bullet points, numbered lists, or tables.
From your readings this week (chapter 14 attached MUST BE REFERENCED), Choose two ways that organizations have changed over the years and provide a past to current summary, integrating theory and personal perspectives.
Your discussion should include any of the previous chapter concepts, including the readings from this week.
Within the discussion be sure to address the following areas:
How do each of these apply to the three perspectives (natural, rational, and open)?
What areas of technology are an issue for participants?
What are the issues with organizational boundaries for participants?
Order Instructions: Integrating Faith and Learning DB 820
Reflect on the course content and think about the level of knowledge and skill required to effectively conduct meaningful and accurate quantitative analysis.
Reflect on the Keller book “Every Good Endeavor” and think about God’s plan for how we should handle challenging work, the problems we can face at work, and better ways to honor God with our work.
Provide introduction to your thread and discuss the work required to conduct meaningful and accurate quantitative analysis analysis; God’s perspective on that work to include how we should manage it and potential problems we might; better ways to honor God as we accomplish this, and provide your conclusion.
References (in addition to the scholarly articles, you must include the following)
Morgan, G., Leech, N., Gloeckner, G., Barrett, K. (2013). IBM SPSS for Introductory Statistics. (5th Ed.). New York, NY
Essay Topic: Choosing one selling technique of your choice, discuss how this technique has developed over time, since it was first created, then, consider how it can be developed in the future, in order to be relevant to a changing selling environment. (Changing selling environment examples: you may want to focus on Covid-19 impacts, or globalisation? This is again your choice.)
Essay requirements:
At least 6 x academic sources
At least 2 x business or industry examples
Introduction, main body, recommendations, conclusion, referencing, in text citation
PART A: a case study-based coursework assignment of 2,000 words focussing on operations management
This part of the assignment relates to the Tesla case study which consists of two articles and follows at the endof the Part A and B assessment instructions below.
You are required to write a 2,000 word report covering several aspects of the operations management of Teslaby addressing the five tasks below, making use of and applying the case study and relevant operations management concepts from the course materials and your own research as you do so.
You are working for a multinational company Apple. Apple is looking for new investment locations.
You were assigned a task to evaluate the possibility of investment to Russia in 2021. You are required to write a report in which you need to:
Evaluate whether the Russia’s IDP stage fits the Apple investment needs (see the Russia IDP graph below).
Investigate whether the investment to Russia is associated with any potential risks and opportunities for Apple in the light of COVID-19 19 uncertainty.
You may focus on the following areas: hiring and retaining people, production and logistics, R&D together with digital data movement and protection.
Provide recommendation whether to invest or not, providing also a justification for this recommendation.
Calculate the Net Present Value (NPV) for each project
a) State the NPV decision rule
b) Based on the NPV decision rule, select the projects that should be financed with the £1,320,000 budget
c) Calculate the overall NPV for the selected projects in part b)
(Total: 25 marks)
2) Calculate the Profitability Index (PI) for each project
a) Use the calculation in part 2) to rank the projects from the most preferred to the least preferred
b) Explain the PI decision rule
c) Based on the PI decision rule select which of the projects should be financed with the £1,320,000 budget
d) Calculate the overall NPV for the selected projects in part c)
(Total: 25 marks)
3) Calculate the Internal rate of return of (i) Project 1, which has an initial cost of £800,000 and an annual cash inflow of £117,200 for 20 years; and (ii) Project 2, which has an initial cost of £200,000 and an annual cash inflow of £48,000 for 8 years. All the cashflows are in annuity.
Given that AZAR plc. operates a 14% minimum required rate of return policy, based on your IRR analysis, advice on which of the projects should be accepted or rejected.
(Total: 25 marks)
4) Comment on the importance of investment appraisal and explain the advantages and disadvantages for each of the following investment appraisal techniques
I. Net Present Value
II. Internal rate of return
III. Profitability index
IV. Modified internal rate of return
4-3 Executive Summary: Working With Tableau—Analyze Data
Descriptive statistics describes a data set. It is used to summarize and organize the data into something more manageable, actionable, and ready for presentation.
It can also help organize data and present a business problem in an understandable manner. You can use descriptive statistics to understand and analyze the data for your organization.
The employees in your company report struggling with burnout (being overworked).
You have been asked to analyze the situation and recommend solutions to reduce employee burnout.
You have access to an employee survey with employee responses related to the situation.
This week you will analyze the employee survey data and create bar graphs to represent the data visually.
Based on your analysis, you will then create an executive summary targeted to a non-technical audience unfamiliar with statistics.
See the document Module Four Survey Response Key for the responses that were available on the survey.
Prompt
Part 1: Burnout Analysis: Bar Graphs
To complete this assignment, you will use Tableau software that is located within the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Follow the directions in the User Manual: Working With Tableau document to import these employee survey responses into Tableau and conduct a burnout analysis.
Use Tableau to create bar graphs that will answer the following questions. Take screenshots of your bar graphs to include in your executive summary document.
Which gender is experiencing the burnout level “Pretty wiped out almost every day” most?
Which male age group is experiencing the stress level, “A little stress that would be expected with the ups and downs of life” at home the most?
Which leadership level strongly agrees with the fact that they love what they do?
Which gender with a tenure of 5+ years had the lowest number of responses for the burnout level feel great! Energy to spare!”?
Part 2: Executive Summary
Create an Executive Summary of your results addressing the following criteria:
Purpose and respondents: Explain the purpose of the executive summary and briefly describe the survey respondents.
Results: Summarize your bar graph analyses and answer the questions they represent.
Add corresponding bar graphs to relevant sections of the summary to illustrate your analyses.
Recommendations: Based on your analysis, recommend two areas the company can focus on to reduce employee burnout.
Guidelines for Submission
To complete this assignment, you must submit the following:
Executive Summary: Submit a 2- to 3-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Include the screenshots of the graphs you generated in Tableau.
Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
Book for class
Use the book as a reference and a module link if necessary
Name of class
SNHU MBA 540 Organizational Strategy in a Global Environment
Add to the paper below an build upon it. Given that the total assignment should be around
10 pages when completed (excluding title and references pages). In
your case assignment, you wrote about the first 4 steps in the
research process (see diagram below)
Now, add to your paper the final three (3) steps in the research
process. You will need to review the paper below and other documents attached to enhance your paper, which means you may need to go back and address the tense of your paper, hone it in certain areas, etc., in order to continue to build the completed signature assignment.
The statements below are preliminary but respond with a synthesized
approach and not just checking the block to finish.
In other words,
teach me something about your research area of interest.
1. Discuss the main types of data collection techniques and
identify the method most suitable for your types of data and
your research question.
• Include any biases you think might affect the data set
• during the collection process.
• Discuss your plan to mitigate these biases.
2.Describe the main steps used in preparing the data set for
analysis.
• Discuss the importance of the in ensuring a high quality of data analysis
• Specify some of the challenges that you might incur during data analysis and a plan to overcome these challenges.
3. Describe some of the risks and consequences of the failure to act ethically during the data collection and gathering phase.
• Address whether or not your research question may incur ethical challenges or not.
• Share some techniques that you may use to address the ethical concerns
Related to data collection, analyzing and presentation of your research.
4. Anticipate the following in your area of interest
• Major findings
• Limitations
• Future research
1. Identify the characteristics needed to implement a shared ethical culture and explain the identified characteristics will help the organization.
2. Explain how the ethical culture will be affected by the global context.
o Describe some of the global implications, using the competing values framework in analyzing the situation.
3. Analyze the current organizational structure and identify at least three key questions the executives need to answer in order to create the most effective and suitable organizational structure and culture.
4. Explain the importance of ethical leadership involved in implementing a new organization structure.
o Suggest a possible new structure based on the learning activity.
a. Name the structure.
b. Provide an overview of the structure.
c. Describe why the structure was selected.
Submit your 3- to 4-page paper with additional title and reference pages in current APA format
Write a 4-5 page paper on the movie a Civil Action or Enron: The Smartest Guys in the room.
APPLY the principles you have learned in the course to the movie. use the same format that you have been using on your written assignments.
Yes, it really does work- (keep the Facts short and sweet, set up your Issues, let’s see some solid analysis using the course legal concepts and don’t forget your critical thinking skills)
