DISCUSSION POST MUST BE 10+ SENTENCES AND THE PEER REVIEW MUST BE 7+ SENTENCES PLEASE USE YOUR OWN WORDS AND DO NOT COPY FROM OTHER SITES STAY ON TOPIC ,BE POSITIVE , AND DO NOT COMMENT ON GRAMMAR ERRORS. TALK DIRECTLY TO CLASSMATES IN PEER REVIEWS!!!

1) DISCUSSION QUESTION

Applying the Fruit Guys Business Strategy (10 Points)

Watch the video titled “Fruit Guys ─ Strategy,”* also located in the Learn section of Week 3 of your Blackboard course. Identify two or three (2-3) businesses that could use the five (5) questions the Fruit Guys used to determine effectiveness. Provide a rationale for your answer. Reply to at least one (1) of your classmate’s posts.

Considering the Impact of Competition on HRM Within a Real Business (10 Points)

Pick an organization that you are familiar with and do a competitive environmental scan for it. Then answer and discuss the following questions:

• How does the competitive environment for the company affect the organization’s HR function?
• Which strategy would be best suited to address the effects discussed?

Provide a rationale for your answers. Reply to at least one (1) of your classmate’s posts.

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2) PEER REVIEW (DERRICK)

Grasping and recognizing what to do in a market by looking at mistakes or watching a recession happen was the uphill start for the fruit guy . Five questions he asked are where every new business owner should begin. Understanding what respect is would be a winner . Ask if the business has been respectful to all the customers. Next , undrerstanding the needs of the consumer and investigating were they met. Next is realization . This is so important gives credibiltiy because being honest on what you can and can not do is perfect. Everyone should understand and know being responsible is all part of being an owner whether it is an employee or product you are responsible. Last but mostly mportant is being optimistic. Positively will help and make problem solving easier. The two business I could apply the five would be tree and lawn service. People think that these two are simple and can be done everyday. the thing about it has to be neat , clean , safety , time consuming, and a lot of man power. This a physical job that goes unnoticed. An organization I’m familiar would be the Hyundai Plant. The plant ask for qualification that are not that high but time demanding. Human resource has to balance what is looked for and what is expected!

Application: Qualitative Field Research Methods

One of the most famous examples of qualitative field research is that conducted by cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. In the 1920s, Mead lived amongst a group of Samoans on the island Ta’u and studied that culture’s rites of passage, transitions, and attitudes concerning the transition to adulthood. This work is an example of one type of qualitative field research called participant observation.

There are four main types of qualitative field research, each of which has strengths and limitations and situations for which each would be more or less appropriate. These types include participant observation, systematic observation, intensive interviewing, and focus groups. What they all have in common is the goal of understanding the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of individuals in a given setting. They all position researchers as close as possible to the subjects, in order to gain access and collect personal experiences. Researchers collect data in the form of texts and descriptions of behaviors and actions or practices, which may subsequently be coded and analyzed for meaningful interpretation.

For this Application Assignment, explore the four main methods of qualitative field research and consider why participant observation is archetypal. Then consider the strengths and limitations of each type of qualitative field research method.

The assignment (2–3 pages):

• Describe the four main methods of qualitative field research.
• Explain why participant observation is considered archetypal.
• Lastly, explain strengths and limitations of participant observation compared to the other types of qualitative field research methods.

Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

Research Paper on:   

AT&T as an International
Business

Research
Paper Guidelines 

Specific
guidance on the research paper submission is provided below: 

A 12-15 page
(excluding appendices, table of contents, abstract, reference, and
bibliography) research paper (case study) is required.  Select
a firm operating in the international business environment. This
paper will be prepared consistent with the current APA Manual and will have a minimum of ten different references (No Wiki’s or Pedia’s). Some
of the bibliography and references will most likely come from the firm you have
chosen: source documents, e.g., annual reports, and financial statements.  As such this reduces the need for peer
reviewed sources. However, peer
reviewed sources are still important and should be listed in the
bibliography/reference section(s) and cited in the paper as appropriate.  

In
addition, the research paper will be prepared consistent with the following
guidelines: 

1. This serves as
an introduction to the Research Paper. Provide an overview of the research
design of the paper. Introduce the various topics that will be addressed
in the research paper. Identify the method(s) that will be used to collect the
data for the topics and how that data will be evaluated.

2. There will be a
brief discussion of the firm to include its principle goods and services,
market share, geographic locations where it operates, and major
competitors. 

3. Evaluate and
discuss whether the firm could benefit by using Activity Based Costing (ABC). The discussion
should include what factor(s) influenced your decision, the ramifications of implementing ABC in the international
business environment, and how you would structure the distribution of costs
using ABC for your firm. 

4. Evaluate and
discuss whether the firm could benefit by using standard costs. The discussion
should include what factor(s) influenced your decision, the ramifications of
costs, quantity, and variances, and the ramifications of using standard costs
in the international business environment.

5. Evaluate and
discuss how the firm could benefit by analyzing future projects in terms
relevant costs.
This discussion should include the firm’s future plans, such as, expansion,
consolidation, and downsizing and how relevant costs could be used in the
decision making. 

6. Summary and conclusion(s). The
discussion should provide a brief summary of the previous sections, and the
conclusions you have reached. 

research_paper_guidelines_at_t.docx

1-Do you believe that
The Body Shop was guilty of greenwashing, under the leadership of Anita Roddick?

Hi, been waiting for you but did not see you online, I have to sleep now so I’ll leave this questions to keep bidding. Please do it as last time you did, 2 responses and 1 your own question with source sited. Also please pay attention to the due time, these questions wont take u more than 2 hours to finish. Thank you.

Q1: How did someone know if a lady was a former prostitute and why were some men ok with marrying them?

First, chinese were discouraged for immigration due to the Page Law of 1875. This was due to the assumption that many of them were prostitues. On page 354 it was stated that most women in the Wild West were prostitutes. Why were chinese excluded from migration to the US because of prostitution but in the WIld West most women were prostitutes. 2/3 of western prostitutes died due to STDs, botched abortions, alcohol abuse, suicide, and homicide. This business ended up being owned and ran by men. Pimps, landlords, and police profited the most from western prostitution. Some of them were able to leave that behind and earn or marry their way into respectable society. For the women that left this life behind, why were some men willing to marry these women?

The talk of sex coming from a women was frowned upon. Learning from chapter 6 even when a women was pregnant she was to not say that she was publicly. People would not know women were pregnant until they piece together that that women had stated she was ill and then spoke or saw her with a newborn. From the previous chapters we also learned that women wanted ways to prevent pregnancies while still having sex, and until Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control Movement in the 1910s, it was not very plausible. If birth control and pregnancy talk was frowned upon by society why would men marry a former prostitute and did they know about it?

Q2: How do you think the idea of the “American dream” changed for individuals after they immigrated to the U.S. Do you think it was everything they thought it would be? Why or Why not?

I think the perception of what the “American Dream” was, is very different than what it really turned out to be for many immigrants. For instance, in professors lecture, many men that immigrated first, new it wasn’t everything they thought that it would be, but they often fluffed it up and made it sound like it was amazing, just so that the family would follow him and make the move too. However, you can see in the photograph on page 349 “Before and After Americanization” the 3 girls sat on chairs rather than the floor, they lost their blankets and braids for dresses, a book was placed on one of the small girls laps, to indicate that she now had the ability to read English, but they kept their sad face. Why? Was it because they realized that the “American Dream” wasn’t really the dream they thought they were going to get? Although they were “Americanized” they were stripped from their roots, forced to live in tenements as seen on slide8 of professor’s lecture, that often were worse living conditions than they had back home. Multiple people packed into small rooms, spreading disease, illnesses, etc. They were dirty, no sunlight, depressing. Was this still a better life they are living here in American than that of the lives they were living back in their homeland? Was it because they knew there was more opportunity here available to them. Even if it wasn’t right away? In my opinion, I believe they still thought that living in American was better than their homeland with more opportunity available to them, however, I think the photographs with the sad faces (page349 and figure 7.4 on page 393), shows that the “American Dream” wasn’t all that it was talked up to be, after arriving in America to see and experience for themselves.