Right to Strike Discussion

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Right to Strike [WLOs: 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2]

Strikes may be rare, but it is noteworthy that they have been occurring more frequently in recent years. It is prudent for HR professionals to consider including a strategy for responding to picket lines and protests in their company’s operational plan, especially given the compliance risk and remedies for situations that are not handled properly. In your initial post, analyze whether public employees should have the right to organize and have the right to strike. If yes, what groups should be permitted to have the right to strike and which should not have the same right and why?

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion.

I need a paper written for Business Management

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Assignment 1: Quick Trip Case Study

Due Week 4 and worth 250 points

Complete an analysis of the QuickTrip. Assess the organizational layout, performance metrics, and the technology that is used to measure performance and connect with consumers.

The QuickTrip Case Study is available in the course shell. It is also available at the following link: http://supplychainresearch.com/images/quik_trip.pdf

Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:

  1. Evaluate QuickTrip operations strategy and explain how the organization seeks to gain a competitive advantage in terms of sustainability.
  2. Analyze how operation management activities affect the customer experience. Select two (2) operation management challenges and provide the solutions for confronting them.
  3. Examine QuickTrip value chain and evaluate its effectiveness to operations in terms of quality, value creation, and customer satisfaction.
  4. Determine the different types of performance measurements that can be used to measure QuickTrip service-delivery system design. Select at least two (2) types that can be applied and provide justifications for the selection.
  5. Examine the different types of technologies applied to QuickTrip service operations and evaluate how the technologies strengthen the value chain.
  6. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment that do not include the initial case study. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Apply the concept of operations management.
  • Compare and contrast the difference between a supply chain and a value chain.
  • Analyze the types of measures used for decision making.
  • Analyze the five key competitive priorities and their relationship to operations strategy.
  • Analyze different types of technology and their roles in manufacturing and service operations.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in operations management.
  • Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.

3 pages economic work

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         Assume your company has decided to
expand their US business into an international business. You have been asked by
your company to research potential countries to determine which country they
should expand their business to as their first overseas venture.

Assignment
Criteria:

  1. Introduction
    1. Pick a real
      organization to use as your template organization for this project. The organization
      can be a large multinational organization, a large domestic organization,
      a small organization, or your current (or previous) employer. State
      whether your organization will be selling a product (state product type),
      selling a service (state service), or set-up a manufacturing facility
      (state type of manufacturing). 
    2. Research and
      determine a country that you would recommend to your CEO for
      international expansion. State the name of the country you will be
      recommending for international expansion.  
  1. Perform a
    country study to help determine the any potential issues, costs, and the
    benefits of doing business in a particular country.  At the end of your study, write a brief
    summary (250 words or more) that concludes your findings highlighting some
    of the challenges, benefits, costs, etc associated with entering this
    country.

Below
is a list of the environmental factors you need to study and discuss in your
study.

 

Economic/Geographic:

  • GDP
    • GDP –real
      growth rate
    • GDP – per
      capita
  • Labor
    • By occupation
  • Total Exports
    • Exports –
      commodities
    • Exports –
      partners
  • Total Imports
    • Import –
      commodities
    • Import –
      partners
  • Infrastructure
    – physical (transportation) & informational (communication)
  • Unemployment
  • Industries
    • Industries
      growth rate

Geographic:

  • Natural resources
  • Access to resources and raw materials
  • Climate
  • Land use
  • Current environmental issues
  • Natural Hazards

Political-Legal:

  • Type of
    government
  • Political
    stability
  • Foreign
    investment and approval procedures
  • Regulatory
    requirements
  • Labor and
    employment laws
  • Governmental
    assistance programs for foreign businesses
  • Tax laws and
    applicable treaties

Under External Links in our course I
have provided you with a link to the CIA factbook, this is a great resource to
find out many of the above facts about a country.  I do require that you use at least two additional sources to
complete this assignment.  PLEASE remember to cite all your
sources; proper citation of your sources is a requirement for this course. This
assignment is to be a minimum of 2 – 4 pages typed, font 12, double-spaced.

Match the items in Columns A and B, writing homework help

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Part One: Match the items in Columns A and B

Use the blank box below the question to provide your answers. 

Simply note the pairs; for example, 1 and D. 

Column A

Column B

1. Hyperbole

A. “He looked at her bleakly. She was holding herself very erect under the preposterous hat, wearing it like a banner of her imaginary dignity.”

2. Heteroglossia

B. “A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard”

3. Jo Ann Beard

C. “Remember, this is Canada. You’ll still end up with A”

4.  “Borders”

D. “That is the way with amputations. They don‘t just heal up like a wish.”

5. Meiosis

E.  ’Coyote went fishing, one day.  That’s how it all started.’ We sat out under the stars that night, and my mother told me all sorts of stories. She was serious about it, too.”

6. Thomas King Lecture

F. Signifies how language is always an overlapping and over layering of multiple discourses

7. Metaphor

G. “The Fourth State of Matter”

8. “Everything that Rises Must Converge”

H. “A mocking imitation of the style of literary work or works, ridiculing the stylistic habits of an author or school by exaggerated mimicry”

9. “Happy Endings”

I. Rhetorical exaggeration

10. Parody

J. “There is a story I know. It’s about the earth and how it floats in space on the back of a turtle.”

Behavioral Health Van

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Please review the attachment and expand it. The professor stated it lack substance and details around discussing how will you market,will there be security, discuss the security and liability issue.

Please review and edit the paper and add additional requested above and discuss educational resources (pamphlets/flyers) on how this mobile van will be marketed to the community, where will you market. Discuss about social platform (be very specific and detailed how how you will market and the platforms used). Also discuss networking with area clinics ( be specific) for referrals and how we will bring in referrals and why people would want to use the behavioral health van and discuss the security used to protect the van and the cost of it (how the health system will cover the security) and lastly , discuss the security and liability issues. Need this to be implemented in the paper attached. The professor stated the paper was not good and missing important details such as the stuff above. To answer the information above and implement in the attached paper just need 3 pages

UNIT 8 2 OF 2

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Unit  8 discussion 1 of 2
DISCUSSION RESPONSE ( 350 – 500 Words )Think of a research topic in developmental psychology that deals with aging or changes over time. Briefly describe the different developmental designs, and select one that you would use to explore this topic. Provide a rationale as to why you would use the approach that you selected and why you believe this method is preferable to the other two in this case. Describe some of the pragmatic issues that researchers face when using the developmental designs and how these issues can threaten the validity of your results. Finally, take some time to discuss the problem of generational cohorts and whether or not you feel this would be an issue in your hypothetical study.(DOMESTIC VIOLENCE)

Business Policy and Strategy Essay questions

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1.Discuss bribery. Would actions, such as politicians adding earmarks in legislation or pharmaceutical salespersons giving away drugs to physicians, constitute bribery? Identify three business activities that would constitute bribery and three actions that would not.

Your response should be 75 words in length.

2.Why is it important not to view the concept of “whistleblowing” as “tattling” or “ratting” on another employee?

Your response should be 75 words in length.

3.If you owned a small business, would you develop a code of business conduct? If yes, what variables would you include? If not, how would you ensure that your employees were following ethical business standards?

Your response should be 75 words in length.

4.How can firms ensure that their code of business ethics is read, understood, believed, remembered, and acted on rather than ignored?

Your response should be 75 words in length.

5.What do you feel is the relationship between personal ethics and business ethics? Are they or should they be the same?

Your response should be 200 words in length.

6.If you owned a small business with at least 10 employees, would you develop a code of business conduct? If yes, what elements would you include? If no, how would you ensure that your employees were following ethical business standards?

Your response should be 150 words in length

Diversity in Values and Traditions

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Task 4

Diversity in Values and Traditions

Read Proverb Definitions

Read and understand the following resource: Japanese Proverbs

Find your own list of proverbs or mottoes from another region of the world. Find at least 10 that have a similar or identical equivalent in English and three that aren’t applicable to the lifestyle or tradition in the United States (i.e. proverbs that encourage aimed weakness in the light of tough circumstances)

Select at least 10 proverbs in the list of Japanese proverbs and describe their equivalent in English/ Western tradition. If you can’t think of an exact equivalent, describe the original proverb’s meaning. Lastly, find at least two Japanese proverbs in the list above that don’t really apply to and/or don’t have equivalents in the Western tradition. Be sure to explain why.

Refutation/the rebuttal argument:

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Refutation/the rebuttal argument:

At the end of Week 10, you’re going to be turning in the complete persuasive paper, Assign 5. Assign 5 is a revision of Assign 4 plus adding the rebuttal argument. What is a rebuttal argument? To put it in simple terms, it’s meeting the opposition. You’re taking a stand/making a claim in a persuasive paper. A rebuttal or refutation is where you address any opposition that some might have to your stand. If you think that there is any validity in the opposition, you concede a little, or if you think it does not have any merit, you completely refute it. Eventually, you finish your paper by emphasizing your original stand.

Check out Andrew Sullivan’s article, “Let Gays Marry’ here. Regardless of whether you share his views on the subject, please see the power and the appeals in his argument/especially in how he addresses the opposition:

http://www.mccc.edu/pdf/cmn214/Class%2022/Let%20gays%20marry.pdf

Please discuss Sullivan’s argument.

Discuss the points of rebuttal.

Discuss how you plan to refute the opposition in your paper. ( I have attached my Assignment 5 paper)

Here is my paper

ENG215 assn 5.docx 

post a meaningful question or comment (150 words) to the postings of two discussion

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150 words to each discussion

Discussion 1

Nguyen, T. T. H. (2017). Wal-Mart’s successfully integrated supply chain and the necessity of establishing the Triple-A supply chain in the 21st century. Journal of Economics & Management, 29, 102-117.

The article seeks to examine the fundamental concepts of supply channel used by Wal-Mart and how it has leveraged this to achieve a competitive edge. According to the article, supply channel systems are an essential component in every production and a marketing organization. Producers are not concerned with the increasing cost of production but put more focus on meeting the needs of the consumers such as the products delivered at the right time, the right location as well as having affordable products (Nguyen, 2017). The producer can decide on different supply channels depending on the ease and effectiveness of each.

The principal objective of any supply channel is to connect the producer of a given product and the final consumer. There are four main types of marketing channels required to reach the target market. For instance, selling directly to the consumer involves showcasing and demonstrating the product and services to the consumer. Direct selling benefit customers more since the customers get clear information about the product and, therefore, they are easily convinced to buy the products. Besides that, direct selling shortens the distribution channel and thus ensures that goods reach the customer at the right time.

According to the article Wal-Mart company uses an integrated supply chain. This has enabled it to sell its product to its customers from the different centers which are at direct contact with the consumers. With this, it ensures that customers are served well and also after-sales services such as free delivery. It has enabled the company to serve more than 250 million customers and even manage more than 1050 retail stores around than the globe (Nguyen, 2017). The use of intermediaries is another critical component of marketing strategy that involves wholesalers and retailers buying goods directly from the producer and after that reselling them to the users. The channel starts from the producer to the consumer with intermediaries such as wholesalers and retailers. Intermediary selling is the primary distribution channel used by Wal-Mart Company in getting products to consumers. While dual distribution implies to the producer or the wholesalers using different channels at the same time to get the product to the consumer. It may involve direct selling and likewise selling to retailers from which the consumer can easily access the product. As an intermediary, Wal-Mart is in one of the channels used by producers in getting goods to consumers cutting the distribution channels. On the other hand, reverse channel flows from the consumer to the intermediary to the user. In this case, the producer is not involved because the channels entail reselling of a second-hand product or commodities that are to recycle.

In a bid to ensure that products reach customers at pick up points on time; the company has used various logistics techniques. These include innovative

cross-docking logistics technique, REMIX technology, and satellite network. All these logistics techniques have improved the efficiency of distribution, and

the approach to dispensing the high-velocity goods.Nguyen, 2017)(With more than 3,500 trucks serving for distribution centers, Wal-Mart has been able to

ensure that products reach customers at pick up point on time.

Discussion 2

Bad Actors in the Channels of Distribution: Conceptual Clarity, Demarcation & Antecedents of Abuse

Reference

Baker, B. L., & Edwards, C. J. (2018). Bad Actors in the Channels of Distribution: Conceptual Clarity, Demarcation & Antecedents of Abuse. International Journal of the Academic Business World, 12(1), 1–8. Retrieved fromhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=buh&AN=130038939&site=ehost-live

Main aim of this research is to focus on positive relationships between the distribution channel marketing members. Destructive actions of channel members will have a significant negative impact on firms functioning and business. For example, there are several negative effects on workers who work under abusive management. Workers will not get encouragement from this type of management. This results in poor work performance. Employees feel depressed all the time at work and they will have less job satisfaction. Managerial abuse is harmful to employees and the consequences are harmful to organizations. Employees will leave the company if they face these types of problems. Organizations have to hire more people and spend more money on newly hired people training and other benefits. Other consequences of managerial abuse are less productivity from employees and increased absenteeism. (Baker et al, 2018. P1). I would like to share one of my previous work experience. Management was very flexible and employees used to spend 1-2 hours extra to give more productivity for company growth. After few years company acquired by some other organization and management was very strict about hours of operation and employees used to get over workload. Management used abusive language even if they find employees are coming late by 2-3 minutes. Few employees used to drive 50-60 miles one way to come to work. Most of the efficient staff left the company and the company hired more people and spent more money on their training for 3 months. That was a huge loss for the company in terms of money and productivity.

Abusive acts will have a harmful effect on partners of the business. Organizations won’t be able to reach their goals if they have abusive channel partners. Large business organizations like Walmart and Amazon always receive criticism in media for influencing the members of supply chain and marketing channels (Baker et al, 2018. P2). Punitive acts will generate solutions for problems in the supply chain. For example, enforcing late fees is a punishment but this is designed to provide deliveries on time. This is a benefit to all parties in the channel group. Punitive actions look destructive in the short run but will provide benefits to whole system in the long run. It is important to investigate from target perspective when studying abuse acts. For example, supplier perception to late fees determines supplier reaction either abusive or punishment act. If the supplier considers late fee as punishment, then the action is merely punitive (Baker et al, 2018. P4). Emerson explained power dependence relationship. If member A is dependent on member B, member-B appropriate behavior is required to reach the goals of member A. According to Emerson, dependence is a place where power resides. Dependence of member-A on member-B is directly proportional to member A’s motivational investment in goals mediated by member-B. Dependence of member-A on member-B inversely proportional to the availability of goals to member-A outside A-B relationship (Baker et al, 2018. P5). A few propositions have presented as follows.

  • Few basic incidents will be reported from less powerful channel member if the powerful channel member is more committed to the relationship.
  • Powerful channel member abusive tendency will raise as the threat of being caught declines.