Business

There are many aspects regarding conducting business in a virtual world discussed in Digital Habitats, Chapters 4 to end.  Pick any aspect from these chapters in the book and expand on it.  Tell why you think this is critical to a business.  Be concise – two paragraphs max!

Please read the case study:” Walmart ”  Ethics Choices and Communication Challenges on pages 2 and 3 in your textbook, 11th Edition.  Identify which type of formal communication is likely to be the most used at Walmart: downward, upward, or horizontal? Describe two changes related to formal communication, that would provide benefit for Walmart.   Discuss and share your comments in 2 paragraphs.

How can a salesperson convert new customers into highly committed customers for life?  How might you “ask customers not to buy”? See the video for more on what it means to ask customers not to buy.  Give specific examples of how you have either developed a brand loyalty or how you’ve moved on to a different brand because a company did not follow effective principles for converting new customers into highly committed customers for life.  Tim Leberecht three ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand  on TED

1.     What exactly does the CPI measure?  2.     The GDP price index (also called the GDP deflator) is another type of price index. How does it differ from the CPI?  3.     If the CPI increased form 107.8 in 1985 to 183.9 in 2003, by what percent did the average of all prices increase over this time period?  4.     Which year or years are the baser years currently used for the CPI? What is always the index value of the base year?  5.     Assume you’d like to invest $1000 in an account that will pay you 8% interest. The current inflation rate is actually 5%. What is the nominal interest rate? What is the Real interest rate?  6.     Who would benefit the most from unanticipated inflation – borrowers or creditors? Explain why.  7.     If GDP, inflation, and interest rates increased, and the unemployment rate decreased, what phase of the business cycle would you assume the economy is in? Briefly explain.  8.     Calculate the CPI in 2013 using a CPI basket of goods from 2012: 2013 prices = $90; 2012 prices = $60.  9.     Read “Eye on Your Life” pg. 439 and answer the following. How does the inflation rate for a college student compare with the CPI index? Why?  10.  Read “Eye on Box Office Hits” and answer the following and EXPLAIN why the following statement is either true or false: “Gone With the Wind earned a total of $200 million but doesn’t even come close to the popularity of the movie The Avengers which has earned a total of $623 million.” Explain in detail.

Assess the changes in the organizational environment (e.g., context in which most organizations operate) that have occurred over the past few decades. How has the changing environment affected the practice of leadership?

OMM 220: BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS – Major Written Assignment #1 Feasibility Report Background1: A feasibility report is an objective analysis of a business problem or opportunity. It generally follows a robust consideration of many options or solutions to the problem. The feasibility report sets out the preferred option and proves its viability. Its purpose is to define the parameters of the project, as well as the resources needed to see it through to fruition. It estimates the risk involved and the likelihood of success for the project. A feasibility report might ask any of the following questions: • Is this site right for the project? • Should we open a new location? If so, where? • Should we launch a new product or service? Will it work? • Will our fundraiser be successful? Assignment: You have an idea for a student program/offering, either at Sauder, your undergraduate faculty or the broader campus, based on a need or opening you’ve observed. It could be a project, an event, an exhibit, a fundraiser – it might be to highlight research, for recruitment or to promote athletics or the arts. (It should not be to implement a new course, nor should it be a business proposal, as these are outside the scope of the assignment.) You approach the correct administrator with the idea. She thinks for a moment and instead of saying no, asks you for a feasibility report. Write a 1,200 – 1,500 word report (not including citations) that includes a description of the proposed idea, an assessment of the demand, the value to the school and any socio-political concerns you think Sauder, your undergraduate faculty or the university would need to consider. Support your writing with research. A minimum of four sources is expected. The report must include a title page (with the word count of the report), and at least one visual component, such as a table, chart, infographic or graphs. These are not included in the word count. Use APA referencing and a 12-point, business appropriate font, single-spaced. 1 Feasibility Report Template, Government of Canada, http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/biensproperty/ sngp-npms/ti-it/etivcarftp-idsfvfrmd-eng.html COMM 220: BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS – Major Written Assignment #1 Report Structure: Remember what you’ve learned about logical organization and layout. Don’t forget the importance of visual appeal, descriptive headers and scanability. The topics below should guide your analysis and should be addressed in your report in some fashion. However, they don’t need to be presented in this order, nor do they need to be separate sections. Think about what your particular audience needs to know to make an informed decision. There is no one format for this report. • Introduction/Purpose and Project Description • Background Information • Goals or Problem o Describe the need or issue you’ve observed. How does the project address it? o Can you quantify this need in the community or provide support for its necessity? • Performance Measures o How will you determine the effectiveness of the project? • Assumptions & Constraints o What will you need to assume to complete the task and what will limit the success of the project, e.g. cost, space, mandate? • Risk Analysis o Identify the major risks inherent in the project and suggest possible mitigation strategies. • Alternatives o What other solutions are there to this problem or goal? Is anything else already addressing it or what else could? • Recommendation & Conclusion o Provide a justification for your idea. o Identify the resources necessary to complete the project. o Summarize the key points of your report and your rationale, without explaining everything all over again. Deadlines and Submission Guidelines: • Draft due on the Thursday during synchronous class time before the final deadline – you will be penalized 10% on your report for failing to attend this class or bringing a working draft • Final report due via Turn-it-in either PDF or Word.

Read the article: give me deep answers for questions below, I DO NOT need summary or nonsense! The gig economy is growing. Taxing the gig economy was already a giant headache for taxing authorities before COVID-19 hit. Special tax issues related to being self-employed were an issue for gig workers too Questions for discussion: ·        What do you think the biggest challenges are going forward for gig workers? taxing authorities? ·        Do you think COVID-19 and/or a recession will substantially change the debates around taxes and the gig economy?  If so, how? If not, why not?

The questions are the following:  1. Data Analytics, Inc., and eProducts Corporation market competing software products. Data Analytics launches an advertising campaign claiming that eProducts, instead of testing software before it is marketed, has customers “test” the software by using it. eProducts knows this is not true but begins to lose sales to Data Analytics. On what ground could eProducts sue Data Analytics for injury to eProducts’ reputation? 2. Dixie, a driver for Express Delivery Company, leaves the truck’s motor running in neutral and carelessly forgets to set the parking brake while she makes a delivery. The truck rolls and crashes into a nearby gas station pump, igniting a fire that spreads quickly to a construction site a block away. A burned wall collapses onto a crane, which falls on Fazio, a bystander, and injures him. What must Fazio show to recover damages from Express Delivery??

Introduce yourself briefly. Discuss your prior knowledge of and interest in the course topic. Also, explain how this course will assist you in your career path. Next, choose one of the options below for discussion. Be sure to elaborate and explain. This is a Business Law I class. CASE 7-2: United States of America v. Park (p. 166 in the text) Do you think that Parks should have been charged with a criminal offense when he was not directly running the warehouse where the contaminated food was stored? Should he be convicted when he did not intend to hurt anyone? Discuss why or why not. What precedent does the court rely on in this case? For one of your posts, do a little exploring online and discuss another white-collar crime story in the news. Include one source, properly cited in APA format. Exhibit 2-1: Enron, WorldCom, and Shifts in Business Regulation (p. 19 in the text) Google either of these two companies to learn the story of the financial scandals that resulted in the loss of millions of dollars and the imprisonment of corporate officers. Do you think that the CEOS and other corporate officers were justly held criminally responsible? Do you believe that business can regulate itself to act ethically or is government oversight a necessity to protect the public from financial wrongdoing? Investors? Elaborate and explain. For one of your posts, do a little exploring online and discuss another white-collar crime story in the news. Include one source, properly cited in APA format. For each discussion, you must create one initial post For your initial post, do the following: ? Write a post of 1 to 2 paragraphs Consider content from other parts of the course where appropriate. Use proper citation methods for your discipline when referencing scholarly or popular sources. Here is what it says in the textbook because I chose to talk about Case 7-2. Case 7-2: United States v.Park. United States Supreme Court 421 U.S 658 ( 1975). Defendant Park, the president of a national food-chain corporation, was charged, along with the corporation, with violating the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by allowing food in the warehouse to be exposed to rodent contamination. Park conceded that his responsibility for the ” entire operation” included warehouse sanitation but claimed he had delegated the responsibility for sanitation to dependable subordinates. He admitted at trial that he had received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration about unsanitary conditions at one of the company’s warehouses. The trial court found him guilty, the court of appeals reversed, and the case was appealed to the U.S Supreme Court. Chief Justice Burger: The question presented was whether ” the manager of a corporation, as well as the corporation itself, may be prosecuted under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 for the introduction of misbranded and adulterated articles into interstate commerce”. In Dotterweich, a jury had disagreed as to the corporation, a jobber purchasing drugs from manufacturers and shipping them in interstate commerce under its own label, but had convicted Dotterweich, the corporation’s president, and general manager. Central to the Court’s conclusion that individuals other than proprietors are subject to the criminal provisions of the Act was the reality that ” the only way in which a corporation can act is through the individuals who act on its behalf”. The rationale of the interpretation given the Act in Dotterweich, as holding criminally accountable the persons whose failure to exercise the authority and supervisory responsibility reposed in them by the business organization, resulted in the violation complained of, has been confirmed in our subsequent cases. In order to make ” distributors of food the strictest censors of their merchandise,” the Act punishes ” neglect where the law requires care and inaction where it imposes a duty. ” The accused, if he does not will the violation, usually is in a position to prevent it with no more care than society might reasonably expect and no more exertion than it might reasonably extract from one who assumed his responsibilities.”  Thus, Dotterweich and the cases which have followed reveal that in providing sanctions which reach and touch the individuals who execute the corporate mission. and this by no means necessarily confined to a single corporate agent or employee. the Act imposes not only a positive duty to seek out and remedy violations when they occur, but also, and primarily, a duty to implement measures that will insure that violations will not occur. the requirements of foresight and vigilance imposed on responsible corporate agents are beyond question, demanding, and perhaps onerous, but they are not more stringent than the public has a right to expect of those who voluntarily assume positions of authority in business enterprises whose services and products affect the health and well-being of the public that supports them. The Act does not, as we observed in Dotterweich, make criminal liability turn on ” awareness of some wrongdoing” or ” conscious fraud.” The duty imposed by Congress on responsible corporate agents is, we emphasize, one that requires the highest standard of foresight and vigilance, but the Act, in its criminal aspect, does not require that which is objectively impossible. The theory upon which responsible corporate agents are held criminally accountable for ” causing” violations of the Act permits a claim that a defendant was ” powerless” to prevent or correct the violation to “be raised defensively at a trial on the merits.” It is equally clear that the government established a prima facie case when it introduced evidence sufficient to warrant a finding by the trier of the facts that the defendants had, by reason of his position in the corporation, responsibility and authority either to prevent in the first instance or promptly to correct, the violation complained of, and that he failed to do so. The failure thus to fulfill the duty imposed by the interaction of the corporate agent’s authority and that statute furnishes a sufficient causal link. The considerations, which prompted the imposition of this duty, and the scope of the duty, provide the measure of culpability.

Two part assignment:  1. Outline    This outline should be 1-2 pages long. Company of choice in fast food industry (should be nationwide company) Introduction History of the company When was it founded? Original location Founder Original Menu Current CEO How long have they been in the role of CEO at this company What is their history with fast food Amount of locations Goals for the paper (what are you going to be writing about in this paper) Mission statement __ What I liked about? What I did not like about it? What I would change about it? When did it come to existence? SMART Goals (3 goals you want the business to achieve in the future) (https://fitsmallbusiness.com/smart-goals-examples/, https://www.thebalancesmb.com/elements-of-a-smart-business-goal-2951530, https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goals.htm) __ __ __ Industry analysis:  explain the industry, not specifics about your company (https://www.franchisehelp.com/industry-reports/fast-food-industry-analysis-2018-cost-trends/, https://www.statista.com/topics/863/fast-food/, http://www.historyoffastfood.com/) __PAST __PRESENT __FUTURE SWOTT Analysis S __ __ W __ __ O __ __ T __ __ T __ __ Perceptual map LABEL POINTS (TWO OF THEM) PRICE Vs. Quality of FOOD Competitors that will be plotted in the map Conclusion Recap of the paper (use a sentence at the most) References (5-10 of them) 2. Paper For this assignment, select a real company in the fast food industry.  You have just been hired by (your selected company) as its new vice president of strategic planning. The corporation’s performance in recent years as well as the changes with business and economic conditions will be a central focus of your new job. Deliverable Length: 1,000–1,250 words prepare the following sections of a strategic plan for the corporation’s next 3-5 years: Mission and Vision Statements (Simply copying from an existing real company is unacceptable.) Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound (SMART) Goals and Objectives Industry Analysis Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends (SWOTT) Analysis A Perceptual Map Choose any criteria that you think are important to plot. Explain why you picked the criteria.