Business

reflect on the relationship between law, legal rights, and the role of ethics in business practices. In your own words, discuss how law, legal rights, and social forces provide a framework for ethical business practices today. Can more be done to encourage ethical business practices? After 11 years together, Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt citing “irreconcilable differences”. The news came amidst scandalous allegations of Brad’s substance abuse and possible child abuse and neglect. Brad was cleared of all allegations by authorities. The couple has decided to deal with the divorce proceedings privately for the well-being of their six children. As a popular celebrity couple, discuss their individual right to privacy and what type of alternative dispute resolution method they can use to keep their separation proceedings off the media. Explain your answer.

APA format, Times 12 font, double spaced, 4 pages in length   STEP 1: Complete the NEO-PI via this link: http://www.personal.psu.edu/~j5j/IPIP/ipipneo300.htm and read through your results thoroughly. Make note of your initial feelings while reading your results. Do they appear consistent with what you know about yourself? Did anything surprise you? Use these notes as topics you’d like to include in the personal section of this paper (see below for requirements).   STEP 2: SCIENTIFIC/ACADEMIC WRITING SECTION (2 1/2-3 pages) Choose two articles of interest from the list of personality reserves on blackboard (https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/listContentEditable.jsp?content_id=_26226811_1&course_id=_1323790_1). First, I’d like an academic discussion and comparison/contrast of the key points addressed in the articles. Do not summarize the articles. This is scientific and academic writing, not opinion-based, therefore you are not using personal pronouns here (no ‘I’, ‘we’, ‘I think,’ statements). Major findings? Do the articles contradict one another? How do the articles relate to each other or to Psychology/Human Relations field? What is insightful about the articles? What is compelling? Why is this research important? Answer these questions and cite the two articles within your paper (when using quotes, paraphrasing, or referencing). Be sure to refer to APA guidelines while referencing, see help below).   STEP 3: PERSONAL SECTION Discuss the results of your test very briefly. Discuss any insight, surprise, information, etc. that you gained as a result of taking the test. Finally, relate your NEO-PI results to either of the articles’ discussion in some way. As you were reading the article, did it bring about any thoughts related to your own personality, life, or goals? Discuss. Did the article give you insight into how you’d like to change your attitudes, values, relationships or beliefs? (1-1 1/2 pages)

Topic is A Disney themed Hotel, and Industry Trends   The proposal is to start a Disney themed Hotel for Families Industry Trends Identify and explain the industry that the Walt Disney company is in Research the industry that your new product or service is in (Disney Hotel) What are the trends in the industry?  Is it growing or shrinking? What is new in the industry? What is the future outlook for the industry? How will your product /service fit in?  How much money does the industry generate per year?

needs to be 8 to 12 sentences for each answer Question 1- Your company has just purchased an adjoining building. Its first initiative is to build a childcare center on the ground floor. As human resources manager, you have been given the task of inviting affected employees to a meeting to help plan the new center. First you have to analyze your audience. Who is your target audience? What is your relationship with the audience? How will the audience likely react? What does the audience already know? What is unique about the audience? Question 2 – Explain each of the three steps used to interpret the data you gather through research: isolation, context, and synthesis. Question 3 – How does what is acceptable for eye contact, facial expressions, and body movements change with other cultures? Give examples. Question 4 – When delivering a presentation to an international audience, what are some possible challenges? How would you handle the presentation differently for this type of audience? Question 5 – Most companies are all about encouraging employees to suggest ways to improve the way they do business. They get a lot great suggestions, but they cannot use all of them. Your boss has gone through the latest suggestions for improvement and picked two out of the 23 that were submitted in the last two months. You have been given the job of writing a letter to be sent to each of the other 21 employees whose ideas were rejected. This is a tough job.  What approach would you use for the letter? How will you open the letter? How will you word the bad news? How will you close the letter? Question 6 –  All of you have probably applied for a job, but not all of you have had to evaluate a group of resumes to choose the best ones to interview for a job. What do you think are the top five pet peeves for those who have to review resumes? Question 7 – Now that you have completed your PowerPoint slides and your presentation, is there anything that you would have done differently? Would you have chosen a different way to design your presentation slides? What advice would you give others trying to do a presentation? Question 8 – Your XYZ Company just purchased SKY Company, with offices in Madrid and Paris. The marketing managers from these offices are now a part of your marketing team. You have been instructed to take part in a joint marketing meeting at the Paris office. What possible cultural differences must be taken into consideration? What other intercultural communication issues might be a problem? eyboard Shortcuts

listen to the following podcast: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/27/822944544/episode-986-america-unemployed after listening, answer the following questions: 1) In “America Unemployed”, how did the COVID-19 pandemic effected the unemployment situation in the US? What types of jobs do you think will be lost permanently? Which types of jobs will come back after the pandemic? What new jobs might be created from this pandemic in the future? How has this effected you or your family’s employment situation? 2) In “How Other Countries Handled Their Jobs Crises”, what are the ways that other countries approach unemployment different from the US? Should the US adopt these same methods to deal with unemployment? Why or why not? What might be some challenges in implementing such methods in the US?

Purpose This assignment is designed to allow you to apply course information, including major concepts, principles, theories and research related to current educational trends. Case studies allow us to review a scenario or situation that actually occurred and analyze both the problems faced by executives/leaders of the school system and potential solutions. There will be more than one right answer, although some will be “more right” than others. Please be sure to cite/reference all sources used in your analysis. §  Abstract/Case Background.  describe the case facts and background. This should include BRIEF information about the case, however, do NOT simply duplicate what is in the case itself. As things change, you may wish to check the status of the school district and briefly discuss the most current information. §  Key Issues. Please address the seven questions below. §  Conclusion. Lesson Learned. What is the most important takeaway or lesson learned from this case? Be specific.   1.      As a Deputy Mayor for Education, why did Reinoso’s candidacy for this position draw a lot of attention? 2.      Discuss the implications mayoral control would have on the reform of Washington, DC Public Schools (DCPS) as Reinoso conducted his search for a new Chancellor? 3.      There were six core “Pain Points” that needed the administration’s attention (Figure 3, pg. 8). The report indicated the same pain points had been highlighted in various reports dating back to the 1980s. Which Leading Pain Point (in your opinion), appears to be the most significant and why? 4.      Discuss the purpose of the Interagency Collaboration and Services Integration Commission (ICSIC) and how this body provides support for the reform of DCPS. 5.      Discuss Rudy Crew’s success/failure as former chancellor of the New York City Board of Education and former superintendent of Miami-Dade Public Schools. 6.      What qualities, skills, and experience are most important for a Chancellor to have? 7.      What is working for DCPS, and what needs to change? Provide your opinion on the performance of the DCPS today.                                                                       i.            Please refer to the Testimony of Amanda Alexander Interim Chancellor District of Columbia Public Schools before the Committee on Education Council of the District of Columbia, The Honorable David Grosso, Chairman, Fiscal Year 2017 Performance Oversight Hearing.  https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/release_content/attachments/DCPS%202018-03-01_Chancellor%20FY17%20Performance%20Hearing%20Testimony_final_1.pdf

Determine whether your business concept is product, service, or both. (CO2, 4) This module helped you understand how important it is to determine whether your business concept is a product or service, or both. In this activity, you continue to develop your business concept. Describe the type of business you will operate, in general. Provide the following information: Will you be selling a product, service, or both? Describe the product or service (or both) in detail. Explain the qualities that differentiate your product, service, or both from others in the business environment. If you are not familiar with your competition, start conducting market research now. If this is a completely new business concept, explain why it is necessary – why will people by it? Evaluate whether the type of entrepreneur you identified yourself as in the last module aligns with the type of business you have identified here. Explain why or why not.

The U.S. has a tariff rate quota (TRQ) on raw cane sugar. After doing research online, answer the following questions: 1. What are the first six digits of the U.S. HTS codes for raw cane sugar? (Find it through https://hts.usitc.gov/  (????????) ) 2. What is the current quota for the U.S. raw cane sugar TRQ, in metric tons per year? 3. What are the current U.S. within-quota and over-quota tariffs for raw cane sugar, in U.S. cents per kg? Note that some sources may refer to the within-quota tariff as the “in-quota” tariff, and may refer to the over-quota tariff as the “out-of-quota” tariff. Some sources may also refer to a tariff as a “duty”. 4. How does the U.S. allocate the quota in the raw cane sugar TRQ among various countries selling raw cane sugar to the U.S.?

Conceptual Frameworks Worksheet # one For Dissertation Topic: Identifying the gaps in Collaborative leadership and Employee Engagement utilizing Strategy as Practice.    The following questions (from Chapter 9 in Ravitch & Riggan, 2018) ask you to reflect on your potential research topic and clarify your thinking by Identifying your interests, beliefs, and motivations for doing research Ravitch,S&Riggan, M.(2017)Reason&rigor:How conceptualframeworks guideresearch(2nd ed.) ThousandOaks,CA:SAGEPublications, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-4833-4040-1. Ch. 9. Use references below to answer the questions. ¨     What is interesting to me and why? ¨     What personal and professional motivations do I have for engaging in this research? How might these motivations influence how I think about and approach the topic?   ¨     What are my beliefs about the people, places, and ideas involved in and related to my study? Where do these beliefs come from? What assumptions underlie these beliefs?   ¨     What orientations to the topic, setting, and concepts do I have? Where do these ideas come from?   ¨     What is my sense of the relationship between the macro and micro sociopolitical circumstances in which people make meaning and choices in their lives? With respect to the participants in my study specifically? ¨     What is my “agenda” for taking up this topic in this setting at this time? (Having an agenda is not necessarily a bad thing. This may be the foundation of your argument!) What influences this agenda? What biases shape this agenda?     References that you are able to google and skim thru to be able to answer the questions (Do not use any other references please): Chia, R. (2004). Strategy- as- practice: Reflections on the research agenda. Europe an Management Review, 1, 29– 34. Beer, M. (2009). High commitment, high performance: How to build a resilient organization for sustained advantage. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass. Beer, M., & Eisenstat, R. (2000). The silent killers of strategy implementation and learning. Sloan Management Review. Beer, M., & Eisenstat, R. (2004, December). How to have an honest conversation about your strategy. Harvard Business Review. Heracleous, L., Angwin, D., Paroutis, S. (2016). Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases. United Kingdom: SAGE Publications. Johnson, G., Whittington, R., Melin, L., Langley, A. (2007). Strategy as Practice: Research Directions and Resources. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. O’Sullivan, R. G. (2004). Practicing Evaluation: A Collaborative Approach. United Kingdom: SAGE Publications

Prompt Based on your studies in this course, what do you see as the most pressing issue for human resource professionals? Noe, R., Hollenbeck, J. , Gerhart, B., & Wright, P.  (2021). Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage (12th ed.). Chapter 16: Strategically Managing the HRM Function Solomon, R.C., (1999). A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success.