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Description Choose one of the topics mentioned in the article that would most likely apply to your career (or expected career). Paid Family Leave California, New Jersey and Rhode Island currently offer paid family leave, and New York will join the list in 2018. Washington state and Washington, D.C., have also passed such laws, but they won't take effect until later. Paid family leave in New York will be a big change for employers, said Lauren Leyden, an attorney with Akin Gump in New York City, noting that the program will be phased in over the next few years. Employers need to understand the calculations and other mechanisms of the law and how new requirements compare to current employer offerings, she added. Although only a handful of states offer paid family leave, others are expected to follow. Source: Piazza, L. & Smith, A. (2018).  8 Workplace Legal Trends for 2018. Society for Human Resource Management. Retrieved from https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/Pages/8-Workplace-Legal-Trends-for-2018.aspx on 10/20/2018. Assume you are the HR Director of a medium to large corporation or the owner of a small business. Draft a memo informing your employees on the topic you chose. The purpose of this memo is to keep them up to date on an issue that might affect them or the company. At a minimum, your memo should include: A description of the legal issue in a way that your audience could understand it (in other words, read, analyze, then draft your explanation in language that your employees would understand). Include an explanation of the current state of that issue/law (this is to help them understand a comparison to what the future might hold). A discussion on how your company will address that issue when/if the time comes.

Description Choose one of the following: Crocs (CROX), Beyond Meat (BYND), Ferrari (RACE), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Yeti (YETI), 1-800-Flowers (FLWS), Spotify (SPOT), Airbnb (ABNB), Nintendo (NTDO), Upwork (UPWK), Wix.com (WIX), Shopify (SHOP), Etsy (ETSY), and Just Eat Takeaway (GRUB). Conduct an external analysis (e.g., PESTEL and Porter’s five forces assessment) and internal analysis (e.g., core competencies and competitive advantages assessment, value-chain analysis, and ratio analysis). Based on your external analysis, identify the two most important opportunities and the two most eminent threats that your company is facing. Based on your internal analysis, identify the company’s two most important strengths and its two biggest weaknesses. The suggested format for this assignment is outlined below. You can customize it making sure to address all aspects of the outline in some logical sequence. Introduction Summarize the purpose of the assignment and what the reader should expect to learn from your analysis Company profile Name Background (describe what the company does and offers) Industry (provide a primary SIC or state the industry your company is in) Revenue and profits (provide a table with the last three to five years of each and discuss trends) Number of employees Reputation Internal analysis Business model (identify the customer value proposition and profit formula) Vision and mission (discuss these overarching goals) Ratio analysis (interpret the ratios in the context of the company’s current strategic effectiveness) Core competencies (conduct a VRIO analysis to identify them) (Sustained) Competitive advantages (check whether the company is generating above-average returns) Value-chain analysis (three to four functions where the core competencies are created) Overall strengths (S) and weaknesses (W) (two of each derived from your internal analysis) [In the grading rubric, the strengths and weaknesses are evaluated as part of your SWOT analysis criterion.] External analysis  Macro-environment (conduct a PESTEL analysis) Industry environment (conduct a Porter’s five forces analysis) Overall opportunities (O) and threats (T) (two of each derived from your external analysis) [In the grading rubric, the opportunities and threats are evaluated as part of your SWOT analysis criterion.]  Conclusions State your conclusions based on your SWOT analysis and provide basic recommendations to the company that you think can improve its competitiveness

Description Antonia, a wine grower, agreed to pay a commission to Grossini if he located a buyer for her 39,000 gallons of wine at 50 cents per gallon. He located the plaintiffs, who agreed to purchase the wine at those prices, agreed to pay $1,000 down and the balance upon delivery, with the delivery in the middle of March. Grossini sent their written agreement and the $1,000 check to Antonia for signing. Antonia sent the check and agreement back unsigned stating it was not convenient for her to keep the wine until March and insure it until then, and she demanded payment in advance at the time of making the sale. Plaintiffs sued for breach of a contract made with Antonia through Grossini. Who wins and why?

Description Read the attached directions very carefully to complete a writing about what form of joint ownership the five people LISTED should choose. Address the reasons for your decision based on the “Major Reasons” in the boxed area below. Be sure to contrast the form you choose TO the form you did not choose on those “Major Issues.”

Description beased on saudi companied law -Can a limited partner interfere in the management of the company’s external activities -Please summarize the powers of limited partners in the saudi companies law

Description Develop a decision tree for analyzing government liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Description Explain just cause principles in employee discipline in labor relations. Find a case on this subject in Florida law. Discuss the case and use the case as an example of employee misconduct and mitigating factors to consider as it applies to labor relations.

Description WRITING A PROTEST LETTER Protest and Written Submissions to Appeals Division: If an IRS examination is not resolved within the Examination Division, a thirty-day letter will be issued to set forth the proposed adjustments. The taxpayer has the right to request an administrative appeal to the Appeals Division of IRS within thirty days of the date of the receipt of Letter 525, general 30 day letter (“Protest letter”). 

Description There should be 5 strategic factors for Opportunities and 5 strategic factors for Threats. What are external factors? External factors are those the firm has NO control over. I will be doing reality checks when reading your work, asking, "Does the firm control this activity or not?" For instance, a firm has control over the price it chooses to charge, but they don't have control over whether or not that price is acceptable to the ultimate consumer. What do you have to do? Fill in the table in TemplateSA-EXH 1-EFAS.docx available in this location and Course Resources. The table has five columns: External Factors, Weight, Rating, Weighted Score, and Comments. Use short names for the factors, but flesh them out in the comments so they make sense when you approach them later on. The textbook is clear enough to work on all columns but the Comments. Your comments make all the difference in the quality of the EFAS. Use the template for Exhibit 1 - EFAS Use the Template EFAS as the template for your work. Ensure that your format displays correctly and is readable.  Do NOT copy from the text or from the Template EFAS text!  Use your own critical analysis and critical thinking.  The template is provided to assist you with the layout--i.e., make it easy for you to construct the chart.  The template also gives you a good idea of the appropriate explanations required in the Comments blocks about the why an SF, potential quantified impact, how weighted, and how rated. Comments Column Comments are expected to be 4-5 sentences in length and depth and offer a clear explanation of the strategic factor (SF) in 4 aspects: Why it is a strategic factor (SF); (1-2 sentences only) A quantified estimate of the potential impact (QPI) of the SF; (1 sentence only) How you assign the weight; (1 sentence only) and How you assign the rating. (1 sentence only) Keep the 4-5 sentences of your Comments in order for clarity and ease of understanding.  The recommended order is:  Why SF comments; QPI comments; Weight comments; and finally Rating comments. How to write the Why SF and QPI comments: For the Why SF, explain WHY you selected this SF, WHY it is important to your firm, and WHAT is the potential impact on the firm in the future. For the QPI comments, estimate the potential impact on the firm in the future in a quantitative manner using some metric:  sales, revenues, costs, market share, profits, logistics pipeline, CSI, etc.  Express the quantitative potential impact (QPI) in Dollars $$.  If you express the potential impact in $$, that makes each strategic factor comparable against the other strategic factors. And expressing the impact in sales makes them even more easily comparable.   Make sure you are making significant estimates based on the size of your company based on annual revenue values in your 5-Y financials. You develop this estimate. The monetary value of the QPI is useful to compare the strategic factors and rank them in relevance.  Ranking them will help you to assign the Weights (2nd column in the table) to each strategic factor. Use a positive analysis (quantitative) rather than a normative analysis (feelings, desires).  Focus on what is the potential gain for your SF opportunities or the potential loss from an SF threat in the future.  History lessons are not needed nor applicable.  You should estimate and predict the impact in the future. Be creative.  Don’t develop future actions or alternatives here in the EFAS about how a firm may, or should take action on a particular SF.  The brainstorming development of those alternative actions comes with the TOWS Analysis that we will start presenting in Module 4. HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing “why” you selected each SF and “why it is important,” start your “why select/important” sentence with words like this:  “I selected this SF because…..” or “This SF is important because…”  By using this lead-in phrase you should be able to concisely state why that particular SF is important. HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing the quantitative potential impact (QPI) in the future of each SF, be sure your QPI sentence contains words like this:  “potential impact of $____” or “potential increases to ____ are $____ per year” or “reduction in sales by $____ per year.”  Be sure to state the potential impact in dollars so you can compare the potential impacts of your various SF. How to write the Weight and Rank comments: To assign weights, explain the importance of the SF to the firm’s future survival.  Is the SF of vital importance or low importance on a scale of 1 to 0?  What is the impact of the SF on the future survival of the firm?  What SF has the biggest impact?  Which one(s) are the Big Dogs?  Make a logical explanation of why the weight you have assigned is what it is.  Comparison and ranking between SF is a useful technique to assign the weight.  See your potential $$$ impacts from your “Why” analysis above. The bigger the $$$ impact is, the bigger the weight should be.  Remember the weight column adds to 1.0. HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing the importance of the SF to the firm’s future survival, be sure to include the keyword “survival” in your weight sentence. To assign ratings, provide an explanation of how well, or how badly, the firm is handling each specific external SF RIGHT NOW – not in the future or not in the distant past – but right now. Use the scale of 1 – 5, poor to outstanding; comparing the firm’s performance against the industry standard rating of 3.  Give a logical explanation of why the rating you have assigned is what it is.  Do they handle it well or are they lost?  Are they performing in average way as other competitors are? Remember the industry average performance is rated at 3. HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing how well your firm is handling each SF, understand what the 1-5 scale means and then use your rating number from the rating column with matching words (low, average, above average, high, etc) in your rating sentence. Example of a good comments block: SF - International Growth Opportunities in SE Asia, Japan, and Korea This SF was selected because of its very significant potential impact on profit growth.  Successful expansion into overseas markets could potentially result in doubling the size of OPC to a firm with $800M in sales per year and an increase in profits from $50M to $100M per year.  This SF is weighted highest at .25 since expanding internationally is vital to the future survival of OPC in light of worldwide competitors and markets.  I rated this low at 2.5 since OPC does not have any international experience or markets at this time.

Description Instructions Step 1: Open the Leadership Self-AssessmentLinks to an external site. to read about theories of leadership as well as why it's important to know what type of leader you are. Step 2: Complete the self-assessment to find out what type of leader you are. You will need your self-assessment results to complete Step 3. Step 3: Download the Leadership Self-Assessment Reflection Worksheet Download Leadership Self-Assessment Reflection Worksheet[DOCX]. Complete the worksheet document by answering the six questions.