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Description Assignment Content Using your analysis of the strategic plan from the Wk 2 - Strategic Plan Research assignment, complete the following: Analyze in 350 to 525 words the: Purpose of the strategic plan Key objectives: Market development and how your ideas fit Process improvement Development of people Product/service – How do you deliver? Is there a way to improve quality over time to differentiate? Key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure performance over time Recommend initiatives to support your objectives to improve the strategic plan. Identify ways to adapt to the changing business environment.

Description Watch this video -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQROpfZAyNELinks to an external site. Write at least a 200-word of the video. The summary must answer 3 questions: What leadership lesson can you learn from the assigned video? Explain your answer. Do you think the company's decision/strategy will work? Give reasoning. What advice would you give the company if you worked for them?

Description Answer the questions below: What business will you be in? What will you do? Mission Statement: Many companies have a brief mission statement, usually in 30 words or fewer, explaining their reason for being and their guiding principles. If you want to draft a mission statement, this is a good place to put it in the plan, followed by: Company Goals and Objectives: Goals are destinations—where you want your business to be. Objectives are progress markers along the way to goal achievement. For example, a goal might be to have a healthy, successful company that is a leader in customer service and that has a loyal customer following. Objectives might be annual sales targets and some specific measures of customer satisfaction. Business Philosophy: What is important to you in business? To whom will you market your products? (State it briefly here—you will do a more thorough explanation in the Marketing Plan section). Describe your industry. Is it a growth industry? What changes do you foresee in the industry, short term and long term? How will your company be poised to take advantage of them? Describe your most important company strengths and core competencies. What factors will make the company succeed? What do you think your major competitive strengths will be? What background experience, skills, and strengths do you personally bring to this new venture? Legal form of ownership: Sole proprietor, Partnership, Corporation, Limited liability corporation (LLC)? Why have you selected this form?

Description CASE STUDY ( What is your leadership style, and how would your style of leadership support or hinder employee relations.) The written assignments are case studies. The cases are based on real-time labor relations situations that some major companies experienced.  Make sure all information is cited in your work that is not your original ideas. 

Description On page 100 of the Healthcare Allocation reading from last week it says: "The radical difference between the universal healthcare system of the UK and the prevailing free market (supplemented by some government aid) in the US reflects deep ideological differences" (Fisher 2001, 100).  Find websites and news articles that compare the current US healthcare system to the NHS in England.  These may be about particular cases, outcomes for particular diseases such as breast cancer, or general comparisons. Discuss the radical difference between the NHS and the US Healthcare system and identify and discuss the ideological sources of the different systems. Attached is the Healthcare Allocation reading and also more references that may help. Please seek additional citiations to better support the discussion question.

Description INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Please answer the following questions about the assigned materials. Quote your sources and cite them correctly. What is the distinction between healthcare as a private benefit and healthcare as a private choice? How does this distinction impact political decisions about healthcare by politicians and voters? What is the difference between distributive and commutative justice? How do desert and need factor in ethical decisions about health care? What are the key features of market ethics? What kind of system is the NHS? What are its distinctive features? What kind of healthcare system is the US have? What kind of system does Australia have? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/18/nye-bevan-history-of-nhs-national-health-service

Description Research Abstract Assignment Instructions Students will prepare a one-page abstract that proposes their chosen organization for the Research Paper Assignment due in Module 7. The abstract should identify the organization and a brief background of two to three problems that were recognized. If a student is choosing a personal workplace, names may be disguised if desired. During the course, students will research theories within the readings for application, and may find more organizational issues emerge as the study of these theories continue in the course. 

Description After your initial meeting with the management team members and assessing their level of experience with managerial accounting, you have decided to provide some starting information on the various types of costs utilized in managerial accounting. Your purpose for providing this information is to give the necessary context to the new management team to enable them to fully understand the accounting information and recommendations you will provide in your final report. Be sure to address the following: Explain sunk cost, opportunity cost, and accounting cost, and provide three examples of each. Explain how each of these costs relates to developing managerial accounting information required for decision making. Summarize why a manager should understand these concepts, providing an example to support your rationale. Explain the differences between fixed and variable costs and provide three examples of each type of cost. Summarize the importance for managers to classify these costs correctly, including how the correct classification can inform decision making.

Description Case: Organizational Culture Gone Wrong The power of organizational culture is rarely as obvious as it was at Wells Fargo Bank. Whether positive or negative, culture within an organization drives employee behavior, sometimes in ways that are either not intended or not desired. Consider the case of Wells Fargo Bank where employees were pressured to cross-sell products to their customers. While trying to increase revenues and customer loyalty through selling multiple products is a fine strategy, in this case things went a bit too far. The bank managers emphasized cross-selling and had a goal for each customer to use up to eight products from the bank such as checking and savings account, mortgage loans, and credit cards. Personal bankers who worked at bank branches faced daily, sometimes hourly, sales goals to generate 10 to 20 product sales per day. District managers met multiple times each day with branch managers and employees to track their progress. This high-pressure environment was clearly intense and very competitive. Employee performance results were scrutinized and those who fell short were subjected to additional coaching by their managers. Incentive plans at the bank rewarded employees on the basis of the number of products, or accounts, they set up. Lacking good checks and balances, employees who wanted to earn bonuses took the shortcut and made up fake accounts. This shows how incentive schemes can go offtrack without proper monitoring. Under intense pressure to show new accounts being opened, tellers and personal bankers made up fake names and e-mail addresses for phantom customers, just to meet their quotas. Over 3.5 million fake deposit and credit card accounts were set up by employees desperate to meet unrealistic sales goals. Many auto loan customers were forced to take unneeded auto insurance and hundreds of thousands of customers were signed up for online banking without their knowledge or consent. When the scandal was first made public, the bank placed the blame on employees and fired over 5,000 employees accused of establishing the fraudulent accounts. However, as the investigation continued, it became apparent that the problems went much deeper than several thousand rogue employees acting on their own. Rather, authorities determined that widespread, systemic unethical behavior existed at the bank. The culture fostered this highly competitive, results-driven approach, and branch managers turned a blind eye to what they may have seen. A congressional investigation along with investigations from multiple government agencies consumed bank leadership and tarnished the Wells Fargo brand with its customers. The CEO resigned after the scandal broke. In an unusual decision, the bank's board did not provide him with a severance package and asked for repayment of bonus awards he had received in recent years. The head of retails sales also resigned. Further, the bank paid penalties in excess of $185 million to regulators and over $2.5 million in restitution to customers harmed by the scandal. The loss of trust that customers felt after the scandal has led to negative outcomes for the bank. Credit card applications have declined significantly, and loan applications are also far lower than in the past. The bank has posted poor operating results as time and money must be invested in researching and correcting these unethical practices. Organization culture and values set the stage for how employees will behave. HR practices such as incentive plans guide employee conduct. In the case of Wells Fargo Bank, the culture was one of "win at all costs" coupled with incentives that drove employees to meet the only goal for which they were financially rewarded, opening new accounts, one way or the other. What is the cultural challenge? What evidence do you see to support that challenge? How could a HR consult help?

Description Assignment Details The course project involves an in-depth analysis of how managers react to the local, national, and global economic environment. For the next five weeks, you will create an economic analysis presentation. You are beginning in Unit 1 and continuing through all units. After Unit 5, your economic analysis presentation will include business strategy formation; supply, demand, and price discrimination; global scanning for advantage through multicultural opportunities, barriers to entry, and justification for governmental intervention in local, national, and global markets; and risks related to covered interest arbitrage, forward contracts, currency futures, currency swaps, exchange rate risks, reasons the company would take such risks, and how the company might hedge against rate risks. A schedule of each week’s deliverables is as follows: Unit # Topic Unit 1 Managerial analysis of the economic market, market equilibrium, and price elasticity Unit 2 Managerial forecasting of pricing, supply, and demand  Unit 3 Global environment and multicultural opportunities Unit 4 Market barriers to entry, trade policies, and governmental protection Unit 5 Managerial decision making under risk and uncertainty You have been hired as the manager in charge of economic development for a company of national and international scope to present a market structure, competitive environment, and analysis of elasticity of demand. Help with this Unit 1 project is in Chapters 1, 2, and 6 of Managerial Economics: Foundations of Business Analysis and Strategy. Address the following in your presentation: One slide: Choose a company that sells products or services at a national and global level. You can search a company using this link. Keep in mind that you will be using this same company in each unit for your final economic analysis presentation. Two slides: Does the company you chose to utilize the monopolistically competitive market model? Why or why not? If not, which model is a better fit? Three slides: How does your company apply specific economic concepts to compete within that market? Two slides: Is this market in equilibrium? Is there a surplus or shortage? Four slides: Choose 2 successful competitors of your company Compare their strategies with your company’s strategy. Examine their use of critical economic concepts as part of their success. Three slides: Analyze how companies in a monopolistically competitive market position themselves to be successful. Deliverable Requirements: Your market structure and competitive environment and elasticity analysis is a PowerPoint presentation of at least 15 slides in length (excluding title and reference slides). You must use the Notes sections with academic citations supporting your decisions and analysis. A variety of academic sources is encouraged. Be sure to cite sources using the APA style, including references and in-text citations.