Your assignment will be to do your journal live answering a condensed version of the journal with these questions:
1) My two “insights” from this week’s class materials (refer to your Reflective Learning Journal for the content)
2) One strength I own that I want to magnify
3) One growth opportunity I want to expand
4) )What are you thankful for

The topic are below just make a short summary about the below mentioned topics of the weeks class

A.What is Organizing?

Basic Organizing Concepts

What Is Work Specialization?

What Is the Span of Control?

What Is the Chain of Command?

What Is Authority?

Where Are Decisions Made?

What Are the Five Ways to Departmentalize?

A Simple Structure

1 The Functional Structure

2 The Divisional Structure

3 Matrix Structure

4 Project Structure

5 Team-Based Structure

6 The Boundaryless Organization

7 The Learning Organization

Organizing Your Employees

1 How Do You Identify the Tasks to Be Done?

2 What Is the Purpose of Job Descriptions?

Empowering Others Through Delegation

1 What Is Delegation?

B. The human resource management Function

1 Legal environment of HR

EMPLOYMENT PLANNING

1 How Does a Supervisor Conduct an Employee Assessment?

2 How Are Future Employee Needs Determined?

RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION

1 Where Do Supervisors Look to Recruit Candidates?

2 How Does a Supervisor Handle Layoffs?

3 Is There a Basic Premise to Selecting Job Candidates?

4 How Effective Are Tests and Interviews as Selection Devices?

5 Preparation for the Interview

6 Interview Questions You Shouldn’t Ask

7 Interview Questions You Should Ask

ORIENTATION, TRAINING, AND DEVELOPMENT

1 How Do You Introduce New Hires to the Organization?

2 What Is Employee Training?

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

1 How Are Pay Levels Determined?

2 Why Do Organizations Offer Employee Benefits?

CURRENT ISSUES IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1 Workforce Diversity

2 The Workplace: Reasonable Grounds for Romance?

3 What Is Sexual Harassment?

4 How Do “Survivors” Respond to Layoffs?

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

1. What were the terms of WorldCom’s offer for MCI?

2. What would the tax implications of this acquisition be for MCI’s shareholders?

3. What type (tax type) of merger is this, based on your best guess (see merger documents that are attached)?

4. What were the tax implications of this merger structure for WorldCom?

• What gross tax basis in MCI’s assets (in dollars) would WorldCom take (approximately)? Assume that all of MCI’s deferred taxes relate to timing differences between book and tax depreciation (use the deferred tax data from the balance sheet, not the footnotes). Compute the basis as of June 30, 1997. (Use MCI’s June 30, 1997 balance sheet and MCI’s 12/31/97 income statement and footnotes as the basis for your computations.)

• What net tax basis in MCI’s assets would WorldCom take?

• What tax basis in MCI stock (in dollars) would WorldCom take (approximately)?

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

THE PRIMARY SOURCE QUESTION SET

The following question set will be used in almost all of our primary source analyses. It contains the questions that all historians ask of their primary sources as they seek to do what I ask you to do in examining primary sources in our course: to understand the past. Here are those questions:

1. Source the document. That is, who (or what) wrote or produced this source? How do you know? When was the source made? It’s important to know, as precisely as possible, what was going on at the time. List three important events from our history textbook that occurred at about the same time that this document was created.
2. In at least 250 words, summarize the key points of the source. Put your answer entirely in your own words. Quote nothing. Summarize only what is actually in the document. Therefore, omit commentary, opinion, inference, editorials. Focus on the document and what is in it.
3. Using only this document and our assigned reading, who was the probable audience for this source? That is, to whom was this document aimed at? Using the document and its context, justify your answer.
4. What Larger Themes of those listed in the “Principal Themes in Our Class” does this source link to and shed light on? List and discuss at least two. If more linkages exist, discuss them.THEMES :Defining America and Americans / National IdentityWhat does it mean to be an ‘American’? Are there distinctly American values — and if so, what are they? Are Americans bound by these values? How do Americans differ from other peoples and how are they similar to them? Is there the myth of America and a reality?Rights (What is owed to you? What are your obligations as a citizen?)What is a ‘right’? Whose rights? According to whom? And what happens when rights collide? Whose rights come first — and why?EqualityEquality for all? Legal equality? Racial equality? Equality of opportunities? (and by the way, are we all born with equal capacities to reason and think and communicate?)Race / EthnicityWhat is a race (define it)? Are all races equal in the U.S.? How have racial differences been exploited? By whom? Why? Is the history of the color line (i.e. race) the history of the U.S.?Progress / DeclineWhat does progress look like? Progress for whom? For some? For all? Measured by what standard?City vs. CountryIs there a cultural divide between urban and rural America? What is the relationship between the two? Are they unalterably opposed? Why or why not?Multiculturalism / DiversityAre all cultures equally valuable? According to whom? And why? Is Cultural Appropriation a good, bad, or inevitable process? Why or why not? What is diversity and is it always a good or bad feature of the U.S.?Immigration / CitizenshipDo immigrants have rights in the U.S.? When and how far? Who is a citizen and what “rights” does that confer on them?Religion / SecularismWhat does “freedom of worship” mean? What can the state do or not do in regulating religion and religious worship? Is belief in god an American value? Can a person be an American and not be Christian? How far? And where?Patriachy / SexismDo women have the same rights as men in the U.S.? Think of the LGBT. How has discrimination based on a person’s sex, sexual orientation, or gender shaped U.S. history? (Is the “Me Too” movement about sex, rights, power or all three?)The Community v. the IndividualWhen do communal rights outrank the rights of individuals? And vice versa? Do we succeed or fail because of our efforts and choices or because of the “system” and long-term structural realities?The Proper Role of the U.S. Government / The Proper Role of the CitizenWhat IS the proper role of government? What does the Government owe its citizens, and what does its citizens owe their government? For instance, can it force you to buy health insurance?U.S. ExceptionalismIs the U.S. exceptional in the world? If so, in what way? If not, why the claim of exceptionalism?The Proper Role of the U.S. in the WorldWhat is the proper role of the U.S. in the World? As a city on a hill? Should it promote American values abroad? How far? When do those values contradict the interests of the U.S.? – or is that possible?TechnologyWhat has been the impact of technology on the U.S. and its history? Is technology generally good or bad? Why or why not? Do we control IT or does IT control U.S.?DemocracyWhat does democracy mean in the U.S.? According to whom? What promotes democracy? What hinders it? Freedom (see “Rights” above)How do Americans define ‘Freedom’? Whose freedom? Under what conditions is democracy possible? When does “your freedom” violate “my rights”?Environment / ClimateWho owns the water, minerals, and other natural resources of the U.S.? For always? And shared by all equally — or just some? According to what right or rule? “This is your land; this is my land” — but is it?CapitalismWhat is it? Has it made the U.S. great? At what cost? To whose profit? Is there a better system? If so, what is it?Cult of the CelebrityWhat function do celebrities serve in U.S. culture?
5. What is most memorable about this source for you – you personally?

THE ASSIGNMENT

Please read the following primary source in order to better understand the past. As you read, answer the questions in the Primary Source Question Set as they pertain to this historical document. Then submit your answers by the deadline in your Initial Post. Next, respond to the Initial Post of another in your Response Post. The deadlines for each type of post are given at the top of this assignment.

THE PRIMARY SOURCE

[Editor’s note: this italicized part is NOT the document but some background on the document. The document is below.

The most famous speech in American political history was delivered by William Jennings Bryan on July 9, 1896, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The issue was whether to endorse the free coinage of silver at a ratio of silver to gold of 16 to 1. (This inflationary measure would have increased the amount of money in circulation and aided cash-poor and debt-burdened farmers.) After speeches on the subject by several U.S. Senators, Bryan rose to speak. The thirty-six-year-old former Congressman from Nebraska aspired to be the Democratic nominee for president, and he had been skillfully, but quietly, building support for himself among the delegates. His dramatic speaking style and rhetoric roused the crowd to a frenzy. The response, wrote one reporter, “came like one great burst of artillery.” Men and women screamed and waved their hats and canes. “Some,” wrote another reporter, “like demented things, divested themselves of their coats and flung them high in the air.” The next day the convention nominated Bryan for President on the fifth ballot. The full text of William Jenning Bryan’s famous “Cross of Gold” speech appears below. The audio portion is an excerpt. [Note on the recording: In 1896 recording technology was in its infancy, and recording a political convention would have been impossible. But in the early 20th century, the fame of Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech led him to repeat it numerous times on the Chautauqua lecture circuit where he was an enormously popular speaker. In 1921 (25 years after the original speech), he recorded portions of the speech for Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana. That recording can be accessed on the History Matters website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..]

[start of the primary source]

…The humblest citizen in all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the whole hosts of error that they can bring. I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty—the cause of humanity. When this debate is concluded, a motion will be made to lay upon the table the resolution offered in commendation of the administration and also the resolution in condemnation of the administration. I shall object to bringing this question down to a level of persons. The individual is but an atom; he is born, he acts, he dies; but principles are eternal; and this has been a contest of principle.

Never before in the history of this country has there been witnessed such a contest as that through which we have passed. Never before in the history of American politics has a great issue been fought out as this issue has been by the voters themselves.

On the 4th of March, 1895, a few Democrats, most of them members of Congress, issued an address to the Democrats of the nation asserting that the money question was the paramount issue of the hour; asserting also the right of a majority of the Democratic Party to control the position of the party on this paramount issue; concluding with the request that all believers in free coinage of silver in the Democratic Party should organize and take charge of and control the policy of the Democratic Party. Three months later, at Memphis, an organization was perfected, and the silver Democrats went forth openly and boldly and courageously proclaiming their belief and declaring that if successful they would crystallize in a platform the declaration which they had made; and then began the conflict with a zeal approaching the zeal which inspired the crusaders who followed Peter the Hermit. Our silver Democrats went forth from victory unto victory, until they are assembled now, not to discuss, not to debate, but to enter up the judgment rendered by the plain people of this country.

But in this contest, brother has been arrayed against brother, and father against son. The warmest ties of love and acquaintance and association have been disregarded. Old leaders have been cast aside when they refused to give expression to the sentiments of those whom they would lead, and new leaders have sprung up to give direction to this cause of freedom. Thus has the contest been waged, and we have assembled here under as binding and solemn instructions as were ever fastened upon the representatives of a people.

We do not come as individuals. Why, as individuals we might have been glad to compliment the gentleman from New York [Senator Hill], but we knew that the people for whom we speak would never be willing to put him in a position where he could thwart the will of the Democratic Party. I say it was not a question of persons; it was a question of principle; and it is not with gladness, my friends, that we find ourselves brought into conflict with those who are now arrayed on the other side. The gentleman who just preceded me [Governor Russell] spoke of the old state of Massachusetts. Let me assure him that not one person in all this convention entertains the least hostility to the people of the state of Massachusetts.

But we stand here representing people who are the equals before the law of the largest cities in the state of Massachusetts. When you come before us and tell us that we shall disturb your business interests, we reply that you have disturbed our business interests by your action. We say to you that you have made too limited in its application the definition of a businessman. The man who is employed for wages is as much a businessman as his employer. The attorney in a country town is as much a businessman as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis. The merchant at the crossroads store is as much a businessman as the merchant of New York. The farmer who goes forth in the morning and toils all day, begins in the spring and toils all summer, and by the application of brain and muscle to the natural resources of this country creates wealth, is as much a businessman as the man who goes upon the Board of Trade and bets upon the price of grain. The miners who go 1,000 feet into the earth or climb 2,000 feet upon the cliffs and bring forth from their hiding places the precious metals to be poured in the channels of trade are as much businessmen as the few financial magnates who in a backroom corner the money of the world.

We come to speak for this broader class of businessmen. Ah. my friends, we say not one word against those who live upon the Atlantic Coast; but those hardy pioneers who braved all the dangers of the wilderness, who have made the desert to blossom as the rose—those pioneers away out there, rearing their children near to nature’s heart, where they can mingle their voices with the voices of the birds—out there where they have erected schoolhouses for the education of their children and churches where they praise their Creator, and the cemeteries where sleep the ashes of their dead—are as deserving of the consideration of this party as any people in this country.

It is for these that we speak. We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conquest. We are fighting in the defense of our homes, our families, and posterity. We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned. We have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded. We have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came.

We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them!

The gentleman from Wisconsin has said he fears a Robespierre. My friend, in this land of the free you need fear no tyrant who will spring up from among the people. What we need is an Andrew Jackson to stand as Jackson stood, against the encroachments of aggregated wealth.

They tell us that this platform was made to catch votes. We reply to them that changing conditions make new issues; that the principles upon which rest Democracy are as everlasting as the hills; but that they must be applied to new conditions as they arise. Conditions have arisen and we are attempting to meet those conditions. They tell us that the income tax ought not to be brought in here; that is not a new idea. They criticize us for our criticism of the Supreme Court of the United States. My friends, we have made no criticism. We have simply called attention to what you know. If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

They say we passed an unconstitutional law. I deny it. The income tax was not unconstitutional when it was passed. It was not unconstitutional when it went before the Supreme Court for the first time. It did not become unconstitutional until one judge changed his mind; and we cannot be expected to know when a judge will change his mind.

The income tax is a just law. It simply intends to put the burdens of government justly upon the backs of the people. I am in favor of an income tax. When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

He says that we are opposing the national bank currency. It is true. If you will read what Thomas Benton said, you will find that he said that in searching history he could find but one parallel to Andrew Jackson. That was Cicero, who destroyed the conspiracies of Cataline and saved Rome. He did for Rome what Jackson did when he destroyed the bank conspiracy and saved America.

We say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin money and issue money is a function of government. We believe it. We believe it is a part of sovereignty and can no more with safety be delegated to private individuals than can the power to make penal statutes or levy laws for taxation.

Mr. Jefferson, who was once regarded as good Democratic authority, seems to have a different opinion from the gentleman who has addressed us on the part of the minority. Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson rather than with them, and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government and that the banks should go out of the governing business.

They complain about the plank which declares against the life tenure in office. They have tried to strain it to mean that which it does not mean. What we oppose in that plank is the life tenure that is being built up in Washington which establishes an office-holding class and excludes from participation in the benefits the humbler members of our society. . . .

Let me call attention to two or three great things. The gentleman from New York says that he will propose an amendment providing that this change in our law shall not affect contracts which, according to the present laws, are made payable in gold. But if he means to say that we cannot change our monetary system without protecting those who have loaned money before the change was made, I want to ask him where, in law or in morals, he can find authority for not protecting the debtors when the act of 1873 was passed when he now insists that we must protect the creditor. He says he also wants to amend this platform so as to provide that if we fail to maintain the parity within a year that we will then suspend the coinage of silver. We reply that when we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

I ask him, if he will apply his logic to us, why he does not apply it to himself. He says that he wants this country to try to secure an international agreement. Why doesn’t he tell us what he is going to do if they fail to secure an international agreement. There is more reason for him to do that than for us to expect to fail to maintain the parity. They have tried for thirty years—thirty years—to secure an international agreement, and those are waiting for it most patiently who don’t want it at all.

Now, my friends, let me come to the great paramount issue. If they ask us here why it is we say more on the money question than we say upon the tariff question, I reply that if protection has slain its thousands the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands. If they ask us why we did not embody all these things in our platform which we believe, we reply to them that when we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other necessary reforms will be possible, and that until that is done there is no reform that can be accomplished.

Why is it that within three months such a change has come over the sentiments of the country? Three months ago, when it was confidently asserted that those who believed in the gold standard would frame our platforms and nominate our candidates, even the advocates of the gold standard did not think that we could elect a President; but they had good reasons for the suspicion, because there is scarcely a state here today asking for the gold standard that is not within the absolute control of the Republican Party.

But note the change. Mr. McKinley was nominated at St. Louis upon a platform that declared for the maintenance of the gold standard until it should be changed into bimetallism by an international agreement. Mr. McKinley was the most popular man among the Republicans ; and everybody three months ago in the Republican Party prophesied his election. How is it today? Why, that man who used to boast that he looked like Napoleon, that man shudders today when he thinks that he was nominated on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Not only that, but as he listens he can hear with ever increasing distinctness the sound of the waves as they beat upon the lonely shores of St. Helena.

Why this change? Ah, my friends. is not the change evident to anyone who will look at the matter? It is because no private character, however pure, no personal popularity, however great, can protect from the avenging wrath of an indignant people the man who will either declare that he is in favor of fastening the gold standard upon this people, or who is willing to surrender the right of self-government and place legislative control in the hands of foreign potentates and powers. . . .

We go forth confident that we shall win. Why? Because upon the paramount issue in this campaign there is not a spot of ground upon which the enemy will dare to challenge battle. Why, if they tell us that the gold standard is a good thing, we point to their platform and tell them that their platform pledges the party to get rid of a gold standard and substitute bimetallism. If the gold standard is a good thing, why try to get rid of it? If the gold standard, and I might call your attention to the fact that some of the very people who are in this convention today and who tell you that we ought to declare in favor of international bimetallism and thereby declare that the gold standard is wrong and that the principles of bimetallism are better—these very people four months ago were open and avowed advocates of the gold standard and telling us that we could not legislate two metals together even with all the world.

I want to suggest this truth, that if the gold standard is a good thing we ought to declare in favor of its retention and not in favor of abandoning it; and if the gold standard is a bad thing, why should we wait until some other nations are willing to help us to let it go?

Here is the line of battle. We care not upon which issue they force the fight. We are prepared to meet them on either issue or on both. If they tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization, we reply to them that this, the most enlightened of all nations of the earth, has never declared for a gold standard, and both the parties this year are declaring against it. If the gold standard is the standard of civilization, why, my friends, should we not have it? So if they come to meet us on that, we can present the history of our nation. More than that, we can tell them this, that they will search the pages of history in vain to find a single instance in which the common people of any land ever declared themselves in favor of a gold standard. They can find where the holders of fixed investments have.

Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was a struggle between the idle holders of idle capital and the struggling masses who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country; and my friends, it is simply a question that we shall decide upon which side shall the Democratic Party fight. Upon the side of the idle holders of idle capital, or upon the side of the struggling masses? That is the question that the party must answer first; and then it must be answered by each individual hereafter. The sympathies of the Democratic Party, as described by the platform, are on the side of the struggling masses, who have ever been the foundation of the Democratic Party.

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.

You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

My friends, we shall declare that this nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth, and upon that issue we expect to carry every single state in the Union.

I shall not slander the fair state of Massachusetts nor the state of New York by saying that when citizens are confronted with the proposition, “Is this nation able to attend to its own business?”—I will not slander either one by saying that the people of those states will declare our helpless impotency as a nation to attend to our own business. It is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors, when but 3 million, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation upon earth. Shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to 70 million, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No, my friends, it will never be the judgment of this people. Therefore, we care not upon what lines the battle is fought. If they say bimetallism is good but we cannot have it till some nation helps us, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard because England has, we shall restore bimetallism, and then let England have bimetallism because the United States have.

If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Franchise Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is for you to gather research information about your selected franchise in preparation for the franchise project. You don’t have to write a paper, just answer the questions below. Grammar and punctuation counts!

For the sake of this project, you have a budget of $75,000 cash, and $500,000 net worth.

There are several websites you can utilize as resources, make sure you reference them at the bottom of your posting.

www.franchiseopportunities.com

www.franchise.org

www.americasbestfranchises.com

www.franchisegator.com

www.entrepreneur.com/franchises

www.franchising.com

1. Franchise Name:

2. What is the Franchise Category?

3. Provide a description of the Company:

4. What is the company’s website address?

5. What is the required cash amount?

6. What are the Start Up costs?

7. Franchise details: what year was it established, what are the number of units, local or nationwide locations, and where is the home office?

8. Where would you like for the franchise to be located? Provide three options including City and State.

9. What is the Total Investment?

10. What are the required Franchise Fees: Initial fee, advertising appropriations, and royalties?

11. Is there a demand for the franchisor’s products or services in your area?

12. What is the level of competition? How many franchised and company-owned outlets does the franchisor have in your area?

13. What training and ongoing support does the franchisor provide?

14. What are the Pros and cons for starting this franchise?

15. Lastly, why did you select this Franchise?

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Question/Prompt: As pointed out in your textbook, counselor competence is an ongoing responsibility for every counselor. Access your state board website and look up cases of counselors who were disciplined by the board. You may want to look under such terms as “case decisions,” “enforcement actions,” “actions taken by board,” or “discipline.” Look over the cases that have come before your state board.

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Topic: Supervision & Incidents of Counselor Impairment

Question/Prompt: As pointed out in your textbook, counselor competence is an ongoing responsibility for every counselor. Access your state board website and look up cases of counselors who were disciplined by the board. You may want to look under such terms as “case decisions,” “enforcement actions,” “actions taken by board,” or “discipline.” Look over the cases that have come before your state board.

Also, go to the Liberty University Online Library and read the following article:

Froeschle, J. G., & Crews, C. (2010). An ethics challenge for school counselors. Journal of School Counseling, 8, 1–25.

• What are the most common reasons for a board to discipline a counselor?

• What is your personal reaction as you read through the list?

• What specific ethical challenges do school counselors face when working with minors in the school setting?

Cummins, P. N., Massey, L., & Jones, A. (2007). Keeping ourselves well: Strategies for promoting and maintaining counselor wellness. Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 46(1), 35–49.

Gündüz, B. (2012). Self-efficacy and burnout in professional school counselors. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 12(3), 1761–1767.

Lawson, G. (2007). Counselor wellness and impairment: A national survey. Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 46(1), 20–34.

Lawson, G. (2009). Toward a culture of counselor wellness. Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 46(1), 5–19.

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Covert it to a black-and-white image. Then, without using Matlab’s transformation
function, use your own program to perform following transformation in order
1. Translate to left by 100 pixel to top by 50 pixel
2. Shrink image in x direction by 20% and enlarge image in y direction by 20%
3. Using the image center as the axis, rotate the image clockwise by 120 degree
Turn in the resulting image and your program
Note (1) Use ONE matrix to implement the all of above transformations combined (2)
the output image should have the same size as the original image and (0, 0) is always
the center, and (3) if you need to fill the background color to some pixels use the same
background color of the original image.

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

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Q1. Perform a five forces analysis on the following industry? (i.e., discuss each of the 5 threats in the industry (low-medium-high) and provide rationale for each)

The Pharmaceutical Industry

Q2. Apply the VRIO Framework in the following settings. Will the actions described be a source of competitive disadvantage, parity, temporary advantage, or sustained competitive advantage? Explain your answers.

a. Procter and Gamble introduces new smaller packaging for its laundry detergent, Tide.

b. American Airlines announces a 5% across-the-board reduction in airfares.

c. The Korean automobile firm Hyundai announces a 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty on its cars.

d. Microsoft makes it easier to transfer data and information from Microsoft Word to Microsoft Excel.

e. Merck is able to coordinate the work of its chemists and biologists in the development of new drugs.

f. Ford patents a new kind of brake pad for its cars.

g. Ashland chemical, a specialty chemical company, patents a new specialty chemical.

h. The New York Yankees sign All-Star pitcher Randy Johnson to a long-term contract.

i. Michael Dell uses the money he has made from Dell Computers to purchase the Dallas Cowboys football team.

j. Ted Turner uses the money he has made from his broadcasting empire to purchase the Atlanta Braves baseball team.

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Attachment Theory and Romantic Relationships : Can People’s Attachment Style Affect Their Romantic Relationships and How They Bond ?

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2