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Write this in paragraph form, using correct grammar and spelling.
You may use academic sources, although notes, reading sheets, textbooks are enough. If you choose outside works, be sure to cite them (Chicago

Manuel style) at the end of the essay. Describe Long- Termed causes of the American revolution c.1750-1775 with specific (not general)

information, and evaluate its historical significance. *italics* What you think about topic’s importance in American history?*italics* .

semester project the roots of conflict.

In the previous unit you overviewed many conflicts. In this assignment you will research two of the following three conflicts, and then compare and contrast the root causes of each conflict. Present your findings in the form of a research paper. Then design a chart to illustrate the similarities and differences in the root causes of the two conflicts.
The two are the following conflicts to research and compare:
• Northern Ireland
• The Balkans

Address the following questions in your project:
• Who are the people involved in each conflict?
• What is the root of each conflict? How have the conflicts evolved over time?
• What are the cultural similarities and differences between the people on both sides of each conflict?
• What attempts have been made to resolve each conflict at both a local and international level? What international organizations were involved? Did those attempts succeed or fail? Why?
• How do you think each conflict can be resolved?
• What is similar and what is different between the two conflicts you selected?
• What insight do these two conflicts give you in regards to conflict in general?

For this writing assignment you will be reading several excerpts from the debate leading up to the 1924 Immigration
Act, which established a quota system that greatly curbed the rate of immigration. After reading these selections
please respond to the following questions…
1. Identify and discuss two arguments put forth by those in favor of limited immigration.
2. Briefly address one of the counter-arguments made by those in favor of immigration.
3. How do you reconcile anti-immigration sentiment with America’s past and identity? Is it possible to do so?
Your response should be 1-2 pages in length, double-spaced. When you are finished please attach a copy under
Assignment 4. We will discuss your findings in class.

 

Are we talking about financial/targeted sanctions because that’s the only doable option OR simply because we are unwilling or unable to take a large scale,

coordinated military action to destroy ISIS?

 

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This week we peel away the outside layers and look inside the organization with an assessment of United Airline’s internal environment.
Remember, the goal is to:
• First – locate, convey, and explain the KEY information critical to understanding these elements of the organization
• Next – assess those findings and make a definitive and evaluative determination as to their strategic impact on UAL as an organization.
The applicable elements to consider in the preparation of the internal environmental evaluation include the following:
• organizational culture / human resource management processes
• financial management
• marketing efforts
• organizational structure

• Analyze the culture / human resource management processes at United Airlines
• Is it strong or weak?
• Does it help the company or is it a liability?
• What role does the culture play in creating (and/or sustaining) the competitive advantage(s)?
• Are they effective at acquiring, growing, and retaining talent?
• Are there practices in place (potentially connected to the culture) that help to build an effective organizational team – or is the organization nothing more than a collection of employees?
• Analyze the marketing practices and management of United Airlines
• Do they understand (well) their customers – worldwide?
• What trends do they need to be aware of – and do they market (well) to those trends?
• How effective has their ‘crisis communication’ been?
• Are their marketing practices in line with the rest of their approach to operational approach?
• Analyze the structure of United Airlines
• In its current form, understanding the need for strategy/structure connectivity
• Is it effective in supporting the strategic initiatives?
• Should any changes be made to the structure – given their current strategy – to create a better strategy/structure connection?
• Analyze the financial situation of United Airlines
• Compute the applicable key financial ratios for United Airlines and compare the results to either (both) industry standards and their competitors

• Liquidity and profitability • Quick ratio
• ROI • Gross profit
• Debt to equity • Operating expense ratio
• Inventory turnover ratio • Earnings per share (EPS)

• How effective is United Airlines comparatively?
• Are there any changes to United Airlines’ financial management practices that would help to better manage the financial position of United Airlines?
Perform a VRIN test on these internal elements of United Airlines’ operations
• In your opinion, and based on your analysis so far, what is/are UAL’s competitive advantage(s)?
• How/what would you describe United Airlines’ current business model to
Think through the answers to these questions – and then logically organize your researched findings, your support, your evaluations, and your conclusions.
Summarize and transmit your findings in a memo to the CEO

 

 

 

Business Evaluation Memo #4
This week we move away from the very narrow ‘deep dives’ we have taken in the weeks past, into the specific segments of the organization, and work to look across what we have found and look for recurring themes, key factors that can cause issues – good and bad – for United Airliines, and determine in a systemic context what all that means!
Remember that systems theory, and systems thinking, is at the heart of our whole view of organizations. We view organizations as socio-technical systems, and as such where the individual elements of the organization are important it is the interdependence between these elements – and their connections (or not) to each other – that really make up the organization.
To that end, what we’re doing now is working to look at the individual elements of UAL as that system – and then assess the system in its entirety.
Consider these questions – and prepare a memo to top management providing the answers – and your supporting analysis.
In MGT 670, we explored the elements necessary for an effective strategic plan … not just one that looked good on paper, but one that could be executed well. In that exploration process, there we re two key questions we worked to answer for the organizations we evaluated – because we knew that bounding the strategic decision environment (to avoid being ‘trapped in the middle’ as Porter noted) was critical – not just for creating an effective plan … but importantly to execute any plan created.
Based on your research to date – currently – Who IS United Airlines?
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• Who are they NOT?
What have the attempted to do – strategically – to get themselves where we find them today?
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• What has been successful in these attempts?
• What has not been successful in these attempts?
What do you think/believe that the UAL top management has intended to accomplish with the strategic decisions/actions they have made across the last decade?
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• What might have been their motivation for taking the actions they have taken?
• What might have been the competitive advantage they were attempting to achieve?
Based on your research thus far, and using Teti, Yang Bloom, Rivkin &Sadun’s (2017) four approaches to decision making, which approach do you think UAL’s top management team has used thus far?
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• Which might be a better/the best approach as they think to move the organization and its strategy forward into the future?
Martin (2017) noted that strategic choices often – or should – cascade from one another. Using his framework, and your research on UAL to date, identify:
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• first how United has failed in the use/application of these stages
• and then how they might positively and proactively use these failures/lessons learned to make better decisions and provide some potential answers to these questions as possible strategic recommendations
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• Use the table below to help structure your thoughts/answers to these questions.
Martin (2017)’s Framework Stage How United has Applied – or Failed to Apply – that Stage Possible Strategic Answers/Applications of the Stage

The questions posed by Trevor &Varcoe (2016) on the need for strategy/structure connections and Leinwand&Mainardi (2016) on the connections between strategy and execution may provide some guidance. (Note – you do not need to prepare answers to these questions specifically – they should help to provide some guidance in your thinking)
Trevor &Varcoe (2016) note the need to answer the following questions on the strategy/structure connections in an organization.
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1. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?
2. How well does your organization support the achievement of your business strategy?
Leinwand&Mainardi (2016) identify four steps in the Strategy and Execution
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1. Commit to a clear identity that is defined by how you create value for customers, by the differentiating capabilities that enable you to do so
2. Translate the strategic into the everyday by designing and building your own bespoke capabilities that set you apart from competitors.
3. Put your culture to work, instead of trying to change it or reorganizing it, in order to change employees’ behaviors.
4. Cut costs to reinvest in what makes you distinctive.
5. Instead of reacting to change, create the change you want to see by continuously advancing what you’re already great at and gaining privileged access to your customers.

 

 

 

 

 

List the Mission Statement for your company.(Sometimes this is called a Vision statement). If the Annual Report does not give a Mission Statement,

indicate that and create a Mission Statement for your company. Do you think the Mission Statement is appropriate and well stated? Support your answer.
Do a brief SWOT analysis of your company, listing at least one item in each category.
What is the management leadership style predominantly used in your company? Support and explain your answer.
Is the organization tall or flat?Explain and support your reasoning.

Bullying

Are children who are victims of bullying more likely to be abusive to others as adults
•This assignment will require students to write a 1.5-2 page paper defining the problem, provide a brief background on the problem, and explain how the research question would provide answers to the problem
The problem is that bullying is an epidemic that has lasting emotional and mental effects on children.
The research question is ” Are children who are victims of bullying more likely to be abusive to others as adults?

The question seeks to understand the kinds of trauma and effects that children who are victims of bullying suffer from and how it effect how they treat others in their adult years.

Making friends in U.S. University campuses

Why Aren’t Americans and International Students Becoming Friends?
https://www.voanews.com/a/why-aren%92t-americans-and-international-students-becoming-friends/4008813.html

Americans are Self-Centered but Friendly? 60 Opinions from International Students
https://www.voanews.com/a/americans-are-self-centered-but-friendly-60-opinions-from-international-students/4008812.html

The Truth: Americans Reveal What They Really Think of International Students
https://www.voanews.com/a/the-truth-americans-reveal-what-they-really-think-of-international-students/4008804.html

 

Leadership Styles and Characteristics: Assessment 3
Select course BUS-FP3012 Fundamentals of Leadership
Then select assignment 3 called LEADERSHIP STYLES AND CHARACTERISTICS
From there, follow directions to complete the assignment and please be sure that the paper answers Competency 1 and 2.
There are resources you can use within the assignment page.
And read through the assessment requirements located towards the bottom of the assessment page and please fulfill those requirements.

 

come up with a program or a workshop to help incoming freshman at University excel in their writing before the enter in college at the freshman level.

Many reports show that many students fail in their writing ability when they enter into school.
Here are two links which will give you some background data.
1.https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2016/04/why-many-college-students-never-learn-how-to-write-sentences/