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Imagine you are a senior business executive with a multinational corporation that sells garments that are manufactured in Bangladeshi factories.

First, CHOOSE ONE COMPANY that you represent. Here are some to choose from: Children’s Place, Walt Disney Company, Walmart, Joe Fresh (Loblaw),

Tommy Hilfiger (PVH), Calvin Klein (PVH), H&M, Benetton, J.C. Penney, Nike, Cato Fashions, Target, American Eagle. Find out if your company has a

corporate or social responsibility page (all the above do). Check to see if it has an official policy on factory safety or working conditions. Look

at any statements it issued after the 2013 building collapse in Bangladesh which killed over a thousand workers who were engaged in making apparel

for multinational corporations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse). Look through the web to find out what the history of

apparel manufacturing and trade has been, and where Bangladesh fits into that.

PART A

Answer the following questions based on your research:

1) Which country is the leader in apparel exports?

2) What is the value of apparel exports from Bangladesh? What is the importance of apparel export in Bangladesh’s economy?

3) How many workers does the industry employ? What percentage of these workers are women? Why do women dominate this industry? How much do they

earn? What is the minimum wage in Bangladesh? Can workers organize in unions? What hurdles do they face when they try to unionize?

4) Which countries have the lowest labor costs in the apparel industry? Bangladesh? Cambodia? China? Vietnam? Mexico?

5) What is the global supply chain that your company employs? Where do its products come from? Who makes them? Under what conditions?

PART B

Compose a formal corporate document outlining what your company should do in the wake of the recent building collapse in Bangladesh. The document

should be written to address the stakeholders of the company. Make sure it identifies the problems and includes feasible recommendations based on

data. Cite your sources. The document should be 1000 words long. Include a word count for this part.

Phase 4 Individual project
Now that you know what you are buying, the requirements, and the types of contracts, you are ready to put the contracts out for bid. Continue to develop your procurement plan and align it with the rest of the project plan by deciding which bidding methods you will use for each of the following contracts:
•Hiring technicians to install and configure the software for your environment
•Hiring a training entity to teach the student PMs the mechanics of using the new tool
•Buying a new server and software to run the tool and house the project database
•Hiring tool usage experts to transfer knowledge to the student PMs about the use of the tool on the job for the first 60 days after going live
•Planning for the removal and disposal of scheduling tool software and hardware that are no longer to be used

Assignment Guidelines
•For each of the contracts above, address the following questions: ◦Which bidding method will you use? Why?
◦Were there other possible bidding methods that you considered for this contract? Explain.
◦How does this procurement task of bid selection integrate with the rest of the project for ADC?
◦Once you have selected the ideal bidding method and a bidder has been accepted, how will you ensure that the quality of the final product will be measured effectively?
◦What challenges will you need to overcome when measuring and ensuring quality? Why? ◾How will you overcome these challenges?

•Compile your responses for the above questions into a PowerPoint presentation of 8–12 slides with 150–200 words of speaker notes per slide. ◦Include additional title and reference slides.

•Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

 

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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.
1.
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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.

 

 

 

 

4 separate days (labeled) of journal entries (thoughts and ideas) from reading the text in addition a 250 word reflection (conclusion) about

what you discovered about the humanities from the text keeping in mind and using the subject list.
Day 1 reading: Chapters 1-4
Day 2 & 3 reading: Chapters 5-7
Day 4 reading: read to the end
Subject List: What social and political concerns of human intellectual development that shaped our Western Culture today can you identify in

the texts? How does the text add to the history and development of our Western Culture? What role does the text play in shaping the Western

mind? What basic concepts of Western ideology can you identify? How does the text contribute to our current cultural climate? What are the

differences in the social and cultural ideology of the text compared to our current social and cultural ideology?

 

managing operations and the supply chain

1. Find a company and outline their main products and services, customers and competitors. 10% of word count

 

2. Do a literature search on the 5 performance objectives (POs). Outline the strategic importance of these 5 in general and explain the

Internal/External perspectives of these 5.

[For example if a company follows Just-In-Time internally it will deliver fast to external customers and vice versa. Don’t forget the arrows. The review

is intended for building a conceptual framework to use in application to your company.] 45% of word count

 

3. For application, outline the 5 POs for the company, point out the relative importance of the 5 for your company [Ex. Quality, or cost or both]. On

this basis discuss the company’s weaknesses and suggest improvements.

[For Dummies: Luxottika makes glasses for actresses: So Quality not cost is important. Improvement: reduce the quality gap of perception/expectation.

Make in Italy, distribute to push retailers.] 45% of word count

 

Use logical words such as: As a result, therefore, in comparison, ipso facto, nonetheless. See Dr Piranfar’s Business Economics page for more academic

expressions: http://www.qualityco.demon.co.uk/economics.htm

 

 

What are the benefits of classroom meetings? How would you implement a classroom meeting? Would you make this a regular part of your

weekly or daily routine or would you do them as needed? Who would lead the meetings? You or the children?

Beyond classroom meetings can you think of other effective ways to address important issues in the classroom? For instance, how might you

bring up an issue like bullying, or stealing, or name calling? (Is there something in the guidance policy that you found this week that

addresses these issues?)

List some strategies, beyond classroom meetings, that help build trust, respect, and a sense of community in a classroom.

Respond in detail to the following questions:

1. Compare and contrast the elements of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

2. Discuss the major differences between stalking and cyberstalking.

Case Study 2: Impiementation Strategies
Due Week 7 and worth 175 points
Your proposed information system is still a contender. The executives, however, are asking whether it is
too limited to prevent the shadow IT projects that continue to take place throughout the organization.
They believe that you have considered what the organization does now, but how will your system adapt to
new products and processes? Read IQMS (2015) for a concrete example of what they mean.
You’ll have to quell their fears, so it’s time for another memo. Please focus on these points:
1. Identify any significant changes that your organization might reasonably make in its product
offerings in the next 3 years. Explain the competitive benefits of this change.
2. Explain how your information system addresses or can adapt to the introduction of these new
product offerings.
3. Give one reason why capabilities for the new product offerings should or should not be
incorporated in the initial information system design. Justify your reason.
This memo should be 3-5 pages long.
Reference:
IQMS. (2015). Quick Response Manufacturing Yields Lower inventories & Improves cash flow. Retrieved
from httgszllwww.igms.com/filesfcase-studies/guick-response-manufacturingpdf.
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approximately 3–4 pages of content with a title page and references in APA format address the following:

•Describe your selected population health issue and the population affected by this issue.
•Summarize the two advocacy campaigns you researched in this area.
•Explain the attributes that made those campaigns effective.
•Begin to develop a plan for a health advocacy campaign that seeks to create a new policy or change an existing policy with regard to the issue and population you selected. Be sure to include in your plan:

A description of the public health issue and proposed policy solution
•Specific objectives for the policy you want to be implemented
•Begin to substantiate of your proposed campaign by data and evidence.
•Be sure to paste the rubric at the end of your paper.

 

You have been appointed the new commissioner of the Anderson Valley police Department. Anderson Valley is a suburban city 60 miles from a major U.S.

city; it has a population of 30,000 people and a police department of 100 officers. The major police problems in Anderson Valley are disorderly teens

making unnecessary noise at night, parking and traffic problems in the commercial district during business hours, and daytime residential burglaries.

The former commissioner’s assistant tells you that the department has no organizational chart, no written rules or procedures, and has always done a

great job in the past. Anderson Valley’s city manager, however, tells you that the former commissioner was incompetent and that the department is

totally disorganized and ineffective.

You review the department’s personnel records and find that of the 100 officers in the department, 30 percent are patrol officers, 30 percent are

detectives, and 40 percent are supervisors. In view of what you learned in this chapter, would you reorganize the department? Why, or why not? If you

would reorganize, how would you do it?