Category: Business and Management

Directions for Analysis Paper
Topic: Negotiation Psychology Reading Analysis
This reading analysis assignment will focus on the negotiation aspects of this course. This writing 
assignment will be based on three required readings:
·         ·       Nonverbal Communication in Negotiation (Wheeler & Nelson)
·         ·       Emotion and the Art of Negotiation (Wood Brooks)
·         ·       Think Win-Win, Principles of Interpersonal Leadership (Covey)
This paper poses a scenario:
You have been asked to write and direct an executive memo to your company’s new Director of Negotiations. You have been asked to teach him/her the ropes.
Use the standard APA style (including a title page, double spacing throughout the document, 
and a three-page minimum length (maximum of four) Using the three required assigned.
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3 Full Page Written Report/Essay:
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Using APA format:
-Times New Roman typeface,
-12-point font size,
-one-inch margins (all sides),
-double spacing between lines throughout the document,
-indenting the first line of every paragraph,
-paragraphs with three or more sentences,
-page numbers,
PLUS ……
-a reference page of articles three given only
-a title page (with the title, author byline, institutional affiliation,
and date)
APA style should also be used for citations and references
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Reference Page          Plagiarism Report/AI Report             Grammarly Report

SCENARIO
Now that you have begun your new role as the customer service manager for Corollary Marketing Inc., it will be important for you to introduce yourself as a leader to your team. The purpose of the introduction is to explain how you will use emotional intelligence to incorporate company values, unify the team, and begin to set team expectations.
Corollary Marketing Inc. Company Values:
• Excellence: In character, decision-making, and service to our clients and customers, we strive for distinction and actions of which we can be proud. Each of the following values contributes to this overriding charge.
• Integrity: We do the right thing, regardless of whether someone is watching. Our word is our bond; we carry a duty of care and responsibility to act ethically.
• Humility: We conduct our work without our egos. Our actions embody respect, humility, authenticity, and openness and invite feedback and input. We actively seek ideas and feedback from employees and value every voice and contribution. 
• Trust: We extend the belief and feeling that others can be relied upon. We strive to be trustworthy by showing compassion and consistency and by communicating with care and truthfulness. We are authentic and transparent.
• Growth: Our best today may not be good enough tomorrow, and we continually seek to improve. Both personally and professionally, we aim to accelerate employee learning so that we can become better able to meet customer and company needs.
• Respect: We believe that each person (employee, customer, vendor, etc.) has value and rights. We act based on facts and always assume positive intent. We celebrate the differences in people and seek to utilize each person’s unique knowledge, skills, abilities, and perspectives.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A. Create a document, as the new customer service manager, to help your team understand the four domains of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management) by doing the following:
1. Introduce yourself as the new customer service manager to your team, focusing on one of the six company values provided in the scenario.
2. Discuss how you and your team will use one of the following elements of self-awareness in your daily interactions:
• emotional awareness
• accurate self-assessment
• self-confidence
3. Discuss how you and your team will use one of the following elements of self-management in your daily interactions:
• emotional self-control
• transparency
• adaptability
• achievement
• initiative
• optimism
4. Discuss how you and your team will use social awareness to practice empathy in your daily interactions.
a. Discuss how unconscious bias may affect ethical decision-making on your team.
b. Describe two types of cognitive bias, including an example of each bias.
5. Discuss how you and your team will use one of the following elements of relationship management in your daily interactions:
• influence
• coaching and mentoring
• conflict management
• teamwork
• inspirational leadership
a. Discuss how you will create a culture of care within your team.
6. Explain why you and your direct reports will use at least one of the four domains of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management) to be effective as a team.
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Note: See the Tutorial in week 7 to distinguish recommendations from opportunities and threats.
structure
Use a Professional Report structure. In general, your project report must include the following sections:
1. Executive Summary
A summary of the entire report in a single page. This should be written after the rest of the report has been completed. The aim of this section is to allow a busy manager to get an overview of the entire   report without needing to read the full document.
2. Introduction:
What is the purpose of this document? For which organisation is it developed? What will be covered?
3. Body: Analysis of the Business Environment
You may have a different emphasis on different lenses, but each of the two lenses will be relevant.
•    Which course concepts will you use for each lens? Identification of Opportunities and Threats:
•    What are the opportunities and threats from the external business environment for the organisation in the next three years?
The analysis supports your identification of relevant opportunities and threats. Therefore, it is vital that the analysis section is more extensive and detailed than the subsequent discussions on opportunities  and threats.
Note: You can organise this section based on your way of storytelling, which is not necessarily organised by the lenses.
4. Conclusion
Briefly summarise your report. Highlight how you have addressed the complexity of the business environment.
5. Reference list
Include a reference list following theHarvard Referencing format.
6. Appendices
If you have additional information that is important and relevant but cannot fit within the body of your    report, you may include this in an appendix. Anything included in an appendix must be referred to in the body of the report. However, the story of the report must make sense without having to refer to an
appendix. This should not be a data dump. If you can provide a reliable link or a summary, this will add more value.

I am doing my senior thesis to graduate, and it is a quantitative essay, i am having trouble starting with my methodology section and the results. I am hesitant to ask my adisor because the submission is close and I have just changed my topic again. I would greatly appreciate it if someone can walk me through it and I’ll write and do it all. Someone that has expertise in writing quantitative research papers.

Prompt: Legal and regulatory issues relate to differences in laws and regulations for both domestic and multinational companies. 
Instructions: 
In a 650-700 content words paper, discuss how political, legal, and ethical issues can affect the financial and business operations of a company. How does this impact Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and Human Resources (HR) departments?

Assignment: Strategizing for Sun City Boards
Introduction to Planning (fscj.edu)
Decision Making (fscj.edu)
Prologue
Why does a business need to define its mission and engage in planning?
Dan Smith is a management consultant with the firm Business Advisors. He’s sitting in his office one day when the telephone rings. He picks it up and hears the voice of Tom Wilson, an old high school friend. “Hi Dan. This is Tom Wilson from Southside High. Remember me?” They discuss old times for a few minutes, and then Tom gets down to business.
“Dan, I need your help. I started a business several years ago, and we’re in trouble.”
Dan quickly searches his memory and recalls that Tom started a business called Sun City Boards several years ago selling high-end surfboards on the West Coast. Last Dan had heard, the business was doing well. “Yeah Tom. I remember when you started your shop, but I thought the business was growing successfully.”
Tom replies, “We did well the first couple of years, but things haven’t been good for a while now. We’re losing money, and I’m not sure how much longer I can keep the doors open.”
Dan assures Tom that he is happy to help and asks him to send a few items over to prepare for a trip to visit his operations. “Just send me a copy of your current business plan, financial forecasts, and annual operating budget.”
There’s a pause on the other end of the line, and then Tom says, “Well, I can send you our bank statements and invoices. We don’t have any of the other documents you’re asking about.”
Based on that response, Dan already has a good idea of the organization’s problem: an obvious lack of planning that never bodes well for a business.
In this module, you learned the importance of an organization establishing a clear vision and mission and how they guide the business planning cycle. The business plan is the roadmap that guides the organization to success.
Epilogue
Dan traveled to Tom’s operations on the West Coast and confirmed his suspicions that the problems the organization is facing are due to a lack of planning. Dan is meeting with Tom to report on his findings and to submit his recommendations.
“OK Tom, I’ve spent the last several days going through your operations and records, and I’m confident that there are actions you can take that will help turn around the business.”
Tom lets out a long sigh and says, “Dan, you have no idea how glad I am to hear that. So at a high level, what’s the problem?”
“In a nutshell, the problem with Sun City Boards is that you have lost your focus and there is no clear plan for moving forward.” Tom looks confused, so Dan explains. “When you started the business, what was your vision?”
Tom answers, “ To set people free from the earth … free to ride the waves .” [Vision statement]
“Perfect!” Dan responds. “And how were you going to do that?”
Tom thinks for a moment and then emphatically declares, “ We will strive to provide the absolute best in high-end surfboard design and production! ” [Mission statement]
Dan tells Tom that he has just created the vision and mission statements for Sun City Boards. He further explains:
“You have to start creating a focused plan that will help the organization deliver on its vision and mission. The reason your company is struggling is that there is no clear roadmap to success.”
Tom asks, “What do you mean?”
Dan continues, “When you started the company you were very successful because you focused on one key thing—making the best surfboards anyone had seen. As a result, everything your business did revolved around that core idea.”
Tom interrupts, “OK Dan, I think I see where you’re headed. When we started making money in the early days, I began to start expanding into other areas without a lot of thought. I listened to salespeople who came in and told me that I should branch out into low-end surf gear, then swimwear, then camping gear. Customers don’t know what we’re all about any more. And neither do my managers and employees.”
Dan can see Tom is getting his arms around the concept of vision and mission, so he moves on.
Next, he presents his recommendation that Tom and his key leaders should come together regularly to create, review and update Sun City’s business plan. This is new to the team, so he gives them a quick example:
1. Define Objectives: Sun City Boards should look to reduce noncore product lines and associated inventory. Minimum margin target is 35 percent across all remaining product lines.
2. Develop Premises: Monitor competitor’s plans to implement a new polymer board and determine potential impact to Sun City’s sales.
3. Evaluate Alternatives: Evaluate opportunity of opening new retail outlets along the West Coast. Also, explore international sales options for high-end surf boards.
4. Identify Resources: Analyze the level of capital necessary to achieve expansion goals and incorporate plan to close financial gaps in the annual budget.
5. Plan and Implement Tasks: Create a Gantt chart or other project planning tool that outlines the actions necessary to reach the goals outlined earlier.
6. Determine Tracking and Evaluation Methods: Create SMART goals for both managers and employees that align with direction the overall business plan provides.
Finally, Dan reminds Tom that the planning process is only a tool and that the plan should be regularly reviewed and updated. Dan warns him that planning is no substitute for taking action, but it is a guide for him and his team as to what actions should be taken.
This consulting project has reminded Dan how important it is for an organization to have a clear vision and mission to know where it’s headed. Likewise, the planning process is critical to know how it’s going to get there. The alternative is like trying to take a cross-country trip without a map—you don’t know where you might end up!
Preparation
Carefully read the background story of Sun City Boards presented above and review Module 4 Learning Unit: Introduction to Planning before beginning this assignment.
In this assignment, you’ll apply what you learned about planning to Sun City Boards and the management challenges its owner, Tom Wilson, faces. You’ll advise Tom on strategic management steps he and Sun City Boards should take to develop and implement their new strategy.
Module 4 Learning Unit: Introduction to Planning introduced several strategic planning tools to use at different stages of the strategic management process. As an advisor for Sun City Boards, your assignment is to select one of the following strategic management tools (SWOT analysis; PESTEL analysis, or Porter’s Five Forces) described in the module, explain how it works, and explain why it will be of value to Sun City Boards.
Your Task
Write a 300-word report describing the strategic management tool you chose and why you selected it. Explain how the tool works and why it will be of value. Your essay must include three properly referenced and defined terms from the module reading. Additionally, address the following questions:
• What is the purpose of the tool? What conclusions will it help Sun City Boards draw?
• How does the tool work? How does it measure the relevant factors, or how does it derive importance from them?

Lesson description
Unit III Case Study Using the CSU
Online Library, identify an article on an ethical issue in the workplace. This
article should include details of an ethical incident by an organization.
Create a case study that addresses the following questions: What was the
ethical situation, and what led to the problem? How did the organization
respond? What were the consequences of these actions? What did you learn about
professional ethics through this case study? Your complete case study must be
at least two pages in length. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this
assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are
used.

CASE ANALYSIS
You are required at the end of the semester to submit a case analysis that focuses on Southwest Airlines. This case analysis will be a vehicle through which you can demonstrate your ability to apply human resources management concepts in determining the role of such concepts to an actual organization’s practices.
The starting point for your case analysis is your textbook, which, throughout, contains information about Southwest Airlines. (Review pages: 2, 4, 11, 12–13, 19, 27, 34, 53, 191, 194–195, 199, 213, 235, 285, 302, 428, 461, 522.) The first thing you should do is to read this information and become familiar with it.
You will build your case analysis by answering a series of questions listed below in the section called “Southwest Airlines Case Analysis Questions.” These questions are associated with specific chapters in your textbook and in order to answer them properly you will need to demonstrate your mastery of the material covered in those chapters.
Chapter 1: page 34
Chapter 2: page 73
Chapter 3: page 116
Chapter 5: page 204
Chapter 6: page 250
Chapter 8: page 343
Chapter 9: page 384
Chapter 10: page 428
Chapter 11: page 467
Chapter 12: page 513
Chapter 13: page 562
Chapter 14: page 616
As you progress through the course you should review the questions below and begin to formulate your answers as you read the associated chapters in your textbook.
The questions below are designed for you to demonstrate an understanding of key human resources management concepts as they pertain to Southwest Airlines. For each of your responses to these questions, be sure to link specifics in the Southwest Airlines case to human resources management concepts from the text.
There is no specific length that your case analysis should be, but you should aim to answer each question as thoroughly as possible. For information on how your work will be judged, see the section below called “Assessment Guidelines for Southwest Airlines Case Analysis.” Use the criteria listed there as a guide when working on your case analysis.
Your case analysis should contain the following:
Title page with your name, date, course code, and name of your mentor
Introduction to your case analysis
The main body of your analysis (i.e., your answers to the questions below that are related to specific chapters)
Recommendations (your answer to the last question below)
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS
Before you complete your analysis, you will need to master the course material presented in Module 3 and all subsequent modules. This does NOT mean, however, that you should leave your project to the end of the semester; you need to start preparing as you are studying the material in Module 3 and beyond.
Review the following strategies for preparing your case analysis of Southwest Airlines and work on it incrementally as you complete your reading and written assignments for the rest of the semester.
It is important to do the following:
Study thoroughly the Southwest Airlines case description in the text, including the two appendices (pp. 574–591).
Review the chapters of the text listed as references for particular questions.
Identify how concepts and practices in the referred chapters link to the story of Southwest Airlines.
Search for connections, examples, and research mentioned in the text as likely explanations for what has occurred at Southwest Airlines.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CASE ANALYSIS QUESTIONS
Your answers to the following questions will form the main body of your case analysis. Formulate your answers after reading the textbook chapters listed. Be sure to follow the strategies given above and to review the assessment guidelines at the end of this page.
Answer the following after studying textbook Chapter 8: How were training and development of strategic importance to Southwest Airlines? What actions taken by Southwest Airlines support your response? 
Answer the following after studying textbook Chapter 9: Using expectancy theory, explain how the management practices at Southwest Airlines help motivate the company’s employees to high levels of performance. 
Answer the following after studying textbook Chapters 10 and 11: What particular aspects of how Southwest Airlines compensates and rewards its employees are likely connected to the company’s low turnover rate? Be specific. Southwest Airlines has been described as having a unique culture. What specific aspects of its culture make it unique? How have these aspects played a significant part in Southwest Airlines’ effectiveness as an organization? 
Answer the following after studying textbook Chapter 14: In the Southwest Airlines Integrative Case’s Exhibit SA.6 on page 588, Jeff Lamb, senior vice president administration and chief people officer, talks about HR practices and challenges at Southwest. He says that Southwest’s success is largely due to the company’s philosophy of putting employees first. What future challenges might there be for Southwest Airlines in general to maintain this success? Explain with supporting material from Chapter 14 or any other sources you choose to use. Please cite any outside references you use.
Answer the following after completing all of the questions above: What recommendations would you make to Southwest Airlines to help deal with future labor union challenges?

Watch the two videos on Executive Pay (Warren Buffett and Executive Pay)
Find a recent news article debating the issue of Executive Pay and summarize the controversy from your point of view, attach the article
Search the Department of Labor (DOL) website for a topic relevant to this course, share a few facts: https://www.dol.gov/
Briefly describe the current trends in Benefits

This a power point presentacion which I will have to presenta in time of 5min.not sure how many word but I know have to be from 4 to 5 slides.Please not complicated word I am first year first semester so more simple.
Thank you .