Deadly force

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If you enter the field of law enforcement, you may one day have to consider using deadly force on another person, either in self-defense or to save others. Is this something you think you could be morally and ethically capable of doing? As you participate in this discussion, you will consider the moral and ethical aspects of deadly force.

Please respond to all of the following prompts in the class discussion section of your online course: 

  • In what cases might it be acceptable to use deadly force? Give two examples and defend your choices.
  • What are the ethical ramifications of using deadly force?
  • If you headed a police squad, would you permit deadly force to be used and under what circumstances? Why or why not?

BUS 309 Business Ethics Week 10 Disc 1

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BUS309 Bus Ethics Week 10 notes_Case_Study_11.4.pdf

“Consenting to Sexual Harassment”  Please respond to the following:

  • Read Case 11.4: Consenting to Sexual Harassment, located attached, then respond to the following questions. According to her own testimony, Vinson acquiesced to Taylor’s sexual demands. In this sense her behavior was “voluntary.” Does the voluntariness of her behavior mean she had “consented” to Taylor’s advances? Does it mean they were “welcome”? Do you agree that Vinson’s acquiescence shows there was no sexual harassment? Defend your position.

Answer these questions about Management.

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Original answers.

2. How many managers do you know have had formal academic training in the field of management? How well-prepared are they to assess the validity and value of management bestsellers?

8. Assume you were asked to become CEO of a company whose board of directors wanted you to lead as a higher ambition leader. What are some of the first things you’d consider doing? Why?

9.   Discuss ways that management can provide employees who survive organizational downsizing reasons to stay with the organization.

10. How would you go about persuading your boss to adopt a strategy of “responsible restructuring”? Provide specific examples of strategies and practices that you would advocate and how they might help the organization meet competitive challenges.

11. Drawing upon (but not repeating verbatim) Schein’s definition, explain (in your own words) what organizational culture means to you.

12. What are the challenges to achieving organizational transparency?

13. How would you go about establishing transparency in a department that you manage? Provide specific steps.

14. What are the benefits of an organization that values and promotes camaraderie?

15. Why is the partnership method effective?

16. Think about a time when you were unsatisfied and unmotivated at work. Why were you feeling this way? Did your compensation package play a part in your dissatisfaction?

17. How long could you survive in a work environment that paid handsomely, but where you are bored, unchallenged, and have little control over what you do?

18. What is your personal action plan for success?

19. What are four positive leadership strategies? Why are each of them uniquely important?

20. How is a positive climate obtained? What might detract from it, or prevent it from succeeding?

21. Discuss and identify situations where “bad” leadership has been effective, not in the sense of the end point but in terms of the means employed.

22. Compare and contrast a real life example of good leadership with “bad” leadership. How are they similar? How are they different? Discuss.

23. Identify a time you (or a friend) sabotaged your (their) own performance. Discuss strategies to catch/avoid self sabotage.

24. Which of the costs of power bothers/worries you the most? How could you mitigate this cost?

25. How are Collaborative Work Systems different from team-based organizations?

MKTG330-1403B-01 : Marketing Research

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MKTG330-1403B-01 : Marketing Research

Write 600–800 words and references that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Discuss the proper role of secondary data in any marketing research project, including where in the research process model that role should lie. Complete the following:

  • Outline the relative advantages and disadvantages of secondary research versus primary research.
  • Describe the main types of secondary data sources, both internal and external.
  • Explain a hypothesis of which types of secondary sources will be most useful to your planned research project for Acme Wholesaling, Inc.

Part 2 600-800 words and references

For this assignment, perform secondary research to uncover at least 3 items of secondary data that will be relevant to at least 1 or more of your research questions. Be sure to include the following:

·  These data can be statistical or narrative; they can be projected, current, or historical.

·  They should be listed along with the specific source from which those data originated, using proper APA citation format.

·  Accompanying each item of data should be a brief, 1-paragraph explanation of the relevance of the data statement to the research questions that you developed in the last assignment for Acme Wholesaling, Inc..

·  Provide an introductory paragraph that restates the research questions that you designed in last assignment

Global Marketing

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  • 1. Given the political complications, how attractive is the China mainland market? How would you evaluate the threat from Baiyun? What if China economic expansion shows down? 

  • 2. What strategic alternative are there for Cathay to develop the mainland market? should it rely on Dragon-air, develop new alliance, or continue to go it alone? 

  • 3. how should Cathay develop and market its global im-age without diminishing its local/regional identity as the Hongkong (and China) carrier? 

  • 4. Should cathay focus on China by attempting to develop it further or instead focus on the overall global market?

these are the 4 questions i need you to answer for me. each answer will include 500 words.

due day is at 9pm on 30 Dec with the percentage check below 10%.

Financial analysis discussion

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Project #2: Car Buying

In this assignment, we will learn how to buy a car and figure out whether it is priced at or below market value.

Instructions for Project #2

First, you need to decide on your budget, which is the maximum you can spend on a car, and that maximum number should take into consideration price, tax, registration, and fixing if needed.

Second, go to a website such as cars.com, and search for a car in within your budget constraint.

Third, go to a website such as the one for the Kelly Blue Book, and find out whether the car is at market value, overpriced, or underpriced.

Finally, write a two-page paper discussing your findings and issues to explain or discuss.

  • Explain your choice. Why did you select the car that you identified? What are the three different prices the Kelly Blue Book provides?
  • Based on Kelly Blue Book prices, is the car overpriced or underpriced?
  • Did you have any surprises, prior experience, feedback, thoughts, and so on?
  • Referring to the car that you selected, discuss the insurance decisions you will need to make. What type of coverage will you need? What is the minimum amount of coverage you will need (based on your state of residence) and what amount of coverage would you actually like to have? Are there any actions you can take to reduce your premiums? Address these questions, taking into account your current budget and financial status.
ASSIGNMENT NUMBER 2 PROBLEM SET

1.  For each of the following situations, what amount would the insurance company pay?

a.  Wind damage of $835; the insured has $500 deductible.

b.  Theft of a stereo system worth $1,300; the insured has a $250 deductible.

c.  Vandalism that does $425 of damage to a home; the insured has a $500 deductible.

2.  Beverly and Kyle Nelson currently insure their cars with separate companies paying $650 and $575 a year. If they insure both cars with the same company, they would save 10 percent on the annual premiums. What would be the future value of the annual savings over ten years based on an annual interest rate of 6 percent?

3.  As of 2008, per capita spending on health care in the United States was about $8,000. If this amount increased by 5 percent a year, what would be the amount of per capital spending for health care in 10 years?

4.Sarah’s comprehensive major medical health insurance plan at work has a deductible of $750. The policy pays 85 percent of any amount above the deductible. While on a hiking trip, she contracted a rare bacterial disease. Her medical costs for treatment, including medicines, tests, and a six-day hospital stay, totaled $8,893. A friend told her that she would have paid less if she had a policy with a stop-loss feature that capped her out-of-pocket expenses at $3,000. Was her friend correct? Show your computations. Then determine which policy would have cost Sarah less and by how much.

5.The Kelleher family has health insurance coverage that pays 80 percent of out-of-hospital expenses after a $500 deductible per person. If one family member has doctor and prescription medication expenses of $1,100, what amount would the insurance company pay?

6. You are the wage earner in a “typical family,” with $40,000 gross annual income.  Use the easy method to determine how much life insurance you should carry.  

Risk Management

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In this assignment, you will compare and Evaluate risk management techniques from the experts in the field. Find one article by Dr. James Kallman @ the Ashford University Library.

Find a Second Article in the Ashford University Library from another credible author of your choice who also provides recommendations for risk management.

Develop a 3-4 page analysis of the techniques of Dr. Kallman has identified for managing risks, In this analysis, compare Dr. Kallman’s techniques to the techniques recommended in the second article you researched. Explain why you agree or disagree with each author recommendations. Describe other factors you  believe should be considered in risk management. The assignment should be comprehensive and include specific examples. 

Must cite at least 2 scholarly sources in addition to the text, from the Ashford University Library, one being an article by Dr. Kallman.  

Data Collection Plan

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The Critical Thinking assignments in this course will build upon each other to help you complete the final Portfolio Project, an evaluation plan for Cowboys Nightclubs and Restaurants which seeks to provide a online training and learning for its managers and waitstaff. In this step you will outline your plan for collecting data for each of the four levels of evaluation: participant reaction, learning, job impact, and business impact.

For each level your plan needs to include:

  • Data needed
  • Target groups
  • Data collection methods
  • Timeline for collection
  • Issues, challenges, and considerations related to digital, mobile, and social technology assessments.

Provide a rationale to support your data collection strategies, citing at least 2-3 credible sources

APA Format

Original work only

Review of the Literature Research Paper

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Assignment 800 words

Individual Discussion: Prepare your Individual project

Review of the Literature Research Paper

Craft an introduction to identify and describe the possible scope of your Review of Literature Research Paper. Identify what you want to achieve in terms of the key themes and trends you will research in the literature based on your SDLP goal statements (in the charts below):

Step 1:  Strengths to Leverage

Step 2:  Course Learning Goals

Step 3:  Course Outcomes & Assessment

Strength 1

Good attitude and my wiliness to learn. When I started this course I did not know much about this topic but my wiliness to learn has been one of my biggest strength.

Personal I wanted to learn as much as I can about recruitment & selection. After taking this course I can safely say that I have learned and gained a lot. My goal was to understand the basic recruitment & selection concepts, understand various labor laws, and final how companies reward their employees. Yes all the above mentioned learning goals were meet.

I was very impressed with the course outcome. From the material used, to Dr. Vince and all the way to my fellow students everything was second to none. Although the assessments were a little bit hard, the workload was manageable. So in a nutshell personally, the course outcome was more or less what I expected.

Strength 2

Team Player (Skills)

Ability to use the KSAOs

My goal was to learn where as an individual I fit in the HR profession. I have learned that HR has many different departments covering different areas from employees’ benefits and all the way to dealing with government department as well and that needs a team player. I have also learned how companies can use the social network to attract and retain best talent, and I have learned the various methods of incentive pay and their impact on HR and the organization’s competitive strategies.

I am very happy with the course outcome and the knowledge I have gained by taking this course. I will always treasure this knowledge and I will put every bit of it to good use in my future endeavor.  Personal I think this course has just made me an all-round manager because HR was the miss part of my management degrees. I am a very happy with the outcome. I have also learned how to identify appropriate activities that will lead to successful recruiting strategy within an organization.

Strength 3

Positive attitude and ability

to lead

My main goal was to learn how expatriates are recruited, compensated and the process involved in selecting a suitable the person. As a leader I have also learned how expatriates are settled in foreign countries as well as laws involved in settling expatriates. This course has really helped me to appreciate the role of HR when it comes to expatriates and their compensation.

I am very thankful for taking this course and the knowledge gained is of a life time. After this course I can safely say the outcome was very good as I said before I will say it again, the outcome was more or less what I expected from this course. After taking this course I am now able to tell and evaluate the different external assessment methods used by HR to hire talent, analyze an organization internal selection processes.

Areas to Develop

Step 1:  Areas to develop

Step 2:  Course Learning Goals

Step 3:  Course Outcomes & Assessment

Area 1

Communication both within and outside the organization

Need to learn more about ERISA, COBRA and HJIPPA. Also my goal is to as HR manager to be a good communicator both in writing and oral. The ability to communicate properly as manager is very important and that is one thing I wanted to learn from this course and I did.

This course taught me that as a HR representative/ personal I need to improve on my communication and that is one area I will be working on. Overall the outcome of this course was very good; I personal enjoyed it although in some units the work load was too much. 

Area 2

Weekly reading

Need to improve on my weekly reading schedule because I was behind during most of the time and trying to play catch –up was not cool. This course has taught me that as HR representative I will be reading constantly hence the need to improve on that. 

Like what I always say in everything we do in life there is always room for improvement and in my case reading constantly is one area I need to work on. Otherwise the course outcome was good and it pin-pointed my short comes when it comes to reading.

Area 3

Ability to share my knowledge

The course has taught me as HR representative how to share my knowledge with others, it has also taught me the broader picture of HR which I was not aware of and I need to improve on those areas.

Wow what a well-developed course, I loved it.

small business management Kaplan University

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Part 1: The Profit and Loss Statement

You will use one month’s sales projections (see Doc Sharing for additional help) and state your sales. Then take a guess about what your expenses are going to be for that same month. Do not forget things like rent, utilities, supplies and inventory, salaries, pay and profit for you. Use the Unit 9 Spreadsheet Template located in Doc Sharing.

Part 2: Ethics and Profit

Read the scenario and discuss the ethical considerations related to the scenario.

View the rubric below for full Assignment details and grading rubric.

209_u9rubric.pdf

Unit 9 spreadsheet.xlsx

I am using a mechanic shop for this assignment. The scenarios are listed in the rubric. Just make up some prices and go from there. Complete both parts of the rubric. If you need any additional information, ask and I will provide.