Category: Business

Part I:
According to the Living Wage Calculator developed by Amy Glasmeier, Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning at MIT, the living wage rate for a family of four (two working adults, two children) is $16.54 per hour. What are the implications of raising the minimum wage rate to a livable wage? Do you think the government should increase the federal minimum wage? Explain your answer.
Part II: Read Case Study 1. CEO Pandemic Pay…Taking One for the Team or Window Dressing? on page 396 and discuss your answers to the questions.

Create a comprehensive Compensation & Promotion Plan addressing HRM best practices. Begin with thorough research, utilizing at least 5-7 reputable sources. Develop detailed compensation (salary structures, bonuses, equity) and promotion (criteria, cycles, integration with appraisal) plans. Align both plans with the corporate goals of a chosen organization. Craft a 10-15 slide visually engaging PowerPoint presentation adhering to effective design principles, with dedicated slides for alignment and references. Submit in PowerPoint format, ensuring proper APA citations and meeting the provided deadline.

This report will give you an opportunity to reflect on your Biz Café experience. You are to respond to each question (Topic). Each topic is different so the length will vary. The format for the report is a combination of an informational and analytical report. I want your experience with the simulation and provide your opinions on each topic, but you will also submit this as a professional business document.
Requirements:
Cover Page
Table of Contents
Body
Footer
Cover Page Must include:
Company Name
Name
Logo
Table of Contents
Your Table of Contents will include section headings (topics), leader lines and page numbers at a minimum. Depending on how you break out each section, you could have multiple levels in your table of contents.
**Helpful Hint: You can use the built-in feature that Microsoft Word has to create a Table of Contents. **
Note: Your Table of Contents must be on its own page
Body
Your body must cover the following topics:
Introduction
Provide a brief introduction to your café. It must include your coffee shop name, location, and goals of your business. Explain what your business is about.
Major Decisions
What major decision(s) did you make that helped you achieve your business goals. What were the reasons behind those major decisions?
Surprises
What surprised you the most about running the coffee shop? Were there any challenges you encountered during the simulation?
Key Changes
Was there any key change that you made halfway through the simulation. If so, what were some of the key changes that you made that helped your coffee shop? Was there one key change that changed the direction of your business? If not, then how were you able to sustain your business progress?
Chance to start over
If you had a chance to start over, would you change your approach? Why or why not?
Key Takeaways
Provide me with key takeaways from your business simulation experience up to this point in the semester. How was your overall experience? Was it a positive one?
Body Format: Organization & Professionalism
You will use topic headings and can create subheadings if needed. See the example below, note that “Lorem ipsum….” are not instructions but filler to provide content to demonstrate the format. You can choose any style for your report.
Your document should be organized as follows:
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Footer
Footer should include date, page number and your name.. Your footer can be creative if you want to deviate from the page number, date, and author format.
Word Count
I am going to use word count as your constraint. The total word count needs to total at least 1500 words.
Additional Notes:
This assignment is based on your experience and there is no right or wrong response. Having said that, you do need to put thought into responding to the questions and forming them into topics.
This is a writing assignment that will be graded on your ability to produce a readable document that addresses the topics, is organized well, is free of misspellings and grammatical mistakes, uses correct punctuation and meets the word count minimum of 1500 words.
This assignment is designated as your primary writing assignment for the
This report represents 7.5% of your overall grade and we will look at your responses for thoughtfulness and some depth.
You do not have to tell us every move you Just pick one(s) that you want to talk about.
The latin text you see is filler and not instructions.

Hello, you completed this essay for me on a different account. That’s why I’ve invited you to help with completing this assignment. its an annotated bibliography based on the essay you wrote.
Directions: For
your module essay, you will need to identify the sources that you use
to support your argument. For this assignment, create an Annotated
Bibliography of at least 4 sources related to your essay.
Criteria: To fully annotate four sources, your assignment should be 8-10 paragraphs long and include four MLA formatted citations.
Each source should be cited according to MLA Works Cited page formatting guidelines
Each source should include two to three paragraphs of annotation including summary, assessment, and reflection
See essay instructions for source requirement
Rubric Name: Scoring Rubric for ENGL 102 Annotated Bibliography
Criteria
Meets Most ReqiurementsDoes Not Meet RequirementsNot SubmittedCriterion Score
SourcesIncludes
all of the following: • 5 sources from CCBC library database or other
credible source • 1 of 5 sources is a non-text object • Entries
formatted according to MLA guidelinesIncludes
all but one of the following, or needs minor revision to 1 or more of
the following: • 5 sources from CCBC library database or other credible
source • 1 of 5 sources is a non-text object • Entries formatted
according to MLA guidelinesMissing/incomplete
entries or needs significant revision in at least two of the following:
• 5 sources from CCBC library database or other credible source • 1 of 5
sources is a non-text object • Entries formatted according to MLA
guidelines sources (assignment specific)Initial post is not submitted OR initial post is plagiarized./ 6
AnnotationsIncludes
the following for five sources: • Summary of source content •
Quotations and/or paraphrased content that will be integrated into essay
• MLA in-text citations for quotations/paraphrased content from each
sourceIncludes
all but one of the following, or needs minor revision to 1 or more of
the following: • Summary of source content • Quotations and/or
paraphrased content that will be integrated into essay • MLA in-text
citations for quotations/paraphrased content from each sourceMissing/incomplete
entries or needs significant revision in at least two of the following:
• Summary of source content • Quotations and/or paraphrased content
that will be integrated into essay • MLA in-text citations for
quotations/paraphrased content from each sourceInitial post is not submitted OR initial post is plagiarized./ 4

COURSE OBJECTIVE
This assessment addresses the following course objective(s):
Evaluate various methods for creating customer value.
Compare and contrast the ways that a company can create brand identity.
Assess internal and external communication needs as they relate to the marketing function.
Instructions
You have become the Executive Vice President for Marketing of the new Gaia Real Estate, inc. that covers both consumer and commercial/industrial structures; your job is to expand Gaia throughout the United States. Focus on the following important elements in the real estate industry:
Look at the latest census data and identify at least two areas in the country that are growing.
Make plans to enter into those areas and crystallize your priorities either in commercial/industrial or consumer structures. Explain why.
In the consumer area, are you going to include condominiums in addition to single-family structures? Crystallize your priorities between the two and explain why.
Assuming that you are going to use beta tests, identify the criteria to be used for the selection of clients in both commercial/industrial and consumer real estate.
Decide who your clients would be (demographics) for condos, single-family structures, commercial structures, and industrial structures.
Also, consider the use of prognostication (forecasting) covering all the classifications of structures cited above. Provide priorities.
Submit
You must prepare a written work where you respond to the case scenario. The work must comply with APA academic writing standards. You must support your answer using appropriate sources (at least 5 references) that are properly cited. The paper will be approximately 5-6 pages in length.
No plagiarism and no AI generated response. Turnitin AI will detect it

Eduardo Deulofeu
ReplyUNIT 1 – DISCUSSION BOARD
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Hello Class,
I think that price elasticity of demand is a crucial indicator in understanding how the quantity demanded of a product changes in response to a price change. It varies significantly across different products based on factors such as necessity, availability of substitutes, and consumer preferences. Let’s examine salt, a product with relatively inelastic demand, and smartphones, which have a more elastic demand, to illustrate how firms can leverage this information.
Salt, a basic necessity in cooking, has an inelastic demand. Its consumption does not significantly decrease with a price increase because it is essential and lacks close substitutes. Firms selling salt can benefit from understanding its inelastic demand by maintaining steady production and potentially increasing prices during high demand without fearing a substantial drop in sales volume. This strategy can be particularly effective in ensuring profitability, as the market for salt is typically stable and consumers are less price-sensitive.
In contrast, smartphones exhibit elastic demand. The market is saturated with various brands and models, and consumers often view smartphones as a luxury rather than a necessity. This elasticity suggests that consumers are more sensitive to price changes and might delay purchases, seek alternatives, or switch brands based on price fluctuations. Firms in the smartphone industry can use this knowledge to their advantage by employing competitive pricing strategies, introducing new features to justify premium prices, or offering discounts and promotions to boost demand during low sales periods. Moreover, understanding elasticity can guide firms in segmenting the market and targeting specific consumer groups with tailored products and pricing strategies to maximize sales and profits.
In summary, understanding the price elasticity of demand for their products enables firms to make strategic decisions about pricing, production, and marketing. By aligning their strategies with consumer sensitivity to price changes, firms can optimize profits, enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve a competitive edge in the market.
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Hello, I need a 10-page essay due by Tomorrow by 8 pm Pacific time. The topic is about 1. A management/organizational behavior consultant report, directed to a real or fictional corporation’s management team (please define this corporation’s business or use a real-world corporation) on the benefits and downside of remote work. This paper should clearly state the trade-offs when selecting the work model for this specific corporation and should consider the type of work, type of employees, competition for employees, and the productivity and teamwork challenges of the selected option. I will also give you some research paper that you can use for the essay.

Read the Barrier to Entry (BTE) section of Porter (2008), watched Module 8’s lecture, and watched the “Beer Wars” documentary on this Link for Beer Wars Documentary: https://tubitv.com/movies/15598/beer-wars?start=tr…Write me a Memo in 900 words by following the Memo instruction given on the Memo2 instructions attachment. Please follow the attachments.

Objective: Identify the value of adult learning theory by developing an HRD scenario for the same topic from a pedagogy perspective and from an andragogy perspective.
As you complete this assignment, think about research by David Kolb and others suggesting that individuals have different learning styles. Think about the following:
Employees with a convergent learning style may require different approaches than employees with a divergent learning style.
Instructions:
You are responsible to prepare two training sessions about conflict resolution; each session would run approximately 1 hour. One session will be delivered to an early teen population and the other to a group of bank employees. Your task is to provide an outline of each training. The outline should present the structure of the training session, various activities, methods, etc. that are appropriate for each group. It is helpful to provide brief descriptions of the activities, etc.
Develop the two training outlines and compare the two to highlight where they are similar and different.
For this assignment, the goal is not to just explain what you would do, but to actually prepare an outline of each training session, and then provide a comparison of the two.
(Werner & DeSimone, 2012)

9.2 Action Required: (Knowledge Application)
This activity is important because virtual employees are increasingly considered a normal part of the workforce. Virtual teams have their own special challenges as well as benefits. Managers should know how to promote teamwork and effective work processes in a virtual environment.
The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of teams, particularly in virtual environments, by reading a case and answering questions that follow.
Case Analysis (Remote Work Is Thriving at Dell)
Dell Technologies is considered one of the most progressive companies in the world for remote workforces. The company, which develops, sells and supports computers, was valued in 2019 at more than $36 billion and employs more than 150,000 workers worldwide. Check out the Dell career webpage that is devoted to flexible job opportunities and you’ll see the company’s pride in employees being able to choose “the work style that best fulfills their needs on the job and in their personal lives.”
Dell reports that its remote teams are as productive, if not more, versus in-person teams. The company uses team technology to connect with chats, content sharing and video conference calls. Video is credited as extremely important in engaging team members, including on executive teams. In fact, the company states that its remote team members are four times as likely to be engaged at work and two times as likely to want to stay at their current jobs.
Slack in one program was employed to facilitate collaboration with a centralized space for teams to work. Adobe Connect allows creation of information like training manuals and presentations in addition to conferencing. Skype is a go-to video conferencing software for many who work from their laptops, as well. In short, the market offers many ways for teams to collaborate virtually and maintain the ability to self-manage. Furthermore, the programs allow for highly complex team projects that can be more productive remotely when sharing documents, simulations and conducting real-time analysis.
Dell uses an extremely high level of ongoing connectiveness with coworkers, such as intra-company social media and chats. The ability to “follow” and chat with team members allows for solving issues that arise infrequently and unexpectedly. Finding and gathering your team can even be easier with remote work than in person because everyone is connected.
Due to Dell’s use of a remote workforce since 2009, the company estimates it has saved $12 million in fuel costs, not to mention the associated environmental benefits.
The future gets more remote for Dell. The company now plans that by 2020, employee global participation in remote work options will increase to 50% of its workforce.
9.3 Test your knowledge:(Questions)
1. This type of team can be very effective remotely because the members are working in their normal jobs and only come together when there is an issue.
2. What does Dell credit as being a critical factor to engagement in remote team meetings?
9.4 Instructions:
Read the following case about Dell and answer the questions that follow. Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below