In the business culture, requests for funding for either a new venture or initiative are a common business occurrence and demand careful organization to present a persuasive, thoughtful request. In addition, you will need to use vernacular common to the business culture to help you to relate to your audience, while simultaneously making the memo intelligible to the audience and the audience’s culture.  For this […]

Module 4 – SLP Continuous Improvement SLP Assignment Expectations  In this final SLP, you will construct a simplified action plan with your team to foster continuous improvement and team learning. Each team member will submit his/her own copy of the same team plan. Plans should be 2-3 pages. To construct your plan, review your assessment from the Case for this module. Then, as a team, […]

  Project: (due at the end of Unit 6) Part I:  Select a piece of real estate (residential, commercial, warehouse, land), any number of resources can be used (www.realtor.com is one option).  You will need to include a listing sheet/link with your submitted assignment. Part II:  Determine a down payment. (a standard down payment is 20%, however you may offer justification for any amount/percent you […]

Letter 2: Negative Message Assignment: You are a recent college graduate and are applying for a number of jobs. Unfortunately, you receive two offers on the same day and need to accept one and decline the other. Write a letter to the hiring manager (see below) explaining your acceptance of another offer, keeping in mind the five goals of delivering bad news, found on page […]

  Create a 1,050- to 1,400-word strategic plan for your place of employment or a company with which you are familiar. Include the following in your plan: Mission, vision, core values Environmental analysis Internal or external industry trends and economic factors Legal and legislative issues Internal or external technological changes Demographic or labor trends Social concerns, such as education, family or sustainability factors Objectives Financial […]

Your Assignment involves a combination of research and writing. You are the marketing director for Snyder Software based in your hometown and your company is considering overseas markets for the company’s language translation software. Your boss Anne Snyder has asked you to research potential overseas markets, research effective communication strategies in your proposed country, summarize your research and results in a memo to her, and […]

Watch the following video on ethics and compliance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iMj508TOYo In the video, Ethics and Compliance, the presenter examines a number of ethical issues and offers how countries deal with them. What do you think of the presenter’s observations as they relate to the role of business ethics in the 21st century? What are some of the ethical challenges for businesses in the 21st century arising […]

Respond to… There are five different communication strategies that one can take when trying to communicate a potential change, spray and pray, tell and sell, underscore and explore, identify and reply, and withhold and uphold. (Palmer, 2017, pg 226). The method that I would use to communicate the change would be the withhold and uphold. The reason that I would use this method is because […]

  Discussion Forum 7 Stanford University medical researchers conducted a study on the correlation between the use of fertility drugs and ovarian cancer.  Their study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, concludes that the use of the fertility drugs, Pergonal and Serophene, may increase the risk of ovarian cancer by three times.  The lead author of the studies, Professor Alice Whittemore, stated, “Our finding […]

   MS6010 Course Project Guidelines Your course project will consist of a 15–20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. These slides will help you present your investment idea to the President and CEO of the public company. As such, the slides must be well crafted to help convince the leader of the company of the need for the investment, the possible risks, and potential returns. Remember, the slides […]