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    Public Relations

    Why is it important to inform the external publics of significant events within the organization? What is your organization's relationship with the local, regional, national, and global media? What are some tools/techniques used to inform, influence, and motivate external publics? What are the ramifications of ineffective comm

    Public Relations & Internal Communciations

    Please help me with these questions: 1. Why is it important to keep internal publics informed? 2. How does corporate culture affect an organization's internal communications? 3. What are some tools/techniques used to inform, influence, and motivate internal publics? 4. What are the ramifications of ineffective commun

    Business Presentations

    The ability to understand the attributes of both the presenter and the audience is critical to a presentation. The objective and the target audience are so closely intertwined that you should consider them coexisting variables. In fact, the message is buried in between the speaker and the audience. Additionally, the physical pro

    Business Presentations

    What are the challenges that you personally face in presentations? What are some successes that you have had in making presentations? What are the ingredients for a successful presentation? Can a presenter really change his/her image from presentation to presentation? If so, how? Is it ethical? Try to think of an exa

    Forecasting for WidgeCorp: Applied Managerial Decision-Making

    WidgeCorp is considering branching out into cold beverages. You have been asked to come up with a regression model to forecast monthly sales of cold beverages for the next year. Think about what variables you might include in your model. Please research about regression analysis, and provide detailed discussion about various ty

    Presentation on Control Mechanisms

    Prepare a 10-15 slide presentation which contains the following: >Various control mechanisms used in each team members' organization. >Describe the control mechanism and state the type that it is based on the information in the text. >Effectiveness of these control mechanisms. >Examines positive and negative reactions to

    Examination of external stakeholders.

    Why is it important to inform the external publics of significant events within the organization? What is your organization's relationship with the local, regional, national, and global media? What are some tools/techniques used to inform, influence, and motivate external publics? What are the ramifications of ineffective comm

    Singapore Business

    Based on the attached article "HP in Singapore". - Compared to other countries, why did HP select Singapore? - What were 'key criteria'? - When did it establish its wholly-owned-subsidiary there? - What cases of ethnocentrism are identified in the mini-case? - How did HP Singapore become 'a strategic factory and developmen

    Changing American Wealth

    How much change has taken place through the years among the industries that have been the source of wealth for America's richest individuals? What does this say about the changing nature of the economy? ** See attached file for full problem description and graph/chart. **

    Impact of powerful buyers

    Which one of the following four driving forces - the threat of substitutes, potential new entrants, powerful suppliers, or powerful buyers - would have the most impact on a firm? Why? Do not say it depends. Choose one!

    Licensing, Franchising, or Joint-Venturing?

    If a U.S. company wanted to sell its products to other countries for the first time, which strategy should it begin with: Licensing, Franchising, or Joint-Venturing? Include the criteria you would use in your decision.

    Mr. Jorge Munoz Sales Representatives and Employee Training and Development

    The Director of Sales, Jorge Muñoz, has approached you to recommend training for new sales representatives. In the form of an e-mail, identify the training objectives and the audience analysis that you will recommend to Mr. Muñoz. To help you identify the type of work Sales Representatives perform, check out the Occupati

    Development and selection of HR instruments

    Can you help me get started with this assignment? In a Human Resources Department meeting, one of your co-workers asks you what factors you believe should be considered in the development and selection of instruments for predicting job performance. Using course materials to support your position, briefly write your response.

    Public Relations, advertising and publicity

    What are some differences between advertising and publicity? What are some positive and negative aspects of publicity? Why is it important to have a PR campaign? What is a real world example of a situation that illustrates the importance of a PR campaign?

    Managing Organization Change

    Read the Case Study "The British Airways Swipe Card Debacle" on pages 221 - 223 (FOUND IN ATTACHMENT) of your text. Please respond in bullet form. Review the British Airways Case Study, drawing on each of the perspectives addressed in Chapters 7 and 8. (Organization Development, Sense-making, Change Management, Contingency,

    Supplier & Buyer Power

    In the breakfast cereal industry, companies such as Kellogg, Quaker Oats, and General mills sell their cereals to grocery chains, discount stores and independent grocers. Chain retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, Safeway, Costco, and Albertson's, purchase the majority of breakfast cereal. Of these, Wal-Mart accounts for more

    Operations Management - Forecasting and Aggregate Sales

    8. Tucson Machinery, Ins., manufactures numerically controlled machines, which sell for an average price of $0.5 million each. Sales for these NCM's for the past two years were as follows: Quarter Quantity 2004 I 12 II 18 III 26 IV

    Facilitation in organizations

    If a company is having problems with long or unproductive meetings, how can they get help? What does a facilitator do to help management improve meetings?

    Groups, teams, and personal style

    1) What is a group? How does a group differ from a team? How can a group become a high-performance team? 2) How does your personal style for dealing with conflict impact your Learning Team or work team? 3) What is the relationship between motivation and job satisfaction?

    Managing Organizations

    You have identified the strategies that you want to implement in your start-up business in local shopping mall that specializes in special occasion gift baskets for individual and corporate clients. 1. What safeguards and controls would you and your partners put in place to ensure that the goals identified can be pursued eth

    Operations Management

    Corning Glass Works Case I need assistance to do the following--Use a decision tree to decide the fate of M&E Division of Corning Glass Works, clearly state the problems, show the current work flow design and any improvements that you may recommend. Show flow charts, etc. Clearly identify the problems for the case, ident

    Operations Management - Lucent Technologies, Global Supply Management

    Case Study Analysis: Case Study Analysis:Lucent Technologies, Global Supply Management Read the case study Case Study Analysis: Lucent Technologies, Global Supply Management. Clearly identify the problems from the case, identify the firm's current strategy and current logistics design, then discuss what strategy would make th

    NIMS

    What exactly is the purpose and structure of the NIMS program?

    6 stages of multinationalization

    Google, Inc. Describe how it has become multinational by progressing through 2 or more stages of Jacoby's 6 stages of multinationalization.