Select an organization the team is familiar with and which has a global presence. (Apple is the company)

Management in the team’s organization has recognized the effect of changes in the real-world competitive environment and government policies on other industries and anticipates similar events occurring in their industry, so they ask you for a report considering the following points.

Create a 12- to 16-slide PowerPoint® presentation in which you describe how each of the following are or potentially will affect your industry or one with which you are familiar:

• The impact of new companies entering the market, mergers, globalization on the market structure, price elasticity of demand, pricing, and the sustainability of profits
• The impact of current and expected government policies and regulations, including taxes and regulations in place to address issues related to externalities
• The effect of global competition on the decisions made by management with regards to change in labor demand, supply, relations with unions, and rules and regulations in your chosen industry

Recommend how the organization you chose may respond to each of the previous points.

Only ANSWER THE QUESTION:    Apple is the company

Globalization on the market structure, price elasticity of demand, pricing and sustainability of profits (3 slides)

For this discussion, you will first read the following articles and watch the following video.

Article: How Google Motivates Their Employees With Rewards and Perks

(http://hubpages.com/business/How-Google-Motivates-their-Employees-with-Rewards-and-Perks)

Employers such as Google are going to great lengths to provide extrinsic and intrinsic motivators to keep their employees engaged, create a motivating culture, and attract the best talent.

Article: How Good Are Your Motivation Skills?

(https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_67.htm)

Read this article and take the self-assessment on key factors for building a motivated team. The results of your self-assessment can assist you with the discussion question for this module and provide a good overview on your motivation skills. This article supplements the textbook reading for this module.

Article: Power Is the Great Motivator

(https://hbr.org/2003/01/power-is-the-great-motivator/ar/1)

This article, from the Harvard Business Review, describes the different ways managers may be motivated and how these motivations align with an organization’s goals. This article supplements the textbook reading for this module. As you read the article, consider the following:

What are the motivational factors for a manager from a personal and organizational level?

What motivational techniques can a manager use to manage and lead?

Consider which of the three motivational categories you might fall into.

Video: The Puzzle of Motivation

(http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation)

This TED Talk by Dan Pink challenges the traditional system of rewards and incentives and offers a different viewpoint that managers should consider related to intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. This video supplements the textbook reading for this module.

Next, imagine that you are a manager of a start-up company with limited cash and resources. In your initial post, describe the types of motivators that you might employ as you develop your culture and attract good talent to your company. Explain why you have selected these motivators.

Your efforts with MLD Hospital have paid off. The corporation has hired SMP and your staff to provide supply chain management consulting services. Your team has begun analyzing the existing processes, and you have been tasked with developing the purchasing policies and procedures with focus on ethics in the supply chain.

Remember: From a supply chain management perspective, a company produces services or products. Clearly, MLD Hospital produces a service. This means that sourcing analysis must consider the raw materials necessary for producing this service (e.g., bandages, needles, blood, and medical equipment).

Using course materials and other resources, develop a paper for the hospital management consisting of the following sections:

1. Discuss the importance of identifying the best suppliers by explaining the impact of source selection on supply chain performance.
2. In conjunction with number 1, discuss whether the hospital will insource or outsource its sourcing needs.
3. Develop a high-level ethics policy for the purchasing department at MLD Hospital, identifying general responsibilities and prohibited behaviors

Needs to be 3-4 pages body length APA format 3 references

Unit VI Essay

Provide an example from your own experience where you acted in accordance with one or more of the patterns of irrational or unethical decision making. Explain the egocentrism or sociocentrism, as well as any pathological tendencies of mind, involved in your thought process. How could you have applied the keys to sound decision making to approach the situation more rationally?

If you prefer not to discuss your own decision making experience, you may instead discuss someone you know, a historical figure, or a fictional character.

Your response should be at least one page in length, and in Times New Roman 12pt. font. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format. The title and reference page do not count towards the one-page minimum.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words 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.

Briefly discuss the economic, political, educational, family, and marital systems of a country of your choice. Include a response to the following questions in your discussion:

• If your company was to do business in your chosen country, what kind of social hierarchies and social interactions should you be aware of?
• What kind of management style would you use to be most effective given the cultural attributes of the country?
• How would you overcome the barriers to communication?
• Do you agree with the saying, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” when it comes to doing business with another country?

In a five-page essay, you will explore the mind–body connection in chronic illness. In your paper, you will address the following issues:

What impact does chronic illness have on an individual and their families? According to your textbook, why are addictions considered a chronic illness?

How do you preserve relationships during and after treatment of a substance use disorder, since it is a chronic illness? Describe the long-term treatment process for the substance user and the support systems needed to remain on the spiritual journey of recovery.

Each Paper should include:

What is the purpose of theory and how does this differ from a conjecture or opinion? Compare scientific inquiry with naive inquiry (conjecture or opinion) commenting particularly on the differences in the quality of data collection and analysis, the way conclusions are drawn, and the precision of theory. Be sure to draw upon the assigned readings and other authoritative sources in providing support for your response, and to

Learning to uncover, analyze, and reflect upon the influence of the seminal works in your field is an essential part of becoming a scholar-practitioner, and it involves developing both process skills and content knowledge. Consider the following:

• What strategies did you use to identify and locate the seminal works related to your inquiry topic? Which strategy seemed to work best? Why?
• How confident are you that you have uncovered the key works that have been influential in shaping the pursuit of knowledge on this topic? Given that the seminal work on your topic may have been conducted more than 20 years ago, how relevant do you think this work may be today?
• Based on your reading of some of the seminal works, what methodological or philosophic paradigms seem to have been guiding this early work?
• How have the methodological approaches or paradigms used in this early research and underlying philosophic orientations influenced subsequent research and theory in your field?

One of the things that DBA practitioner-scholars do is keep up with the scholarly literature in their field. In which scholarly journals are you most likely to find articles and research in your field of specialization?

• List 5–7 scholarly journals in your field of specialization.
• How are the journals different?
• Is there a ranking to the journals (for instance most well known to least well known).
• Could you see yourself publishing in these journals?

Be sure to support your response by citing, discussing, and referencing the assigned readings and by drawing examples from scholarly articles you found in your library search. Follow APA guidelines.