Communication on a major project is suffering because several team members are in the habit of writing cryptic or careless instant messages that often force recipients to engage in several rounds of follow-up messaging to figure out what the sender had in mind. As project leader, you’ve spoken with these team members about the need to write clearer messages, but they respond that careful planning and writing defeats the whole purpose of instant messaging. How should you handle this situation?
Discuss how entrepreneurs sell themselves and their business ideas to secure funding to grow their businesses.
Imagine that you are a salesperson for a software company and a portion of your compensation is based on your Net Promoter Score. Is it ethical for you to tell your customers that you need their positive comments to earn your salary? Why or why not?
Assume you sell landscaping to businesses. Once you have arranged for the landscaping to be installed, are there any other opportunities for follow-up?
· What would you do to follow up during the spring and summer?
· What would you do to follow up during the fall and winter?
You are a patrol officer in a state that prohibits the selling, giving, or sharing of any tobacco products with anyone younger than 18 years of age. Similarly, there is also a prohibition of selling, giving, or sharing any alcohol or alcoholic beverages with anyone younger than 21 years of age.
On your day off, you and several members of your shift have been invited to your sergeant’s home for a cookout. While standing around with the sergeant and a couple of your shift members, the sergeant’s daughter asks her father if he has any cigarettes. He hands her a pack of cigarettes out of his shirt pocket. Later, you notice the daughter and one of her friends sitting off to the side and both of them are drinking beers from cans. You know from a prior introduction that the daughter is 16 years old. Her friend looks to be the same age.
Analyze this situation and prepare a report that covers the following points:
Discuss all of your options in this scenario. Show how each option has a basis in an ethical system.
Provide background information from your home state regarding the behaviors described in the scenario. What do your state’s laws say about providing tobacco or alcohol to a minor?
Identify the utilitarian and deontological ethical philosophies of each option.
Describe what your response would be. Explain how your response would hold up if questioned by your captain.
1. According to the article, what is myth and how does it function as a naturalizing agent?
2. What is a sign?What is its relation to myth?
3. If advertising “is not an attempted sale of products – evidence shows that consumers are able to resist ‘advertising in the imperative’(12.) – but a ‘clear expression of a culture’ and cultural beliefs” then what does the iPod advert express about current culture?
4. What does the iPod advert presented in the article “sell”?
Barthes’ Mythologies, Baudrillard and iPod
You are the manager of a Starbucks here in Miami and want to remind your employees to clean up after themselves in the break room. There was recently an infestation of cockroaches. The building has since been fumigated but you still
require the cooperation of staff to prevent a re-infestation. State the purpose of the memo, your reason(s) for sending it (i.e. the kind of behavior you have noticed) and what actions you want taken.
Recommended Organization – as with our previous memos, this is the format to follow:
Although this is a negative message memo, it is your responsibility to make it easy for the employees to accept the news when they read it and in fact, the company reputation depends on it. “Bad news” can be received by the recipient(s) in a positive way if the message is carefully worded; although this scenario is not necessarily “bad” still it can be perceived as “bad news” to some. So, in this case it is important to remember that the format of your memo tells your employees a lot about your sensitivity and professionalism. Since you do not want to upset any employees unnecessarily, you should also be conscious of your wording when explaining how to address the situation. Pay particular attention to your memo’s margins, line spacing, font type and size, and placement of memo parts described below:
Header: Begin your memo with the four standard memo heads (Date, To, From, Subject).
Some important aspects to remember for your memo:
Keep it brief and in the same memo format as the previous memo and be sure to include your reasons for the decision. Fully explain why the change is occurring and what the current situation is.
Add a positive spin to the situation. Outline the proposed revisions to the holiday event and the immediate benefits they provide.
Be sure to validate any anticipated concerns employees may have about this situation. Explain the greater benefit in the long-term this decision provides and conclude your memo by indicating how the reader may contact you if he/she has any questions.
Suppose you make monthly payments of $1,200 into a savings account for 4 years as shown below. The money in the account will be used to fund a decreasing annual uniform-gradient series that begins at the end of the 7th year and ends at the end of the 16th year. What is the value of the gradient (G) that makes the gradient series equivalent to the uniform flow of payments of $1,200 per month for 4 years? Assume a nominal interest rate of 12% compounded monthly. Your calculations must include the use of a gradient factor. Show all applicable equations and all calculations.
A man entered into a lease for an apartment with a landlord. The lease stated that the term was month-to-month. After one month, the man while taking a shower, noticed the drywall crumbling. Under the drywall was a build up of harmful mold. Rather than informing the landlord, the man simply sealed off the bathroom area. He continued to reside in the apartment two monthswithout paying rent. When pressed for the rent, the man said that he was withholding the rent because the apartment was uninhabitable. Further, the man went to the city health and licensing department and complained about hazardous mold condition which consituted a code violations that the landlord failed to correct. After an inspection, the agency cited the landlord for the presence of mold, and ordered him to clear up the violation. After the inspection, the landlord brought an eviction action against the man and obtained a judgment against him for eviction. Will the eviction order hold up under the stated facts? Was the man right to withhold the rent? What arguments, if any, may the landlord raise to avoid paying the code violations?
Under the circumstances, what is the most likely ruling of the court?
