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The readings and discussions have suggested that ethics are not determined by individuals in isolation, but through social interaction. People are situated particular beings shaped by culture and relationships.

Write a post discussing how social interaction helps individuals and groups make ethical decisions. Describe how democracy and professionalism structure this social interaction and how open and un-dominated dialogue serves ethical decision-making while it helps to minimize situations of irreconcilable differences.

Please answer the questions below. Use either the Bloomberg terminals located at the
Feliciano School of Business or other reputable sources such as the SEC website,
finance.yahoo.com, Compustat, morningstar.com or Wall Street Journal etc. for the financial
data you use in your answers. You need to provide the references regarding the financial
data you use to support your answers at the end of the finance portion of the term paper.
Questions:
1. Expanding the number of stores in a foreign market, such as the expansion plan
launched by Starbucks in China (announced in 2018), is a major capital budgeting
project. A project of this scale requires coordinated planning across all functions of a
business that you are studying in your Integrated Core classes. Choose and discuss
three items on the income statement and balance sheet (a total of six items) that you
think this new undertaking will effect. Explain why you chose those particular items,
and how the marketing, management and operations decisions of the company will
affect them.
2. Choose and calculate three ratios for Starbucks for the last two years. Make sure to
select ratios that you think that expanding into a new market will effect, and explain
your reasoning. Identify a competitor of Starbucks and contrast these three ratios for
the two companies. Explain why you selected this competitor. Describe how the
decisions made by management, marketing and operations functions of the company
can impact, and hopefully improve, the components of firm operations that these
financial ratios measure.
3. Explain how the financial decisions regarding opening a new store are related to
management, marketing or operations decisions that the company must make (or has
made)?

Write a paper that analyzes and interprets the data collected from the research project.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 2: Apply research methods and psychological research findings.
Interpret statistical findings using common language.
Competency 4: Conduct an ethically appropriate psychological research study.
Describe participants using demographic statistics.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.

You represent a private Management Consulting Firm specializing in ethical and professional conduct, and legal compliance for federal and state government agencies. Your company’s specialty includes technical related issues in STEM fields such as engineering and information technology. Your company has been hired by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to “investigate” the ethical and legal implications from the SANSHANDS contest as evidenced from the State Senate Ethics Commission. In particular, you are tasked to find any ethical misconduct or possible criminal violations that may have occurred during the SANSHANDS project.

THE TASK

Write a semi-formal investigation report based on the situation described up above. Use Figure 6-1 (WRTGR, Page 70) to help you build a framework for your investigation. You should also use/reference the NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers to help you formulate your conclusions and recommendations (Outcomes). Focus on how you can improve the DOT’s “Code of Ethics” so a situation such as the SANSHANDS project doesn’t repeat itself in the future. Also consider your “recommendations” to the DOT on implementing and distributing the new code within the organization. In other words, how will your new code of ethics be embedded within the DOT culture (top down, bottom up, or from the middle) to foster change? You may adopt a made-up company name. You are to assume the identity of an expert investigator and “Engineering Consultant” for your company.

THE FORMAT STYLE

Use the format from the WRTGR example starting on Page 73 of your text. Use “headings” to help break up your text. Include enough “white space” between sections to help the reader focus. Include tables and graphics as you deem necessary. Your single-spaced report should be between 3 – 4 pages in length.

THE REPORT

You should end up with three to four pages, focused, organized, edited. Write and revise with your situation (author, audience, report purpose) in mind. Graphics are not required, but consider using them, and if you do, integrate them smoothly into the report, use labels, and give credit if images are borrowed. Use WRTGR Chapter 12 as your guideline.

THE GRADE

Your report itself will be evaluated on: detail, organization, tone, clarity, document design, mechanics (grammar and spelling), graphics (if used), and, most importantly, how well you suit the report to the specific situation. For example, level of detail depends on what your particular audience needs to know (or doesn’t know already). Make it clear in the report what your author-identity is, who your audience is, and why the report is being written.

Create a 2000 briefing word paper outlining a current network relationship problem(listed below). Describe the problem or opportunity briefly and discuss the constitution of the network (i.e. how many parties – dyad, triad or more?),

a. Problem: Building Supplier Partnerships/Alliances
i. Lack of trust
ii. Lack of investment from the business to build relationship of value for the supplier (Only looking at how suppliers can add value to the business not reciprocal)
iii. Lack of collaboration
iv. Back Door Selling and locking us into single source
v. Not looking at 2nd or 3rd degree perspective for extended support/innovation/expertise/market differentiation/new product development

This briefing paper must provide specific details of the problem/challenge and in particular must discuss the key ‘academic’ or ‘theoretical’ issues. The paper must conclude with some specific ‘deliverables’ you desire from the team engaged in resolving or responding to your issue.
1. Cadence meetings
2. Strategy Supplier meetings
3. Forecasting meeting for new or ongoing business
4. Supplier symposiums
5. Trade show participation
Docs for use are attached.

Assume that your healthcare organization has conducted an RFI, or a fact finding part of the system implementation and helps to select the potential vendors. It has requested information from vendors about their products and services. With the information gathered, the organization has screened the potential vendors and issues the RFP (request for proposal).

Download this RFP for EHR Implementation: UA_RFP-EHR. This is an actual RFP. Review the document and answer the following:

Does the RFP expressly state organization and user needs? If so, what are these? If not, why is the RFP failing to do so?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of this RFP?
How would you change this document?

In a paper, discuss how using a Gantt chart in a project charter can be an effective method in project management.

Effect of different lighting and amount of fertilizer on plant growth.
Instructions:
Before one undertakes a research project one needs to know something about the topic that you wish to explore. This provides you with valuable information on what is known (and hence, what is not known), standard techniques and approaches used in this research, and which laboratories are involved in the research that interests you.
Conduct a review of the literature relevant to your research project and write a paper summarizing what you have learned. The literature sources should largely come from the primary literature (that is professional journals that are peer-reviewed not popular magazines) although secondary sources (such as books and review articles) are acceptable if not overdone. This means your information cannot come from web sites, textbooks, etc. Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com) is a good online search engine that provides recent literature.
Paper Guidelines
1) Remember that all information obtained that is not your own must include a reference citation in the text. We will use the citation format given by the journal, Frontiers in Plant Science.
2) Your paper can be organized into different sections, but as this is not a research data paper, there are no Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion sections. However, your paper will include a section entitled, “Literature Cited” at the end of the paper and again use the format given by Frontiers in Plant Science. Do not list a reference if it is not cited in the paper.
5. Paper length and number of citations will vary. However, you should need to include at least 10 primary references. You will be graded on the thoroughness of your review, your interpretation of the literature, and how well written your paper is. You should attempt to convey your message as clearly and as succinctly as possible.

Assume that your healthcare organization has conducted an RFI, or a fact finding part of the system implementation and helps to select the potential vendors. It has requested information from vendors about their products and services. With the information gathered, the organization has screened the potential vendors and issues the RFP (request for proposal).

Download this RFP for EHR Implementation: UA_RFP-EHR. This is an actual RFP. Review the document and answer the following:

Does the RFP expressly state organization and user needs? If so, what are these? If not, why is the RFP failing to do so?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of this RFP?
How would you change this document?