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Sherman Alexie Interview

 

Sherman Alexie Interview

 

Read the following interview with Sherman Alexie, author of Ten Little Indians.

“Sherman Alexie: Plainspoken Inspiration”

http://arts.gov/NEARTS/2013v4-inspiration-quotient/sherman-alexie

Answer the following questions:

1. Why are desperation and despair common themes of much of Alexie’s work?

2. How does Alexie define “inspiration”?

3. Alexie states, “When you’re a prey animal, you study the horizon.” What does this statement mean? How does it explain his beliefs about inspiration?

4. Describe how Alexie deals with times when his inspiration is “blocked.”

5. Describe Alexie’s method for writing poetry.

6. Explain what Alexie means by this statement: “Almost anything I do as a Native American writer is the first time a Native American writer has done that.”

7. Why is Alexie pleased with the success of his novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian”?

 

Term paper Leadership

 

Term paper Leadership

 

Term Paper (Due 09/23/17 at 12pm PST)

Please select a leadership topic and let me know what you decided and the reason why you choosen by 09/10/17 before 12pm (PST). (Must obtain approval 1st prior to proceeding beyond this point).

Student will submit a paper on the chosen company. The term paper should be in APA format and should be between 1,500 – 2,000 words. (The word count is just a guide). As long as you thoroughly address the points listed in the assignment, you may use as many words as it takes). Please remember to include a Cover page, Abstract, Table of Contents and Reference page. (These will not be counted in the word count).

Your paper should: (1) examine how the company uses leadership to enhance the integration of functions into the overall mission and vision of the organization; (2) perform an in-depth analysis of the internal operations of the company; (3) include your suggestions as to what the company could do to be more successful; (4) discuss management theories that could be utilized to increase the organization’s efficiency and effectiveness. Please remember to include the section headings listed below.

Your paper should include at least seven sources consisting of articles, newspapers, magazines, & on-line sources.

This paper is a business communication. Write it as if the person receiving it is the CEO or other key decision-makers of the organization. This means you do not want to include information that would be unnecessary for this person, such as the history of the organization. Build a compelling argument that the problem is serious enough to require organizational resources to solve. Follow this up with a set of recommendations that will solve the problem. The argument for these recommendations must be supported logically by what you discover in your analysis.

This paper is written in seven sections:

1. Problem Statement

A brief statement of a specific management related problem in a particular organization. Identify the cost, financial and others, of the organization not solving this problem. This is the most important and most difficult section of the paper and provides a foundation for the balance of the paper. Create a compelling argument on behalf of your view of the problem. Conclude this section with a clear question that you wish to answer through this paper. Write this question in the form of an open-ended question rather than one that can be answered with a yes or no. How well you answer this question becomes a key criterion for evaluating each of the next three sections.

2. Concept

Description of a concept chosen from the required readings (course text book) and how you expect this concept to help you successfully complete this analysis. Include a statement about why you believe this concept will help you answer your question. Present your concept in a form that will be useful in framing the analysis. (Do not present all you know about the concept. Demonstrate your knowledge of the concept and its elements by the effective way you present how you will use the concept to answer your question). Reflect in this section as to how this concept will provide a more useful view of the problem by pondering: What questions do you want to ask using the concepts which will help you answer your question? This is the section where journal articles can help you better understand your chosen concept and/or how to use them for analysis. Consider this section as your plan of action – what steps will you take to complete your analysis? This is not the section to provide descriptive information about your organization.

3. Analysis

Systematically ask the concept-framed question developed in the previous section to learn what is being done well and what could be improved. Answer your questions and draw conclusions from your answers. Do not introduce additional concepts in this section. If an additional concept is valuable, integrate it in a revised concept section. End this section with a list of conclusions you have drawn from your analysis. Collectively, these conclusions should directly answer your open-ended question and provide a foundation for your specific, actionable recommendations. In summary, this analysis section should be an execution of your plan developed in your concept section.

4. Recommendations

From what you have learned in your analysis, make recommendations for specific action that would improve the handling of the situation. These should address the problem presented in the first section. A definite thread should be seen from the question to the concept to the analysis to your recommendations. They should be readily identifiable, not buried in the midst of paragraphs. Remember, as a manager, you are expected to be able to understand situations and determine specific action to take. This is where you demonstrate you can identify specific, actionable recommendations. The work in the paper, to this point, should have created a compelling argument on behalf of your recommendations.

5. Evaluation

The fifth section of this paper is the opportunity for you to review your problem-solving process. In what ways did you find your definition of the problem useful in solving it? What were the strength and weaknesses of your choice of concepts? How well were you able to use an integration of the two chosen concepts to frame your analysis? How might you have integrated them differently? Is there another concept or two that might have been equally or more useful? Which ones and why? In what ways were you able to draw new conclusions about the problem through using this process?

6. Learning

The final section to this paper is not a typical conclusion. Do not summarize your paper. That is not necessary. Write a brief statement about what you learned about leadership from completing this assignment.

7. References

All articles, books, and other sources used to prepare your paper should be properly cited using APA guidelines. In the body of the paper, use in-line citations and summarize these sources in a reference list at the end of the paper. Your Team needs to use a minimum of seven references.

Create PowerPoint Presentation slides

8-10 slides

Keep PPT presentation around 8-12 mins long

Your presentation must be professionally laid out:

o Use one style slide throughout your presentation

o Use contrasting colors between your background color and font color

o Keep each slide to five lines and each line to seven words. By having too much text on a page, you risk losing your audience’s focus

o Use font size 10 or greater

o Capitalize all first letters of every word in headers except for articles such as “a”, “an”, or “the”

o Make sure your headers are bold font

o Leave a blank row between the header and your first bullet point

o Maintain consistent formatting across all slides

Below is access to textbook use for this course. Click on the link to access textbook: Practicing Leadership by Shriberg

Note: once the project is assigned to you. I will grant you access to the textbook.

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/user/signin

marketing strategy implementation

Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:

• Determine any strategic partnerships the department store chain could develop that would help promote the higher-ranged-priced products and support the expansion in the west coast.
• Construct a strategy for managing the higher-ranged product brands. Provide a rationale for your strategy.
• Develop a pricing strategy for the higher-ranged products. Provide a rationale for your strategy.
• Generate at least two (2) ideas for sales promotion, advertising, and sale promotion strategies.
• Select and outline a digital strategy. Provide a rationale for your strategy.
• Design a plan to measure marketing performance. Provide a rationale for your strategy.
• Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Performance Appraisal at Telespazio: Aligning Strategic Goals to People Development – Case Study

 

Performance Appraisal at Telespazio: Aligning Strategic Goals to People Development – Case Study

 

Details:

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

Read the Performance Appraisal at Telespazio: Aligning Strategic Goals to People Development case study. , discuss the assessment of employees within the Telespazio
organization. Develop a written description (750 words) discussing current evaluation methods, how the organization uses the appraisal assessments to identify employee
roles, the current appraisal systems, performance ratings, and Telespazio’s practices for performing appraisal interviews. decide what changes or strategies could be
implemented to Telespazio’s current performance appraisal practices. Include an appraisal tool that would benefit the company and an effective method for performing an
appraisal interview. Describe the benefits of using both the appraisal tool and appraisal interview in the performance appraisal practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

 

 

Discuss the concept of perceived value and its importance to consumer behaviour and marketing.

1. Discuss the concept of perceived value and its importance to consumer behaviour and marketing. Discuss the theory and then give practical examples of how customers perceive various brands and how this impacts on their behaviour.

2. To evaluate an organization’s Strategic Business Units (SBU), the Boston Consulting Group developed a portfolio performance framework.
3. Segmentation, targeting and positioning are interrelated activities which are important to achieving a successful Marketing Mix. Discuss these concepts in theory and give practical examples of how they can be applied to one industry of your choice. Examples of an industry you might choose: fashion for men, or personal care products (shampoo, shavers etc.), or pet products, or toys, or vehicles, or furniture, or fashion for women, or financial services, or beverages, or baby products, or snack foods or another industry.

4. Marketing decision makers in a firm must constantly monitor competitors’ activities – their products, prices, distribution, and promotional effort.

How equilibrium is reached in a foreign exchange market

1. A firm has been operating successfully in a particular country though foreign investment. It is reviewing its strategy in that country. It has the following choices: i) expand through partnership, ii) expand by going alone without partner, or iii) withdraw from the country. Which strategy would you recommend and why?

2. In attempting to choose a country for investment, firm ABC decides, to use a matrix for country selection. It decides to look at the following factors: 1-  economics 2-political risk, 3- cost of labor, 3- tax structure, and 4- country similarity to home country. On the scale of 1 to 10 (1 being very unattractive and10 being very attractive) management has ranked each factor and has decided importance of each one (again 1 unimportant and 10 very important) for the company. Below is table showing management’s assessment. Company only chooses a location if its weighted average is 7 or higher. Should the company ABC select country 1 or country 2?

	Ranking Country 1	Ranking Country 2	Weight
Economic growth	8	6	9
Political Stability	8	4	7
Low Labor Cost	8	6	5
Attractive Tax structure	6	7	6
Similarity to home country	7	9	8

3. Explain why is it important for a firm to develop its competitive strategy (low cost or differentiation) before selecting location for its international operation.

4. Discuss how equilibrium is reached in a foreign exchange market if a country has balance of payment deficit in the case of fixed and floating (flexible) exchange rate system

5. What would happen to capital flow between two countries if the real interest rate (rate adjusted for inflation) between the two countries is not equal and why?

6. Consider a country that has high economic growth, low inflation, and strong intellectual property right. In other words the country is highly attractive. A U.S multinational that is operating there realizes that it does not have strong competitive position. What would be your recommendation to this multinational?

7. Firm XYZ has identified a major opportunity in country A for business activity. However, it is concern that the opportunity may slip away if they do not respond to this opportunity. After evaluating various choices the two possibilities emerge as strategically attractive: acquiring a business in that country or building the business ground up (Greenfield development). Which one do you recommend and why?

8. Discuss role of demand in Porter’s diamond.

9. Explain impact of international trade on international wage structure of low wage countries using factor price equalization theory.

10. Compare benefits and draw backs of full economic integration (Economic Union) compare to Customs Union.

11. In the context of Vernon’s product life cycle theory of trade and investment, explain why technology companies would eventually manufacture off-shore.

Explain technology for recruiting and hiring

Explain Technology for recruiting and hiring
How should the increased use of technology in the salesperson’s job affecting companies’ recruiting and hiring practices? What are some benefits of having a sales force that is sophisticated in its use of technology?

Why is mobile ordering and payment having such a big impact

Article- Big Pizza Chains Use Web Ordering To Slice Out Bigger Market Share By JULIE JARGON

1. What factors are contributing to the decline in the number of independent pizza restaurants?

2. Why is mobile ordering and payment having such a big impact on consumer behavior?

3. What strategies would you recommend to independent pizza restaurants to help them recapture market share from national chains?

Explain important information about the marketing mix

Explain Important information about The Marketing Mix: Promotion Strategies

Assume that you are the newly hired promotion manager for Burberry and that the VP of Marketing wants you to prepare a report on how the designer’s/brand’s product/good is currently marketed and to begin to think about what changes, if any, you might want to see made in the promotion of that designer’s/brand’s products/goods.

What promotion makes the designer’s/brand’s products different from its competitors?
Defend your position.

In terms of product/good marketing, how would you change the promotion mix?
Defend your position.

In terms of product/good marketing, how would you change the advertising mix?
Defend your position.

The Situation

You have to learn the promotion channels your designer/brand currently uses vis a vis the promotion channels used by competitors and recommend changes in that mix.

You have to learn the advertising media your designer/brand currently uses vis a vis the advertising media used by competitors and recommend changes in that mix.

In preparing your CASE4, ensure that you demonstrate your learning of the marketing concepts and frameworks for analysis outlined in the modular learning objectives by using and referencing the background and case material.

1. Identify factors that influence the promotional mix of a product/service.

2. Evaluate the promotional strategy for a brand.

In CASE4, as stated in the background readings, since the promotion mix (among other activities) includes advertising, personal selling, and sale promotion AND the advertising mix includes print media, TV, radio, and newer forms of communication such as e-media; your job is to consider changes at two levels: changes in promotion and changes in advertising. Defend your positions on any and all of the issues you tackle.

Explain the concept of price escalation

Global Pricing

Price escalation is a major pricing problem for the international marketer. Explain the concept of price escalation, and discuss two factors that could contribute to making the price of a product much higher in an international market than in the domestic market. Suggest and explain one method an international marketer could use to counteract price escalation. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

International Negotiations

Describe the kinds of challenges that are likely to occur during international business negotiations. If you were setting up an international negotiation team for your company, what would be your most important considerations? Explain your reasoning. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.