BUS 499 – Assignment 2: External and Internal Environments

Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University's online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
5. Give your opinion on the corporation's greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.  Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
6. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
7. Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
8. 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; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
• Identify the five forces of competition.
• Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
• Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
• Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

Difference between Leadership and Managers

Write a two (2) pages paper discribing the difference between Leadership and Managers.

Follow APA style and references.

Constitutional Law II Asgn 7

Start by reading and following these instructions:  

1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus. 

 2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources.  Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources.  Choose your sources carefully. 

 3. Consider the discussion and the any insights you gained from it. 

 4. Create your Assignment submission using at least three scholarly references .  Cite your sources using APA style as required. Check your spelling, 500-600 words minimum, all work will be ran through Turn It In.

Assignment: 

1. If you are a government employee, can your boss instruct you to post election signs in your yard to support the mayoral candidate of his choosing or risk losing your job if you don’t? Explain your answer in detail.  

2. What must a police officer establish in order to successfully challenge a police department regulation as a violation of substantive due process? Do you agree with this process? Why or why not?  

 3.Identify and describe three kinds of discrimination claims that can be brought under Title VII. Use an example to explain each.  

4. Do you think police departments should be able to set a maximum weight for officers in order for them to be physically capable of performing their job? Why or why not? If so, what should the maximum weight be for men and women? Should muscle vs. fat be a factor? What about height? Why did you pick the numbers you did? If you think police departments shouldn’t be able to, why do you think this?

Constitutional Law II Asgn 6

1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus.  

2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources.  Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources.  Choose your sources carefully.  

3. Consider the discussion and the any insights you gained from it.  

4. Create your Assignment submission using at least three scholarly references .  Cite your sources using APA style as required. Check your spelling. 500-600 word minimum

 Assignment:  1.Give some examples of the punishments that were in place during the drafting and ratification of the American Constitution. How did these punishments change after the Constitution was put in place?   

2. Contrast the crimes for which the death penalty is made mandatory against the three classes of offenders who are not death-penalty eligible. How would you define "irreparable corruption" from Montgomery v. Louisiana 136 S.Ct. 718 (2016)? Why do you think these distinctions have been put into law? Do you agree with them? Why or why not?   

3. Research the case that marked the beginning of the Supreme Court's capital punishment sentencing reforms and explain what this case held.

  4. Make a compelling argument for "humane punishment" with the understanding that it has not always been practiced. Include the present constitutionally acceptable forms of punishment that must be carried out in a humane fashion. Include how the United States’ punishment compares to the punishment in several Middle Eastern or African countries.

Kinesic Interviewing

Start by reading and following these instructions:  

1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus.  

2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources.  Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources.  Choose your sources carefully. 

 3. Consider the discussion and the any insights you gained from it.  

4. Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling all work will be checked by Turn It In.

 Assignment:  Provide 500 – 600 words for each of the prompts below  –Essay Questions: 

1. Describe a brief profile of the mentally disturbed subject that enables the interrogator to classify the subject as possibly being a psychotic. 

2. Write a brief treatment on schizophrenia (as mental illness and as a fractured or shattered personality) and use the four main categories of schizophrenic characteristics in your essay. 

3. There is an extensive list of brain diseases in your text. Select one of them. Go on the Internet and research the expected behaviors resulting from the damage they can do to the brain and write two paragraphs describing the behaviors of this brain disease, then relate how an interrogator would identify the disease during interaction with the subject. 

4. Describe the action the interrogator should take once he or she has been alerted by the subject's kinesic behavior to a possible risk of suicide.

Normal Distributions

 How does Normal distributions play a significant role in managerial decision-making ?

Medical Law And Ethics

Discussion Board VI

Healthcare professionals, perhaps more than any other profession, have a key role in infection control under Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines. Poor techniques or poor safety processes on our part could result in disease spreading rapidly through our community. Our own staff members and their family members could become ill in the process. Discuss healthcare professionals' key role in infection control, and describe specific processes and practices they must follow in the interest of community health.

Define A Root Cause Analysis And When It Used.

Review the case at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, “Getting to the Root of The Matter” at https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm/case/98/getting-to-the-root-of-the-matter   

Prepare a 4-page paper that responds to the following: 

1. Define a root cause analysis and when it is used. 

2. In the case study identify the incident and explain the problem that might trigger a root cause analysis. 

3. Do you agree that the problem should not be investigated? Explain why or why not? 

4. Discusses the goals and limitations of root cause analysis; 

5.Outline the steps to conduct a root cause analysis.

•Limit your responses to a maximum of four pages, not including title and reference list pages. •Be sure to utilize at least 3-4 scholarly references to support your discussions. •Be sure to properly cite your references within the text of your assignment and listed at the end. •Be sure to apply critical thinking skills to the write-up of your assignment, especially in regard to #3 above.

Business Law II

Background:  You are the head teller in National Bank.  Another teller came to you today for advice about several problems presented by some of National’s account holders.  

Problem 1:  Worthy Autos sold a 2011 Subaru to Ann’s Used Cars for $1000.  Ann’s paid for the Subaru with a check made out to Worthy Autos printed on a legal-sized manila folder.  Ann’s claimed that the check was printed on the folder because this made it easier to transfer the title and other sales documents.  The folder on which Ann’s printed the check contained a bill of sale for the transaction from seller to buyer.

Worthy Autos called for advice from National Bank about whether the check printed on a folder is a valid negotiable instrument.

A.  Email Worthy Autos explaining whether the manila folder check constitutes a valid negotiable instrument under the UCC, and explain why or why not.

Problem 2: 

Scenario: National's client, Nadine, is the owner of a restaurant.

A restaurant customer gave Nadine's a check payable to the restaurant for a meal purchased at the restaurant.

A. Write an explanation to Nadine regarding whether her restaurant is a Holder in Due Course (HDC)? Why or why not?

Problem 3.

Scenario:  Shortly after you responded to the question from Worthy Autos, another bank account holder, Physical Therapy Associates (PTA), emailed you with a problem.

PTA treated a patient, Jan Loretto, five times for a shoulder injury.  Following the treatment sessions, PTA sent Jan a bill for $500.

Jan sent PTA the following instrument to pay for the therapy services. The instrument read exactly as follows (including the blank line), in part:

“Sixty days after date, I, or my husband, promises to pay to the order of _________$500.” 

Jan later refused to pay on the note.  PTA claims that this note is bearer paper and as such is payable to PTA as the holder of the note.  Jan claims the note is order paper and therefore payable only to a named payee.

Business Forms And Governance

The legal form an entity or individual takes is a decision that must be considered from a risk and liability perspective, not simply one of ease of formation or cost. Form can impact the entities ability to grow and, in some circumstances, its ability to survive. As you consider this reality and approach this assignment, consider not only the form the business takes but also the way it will be governed. Remember the law requires business leaders conduct their business ethically and within the boundaries of the law.    

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues:  Ch. 14, 15, 16 and 17; Week 2 Electronic Reserve Readings; Legal Source database located in the Week 2 Electronic Reserve Readings

Scenario: You are sole proprietor presenting to a group of investors where you are seeking 20 million dollars to raise capital for your manufacturing company.

Prepare a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for your potential investors including both parts:

Part I:

Choose the one form of organization best suited for your manufacturing company and explain why:

• Partnership
• Limited Liability Partnership
• Limited Liability Company (including single member LLC)
• S Corporation
• Franchise
• Corporation

Outline for the investors which form of organization (from the list of six under the first bullet) would be the least suited and why?

Part II:

Address the following for the investors regarding the corporate form of organization only (from the list of six under the first bullet):

• Summarize for investors what legal liabilities could arise for the Director or officer of that board?
• Explain how you could minimize those liabilities for the Director or officer of that board?

Cite a minimum of three scholarly references. One scholarly reference must be from the University Library. 

Format your presentation consistent with APA Guidelines