For Component #2 of the portfolio project, you will read through the worksheets containing a series of questions revolving around roles in social change ecosystems. Answer questions you feel compelled to. You DO NOT have to complete every question in the packet nor do you have to turn the packet in with your responses. 

The assignment is to write 2-3 paragraphs explaining your reactions and opinions towards this activity. Do you find it useful? Why or why not? What are some key takeaways? Any improvements needed? etc….

Twenty years ago, Johnny killed his wife in a fit of rage when he came home one night and saw her in bed with another man. Based on the mandatory sentencing guidelines at the time of his conviction, Johnny was sentenced to life in prison without any opportunity for parole.

For the past 20 years, Johnny has been a model prisoner. He finished his college degree and worked as a cook in the prison kitchen. One day, a fight in the mess hall between two other prisoners resulted in the death of one prisoner and several injuries to prison guards. At the time, Johnny was working in the kitchen and took no role in the fight.

After the fight, the warden of the prison imposed a series of punishments. First, the warden ordered a 24-hour lockdown of the prison. This lockdown lasted 10 days, during which prisoners were not allowed out of their cells.

Second, the warden ordered that prisoners be deprived of all treats including adult magazines, reading materials, caffeinated sodas, candy, and desserts; visiting privileges for all prisoners were halted for one year.

Finally, and perhaps worst, the warden decided to isolate the most violent prisoners for an extended period. Because of Johnnys murder conviction, the warden ordered Johnny to serve six months in solitary confinement.

After doing his time in solitary, Johnny filed an internal complaint with the warden. In his complaint, Johnny argued that the wardens punitive measures violated his Eighth Amendment rights. The warden denied Johnnys complaint and Johnny then filed a complaint in the federal court.

***please represent the warden, who is most likely represented by the government.  Show, using case law and other legal arguments, how the wardens measures did not constitute violations of the Eighth Amendment. 

***Please note that the Week 7 Content section contains review of the case law relevant to this discussion so please be sure to review that material. ***

Have fun with this! Be strong advocates for your clients but be sure to use the law to support your position, not simply opinions.

Listed below are the instructions, question, and tables. The tables must be translated in your findings. Bible perspectives must be included and articles that are attached as well as others must be included. 

This is due: 10am on Thursday June 23, 2022 (Eastern Time Zone). NO LATE WORK!!

 PLEASE READ ALL ATTACHED MATERIAL BELOW!

Introduction

Walmart Inc. is a global retailer that operates a chain of grocery, supermarket, big-box, department, discount stores, and community stores. The company owns and operates wholesale and retail stores worldwide in countries including, but not limited to, the United States ,Canada, China, Chile, Mexico, and India. As of January 2021, the company owned 4,580 retail units and 762 leased retail units in the United States and 1,898 company-owned retail units, and 4,203 retail units internationally (MarketLine Company Profile: Walmart Inc, 2022). The size of Walmart Inc. today is a function of its market positioning and marketing strategy. One of the significant strategies in the early stages of the company’s development was to grow sustainably at low prices and low costs. As a result, the company entered the market with a low-price positioning, offering categories such as grocery and consumables, health and wellness, technology, office and entertainment, hardlines, apparel, and home. In addition, the company has also chosen to reduce unnecessary packaging of items and the use of organic ingredients as means that can lead to sustainability (Spicer, & Hyatt, 2017). These are all major competitive advantages for Walmart. Lower prices and equal or even more types of items compared to similar retailers have undoubtedly opened up the retail goods market for the exact purpose of Walmart and succeeded in developing a large number of loyal users. However, the sustainable strategy of selling more at lower prices is not without drawbacks. The particular reason for the circumstance is that there is often a conflict between sustainable development and cost reduction. This actively demonstrates that, with the difficulty of reducing the cost, Walmart’s low priceadvantage has become a stumbling block to the company’s operating income. This paper will discuss the positive and negative effects of Walmart’s low pricestrategy on the company’s operational performance.

Argued position

Against position

Walmart operates in highly competitive retail industry where the factors that determine the level of competition within the industry include customer service and product, quality and price. Wal-Mart has achieved a stage of success in the competition with its low prices and high-cost performance. Nevertheless, with the development of technology, e-retailers came into the picture. Walmart’s competitors are not limited to the traditional retail stores in each region; the growing number of online retailers such as Amazon poses a threat to Wal-Mart that cannot be ignored. E-retailers have more flexible costs and better inventory flow than traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, which has undoubtedly led to increased price competition in the retail industry.

Low prices in retail stores are a major competitive advantage that Wal-Mart prides itself on. However, with a sustainable approach, the need to ensure that the materials used in products are safe, environmentally friendly and of high quality, limited cost savings can be made from the products themselves. This fact actively demonstrates that Walmart has had to reduce expenses outside of the product, such as labour, in order to be able to achieve low costs. The most common means Walmart uses to save money is to save money on the cost of labour. Walmart tends to hire part-time and hourly workers in order to reduce the wages they have to pay. Walmart pays its employees less than the minimum wage set by the ILO (Balser, 2007). In addition, Walmart created an organizational culture that was frantic to control its costs, thus squeezing its employees (Balser, 2007). With a new leader in place, Walmart allocated more energy to technology integration, which made the store more efficient. However, the focus on employees was more reduced, and when employees tried to get more pay and sought union support to defend their rights, they received threats of losing their jobs. When employees tried to sign union agreements, they were told that if the union won, the store would close, and the employees would be fired, as was the case in Quebec, Canada, when Walmart employees joined the UFCW union and the store was closed (Balser, 2007). The core values of the company changed as his actions were not only exploitative but in some cases illegal (Fishman, 2006). The thin margin strategy makes it difficult for Walmart to get a breakthrough in profitability. Once it loses the high volume boost, the meager margins from low product prices will not be enough to support Walmart to maintain the profitability level of the past. With the recent impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, the cost of fuel and labour have increased significantly, both of which are important cost-saving factors for Walmart Inc. According to the Wall Street Journal (2022), Walmart’s quarterly earnings fell 30 percent and single-day trading fell 10 percent, the largest single-day change since 2018.

Conclusion

References

Balser, D. B. (2007). The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Wal-Marts Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52(1), 161164. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.52.1.161

Fishman, C. 2006. The Wal-Mart effect. New York: Penguin

MarketLine Company Profile: Walmart Inc. (2022). In Walmart Inc MarketLine Company Profile (pp. 188).

Spicer, A., & Hyatt, D. (2017). Walmarts Emergent Low-Cost Sustainable Product Strategy. California Management Review, 59(2), 116141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125617695287

The Wall Street Journal. WMT | Walmart Inc.. annual income statement – WSJ.. Retrieved June 14, 2022, from https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/WMT/financials/annual/income-statement

1 – Discuss moral responsibility and moral standards

2- Discuss the term ” categorical imperative” What is meant by the term ” work ethic”?

3-Explain and discuss the terms “utility” and “utilitarism.”

4-List and discuss two moral issues faced by international corporations

5-Explain what is meant by the term “mixed economy”. What is “alienation”? According to Marx, what causes alienation?

6-Explain any two of the following terms IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Oligopolistic competition : Price fixing :

Perfect competition :

7-Explain any two of the following terms IN YOUR OWN WORDS Acid rain: 

Ecological ethics: 

External cost 

8-What does the term “due care” means.

9-Explain any two of the following terms IN YOUR OWN WORDS. 

Commercial advertising Duty not to coerce: 

Duty not to misrepresent :

10-Explain the following terms IN YOUR OWN WORDS 

Glass ceiling 

Institutionalized discrimination : 

Comparable pay :

11-What are the employee’s duties to his/hers employer?

Do a review of the literature, which attempts to sketch a wider pattern of similar scholarly activities, discussing prior studies and fitting the present topic into a broader scheme. It further defines the parameters of the topic and produces its contextual framework. Perhaps most importantly, it denotes the significant points in the literature concerning your topic.

Read the

Use the to develop a professional response in the form of a letter to the supervisor in the scenario. The letter should have two main components:

 Identify the qualities of a successful leader and compare them to your own leadership characteristics.

Make recommendations on how to lead and foster teamwork.

You may use the to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Additional Requirements

• Your letter should be 34 double-spaced pages in length.
• Apply current APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
• Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently.
• Use correct grammar and mechanics.
• Support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 23 current scholarly or professional sources.
• Proofread your writing.

In Weeks 4, 7, and 9 of the course, you will participate in clinical discussions called grand rounds. In one of these three weeks, you will be a presenter as well as help facilitate the online discussion; in the others you will be an active discussion participant. When it is your week to present, you will create a Focused SOAP note and a short didactic (teaching) video presenting a real (but de-identified) complex patient case from your practicum experience. 

After reading the following chapters, answer the questions below. Please, give your answers in your own words, do not copy and paste from the textbook or another source.
Chapter 10: Leadership
1. In what way does a first-level supervisor play an important leadership role in the organization? Give two examples.
2. Which of the influence tactics described in this chapter do you think is the least ethical? Explain your reasoning.
3. Research Report Instructions:
1)Go to www.bloomberg.com. (2) Type “leadership” in the “Search box” at the top. Find three interesting articles to you and summarize (3 pages) their content based on how the subject explained in each article is seen in your current company, or a company of your choice. This research report must be sent in APA style (Cover page, abstract, Main body (question 1, 2 and research report findings), Conclusions, References), and it should be part of the same assignment’s document.

Please, check carefully the originality of your submission. If there are similarities with external sources your work will be graded only based on the original portions of your responses, the portions taken from external sources will not be considered for grading.

PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTION BELOW, ZERO PLAGIARISM, FIVE REFERENCES NOT MORE THAN FIVE YEARS, SEE RUBRIC/TEMPLATE AND CASE STUDY ATTACHED, PLEASE FOLLOW THE 7TH APA WRITING STYLE/FORMAT 

In Weeks 4, 7, and 9 of the course, you will participate in clinical discussions called grand rounds. In one of these three weeks, you will be a presenter as well as help facilitate the online discussion; in the others you will be an active discussion participant. When it is your week to present, you will create a Focused SOAP note and a short didactic (teaching) video presenting a real (but de-identified) complex patient case from your practicum experience.

You should have received an assignment from your Instructor letting you know which week of the course you are assigned to present.