Assignment instructions:1. Read “No Tips, Please” on page 293 of Skills Set with Readings, third edition. (NOTE: “No Tips, Please” is also posted on our course shell in the folder “Assigned Readings.”)2. Choose a writing topic.3. Write a preliminary essay outline for your chosen topic. (Use the essay template provided.)Preliminary Essay Outline format:Thesis Statement:· The thesis statement conta...
Challenges faced by a Small Restaurant BusinessWrite a business report in response to the provided case study. While most of the material can be found in both the case and study notes, you will be required to do further research in the topic area to broaden your knowledge. The topic in the case study relates to Business Information Systems, Business Processes and how organisations use Business Information Systems to achieve their strategic goa...
Frustration with Ontario High Schools' Preparedness for CollegeScenario 1: Need for better courses in Ontario high schools. You are frustrated that Ontario High schools do not properly prepare students for successful careers and post-secondary education. You are a part-time employee at Seneca College and you have been asked to share your recommendation to better prepare students for College by creating new High School courses in Ontario in your ...
Organisational ContextYou should consider a range of views and seek to integrate them into a coherent argument. This may be informed by good quality journalistic sources but, more importantly, you must also show considerable evidence of using good quality ‘peer reviewed’ journal articles. The key topics which you should include in your report on the effectiveness of work and organisation at Tesla are: 1. organisational context ...
Case 1 (Ch.9) Isabella Lopez is the northern area sales manager for Kudos Kitchen and Recreation, a large retailer of household appliances and consumer electronics with stores across North America. Kudos is losing market share to online retailers, such as Nile, and needs to extract more profit from the sales that it does make. One advantage that Kudos has over Nile is the personal contact between Kudos’ sales staff and Kudos’ costu...
Problem and AnalysisTask: Leadership comes with many challenges. You need to motivate, inspire and encourage your teams to work toward common goals. This assignment offers you an opportunity to apply what you have been learning about leadership to a complex business situation. It is designed to help you synthesize the leadership practices we have studied so far into informed recommendations that address the challenges presented in the case. Fo...
TaskTask: Research Presentation, Presenting Research on a Social Issue or Historical Context For this presentation, you will build off the analysis of a short story you did from Project 3. You will examine it alongside research relating to its historical context or a social issue inherent in the piece. For text examples, see the arguments developed about "The Yellow Wallpaper" from our reading. (A Paper that works to Examine Social Issues MLM &...
Business Plan TemplateFor your culminating activity, you will come up with an idea for a small business that you could potentially launch. To make this a bit easier, you can ignore the current strangeness surrounding business during the pandemic. (However, if you have a business idea specifically connected to what’s happening right now, that’s fine.) This assignment comprises 3 parts: 1. A simplified version of a business plan...
Question: For your online test you will have to answer questions based on one case study. The case study you will have to answer will be selected from six different case studies below. The questions have not been included. You are asked to read and revise the theory that you think can be used to answer possible questions about each of these six case studies. Use your lecture notes, core reading and seminar activities to help you do this. Case ...
Question: The coursework assignment requires students to submit a 2500 word report by the above deadline. The basis for the report involves students being allocated a country in which they need to provide an assessment of the business environment prevailing in that country. Another important feature of the report is that it should be focused around a particular business organisation. Therefore, the report should essentially provide an analysis...
Economic Impact and Stability of Starbucks in USAStarbucks, the dominant specialty-coffee brand in North America, must respond to recent market research indicating that the company is not meeting customer expectations in terms of service. To increase customer satisfaction, the company is debating a plan that would increase the amount of labor in its stores and theoretically increase speed of service. However, the impact of the plan (which wo...
Option 1Choose one of the following options: Option 1 Preparation Quickly think of a brand you used to buy or a store where you used to shop that no longer exists. Do any of these names ring a bell?: Blockbuster, Radio Shack, Wachovia Bank, Circuit City? Businesses like these fade from memory soon after they close as the business environment replaces them with bigger, better, or newer products, goods, or services. What is it that causes fo...
Question: It is required that the report relates to an FDI. Thus, an example of a relevant scenario is a report based around the issues that would need to be considered by Waitrose if they were considering opening new stores in the United States. On the contrary, if the allocated country is Sweden, companies like IKEA or Volvo will not be valid options for the report. Although it is not necessary to provide great detail on the current operati...
Question: Scenario: Information technology (IT) and its applications to businesses in recent times is a necessity to survive and succeed. IT plays a crucial role in all aspects of modern life. IT increases productivity of a company with efficiency saving effort, time and money. Task: Select an organisation in the retail sector, for example Tesco, Sports Direct etc and conduct desk and/or Internet research on the organisation, together with ...
The purpose of the assignment is to develop skills associated with selecting and applying methods for data collection, stationary and time series data analysis and hypothesis testing. Data collection Identify the sources that will offer the information that you need to answer the research question (journals, books, internet resources, government documents, people, etc). 1. What data do you plan to acquire to answer yo...