MGMT 303 Week 6 Case Study Employee Motivation

MGMT 303 Week 6 Case Study Motivating Employees

1. According to Maslow’s hierarchy, which basic needs does the Patagonia culture meet? What would it be like to work at Patagonia? (Hint: Go to Patagonia’s website and find the section on jobs.) What’s your assessment of the company’s work environment?

1. Use the expectancy theory and/or the equity theory of motivation to explain how feeling underpaid might affect the work of a Patagonia associate and what a manager can do to increase the employee’s motivation.

1. What do you think might be Patagonia’s biggest challenge in keeping employees motivated? If you were managing a team of Patagonia employees in the retail stores, how would you keep them motivated?

ACT-360 Week 6 Module Change in Accounting Principles

ACT-360 Week 6 Module Change in Accounting Principles

Respond to the following. Submit journal entries in a table in MS Word and written segments in the same Word document. Do not submit two separate documents, as only one document can be accepted. For written answers, please make sure your responses are well written, formatted per the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements and have proper citations, if applicable.

Garner Company began operations on January 1, 2015, and uses the average cost method of pricing inventory. Management is contemplating a change in inventory methods for 2018. The following information is available for the years 2015–2017.

Net Income Computed Using
Average Cost Method		FIFO Method		LIFO Method
2015	$15,000		$20,000		$12,000
2016	18,000		24,000		14,000
2017	20,000		27,000		17,000

On January 1, 2017, Garner issued 10-year, $200,000 face value, 6% bonds, at par. Each $1,000 bond is convertible
into 30 shares of Garner common stock. The company has had 10,000 common shares outstanding throughout its life. None of the bonds have been exercised as of the end of 2018. (Ignore tax effects.)
Click the link from this assignment on the Week 6 Assignments page to download an Excel Template containing the spreadsheet you will need for this exercise.

1. Using the spreadsheet Journal Entries, prepare the journal entry necessary to record a change from the average cost method to the FIFO method in 2018.
2. Assume Garner Company used the LIFO method instead of the average cost method during the years 2015–2017. In 2018, Garner changed to the FIFO method. Using the spreadsheet Journal Entries, prepare the journal entry necessary to record the change in accounting principle.
3. Assume Garner had the accounting change described in (2); Garner’s income in 2018 was $30,000. Compute basic and diluted earnings per share for Garner Company for 2018. Show how income and EPS will be reported for 2018 and 2017.

BUS 670 Focus of the Final Paper

BUS 670 Focus of the Final Paper

Focus of the Final Paper
Prepare an 11 to 15 page paper (excluding title page and reference page) that analyzes a legal/ethical issue or situation relating to a current, previous, or potential future work environment. Use at least 10 scholarly sources that are suitable for research in a graduate-level course.
Your paper must include the following:
1. A description of a business situation that presents a legal and ethical issue. The business situation must be from prior, current, or anticipated future employment experiences, or a current event. The description of the business situation must not exceed two pages.
2. Analysis of the ethical concerns raised by the situation.
a. Apply at least two different ethical theories to the situation to support at least two different outcomes.
b. The paper must identify which ethical outlook as applied to this particular situation will result in the best legal outcome for the business.
3. Application of the relevant area(s) of law that has (have) been addressed in this course to the situation (e.g., constitutional law, contracts, anti-trust law, securities regulations, employment law, environmental law, crimes, or torts) and a discussion of the applicable law as it applies to the situation identified.
a. The application of law must be accurate and thorough.
b. The discussion of the different applicable law suggested by the situation being examined must reflect a thorough understanding of the relevant legal analysis.
4. A recommendation to reduce liability exposure and improve the ethical climate or the overall ethics of the situation.
Writing the Final Paper
The Final Paper:
1. Must be 11 to 15 double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
2. Must include a title page with the following:
a. Title of paper
b. Student’s name
c. Course name and number
d. Instructor’s name
e. Date submitted
3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement which identifies the focus of the paper.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
6. Must use at least ten scholarly sources.
7. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
8. Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Assignment 2: Planning and Playing a Game

Assignment 2: Planning and Playing a Game

Assignment 2: Planning and Playing a Game
Objectives:

• Learn how individuals contribute to teamwork
• Experience some of the features of group work and teamwork
• Understand what managers and organizational developers do to transform
• groups into teams
• Articulate the tangible benefits (both quantitative and qualitative) of
• high-performing teams
• Finish with an interest in learning more about these concepts and
• techniques to apply what you learn

Background: For this assignment, you will plan and play a game with your family or friends, or at work based on the idea of the classic prisoner’s dilemma. If you have had a class on game theory, you will be well aware of this concept. It forms the basis of many TV game shows. The prisoner’s dilemma was illustrated in Truman Capote’s book, “In Cold Blood” concerning the 1959 robbery of a Kansas farmhouse by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who murdered their victims in order to eliminate the witnesses. After the men were captured, the police interrogated them separately. To get a confession, the police offered the men a reduced sentence for cooperating. Failure to cooperate would result in a death penalty charge for both.
In the prisoner’s dilemma, if both parties cooperate they are mildly punished; if one betrays another, one is severely punished while the other goes free; and if both betray one-another, both are moderately punished. Can you think of settings where you work in which the organizational structure has created a prisoner’s dilemma? Competition can (but does not necessarily) bring out conflict.
In game theory, there are non-cooperative and cooperative games. A non-cooperative zero-sum game has a definite winner and loser. For one to win, one must lose. We often think of politicking as an element of that. A cooperative game is where everyone who plays is better off for having played than not having played the game. That is not to say that everyone is equally well off, but simply better off than they were before playing. Hence, even in a cooperative game, some people will likely benefit more than others.
Instructions

• Review in your textbook, the Big Five personality dimensions, pp. 82–84, and then consider the 3.1 Personality Insights inventory, pp. 89–91
• Select four or five friends, coworkers, or family members and have them take the personality inventory
• Plan and play a game with the participants
• Write a 5-10 page paper that addresses the assignment questions below

As you plan and play your game, you will negotiate the type of game you want to play and your role in it. Strive to determine some personal characteristics of the game participants a head of time, or by observing them. Consider how the personal characteristics of the individuals in the game manifest themselves in the informal roles they assume during the planning and execution of the game.
For the purpose of this assignment, you will want both a cooperative and a competitive element. To do that, you can form several groups to compete and cooperate with each other, or you can have individuals in one group compete and cooperate. You can use rewards and/or punishments to create the competitive/cooperative motivations.



Evaluation: When groups are formed, we want to consider how organizational structures, processes, and situations impact on group motivation, politics, and goals achievement. Alignment of all of these structural, personal, and interpersonal components will help to ensure that the group will meld into a team. A defining feature of teamwork (versus group work) is cooperation!
One of the factors that affect cooperation is conflict. Conflict is defined as when someone perceives that his/her interests are opposed or negatively impacted by another. Conflict can at times produce positive results depending on the basis for the conflict and how the conflict is handled (functional conflict). The worst kind of dysfunctional conflict produces betrayal.
Note that team performance can be observed in how well the team coordinates their interdependencies, works efficiently, communicates, and accomplishes their mission. Consequently, as you implement your game, assess your players based on these factors and the informal roles they play.
After you have played the game, reflect on the personality assessments your participants took, and then consider how they planned and played the game.
Write a (5- 10) page analysis to address the following questions:

1. How well did the personality assessments reflect in the behaviors participants displayed during the game?
2. What do these assessments tell us about how we perceive ourselves versus how others perceive us?
3. What informal roles did participants assume during the game, and were they different from the planning portion from the playing portion of the exercise?
4. What did I learn about myself? For example, did the exercise show that you have characteristic ways of relating to others that are distinctive, or similar, to those the others? Did the exercise show that in a particular type of situation you acted in a particular way, or that when others acted in a particular way, you felt happy or anxious or angry, etc.?
5. What did I learn about someone else in the exercise? Did you see something new about them, such as “they seemed more capable than I imagined,” or “inattentive when things were stressful?”
6. In playing your game, what could you have done to increase cooperative behaviors?
7. Based on your game experience, what are some of the key factors involved in gaining cooperation from people in a business setting?
8. How would you go about getting cooperation from a “difficult” co-worker? Give an example or scenario.

POL 300 Assignment 2 Current Events and U.S. Diplomacy

POL 300 Assignment 2 Current Events and U.S. Diplomacy


This paper will be a revised and expanded version of the first research paper. Based on your instructor’s feedback, you will first revise the first paper.
Write three-to-four (3-4) new pages that address the following:
Define presidential doctrine and summarize the regional or global events during the Cold War leading up to the formation of the presidential doctrine you wrote about in Assignment 1.
Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War relationship that existed between the country you selected and the U.S. before the presidential doctrine was announced.
Describe the relationship that currently exists between the U.S. and the country you selected in section (2) above.
Describe the effect that the presidential doctrine has had on regional or global affairs since it was announced during the Cold War.
Assess whether or not the presidential doctrine you wrote about in Assignment 1 doctrine had had the intended effect of altering the behavior of the country you selected in section (2) above since the doctrine was first announced.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
To help you understand this assignment further, the following description and examples may be useful.
Step 1: Define doctrine and identify why a president would want to announce one.
A doctrine is an ideological platform that a president uses to advance a policy towards a country or region in order to accomplish foreign policy goals for the United States, so you will need to expand on this theme.
Refer back to Assignment 1, and build on whatever doctrine you wrote about then. Say, for example, you selected the Truman Doctrine. Therefore, this is the only thing you will write about in Assignment 2 step 1.
Step 2: Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War relationship that existed between it and the U.S.
Before the presidential doctrine was announced. In the case of Truman, you would pick either the Soviet Union, Greece, or Iran, since all three were affected by his doctrine. If you are writing about the Eisenhower Doctrine, you would choose Lebanon or Egypt; if you wrote about the Kennedy Doctrine, you would have write about Cuba or Vietnam; if your wrote about the Nixon Doctrine, you would choose either Vietnam, Saudi Arabia or Iran; if you chose Carter, you would select either Iran or Afghanistan; and if you wrote about the Reagan Doctrine, you would select Nicaragua, Angola, Russia or Afghanistan (although there were several others).
Step 3: Describe what effect the presidential doctrine you chose has had on regional or global affairs since it was announced during the Cold War.
That is, how did the doctrine change the status quo regionally or globally after it was announced by the U.S.? What happened in Western Europe after the Truman Doctrine was announced? What happened in the Middle East after the Eisenhower Doctrine was announced? What happened with Cuba or Vietnam after Kennedy offered up his doctrine of flexible response? What happened in Southeast Asia or the Persian Gulf after the Nixon Doctrine went in effect? What happened in the Middle East after the Carter Doctrine was announced? What happened in Central America or Africa or the Middle East after Reagan announced his doctrine?
Step 4: Refer back to the country you selected in step two and describe the relationship that currently exists between the U.S. and that country.
How has the relationship changed between the U.S. and that country since the doctrine was announced?
Step 5: Evaluate whether or not the presidential doctrine had had the intended effect of altering the behavior of the one country you selected in section (2) above since the doctrine was first announced.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Identify the cultural, economic, and political context of information resources, and interpret information in light of that context.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in international problems.
Write clearly and concisely about international problems using proper writing mechanics.

POL 300 Assignment 1 The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy

POL 300 Assignment 1 The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy

Assignment 1: The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy

Due Week 5 and worth 135 points
Select a president from the table, “Presidents and Their ‘Doctrines,’” in Roskin, Chapter 4. Then write a 3-5 page paper on the doctrine that president used according to Roskin. Your research must include at least four (4) credible sources, apart from your textbook. Your paper must address the following:
Summarize a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office.
Explicate the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
Describe the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries.
Assess, in conclusion, the advantages and disadvantages of the particular doctrine that was followed.
Cite at least four (4) reputable sources in addition to the textbook, not including Wikipedia, encyclopedias, or dictionaries.
Your assignment must:
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. 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 assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Identify the cultural, economic, and political context of information resources, and interpret information in light of that context.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in international problems.
Write clearly and concisely about international problems using proper writing mechanics.
Assignment 1: The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Summarize a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely summarized a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office.
Insufficiently summarized a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office.
Partially summarized a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office.
Satisfactorily summarized a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office.
Thoroughly summarized a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office.
2. Explicate the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely explicated the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
Insufficiently explicated the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
Partially explicated the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
Satisfactorily explicated the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
Thoroughly explicated the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
3. Describe the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely described the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries.
Insufficiently described the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries.
Partially described the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries.
Satisfactorily described the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries.
Thoroughly described the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries.
4. Assess, in conclusion, the advantages and disadvantages of the particular doctrine that was followed.
Weight: 25%

Finance Assignment – Alternative for Managing Risk

Finance Assignment – Alternative for Managing Risk

HowRu, a private card business and its subsidiary, have a 14% share of the greeting card market. The card business is subject to seasonal cycles, with sales being highest during the holiday season. For this assignment, please complete the following:

• What steps can this company take to diversify its portfolio?
• Define diversification and its necessity in risk management.
• Discuss at least 5 steps to diversify the card business.
• Please give at least 6 suggestions of how and where funds can be allocated for new investments.

Grading Criteria
30%	Define diversification and its necessity in risk management.
40%	Discuss steps to diversify the card business.
30%	Suggest how and where funds can be allocated for new investment