Did you believe the retailer is sacrificing revenue for you the consumers’ benefit?

This week’s reading is attached. Assignment needs to done with an understanding pertaining to the readindings and lecture for the week.Ethics and Pricing People feel better when they think they are getting a great bargain when they shop. Knowing this, some retailer’s markup items above the traditional retail price and then offer a 60 percent discount. If they had simply discounted the normal retail price by 20 percent, the resulting “sale price” would have been the same. One retailer says that he is just making shoppers happy that they got a great deal when he inflates the retail price before discounting. Significantly marking up prices in order to offer “deep discounts” is not an unethical pricing practice per se, but it may be considered misleading advertising. The retailer is not really reducing its profits as a result of offering the sale price, even though a 60 percent discount implies a financial sacrifice on the part of the retailer for the benefit of the customer. The situation described above could, perhaps, be considered a sales promotion that uses deception or manipulation. 1.As a consumer think of a place you like to shop at because of the so-called great bargains, coupons, cash back and or discounts they offer. 2.From your shopping experience explain if the discounts you received on your purchase you feel was a bargain deal or do you feel you overpaid. 3.Did you believe the retailer is sacrificing revenue for you the consumers’ benefit? 4.Why or Why not? 5.Do you find their sales practices to be ethical and beneficial to the consumer or perhaps unethical and misleading? The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded: •Write between 500 – 750 words (approximately 2 – 3 pages) using Microsoft Word. •Attempt APA style, see example below. •Use font size 12 and 1” margins. •Include cover page and reference page. •At least 60% of your paper must be original content/writing. •No more than 40% of your content/information may come from references. •Use at least two references from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the two reference requirement. •Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must be identified in the paper and listed on a reference page. Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, online newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, etc. are not acceptable.

In your opinion, what are the top three causes of distracted driving?

Fleet Safety Unit IJournal entry: In your opinion, what are the top three causes of distracted driving? Is it possible to not be a distracted driver? How can you improve in your driving practices, personally or at work, to avoid distracted driving? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.Question 1 Which of the following is NOT one of the safety procedures that are necessary for drivers to comply with within OSHA guidelines? Drivers are required to maintain accurate driving records always. All employees who operate a fleet/company vehicle must hold a general valid driver’s license to operate any vehicle as necessary. Drivers are required to follow safety procedures when operating a fleet vehicle both on and off the job. Any driver may not use a hand-held device, such as a cell phone, while operating a company vehicle.Question 2 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) provides unsafe driving guidelines for motor carrier companies to train employees, as the companies are accountable for ensuring the quality of employees’ performances. Which of the following regulations have been established to train employee driver safety? Use of hand-held mobile devices; applicable operating rules; prohibition against texting; use of seat belts Applicable operating rules; ability to text while driving; good faith initiatives; use of seat belts Hazardous materials containment; process improvements; non-fatigued driving; operational management Terminal operations, use of hand-held mobile devices; driving rules; waiving of pre-trip and post-trip inspectionsQuestion 3 Which of the following federal agencies does NOT have regulations that accurately address fleet safety exposures? Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Federal Aviation Administration Department of Transportation Defense Commissary AgencyQuestion 4 Which of the following provides a guideline for all motor carrier companies in identifying the correct safety compliance policies to use within their fleets? Safety Management Processes Vehicle Maintenance Activities Motor Carrier Identification Report Incident Reporting ProcessesQuestion 5 All companies, in addition to the public, can access the new Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations published within the: Safety and Fitness Electronic Records. Operating authority and compliance documents. Federal Register. National Safety Council Administration.Question 6 Utilizing waterways is an innovative way to transport goods in a timely manner, not only for local products but also international goods. Identify three factors that contribute to marine-related transportation issues, and discuss possible solutions to these issues that companies can utilize to proactively support safety. Your response should be at least 200 words in length.Question 7 Companies across the United States should be committed to promoting safety practices throughout the workplace in addition to effectively providing training to all fleet drivers to ensure professional driving and safety procedures. Research and suggest communication methods and training that companies can utilize to disseminate information to employees in reinforcing a commitment to safety throughout an organization. Your response should be at least 200 words in length.Question 8 Hours of Service Regulations are an important part of proactive fleet safety management. Describe how these regulations are important to fleet safety and how they help prevent possible accidents while on the job. Your response should be at least 75 words in length.Question 9 Determine the number one cause of workplace fatalities, and describe which safety procedures can help prevent these types of incidents in the future. Your response should be at least 75 words in length.Question 10 Identify and explain three instances of when the Department of Transportation (DOT) preempts Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations regarding transportation regulations. Your response should be at least 75 words in length.

List user access policies based on your research, and place them into a table with an introduction explaining the following: who, what, when, why.

User Domain PoliciesDiscussionRead the following ScenarioYou work for a large, private health care organization that has server, mainframe, and RSA user access. Your organization requires identification of the types of user access policies provided to its employees. Sean, your manager, just came into your office at 6:00 p.m. on Friday and asks you to write a report detailing these user access policies. He needs you to research a generic template and use that as a starting point from which to move forward. He wants you to complete this task over the weekend as he has just been given a boatload of tasks in the management meeting which ended a few minutes ago. He is counting on you to take some of the load off his shoulders. The report is due to senior management next week.Discussion requirementsLook for existing policy templates and examples from organizations of similar type. List user access policies based on your research, and place them into a table with an introduction explaining the following: who, what, when, why. Be sure to add a rationale for your selection. Reference your research

Determine the types of inventories these companies currently manage and describe their essential inventory characteristics.

Assignment 2: Inventory Management Research two (2) manufacturing or two (2) service companies that manage inventory and complete this assignment.Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:Determine the types of inventories these companies currently manage and describe their essential inventory characteristics.Analyze how each of their goods and service design concepts are integrated. Evaluate the role their inventory plays in the company’s performance, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.Compare and contrast the four (4) different types of layouts found with each company; explain the importance of the layouts to the company’s manufacturing or service operations.Determine at least two (2) metrics to evaluate supply chain performance of the companies; suggest improvements to the design and operations of their supply chains based on those metrics.Suggest ways to improve the inventory management for each of the companies without affecting operations and the customer benefit package. Provide a rationale to support the suggestion.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

analyze and contrast the Introduction and Literature Review of these articles on Friedman.

A synthesis helps individuals to identify and understand the main points of each selected source and how they relate to each other. Please analyze and contrast the Introduction and Literature Review of these articles on Friedman. Please provide a synthesis discussing his economic impact. All Articles can be found in EBSCO.· Ashford, R. (2010). Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom: A Binary Economic Critique. Journal of Economic Issues (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 44(2), 533–541. https://doi.org/10.2753/JEI0021-3624440226· Hetzel, R. L. (2007). The Contributions of Milton Friedman to Economics. Economic Quarterly (10697225), 93(1), 1–30. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=25023257&site=ehost-live&authtype=uid&user=grantham&password=Research1951!· Mulligan, T. (1986). A Critique of Milton Friedman’s Essay “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” Journal of Business Ethics, 5(4), 265–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383091· Popov, G. (1990). The Rebellion Against Keynesianism: Milton Friedman. Problems of Economics, 33(5), 99. https://doi.org/10.2753/PET1061-1991330599

What were the main causes of the difficulties with the project at Aux Bons Soins?

Question and info below.What were the main causes of the difficulties with the project at Aux Bons Soins?What were the key elements that led to the success of the project at Aux Bons Soins?In Module 4 SLP, we return our focus from the specifics of information technologies and the formulation of ideal strategies to the wider world of real corporate behavior. Our emphasis now shifts to the actual implementation of information technologies and the sociotechnical dynamics that implementation not infrequently founders upon. No technical solution—however brilliantly designed or competently backstopped or elegantly integrated with other corporate plans—is any better than its implementation at the lowest levels of the system to which it is addressed. All too frequently, plans and solutions are developed in a vacuum apart from the context within which they are to be deployed and used. It is hard to overestimate the quantity of corporate resources that have been squandered on poor IT implementations over the years—to say that it would exceed the GNP of many third world countries would probably not be an exaggeration. Implementation is by no means an all-or-nothing proposition; even though the full measure of system changes may not be as successful as desired, there can often be positive local results, particularly if the implementation process is oriented toward learning as well as doing, or even more so, doing unto others. The one sure way to implementation failure is to assume that all knowledge resides in IT management—or even in management generally. Success is inevitably based on user involvement in varying degrees, generally more rather than less.All modules in the course draw on everything that you have learned in the program; however, this module most specifically draws on your courses in computer-human interaction, systems development, and project management as well as on your general introductory courses. Implementation is a drawn-out process requiring effective collaboration among many different kinds of specialists and generalists, extended over time and across space, and requiring explicit attention to both the social and technical systems of the organizational units affected. Above all, implementation must be sensitive to feedback, resilient enough to deal with changing circumstances, personnel, and goals, and focused much more on the users than on the technologists. Effective implementation always embraces the fundamental sociotechnical criterion of “incompletion”—that is, the idea that no change process is ever “finished” as such, but that change is an ever-flowing river in which one set of adjustments is merely the prelude to another set. Sociotechnical life in organizations is a soap opera, not a novel. There is never a “happily ever after,” just an ever-evolving and constantly reconfiguring cast of players and problems. Sometimes things get better; sometimes they get worse—but they will always be different.Videos of Interest… Something to Think About…Andrew McAfee discusses an array of revolutionary technologies that are replacing routine jobs with machines that can speak, understand, translate, and hear. McAfee believes that this kind of innovation will lead to creating new jobs that involve more than enhancing creativity. He refers to this cycle of innovation as “The New Machine Age.” Think in terms how technology-driven changes could impact the ERP implementation for Aux Bons Soins’ case study below.TED Ideas Worth Spreading. (2012, September). Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs? Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs.htmlFor the last assignment, we will be introducing a new case, the real-world story of an ERP implementation for Aux Bons Soins. This case details the rather frustrating experiences that the company encountered in trying to implement an integrated management system after an acquisition and merger, and the range of circumstances that affected the process. Not every implementation is this sticky, but in varying ways most partake of greater or lesser parts of this experience. Please note that there is nothing particularly pathological about the experience described here, despite the frustrations experienced. There are no great villains, but neither are there any great heroes; implementation seldom turns up either. This may seem a rather inconclusive note on which to conclude both this course and your IT management program, but it is how things are. For better or worse, this is what real IT management is all about—the good, the bad, the ugly, and above all the reasonably acceptable. Over the next decades, the profession is likely to evolve far beyond any ways that can be reasonably forecast today; after all, 20 years ago there was not any such thing as the Internet, and today’s information environment was ranked science fiction. You are entering the profession at a most exciting and dynamic time; always remember how much you do not know, but also remember that you do know how to learn.Please read the following parts of the case:Bernier, C., Roy, V., & Brunelle, E. (2006) An ERP Story: Background (A). International Journal of Case Studies in Management. 4(1):March.Bernier, C., Roy, V., & Brunelle, E. (2006) An ERP Story: Troubles Ahead (C). International Journal of Case Studies in Management. 4(1):March.Bernier, C., Roy, V., & Brunelle, E. (2006) An ERP Story: Epilogue (D). International Journal of Case Studies in Management. 4(1):March.Use information from the course background readings as well as any good quality resource you can find. Please cite all sources and provide a reference list (use APA format) at the end of your paper.Your answer to the following will be assessed:What were the main causes of the difficulties with the project at Aux Bons Soins?What were the key elements that led to the success of the project at Aux Bons Soins?

How well do these illustrate how popular culture shapes our identity throuh prescribed codes based on who what we are (e.g. race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.)?

How well do these illustrate how popular culture shapes our identity throuh prescribed codes based on who what we are (e.g. race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.)?You should use three of the sources that I posted here:1) Cooper, Brittney. “Hollywood’s Post-Racial mirage: How Pop Culture Got Gentrified.” Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Cultures for Writers, edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, 9th edition, Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2018, pp. 506-509.2) Devor, Aaron. “Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes.” Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Cultures for Writers, edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, 9th edition, Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2018, pp. 474-479. 3) Jennings, kevin. “American Dreams.” Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Cultures for Writers, edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, 9th edition, Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2018, pp. 492-496. 4) Blum, Deborah, “The Gender Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take Over?”, Sign of Life in the USA, edited by Sonia Maasik et. al., 9th edition, Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2018, pp. 481-482. 5) Turow, Joseph. “The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry Is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth”. Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, edited by sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, 9th Edition, bedford/st. Martain’s, 2018, pp. 394-401).

Identify the firm and explain the product characteristics of goods sold by that company. Explain how those product characteristics can impact inventory control decisions in warehouse operations.

Throughout this course, we have discussed various aspects of the logistics network, including warehousing, transportation, and distribution considerations. We have also looked at challenges in transportation, end-to-end requirements from manufactured goods to customer needs, and considerations for transportation planning and execution strategies within supply chain management systems. Finally, we reviewed reverse logistics. For this final project, you will utilize the knowledge that you have gained on these subjects and complete the following:Choose a global manufacturing firm and write a 7 to 10- page’s analyzing the transportation, warehousing, and distribution activities of that firm. In that paper, you will address the following topics:Identify the firm and explain the product characteristics of goods sold by that company. Explain how those product characteristics can impact inventory control decisions in warehouse operations.Identify how the product packaging and handling considerations will influence the distribution process as your chosen firm’s products move throughout the distribution chain. Analyze how government regulations might impact the distribution of goods in the domestic and global market where your chosen firm operates.Identify the intermodal freight network that would be utilized in your firm’s distribution network. Examine the role that logistics providers play regarding transportation planning and execution strategies for your chosen firm.Analyze how impact reverse logistics impacts operations within the supply chain system for your chosen firm. You must use at least four scholarly sources. Ensure that your thesis statement is aligned with the requirements for this assignment and clearly lets your reader know what you are going to discuss in your paper.Your 7-10 page paper must be double-spaced using 12 pt. Times New Roman font.You should use APA formatted headings to organize your paper and to present main topics.Please take note of the items below as you select external/scholarly sources for this assignment.

outline steps to take when an employee reports clicking on?a website that appeared in an email.

Online interactions pose a threat to all servers. We expose ourselves to these threats while using social networking, web browsing, and email. Here’s where you can test your risk mitigation skills. Playbooks typically cover a section related to threats and defenses of online interactions. Create your second playbook in Microsoft Word or Word Compatible, where you outline steps to take when an employee reports clicking on?a website that appeared in an email. Separate playbook and needs to have a cover page and references.Include the following information in this section of your playbook: Description of 2 threats this interaction presents to the company List of step-by-step instructions on how to mitigate each interaction Remember, numbered or bulleted steps or guidelines make the document easy for others to follow under potential stressful situations. Paragraphs can be used to help support the steps or guidelines. Cite at least 2 resources to support your assignment. Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

What are the consequences for businesses in the United States that engage in false advertising?

Paper:In week 5 of this course you were asked to identify a business that interests you. Throughout this course you completed several assignments pertaining to your identified business. The signature assignment will pull together these assignments and you will submit a paper that addresses the following:1. Explain your business (150 words minimum).2. You decide to engage in price discrimination. Decide which type of price discrimination would work best for your product/service. Be specific and consider the real applicability of your choice. Explain in detail! (300 words minimum).3. Select one item from your business and calculate the Economic Order Quantity. When determining the numbers for the variables needed to perform the calculation, be realistic. Research what the actual numbers could be and provide and explanation/rationale for choosing the numbers. (150 words minimum). Perform the calculation and explain what the result means to your business.4. Once your chosen business is more established, you decide to get involved in a joint venture with a foreign firm. The contract for the joint venture gives you the right to buy the project in three years. You worry that the foreign firm has been bribing government officials to obtain an economic advantage over other companies. Do you have any reason to be concerned about the possible bribery if you purchase the venture in three years? Why or why not? Provide an overview of the country’s (your choice) business practices and the consequences of engaging in questionable business practices. (300 words minimum).5. What are the consequences for businesses in the United States that engage in false advertising? Which agencies provide oversight? How can you avoid false advertising for your chosen business? What would be the economic impact on your business if you were caught engaging in false advertising? (300 words minimum).6. Why would you be interested in protecting your chosen business from being copied by others’? Would you want to patent your idea or would you keep it a trade secret? Explain your choice in detail! (250 words minimum)The total word count for this paper is 1450 words which is approximately 4.5 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt. The cover page and the reference page is extra, so your paper should be a total of 6.5 pages minimum.

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