Compare Hofstede’s cultural dimensions for the countries of Luxembourg, India, and Japan.

About ArcelorMittal

ArcelorMittal is the world’s leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and an industrial footprint in 18 countries.  Guided by a philosophy to produce safe, sustainable steel, ArcelorMittal is the leading supplier of quality steel in the major global steel markets including automotive, construction, household appliances and packaging, with world-class research and development and outstanding distribution networks (Arcelormittal, n.d.).

Through the core values of sustainability, quality and leadership, ArcelorMittal operates responsibly with respect to the health, safety and well being of their employees, contractors and the communities in which they operate (Arcelormittal, n.d.). 

For ArcelorMittal, steel is the fabric of life, as it is at the heart of the modern world from railways to cars and washing machines. ArcelorMittal is actively researching and producing steel-based technologies and solutions that make many of the products and components people use in their everyday lives more energy efficient (Arcelormittal, n.d.).   

The merger of India’s Mittal Steel and Luxembourg’s Arcelor in 2006 produced the largest steel company in the world, Arcelor Mittal.  In 2019, ArcelorMittal announced the acquisition of Essar Steel India Limited (ESIL) and simultaneously established a joint venture with Nippon Steel Corporation (Nippon Steel) called ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Limited (Kanter, Timmons, & Giridharadas, 2006) .

Reference:

Arcelormittal (n.d.)  retrieved from https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/about-us

Kanter J.,  Timmons, T., & Giridharadas, A, (June 25, 2006) Arcelor agrees to Mittal takeover retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/business/worldbusiness/25iht-steel.html?auth=link-dismiss-google1tap

Instructions: 

1. Read the article Arcelor agrees to Mittal Takeover.
2. Read the article ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel complete acquisition of Essar Steel.
3. Peruse ArcelorMittal’s corporate website for additional information. 
4. Peruse Hofstede’s Insights for additional information.
5. Write a 5-6 page paper following APA Style. For questions on APA Style, go to the APA Style Page.
6. In your paper, address the following questions:
   1. Compare Hofstede’s cultural dimensions for the countries of Luxembourg, India, and Japan.
   2. Discuss Arcelor’s motivation to be acquired byMittal and Mittal’s motivation to merge with Arcelor.
   3. Discuss the two major challenges that threatened the Arcelor/Mittal merger. Which of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions might be at the core of these challenges?
   4. Discuss at least two reasons why ArcelorMittal acquired Essar Steel.
   5. Discuss the rationale for ArcelorMittal’s joint venture with Nippon Steel.
   6. If you were a manager at ArcelorMittal, what cultural challenges might emerge in your attempts to integrate a Christian worldview in the workplace? 
7. Include an introduction paragraph, a conclusion paragraph, APA level one headings, and a minimum of five (5) properly cited sources in your paper.

Explain how your data collection process is consistent and reliable

Week 4 Research Proposal Project: Design (Sampling, Reliability, Validity)

Design

For this section of your research proposal assignment, you will focus on the sampling, reliability, and validity of your research proposal. This section will include information on sampling, reliability, and validity.

The following components should be addressed in your paper this week:

Information on your sample

· Sampling basic information (age, gender, criteria, etc.)

· Sample size

· Explain why your sample is appropriate for your study

Reliability

· Explain how your data collection process is consistent and reliable

· Explain why your measurement tool is reliable

Validity

· Explain how you will ensure you have a valid sample

· Explain how you tested the validity of your measurement tool

APA formatting, references, and citations are required.

Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader?

Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.

How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. In this Discussion, you will complete Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment will identify your personal strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. Through this assessment, you will discover your top five themes—which you can reflect upon and use to leverage your talents for optimal success and examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.

Assessment

Post a description of your results from the StrengthsFinder assessment. Then, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment. Be specific. (Assessment results has been attached)

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What lessons can today’s correctional professionals learn from the historical punishment practices covered in this chapter?

Discussion Chapter 2: Some people believe the history of corrections shows a continuous movement toward more-humane treatment of convicted people as society in general has progressed. Do you agree? Why or why not?

Discussion Chapter 3: What lessons can today’s correctional professionals learn from the historical punishment practices covered in this chapter? Which practices should we not reinstate? Which practices should we consider adopting?

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WITH THE SECOND-HIGHEST INCARCERATION RATE IN THE UNITED STATES, Oklahoma has been at the forefront of the nation’s “tough-on-crime” agenda. The state’s elevated incarceration rate is now 78 percent higher than the national average and is projected to grow another 25 percent in the coming decade. Oklahoma already spends half a billion dollars annually on corrections, and the projected growth will more than double the state’s yearly operating budget for prisons and cost more than $1.2 billion in new construction, on top of that. The state is now changing course. Seeking a Better Return on Investment, a 21-member, bipartisan and multi-sector select group, was appointed by Governor Mary Fallin to “develop comprehensive criminal justice and corrections reform policy recommendations designed to alleviate prison overcrowding and reduce Oklahoma’s incarceration rate while improving public safety.”1 Oklahoma is not alone in wanting a more cost-effective corrections system. Political leaders all over the country, once the loudest voices for ever-tougher penal policies, are suddenly instead looking for ways to control the cost of the corrections system. One census of prison-related reforms found that 46 of the states have passed legislation designed to reduce the number of people going to or returning to prison and jail.2 This pattern is true in traditionally conservative states, such as Texas, which has actually closed three prisons,3 to more-liberal states such as Michigan, which reduced the prison population by 12 percent and closed more than 20 prisons.4 During 2015 almost half the states in the United States had actual reductions in the number of people in prison.5 Since 2010, in fact, more than half the states have reduced both their imprisonment rates and their crime rates.6 These changes come after nearly four decades of uninterrupted prison growth (see “The Great Experiment in Social Control” on pages 6–7). The scope of America’s longterm commitment to a big corrections system has been described as one of the greatest policy experiments in modern history. In 1973 the prison incarceration rate was 96 per 100,000 Americans. For 38 consecutive years after that, the number of people in prison increased—during periods when crime went up, but also during periods when crime Almost two-thirds of the members of the current U.S. population, including most of the readers of this book, were born after 1971. For them it has been entirely normal to see yearly increases in the number of Americans in prison, in jail, and under correctional supervision. This group of citizens has seen corrections grow every year—in good economic times and bad, during periods of rising crime and of dropping crime. This growth trend began with the “baby boom” generation: When Americans born in the two decades after World War II hit their twenties and thirties, the peak crime-prone age, they clogged the criminal justice system. The large and growing correctional populations that seem so normal have not always been so. From 1900 until about 1970, U.S. prison populations were quite stable, hovering between 90 and 120 per 100,000 citizens. After more than 35 years of steady growth, the rate of incarceration is now five times as high as it was in 1973. In 2007 the correctional population reached its highest point in U.S. history—by most accounts the largest correctional population in the world, with more people in prison than China, which has four times more citizens. This period of U.S. history could be called the “great experiment in social control,” for it has defined a generation of Americans who have witnessed the greatest expansion in government control ever undertaken by a democratic state. Researchers have tried to explain the sources of this growth. Some of it stems from increases in crime, but most of this crime growth occurred during the first half of the “experiment.” Some is because of increased effectiveness at apprehending, arresting, and convicting criminally involved people. But this aspect of the “experiment” is minor compared with changes in punishment policy. In the United States the chances of a person convicted of a felony getting a prison sentence instead of probation have increased steadily for several decades, to the point where the chance of getting a probation sentence is now a fraction of what it used to be. Therefore, more people are going to prison, and they are serving longer terms as well. Further, the strictness of postrelease supervision has also increased so that more people on probation than before are being sent back to prison because of a failure to abide by strictly enforced rules. This triple whammy—less probation, longer prison terms, and stricter postsentencing supervision—has fueled a continuing increase in correctional populations, especially prison populations, even when crime rates are dropping. Some scholars have tried to explain the unprecedented punitiveness of the late-twentieth-century U.S. policy (see “For Further Reading” on page 28). They discuss the importance of U.S. politics and culture, and they expressly point to the effects of two decades of the “war on drugs.” This is certainly a part of the explanation, but nationally only 16 percent of people in prison are there for a drug crime.7 Yet why this punitiveness occurred is far less interesting than what its results have been. Over the coming years, researchers, scholars, and intellectuals will begin to try to understand what we have learned from this great experiment. The effects of this experiment in social control fall into three broad categories: its effects on crime, on society, and on the pursuit of justice. First, and most important, how has the growth of corrections affected rates of crime? Because so many factors affect crime, we cannot easily distinguish the effects of a growing corrections system from those from other factors, such as the economy or times of war. Researchers who have tried to do so have reached divergent conclusions, but even the most conservative scholars of the penal system now seem to agree that further growth will have little impact on crime.8 Others note that because the crime rate today is about the same as it was in the early 1970s, when the penal system began to grow, the corrections system has not likely had a large effect on crime.9 Second, there is a growing worry that a large corrections system—especially a large prison system—damages families and communities, and increases racial inequality. For example, almost three million children have a parent in prison or in jail, including more than 10% of African American children.10 How do these experiences affect their chances in life? And what does it mean that more than one in four male African Americans will end up in prison? Third, how does a large penal system affect the pursuit of justice? Do people feel more confidence in their justice system? Is it right to have people who break the law end up punished the way that America punishes them? In this great experiment in social control, have we become a more just society?

 Explain what you can do to differentiate your product from your  competitor’s, based on this information.

My Service: Owning my own tow truck company

 For this  assignment explain your product’s attributes, which are the specific  characteristics that define your product (or service). These attributes  can be either tangible or intangible, or both. In addition, check your  product’s attributes by including the perception of your consumers.  Explain what you can do to differentiate your product from your  competitor’s, based on this information. This can be done by asking a  couple of your potential customers, and researching your competition. 

What are the Legal Consequences of a Data Breach?

Q1. What are the Legal Consequences of a Data Breach?

Note: 250 words with intext citations and 2 references needed.

Q2. Solution providers sell their products as the answer to all business needs; however, this is really not always correct. Why? For this discussion, compare options within both ERP and CRM solutions. Does a company need both? Or can one solution meet every need? 

Note: Support your reasoning – 250 words with intext citations and 2 references needed.

Describe your past and current thinking regarding your chosen health behavior. 

How does the information from the school profile impact how you will address cultural relevance as you teach in this school? 

1. Based on the School Report Card ( https://www.publicschoolreview.com/ps-253-profile) provide a professional rationale for your areas of strength (“glows”) and refinement (“grows”) that addresses the following:

· What do you do well?

· What do you want to improve and why? How will it impact student achievement?

· How does the information from the school profile impact how you will address cultural relevance as you teach in this school? 

2. Please think about what the information on the report card helps you understand about the school environment. What does the data represent with respect to performance on the high stake’s exams? What does that lead them to understand about teaching and learning?

3. Please think about what the information on the report card helps you understand about the school environment. Examine the demographics and the state exam scores. What does the data represent with respect to performance on the high stake’s exams? What does that lead you to understand about teaching and learning with the school population?

Explain how you would approach a health education program for the cultural group you have written about for your SLP.

review the article “Development of a Theory-Based (PEN-3 and Health Belief Model), Culturally Relevant Intervention on Cervical Cancer Prevention Among Latina Immigrants Using Intervention Mapping.” Consider this article and everything you have learned throughout the SLP  that addresses the following:

1. Explain how you would approach a health education program for the cultural group you have written about for your SLP. Support your choices with scholarly references. 
   • Would your program be for the person, extended family, or neighborhood?
   • What positive perceptions, enablers, and nurturers would you want to reinforce? What negative ones would you want to try to overcome?
   • What positive aspects of cultural empowerment would you want to reinforce? What negative ones would you want to try to overcome? What existential ones would you acknowledge but not try to change?
2. What challenges do you foresee in trying to plan and implement health education programs for this cultural group?

Measure and analyze your OWN Kitchen and one of your Bathrooms and determine if your space meets the NKBA planning guidelines

Step 1. Read the NKBA Kitchen and Bath Guidelines and review the lecture from class. Step 

2. Measure and analyze your OWN Kitchen and one of your Bathrooms and determine if your space meets the NKBA planning guidelines Step 

3. Create a Power Point report and make comments of 10 findings of your spaces (((((5 for kitchen and 5 for bath))))) with comparison to the NKBA guidelines. This should be designed as “stating the guideline” and then a paragraph of your “findings”. Try to identify the difference between your spaces and the NKBA guidelines. Step 

4. Take photos of your findings of your Kitchen and Bathroom and include these in your report/presentation.   Notes: • You may present your critique in bullet or outline format. • Remember, presentation is important! You must include your images in your assignment. • The assignment must be in a power point format! • Please include a cover slide with your name, the assignment, and class and due date.