Women and gender studies: Argue why gender roles are overrated/not important/don’t matter

Thesis: Gender roles don’t matter because it limits both men and women on how they are supposed to act in society and live up to certain expectations.

Outline- reason 1 with one piece of evidence, reason 2 with 2 pieces of evidence and 1 rebuttal with one piece of evidence for rebuttal claim (with counter argument claim that you are rebutting and a rebuttal claim that argues against this counter argument)

Requirements for evidence: must be from fiction (like a movie or show, video games, myths), a personal anecdote(about you or people you know), history or current event or recent history. (Cite current events or specific history) Do not have more than 2 examples from the same category. Do not use hypotheticals, statistics or studies as evidence.
Include a counter argument in thesis. (A claim from the opposing side that you will have a rebuttal for)
Give some commentary with evidence.
Argue why gender roles are overrated/not important/don’t matter

literary analysis with historical research component

I need literary analysis with historical research component-thinking about how the renaissance literary movement began the transition to individualism and secularism

How could art help people within palliative care through social prescribing?

How could art help people within palliative care through social prescribing?

Role of Community Health

his module started with the history of health care, and brought the discussion to today’s broader perspective of health that includes current national priorities and the role of communities in health promotion.

For this discussion, I would like you to apply some of these concepts by looking at your specific community. In 300 words or more, describe at least one partnership/collaboration across agencies taking place that is supporting health promotion activities for one or more health issue in the community. Cite at least one scholarly source, and discuss the following:

How are these activities expected to improve community health outcomes?
What else could be done to further support these efforts?
Specify at least one other organization that could get involved to expand the impact on the situation?
How could it be funded?

Wider Determinants of Health, Social Influences & Health Inequalities UK

How the wider determinants of health and lifestyle choices impact health and well being and how childhood experiences may influence it

Assessment of a patient with COPD in a hospital wars. please see details in files.

Report

During one of your placements in stage three, you will be expected to undertake a physical or mental health assessment of an individual, under the supervision of a registered nurse. You will identify an individual you have assessed and cared for and are expected to write a 2500-word report demonstrating critical reflection and evaluation on the information generated from your history taking and the physical or mental health assessment undertaken.

Select three articles from the list below (at least one from the starred papers), summarise the papers, explain channels through which management practices drive productivity, growth, and profits, and identify lessons of the papers;

Assignment Question:

A major question in strategic management and business strategy is how firms create dynamic capabilities to grow, achieve cost leadership, create competitive advantage and respond to market changes. The recent literature emphasises the role of internal factors such as structured management practices. Increasing evidence suggests that management practices drive productivity, the ability to recruit and maintain a high-quality workforce, the ability to match workers to appropriate jobs, and optimal allocation and coordination of resources. Your individual assignment requires you to develop an understanding of this literature and applying your insights to improve the performance of the firm where you are employed. The assignment requires you to:

1) Select three articles from the list below (at least one from the starred papers), summarise the papers, explain channels through which management practices drive productivity, growth, and profits, and identify lessons of the papers;

2) Describe the state of management practices in the company of your choice and draw on the analysis in part 1 to identify areas of potential improvement.

3) Propose introduction of management practices that improve the company’s performance.

4) Explain how the proposed interventions in the management practices may contribute to the firm’s capability to face adverse economic shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Note: The workshop lectures / slides will discuss the literature on dynamic capabilities and management practices, and explain how management practices relate to firm productivity, growth, and decline. You can integrate the workshop lectures, case studies, and online discussions with your reflections to build your analysis.

Papers / Articles

1. Bloom, N., Lemos, R., Sadun, R., Scur, D. and Van Reenen, J., 2014. JEEA-FBBVA Lecture 2013: The new empirical economics of management. Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(4), pp.835-876.
2. Bloom, N., Sadun, R. and Van Reenen, J., 2012. Does management really work? Harvard business review, 90(11), pp.76-82.
3. Bloom, N., Mahajan, A., McKenzie, D. and Roberts, J., 2020. Do management interventions last? evidence from India. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(2), pp.198-219.
4. Bender, S., Bloom, N., Card, D., Van Reenen, J. and Wolter, S., 2018. Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity. Journal of Labor Economics, 36(S1), pp.S371-S409.
5. Cornwell, C., Schmutte, I.M. and Scur, D., 2021. Building a productive workforce: The role of structured management practices. Management Science.
6. * Roberts, J., 2018. Needed: More Economic Analyses of Management. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 25(1), pp.3-10.
7. * Teece, D.J., 2007. Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance. Strategic management journal, 28(13), pp.1319-1350.
8. *Sadun, R., Bloom, N. and Van Reenen, J., 2017. Why do we undervalue competent management. Harvard Business Review, 95(5), pp.120-127.
9. Scur, D., Sadun, R., Van Reenen, J., Lemos, R. and Bloom, N., 2021. The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward (No. w28524). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Final Assignment: General Marking Scheme

Introduction (10 marks)

– Introducing the topic / the industry,

– Positioning the topic / importance and relevance,

– Outlining the structure of the assignment.

Background / Literature review (15 marks)

– A systematic introduction to the market / and why corporate growth strategies matter,

– Reviewing the literature on links between innovation and corporate growth,

– Reviewing first and secondary data on the topic.

Theoretical depth (20 marks)

– Using the literature to develop a theoretical framework to explain links between technological innovations and growth strategies,

– Adequate reference to the organisation science / strategy literature on the link between firm design, technology adoption and development.

– Clear exposition of key concepts,

– Reference to / use of relevant theories.

Application (25 marks)

– Describe technological trends / innovations in the industry,

– Illustrate how technological innovations drive growth strategies in the sector,

– Explain why some firms in the industry have managed to adopt / develop new technologies and grow while others have failed,

– Systematic use of data to inform the analysis, if feasible.

Critical Analysis (20 marks)

– Show an ability to discuss possible alternatives / strategies,

– Provide evidence by drawing on the empirical literature,

– Show an ability to conjecture / analyse the future of the market, if relevant,

– Highlights the limits of the analysis,

– Draw relevant strategy lessons.

Logical structure & Clear exposition (10 marks)

– The piece is logically structured,

– The exposition flows well,

– The piece shows adequate research, with sufficient references to the literature,

– Strong bibliography – drawn from the academic literature.

Write a literature review on Sustainable growth – Energy consumption and water consumption

GREEN MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
ASSIGNMENT ON SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
INTRODUCTION
Considering that companies need to rethink their place place in society, CSR leads them to question
what they can offer beyond their sole economic function and promotes an ongoing dialogue with all
stakeholders. For some scholars, CSR is therefore a form of self-regulation on behalf of companies of
the company, which voluntarily integrate this approach into their business model.
As a result, firms need to ensure not only their compliance with laws and to the ethical principles
that are mandatory for them, but also need to adopt voluntary approaches to protect environment,
reduce CO2 emissions, improve working conditions and diversity, or fight against corruption. CSR
makes it possible to increase their profitability in the long term, reduce their commercial and legal
risks and strengthen the confidence of its shareholders.
Hence, CSR and sustainable growth are closely related. This transformation of governance takes on a
broad range of practices, widely considered by the financial community under three main criteria
known as ESG criteria which are: environmental criteria, social criteria, and governance criteria.
Environmental criteria relate to the direct or indirect impact of the company’s activity on the
environment. This refers in particular to the recycling of waste, the reduction of energy
consumption, the use of renewable energies, measures aimed at reducing the use of natural
resources, those aimed at reducing polluting emissions, the conservation of biodiversity,

compliance with international environmental standards or even to the ecological balance sheet.—–

ASSIGNMENT FOR MID-TERM GRADES
Students will be attributed one of the environmental criteria:
• Carbon Emissions,
• Waste Management/Circular Economy,
• Energy Consumption, Water Consumption
• Biodiversity.
Each student will write an essay of 5 to 10 pages on one of the above environmental criteria to
explain what has been achieved by firms and how their performance can be evaluated. This implies
the following:
• Write a literature review on the recent contribution of previous scholars on the subject and
how they evaluate firms’ performance. What methodology have they used?
• Provide your suggestions, based on the literature review
• You can choose any CAC 40 firm to demonstrate your arguments (all of them have
committed to sustainable development)
• List the references of the studies at the end of your document.
NOTE: Plagiarism is prohibited. Disciplinary sanctions will result from using source without acknowledgement.
UPDATE
A. General Remarks
• You should put your first name and your family name on your document
• The precise title of the essay should be written on the document
• Pages must be numbered
• There is no need to insert diagrams, pictures (generally copied from the internet)
• Documents copied and pasted will not be accepted. No plagiarism.
• Essays should be sent in WORD and PDF formats. A printed copy could be useful.
B. About the essay
• You can keep the previous version and just add the relevant literature review
• What is expected: only a short introduction, a short conclusion, a detailed literature review,
a case study if possible, and any recommendation if possible
• The literature review should be focussed only on how external rating agencies or
researchers, or other institutions have been evaluating firms’ environmental performance.
Have they developed an index to measure firm’s environmental performance?
• You need to focus only on the dimension that has been attributed to you: carbon, or waste,
or electricity & water consumption, or biodiversity)
• Before writing anything, you need to read a few documents such as:
o GIEC report
o Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
o Carbon Disclosure Report (CDB)
o Sustainable Development Report in the European Union
o ISO 14000, ISO 26000
o Etc.
• I already mentioned some of the rating agencies in class:
o MSCI ESG ratings,
o MSCI Europe
o Sustainalytics,
o Euronext Vigeo Europe
o S&P, Moody’s, Fitch
o Dow Jones Sustainability Index
o Etc.
I wish you all the best
.

Gender Division of Labour between Paid and Unpaid Work

Question 2: Collection and analysis of primary data
Imagine that you have decided to research the topic of decision-making in households in relation to quality of life
OR human capital. Specifically, you want to investigate whether there is support for theories of household
decision-making and whether there is any evidence that different approaches to decision-making have a
differential impact on either quality of life or human capital formation.
(65 marks)
Word limit: 1100 words
Question 3: Collection and analysis of secondary data
i. Produce some descriptive statistics and draw histograms for the variables relevant to the analysis of the
research question. Then analyse the main features of the distribution of each variable and the relationships
between them. Are the relationships between price cost margin, market concentration and advertising
intensity as economic theory would suggest? (20 marks)
ii. Write down an econometric model that analyses the impact of market structure on performance, based on
the results from Part (i) and also on your knowledge of economic theory. Drawing on economic theory taught
in this module, briefly explain what sign (positive or negative) you expect to observe for the coefficients of
the independent variables in your equation. (15 marks)
iii. Using a suitable econometric method, estimate the model you were asked to write down in Part (ii). Report
the estimation output and explain your results. Your explanation should include a discussion of the
robustness of your model, its limitations, and any additional steps you have taken to check for common
econometric issues. (30 marks)
i. Prepare a plan for a semi-structured interview – based on theories of decision-making in households – with
individuals who live in couples. The plan might include a statement of interview aims, i.e. the research
question the interview seeks to address; a set of questions to be asked, which might be grouped into themes
if appropriate; and a brief indication of how the findings will be used and analysed.
ii. Recruit a volunteer to be interviewed, and use your list to undertake the interview, based on your research
question. Keep the interview quite short – no longer than ten minutes. To complete this exercise, you will
need some results from the interview (in the unlikely event that the first interview is not informative or calls
for a complete rewrite of your questions, it might be prudent to find another interviewee).
iii. Write up your notes on the responses of your interviewee(s).
iv. Code these notes using headings relevant to your research question. If possible, use economic theory to
help with your headings and coding.
v. Write a brief summary of your findings from the interview(s).
vi. Finally, make short notes on the interview experience: what aspects were successful and what would you do
differently another time

Write an essay that critically evaluates how a visitor attraction, of your choosing, is contributing to the regeneration of the local area in which it is situated.

Weighting: 30%

Word count or equivalent: 1,000 words (± 10%)

Learning outcomes to be assessed:

This assessment is to test your achievement in all of the following Learning Outcomes: LO1, LO2, and LO3.

Instructions to students

Write an essay that critically evaluates how a visitor attraction, of your choosing, is contributing to the regeneration of the local area in which it is situated.

Your essay should evaluate the ways in which the local area has benefited from presence of the visitor attraction, as well as consider some of the challenges it has encountered, or which it is still contending with.