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Overview
As globalization has become increasingly common, so has the importance of analyzing opportunities to create value through outsourcing the supply chain. In this assignment, you will create a checklist to help determine which country might be the best location for parts of your organizations supply chain.
Scenario
You are a consultant who specializes in helping U.S.-based businesses expand into new international locations. You have a new client whos looking to outsource their companys manufacturing of hard drives and computer memory, and its your job to assist in selecting the new locations. The company is very focused on quality, sustainability, and equality, and your client would like these attributes upheld in the new manufacturing locations.
Your task is to evaluate two of the following countries:
Then, recommend one country you believe would be the most suitable for the companys new manufacturing facility, and one country that would be considered the least suitable.
Prompt
Evaluate both countries being considered for a new manufacturing facility through exploration of course and outside resources. Then, recommend the most and least suitable location based on the companys attributes and requirements.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Sustainability Measures and Environmental Regulation: Briefly describe sustainability measures and regulations in each country, and analyze how they may work well with or create conflict or tension with your U.S.-based company.
Examples of items to consider include regulations around pollution, waster, and power sources.
Cost and Workforce: Briefly describe each countrys workforce for the creation of computer components and the cost of that labor.
Examples of items to consider include workforce education levels, the overall cost of labor, types of manufacturing available in the country, and the existence of a specialized workforce that can create computer components.
Government Regulation: Briefly describe the overall regulatory environment of each country. Take the most likely mode of entry into consideration for each country.
Examples of items to consider include the types of manufacturing operations allowed in the country, the labor regulations, and the overall business regulations.
Intellectual Property: Briefly describe the risk of intellectual property being stolen by creating a manufacturing location in each country.
Examples of items to consider include each countrys reputation when it comes to intellectual property, intellectual property regulations, and any other legal protections for intellectual property.
Reputation: Briefly describe the ways an organization can face reputational risk through outsourcing its manufacturing to each country.
Examples of items to consider include if and why other organizations have closed manufacturing locations in each country, how your organizations customer base will view manufacturing in each country, and the protections each country provides to its workforce and the environment.
Recommendations: Based on your evaluations of the key attributes and requirements, recommend one country that is the most suitable location for your clients new manufacturing facility, and one country that would be the least suitable location. Justify your recommendations with evidence from your evaluations and the course resources.
Guidelines for Submission
Submit this assignment as a 500- to 750-word Word document. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Explain what Heidegger and Sartre have to say about emotion, mood, or affect.
Explain what Heidegger and Sartre have to say about emotion, mood, or affect. What specific emotions or moods do those thinkers address? How do they analyze them? Why do they think that that matters philosophically? What points of commonality or divergence do you see between these analyses? How effectively does each thinker make their case?
Name and describe in detail a key specific and recent healthcare technology.
Option 1: The first option is to name and describe in detail a key specific and recent healthcare technology. What are at least two key moral problems this technology creates? What are the proper moral guidelines for dealing with it in your view? Compare your approach to what a utilitarian and ethical egoist would say (each independently). Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
Option 2: In the second option, name and describe in detail a key specific and recent social technology. What are at least two key moral problems this technology creates? What are the proper moral guidelines for dealing with it in your view? Compare your moral approach to what a utilitarian and social contract ethicist would say (each independently). Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
Option 3: John Doe, Patient One, is in late stage of kidney disease. If he does not receive a new kidney, then he is predicted to die within a week. Doe is 45, single, and has no children. Doctors theorize that Doe damaged his kidney by not following a low-salt diet. Doe inherited one million dollars and is known for giving money to charity. Without a transplant, he will probably be forced to spend all his money searching for a kidney outside of the usual legal channels. Patient Two is Jane Doe (no relation to John). Patient Two is a mother of two children (ages 21 and 24). She is divorced and 55 years old. She developed kidney problems due to eating a high-fat and high-sugar diet. If she does not receive a kidney within one month, doctors believe she will die. Patient Three is an orphan. This orphan lives in a state facility. She was born with a genetic condition that constantly damages her kidney. The only known approach to her condition is to provide her with a kidney transplant every so often. She is 11 and has already undergone two kidney transplants. She will perish in two months if she does not receive another transplant.
All three patients are at the same hospital. The hospital only has one kidney to give out. The orphans birth parents were known to be of a religion that is opposed to organ donation. The other patients come from religions that do not oppose organ donation. Who should get the kidney? Why should that candidate receive it over the others? Devise a course of social action and a solution for this case by using the ethics of egoism and then utilitarianism to a key moral conflict involving health care in this case. Appraise the interests of diverse populations (in terms of ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.) and how they relate to the case. Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
For all the options:
Cite the textbook and incorporate outside sources, including citations.
You should not be using any text you used in a discussion board or assignment for this class or any previous class.
Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
You will submit the following:
An audiovisual presentation that presents one of the options above. Be sure to give equal time to each element. Doing a PowerPoint presentation with audio recorded on the slides is preferred. Please refer to the Narrated PowerPoint Tutorial located in the Required Resources in this assignment.
Please provide a transcript of anything said in the recording aloud that does not appear as text on a slide. This transcript can be provided as a Word document or placed in the Notes section on the PowerPoint slides.
The link or a scan of the article mentioning any health technology, social technology, or case you are reporting on. If you made up the case, please indicate that in your report. If you choose to do option #3 (the case about a shortage of transplant kidneys), your article would likely be an article about the shortage of transplant organs, or a shortage of people signing up to be transplant donors, or the status of educating people about being donors, etc.
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
What was the main cause of the Civil War? You must include at least four 6w facts. Two of these facts should come from 1)1835-1860 period and 2) 1861 war period and 3) Reconstruction 1865-1877.
You must consider the period from 1835-1860.
You must consider events during the war that show your main cause.
You must consider how the post-war Reconstruction period shows the main cause.
This essay should be a minimum of 4 pages (1000 words). You can write less but your grade will reflect that you did not explain yourself fully.
The Foner text supplies you with facts. The articles and films give you at broader understanding of the issues.
What is the role of ethics and governance in the 2001 Patriot Act
What is the role of ethics and governance in the 2001 Patriot Act (https://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/highlights.htm)? Include at least two of the six principles of data ethics in your response. Take a position on the Patriot Acts effectiveness, including if different or additional legislation is needed.
Analyze the role of culture in the treatment of forensic populations.
You know by now that forensic treatment settings serve culturally diverse populations. In this course, the terms diversity and culture are broadly defined to include not only race and ethnicity but also religion, gender, physical ability, socioeconomic status, and age. You need to take all aspects of culture into consideration when you select treatment outcomes and approaches. Because culture is so ingrained, cultural-related issues may not be readily apparent to the treatment provider or the offender. However, culture impacts the treatment process whether recognized or not. In order to treat forensic populations effectively, the treatment provider must be aware of the impact of cultural considerations and bring cultural competencies to the treatment process.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Identify a culturally diverse forensic population that is of particular interest to you.
Conduct an academic literature search in the Walden Library, and select at least one scholarly article from a peer-reviewed journal that discusses the unique characteristics, considerations, and/or challenges related to working with this population in a forensic setting.
Consider the unique characteristics of your selected forensic population, and reflect on what you should consider when treating members of this population.
Consider the challenges that you might encounter when working with a client from your selected population and how you would address these challenges.
The Assignment (12 pages):
Describe the culturally diverse forensic population you researched. Cite and reference the article you selected.
Briefly summarize the research article, and explain how the role of culture is addressed in the treatment of the specific forensic population in the study.
Analyze the role of culture in the treatment of forensic populations. Use specifics from your selected research article to support your analysis.
Explain the challenges you might encounter when working with a client from this population, and state how you would address these challenges.
Note: Be sure to protect the identity of any persons you may refer to.
What HR functional areas within the technical competency domain of people do you believe will be impacted the most by future trends?
Review the module resources. Then, in your initial post, address the following:
What HR functional areas within the technical competency domain of people do you believe will be impacted the most by future trends? How?
What HR functional areas within the technical competency domain of workplace do you believe will be impacted the most by future trends? How?
What HR functional areas within the technical competency domain of organization do you believe will be impacted the most by future trends? How?
In response to your peers, provide feedback about their initial post and your insights regarding the future trends that you (and your peers) believe will have the greatest impact on how work will be done. Also provide insight regarding the behavioral competencies that will be needed to meet the future goals and needs. Provide supportive examples.
Explain the ethical standards of your company and compare them to the ethical norms of the larger society of your chosen international market
Choose an award-winning company from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program website to study ( LOCKHEED MARTIN MISSILES & FIRE CONTROL https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/10/11/2012_Lockheed_Martin_MFC_Application_Summary.pdf ) . You will evaluate the Award Application Summary as a business case. You are the director of strategic planning and business intelligence for your chosen company. You have conducted an evaluation of your chosen company for an upcoming annual report. Your presentation of a strategic framework to expand operations into the international marketplace has been tentatively approved. The C-level executives now require a plan to implement your strategic framework in your chosen international market. Use the following criteria to design an implementation plan for your chosen award-winning organization.
Requirements:
Provide background information about your chosen company, including topics such as the company name, industry sector in which the company operates, products, and target market. Elaborate and use research.
Present an opportunity for your chosen company to expand into an international market using the Global Edge website ( https://globaledge.msu.edu/ ). Conduct additional research on the company website or using the Purdue University Global Consider expansion ideas such as the creation of a new product, demand for an existing product, creation of a grant-funded foundation, development of a subsidiary, etc. Be creative and innovative.
Provide reasoning why your company should enter your chosen international market (read pages 184185 in your textbook).
Explain the ethical standards of your company and compare them to the ethical norms of the larger society of your chosen international market (read pages 261267 in your textbook).
Explain any contingencies that offset the costs of business ethics failures that may occur in your chosen international market (read pages 271272 in your textbook).
Explain the companys position on corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability while balancing these duties with economic responsibilities to shareholders (read pages 273286 in your textbook).
Present a framework for executing your strategic plan for your company to expand into your chosen international market (read pages 291296 in your textbook).
Explain the staffing needs to successfully execute your strategic framework to expand into your chosen international market (read pages 296299 in your textbook).
Design an action plan to explore a strategy-supportive organizational structure and organize the work effort within your company for the expansion effort into your chosen international market (read pages 304311 in your textbook).
Demonstrate centralized or decentralized decision-making in design of an action plan (read pages 311317 in your textbook).
Should health care workers be paid extra for the personal risk they encounter treating patients during a pandemic?
1. Should health care workers be paid extra for the personal risk they encounter treating patients during a pandemic? Explain the arguments Giubilini and Savulescu (2020) and Hughes (2019) would give in answer to this question. Who is right? Why?
This question requires you to explain, apply, and then evaluate the arguments of these philosophers. Given the nature of their arguments, it may also be useful to draw on Zwolinski (2007) Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation, and/or Malm et al (2008) Ethics, pandemics, and the duty to treat.
Under what circumstances may a firm wish to pursue the objective of maximising revenue rather than maximising profit?
(a) Outline the relationship between the profit-maximising output and the revenue-maximising output with reference to Baumols Model of managerial decision making (1959). Under what circumstances may a firm wish to pursue the objective of maximising revenue rather than maximising profit? Is this a realistic model of managerial decision making?
(b) A sales revenue maximising firm will decrease price and increase production in response to an increase in fixed costs or lump sum taxes. While a profit maximising firm will increase price and reduce output by more than a sales maximising firm when there is an increase in variable cost. Do you agree with this statement? Discuss.
