Strategic management.
Buyer Behavior
Determine the purchase decision process for the buyer of your company’s product.
What is the purchase process for your company’s product? Is it B2C or B2B? What stages of the buying process are most critical for the buyers of your product and why?
What are the strongest buying influences on the purchasers of your company’s product, and how can you use an understanding of those influences on your buyers to a strategic advantage?
Where does your company’s product fall on the diffusion of innovation curve, and what are the strategic implications of this on the marketing of your company’s product
Draft 1
Marketing Environment Buyer Behavior Marketing Environment Analyze the dynamics of the marketing environment for your company’s product. Summarize the marketing mix for your company’s product and explain which market orientation (or combination thereof) you will adopt in setting product strategy.
Who is the most influential actor in the microenvironment for your company’s product and why?
What is the most influential force in the macroenvironment for your company’s product and why?
GuidelinesUse the following guidelines to plan and conduct your work. Reference your
textbook and conduct research using at least three additional authoritative
sources from the DeVry Library (Links to an external
site.). All work must be
formatted in accordance with 7th Edition APA guidelines,
and each draft must include a cover page and references page. Each section should be about one page in length, so each draft
should be about two pages in length.
Religion and Ethics
Management Assignment Help John Doe has decided to clone himself. He is sterile. He cannot find anyone to marry him. He wishes to have children. He knows that he will not be able to love a child that is adopted or not connected directly to him biologically. He will be making use of a new procedure that involves taking his skin cells to produce a twin. The twin starts out as an embryo and grows into a child. The child in this case will have the same genetic information as John Doe. John Doe and his child will be twins.
Jane Doe is eighteen. For as long as she can remember she has been sexually attracted to other females. Her parents belong to a religion that has a religious text stating that God forbids one to be a lesbian. This religion goes on further to say that lesbians will be punished in the afterlife. Jane Doe is debating whether she should tell her parents about her sexual attraction. She has not yet decided if she should come out to her parents and live as a lesbian now that she is a legal adult Address these two questions in each case 1. What is the relation between ethics and religion? Formulate and investigate the relation 2. For each case, determine the ethical path of conduct. Then, determine what paths of conduct would be unethical
Writing Requirements (APA format)Length: 2-3 pages (not including title page or references page)
1-inch margins
Double spaced
12-point Times New Roman font
Title page
References page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources)
Assignment Content Competency Analyze the impact of organizational practices on the implementation of Human Resources decisions. Analyze the relationship
Assignment Content
Competency
Analyze the impact of organizational practices on the implementation of Human Resources decisions.
Analyze the relationship between effective Human Resources strategies and organizational outcomes.
Critique Human Resources initiatives and their influence on effective organizational performance.
Integrate the Human Resources balanced scorecard to sustain a competitive advantage.
Appraise the impact of stakeholder preferences on Human Resources strategies.
Develop a strategic Human Resources plan that aligns to stakeholder preferences, business strategies, and organizational outcomes.
Scenario
You have been hired as the new vice president of HR of a publicly-traded company. You have been brought into the organization to specifically address the current shortcomings of HR support to the organization and make the necessary adjustments so that HR strategy is aligned to the overall corporate strategy.
One of the first areas in which you need to familiarize yourself with is how well (or not) the current HR strategies support the organization’s mission and goals. Therefore, you will need to analyze the organization’s HR strategies and assess how these HR strategies enable the organization to be successful. For instance:
How do these HR strategies create competitive advantages?
What are some ways in which the current HR strategies can be enhanced to further enable the organization to be competitive?
How can you identify core deliverables of the HR strategies, and how do they align to organizational outcomes?
Instructions
-15 Scholarly Resources
As part of your role as VP of HR, you will need to research your organization (Use Apple) – note that it is publicly-traded. Therefore, you will need to access its 10-K in order to build the strategic HR plan. You will also need to identify your organization’s core competencies. In addition, make sure to review your organization’s website, especially the HR/careers page, and other outside resources so that you can identify the main components of the HR strategies that were in place before you joined in your new role.
The CEO of the organization has asked you to create a strategic HR plan for the organization based on your research. This plan should include the following:
The organization’s long-term strategic goals and market differentiation
The organization’s position within its external environment, including its current and projected market leadership position
The organization’s values and culture
Current level and mix of human capital/workforce (depending on data available) – MAKE THIS DATA UP – Fictitious DATA
Analysis of current employees, identifying gaps in areas needed to support forecasted goals
Talent management areas that should be of greatest importance to support the organizational strategy (e.g., recruitment, retention, training