Assignment 1: Communication Process
Find a Web site that has an About Us section or a Press Release section.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper addressing the following:
Identify the Web site, the sender, and perceived receiver.
Analyze the integrated business communication.
Assess the media richness of the section.
Describe how the message is framed.
Identify opinion leaders.
Points: 320
Assignment 1: Communication Process
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 70% F
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
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Cultural Influences.
You are meeting with an international client in the Middle East and want to make sure you have addressed any cultural issues that might impact the success of your meeting.
Numerous theorists discuss cultural concepts. Using this information as a basis, discuss the concepts you would want to analyze and evaluate in order to prepare you and other company executives for the upcoming meeting.
Determine which of the concepts you discussed would be the hardest to analyze. Explain your reasoning.
Describe a worst case scenario involving the muddling of culture concepts. Determine the steps you (or your company) can take to ensure something similar never happens to you.
"Employment Relationship and Discrimination" Please respond to the following: Question 1:
- Question 1 : From the e-activity, visit the EEOC website link provided and select any three (3) types of discrimination and discuss. What key laws are applicable to the discrimination types you selected? http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types.
Question 2:
- What benefits can a diverse workforce provide to an organization?
- What are the possible negative consequences for an organization that does not embrace diversity?
- What strategies can managers implement to enhance cultural awareness and overcome preconceived biases or stereotypes?
"Approaches to Forecasting Policy Outcomes" Please respond to the following:
- Provide a real or hypothetical public policy issue and select an appropriate criterion for policy prescription to use in deciding a policy's (a) effectiveness, (b) efficiency, (c) adequacy, (d) equity, (e) responsiveness, and (f) appropriateness. Provide at least two reasons why you selected the criterion.
Healthy Competition
This week you learned about competition and strategy. A little healthy competition is good for an organization, however, from time-to-time, it can lead to failure. Using what you have learned this week, choose two organizations that you feel are in solid competition with one another and discuss why you feel these organizations are good competitors.
Your work should include the following:
Outline the competitive points of the organization.
Develop a diagram that compares the two organizations.
Your diagram should be creative and should be thorough in documenting the competition.
Summarize which company you feel has the stronger outlook.
Your paper must be a minimum of 4 written pages (not including the title and reference pages).
Your work must include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources to support your thoughts.
*All requirements for the assignment need to be completed. Thank you
When pieces of cloth are sewn together, you might have trouble discerning the individual pieces of cloth that make the final garment, but by looking carefully, you can find the seams. You may have experienced similar difficulty in the first week of this course when asked to explore the individual aspects of culture that combine to create your unique self-identity. Forms of oppression can come together often in almost imperceptible ways to form the complex environment in which you and your clients live and interact. As a social worker, you must examine carefully the intersections between religious discrimination, sexism, classism, and racism so you can respond accordingly.
To prepare: Consider this week's resources that describe how religion intersects with other forms of oppression.
Submit your response to those resources and analyze what you think is the role of religion in reinforcing sexism, classism, and racism. Provide
Summative Assessment
You are a worker in a fast growing, large, non-union manufacturing organization. You notice persistent systematic labor violations in the plant. The company has multiple locations in the United States and plants in China and France. People are complaining about the working conditions and wages. A group of your fellow workers are talking about the need to fight back. There seems to be a willingness to organize. You have decided to seek the help of a Union. Write the following information in proposal format. Remember to follow APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center and to cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
- Describe the union organizing process.
- Identify the union you would choose to help you organize and explain why.
- Describe the the responsibilities of the workers.
- Describe what the unions can do to help labor.
- Explain what management can
Myths and misinformation surround the topic of sexual violence. For years, these myths have hung around the discourse, further muddying an already difficult topic about which to communicate. Although all myths can be harmful, there are some that may be arguably more harmful. For this Discussion, you identify some of the myths surrounding the topic of sexual abuse and consider why they have remained so prevalent.
Post an explanation of which myths of sexual violence you think are the most harmful and why. Please use the Learning Resources to support your answer.
Specifically focus on the 4 categories of the regulatory environment. Select any two of the categories and explain to executive management why effectively managing the categories are extremely important to organization effectiveness and efficiency. Remember, you are briefing executive management and not lower managers or employees, so your response should be appropriate to higher management communication.
Your internet was down last night and you weren't able to turn in your last assignment. Your professor is away from her office, so you know the quickest way to reach her is via text message. Compose and send a text to your professor notifying her of this situation.
Create a text message in which you:
Explain what happened with the internet and how that will affect your schoolwork.
Identify yourself and include a closing.
