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Write a reply minimum of 150 words for each discussion1 and discussion 2

Discussion 1:

Cox’s business case about diversity provides a good insight into diversity. As per her case that was performed in the European countries, diversity provides innovation and helps the company succeed. The other way, which is innovation comes from diversity is also true. The next point she mentioned was that diversity in an organization like gender-related diversity is important for innovation and improve the functioning of the company. At least 20% of women in the leadership role of an organization can be led to better innovation due to such diversity. Positive outcomes that may result in changes to Uber’s leadership team is having a diversified team in the organization, especially in the leadership. The sexual harassment cases in the upper management in Uber may have lessened if there was diversity with more women in leadership roles. Like Cox mentioned, at least 20% of women in leadership roles could lead to better gender-based diversity and improve the functionality of the organization. Uber has been a male-dominated organization and if women would have been in higher levels, surely there would have been better policies for employee protection with respect to sexual harassment and misbehavior.

Fowler was eventually protected by sexual harassment laws and policies. Fowler’s experiences in Uber showed that the HR and upper management were lying and overlooked the sexual harassment complaints against an employee. Thus, the strategy should have been to terminate or take the harassment complaints seriously against the employee. Thus, stricter rules and policies should be implemented as part of the strategy. Also, having a diversified leadership could have made the complaints take appropriate actions in an efficient way. Thus, having diversified leadership management could have helped.

Discussion 2:

Based on Cox’s business for diversity, there are many positive outcomes that may result in changes to Uber’s leadership team. Diversity is the practice of including people from many different backgrounds. One positive outcome that may result in changes to Uber’s leadership team is that they start to bring in diverse leaders. Meaning they will have women, people from different ethnic backgrounds, and people with different sexual orientations. It is also positive that Uber has a more positive and diverse work culture. Uber will show that they do not discriminate and are able to work with people from all walks of life.

Fowler was protected by Uber’s chief executive Travis Kalanick because he condemned the behavior. He publicly said that it was not okay, and Uber made changes in the company to make sure that they will not go through the same experience again. He has hired a new leadership team to make it more diverse and a better environment for the employees.

There are many different strategies that should have been put in place to help prevent sexual harassment incidents like putting a sexual harassment policy in place, raise awareness, take all complaints seriously, monitor your workplace, and have a clear step in place in case someone must report. Placing a sexual harassment policy in place at the workplace will help ensure that all workers know the rules and procedures in the workplace. It is important that the leaders raise awareness to show that sexual harassment will not be tolerated and what defines as sexual harassment.

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• Briefly define corporate social responsibility (CSR) in your own words.
  • How is your selected company (from the approved company list) accountable to itself, its stakeholder and the public?

• Find a current event in the past 1–2 years in which your selected company went above and beyond to demonstrate corporate social responsibility (CSR), or, where they may have sorely failed to demonstrate CSR.
  • In your post, provide the name of the company and the good or bad deed.
  • Do your findings change the way you will support the company in the future?

Prepare 10-12 PowerPoint slides to present a supply chain management plan, including your analysis and recommendations for a supply chain design and logistics, for a provided scenario or business of your choice.

Scenario

Wild Dog Coffee Company, a locally owned company with a single coffee shop location, serves a wide selection of espresso products, small breakfast and lunch menu items, and a limited evening menu. The company is planning to expand the business by adding an additional location. While different menu items may be tested at the new location, the espresso beverage preparation process will remain the same. You and your business partners need to decide about the supply chain before the move. The following information may help support your analysis for Wild Dog Coffee Company:

• You have one espresso maker that brews the espresso and froths the milk at each location. 
• Each espresso beverage requires 1.5 minutes of the barista’s time.
• Each espresso beverage requires some combination of espresso beans, milk, and flavoring.
• Each espresso beverage is served in a paper cup with a lid and sleeve.
• Monthly cleaning and maintenance of the espresso maker is outsourced to a services company.
• You stock one type of espresso bean. If you run out of inventory, you must close the business until the next shipment of beans arrives.
• Espresso beans are received seven (7) days after placing the order.

Your Role

You are the owner of Wild Dog Coffee Company. You and your business partners are preparing for the opening of your second location. You need to analyze and make recommendations for supply chain management for the two locations.   

An oligopoly is characterized by a  relatively small number of firms offering a similar product or service.  Oligopoly products may be branded, as in soft drinks, cereals, and  athletic shoes, or unbranded, as in crude oil, aluminum, and cement. The  main distinction of oligopoly is that the number of firms is small  enough that actions by any individual firm on price, output, product  style, quality, introduction of new models, and terms of sale has an  impact on the sales of other firms in the industry. Review the Table  12.1 (pg. 416), select a dominant single firm, duopoly firm, and  triopoly firm and discuss if you foresee any weaknesses in the three  firms you selected that would allow entrance into this market or if one  of the firm has enough strength to become a monopoly?

Reply:

The invisible hand ensure that the price, supply, and demand are highly responsive to each other. However, some market structures affect its functionality due to changes in number of sellers or buyers. McGuigan, Moyer, & Harris (2017) discovered that some of these structures include monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. They stated that oligopoly markets have few sellers and many buyers (McGuigan et al., 2017). However, monopoly industries comprise single buyer who controls the marker.

The authors offered different types of oligopoly firms, where we have dominant single company like Adidas and duopoly like Nokia organization that offers handsets. Moreover, an example of triopoly firm is Dell Company which operates with IBM and Cisco in production of servers (McGuigan et al., 2017). The three types of companies have applied different strategies to improve their oligopoly power. They measures reduce number of sellers and improve product homogeneity. However, failure to uphold these strategies might eliminate the barriers and allow more sellers into the market.

Doz (2017) proves that one of the companies likely to lose its oligopoly power is Nokia. The organization has made several strategic decisions that led to its failure. It maintained its production on hardware production, while the consumers had shifted their consumption to software. The management should have effectively responded to the market needs and adopted application ecosystems to exploit the opportunity. Its challenges started in the year 2001 after leadership wrangles affected business operations. The author noted that the management also promoted mid-level executives to senior positions. The new officials were inexperienced and could not appropriately implement the matrix structure of leadership (Doz, 2017). Therefore, the challenges can foster rise of new organizations due to Nokia’s weakening market power.

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The present scenario is working on a discussion board, which is an Oligopolistic industry. As an instance to work on this, I have reviewed the table provided where different oligopoly products are done based on the domains. Table 12.1 is reviewed where we have to select the firms from three different sections provided as part of the industry-based products. The single dominant firm that I have selected is hand calculators formed in 2009 by two main brands such as Casio and Texas Instruments. Moreover, in the section on Duopoly firms, I have selected Batteries from 2005 with known brands such as Duracell, Energizer, and Rayovac (Jackson, 2015). From the section of triopoly firms, servers serve as the best entity to be chosen as an example of the era of productivity of the business. Different types of servers in bushes have emerged from 2014, such as Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM.

In the single dominant form I have selected, there is a weakness where the calculators at the initial basis did not work, and even they lose their vitality after a few due to battery. This dependency, however, serves as a weakness (Dhalla, & Oliver, 2013). The batteries from the duopoly firms usually do not have any weak areas, but the accuracy and the efficiency need to emerge on a greater basis. Whereas the triopoly firms such as servers are now used everywhere, the rapid utility of practical concerns through cloud technology has made the data stored better, hence providing the basic functionality that is often needed. Usually, at the initial stages, each possesses the characteristic to excel in the business market, but increasing the services offered by these types of products and increasing technology has made the requirement more precise. From the three areas chosen, the chance for the type of firm to be strengthened to become a monopoly is using the battery.

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• Discuss the importance of innovation in the survival and success of a business. Include three strategies that you, as an entrepreneur, can use to encourage creativity and innovation in your small business in your response. Provide support for your response.

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For this assignment, you will read a case and answer a series of questions concerning an analysis of ethical considerations governing marketing practices, as leaders are responsible for such endeavors. Begin by reading the following case, which can be located within the Business Source Ultimate database of the CSU Online Library.

Datamonitor. (2010, July). Ambush marketing case study: Successfully leveraging high-profile events to raise brand profile. Retrieved from https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bsu&AN=59543529&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Then, draft a two-page paper by addressing each of the following items:

• In your own words, how would you describe “ambush marketing”? Include two examples with your description.
• What are the advantages and disadvantages (risks and consequences) of ambush marketing?
• What was Bavaria Beer hoping to achieve through its ambush marketing tactics?
• Would you consider Bavaria Beer’s ambush marketing an unethical practice or simply a competitive strategy? Explain.
• Can ambush marketing be both intentional and unintentional? Explain.
• As a leader of an organization, would you allow the practice of ambush marketing? Explain.

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Assignment Instructions

Although constructing title pages is easy, composing the title is not. In fact, on a per-word basis, the title requires more time than any other part of the report.

A good title efficiently and precisely covers the contents. Consider building your title around the five Ws: who, what, where, when, and why. Sometimes how may be important as well and you may not need to use all the Ws, but they can help you check the completeness of your title.

Remember that a good title is concise as well as complete; be careful not to make your title so long that it is hard to understand or so short that it is not meaningful.

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In a written paper of 1,250-1,500 words, evaluate the current forces driving change in your field or industry. As a leader, or considering the role of a leader, assess your organization and evaluate how well it is responding to the forces, and identify where there is a need for change. Develop a vision to inspire this change. Include the following:

1. Describe your organization, include the organization’s mission, and identify the various stakeholders.
2. Identify the external and internal forces that drive organizational change in your field or industry. Explain the origin or reason for these internal or external driving forces. Explain how these forces directly affect the viability of your organization.
3. Choose one of the driving forces. Describe the specific issues this driving force creates, or will potentially create, for your organization or department.
4. Propose the steps needed for your organization or department to respond to this driving force.
5. Predict how employees at various levels in the organization will respond to your proposed change initiative.
6. Develop a vision for change. Describe how this vision correlates with the organization’s mission, and how you will present this vision to internal stakeholders.
7. Predict how you think your vision will assist internal stakeholders in supporting the change initiative. Identify potential considerations posed by stakeholders, and discuss how you will respond.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

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