Whistleblowers have been responsible for bringing many illegal or unethical situations to light. There are several modern examples of whistleblowers that we can examine. In this assessment, you are asked to identify the communication strategy used and analyze the ethical and communication issues surrounding one of these scenarios.

1. Erin Brockovich and PG&E – Erin Brockovich became a whistleblower when she spoke out against Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) after finding widespread unexplained illness in the town of Hinkley, California while working as a legal assistant. PG&E had contaminated the towns drinking water with toxic chromium 6. She decided to expose the issue by gathering evidence, connecting with affected residents, and advocating for their rights.
2. Enron – The Enron corporation was a company dealing in energy resources based in Houston, Texas. Enrons scandal involved dubious accounting practices, leading to bankruptcy. Executives engaged in fraudulent transactions, hiding losses and inflating profits. These issues were exposed by Sherron Watkins, one of the executives in the company.
3. OceanGate – In June 2023, the OceanGate submersible Titan embarked on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic with five passengers, including the CEO, on board. The submersible experienced a catastrophic hull failure, resulting in the loss of the vessel and all passengers. David Lochridge, the director of marine operations, expressed concerns about the safety of the ship years prior to the disaster.
4. Boeing – In 2017, The Boeing Company introduced a new generation of its venerable 737aircraft called the 737 Max, featuring design and equipment modifications which changed in-flight characteristics compared to previous 737 aircraft. These changes were not fully communicated to all airline customers in 737 Max training materials, leading to two high-profile fatal airline crashes in 2018 and 2019. These crashes caused significant ripples in the airline industry, and negatively impacted Boeings reputation as an aircraft manufacturer. Boeing had multiple whistleblowers that raised safety and quality concerns. One of these was John Barnett, a quality control manager at Boeing, who reported his findings to management and the FAA.
5. Nike – In 1991, fashion retailer Nike was faced with the fallout of an independent investigative report, by labor activist Jeffrey Ballinger, outlining unethical and unsafe working conditions in its overseas factories. This report caused widespread anti-Nike sentiment globally, and the company reacted by improving its working practices while communicating with the public about the changes.

In your research, you will find that there is a lot going on in these scenarios. However, it is clear that each of the whistleblowers was facing a difficult ethical situation and tried to find the best way to communicate their concerns. There are many questions that likely come to mind, such as:

• What was the ethical concern addressed by the whistleblower?
• Was the method of communication (channel, recipient, content) appropriate and ethical? Why or why not?
• How did the communication affect the outcome of the situation?
• What, if anything, should have been done differently?
• What lessons can be learned from this situation?

Consider the whistleblowers decision to expose the illegal or unethical activity, their motivation, the manner in which they communicated the issues, and the recipients of the communication. Complete both parts of this assessment in a single Word document and be sure to cite all sources using APA reference style.

Part 1: Analyze the Scenario

Using at least two of the provided scenarios:

• Analyze the ethical decision that the whistleblower faced as it relates to how they communicated.
• Consider the sender, receiver, message, and channel.
• Analyze the outcomes of the communication strategy.
• Make sure to consider how the communication was distributed, the possible intent, and the content of the communication.
• Describe the effectiveness of the communication in the scenario.
• Focus on how specific events were influenced by the communication.
• What were the primary failures and successes?

Part 2: Write a Communication

Imagine that you are working in the same industry as the whistleblower in your chosen scenario and have followed this sequence of events closely. Your research has provided you with a great deal that can be applied to your industry, and you are anxious to share your lessons learned from the situation.

• Write a communication to a colleague that conveys and reinforces the primary lessons learned from the incident.
• Be sure to focus on the actions of the whistleblower in your communication.
• The medium is your choice, but it is also very important, so state the medium you have chosen within your message and the reason you feel it is the most appropriate medium to use. Address possible reasons such as confidentiality, tone, and convention.

Complete the Communicate Like a Pro: Know Your Style and Communicate Like a Pro: Flex Your Voice activities. In 23 pages:

• Briefly compare the four primary communication styles (passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive). Do you tend to gravitate toward one of these more frequently?
• Discuss your preferred social style and how it impacts your communication with others.
• Further research your preferred social style. What are some strategies for maintaining assertive communication?
• Identify 23 potential business scenarios that you may have previously experienced or may potentially find yourself in. Create a plan to avoid potential breakdowns in communication and ensure that communication is as clear, effective, and assertive as possible. How may you benefit from adapting your social style in each situation?
• Create an infographic that explains your preferred social style and how this impacts your approach to successful, professional communication with others including those whose preferred social style is different from your own.
• Save the infographic in whatever image format you like.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze business communication situations.
• Compare four communication styles.
• Competency 2: Apply fundamental principles of organizational communication.
• Discuss business scenarios in which each of the social and communication styles would be appropriate to use.
• Competency 3: Analyze the interrelationships of communication within organizational systems.
• Create an infographic explaining a social style.
• Competency 5: Communicate effectively and professionally.
• Address assessment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
• Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.

Taking Target as an example, do you think if its layout follows the guideline for retail layout discussed in the textbook? In the discussion board please write one paragraph of 100 to 150 words to discuss your opinion about the question above. You will Read chapter 7 (Process Strategy), and chapter 9 (Layout Strategy) of the textbook. The links is in the Files below. Textbook name: Jay Heizer, Barry Render and Chuck Munson, Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Prentice Hall. 13th Edition.

Global Business Plan Guideline – Company I would like to use is BMW – Home country – Germany, Host Country – China

Global business plan has multiple components surrounding a host and home country’s political, legal, and economic environments and the firm’s international strategies. To help you better understand how to write a global business plan in this course, I will provide details regarding how to write these components as well as sample reports. Please download the following documents and you will find details about each component and a sample report.

Here are the instructions about the global business plan written in the syllabus.

The purpose of this assignment is to apply the tools and knowledge you have gained in this class to analyze a multinational enterprise, its home country of origin, and its host country environments. You should choose a company that is interesting and currently international (meaning that they sell products or services in more than two countries). When analyzing the firms home country, do not just report facts and figures; analyze them from a companys point of view. For example, how does the countrys size, political system, culture, etc. impact the business context? How do these issues “matter” from the firms perspective? How different is this country from the U.S.? For information about the company you choose, if information is difficult to find or vague, use your best judgment given your knowledge of the company, its culture, and its industry. Although I strongly recommend that you choose a company based in a non-English-speaking country, the company should have its English language homepage (if they do not have an English language homepage, you will probably want to choose another company unless you are fluent in that companys home country language!). You can select a company from an English-speaking country (e.g., Canada, UK, Australia, etc.), but in this case, higher standards will be used to evaluate your global business plan since information regarding your company and home country is readily available and easy to analyze, particularly if you focus on the U.S. market. If you choose a U.S. multinational company, then you will need to select a host country other than the U.S. and write about their global business plan in the host country. In other words, you can write about Apples global business plan in South Korea. After this deadline, no submissions are allowed, and late submissions will result in 0 points for this assignment.

Format and other guidelines:

The global business plan write-up should be 10 – 15 pages (double-spaced with one-inch margins and 12-point font), not including tables, figures, graphs, data, references, and other supplementary material. Appropriate references must be included in the form of footnotes or in-text citations and table of references. Feel free to use any style (e.g., APA, Chicago, etc.) as long as it is consistent in your write-up. In your write-up, please do not omit any components given in the abovementioned structure of the paper. Begin the writing process well in advance and invest sufficient time to write a detailed, complete global business plan. I strongly encourage you to integrate international business theories youve learned in this course in your global business plan. Please do not plagiarize another persons writing work. Your global business plan must be written by you and your team members. Plagiarism will result in 0 points on this assignment.

For MGT 450 students, the structure of the project should include the following topics, but is not limited to these issues:

1. The firm (a non-US multinational enterprise) – BMW
2. Background information
3. Give a brief history of the firm
4. What industry (or industries) is this firm in?
5. What products (or product divisions) do the firm have?
6. How successful is the firm (provide market share, profitability ratios, etc. as support)?
7. What is the firm doing regarding corporate social responsibility and sustainability?
8. The firms home country (where the firm is from)
9. Background information
10. Give a brief history of the home country
11. Describe the home countrys political, economic, and legal environments and the culture.
12. Describe the home countrys economic development
13. The host country (a country where the firm invested in or is selling products/services) China
14. Background information
15. Give a brief history of the host country
16. Describe the host countrys political, economic, and legal environments
17. Describe the host countrys economic development and future growth potential
18. Describe the host countrys culture and cultural similarities or differences) with the firms home country
19. Identify the host countrys government regulations related to trade agreements with the firms home country
20. The firms international strategy
21. What international strategy does this firm use in the host country? Provide support for your answer
22. What organizational structure is used in this firm? Provide support for your answer

Format it as a APA Word document with title page, running head, numbered pages and headings, 12 pt font double space 10 – 15 pages

Hey, the objective of the report is to create more detailed discussion about upgrading a business with educational and management support systems. This business involves discussing accident scenes with customers. This business like to take in submissions, and the objective of the report is to discuss the benefits of including driver safety awareness after accidents are committed. This includes discussions the importance of items like prioritizing driving wheel safety, checking air pressures, obeying traffic and road signals, and maintaining a safe distance between vehicles. There are many objectives to discuss within this report including the referencing to academic resources. This report will be used as an important draft to collect information, and I will summarize a final document after having reviewed the document. Please discuss the behaviour analysis of what it means to understand driver behavior before, during, and after the scenes of accidents.

Dayton, D. K. (2011). Communicating organizational quality: A phenomenological study through the lenses of complexity leadership and organizational learning theories. (Doctoral Dissertation). ProQuest Dissertation and Theses. (3473159)

• Chapter 2 (Literature Review chapter): Read all of the sections in Chapter 2 that have a section heading that includes the word “theoretical” or “theory” (total of 5 sections in Chapter 2).

Athas, K. (2015). Leadership dynamics and social processes: A case study through the lenses of relational leadership, attachment, and adult learning theories. (Doctoral Dissertation). ProQuest Dissertation and Theses (10031852).

• Chapter 2 (Literature Review chapter): Read Theoretical Constructs section.

Uhl-Bien, M., & Ospina, S. M. (Eds.). (2012). Advancing relational leadership research: A dialogue among perspectives. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publications.

• Mapping the Terrain: Convergence and Divergence Around Relational Leadership, beginning on page xix. Ospina & Uhl-Bien.

This the reading thats required.

Weekly Written Assignments: 2 3 typewritten pages

Resonance and Value Creation

Select a contemporary brand that you believe has successfully cultivated strong

brand resonance. Utilizing the Brand Resonance Pyramid framework (Stages:

Identity, Meaning, Response, Relationships), analyze and provide specific

examples of how this brand has guided its customers through each stage. For

each stage, identify at least one corresponding brand-building block (Salience,

Performance, Imagery, Judgments, Feelings, Resonance) and explain the

brand’s relevant activities or attributes.

6 Jun-25STRATEGIC BRAND MARKETING Corporate College Services, Inc.

Concisely discuss how the Brand Value Chain model could be employed to

assess the sources and outcomes of this brand’s equity, specifically mentioning

how a key marketing program investment might translate through the customer

mind-set to market performance and ultimately shareholder value.

This workshop indicates that the term business environment encompasses a number of factors that either help or hinder the development of a business. The five key elements to business success are: economic influences, political and legal influences, demographic factors, social factors, and technology (Gitman et al., 2018). Businesses that operate in the United States generally have a favorable business environment. In some other parts of the world, businesses are not as fortunate. The environment in which a business operates is crucial to the success of a business. Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to: Examine how the five key elements of the business environment impact businesses’ growth and job creation. Discover business-specific writing through the Business Writing Fundamentals modules. Background Information This week, you will be introduced to and will begin completing the Business Writing Fundamentals module. At various points within the course, youll be instructed to review specific sections of the module before completing a business writing assignment. The module is designed to help you to write business communications such as emails, letters, and technical reports to help ensure your communications clearly convey the message and purpose using proper grammar and punctuation. As you work through this module, it is important that you complete the short exercises and quizzes at the end of each section. You will not receive a grade for completing these quizzes and short exercises. However, you must complete the short exercises and pass all the quizzes for the assigned sections in this course. You will be able to take the quiz as many times as needed until you pass. You will complete the remaining sections of the module in subsequent courses. After you have completed all of the module sections, quizzes, and short exercises and achieve at least an 80% on the final exam (taken as the last step in the module), you will receive a completion certificate! Throughout your program of study, you will be reminded to upload selected business communications into your ePortfolio. If you receive an 80% or higher on these writing assignments, you will be awarded a Business Fundamentals Writing badge in the last course of your program! Both the certificate of completion and business writing fundamentals badge may be shared on your LinkedIn profile as well as with future employers! Once you have registered for this module, you will have access to it throughout your program of study as well as after you have completed your program. We think youll find that this will be a valuable resource to use throughout your career and even in your continued study of business! Instructions Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade. Read Chapter 1 of Introduction to Business, focusing on Section 1.2 (new tab). Complete or review lessons 1-20 of Business Writing Fundamentals (new tab). Review the Anatomy of an Email PDF (PDF document). Watch this video before completing the assignment: The Ultimate Guide to PESTLE Analysis for Strategic Decision Making (new tab) Using a Word document, write a sample business email to a work colleague describing all five key factors of a Business Environment and how these impact your business. Choose one key factor and go into more detail explaining how this would benefit your business. Format the email as if it were a recap of a meeting where you discussed five key elements of the business environment that impact businesses’ growth and job creation. Be sure to follow the template in the Anatomy of an Email. If you do not have work colleagues, you may make one up to write the email. Section 4 of the Peregrine Business Writing Module addresses how to write a business email. The email should follow standard business email format and be comprehensive enough that someone will understand the key factors without reading the chapter in the course materials. Submit the assignment by the end of the workshop. Upload a copy of this assignment to your ePortfolio. (Information regarding the ePortfolio can be found in this announcement (new tab).)