Category: Business and management

The Final Paper (20% total) will be based on your analysis of a corporation of your choosing. Please use

the discussion thread provided in Canvas to reserve your desired corporation.

Using theories and concepts from our course, research and assess your selected companys CSR

performance using information collected from public sources. Include at least three independent sources

for the paper, apart from the company web site and the text. Make sure to take a balanced and unbiased

view when reporting the facts and your conclusions and write with a professional tone.

The term paper should be single-spaced, approximately 2000 words (excluding citations) and should

incorporate multiple sources, appropriately cited (APA style), and reference appropriate concepts from

the text. Direct quotations should be held to no more than two short sentences and must be marked as

quotations. The scope of the paper should include:

Brief introduction

Analysis. In the body of your paper, youll assess your chosen company by looking through the lens

of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Consider the various topics that weve covered in this course

and how they relate to your company (of course, not all topics will be relevant) and provide examples

to support your conclusions. As examples, you might consider issues such as:

o What has been this organizations track record regarding corporate social responsibility?

o Who are their most important stakeholders? How successfully have they managed the

relationships with those stakeholders?

o How successful has the company been in proactively managing public issues? Have they

engaged their stakeholders successfully?

o At what phase of Global Corporate Citizenship (see figure 3.5 on page 63) is this company?

On what do you base your assessment?

o Has this company undergone any scandals or public relations problems related to social

responsibility? If so, what do you believe are the reasons for these ethical lapses (review

pages 101-103 in the text)?

o Does the company perform any type of formal social / environmental reporting, such as triple

bottom line reporting?

o What is the companys stance on lobbying?

o What is their record on sustainable development and management of environmental issues?

Summary and your overall assessment of this organization from a CSR perspective.

This paper must be an original work; refer to official university policies for a detailed treatment of

plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Please submit your paper via the indicated link on Canvas to

confirm its originality. A similarity score of more than 10% – 15% is cause for a careful review of your

paper; a score higher than 15% – 20% may result in a grade penalty, course failure or other consequence,

depending on the severity of the issue. Once your final paper is submitted, plagiarized work will expose

you to severe academic penalties. If you have any questions regarding the appropriateness of your

paper, please see me prior to submittal. Lastly, dont forget to proofread for spelling, grammar, punction

and style prior to submitting. Poor writing will result in loss of points.

Market/customers information, competitor analysis (requirement and information will be provided in the attachment file).

Instructions

Job Application Preparation Portfolio – Step 1 Assignment

This assignment will guide you through the first step of preparing for your job application by researching the industry, creating a tailored resume, developing a cover letter, and writing a personal commercial (elevator pitch). This portfolio will help you present yourself confidently to potential employers by showcasing your skills, strengths, and understanding of the industry. We have already studied resumes, cover letters, and personal commercials in class, so be sure to review your class notes and documents to complete this step correctly.

Goal of the Assignment: The goal of this assignment is to equip you with the essential tools to navigate the job application process successfully. By thoroughly researching your chosen industry and competitors, creating a professional resume and cover letter, and crafting a personal commercial, you will develop a strong job application portfolio. This will help you effectively present your qualifications, demonstrate your fit for the role, and build confidence in your ability to market yourself to potential employers.

Industry Research (60 Points)

Instructions:

1. Research the industry you want to work in, identifying key trends, challenges, and opportunities.
2. Choose one main company of interest within that industry, which could be a company, organization, or university.
3. Identify and analyze at least three competitors of your chosen company.
4. Compare the competitive advantages of the selected company and its competitors. Focus on what sets each company apart in terms of innovation, customer service, technology, market positioning, or other relevant factors.

Resume Creation (50 Points)

Instructions:

1. Create a tailored resume specific to the industry and company you are interested in.
2. Assume the job title that you are aiming for and highlight the most relevant skills, experiences, and qualifications.
3. Ensure the resume is professionally formatted, with clear sections for education, work experience, and skills.

Cover Letter Development (50 Points)

Instructions:

1. Write a personalized cover letter that aligns with the role you are seeking within the company, organization, or university.
2. The cover letter should be clear, concise, and tailored to the position, demonstrating why you are the ideal candidate for the role.
3. Make sure to highlight your achievements and skills relevant to the job and company, using specific examples.

Personal Commercial (50 Points)

Instructions:

1. Develop a 30-60 second personal commercial (elevator pitch) to present yourself confidently to potential employers.
2. Highlight your skills, strengths, and achievements, focusing on why you would be a valuable asset to the organization.
3. Ensure that your personal commercial is clear, professional, and persuasive, reflecting the communication techniques we have studied in class.

Format:

• Your personal commercial should be written in a 150250-word format (enough for 30-60 seconds of spoken delivery).

Submission Details

• All components (industry research, resume, cover letter, and personal commercial) must be submitted in PDF format as a single file.
• No video submission is required for the personal commercial at this step; it must be written in document format.
• Be sure to proofread and ensure that your work is free of errors.

Rubric for Step 1 (210 Points)

1. Industry Research (60 Points)

• Research quality and depth (30 points)
• Competitor analysis and comparison (30 points)

1. Resume Creation (50 Points)

• Relevance to the industry and job role (25 points)
• Professional formatting and presentation (25 points)

1. Cover Letter Development (50 Points)

• Tailoring to the job and company (25 points)
• Clarity, conciseness, and professionalism (25 points)

1. Personal Commercial (50 Points)

• Introduction and background (25 points)
• Presentation of skills, strengths, and achievements (15 points)
• Confidence, clarity, and overall effectiveness (10 points)

*** The industry I want to work in is Patient Financial Services and the company is Johns Hopkins Hospital which is the company I work for Now I want to stay in this career

The competition would be 3 hospitals in Baltimore Maryland that are not apart of Johns hopkins Hospital***

I have attached my real resume so I would need a cover letter

SCENARIO: Imagine that your workplace has experienced significant change recently, and your department is expected to respond to change with innovation. Your immediate manager has asked you to determine one specific innovation for your department; you will be responsible for the implementation of this innovation. This report should not include a recommendation, but instead should be strictly informative, offering a detailed comparison.

ASSIGNMENT: In Unit 2, you drafted an informative report in which you researched several methods for implementing your chosen innovation and compared and contrasted two of them based on factors that you chose. In this assignment, you will revise your Touchstone 2.2 submission using the revision strategies you learned in Unit 3. This revision should reflect significant changes from your first draft and should incorporate the feedback you received on Touchstone 2.2. Review the rubric comments and summary feedback you received on your Touchstone 2.2 draft to deepen and extend your analysis of your topic. Submit a revision of your Touchstone 2 draft that reflects this feedback.

Helpful Links:

A. Assignment Guidelines

DIRECTIONS: All writers revise and edit their work as part of the writing process. For Touchstone 3, submit a revised version of your Touchstone 2.2 composition. The process of revising involves re-thinking your essay, while editing focuses on changes at the sentence level. Your revision should reflect your attention on the following:

• Focus
• Structure
• Flow
• Clarity
• Style
• Word Choice
• Sentence Variety

As you consider possible revisions and edits, evaluate how your essay can be improved in each of the areas above. Focus your attention on the areas that would benefit most from revising and editing. You can add, delete, or move text as you revise your essay.

Note the following revising and editing guidelines:

• Do not draft a new essay. You must revise and edit your Touchstone 2.2 draft. Depending upon the effectiveness of the 2.2 draft, however, major changes such as refocusing or restructuring may be required.
• Allow time between drafts so that you can see your original work from a new perspective.
• Revising and editing are different from proofreading; however, be sure to proofread your revised essay before you submit it.

Remember to also answer the reflection questions listed below.

B. Reflection Questions

DIRECTIONS: Below your assignment, include answers to all of the following reflection questions.

1. How much time did you spend revising and editing your draft? Which revision strategies did you use, and which of them worked best for you? (2-3 sentences)
2. Compare your draft to your revision. How did your essay improve? Provide specific examples of the different revision areas (e.g., structure, focus, clarity, etc.) that you focused on. (3-4 sentences)
3. Think about the entire process of drafting and revising this informative composition. What did you learn about your writing process or yourself as a writer? For example, did any part of the process surprise you or reveal something unexpected? (2-3 sentences)

NEED TO BE DONE BY 11:59 TONIGHT Instructions Attach Im in grad school

NEED TO BE DONE BY 11:59 TONIGHT Instructions Attach Im in grad school

Please read all of the instruction and the company I used was Tyson Food. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Assessment Description

Throughout this course, you will work on a strategic case analysis project. This project consists of different parts you will complete each week that build on each other.

Go to the “Strategic Management Template,” located in Class Resources. From the Strategy Club site, review sample strategic plans provided under the “Student Resources” section. Such samples provide examples of what your completed strategic case analysis should look like at the end of the course.

Every strategy will have associated costs. Determining how to provide enough necessary capital to adequately cover the projected costs is one of the more critical steps required to keep firms competitive. For each of the following parts, use your “Strategic Management Template.”

Part 1: EPS/EBIT Analysis

Prepare an EPS/EBIT analysis for your company by doing the following.

• Step 1: Refer to and follow the steps given in Chapter 8 of Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts, and Cases to learn how to complete an EPS/EBIT analysis.
• Step 2: Use the data you have compiled about your company throughout the course to assist you.
• Step 3: Determine whether the firm should use all debt, all stock, or a 50-50 combination of debt and stock to finance their market-development strategy.
• Step 4: Use your “Strategic Management Template” to complete the EPS/EBIT tables and chart.
• Step 5: In at least 50 words, provide a summary of the recommendations and implications of the EPS/EBIT analysis.

Part 2: Financial Statements

Prepare a projected income statement and balance sheet for the firm by doing the following.

• Step 1: Refer to and follow the steps given in Chapter 8 of Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts, and Cases to learn how to complete financial statements.
• Step 2: Apply current acceptable financing percentages afforded your CLC group’s company according to the Standard and Poor’s or Moody’s rating.
• Step 3: Make any other assumptions necessary for this segment of the project and have them approved by the instructor prior to completing this part of the assignment.
• Step 4: Assume that the firm needs to secure capital to implement the strategy your team proposes to recommend. The instructor will give you an amount if the team does not determine an amount that will accommodate the production of the required reports.
• Step 5: Use the information gathered above to prepare a projected income statement and balance sheet for the firm using your template.
• Step 6: In at least 50 words, provide an overview of the analysis for both the income statement and balance sheet.

Part 3: Cash Value

Determine the cash value of the company and create a valuation table by doing the following.

• Step 1: Refer to and follow the steps given in Chapter 8 of Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts, and Cases to learn how to determine the cash value of your company.
• Step 2: To construct this element of the project, it will be necessary for the team to make use of the financial information provided initially about the company as well as the information and data that you have discovered as a result of the research and assignments completed thus far in the course.
• Step 3: Calculate the financial worth of the firm based on four approaches: (1) the net worth method, (2) the net income method, (3) the price-earnings ratio method, and (4) the outstanding shares method.
• Step 4: Use your planning template to complete the company valuation tables.
• Step 5: In at least 50 words, provide an overview of the analysis for how you determined the cash value of the company. Calculate the average of the four methods. State a dollar amount of how much the company is worth.

Part 4: Projected Financial Ratios

Prepare projected financial ratios for your company by doing the following.

• Step 1: Refer to and follow the steps given in Chapter 8 of Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts, and Cases to learn how to prepare projected financial ratios.
• Step 2: If you completed the previous parts of this assignment, the template will generate projected financial ratios after the team converts the firm’s financial statements to the template format and then creates projected financial statements based on recommended strategies.
• Step 3: Compute the projected current ratio, debt-to-equity ratio, and return-on-investment ratio. Use your planning template to complete the company ratio tables.
• Step 4: In at least 50 words, provide an overview of the analysis for this part. Explain how the projected ratios compare to the prior year ratios. Explain the importance of this comparison.

Part 5: Retained Earnings

Create a retained earnings table by doing the following.

• Step 1: Refer to and follow the steps given in Chapter 8 of Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts, and Cases to learn how to complete a retained earnings table.
• Step 2: Use the data you have compiled about your company throughout the course to assist you.
• Step 3: Use your planning template to complete the company retained earnings table.
• Step 4: In at least 50 words, provide an overview of the analysis of the implications of the retained earnings for the firm.

Deliverables

• Submit the “EPS/EPIT Analysis: Tables and Chart.”
• Submit a summary in at least 50 words of your recommendations and analysis for the EPS/EBIT data.
• Submit the “Financial Statements: Income Sheet and Balance Sheet.”
• Submit an overview of the analysis in at least 50 words for both the projected financial statement and balance sheet.
• Submit the valuation table.
• Submit the overview of the analysis in at least 50 words of the analysis including the company’s worth. Calculate the average of the four methods. State a dollar amount of how much the company is worth.
• Submit the projects financial ratios tables.
• Submit the overview of the analysis in at least 50 words for the projected financial statements of the firm.
• Submit the retained earnings Table.
• Submit the overview of the analysis in at least 50 words for the retained earnings of the selected firm.
• Summarize in at least 250 words the importance of each of the five parts above in this assignment. Explain how each of the parts contribute to the firm’s success going forward.

Additional Information for the Deliverable(s)

• Submit your updated planning template with the completed tables and charts as well as a single Word document containing the analyses to the digital classroom.
• All analysis in the paper should be substantiated with a minimum of five relevant and credible sources in support of your content. Credible sources need to be relevant to the assessment and can include GCU Library databases, corporate websites and peer-reviewed sources, or those provided in the topic Resources.

General Requirements

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Scenario: Steven J. Trzaska was the head of LOreal USAs regional patent team, managing the procedure by which the company patented products. As an attorney barred in Pennsylvania, Trzaska had to adhere to professional rules of conduct established by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in addition to rules promulgated by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In 2014, LOreal S.A., the French parent company of LOreal USA, enacted a global quota of patent applications each regional office had to file each year. Employees were informed that failure to meet the quota would negatively impact their careers and even their continued employment at LOreal. Meanwhile, LOreal USA simultaneously enacted a rule to increase the quality of patent applications filed with the USPTO. The second rule led to a decrease in number of patents that could be filed with the USPTO. Trzaskas team would not be able to fulfill the patent quota. Faced with the problem, Trzaska informed management that his team would not file patents that they did not believe in good faith were patentable. Several weeks after Trzaskas meeting with the management, he was offered 2 severance packages that he did not accept. Finally, Trzaska was let go. Trzaska subsequently sued LOreal, alleging that he was fired for refusal to violate ethical rules that regulate the legal profession. Create a WH Framework chart, similar to Exhibit 2.2. Refer to L’Oreals core values and the primary values in Exhibit 2.3 to determine the guidelines to include in the WH Framework. Write an explanation of how you decided on the list of stakeholders and guidelines to include in your WH Framework. Address the following questions in your explanation: Which stakeholders did Traszka and the management of LOreal cater to? Why? What values did LOreals management choose when they made the decision to fire Trzaska? Why? You will want to address/correlate the ethical guidelines & the ethical values the company used in the decision-making process for this case with the decisions that were made by L’Oreal’s management and employees. These Ethical Guidelines: Public Disclosure, The Golden Rule, Universalization, along with, (Ethical values): Freedom, Security, Justice, and Efficiency are explained on page 24 of the text. These values are should be incorporated into your Framework Chart and further explained in your paper. Self-Reflection In addition to your explanation, address the following self-reflection questions: How did the WH Framework help you analyze the situation? Now that youve put together the framework, how does the WH Framework help managers with making business decisions? What type of decisions would the WH Framework chart help you make as a manager?

This assignment takes a literature review from a visualized set of ideas to doing more specific research (various sources) and then determining a review structure. Determining your literature review structure will require you to match your approach to the relational and contextual framework of your research goals. These will generally be discussed in your chapter 2 introduction, followed by the main body and conclusion to the literature review. Biblical integration IS required in this assignment.

Instructions

After reviewing the required material stated in this weeks module, address the following in a written paper using the current APA format:

Explain the expected results of searches from AI sources versus non-AI databases

Define Thomas (2025) 5 types of narrative literature review structures

Differentiate between the linear and recursive approaches to research

Describe the introduction, main body, and conclusion components of your literature review

-Introduction and conclusion sections should not be longer than 12 page each.

-6 references within 5 years; do not use any books other than the Bible and the books.

– There should be at least one instance of Biblical integration (at least one scripture reference) within the body of the paper, not in the abstract, introduction, or conclusion.

In-text citations are required to support your (a) statements, (b) points, (c) assertions, (d) issues, (e) arguments, (f) concerns, (g) paragraph topic sentences, and (h) statements of fact and opinion.

See attachments.

* Read the following sections of The Thinking Students Guide to College: * Chapter 5 (Tips 45, 46,47,48,50,51) * Chapter 8 (Tips 69,70,71,72) * After reading the assigned sections of The Thinking Students Guide to College, write a reflective paper about how you expect your graduate education experience to differ from your undergraduate learning experience. * Requirements: One and one-half to two full pages of text. No references are required, but the format of the submission should be APA-compliant. The reflection should address at least two tips from the Thinking Students Guide to College. I have attached both chapters in the files section