September 2018

Drawing upon the readings for this week’s class, answer the following questions about the Southwest Airlines case. In your answers, make sure to repeat the specific question being addressed or keywords from it, and then provide your response. Provide specific data from the readings and/or the case to support each answer.

Describe the key traits that have enabled Southwest’s success over the years.
Explain the importance of a successful power transition for a company that has such a strong and identifiable culture.
How have Southwest’s customers and role in society helped earn SWA recognition as an organically excellent company?
How does Southwest’s employee hiring and promotion methodology differ from traditional models of talent acquisition and growth?
Formatting
Style: Your paper can take a variety of forms (e.g., bullet points, short prose).
Length: Your paper should be approximately 2-3 pages in length. Points will be deducted for papers that exceed the specified length (see rubric below for more details).
Adapted APA: Please adhere to the USC Bovard College Adapted APA Style Guide (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for headers, spacing (double-spaced), and citations. You can also use the USC Bovard College Writing Essentials Checklist (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as a guide for improving your writing.
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Rubric
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According to Engels’s confession, what were the central goals of the communists, and how did they aim to achieve them?
2. How does Engels define the proletariat, and what sets it apart from other types of workers?
3. How does Engels’s confession explicitly link communist ideology to industrialization? What place did revolution have in this ideology?

Answer the following questions in essay form 500 words:

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The question prompt is: Based on the materials from class (see attached below), how convincing do you find the evidence and arguments for the costly signaling model. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this evidence? To what degree are you convinced that this model explains an important component of human social behavior? What additional evidence (experimental, sociological, anthropological, etc) would be particularly helpful for evaluating this model?

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Assignment essay question: What does Abina and the Important Men tell us about African history? How? Why? Why does it matter? Your essay posits a clear thesis supported by logical, credible, detailed evidence from our readings (and other sources as needed). Finally, ensure that your thesis addresses the question in bold print.

• Please employ the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) format for your citations

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Examine the profound changes brought about by the discovery of agriculture. How did this seemingly simple discovery change the course of human history? Describe the transition to a completely settled agricultural society. Analyze the causes and effects agriculture had on ancient peoples of the Middle East. Note: Within the paper include evidence from Jared Diamonds documentary “Guns, Germs and Steel”. Be sure to support your analysis with evidence.

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Select an organization that you are familiar with (ideally one that you are working for or have worked for). Provide a brief organizational profile (environment, relationships, and strategic situations).
Then, apply the applicable Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to this organization (you do not need to purchase current year criteria—instead, please see the attached documents under the Assigned Reading and Preparation Activities section for previous year criteria that you may use).
Provide responses and propose/defend evaluation scores for applicable Criteria.
While it is likely that the organization you are assessing will not apply for the Baldrige Award (and you may find that they likely would not be competitive for it), provide critical analysis on what actions are necessary to improve (and become competitive) in each of the applicable Criteria areas.
This ~10-12 page (double-spaced) paper should be prepared using APA formatting (including references in APA format).
No abstract is needed; however, an executive summary is a required section of your submission.
A minimum of 12 references, beyond your textbook, are expected.

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The course project aims at providing students with a better understating of strategy formulation and business environment analysis.  After completing your project, you should be able to identify and apply the main techniques used to analyze competition in a business environment.

Introduction

You are a group of young dynamic team of graduates, and have been hired to tackle some serious issues related to strategy.  You have to analyze the issue(s), identify root cause(s), conduct a literature review on how same/similar/related issues have been tackled, and then propose solutions based on your understanding and may be in line with the literature review you have conducted.

1. You need to select an organization based in Qatar, preferably large size, either national or international company.
2. You are required as a group to answer 5 questions following the study of the selected organization.
3. The Team size must be between 3 to 5 students as maximum.
4. The completed project must be typed, printed and handed by the team leader to the instructor either on or before the deadline. In addition, an electronic copy of the project must be uploaded to the Turnitin programme in the blackboard on the deadline specified.
5. The total number of pages are recommended to be around 15 pages. The cover page MUST include full names of all members, IDs and title. Both the cover page and the contents’ page as well as appendices are not counted as part of the 15 pages stated above.
6. You need to cite all references that you used in your project both in the text (ONLY surname & year) as well as at the end of the project (full citation), MUST not be less than 10 references.
7. The total mark for the project is 20, 15 of this will go to the written exam whereas 5 marks for the presentation.
8. The font size for the text must be 12 and 14 for titles and sub-titles using Times New Roman.
9. Presentations will be assessed individually, hence each group member/student is responsible to prepare and present certain slides- no more than 10 minutes- that exhibit your contribution to the group project.
10. The presentations date and time would be announced later towards the end of the term. Each student will present part of the project.

Brief

You start with introducing the topic of your project, which is about the strategic management, its importance, applications, realities, challenges … etc, and then describe/introduces the company.  Following the introduction you are required to perform a literature review, 60% of literature review should be of the refereed journal articles.  There should be at least 10 relevant pieces from literature in your review.  Following the literature review, you have to answer the following 5 questions:

Q1. Visit the selected firm’s Website and then identify the following:

• Its vision, mission statement, strategic goals, and values. Evaluate and show your understanding of each one of them
• Conduct the internal analysis showing its strengths and weaknesses

Q2. Provide examples, facts and events, and reactive or proactive actions as evidence on what actions were taken by a firm to improve its performance. For examples, the actions that can be taken by the different business functions may include improving performance through better customer service, innovative design of the products, increase market share, reducing cost, new products, new markets, exploiting opportunities, negotiating deals with suppliers/distributers … etc.

Q3. Use Porter’s Five Forces Model to analyze the nature of competition in the selected firm’s industry or market. Provide evidences and examples to show how the theory is bridged with practice.

Q4. Explain which of Porter’s generic strategies are utilized? How they are utilized? What tactics are used for implementing them? The table presented below can help you identify the tactics that can be used for implementing Porter’s generic strategies. List pitfalls and limitations associated with utilizing Porter’s generic strategies in the selected firm.

Q5. Give an outlook for competition over the next ten years in the selected firm’s market, focusing on potential new entry, demand, and buyers. What is your advice as a strategist for a firm to thrive in a turbulent environment and compete globally?

Format

As a guide your report should include the following sections and address the following issues:

• Executive Summary
• Introduction and problem description
• Review of the relevant literature.
• Solutions to the 5 questions
• Recommendations.
• References
• Appendices (if any)

Submission

The Deadline of the project submission is 11^th of Nov. 2018- both hard and soft copies.

Final Report Marking Schema

1. Presentations

2. Written Report

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Use the Marxist Theory to analyse the issue of FOOD INSECURITY in California.******
Essay Requirements:
*Introduction must capture the reader’s attention and interest on topic.
*Essay must have a clear thesis which makes a claim on the topic
* Body paragraphs must clearly develop the ideas of the thesis and paragraphs must have sufficient evidence to prove the thesis. You can add more outside sources, experiences of people living in food insecurity, resent statistics, etc.
* Conclusion must reinforce the thesis and provide a vivid ending and possible solutions to this issue.

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I​‌‌‌‍‍‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍‌​n this assignment analyse a production system (service or manufacturing based) with which you are familiar; a shop, restaurant, transport system, doctor’s surgery are all possible examples. Your tutor will give some guidance on your choice of organisation/case study. Your assignment should address the following questions: 1. Critically appraise how well the inventories and/or assets within the production system are currently managed. 2. Provide a detailed illustration of the key operations involved within your chosen production system presenting​‌‌‌‍‍‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍‌​ a logical operational flow. 3. From the illustration in point two, identify two points where the organisation’s delivery system may fail to align its operational performance measures, clearly demonstrating your reasoning and understanding behind this. 4. Discuss how a lean approach could be utilised in the production system to potentially reduce the failings discussed in point three. 5. Identify three key findings discussing the extent to which the lean approach chosen may assist the production system with aligning its operational performance meas​‌‌‌‍‍‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍‌​ures.

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Essay: What is the geography of capitalism and what specific spatial patterns and processes characterise uneven development? To what extent is Karl Polanyi’s writing a continuation and development of certain ideas within the Marxist tradition?

How does Silvia Federici’s focus on the sphere of social reproduction as a source of value-creation and exploitation change the historical account of primitive accumulation?

Critically assess Thomas Piketty’s account in Capital in the Twenty-First Century of the equalising process of knowledge and productive technology between less advanced and more advanced states.

Assess the strengths and weaknesses of Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin’s arguments about the political economy of American empire.

Within the transnational state thesis of William Robinson, assess the degree to which the state today is a mere transmission belt for the diffusing aspects of global capitalism.

How would you analyse and evaluate the importance of counter-spaces of resistance in contesting global capitalism in the twenty-first century?

To what extent does J.K. Gibson-Graham’s critique of capitalocentrism enable the supplanting of capitalist hegemony?

Word limit: 2,000 words

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