Author: chris

Singapore

To extend its international presence, Martinetti International has formed an expansion strategy focused on acquiring other like enterprises outside the European region. Martinetti, a subsidiary of a publicly owned parent company, is based in Rome where it enjoys an established brand name and superb reputation. As part of Martinetti’s globalization strategy, it has acquired Sand Coast Resort Group located in the heart of Chinatown, Singapore. Both hotel enterprises share common business values and excellent reputations, and offer high-end luxury accommodations for the local businessman and international traveler. The acquisition offers Martinetti ownership of the Sand Coast brand, trademarks, and contracts for the 9 Sand Coast hotel holdings. With this acquisition, Martinetti gains a footprint in Southeast Asia and expands its holdings 27 percent. Sand Coast has strong brand recognition in the region and has a portfolio that includes both hospitality services and travel agencies. Martinetti, a cross-culture organization, is comprised of approximately 65 percent Italian employees with the remaining representing 7 other countries and languages. San Coast also has a cross-cultural workforce with 88 percent being Singaporean of Chinese, Malay, and Indian ethnicity. Chinese is the official language.

As a member of the Martinetti management team, you have been selected to meet with the Sand Coast Resort leadership team to discuss Martinetti’s approach to market the acquisition in both countries. Your task is to convince the Sand Coast team that Martinelli has a sound strategic communications plan. Please discuss the promotional goals and cultural factors you would discuss with Sand Coast and what aspects of the recommended promotional strategy you would address.

Assignment Guidelines

In 5–7 paragraphs, address the following:
Why do you think your 3 selected crime scene responsibilities are more important than the rest? Explain in detail.
What would happen to a crime scene investigation if your 3 selections are conducted poorly or not at all during the investigation? Explain.
What do you think can be done to ensure that your selections are conducted properly? Be specific.

You are the lead investigator for a suspicious fire in the Novandon Fur Warehouse, which was cold storage for mink and sable fur coats. The fire scene investigative team tells you that the fire started in several points simultaneously, and it appears the telephone line that monitors the fire detection equipment has been cut. The fire was fully involved by the time the fire department arrived. The warehouse and the contents are a complete loss. You must consider the direction that your investigators must take to determine the possible motives for this fire. Direct them to look in at least 3 directions for a motive. Keep in mind the type of warehouse this was.

Concerning the owner of the warehouse, what documentation would you get to help you establish potential motives? Why?
When interviewing the owner of the warehouse, what specific threats might you ask about? Why?
How would the owner’s responses be helpful? Explain.

Resource: Personnel Management Matrix

Complete the matrix to identify and describe various personnel management activities in the public sector. Provide a brief paragraph to describe each activity, for a total of one page.

Prompt one: Stakeholder Engagement and Roles in Strategic Planning:

Organizations seek to develop collaborative support for new strategies and roadmap to exploit new trends to identify and establish, new opportunities through the use of meaningful stakeholder engagement. Though it is not linear rather iterative process in which an organization learns and improves its ability to perform meaningful stakeholder engagement, developing relationships is a mutual respect in place of one-off consultations. The early engagement is beneficial to outline the likely opportunities, risks, conflicts and constrains within the organization, and reinforce partnership.

As the organizational leader, the following aspects might be considered in terms of stakeholder management to establish an engagement process which will promote cross-cultural relationship and fostering widespread habit of tolerance and compromise within the organization built on common values and vision.

Internal alignment of the concerns in expectations, roles and outcomes: This stream of action will help to appreciate a multitude of viewpoints, pressures and business objectives the organization has.
Building trust with stakeholders: Building the level of trust in relationship aided by understanding their viewpoints or motivations through avoiding not be too quick to judge.
Building transparent environment: recognizing and articulating the tone of participation will play a pivotal path to encourage viewpoints from across the population spectrum
Allow representatives from all your stakeholders: This includes gender, race, age, class, education or religion attributable to diversified opinions flow.
Organization’s culture: This will have an impact on how stakeholder engagement occurs (i.e. autonomy for local adaption and local relevance).Therefore assessing its culture is important for identifying enablers and barriers to your stakeholder engagement activities.
Assessing past non-productive engagement behavior will help the organization to learn from past experiences. It is important to collate this information from both the organization and stakeholder viewpoints.
Recognize the interplay the influences between leadership, and capabilities in creating strategies, processes and procedures.
Perform effective communication.

Choose 3 different approaches to leadership and write a 1-2 page paper that covers the following:

Write a 1 paragraph introduction to briefly explain what the different theories of organizational leadership are.
Discuss each of the 3 chosen approaches to Organizational Leadership.
Be sure to include in your explanation some of the benefits or situations best suited for each type.
Provide 2 sources.

Business question

Choose an example of a global value chain and an example of domestic value chain. Compare and contrast the key challenges that the managers would face. Then, propose the ways to confront these challenges.
Eevaluate how each value chain you chose from Part 1 of this discussion can be described from a pre- and post-production service perspective. Provide at least two examples for each perspective.

Comparison of Three Sculptures

Review p. 52-53 in Ch. 3, pp. 140-141 in Ch. 7, & pp. 463-464 in Ch. 19 of A World of Art.

Examine the sculptures of Donatello’s David (Early Renaissance), Michelangelo’s David (High Renaissance), and Bernini’s David (Baroque).

Refer to the Khan Academy Smart History videos for further study of these sculptures.

Write a 300 to 350 word comparison of the different styles of the David sculptures by these three artists.

Unit III Research Paper

Chapter 5 discusses climate change as well as “Climate-Gate” (see page 136 in the textbook). Although there is a consensus among climate scientists that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to global warming, an incident such as “Climate-Gate” indicates that there are those who are skeptical of the data and of the claim that humans are the main cause of global warming.

For this assignment, write a paper that analyzes the climate change debate. Your paper should concentrate on the position of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on global warming, the position of climate change skeptics, and finally your own position on the question of the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on the Earth’s climate.

Be sure that you are using credible sources for your paper. You must include at least three sources, not including your textbook.

Unit III PowerPoint Presentation

Imagine that you work for your state’s environmental protection agency in the waste management division. Your boss has asked you to create a presentation on household hazardous waste (HHW) to give to community groups in an effort to encourage people to dispose of HHW properly.

Create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the environmental and health risks of household hazardous waste. Use the notes section in PowerPoint to narrate your presentation. Your presentation should address the following topics:

 What is HHW?

 Why is it important to dispose of HHW properly?

 What are some best practices that people should follow to dispose of HHW properly?

 What regulations cover HHW?