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This assessment is based on the Bank of Shanghai case study. You are not expected as part of this assignment to show in-depth understanding of banking practices but to draw reasonable conclusions based upon the content of the case study and your own experience of banking services.

You are a management consultant and have been approached by your bank to consider the attached report. They would like to achieve similar improvements and would like to know your recommendations for areas to improvement and for you to plan the implementation of the strategic quality changes which are required. Your report should:

1 Evaluate the success of existing operations management and quality processes in place to achieve organizational objectives. Remember, reasonable assumptions as to what their processes are likely to be are acceptable but you will need to describe these. This should include an explanation as to why both operations management and quality management enable an organization to achieve their strategic objectives. (Suggested word count 1,300 words)

(Assessment Criteria 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2)

2 The implementation of the new software appears to have generated great business success at the Bank of Shanghai.

a) For your chosen organisation, identify an appropriate strategic quality improvement which aligns with organisational objectives to improve performance (400 words) and

(Assessment Criteria 5.2)

b) Outline a plan to as to how this improvement could be achieved and a quality culture embedded. You should give consideration to:
• The organisational objectives that the change would help meet
• Current and proposed systems / process / technology
• Strategic Objectives
• Targets to be achieved
• Physical and Human Resources required (ie tools and systems)
• The effect of the change to stakeholders and steps needed to be taken to manage this
• Training required
• How the effectiveness of the change would be evaluated
• How you would monitor the implementation of the change including identifying the systems that you would use to monitor the implementation
• Evaluation of how the change would impact on other functions and departments, even those not directly affected
(Suggested word count 1,500 words)

(Assessment Criteria 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3)

c) Evaluate the likely outcomes of this change including how you would monitor the effects of the change through performance measurement etc
(Assessment Criteria 5.1)

You should structure your assignment as a formal report using sub headers rather than just answering tasks. You are encouraged to make good use of appendices for supporting information such as flow diagrams, copies of old procedures etc. You will need to introduce the organization and advise the operating context within an introduction along with advising the aim and objectives of your report.

Critically analyse the evidence from the research literature (academic journal articles)
on the financial market impact of credit ratings actions.

Your answer must focus on at least two of the following: (i) equity markets; (ii) bond
markets; (iii) credit derivatives; (iv) the foreign exchange market; (v) cross-country
spillovers.

Topic I: Literature Review
Answer EITHER (A) OR (B):
(A)
Critically analyse the evidence from the research literature (academic journal articles)
on the financial market impact of credit ratings actions.
Your answer must focus on at least two of the following: (i) equity markets; (ii) bond
markets; (iii) credit derivatives; (iv) the foreign exchange market; (v) cross-country
spillovers.
(B)
Answer BOTH parts (i) and (ii).
(i) Critically analyse the evidence from the research literature on split credit ratings.
Your answer should include a focus on how financial markets deal with split ratings.
(50% weighting).
(ii) Critically analyse the evidence from the research literature on the relative timing
of rating agencies’ actions i.e. the ratings lead-lag literature.
(50% weighting).

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You are a new associate at the law firm of Dewey, Chetum, and Howe. John, a former researcher at PharmaCARE, comes to your office. He has concerns about PharmaCARE’s use of AD23, one of the company’s top-selling diabetes drugs. Two (2) years ago, after PharmaCARE’s research indicated that AD23 might also slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, John and his team of pharmacists began reformulating the drug to maximize that effect. In order to avoid the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) scrutiny, PharmaCARE established a wholly-owned subsidiary, CompCARE, to operate as a compounding pharmacy to sell the new formulation to individuals on a prescription basis. CompCARE established itself in a suburban office park near its parent’s headquarters. To conserve money and time, CompCARE did a quick, low-cost renovation.

CompCARE benefited from PharmaCARE’s reputation, databases, networks, and sales and marketing expertise, and within six (6) months had the medical community buzzing about AD23. Demand soared, particularly among Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs patients. Seeing the opportunity to realize even more profit, CompCARE began advertising AD23 directly to consumers and marketing the drug directly to hospitals, clinics, and physician offices, even though compounding pharmacies are not permitted to sell drugs in bulk for general use. To circumvent this technicality, CompCARE encouraged doctors to fax lists of fictitious patient names to CompCARE. PharmaCARE sold CompCARE to WellCo, a large drugstore chain, just weeks before AD23 was publicly linked to over 200 cardiac deaths.

As CompCARE and its new parent company enjoyed record profits and PharmaCARE’s stock price approached $300 per share, reports started surfacing that people who received AD23 seemed to be suffering heart attacks at an alarming rate. The company ignored this data and continued filling large orders and paying huge bonuses to all the executives and managers, including John, whose wife recently died from a heart attack after using AD23.

John has come to you with an internal company memo describing the potential problems with AD23, and information describing the company’s willingness “roll the dice” and continue to market the drug.

Your senior partner has asked you to write a memo outlining the following issues for review by the senior partners.

In preparation for this assignment, use the Internet or Strayer Library to research examples of intellectual property theft that occurred within the past two (2) years.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety and examine whether PharmaCARE violated any of the issues in question.
Argue for or against Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) marketing by drug companies. Provide support for your response.
Determine the parties responsible for regulating compounding pharmacies under the current regulatory scheme, the actions that either these parties or the FDA could / should have taken in this scenario, and whether PharmaCARE could face legal exposure surrounding its practices. Support your response.
Analyze the manner in which PharmaCARE used U.S. law to protect its own intellectual property and if John has any claim to being the true “inventor” of AD23. Suggest at least three (3) ways the company could compensate John for the use of his intellectual property.
Summarize at least one (1) current example (within the past two [2] years) of intellectual property theft, and examine the effect on that company’s brand.
Analyze the potential issue surrounding the death of John’s wife and other potential litigants against PharmaCARE as a result of AD23.
Specify both the major arguments that John can make to claim that he is a whistleblower and the type of protections that he should be afforded. Justify your response.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze and assess legal and ethical restraints on marketing and advertising, relative to both consumers and organizations.
Analyze and evaluate laws and regulations relative to product safety and liability.
Explore copyright laws and intellectual property rights and assess how well they balance competing interests.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.
Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanics.

Need homework help, it was due yesterday so if I can get this done within the next couple of days that would be great

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Must be 1 to 2 pages.

This course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course. The final Key Assignment is due in Week 5.

As a health care department manager, you have 10 employees under your supervision. The attendance policy at your facility requires employees to uphold good attendance. If an employee is late more than 5 times in 1 month, the department manager must begin corrective action. One employee has been late to work 10 times this month. How will you handle this employee? Discuss the following in your paper:

Describe what is involved in corrective action.
Describe a plan of corrective action for this employee.
Would an employee be motivated or empowered to improve after corrective action is implemented?

Assistance with questions

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Question !

In preparation for discussing the importance of critical thinking skills, please read Chapters 1 through 3 of Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills, as well as the following articles: “Critical Thinking and the Challenges of Internet,” “Common Misconceptions of Critical Thinking,” and “Making Decisions in an Uncertain World.” Critical thinking gets you involved in a dialogue with the ideas you read from others in this class. To be a critical thinker, you need to be able to summarize, analyze, hypothesize, and evaluate the new information that you encounter. For this discussion

Define, describe, and explain the principles of critical thinking.
Search the Internet, media, or the Ashford University Library, and find an example of good, careful (critical) thinking, and explain why you think it exemplifies strong critical thinking skills. Post a link or reference information for that source, describe the content, and explain how it is a good example of critical thinking.
Search the Internet, media, or the Ashford University Library and find an example that lacks good, careful (critical thinking). Post a link or reference information for that source, describe the content, and explain why you think it demonstrates poor critical thinking skills.

Question 2

At this point in the course, you should have a rough draft of your Final Research Project. In preparation for this discussion, make a list of what you learned most throughout this process, as well as difficulties you may have encountered along the way. This is the moment in which you can think about what you have learned in the development of your research and share with the class. Share your progress on the Final Research Project, including the following:

Identify the Final Research Project topic. What influenced you to make this choice?
Describe your rationale for selecting that topic in relation to your academic and career pursuits.
Provide your thesis statement.
Discuss interesting finds and/or frustrations that you have encountered in your research.

A report of no more than 3,000 words (not including title page and references and appendix) on the recent performance of a private bank of your choice.

Your report should cover:

 the main features of the market
 the financial features of the private bank
 products & services on offer
 past and future strategy

You may need to include some background information (economic / political / historical), sufficient to enable the reader to fully understand the main body of the report, but try to make your report contemporary and forward looking. Assume that your CEO has asked you to present this report on a private bank and he/she needs contemporary information.

The assignment question reflects the core themes addressed during the ABP HRM module. The aim of the assignment is to encourage students to combine theoretical and practical aspects of HRM by referring to organization case study examples when assessing the core theories and themes in the HRM academic literature. In particular, students are expected to engage in critical analysis of relevant HRM academic literature, from sources recommended below, in the module outline, at the end of lecture slides, or sources derived from their own wider reading. It is not enough to rely on lecture notes or non-academic internet sources.

SELECT ONE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY CASE (with operations in its home country and at least one other foreign host country) with which you are familiar – one that you can access relevant HRM information about (for example, one you have worked for, had an internship in, an organisation familiar to family/friends, or that you have been able to find detailed information about in journal articles, books, newspapers, internet). Or you can make up a fictitious multinational company case!

Building on our labour market planning/supply & demand exercise in session 3, imagine you are a senior human resources (HR manager) responsible for HRM strategy in a multinational company in the following two contrasting scenarios:

a. In an economic boom (with strong economic growth), as a HR manager what HR strategy and practices would you pursue if demand for workers in your company greatly exceeded supply of workers?
b. Conversely, in an economic crisis (e.g. deep recession like in 2008), as a HR manager what HR strategy and practices would you pursue if supply of workers in your company greatly exceeded demand for workers?

In completing the assignment, you are expected to address the following issues:

1. Strategy: firstly, briefly summarize the possible impact of the above two contrasting labour market/economic scenarios on the multinational organisation’s overall business strategy and then its overall HR strategy.

2. HRM policies and practices: secondly, analyse the possible impact of the above two contrasting labour market scenarios on the various specific components of HRM policy and practice in the multinational organization under the four main HR functions covered in the module: resourcing the organization, human resource development (HRD), employment relations, managing performance and reward. The list of HR policies and practices that might be assessed under these four areas include: talent management, recruitment and selection, organizational culture, training and development, employee voice and participation rights, pay and reward, performance management and appraisal (these might be referred to by other labels).

3. Another theme to be discussed in your assignment is how different organizational, sector/industry, country, and international contextual circumstances might influence the impact of the above two labour market scenarios on HRM policies and practice in your multinational case company.

4. In conclusion, can you briefly recommend any possible improvements in strategic HR management in your chosen multinational case to better prepare for changes in labour market supply and demand relating to different economic cycles of booms and crises?

Culture in International Management

Understanding culture in the international business environment can be complex and sometimes crucial to the success of a business venture. Even multinational companies with a strong ethos of standardisation need to take into account national cultural differences.

Compare and contrast the culture within your own business environment with that of an organisation from a different country. Use the models laid out by Trompenaars and Hofstede to help structure your discussion.

Word limit: 2,500 – 3,000 words

Feedback
Normally, written and oral feedback will be given within two weeks after the submission of the written document.

Marking Criteria
The assignment will be marked in accordance with the attached marking criteria.

You will be allocated a particular International Marketing topic:

1. Prepare a critical review of the literature for the topic allocated to you in class (40%),
2. Demonstrate how the literature is confirmed/disconfirmed by practice, this should include examples and cases (20%)
3. Provide a brief synopsis of the major themes emerging from the literature with regard to the allocated topic. (40%)

The written report should take the form of a 3000 word critical literature review, with an applied section. It should include detailed references for the topic area and other supporting materials. The report should include examples and cases of theory applied in practice.
Harvard referencing as per UBS guidelines must be used
Group elements will also be assessed for evidence of group co-operation.