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  • The Concepts of monopolistic competition and game theory

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    First: enter this in the link bar:
    http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073511447/student_view0/index.html
    Then on the right hand side click for Ch. 11, it will automatically bring you to the module. , click on origin of idea

    1.From the Chapter 11 “Origin of Idea,” identify those who gave us the concepts of “monopolistic competition” and “game theory”.

    2.Take a look at the default picture in the Chapter 11 “Interactive Graphs” section and indicate if you think it represents along run equilibrium for a monopolistically competitive firm.  Explain why or why not?  If you get in trouble with the graphs, just click on the “Instructions” button. In the event the online graph is not view able, the graph in Figure 11.1 on page 220 is identical and can be used in lieu of the online graph.

    3.What is the meaning of a four-firm concentration ratio?  Interpret what a four-firm concentration ratio of 60 % would mean.  Interpret what a score of 90% would mean for the four-firm concentration ratio. What are the shortcomings of concentration ratios as measures of monopoly or oligopoly power?  These concepts are discussed in the textbook reading for this week.

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  • Analyze the effective press release you selected and describe the features that make it successful

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    WK8 – PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING 12 QUESTIONS WITH ONE (1) PARAGRAPH SENTENCE

    Question 1:

    Analyze the effective press release you selected and describe the features that make it successful.

    Question 2:

    Analyze the ineffective press release you selected and describe how you would change it to make it successful by making at least two specific recommendations for improvement.

     Question 3:

    You are directing the public relations campaign for a business that you patronize regularly. In an effort to get a newspaper reporter interested in doing a story about your business, you plan to write a pitch letter to entice the interest of the reporter. Choose one type of pitch that you think would be most effective for this business. Explain in detail why you think this would be the most effective pitch type.

    Question 4:

    Choose any other type of pitch letter (see “The Pitch Letter” Attachment) and explain why it would NOT work for the campaign you are managing.

    Question 5:

    See attachment for short guide to selecting a venture capitalist. Analyze the six steps in the guide. Determine which step you believe would be the most difficult for an entrepreneur to complete. Support your answer.

    Question 6:

    Given your response to the previous question, construct a detailed plan for enacting the most difficult step of the “Guide to Selecting a Venture Capitalist” (See Attachment) Provide support for the steps in your plan.

    Question 7:

    Venture Capitalists (VCs) need deal flow, which often comes from angel investors. Yet, information in the textbook makes it seem like VCs often dislike angel investors. Examine the reasons for potential conflicts between angel investors and VCs. Propose two ways to mitigate these conflicts.

    Question 8:

    Determine three ways that conflicts between angel investors and VCs can impact the operations of a start-up company. Assess the impact that conflicts might have on the value of a business in its early stages.

    Question 9:

    Analyze the positive and negative causes and results of conformity, compliance, and obedience in a specific social environment.

    Question 10:

    Describe an event in which you (or someone you observed*) followed the group in an activity that you (or the other person) did not agree with. Explain the reasons for the behavior

    Question 11:

    Explain at least two (2) ways in which group decision making and behavior may influence one of the following groups: work team, social clique, or gang.

    Question 12:

    Compare and contrast two (2) leaders – one (1) positive and one (1) negative – in at least three (3) ways, and discuss the social influence each type of leader has on the others in a specific group. Support your response with specific examples.

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    guide_to_selecting_a_venture_capitalist.wk8_.pdf

    pitch_letter_attachment.wk8_.pdf

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  • Recognizing Employee Contributions

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    You are the HR manager of a relatively new retail company that has both retail stores and Internet sales. Your company is steadily growing in revenue and profitability. The company realizes that in order to retain the solid, highly productive workforce it currently has in place, it is important to enhance the base compensation and benefits package offered to the employees. The company currently offers a basic compensation program and only federally mandated benefits. Employee surveys suggest the compensation and benefits program may be out of date. Employees are beginning to consider leaving the organization.

    1. Propose two (2) methods an HR professional could use to determine incentive pay. Specify the principal manner in which the proposed methods take into consideration individual, group, and company performance. Justify your response.
    1. Examine the core legal requirements affecting employee benefits in today’s competitive environment. Determine the legally mandated benefits that the company must currently offer to its employees.
    1. Recommend at least three (3) additional benefits that the organization should consider providing to its employees. Suggest at least two (2) important concepts that a company must consider when designing benefit plans. Provide a rationale for your response.
    1. Assess the efficiency of common techniques for effectively communicating compensation and benefit plans to employees. Support your answer.
    1. Suggest two (2) ethical risks of making incentive pay a large portion of employees’ total compensation. Propose two (2) recommendations for ways the company might mitigate or reduce these risks.
    1. Must use at least three (3) quality “peer reviewed” academic resources in this assignment. Reference APA Guide V6.

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  • Performance Management Paper

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    Imagine that you are the HR manager for a retail store. Your store sells clothing, shoes, handbags, linens, etc. The company recently had its worst quarter, and you want to improve employee performance through sales of the merchandise and through offering excellent customer service. The employees are less motivated, due to the recent negative media attention the company has been getting about its earnings. You want to implement a new performance management system, modify the employees’ current behavior, and link compensation directly to performance.

    1. Thoroughly create a job description for a retail sales associate, which includes the most significant components necessary to describe the job both internally and externally.
    1. Thoroughly create an organizational behavior modification (OBM) plan to define three (3) key behaviors that are required for successful job performance as a retail sales associate. Suggest the significant ways that your plan will benefit the organization.
    1. Thoroughly specify two (2) ways that you would measure whether current employees exhibit the key job performance behaviors. Thoroughly propose two (2) methods that you could use to inform employees of the new performance standards.
    1. Thoroughly provide feedback to employees. Include the frequency with which the feedback will be provided. Thoroughly proposed two (2) actions company leaders should take to reinforce positive employee behaviors.
    1. Thoroughly outline a plan with two (2) methods of providing feedback to employees. Include the frequency with which the feedback will be provided. Propose two (2) actions company leaders should take to reinforce positive employee behaviors.
    1. Examine at least three (3) key legal and ethical issues that could potentially impact the performance management system. Support your response with specific examples of the identified issues’ possible effects on the performance management system.
    1. Must use at least three (3) quality academic resources that have been peer reviewed in this assignment. Refer to APA Guide v6
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  • Market that is Monopolistic competition

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    As a TEAM, identify a market that your team believe is “oligopolistic” or “monopolistic competition.”  Your text can help you with this.  You can NOT pick a product that was selected last week or this week by yourself, classmate or another team (well not if you want credit for it anyways).

    Tell us why the market you selected meets the criteria of an oligopoly or monopolistic competition.  Then tell us what that means for rational business price and production decisions.

    Evaluate the result in (2) from perspectives of efficiency and equity drawing upon price/cost margins for your explanation. Click on the highlighted terms above if you are unclear on this.You may want to also consider issues involving the stability of collusive cartels.

    Please start with your assigned study teams.  If you find yourself solo after Tuesday midnight (C.S.T.) because of team inactivity, you may join with another solo classmate.As always, you will profit by reading and responding to your fellow budding economists’ postings.

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  • Personal Statement – Economics major

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    What is your intended major? Discuss how your interest in the subject developed and describe any experience you have had in the field — such as volunteer work, internships and employment, participation in student organizations and activities — and what you have gained from your involvement.

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  • Allocative efficiency (origin of the idea)

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    First: enter this in the link bar:
    http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073511447/student_view0/index.html

    Then on the right hand side click for either ch 9 or 10 , it will automatically bring you to the module

    After completing your readings in the text go to the Online Learning Center and examine the interactive graphs for each chapter.  Upload to the Week 4 Dropbox your answers, in your own words,  to the following:

    Using the Chapter 9 “Origin of the Idea,” identify who gave us the concept of “allocative efficiency” and explain what that phrase means in your own words.
    Explain how a firm in Pure Competition determines how much to produce and how long run equilibrium is affected by the long run cost structure in such an industry.
    Using the “Monopoly” model found in the Chapter 10 “Origin of Idea” module, explain why a monopoly will never operate in the inelastic portion of the demand curve?
    What are the underlying purposes of the antitrust policy in the United States?  These concepts are discussed in the textbook reading for this week.

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  • Competition and Monopoly Markets

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    Discussions: You are asked to identify a particular industry (non-government, that is) that meets the criteria for Pure Competition or Monopoly.  Explain clearly why you think the industry is in Pure Competition or is a Monopoly and evaluate it from perspectives of efficiency and equity. You may post to both categories, but are required to only select one.  Read the Discussion Instructions for Week 4 and identify the market characteristics, productive efficiency, allocative efficiency, and equity in the particular industry that you selected.

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  • HR Training Class

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    Imagine that you are a member of the HR department of a small retail company and upper management has asked you to create a new employee customer service training class for all new employees.
    Write a six to seven (6-9) pages paper in which you:
    1.Justify the use of a needs assessment of your company’s proposed employee customer service training, stressing five (5) ways in which such an assessment would expose any existing performance deficiencies.
    2.Develop a customer service training implementation plan and determine the method of training (i.e., presentation, discussion, case study, discovery, role play, simulation, modeling, or on-the-job training).
    3.Justify why you selected the training method that you did.
    4.Propose two (2) ways to motivate an employee who has no interest in attending a training class.
    5.Develop a survey to collect feedback from the employees who attend the training.
    6.Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other 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.

    8 Pages

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