Business
Prepare a General Framework for the Ethics of Public Administration of an organization you are familiar with and discuss the codes of ethics and ways in which public administrators can combat corruption.
DISCUSS
NO – 1 MGT-324
Week 9: Interactive activity
9.1 Learning Outcomes:
Understand the meaning of budget and different types of budgets.
Examine the requirements for effective budgeting.
9.2 Action Required:
Watch the video at the following link
9.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
What is a budget?
What are the requirements for effective budgeting?
9.4 Instructions
Answer both questions in the test your knowledge section.
Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below
(Week9:Interactive learning Discussion)
DISCUSS-NO2
MGT-324
Week 10: Interactive activity
10.1 Learning Outcomes:
Examine the importance of ethics in public administration
10.2 Action Required:
Read the following statement:
“Ethics provides accountability between the public and the administration”
10.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
Does ethics provides accountability between the public and the administration”
10.4 Instructions
Answer the above question in the test your knowledge section.
Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week10:Interactive learning Discussion)
Assignment no 2 -MGT-421
Assignment Question(s):
Part 1 (Marks)
Examine each of the following charts (Figures 1, and 2) and respond to the questions below:
Figure 1
Figure 2
Source: General Authority of Statics
Evaluate each one in terms of:
title descriptiveness, (b) focal points, (c) information sufficiency, (d) ease of processing, and (e) takeaway message
Describe at least one effective aspect for each chart.
Make two recommendation for improving them.
Part 2 (8 Marks)
Persuading University Students to Start a Saving Account
Assume the role of a banker, create a message that targets university students and persuades them to start a retirement account.
Which psychological tools of influence (consistency, reciprocation, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity) did you use? Why?
Which kind of appeals did you use in this message? Would you consider this message to be catering more to emotion or logic? Explain.
Persuading Human Resources Manager for Promotion
Assume the role of an employee, create a message that targets the HR manger persuades him/her to promote you.
Which psychological tools of influence (consistency, reciprocation, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity) did you use? Why?
Which kind of appeals did you use in this message? Would you consider this message to be catering more to emotion or logic? Explain.
Reference:
(2017). Environment Economic Survey (Industry). General Authority of Statistic. https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/906
DISCUSSTION NO-3 MGT-422
10.1 Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this week’s activities, you will be able to:
Understand why social responsibility is essential to fundamental business strategy.
Articulate the types of corporate social responsibility.
Evaluate why socially responsible business is good business.
10.2 Action Required:
Watch the short video in the following link and answer the questions that follows:
Doing Good is Good for Business
10.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
With reference to the CSR pyramid, what are the implications of stopping at a particular pyramid level? For example, would it be all right, if a company took its sole responsibility to be the financial responsibility to its shareholders? Financial responsibility and legal responsibility? Do you agree that CSR is best represented by a pyramid? Why or why not? Can you think of a better way to graphically represent a company’s social responsibility?
10.4 Instructions
Answer the question in test your knowledge section.
Post your answer for the question in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week 10: Interactive learning Discussion)
Assignment NO-3 MGT-422
Read the case given and answer the questions:
Grace
The W. R. Grace Company was founded by, yes, a man named W. R. Grace. He was Irish and it was a shipping enterprise he brought to New York in 1865. Energetic and ambitious, while his company grew on one side, he was getting civically involved on the other. Fifteen years after arriving, he was elected Mayor of New York City. Five years after that, he personally accepted a gift from a delegation representing the people of France. It was the Statue of Liberty.
The W. R. Grace Company was founded by, yes, a man named W. R. Grace. He was Irish and it was a shipping enterprise he brought to New York in 1865. Energetic and ambitious, while his company grew on one side, he was getting civically involved on the other. Fifteen years after arriving, he was elected Mayor of New York City. Five years after that, he personally accepted a gift from a delegation representing the people of France. It was the Statue of Liberty.
In 1945, grandson J. Peter Grace took control of the now worldwide shipping company. A decade later, it became a publicly traded corporation on the New York Stock Exchange. The business began shifting from shipping to chemical production.
By the 1980s, W. R. Grace had become a chemical and materials company, and it had come to light that one of its plants had been pouring toxins into the soil and water underneath the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts. The poisons worked their way into the town’s water supply and then into the townspeople. It caused leukemia in newborns. Lawsuits in civil court, and later investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency, cost the corporation millions. J. Peter Grace retired as CEO in 1992. After forty-eight years on the job, he’d become the longest-reigning CEO in the history of public companies. During that time, he also served as president of the Grace Institute.
The nonfiction novel A Civil Action came out in 1996. The best-selling, awardwinning chronicle of the Woburn disaster soon became a Hollywood movie. The movie, starring John Travolta, continues to appear on television with some regularity. To honor the Grace Institute, October 28 was designated “Grace Day” by New York City in 2009. On that day, the institute defined its mission this way: “In the tradition of its founding family, Grace Institute is dedicated to the development of the personal and business skills necessary for self-sufficiency, employability, and an improved quality of life.” “Our Mission,” Grace Institute, accessed June 1, 2011, http://www.graceinstitute.org/mission.asp.
QUESTIONS
How are business leaders meant to organize the four responsibilities? Which ones take precedence over the others and why? b. Judging the man named W. R. Grace through the lens of CSR, how well did he respond to his obligations? Explain.
Judging the company’s more recent activities in the 1980s through the lens of CSR, how well did it respond to its obligations? Explain. The W. R. Grace company has a long history. From the information provided, what are some of the steps the company has taken to become economically sustainable? What are some of the steps the W. R. Grace company has taken to promote social sustainability? Explain.
DISCUSSTION NO-4 MGT-425 top urgent
9.1 Learning Outcomes:
Find some structured ways of dealing with complex managerial decision problems.
Explain simple decision models and management science ideas that provide powerful and (often surprising) qualitative insight into a large spectrum of managerial problems.
Demonstrate the tools for deciding when and which decision models to use for specific problems.
Build an understanding of the kind of problems that are tackled using spreadsheet modeling and decision analysis.
9.2 Action Required:
Read the following chapter of your Textbook.
Chapter 9: Linear Optimization
9.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
What are the properties of Linear Functions?
Explain the Data Envelopment Analysis.
9.4 Instructions
Answer both questions in the test your knowledge section.
Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week 9: Interactive learning Discussion)
Assignment NO-4 MGT-425
Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website
On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases”
From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
In the Search Bar of EBSCO find the following article:
Title: A Rough Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Supplier Selection under Vague Environment: A Case Study.
Author: Huiyun Lu , Shaojun Jiang , Wenyan Song, Xinguo Ming
Date: 26 July 2018
Assignment Questions: (Marks 15)
Read the above case study and answer the following Questions:
Question 1: Explain the decision-making approach discussed in this case study (250-300) words)
Question 2: Why supplier selection is a typical multi-criteria decision-making process involving subjectivity and vagueness? (250-300 words)
Question 3: Discuss the Sustainable supplier selection that is required for manufacturing companies. (250-300 words)
Question 4: Why Supplier selection decisions are important for most of the manufacturing firms? (250-300 words)
Question 5: What is your opinion about this study and how it is connected to course and beneficial for you? (250-300 words)
