Implementing strategies

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XYZ, Inc. is a publicly owned regional supermarket chain which operates 27 stores located in suburban
areas surrounding the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. In the same market there are two other chains
that compete with XYZ. The three chains each possesses approximately 1/3 of the existing market
generating gross sales that have continually grown, but constant price competition has driven profit margins
for all three stores to the lowest levels in 12 years.
XYZ is located in highly visible, high trafficked areas. Their customers are generally in the upper quadrant in
terms of income. Again, the same is true for the competitors, although XYZ does in fact control the most
visible locations. For example, of the three competitors, the five stores which have the highest average
automobile traffic each day, all are owned by XYZ. Three of these locations exist adjacent to large office
parks housing high-tech companies. In all three cases, over 65 per cent of the employees in these
companies are professionals with incomes averaging $85,000 per year.
Unlike their competitors, however, XYZ’s physical plant is aging. 19 of the present stores were originally
constructed 30 years ago, long before “just on time” deliveries became a norm. The average size of each
market is 39,000 square feet. (There is less than 3 percent variance in the square footage among all XYZ
locations.) Of that footprint, 15,000 square feet are devoted to storage of inventory. Given present supply
chain abilities, the stores only need 5,000 square feet of space for inventory.
The two competitors both entered the market at least 15 years after XYZ. They were in a position to
anticipate a smaller inventory space requirement, so their stores are about 29,000 square feet, but have the
same selling area in square footage as XYZ. As a consequence, their sales per square foot are higher than
XYZ.
XYZ has maintained its profit margins by reducing the number of staff. For example, the company
eliminated the use of baggers at the checkout counters in all but the peak sales times. The result of this
decision has resulted in customer complaints, and most recently to a loss of sales to competitors.
Presently the Board of Directors and CEO are planning a timetable for store renovation. Their initial plan is
to begin renovation of the 5 stores which boast the highest trafficked locations. During the planning for the
renovation the CEO asked the Board to step back and consider a new strategy that would create a
sustainable competitive advantage over its competitors. The Board agreed to the following.
The Company will position itself as the only “one-stop shopping” grocery chain in the region. In addition to
the full array of grocery and pharmaceutical items, XYZ wants to rent office suites to a variety of personal
service companies providing such services as insurance, law, investment, banking, health, and daycare.
Shoppers and clients will enter the grocery store to access various businesses.
The goal will be to create myriad “destinations” beyond grocery shopping. For example, a service such as
the daycare center would cause users to be physically present in the store more frequently, making grocery
shopping at that location a more efficient use of their time.
Discuss at least one concept from each of the readings in Lesson 11 that will be important in implementing
the Board’s strategy. In each case:
Describe the nature of the concept discussed in each of the readings; and,
Explain to the Board the reason why each concept would be important in developing an implementation
plan designed to put this strategy into place.

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4 Peer Responses – Due In 6 Hours

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Respond to four (4) of your classmates postings.

Rosies Post:

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) purpose is to assure, both in advance and by periodic reviewing that appropriate steps are taken to protect the rights and welfare of the human participating as subjects in the research. (US Food and Drug Administration Institutional Review)  The IRB has a responsibility to approve or disapprove all activity that is obtained and that is given enough information to provide notified consent. All research activities involving human subjects must be reviewed and receive a written, unconditional approval from the IRB before performing research. The IRB seeks to protect researchers as well from adverse consequences of research with human subjects so that they comply with federal regulations and guidelines.

Researchers should avoid exposing participants to physical or mental danger. If the potential for such distress exists in a research investigation, then the participants should be fully informed, the potential research findings should be sufficient importance to warrant the risk and no possibility should exist of achieving the results without the risk. (Monette, Sullivan, & DeJong, 2017) When a participant gets involved with a research, all risk should be considered prior to any testing could be performed. Before the research is considered, the participant should be aware of all risk and the benefits that may result from the research. The participant should be presented a legal contract and disclosure of the agreement of what the participant may endure through the research or better yet what the participant may be exposed to.

Reference

Monette, D., Sullivan, T. & DeJong, C. (2017). (9th ed.). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu

. Retrieved from http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm126420.htm

Janices Post:

To protect a research participant from harm, the IRB uses procedures which are consistent with sound research design and do not unnecessarily expose subjects to risk; and when appropriate, by using procedures already being performed on the subjects for diagnostic or treatment purposes.  The IRB makes sure that the risks to subjects are reasonable in relation to anticipated benefits, that the selection of subjects is equitable, informed consent will be sought from each prospective subject or the subjects legally authorized representative, informed consent will be appropriately documented, when appropriate, the research plan makes adequate provision for monitoring the data collected to ensure the safety of subjects, and when appropriate, there are adequate provisions to protect the privacy of subjects and to maintain the confidentiality of data.

The basis of the screening research application is for the IRB to determine whether the research is exempt and if it is not to gain permission to conduct the research.

The researcher responsibilities in terms of the IRB guidelines are getting informed consent, telling potential research participants all the aspects of the research.  Avoiding deception, tell participants the true hypothesis.  The Right to privacy, give false names and false places to protect the privacy of the research participant.  Researchers should also avoid exposing participants to physical or mental distress or danger.

Research

Monette, D., Sullivan, T & DeJong, C. (2017). Applied social research (9th ed.). Retrieved from

Janices Post:

The identity and face of the students being video taped should be blocked out as a right in protecting their privacy.  On the way to school it is noted that some children change into different clothing to what they left home in.  These children are the one’s being laughed at or are the loners on the walk to the school bus stop.  It is while walking home you see the changes in behavior, some students making fun of others just to impress their friends.  You also see the quiet individuals being pushed to the back of the line, sometimes causing them to sit in seats where they are slapped at the back of their heads by the bullying individuals.

Long-term bullying can be detrimental to the health and mental welfare of those being bullied.  Some victims become so angry that it causes them to eventually lash out, which sometimes will result in body harm or even death to the bully.  School counselors, teachers, and other staff members have a ethical obligation to create a safe environment for the school children.  Some children are already going home from school to unsafe conditions, so school should be a safe haven for them.  Another ethical factor is confidentiality.  Students should feel like they could come to you and confide in you, if you are going to help them, you should know how to help without exposing them to the public, information should only be released on a need to know basis.  School children also have the right to privacy, they have the right to determine under what conditions you give others access to your personal information, researchers even though given permission, the researcher has to abide by their wishes to maintain their privacy

Markaylas Post:

The profession I currently work in is within education. I currently work with students preschool thru 5th grade.I have witnessed a lot of bullying. Bullying of student on student and student on adult.  Ethics is the study of what is proper and improper behavior, of moral duty and obligation (Drewry, 2004). The text describes social researchers, ethics involves the responsibilities that researchers bear toward those who participate in research, those who sponsor research, and those who are potential beneficiaries of research. It also covers many specific issues. According to the text there are basic ethical issues arise in social science research which are informed consent, deception, privacy (including confidentiality and anonymity), physical or mental distress, problems in sponsored research, scientific misconduct or fraud, and scientific advocacy. Another issue that arises often is protecting vulnerable clients and withholding treatment for research purposes. Regarding this particular proposed research I believe privacy would be the main concern at hand. When dealing with children they are not legally eligible to consent to be on video capturing their social interactions. You would need permission from their parents to be able to video tape their kids. Within ethics the right to privacy is one of the key values and ethical obligations mentioned at the beginning of this chapter. According to the text privacy refers to the ability to control when and under what conditions others will have access to your beliefs, values, or behavior. I believe attempting to virtually videotape the kids by collecting social research raises the issue of privacy and confronts investigators with the dilemma of threats to privacy are warranted by the research conducted. You will also face deception because you didn’t collect the proper consent.  It can be argued that their confidentiality was exposed because for example there could be a student whose family is in witness protection and your research exposed them to danger. When dealing with minors and not getting  consent you run the risk of a lot of ethical issues and implications. 

Reference 

Monette, D., Sullivan, T. & DeJong, C. (2017). Applied social research (9th ed.). Retrieved from  

Visual rhetoric (ad/commercial) or a visual piece

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Include a heading (name, class, assignment, date) on the upper left-hand side of the first page.
Title centered. Last name and Page number in the Header. The entire essay should be typed double-spaced with each new paragraph indented 1/2″ or 5 spaces from the left margin. Use Times New Roman 12
pt font. ❖ Must include textual evidence/analysis from the primary source. May include a maximum of
two outside sources for background or support. ❖ Must include a works cited page at the end. You may use
Noodletools/Easybib for this. ❖ Must NOT plagiarize. Plagiarism is representing the ideas, writings, or
research of someone as your own without acknowledgment. See details on how to give others credit for their work.

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2 Peer Responses – Due In 4 Hours

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Guided Response: Respond in a substantive way to at least two of your peers. Choose at least one point from your peers response that impacted your thinking on this subject, and explain why and how that particular comment resonated with you or caused you to think in a different way. Compare the implications for human personality development identified by your peers to those you identified, and suggest alternative conclusions where appropriate. Challenge ideas with which you disagree, and support your arguments.

Ashleys Post:

Looking at the research that was performed on the rats in The Great Rat Mother Switcheroo (Webster, 2013) displayed motherly love by grooming the rats affectionately, which affected the rats on a genetic process level called epigenetics.  The pups were interchanged among the high-licking and low-licking mothers throughout this experiment.  The pups that belonged to the high-licking mothers were placed with the mothers who had low-licking behaviors.  The pups who were born and raised by mothers with the high-licking behaviors became low stress adults while pups born and raised by mothers with low-licking behaviors became high stress adults.  These qualities were transpired down to the off-spring with a reoccurring cycle.

Children who have encountered neglect or abusive parents will carry high stress in their adult life.  When a person encounters an early trauma, the balance of emotional arousal could possibly overcome the mind that is being developed and also may alter the developmental structure of the brain (Lecci, 2015).  Consequences of living with high stress can lead to mental illness and maladaptive behaviors.  According to Weaver et al (2004), the hypothesis that maternal care alters DNA methylation, these changes are stably maintained into adulthood (p.2).  This is extremely important information for us to assist those who have experienced a traumatic childhood that resulted in maladaptive behaviors or mental illness that carried over into later life.  In efforts to make changes, therapy and dieting is a start.  Applying one without the other will not be sufficient enough.

The proposal of how effectively the mother loves her child could possibly influence a child on a genetic level demolishing the nature vs. nurture dispute.  In my opinion, it is presented that there can be positive or negative results on one another.  Epigenetics is a system that turns our genes on and off.  The process works by chemical tags, known as epigenetic marks, attaching to DNA and telling a cell to either use or ignore a particular gene (Weaver et al, 2004).  In other words, genes are controlled due to the social surroundings we are in. 

References

Lecci, L. B. (2015). . Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu

Weaver, I. C. G., Cervoni, N., Champagne, F. A., DAlessio, A. C, Sharma, S., Seckl, J. R., Meaney, M. J. (2004). . Nature Neuroscience, 7(8), 847-854.

Webster, M. (2013, January 10). [Blog post]. Retrieved from

Leannes post:

The Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior phenomenon utilizes rats to examine how pup licking, grooming, and the way nursing took place may alter their offspring. Researchers believed that the epigenomic state of a gene could be formed with behavioral programming (Weaver, et al., 2004). Results have shown that mothers that lick and groom often as well as nursing with an arched back, tend to have offspring with DNA methylation differences. These are differences that they do not see in offspring that whos mothers do not display these techniques. Science has found that mothers that had low licking behaviors, produced pups that became highly stressed in their adult years and even passed this down to their pups (Webster, 2013). Results showed that the differences could be changed with the use of cross fostering. This was observed when they switched between a rat mother that did not lick and groom often to a rat mother that frequently groomed. The rats that were licked and groomed often grew to be less stressed and more likely to be a high licking parent.

           Researchers have found that according to the new implications of behavioral epigenetics, it is believed that experiences in our past and in our ancestors past, can leave molecular scars on our DNA (Hurley, 2013). Science suggest that individuals that grow up with alcoholic or abusive parents, continue to harbor the memories and pain associated with it. Some individuals look at this as a molecular residue that causes a bump in the structure of our genetics. Research shows that you can inherit predispositions to things. For instance, if your grandfather was neglected and abused as an infant, you may inherit a predisposition towards depression or even aggression. This can also work in the opposite. What if your mother was adopted at infancy? What would her adoptive parents have to do with her personality development? If at a young age the mother began being cared for in a loving nurturing home, her epigenetics will change to reflect such care. In the beginning we are exposed to different experiences, then we react to those things, and as we get older we have a better understanding to deal with those experiences. We do not always have to react to the same situation in the same way. We can alter our behaviors to help create a new out come.

           Researchers believe that what really matters is what your genes are doing. It is believed that when we move in and out of different environments, our genes adjust to these changes. Our genes can be turned on and off according to stress, nutrition, and exposure to toxins. The interaction between our environment and our genes are believe to help create characteristics throughout our lives. It takes both nature as well as nurture to create our personalities.

References:

Hurley, D. (2013). . Discover 34(4), 48-55. Retrieved from

Weaver, I. C. G., Cervoni, N., Champagne, F. A., DAlessio, A. C, Sharma, S., Seckl, J. R., Meaney, M. J. (2004). Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior. Nature Neuroscience, 7(8), 847-854. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn1276

Webster, M. (2013, January 10). [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.radiolab.org/story/261176-the-great-mother-switcheroo

My post:

Question 1

The study conducted on the rat in the The Great Rat Mother Switcheroo vividly indicates that the mothers love is highlighted by the maternal grooming in rats, which impact the rat on the genetic level via the procedure referred to as epigenetic (Weaver et al. 2004). The pups were swapped among the high licking rat mother and the low licking rat mother in the experiment. Later the rats with the low licking biological mothers were exchanged with the high licking rat mothers. The pups of the mother with the high licking behaviors were raised to become less stressed people who later became high licking mothers.” Contrarily, the pups raised or born of the mothers with low licking behaviors became highly stressed as an adult who later passes this behavior to their offspring as such continuing the cycle of the low licking behaviors (Webster, 2013).

Question 2

Kids who are neglected grow up to be stressful adults. Maladaptive, as well as mental health illness in adults who had an abusive childhood, is high compared to those who had a caring mother. One may inquire if the children of the low lick mother are bounded to remaining stressed adults or whether they can reprogram their genes by neglecting undesired genes and ad adapting or focusing on the desired ones alone. The hypothesis that maternal care alters DNA methylation, these changes are stably maintained into adulthood (Lecci, 2015); therefore, it is good news to hear that there is the ability to turn around traumatic events which can lead to maladaptive behaviors and mental health illness. To make changes, therapy and a good diet can be prioritized; however, therapy alone cannot produce satisfactory outcome.

Question 3

The assertion that how well the mother loves the kid can influence children based on genetic level shattering the nature vs. nurture discussion because it seems that every individual can possess both negative and positive impacts on the other (Lecci, 2015). Epigenetics is a system that turns our genes on and off. The process works by chemical tags, known as epigenetic marks, attaching to DNA and telling a cell to either use or ignore a particular gene (Weaver et al. 2004).

References

Lecci, L. B. (2015). . Retrieved from

Weaver, I. C. G., Cervoni, N., Champagne, F. A., DAlessio, A. C, Sharma, S., Seckl, J. R., Meaney, M. J. (2004). . Nature Neuroscience, 7(8), 847-854. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn1276

Webster, M. (2013, January 10). [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.radiolab.org/story/261176-