For Phyllis Young – Lion Essays

Thank you Phyllis.
Course Objectives
Analyze marketing decision support systems and their impact upon marketing management systems.
Analyze the appropriate marketing strategies to apply at each stage of the product life cycle.
Apply critical thinking skills to analyze business situations.
Assess the major influences in current consumer and organizational buying decisions.
Construct a strategic marketing plan.
Describe the key factors, such as demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural developments, that affect marketing strategies.
Discuss the opportunities provided by technology for businesses.
Interpret the challenges a company faces in developing new products in today’s global economy.
Recognize situations that present potential legal and ethical issues and develop solutions for those issues.
Week 1 HCM618 DB Assignment due ASAP
This assignment has 3 parts.

Review the Terminal Course Objectives, accessed by clicking on the “Course Information” tab at the top of your screen, scrolling down to the “Course Objectives” and then selecting View class objectives. How will accomplishing these objectives support your success in management? What risks or challenges might a manager encounter if they have not mastered these objectives? Explain.
Societal marketing is on the rise, as more companies consider the value proposition of their image beyond just the features and benefits of a product or service. Societal marketing takes into account issues such as the environment, fair trade, and the overall betterment of society. Select a company that exemplifies giving back to the communities in which it operates. Visit its corporate Web site to find out as much as possible about its contributions to society.
Choose a product which you would like to improve upon; determine its current position in the life cycle. Find current two industry leaders related to this product and share each mission statement available from each of their websites.

 

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Executive branch leadership and bureaucracy in the White House under the Trump administration

INSTRUCTIONS: Write a paper on executive branch leadership in the White House and executive branch bureaucracy in the Trump administration. For this paper, students will first need to read and review at least two links/sections on governmentisgood.com, and The War on Government, Then conduct additional research from academically legitimate and evidence-based sources. This should include government data, empirical data, and/or scholarly and journalistic research to support your work.
So the big questions in this paper are: Presidents may have as many as 4,000 senior or leadership posts to fill – about 30% require Senate approval – to manage the executive branch bureaucracy. This is a critical and constitutionally required part of the job of the president. What is the pattern and nature of executive branch and senior personnel management in the Trump administration and what are its political and policy consequences? Put differently, how do you characterize the presidents approach to managing the executive branch bureaucracy and what are the consequences of this approach? Is there anything highly unusual or unprecedented going on here?

1. The paper should focus on President Trumps appointments and actions with regard to the most critical leadership positions. These include (a) Secretary (head) and very senior posts in the 15 Cabinet level departments (including inspectors general); (b) key officials in the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and White House staff (positions such as chief of staff, OMB director, National Security Advisor, head of Council of Economic Advisors); (c) heads of independent agencies (such as the DNI, CIA, SBA, EPA); and (d) US ambassadors (State Department) who represent the US in foreign countries.

2. Given this focus on senior personnel in the executive branch bureaucracy, students can examine these Trump nominees and executive branch senior officials as follows:
How many and which positions were and remain vacant?
How many and which appointments have been withdrawn? And why?
How many senior officials have resigned or been fired, and why?
How many and which positions are merely acting appointments, even though the posts require Senate confirmation?

NOTE: Students are encouraged to use charts to present and summarize much of the information in these bullets.

3. Among Trumps appointees and nominees, provide, where appropriate, specific information on individual nominees and officials that appear to:
have unsatisfactory qualifications and inappropriate experience, and/or demonstrated too little competence.
be involved in corrupt, illegal, and/or unethical conduct.
appear to serve private and/or their own interests at the expense of the public interest.

4. What are the likely consequences of this level of executive branch senior official vacancies, credentials, withdrawn appointments, firings, resignations, and turnover? Be as specific as possible. Remember our earlier definition of public policy as an ongoing process where a government acts, does not act, and/or chooses to transfer to a non-governmental actor the opportunity for action about a societal issue.

5. How, if at all, does this pattern of personnel management affect governance and presidential power in the Trump administration? How persuasive, how accurate is the claim that drain the swamp is in fact an updated version of what Douglas Amy (governmentisgood) calls an attack on the federal government indeed, an attack on our constitutional democracy? Give reasons that explain your answer.

Students will find that the following websites and sources are especially useful in developing their essay: American Foreign Services Association, American Review of Public Administration, Axios, Ballotpedia, BBC, Brookings, CNN, Forensicnews, Fortune, The Hill, NBC, NPR, The New York Times, Politifact, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Time, USA Today, USNews, Washington Post, Wired, and even Wikipedia. Students should also find that searches of relevant Google images might be helpful.

Papers must be typed 12 font and 1.5 or double spaced, with a text in the range of 1,200–1500 words plus information placed in charts. Papers should additionally have title and footnote/reference pages. There should be no fewer than five references above and beyond assigned materials and reasonably current (since 2015). Papers MUST include footnotes or endnotes where appropriate. All formats are acceptable, as long as they are used consistently. In all cases, understand UC plagiarism rules and adhere to them. Provide a reference when you use someones ideas (this is perfectly okay). USE YOUR OWN WORDS whenever possible. No paper should use more than one IMPORTANT quotation, and that quotation should be no more than 3-4 lines.

annotated bib(various topics)

I need  1page of Annotated Bib for each of the following sources(topics).

1.Hunsberger, M., et al. Low-Fat Diets in Obesity Management and Weight Control. Managing and Preventing Obesity, 2015, pp. 91107. Crossref, doi:10.1533/9781782420996.2.91.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282482772_Low-fat_diets_in_obesity_management_and_weight_control

2. Processed Meat Causes Cancer, World Health Organization Says

https://time.com/4086823/processed-meat-red-cancer-who/

3. Schools Serve Education With a Side of Junk Food

https://news.gallup.com/poll/13099/schools-serve-education-side-junk-food.aspx

4. Welcome to the Jungle Meatpacking then and now

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This year is the centennial of Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, the story of a Lithuanian immigrant newly arrived to the United States who seeks work in Chicago’s gruesome meat-packing industry. Remarkably, the book still seems applicable as social criticism 100 years later. Once again, migration is reshaping the North American working class, labour’s crisis has left workers defenseless against management, and meat packing is today a low-wage, dangerous job. First published in 1905 in a Kansas-based socialist newspaper, The Appeal to Reason, a year after a national strike of tens of thousands of meatpacking workers was crushed, Sinclair’s vivid story reached a broader audience when issued in book form in 1906. A runaway bestseller, The Jungle has remained in print almost ever since and has been translated into dozens of languages. It has influenced generations of readers, including historian Howard Zinn, who has acknowledged its powerful hold on him when he read it as a youth. Many readers of The Jungle have been moved by the novel to a lifetime of socialist commitment. When we first meet the central character, Jurgis Rudkus, he is marrying his sweetheart. He is young, muscular and optimistic, greeting every problem with the pledge, “I will work harder.” Character and physique, however, do not bring Jurgis success. Dealt blow upon blow in the giant plants, he steadily loses his dignity, his confidence, his strength, his job, his family and his hope.

GUTS

Middle-class readers were so upset by The Jungle that they wrote scores of letters to President Theodore Roosevelt. But their indignation was not for Jurgis, the personification of “the workingmen of America” to whom Sinclair dedicated his book. Upset readers, rather, were nauseated by The Jungle’s revelations about the meat-packing industry’s unsanitary practices. “I aimed at the public’s heart,” wrote Sinclair, “and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

The Jungle exposed the processing of diseased, condemned livestock, the disguising of malodorous meat with dyes and bleach and the grinding-up of sawdust and rat feces into sausages. Public outrage resulted in Congressional passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, both signed into law by Roosevelt in 1906.

Today The Jungle is remembered for its guts, especially by readers who encounter the novel in adolescence. It boldly championed labour’s cause, encouraged tolerance toward immigrants, challenged a system that puts money before human rights, espoused socialism and prompted political reform in a way few successful American novels can match.

But The Jungle was not flawless. While Sinclair was sympathetic to the plight of Eastern European immigrants, he portrayed African Americans, who appear in the novel mainly as strike breakers, in the flagrantly racist manner typical of his time. This racism was both a moral failing and a strategic mistake; successful labour organizing, especially in meat packing and poultry, has always demanded interracial solidarity.

Another defect of the novel is its preaching and sentimentality, which have left it open to criticism from literary critics, who fault the book for being a political tract masquerading as fiction. That charge, however, is even more applicable to some of Sinclair’s later works. Sinclair lived to be ninety, and he published a book for practically every year of his life. None of them quite recaptured the immense literary and political success of The Jungle, published when the author was merely 28 years old.

By mid-century, it seemed that the conditions depicted in The Jungle lay in the past. A militant, interracial industrial union was born with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and meat packing was thoroughly unionized by the 1940s. “There is now adequate inspection of meat products,” Sinclair assured readers in 1956, “and the workers in all the stockyards now have strong unions and are able to protect their rights.”

THE JUNGLE RETURNS

In the 1960s and 1970s, however, plant relocation to rural and southern facilities and competition from low-wage, unionhostile meat producers destroyed Chicago’s oncevast Packingtown and the working-class Polish and Lithuanian community known as “Back of the Yards.” With the exception of some fighting locals like P-9 in Austin, Minnesota, unions failed to face this challenge head-on. Labour’s presence in meat packing is ever more tenuous. Most recently, Tyson – the world’s largest meat packer – managed to bust Teamsters Local 556 in Pasco, Washington, one of the strongest and most militant locals in the industry.
In the 1980s and 1990s Latin American, Asian and African newcomers replaced the descendants of eastern and southern Europeans as the source of cheap labour at Tyson and other lean-production companies. Critics charge that companies deliberately recruit undocumented workers whose precarious status renders them vulnerable to exploitation. (If The Jangle were published today, Jurgis and Ona Rudkus would be Jose and Rosa Ramirez.) This year, a Human Rights Watch report entitled Blood, Sweat, and Fear (www. hrw.org/reports/2005/ usa0105) detailed widespread illegal union-busting tactics by meat-packing employers, hazardous and unsanitary working conditions, and heavy intimidation of immigrant workers.

Cheap meat is one result, but consumers are paying a high price for it. As deregulation diminished governmental standards and inspection, managers have ratcheted up line speeds, increasing the splattering of fecal and stomach matter and spreading food-borne illnesses like E. coli. This deadly threat, described by journalist Eric Schlosser in his popular book Fast Food Nation, is microbial and invisible, but every bit as much a consequence of profit maximization as the unwholesome practices exposed by Sinclair a century ago. If there is a silver lining, it is that this time around the interests of labour and consumers cannot be easily divided. Speed-up and unsanitary working conditions – two critical issues for meat-packing workers – are directly linked to consumers’ health concerns. To secure public health, labour’s need for safe, adequately paid, dignified work must be met. If the United States wants to soothe its upset stomach, this time around it will have to show more heart.

5. Teens concern for privacy when using social networking sites: An analysis of socialization agents and relationships with privacy-protecting behaviors

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260167259_Teens’_concern_for_privacy_when_using_social_networking_sites_An_analysis_of_socialization_agents_and_relationships_with_privacy-protecting_behaviors

6. Agri-Food Markets towards Sustainable Patterns

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339897509_Agri-Food_Markets_towards_Sustainable_Patterns

7. Identifying food marketing to teenagers: a scoping review

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335249510_Identifying_food_marketing_to_teenagers_a_scoping_review

8. Impact of processed foods on health

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340885334_Impact_of_processed_foods_on_health

9. What are ultra-processed foods and are they bad for our health?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed-foods-and-are-they-bad-for-our-health-2020010918605

10. Ultra-processed food and adverse health outcomes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333483796_Ultra-processed_food_and_adverse_health_outcomes

11. Oscar Mayer Ads Are Pure Baloney: The Graffitist as Critic of Advertising

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275793324_Oscar_Mayer_Ads_Are_Pure_Baloney_The_Graffitist_as_Critic_of_Advertising

Singer on Our Duties to Aid the Distant Needy

Present and evaluate Peter Singers argument for the claim that our duties to aid the distant needy are more demanding than we may have thought. Which moral principle(s) is/are doing the work in his argument? How does he justify this/these principle(s)? What conclusion does he reach? Finally, is Singers position more correct than Richard Millers more moderate view concerning duties of beneficence and rescue? Why or why not? Do you think that we are entitled to spend most of our money on ourselves, even though so many people around the world need our help?