Week 4 Discussion 1 Economics 100

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Exploring Monopolies and Oligopolies

Reply to these prompts using the company for which you currently work, a business with which you’re familiar, or a dream business you want to start:

With your selected business in mind, determine if it is competitive, monopolistic competitive, an oligopoly, or pure monopoly. Explain how you drew your conclusion about its market structure.
How does the business/firm in this industry determine the price it will charge for the products or services it sells?

Week 1: Faith Integration Discussion

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Week 1: Faith Integration Discussion
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Prompt
Our faith is an integral part of our lives.  This includes both our personal and professional lives.  How does your faith speak into organizational improvement?  From the perspective of your faith why is it important to constantly and consistently improve?

Engagement
Post a substantive response to the prompt(s) by clicking Reply below by 11:59 PM on Tuesday of this week. Include information from the weekly readings to support your response. Provide a substantive comment to a minimum of one peer by clicking on Reply below fellow student posts by 11:59 PM on Thursday of this week.

Evaluation
The quality of your posting will be assessed, not your viewpoint or beliefs. To view the grading rubric associated with this discussion, click the Options icon (3 dots) in the top right corner of the page, and select Show Rubric.

Week 1: Content Disc

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Week 1: Content Discussion
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Prompt
Turn to the Chapter 1 Discussion Questions on pages 38-40 of your Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence text. Respond to one the following questions:

Option 1: Discuss how either good or poor quality affects you personally as a consumer.  For instance, describe a recent experience in which your expectations were met, exceeded, or not met when you purchased goods or services.  Did your experience change your regard for the organization and its product?  How? [Discussion Question 1]
Option 2: Choose a product or service to illustrate how several definitions of quality can apply simultaneously. [Discussion Question 5]
Option 3: Cite some examples from your own experience in which you felt that service quality was truly top-notch, and some in which it was not.  What do you think might be some of the fundamental differences in the infrastructure and management practices of these organizations? [Discussion Question 16]
Engagement
Click on Reply below to post your initial thread to this discussion by Thursday 11:59PM of this week. Include information from the weekly readings to support your response. You may write an essay of 300-500 words that responds to one of the questions or record a 1-2 minute video in this forum or on YouTube using your APU NetID and password and link the video in this discussion.

Read the Discussion Board posts of at least five other students.  Post a thoughtful reflection of at least 100 words for two other students.by  clicking on Reply below their posts by Saturday 11:59PM of this week. Alternately, you may prepare a 1-minute video response to two other students by inserting a video in this discussion or uploading it to YouTube and post the link in the Discussion Forum. Please respond to those students who provide feedback on your post , as a “back-and-forth” discussion can be fruitful for learning.

Evaluation
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Problem Statement/ Research questions

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Write a paper (750 – 1,000 words) in which you articulate a potential problem statement for your dissertation research and pose several potential research questions that could address the problem statement. Include the following in your paper:

A clearly articulated and focused potential problem statement for the dissertation study you might conduct. What is the area of research you intend to explore? ( Social Media and effects on young adults )
What are the key concepts of your focus? What is the context of the problem? Who are the subjects of this research focus?
A research-supported rationale for exploring the problem. What is the need or defined gap as supported by at least four current and relevant sources of research literature?
Four potential research questions that could guide your collection of data in addressing the problem statement. Reflect upon the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the problem statement to gain a broader perspective on the problem statement.
What analytical questions need to be asked related to the data that must be collected to address the defined gap? Articulate these ideas into research questions that focus on the relevant data that needs to be collected.