In the first half of the assignment, you will prepare for Walmart to operate in a foreign market. You will need to do the following:

Walmart Analysis for Leadership

Analyze at least two leadership models and/or styles to determine which one will be more suitable for leading employees and for responding to stakeholders in a country outside of North America.
Determine the leadership competencies that would be beneficial to you as a leader in the selected foreign market. You will choose Peru, New Zealand, Philippines, Egypt, Czech Republic, or the United Arab Emirates for your analysis. Compare and contrast concepts of cultural leadership according to how they can be applied in the country that you have selected.

Determine the leadership skills and practices that should be used to foster team and organizational success.
In the second half of the assignment, you will conduct an analysis of the country where you have decided to expand operations. The analysis must include:

The rationale for country selection based on demographic and economic data. The analysis should inform leadership about the country’s culture based upon GLOBE’s nine dimensions of culture as argued in Lumen (n.d.). Incorporate each of the nine dimensions of culture in an analysis that will be hypothetically presented to Walmart leadership. When using the nine dimensions, current information about the culture of the selected country must be used.

The purpose of this preliminary analysis is to make sure that the leadership team understands the complexities of expanding into the country that you have selected.

In your paper,

Analyze the demographic and economic data of a country where Walmart is currently not operating
Conduct an analysis for Walmart leadership about the country’s culture based on the GLOBE’s nine dimensions of culture.
Explain how Walmart’s leadership skills and practices may lead to organizational success.
Formulate a model of cultural and ethical leadership as it applies to Walmart at a global level.

350 word add references

Why don’t competitive industries produce at the rate of output that maximizes industry profits, as a monopolist does?

What circumstances might cause a monopolist to charge less than the profit-maximizing price?
Initial post (due Wednesday) Peer Response (please respond to at least two of your peers by Sunday
Text book Managerial Economics & Business Strategy, 10th EditionBy Michael Baye and Jeff PrinceISBN 13: 9781260940541Publisher: McGraw Hil

Part A Questions:

In this task, you will choose one case study from the attached “Case Studies” document. You will analyze the case study using the tool from Section 2 (systems archetypes tool) to draw conclusions about a system’s relationships, connections, properties, and subsystems. Choose one of the systems archetypes to help you understand the problems in the case study. You will submit a completed systems archetypes tool and a completed analysis that includes the problems in the case as understood through relationships, connections, properties, and subsystems. It will be important to address any changes that occur throughout the case, as shown by the selection of a particular systems archetype.
Note: You must use a systems archetypes tool.

Requirements:

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A. Analyze one of the case studies from the attached “Case Studies” document by doing the following:
1. Analyze one of the given case studies using one of the systems archetypes tools.
2. Submit a completed systems archetype tool.
3. Summarize the problems in the case study as understood through its relationships, properties, and subsystems as a result of the changes that occur.
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, csv, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z

Part B Questions:
In this task, you will choose one of the given complex case studies from the attached “Case Studies” document. You will analyze the case study using the attached “Four Steps Tool.” You will submit the completed “Four Steps Tool,” which includes an analysis of the problems in the case study and your proposed best solution. Your analysis will include the solution’s strengths and challenges; its superiority over other rejected alternatives; and its anticipated impact on the overall system.
Requirements
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

A. Analyze one of the given case studies from the attached “Case Studies” document  by doing the following:
1. Evaluate the case study using the attached “Four Steps Tool.”
2. Submit the completed “Four Steps Tool,” which includes the following:
a. your proposed best solution and the solution’s strengths and challenges
b. the solution’s superiority over other, rejected alternatives
c. the solution’s anticipated impact on the overall system
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, csv, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z

 

Assignment 1

Listen to the three versions of the folk/hillbilly song “Wildwood Flower.” Describe what you hear in each in terms of instrumentation, timbre, tempo ,and any other notable differences. You can enter your response directly into the text submission box (no attached documents).
For further assistance completing assignments, please refer to “Assignment Submissions”Links to an external site. Canvas help video.
Carter Family
The Carter Family – Wildwood FlowerLinks to an external site. Flatt and Scruggs
Flatt and Scruggs – Wildwood FlowerLinks to an external site. Duane Eddy
Duane Eddy – Wildwood FlowerLinks to an external site.

Assignment 2

Music Important To You
Write a little bit about music (an artist, album, or song) that you find especially interesting or has personal importance to you. Try to use some of the terminology from this week to describe what you hear that is interesting (timbre, groove, harmony, etc.). If discussing lyrics, think about how they reflect that tie period/year, etc (don’t give a summary of the lyrics). Provide a link or embed the video into your response.

Example 1 Alex
One of my favorite songs is called People Everywhere Still Alive by a band called Khruangbin they are a three-person band (Electric, Base, Drums) the way would describe their music is worldly. This song in particular has few lyrics and mainly the lead guitar player Mark Speer creates a melody that changes throughout the whole song, almost as if his melodies were lyrics themselves telling a story. Watching the way he plays this song so casually is very hypnotizing People Everywhere Still Alive

Example 2 Israel

One of my favorite bands is Arcade Fire,  love Pink Floyd too but  don’t think I know enough to put into words why they’re so great. Arcade Fire’s first album Funeral, is my favorite of theirs even after listening to their entire discography. One of my favorite songs of theirs is the first song from Funeral, Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)Links to an external site.. Lots of firsts so far.
The first thing that stuck out to me when  had first listened to the song was it’s use of changing melodies, the main melody that we hear on the beginning of the song shifts and morphs throughout. Starting at it’s probably simplest form with what sounds like a piano and a distorted electric guitar, then separating both instruments to play the melody again alone, then changing entire into a sung version of the melody in the last third of the song. Then to end back with the guitar more in focus with remnants of the piano continuing.

Personally speaking, the way to song musically progresses creates this sort of feeling of almost realization? It’s not simply just adding or taking away instruments, it feels a lot more purposeful in how it was constructed. Starting off with a feeling, then ending on a similar but changed one. think it feels nostalgic, despite not having even become a fan of the band up until a few years ago.

020 Connection: Integrating Sources
Instructions

STEP 1 VIEW THE FOLLOWING LECTURE ON INTEGRATING SOURCES
STEP 2 READ THE FOLLOWING ABOUT INTEGRATING SOURCES
If you have your book, read pages 473 to 506 in the Longmantextbook.
STEP 3 READ THE FOLLOWING HANDOUT
Quotations.pdf

STEP 4 COMPLETE THE WRITING ACTIVITY

Pick two quotes from the Malcom X article to add to your Writing Project

1. Think what can and will support your ideas. Choose carefully and wisely.

Then add the quotes to your draft.
Introduce the quote, “state the quote”, add citation. Write a few lines of analysis, connecting it to your ideas.
Follow the guidelines set forth in the Quotations handout above.
STEP 5 SAVE AND SUBMIT YOUR ASSIGNMENT.
Submit your Writing Project 1 with the 2 quotes included. Highlight or underline the quotes added in the paragraph.
Submitting Your Assignment
Please complete the assignment as a Word document.
Click the +Submit Assignment link located in the right-hand column of the course window.
Click the Choose File
Navigate to your document and select it.
Click the Submit Assignment

Discussion 2: Ancient River Valley Civilizations

Mesopotamian Culture
What played the greater role in bringing stability to the Early River Valley Civilizations: politics or religion? Provide three examples from the reading using any TWO of civilizations covered in the module (Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Nubia).

PART A: FOOD LABELS

Go to your pantry and select a food item at random. Examine the nutrition label and post the amounts of the following nutrients:
Servings
Serving size
Calories
Total Fat (in grams)
Cholesterol
Sodium
Total Carbohydrates
Dietary fiber
Total sugars
Protein

Explain whether you feel this is a healthy food choice or not.

PART B: FOODS WITHOUT LABELS

Based on what you learned in Module 2, which tool or tools would you use if there was not a food label provided. For example, if you were eating in a restaurant.

1.Identify Saudi Arabia’s top 10 exports destinations countries with their trade volumes and the commodities (4 marks)

2.Identify Saudi Arabia’s top 10 import sources countries with their trade volumes. (4 marks)

3.Draw a pie chart distribution for both the import volumes and the export volumes both the commodities and countries (same left as you see on the right) (5 marks)

4.Comment on the distributions. (7 marks)
Hint take the data from this website

Look at the presentation that is uploaded below for further clarification on what the extension isThis could be a 30 second animation showing how Yasmin would navigate the app.

Our idea is to expand NOON and add a new feature that involves booking hotels, cars, restruants and events. The expansion is called “Noon Travel”.  want to create a video showing how someone could use the new extension that is in Noon to book all of these stuff in a fast efficient way.

You will write a memo using proper memo writing format (see instructions in the How To section of this class)

Each week engage in a digital experience of your choice (do something online, ideally that you have not done before, but you may also want to choose some activities that are familiar to you).

These activities can include any digital or social media experience where you are a user of the site, app, game, etc. So, play a game, create a profile and use a social network, download an app, try a digital tool, etc.

Analyze the USER EXPERIENCE of this activity. What was it like to engage in this activity. For example, if you worked for this company and the CEO or COO asked you for your expert advice on how users are experiencing this product (and maybe how you should change it), what memo would you write to provide this kind of analysis, opinion, and advice.

Write a memo with PROPER FORMATTING (and a truly info rich main heading/subject line)
Choose at least THREE (3) things to discuss in your memo. Each of these should be discussed with its own HEADING and information under that heading.

 

Two (2) essays will be assigned in this course. The first one will be due at the end of Lección 1 and the last one with Lección 4. Each essay will relate to the concepts we will be studying and the country or countries introduced in the course.

The essays will be at least one page long, double-spaced with regular margins, with a 12-point font, in English. The essays are 5% of your grade.
Quality of title is important. For example, for an essay on Spain, if your title is “Spain”, it is not very original.

Choose a topic that interests you about the country in the lesson we are covering, e.g. politics, history, geography, or tourism, etc., but only one, as an example, in the essay on Spain, you could talk about “El Flamenco”, a traditional dance and music from Spain.

These are the subjects or countries that we will cover in this course: Hispanic immigrants to the US and/or Canada (Lección 1), Spain (Lección 2), Ecuador (Lección 3), Mexico (Lección 4) and Puerto Rico (Lección 5). Do not to use Wikipedia and do not talk about many different subjects. Develop your idea in at least three, well-developed, academically sound paragraphs. In the first paragraph, you could answer: Why did you choose this topic? ¿Por qué escogiste este tema?