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Read the article NYBOT: Going Home. It is about NYBOT disaster recovery and business continuity tale and it emphasizes a number of areas we have covered in learning to create a BC/DR plan.

1. What do you feel was the most difficult part of preparing the NYBOT for a disaster?

2. Describe one thing that you would have done that may have helped sell the BC/DR expenditures to those concerned about the cost.

Link: http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Projects-Security/NYBOT-Going-Home

Description: You will give a speech that is 24 minutes in length, containing 24 main
points. This speaking assignment does not require research, just preparation based upon your
own knowledge and experiences.
Procedures: You will select one of the topics below and give a speech with an introduction,
body, and conclusion. Be sure to have clear main points and use clear transitions throughout
the speech; develop each main point with your own examples, explanations, illustrations,
reasons, anecdotes, stories, etc. Your speech MUST be longer than 2 minutes, but no more
than 4 minutes. Practice is the only way to make sure this occurs, so please practice your
speech at least 5 times, prior to delivery in class. Be sure to peruse the course text for insights
that might help with this assignment.

For this activity, you’ll 1) watch a documentary on E-waste here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrCcTiSL_Hg, 2) find out how you and your family deal with used electronic devices, and 3) submit a 300-word write-up to summarize the documentary and reflect on the environmental impact of E-waste.
**This assignment will be graded based on a 10-point scale.
Grading criteria:
Provide details on how you and your family members dispose of electronic waste. (4 points)
Reflection on the impact of E-waste. Consider how E-waste disproportionately affects people in developing countries. (6 points) Use the Textbook below for reference to class topics, material, and special terms.

In its 45 years of existence, Nike has developed from a small operation to a household name, present on all continents. However, in the 1990s Nike came under scrutiny for various unethical practices.
Explain how Nike came to that situation through its expansion strategy.
Explain what the positive and negative impacts of this strategy were.
Explain how Nike responded to this situation.
In your opinion, how could the company have responded differently? Suggest at least two alternative responses.
What would the consequences have been then?

Write a 4-page, double-spaced, essay covering the five questions above.

Have you been in multinational situations before (management-related or not)? Were there any difficulties? What were they? What did you observe about the situation? Did you learn anything about yourself? How do you expect this Course will help you deal with multinational situations in the future?

Two assignments: one page each

first: Use Product Life Cycle Doc
Assignment: ‘The Product Life Cycle’
1) Visit the websites of the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the National Womens Soccer League (NWSL).
2) Review, complete, and submit the attached worksheet.
As you research the sites, keep these questions in mind:
In terms of product life cycles, how do the WNBA and the NWSL compare?
Which stage of the product life cycle is each sport in today?
What do you think the future of each sport is?
In five years, which product life cycle will each sport be in?
Second: use key issues in sport product doc
Picture yourself as the soccer star Alex Morgan. How will you select your endorsements, and how do you want to be positioned in the eyes of consumers?
1) Learn about Alex Morgan by visiting her official website and researching her on other sites.
2) As you do this research, consider the following questions within the attached worksheet:
Which phase of the product life cycle is Alex Morgan in?
How do you think the league should position her?
What companies sponsor Morgan? Do you think her sponsors and endorsements are helping or hurting her image? In what ways?
If you were director of marketing for Alex Morgan, how would you differentiate her from other soccer athletes and from other female athletes? What makes her marketable?

Present an example of an observation and inference. Your response should have four parts. First, describe the person you observed by gender, age, and situation (e.g., a pregnant woman in her early twenties walking in the market with two small children). Second, describe the persons interaction with a product or service (e.g., the woman stopped at the fruit stand, examined a papaya, asked the vendor what it cost, and put it back in the pile without purchasing it). Third, make an inference about his or her motives, priorities, or perceptions (e.g., She perceived the papaya as being of poor quality.) Fourth, make one alternative inference about his or her motives, priorities or perceptions (e.g., She determined that the price was too high, and she gives a higher priority to buying other products at this time.)

Class: Management and Organizational Behavior

Topic: Outline the perceptual process and discuss the effects of categorical thinking and mental models in that process.
Write a well-developed paragraph explaining.

I will need an initial Post of 150 word with one reference and two replies to the posts listed below of 100 words each.

First Reply:
The perceptual process is a mental process that helps us perceive the world around us. It involves selecting, organizing, and interpreting information (Bargh, 2014). The perceptual process begins with stimuli that are received by our senses. Selective attention is one way our brain filters the incoming stimuli, whatever is relevant. As the brain filters information or inputs from the external world, it groups information and categorizes them. This process shapes the way we think, and it is called categorical thinking. One downside of categorical thinking is that we can create illusions by jumping to conclusions, believing something is correct and the reality, it is not. Another consequence of the perceptual process is the mental models. Mental models arise as the brain groups information to make sense of things, simplifying complex data, creating frameworks that help us fill in the blanks on upcoming information and situations. Mental models are instrumental in helping us understand the world, but one of the most significant limitations of mental models is that there is the risk for errors and biases.
Reference:
Bargh, J. (2014). The Automaticity of Everyday Life (Weyer ed.). Psychology Press.
McShane, S. (2021). Connect with LearnSmart for McShane: Organizational Behavior (8th ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

Second Reply:
Perceptual Process is a sequence of steps, that involves selection of stimuli in the environment, organizing the information available from the environment and interpretation of the stimuli from the environment. In simple words, perceptual process is sleeting, organizing, and interpreting information to make sense of the world around us. Percentual Organization involves Categorical thinking. Categorical Thinking is the non-conscious process of organizing people and objects around us into preconceived categories which are stored in our long-term memory. Mental Models help us to make sense of the incoming stimuli from the surrounding world.
https://openstax.org/books/organizational-behavior/pages/3-1-the-perceptual-process
(Links to an external site.)
Chandrasekaran, Bharath, Maddox, Todd W, Smayda, Kristen, E. (May 21, 2015) Enhanced cognitive and perceptual processing: a computational basis for the musician advantage in speech learning. Retrieved from: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00682/full

After reading the assigned article, Global Action on the Social Determinants of Health, select one of the following regions of the world (South America, North Africa and the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, or Australia) and discuss the Social Determinants of Health strategies that have been implemented and the current status of these strategies. You may need to do some additional research beyond this article, to respond to this discussion in depth.
https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/Suppl_1/e000603