Category: Business and Management : Business

What books and/or other readings would you use when developing lectures and discussions?  What books and/or other sources would you have the class read?  Defend and explain these choices.  

Objective:
This assignment requires you to author a one-page paper in APA format that delves into your chosen concentration and a key professional organization within this field. This initial paper will set the groundwork for understanding the historical and current context of your concentration, aiding in subsequent assignments that will discuss current trends and challenges.
Instructions:
Concentration Overview:
Define Your Concentration: (My concentration is Business Administration) Clearly identify and define the concentration you have chosen to pursue. Describe its scope and the roles it encompasses within the broader field.
Historical Context: Discuss how your concentration originated and has evolved over time. Highlight key developments and shifts that have characterized its growth.
Professional Organization Analysis:
Identification: Select a professional organization associated with your concentration. Provide an overview of this organization, including its mission, history, and its role in the development of the field.
Resources and Publications: Explore the resources offered by this organization, such as academic journals, conferences, and other educational materials. If applicable, reference specific articles or findings from their publications that relate to the historical and foundational aspects of your concentration.
Formatting Requirements:
Cover Sheet: Include a cover sheet with your name, course title (TECH 425), assignment title, and the date. The cover sheet does not contribute to the overall page count.
Page Layout: Your paper must be double-spaced with 1-inch margins on all sides, using Times New Roman 12pt font.
Citations: Use APA style for all citations and include a reference page. Ensure that both citations and the reference page are correctly formatted according to the latest APA guidelines. These do not count towards the one-page text requirement.
Submission Guidelines:
Ensure your paper succinctly covers both your concentration and the selected professional organization within the one-page limit, excluding the cover sheet and reference page.
Note for General Technology Majors:
If you are a General Technology major without a specific concentration yet, choose a career path within technology that interests you and identify a corresponding professional organization for this assignment.

Info: There are five generations in the workplace currently. Identify the generations by title, age range, and provide five strengths and five challenges for each social group in relation to the workplace. You must research this information for accuracy. DO NOT use information before 2015, as it is outdated.  
For this assignment, the cover page and the reference page are not counted, it’s best to have one page per generation category, include an introduction paragraph, and a conclusion with at least one paragraph. I will accept a minimum of at least 4 pages to complete this assignment. The paper must be double spaced, use Time New Roman, 11-font-size. Cite the references using APA. 

A. Create a project! You will develop a 1. scope statement, 2. project schedule, 3. customized tasks and an initial 4. resource list. Please note, we are only creating a resource list which will later be entered into project. Please assign a role to each unique induvial. You may assign your own team names to get a better handle on the project. B. For this lab, you enter the initial work breakdown schedule into MS Project. Please appropriately link your tasks with proper indentation and predecessor dependencies and successor lists. You may use the attached Work Breakdown Structure as a model for your project. Craft the tasks unique to your own group project. a. Project examples include Adding a new clothing line to an existing storefront, setting up a Special event, installing a new software package at a company, tracking packages, and/or Creating a unique product or service. b. The tasks should be set to automatic schedule. Create any unique start date. Also, create reasonable work durations. The typical task applied 1 day, by default. You may update the task durations, later in the assignment. C. Deliverable, you will submit the following: you may use a combination of word and project files, exported as .pdf files. If you want to start preparing for the final project, I advise that you enter all the information into PowerPoint, using screen shots, inserted images, etc. Be sure to include the project scope, project schedule, project tasks and resource list. Again, we are not entering or assigning the resources to tasks. We will do this in Group Assignment 2. a. For the first assignment, please submit your group name along with all of your group members, as they appear in Wiser. You may also include any nick names. From the MS Info tab (in backstage view) to establish the Project start date. Now enter the start date and set the tasks to automatic scheduling and immediate calculation. Note: To change specific date information, you may go to the row selector and select task, then navigate to the Project tab in the (information section) and adjust any specific date or scheduling details. Our sample project: We are setting up our own business. We have picked a business idea and now we need to go from writing our scope statement and project requirements to a fully established business. For these steps, we are going to create a project plan. We will establish our unique Work Breakdown structure and enter the tasks into MS Project

p‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‍‍‍‌‌‌‌‍age 1-Consider how many services you have encountered today (e.g. your mail being delivered, the café where you bought your morning coffee, the lunch queue at the university cafeteria, the shop where you bought groceries, the call centre you called to query your mobile phone bill). List them, reflect on how the service provider performed and score them out of 10 for speed, quality and cost. Evaluate their scores and suggest how they might improve.

Find this online and use one of the 2 texts and respond as the assignment has as

Find this online and use one of the 2 texts and respond as the assignment has asked.
Big Fiction by Dan Sinykin, Introduction and Chapters 1-2 (pp. 1-70)
Lightning Rods by Helen Dewitt, Sections 1-3 (pp. 1-95)
You must make one 300-600 word post to the Textual Analysis. Your posts should discuss a specific moment in the text–focusing on less than a page rather than the text as a whole–and make an argument or unique observation of your choice. There should be very little space given to summary of the text or formal introductions and conclusions. Assume that we have all done the reading, and use your word-count efficiently.
As always, we should strive to make our posts interesting. I will define interesting as both surprising and specific. In other words, a good textual analysis post makes an argument that’s unexpected in some way–resisting the obvious conclusions and going beyond what’s discussed in the week’s lecture video–and makes that argument by focusing on the concrete specifics of the text. You should avoid vagueness and generalization as much as possible.
Each week’s textual analysis will be graded out of five possible points. Extensive feedback won’t be possible given the size of the class and the pace of the summer session. Here are the basic criteria I will be considering:
Content is interesting (surprising and specific).
Scope is narrow, and the main point is developed sufficiently in under 600 words. Word count is not wasted by summaries of the assigned reading or by overly formal introductions/conclusion.
Arguments are based on concrete particulars of the text, including direct quotations where appropriate.
Responses are respectful and engage seriously with the arguments of peers
Responses add new, interesting complexity to peers’ arguments rather than simply agreeing or disagreeing.

Find this online and use one of the 2 texts and respond as the assignment has as

Find this online and use one of the 2 texts and respond as the assignment has asked.
Big Fiction by Dan Sinykin, Introduction and Chapters 1-2 (pp. 1-70)
Lightning Rods by Helen Dewitt, Sections 1-3 (pp. 1-95)
You must make one 300-600 word post to the Textual Analysis. Your posts should discuss a specific moment in the text–focusing on less than a page rather than the text as a whole–and make an argument or unique observation of your choice. There should be very little space given to summary of the text or formal introductions and conclusions. Assume that we have all done the reading, and use your word-count efficiently.
As always, we should strive to make our posts interesting. I will define interesting as both surprising and specific. In other words, a good textual analysis post makes an argument that’s unexpected in some way–resisting the obvious conclusions and going beyond what’s discussed in the week’s lecture video–and makes that argument by focusing on the concrete specifics of the text. You should avoid vagueness and generalization as much as possible.
Each week’s textual analysis will be graded out of five possible points. Extensive feedback won’t be possible given the size of the class and the pace of the summer session. Here are the basic criteria I will be considering:
Content is interesting (surprising and specific).
Scope is narrow, and the main point is developed sufficiently in under 600 words. Word count is not wasted by summaries of the assigned reading or by overly formal introductions/conclusion.
Arguments are based on concrete particulars of the text, including direct quotations where appropriate.
Responses are respectful and engage seriously with the arguments of peers
Responses add new, interesting complexity to peers’ arguments rather than simply agreeing or disagreeing.

Find this online and use one of the 2 texts and respond as the assignment has as

Find this online and use one of the 2 texts and respond as the assignment has asked.
Big Fiction by Dan Sinykin, Introduction and Chapters 1-2 (pp. 1-70)
Lightning Rods by Helen Dewitt, Sections 1-3 (pp. 1-95)
You must make one 300-600 word post to the Textual Analysis. Your posts should discuss a specific moment in the text–focusing on less than a page rather than the text as a whole–and make an argument or unique observation of your choice. There should be very little space given to summary of the text or formal introductions and conclusions. Assume that we have all done the reading, and use your word-count efficiently.
As always, we should strive to make our posts interesting. I will define interesting as both surprising and specific. In other words, a good textual analysis post makes an argument that’s unexpected in some way–resisting the obvious conclusions and going beyond what’s discussed in the week’s lecture video–and makes that argument by focusing on the concrete specifics of the text. You should avoid vagueness and generalization as much as possible.
Each week’s textual analysis will be graded out of five possible points. Extensive feedback won’t be possible given the size of the class and the pace of the summer session. Here are the basic criteria I will be considering:
Content is interesting (surprising and specific).
Scope is narrow, and the main point is developed sufficiently in under 600 words. Word count is not wasted by summaries of the assigned reading or by overly formal introductions/conclusion.
Arguments are based on concrete particulars of the text, including direct quotations where appropriate.
Responses are respectful and engage seriously with the arguments of peers
Responses add new, interesting complexity to peers’ arguments rather than simply agreeing or disagreeing.

Assignment Details
Back in 1920, the management at DuPont Corporation developed

Assignment Details
Back in 1920, the management at DuPont Corporation developed a model called the DuPont analysis to assess the company’s return on equity (ROE) accurately. Although ROE is a true bottom-line measure of performance, it can be decomposed to reveal even more detailed information about a company.
Review the following videos before answering the assignment:
Corporate Financial Statement Analysis: Return on Equity https://www.linkedin.com/learning/corporate-financial-statement-analysis/return-on-equity?resume=false&u=70039330
Corporate Financial Statement Analysis: The DuPont Framework https://www.linkedin.com/learning/corporate-financial-statement-analysis/the-dupont-framework?resume=false&u=70039330
Describe the benefits of the DuPont analysis to deconstruct a firms ROE. Utilizing MSN Money or Yahoo Finance, choose a real company and locate its most recent financial statements. Include the following in your analysis:
Identify and record key profitability ratios, including ROE
Decompose the ROE with the DuPont analysis
Discuss the implications found based on the dissection of ROE with the DuPont analysis
Compare the decomposed ratios to the industry
Provide recommendations to the company based on your analysis
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 5 pages minimum
Body: This begins on the page following the title page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Which has been more significant in shaping American history: race or class? [Not

Which has been more significant in shaping American history: race or class? [Note: It is acceptable to argue that the significance of race or class has varied in different eras, but make sure you give concrete evidence.