Complete an analysis of the key external factors that have implications for successful implementation of the National Institutes of Health(NIH)  VMO, strategy

and goals/objectives.

You will examine NIH’s industry and the competitive conditions/positioning affecting it now or likely to do so in the future.

Paper is 2,000-word double-spaced APA-formatted paper. The title page, reference list, and any appendices are not included in this suggested word count.

DO NOT need to include an abstract.

The paper should address these topics:

1. A brief explanation of the industry (or industries) in which your organization operates as well as context for your organization’ current

positioning.

2. Analyze the current conditions in your organization’s industry and in its relevant general environment and their likely implications for

successful implementation of your organization’s strategic goals and related actions. Be sure to address the PESTEL framework.

3. Apply Porter’s Five-Forces Model to enrich your understanding of the environment in which your organization is now or may be

operating. The Five Forces model should stress that this model is used to evaluate the industry, not your selected organization’s

activities. The model should be used to isolate the dominant force(s) in the industry faced by all competitors and that produce the

greatest threat to your organization’s profits and/or strategy. You should discuss how your firm can provide a defense against this threat

or threats.

4. Describe your organization’s strategic group and construct a map to show its relative market position. Add in a discussion of your

rationale for the grouping.

5. Summarize the threats and opportunities facing your organization gleaned from your analysis. (SWOT analysis) Submit the SWOT

format in Table form and add in some narrative to discuss the threats and opportunities in more detail. Explain in your discussion (not

in the table) why you selected them and how they relate to the VMO and organization’s strategy.

6. Evaluate the extent to which your organization’s current strategy appears a good match for the competitive conditions it confronts or

any gaps that must be addressed.

Instructions:

consider the following scenario: Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment the main character plots and carries out the murder of an old woman who has a considerable amount of money in her apartment. After killing her, he steals the money. He argues that

• She is a malicious old woman, petty, cantankerous and scheming, useless to herself and to society (which happens to be true), and her life causes no happiness to herself or to others; and
• Her money, if found after her death, would only fall into the hands of chisellers anyway, whereas he would use it for his education (no doubt at Brandman University).

Putting aside for a moment the small detail that the murder is a crime – is this action justified in some way? determine whether the answer is, “Yes”  or “No,” and discuss why.

In a minimum of 300 words, support the argument you made in class.   There is only one catch: you must use sources from this week’s readings and video clips provided below!!!  Be sure to cite your sources.

This weeks readings are the two ATTACHMENTS! and the video clips are provided below: YOU CAN ONLY USE THESE SOURCES!!!!

What is Ethics, What is an ethical life?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPAWNL8CTs

Carol Gilligan on Women and Moral development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W_9MozRoKE

Ethical Leadership:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9K9pNxljjg

Dan Ariely, TEDtalk, Our buggy moral code

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code

 

Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Civil Disobedience and obeying Just vs. Unjust laws (Closed Captioned)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBkgdGIBv00

Or other readings from the week:

Instructions:

consider the following scenario: Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment the main character plots and carries out the murder of an old woman who has a considerable amount of money in her apartment. After killing her, he steals the money. He argues that

• She is a malicious old woman, petty, cantankerous and scheming, useless to herself and to society (which happens to be true), and her life causes no happiness to herself or to others; and
• Her money, if found after her death, would only fall into the hands of chisellers anyway, whereas he would use it for his education (no doubt at Brandman University).

Putting aside for a moment the small detail that the murder is a crime – is this action justified in some way? determine whether the answer is, “Yes”  or “No,” and discuss why.

In a minimum of 300 words, support the argument you made in class.   There is only one catch: you must use sources from this week’s readings and video clips provided below!!!  Be sure to cite your sources.

This weeks readings are the two ATTACHMENTS! and the video clips are provided below: YOU CAN ONLY USE THESE SOURCES!!!!

What is Ethics, What is an ethical life?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPAWNL8CTs

Carol Gilligan on Women and Moral development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W_9MozRoKE

Ethical Leadership:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9K9pNxljjg

Dan Ariely, TEDtalk, Our buggy moral code

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code

 

Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Civil Disobedience and obeying Just vs. Unjust laws (Closed Captioned)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBkgdGIBv00

Or other readings from the week:

 

 

Assignment 3: Workplace Ethics

Case Study 6.3: Sniffing Glue.

Write a paper in which you:

1. Analyze the following questions associated with your chosen case study and discuss them using concepts you learned in this course.

a. What ideals, effects, and consequences are at stake?

b. Have any moral rights been violated?

c. What would a Utilitarian recommend?

d. What would a Kantian recommend?

2. Explain your rationale for each of your answers to your chosen case study with supporting evidence.

Have at least 2 references.

Case Study 6.3

Sniffing glue Could snuff profits

Harvey Benjamin fuller founded The h. b. Fuller Company in 1887. Originally a one-man wallpaper-paste shop, H. B. Fuller is now a leading manufacturer of indus- trial glues, coatings, and paints, with operations worldwide. The company’s 10,000 varieties of glue hold together everything from cars to cigarettes to disposable diapers. However, some of its customers don’t use Fuller’s glues in the way they are intended to be used. That’s particularly the case in Central America, where Fuller derives 27 percent of its profits and where tens of thousands of homeless children sniff some sort of glue. Addicted to glue’s intoxicating but dangerous fumes, these unfortunate children are called resistoleros after Fuller’s Resistol brand. Child-welfare advocates have urged the company to add a noxious oil to its glue to discourage abusers, but the company has resisted, either because it might reduce the glue’s effectiveness or because it will irritate legitimate users.111 Either way, the issue is irritating H. B. Fuller, which has been recognized by various awards, honors, and socially conscious mutual funds as a company with a conscience. Fuller’s mission statement says that it “will conduct business legally and ethically, support the activities of its employees in their communities and be a responsible corporate citizen.” The St. Paul-based com- pany gives 5 percent of its profits to charity; it has committed itself to safe environmental practices worldwide (practices that are “often more stringent than local government standards,” the company says); and it has even endowed a chair in business ethics at the University of Minnesota. Now Fuller must contend with dissident stockholders inside, and demonstrators outside, its annual meetings.

The glue-sniffing issue is not a new one. In 1969, the Testor Corporation added a noxious ingredient to its hobby glue to dis- courage abuse, and in 1994 Henkel, a German chemical company that competes with Fuller, stopped making certain toxic glues in Central America. However, Fuller seems to have been singled out for criticism not only because its brand dominates Central America but also because—in the eyes of its critics, anyway—the company has not lived up to its own good-citizen image. Timothy Smith, executive director of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, believes that companies with a reputation as good corporate citizens are more vulnerable to attack. “But as I see it,” he says, “the hazard is not in acting in a socially responsible way. The hazard is in over-marketing yourself as a saint.”

Saintly or not, the company has made matters worse for itself by its handling of the issue. H. B. Fuller’s board of directors acknowledged that “illegal distribution was continuing” and that “a suitable replacement product would not be available in the near future.” Accordingly, it voted to stop selling Resistol adhesives in Central America. “We simply don’t believe it is the right decision to keep our solvent product on the market,” a company spokesman said. The Coalition on Resistoleros and other corporate gadflies were ecstatic, but their jubilation turned to anger when they learned a few months later that Fuller had not in fact stopped selling Resistol in Central America and did not intend to. True, Fuller no longer sold glue to retailers and small-scale users in Honduras and Guatemala, but it continued to sell large tubs and barrels of it to industrial customers in those countries and to a broader list of commercial and industrial users in neighboring countries.

The company says that it has not only restricted distribution but also taken other steps to stop the abuse of its product. It has altered Resistol’s formula, replacing the sweet-smelling but highly toxic solvent toluene with the slightly less toxic chemi- cal cyclohexane. In addition, the company has tried—without success, it says—to develop a nonintoxicating water-based glue, and it contributes to community programs for homeless children in Central America. But the company’s critics disparage these actions as mere image polishing. Bruce Harris, director of Latin American programs for Covenant House, a nonprofit child- welfare advocate, asserts that Resistol is still readily available to children in Nicaragua and El Salvador and, to a lesser extent, in Costa Rica. “If they are genuinely concerned about the children,” he asks, “why haven’t they pulled out of all the countries—as their board mandated?”

• Explain the principal theories and the various approaches to management that have evolved over time and
• their application to current management situations.

Imagine you are creating a new and innovative technology company. In this assignment, consider the culture, management, and leadership of your organization. Remember that your company should be a place that people want to work.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1. Describe      the characteristics of the people
2. Explain the principal theories and the various approaches to management that have evolved over time and
3. their application to current management situations.
4. management concepts using proper writing mechanics.
   • Explain the principal theories and the various approaches to management that have evolved over time and
   • their application to current management situations.

   Imagine you are creating a new and innovative technology company. In this assignment, consider the culture, management, and leadership of your organization. Remember that your company should be a place that people want to work.

   Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

   1. Describe      the characteristics of the people
   2. Explain the principal theories and the various approaches to management that have evolved over time and
   3. their application to current management situations.
   4. management concepts using proper writing mechanics.