Devotional – Is Business Growth a Gift, a Task, or a Reward?

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6.1 Discussion: Devotional – Is Business Growth a Gift, a Task, or a Reward?

150-250 WORDS

Getting Started

Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:

  • Develop a biblical framework to resolve ethical dilemmas in marketing strategies and tactics.

Resources

Background Information

The Bible has many passages about hard work, wealth, and success, and some of the greatest are found in the book of Proverbs. Here are a few of the many passages related to those themes.

  • Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth. He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son. (Proverbs 10:4-5 NIV)
  • Those who trust in their riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf. (Proverbs 11:28 NIV)
  • Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow. (Proverbs 13:11 NIV)
  • The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good rewarded for theirs. (Proverbs 14:14 NIV)
  • All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. (Proverbs 14:23 NIV)
  • The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. (Proverbs 21:5 NIV)
  • Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. (2 Corinthians 9:6 NIV)

In Matthew 25:14-30, Jesus shares The Parable of the Bags of Gold also known as The Parable of the Talents.

Instructions

  1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
  2. There is certainly a theme in Proverbs that a hard-working righteous person will be rewarded more than the lazy slackard.  Many of the mega-churches today preach what is sometimes called prosperity theology or the “prosperity gospel” in which blessings are expected by those who believe. Success in this world is the just reward of believing in God and supporting various ministries that are in need of financial support, the kind that can only be found from the donations of a large number of cheerful givers. There is a subtle message, and sometimes not so subtle, that if you are not successful, you are probably not working hard enough and are not faithful enough in supporting the church. This is certainly a popular message for those who are successful and want to minimize their possible feelings of guilt. It’s also a popular message for those who wish to have success and hold out hope that hard work and faithful giving and service will lead to both temporal and everlasting rewards.
  3. But are those thoughts and feelings correct? Are they spiritually healthy?
  4. You identified a company or industry of interest for your degree program. Consider these questions and share your thoughts on them.
    1. What is the relationship between righteousness and success in business in that industry of interest?
    2. Are some industries more suited to righteous leadership and management? Why?
    3. What is inherently right or wrong about trying to grow a successful and therefore profitable business in your industry of interest?
    4. Is business growth a gift, a task, or a reward? Why?

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6.2 Assignment: Research-based Marketing Plan Revised Final Proposal – Pricing, Promotion, and Distribution Channels

 

Getting Started

Revised Final Proposal – Pricing, Promotion, and Distribution Channels

The process of peer review strengthens a presentation by having another qualified person analyze the same data and then review your work. You have written and revised a product differentiation and positioning section (submitted in 3.4), a product development and market demand section (submitted in 4.4), and an internal and external marketing environments section (submitted in 5.3). In the last module, a peer provided a different and alternative perspective, conclusion, and/or recommendation using independent research and analysis on your pricing, promotion, and distribution channel section (received in 5.2). You will now strengthen your initial report on pricing, promotion, and distribution channels by integrating the alternative from your peer into your revised final draft that will be submitted to the client.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

  • Determine pricing strategies, price setting methods, distribution channels, and key channel members.
  • Analyze the effectiveness of emerging promotional strategies.

Resources

Instructions

  1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
  2. This is your revised final draft of the pricing, promotion, and distribution section of your consultant’s report. It is based on what you posted in the 4.3 Discussion and on your peer’s comments and response posted in the 5.2 Discussion.
  3. Your revised final report must integrate your peer’s alternative analysis or recommendation as an alternative perspective as part of your final report. You must either accept your peer’s perspective as a replacement to your initial proposal based on adequate credible theory and current marketing practice to accept it or you must provide adequate credible theory and current marketing practice to reject it. If you accept it as the correct analysis or recommendation, then the peer alternative will become the primary focus of your final paper, and your original analysis and/or recommendation will be noted as an alternative perspective that you have rebutted through cited research. If you do not accept the alternative, then you only need to discuss it as an alternative and provide objective and qualified reasons to reject it.
  4. Use the titles in the Market Analysis Report Template to create six sections for this part of the consultant’s report:
    1. Analysis of Current Pricing Models in the Market
    2. Analysis of Current Promotional Models in the Market
    3. Analysis of Current Distribution Models in the Market
    4. Recommended Pricing Strategy for JGJ Inc.
    5. Recommended Promotional Strategy for JGJ Inc.
    6. Recommended Distribution Strategy for JGJ Inc.
  5. The body of your paper (i.e. excluding title page, graphics, appendices, and references page) must be 1300 words (+/- 50 words). In the event that your peer did not provide feedback, your length must be 1000 words (+/- 0 words) and you will not be penalized for not including the missing feedback.
  6. You must use, cite, and reference at least five credible sources not provided in the course documents, plus at least one source provided in the course documents.
  7. Your paper must be submitted as a Word document.
  8. Your paper must be formatted to current APA standards including title page, body of the paper, citations, headings, graphics, appendices, and references page.  (See OCLS APA Writing Styles Guides

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Market Analysis Report: Name of Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Industry Name

Your Name

Class Number

Date

 

(NOTE: The title page will be included with each section of your paper to identify the author to the instructor.)

 

Market Analysis Report: Name of Market

Executive Summary

(Note: this appears first but is written last in workshop 6; 300 words)

 

Positioning and Differentiation

Definition of Positioning (100 words)

Brief (one paragraph) description of the market (100-150 words)

Analysis of Current Positioning in the Market

· Current annual sales volume in dollars and/or units sold in the market

· Current competitors and their offerings, including points of differentiation for each offering indicating how they are positioned to each other in the market

· Current price points of competitors

Projections for the Market

· Projected overall market growth rate for the next five years

· Projected changes to overall pricing in the market for the next five years

Recommended Position for JGJ Inc.

· Recommended position and points of differentiation for the JGJ Inc. offering

· Complete buyer profile of the target customer

 

 

References

 

 

Product Development and Market Demand

Product Development

· Key differentiating characteristics of the offering

· Analysis of demand in the market

Market Segment Demand

· Quantitative data used to determine projected demand

· Methodology used to determine demand

References

 

Internal and External Marketing Environments

Analysis of Key External Factors in the Market

· Porter’s five forces model

· Other macroenvironmental external factors

Required Internal Resources and Competencies to Compete in the Market

Required Licenses, Patents, and Rulings or Legal Requirements to Compete in the Market

References

 

 

Pricing, Promotion, and Distribution Channels

Analysis of Current Pricing Models in the Market

Analysis of Current Promotional Models in the Market

Analysis of Current Distribution Models in the Market

Recommended Pricing Strategy for JGJ Inc.

Recommended Promotional Strategy for JGJ Inc.

Recommended Distribution Strategy for JGJ Inc.

 

 

References

 
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The Financials

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5 Page Proposal plus Cover Sheet and and Reference Page (7 Pages all together).

OBJECTIVE

You need to demonstrate your ability to identify how firms raise funds through the use of debt, equity, and retained earnings.

BACKGROUND: 

Your client, SmartClean, Inc., is a cleaning service for office and industrial locations.

SmartClean has been in business for 5 years and has shown steady revenue growth each year.

The owner originally started the business using a business loan.

The owner has $10,000 remaining on the loan after steadily making payments and has an excellent personal and business credit history.

The owner wishes to:

1) Expand the SmartClean business into three new territories,

2) Needs an infusion of capital, and  

3) Is looking for $50,000 in order to make the expansion.

The expected fixed costs for the current business and expansion is $75,000.

SmartClean’s average charge per job is $250.00.

The variable costs per job is $35.00.

ASSIGNMENT: 

Write a 5-page, APA formatted PROPOSAL that includes the following parts:

1) Summary of client needs

2) Advantages and disadvantages of debt financing

3) Advantages and disadvantages of equity financing

4) Recommendation for a financing strategy for SmartClean

5) Complete breakeven analysis (based on given price analysis and cost)

**Remember to include references**

 
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Integration Of Faith & Learning: Responsibility

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The Scripture verse from the Old Testament (Joshua 1:9) says, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”

In a 500-word (12 point, double-spaced) document that is in current APA format, discuss this Scripture verse within the context of marketing management. Relate this to a specific for-profit brand or business organization of your choosing.

BUSI 520

Integration of Faith and Learning (IFL) Assignment Instructions

 

Overview:

MBA programs around the country are starting to require their students to become more effective writers. This is in response to industry’s urging for grad schools to improve the writing skills of graduate students. Writing at the MBA level should be informative, colorful, and nuanced, and the writing should include simple words vs. complicated (especially if used out of context). This assignment requires the integration of directly quoted Bible verse directly with the selected marketing management topic. Be sure this applies specifically to marketing management, not management or business in general.

 

Instructions:

 

Integration of Faith and Learning: Responsibility

 

To ourselves and to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

 

The Scripture verse from the Old Testament (Joshua 1:9) says, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”

 

In a 500-word (12 point, double-spaced) document that is in current APA format, discuss this Scripture verse within the context of marketing management. Relate this to a specific for-profit brand or business organization of your choosing. Use two scholarly sources as references.

 

Discuss how Christian faith impacts marketing management decisions in the selected organization, including how faith was the source of its marketing management decisions, and how many company founders have demonstrated such faith.

 

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.

 
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C06J Business Ethics Part I

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1 . Which is NOT a requirement for a facility to be considered a sweatshop?
a. unmitigated health and safety hazards
b. high temperature
c. poor working conditions
d. unfair wages

2. which organizational layer can be said to generate specific plans and instructions from broad directions?
a. operating layer
b. middle management
c. top management
d. none of the above

3.. Whistle blowing can have what consequence?
a. being ostrcized at work
b. loss of employemnt
c. negative reputation
d. all of the above

4. How have most businesses adapted to information technology developments?
a. they have become larger and more unwidely
b. they have become more hierarchical
c. they have flatter, smaller and more nimble.
d. they have become more profitable

5. How much of General Electric’s revenues is from outside the United States?
a. none
b. one quarter
c. almost half
d. more than half

6. UNOCAL worked witih the Burmese army to push the pipeline using
a. low-wage workers
b. forced labor
c. unethical land reclamation schemes
d. none of the above

7 How did Eli Lilly test its pharmaceuticals?
a. by recruting individuals from a wide swathe of society
b. by recruting the homless
c. by recruting prisoners
d. by recruting middle-class workers

8. Which philosopher’s theory of moral virtue states that virtues are habits that enables a person to live according to reason, by habitually choosing the mean between extremes in actions and emotions?

a. Immanuel Kant

b. Pincoffs

c. Aristotle

d. St. Thomas Aquinas

9. What is the ” hardwired” Intention Principle?
a. Harming by action is worse that harming by omission
b. Harming by omission is worse than harming by ignorance
c. Harming by physical contact is worse that without physical contact.
d. Harming anyone for any reason is wrong

10. What is the main purpose of rights?
a. to provide everyone with necessities such as food and water
b. to provide justice and fairness to all
c. to enable individual to choose freely and to protect those choices
d. to keep people from harming each other

11. which of the following is an ethical rule governing contracts?
a. the contract must be fair
b. the contract must be enforceeable
c. the contract must be specific
d. the contract must not be immoral

12 According to the International Labor organization, how many children are estimated to be working today?
a. 500,00.00
b. 13 million
c. 122 million
d. 218 million

13.During the financial crisis in 2008 , Georgia W. Bush asked U.S. Congress to pass legislation to create a Troubled Asset Relief Program(TARP) in the amount of ______

a. $1 trillion 

b. $90 billion

c. $80 billion

d. $70 billion

14. According to Marx, what are the only sources of income in a capitalist system?
a. sale of one’s own labor
b. sale of one’s means of production and private property
c. sale of one’s labor and ownership of means of production
d. profiting from the labor of others and ownership of means of production

15. What did Marx believe to be the actual function of government?
a. encourage nationalism
b. protect the interest of the ruling class
c. spread wealth within the borders of the country
d. set up a system of labor

16. China and Singapore are example of what types of economies?
a. ones that favor free markets and globalization
b. ones that favor individuals property rights
c. one that favor government intervention
d. one that favor competition

17. In the ADM case, what did ADM and the other companies do to fix the market prices for lysine?
a. they bullied the buyers into accepting a specific price
b. They agreed on the price for which the companies sold the product, and they agreed on limits of production.
c. they each agreed to produce only a certain amount of lysine per year
d. They agreed on the price for which the companies would sell the product, but they were free to produce as much as they liked.

18. Which of the following is a characteristic of a perfectly free economy?
a. There are only a few buyers and sellers who have a substantial share of the market.
b. Goods being sold in the market are extremely similar to one another
c. the government regulates prices of goods being bought and sold in the market.
d. None of the above

19. Which view regarding oligopolies argues that oligopolies stifle competition and should be broken up?
a. the antitrust view
b. the do- nothing view
c. the regulation view
d. none of the above

20. Which of the following would negatively impact the effectiveness of market theory consumer protection?

Low prices

Monopolies

High prices

Many competitors

21. Which of the following would be considered a deceptive advertisement?

A. One in which the author accidentally includes information he or she knows to be false
B. One in which the author purposely includes information he or she knows to be false
C. One in which the author includes false information that is obviously false to the audience
D. All of the above

22. The social cost view improves utility in what way?

A. Improves employment through greater manufacturing output
B. Decreases workplace accidents through government regulation
C. Internalizes the costs of injuries and accidents to the manufacturer
D. All of the above

23. Which is NOT a view on the duty of a business to its customers?
A. duty of care view
B. social costs view
C. contract view
D. normative view

24. According to a 2001 study, how many tons of toxic pesticides do U.S. companies export to other nations every hour?

a. 1 ton

b. 90 tons

c. 45 tons

d. 200 tons

25. Which, on average, will have the largest negative impact on expected income?
A. being female
B. being Hispanic
C. being black
D. being male

 
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