For your SLP this session you will be asked to review articles on business ethics from the Trident Online Library. You will review one or more articles each in Modules 1 through 4 dealing with different ethical concepts.

In this SLP we will be reviewing articles that cover the concept of stakeholder management. Stakeholders are important to consider in significant business related decisions. This is because organizational decisions – especially substantial decisions involving significant resource allocations/re-allocations – tend to impact various stakeholder groups as you will be reminded in your reading. These stakeholders may have the power to impact the organization’s success.

Assignment Instructions:

In this assignment you will be asked to apply stakeholder management theory to the following scenario:

A public corporation of 980 employees manufactures a popular brand of garments (mostly jeans) that are primarily made and sold in America nation-wide. It has a large contingent of employees in several small rural communities in the Eastern US and is the primary employer in all of those communities. Two if its 5 shops are unionized but the union and management have a good working relationship. The company has traditionally marketed its clothing line as “Made in the USA” and attracted a bit of a “cult like” following as a result, but an outside consulting firm has suggested that significantly greater profits are possible if a different strategy is employed. The corporation is subsequently considering whether to off-shore its manufacturing facilities to a poor nation to save money on labor. It would also discretely discontinue its “Made in the USA” marketing ads and hopefully ride the wave of its previous marketing campaigns for a while. It is estimated that total cost per unit of production will be decreased by one third which equates to tens of millions of dollars.

Please write a 3-page paper in which you respond to the following:   

1. Provide a paragraph summarizing the concept of stakeholder management based on your readings. 

2. How do you think the following stakeholder groups in the above scenario will be impacted?

• Employees/unions
• Communities
• Stockholders

3. What would you recommend the employer described above should do?

Your 3 (or more) page paper should be double-spaced and in 12-point type.

Your paper should have a separate cover page and if you are using any in-text citations then a separate reference page.

Use APA style, and proofread your paper.

As noted in the text, the overwhelming majority of the world’s countries have an economic system that is somewhere between the extremes of “laissez faire capitalism” and a “command economy.”  However, within this majority of countries, there remains a variety of degrees of government intervention in the economy.  Utilizing the CIA World Factbook as well as any additional resources that you may seek out, compare and contrast the economic organization of two countries (select two that you suspect to have quite different economies) that may be considered “market” or “mixed” economies.  In your estimation, what is the most striking difference concerning the role of the government in the economy of the respective countries?  

In your response, be sure to include in-text citations and brief informal bibliographic entries for each source utilized.  

I need two why to answer this assignment.

Need Help. I have the sections 1-4, I put the in bold. Thanks in advance.

For this assignment, you and your group will create a capital plan. Your plan will take into consideration all of the information you know about Universal Parts Company. Additionally, you will make and document any assumptions necessary to plan for UPC’s capital needs. The director of finance has provided you with the following information:

• UPC will need $100 million in the next 10 years to sustain its growth and remain competitive in its market.
• UPC’s desired capital structure is 30% debt and 70% equity.
• UPC will sell its fleet of trucks within the next 12 months. Instead, the company plans to lease trucks for shipping products to customers.

Individual Portion:

Using course materials and the library, identify 4 sections (or stages) in designing a capital plan for UPC. For instance, you may pick 4 sections in the capital planning cycle. Your group should share the sections in the planning cycle such that the group will cover all of the sections in the cycle.

Sections in a capital plan may include the following:

1. Capacity condition evaluation and needs assessment
2. Project proposal discussions and management
3. Capital project submission
4. Financial analysis of projects
5. Analysis of project impact and risks
6. Appropriations
7. Ranking of project options and scenarios
8. Project filtering and accept or reject decisions
9. Analysis of capital sources and funding
10. Allocation of funds among independent or mutually exclusive projects
11. Review and approval of capital plan
12. Capital budget reviews, monitoring, and reporting

Please add your file. Note that only a Word document and Excel spreadsheet (if applicable to your sections) are required for the individual portion.