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BUS 3041-Week-4 Nokia case


Carral, R., & Kajanto, M. (2008). Nokia: A case study in managing industry downturn. The Journal of Business Strategy, 29(1), 25–33.
See: Nokia_a case study Article.pdf
Write a case analysis of the case. See also "W4_a3 Case Guildlines.doc" case analysis guidelines for the final project.


900 words with 1 reference.

BUS 3041-Week 6 Assignment 2 Final Project Narritive

Week 6 Assignment 2 Final Project
Final deliverables consist of three separate documents:
1. Write a comprehensive analysis of the case study method and the issues you analyzed. How did you address the managerial communication issues you learned over the past five weeks? What do you think are the most difficult communication situations that managers face, and how will your skills be useful in handling them? What skills do you need to develop to improve your managerial communication skills? How do you plan on acquiring these skills?
2. Write an executive summary that details how the learning in this course has prepared you to communicate in a constantly changing work environment. The summary should be at least 500 words long.
3. Present a short PowerPoint presentation on the above analysis.


Answer contains answer of question 1 and 2 (500+ words each) and power point presentation.




BUS 3041 Week-3 Assignment-2 Audience analysis

Week 3 Assignment 2
Planning the Presentation Assignment

You have been recently promoted as junior vice president of human resources at your organization. You need to prepare your first presentation on appropriate communication to a group of 20 newly hired employees for their orientation. The profile of the group is as follows:

• 15 entry-level with no corporate experience, of which 5 have no job experience whatsoever.

• 5 upper-level hires, of which 3 hold higher designations than yours. Their age ranges between 17 to 55 years.

• Of these 20, 6 are Hispanic, 2 are Asian, 2 are African-American, and 10 are Caucasian.

• 60% of the group are women.

• 2 disabled employees, one of whom has a hearing disability while the other uses a wheelchair.

Perform an audience analysis while planning your presentation. Ensure that you consider issues such as arrangement of the room, content and length of the presentation, and handouts and visual aids.

Answer is 400 words.


BUS 3041- week 5 Assignment-3 -NLRB Case Analysis

Week 5 Assignment 3 Final Project
This week you will need to use the South University Online Library to locate the required case study needed for this assignment. Click on the "Library and Tutoring Services" tab in the left navigation bar. Log in to the South University Online Library using the information provided. Search the library for "NLRB Upholds Employer's E-mail Policy Prohibiting "Non-Job" Related Solicitations". Please see attached PDF file.

Lavin, H. & DiMichele, E. (2008) NLRB upholds employer's e-mail policy prohibiting "non-job" related solicitations. Employee Relations Law Journal, 2008, 34(l) 88-93.
Write a case analysis of the case. See "Week 5_Assignment 3_Case Guidelines.doc" case analysis guidelines for final project.

Answer is 5 page long and in required template.




BUS 3041 Week-6 DQs

Question 1: Explain each of the three key stages of preparing for and delivering a media interview, including preparation, performance during the interview, and activities after the interview.

Question 2: While going to your office, you read an article in the business section of the newspaper, which claims that your company stole ideas from your competitor. You know this is not true. You contact the public relations department to discuss this problem. How would you apply your crisis communication plan to this situation? Be sure to include issues such as speed of response, spokesperson, audience analysis, use of the Web, and plans for monitoring the situation and evaluating the response.




BUS 3041 Franklin Equipment, Ltd. case

Read the Franklin Equipment, Ltd. case in Chapter 11 and respond to the statements below:
• Analyze and evaluate the criteria FEL uses to assign managers to project teams. Discuss the efficiencies these criteria create. Discuss the resulting problems.
• Discuss why it is important that project team members work well together on international projects such as Project Abu Dhabi.
• Discuss the dilemma that Jobe now faces.
• Discuss what Jobe should recommend to Gatenby.



BUS 3041 Assignment-2 DQ

Question 1: In a tradeoff between two decision criteria such as ease of commuting and attractiveness of job, can you use money as a common denominator to estimate precise tradeoffs? State your reasons. Illustrate using the following tradeoff matrix. What sort of salary differences would it take for commute time to trump job attractiveness?

Question 2: Two co-workers do not get along well, and this affects the entire department. Discuss how you'll resolve this problem as their superior. Specify an objective for this problem.