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Arçelik aims for Europe

Background: domestic strength in the 1990s

Arçelik has been making domestic appliances – washing machines, refrigerators, freezers and ovens – since the 1950s. It is controlled by one of Turkey’s leading and most respected industrial groups, Koç Holdings. The holding company had sales of $43 billion in 2010 and, within this, Arçelik had sales of $3.5 billion – by any standards, an important company. Back in the 1990s, Arçelik’s domestic appliance business had been steadily expanded to dominate its Turkish home market. The country itself had a population of over 70 million with rapidly rising wealth. Arçelik’s nearest competitor was another Turkish company called Vestel. But Arçelik’s strategies were so successful that it had almost four times the sales of its rival…..

QUESTION 2 VALLEY SWIM CLUB [25 Marks]

The Valley Swim Club has 300 stockholders, each holding one share of stock in the club. Ashare of club stock allows the shareholder’s family to use the club’s heated outdoor pool during the summer, upon payment of annual membership dues of $175. The club has not issued any new stock in years, and only a few of the existing shares come up for sale each year. The board of directors administers the sale of all stock. When a shareholder wants to sell, he or she turns the stock in to the board, which sells it to the person at the top of the waiting list. For the past few years, the length of the waiting list has remained relatively steady, at….

Case Study – NatureCare

NatureCare Products is an Australian company based in Brisbane. The company commenced business in 1996 and manufactures and eco-friendly, high quality beauty skin care products. The business was established to cater for a growing demand for skin products that contain eco-friendly and natural ingredients. There is also an emphasis on eco-friendly packaging.

The company sells its products in health food shops across the country, as well as on-line through its own web site. The company targets customers that want high quality, eco-friendly products. Market research and NatureCare’s basic customer database has identified that around 70% of customers are professional women aged 25 to 55 (a total of 120 customers).

The company currently has a small range of products that include:

· Cleansing creams to soothe….

Marion Dairies

Last year Marion Dairies decided to enter the yogurt market, and it began cautiously by producing, distributing, and marketing a single flavor – a blueberry-flavored yogurt that it calls Blugert. The company’ initial venture into the yogurt market has been very successful; sales of Blugert are higher than expected, and consumers’ ratings of the product have a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 25 on a 100-point scale for which 100 is the most favorable score and zero is the least favorable score. Past experience has also shown Marion Dairies that a consumer who rates one of its products with a score greater than 75 on this scale will consider purchasing the product, and a score of 75 or less indicates that the consumer….

Psychology teaches us that choosing, perceiving, remembering, and other cognitive activities involve complex processes that compete for limited mental resources. The human brain is an amazing thing, but even when that brain is young and working well, it can reveal its limits by slipping up in surprising ways—like forgetting a decision made a few seconds ago just a few seconds later (choice blindness). Other interesting research provides some insight into how our brain’s manage decision-making. Do you think that making a choice puts big demands on our mental processing system? One line of research suggests that it does. Let’s examine an experiment that was conducted at a small local grocery store by Sheena Iyengar, then a graduate student at Stanford University. She set up a table for tasting….

For the past two years Jeni has been providing consultation service in her business known as Colorful Ideas Consulting service. The firm’s asset as of January 1 was $65,500 (Cash, $30,000;supplies $4,500; account receivable $6,000; and office equipment $25,000). The firm has noliabilities transferred from the previous accounting period. During the month of January, 2022, Colorful Ideas Consulting entered into the following transactions: January 1. Paid three months’ rent on a lease rental contract, $6,000. 2. Paid the premiums on property and casualty insurance policies for one year, $2,400. 3. Received cash from clients as an advance payment for services to be provided and recorded it as unearned fees, $3,800. 5. Purchased additional office equipment on account for $6,500. 6. Received cash from clients on account, $3,500. 10…..

Capstone Assignment Time Allowed: Your answers must be emailed to [email protected] by Monday 20 June at 5.00pm SHARP (HOBART Time) Instructions: This Capstone Assignment consists of two sections, Section A and Section B. Section A consists of a case study analysis. Candidates must answer all FIVE (5) compulsory questions. Section A is worth a total of 30 marks. Section B consists of FIVE (5) essay questions of which candidates must answer THREE (3) questions. Each question is worth 10 marks for a total of 30 marks. This Capstone Assignment counts for 60 per cent of the marks for this unit.

SECTION A¾CASE STUDY ANALYSIS (30 marks) Candidates must read the following case study and answer ALL of Questions 1-5. Section A is worth 30 marks in total. (A) YOUR ENTIRE ANSWER IS LIMITED….

PART A – ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING MODEL (15%)

Due date: Week 13 – Wednesday 22 June 11.55pm

1.In one paragraph (about 300-400 words), describe an ethical dilemma that you have experienced. You must present an original dilemma, not one copied from the internet with different names. Remember, a dilemma involves making a moral choice between two or more alternatives (5 marks).

2. Draw an Ethical Decision-Making Model to illustrate the dilemma above. Your model should include: a statement of the dilemma in one sentence; one response using situation ethics and another response using the ethics of care theory; and your ethical resolution (10 marks).

NOTE: Save your dilemma as a word or PDF document. You can present the dilemma creatively. There isn’t one format to follow for the dilemma,….

Reading review problem. Consider the following examples of computer crime:

• In June of 2005, news broke that breach at a third-party payment processor had affected 40 million credit cards. The intruders were able to export names, card numbers, and card security codes from approximately 20,000 of the affected cards. (CNN.com)

• Beginning early Saturday, January 25, 2003, a worm known as Sapphire (aka SQL Slammer) began propagating through the Internet. It was the fastest-spreading worm ever released on the Internet, the number of infected hosts doubling every 8.5 seconds during the first minutes of propagation. Sapphire exploited vulnerability in MS-SQL, for which Microsoft had released a patch in July 2002. It is estimated that the worm infected at least 75,000 hosts, causing major network slowdowns and outages….

1.Which communication method(s) would be most effective for each of the following scenarios? There may be more than one correct answer. Briefly explain your answer. A. In person B. Via email C. Via phone1. tell your boss about a new idea that you have for a project.

2. discuss with your boss a problem you were having with a colleague.

3. Submitting travel expense to the business office for an approved work trip.

4. Asking for feedback from your coworkers on a draft of a report you wrote.

5. Conveying new information that will impact a client you are meeting with tomorrow.

6. Noting an error in a report you received from another department.7. Asking a question regarding your company issued laptop.

8. Providing information about your availability….