Your firm has been investigating the possibility of locating facilities in an East Asian country such as Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, or Singapore. You have been asked by the chief executive officer (CEO) to research what has been happening in these countries in terms of environmental legislation and laws regarding wages and hours. He has asked you to prepare a report that addresses the following information:

• Describe the level of environmental regulation in      any 2 of these countries.
• Describe the 2 selected countries' versions of wage      and working-hour legislation. 

Use the Library and other Internet resources to find the legislation for the specific countries.

Select 2 of the 4 East Asian countries to analyze for this assignment. Use the Library and other Internet resources to answer the following questions for each selected country: 

• What is

Your manager believes in learning from other companies' success stories as well as stories of failure. In particular, she likes to apply various management theories when possible, rather than starting from the beginning every time a decision has to be made. She asks you to write a memo to her addressing the following: From any recent or current event in the news, discuss and explain the use of these two specific theories that the firms you researched believed in 

In the human resource area, moving toward an employee empowerment culture

In the marketing area, the theory of penetration pricing 

For each of these two, explain the following: 

The issue being addressed that gave rise to employing these theories 

How the theory being followed leads to specific actions on the part of the company

Results achieved

If you had been the senior manager in these situations, at those companies, how might you have addr

Assignment 2: Final Project

You have a novel product idea and a working prototype for floating fishing pliers. You use an extrusion process to manufacture the pliers, and your family assembles them out of your basement. Your plan is to distribute them through sporting goods stores that cater to anglers. Applying all that you have learned in this course, create a detailed strategic plan for the next five years. You should include the following elements of comprehensive strategic plan:

• A mission statement that describes      the overall purpose of the organization 
• A resource needs assessment 
• A statement and some detail on the      technology requirements, goal statement, and rationale 
• A set of objectives (measurable      and observable) 
• A statement on the hardware, software,    &

Complete the following assignment:

Apply the chaos theory to retail store of your choice, for instance, Nordstroms, Dillards, and so forth. If you are unsure if your choice of a retail store is acceptable, please check with your facilitator.

Identify core components and processes. 

Examine how SWOT analysis can be used.

As a continuation of retail store project:

• Identify      chaos in the retail business 
• Examine how      systems principles apply to the internal management of the store 
• Examine how      systems principles apply to the store and community 
• Determine      how to estimate the community's total demand for retail goods 
• Identify      the core components and critical processes of the store 

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