Discuss your personality, career goals, and the leadership style that makes sense for you.Explain why that style makes sense based on your personality, career goals, and current skills.

Your personal leadership motto/mission statement and a brief paragraph explaining why you chose it.

You may develop your own statement or use a quote or mission statement from a well-known leader. Example of a leadership motto: “Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it” Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Admirable Leaders
Describe three professional leaders that you admire.
Look for people who demonstrate the type of leader that you want to become. If you are planning to go into HR, choose HR leaders. Identify the primary leadership style that each of them demonstrate with examples. Explain what you hope to emulate or learn from that leader.
Provide at least one paragraph for each leader.
My Leadership Style
Discuss your personality, career goals, and the leadership style that makes sense for you.
Include a summary of your personality test results and what those results said about the type of leadership that would make sense for you.
Explain why that style makes sense based on your personality, career goals, and current skills.

Signature Strengths
Identify three of your signature strengths.
You can reference the key leadership competencies from chapter 4.
Discuss what you can do to magnify those strengths.
Areas for Improvement
Identify at least one specific area where you need to improve.
Ask for feedback or help from a trusted friend or mentor to identify any fatal flaws .
Provide specific actions that you can take to grow as a leader in those areas.

Describe how government spending and the composition of the government changed in recent decades. In other words, in what areas has the government cut spending and in what areas has the government increased spending in recent decades?

Applying Economics to the Real World

Select two of the three cases presented below and prepare a three-page written analysis of each case. These case studies provide real-world application to concepts you have studied during this course.

Case 1: Government Spending and Taxation

Read Special Topic 1, pages 404 through 418 of Macroeconomics: Private and Public Choice. You may also want to review Chapters 5 and 6 as the role of the government and the political process were covered in detail.

Using the Government Spending and Taxation case, Chapters 5 and 6, the knowledge you have gained in this course, as well as at least three additional credible resources, analyze the case by addressing the following:

1.Describe how government spending and the composition of the government changed in recent decades. In other words, in what areas has the government cut spending and in what areas has the government increased spending in recent decades?

2.Determine if this change in government spending and composition will help Americans achieve a higher living standard. Be sure to support all opinions with research.
democracy can survive if the majority of the U.S. citizens pay little or nothing in taxes while benefiting directly from a higher level of government spending. Why or why not?

4. Propose the composition of government, government spending, and taxation that you believe would work best. Be sure to be specific and support your proposal with research.

The Economics of Social Security

Can you prepare a report, no more than 1,200 words please, which clearly explains ASOS plc’s investing and financing activities and profits performance?

Financial Report and Advice
This assignment is concerned with the financial performance and financial position of a company over a period of time. Key areas of interest are:

Performance: how well has the company performed as seen through its performance ratios?
Can you prepare a report, no more than 1,200 words please, which clearly explains ASOS plc’s investing and financing activities and profits performance?

You will find it helpful to use the information in the Strategic Report at the front of ASOS plc’s annual report to help you interpret the ratios but could you also include some research from newspaper articles and/or from news websites to back up your conclusions?

Your report must set out who it is to, who it is from, be dated, give a heading and include a brief introduction and conclusion. The main body of your report must include a discussion of the ratios , to include information from the sources that you have decided to use.

Based on your experience, have you seen such practices in your work? Give an example. Why do you think this sort of plagiarizing is rather common in business/professional writing?

Answer the two assigned questions about how this relates to your understanding of business writing practices. Post your answers as your response to this discussion topic.

In a short paragraph, respond to the following questions. Post your paragraph as your response to this discussion topic.

1) Based on your experience, have you seen such practices in your work? Give an example. Why do you think this sort of plagiarizing is rather common in business/professional writing?

2) Where do you think the practice of using the same format, even the same language, for business documents might have come from? Can you think of any examples of when you have noticed the use of what is sometimes called “boilerplate” documents and language.

Are there additional causal factors that were not identified in the ECF chart you created in the Unit IV assignment?Explain.

Barrier Analysis Worksheet

Complete the assignment as detailed below.
From the information in the report, create a three-column barrier analysis worksheet. Use the sample form on page
173 of the course textbook as a template, and follow the instructions below:

a. In the first column, list the barriers. Group the barriers by category.
b. In the second column, describe the intended function of each barrier.
c. In the third column, evaluate the performance of the barrier.
On a separate page, discuss the potential causal factors that are revealed in the analysis. Are there additional causal factors that were not identified in the ECF chart you created in the Unit IV assignment?

What problem are you trying to solve based on your problem statement and hypothesis from Topic 2? Who is most affected by the problem and where/when does the problem affect the customer?

The purpose of this assignment is to create a design challenge that highlights various problem-solving techniques. This assignment will build on the concepts in your Topic 2 “Hypothesis Statements – Overview and Template” assignment.

To complete this assignment, create a PowerPoint presentation that is 10-12 slides . Include a minimum of two scholarly sources in your presentation. Address the following:

What problem are you trying to solve based on your problem statement and hypothesis from Topic 2?
Who is most affected by the problem and where/when does the problem affect the customer?
Identify the key demographic factors of your target customer.
Consider what new technologies are being developed and are emerging through the hype cycle. Imagine three of the emerging technologies within the next 2-5 years that might enable a solution to your problem. Conduct research on companies or groups that are working on these emerging technologies. Discuss how human-centered design and technological advances could offer possible solutions to the problem you are trying to solve.

Calculate and interpret the net present value  of the companies’ annual free cash flow for a 5 year period taking into account a constant growth rate, and a discount rate that is equal to your companies weighted average cost of capital, which is 7%.

For each company, graphically trend the net income and cash flow from operations over the last five years. Based on a comparison of the income statement to the statement of cash flows, what accounts explain the greatest differences between net income and cash flow from operations.  Comment on the quality of the earnings numbers.
Calculate and interpret the net present value  of the companies’ annual free cash flow for a 5 year period taking into account a constant growth rate, and a discount rate that is equal to your companies weighted average cost of capital, which is 7%.
Links:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental-analysis/11/present-value-free-cash-flow.asp

Discuss the importance of truth-telling in the performance appraisal process.Identify and analyze the ethical duties of managers in performance appraisal and compensation.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
AND COMPENSATION
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this chapter, the reader should be able to:
x Identify and discuss several different approaches to compensation in current
use in business, and analyze the fairness of each approach
x Discuss the merits and di”culties of performance-based compensation.
x Discuss the importance of truth-telling in the performance appraisal process.
x Identify and analyze the ethical duties of managers in performance appraisal
and compensation.
x Apply all three major approaches to ethics to the topic of executive compensation.

Develop structured paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting sentences and concluding sentences.

Literature Review and Pros and Cons of the Development of Soft Skills of Leadership.

-leadership theories related to the topic
– other related theories
-relevant literature
-impact on leaders and organizations
• Use headings and subheadings.
• Synthesize the information from the journal articles and references around various topic areas. Do not report each journal article separately.
• Develop structured paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting sentences and concluding sentences.
• Use transitions to connect sections together.
iii) Summary:

• Summarize the main areas of your paper and the findings of the literature related to your topic.
• Develop a conclusion based on the literature.