Your Final Stock Market Report should include background information for all investments. It must include: company name, trading symbol, location, mission, product/service line, competitors, revenues, earnings information, and stock exchange traded on, any current activities that you think may make your selected companies a good or bad investment in the future. In your opinion, which of the seven are good investments for the short-term and for the long-term. Your report should also include share price when you start tracking the stock, number of shares purchased, value of investment on date sold, and profit or loss on the investment. Go to COURSE DOCUMENTS and retrieve the Stock Market template Part #3. In conclusion, express what you learned about the stock market. Answer these questions:

 

1) Is it a good place for short-term investment?

 

2) Long-term investment?

 

3) Back up your opinion with financial facts and historical data. Some people say that “The stock market is the biggest casino in the world.” Do you agree?

 

4) Why and why not?

 

5) For the three investing strategies, which one(s) do you prefer for the short-term investment?

 

6) Long-term investment?

 

7) How do you modify strategy #1 to make it less risky?

 

8) Should you increase or decrease the number of stocks in strategy #1?

 

9) Should you invest in a variety of companies offering different products and services?

 

Your final report must be two to three typed pages double spaced in size 12 font. This is a summary report so don’t ever exceed three pages!

 

 

 

 

		Purchase Price	Number of Shares	Total	Selling Price	Total		Dividends	Net
Investment	Symbol	Per Share	Purchased	Purchase amt	Per Share	Selling Amt	Commission	Collected	Gain/Loss
Bank of America	BAC	$8.80	100	$880	9.12	912	10	32	+22
Apple	AAPL	680.44	10	6804.40	604.00	6040	10	0	– 764
General Electric	GE	29.59	30	887.70	21.11	633.30	10	0	-264.40
Google	GOOG	706.15	20	14123.00	675.15	13503	10	0	– 630
Toyota	TM	81.67	20	1633.40	77.36	1547.20	10	0	– 96.20
Spiders	SPY	146.05	340	49,657.00	141.35	48059	100	0	– 1698
NASDAQ	QQQ	68.98	700	48286.00	65.35	45745	100	0	-2641
Totals		1721.68	1220	122,271.10	7029.44	116439.50	250	32	– 6071.60

 

 

 

 

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Read the followings chapters in 
Strategic Management for Organizations:

1. Chapter 1: Strategic Management
2. Chapter 2: Leadership, governance, Values and Culture 

Articles

• Banker, S. (2013, December 30). UPS holiday season fiasco: A failure of strategic planning. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2013/12/30/ups-holiday-season-fiasco-a-failure-of-strategic-planning/
• My Strategic Plan. (n.d.). Vision Statements. Retrieved from http://mystrategicplan.com/resources/vision-statements/#Criteria.
  • This resource provides a deeper understanding of mission statements and how they relate to strategic plans.

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Discussions
To participate in the following Discussion Forums, go to this week’s Discussion link in the left navigation: 

Introduction

Please post a brief introduction on the first day of class. Respond to at least three of your classmates’ introductions. Use this forum to get acquainted and for ongoing non-content related discussions.

Strategic Planning Process

In your own words, define strategic planning and explain why it is crucial to an organization’s survival. In your response, include a description of how strategic planning differs from strategic management. Lastly, explain how your current or previous organization’s strategy might influence its business model. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. You must create one initial post and at least two responses, for a minimum of three posts for this discussion.

Problems with Strategic Planning


After reading the article “
UPS holiday season fiasco: a failure of strategic planning,” describe where the problem was with UPS’ and FedEx’s strategic planning. How did the fear of losing market share affect their strategic planning? What are potential solutions? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a narrative and a PowerPoint presentation. You must submit two (2) sections for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for.

Imagine that you have just been hired by a new company as the director of the HR department. You have been tasked to hire a new secretary for the department and to develop an employee compensation and benefits package that will be used for that position upon hire. Develop a PowerPoint presentation to present this information to your Vice President. Go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Website, located at www.bls.gov, for information regarding organizations and pay in your geographical area.

Section 1: Narrative

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Choose the type of organization for which you are designing the package.
2. Develop an employee compensation and benefits package for this new position. Support your ideas for the compensation/benefits package.
3. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Section 1 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Section 2: Presentation

Create a twenty (22) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

4. Provide an overview of the employee compensation and benefits package that you developed in the narrative portion of this assignment.
5. Determine if the employee will be exempt or nonexempt and discuss how overtime will be handled.
6. Suggest other benefits that might be considered within the next few months to enhance employee performance and provide job motivation.
7. Provide information on how government regulations will influence the compensation.
8. Examine data from two (2) organizations listed in the BLS Website with packages similar to yours, focusing on salary, compensation, and benefits in order to convince upper management that your package should be accepted and implemented.
9. Describe how the competitive compensation and benefits package will align with the HRM strategy.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Design training and development systems to improve employee performance.
• Develop competitive compensation and benefits packages that align with HRM strategy.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic human resource development.
• Write clearly and concisely about strategic human resource development using proper writing mechanics.

ORIGINAL WORK ONLY! NO PLAGIARISM! I HAVE BEEN RIPPED OFF PREVIOUSLY!

 

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you research two-three companies and do the following:

• Evaluate the internal and external environments of each company using an environmental scan.
• Analyze the competitive advantage of each company
• Evaluate the strategies each company uses to create value and gain competitive advantage.
• Examine the measurement guidelines each company uses to verify its strategic effectiveness.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the measurement guidelines that each company uses.
• Include three credible references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.