Category: Questions

Communication in Crisis Situations
Many times, the communication that has to go out is not good news. We see crisis situations all the time in businesses, and the communication about those crises must be done very carefully and by considering the intended audience.

Research and choose an organization that has gone through a crisis in the past five years. Based on your research and reading, complete the following tasks:

*Discuss how they communicated their crisis situation to the public. What form of communication (verbal or written) did they use? Who was their intended audience?

*Discuss whether the company was effective in communicating their crisis while maintaining or improving their image. Describe whether there were other ways in which they could have communicated better with the audience.

*Provide an analysis of the communication strategy and what you would have done differently had you been in charge of the communication.

Why should criminologists be concerned with how crime, criminals and the criminal justice system are represented in the media

In responding to this question i want to address the nature and effects of crime news coverage in respect to crime, criminal justice.

Why are Aborigines the ultimate outsiders in 21st Century Australia? And why are they the perennial objects of Australian government attention

Access to justice has come to be regarded as synonymous with, or crucially dependent on, the
ideals of the rule of law and, more specifically, due process… Thus we can conclude… that “the right to participate in the legal process is fundamental to liberal theory”. Conversely, evidence that some citizens are under-represented in legal process or, worse, are not represented at all (because of insufficient resources or inadequate laws) threatens the legitimacy of this liberal theory’ (Stephen Bottomley & Simon Bronitt, Law in Context (4th edn), p. 159).

Reflecting on the above statement, critically discuss ‘access to justice’ with reference to the gap between the theory (e.g. the ‘ideals’ and the values law ‘should’ embody e.g. ‘equality before the law’) and the practice of law. Discuss one of the following factors that might determine or affect a person’s ability to access justice: socio-economic status (‘class’); gender; disability, and/or ethnicity/race.* Discuss the key concept of power.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been widely criticised but also hailed as an important means to improve children’s lives.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been widely criticised but also hailed as an important means to improve children�s lives.

Create a research question that relates to Racism in Australia, explain why this research question is important (for example, why your case study area needs to be investigated in this way)

Explain what method or methods (i.e. interviews, surveys, observation/ethnography) you would use to study this research question, exploring its/their strengths and weaknesses; in order to do this, it might help to look at some research articles that use particular methods to study your case study area.

How has Health Care policy been presented by governments and by NGOs

How has Health Care policy been presented by governments and by NGOs? What policy responses and services have been provided to deal with this problem? Are there other ways of responding to the problem?

In this project is to investigate the meanings and social patterning of happiness and life satisfaction.

exchange rate movements

Go to a source that allows you to assess recent exchange rate movements (such as Yahoo.finance) of RMB/USD trends over the past year.

Go to cmegroup.com to obtain the current (making sure to include the date you select) futures price for the RMB (with respect to the USD). Make sure to include the specific maturity date of the futures contract you select (try to find one with a maturity date of approximately one year from now). You will click on FX to obtain futures Globex price quotes.

Compare the current spot rate for the RMB to the current futures price from the data above (use current data only).

Do the futures prices exhibit a premium or a discount. How do you interpret this result with regards to the expectation of an appreciation or depreciation of the RMB in the future?

Would your Internet business pay a higher or lower rate when converting RMB into dollars than if you converted funds at the prevailing spot rate? Is this good or bad news for the Revenue (A/R) your business will earn from its Chinese customers over the coming year?

Go to www.bis.org/ (or the foreign Central Bank’s own website) to learn about the Central Bank of China.

According to this website, is the exchange rate system used by the Central Bank of China a fixed-rate or floating-rate system? Describe the Bank of China’s role of central bank intervention, that is, under what circumstances does it intervene and what is it seeking to accomplish?

Explain how and why this information is/might be important for your business, not only its management of currency risk, but also for the stability of your cash flows (A/R and A/P).

For each of these two sections, explain what was the most important concept you learned in that lesson (and why) and please explain how the lesson could be improved.

1. Complete a table for Q, Price, TC, MC, MR and profits. This time start the price at the number of P = 9 combined for Q = 1, and then reduce the price as Q increases. For costs, begin with TC = 4 at Q = 1, then you may use any numbers you like for costs. You may need to play around with the numbers to make this work out. Show that MR = MC at profit maximization. Graph MR, MC and P and show the profit maximizing level of output. (You don’t need to graph ATC and show the profit rectangle).
2. During your next trip to the supermarket (Use this website for the supermarket, https://www.ralphs.com/ ) find two examples of different goods for which the market is oligopolistic. ( Please use breakfast cereals and Soft drinks) Make certain that you have chosen a good and not a brand name. Remember that several brand names compete in a market. List all the brand names (or at least four brands if there are dozens) and the parent company for each brand name (check the package carefully so that you don’t confuse brand names with the actual producer.) For each good, what is your evidence that this market is oligopolistic? (Number of producers; shelf space give to each one; identical pricing.)
3. The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a famous game in game theory in which two prisoners must decide whether or not to cooperate with another, that is declares their mutual innocence. If both prisoners cooperate, that is do not confess their mutual guilt, then they both go free. If one prisoner cooperates, but the other does not, then the non-cooperating prisoner receives a lighter sentence and the cooperating prisoner is punished severely for refusing to confess. If both prisoners refuse to cooperate that is they both say the other is guilty then they both are punished, but less than if only one declared his innocence.
   a. Play the Prisoner’s Dilemma at: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/playground/pd.html Try one set of rounds for practice.
   b. Design a strategy for the game. Describe it and then test the strategy in three rounds of the game. Did it work?
   c. How is this game similar to the game theory we discussed in class?
4. Every year there are new and sometimes unexpected lawsuits against US corporations. Choose a case for study at the web site http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases.html
   You will find many, many antitrust lawsuits listed alphabetically. Please choose two,
   a) one involving any aspect of antitrust. Summarize what was the alleged violation and what happened (if anything). Please do so in your own words (that is, not cut and pasting from the site).
   b) one involving a merger or acquisition (you may need to look at several to find one.) Again, summarize what was the alleged violation and what happened (if anything). Please do so in your own words (that is, not cut and pasting from the site).
5. One good measure of learning is the ability to ask good questions. That is: what is it that you would like to understand better about one of the concepts we’ve studied in economics?

a) Specify the question: what is it that you would like to understand better about one of the concepts we’ve studied in economics?
b) Why don’t you fully understand this concept?
c) Why is it important for us to fully understand this concept?