Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey prided himself on founding a company that offered nutritious products and con- tributed generously to all manner of charities (see Figure 18-10). Mr. Mackey founded the company as a 25-year-old college dropout, in Austin, Texas. When he and his co-founder (his 21-year-old girlfriend) were evicted from their apartment for stor- ing food products in it, they decided to live at their small health foods store. Because it was zoned for commercial use, there was no shower stall, so they bathed using a water hose attached to their dishwasher. Thus was born the world’s foremost purveyor of healthy produce. As Whole Foods increased its market share and became the nation’s largest natural and organic grocer, its reputation as a model for corporate behavior grew as well. With 270 locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Whole Foods Market produced all manner of wholesome produce—seafood, grocery, meat and poultry, bakery, prepared foods and catering, beer, wine, cheese, whole body, floral, pet products, and household products. The company was consistently ranked among the most socially responsible busi- nesses and placed second on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of Top 25 Green Power Partners. For many years, Whole Foods and its socially responsible CEO could do no wrong. Right up until CEO Mackey’s “secret blogging life” was exposed. “Rahodeb, Is that You?” On July 20, 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported that CEO Mackey was, for at least seven years, using the pseudonym, “Rahodeb” (an anagram of his wife’s name, Deborah), to post to Yahoo! Finance forums opinions criticizing rival supermarket chain Wild Oats Market. The Journal reported that both the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission were investigating. The anonymous CEO’s postings painted a bleak future for Wild Oats Market, while predicting a bright one for Whole Foods. An early Rahodeb posting posited the following: “I think it is highly unlikely a conventional supermarket chain will buy OATS. Why not? What does OATS bring to the table? “Good locations? No. For the most part they have poor real estate (based on the stores that I have seen). Their stores are also on average quite small—not the size stores that supermarket chains want to operate. Anyone that buys OATS is taking on huge operating lease liabilities from this poor real estate. OATS has many underperform- ing stores that should be written off.” Another Rahodeb posting proclaimed in 2006: “The writing is on the wall. The end game is now under- way for (Wild Oats) . . . Whole Foods is systematically destroying their viability as a business—market by market, city by city.” In another 2006 posting, Rahodeb warned: “Bankruptcy remains a distinct possibility (for Wild Oats) if the business isn’t sold within the next few years.” Anyone reading these dire anonymous warnings about the future of Wild Oats might have found it inconceivable that any company in its right mind would ever be interested in buying Wild Oats. Who would be that gutsy or ignorant? The answer was a shocker. Rahodeb Makes His Move What Rahodeb aka Mackey didn’t reveal in the anonymous post- ings was that his company, Whole Foods, planned to make an offer to buy Wild Oats. In February 2007, Whole Foods announced it intended to do just that at an aggregate price of $565 million—not bad for a firm that had been knocked so vociferously by the anony- mous blogger. Four months later, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit to block the proposed $656 million sale, on antitrust grounds, that it would hobble competition and increase prices to consumers. Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey took the unusual step of initiating a blog on the subject to explain his opposition to the FTC’s stance. Papers filed by the FTC revealed that for several years, CEO Mackey posted highly opinionated comments under the pseudonym “Rahodeb” on the Whole Foods Yahoo! investment message board, raising serious legal and ethical questions. Additionally, the Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation of the Mackey secret postings. Whole Foods responded to the FTC complaint by saying its CEO posted comments under an alias “to avoid having his com- ments associated with the company and to avoid others placing too much emphasis on his remarks.” Nonetheless, the company also decided to launch a board investigation of the postings and to restrict its CEO and other senior officers from posting future industry-related thoughts on the Internet. And CEO Mackey, himself, mounted his own defense on his own blog, bashing the FTC and stating: “The views articulated by rahodeb sometimes represent what I actually believed and sometimes they didn’t. Sometimes I simply played ‘devil’s advocate’ for the sheer fun of arguing. “All of rahodeb’s posting also need to be understood in the context of the time that they were written. Because the competitive market has evolved so much in the last 5 years, older postings mean far less today than they did when they were written.” The FTC–Mackey/Whole Foods battle raged on for two years when, in 2009, the government settled with the company, forcing Whole Foods to sell the Wild Oats brand and 13 functioning stores, in order to keep another 19 outlets. As a postscript, the SEC concluded in 2008 that it had decided to take “no action” on the anonymous CEO Web postings. Questions 1. What are the ethical implications of the CEO’s anonymous postings about the competition? 2. Would Mackey have been better off signing his name to the postings? 3. If you had been public relations director at Whole Foods, what would you have advised the CEO as to his Web postings and his blog?

In this assignment, you will evaluate a supply chain.

Scenario:

You are consulting for Samsung. The organization has asked you to design a supply chain and implement a program to monitor its performance with respect to sustainability. They have also asked you to give recommendations for improving upon your plan as the organization grows. The chief executive officer (CEO) has asked you to present your design and recommendations in a PowerPoint presentation at a meeting with the executive management team.

Instructions:

Your presentation should include the following information:

1. Evaluate the organization’s facilities with regard to capacity and location. Determine whether the organization has enough capacity and whether or not the facilities are strategically located.
2. Conduct an inventory analysis of the firm.
   • Evaluate the firm’s ERP system.
   • Evaluate the firm’s inventory management systems.
   • Identify the firm’s inventory costs.
   • Determine the firm’s optimum order quantities.
   • Identify the firm’s seasonality adjustments and reorder points.
3. Describe the systems used to monitor the performance of the suppliers.Identify the firm’s conflict management strategies.
   • Identify the key performance indicators (KPIs).
   • Describe the firm’s risk management strategies.
5. Recommend strategies, tools, etc. the organization can use to improve or expand upon the supply chain in the future.
6. Identify any potential ethical issues that could have a negative impact on the organization and make recommendations to address them.

In addition to the slides in the presentation, include a detailed outline in the speaker notes section explaining the content on each slide. Use at least three (3) scholarly sources to support the information in your presentation. Be sure to cite the sources for your information.

Make sure your presentation adheres to the following Presentation Guidelines:

• Create a presentation that is professional and visually appealing.
• Include a combination of text and graphics.
• Do not write out your entire presentation on the slides. Use bullet points of keywords and short phrases instead of long sentences and paragraphs.
• Create your presentation (slides and Speaker Notes) using language that can be easily understood by the intended audience.
• Use APA formatting for your slides and Speaker Notes (outline).

Develop a 10–15-slide presentation (including the title slide and reference slide) in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. 

The book being used for this couse is:

WorldatWork. (2007). The WorldatWork handbook of compensation, benefits, & total rewards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

 

ASSIGNMENT IS AS FOLLOWS:

 

For companies that have a mission of selling, a major objective is to motivate the salespeople. While that are many factors that go into motivating these people, one of the primary factors is the compensation plan that describes how they will be rewarded. Research a large organization’s sales force and its compensation plan.

 

Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:

 

1. In order to motivate the sales force to produce the highest number of clients, describe six (6) features of an effective total rewards program.

 

2. Describe the behaviors of the sales force that are targeted with the compensation plan.

 

3. Assess how a value proposition is achieved for current and future employees in the plan you have outlined.

 

4. Based upon the type of plan you have created, indicate how attracted you think future salespeople may be to this plan.

 

5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

 

 

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; 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 page length.

 

 

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

 Define total rewards and describe the advantages of a total rewards approach.

 

 Analyze an organization’s strategy, workforce, operating environment, and key stakeholders to identify critical factors in designing a total rewards strategy.

 

 Use technology and information resources to research issues in total rewards.

 

 Write clearly and concisely about total rewards using proper writing mechanics.

an essay about this subject: is using cellphone while driving acceptable or should be banned? 700 words and 3 references  

Exercises:

2. How many individual atoms are in a water molecule?

 

3. When a container of gas is heated, what happens to the average speed of its molecules?

 

4. The average speed of a perfume – vapor molecule at room temperature may be about 300 m/s, but you ‘ll find the speed at which the scent travel across the room in much less. Why?

 

5. A cat scrolls across your backyard. An hour later, a dog with his nose to the ground follows the trail of the cat. Explain this occurrence from a molecular point of view?

 

10. Your friend says that what makes one element disctinct from another is the number of electrons about the atomic nucleus. Do you agree wholeheartedly, partially, or not at all? Explain.

 

12. Why don’t equal masses of golf balls and Ping-Pong balls contain the same number of balls?

 

15. How many atoms are in a molecule of ethanol, C2H6O?

 

17. A particular atom contains 29 electrons, 34 neutrons, and 29 protons. What is the identity of this element and its atomic number?

 

23. You could swallow a capsule of germanium without ill effects. But, if a proton were added to each of the germanium nuclei, you would not want to swallow the capsule. Why? (Consult the periodic table)

 

31. In what sense can you truthfully say that you are a part of every person in history? In what sense can you say that you will tangibly contribute to every person on Earth who will follow?

 

One step calculation:

Speed = distance

                     Time

 

1.Calculate your walking speed when you step 1 meter in 0.5 second.

 

Average = total distance covered

                        Time interval

 

3.Calcualte your average speed if you run 50 meters in 10 seconds.

 

5.Calcualate the average speed of a cheetah that runs 140 meters in 5 seconds.

 

Distance = average speed X time

 

7. Calculate the distance (in km) that Larry runs if he maintains an average speed of

     8 km/h for 1 hour.

 

9. Calculate the distance you will travel if you maintain an average speed of 10 km/h

     for one-half hour.

 

Acceleration = change of velocity

                                Time interval

 

11. Calculate the acceleration of a bus that goes from 10 km/h to a speed of 50 km/h in 10 seconds.

 

13. On a distant planet, a freely falling object gains speed at a steady rate of 20 m/s during each second of fall. Calculate its acceleration.

 

Instantaneous speed = acceleration x time

 

15. Calculate the speed (in m/s)of a skateboarder who accelerates from rest for 3 seconds down a ramp at an acceleration of 5 m/s square.

 

Velocity acquired in free fall from rest: v=gt (where g=10 m/s square)

 

17. An object is dropped from rest and falls freely. After 7 seconds, calculate its instantaneous speed.

 

Distance fallen in free fall, from rest: d=1/2 gt square

 

19. A coconut drops from a tree and hits the ground in 1.5 seconds. Calculate how far it falls.