As you have explored in this course, ongoing challenges in the global business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Imagine that you have been appointed as the Chief Compliance Officer of a Fortune 500 company and must prepare a presentation for your suppliers regarding your Supplier Code of Conduct to deliver via email, webinar, etc.

For this assignment, you are to create a presentation using PowerPoint (or other equivalent software) and your research on the Fortune 500 company from Assignment 1. In your presentation, you are to summarize the important changes and explanations regarding the code of conduct that you would communicate via email, webinar, etc. The specific requirements are listed below.

Create a six to eight (6-8) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

1. Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Responsibility information.

2. In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and society social responsibility.

3. Discuss your company’s stance on each of the following areas:

Empowering Workers
Labor and Human Rights
Health and Safety
The Environment
Accountability
4. Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year.

5. Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.

6. Provide detailed speaker notes of what you would say if you were delivering the presentation.

7. Submit a reference page with at least two (2) quality references, from within the last 2 years, that you used for this PowerPoint presentation. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your PowerPoint presentation must follow these formatting requirements:

Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title and reference slides are not included in the required slide length.

*****Company is Microsoft****

Your discussion topics are:

1.Do you think that active or passive management is better for investors to pursue? (M1L1)

2.Please tell your discussion group about your pre-class opinions on the need for investing/saving and the viability of using the established financial markets as a means to an end.

Answer each question in a separate post before midnight on Thursday.

You need to post a link in every forum regardless of whether you have Reader’s Choice or not.
Be aware that articles from “Investopedia” and “Wikipedia” do not count…you need to be more academic than that 🙂

Find a current event, within the last 1-2 years, that involved a crisis or scandal. Give a brief synopsis of the company and the issue, and the company’s communication approach to the crisis.  Do you feel the company’s communication approach was effective? Why or why not?  What would you have done the same and what would you have done differently?

This is a continuation from part 1.

Overview: For the second milestone, you will continue your analysis of the Nike case study. During this phase, you will evaluate global business and societal
trends that have occurred over the years for their impact on Nike leaderships decisions and attitudes. In addition, you will address the competitive challenges
presented to the leadership team when they attempted to engage in CSR practices.

Prompt: Before any company can implement a major change, it should analyze the big picture. For example, leadership groups must understand the greater
context in which a company operates. As you have read the Nike case study, you will note that over time societys attitudes toward social responsibility have
evolved. As a response, Nike made significant changes in the way it did business.
Your job in this milestone is to identify those big picture global changes and
consider how they altered Nikes views of CSR.

For the second portion of this milestone, you will address the competitive challenges that occurred as a result of the societal and global changes. As with any trends, there are challenges and opportunities. Consider the ways in which changes in the global and societal landscape affected Nike.

Finally, dig a little deeper by considering the implications of these challenges, focusing specifically on the ways in which the leadership team responded to the
larger societal and global issues.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your paper:
1. Global and Societal Trends
Identify global and societal trends that affected Nikes CSR policy.
Describe the evolution of global and societal trends over time.
2. Changes in Attitudes and Policy
Provide examples of the ways in which the global and societal trends changed attitudes at Nike.
Explain how global and societal trends drove changes to policies at Nike.
3. Response by Nike Leadership to Global and Societal Trends
Describe the opportunities that arose from the changing global and societal trends.
Explain the challenges presented by the changing global and societal trends.

To complete the 5th component of the paper, students will review iBook Ch. 4 to remind yourselves of the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility. I also used a power point in class to explain social impact and corporate social responsibility strategies

Students should identify one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Links to an external site.) and explain one initiative the company has that addresses one of these goals.

The specific objective of the critical assignment due at the end of the term is to conduct a managerial examination of a company. Students will submit components of the final assignment along the way, throughout the term. Please use this APA template paperPreview the document to best prepare your writing submission’s required format.

The fifth component of the critical assignment is for students to submit a one-to-two paragraph preliminary examination of the chosen organizations Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Impact, and/or diversity and cultural awareness

This preliminary examination of Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Impact, and/or diversity and cultural awareness will build the section of the final paper.

Using information from news articles, company websites, digital library searches, Canvas, Multi-touch textbook (Chapter 4), etc.  Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Impact, and/or diversity and cultural awareness.

Successful submission will be submitted in APA (Links to an external site.) writing standards, include citations and references, and serve as the foundation for the 5th part of the final paper.