Week 8 Discussions

1. Organizational Behavior Week 8:

Watch the video from Karl McDonnell, titled “ Which has a greater impact on performance: Job Satisfaction, or Grit ?” Then give your opinion on how much design of work has an impact on job satisfaction. Choose whether you believe job satisfaction is an extrinsic or intrinsic feeling, and explain why.

2. Business Admin Capstone Week 8 #1:

Analyze the three internal governance mechanisms (ownership concentration, boards of directors, and executive compensation) and recommend a possible fourth mechanism that would help align the interests of managerial agents with those of the firm’s owners. Provide specific examples to support your response.

From the e-Activity, determine how U.S.-based corporations could incorporate elements of the corporate governance practices you researched to help top-level managers make better ethical decisions. Provide specific examples to support your response.

3. Business Admin Capstone Week 8 #2:

Corporate governance has become a hot issue in the U.S. over the past two decades.  From your analysis of the case study, determine two possible corporate governance challenges that might be faced by Best Buy as a result of its rapid growth and why they could become corporate governance issues.

Make recommendations for how Best Buy can overcome these challenges. Provide specific examples to support your response.

4. Business Law Week 8:

Review the article / video below, which set the stage for your discussion response.

Did Target ignore data breach warnings? (2:55)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/target-ignored-systems-hacking-warnings-report-says/

Based on the video, did the company presented in the video allow a breach of security based on the laws and ideas discussed in the text? Why or why not? What was done to help remedy the situation, and was it enough based on the legal standard? What legal steps should the company take (or should the company have taken) to avoid personal identity or information from being compromised? Be sure to support your response.

5. Sociology Week 8:

Identify the most significant problems with the way foreign aid is presently dispensed by international lending institutions. Then, discuss at least three (3) recommendations that you would make to remedy this situation so that food, medical, and financial assistance actually reaches the poor.