I’m working on a management question and need support to help me study.

Week 5 Discussion:

• Respond to the specific questions posed in the discussion.
• Be sure to base your initial post and responses on course materials, and use 7th ed. APA citations in every post.
• Write clearly and proofread; errors can lose you points.
• Quality of posts, citations, frequency, and timeliness of posts all factor into your discussion grade. See the Participation Grading Rubric for details.

Discussion Instructions

Please refer to the Discussion Grading Rubric and the module for details regarding how your performance will be assessed. NOTE: Please be certain to read the entire discussion assignment since in some cases there is more than one question to discuss, respond to, or address. Be sure that you have answered the entire question!

Initial Post

This posting should answer the requirements using the course materials from the week’s reading (not external source material) to support the ideas presented. If you are uncertain as to how to support the ideas presented, go to Content and view the module, Learn How to Support What You Write.

It is important to write concisely, provide the chapter title, chapter heading. Include in-text citations and a reference in a reference list. To see how to cite the eBook, go to Content and view the module, Learn to Use APA. The citation and reference information is on the right-side of the screen.

For Discussion

Part of this week’s reading focused on consumer protection. One industry that continue to focus on protecting consumers in their product deliver is the automobile industry. Safety and consumer protection go hand in hand in this industry and vehicle safety continues to increase as newer vehicles are produced.

Describe the new features you would add to an automobile designed for consumers in the 55+ age group. In what magazines would you advertise to appeal to this target market? (Reading in the attachments)

Another part of this week’s reading focused on ethical issues related to food and drinks. For many years Gerber has manufactured baby food in small, single-sized containers. Reviewing this week’s reading, and looking at the future environment of the company, identify three trends or factors that might significantly affect this company’s future business, propose how Gerber might respond to these changes, and what ethical considerations should be considered with these propositions. (Reading is Theme 3 Ethical Issues Related to Food & Drink Production below)

Theme 3: Ethical Issues Related to Food & Drink Production

• At sentencing, cantaloupe growers apologize for deadly listeria outbreak
• For first time, company owner faces life sentence for food poisoning outbreak
• Business Ethics Alive: Blue Bell vs Peanut Corporation of America
• 2.5 million pounds of taquitos recalled for salmonella, listeria concerns

Self-Plagiarism

Self-plagiarism is the act of reusing significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one’s own work. You cannot re-use any portion of a paper or other graded work that was submitted to another class even if you are retaking this course. You also will not reuse any portion of previously submitted work in this class. A zero will be assigned to the assignment if self-plagiarized. Faculty do not have the discretion to accept self-plagiarized work.

Grading Rubric:

Criteria

Initial Responses

Thoroughly uses required course materials and research/scenario (if required) to post discussion response that correctly answers the discussion question(s), and demonstrates strong connections between the weekly concept(s) and research/scenario explaining the ‘why and how’ and includes examples, application, etc.

Writing

Contributes to discussion with clear and concise comments that are style appropriate, rich in vocabulary and excellent use of grammar, punctuation & few spelling errors.

APA

Excellent use of APA. In-text citations are correctly used when source materials are used. Reference list matches in-text citations, few errors are present.