The CEO of Steadfast, Inc. learns that financially, the New Hampshire company is in trouble. Steadfast produces many crafts and furniture, made of wood and other natural components such as stone. The company has recently opened a smaller operation with only 50 employees in Illinois. That operation is known as Gifted (trade name) but it is part of Steadfast. The Illinois employees who create the crafts in Gifted were all trained in New Hampshire by the Steadfast employees. A good number of the Steadfast employees have designed the crafts and furniture. There are 3,000 employees, all local, who work in manufacturing, assembly and operations and most have done so for decades.

However, the company is losing money. It has to triple sales in two years to remain competitive. Some of the costs could be saved if the New Hampshire company base were permanently closed and all operations and company presence shifted to Illinois. There is a larger workforce available for future growth there and there are many suppliers who do a lot of business in Midwestern Cities and would cut costs of materials. Since the New Hampshire company is in a rural area, there are not many job opportunities for the employees. If the New Hampshire business closes its doors, nearly all would be unemployed for the long term and the local economy, which also benefits from taxes paid by Steadfast Inc (for schools and so forth), would also suffer. Professional financial analysts have predicted the company would do very well if it shut down the New Hampshire business and shifted everything to Illinois. The financial analysts have also advised, however, that there is not enough money to ‘move’ even one-third of the employees to Illinois because the company is now losing money. The CEO is not personally wealthy and knows that most employees, with strong ties to the community, would probably not even want to go. The financial analysts have dismal predictions for the ability of Steadfast to keep doing business if their recommendation is not followed and the New Hampshire company continues. But the CEO, who has headed the company for 25 years, looks at the employees like family. The CEO could also keep the Steadfast business running and hope that in two years, sales are tripled. The employees are aware of the need to increase profits dramatically. All the employees are anxious to put in extra work and do what it takes. Assume the CEO decides to keep the business running but after one year, the company (included the Gifted branch business) has to file for bankruptcy, meaning many creditors are not paid and the shareholders do not collect anything. Did the CEO make the right decision?

Your task: Provide an ethical analysis as follows:. Would utilitarianism have led the CEO to the same decision (keep the company running)? Would Kant have done what the CEO did (kept the company running)?.

Be sure to review and use the ethics notes document on the module for Law and Ethics and in using the relevant ethical principles and concepts, incorporate relevant facts in your analysis. You may briefly add your own view as CEO (using any other approach) at the end but you will only receive credit for application of the above two approaches. There is a sample problem analysis on Canvas that offers samples of legal analysis and ethical analysis. Recommended Page limit: One page, single-spaced. Estimated length for concise writers: two paragraphs, 7 sentences per paragraph, still probably over half a page. IF you write more, I will read it (ie 2 pages) but make sure your work is organized, not repetitive and so forth.

Please see the sample question and answer attached.

My instructor, in consumer behavior’s class, ask as to make interview with people. I want to answer the questions “Prepare a transcript (verbatim) of all the interviews. For effective time management, it is important that you transcribe your interviews immediately. Include the transcripts in the appendix section of your report.”

I want interview 3 different people with different age and education

the interview questions:

Main Questions:

• 1-How important is it for you to touch the products prior to purchasing them?
• 2-For what products do you feel that haptic information is important? Why?
• 3-For what types of products is it most important?
• 4-What kinds of products feel good to the touch and make you more likely to buy them?
• 5-What sensory information does touching products give you? Please elaborate and give me examples.
• 6-How does your sense of touch influence your buying decision?
• 7-Is there anything you don’t buy because of how it feels?
• 8-Is there anything you don’t buy if you cannot touch it prior to purchase?
• 9-What do you, as a consumer, do if you are unable to hold/feel a product before buying?
• 10-Think of the last time you wanted to buy something but were not able to touch it (for example, an online purchase situation). Explain the situation.
• 11-How could marketers compensate for the lack of touch to make you more comfortable when buying a product?
• 12-What could retailers do to make it easier to purchase things online (considering that people cannot touch products in online purchases)?
  • a)Do you think that the inability to touch online purchased products affects the way that consumers approach their online purchasing decisions?

• a)Tell me if you ended buying the product or not.
• b)What did you do to compensate for the lack of haptic information?

Demographic questions:

1. Age
2. Gender
3. Ethnicity
4. Education Level

Learning Extended

Brindley, Blaschke, and Walti (2009) noted that adult learners commonly experience anxiety over the gap between old thinking and new knowledge or capability as well as a sense of disconnectedness at various stages of the learning process. When during this course have you experienced this anxiety or sense of disconnectedness? How did you work through these feelings, and what ‘nugget of wisdom’ can you take away from the experience of working through these feelings and apply to future learning experiences?

There are a number of components of quality indicators: accessibility, appropriateness, continuity, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, timeliness, patient perspective issues, and safety of care environment. Take one of these components and start a discussion.

Please support your discussion with facts, relevant examples, and at least two citations from the peer-reviewed professional nursing literature or the required textbook readings.

Imagine that you have a friend, Jennifer Jackson, who owns a small family restaurant that opens at night. Jennifer’s restaurant has been open only a few years, and she likes to keep the business small. The popularity of the restaurant has increased, but Jennifer is hesitant extending service to include lunch hours. She has two young children at home, and keeping the restaurant running only in the evenings has been profitable enough and allowed her to keep a sense of balance in her life. And yet, Jennifer feels she is losing an opportunity to expand that may not be available to her in a few years. For Jennifer’s case, what are the different costs factoring into her decision of whether to extend business hours or not?

Consider how to analyze cost concerns, such as opportunity cost, and consider how to determine the cost of alternatives over single and multiple time periods. Also, think about how you would analyze the role of costs in the decision-making process.

• Differentiate opportunity cost, marginal cost, and relevant cost, including supportive and illustrative examples in terms of the purposes for which each cost is used. You can use the scenario of Jennifer’s restaurant to illustrate your examples.
• Analyze the relationship between marginal benefit and marginal cost, and explain how marginal benefit is measured and how it relates to marginal cost.
• Beyond the scenario of Jennifer’s restaurant, what other costs must managers address before making decisions? Why?

Be sure to support your work with specific citations