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Business Essentials 9th Edition Ronald J. Ebert, Ricky W. Griffin - Solutions
Should commercial banks be regulated, or should market forces be allowed to determine the kinds of loans and the interest rates for loans and savings deposits? Why?
Customers who deposit their money in online-only checking and savings accounts can often get higher interest rates than at brick-and-mortar banks. Why do you think that online banks can offer these rates? What might be some drawbacks to online-only banking?Application Exercises
Consider historical currency exchange rates for the U.S. dollar versus China’s yuan and Japan’s yen. If you had bought those currencies with dollars five years ago, what would be their dollar values today?
Start with a $1,000 deposit and assume a reserve requirement of
percent. Now trace the amount of money created by the banking system after five lending cycles.
Interview the manager of a local commercial bank. Identify the ways in which the bank has implemented requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act.What costs has the bank incurred to implement the federal requirements?
From the standpoint of a commercial bank, can you find any economic justification for ATM access fees?
Before hearing any of your group’s comments on this situation, and from the perspective of your assigned role, do you think there are any ethical issues with Forthright National Bank’s security-screening program? If so, write them down.
Before hearing any of your group’s comments, and from the perspective of your assigned role, what do you think are the main problems with the bank’s security-screening program?Write them down.
Return to your group and share the ethical issues and problems identified by each member. Were the issues and problems the same among all roles, or did difference in roles result in different issues and problems?
Among the ethical issues identified, decide as a group which one is most important for the bank to resolve. Likewise, for potential problems, which is the most important one for the bank?
What does your group recommend be done to resolve the most important ethical issue? How should the most important problem be resolved?
Relate the characteristics of money to the U.S. currency system.
Explain the functions of money and the role that financial institutions play in this process.
Describe the role of the Fed in regulating the money supply.
What is money? Relate the four characteristics of money to the U.S. currency system.
Money plays an important role in our economy. What are the functions of money?
How do financial institutions like BancFirst create money?How would tighter credit standards affect this process?
What is the Federal Reserve? What are the major functions of the Fed?
Explain the tools that the Federal Reserve uses to control the money supply.
Explain the concept of the time value of money and the principle of compound growth.
Identify the investment opportunities offered by mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
Describe the role of securities markets and identify the major stock exchanges and stock markets.
Describe the risk–return relationship and discuss the use of diversification and asset allocation for investments.
Describe the various ways that firms raise capital and identify the pros and cons of each method.
Identify the reasons a company might make an initial public offering of its stock and explain how stock value is determined.
Explain how securities markets are regulated.
If the proposed 2010 legislation had become law, do you believe it would have been desirable for the U.S. cap-and-trade market to become part of a global(multinational) emissions-trading market? Explain why, or why not.
Should future U.S. emissions-trading markets be regulated? If yes, in what ways and by what regulatory agency? If no, identify possible risks that may result.
Suppose you are CEO of a firm whose activities are known to release CO2 emissions. What factors would you consider in evaluating your possible opposition to mandatory emissions reductions? What factors would you consider in evaluating your support of mandatory cap-and-trade?
Consider a voluntary emissions reduction program that includes allowances trading, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange system, as an alternative to mandatory cap-and-trade. Can a voluntary program succeed in the United States? Explain why, or why not.
Identify the various characteristics of corporate bonds.
If you are not currently involved in investing, imagine that you are analyzing potential investments to build your portfolio. Create a mock portfolio with the investments you would obtain. How would you apply diversification and asset allocation to ensure that your risk–return balance is at a
Why might a conservative versus risky choice be different at a not-for-profit organization than at a for-profit organization?
What are the main ethical issues in this situation?
Before hearing any of your group’s comments on this situation, and from the perspective of your assigned role, do you think there are any ethical issues with this situation? If so, write them down.
Return to your group and reveal any ethical issues that were identified by each member. Be especially aware to see if the different roles resulted in different kinds of ethical issues.Why might role differences result in dissimilar priorities on ethical issues?
For the various ethical issues that were identified, decide as a group which one is the most important for Premier Power Investments to resolve. Which issue is second in importance?
From an ethical standpoint, what does your group finally recommend be done to resolve the most important ethical issue? To resolve the second most important ethical issue?
Explain how companies use debt and equity to finance their operations.
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of debt and equity financing.
Understand how individuals make investment decisions over their lifetime.
What are the two general options for companies that wish to raise money for expansion?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of bonds as a way of raising capital?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of stocks as a way of raising capital?
What questions should an investor ask before investing in securities?
How do investment decisions change over a client’s lifetime?
Define leadership and distinguish it from management.
Summarize early approaches to the study of leadership.
Discuss the concept of situational approaches to leadership.
Describe transformational and charismatic perspectives on leadership.
Identify and discuss leadership substitutes and neutralizers.
Discuss leaders as coaches and examine gender and cross-cultural issues in leadership.
Describe strategic leadership, ethical leadership, and virtual leadership.
Relate leadership to decision making and discuss both rational and behavioral perspectives on decision making.
How do you think the work of leaders will change in the future?What are the basic differences between management and leadership?
Summarize the basic premises underlying the trait, behavioral, and situational approaches to leadership.
List and briefly explain the steps in rational decision making.Questions for Analysis
Identify five people you would consider to be excellent leaders. Explain why you feel that way about each.
What factors are present in your job that motivate you to perform without the direction of a leader? Are there factors that neutralize the efforts of your leader?
Identify and discuss examples of how your decision making has been affected by at least two of the behavioral processes noted in the chapter.Application Exercises
Interview a senior manager at a local company. Ask that manager if he or she believes that leadership can be taught.What are the key implications of his or her position?
Review the running example in the textbook regarding the decisions made by Airbus and Boeing regarding new long-haul aircraft. Research the most current information available about the status of both planes. Based on the information you have available, which firm seems to have made the best
If you personally were selected for a program such as this, what would you expect to encounter during the training and development? What would you expect to be different after the training and development were complete?
Approve all four products for production
Be completely frank and recommend approval of only two of the products.
Form a coalition with a team of engineers and work toward a proposal to modify the two less attractive products. The management team thinks this is viable, but it will also add some costs for product development and delay product introduction for about six months.
Before hearing any of your group’s comments on this situation, and from the perspective of your assigned role, which option do you think is best for the company? Write down the reasons for your position.
Gather your group together and reveal, in turn, each member’s comments on the three options. Next, reveal the ethical issues listed by each member.
From an ethical standpoint, what does your group conclude is the most appropriate action that should have been taken by the Edda Corporation in this situation?
Develop a group response to the following question:Regardless of your current opinion of Lucy Shaw as a leader, what actions on her part now would cause you to think less of her as a leader? What actions would cause you to think more of her as a leader?
Differentiate between task- and employee-focused behavior.
Identify the characteristics of transformational and charismatic leaders.
Describe the rational decision making process.
What is the difference between management and leadership? Does the CEO of Southwest need to be a manager, a leader, or both?
Managers may exhibit task- or employee-focused behavior.Describe the types of decisions or activities where managers at Southwest likely exhibit task-focused behavior.
Describe the types of decisions or activities where managers at Southwest likely exhibit employee-focused behavior.
How were Herb Kelleher and Rollin King transformational leaders? How was their style different from typical transactional leadership?
The rational decision making process can be describe as having six steps. List the six steps and describe how each step relates to Southwest’s decision to have open seating
Define human resource management and explain how managers plan for their organization’s human resource needs.
Identify the tasks in staffing a company and discuss ways in which organizations select new employees.
Describe how managers develop the workforce in their organization through training and performance appraisal.
Describe the main components of a compensation system and describe some of the key legal issues involved in hiring, compensating, and managing workers in today’s workplace.
Discuss the legal context of human resource management and identify the contemporary legal issues.
Discuss workforce diversity, the management of knowledge workers, and the use of a contingent workforce as important changes in the contemporary workplace.
Explain why workers organize into labor unions.
Identify the incentives—both financial and nonfinancial—that Nucor uses to motivate employees.
How does Nucor’s flat organizational structure contribute to the success of its compensation system?
Nucor’s CEO believes that when the economy turns around, Nucor will be “first out of the box” in the steel industry. What reasons does he have for being so optimistic?
Why do workers in some companies unionize whereas workers in others do not?Questions for Analysis
Workers at Ford, GM, and Chrysler are represented by the UAW.However, the UAW has been much less successful in its attempts to unionize U.S. workers employed at Toyota, Nissan, and Honda plants in the United States. Why do you think this is so?
What training do you think you are most likely to need when you finish school and start your career?
How much will benefit considerations affect your choice of an employer after graduation?Application Exercises
Interview an HR manager at a local company. Focus on a position for which the firm is currently recruiting applicants and identify the steps in the selection process.
Interview the managers of two local companies, one unionized and one nonunionized. Compare the wage and salary levels, benefits, and working conditions of employees at the two firms.
Based on everything you learned, are you sympathetic to the union movement? Would you want to be a union member?
Are the union members you spoke with or read about satisfied or dissatisfied with their union’s efforts to achieve better working conditions, higher wages, and improved benefits?
Based on what you learned, do you think the union movement will stumble or thrive in the years ahead?
What do you think most managers would do in this situation? What would you do?
Working together, prepare this list, ranking the manager’s employees according to the order in which they should be laid off, from first to last.
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