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Arab Open University
Faculty of Business Studies
T306A TMA- 2017-2018
Questions:


Q1. Apply the Hard Systems Method to this Situation case, including spry diagram and conceptual mapping in order to brainstorm, analyse and make suitable recommendations. Provide a detailed narrative explaining your thinking process. (1500 words) (50 marks)



Q2. Investigate further suitable approaches and tools that could be used to investigate, illustrate and make recommendation to solving problems. Please consult all your course materials and undertake relevant literature search. (400 words) (20 marks)


Q3. What are the main insights or new understandings that you gained from the application of HSM to the case study? (400 words) (20 marks)


Q4. Review the relevance and suitability of hard or soft approach in highlighting issues faced by it. (400 words) (10 marks)



End of Questions







Fair Trade Coffee: The Mainstream Debate

08-069
August 27, 2010
Richard M. Locke, Cate Reavis, Diane Cameron

In November 2008, Shaw’s supermarkets sold a 10-ounce bag of Green Mountain Fair Trade certified coffee for $8.49. The bag which was adorned with the Fair Trade certified logo, did not explain the meaning of Fair Trade. Consumers were directed to a website or a phone number to get more information. However, the bag did say the following:

A good cup of coffee can change your day. A great cup of coffee can help change the world. By supporting farming communities, promoting sound environmental practices and sourcing only the highest quality beans we work to ensure that everyone who comes in contact with our coffee benefits. So while you appreciate the results in your cup, you can also rest assured that this coffee has had a positive impact on every person it has touched which to us makes these little beans a pretty big deal.

The main premise of Fair Trade was that farmers were given a guaranteed “fair price” for their coffee, a guarantee that became particularly appealing to farmers in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the price of coffee fell below the cost of production. For knowledgeable consumers, this was a positive reinforcement knowing that they were helping a social cause even though it was not clear on any bag of Fair Trade coffee just how much farmers were being paid and how much they were profiting.

The organization responsible for certifying food products (including coffee) as Fair Trade was the Fairtrade Labeling Organization (FLO). Based in Bonn, Germany, FLO was an umbrella organization that united 20 labeling initiatives in 21 countries and producer networks. But with a market share of Less than 3.8% of the coffee market and 6.1% of the specialty coffee market, and a growth rate that had plunged from 97% in 2003 to 2% in 2007, the leadership of FLO found itself at a crossroads. Pressures were mounting inside and outside the organization to grow market share for Fair Trade certified coffee, and stakeholders were divided on how best to do this.



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EA300B: Children’s Literature (II)

Can we say that in Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, it is only through education that the child evolves? Discuss.

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Managing Across Organizational & Cultural Boundaries B325


Tutor Monitoring Assignment
Spring 2018

QUESTIONS

Question 1 (50 Marks)

In a globalized world, virtual organizations are becoming more common. Employing technology to mediate communication and action is an essential tool for the success of virtual teams. Based on B325 course material and the article in hand, define what is meant by virtual teams/virtual organizations. Explain the importance of technology mediation in managing virtual teams. Reflect in your discussion on the importance of transparency and the main challenges that virtual team might encounter from both a theoretical and practical stand. Word limit: 1000 words.

Question 2 (50 Marks)

According to the article, six dimensions are required for the analysis of virtual organizations. One of them is level of trust. Discuss trust and aspects needed to build trust. Reflect on the case in this regard. Word limit: 1000 words.




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E303B TMA
Semester 2, 2017-2018
Please return your completed assignment to your tutor to arrive by the end of week 11.
You are required to write no more than 1,500 words, but you will also need to present some of your findings in graphical or tabular form. Please indicate at the end of your essay the number of words you have used.
Before you start this assignment, refer to the general guidance on completing and submitting your assignments on page 41 in the course guides booklet that you have received with the package.
• Task 1 (selection of texts)
Choose two texts by native speakers/writers of English from two different registers: one text should be spoken (a natural conversation/dialogue between two or more speakers) about any subject taken from TV, radio, magazine, newspaper or any other source) and the other text should be written (academic prose) text in English taken from any academic source. The written text can be about any specialized subject (e.g. medicine, law, education, arts, politics etc.). Each text should be about 200-250 words in length. The texts you choose should be RECENT; i.e. published over the last 2- 3 weeks. You can access most daily newspapers, magazines or academic proceedings on the internet.
You should expect to spend a reasonable amount of time selecting your texts, as your choice of text will potentially affect the quality of your answer. Do not be afraid to reject your initial choice if you come across something better, since you will inevitably have gained insights from the process of selection. However, you need to remember to leave yourself enough time to spend on the analysis of your chosen texts.
Important Notes:
1. Your chosen texts MUST be approved by your tutor to make sure they are the proper texts for the TMA, otherwise your TMA will not be accepted.
2. You should write an introduction to the TMA at the very beginning of the page on which you are beginning the TMA. Also, you should write a conclusion to the whole TMA at the end in which you sum up what you have done in the TMA and state your own evaluation and opinion of the TMA.
3. In an appendix attach a photocopy or a printout of the two texts you have used for analysis.
4. Indicate in a very clear manner the source and date of publication of each text.
• Task 2 (analyzing the experiential meanings with special reference to coherence and cohesive devices)
• You should type the two texts (200-250 words) in your TMA.
In this task you should analyze the experiential meanings in the two texts as outlined in Book 3, Unit 13, section 4 using the SFL aspects and analytical methodology. You can also refer to Unit 15 and 16 for more information, illustration and practice that are relevant to this TMA.
You need to clarify how cohesive devices are deployed to build experiential and interpersonal meanings to create a coherent text; how cohesive patterns are interpreted in relation to the contextual variable of mode and in terms of their role in building those experiential and interpersonal meanings and why certain uses of lexical cohesion make a text more or less effective.
• Task 3 (comparison of the 2 texts; 750-1000 word essay)
In this task you should write an essay (750-1000 words) in which you discuss, explain and compare the two media articles depending on the findings provided by the raw text analysis you performed in Task 2. You should suggest reasons for, and communicative effects of, the differences (i.e. differences in views and ideas of the same event/topic). You should illustrate your discussion/comparison with examples taken from the two texts you analyzed in Task 2.
Note: You can use tables, graphs and any other formats to do the tasks properly and make them convenient and easy to follow. You could also use appendices to tabulate the results of the 2 articles.



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M256
Software Development with Java
Spring 2017/2018

Question [20 Marks]:
Facebook and Twitter are two well-known social networks that are currently used by millions of users.
In this TMA, each student is requested to evaluate both Facebook and Twitter platforms. Each student
is expected to perform the following activities and submit the findings as a report in this TMA:
Stage A: System Evaluation
 Give complete details on the systems’ main functional and non-functional activities.
 Evaluate the GUI of the two systems (according to the HCI concepts).
 Identify the weaknesses of each platform.
Stage B: System Development
Upon completing the evaluation stage, the student is expected to have clear view on both systems and
should be able to identify the missing features and suggest some actions for further enhancement. In
this stage, the student is expected to perform the following activities:
 List the new features which should be included in the enhanced versions of the two platforms
with proper justification.
 Suggest new GUI which overcomes the issues raised in the previous stage.
 Discuss (using your own words) the possibility of merging the features of Facebook and
Twitter in one platform.
 Provide sufficient diagrams which include: use-cases, sequences diagrams.
Note that, system implementation is beyond the scope of this project.
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