Watch this video, Oligopolies and Monopolistic Competition, to help you prepare for this week’s discussion.Use the company for which you currently work, a business with which your familiar, or a dream business you want to start to reply to these prompts:With your selected business in mind, determine if it is competitive, monopolistic competitive, an oligopoly, or pure monopoly. Explain how you drew your conclusion about its market structure.How does the business/firm in this industry determine the price it will charge for the products or services it sells?

For this assignment, imagine again that you work for the global company you chose in your first assignment. You are in charge of improving the training and development for employees who are selected for international assignments. Develop a 3–4 page (plus the cover page and reference page) outline of pre-departure training with a thorough description and explanation of the training programs that you suggest for improving expatriate performance. Your assignment must address the following: Articulate the training needs of new expatriate employees and the components of pre-departure training that will address those needs.Determine the areas of emphasis and the details of the training.Describe how the training will improve the expatriate experience for the new assignment. Provide citations and references from the textbook and a minimum of two sources found on the Strayer databases at the Strayer Library. Your assignment must: Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is: Recommend training programs to improve performance throughout a multinational corporation comprised of a diverse workforce.

Two Discussion Posts:Please respond to the following:Select two of the following acts: National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, Reduction in Force (Age), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA). Determine two major challenges that each of the selected acts may cause within an organization, and then outline a plan to prevent the challenges from adversely affecting the organization or employees. Justify your response.Discussion Two:You are a project manager for a large electronics retailer (for example, Best Buy) who will be implementing a new time-keeping system to track hourly and salaried employees’ time and attendance. You have been asked to develop a balanced scorecard that can be used to manage the effectiveness of this project.Create a balanced scorecard for the financial, customer, business, and learning aspects of the project and insert it onto the discussion board. Explain how you will measure the effectiveness of the project.Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.