Exercise 6.1: Interviewing Change Recipients

Your task is to interview three employees, they can be in the same or different organizations. Ask them to think back to an organizational change that they experienced, and to answer the following questions:

1. Were they presented with an organizational vision for this change, and if so: What was the vision? What effect did this have on them? Were they involved in developing the vision? To what extent did the vision motivate them to engage in the change? How central was the vision to implementing the change?

2. If your interviewees were not given an organizational vision for this change, ask them: Would a vision have helped them to understand and become involved in the change? How important is vision to achieving organizational change?

When you have completed your interviews, consider the responses that you have documented. What general conclusions emerge regarding the relationship between vision and organizational change? What have you learned from this exercise/

All trucks traveling on Interstate 40 between Alburquerque and Amarillo are required to stop at a weigh station. Trucks arrive at the weigh station at a rate of 200 per 8-hour day, and the station can weigh, on the average, 220 trucks per day.

Determine the average number of trucks waiting, the average time spent waiting and being weighed at the weigh station by each truck, and the average waiting time before being weighed for each truck.

If the truck drivers find out they must remain at the weigh station longer than 15 minutes on the average, they will start taking a different route or traveling at night, thus depriving the state of taxes. The state of New Mexico estimates it loses $10,000 in taxes per year for each extra minute that trucks must remain at the weigh station. A new set of scales would have the same service capacity as the present set of scales, and it is assumed that arriving trucks would line up equally behind the two sets of scales. It would cost $50,000 per year to operate the new scales. Should the state install the new set of scales?

Suppose passing truck drivers look to see how many trucks are waiting to be weighed at the weigh station. If they see four or more trucks in line, they will pass by the station and risk being caught and ticketed. What is the probability that a truck will pass by the station?

1. How are LLC's different from Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships?

2.  Why have LLC's become such a popular form for small business's?

3.  Why have LLC's become so popular for politicians?

4. The book discusses several other business types. Select one and give a real world example of its use.

Your firm is contemplating the purchase of a new model commercial airplane which is more fuel efficient that the models your firm is currently flying. On the basis of capital budgeting techniques that we have learned and used, thus far, what are the factors that you will consider in deciding whether or not to purchase and add the newer model planes to your fleet. Explain thoroughly.

Problem 2: In Multi-Effects Desalination (MED) system composed of 4 effects, and 3 feed preheaters and down condenser. List the following: a- The mass balance in the evaporator, feed preheater and down condenser b- The energy balance in the evaporator, feed preheater and down condenser c- The Material balance in the first effect d- The temperature profile of the feed if the intake temperature is 25ºC and temperature of last effect is 40ºC and the temperature of first effect is 60ºC e- What will happen to the transfer area of the evaporator if the motive steam temperature is increased to 100ºC where the rest is remaining constants.

in java

Write a class named “Stock” to model a stock. The properties and methods of the class are shown in figure below. The method “ percentage ” computes the percentage of the change of the current price vs the previous closing price. Write a program to test the “Stock” class. In the program, create a Stock object with the stock symbol SUND, name Sun Microsystem V, previous closing price of 100. Set a new current price randomly and display the price percentage.

Stock

private String symbol
private String name
private double previousClosingPrice

private double currentPrice
public Stock()
public Stock(String symbol, String name)

public String getSymbol()
public String getName()
public double getPreviousClosingPrice()
public double getCurrentPrice()
public void setSymbol(String symbol)
public void setName(String name)
public void setPreviousClosingPrice(double price)
public void setCurrentPrice(double price)
public double percentage()

Cryptography-

Run S-DES with key: 1000100111 and plaintext: 01010101

Each year, Florida's Best Salad Dressing, Inc. (FBSD) purchases 50,000 gallons of extra virgin

olive oil. Ordering costs are $95.00 per order, and the carrying cost, as a percentage of inventory

value is 80 percent. The purchase price to FBSD is $0.50 per gallon. FBSD’s management currently

orders the EOQ each time an order is placed. No safety stock is carried. The supplier is now offering a

quantity discount of $0.03 per gallon if FBSD orders 10,000 gallons at a time. What is the net benefit

in dollars if FBSD takes the discount?

1. Price a European Call & Put and an American Put on a stock that is currently selling at $25 and has a volatility of 25%. The options all have a life of 7 months and a strike price of $26. The 7-month risk free rate is 3% per annum with continuous compounding. a. Use a 12-step binomial tree to price all 3 options b. Use a 13-step binomial tree to price all 3 options c. Use the Black-Scholes-Merton formula to price the European options

2. Use the information in question 1, but now the stock will pay a dividend of $1 in 3 months from today. Price European Call & Put and American Call & Put using a 7-step binomial tree.

Looking for answer and explanation in Excel please

How Organizational Behavior applies to management and the business setting?

1. Suppose that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. anticipates that profits over the next six years to be as follows:

1. Calculate the value of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. today. Assume the discount ratio to be three percent.
2. Repeat (a), except assume the discount rate to be five percent.
3. Compare your answers from (a) and (b). Can you draw any conclusions about the value of the firm and the discount rate?

You have been asked by the head of marketing to design an instrument by which your private, for-profit school can evaluate the quality and value of its various curricula and courses. How might you try to ensure that your instrument has:
a Stability?
b Equivalence?
c Internal consistency?
d Content validity?
e Predictive validity?
f Construct validity?

Given the demand function for a particular product is q(p)=(10-p^2)e^-p+3 for price p in thousands of dollars. Suppose the cost of producing q units of this particular product is In(q).

a) Find the profit function in terms of p, pie(p). Use log properties to simplify the function.

b) Show there exists a solution p where pie(p)=0. (Cite any theorems used and do not solve for p)

c) Suppose we are current charging $3000 and we want to increase profit by 1%. Approximately how much percentage should we change the price of the product? (P is in thousands dollars)

Discuss some major problems and issues that can cause (a) network design in general, and (b) LAN design in particular, to fail.