Assuming you were a public figure trying to engage the citizens to become more participatory what audience would you target and why? What would be some innovative ways to get the attention for your targeted audience to listen to what you have to say?

Why do you think it is more important to differentiate yourself as a company when dealing with business to business transactions and customers than business to consumer customers?

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. Why do employees resist change?

2. How can managers facilitate change in an organization?

Another manager wants to evaluate an internal process that would be used to produce the new product. The fixed and variable costs and capacities for each process are listed below. Utilize this information to answer questions 3-4.

3. What are the low-cost output ranges for each alternative given the cost info and capacity info above? (showALL pertinent math and relevant ranges below (on both the 0-∞ continuum and in table). (5 pts)

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Answer: _______________ Explanation: ______________________________________________

4) If demand was expected to range between 5,000 and 13,000 for the next 10 years, which process would you select? Explain in one sentence. (1 pt)

BUSINESS LAW

Assume the following facts based on the Jennings case study: Agristar, the successor company to Agriprocessor Inc., has decided to sell the meat packing plant. Your client, Agriprofit, has asked your consulting firm to evaluate the wisdom of acquiring the company. Specifically, as the case study indicates, the plant requires a large employee base of unskilled workers and the previous owners had not been able to hire enough employees without resorting to hiring alien workers. Agriprocessor got into trouble after the workers requested jobs for their minor children to increase household income. Agriprofit has no intention of hiring minors to work in the plant or undocumented aliens but papers can be forged and sometimes, the company must look the other way to meet its production quotas. Given the federal government's inability to resolve the problem of illegal immigration and the Supreme Court's decision in Arizona vs. U.S., which limits a state's ability to pass legislation to resolve the issues inside of its own state borders due to the Supremacy Clause, companies that require unskilled workers have little legal guidance and a lot of criminal and civil exposure if the company's workforce violates immigration and employment laws and regulations. Illegal workers have a different perspective. Many are grateful for employment but pay the price of abusive working conditions. These workers cannot behave as organized labor, in the traditional sense, because they do not wish to be deported.

What would you advise the client to acquire the company or not and the reasons for your recommendations?

define all these

Corporate culture -

Strong culture companies -

Weak culture companies -

High performance cultures -

Adaptive cultures -

Unhealthy cultures -

Change-resistant cultures -

Politicized cultures -

Insular, Inwardly focused cultures -

Unethical and Greed driven cultures -

Incompatible, Clashing subcultures -

Substantive culture changing actions -

Symbolic culture changing actions-

Management by walking around -

Leading the strategy execution process

Staying on top of process -

Mobilizing efforts -

Making adjustments -

Why corporate culture matters

Focuses effort and attention

Encourages doing the right things

Deepens employee commitment

define all these

Organizational structure -

Simple organizational structure -

Functional organizational structure -

Multidivisional organizational structure -

Matrix organizational structure -

International organizational structure -

Network structure -

Boundaryless organizational designs -

Barrier free organizations -

Modular organizations -

Virtual organizations -

Centralized decision making -

Decentralized decision making -

Informal organizational structure -

Building an organization for execution

Staffing the organization -

Managing resources and capabilities-

Structuring the organization -

Three approaches to building resources and capabilities

Developing capabilities internally -

Mergers and Acquisitions -

Collective partnerships -

Staffing the organization

Strong management team -

Recruit, train, retain -

Two signs of good strategy execution-

The Cre8tor™ is in need of an office management software package. After considerable research, the company has narrowed its choice to one of three packages: N-able, VersaSuite, and SoftTrack. They have determined the decision-making criteria, assigned a weight to each criterion, and rated how well each alternative satisfies each criterion as follows

            Using a scoring model, determine the recommended software package for The Cre8tor™.

Plan production for a four-month period: February through May. For February and March, you should produce to exact demand forecast. For April and May, you should use overtime and inventory with a stable workforce; stable means that the number of workers needed for March will be held constant through May. However, government constraints put a maximum of 5,000 hours of overtime labor per month in April and May (zero overtime in February and March). If demand exceeds supply, then backorders occur. There are 100 workers on January 31. You are given the following demand forecast: February, 80,256; March, 70,400; April, 100,360; May, 40,360. Productivity is four units per worker hour, eight hours per day, 22 days per month. Assume zero inventory on February 1. Costs are hiring, $45 per new worker; layoff, $65 per worker laid off; inventory holding, $10 per unit-month; straight-time labor, $10 per hour; overtime, $15 per hour; backorder, $20 per unit.

Develop a production plan and calculate the total cost of this plan. Note: Assume any layoffs occur at beginning of next month. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to the nearest whole number.)

The table shows both the prospective profits and losses for a company (in thousands of dollars), depending on what decision is made and what state of nature occurs. Use the information to determine what the company should do. State the decision number and its value. Do all calculations within the spaces provided.

1. if a Maximin strategy is used.
2. if a Maximax strategy is used.
3. if Minimax Regret is the strategy.
4. if Equal Likelihood is the strategy.
5. What is the EVPI?

1. It is desired to locate a control on a machine. The control will be located right in front of the worker at shoulder height. The worker population that is going to use the machine will include both male and female workers

1. Where should the control be located to include 90% of the population?
2. If the control is located at a reach distance of 82.5 cm, what percentile of the female population is being excluded (not being able to reach normally the control).

At the start of football season, the ticket office gets very busy the day before the first game. Customers arrive at the rate of five every 15 minutes, and the average time to transact business is 2 minutes.

1. What is the average number of people waiting for tickets?

2. What is the average time that a person will spend at the ticket office?

3. What proportion of time is the server busy?

4. What is the average number of people receiving and waiting to receive tickets?

5. What is the average time that a person will spend waiting in line at the ticket office?