For each question please give:

a. a definition of the term; and

b. discuss how the concept assists us in understanding the changing nature of work and/or employment

A) Uberisation

A production line has three machines A, B, and C, with reliabilities of .90, .95, and .91, respectively. The machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. Engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. Plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. In either case, three machines (A, B, and C) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three.

a. Compute overall system reliability under Plan 1. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.)

Reliability           

b. Compute overall system reliability under Plan 2. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.)

Reliability           

Chipper dog kennel's estimates an annual consumption of dog food at 2000 lbs. per year. The manager at Chipper dog kennel estimates a fixed cost of placing an order at $10 and holding costs estimates are based on a 15% annual interest rate. The supply company charges $50 per lb. for orders less than 500 lbs., $49 per lb. for orders of 500 or more but fewer than 1000 lbs.; and $48 per lb. for orders of 1000 lbs or more.

1. What is the largest realizable EOQ?

2. What is the optimal order size and the annual cost associated with placing that order?

3. Based on the optimal order size, how many orders are placed per year?

4. Based on the optimal order size, what is the time between orders?

Discuss and define reliability; the methods to estimate reliability; the concept of error and discuss and define validity, and differentiate between content and criteria-related validation. Why are reliability and validity important to selection?

Question 3. Scheduling

ArtWork is a graphic design company. All jobs it receives must go through sketching (Process X) and then colouring (Process Y) in sequence. Each of the processes is operated by a dedicated designer.

1. The above 10 jobs have just arrived. Use Johnson’s rule to determine the optimal sequence to schedule the jobs. If there is more than one optimal sequence, show them all.

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2. Draw a Gantt chart for your schedule. If there is more than one optimal sequence, show anyone of them.

3. Calculate the average flow time.

4. If you are allowed to split the last job in the sequence (pay attention, not necessarily the
   1. last job in the table) into two equal halves. For example, a job spends 6 hours in X and 4 hours in Y can be split into two jobs of 3 hours in X and 2 hours in Y. Without changing the sequence, do you think this arrangement is quicker? Why or why not?
5. The company has received four special jobs. These jobs have to go through sketching (Process X), colouring (Process Y) and then printing and coating (Process Z) in sequence. Each of the processes is operated by a dedicated designer. What is the optimal sequence to schedule the jobs? Show your steps. [hint: self-study is required]

Q. You are an attorney working for a large law firm. Anthony, Paul and Silvio retain you to represent diem. With the material that you studied in the Chapters, prepare an essay explaining the issues presented. Be sure to explain the Courts (Federal or State) to which the matters could be brought and why, and the various legal issues that you studied with respect to the fact pattern. Hint: The best way to answer this essay is to take each set of facts the each paragraph, and explain the law as it applies to the facts.

You are an attorney working for a large law firm. Anthony, Paul and Silvio retain you to represent them. With the material given prepare an essay explaining the issues presented. Be sure to explain the courts to which the matters could be brought and why and the various legal issues that you find in the fact pattern. Anthony a New Jersey resident and owner of a waste disposal company in New Jersey decided to expand his business to the five boroughs of New York City. On a particular Sunday afternoon Anthony and some of his employees drove in the company SUV across the Bridge and headed to a meeting in the Queens with a local Queens based waste disposal company in order to enter into a joint venture for the collection of commercial waste. The SUV was traveling at approximately 30 miles per hr on the side streets of the Queens as it headed to the meeting. tony was driving the car and had his employees, Paul and Silvio (all NJ residents) sitting in the back seat of the vehicle. As Tony left the Long Island Expressway at the Utopia Parkway ramp he stopped at a traffic light. A truck travelling from behind was apparently traveling over the speed limit and was unable to stop in time. Tony's SUV was "rear ended" by the truck. The truck was owned by a local fireworks company, a New York domestic corporation and contained fireworks for the upcoming 4th of July display in the East River. Paul and Silvio sustained injuries as a result of the car crash. They were immediately hospitalized. The SUV was "totaled" and could not be repaired due to the extensive damage. The damage to the SUV ( a specially designed Porsche) was $85000. The cost of the hospitalization to Paul and Silvio was $15000 to each respectively. Anthony was able to keep his business appointment despite the fact that his entourage was hospitalized. During the business meeting, Anthony was angered that the Queens Company was not interested in the terms of the contract. He held a gun to the head of the Queens Company Vice President and as a result they agreed to enter into a joint venture agreement. His agreement with the Queens based company was as follows: THe Queens company could use his trucks for waste removal. they would pay him a monthly rental for the use of his trucks. the vice President then brought the agreement to the President of the Queens company for signature. The president was awoken from his sleep and presented with the agreement and was told he was signing a contract with a local vendor for truck parts. He signed the agreement without reading it as he was still groggy from being awoken. Two weeks later Paul, who owned a appliance store paid for an advertisement in the local Dollarsaver newspaper. The advertisement stated that the first person who entered the store at 9:00 am on Tuesday October 16, and who purchased a 19" plasmas TV set would receive a free outdoor barbeque set. Jim entered the store at 9:00 am on the 16th, purchased the 19" plasma TV and was advised that the appliance store had no barbeque sets in stock. The same day Paul signed an agreement with Sony to purchase all of the 19" plasma TVs that sony produces. Two weeks later, when the first shipment arrived, Paul rejects the shipment on the basis that there was no contract because the quantity was "too vague". Three weeks later Silvio decided to sell his home. He met with the potential buyers and advised them that the zoning for the house permitted the house to be used as a two family dwelling and that the property size was sufficient for the town to permit the construction of an in-ground pool. The real estate broker representing Silvo concurred. The broker was Silvio nephew. The purchasers , who wanted to convert the house to a two family dwelling in order to move their parent in, signed the agreement and relied upon the broker and Silvio's representation. Weeks later they met with the local Buildings Department for the town and were told that the zoning laws for the town nly permitted one family dwelling for their newly purchased house.

Read the article，“Internet privacy and the ‘right to be forgotten’”, and write an Argument Essay.

You should spend some time planning your ideas, and should include a clear introduction, main body, and conclusion. You must use and integrate content from the article for at least THREE times in your essay to provide support for your ideas and arguments (e.g., reasons, examples, and evidence).

. Avoid patch-writing (500 words)

Task:Write an argument essay on whether Internet users should be given the  

“right to be forgotten” online.

Guidelines: Analyze the arguments in favor and against, and state your own

opinion clearly.

Internet privacy and the “right to be forgotten”

When it comes to privacy, the Internet has long been something of a Wild West but that that is starting to change, with regulators in Europe and the United States beginning to pull in the reins.On both sides of the Atlantic, officials are scrutinizing how companies such as Facebook and Google handle users' personal data, as they draw up plans to protect surfers while ensuring the growth of rapidly expanding social media, search engine and other Web-based businesses.

In the first sign of where Europe may be headed with its privacy regulations, the European Union announced this week that social networking sites and search engines could face court action if they fail to obey new EU data privacy rules.Under proposals to be fleshed out in the coming months and that will update 16-year-old data-protection laws, the European Commission wants to force companies holding data to allow users to withdraw it from websites, calling it the "right to be forgotten."

Companies would also have to provide more information on what data they have collected from people and why."Any company operating in the EU market or any online product that is targeted at EU consumers must comply with EU rules," Viviane Reding, the European commissioner in charge of justice issues, said in a speech this week."To enforce EU law, national privacy watchdogs will be endowed with powers to investigate and engage in legal proceedings against non-EU data controllers," she added.Reding said that EU-based privacy watchdogs should even be given powers to enforce compliance outside Europe, which could include access to U.S.-based servers and other data sources.While privacy campaigners and Internet users may be pleased to hear what Reding has to say, her words will cause concern in parts of the United States, where many of the biggest and most successful search engines and social media companies are based.

Europe and the United States have traditionally differed on privacy issues, with the EU taking a stronger regulatory approach and U.S. officials more mindful of the need to balance entrepreneurship and business demands with data protection.But in recent weeks, as U.S. privacy experts have visited Brussels to try to close the gaps between the two regulatory frameworks, officials have emphasized how closely they are working together to come up with a common set of standards."I think our baseline understanding of the rules is very similar," said Fiona Alexander of the U.S. Department of Commerce, who was in Brussels this month to meet EU regulators. "The implementation in the past may have been different."

The EU and U.S. already agree on some general concepts, such as the idea that privacy safeguards need to be designed into Web products from the start. They also both want to require Web browsers to offer a "do not track" option to users.But differences remain on specifics and philosophy.EU officials are adamant that companies should obtain explicit permission from users before every use of their data -- such as through a pop-up consent box -- while that is not something U.S. regulators are pushing for, EU officials say.

The right to be forgotten is also a concept that goes against the grain for U.S. regulators, who favor a broader definition of freedom of information.In a sign of where Europe is going and how complex applying the law could become, Spanish data protection authorities ordered Google in January to remove links to more than 80 news articles mentioning people by name, saying it violated privacy.The case has been referred to Europe's highest court.

Some companies, such as Microsoft, support the effort by the European Union and the United States to align their policies, saying it will result in clearer, more uniform rules."Companies need solid, clear rules to be able to continue to invest and to be competitive," said John Vassallo, Microsoft's vice president of EU affairs. "Now, there are too many competing rules."

But even within individual EU countries, privacy rules vary so much that lawyers say it would be almost impossible for a multinational company to be compliant in all 27 EU countries.That suggests that Reding and her EU regulatory team will have their work cut out if they are to draw up a clear and workable policy in the months ahead, and one that fits well with the rules U.S. regulators are also drawing up.

Research and find an example company following a Cost Leadership strategy (not from the book, i.e. no Southwest Air, no IKEA , also no McDonald's and no Dollar Store - these are all too easy and obvious. ) Describe what the firm is doing to implement this form of competitive advantage. Be specific in explain which benefits the company has eliminated to reduce costs.

Discuss the major findings/rulings and selection/recruitment implications of the following select court cases.

*Griggs v. Duke Power (1971)
*US v. Georgia Power (1973)
*Spurlock v. United Airlines (1972)
*Watson v. Fort Worth Bank and Trust (1988)
*Rudder v. District of Columbia (1995)
*Frank Ricci et al. v. Hohn DeStefano et al. (2009)
*OFCCP v. Ozark Airlines (1986)
*Gross v. FBL Financial Services (2009)

explain the story of us, now and why as it applies to transformational leadership.

Discuss about the importance of BC/DR Maintenance.1-2 paragraphs max

Daniel Jones owns and managers Daniel's Restaurant, a 24-hour restaurant near a local hospital. Daniel employs 9 full-time employees and 16 part-time employees. He pays all of the full-time employees by check, the amounts determined by Daniel's bookkeeper, Gina. Daniel pays all of his part-time employees in currency. He computes their wages and withdraws the cash directly from his cash register.

Gina has repeatedly urged Daniel to pay all of his employees by check. But, as Daniel has told his friend who owns a similar business, "My part-time employees prefer the currency over a check. Also, I don't withhold or pay any taxes or worker's compensation insurance on those cash wages because they go totally unrecorded and unnoticed."

Questions -

1. What are the legal and ethical considerations regarding Daniel's handling of his payroll?

2. What are Gina's ethical responsibilities?

3. What are the implications for Daniel’s employees?

Also, cite a reference that you used to prepare your response.

In what manner are firms investing or using “offshore cash” being brought back into the United States?

In the divisional structure, if there were a separate sales organization responsible for providing revenue for each of the divisions, what are advantages and disadvantages of such a structure?

What if the structure was that way from the outset and an acquisition was made of a company with its own sales force. how hard would it be to integrate the acquired company into the new structure?