In business ethics. discuss about the influence of corporate culture. (750 words)

Please read the case below and answer the following question:    In court, Vinson’s allegations were countered by Taylor’s version of the facts. Will there always be a “your word against mine” problem in sexual harassment cases? What could Vinson have done to strengthen her case?

Consenting to Sexual Harassment

THE CASE OF VINSON V. TAYLOR, HEARd BEFOREthe federal district court for the District of Columbia, Mechelle Vinson alleged that Sidney Taylor, her supervisor at Capital City Federal Savings and Loan, had sexually harassed her.73But the facts of the case were contested.In court Vinson testified that about a year after she began working at the bank, Taylor asked her to have sexual relations with him. She claimed that Taylor said she “owed” him because he had obtained the job for her. Although she turned down Taylor at first, she eventually became involved with him. She and Taylor engaged in sexual relations, she said, both during and after business hours, in the remaining three years she worked at the bank. The encounters included intercourse in a bank vault and in a storage area. Taylor was Vinson’s supervisor, the court reasoned that notice to him was not notice to the bank.Vinson appealed the case, and the Court of Appeals held that the district court had erred in three ways. First, the district court had overlooked the fact that there are two possible kinds of sexual harassment. Writing for the majority, Chief Judge Spottswood Robinson distinguished cases in which the victim’s continued employment or promotion is conditioned on giving in to sexual demands and those cases in which the victim must tolerate a “substantially discriminatory work environment.” The lower court had failed to consider whether Vinson’s case involved harassment of the second kind.Second, the higher court also overruled the district court’s finding that because Vinson voluntarily engaged in a sexual relationship with Taylor, she was not a victim of sexual in the bank basement. Vinson also testified that Taylor often actually “assaulted or raped” her. She contended that she was forced to submit to Taylor or jeopardize her employment.Taylor, for his part, denied the allegations. He testified that he had never had sex with Vinson. On the contrary, he alleged that Vinson had made advances toward him and that he had declined them. He contended that Vinson had brought the charges against him to “get even” because of a work-related dispute.In its ruling on the case, the court held that if Vinson and Taylor had engaged in a sexual relationship, that relationship was voluntary on the part of Vinson and was not employment related. The court also held that Capital City Federal Savings and Loan did not have “notice” of the alleged harassment and was therefore not liable. Assuming the truth of Vinson’s version of the case, do you think her employer, Capital City Federal Savings and Loan, should be held liable for sexual harassment it was not aware of? Should the employer have been aware of it? Does the fact that Taylor was a supervi-sor make a difference? In general, when should an employer be liable for harassment?4.What steps do you think Vinson should have taken when Taylor first pressed her for sex? Should she be blamed for having given in to him? Assuming that there was sexual harassment despite her acquies-cence, does her going along with Taylor make her partly responsible or mitigate Taylor’s wrongdoing?5.In court, Vinson’s allegations were countered by Taylor’s version of the facts. Will there always be a “your word against mine” problem in sexual harassment cases? What could Vinson have done to strengthen her case?harassment. Voluntariness on Vinson’s part had “no bearing,” the judge wrote, on “whether Taylor made Vinson’s toleration of sexual harassment a condition of her employment.” Third, the Court of Appeals held that any discriminatory activity by a supervisor is attributable to the employer, regardless of whether the employer had specific notice.In his dissent to the decision by the Court of Appeals, Judge Robert Bork rejected the majority’s claim that “vol-untariness” did not automatically rule out harassment. He argued that this position would have the result of depriving the accused person of any defense, because he could no longer establish that the supposed victim was really “a willing participant.” Judge Bork contended further that an employer should not be held vicariously liable for a super-visor’s acts that it didn’t know about.Eventually the case arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the majority verdict of the Court of Appeals, stating that:[T]he fact that sex-related conduct was “voluntary,” in the sense that the complainant was not forced to participate against her will, is not a defense to a sexual harassment suit brought under Title VII. The gravamen of any sexual harassment claim is that the alleged sexual advances were “unwelcome.”. . . The correct inquiry is whether respondent by her con-duct indicated that the alleged sexual advances were unwelcome, not whether her actual participation in sexual intercourse was voluntary.The Court, however, rejected the Court of Appeals’s posi-tion that employers are strictly liable for the acts of their supervisors, regardless of the particular circumstances.

If 10 million passengers pass through the St. Louis Airport with checked baggage each​ month, a successful Six Sigma program for baggage handling would result in how many passengers with misplaced​ luggage?

what should i write in my wine cork letter presentation for elevator pitch. can i have some idea.

What steps would you take to terminate an employee? Please explain your reasoning.

Answer the following questions. Show your calculations used to get the answer. If calculations are not provided, then you will not receive full credit for your answer.

Scenario 1: You have a project that is scheduled to be completed in 8 days at a budgeted cost of $200,000. At the end of day 5 you do an analysis and you determine the job is 70% complete and you have spent $130,000. At the end of day 5:

1. What is the project’s PV?
2. What is the project’s EV?
3. What is the project’s AC?
4. What is Cost Variance??
5. What is the Schedule Variance?
6. What is the project’s CPI?
7. What is the project’s SPI?
8. Based on your answers in questions 3-6, is the project on budget, under budget or over budget?
9. Based on your answers in questions 3-6, is the project on schedule, behind schedule or ahead of schedule?

Scenario 2: You are the project manager of a project to install stone fireplaces at an new condo development. A total of 24 fireplaces are planned to be installed over a 4-month period. The total budget for the project is $144,000. The project is at the end of the 1^st month and 5 fireplaces have been installed and $28,000 has been spent.

10. What is the project’s PV?
11. What is the project’s EV?
12. What is the project’s AC?
13. What is Cost Variance??
14. What is the Schedule Variance?
15. What is the project’s CPI?
16. What is the project’s SPI?
17. Based on your answers in questions 3-6, is the project on budget, under budget or over budget?
18. Based on your answers in questions 3-6, is the project on schedule, behind schedule or ahead of schedule?

Scenario 3: A project has a PV of $65,000, an EV of $75,000 and an AC of $82,000.

19. Is the project over or under budget? How can you tell?
20. Is the project ahead of or behind schedule? How can you tell?

Scenario 4: A project has a PV of $10,000, a SPI of 0.92 and a CPI of 0.90.

21. What is the project’s EV?

1. What is the project’s AC?

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A large manufacturing company's directors want you to find out why there is a considerable drop in the production units in the previous financial quarter. What will do to find out the cause of the problem and recommend a solution to the problem.

You’re a plant manager for a large company that manufactures food products, including yogurt, cereal, and granola bars (among others). Within this company, there are several factories spread across the United States and each produces one or two types of these products. You oversee many employees, but one, in particular, has caught your eye as a star performer. You decide you’d like to discuss her future with the company.

Explain how you would have this developmental conversation with the employees. What main areas should you cover? For each area, what should you be ready to discuss and what should the employee be ready to discuss?

A developer that specializes in compact urban amusement parks has formulated the following list of activities necessary to release a contract for the preparation of a new site. Times are given in weeks.

                                                                                                                               Estimated                                                                                 Immediate            Activity Time

Activity           Description                                                     Predecessors         (weeks)            

A                     Preliminary architectural design                               _                      14

B                     Community impact hearings                                      A                     2

C                     Line up potential financiers                                       A                     12

D                     Permit application                                                      A                       5  

E                      Negotiate com’ity impact details                             B                      6

F                      Final Design                                                                  B                      8

G                     Loan approval                                                             C, F                   3

H                     Permit hearings                                                          D                       2

I                       Permit granting                                                          H                       8

J                      Negotiate contract                                                      G, I                    6

K                     Release contract                                                         E, J                      3

Which activities are on the critical path

MURPHY WAREHOUSE COMPANY: Sustainable Logistics Richard Murphy Jr., the CEO of Murphy Warehouse Company, has spent a great deal of time analyzing sustainable ways to conserve resources, reduce costs, improve the well-being of his employees, and promote his company as an environmentally responsible logistics provider. Murphy also realizes that the benefits of sustainable projects must be weighed against the costs and payback periods of these investments. . • Richard Murphy Jr. is the CEO of Murphy Warehouse Company, a family-run company that began over 100 years ago. • He has responsibility to maintain the financial viability of the company that is now in its fourth generation of family ownership. • One of his biggest challenges is to understand how the company should adapt to a changing business environment while conserving the company’s financial resources and protecting the core business model that has sustained it for so long. • One major force in the current business environment is the sustainability movement, which focuses on the responsible use of natural resources. • Richard Murphy, you are trying to find the opportunities to adopt sustainable practices that also make financial sense to Murphy Warehouse Company. • He has successfully implemented several sustainable projects in his company • He is now faced with deciding to invest over a half million dollars in a stormwater project that presents an unusually long payback period. It is a complicated decision that involves high expense, multiple tangible and intangible variables, and a fair amount of risk that something might go wrong. What do you do? • One of Murphy’s biggest challenges is to understand how the company should adapt to a changing business environment, while conserving the company’s financial resources and protecting the core business model that has sustained it for so long. • A major force in the current business environment is sustainable (green) practices, which focuses on the responsible use of natural resources. • The case depicts Richard Murphy trying to find new opportunities to adopt sustainable practices that also make financial sense to MWC. One of the main goals of the case is to move away from the mindset that green practices are primarily for businesses who are willing to sacrifice sound financial decision making models to pursue ethical and moral imperatives to “do the right thing” for society and the environment. The case strives to show how sustainable practices can be part of running a business that can tout its environmental achievements while maximizing long-term profits. The case provides financial details on the conversion of lawn to prairie so you need to calculate a payback period that shows this project made financial sense 2 The lawn to prairie conversion also introduces several intangible and less quantifiable important benefits, including the reduction in the urban heat island effect, the attractive natural buffers between MWC and adjacent properties, and the attraction of wildlife to the area. Murphy has also gained a great deal of positive publicity for his prairie conversion project by sharing his experience at professional society meetings, local universities, and print media publications. Other projects at MWC that are described in the case provide further evidence that sustainable investments and profitability can go hand in hand. • The purchase of dock blankets • Upgrade in the lighting systems • Painting the ceilings white These are examples where green initiatives and disciplined financial decision making can be complementary. The decision point of the case-when Murphy is evaluating the feasibility of the stormwater project You need to evaluate the pros and cons of the stormwater project, considering both tangible and intangible factors. The payback period should be calculated, using the numbers provided in the case. Your team needs to discuss whether the significantly longer payback period can be justified (compared to traditional business practice and to previous projects at MWC). You need to show that sustainability is part of the “continuous improvement” management philosophy. You can see that the case demonstrates this by mentioning Richard Murphy’s explorations of new energy technologies in solar, wind, and geothermal. He seeks partnerships with local utilities and researches government incentive programs that enhance the financial returns for businesses that adopt green practices. Making sustainability part of on-going company culture and management practice is promoted by the USGBC, LEED, and ISO 14000 organizations, as described in the case. The case also mentions several times that sustainability practice is a necessary part of being a player in the competitive marketplace in terms of attracting clients and building positive public relations.

Can you please Recommend what steps should the CEO take?

1 The main legal sources of contract law.

2. The elements of a valid offer.

3.  Ways an offer will be terminated.

4.  Requirements for a valid restrictive covenant.

1. Mary Poppins mows her own yard to save money. Her neighbor Paul George hired a lawn service to mow his yard. One day Mary is looking out the window and sees Paul’s lawn service drive up and begin to mow her yard, not Paul’s. Mary thinks that is great and does not say anything to the lawn service while they mow the yard.The following week, Mary gets a bill from the lawn service. She calls the owner and says that she does not have to pay because there was no contract by which she agreed to have her yard mowed.    Is the lawn service entitled to payment by Mary? Why?

2.      On February 1, 2020, Jimmy Fallon sent an email to Stephen Colbert offering to pay Stephen $10,000 if he wears a Speedo bathing suit on his show. Stephen replied to the email that he accepted. On February 14th, Stephen wore a Speedo bathing suit on his show. On February 15th, Stephen told Jimmy to send him the money but Jimmy refused claiming that an email cannot be a valid contract. Who is right? Why?

Managing a business is stressful for both the leader and the employees. What time and stress management tactics would you implement?