Instructions:

1. Research a case that involves any of the employment law concepts ( The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Enforcement of Title VII, Equal Pay Act of 1963, 1866 Civil Rights Act, Section 1983, Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
2. Read the case. Feel free to use secondary sources to help with understanding the case.
3. Answer the following questions in your own words and in complete sentences:
   1. Who were the parties involved in the case?
   2. In 3-4 sentences, what were the facts of the case (what were the parties suing about)?
   3. What law(s) were involved in the case?
   4. What did the highest court decide in the case?
   5. Do you agree or disagree with the court's holding? Why?
4. Post your answers along with the case citation as a discussion post.

Please answers the below essay questions to the best of your ability in no more than 4-6 sentences.

- What are Kirkpatrick’s four levels of training evaluation? Give an example of how each could be measured?

Consider the following problem

    Maximize Z=2x₁ + 5x₂ + x₃

subject to

               4x₁+ 2x₂ + x₃ ≤ 6

                x₁ + x₂ ≤ 2

                x_i ³ 0 for i=1,2,3

a. Inserting slack variables, construct the initial simplex tableau. What is the initial basic feasible solution?

b. What is the next non-basic variable to enter the basis

c. Using the minimum ratio rule, identify the basic variable to leave the basis.

d. Using elementary row operations, find the next basic feasible solution.

What are the 4 dimensions of customer service from a logistics perspective? Explain each one briefly.

What is a stockout, and why should a logistics manager be concerned with this?

7. What is your initial strategy in terms of balancing the triple constraint, i.e. scope (goals and what is to be accomplished), time (or schedule to get things done), and resources (money, people, and being provided the resources WHEN you need them)?

8. We have all worked with folks who are afraid of making the wrong decision, so they either drag out their decision or make NO decision. How does that compare in the game Tetris?

9. As time goes by (and you get closer to your ‘deadline’) and parts of your ‘project’ are not getting completed as you would have liked, what do you now see happening?

10. What may affect your decision-making (generally) in project management?

11. How might you adjust the project if you don’t have resources when you need them?

12. Tetris game does have one major difference from project management: by definition, a project is unique;

    has an achievable goal; and it has an end. How might we ‘redefine’ the game Tetris (or more

    specifically, the ‘game over’) so that it IS more inline with the attributes of a project?

13. How might you incorporate lessons -learned from project management into future projects?

Project Management

What are the two types of demand present in any inventory and Which one is used in forecasting models?

Explain CFPR. Why is it important in today’s supply chain?

Explain the different views of customer service
What is the customer segmentation matrix, and why do businesses use this model?

Explain OTC vs Replenishment Cycle. What flows are included in OTC?

Short Essay Directions: Please answers the below essay question to the best of your ability in no more than 4-6 sentences.

1. Technology in training can be both beneficial, as well as cause problems. Explain the advantages and disadvantages in training and explain how trainers should use technology.

Question 1:

I believe that the population mean the amount of time millennials spend on social media. My findings consist of studying a group of 8 millennials for 24 hours.

I believe the population mean is less than 2.24

Question 2:

I am not certain that I am giving you the correct information so if not please let me know so I can get it correct so everyone can attempt to figure it out.

So I asked 8 people I work with how often they order for deliver to their home here are there answers

1-2

2-4

3-0

4-2

5-3

6-1

7-4

8-5

I will be using the .05 hypothesis significance level to compute my problem with a population mean.

Burke has been a Rancher all her life, raising cattle and crops. Her ranch is valued at $500,000, almost all of which is exempt under state law. Burke has eight creditors and a total indebtedness of $70,000. Two of her largest creditor are Oman ($30,000 owed) and Sneed ($25,000 owed). The other six creditors have claims of less than $5,000 each. A drought has ruined all of Burke’s crops and forced her to sell many of her cattle at a loss. She cannot pay off her creditors.

-Under the Bankruptcy Code, can Burke, with a $500,000 ranch, voluntarily petition herself into bankruptcy? Why or why not?

-Could either Oman or Sneed force Burke into involuntary bankruptcy? Why or why not?

Question 4 Sizing up a segment is important, as well as knowing your company’s share of the segment. This exercise looks at the Dips, segmented by product-type preferences and usage. The solution requires a quantitative analysis of the Dips market. The total market for dips is $620 million. Dips usage for chips accounts for 67% of the market, and the usage of dips for vegetables account for the remaining 33%. Sour cream dips account for 50% of the market; bean/picante is 10%; cheese is 25%; and, cream cheese is 15%. Consider that Frito-Lay’s sour cream dip has revenues of $220 million, 76% of which is used for chips, and sour cream dips make up 65% of Frito-Lay’s vegetable dip revenue. What is Frito-Lay’s share of the vegetable dip segment, and what is its share of the sour cream dip market.

A. 26% and 71% B. 40% and 71% C. 26% and 35% D. 46% and 35%

¨Five-year-old Cheyenne Stark was riding in the back seat of her parents’ Ford Taurus. Cheyenne was using a seatbelt designed by Ford with the shoulder belt behind her back. The car was involved in a collision. As a result, Cheyenne suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralyzed from the waist down. The family filed a suit against Ford Motor Co., alleging that the seatbelt was defectively designed.

- Is the Starks’ suit likely to be successful? Why or why not?

The Caplans contract with Faithful Construction, Inc. to build a house for them for $360,000. The specifications state “all plumbing bowls and fixtures…to be Crane brand.” The Caplans leave on vacation and, during their absence, Faithful is unable to buy and install Crane plumbing fixtures. Instead, Faithful installs Kohler brand fixtures, an equivalent in the industry. On completion of the building contract, the Caplans inspect the work, find the substitution, and refuse to accept the house. They claim Faithful has breached the conditions set forth in the specifications.

- Is the Caplans’ claim valid

1. Discuss why it is important for human resource management systems to be in sync with an organization's strategy and goals with each other.

2. Discuss why training and development are ongoing activities for all organizations.

Answer single spaced - 1 good paragraph each response. If you  have any questions about your grades so far please email. Thank you and stay healthy. Prof. Patterson

Andy wants Ben to build Andy a pool, a tennis court, and a basketball court for Andy's employer which is a small hotel. Ben tells Andy that he can do the pool for $ 10,000, a tennis court for $ 7,000, and a basketball court for $ 3,000 if this is done individually. Andy must have the pool for no more than $ 12,000. He would like the basketball court this year or next. He would like the tennis court for no more than $ 8,000. His entire budget for this year for any of these things is no more than $ 17,000 but he would really prefer $ 15,000. Andy must decide this within 10 days or lose his job. Andy knows that Ben has no time pressure at all. Andy also knows that Ben, however, does not like to waste time and likes to do multiple jobs at once if he can in order to be more efficient. Andy also knows that Ben has many other jobs he can do right now but that he prefers to do jobs closest to his office more than farther jobs because they are easier to get to etc. Andy's hotel is only a mile from Ben's office. Andy would like someone to improve the entrance to his hotel, the back area of his hotel, and the parking lot of his hotel, but he really does not care about that right now as he can do that in 3 or 4 years and has no rush for that. Andy also knows that Ben's construction business is always looking for more cement trucks and flatbed trucks and Andy happens to have a cement truck and two flatbed trucks he does not need anymore.

a. What 2 or 3 negotiation strategies would you advise Andy to use in negotiating with Ben and why?

b. In general, what 2 strategies below would you say most often ruins negotiations between people and why?