Compile a list of your top-five personal guidelines for professionalism and ethics. This list should be a reflection of the values that you hold and how they are reflected in your professionalism. Your list must be thoughtful and detailed enough to show effort and authenticity in your guidelines. After stating each guiding ethic in your top-five list, include two sentences: 1. discussing why this is important to you, and 2. what it looks like to live that guideline out at work.

What personal changes do you need to make as you prepare yourself to be a professional?

If the president of your college called you in and asked how community college could create a competitive advantage for itself, what would you recommend? (Be sure to consider the costs as well as the benefits of your proposal).

i. Write a clear, economics based response to the discussion question.

ii. Cite references used to form your response, ie., newspapers, magazines, websites, textbooks, etc.

1. For the data given below find the forecast for year 10 using
   1. Comparing the weighted average and moving average methods in b and c which method yields better results based on MAD?
   2. Use regression analysis to find the forecast for year 10.

The following data represent the inventory figures for 55-gallon fish tanks at an aquarium. 55-Gallon Fish Tanks Inventory Amount January 1 Beginning Inventory 48 units @ $38.00 March 12 Purchase 70 units @ $36.50 July 19 Purchase 135 units @ $39.70 September 2 Purchase 85 units @ $41.75 Fish Tanks Available for Sale: Cost of Tanks Available for Sale: (a) How many fish tanks did the aquarium have available for sale? fish tanks (b) Calculate the total cost (in $) of the tanks available for sale. $ (c) If physical inventory on December 31 showed 88 tanks on hand, calculate their dollar value by using FIFO. $ (d) Calculate the value of the 88 tanks by using LIFO (in $). $ (e) Calculate the dollar value of the 88 tanks by using the average cost method (Round your answer to the nearest cent). $

A particular gym maintains a gross margin of 55% on all its weight training products. In April, the gym had a beginning inventory of $142,000, net purchases of $206,000, and net sales of $436,000. Use the gross profit method to estimate the cost (in $) of ending inventory.

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Communication & informatics; diversity & culture; and leadership are three very important cross-cutting / inter-disciplinary domains in public health. Choose one of them and discuss its implementation using an example from the UAE health sector. Evaluate the described efforts and provide recommendations for strengthening them if applicable

Examine the role of strategic human resource planning in support of organizational mission and objectives.

I have a project planned to be completed in 6 months with a budget of 60,000. after three months 30,000 spends which is 50% of the budget is spend.

Use earned value management to calculate:

A) cost performance index (CPI)

B)Schedule performance index (SPI)

C)estimate at completion (EAC).

DAT, Inc., produces digital audiotapes to be used in the consumer audio division. DAT lacks sufficient personnel in its inventory supply section to closely control each item stocked, so it has asked you to determine an ABC classification. Here is a sample from the inventory records:

Develop an ABC classification for these 10 items.

A company in the process industry produces a chemical compound that is sold to manufacturers for use in the production of certain plastic products. The plant that produces the compound employs approximately 300 people. Develop a list of six different cost elements that would be fixed and a similar list of six cost elements that would be variable

Question 1

The time is ripe for fresh ideas by Lynda Gratton Forget business workshops and case studies –recessions provide real-time opportunities for executive learning as old myths are brought into question and management innovations emerge. Historically a downturn has been a time when business models, organisational structures, labour markets and employee contracts come under immense strain. Accepted wisdoms are challenged and this break in thinking can result in the adoption of new practices and the adoption of new habits and skills. There are two points of tension emerging in this recession that may allow for innovation in management practices. Wider distribution of leadership This recession has brought into stark perspective the role of the leader. Up to this point, the dominant norm has been the ‘command and control’ leadership style. In this model, the organisation is viewed as a hierarchy in which decisions are escalated to the top, where a CEO makes the decisions. But many people are now questioning the wisdom of placing so much power in the hands of so few. At the same time, insights from research in decision sciences and technological advances have shown that often the best decisions are made by an ‘intelligent crowd’, rather than one all-powerful individual. Senior leadership cadres have traditionally been essentially homogeneous – middle-aged men with similar backgrounds. Research on innovative teams has shown that such groups are likely to be less competent in decision-making than diverse teams. With the dominant model under question, this is a good time to bring diversity back on to the agenda. Creating flexible virtual teams Past recessions have often served to accelerate the adoption of management practices and processes that already had some popularity pre-recession. The same is true of virtual working. Assembling teams to work on projects and task forces has become more viable in the past decade, often hastened by the pressures of globalisation. Yet while virtual working is emerging as a trend, there is still an assumption that face-to-face working trumps virtual working. As a result, every Sunday night thousands of executives board aircraft and trains to get to Monday Page 3 of 3 morning meetings. With many companies freezing travel budgets, this is likely to change and many executives will have to do more work virtually. At the same time, the entry and exit roads of the world’s big cities are clogged from early dawn with commuters hurrying to and from work. This movement of people has been based on two assumptions: that people need to meet every day to get their work done; and that when at home, they are likely to slack and need the discipline of an office to ensure they perform. Both assumptions are wrong. First, people do not need to meet every day to get their work done. Research has shown that virtual teams – where members rarely meet – can be highly productive. What is important in these teams is that they are all inspired by a meaningful task, fascinating question or compelling vision. The second assumption – that people need the discipline of an office to ensure they perform – is also a myth. Much research has shown that when people have the opportunity to work on engaging, well-planned tasks at home they are significantly more productive and committed than those who toil through the commuter traffic every day.

a. With reference to Lewin’s model of change management, suggest the steps that would need to be taken by an organisation to introduce the two innovatory management practices advocated by Gratton.

b. Crainer suggests that managers are themselves often the source of resistance to change. Using the information on resistance to change as the basis for your analysis, explain why managers might resist such changes.

c. What steps would you take to overcome these types of resistance?

Case Study 1: Creating a Safety Culture at Border Transportation

Border Transportation, located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a company that specializes in the delivery of medical equipment and supplies to hospitals, clinics, and medical supply companies in the Southwest and in Mexico. The majority of employees at Border Transportation are sales representatives, warehouse staff, and truck drivers. Currently, most of these workers are over age 45.

As a result of ongoing expansion, the company will grow from 225 employees to more than 500 employees in the next three years. Several government contracts have already been signed, and more are anticipated. The company has recently hired you as the warehouse manager. Part of your job is to oversee all safety programs for the company. These duties had been handled primarily informally by the dock supervisor prior to your coming onboard.

On your first day, the CFO calls you in and gives you the following directives and information:

• Safety in the warehouse is becoming a real issue. The accident rate has tripled since last year. Something has to be done.
• Absenteeism has increased, especially on Fridays and Mondays.
• The company is spending 25% of its payroll costs on workers’ compensation claims. Many of the claims are related to cumulative trauma disorders.
• You need to get rid of an employee in the warehouse who is reported to have AIDS.

Questions

1. How would you respond to each of the directives from the COO? What steps would you take to instill a culture of safety in this warehouse?
2. Do you think a wellness program makes sense for this company? Provide support for your answer.
3. What do you think will be the biggest challenge in increasing safety and health at this facility?
4. How will you address the issue of the employee with AIDS?
5. Given the location in the Southwest and the company’s work in Mexico, many of the employees have English as their second language. Do you anticipate that language will be an issue in creating and implementing a new safety program? If so, why and how will you address the issue? If not, why not?
6. How will you deal with employees who tell you that they have “always done it this way” when you try to improve safety procedures?

A particular raw material is available to a company at three different prices, depending on the size of the order:

The cost to place an order is $50. Annual demand is 4,300 units. Holding (or carrying) cost is 25 percent of the material price.

What is the economic order quantity to buy each time, and its total cost? (Round your answers to the nearest whole number.)

Provide a brief overview about why calculating ROI is strategically important and list common types of items and services that would be included in an ROI analysis. Next discuss what items and services may differ in ROI calculations between different types of training. For instance, consider the differences between a soft skills training like leadership development and employees taking an Excel training program.