0. 1. There are 3 machine operators in a manufacturing factory. Every day, each operator works for a single shift of 7.5 hours. The factory operates 5 days a week.
1. Last month, in the first week (Week 1), the factory arranged overtime of 1 hours on 4 days for 2 machine operators. What is the utilization of operators in Week 1?
2. Because of the overtime in Week 1, there was no more overtime in Week 2. One of the operators even idled for 3 hours in 1 workday without anything to do. What is the utilization of operators in Week 2?

  Explain the process of how servant leadership works.

I'm working on a resource activity plan and a budget for a project proposal. I'm needing help with the resource activity plan and the budget. The project proposal is for a Walmart in my state. The store manager is the one that does all the scheduling for 340 employees. The budget for the project is 1,000,000 million dollars. The idea proposed is getting a group of eight assistant managers to come together to make schedules for the employees. Each assistant manager will be assigned an department to make schedules for. The client is Jamie, the sponsor of the project is Charles. The project manager is Jennifer. HR picked the assistant managers that are avaliable to sit down for sixty minutes per week to create a week's worth of schedules. The team includes the eight assistant managers, which are Jennifer, Sharron, Jake, Robert, Michael, Larry, Selena, Kendra. To make this team work they will be trained using video scheduling system training and they will be tested electronically. Jamie is store manager, larry is front end, michael is over fruits and veg, jake is over apparel, selena is over stationary, robert is over home, kendra is over sporting goods and lawn and garden, jennifer is over frozen food and groceries, and sharron is over stocking. The project starts on April 4th and ends on June 4th.

Has the Apple company been through some international M&As? Has it faced any challenges in this respect?Does Apple company have made some cross cultural marketing/business blunders, If yes what was it about and how it could have been avoided?

A financial call center receives customer calls at every 15 seconds. The call center trains customer

service representatives (CSRs) in a way that they take an average of 7.5 minutes to process a call.

Caller inter-arrival and processing times are exponentially distributed.

Currently, the call center employs 42 CSRs and pays each CSR $15 per hour including benefits.

The center estimates that it loses $1 for each minute a customer is on hold, in terms of the

negative impact on future business.

What is the optimal staffing level (i.e., number of CRSs employed) minimizing the total operating

cost? How much can the call center can save with adopting the optimal staffing level?

Hint:

Starting from the current number of CSRs, how does the total cost per hour change if we

hire one employee? What can you learn from this?

Explain your thoughts on OSHA's use of incorporation by reference and whether you believe it improves safety and health in the workplace.

  Fully describe the full range of leadership models

This problem relates to the Belgian electricity regulation commission. All monetary amounts are in Belgian francs (BF). Given the huge fixed costs faced by the government-owned Belgian electric power utilities, the commission decided to charge a uniform price of 4.810BF/kWh, far in excess of the marginal cost of l BF/kWh. Then someone suggested that the government could make everyone better off -- small customers, large customers, the government -- by offering consumers a choice of two tariffs. Customers could either choose the above uniform price policy or they could choose a two-part tariff with a 1,173BF subscription fee per year and a unit price of 2.752BF/kWh. Show how this suggestion might achieve what it claims to achieve. What is a necessary condition for the proposal to work?

How did 9/11 change the way international trade works? Are the measures being effective at this time 2020 worldwide?

Be sure to write a minimum of two paragraphs. Be sure to cite sources and use APA style.

Replacement Individual Assignment for HRM2040 re: COVID-19

You must select

10

of the following areas of HR.

Legal Compliance

Technology and Human Resources

Job Analysis and Job Design

Human Resources Planning

Recruiting Employee

Selecting Employees

Employee Orientation and Training

Career Development

Performance Management

Equitable Pay Plans

Employee Benefit and Service Plans

Health and Safety

Employee Relations

Management and Labour Relations

For each of the 10 selected areas you must identify and explain 3 factors or characteristics that would be

considered HR practices of a 21

st

century organization. For each of the 10 areas of HR that you selected, you

must res

Richard Branson Shoots for the Moon

The Virgin Group is the umbrella for a variety of business ventures ranging from air travel to entertainment. With close to 200 companies in over 30 countries, it is one of the largest companies in the world. At the head of this huge organization is Richard Branson. Branson founded Virgin over

30 years ago and has built the organization from a small student magazine to the multibillion-dollar enterprise it is today.Branson is not your typical CEO. Branson’s dyslexia made school a struggle and sabotaged his performance on standard IQ tests. His teachers and tests had no way of measuring his greatest strengths—his uncanny knack for uncovering lucrative business ideas and his ability to energize

the ambitions of others so that they, like he, could rise to the level of their dreams. Richard Branson’s true talents began to show themselves in his late teens. While a student at Stowe School in England in 1968, Branson decided to start his own magazine, Student. Branson was inspired by the student activism on his campus in the 1960s and decided to try something different. Student differed from most college newspapers or magazines; it focused on the students and their interests. Branson sold advertising to major corporations to support his magazine. He included articles by ministers of Parliament, rock stars, intellectuals, and celebrities. Student grew to become a commercial success. In 1970 Branson saw an opportunity for Student to offer records cheaply by running ads for mail-order delivery. The subscribers to Student flooded the magazine with so many orders that his spin-off discount music venture proved more lucrative than the magazine subscriptions. Branson recruited the staff of Student for his discount music business. He built a small recording studio and signed his first artist. Mike Oldfield recorded “Tubular Bells” at Virgin in 1973; the album sold 5 million copies, and Virgin Records and the Virgin brand

name were born. Branson has gone on to start his own airline (VirginAtlantic Airlines was launched in 1984), build hotels (Virgin Hotels started in 1988), get into the personal finance business (Virgin Direct

Personal Finance Services was launched in 1995), and even enter the cola wars (Virgin Cola was introduced in 1994). And those are just a few highlights of the Virgin Group—all this while Branson has attempted to break world speed records for crossing the Atlantic Ocean by boat and by hot air balloon.

As you might guess, Branson’s approach is nontraditional—he has no giant corporate office or staff and few if any board meetings. Instead, he keeps each enterprise small and relies on his skills of empowering people’s ideas to fuel success. When a flight attendant from Virgin Airlines approached him with her vision of a wedding business, Richard told her to go do it. He even put on a wedding dress himself to help launch the publicity. Virgin Brides was born. Branson relies heavily on the creativity of his staff; he is more a supporter of new ideas than a creator of them. He encourages searches for new business ideas everywhere he goes and even has a spot on the Virgin Web site called “Got a Big Idea?”

In December 1999 Richard Branson was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Millennium New Year’s Honours List for “services to entrepreneurship. What is next on Branson’s list? He recently announced that Virgin was investing money in “trying to make sure that, in the not too distant future, people from around the world will be able to go into space.” Not everyone is convinced that space tourism can become a fully-fledged part of the travel industry, but with Branson behind the idea it just might fly.

1. Would you classify Richard Branson as a manager or a leader? What qualities distinguish him as one or the other?

2. Describe the relationship between Branson and his followers. (5MARKS)

Q2,If you were a manager in a bank and you had to choose motivating and hygiene factors to design a reward system ,keeping Herzberg’s theory in mind which two motivating and which two hygiene factors would you choose for bank employees? Justify your answer giving a detailed explanation.  

Q3a).As a leader of a small team of 20 team members working in a software company , what team decision making options do you think you have and explain any two of them

Q3b) Identify whichone would you apply for decision making for your team of 20 software professionals.

  Briefly describe the components of Path-Goal theory. How can a leader's style affect a follower's motivation?

1) Find a company or organization that successfully has adopted and implemented RFID and explain how RFID improved its operations, process, and profitability.
2) Discuss what do you think about the future of RFID in business.

To what extent do corporate-level strategies leverage and build core competences and products for your firm? In reference to kroger co.

Outline the procedure for developing a questionnaire. Discuss the questionnaire-development process for a new sandwich at McDonalds.