Please read the article titled "No food, no cash, money in banks 40 km away: Rural Maharashtra’s women say they are waiting for death" by Prateek Goyal. Search the title on Google and it should come up in the newslaundry website. ARTICLE AVAILABLE ONLINE

How can some of the information provided in the article help to explain the conditions rural Indian women are living in under COVID-19? Please refer to the news laundry article for your explanation.

Discuss how you will use these “deeper” views in developing an expanded business model perspective for a firm?

For this paper, I want you to put yourself in the position of the Vice President of a particular group (e.g., the VP of HIT Operations, the Department Head of a particular medical unit, the VP of IT). What is your leadership style of the future? How will you grow as a leader? Use your Leadership Journals to help with this. A key point to understand is that this paper complements the HIT Project Proposal. This paper will detail your approach to HIT leadership with a specific action plan to implement that HIT leadership approach. It is critical that you focus on HIT as you write the paper because, though some leadership and management principles are universal, the industry one works in comes with unique considerations.

Please do not underestimate the value of this assignment. Becoming a good leader means understanding yourself and being intentional about your growth. You may very well find yourself referencing this work for years to come as you grow and mature as an HIT leader.

Submit an 8-to-10-page, typed, double-spaced paper

Suppose that a parking lot replaces the human server who receives payment, with one automated machine that reads the credit-card and receives payments automatically. Assume that customer arrival rates and average service time remain the same. How will waiting time in the queue for payment be affected? Increase, Decrease, Remain the Same? Briefly explain your reasoning.

1. Regarding the CSR pyramid:
   1. What are the levels of the pyramid?
   2. What level (or levels) is the most important for ordinary services such as restaurants? Why?
   3. Provide an example of a service that supports your assertion in part B).

Effective media relations are particularly important during a crisis or an emergency. Do some research on a either a historic crisis situation for an organization or a company, such as the BP Oil Spill, Mattel toy recall, Virginia Tech Tragedy OR any crisis that is currently in the news. Then analyze how well the organization handled its media relations.

5. Bribery is rampant in some industries and countries:
   1. What is bribery?
   2. Why is it unethical and, in most countries, also illegal?
   3. Assume you were recruited by a high-tech company as a local manager in South Texas. After a few months in the job, you discover that several transactions with buyers involved bribery (some buyers paid higher prices but those payments are significantly lower in company records, reason why you suspect that part of the payments were bribes that benefited the executives that were in charge of the transactions).
   4. As new executive at a local level, would you continue such transactions, that is, continue using bribery (noting that you would now become part of the beneficiaries of the existing bribery)?
   5. What would you really do?

The Employee Component dominated various studies on organizational behavior. Of note are these important theories that affect motivation:

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Herzberg’s Motivator-Hygiene Theory
• McClelland’s Learned Needs Theory
• McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y
• Adam’s Equity Theory
• Vroom’s Expectancy Theory
• Skinner’s Reinforcement Theory

Select 3 theories and explain how they have increased our understanding of motivation. Compare and contrast their influences on human motivation in the contemporary work setting, Then, choose one theory that best applies to your own personal and developmental journey.

Suppose that a parking lot replaces the human server who receives payment, with one automated machine that reads the credit-card and receives payments automatically. Assume that customer arrival rates and average service time remain the same. How will waiting time in the queue for payment be affected? Increase, Decrease, Remain the Same? Briefly explain your reasoning.

Franklin Furniture

Franklin Furniture produces tables and chairs at its East-side plant for use in university classrooms. The unit profit for tables is $70, while that for chairs is $30.

Tables and chairs are manufactured using finished pressed wood and polished aluminum fittings. Including scrap, each table uses 20 square feet of pressed wood, whereas each chair uses 12.5 square feet of the pressed wood. Franklin Furniture has 6000 square feet of the pressed weed available for the East-side plant weekly. The aluminum fittings that reinforce the legs of both the tables and chairs are purchased from an outside supplier. Franklin Furniture can purchase up to 400 boxes of fittings weekly; one box is required for each table or chair manufactured.

Production time is 72 minutes (1.2 hours) per table and 18 minutes (0.3 hours) per chair. Franklin Furniture has eight employees, each of whom works an average of 7.5 hours per day. Thus, in an average five-day work week, the company has available 8(7.5)(5) = 300 production hours.

Franklin Furniture also produces desks and computer workstations at its West-side plant. Each desk nets the company a profit of $100, while each computer workstation nets $125. These products are also produced from finished pressed wood and aluminum. The amount of each, as well as the labor time needed to produce a desk or computer workstation, is given in the following table.

Franklin Furniture is considering combining operations of both plants into a single plant. This consolidation will combine the weekly available resources so that 12,000 square feet of pressed wood, 800 boxes of aluminum fittings, and 600 production hours will available weekly. However, the accounting department estimates the cost of renovating the plant will be $5000 per week, on an amortized basis.

In your role of a Business Consultant to Franklin Furniture, prepare a business report for Franklin Furniture giving optimal weekly production schedules for each of its plants operating separately. Then include an analysis and recommendation to Franklin Furniture for combining operations at both plants into a single plant.

(Hint: This case can be solved by splitting it into three small cases, two of which can be analyzed using only two decision variables.)

1. Identify a person you know very well (job supervisor, peer, friend, relative, etc. without asking any question to him or her). Evaluate that person in terms of:
   1. Cognitive moral development
   2. Ethical decision‐making style
   3. Moral disengagement
   4. Locus of control
   5. Machiavellianism
      

What does this evaluation in each of the 5 areas tell you about the way he or she pursues ethical decision making?

1. Explain the differences between the deontological and the teleological roots of fraudulent behavior of employees. Besides explaining the difference conceptually, show the differences with a rich example.