QUESTION 6

1. A willful violation of the ADEA can result in an award of liquidated damages which is

   		the total of back pay, front pay and any other unpaid wage liability owed to the employee-plaintiff.
   		compensation for pain and suffering.
   		an amount that is equal to any unpaid wage liability and results in a doubling of the unpaid wage liability.
   		an amount sufficient to punish the wrong doer from willfully violating the ADEA in the future.

10 points   

QUESTION 7

1. In order to prove there is a claim for age discrimination, an employee must establish the following:

   		The employee is in the protected class.
   		The employee was doing his or her job well enough to meet the employer’s expectations.
   		Others not in the protected class were treated more favorably.
   		All of the above

10 points   

QUESTION 8

1. A work environment in which harassment of an employee exists to such an extent that a reasonable employee would dread or fear going to work can be categorized as a(n):

   		bona fide occupational qualification
   		adverse employment circumstance
   		hostile work environment
   		None of the above

10 points   

QUESTION 9

1. According to EEOC guidelines, a reasonable accommodation includes:

   		Providing interpreters or readers for the disabled employee
   		Making the facilities usable by individuals with disabilities
   		Modifying work schedules
   		All of the above are reasonable accommodations

10 points   

QUESTION 10

1. In order to establish that a requested accommodation constitutes an undue hardship under the ADA, an employer must show that the accommodation

   		is not readily achievable.
   		will require the employer to incur a significant cost or obligation.
   		will require the employer to incur more than a de minimis cost.
   		will result in inconvenience to other employees.

GLOBAL MACROTRENDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

You have just been asked to develop a resource scarcity mitigation plan for your company. What information do you need to know about the resources your company uses? How will you use this information?

(2-3 paragraphs please) (5-6 sentences each)

GLOBAL MACROTRENDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Your firm manufactures small personal electronic devices, like phones, GPS systems, and tablet PCs. Some of the metals your company uses are becoming increasingly scarce, and it’s your job to make a plan to keep the firm in business even with these scarcity issues. What factors should you take into account when preparing your recommendation? What can your firm do to remain competitive in the face of diminishing resources?

(2-3 paragraphs please) (5-6 sentences each)

A company wants to evaluate its main strategy which is cost-leadership. The CEO needs 4 criteria for evaluation purposes. What are the 4 criteria required to make sure it is the best strategy for the company and it has no flaw?   

Explain the use of the Competitive Profile Matrix and interpret this CPM.

Your firm manufactures small personal electronic devices, like phones, GPS systems, and tablet PCs. Some of the metals your company uses are becoming increasingly scarce, and it’s your job to make a plan to keep the firm in business even with these scarcity issues. What factors should you take into account when preparing your recommendation? What can your firm do to remain competitive in the face of diminishing resources?

(2-3 paragraphs please) (5-6 sentences each)

GLOBAL MACROTRENDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

You have just taken a job as a consultant for a custom-built motorcycle company. The plant manager says he had read that a synchronized push supply chain strategy was associated with stable demand, and one of the goals for his company was to remove as much demand variability as possible. He recommends using a synchronized push strategy for their customized product. How would you reply to him?

(2-3 paragraphs please) (5-6 sentences each)

Drew works at Baseball Inc., a seller of high-quality baseballs. He is interested in forecasting demand for his baseballs that are sold weekly to University of Miami using exponential smoothing.

Assume an initial forecast of 175 and the demand data below:

You want to use simple exponential smoothing. In case 1 you take alpha = 0.7 and in case 2 you take alpha = 0.3. Which of the following has an acceptable tracking signal, i.e., model does not need to be re-evaluated?

Answer Options:

1. Case 1
2. Case 2
3. Both Case 1 and Case 2
4. Neither Case 1 and Case 2

Necessary inventory would enable agility and leanness throughout the supply chain. Discuss this argument and the role of a warchouse.

You are the vice-president of a large manufacturer. You work in the head office and main distribution centre, where the main activity is the shipping of inventory to the various stores in the chain. Traditionally the employees have been permitted to take home, free of charge, irregular product (it would otherwise be destroyed). After a number of years you discover that some employees, you don’t know who, have been deliberately damaging product in order to get them for free, and you determine that this activity should stop. You advise one of your subordinates to tell the employees this. A few weeks later you determine that two of your employees are still taking home irregular items, with the permission of the manufacturers’ representatives. When you ask your subordinate about the notification that he gave the employees he tells you that he told the employees at a meeting and that he thinks that most of the employees were there. No written notification was provided and no attendance was taken at the meeting.

The two employees in question have been working for the company for 30 and 35 years respectively and are 57 and 62 years of age.

1. Can you terminate these employees for just cause? Please provide a full analysis of the facts and the law to support your answer.

2. If you were unable to terminate them for just cause and choose to fire the employees in any event, explain how you would determine the appropriate amount of notice of termination that you would need to give specifying five of the factors you would use in making the decision and how they impact on the notice period required. In addition, specify whether you are provided with sufficient information in the question to determine each of the factors that you have listed or require further information in order to make the determination. Please explain your answer fully, and ensure that you indicate how each factor that you consider relates to the amount of notice provided.  

Part # 1 How would you describe the EI level of Cirque du Soleil Founder Guy Laliberte? Give an example from the case to support your response? Part # 2 What is your EI(emotional Intelligent ) score, and do you think it is an accurate reflection of you? Why or why not ?

Marco is the Treasurer of Dawn, Inc. At a staff meeting, he learned that the company has a new medication for treatment for asthma and it will be announcing it the next day. That afternoon, Marco tells his wife to buy 15,000 shares of Dawn at $10/each on line. The next day, after the announcement, the stock jumps to $22/share. What law has Marco violated?

Does it make good strategic sense for VAIL RESORT to compete in all of its current segments? Which of its product lines do you think is/are most important to VAIL RESORT’s future growth and profitability? Should one or more of these current segments be discontinued? Why?

What is general information about Chipotle, Starbucks, and McDonald. state their managerial issues, recent news etc.

Fred of Fred’s Fabulous TV and Stereo Emporium and Sue of Sue’s Electronic Supply have been doing business with one another for over 10 years. Initially Fred was quite happy with the relationship and found Sue’s service to be excellent. Over the past year and a half, however, shipments form Sue’s Electronic Supply have been late with increasing, and alarming, frequency. Fred has spoken to Sue about this, and while the problem was solved for a short time, it has recently begun to be a problem again. On the other hand, Sue’s prices are the lowest that Fred has managed to find.

From Sue’s perspective, the relationship also began as prosperous. Recently, however, Fred has hired a new accounts payable clerk, who regularly misses the due dates for payment and sends the money late. Sue also has suppliers and finds this inconvenient and that her relationships with her suppliers are deteriorating. As was the case with Fred, Sue has called and spoken to the clerk, which improved things briefly, but they shortly reverted to late payments.

Last week Fred ordered a shipment of TVs and DVD players from sue in preparation for a sale that he was having this past Saturday. He advertised the sale in the newspapers and on television and had clowns and an elephant on hand. The shipment of merchandise did not arrive on time and Fred was forced to give rain-checks to his customers. He believes that he lost significant business. When he called Sue, she told him that she was still waiting for payment from the last shipment, which was overdue, and was not at all sympathetic.

In light of the foregoing, and assuming that direct negotiation between the parties has not been successful, answer the following questions:

(a)        List, and explain, the dispute resolution mechanisms available to Sue and Fred and provide three advantages and disadvantages for each (please explain your answers thoroughly).

(b)        If you were advising Fred as to how to proceed, which one of the available mechanisms would you suggest he select and why and which ones would you reject, and why?