Q1) Five critical path activities are candidates for crashing on a CPM network. Activity details are in the table below.

1. What is the crash cost per unit time for each of the activities?

2. Which activity should be crashed first to cut one day from the project's duration; calculate the added cost and total cost of project?

3. Which activity should be the next activity crashed to cut a second day from the project's duration; calculate the added cost and total cost of project.

4. If we want to minimize project duration by 6 days, what should we do? (calculate the added cost and total cost of project)

5. How much can this project be shortened? (Calculate the added cost and total cost of project)

Bank of America got bailed out, but Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail. The insurance company American International Group (AIG) was rescued, but in July federal authorities refused to bail out a significant lender to small and medium-sized businesses, the CIT Group (not to be confused with Citigroup, which did get bailed out). What is the logic behind these decisions? Who is being bailed out—and who should be? Was the AIG bailout necessary in your view?

Diversicorp Job Analysis Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to provide experience in conducting a job analysis for the creation of a job description.

Based on your work on the HRIS Needs Analysis, Diversicorp has decided to implement an HRIS and is adding a new position. Diversicorp’s President & CEO, Bob Foley, has realized that not investing in technology over the years has hampered the company’s growth. He knows that moving from the way things have been done for many years will require a good deal of effort and focus. In consultation with the CFO / Treasurer, Mary Chisholm, and the Director of HR, Thad Thomas, Bob has decided to add a new position to Diversicorp, Change Manager. This position will report directly to the President & CEO and oversee the implementation of the new HRIS, and also other initiatives that require change within Diversicorp.

You have been assigned the task of creating the job description that will be used to seek a person to fill this very important position for Diversicorp. Recall that the job description is an outcome of a job analysis, where job tasks are first determined, and then pre‐requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities are estimated which will support those tasks. Once those have been determined, a job description can be written.

You can follow these steps to successfully complete this assignment:

Job Analysis

• Determine job tasks (at least 5 tasks; refer to the chapter on Change Management
  1. WORK FORCE ANALYTICS
  2. SPEED OF FILLING JOBS.
  3. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT.
  4. REALISTIC RECRUITMENT MESSAGE.
  5. EMPLOYMENT BRAND MESSAGES.
  6. QUALITY AND DIVERSITY OF APPLICANTS ( Only need 5 Tasks, can use any you feel is best)

Only need to answer the items below such as the Knowledge, Skills, Abilities. Also the Job Description:

       1.Create (at least 5) items that fit into required knowledge to accomplish the tasks you listed.

       2. Create (at least 5) items that fit into required skills to accomplish the tasks you listed

       3. Create (at least 5) items that fit into required abilities to accomplish the tasks you listed,example: talent management which is a part of workforce analytics

Job Description

a. Write a complete Change Manager job description that contains the following sections:

1. One or two sentence summary job description
2. Job Title
3. Tasks
4. Knowledge
5. Skills
6. Abilities

1. There was a PowerPoint that discussed (4) considerations in question wording. Explain each and provide a concrete example of each.

1. Why do we say that the questionnaire/survey is the CRITICAL link between the respondent and the company? (Explain in a sentence or two)

1. What do we mean (in more specific terms) that the survey “serves” the manager? In other words, what are the criteria that make a “good” questionnaire for the manager? (Explain in detail.)

2. What do we mean (in more specific terms) that the survey “serves” the respondent? In other words, what are the criteria that make a “good” questionnaire for the respondent? (Explain in detail.)

1. Explain what a closed-ended question is (provide an example) and tell me what its advantages and disadvantages are? (Be detailed and use your own verbiage.)

1. In terms of aesthetic appeal and survey layout and flow, tell me some of the things you will think about as you are working on your semester projects?

NCAA

Please provide a citation for each response; you can not simply cite the textbook because textbook have many contributors.

1. Discuss the importance of recruiting as a component of resource acquisition for athletic departments.
2. Discuss the specifics pertaining to permissible financial assistance available to student-athletes.
3. Discuss how the current systems of rules governing the operation of intercollegiate athletic departments impact how departments are managed.
4. Discuss how the current systems of rules enforcement impact the management of intercollegiate athletic departments.
5. Discuss the distinction between initial and continuing academic eligibility.

Using the seven primary characteristics that capture an organization’s culture, list each and what you see Macomb Community College doing in each from a student view, to create the organization’s culture. Please be sure to give examples. here is the following characteristics.

1- Innovation and risk taking, which is the degree to which employees are encouraged to be both innovative and take risks.

2- Attention to detail, or the degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision, analysis, and attention to detail.

3- Outcome orientation, or the degree to which management focuses on results rather than on processes used to achieve them.

4- People orientation, the degree to which management decisions consider the effect of outcomes on people within the organization.

5- Team orientation, described as the degree to which work activities are organized around teamsrather than individuals.

6- Aggressiveness, or the degree to which people are aggressive and competitive.

7- Stability, or the degree to which activities emphasize maintaining the status quo.

Give an account of the funding and operation of a living trust.

PLEASE ANSWER (URGENT)

Service marketing Case study: PI-O’s

Please read the following case and answers this question:

1- How can you help PI-O in determining and minimizing their customers’ expected risks (Functional risk, Financial risk, Temporal risk, Physical risk, Psychological risk, and Social risk)? Identify the expected risks and suggest solutions? Justify your answer.

For more than 35 years, PI-O’s has been one of the nation’s go-to venues for children’s birthday parties and rainy afternoon outings. Operating under the slogan “Where a kid can be a kid,” there are more than 575 PI-O’s locations in 47 states in the USA and 10 foreign countries. Their goal is to provide a fun and safe environment for children aged under 12 years to play and families to create memories, but in 2015 PI-O’s made improvements not for the children, but for the parents.

“Your average kid who comes to PI-O wants to come 11 times a year; they come three times a year. The difference between that and the 11 times a year they want to come is the mom and dad veto,” said Tom Leverton, CEO of LEL Entertainment, Inc. “What we’ve been doing over the past couple of years especially is trying to address the mom and dad needs.”

To that end, PI-O’s expanded their menu to include items geared to more advanced culinary of tastes of the parents, such as the Cali Alfredo pizza and the BBQ Chicken Pizza, Caesar and Club whole-wheat wraps, BBQ Chicken Ciabatta sandwiches. They also added dessert churros served with salted caramel and white chocolate icing. "Kids are at the heart of everything we do at PI-O 's, but kids don't come alone, and we want to make sure parents have just as enjoyable an experience as the kids do, especially when it comes to the food," said Leverton.

The new adult menu has been promising for PI-O’s, but they aren’t stopping there. In 2016, they began testing additional menu items in select markets. The Orlando, Florida market has seen the addition of giant chocolate chip cookies to the menu. They are also testing a Honey Mustard- bourbon wing sauce, multigrain Italian Chicken and Chicken Caesar flatbreads, and gluten-free pizza dough.

In March 2016, PI-O’s debuted a lunchtime all-you-can-eat buffet to address the issue of customer frequency. The buffet is $3.99 for children and $5.99 for adults. They are also testing half-priced games on Tuesday evenings in the Dallas market. PI-O decided also to introduces a loyalty card that will give one free entry after 5 visits and a discount of 10 % in the foods for regular customers.

Develop a productivity improvement strategy and develop plans for implementing the strategy in the identified priority areas in accordance with the root cause analysis

a) Develop a Productivity Improvement Strategy.

b) Develop an implementation plan to implement the strategy as developed in (a).

1. Explain what an open-ended question is (provide an example) and tell me what its advantages and disadvantages are? (Be detailed and use your own verbiage).

Assess methods of compensation and benefits planning.

Discuss how, as a leader, you can anticipate and overcome resistance to change in an organization. Must contain 200 words.