3.3 In this assignment, you will use the AIM planning process to develop a business memo to your own organization to justify the adoption of one of the following programs:

A copay exercise facility, A daycare facility for employee’s children, Free employee parking, A company-wide picnic, Job sharing opportunities, Employee volunteer activities during work hours, Working at home once a week

Please explain these in detail - at least a paragraph or two for each question.

1. Explain each term: supercomputing, grid computing, and cluster computing

2. What are the differences between supercomputing, grid computing, and cluster computing?

3. How are these phenomena empowered by Moore’s Law?

Identify the formal structure of an organization. Using an organization of your choice as an example, how is the organization's structure and design a reflection of its environment, goals, and competencies?

What is sovereignty? What is the purpose of government? Explain the origins of federalism as a part of American democracy, and the role of states in decision-making in our government.

1. Select one project from the working or educational environment of your choice and specify the main work process (for example, suppliers and customers involved, work flow, et cetera) of the project that you have selected.
2. Next, suggest at least two actions that a manager can take in order to improve the work process of the project in question.
3. Provide a rationale for your response.

Please select and briefly describe an organization. Compare and contrast leadership challenges of a Project Manager and a Functional Manager in that organization, using a Project Management example for the Project Manager and an Operations Management example for the Operations Manager. (Sources appreciated)

Most motivation theories in use today were developed in the United States by Americans and about
Americans. Of those that were not, many have been strongly influenced by American theories. But
several motivation theories do not apply to all cultures. For example, Maslow’s theory does not often
hold outside the United States. In countries higher on uncertainty avoidance (such as Greece and Japan)
as compared with those lower on uncertainty avoidance (such as the United States), security motivates
employees more strongly than does self-actualization. Employees in high-uncertainty-avoidance
countries often consider job security and lifetime employment more important than holding a more
interesting or challenging job. Also contrasting with the American pattern, social needs often dominate
the motivation of workers in countries such as Denmark, Norway, and Sweden that stress the quality of
life over materialism and productivity.

When researchers tested Herzberg’s theory outside the United States, they encountered different
results. In New Zealand, for example, supervision and interpersonal relationships appear to contribute
significantly to satisfaction and not merely to reducing dissatisfaction. Similarly, researchers found that
citizens of Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Republic of Panama, and the West Indies cited certain
extrinsic factors as satisfiers with greater frequency than did their American counterparts. In other
words, the factors that motivate U.S. employees may not spark the same motivation in employees in
other cultures. Some of the major differences among the cultural groups include the following:

1. English-speaking countries such as England and the United States rank higher on individual
achievement and lower on the desire for security.
2. French-speaking countries and areas such as France and the province of Quebec in Canada,
although similar to the English-speaking countries, give greater importance to security and
somewhat less to challenging work.
3. Northern European countries such as Sweden have less interest in getting ahead and work towards
recognition goals and place more emphasis on job accomplishment. In addition, they have more
concern for people and less for the organization as a whole (it is important that their jobs not
interfere with their personal lives).
4. Latin American and Southern European countries find individual achievement somewhat less
important; Southern Europeans place the highest emphasis on job security, whereas both groups of
countries emphasize fringe benefits.
5. Germany ranks high on security and fringe benefits and among the highest on getting ahead.
6. Japan, although low on advancement, also ranks second-highest on challenge and lowest on
autonomy, with a strong emphasis on good working conditions and a friendly working environment.

Critical Thinking Questions
1. In today’s global business environment, with its diversity of perspectives, can a manager ever
successfully use equity theory? Why or why not?
2. What impact, if any, do these cultural differences have on managers managing an entirely American
workforce? Explain.

I need help with both questions

Write a letter (in the first person as Mary Wollstonecraft) as if Mary Wollstonecraft was asking a headmaster at a school for boys in the 1700s to accept some talented girls in the school.

-What arguments might she give to accept the girls in the school?

-Write the letter you think that Wollstonecraft might send.

-Include a short direct quotation. (anything from the book)

1. Meadows Cookie Company makes a variety of cookies. Based on the orders received and forecasts of buying habits, it is estimated that the demands for the next four months are 850, 1260, 510 and 980 in thousands of cookies. During a 46-day period when there were 120 workers, the company produced 7 million cookies. Assume that the number of working days over the four months are respectively 26, 24, 20, and 16. There are currently 100 workers employed, and there is no starting in inventories of cookies.
   1. Complete the table below:

1. 2. Find K, the number of aggregate units produced by one worker in one day.
2. c. What is the minimum constant workforce required to meet demand over the next four months.

4. Assume that C_I = 10 cents per cookie per month, C_H = $100, and C_F = $200. Evaluate the cost of the plan .

Initial Number of workers = ____________

Number of workers hired =______________

Beginning inventory =__________

Ending inventory = _____________

1. 5. Total Cost of the plan is ____________
2. 6. Formulate the linear program.

Airbnb, a popular home-sharing website founded in San Francisco in 2008, offers millions of homes for
short-term rental in more than 190 countries. This company has revolutionized the sharing economy in
the same way that ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft have, and according to the company, the
site’s drive to connect hosts and potential renters has been able to contribute to the quality of life of
both homeowners and travelers. According to Airbnb’s press releases and information campaigns, their
services can reduce housing costs for travelers on a budget and can provide unique experiences for
adventurous travelers who wish to have the flexibility to experience a city like a local. The organization
also claims that most of its users are homeowners looking to supplement their incomes by renting out
rooms in their homes or by occasionally renting out their whole homes. According to a statement, most
of the listings on the site are rented out fewer than 50 nights per year.

Despite the carefully crafted messages Airbnb has presented to the public, in 2016 the company came
under intense scrutiny when independent analyses by researchers and journalists revealed something
startling: While some Airbnb hosts did in fact use the services only occasionally, a significant number of
hosts were using the services as though they were hotels. These hosts purchased a large number of
properties and continuously rented them, a practice that affected the availability of affordable housing in
cities and, because these hosts were not officially registered as hoteliers, made it possible for Airbnb
hosts to avoid paying the taxes and abiding by the laws that hotels are subject to.

Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandates that hotels and other public accommodations must not
discriminate based on race, national origin, sex, or religion, and Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968
(also known as the Fair Housing Act [FHA]) prohibits discrimination specifically in housing. However,
Airbnb’s unique structure allows it to circumvent those laws. The company also claims that while it
encourages hosts to comply with local and federal laws, it is absolved from responsibility if any of its
hosts break these laws. In 2017, researcher Ben Edelman conducted a field experiment and found that
Airbnb users looking to rent homes were 16% less likely to have their requests to book accepted if they
had traditionally African American sounding names like Tamika, Darnell, and Rasheed.

These findings, coupled with a viral social media campaign, #AirbnbWhileBlack, in which users claimed
they were denied housing requests based on their race, prompted the state of California’s Department
of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) to file a complaint against the company. In an effort to resolve the complaint, Airbnb reported banning any hosts who were found to have engaged in discriminatory
practices, and they hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and former ACLU official Laura
Murphy to investigate any claims of discrimination within the company.31 In 2016, Airbnb released a
statement outlining changes to company practices and policies to combat discrimination, and while they
initially resisted demands by the DFEH to conduct an audit of their practices, the company eventually
agreed to an audit of roughly 6,000 of the hosts in California who have the highest volume of properties
listed on the site.

Sources: AirBnB Press Room, accessed December 24, 2018, https://press.atairbnb.com/about-us/;
“Airbnb's data shows that Airbnb helps the middle class. But does it?”, The Guardian, accessed December
23, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/27/airbnb-panel-democratic-nationalconvention-
survey ; and Quittner, Jeremy, “Airbnb and Discrimination: Why It’s All So Confusing”,
Fortune, June 23, 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/06/23/airbnb-discrimination-laws/ (Links to an external site.).

Discussion Questions
1. What are some efforts companies in the sharing economy can take before problems of
discrimination threaten to disrupt operations?
2. Should Airbnb be held responsible for discriminatory actions of its hosts?

What are the two pieces of information that must be placarded near a fuel filler opening? Where is that requirement found? Describe at least two ways a fuel quantity indication can be produced in the cockpit. Give the component names as you describe the system.

A huge international oil company is considering its strategy in the Arctic Sea. The UK government has announced that a new drilling site in the Arctic Sea will be offered for sale on a competitive tender basis, the site going to the company making the highest bid. Temporary exploration of the site indicates that, over its life, it can be expected to generate revenue of around £1500 million if the oil reserves turn out to be high, but only £500 million if they turn out to be low. Seismic tests have indicated that the probability of high reserves is 0.60.

If the company is successful in its bid, it will also have to decide whether to construct a new oil rig for the site or to move an existing oil rig which is currently operating at an uneconomic site. The costs of the new rig are around £250 million and for moving the existing rig around £100 million. A new rig would be able to boost production by £150 million if reserve levels turned out to be high. The company has decided that if it is to bid for the site, the maximum bid it can afford at present, because of its cash flow situation, is £750 million. In the past, 70 per cent of the company’s bids for such sites have been successful.

However, the company is also under pressure to refurbish some of its existing rigs for both efficiency and safety reasons. The £750 million could be used for this purpose instead. If the money is used for refurbishment, there is a 50 per cent chance of increasing efficiency to generate a return on the £750 million of 5 per cent, and a 50 per cent chance of generating a return of 10 per cent. If the decision to refurbish takes place after the bid has been made and failed, only £500 million will be available.

(a) Construct a decision tree for this problem.

(b) Using the decision tree, suggest a suitable decision for management.

(c) Determine the value of perfect information about the size of the reserves on the new site.

1 Recruitment and selection are the first components of an HRM system.

A) True

B) False

2 Developing a pool of qualified applicants for a specific job opening is called selection.

A) True

B) False

3 Training tends to be used more often at the higher management levels of the organization, while development is used more often at the lower management levels of the organization.

A) True

B) False

4 Performance appraisal typically takes place before performance feedback.

A) True

B) False

5 Labor unions exist to represent the interests of workers to a company's management.

A) True

B) False

6 Which of the following is a component of an HRM system?

A) Training

B) Performance appraisal

C) Labor relations

D) All of these

7 The set of activities that managers engage in to forecast their current and future HR needs is called:

A) HR planning.

B) job specification.

C) selection.

D) training.

8 A(n) _________ is an experienced manager who provides advice and guidance to a less experienced manager who is called a(n) ________.

A) protégé; mentor

B) RIP; HRM

C) mentor; protégé

D) selector; recipient

9 Trait appraisals assess what a worker ______ , while behavior appraisals assess what a worker ________ .

A) does; is like

B) thinks; acts

C) acts; thinks

D) is like; does

10 When an organization's compensation incentives are compared to those of other organizations in the same industry that employ similar kinds of workers, this is a study of the organization's:

A) cafeteria-style benefit plan.

B) recruitment.

C) pay level.

D) behavior appraisal.

Offer an example of where strategic foresight has made a difference to the way an organization positions itself. What can we learn from the example you offer?

2. Share a significant change you have been involved with. What worked, what didn’t work, and what did the change lead to? (The change you use can have a positive or negative outcome).

Consider the following problem faced by a Dietician:

A diet needs to be created that contains not less than 1713 calories, not more than 52 grams of protein, not less than 18 grams of carbohydrates and not less than 14 grams of fat. Also, the diet should have minimal cost. In addition the diet should include at least 1.9 Units of fish and at least 1cup of milk.

The diet will consist of the six different foods: Bread, Milk, Cheese, Fish, Potato and Yogurt. The following table lists the cost per unit of each item and the number of grams of protein, fat, and carbohydrates per unit as well as the calories that will be supplied by each food unit.

Find a diet that meets the requirements above while keeping the cost at an absolute minimum. Make sure that your Food Units are all Integers.

Minimum Cost =

(Cents) Hint: Min Cost value is between 264 and 282

Number of Units of Each Item … Make sure your answers are INTEGERS


Bread =

Milk=

Cheese=

Potato=

Fish=

Yogurt=