Describe the stages of group development. For each, discuss what questions the individual asks at that stage, and what the leader should do to facilitate it. Provide an example to demonstrate the process.

Thomas Kratzer is the purchasing manager for the headquarters of a large insurance company chain with a central inventory operation. Thomas's fastest-moving inventory item has a demand of 5,800 units per year. The cost of each unit is $98, and the inventory carrying cost is $8 per unit per year. The average ordering cost is $30 per order. It takes about 5 days for an order to arrive, and the demand for 1 week is 116 units. (This is a corporate operation, and the are 250 working days per year.)

A) What is the EOQ?
B) What is the average inventory if the EOQ is used?
C) What is the optimal number of orders per year?
D) What is the optimal number of days in between any two orders?
E) What is the annual cost of ordering and holding inventory?
F) What is the total annual inventory cost, including cost of the 5,800 units?

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

• Read the following examples:
  • A Rolex watch
  • A membership to a fitness club
  • Life insurance
  • A slice of pizza

Determine which level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs each of the items would satisfy.

List them in order of Maslow’s chart.

Of these, which would be least important to a college student and for what reasons?

The impact of service or customer care service quality management on the pharmaceutical organization performance..This is a topic to write a whole chapter on.Also note that your work should be referenced from only year 2015-2020.Any other reference work apart from year mentioned earlier won't be accepted,Reference sources should kindly be noted down.Thank you.Already rated

1. Suppose that you are responsible for running the Facebook page of a local company that you are working for. The following metrics summarize the account information for the past month:

   Total number of likes on the posts = 150

   Total number of comments on the posts = 100

   Total number of shares of the posts = 20

   Total number of posts you made = 10

   Total number of followers of the page = 1000

   Answer the next four questions based on the information provided

   What is the amplification rate?

   	A.	15
   	B.	10
   	C.	27%
   	D.	15%
   	E.	2

1. What is the applause rate?

   	A.	15
   	B.	10
   	C.	2
   	D.	27%
   	E.	15%

1. What is the engagement rate?

   	A.	10
   	B.	2
   	C.	15
   	D.	15%
   	E.	27%

1. What is the conversion rate?

   	A.	2
   	B.	15%
   	C.	10
   	D.	15
   	E.	27%

Discuss what you know on the lean thinking,system and types of waste with giving examples .

You answer needs to be at least 8 lines and in paragraphs

Comparison of demographics between US and Philipines
United States Team's Assigned Country Age distribution - including average age, birth rate and graph of population growth Income:

The Philippines and compare to united states-Marriage: civil or religious? Chosen or arranged? Divorce rate? Marriage customs (clothing, costs, celebrations)? Same sex marriages legal? 10. Shopping: how often? Where? Local, national or international suppliers? Set price or negotiated?

• Describe the process of managing stakeholder engagement and how to create and use an issue log.

4. Environment Recycling, Inc. must clean up a large automobile tire dump under a state environmental cleanup contract. Some of the activities can be crashed. The tasks, durations (in days), costs, predecessor relationships, the crash times, and costs associated with performing the activities at their original (normal) times and for the crash times are shown as follows:

a. Find the total project completion time. (Show all work including finding the critical path).

b. Find the lowest cost solution if the state wants to complete the project two days early. State which activities need to be crashed and calculate the crashing cost for the total project.

Discuss what is involved in directing and managing project work as part of project integration management, including the importance of producing promised deliverables, implementing solutions to issues, evaluating work performance data, and requesting changes to a project

Topic- exercising 4 times a week

The conclusion should include (1) which consumer behavior topics gave you the most insight into your behavior and why, (2) what results did you see in changing your behavior these past 3 months and (3) based on what you have learned, how you might get better results (specific changes in behavior and attitudes) by doing something different than you attempted.

As F. Nicholas Jacobs toured the Windber Medical Center facility, he was dismayed by the industrial pink-painted walls, the circa 1970 furniture, and the snow leaking through the windows of the conference room. Employees earned 30 percent less than their counterparts in the area, and turnover was steep. As Windber's newest president, Jacobs knew he was the facility's last hope, if he couldn't successfully turn around the aging facility, it would mean closing the doors forever.

Coming to Windber Medical Center in 1997, Jacobs was keenly aware that the hospital could be the next in a series of small hospitals that had fallen victim to a struggling economy. Determined to see that not happen, he began by making connections with the employees of the hospital and the community at large. Jacobs's first step was to interview the employees to find out firsthand what they wanted for the Windber community and the medical center. He also looked to members of local community groups like the local library, the Agency on Aging, and local politicians and asked these groups what they wanted from their local medical facility. When Jacobs realized that people of over 80 years of age made up a larger percentage of the population in Windber, Pennsylvania, than in all of Dade County, Florida, he made it a priority to provide more options to seniors for improving their health and quality of life. He set forth a vision of a medical center that was more of a community center, a center that would allow members of the community to exercise in a state-of-the-art facility while having access to professionals to answer health related questions. Jacobs realized that keeping people in the community both physically and mentally healthy also meant keeping the hospital financially healthy. He made the center's new preventive care philosophy clear to the public: "Work out at our hospital so you can stay out of our hospital."

Jacobs's efforts have paid off in an era when small hospitals are closing left and right, Windber Medical Center is thriving. Under Jacobs's leadership, Windber has established an affiliation with the Planetree treatment system, which integrates meditation, massage, music, and other holistic methods into traditional healthcare. Windber's wellness center, which offers fitness training, yoga, and acupuncture, among other treatments, opened in January 2000 and now generates over $500,000 annually. Gone are the pink walls and dated furniture, replaced with fountains, plants, and modern artwork. Jacobs recruited a former hotel manager to oversee food service. And despite the dismissal of about 32 employees (those used to a more traditional hospital setting had a tough time in the new environment), the staff has nearly doubled to 450 employees, and pay has improved. Windber has raised more than $50 million in public and private funding and has forged research partnerships with the Walter Reed Army Health System and the University of Pittsburgh, among others. The Windber Research Institute, Windber's heart disease reversal program, has treated about 250 patients.

Please explain in as much detail as possible each of your answers, explain your reasoning.

QUESTIONS:

Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Theory

1. Given the information that you have, what do you think was the level of follower readiness (willingness and ability) overall of the hospital employees? What behaviors should Jacob engage in, given the followers’ readiness?

2. In you assessment did Jacob’s engage in such behaviors? Explain

Fielder’s Contingency Theory

3. Using Fielder’s Contingency Theory, which octant do you think the situation at the hospital falls into at the beginning of Jacob’s tenure? Which would be the most appropriate leadership style for this situation (Task motivated-Low LPC, or Relationship motivated-high LPC)?

4. Jacob’s scored high LPC-Relationship motivated, is this the appropriate style for your assessment of the situation? What situational factors, if any, could be changed to make the situation more favorable to Jacob’s leadership style?