Kowloon Bank (KB) was established by a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong in 1962, with 26 branches across the city today. As a local bank, the management always wants to maintain the status quo. Just like many other local companies, KB has a masculine culture in which productivity is preferred to employees’ quality of life. In other words, assertiveness, achievements and power are valued within KB.

Catherine Chung is the human resources manager, and has been with KB for more than 5 years. Catherine is open-minded and has an emphasis on the importance of work-life balance, and she believes that employee satisfaction is a prerequisite for the attainment of organizational goals. In this regard, she plans to send an email to all staff members to inform them of a revised policy on maternity leave after she successfully persuaded her superior to make the change.

Before the review, only female employees were entitled to maternity leave. In the revised policy, it extends to all male employees with KB, which is a significant step towards a caring workplace. In the email, Catherine needs to highlight the reason for the change and key features of the revised policy, e.g. eligibility.

Imagine that you are Catherine Chung, and then handle the following two parts:

Part A (5%)

With reference to the information provided, decide the message tone required in the email to all the staff members of SB and justify your answer in no more than 100 words.

Part B (45%)

Write the email to all staff members in a full email format. You need to invent further details to

make the email sufficiently informative and logical. Remember that you will gain no marks by merely copying wording from the question into your answer, and that the letter should not exceed 350 words.

1. Rockbottom Sand and Gravel Company has contracts to deliver the following amounts of broken rock to six customers:

Customer                                 A          B          C          D          E          F

Contracted amount (tons)         1          2          6          2          3          4

Rockbottom has five trucks that may be used to make these deliveries. With the use of dividers, a truck can deliver to multiple customers, as long as it does not exceed the truck’s capacity. However, a customer’s order cannot be broken up and delivered by multiple trucks. The available trucks and their capacities are:

Truck #                         1          2          3          4          5

Capacity (tons)              4          8          4          8          6

The costs, in $000s, for each truck to deliver the required load to each customer are:

     Customer

            Truck                A          B          C          D          E          F          

                 1                  17        19        21        20        20        21

                 2                  15        18        20        18        19        23

                 3                  18        19        22        22        21        22

                 4                  15        16        19        18        18        20

                 5                  16        15        20        22        19        20

Develop a linear program to determine the delivery plan that will allow Rockbottom to minimize the cost of fulfilling their contracts.

Your Revolutionary Spirit:

Just like our brothers and sisters who came before us at this university, we too are revolutionaries. We are creating and learning –and struggling - in a new kind of community- an online learning community made for 21st-century living, working, sharing, learning, and at times, even laughing.

We may not be General George Washington’s chief cartographer at age 24, or a multi-talented lawyer, singer, and football player like Paul Robeson, or the first female Judge Advocate General of the US Army like LTG Flora D. Darpino, but we are still revolutionaries in our own right, each and every one of us, and we’re making progress every day in the pursuit of our dreams.

For this final and comprehensive journal reflection, discuss the ways as a student in this class "Organizational Behavior Class", you show your revolutionary spirit. What did you do, say, write, reflect on, and/or study in the text or with your group that helped grow your revolutionary spirit? Link your reflection in a comprehensive assessment of your growth experiences in this class.

- In a post of 500 words. Please use your own words and do not copy from other sources.

Union Density Trends in Canada - Chapter 3

Do you think union density in Canada will decline to the level experienced in the United States? Explain your answer.

Develop Process architecture for a fast food restaurant such MacDonalds. (ignore drive thru)

1. Friedman distinguishes between the two concepts that (a) businesses really do act in ways to maximize profit and (b) businesses have a moral responsibility (or, as he puts it, a social responsibility) to act to maximize profit. How does he defend the latter position? (See both the Friedman and Sandbu readings)
2. From the Sandbu article, Sandbu quotes Adam Smith as saying that we get our dinner from the self-interest of the butcher, baker and brewer. What does he mean by this? How does this observation lead to Adam Smith's concept of the "invisible hand?"

NB: Can I get an email to send both article?

Product innovation includes designing innovative products and getting them to market quickly. In a world where the design, production, and consumption may be on different continents, describe how an ERP system help facilitate product innovation.

The Lifang Wu Corporation manufactures two models of industrial robots, the Alpha 1 and the Beta 2. The firm employs 5 technicians, working 160 hours each per month, on its assembly line. Management insists that full employment (that is, all 160 hours of time) be maintained for each worker during next month’s operations. It requires 20 labor-hours to assemble each Alpha 1 robot and 25 labor-hours to assemble each Beta 2 model. Wu wants to see at least 10 Alpha 1s and at least 15 Beta 2s produced during the production period. Alpha 1s generate a $1,200 profit per unit, and Beta 2s yield $1,800 each.

a. How many Alpha 1's should be produced?                            [ Select ]   

b. How many Beta 2's should be produced?                            [ Select ]   

c. What is the overall profit level?                            [ Select ]

d. If the overall hours were increased by 20, how much would the profit increase?

What are the identified weaknesses in your organization’s Compensation
System? Suggest better models for the company.

Which of the following is typically true of service industries that are not subject to obsolescence?

Global marketing research:

When Swift Inc., an American footwear manufacturer, opened an outlet in Thailand, it discovered that productions costs were much higher in its home country. Consequently, the firm decided to shift its production to Thailand to profit from the lower costs of labor, transportation, and raw material. The benefits gained by the footwear manufacturer can be attributed to which of the following external factors?

In the context of global marketing research, which of the following is a measure that should be most likely examined in order to assess the ability of consumers in a foreign market to buy?

Consider important aspects of a successful business model. In particular, we begin consideration of the essential components of objectives and the strategies to achieve those objectives. After considering the material found in Bygrave, W. D., & Zacharakis, A. (2014). Entrepreneurship (3rd ed.), chapters 4, 5, and 6:

2) How would you build an effective team to implement an appropriate high-volume, low-cost strategy?

The decision to globalize operations is very complex and not without risks. Choose a company that has not yet globalized and answer the following:

• Describe how would you decide if the best option was to expand globally
• Analyze the benefits and risks of globalizing for the company you chose.