10. How appropriate is it to share personal information with the world?

11. What are the possible barriers for you to share confidential details online personally?

What are some ways that Donald Trump can improve his leadership skills using the three out of 5 following leadership concepts?

-Charismatic Leadership

- Servant Leadership

- The strategic management process

- Transformational leadership

- The five conflict management styles

In total I need to write 2 double spaced pages, so any amount of ideas or thoughts will be appreciated!!

9.15 Bad News to Customers: Selecting Sturdy Stepper for Snap Fitness Gym

(L.O. 1–4)

You are delighted to receive a large order from Lawrence Holder at Snap Fitness Gym. This order includes two Lifecycle Trainers (at $1,295 each), four Pro Abdominal Boards (at $295 each), three Tunturi Muscle Trainers (at $749 each), and three Dual-Action StairClimbers (at $1,545 each).

You could ship immediately except for one problem. The Dual-Action StairClimber is intended for home use, not for gym or club use. Customers like it because they say it is more like scaling a mountain than climbing a flight of stairs. With each step, users exercise their arms to pull or push themselves up. Its special cylinders absorb shock so that no harmful running impact results. However, this model is not what you would recommend for gym use. You feel Mr. Holder should order your premier stair climber, the LifeStep (at $2,395 each). This unit has sturdier construction and is meant for heavy use. Its sophisticated electronics provide a selection of customer-pleasing programs that challenge muscles progressively with a choice of workouts. It also quickly multiplies workout gains with computer-controlled interval training. Electronic monitors inform users of step height, calories burned, elapsed time, upcoming levels, and adherence to fitness goals. For gym use the LifeStep is clearly better than the Dual-Action StairClimber. The bad news is that the LifeStep is considerably more expensive.

You get no response when you try to call Mr. Holder to discuss the problem. Should you ship what you can, or hold the entire order until you learn whether he wants the Dual-Action StairClimber or the LifeStep? Or perhaps you should substitute the LifeStep and send only two of them.

Your Task Decide what to do and write a letter to be faxed to Lawrence Holder, Snap Fitness Gym, 1212 Bahama Drive, Richmond, KY 40475, using either negative or positive news response

For the set of tasks given below, do the following:

b. Determine the minimum and maximum cycle times in seconds for a desired output of 500 units in a seven-hour day. (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.)
  

c. Determine the minimum number of workstations for output of 500 units per day. (Round up your answer to the next whole number.)
  
Minimum number of workstations            

d. Balance the line using the greatest positional weight heuristic. Break ties with the most following tasks heuristic. Use a cycle time of 50 seconds.

e. Calculate the percentage idle time for the line using the 50 second cycle time. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)
  
Percentage of idle time             %

Case Study 2: SAP Eliminates Annual Performance Reviews

he annual performance review is a main feature of HR programs in most companies. Yet, a handful of companies such as Accenture, Adobe, Medtronic, Gap and Microsoft are moving away from the traditional annual performance review and pursuing other methods. SAP is a very successful global company headquartered in Germany. The company provides support for cloud-based management software that enables thousands of clients to deliver performance feedback to millions of employees. While SAP will continue to provide support for performance feedback for other companies, it has decided to eliminate annual performance reviews for its own workers in the United States. SAP’s chief HR officer for Germany, Wolfgang Fassnacht, told Reuters that. “Grading workers did not work. People are open to feedback, also to harsh criticism, until the moment you start giving scores. Then the shutters go down.” This change does not mean that SAP is abandoning all performance feedback, just the annual reviews are slated to go away. The plan is to replace them with regular check-in discussions to provide feedback in real time and foster dialogue that can lead to better performance.

Questions

1. Why do companies conduct annual performance reviews?
2. What are the challenges with conducting annual reviews?
3. What changes do you think would improve the annual review process?
4. What do you think of SAP’s plans? Will they be successful? Why or why not?

Please give 10 conditions to be a successful supervisor. Then, select and explain the 5 most important conditions from the 10 conditions. Why the 5 conditions are such important? How to satisfy the conditions?.

Write paragraphs on each question:

1) Gerrymandering: partisan, incumbent, and the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission. How affects political behavior.

2) What is judicial review, and what are some (in)famous examples of Supreme Court rulings?

f Nokia decided to embrace the change and move from the old slate (Nokia phones in 2005) to the future slate (smartphones similar to apple and Samsung smartphones in 2020), bearing in mind the lesson learned stated in the last page in the case, propose suitable levers throughout Lewin’s three phases of managing change which in your opinion could have saved Nokia from failure. The levers should cover the four organisational subsystems. (at least 2 levers in each subsystem).

Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives: Analyze the impact of organizational structure including cross-border alliances on international human resource management. Describe the issues surrounding expatriate recruitment, selection, training, and development for international assignments. Describe repatriation activities, practices, and issues. Identify the drivers of globalization and localization. Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations. For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective. Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to the professional application.

The local supermarket buys lettuce each day to ensure really fresh produce. Each morning any lettuce that is left from the previous day is sold to a dealer that resells it to farmers who use it to feed their animals. This week the supermarket can buy fresh lettuce for $7.00 a box. The lettuce is sold for $18.00 a box and the dealer that sells old lettuce is willing to pay $2.00 a box. Past history says that tomorrow's demand for lettuce averages 255 boxes with a standard deviation of 40 boxes.

How many boxes of lettuce should the supermarket purchase tomorrow? (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given α-level. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

Research and identify what types of ads are particularly effective in each of these social networking sites, and why: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Give an example for each site

Samsonite generally follows a value-based pricing strategy. Explain the type of value-based pricing strategy Samsonite is using. And briefly explain the different internal and external factors impact marketers pricing decision.

1. Selection methods used for international assignments are probably not much different from the methods used in domestic staffing decisions. However, culture has an impact in terms of how these procedures are applied and in the focus of each procedure.  
   1. True
   2. False
2. Think and act globally means that a global enterprise must think about and prepare for a presence in a favored few select markets, not just its home region.
   1. True
   2. False
3. Repatriating refers to the _________ of bringing the international assignee and family back “home” from the foreign assignment.  

Complete a case analysis of Ford (Case 17) (case study section of your text). A formal, in-depth case analysis requires you to utilize the entire strategic-management process. Assume your group is a consulting team asked by Ford to analyze its external/internal environment and make strategic recommendations. You will be required to make exhibits/matrices to support your analysis and recommendations. The case analysis must encompass 1-2 pages plus the reference page. The cover page must include the company name, your group name, and the date of submission. The completed case must include: Proposed Alternative Strategies and Recommended Strategies for Ford Company!