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There are five different types of control methods that managers can utilize to maintain control. These are bureaucratic, concertive, objective, normative and self-control (self-management).
Please compare and contrast the different types of control methods.
Please describe which method you think is the most effective and which one is the least effective.
Which method would you prefer to use as a manager? Does this differ from which method you would like to work under as an employee?
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Engineering Ethics Course
Assignment: Risk, Safety, and Accidents
1. State one design criterion that should be met in order to ensure a safe design.
2. Describe the following accident types:
a. Procedural
b. Engineered
c. Systemic
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Suppose you have been given responsibility for developing the six-month aggregate production plan at Soda Galore, a manufacturer of soft drinks. Your company makes three types of soft drinks: regular, diet, and super-caffeinated. Fortunately, all three types are made using the same production process, and the costs related to switching between the three types are so minimal that they can be ignored. Thus, you can treat your problem as an aggregate planning exercise where the planning unit is cases of soft drinks, regardless of what types of drinks they are.
| January | 16,000 cases |
| February | 24,000 cases |
| March | 32,000 cases |
| April | 32,000 cases |
| May | 60,000 cases |
| June | 88,000 cases |
| Total Demand | 252,000 cases |
| Average Monthly demand | 42,000 cases |
| Current workforce | 10 workers |
| Average monthly output per workder | 2000 cases per month |
| Inventory holding cost | $0.30 cases per month |
| Regular wage rate | $36 per hour |
| Regular production hours/month/worker | 100 hours |
| Overtime wage rate | $54 per hour |
| Hiring cost | $1000 per worker |
| Firing cost | $1500 per worker |
| Subcontracting cost | $2.90 per cases |
| Beginning inventory | 7000 (all safety stock) |
Assume that employees negotiate an increase in the regular production wage rate to $40 per hour and $60 per hour for overtime. Also assume that Soda Galore always plans to hold at least 7,000 cases of safety stock to meet unanticipated customer demand. Assume that hiring and layoff/firing, if necessary, occur at the beginning of the month.
a) Determine the cost of the level production plan.
b)Determine the cost of the chase production plan.
| Total cost is workforce size adjusted | ??? |
| Total cost if overtime production used | ??? |
| Total cost if subtracting used | ??? |
c)After much internal discussion, the company decides to maintain a permanent workforce of 10 production workers. Given the same planning information and this new requirement, develop a six-month production plan based on hybrid production. Determine the cost of the hybrid production plan. Use the overtime cost.
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A retired auto mechanic hopes to open a rustproofing shop. Customers would be local new-car dealers. Two locations are being considered, one in the center of the city and one on the outskirts. The central city location would involve fixed monthly costs of $6,940 and labor, materials, and transportation costs of $30 per car. The outside location would have fixed monthly costs of $4,500 and labor, materials, and transportation costs of $40 per car. Dealer price at either location will be $90 per car. a. Which location will yield the greatest profit if monthly demand is (1) 200 cars? (2) 300 cars? 200 cars: yields the greatest profit. 300 cars: yields the greatest profit. b. At what volume of output will the two sites yield the same monthly profit? Volume of output cars
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Consider the following
What are the components of total compensation?
Are no compensation rewards more attractive than compensation rewards?
How is a compensation structure designed?
What determines pay satisfaction?
What happens when a worker is dissatisfied with their pay?
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(1) How do you take a brand global?
(2) What new markets has Lenovo entered?
(3) Why do businesses need to move at the speed of light?
(4) Why do brands need to be designed for mecosystems?
(5) Visit the Lenovo webpage. Do you believe they are a global leader in their field? Why or why not? Defend your answer with facts.
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What analyses should be done to determine the training needed for an organization then what are the next steps afterwards?
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Explain the fundamental concept of supplies chain management and illustrates critical of the process
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Provide the relationship between the scheduling and project management in illustrates its uniqueness
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1.Why is planning and Forecasting a global workforce so difficult?
2.Why are so many countries bothered by their “brain drains “?
Please respond to questions 1,2 and 3.
1.If you are given the opportunity in your next job to go on an extended foreign assignment, what types of support programs would you expect or ask for?
2.If you ever have the responsibility to select an associate for a foreign assignment, how would you go about doing that and what characteristics would you look for to ensure success?
3.What do you think is the most significant challenge for IHRM in managing international assignees? Why?
Please write not less than 500 words and also give two references.
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Explain net profit and net profit margin. How can you measure them? Why are these indicators important? Explain and give specific examples.
Please help me with this question?
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What can I include in terms of employee perspective after there is oil spill from train derailment affecting the environment?
Use ethical theory concepts (within 200 words)
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QUESTION THREE
This is a recall level type question that require you identify the various business tools available for decision- making.
ESSAY-TYPE QUESTION
How do business intelligence and business analytics support decision-making?
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How has the organizational behavioral approach influenced current management techniques?
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