Think of the group experiences you have had at work, at home, at school, or in any formal or informal organizational environment. Think of “organizational environment” as simply meaning a group of individuals that get together to pursue a goal. Think of a specific example from those experiences, and see which one of the models of group dynamics best applies to that example.

Choose specifically one from the following theories: the stages of group development, the punctuated-equilibrium model, collective efficacy, cohesion, or social loafing. You can choose an example where the group was highly effective, or an example where the group dynamics became an obstacle to performance.mics

A group of your friends from college are planning to start a clothing line company. They are in the process of writing their vision statement, mission statement, and values statement. They come to you for examples of companies’ statements you feel they could model theirs from.

You offer to give them advice. Write a professional 1-page (300-350 word) email addressing the following areas:

• A company that has an ideal vision statement. Be sure to include the vision statement and explain why you think this exemplifies a vision statement.
• A company that has an ideal mission statement. Be sure to include the mission statement and explain why you think this exemplifies a mission statement.
• Explain how vision, mission and values statements provide direction for everything that happens in an organization. Include an example that is not already discussed in this module of how an organization followed its vision, mission, and values statements to deal with a situation.

QUESTION 2 [9 marks]

The Amalgamated Parcel Service is open 7 days a week. The schedule of requirements is as follows:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

6 3 5 3 7 2 3

Requirements

The Manager needs a workforce schedule that provides each employee with TWO consecutive daysoff per week and minimizes the total amount of slack capacity.

a. Prepare and present a work schedule highlighting the days off.

b. Indicate the total number of workers that the manager needs to schedule. (2 marks

What does it mean to adopt a maturity matching approach to financing assets, including current assets? How would a more aggressive or a more conservative approach differ from the maturity matching approach, and how would each affect expected profits and risk? In general, is one approach better than the others? Use your industry for illustration.

stating why false positive matters to you (i.e., why you need to be careful) when driving a car with AEB system.

Use exponential smoothing with trend adjustment. Consider T₁ = 2, F₁ = 12, α alpha = 0.2 , delta = 0.3

PART (A) What is your forecast for period 3?

Part (B) What is the related MAD for your forecast?

1. What strategy was McDonalds using to set prices in Russia (ethnocentric, polycentric or geocentric pricing)? What are the pros and cons of their approach?
2. Given the economic crisis, what should the company do about its prices? Should they raise them? Why or Why not?
3. Cohon considered whether they should be seeking more creative solutions to bring volume back up “What if we were to take out a bunch of ads on national television and guarantee prices for a certain period of time? For example, what if we were to guarantee that the price of a Big Mac would stay at an advertised rate for the next month?” Is this a good strategy? Why or Why not?

Jedi Industries wants to use a training system that is individualised, including individual performance and a great deal of time and research. Which training system would you recommend for the company and why would you commend this system? (10).

29. DESCRIBE THE PROCESS OF OVERCOMING EMPLOYEES’ RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

1. Giving Advice Where It Doesn’t Belong in Rae and Wong.
2. Respond to the following prompt:
   • What should the intern in the case do, given what seems to be a conflict between the legal requirements of his position and the ethical obligation to the elderly client?

What are the arguments for and against having a neutral point on a scale?

MCParts, an MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) distributor, sources three of its products from three different suppliers in the Atlanta region. These three products serve the same basic function but have varying features, and hence different demand profiles. Demand for the fastest selling product (product 1) is 24,000 units a year, demand for the medium selling product (product 2) is 9,000 units per year, and demand for the slowest moving product (product 3) is 3,000 units per year. Product 1 costs $200 to MCParts to purchase, with a holding cost of 25%; product 2 costs $220 to purchase, with a holding cost of 30%; product 3 costs $250 to purchase, with a holding cost of 40%. Each shipment costs $500 for the truck plus $250 per pickup due to processing and handling. Each truck has a capacity of 1500 of these products.

Currently, MCParts uses full truckload (FTL) transportation to source separately from each supplier, but they are considering two alternatives to reduce inventory costs: i. use optimal lot sizes for each product instead of full truckload shipments,

ii. aggregate sourcing on a single truck, via supplier runs.

A. What is the annual transportation and holding cost of sourcing a full truckload from each supplier in each order?

B. What is the optimal order quantity of each product, sourced separately from each supplier? What is the annual transportation and holding cost of this policy? Comment on why this policy saves from inventory costs when compared to full truckload policy in part (A).

C. What is the optimal order quantity for each product if MCParts aggregates shipments from the three suppliers on every truck that arrives from Atlanta? What is the annual transportation and holding cost of this policy? Comment on why this policy saves from inventory costs when compared to separate shipments policy in part (B).

D. Using the steps described in slides, develop a tailored aggregation policy that does not necessarily pickup all products in every supplier run. Describe the tailored policy and calculate its annual transportation and holding cost. Comment on why this policy was not as effective as the complete aggregation approach in part (C).