Choose a concept or theory from the reading this week and respond to the following:

The Concept is :Social Media and Personal Identity

1. Why did you choose this theory or concept? What is the theory or concept important to you?

2. How does this theory or concept relate to your idea of communication competence?

3. Reflect on any aspect of this theory you find interesting or relevant to your relationships.

In your response, please include an explanation of the theory or concept with a citation. Your response should be a at minimum 2 pages.

El toro grande restaurant advertises that customers will have their orders taken with three minutes of being seated. Management wants to monitor average times, as it is such an important guarantee for business. Construct x? - and s-charts for the data given in the worksheet pro07-05 in the ch07data.xlsx file for this chapter.

a. compute the sample means and the average standard deviation, calculate the control limits, and plot them on control charts.

b. does the process appear to be in statistical control? Why or why not?

c. calculate the process capability statistics, using three minutes as the upper tolerance limit and zero as the lower tolerance limit. What recommendation would you make to management concerning the process, based on your findings?

Case 3

Jacquii LLC

Should a Young Entrepreneur Accept a Potential Investor’s Terms that Require Her to Give Up Control of Her Business?

Jacqui Rosshandler grew up in Australia but was drawn to New York City, where she worked as legal counsel for an interior design company. She put in long hours at her job, but her goal was to one day own a business of her own, just like her father did back in Australia. “If I am going to work this hard, I want to do it for myself,” she recalls thinking. One New Year’s Day, with her mouth feeling less than fresh, Rosshandler recalled Odor-Go, a breath mint sold in Australia that really worked. She had never seen a similar product in the United States and decided to start a company to produce and market one. She realized that the best way to eliminate bad breath was to treat the source of the problem, the stomach, rather than its symptoms, which appear in the mouth, as most breath mints do. Rosshandler decided to launch a company, Jacquii LLC, and began working with a contract manufacturer to develop a unique breath-freshening product. “Parsley has been used for generations to freshen breath,” she says, “but freshening the mouth only, especially after consuming pungent foods, doesn’t get rid of the smell that comes from the stomach. We found that a combination of concentrated peppermint and parsley oils, when dissolved in the stomach, provides this fresh feeling from within. Your breath actually smells good from deep inside, not just superficially from the mouth.”

The result of several months of work was a two-step breath-freshening product that Rosshandler named Eatwhatever to give her product a trendy, fun image. Customers swallow a gel cap filled with an all-natural concentration of peppermint and parsley oils and then pop one of the package’s small white mints into their mouths for instantly fresh breath. Rosshandler came up with a clever tagline, “2 Steps to Kissable Breath,” aimed squarely at her target audience—young people—and hired a package designer to create a clever package. She began marketing her new breath freshener herself, walking boldly into the flagship C.O. Bigelow apothecary store in Manhattan and asking, “Who does the buying here?” She actually met with a buyer and left the store with her first sale. “I had no idea what I was doing,” she recalls with a laugh. A month later, a friend who worked in public relations convinced DailyCandy, a popular Web site that focuses on fashion, food, and fun, to mention Eatwhatever, generating $20,000 in orders on her Web site in just 12 hours. With a distributor’s help, Rosshandler was able to get Eatwhatever in retail stores such as Zitomer, Ricky’s, and Joe Coffee in New York City; Collette in Paris; Terry White Chemists in Sydney; and online at Amazon, Victoria Health, an Shopmasc. Sales volume for the company’s first three years of operation was small, never exceeding $40,000.

Rosshandler had used her own money to create her product and bring it to market, but getting widespread distribution and generating significant sales would require a lot more money than she could invest in her small business. The promising business was about to run out of cash, and Rosshandler was considering shutting it down and getting another job. Then, through her network of contacts, Rosshandler met Arthur Shorin, who had recently sold his business, the Topps Company, which is famous for selling bubble gum packaged with collectible baseball cards. Shorin had extensive knowledge and experience in a similar industry and had an impressive network of contacts. Shorin was impressed with Rosshandler and Eatwhatever and offered to invest a minimum of $250,000 (more if necessary) to propel the company’s growth. There was a catch, however, and it was a big one. In return for his investment, Shorin would own 75 percent of Jacquii LLC leaving Rosshandler with minority ownership of just 25 percent. He also offered terms that would allow her to regain 15 percent of the company, bringing her total ownership to 40 percent, if Eatwhatever met certain financial and performance benchmarks. The offer also included a job for Rosshandler at Artuitive, Shorin’s business incubator for start-up companies.

Rosshandler talked to several friends about the deal, and they advised her to reject Shorin’s offer, citing what one friend called “draconian terms”; even if the company met the performance benchmarks, she would still own just 40 percent of what was once “her company.” Another pointed out that by giving up 75 percent of her company for an investment of $250,000, she was saying that her company was worth just $333,333 ($250,000 ÷ 75%). Rosshandler listened to her friends’ advice but kept thinking, “Isn’t owning 25 percent of something better than owning 100 percent of nothing?”

1.What other potential sources of financing for Jacquii LLC do you recommend Rosshandler explore? Explain.

2.What are the advantages and the disadvantages of using equity capital and debt capital to finance a small business’s growth?

3. What steps could Rosshandler have taken to avoid her company’s cash flow problem?

4. Should Jacqui Rosshandler accept the investment offer from Arthur Shorin? Explain.

Write a 1-2 page paper detailing the above questions, and be sure to cite your references.

San Jose State University has experienced many different types of assaults and attacks over the recent years. Protecting students on campus day and night should be the main concern of the university. Risky Business believes that this is due to the poor lighting on campus to ensure that students feel safe. We believe that motion activated lighting on campus and in the parking garages will deter potential threats. Our project will dive into the scope baseline, project cost, and critical path.

Please provide who are the stakeholders in the above project plan and write 2 paragraph on how we will communicate with them in upgrading the lighting on campus and parking garage.

Don't simply list the strategies. You need to relate them to your project scenario. For example, if you say you plan to meet your stakeholders for communicating project status. You may explain how often you will meet, and what kind of info you plan to report as your milestone at monthly or quarterly meetings.

Please dont copy from internet

Required words: 1200

UAE Labor Law

Question: Write report on the duties and obligation of the parties in a contract of employment and evaluate the legal remedies to an employment dispute.

M. Cotteleer Electronics supplies microcomputer circuitry to a company that incorporates microprocessors into refrigerators and other home appliances. One of the components has an annual demand of 250 units, and this is constant throughout the year. Carrying cost is estimated to be $1 per unit per year, and the ordering (setup) cost is $20 per order.

a) To minimize cost, how many units should be ordered each time an order is placed?

b) How many orders per year are needed with the optimal policy?

c) What is the average inventory if costs are minimized?

d) Suppose that the ordering (setup) cost is not $20, and Cotteleer has been ordering 150 units each time an order is placed. For this order policy (of Q=150) to be optimal, determine what the ordering (setup) cost would have to be.

Task forces and communities of practice is effective? Quote examples each of those.

There is a trauma from moving operations to a global supply chain and you must not put your supply chain in the hands of amateurs. Why is this statement important to a Global Supply Chain?

The same organizations that contacted our consulting firm with questions regarding leaders now have another question. Their leaders are not just concerned about the accuracy of their decisions when deciding among autocratic, consultative, facilitative and delegative styles. They’re also concerned about the efficient use of time. Write a memo describing which types of leadership styles should be used when. What guidelines should leaders employ when deciding which style to employ?

Suppose that you are using the? four-period weighted moving average forecasting method to forecast sales and you know that sales will be decreasing every period for the foreseeable future. What of the following would be the best set of weights to use? (listed in order from the most recent period to four periods? ago, respectively)?

A.0.00, 0.00,? 0.00, 1.00

B.?0.25, 0.25,? 0.25, 0.25

C.?1.00, 0.00,? 0.00, 0.00

D.0.10, 0.20,? 0.30, 0.40

E. ?0.40, 0.30,? 0.20, 0.10

Please IRAC format to answer the following:

Maggie responded to an advertisement placed by Dr. Williams, a doctor, seeking a nurse. After an interview, Dr. Williams offered Maggie the job and said he would either: (1) pay her $150,000 per year; or (2) pay her $120,000 per year and agree to convey to her a parcel of land, worth about $50,000, if she would agree to work for him for three consecutive years. Maggie accepted the offer and said, "I'd like to go with the second option, but I would like a commitment for an additional three years after the first three." Dr. Williams said, "Good, I'd like you to start next week."

After Maggie started work, Dr. Williams handed her a letter he had signed which stated only that she had agreed to work as his nurse at a salary of $120,000 per year.

After Maggie had worked for two years and nine months, Dr. Williams decided that he would sell the parcel of land and not convey it to her. Even though he had always been satisfied with her work, he fired her.

What rights does Maggie have and what damages might she obtain as to employment and the parcel of land? Discuss.

As a marketing consultant, construct a business report for an organisation of your choice, covering the following five aspects of Marketing Management:

1: With the use of appropriate marketing models and concepts, critically examine the current market position of one of your chosen organization’s products.

2. In light of the above findings, state and justify THREE marketing objectives that your chosen organization should pursue for this product over the next three-year period.

3: Identify three target segments, and demonstrate how your chosen company will develop loyalty with those consumers over the strategic three-year horizon.

4: How would you use the Marketing Mix and other marketing tools to position your brand in a competitive industry?

5: In the Annexure to the report, you must outline the key areas of study and research you have undertaken and then specify the literature and other evidence sources you have used to complete the requirements of this assignment.

Mechelle Vinson worked at Meritor Savings Bank, initially as a teller-trainee, but was later promoted to teller, head teller, and assistant branch manager, admittedly based upon merit. Sidney Taylor was the bank branch manager and the person who hired Vinson. Vinson alleged that in the begin- ning Taylor was “fatherly” toward her and made no sexual advances, but eventually he asked her to go out to dinner. During the course of the meal Taylor suggested that he and Vinson go to a motel to have sexual relations. At first she refused, but out of what she described as fear of losing her job, she eventually agreed. Taylor thereafter made repeated demands upon Vinson for sexual activity, usually at the branch, both during and after business hours. She estimated that over the next several years she had intercourse with him some 40 or 50 times. In addition, she testified that Taylor fondled her in front of other employees, followed her into the women’s restroom when she went there alone, exposed himself to her, and even forcibly raped her on several occasions. These activities ceased in 1977 when Vinson started going with a steady boyfriend.

Courts have applied Title VII protection to racial ha- rassment and nothing in Title VII suggests that a hostile environment based on discriminatory sexual harassment should not be likewise prohibited. The Guidelines thus appropriately drew from, and were fully consistent with, the existing case law.
Of course, not all workplace conduct that may be de- scribed as “harassment” affects a “term, condition, or privi- lege” of employment within the meaning of Title VII. For instance, mere utterance of an ethnic or racial epithet which engenders offensive feelings in an employee would not af- fect the condition of employment to a sufficiently signifi- cant degree to create an abusive working environment. For sexual harassment to be actionable, it must be sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment. Vinson’s allegations in this case—which include not only pervasive harassment, but also criminal conduct of the most serious nature—are plainly sufficient to state a claim for hostile environment sexual harassment.
The District Court’s conclusion that no actionable ha- rassment occurred might have rested on its earlier finding that if Vinson and Taylor had engaged in intimate or sexual relations, that relationship was a voluntary one. But the fact that sex-related conduct was “voluntary” in the sense that the complainant was not forced to participate against her will, is not a defense to a sexual harassment suit brought under Title VII. The gravamen of any sexual harassment claim is the alleged sexual advances were “unwelcome.” While the question whether particular conduct was indeed unwelcome presents difficult problems of proof and turns largely on credibility determinations committed to the trier of fact, the District Court in this case erroneously focused
on the “voluntariness” of Vinson’s participation in the claimed sexual episodes. The correct inquiry is whether Vinson, by her conduct, indicated that the alleged sexual advances were unwelcome, not whether her participation in sexual intercourse was voluntary.
The district court admitted into evidence testimony about Vinson’s “dress and personal fantasies.” The court of appeals stated that testimony had no place in the litigation, on the basis that Vinson’s voluntariness in submitting to Taylor’s advances was immaterial to her sexual harassment claim. While “voluntariness” in the sense of consent is not a defense to such a claim, it does not follow that a complain- ant’s sexually provocative speech or dress is irrelevant as a matter of law in determining whether she found particular sexual advances welcome. To the contrary, such evidence is obviously relevant. The EEOC Guidelines emphasize that the trier of fact must determine the existence of sexual ha- rassment in light of “the record as a whole” and the “totality of circumstances,” such as the nature of the sexual advances and the context in which the alleged incidents occurred.
In sum we hold that a claim of “hostile environment” sexual harassment gender discrimination is actionable under Title VII. AFFIRMED.
Case Questions
1. As a manager, what would you have done if Vinson had come to you with her story?
2.   Under the circumstances, should it matter that Vinson “voluntarily” had sex with Taylor? That she received her regular promotions? Explain.
3. As a manager, how would you determine who to believe?

What are some of the future challenges for SHRM. What strategies would you suggest to address some of these challenges?

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.

Can Brazil become a global competitor in the information technology outsourcing business?