What are a few companies that made headlines in recent years for major issues they have faced in terms of their company status, decisions( decision-making over time, profit maximization, cost minimization, long-run adjustments, strategic interaction, etc.)

Then, describe the firm you have identified, including a report concerning what they produce and what market they are in. Provide some analysis of the structure of that market

How have newer media changed the way we study media effects?

Hospital Copy Office

A hospital's copy office receives orders from managers for articles and other materials to be copied for in-house seminars. When the copy office receives an order, an employee reviews the order and sorts it into two groups: one of materials with copyrights and another of materials without copyrights. Two employees then look in the copy office's storeroom to see if any copyright materials remain from a previous seminar in on-hand inventory; what is not already in storage is ordered. Another employee photocopies the handouts that are not copyright-protected. When the photocopying is complete, the copied handouts are stapled. All materials, both with and without copyrights, are then drilled. Finally, two employees inspect the materials for conformance to specifications. This involves checking the photocopies against the manager's order, inspecting the drilled holes, assuring that the proper pages were stapled together in the correct sequence, collating the assembled articles and other handouts, and placing orders for the copyrighted articles that were not already on hand.

Each task must be performed in the sequence given below. The hospital's copy office operates 8 hours per day.

Task	Employees Assigned	Task Time(minutes)
Review order; sort into materials with and without copyrights	1	15
Look in storeroom for copyright material already in on-hand inventory	2	15
Photocopy handouts without copyright	1	30
Staple handouts photocopied in house	1	10
Drill all on-hand materials	1	20
Inspection and placement of orders for unavailable copyrighted materials	2	45

A. What is the minimum possible throughput time of the order completion process in the copy office?

B. What is the cycle time of the order completion process in the copy office?

C. What is the hourly capacity of the order completion process in the copy office?

D. To bring in extra revenue, the hospital's copy office added a new service in 2016 - direct delivery of external customer orders to customers' workplaces (for a fee). The copy office's delivery record for 2016 showed that 65% of their customers received their completed order in 24 hours, another 25% within 36 hours, and another 10% within 45 hours. What was the copy office's average delivery time for 2016?

E. If each and every task in the order completion process at the copy office except "Review order" and "Look in storeroom" averages five percent scrap, what is the overall yield of completed orders?

F. In 2015, the hospital copy office's planned capacity for photocopying was based on 350 days per year of operation. However, copy machine breakdowns caused the copy office five unplanned days of downtime. What was the copy machine utilization in the hospital's copy office in 2015?

ASSIGNMENT

IMHR DILEMMA: WHOM DO YOU SATISFY? EXPATRIATE OR NATIONALS

Hi-Tech Electronics Limited was established in 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It produces and markets all types of electronics goods in most of the Asian and Pacific countries. It has been one among the top five companies as for the level of technology and one among the top three companies regarding marketing of the products in Malaysia. The company’s policy and practices concerning human resource management are top in the country. The company’s salary administration policies and practices were taken as guidelines not only by the other companies but also by various wage boards and pay commissions in the country. But this company has been struggling a lot because of a minor problem relating to administration of salary and benefits. The problem is stated hereunder.

The company employed nearly 400 national young graduate and post graduate engineers and 20 expatriate engineers. This employee forms the cream of the company’s present human resource. The expatriate employees occupied higher position in all the departments including Human Resource Department. The company’s salary policy and benefit policy were formulated mainly on the basis of the expatriate employee’s desire. The base salary of the company is the same for both the expatriate and national employees. But expatriate receive additional allowances like international market allowance, educational allowance, settling-in allowance, car allowance, housing allowance and entertainment allowance. Thus, expatriate receives nearly 250% more salary than the nationals doing the same job.

The national employees demanded the management to pay equally with that of expatriates immediately. According to them, the pocket frustrates them severely.

QUESTIONS:

3. What are the 4 factors affecting standardization of compensation packages for expatriate and nationals’ employees? provide mind map for more proper illustration.

4. Identify 4 challenges the company will face if they did not fulfil the national’s employees demand.

For one of the following companies (UPS, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines, Abbott, Marriott International), what performance measures do you think would be useful in the Internal Processes Perspective of the Balanced Scorecard?

Explain why a viable business model is the foundation of a good business plan and is therefore essential to launching successful business ventures.

Question #1

Do you believe a leader can vary their style (demonstrate directive, supportive, achievement, participative) with respect to different employees? Or does each leader tend to have a personal style that he or she regularly uses toward all employees?

1. Your company wants to create a strategic pricing team to plan the release of their next model of basketball shoes. Allocate decision rights to the team members and describe what they are and are not allowed to do.

2. Why is pricing considered a “negative-sum” game?

What are some of the leading theories about media’s effect on users?

It is commonly argued that complex and sophisticated technologies have created problems for society because they have outstripped the human ability to control them; the naked ape is not able to act responsibly with the god-like powers of advanced technologies. Is this a fair assessment or not, and why?

Discuss is it possible to be fair and ethical in every decision? Why or why not? In general do you believe managers and organizations are in their nature fair and ethical or is fairness and ethicalness byproducts of mandates or its' self interest to avoid the negative consequences of being unfair and unethical? Why or Why not? For example left to an organizations own devices with no mandate: Would organizations look to pay a fair wage or lower wages / less than minimum wage? Would an organization seek to be more diverse? Would an organization be good stewards of the environment? etc.

Explain each of five elements necessary for a disaster plan.

Bhopal, India

The incident investigation should deal with the chemical accident presented below. The case study should include the following components:

a brief introduction of the scene and the accident,

safety and health impacts of the accident,

a statement on the legal aspects of the incident,

an analysis of the key points from a project management perspective about the incident and accident, and

a summary of the article’s conclusions and your own opinions.

The Business Source Complete database within the CSU Online Library is the best source of journals for safety related articles.

The Bhopal Incident:

On 2 December1984, a pesticide factory owned by an American multinational, the Union Carbide Corporation, leaked a large amount of poisonous gas into the air surrounding a small and impoverished town called Bhopal, India. The immediate death toll has been estimated to be around 7,000 people, and the death toll from long-term health problems now stands at 25,000—and a further 25,000 people in the slums around the factory continue to be poisoned by the chemicals that have been left behind.

Conduct a case study on this disaster identifying safety management, safety audits, accident investigation, and industrial hygiene issues.

Requirements:

The project is required to be a minimum of 500 words in length (or a minimum of two pages double-spaced). You should follow APA style and referencing guidelines and choose articles from journals available on the CSU Online Library database. You may also use any website as a resource.

The incident investigation should deal with the chemical accident presented below. The case study should include the following components:

a brief introduction of the scene and the accident,

safety and health impacts of the accident,

a statement on the legal aspects of the incident,

an analysis of the key points from a project management perspective about the incident and accident, and

a summary of the article’s conclusions and your own opinions.

The Bhopal Incident:

On 2 December1984, a pesticide factory owned by an American multinational, the Union Carbide Corporation, leaked a large amount of poisonous gas into the air surrounding a small and impoverished town called Bhopal, India. The immediate death toll has been estimated to be around 7,000 people, and the death toll from long-term health problems now stands at 25,000—and a further 25,000 people in the slums around the factory continue to be poisoned by the chemicals that have been left behind.

Conduct a case study on this disaster identifying safety management, safety audits, accident investigation, and industrial hygiene issues.

Many historical analyses assume technological determinism, but is it not more truthful to say that social invention is more important to historical change than technological invention?

please answer in 500 words.

Discuss one of the challenges involved in staffing operations in emerging markets. (Leave the others for your classmates.) Research and share a real-world example, explaining the issue.