. Dell is widely used as an ethical company and has recently committed itself to becoming a more environmentally sustainable business. After reviewing the Corporate Social Responsibility section of Dell’s website, prepare a list of 10 specific policies and programs that help the company bring about social and environmental change while still innovative and profitable.
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Your cat's summer kitty-cottage needs a new roof. You feel a 15-year analysis period is in line with your cat's remaining lives. (there is no salvage value for old roofs.)
Thatch Slate
First cost $200 $350
Annual upkeep 50 20
Service life, in years 3 5
A. Graph the EUAC or EUAW for the alternatives. Construct a choice table for interest rates from 0% to 100%.
B. Which roof should you choose if your MARR is 12%? What is the actual value of the IRR on the incremental cost?
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3) How do your values factor into the type of job or career you pursue?
4) Do you take into consideration the culture of an organization when deciding to work there?
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Does it make good strategic sense for VR to compete in all of its current segments? Which of its product lines do you think is/are most important to VR’s future growth and profitability? Should one or more of these current segments be discontinued? Why?
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True or false
For inventory management, we could use deterministic models if the demand is uncertain, but can be described by a probability distribution.
With Normally distributed demand, there is a 50% chance that the lead time demand is higher than expected.
With inventory management, the concern for capacity planning is to find bottlenecks in the operations around stocks, and making sure that this does not constrain broader operations.
Master schedules expand the aggregate plans to give more details of the weekly activities of the production schedule.
Under agile strategy, every operation with the least possible resource –space, people, stock, equipment, time, money, etc
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Summarize the difference between individual ethics and organizational ethics. What do you think is the source of each type of ethics?
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Promotion is the most important element of the financial services marketing mix.’
Discuss this statement using examples of the promotional mix to illustrate your answer.
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b) How can the Banks and the Hospitals carry out effective job
rotation to make their
employees/nurses more enhanced in their jobs? ( 10 marks)
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Your Leadership to plan and develop processes for global human resources functioning: Explain, understand, contrast and utilize best practices within the organization's domestic and global HR markets. Based on what we have studied in this course, apply HR solutions to the global market for improved functioning and outcomes to ensure mission and vision are achieved. Discuss world issues, laws, trends, and international business that may impact the effective human resources global strategy you have developed and plan to implement.
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Definition of control during strategic application
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Write down on-the-job training methods and non-business training methods as items
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We are in the middle of a historic crisis - a global pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus. A lot of the issues right at the moment are intimately connected to Operations Management and Supply Chains. Issues that are literally life and death, economic recession, and stability.
Suppose you are an operation and supply chain manager given the following objective: What is the operations problem with Cov19 testing in the United States? What would you propose to solve this problem? (Please make this proposal into a format suitable for a professional presentation.)
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How can you decide whether an organisation is more convergent or divergent in its strategy?
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Assuming they are awarded ethically and within the law, stock options are often touted as the perfect “alignment” mechanism for management incentives.
a) Why is that?
b) In the case of a multi-division corporation, sometimes “phantom stock” or options of phantom stock, will be issued in order to create a tangible measure of the performance of a specific division of the company. If you were trying to set a value for the phantom stock, how might you do it?
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What is wirrgenstein trying to say in philosophical investigations saying about "consciousness"
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