As part of a rapidly growing firm located in the US, your CEO has asked you to find out more about US requirements for exporting. Using the following link, Export.Gov, describe what you find about common export documentation. Select at least one of the documents and describe its purpose in greater detail.

What is the relationship between Transportation Resource Planning solutions and ERP solutions? Be sure to cite or include links to your sources.

1. Describe the implications of the threat of transportation disruptions, hazards, and risks as they apply to transportation and explain why they are important from financial and service standpoints?

Comapny is APPLE, Inc

Summarize the company. - Apple (who you are - Software developer) (Team you manage – App management ).

What type of training do your employee needs?

Why do they need training?

Need Analysis info

Determine an instructional scenario where new or revised training is appropriate; where there is an obvious gap between knowledge and performance.

Determine what techniques you will use to gather data to substantiate the instructional need (surveys,questionnaires, interviews, etc).

Develop a needs assessment instrument.

Survey your target population/gather data.

Collect/analyze data.

Write a summary of the needs assessment data that includes the following:

- a description of your target population based on your analysis

- a description of the instructional need your team has uncovered

- a description of the instructional solution your team will create

- three to five instructional outcomes

Nolan Banks is an auditor for the Public Service Commission for the state of Georgia. The PublicService Commission is a government agency responsible for ensuring that utility companies throughout the state manage their operations efficiently so that they can provide quality services to the public at fair prices. Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, and various communities and regions throughout the state have different companies that provide water, power, and phone service. These companies have a monopoly in the areas they serve and, therefore, could take unfair advantage of the public. One of nolan's jobs it to visit the companies and audit their financial records to detect whether or not any abuse is occuring. A major problem Nolan faces in his job is determining whether the expenses reported by the utility companies are reasonable. For example, when he reviews a financial report for a local phone company, he might see cable line maintenance costs of $1,345,948, and he needs to determine if this amount is responsible. This determination is complicated by the fact that the companies differ in size - so he cannot compare the costs of one company directly to another. Similarly, he cannot come up with a simple ratioo to determine costs (such as 2% for the ratio of line maintenance costs to total revenue) because a single ratio might not be appropriate for companies of different sizes.

To help solve this problem, Nolan wants you to build a regression model to estimate what level of line maintenance expense would be expected for companies of different sizes. One measure of size for a phone company is the number of customers it has. Nolan collected the data in the file PhoneService.xlsx representing the numeber of customers and line maintenance of 12 companies he audited in the past year and determined being run in a reasonably efficient manner.

What level of line maintenance expense would be expected for a phone company with 75,000 cutomers according to this new estimated regression function? Show how you arrive at the value.

(Y= b₀+b₁x₁+b₂x^2/1)

Describe the types of transportation challenges that organizations must take into account when considering global sourcing and substantiate your answer with at least two referenced examples

Can you think of a situation in which you were reluctant to delegate authority to someone else? The person may have been an employed subordinate, a friend, a little brother or sister, or perhaps your spouse or child. Why were you unwilling to delegate? One the other hand, can you think of a situation in which authority was delegated to you, and you felt uneasy about your new responsibility or even turned it down?

Using the Internet or other or any other resource, research one of the Supply Chain Management Process Standards (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return and Enable) and then identify and describe one commercial software product that was designed support that process. Be sure to cite or include links to your sources.

Teaming Across Distance and Culture. • What are the major effects of the physical separation of group members? How can distance, in some cases, be beneficial to groups and teams? • What other areas of organizational behavior or design are impacted by information technology, and what are the implications for organizational change? • Brainstorm some ways to “redesign” your office space (or an office space you have previously worked in) on paper using virtual or flexible space, or flexible furniture. How would this redesign enhance successful teamwork? • What are some of the ways that cross-cultural teams are distinguished from other types of teams? What are some of the benefits and difficulties of building a cross-cultural team?

Five challenges related to inventory managment for a global supermarket with thousands of stores.

How does vertical interrogation and diversification impact a company's organizational structure and activity.

CASE Outsourcing specialized operational tasks has become a common practice. When outsourcing involves the transfer of personal information, issues of security and privacy are raised. Customers may consent to the collection of personal data without realizing that their information could be shared with another company located halfway around the world and subject to different disclosure and protection rules. In recognition of international privacy concerns, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) created guidelines to enhance privacy protection during transborder data exchanges. Guideline 10 suggests that personal data should not be used or disclosed without the consent of the owner or authority of law. Canadian outsourcing to the United States has become even more controversial since the enactment of the USA PATRIOT Act.15 This legislation allows US lawenforcement officials to obtain personal records or information from any source in the country without the data owner knowing. As a result, there have been several Canadian challenges of personal data outsourcing to the United States. In B.C.G.E.U. v. British Columbia (Minister of Health), union members argued that the Ministry of Health was violating patients’ rights to privacy under section 7 of the Charter by outsourcing physician billing data that contained personal patient information to a private U.S. company.16 The BC Supreme Court disagreed, holding that as long as the contractual arrangement authorized under the Canada Health Act ensured that a reasonable expectation of privacy was protected, the practice was acceptable. Since then BC., Nova Scotia, and Alberta passed legislation that restricts public (not private) sector trans-border outsourcing.17 The Privacy Commissioner rejected a similar complaint against the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The bank outsourced the processing of credit card transactions to an American company. The specific confidentiality and security contained in the outsourcing agreement were approved by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and this satisfied the Commissioner. Both decisions turned on the specific terms of the outsourcing agreement and prior regulatory approval of the terms. When considering sending sensitive information across the border and outsourcing to American firms, businesses should: • Undertake a security analysis of the American company prior to contracting; • Inform the affected customer data owner; • Include specific confidentiality, security, and reporting provisions in the outsourcing agreement; • Seek regulatory approval of the agreement, if available; and • Regularly audit the privacy practices of the outsourcing company. Increased privacy concerns can be anticipated as the transnational public cloud computing industry replaces user owned software, desks, and laptops as the primary custodians of personal information. “By 2017, enterprise spending on cloud computing will amount to a projected $235.1 billion, triple the $78.2 billion spent in 2011. ….(in 2014) global business spending for infrastructure and services related to the cloud will reach an estimated $174.2 billion, up 20 percent from the amount spent in 2013.”

Question : Are there certain types of information that should remain within Canadian borders? If Canadian data is at greater risk of disclosure when transferred to the United States, why not ban all public and private outsourcing to the United States? Discuss.

Question : How can personal information be protected when stored on a transnational cloud server?

Describe several elements of the supply chain systems. Is it your conviction that the elements you chose do or do not improve efficiencies within the health care environment? Please state why or why not and support your response with two references.

Examples of Design Process and Management Systems in Occupational Health and Safety Management.

CASE A bank embarked on a recruitment campaign of university graduates, and Francis, a recent graduate applied for a position. Francis was interviewed by the bank, and following the interview, the bank offered Francis a position by letter which set out a salary, and a starting date. Francis accepted the position by return mail. A few days after Francis began work for the bank, he was called into the Manager’s office and presented with an employment contract that contained a confidentiality clause, and a proviso that either party could terminate the contract on three month’s notice, or in the case of the bank, payment of three month’s salary and accrued benefits. Francis signed the agreement. Francis worked for the bank for almost fifteen years, moving from the position of trainee through various promotions to the position of Branch Manager of a small branch of the bank. Some month’s later, he had a disagreement with the Regional office of the bank over the quality of certain loans he had made to local businesses, and his employment was terminated. On termination, he was paid three month’s salary and his accrued benefits. A week later, Francis instituted legal proceedings against the bank for wrongful dismissal.

Question : What might be the basis of the claim for wrongful dismissal? What likely response would the bank make to his claim?