Please be in detail and CITE ALL OUT-SITE SOURCES Compare and contrast the difference between corporate entrepreneurship and strategic entrepreneurship. How does this premise affect the key aspects of social justice and the global community?
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The manager of Alaina's Garden Center must make the annual purchasing plans for rakes, gloves, and other gardening items. One of the items the company stocks is Fast-Grow, a liquid fertilizer. The sales of this item are seasonal, with peaks in the spring, summer, and fall months. Quarterly demand (in cases) for the past two years is as follows:
|
Quarter |
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
|
1 |
35 |
63 |
|
2 |
357 |
478 |
|
3 |
287 |
348 |
|
4 |
233 |
287 |
|
Total |
912 |
1,176 |
If the expected sales for Fast-Grow are
1,224
cases for year 3, use the multiplicative seasonal method to prepare a forecast for each quarter of the year. (Round all intermediate calculations to three decimal places.)
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I would like assistance creating an outline for the following problem statement:
The aviation industry has an impact on the global oil demand that has grown over the decades. At the present moment, liquid hydrocarbon fuels represent the primary form of powering commercial air travel. The expansion of the industry requires that a new approach must be adopted to assist with managing carbon emissions. Development and implementation of biofuels must be accomplished in order to reduce carbon emissions.
Research and development is required to produce advanced aviation biofuels which can utilize agricultural residues and municipal solid waste. These resources are more abundant and less costly than waste oils and animal fats that are typically utilized by HEFA-SPK. Additionally, synthetic fuels produced from renewable electricity, CO2, and water via power-to-liquid processes could offer a sustainable, long-term solution for the aviation industry.
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n 2/3 paragraph explain what are some risks associated with a newly developed mobile application in terms of financial and market risk and what should we do about it?
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GLOBAL STRATEGIES for Tesla
Which of the four global strategies is Tesla using? Is this the best strategy for it to use? Why or why not?
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How do you plan Project Communications? Please explain which factors you value more.
Which project communications tools do you use during Initiation process group and why?
What is Business Intelligence and how is it related to Project Management Communications?
Which project communications tools do you use to plan and develop which project deliverables and why?
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As production supervisor of Sweeny Electronics, Jana was generally well regarded by her subordinates. She was certainly an easy-going person who tried to help her employees in any way she could. For instance, if a worker needed a small loan until payday, she would dig into her own pocket, no questions asked. Should an employee need some time off to attend a personal problem, Jana would not decrease the employee's pay; rather, she would take up the slack herself until the worker returned.
Everything was going smoothly, at least until the last performance appraisal period. Recently, however, one of Jana's workers, Bill, started experiencing a large number of personal issues. His wife was sick and her medical expenses were running high. His son developed a speech impediment and the doctors recommended a special clinic to address it. Bill, having already borrowed the maximum his bank allowed, was now upset and despairing. His solution so far was to accept a side job as part-time courier delivery driver to supplement his income. However, as he explained to Jana, this job meant he would now be often late for his morning shift at Sweeny Electronics.
Jana decided to do as much as possible to help Bill. Although his performance was no more than average, Jana rated him outstanding in every category. Such rating meant that, since the company's compensation system was heavily tied to performance assessments, Bill would now be eligible for a merit increase of 10 percent in addition to the default cost-of-living increase.
During the performance appraisal interview, Jana explained Bill why she was giving him such high rating. Bill acknowledged that his performance was really no better than average. He was very grateful and expressed that his gratitude to Jana. As he left Jana's office, he was excitedly looking forward to telling his work buddies what a wonderful person his boss was. Seeing Bill smile as he left gave Jana a warm feeling.
Q1: From Sweeny Electronics perspective, what difficulties have Jana's appraisal of Bill's performance created ?
Q2: Remember the 'let them know where they stand' framework; how could this framework have guided Bill's performance interview ?
Q3: What performance appraisal methods exist to prevent the problems identified in Q1 from arising ?
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PLEASE PROVIDE A rationale (50–100 words for each question) for each question.
Questions:
(1) How you consider the union budgets, Government regulations and amendmentswhile acquiring long term and short term capital ?
(2) Did you undergo any crisis or troubles in planning financial budget for the next financial year?
(3) What is the financial planning model your organization has chosen?
(4) What are the main weaknesses in the financial planning model you have chosen? what are the main drawbacks you have faced due to the model?
(5) How your company's long-term and short-term goals affects the budgetory planning and corresponding decisions?
(6) Can you explain what measures your company has been taken to control the financial strategies formulated for long-term financial planning?
(7) In what areas did you give emphasis in your next company budget?
(8) What measures your company has been taken to monitor and control the existing financial conditions and for accommodating changes if necessary?
(9) What are the main factors you consider while employing an additional long-term finance if necessary?
(10) Did you ever faced any difficulties from the Government while making your financial plans and strategies? What are they?
(11) How your company's financial planning methodology differ from your competitors?
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What, in your opinion, are the most important issues facing the United states in terms of immigration and assimilation? How are these issues playing out in your community. What are the implications of these issues for the future of the United States?
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The following jobs are waiting to be processed at the same machine center. Jobs are logged as they arrive:
|
Job |
Due Date |
Duration (days) |
|
|
A |
315 |
3 |
|
|
B |
313 |
8 |
|
|
C |
312 |
16 |
|
|
D |
325 |
40 |
|
|
E |
314 |
5 |
|
All dates are specified as manufacturing planning calendar days. Assume that all jobs arrive on day 275.
Assume each job starts at the beginning of the day and finishes at the end of the day (a job that begins on day 275 and takes 8 days will finish on day 282, and the next job begins in the morning of day 283). Compute all times based on initiating work on day 275.
a) Using the FCFS (first come, first served ) decision rule for sequencing the jobs, the order is (assume that jobs came in the order in which they are listed in the table): ___A-B-C-D-E___
*The average tardiness (job lateness) for the sequence developed using the FCFS rule = ______ days (round your response to two decimal places).
*Calculate the percentage utilization for the sequence developed using the FCFS rule = _______ % (round your response to two decimal places).
b) Using the EDD (earliest due date) decision rule for sequencing the jobs, to determine the order of the jobs (to resolve a tie, use the order in which the jobs were received).
*Under the EDD rule, jobs are scheduled in the order in which they are due. Arrange the due dates in ascending order to perform the scheduling: _______
*Calculate the average tardiness (job lateness) for the sequence developed using the EDD rule = _________ days (round your response to two decimal places).
*Calculate the percentage utilization for the sequence developed using the EDD rule = _______ % (round your response to two decimal places).
c) Using the SPT (shortest processing time) decision rule for sequencing the jobs, determine the order of the jobs (to resolve a tie, use the order in which the jobs were received).
*Under the SPT rule, jobs are scheduled based on the ordering of the processing time with the shortest one first. Arrange the processing times in ascending order to perform the scheduling: _____________
*Calculate the average tardiness (job lateness) for the sequence developed using the SPT rule = _______ days (round your response to two decimal places).
*Calculate the percentage utilization for the sequence developed using the SPT rule = ________ % (round your response to two decimal places).
d) Using the LPT (longest processing time) decision rule for sequencing the jobs, determine the order of the jobs (to resolve a tie, use the order in which the jobs were received).
*Under the LPT rule, jobs are scheduled based on the ordering of the processing time with the longest one first. Arrange the processing times in descending order to perform the scheduling: _________
*Calculate the average tardiness (job lateness) for the sequence developed using the LPT rule =_____ days (round your response to two decimal places).
*Calculate the percentage utilization for the sequence developed using the LTP rule = ______ % (round your response to two decimal places).
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Exercise Overview
Interpersonal skills refer to the ability to communicate with, understand, and motivate individuals and groups. Implicit in this definition is the notion that a manager should try to understand important characteristics of the work group(s) being supervised. Diagnostic skills help managers visualize and understand the most appropriate response to a situation. This also relates to assessing how various things are related to one another. This exercise will give you insight into the importance of both interpersonal and diagnostic skills as they relate to managing groups and teams in organizations.
Exercise Background
In other cases managers are promoted, transferred, or reassigned to a different job and take over an existing group or team. At one extreme they may inherit a highly functional and productive group; at the other extreme they may inherit a group that is dysfunctional and that has a lot of internal problems. And, of course, there are many potential possibilities between these two extremes.
Therefore, it is important that managers have the skills needed to carefully assess the current dynamics of a group in order not to create problems where none exists or to solve problems that do exist. The questions that follow focus on different scenarios in which such insights may be needed.
You have been appointed to lead a new team. The purpose of this team is to assess different potential locations for a new warehouse and to make a recommendation back to senior management. Your team has been given 30 days to make a recommendation. What type of team is this?
Management team
Quality circle
Virtual team
Problem-solving team
Work team
You have been appointed to lead an existing group. Your boss, who informed you of the assignment, made these comments: “These people have some real issues. They have been a problem for years. They stick together like family but never seem to get much work done.” Which of these would best describe this group?
High cohesiveness, high performance norms
Low cohesiveness, low performance norms
Low cohesiveness, high performance norms
High cohesiveness, low performance norms
Which of these observations is correct? Check all that apply.
In some cases, managers may want to resolve or eliminate conflict.
Conflict always decreases a team’s performance.
In some cases, managers may want to control conflict.
In some situations, managers may want to stimulate conflict.
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Ryanair company has many management problems, one specific of
them being overloading on the staff & staff losing their
jobs.
1. Can you briefly investigate the specific problem using relevant
management theory?
2. Can you suggest recommendations for solving the problem?
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Why a company would consider going public? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages?Please answer in the form of paragraph, no bullet points or numerical and I will rate. Thank you in advance!
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