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?

The following jobs are waiting to be processed at the same machine center. Jobs are logged as they​ arrive:    

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).

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?

1. Management team

2. Quality circle

3. Virtual team

4. Problem-solving team

5. 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?

1. High cohesiveness, high performance norms

2. Low cohesiveness, low performance norms

3. Low cohesiveness, high performance norms

4. 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.

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?

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!

Organizational structures provide a foundation for the organization in terms of communication, decision making, power distribution, etc. At the end of the day organizations fall into one of three major categories in terms of their formal organizational structure: functional, divisional, matrix. For this assignment, you will utilize the organization you are currently or have worked for to answer the following questions:

1. List an organization in which you have or are currently working.

2. What organizational structure does the organization embody? Justify this answer.

3. Describe the benefits of the organizational structure in terms of your experience in the organization.

4. Describe the drawbacks of the organizational structure in terms of your experience in the organization.

5. Would the organization benefit from a change in structure? Why or why not?

6. How does the organizational structure support the organization's culture? Explain thoroughly.

Green Vehicle​ Inc., manufactures electric cars and small delivery trucks. It has just opened a new factory where the C1 car and the T1 truck can both be manufactured. To make either​ vehicle, processing in the assembly shop and in the paint shop are required. It takes 1/25 of a day and ​1/75 of a day to paint a truck of type T1 and a car of type C1 in the paint​ shop, respectively. It takes 1/45 of a day to assemble either type of vehicle in the assembly shop. A T1 truck and a C1 car yield profits of $325 and $225​, respectively, per vehicle sold.

Formulate the linear program that provides the combination of T1 and C1 that maximizes yield, clearly specifying (a) variables, (b) objective function and (c) constraints.

Design specifications for an arrow are that they each weigh 100 ± 10 grams. The process to make the arrows has a standard deviation of four units.

a. What is the process capability index? Assume that the process is centered with respect to specifications. Round your intermediate and final answers to 4 decimal places (e.g., .12345 would be rounded as .1235, not .1234).

b. Suppose the process average shifts to 92. Calculate the new process capability index. Round your intermediate and final answers to 4 decimal places (e.g., .12345 would be rounded as .1235, not .1234).

c. What is the probability of defective output after the process shift? Round "z" values to 2 decimal places. Round probabilities to 4 decimal places (so a probability of .12345 would be entered as .1235, not .1234 or 12.345% or something else).

On Franco’s first day of work as an entry-level account manager at an advertising firm, he had lunch with three women who also were entry-level account managers at the firm. During lunch, the three women made comments to Franco that they appreciated how “fit” he was and that they were glad to have a male colleague who was “easy on the eyes” and “probably great in the sack.” Franco is very conservative about sexuality and these comments made him feel very uncomfortable. Franco quit his new job immediately after lunch and filed a sexual harassment suit against the advertising firm claiming that he experienced a hostile work environment.

Using the legal rule for determining whether a hostile work environment exists, identify two reasons why Franco is unlikely to win his lawsuit.

OfficeComfort manufactures three ergonomic chair: Basic, Deluxe, Contemporary

It has four departments: Assembly, Finishing, QualityControl, Packaging with number of workers (12, 3, 20, and 2 respectively).

• The company works one shift of 8 hours
• Management has set minimum production numbers for each product in order to maintain staff proficiencies. Each product must make up at least 20% of total production.
• Demand exceeds capacity for all products

For the following specification, identify any requirements which are likely to become obsolete in a period of 2 years:

a - The smart home system

b - The wet well control system

Please explain your ideas.

As part of a discussion of a proposed major restructuring, you point out that major change attempts work best when there is a “burning platform" (i.e. a great sense of urgency to change). Your boss disagrees, saying, “That’s motivating with fear. We need to change before the platform is on fire.” Take a position for or against your boss’s argument.

​Par, Inc., produces a standard golf bag and a deluxe golf bag on a weekly basis. Each golf bag requires time for cutting and dyeing and time for sewing and​ finishing, as shown in the following​ table:

The profits per bag and weekly hours available for cutting and dyeing and for sewing and finishing are as​ follows:

Par​ Inc., will sell whatever quantities it produces of these two products.

a) Find the mix of standard and deluxe golf bags to produce per week that maximizes weekly profit from these activities.

b) What is the value of the profit?