4. Identify situations where open-ended questions are more
appropriate than closed-ended questions. Think about the advantage...
4. Identify situations where open-ended questions are more
appropriate than closed-ended questions. Think about the advantage
of using closed-ended questions over open-ended questions?
24. Please identify four (4) weaknesses in the
following scenario (there are more than 4!):
An agent for a large insurance company has a small office in a
rural town. There are only two employees in the office: the agent
and his secretary.
The agent spends all of his time in meeting with customers and
selling insurance products to them. The secretary processes all of
the paperwork connected with the insurance policies, including
processing the collection of premiums and the...
Assignment Details
Think about situations or types of problems where probabilities
are useful.
Describe a specific situation/problem involving
probabilities.
Explain how and why probabilities might be useful in this
situation.
Give a specific example of how probabilities are used in this
situation.
How are probabilities important to decision making in this
situation? If they are not, then discuss why not.
REQUIRED: IDENTIFY THE ACCOUNTS AND ASSERTION[S] FOR EACH
CONDITION (Some situations may affect more than one assertion
class) TWO ACCOUNTS ARE AFFECTED BY EACH CONDITONS. IDENTIFY THEM.
CONDITION AFFECTED ACCOUNT AFFECTED ACCOUNT AFFECTED
ASSERTION[S]
c. Blinder Co. repeatedly overcharges its customers for shipping
(in many cases shipping is free). The company is very slow to
credit customer accounts for the overcharges
. d. Management has arranged to have recorded as property, plant
& equipment purchases that should have been recorded...
What other examples can you think of where most people have more
or less than the average? This is true of most things with a
non-symmetric distribution (e.g., weight, math scores, marathon
times) but it is nice to continue the theme of the video in terms
of risk (e.g., most have below average risk of a automobile
accident, death by violence, or even, say, getting a date).
According to the blog post in Scientific American “More Questions
Than Answers about Whistleblowing,” 82% of whistleblowers who
report corporate fraud face undesirable consequences such as
revenge and reassignment. What barriers do you think prevent
individuals from blowing the whistle? Why are so many actions
unsuccessful? How could you re write policy or law to encourage
transparency and honesty that might encourage individuals to come
forward about corporate illegalities or abuses?
Frank Luntz is more interested in how you feel
about an issue than how you think about an issue.
He believes that persuasion is more effective if you use language
that works on feelings rather than cognition. From a societal
perspective, do you think that marketers have a negative impact on
society if they follow Frank Luntz's advice? Why or why not? Does
your opinion change based on the product being marketed? In other
words, is it fine for marketers...
Think about the clinical environment where you work or one in
which you previously worked. Identify opportunities for waste
reduction. Consider the following: Setting: administrative,
operational, clinical
Efficiency Value to patient During Disaster Preparedness or
Event Management (Such as current SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic)
Suggest process changes to improve the situation.
Part 1: Write a 175-word communication to frontline staff and
nurse leaders explaining your recommendations.
Sociology: conduct
internet research to learn more about any society that you think is
interesting where modernization could threaten traditional ways.
For example, you might want to examine modernization and reindeer
herding society in the Lule Sami border area between Norway and
Sweden. Or, you may find the Wola hunter-gathers of Papua New
Guinea Highlands interesting. Still another society that you might
find interesting is the Taureg agricultural society of the West
African Sahara.
After you do the
online investigation...