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Based on the following, Please answer the following, Thanks! Imagine you are a human resources professional...

Based on the following, Please answer the following, Thanks!

Imagine you are a human resources professional working at a prominent global company. There have been recent concerns regarding how the organization has been conducting business in the global market, and it has tasked you with identifying problems and recommending solutions. You will analyze information from the case study Nimble Storage: Scaling Talent Strategy Amidst Hyper-Growth for how the organization’s business practices have aligned with more geocentric perspectives, identifying potential gaps in its current practices. You will then make a series of recommendations directed to leadership for addressing identified gaps and ensuring a successful transition regarding your proposed changes.

Introduction:

The Nimble Storage is a hybrid growing data storage System Company situated in Silicon Valley. The CEO of the company is Suresh Vasudevan, and the Vice President of the HR department is Paul Whitney. The company's purpose of developing the hybrid system, which is used in flash memory (It is a storage memory that leads to rapid access to random data) and hard disk to increase the performance of the company at the competitive prices offered to the customers in order to give the efficient and the flash storage platform.

The case analyzes the past performance of the company and the talented hiring of the personnel by Whitney, where the founder and CEO of the company plan to transfer the storage world into the hybrid storage system and wanted to achieve the goal to make a billion dollar company within three years. For this purpose, Suresh Vasudevan aimed to focus on both short term and long term key people initiative to measure the results. The company decided to launch the new leadership program named "LEAD" for the sustainable future growth of the company and also effects on the people initiatives to go forward in future.

The objective of the case is to make quantitative and qualitative analysis by identifying the issues, providing solutions to the problems, and providing an alternative for the growth and evaluating and choosing the best alternative and provide an implementation plan.

Define the issues/Problem statement:

The company has finished its second full fiscal year of storage on January 31, 2013, which provided the great opportunity for reproducing its core values, reviewed the success over the last years and also the strong personnel who made it possible. The company always aims to deliver the world’s most efficient way of data storage by target the broad range of enterprise applications with the goal of optimizing in many factors such as performance efficiency, capacity efficiency, data protection and dramatic simplicity.

Problems/Issues and its solutions:

In order to stabilize the performance, the company faced many potential problems and issues in producing the product and also HR-related issues faced by Whitney.

The first problem was related to the health of the customers' network that led to the unusual high temperature in the data center. The company is now organizing the data center in order to convince the customers to the belief that will help to solve the range of problems in one single platform.

The second problem was the business team was not effective due to lack of motivation and employee turnover, it as one of the biggest challenge that company was facing in last nine months. So, the business wanted to improve its values by making the business by conducting two ways process with the two-sided as the same coin. It would result in the powerful feedback and result oriented of employees, which will result in employee retention and run the business with the order of framework and program perspective.

The company was facing the hiring issue as they wanted to maintain its culture and status quo, the company needed to change the paid time off/personal time off PTO policy in fifteen days, the company wanted to increase the length of services, and they tested the idea but not preferred by the company. Therefore, the employees wanted a favor, and the company made the PTO flexible and unlimited sick leaves and holidays for employee retention.

Suresh Vasudevan had talked about the cultural openness and transparency in sharing the information to the tons of people via any social website, such as Facebook and Google. The company estimates that the openness will be challenging to measure as the hidden information would be exposed publicly.

Questions;

Based on the following, Please answer the following, Thanks!

Imagine you are a human resources professional working at a prominent global company. There have been recent concerns regarding how the organization has been conducting business in the global market, and it has tasked you with identifying problems and recommending solutions. You will analyze information from the case study Nimble Storage: Scaling Talent Strategy Amidst Hyper-Growth for how the organization’s business practices have aligned with more geocentric perspectives, identifying potential gaps in its current practices. You will then make a series of recommendations directed to leadership for addressing identified gaps and ensuring a successful transition regarding your proposed changes.

Introduction:

The Nimble Storage is a hybrid growing data storage System Company situated in Silicon Valley. The CEO of the company is Suresh Vasudevan, and the Vice President of the HR department is Paul Whitney. The company's purpose of developing the hybrid system, which is used in flash memory (It is a storage memory that leads to rapid access to random data) and hard disk to increase the performance of the company at the competitive prices offered to the customers in order to give the efficient and the flash storage platform.

The case analyzes the past performance of the company and the talented hiring of the personnel by Whitney, where the founder and CEO of the company plan to transfer the storage world into the hybrid storage system and wanted to achieve the goal to make a billion dollar company within three years. For this purpose, Suresh Vasudevan aimed to focus on both short term and long term key people initiative to measure the results. The company decided to launch the new leadership program named "LEAD" for the sustainable future growth of the company and also effects on the people initiatives to go forward in future.

The objective of the case is to make quantitative and qualitative analysis by identifying the issues, providing solutions to the problems, and providing an alternative for the growth and evaluating and choosing the best alternative and provide an implementation plan.

Define the issues/Problem statement:

The company has finished its second full fiscal year of storage on January 31, 2013, which provided the great opportunity for reproducing its core values, reviewed the success over the last years and also the strong personnel who made it possible. The company always aims to deliver the world’s most efficient way of data storage by target the broad range of enterprise applications with the goal of optimizing in many factors such as performance efficiency, capacity efficiency, data protection and dramatic simplicity.

Problems/Issues and its solutions:

In order to stabilize the performance, the company faced many potential problems and issues in producing the product and also HR-related issues faced by Whitney.

The first problem was related to the health of the customers' network that led to the unusual high temperature in the data center. The company is now organizing the data center in order to convince the customers to the belief that will help to solve the range of problems in one single platform.

The second problem was the business team was not effective due to lack of motivation and employee turnover, it as one of the biggest challenge that company was facing in last nine months. So, the business wanted to improve its values by making the business by conducting two ways process with the two-sided as the same coin. It would result in the powerful feedback and result oriented of employees, which will result in employee retention and run the business with the order of framework and program perspective.

The company was facing the hiring issue as they wanted to maintain its culture and status quo, the company needed to change the paid time off/personal time off PTO policy in fifteen days, the company wanted to increase the length of services, and they tested the idea but not preferred by the company. Therefore, the employees wanted a favor, and the company made the PTO flexible and unlimited sick leaves and holidays for employee retention.

Suresh Vasudevan had talked about the cultural openness and transparency in sharing the information to the tons of people via any social website, such as Facebook and Google. The company estimates that the openness will be challenging to measure as the hidden information would be exposed publicly.

Questions;

G. Determine critical success factors for the organization for transitioning from an ethnocentric approach to a geocentric focus and achieving potential gains. What critical success factors must be considered when making such a transition? How do those critical success factors help achieve those potential gains?

H. Analyze global political trends for potential risk events regarding human resource management that the organization might have to consider in the future.

In: Operations Management

A researcher notes that, in a certain country, a disproportionate number of software millionaires were born...

A researcher notes that, in a certain country, a disproportionate number of software millionaires were born around the year 1955. Is this a coincidence, or does birth year matter when gauging whether a software founder will be successful? The researcher investigated this question by analyzing the data shown in the accompanying table.

Decade Total_Births_in_Country_(millions) Number_of_Software_Millionaire_Birthdays Number_ of_CEO_Birthdays_(in_a_random_sample_of_70_companies)
1920 28.365 2 3
1930 24.207 1 2
1940 31.406 11 21
1950 40.619 16 33
1960 38.972 9 7
1970 33.787 4 0

a. Fit a simple linear regression model relating number (y) of software millionaire birthdays in a decade to total number (x) of births in this country. Give the least squares prediction equation.

y^ = _______ +________x (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

b. Practically interpret the estimated y-intercept and slope of the model, part a.

Give a practical interpretation of the estimated y-intercept of the line. Select the correct choice below and, if necessary, fill in the answer box within your choice.

A. For a decade with 0 software millionaire birthdays, the total number of births in this country is estimated be ___ million. (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

B. For a decade with 0 total births in this country, the number of software millionaire birthdays is estimated be ___. (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

C. The y-intercept does not have a practical interpretation.

Give a practical interpretation of the estimated slope of the line. Select the correct choice below and, if necessary, fill in the answer box within your choice.

A. For each additional unit increase in the total number of births in this country, the number of software millionaire birthdays is estimated to decrease by ____ .

(Round to two decimal places as needed.)

B. For each additional unit increase in the total number of births in this country, the number of software millionaire birthdays is estimated to increase by _____.

(Round to two decimal places as needed.)

C. The slope does not have a practical interpretation.

c. Predict the number of software millionaire birthdays that will occur in a decade where the total number of births in this country is 26 million.

   ____________ software millionaire birthdays (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

d. Fit a simple linear regression model relating number (y) of software millionaire birthdays in a decade to number (x) of CEO birthdays. Give the least squares prediction equation.

y^ = _______ + (________)x  (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

e. Practically interpret the estimated y-intercept and slope of the model, part d.

Give a practical interpretation of the estimated y-intercept of the line. Select the correct choice below and, if necessary, fill in the answer box within your choice.

A. For a decade with 0 software millionaire birthdays, the number of CEO birthdays (from a random sample of 70 companies) is estimated be __. (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

B. For a decade with 0 CEO birthdays (from a random sample of 70 companies), the number of software millionaire birthdays is estimated be __. (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

C. The y-intercept does not have a practical interpretation.

Give a practical interpretation of the estimated slope of the line. Select the correct choice below and, if necessary, fill in the answer box within your choice.

A. For each additional unit increase in the number of CEO birthdays, the number of software millionaire birthdays is estimated to increase by __. (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

B. For each additional unit increase in the number of CEO birthdays, the number of software millionaire birthdays is estimated to decrease by __. (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

C. The slope does not have a practical interpretation.

f. Predict the number of software millionaire birthdays that will occur in a decade where the number of CEO birthdays (from a random sample of 70 companies) is 19.

___ software millionaire birthdays (Round to two decimal places as needed.)

In: Statistics and Probability

Sandhill Company sells televisions at an average price of $812 and also offers to each customer...

Sandhill Company sells televisions at an average price of $812 and also offers to each customer a separate 3-year warranty contract for $84 that requires the company to perform periodic services and to replace defective parts. During 2020, the company sold 282 televisions and 212 warranty contracts for cash. It estimates the 3-year warranty costs as $19 for parts and $29 for labor, and accounts for warranties separately. Assume sales occurred on December 31, 2020, and straight-line recognition of warranty revenues occurs. Record any necessary journal entries in 2020. (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.) Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit SHOW LIST OF ACCOUNTS What liability relative to these transactions would appear on the December 31, 2020, balance sheet and how would it be classified? Sandhill Company Balance Sheet (Partial) : $ : $ SHOW LIST OF ACCOUNTS In 2021, Sandhill Company incurred actual costs relative to 2020 television warranty sales of $2,190 for parts and $4,360 for labor. Record any necessary journal entries in 2021 relative to 2020 television warranties. Use "Inventory" account to record the warranty expense. (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.) Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit (To record the warranty revenue earned.) (To record the warranty expense.) SHOW LIST OF ACCOUNTS What amounts relative to the 2020 television warranties would appear on the December 31, 2021, balance sheet and how would they be classified? Sandhill Company Balance Sheet (Partial) : $ : $ SHOW LIST OF ACCOUNTS

In: Accounting

Following is a partially completed balance sheet for Hoeman Inc. at December 31, 2020, together with...

Following is a partially completed balance sheet for Hoeman Inc. at December 31, 2020, together with comparative data for the year ended December 31, 2019. From the statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2020, you determine the following:

  • Net income for the year ended December 31, 2020, was $96,500.
  • Dividends paid during the year ended December 31, 2020, were $66,000.
  • Accounts receivable decreased $12,500 during the year ended December 31, 2020.
  • The cost of new buildings acquired during 2020 was $129,000.
  • No buildings were disposed of during 2020.
  • The land account was not affected by any transactions during the year, but the fair value of the land at December 31, 2020, was $191,000.

Required:

  1. Complete the December 31, 2020, balance sheet. (Hint: Long-term debt is the last number to compute to make the balance sheet balance.)
  2. Prepare a statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2020, using the indirect method.

Prepare a statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2020, using the indirect method. (Amounts to be deducted should be indicated by a minus sign.)

Complete the December 31, 2020, balance sheet. (Hint: Long-term debt is the last number to compute to make the balance sheet balance.)

HOEMAN INC.
Comparative Balance Sheets
At December 31, 2020 and 2019
2020 2019
Assets:
Current assets:
Cash $56,000 $48,500
Accounts receivable 126,500 139,000
Inventory 157,000 176,500
Total current assets $339,500 $364,000
Land 143,500 143,500
Buildings 400,500 271,500
Less: Accumulated depreciation (120,500) (105,500)
Total land & buildings $423,500 $309,500
Total assets $763,000 $673,500
Liabilities:
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $169,000 $189,500
Note payable 157,500 127,000
Total current liabilities $326,500 $316,500
Long-term debt $171,000 $127,000
Stockholders' Equity:
Common stock $52,000 $47,000
Retained earnings 213,500 183,000
Total stockholders' equity $265,500 $230,000
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $763,000 $673,500
HOEMAN INC.
Statement of Cash Flows
For the Year Ended December 31, 2020
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income $96,500
Add (deduct) items not affecting cash:
Depreciation expense
Decrease in accounts receivable
Decrease in inventory
Increase in note payable
Decrease in accounts payable
Net cash provided by operating activities $96,500
Cash flows from investing activities:
Cash paid to acquire new buildings
Net cash used for investing activities $0
Cash flows from financing activities:
Cash received from issuance of long-term debt
Cash received from issuance of common stock
Payment of cash dividends on common stock
Net cash used by financing activities $0
Net increase in cash for the year $96,500
Cash balance, January 1, 2020
Cash balance, December 31, 2020 $96,500

In: Accounting

Question 5 A U.S. company is to sign a contract for 16 million HK dollars (HKD)...

Question 5

A U.S. company is to sign a contract for 16 million HK dollars (HKD) that will be paid shortly in the future. Given the current exchange rate of HKD4.0 per U.S. dollar, this amount is consistent with the company’s target of 4 million U.S. dollars for its services. Assume it is July and that the contract amount will be paid on 30 September. The following September option quotes are available in the market today to help hedge against exchange rate risk: A call option with a strike of HKD4.03 at a premium of HKD0.02 A put option with a strike of HKD4.03 at a premium of HKD0.01 Note that the option premiums are quoted in exchange rate terms. The size of each option contract is for 1,000,000 HKD. The board of directors of the company has requested that you answer the following questions:

a) Which option and position should be used in this hedging strategy? Using min or max notation, what is the payoff and profit function of the preferred option?

)b) How many option contracts should the company buy or sell?

c) What is the cost of this hedging strategy in U.S. dollar terms?

d) Assume it is now September and the contract is paid as expected. What is the net cash flow implication of this contract to the company, assuming the HK dollar either appreciates to HKD3.5 or depreciates to HKD4.5 per U.S. dollar? Show all cash flows (in U.S. dollar terms) as well as the impact of the hedge in calculating the net cash flow for both scenarios.

e) Using an example, name a reason why an arbitrage opportunity could persist in the market?

In: Accounting

Question 5 A U.S. company is to sign a contract for 16 million HK dollars (HKD)...

Question 5

A U.S. company is to sign a contract for 16 million HK dollars (HKD) that will be paid shortly in the future. Given the current exchange rate of HKD4.0 per U.S. dollar, this amount is consistent with the company’s target of 4 million U.S. dollars for its services. Assume it is July and that the contract amount will be paid on 30 September. The following September option quotes are available in the market today to help hedge against exchange rate risk: A call option with a strike of HKD4.03 at a premium of HKD0.02 A put option with a strike of HKD4.03 at a premium of HKD0.01 Note that the option premiums are quoted in exchange rate terms. The size of each option contract is for 1,000,000 HKD. The board of directors of the company has requested that you answer the following questions:

a) Which option and position should be used in this hedging strategy? Using min or max notation, what is the payoff and profit function of the preferred option?

)b) How many option contracts should the company buy or sell?

c) What is the cost of this hedging strategy in U.S. dollar terms?

d) Assume it is now September and the contract is paid as expected. What is the net cash flow implication of this contract to the company, assuming the HK dollar either appreciates to HKD3.5 or depreciates to HKD4.5 per U.S. dollar? Show all cash flows (in U.S. dollar terms) as well as the impact of the hedge in calculating the net cash flow for both scenarios.

e) Using an example, name a reason why an arbitrage opportunity could persist in the market?

In: Finance

How do corporate tax rates in the United States compare to those of other countries around...

How do corporate tax rates in the United States compare to those of other countries around the world? Rates for both corporations and individuals were changed in 2017 after President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. What was the impact of these changes on U.S. corporations? Who has benefited from these changes? What are the potential impacts to corporate taxation as a result of the upcoming 2020 Presidential election? What would you recommend regarding corporate income tax rates?

In: Finance

According to a February 2020 Pew Research Center survey, The Virtues and Downsides of Online Dating,...

According to a February 2020 Pew Research Center survey, The Virtues and Downsides of Online Dating, 30% of U.S. adults say they have used a dating site or app. The percentage is reported as 28% for Hispanics, 31% for blacks and 29% for whites. Sample sizes were reported as 663 for Hispanics, 519 for blacks, and 3,321 for whites.

At a 10% level of significance, does the survey indicate any significant difference in use of dating sites or apps among white, black, and Hispanic adults?

In: Statistics and Probability

Can anyone elaborate on why if current trends continue, China may emerge as the world’s largest...

Can anyone elaborate on why if current trends continue, China may emerge as the world’s largest economy by 2020? Discuss the possible implications for such a development for (a) the world trading system; (b) the world monetary system; (c) the business strategy of today’s European and U.S.-based global corporations; and (d) global commodity prices.

Can you please reference scholarly articles that support why and how? I am trying to understand the specifics on why this is a relevant question at this time.

In: Economics

When calculating the NCI share of equity the step approach is used. Demonstrate the step approach,...

When calculating the NCI share of equity the step approach is used. Demonstrate the step approach, explaining in detail each journal entry, using the following information:

Time Ltd acquired 90% of Out Ltd for $252,000 cash on 1 July 2018. At that date the equity of Out included the following:

       Share Capital          $200 000

       Retained Earnings              80 000

                                   280 000

On 30 June 2020, Out Ltd provided the following information:

Profit after tax               $ 40 000

Retained earnings (1/7/19)       100 000

Dividend paid                    10 000

In: Accounting