Please assist...I choose AFLAC Select a company of your choice, any company but Southwest Airlines, and write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1.Evaluate a company’s recent (with in the last year) actions dealing with risk and uncertainty. 2.Offer advice for improving risk management. 3.Examine an adverse selection problem your company is facing and recommend how it should minimize its negative impact on transactions. 4.Determine the ways your company is dealing with the moral hazard problem and suggest best practices used in the industry to deal with it. 5.Identify a principal-agent problem in your company and evaluate the tools it uses to align incentives and improve profitability. 6.Examine the organizational structure of your company and suggests ways it can be changed to improve the overall profitability. 7.Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: One of your references regarding your should have been published within the last 6 months. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

The documentary Waging a Living follows four low-wage earners as they struggle to make ends meet. Once we have finished watching the documentary, answer the following questions in a 2-3 page paper (which is not a strict requirement).

1. Follow one person's story and summarize it in 2-3 paragraphs, include as much detail as you can. (5 points)

2. What does theory predict will be the main impact of the minimum wage on labor demand and labor supply? Graph this scenario for inelastic and elastic labor demand in a labor market graph. (10 points)

3. How do you see support for proponents of the minimum wage in this person's story? You can use your notes on research from class but must include 2 additional academic sources. (5 points)

4. How do you see support for those against the minimum wage in this person's story? This may be a bit harder since the documentary is biased. You can reference class notes on research but need two additional academic resources. (5 points)

Create a presentation of an ideal performance management system (PMS) that you would implement as the human resources (HR) manager of an organization (fictional or real). Be sure to include information that addresses the following aspects of your PMS: Organizational Strategy including description of the organization’s purpose, vision, mission Systems including defining and measuring results, appraisals, compensation Implementation Factors including communication plan, appeal process Employee Development Considerations Each of the above areas and their subcategories must be addressed. Assume you are presenting the paper to the senior management team of your organization. Your final paper should be 7-8 pages in length (not including the cover and reference pages in your page count). The project should follow academic writing standards and APA style guidelines, citing references as appropriate. It should contain concepts from the course reading materials and textbook, reflect your insight and analysis of the course materials, and use external information, providing an original and thoughtful presentation. Be sure to cite and integrate at least three credible, academic sources.

Explain how we think about the social world, our perception of the world, and how we view ourselves in the social environment. Draw in-depth conclusions about each of the topics.

Then, select and respond one (1) of the following in the discussion forum:

- List the two (2) major types of social cognition. Discuss the differences between them and give an example of each type.

- Explain how culture influences social thinking. Give an example of a culture that has shown to influence social thinking. It can be a personal experience or a general example. Provide a detailed explanation of how do you consider that the culture identified influences social thinking.

- Provide an in-depth explanation of how people use nonverbal cues to understand others. What are some examples of nonverbal cues?

- How do we determine why people do what they do? Provide an example of a time when you performed an academic or professional action to enable your academic or professional success. Were you successful? If not, what could you have done differently?

You are a nonprofit manager and you are preparing for the upcoming fiscal year. You are in charge of leading the budget process for the organization. Briefly describe how you would start to prepare the organization’s budget. What considerations would you need to take into account? Who would you involve in the process? What are the timeline and key activities of the budget process? Once your budget is developed, what steps would you take to ensure the organization is on track to meet its budget?

Preparing a Budget

o Describe the key steps you would take to prepare your nonprofit organization’s budget. Cite at least one academic source to support your response.

o Discuss the considerations that you would need to take into account when preparing the nonprofit organization’s budget. Cite at least one academic source to support your response.

o Describe individuals involved in the budgeting process. o Outline the budgeting process timeline and key activities.

 Ongoing

o Describe the steps you would take to ensure the organization is on track to meet its budget.

In 2002 the Supreme Court ruled that schools could require random drug tests of students participating in competitive after-school activities such as athletics. Does drug testing reduce use of illegal drugs? A study compared two similar high schools in Oregon. Wahtonka High School tested athletes at random, and Warrenton High School did not. In a confidential survey, 7 of 135 athletes at Wahtonka and 27 of 141 athletes at Warrenton said they were using drugs. Regard these athletes as SRSs from the populations of athletes at similar schools with and without drug testing. Do the data give good reason to think that drug use among athletes is lower in schools that test for drugs? Let Group 1 be the schools that test for drugs Let Group 2 be the schools that do not test for drugs

(b) What is the...

...test statistic?  (Use 2 decimal places)
...p-value?  (Use 4 decimal places)

(c) What is your decision?

Reject the null because the p-value is less than α.

Fail to reject the null because the p-value is less than α.   

Reject the null because the p-value is greater than α.

Fail to reject the null because the p-value is greater than α.

Recent studies, as summarized, for example, in E. Mortensen et al. (2002). The association between duration of breastfeeding and adult intelligence. Journal of the American Medical Association , 287 , 2365–2371, suggest that breast-feeding of infants may increase their subsequent cognitive (IQ) development. Both experiments and observational studies are cited.

(a ) What determines whether some of these studies are experiments?

(b) Name at least two potential confounding variables controlled by breastfeeding experiments.

2. Downs & Abwender (2002) evaluated soccer players and swimmers to determine whether routine blows to the head experienced by soccer players produced long-term neurological deficits. Neurological tests were administered to mature soccer players and swimmers, see the following data: Swimmers: 10, 8, 7, 9, 13, 7 Soccer Players: 7, 4, 9, 3, 7, 6

Perform the appropriate test by hand and evaluate if neurological test scores were significantly different between the soccer players and the swimmers.

Between 2002 and 2005, French wine exports to the United States dropped by nearly 18 percent. Some wine experts blamed part of the decline on what they perceived to be a drop in the quality of French wine. Others blamed a shift in U.S. tastes in favor of domestic wines, and others suggested U.S. residents’ unhappiness with the French government’s foreign policies.

Economists offered a different explanation. During 2003, the dollar depreciated by almost 20 percent relative to the euro. Even if the euro price of a bottle of French wine remained the same, U.S. residents would have seen its dollar price rise by nearly 20 percent. The effective increase in the U.S. price of French wines resulted in a decrease in the quantity of French wine demanded by U.S. residents. Thus, French wine exports to the United States decreased.

What do you predict will happen to French wine exports to the United States, other things being equal, if the dollar appreciates considerably in relation to the euro?

Case 1–2: True Religion Jeans: Flash in the Pants or Enduring Brand?

Founded in 2002 by Jeff Lubell, True Religion had become one of the largest premium denim brands in the United States by 2012. Although True Religion made its debut in upscale department stores and trendy boutiques a decade earlier, the company owned 86 full price retail stores and 36 outlet stores in the United States as well as 30 stores in international markets by the end of 2012. The company’s domestic retail store business accounted for about 60% of revenues and 64% of operating profit before unallocated corporate expenses in 2012. Just five years earlier, the U.S. retail store segment generated only 17% of sales and 25% of operating profit before unallocated corporate expenses.

Jeff Lubell’s vision of the company had come true—at least partly. The company had transformed itself from a jeans designer into an apparel retailer with it own brand à la Buckle and Diesel. At the same time, True Religion had managed to shift its product mix so that sportswear accounted for almost 35% of sales in its company-owned stores. Lubell felt these two ingredients were critical to establishing True Religion as a “lifestyle brand.” The ultimate in product differentiation, many companies attempt to create so-called “lifestyle” brands that transcend product category and inspire deep consumer loyalty. Lubell felt becoming a lifestyle brand was the key to insulating True Religion from the inevitable fluctuations in fashion trends.

Moreover, True Religion’s sales had grown at an average annual rate of almost 22% from 2007-2012. The company’s return on invested capital was an impressive 27% and its return on average assets was 12% in 2012. Despite these factors, press articles and analyst reports on True Religion described the company as, “the struggling maker of premium denim.”1 A New York Post article entitled “Escape From Hell for True Religion” described private equity firm, TowerBrook, as the company’s “savior,”2 when the company announced it had been acquired by TowerBrook in 2013. Other denim brands, such as Jeff Rudes’ J Brand, appeared to be usurping True Religion’s position as the “must have” denim brand for young consumers.

What had gone wrong at True Religion? Was the change in ownership the answer to the company’s problems? Was premium denim destined to go the way of Flash Dance legwarmers and Crocs as fast fashion from the likes of H&M became more mainstream? Private equity investors had snapped up stakes in both established and up-and-coming premium denim brands in the past five years—leaving just one publicly traded premium jeans maker, Joe’s Jeans. Should investors stay away from the industry?