After identifying one's leadership values (Accountability, Caring, Compassion, Collaboration, Compassion, Collaboration, Proactivity, Innovation, Loyalty, Relationships, Reliability, Teamwork). Explain how identifying these values affect one's leadership brand that produces the right result as a leader, develops strong connections with others, and inhibits negative impacts from derailing one's relationships?

Problem 1

a.) Is everybody made worse off by an increase in interest rate?

b.) Can you think of any financial innovation in the past ten years that has affected you personally? Has it made you better off or worse off? Why?

c.) What effect might a fall in stock prices have on business investment?

1. Given a concave production function showing output per worker on the vertical axis and capital equipment per worker on the horizontal axis as shown below

           What would be the effect, on the production function, of technological innovation that improves the capital equipment available to the workers? Briefly comment on the implications of such technological innovations for continued improvements in living standards in the long-run?

1. You are a manager in a Retail apparel firm operating in six cities in GCC area. You have been thinking of expanding your business to other countries. Identify one country where you want to expand your business and discuss the changes that you would like to have focusing on creativity and innovation in the newly identified location.

An external factor that has had a great impact on our workforce is the need to consider diversity and inclusion. We must ensure that we maximise the potential of all employees. Explore how we can enhance productivity and increase innovation while considering employee wellbeing. Address the challenges of bias and prejudice on achieving the most effective outcomes.

0. 1. A total of 10000 hours was spent inspecting 400,000 lines of code with the result that 6000 potential defects were prevented. Assume that a programmer cost $55/hour.  
1. What is the total cost of preventing 6000 defects?
2. What is the cost of preventing one defect?
   2. Suppose that there had been no inspections and three defects per 1000 lines of code escaped into the shipped product. In order to fix a field defect, it cost $30000 per defect.

1. How many defects per 400,000 lines of code will be escaped?
2. What is the overall cost of fixing field defects (derived/computed in part a)?
3. What is the cost relationship between the overall cost calculated in 3.1 and overall cost calculated in 3.2?

Problem ABC is a young starup company. Currently, they do not pay dividends. The first scheduled dividend will be paid at the end of year 3, with amount of $1.50. In the next 4 years, the dividend will grow at 20% every year. After that, it will maintain a sustainable growth rate of 6% forever. The required rate of return is 15%. John hired you as an excel programmer. He asks you to write only one flexible excel program that has all of the following requirements respect to the change of input data: a) The amount of stock price must be shown at “answer section” ( 1 point) b) Please use IF function to develop a fexible model displaying the stock price and dividend for this model.

Are the types of professional jobs held in the computing industry independent of the number of years a person has worked in the industry? Suppose 243 workers are interviewed. Use the results obtained to determine whether type of professional job held in the computer industry is independent of years worked in the industry. Let = .01. Professional Position Years Manager Programmer Operator Systems Analyst 0–3 6 39 11 13 4–8 28 16 23 24 More than 8 42 10 12 19 Round the intermediate values to 2 decimal places. Round your answer to 2 decimal places, the tolerance is +/-0.05. Observed = Position is of number of years of experience.