An administrator has hypothesized that student major preference within the College of Science differs in the current academic year compared to previous years. Using a sample of undeclared undergraduates, intended majors were recorded and compared to the mean percentages computed from several prior years (see table below). Complete the table, provide the requested information, and perform a chi-square goodness-of-fit test. Use an alpha of .05.
|
Major |
Reported |
Mean % |
Expected |
Chi Square (round to two decimal places) |
|
Biology |
90 |
40 |
||
|
Chemistry |
25 |
15 |
||
|
Environmental Science |
12 |
5 |
||
|
Physics |
19 |
10 |
||
|
Psychology |
54 |
30 |
||
|
N = |
200 |
100 |
χ2obt =
df =
χ2cv =
Concerning the above question, type your results and interpretation in an APA formatted paragraph.
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For Title VII and Sexual Harassment Amendment, you need to include sheets for the following four questions: 1. History/Background.: Why was the Law passed? What was going on in the workplace that required the law to be enacted to protect employees? 2. Components of the law: Research the law and summarize in your words (with in-text citations of the academic sources used) the major elements of the law. Do not cut and paste. 3. Observations on the law. Research the law’s effectiveness? Do you feel it is working or not working and why? 4. Lawsuit: Research a lawsuit that concerned the law you are reviewing. Include the date of the lawsuit, the plaintiffs, defendants, reason the plaintiff/s went to court, and the outcome of the case. It is important that in reading this summary a person understands why the lawsuit was initiated and who won the case.
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For the "Civil Rights Act of 1991" law, you need to include sheets for the following four questions: 1. History/Background.: Why was the Law passed? What was going on in the workplace that required the law to be enacted to protect employees? 2. Components of the law: Research the law and summarize in your words (with in-text citations of the academic sources used) the major elements of the law. Do not cut and paste. 3. Observations on the law. Research the law’s effectiveness? Do you feel it is working or not working and why? 4. Lawsuit: Research a lawsuit that concerned the law you are reviewing. Include the date of the lawsuit, the plaintiffs, defendants, reason the plaintiff/s went to court, and the outcome of the case. It is important that in reading this summary a person understands why the lawsuit was initiated and who won the case.
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Your readings discuss heuristics and cognitive biases which affect our thinking, reasoning, and decision-making processes.
Develop one or two paragraphs that presents a one-sided, simplified argument about some psychological issue. Examples might be a) low self esteem causes bullying, b) parenting/nurture is more important than nature, c) repressed memory/ memory recall claims, d) low self esteem is the cause of low academic success, etc.
How did you use language, wording, and terminology to frame your one-sided argument?
What biases or mental short cuts were used in your explanations?
If you were presented with this argument, how could you refute the biases and suggest a more balanced explanation?
In: Psychology
In: Operations Management
Assignment 2: Project Leadership Roles at TriHealth (Case Study from Chapter 3)
Read the case titled: “Project Leadership Roles at TriHealth” found in Chapter 3. This assignment is about developing a specific project team for TriHealth.
Identify the common roles in a human resource project. Then, analyze these roles to typical human resource functions.
Reorganize any two (2) roles at TriHealth that result in shared responsibilities and then state why you chose those two roles.
Suggest the short-term and long-term effects on the company with roles being shared among employees.
Analyze the need for an additional role. Then, propose a new role and its proposed impact.
Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment.
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Evaluate a company's recent actions (within the last six months) dealing with risk and uncertainty. Offer advice for improving risk management. Examine an adverse selection problem your company is facing and recommend how it should minimize its negative impact on transactions. Determine the ways your company is dealing with the moral hazard problem and suggest best practices used in the industry to deal with it. Identify a principal-agent problem in your company and evaluate the tools it uses to align incentives and improve profitability. Examine the organizational structure of your company and suggest ways it can be changed to improve the overall profitability. Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. One reference must be about the risk and uncertainty the company has faced in the last six months.
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Evaluate a company's recent actions (within the last six months) dealing with risk and uncertainty.
Offer advice for improving risk management.
Examine an adverse selection problem your company is facing and recommend how it should minimize its negative impact on transactions.
Determine the ways your company is dealing with the moral hazard problem and suggest best practices used in the industry to deal with it.
Identify a principal-agent problem in your company and evaluate the tools it uses to align incentives and improve profitability.
Examine the organizational structure of your company and suggest ways it can be changed to improve the overall profitability.
Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. One reference must be about the risk and uncertainty the company has faced in the last six months.
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