you are the marketing manager for a start-up company the manufacturers farm tractors. you are planning to wnter the markets in the US, Japan, and India. What promotion strategy would you use for each market and what will your supply chain look like? The product will be manufactured in Mexico woth some components made in the US and China. how would you get the products to the customers?

Our bodies produce heat from the work of keeping us alive. This heat is known as the body temperature, which is continuous and approximately normally distributed. The previous standard for a healthy body temperature was 98.6 F. However, the current average body temperature for a healthy human is 98.2 F, with a population standard deviation of 0.75 F

Single Subject

1. What is the probability of selecting a person who has a healthy body temperature (between 97 F and 100 F)?
2. What is the probability of selecting someone who has a body temperature of at least 100 F?
3. Find and interpret

4. Take your body temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) and state it:

   1. Use your body temperature from above to find your percentile for body temperature.
   2. Interpret the percentile value you found above.

Groups of Subjects

Now, assume that you are creating a sampling distribution of by sampling a group of people.

5. State the expected mean and standard deviation for body temperatures in a group of 5 people.
6. What is the probability of selecting a group of 5 people with an average body temperature below 97 F?
7. What is the probability of selecting a group of 5 people who have a body temperature of at least 98 F?
8. What is the probability of selecting a group of 15 people who have a body temperature of at least 98 F?
9. Describe what happens to the standard deviation of the sampling distribution as group size increases. Include mathematical justification.

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4. Suppose from our class (with 25 students), we find the average GPA is 2.7, with standard deviation
0.4. Regard our class as a random sample from the whole university. Based on the information from our
class, can we believe at significance level 0.05, that the average GPA for all students can be at least 2.8?

Need answer to these quastions

Motivation can be defined as “the processes that account for an individual´s intensity, _______, and ________ of effort toward attaining a goal”.

a.emotion and direction

b.direction and persistence

c.persistence and quality

d.reward and direction

e.none of the above

An employee is angry about promotion decision.   Though he is nosure that he was the best candidate, he feels that he never really got the chance to demonstrate his skills.His dissatisfaction is consistent with research on:

a.Distributive equity

b.Procedural consistency

c.Distributive justice

d.Procedural justice

e.None of the above.

Why is objective performance data limited?

a.They fail to tap into why some people perform better than others

b.They are not subjective

c.They are not limited

d.They fail to predict task performance

e.b and d are correct

Effective performance measurement focuses on:

a.Task

b.Behavior

c.Management expectation

d.The cognition of the employee

e.All of the above

A key property of the competency approach is that performance should be defined _______.

a.In task terms.

b.By managers.

c.Behaviorally

d.Specifically and clearly.

e.None of the above.

Perceptions of the accuracy of feedback is related to perceptions of:

a.Communicator credibility

b.Managerial training

c.Performance-related pay

d.Equity

e.Performance

   The cost of work-related stress in organizations can be estimated in terms

a.Absenteeism

b.Lost productivity

c.Compensation claims

d.All of the above

e. a and b are correct.

______ can be regarded as causes of stress (stressor).

a.Noise

b.Time rigidity

c.Workload

d.All of the above

e.b and c are correct.

The process through which an organization gets information on how closely an employee´s actual performance meets his or her performance plan is known as __________.

a.Performance appraisal

b.Job analysis

c.Performance feedback

d.Ability analysis

e.Achievement discrepancy

Which of the following is an example of using performance management to fulfill an administrative purpose?

a.Define the results, and, to some extent, employee characteristics that are necessary to get results.

b.Develop employees who are effective at their jobs.

c.Use performance appraisal to make decisions such as pay raises, promotions, layoffs and recognition of individual performance.

d.Identify employee´s strengths and weaknesses, link employees to appropriate training and developmental activities.

e.Confront employees with their performance weaknesses.

Globo Analytics Inc., a data analysis company, has modified its performance management system. Apart from training employees on their specific tasks, the trainers and mangers help the employees become more aware of the overall goal of the company and how their individual performances influence the broader goals of the company. As a result of this, employees´ performance have become more consistent with the organization´s strategies, goals, and culture. This initiative of Globo focused on the   __________ criterion of performance management.

a.Consistency

b.Strategic congruence

c.Social

d.Acceptability

e.Risk avoidance

. Whittaker Publishing Corp. is a publishing company that wants to hire more technical experts to handle the software requirements in the publishing process. However, the test given to the programmers assessed not only their technical knowledge, but also their communication skills, language abilities, and understanding of client services. The test conducted by Whittaker Publishing Corp is ___________.

a.High on reliability

b.Low on strategic congruence

c.Low on acceptability

d.High on specificity

e.Low on Validity

Teknical Inc. decides to implement a new performance management system. It consists of a list of five traits used to evaluate all the employees. The manager considers one employee at the time; and on a continuum with five different points, circles the number that signifies how much of a particular trait the individual has. Which type of performance management system is Teknical Inc. using?

a.Probability distribution

b.Simple ranking

c.Forced distribution

d.Paired comparison

e.Graphics rating scale.

A competent employee receives lower-than-deserved ratings because of a few outstanding colleagues who set very-high performance standards. This is an example of a ______ rater error.

a.Contrast

b.Distributional

c.Halo

d.Similar to me

e.Horns

The average compensation – including wages, salaries, and bonuses – of jobs in an organization is called the __________.

a.range spread

b.compa-ratio

c.pay level

d.job structure

e.pay grade

Suppose the United States could import footwear from Thailand at the price of $20 per pair or from Mexico at $24 per pair. The domestic price of footwear in the United States is $35. Suppose prior to NAFTA, the U.S. imposed a 50% tariff on all footwear entering the country. Suppose the US demand for footwear is given by Q = 100 – 2P. Assume US producers face a constant MC = $35. What is the welfare effect of joining the NAFTA for the US if doing so requires eliminating the tariff on Mexican made footwear?

Hi, can you answer this question in more detail?

Subject: Business Policy and Strategy

The G2000 Group was founded by Michael Tien in 1980 in Hong Kong. The label G2000, first introduced in 1985, was positioned as a specialty clothing chain distributing fashionable men’s and women’s career wear. Today, the G2000 Group is a multi-brand specialty retailer offering an assortment of men’s and women’s apparel and accessories, operating under different labels: G2000 MAN, G2000 WOMAN, G2000 studio, BLAACK and At Twenty.

(A)

As for the situation analysis of G2000 company, it involves the following topics, shows your theoretical understanding, and adopts RBV-VRIN to conduct internal resource evaluation for the local market of Hong Kong.

(Words: 700 Don’t direct copy)

• Value
• Rarity
• Imitability
• Non-substitutability

Hi, can you answer this question in more detail?

Subject: Business Policy and Strategy

The G2000 Group was founded by Michael Tien in 1980 in Hong Kong. The label G2000, first introduced in 1985, was positioned as a specialty clothing chain distributing fashionable men’s and women’s career wear. Today, the G2000 Group is a multi-brand specialty retailer offering an assortment of men’s and women’s apparel and accessories, operating under different labels: G2000 MAN, G2000 WOMAN, G2000 studio, BLAACK and At Twenty.

(B)

As for the situation analysis of G2000 company, it involves the following topics, shows your theoretical understanding, and adopts RBV-VRIN to conduct internal resource evaluation for the local market of Hong Kong.

(Words: 700 Don’t direct copy)

• Value
• Rarity
• Imitability
• Non-substitutability

Activity “Name. take a nature walk__________________________

Curriculum Area __exploration plan on science

my teacher give us to choose activity to teach children about plan on science , and i chose this activity TAKE A NATURE WALK to children to teach them science plan

then my teacher ask me this question

1.How did you choose this activity? Be specific in describing the child/classroom observations that inspired this plan, including dates

2.Describe how you might adapt your plan to meet individual children’s special needs so all the children can participate

please can you help me how to answer it, thanks.

1)You observed the bid rate of the New Zealand dollar is $.3232 while the ask rate is $.3245 at Bank X. The bid rate of a New Zealand dollar is $.3324 while the ask rate is $.3342 at Bank Y. What would be your dollar amount profit if you use $1,000,000 to execute locational arbitrage?

2)Derek Jones, a foreign exchange trader at Charles Schwab, can invest $1 million, or the foreign currency equivalent of the bank’s short-term funds, in a covered interest arbitrage with Japan. Using the following quotes, can Derek make a covered interest arbitrage profit? If so, show the steps and calculate the amount of profit in USD.

3)Heidi Jensen is attempting to determine whether US/Japanese financial conditions are at parity. The current spot rate is a flat ¥89.00/$, while the 360-day forward rate is ¥84.90/$. Forecast inflation is 1.100% for Japan, and 5.900% for the US. The 360-day yen deposit rate is 4.700%, and the 360-day dollar deposit rate is 9.500%.

a)Calculate whether interest rate parity, purchasing power parity, and international fisher effect conditions hold between Japan and the US.

b)Find the forecasted change in the Japanese yen/US dollar exchange rate one year from now.

4)In China a Big Mac costs Yuan 16 (local currency), while in the US the same Big Mac costs $4.56. The exchange rate between Yuan and US dollar is Yuan6.1341/$. According to purchasing power parity, is Chinese Yuan overvalued or undervalued? Why?

5) The interest rate in the U.K. is 2%, while the interest rate in the U.S. is 1.5%. The spot rate for the British pound is $1.55. According to the international Fisher effect (IFE), what is new level of the British pound?

6) Bronco Co. is a U.S.-based MNC that has subsidiaries in Spain and Germany. Both subsidiaries frequently remit their earnings back to the parent company. The Spain subsidiary generated a net outflow of €1,000,000 this year, while the German subsidiary generated a net inflow of €2,500,000. What is the net inflow or outflow as measured in U.S. dollars this year? The exchange rate for the euro is $1.18.

7)If one-year nominal interest rate in the U.S. is 3%, while the one-year nominal interest rate in Australia is 5%. The spot rate of the Australian dollar is $.97. Interest Parity is held. You will need 1 million Australian dollars in one year. Today, you purchase a one-year forward contract in Australian dollars. How many U.S. dollars will you have in one year from your forward contract?

8)Today, the one-year U.S. interest rate is 2.53%, while the one-year interest rate in Mexico is 6%. The spot rate of the Mexico peso (MXP) is $.08 The one-year forward rate of the MXP exhibits a 11% discount. Determine the yield (percentage return on investment) to an investor from Mexico who engages in covered interest arbitrage.

9)Current one-year interest rates in Europe are 2 percent, while one-year interest rates in the U.S. are 1.6 percent. You convert $100,000 to euros and invests them in France. One year later, you convert the euros back to dollars. The current spot rate of the euro is $1.28.

a. According to the IFE, what should the spot rate of the euro in one year be?

b. If the spot rate of the euro in one year is $1.20, what is your percentage return from your investment?

c. If the spot rate of the euro in one year is $1.35, what is your percentage return from your investment?

d. What must the spot rate of the euro be in one year for your strategy to be successful?