The global search for talent has led many organisations to embrace diversity in the workplace. The BUS103 Organisation Behaviour (OB) course is teaching you to resist the inclination to rely on generalisations. However, managers sometimes forget that they need to recognise individual differences in their employees in order to capitalise on their unique strengths. It is pivotal that managers develop a greater awareness of these individual characteristics and manage their diverse workforce effectively to yield positive organisational outcomes.

(b) Relate the following individual characteristics to relevant organisational outcomes:

   (i) age

(ii) ability, and

(iii) gender (Minimum word limit: 400 words, Maximum words limit: 600 words)

In this litigious society, health care professionals are increasingly becoming the target for lawsuits, both legitimate and frivolous. Does the threat of litigation make health care professionals more accountable or does it merely increase the cost of delivery (which is then paid for by society)?

Write an original response of 250 words and make sure to support your comments for your main post with at least two scholarly sources (your textbook can be one of them). For original threads and replies, use current APA style citations in-text and for references at the end. You must respond to at least two of your classmates with 75-word responses.

Suppose that you have a company that is interested in entering the market for energy drinks. You will be competing with companies such as Rockstar, Red Bull and Monster.

In this exercise, come up with your own marketing campaign that will truly set you apart from the hundreds of energy drink manufacturers. You are free to use real or fictional brand names. You need to present your ad in an 8.5”X 11” paper in Word. You may use any technique available to you (hand-drawn, collage, computer printed, etc.), as long as it fits into the 8.5X11 paper. Upload files in pdf, doc or docx format only.

How to get kids to do chores: The role of conditioning in parenting.

1. Explain how each of the following learning concepts are demonstrated in the "Maya Method". Give concrete examples from the textbook, podcast and article to support your statements.
   1. Shaping
   2. Positive reinforcement
   3. Unconditioned stimuli
   4. Unconditioned response
   5. Conditioned stimuli
   6. Conditioned response
2. Discuss the potential consequences of using physical punishment to shape children’s behavior.

Citing Sources:   You must use APA style to reference your source(s) at the end of your submission.  

Acceptable Length: 300-500 word initial post; 2-3 sentence responses to at least three classmates

Using research tools please identify companies that actually use the Balanced Scorecard. Now choose three (3); How is the Balanced Scorecard presented in the annual reports of the company? What does Balanced Scorecard reporting suggest about the management of the company, and the responsibility the company feels for its stakeholders? Please place your answers to the above questions on the module 6 discussion forum. The recommended word count is 300 - 400 words. You may like to use images and diagrams. You are also welcome to include factors that may not be explicitly stated but which you believe fit within the context of the subject and are worthy of inclusion.

Consider your dissertation research interests. Identify one categorical/nominal scale IV with more than 2 categories, and three DVs that are measured on continuous scales. Think of DV measures that probably are moderately correlated with each other because they are measuring different components of the same or similar concepts (e.g., three different measures of academic performance). What information would a one-way MANOVA provide you? What more would you want to know if you get significant results in the MANOVA? Why would this be significant to your research? Please type about a 200 word response and use IQ as as the topic. Thanks

using Java;

In Scrabble, each player has a set of tiles with letters on them. The object of the game is to use those letters to spell words. The scoring system is complex, but longer words are usually worth more than shorter words. Imagine you are given your set of tiles as a string, like "quijibo", and you are given another string to test, like "jib". Write a method called canSpell that takes two strings and checks whether the set of tiles can spell the word. You might have more than one tile with the same letter, but you can use each tile only once.

Strategic Marketing:

Porter’s Value Chain is made up of Primary Stages and Support Activities.

Use a matrix to show how Porter’s Value Chain can be used to make decisions about which of Porter’s Generic Strategies is appropriate for a company to use.

To do this, set up a table that lists each of Porter’s Generic Strategies as a column heading and each of the primary stages and support activities of Porter’s Value Chain as rows.

Fill in the appropriate cells to explain where the value chain analysis may provide insights into the different strategy type options.

Use examples to aid your description.

Word-count: 500 words maximum.

question about R:

The vectors state.name, state.area, and state.region are pre-loaded in R and contain US state names, area (in square miles), and region respectively.

(a) Identify the data type for state.name, state.area, and state.region.

(b) What is the longest state name (including spaces)? How long is it?

(c) Compute the average area of the states which contain the word “New” at the start of the state name. Use the function substr().

(d) Use the function table() to determine how many states are in each region. Use the function kable() to include the table in your solutions. (Notes: you will need the R package knitr to be able to use kable().

1. Is a group that passes cultural knowledge to each other through oration less civilized than a group who passes on information with writing?
2. In your answer: make references to what "civilization" and "civilized" means -- without giving a dictionary definition. What would people on the street say civilized/civilization is?
   1. Define also: "knowledge" and/or "intelligence" (if applicable to your post)
   2. And: if your answer makes references to knowledge -- then make sure to describe if you mean the skill of knowing how to read, versus the information or ideas that reading brought to the reader.
3. If your post makes use of the word intelligence: define what intelligence is, and account if there are multiple forms of intelligence?