9. As part of a study of corporate employees, the director of human resources for PNC Inc. wants to compare the distance traveled to work by employees at its office in downtown Cincinnati with the distance for those in downtown Pittsburgh. A sample of 35 Cincinnati employees showed they travel a mean of 370 miles per month. A sample of 40 Pittsburgh employees showed they travel a mean of 380 miles per month. The population standard deviations for the Cincinnati and Pittsburgh employees are 30 and 26 miles, respectively. By following the six-step procedure for hypothesis testing found below, answer the following: At the 0.05 significance level, is there a difference in the mean number of miles traveled per month between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh employees?

Step 1: State the Null Hypothesis (H_0) and the Alternate Hypothesis (H_1)

Step 2: Determine the level of significance. (Note: It’s given in this problem!)

Step 3: Select the Test Statistic

Step 4: Formulate the Decision Rule

Step 5: Make a Decision

Step 6: Interpret the Result

When the human body is invaded by foreign microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses, it produces an immune response. Choose one example of a bacterium or virus to discuss.

• What actions does the body produce in its immune response to invasion by the particular bacterium or virus you selected? Explain your answer.
• Would active or passive immunity be more effective against this bacterium or virus? Why?

QUESTION 1

1. A major theme in human anatomy and physiology is the complementarity of structure and function, meaning that the structure of an organ, for example, will reflect that organ’s ability to function optimally, and vice versa.  Please discuss in detail how the structure of the cell membrane and its unique chemistry are the factors that determine the selectivity of the membrane.  Be specific and be detailed.  A 2 or 3 sentence response will not be considered an adequate response.

You will then find one human to interview. This can be anyone you know or a stranger.

The interview should be conducted in-person or through skype or FaceTime.

The interview should be informal and should focus on any information that you want to learn about your subject. More will be discussed in class about generating interview questions.

Try to think of roughly 10 questions to ask your subject. Focus on aspects of the subject’s life, career, family, future aspirations etc.…

You do not need to record the interview but may take notes.

During the interview you want to pay attention to your subject’s behavior, word choice, and nonverbal messages.

You will then compile all your information and compose an essay that:

Discusses your interview experience from an interpersonal perspective.

You may discuss things such as Self-disclosure, equivocation, conflict, verbal, non-verbal messages etc…

The idea is to give me a sense of how you felt before, during, and after the interview.

Were there any verbal or non-verbal messages that confused you or made you feel relaxed?

Did you or the interview subject use self-disclosure and if so how did it help or hurt the experience?

You may discuss any term, theory, or concept that relates to interpersonal communication.

You do not need to provide direct quotes from the interview or any specific content from the experience. Instead you want to focus the essay on discussing your experience through an interpersonal perspective. Try to work-in/discuss as many terms and concepts from your textbook that relate to interpersonal communication as possible.

Ask a member of the Human Resources team (or the person who does the hiring) at your work what they see as the key characteristics of a successful manager. In the discussion thread, provide a summary, answering the following questions: What company do you work for and what is the role of the individual you interviewed? What are the key characteristics of a successful manager that your colleague described? What are your thoughts on your colleaguebs response? OR Find an article discussing the key characteristics of a successful manager. Post a link to the article in the discussion thread and provide a summary of the following: What is the role and background of the author of the article? What are the key characteristics of a successful manager detailed in the article? What are your thoughts on these characteristics?

You are the vice-president of human resources for a high-tech company that is competing for a major government project. You believe that one of your key competitors is ahead of you in project development and you would like to recruit some of its engineers who are knowledgeable about the project. You receive an anonymous e-mail that includes the names and phone numbers of key people involved in your competitor’s project. If you use the information and can hire some of the competitor’s key people, your company has a chance to beat the competitor and you will become a hero. If you do not use the information, your company may lose a great deal of money. Reflect on what would you do and how you would handle this situation. What factor(s) in this ethics dilemma might influence a person to make a less than ethical decision?

You are a human resources supervisor at a major restaurant chain. The restaurant operates as a franchise, and a survey of branch owners discovers that there are major wage inequities throughout the chain. In a brief essay, describe what you can do to correct the existing wage inequity and describe how you could have prevented the problem.

We want to build a circut that measure the resistance of the human body and convert it to voltage and the circut should have a led that work when the resistance of the body is low. And also we want to use a 741 op-amp

And the measured resistance of the body can be represented by a variable resister(the concept of our circuit is to measure galvanic skin response )

Ask a member of the Human Resources team (or the person who does the hiring) at your work what they see as the key characteristics of a successful manager. In the discussion thread, provide a summary, answering the following questions: 1. What company do you work for and what is the role of the individual you interviewed? 2. What are the key characteristics of a successful manager that your colleague described? 3. What are your thoughts on your colleague’s response? you can use the company lowes

Imagine you are the Chief of Human Resources for a global corporation with operations in three different countries. The CEO of the company wants you to come up with a new compensation plan based on the labor markets of the three (3) countries where the employees live and work, rather than basing it on the parent country’s labor market.

What are some of the biggest advantages and disadvantages of setting up a compensation system like this?\

Please in your own word!