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What are the key elements of diagramming techniques? Name the commonalities between three different diagramming techniques.

What are the key elements of diagramming techniques?

Name the commonalities between three different diagramming techniques.

In: Civil Engineering

C & S Department Store is the second largest clothing and retail store chain in Jamaica....

C & S Department Store is the second largest clothing and retail store chain in Jamaica. At present, they have 5 clothing and retail stores in all 14 parishes and are planning to expand to 7 stores per parish in the next 3 years. C & S Department Store has a centralized Human Resource Department located at its main office in Kingston. Unfortunately, although the HR processes are managed centrally, there are many HR tasks, policies and procedures that are controlled by the clothing and retail store managers or by the lead parish manger in each parish. Currently, the HR management processes are using Excel spreadsheet to compile reports from various parish Headquarters and stores. This task is being performed by a team of HR executives at its main office in Kingston.
Simone Coram is the Senior HR Manager of C & S Department Store and has discovered various administrative and HR issues with the clothing and retail store sites. Due to high focus on sales revenue and stores profitability, Retail Store Managers have difficulties in managing the stores in the areas of staff attendance, discipline and critical HR practices.
The fundamental emphasis and foundation of C & S Department Store has been centered on always maintaining the highest standards of customer service and for that reason they are in direct contact with customers at each and every Department Store. What sets C & S Department apart is a commitment to exceeding expectations making it one of their unique selling points. Giving excellent customer service is one of the main reasons why their customers choose C & S Department Store and why they keep coming back.
Imperatively, the entity’s strategy is purposed towards employing the ideal candidate for both their part-time and full-time sales associates with the capacity and proficiency to grow and hone their skills for prospective advanced position within the organization. Presently, the store managers for three (3) of C&S Department Store have made the announcement that they plan to retire within the next 18 to 24 month. These three managers have insisted that they will not remain in their position beyond this particular point.
A team of HR internal auditors has conducted a study and identified that there are irregularities in the staff attendance data both at the retail stores and regional offices. Sometimes many of the staff did not sign the attendance register or signed intermittently. During the HR audit, it was discovered that some staff signed the attendance register only at the end of the day. Further, sometimes staff signed the register and then left their post. There was also no mechanism to track the leave data of employees. Employees did not know their exact leave data. At the end of the year it was revealed that some employees have taken excess leave while some employees worked incessantly, creating frustration among staff.
There was also no standardization in the reports between head office, regional offices and the retail stores and this created discrepancies. HR provided a set of excel sheets and paper-based forms to help store managers maintain data. However, many store managers used and made unique formats of reports making it difficult to collate the reports. The data thus collated had to be verified over again and again, as there was a tendency for errors to emerge.
This discrepancy has caused a significant issue in salary. HR and attendance data were used to generate data for payroll. As there were many discrepancies in HR data and reports, this created several salary discrepancies and caused numerous issues among the employees, thus lowering employee satisfaction rate and affecting the employee morale.
Training and communication have become a major issue at C & S Department Store. As the company was growing at a fast pace, training employees on various HR procedures and policies was becoming increasingly difficult. Thus line managers took decisions based on their previous experience or personal insights and created unnecessary hassles that required HR intervention.
The staff turnover in two (2) key departments of Marketing and Accounts was running at 90%. Estimated cost of staff turnover - including overtime, loss of revenue, loss of skills, training time and management time to replace a staff member – is equivalent to approximately $3,000 per position thus costing the business around $500,000 per year.
Human Resource Management focuses on matching the needs of the business with the needs and development of employees and as such you are required to answer the following questions based on the scenario represented above.

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Evidently, the staff at C&S Department Stores is disgruntled. Differentiate between disciplinary and grievance procedures. Using the appropriate legislation, indicate the institutions involved and methods available to employees to have their grievances addressed in Jamaica. As Miss Simone Coram, make recommendations to the management team to minimize the incidents of grievance at C&S Department Store

In: Operations Management

Explain the differences between the three conflicting views of truth (absolutism, societal relativism, individual relativism). (I...

Explain the differences between the three conflicting views of truth (absolutism, societal relativism, individual relativism). (I am writing a three page paper so I need more than a few sentences! Thank you so much :)

In: Economics

The data below is from a series of two-point crosses. Use the recombination frequencies to construct...

The data below is from a series of two-point crosses.
Use the recombination frequencies to construct a genetic map of all three genes.

cv – ct 34%

cv – vg 50%

vg – ct 30%

a) Draw a genetic map including all three genes and the distance between them.

b) A fourth gene, g, is found to have 12% recombination when tested with cv. Next you plan to test g and ct . Predict the outcome of the cross between g and ct.

In: Biology

Using the three-step method, compute the dirty price (to 3 decimal places) of a $100 face-value...

Using the three-step method, compute the dirty price (to 3 decimal places) of a $100 face-value bond maturing on 15-Feb-29, paying a 5%pa semi-annual coupons with a yield to maturity of 3%pa for settlement on 05-May-20. Set out the intermediate calculations for each of the three steps.

(Note there are 102 days between 05-May-20 and 15-Aug-2020. There are 182 days between 15-Feb-2020 and 15-Aug-2020)

In: Finance

Fulbright Corp. uses the periodic inventory system. During its first year of operations, Fulbright made the...

Fulbright Corp. uses the periodic inventory system. During its first year of operations, Fulbright made the following purchases (listed in chronological order of acquisition):

  • 44 units at $96
  • 74 units at $76
  • 172 units at $50


Sales for the year totaled 271 units, leaving 19 units on hand at the end of the year.

Ending inventory using the average cost method is: (Do not round unit cost calculation. Round your final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

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On January 1, 2018, Badger Inc. adopted the dollar-value LIFO method. The inventory cost on this date was $100,200. The ending inventory, valued at year-end costs, and the relative cost index for each of the next three years is below:

Year-end Ending inventory at
year-end costs		 Cost Index
2018 $ 126,630 1.05
2019 143,880 1.10
2020 154,440 1.20

In determining the inventory balance should Badger report in its 12/31/2019 balance sheet:

In: Accounting

The following three defense stocks are to be combined into a stock index in January 2016...

The following three defense stocks are to be combined into a stock index in January 2016 (perhaps a portfolio manager believes these stocks are an appropriate benchmark for his or her performance). Assume the index is scaled by a factor of 10 million; that is, if the total value of all firms in the market is $5 billion, the index would be quoted as 500.

Price
Shares
(millions)		 1/1/16 1/1/17 1/1/18
Douglas McDonnell 340 $ 103 $ 106 $ 118
Dynamics General 450 45 39 53
International Rockwell 410 74 63 79

a. Calculate the initial value of the index if a value-weighting scheme is used. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

b. What is the rate of return on this index for the year ending December 31, 2016? For the year ending December 31, 2017? (A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

In: Finance

An experiment on the growth rate of certain organisms requires an environment of humid air enriched...

An experiment on the growth rate of certain organisms requires an environment of humid air enriched in oxygen. Three input streams are fed into an evaporation chamber to produce an output stream with the desired composition.

A: Output gas totals 74 moles

B: Air (21 mole% O, the balance N)

C: Pure oxygen, with a molar flow rate one-fifth of the molar flow rate of stream B

The output gas is analyzed and is found to contain 3.0 mole% water. Draw and label a flowchart of the process, and calculate the volumetric and molar flow rate of water into the system, the molar flow rate of air into the system, and the mole fractions for the output stream.

1. What is the Volumetric Flow rate of water into the system (cm3/min)?

2. What is the molar flow rate for Water (mole/min)?

3. What is the molar flow rate of pure O2 into the system (mole/min)?

4. What is the mole fraction of O2 in the product stream (moles of O2/total moles)?

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A statistics instructor wonders whether significant differences exist in her students’ final exam scores in her...

A statistics instructor wonders whether significant differences exist in her students’ final exam scores in her three different sections. She randomly selects the scores from 10 students in each section. A portion of the data is shown in the accompanying table. Assume exam scores are normally distributed.

Section 1 Section 2 Section 3
82 50 72
76 51 79
63 59 96
90 76 86
61 74 54
79 50 86
56 73 78
59 63 83
79 84 95
89 78 95

Construct an ANOVA table. (Round "Sum Sq" and "Mean Sq" to 1 decimal place, "F value" to 3, and "p-value" to 3 decimal places. Before fitting your model, type options(scipen=10) and options(digits=10) into your R console.)

ANOVA
Source of Variation Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
Section
Residuals

In: Math

The table below shows the number of hybrid cars sold (in thousands) in the US in...

  1. The table below shows the number of hybrid cars sold (in thousands) in the US in the following years.                                                          * Source: Wikipedia

Year

Hybrid cars sold in US (in thousands)

2000

9.35

2002

36.04

2004

84.20

2007

352.27

2010

274.21

2014

452.15
  1. Find an exponential regression equation for the data. Let x = 0 represent the year 2000. Round a to two decimal places, and round b to four decimal places.

  1. Describe what a and b tell you from your equation above in the context of the problem. Be very specific.

In: Math