Bank of America's Consumer Spending Survey collected data on annual credit card charges in seven different categories of expenditures: transportation, groceries, dining out, household expenses, home furnishings, apparel, and entertainment (U.S. Airways Attache, December 2003). Using data from a sample of 42 credit card accounts, assume that each account was used to identify the annual credit card charges for groceries (population 1) and the annual credit card charges for dining out (population 2). Using the difference data, the sample mean difference was    = $852, and the sample standard deviation was s_d= $1,143.

1. Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses to test for no difference between the population mean credit card charges for groceries and the population mean credit card charges for dining out.
   H₀:  _d Selectgreater than or equal to 0greater than 0less than or equal to 0less than 0equal to 0not equal to 0Item 1
   H_a:  _d Selectgreater than or equal to 0greater than 0less than or equal to 0less than 0equal to 0not equal to 0Item 2
   
2. Use a .05 level of significance. What is the p-value?
   The p-value is Selectless than .01between .01 and .02between .02 and .05between .05 and .10between .10 and .20between .20 and .40greater than .40Item 3
   
   Can you conclude that the population means differ?
   SelectThere is a difference between the annual mean expendituresCannot conclude there is a difference between the annual mean expendituresItem 4
   
3. Which category, groceries or dining out, has a higher population mean annual credit card charge?
   SelectGroceriesDining outItem 5
   
   What is the point estimate of the difference between the population means?
   $  
   
   What is the 95% confidence interval estimate of the difference between the population means (to the nearest whole number)?
   (  ,   )

Bank of America's Consumer Spending Survey collected data on annual credit card charges in seven different categories of expenditures: transportation, groceries, dining out, household expenses, home furnishings, apparel, and entertainment (U.S. Airways Attache, December 2003). Using data from a sample of 42 credit card accounts, assume that each account was used to identify the annual credit card charges for groceries (population 1) and the annual credit card charges for dining out (population 2). Using the difference data, the sample mean difference was    = $888, and the sample standard deviation was s_d= $1,143.

1. Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses to test for no difference between the population mean credit card charges for groceries and the population mean credit card charges for dining out.
   H₀: mu_d Selectgreater than or equal to 0greater than 0less than or equal to 0less than 0equal to 0not equal to 0Item 1
   H_a: mu_d Selectgreater than or equal to 0greater than 0less than or equal to 0less than 0equal to 0not equal to 0Item 2
   
2. Use a .05 level of significance. What is the p-value?
   The p-value is Selectless than .01between .01 and .02between .02 and .05between .05 and .10between .10 and .20between .20 and .40greater than .40Item 3
   
   Can you conclude that the population means differ?
   SelectThere is a difference between the annual mean expendituresCannot conclude there is a difference between the annual mean expendituresItem 4
   
3. Which category, groceries or dining out, has a higher population mean annual credit card charge?
   SelectGroceriesDining outItem 5
   
   What is the point estimate of the difference between the population means?
   $
   
   What is the 95% confidence interval estimate of the difference between the population means (to the nearest whole number)?
   (  ,  )

Discourse Analysis (500 to 550 words)

The conventions and constraints associated with blogs are difficult to pin down because of their short history and the multiple purposes to which they can be put. Even the distinction between filter‐type blogs and diary‐type blogs discussed here is not hard and fast; many blog entries combine features of both types. The advantage of analysing blogs is that they give us an opportunity to observe a newly emerging and dynamic genre, which has the potential to fulfil many different kinds of communicative purposes for many different kinds of discourse communities.

In order to understand something about this variety, go to one of the social media apps (like Twitter) and compare entries from accounts from two different categories. The categories you can find include: entertainment, business, sports, politics, autos, technology, living, green and science. Use the following questions to guide your analysis:

• What are the discourse communities these blogs serve? How do you know? In what ways do they fulfil Swales’s defining characteristics of a discourse community (see the attached file) and in what ways do they deviate from these defining characteristics? How do the blogs you have chosen contribute to defining and maintaining these discourse communities?

• What are the communicative purposes of these blogs? How do they differ?
• How are the move structures of the two entries that you have chosen similar or different? Do they resemble diary-type blog entries or filter-type blog entries, or do they constitute a different type altogether? How do the moves and the ways they are structured contribute to the realization of the overall communicative purposes of the two entries?
• How are the blog entries that you have chosen linked to other texts or genres in either genre chains or genre networks? How are they situated within larger textual ecologies? What other genres do they resemble?

All answers were generated using 1,000 trials and native Excel functionality.)

At a local university, the Student Commission on Programming and Entertainment (SCOPE) is preparing to host its first music concert of the school year. To successfully produce this music concert, SCOPE has to complete several activities. The following table lists information regarding each activity. An activity’s immediate predecessors are the activities that must be completed before the considered activity can begin. The table also lists duration estimates (in days) for each activity.

The following network illustrates the precedence relationships in the SCOPE project. The project begins with activities A and B, which can start immediately (time 0) because they have no predecessors. On the other hand, activity E cannot be started until activities B and C are both completed. The project is not complete until all activities are completed.

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IMHR DILEMMA: WHOM DO YOU SATISFY? EXPATRIATE OR NATIONALS

Hi-Tech Electronics Limited was established in 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It produces and markets all types of electronics goods in most of the Asian and Pacific countries. It has been one among the top five companies as for the level of technology and one among the top three companies regarding marketing of the products in Malaysia. The company’s policy and practices concerning human resource management are top in the country. The company’s salary administration policies and practices were taken as guidelines not only by the other companies but also by various wage boards and pay commissions in the country. But this company has been struggling a lot because of a minor problem relating to administration of salary and benefits. The problem is stated hereunder.

The company employed nearly 400 national young graduate and post graduate engineers and 20 expatriate engineers. This employee forms the cream of the company’s present human resource. The expatriate employees occupied higher position in all the departments including Human Resource Department. The company’s salary policy and benefit policy were formulated mainly on the basis of the expatriate employee’s desire. The base salary of the company is the same for both the expatriate and national employees. But expatriate receive additional allowances like international market allowance, educational allowance, settling-in allowance, car allowance, housing allowance and entertainment allowance. Thus, expatriate receives nearly 250% more salary than the nationals doing the same job.

The national employees demanded the management to pay equally with that of expatriates immediately. According to them, the pocket frustrates them severely.

QUESTIONS:

1. Identify the crucial issue in this case.

2. From your opinion what are the 3 factors that enables expatriate receives more salary than the nationals who are doing the same job? Explain and justify your statements.

ASSIGNMENT

IMHR DILEMMA: WHOM DO YOU SATISFY? EXPATRIATE OR NATIONALS

Hi-Tech Electronics Limited was established in 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It produces and markets all types of electronics goods in most of the Asian and Pacific countries. It has been one among the top five companies as for the level of technology and one among the top three companies regarding marketing of the products in Malaysia. The company’s policy and practices concerning human resource management are top in the country. The company’s salary administration policies and practices were taken as guidelines not only by the other companies but also by various wage boards and pay commissions in the country. But this company has been struggling a lot because of a minor problem relating to administration of salary and benefits. The problem is stated hereunder.

The company employed nearly 400 national young graduate and post graduate engineers and 20 expatriate engineers. This employee forms the cream of the company’s present human resource. The expatriate employees occupied higher position in all the departments including Human Resource Department. The company’s salary policy and benefit policy were formulated mainly on the basis of the expatriate employee’s desire. The base salary of the company is the same for both the expatriate and national employees. But expatriate receive additional allowances like international market allowance, educational allowance, settling-in allowance, car allowance, housing allowance and entertainment allowance. Thus, expatriate receives nearly 250% more salary than the nationals doing the same job.

The national employees demanded the management to pay equally with that of expatriates immediately. According to them, the pocket frustrates them severely.

QUESTIONS:

3. What are the 4 factors affecting standardization of compensation packages for expatriate and nationals’ employees? provide mind map for more proper illustration.

4. Identify 4 challenges the company will face if they did not fulfil the national’s employees demand.

1. Describe and briefly explain whether the following changes cause the short-run aggregate supply to

increase, decrease or neither:

a. The price level increases

b. Input prices decrease

c. Firms and workers expect the price level to fall.

d. The price level decreases

e. New policies increase the cost for businesses of meeting government regulations.

f. The number of workers in the labor force increases.

2. Describe and briefly explain whether the following changes cause the aggregate demand to increase,

decrease or neither:

a. The price level increases

b. Investment decreases

c. Imports increase and exports decrease

d. Consumer optimism improves

e. Government increases infrastructure spending

f. Stock market crashes.

3. Starting in early March of 2020, many factories, restaurants, offices and entertainment venues closed

their doors fearing the spread of Coronavirus. Using aggregate demand-aggregate supply model, predict

which curve this event mostly affects and what’s the impact on the US economy in the short-run?

4. From 2014 to 2018, dollar has been slowly falling against other major currencies.

a. Determine how the falling value of the dollar affects the US price level, real GDP and the

unemployment rate in both short-run and the long-run. You can assume that the economy was in the

long-run equilibrium before this change, and consider only the stated event. Place your answers in the

boxes below (using an up arrow, a down arrow, or a dash if the level is constant).

Short Run Long-Run

P Y u P Y u

b. Draw a diagram that supports your answers in part (a). Clearly label all the curves and equilibria as

well as show the direction of changes using arrows.

U(C1, C2, C3, C4, C5) = C1∙C2∙C3∙C4∙C5

As a mathematical function, does U have a maximum or minimum value? What values of Ci correspond to the minimum value of U? What values of Ci correspond to the maximum value of U? Do these values of Ci make sense from an economic standpoint?

Now let us connect the idea of economic utility to actual dollar values. To keep the values more manageable, we will use household income rather than the entire state budget, and retail costs and measures rather than industrial ones. Find the Median Household Income for Mesa, AZ for the most recent year possible. Then find the dollar cost in Mesa, AZ for a Penny, a pound of Ground Beef, a pair of Jeans, fresh Orange Juice, and a Movie Ticket. (Entertainment is often used as a stand-in for Climate.) A Cost-of- Living Index is a good place to find much of this data. Record these prices as P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5 respectively.

Construct an equation using Median Income, the Ci and Pi values that illustrates how much of each resource the Median Household can afford to purchase. Given this restriction, do the maximum or minimum values of U change? Do the values of Ci that give the maximum or minimum values change? What are these new values? How should the Median Household budget its Income so as to maximize its Economic Utility?

Write up your findings in a paper that you could turn in to an employer. Be sure to show all your work. Include any appropriate references as well as any computational devices used.

* Combine all necessary information - Discussion, Work, Conclusions, Graphs, Tables, and Sources