5. The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) uses information about a country’s life expectancy at birth (health), expected years of schooling and mean years of schooling (education), and Gross National Income per capita (standard of living) to create a measure that ranges from 1 (very high) to 0 (very low). For 2017, the United States had a value of 0.924, compared to 0.926 for Canada and 0.922 for the United Kingdom – very similar values, although not the highest of all countries.

Suppose a developing country (such as Eritrea with a value of 0.440 or Haiti with a value of 0.498) asks for your advice on which country it should try to emulate in order to increase its level of development and economic growth. Which of the three countries above would you choose? Explain what additional information about each country would be important to making this assessment.

Tuscaloosa National Bank has two service departments, the Human Resources (HR) Department and the Computing Department. The bank has two other departments that directly service customers, the Deposit Department and the Loan Department. The usage of the two service departments’ output for the year is as follows:
   

  
The budgeted costs in the two service departments for the year are as follows:

  
Required:
Use the reciprocal-services method to allocate the budgeted costs of the HR and Computing departments to the Deposit and Loan departments. (Do not round your intermediate calculations and round final answers to the nearest dollar amount.)

According to your textbook, “A budget can have a significant impact on human behaviour…Participative budgeting can foster budgetary “gaming”… a budget can be a manager’s friend or foe”.

Required:

Critically evaluate the issues raised in the above excerpt.

b) Return on Investment (ROI) is commonly used to measure divisional performance and awards bonuses to divisional management based on their division’s performance.

1. Describe two examples on how a manager can improve his/her division’s ROI, but which may harm the future competitiveness of the company.

1. As a management accountant, criticize how the use of ROI as a performance measure for investment centers can lead to bad decision making. Suggest what steps can be taken to mitigate this effect.

Case Study – Does a Turtle Have More Rights Than a Human?

Resolving Controversial Environmental Issues

• As you have learned in the first chapter, you need to identify the issue, conclusion, and reasons when reading an article. Identifying the argument in the following essay will help you better understand and evaluate it.
• Ethical norms are ideas that guide our behavior. Everyone generally agrees that ethical norms are positive ways of behaving. Some examples of ethical norms are honest, cooperation, and individual responsibility.  If I ask you, “Do you value honesty?” you would probably say “yes.” If I ask you, “Do you value loyalty?” you would probably say “yes.” But how do you behave when those ethical norms conflict? For example, you discover that your best friend, who is also your co-worker, is stealing money from your boss. If you are loyal to your friend, you cannot also be honest to your boss.  Which ethical norm guides your behavior?

Ethical norms often conflict in the law.  Four ethical norms that often arise in legal controversies are freedom, justice, security, and efficiency. Try to think of more ethical norms that might guide you thinking. When you read an article, you should try to identify the ethical norms that are guiding the authors thinking. This task is difficult because the author typically will not tell you his or her ethical norm preferences. Consequently, you must infer the preferences through the reasons. Can you identify which ethical norms seem to be present in the reasons and conclusion provided in the following editorial? Which ethical norm is in conflict with the authors preferred ethical norm?

Does a Turtle Have More Rights Than a Human?

Who should be allowed to bring a case in a court of law? One might respond with the following simple answer: Anyone who has been wronged. Environmentalists claim that when environmental wrongs occur, it is often difficult for those who have been wronged to bring a  case because of a perceived lack of legal standing – the legal right to bring a lawsuit.

However, environmentalists actually have had an advantage in lawsuits. Environmental groups have been permitted to file lawsuits alleging underenforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA); in contrast, property owners could not file suit against overzealous regulation. Environmental groups had standing whereas property owners did not. Imagine a scenario in which an individual’s property use is restricted because of an endangered species living on the property. Who seems most directly injured – the property owner or the environmental group? The proper owner, of course. Yet the property owner has been unable to bring a suit against the overzealous regulation.

Luckily, the Supreme Court has rectified this unfair situation. A recent ruling gives legal standing to people with an economic stake in land and water restrictions that allegedly protect endangered species. It is about time we give legal protection to those who are truly harmed.

After all, courts have now offered legal standing to animals protected by the ESA. For ex., turtles have been successful plaintiffs in cases. Furthermore, some environmentalists claim that legal rights should be extended to forests, oceans, and rivers.  We should not even consider extending rights to inanimate objects until all people have rights. Why should a river have more rights than a property owner? A person’s rights must come before the perceived concern of a river or a lake.

I argue that the Supreme Court made the right decision by allowing property owners to bring cases against overregulation. Most environmental laws are like the ESA in the sense that they allow citizens to bring suits. The Supreme Court ruling should allow property owners to bring suits under these other environmental laws. Environmental protection has gone too far when a turtle has more rights than a person. Let us not lower the protections for people while raising the protections for animals and inanimate objects.

Question:

2.  Identify the ethical norm guiding the author’s thinking.  

Leadership Models for Health Care Managers

When you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is “male or female?” and you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty.

—Sigmund Freud (1965, p. 141)

Women are significantly underrepresented in major leadership positions. The barriers women encounter on their leadership journey have been dubbed the leadership labyrinth. Removing these barriers will help ensure equal opportunity, access to the greatest talent pool, and diversity, which have been linked to organizational success.

How do virtual teams differ from face-to-face teams? How do the leadership needs of virtual teams differ from face-to-face teams? How would gender bias impact either face-to-face or virtual teams led by women?

Your essay should be 1-2 pages in length and follow APA formatting and citation.

Support your opinions with detailed examples or information from your textbook or a peer-reviewed journal

The APA format for your text Your textbook may be used as a reference. is as follows:

Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and practice (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Human Resource Management (HRM) plays a critical role in today's health care environment. Training and development is an important part of HRM in that it encourages professional growth and supports continued organizational improvement. The various forms of training and development are outlined in your e Text on p. 138. For your original post, select one form of training and development and explain your experience with this activity in the workplace. For instance, you can select and discuss "coaching" but if you have never had any experience with "coaching" you can explain how "coaching" forms of training could be implemented in a current or past place of employment.

For this problem, assume that high frequency sound waves travel through human tissue at 1500 m/s (about the speed of sound in water).

a) Measurements of the blood flow in the ascending aorta shows a maximum speed of 92.00 cm/sec. Assuming the ultrasound frequency used is 2.000000 MHz (the paper uses 2.25 MHz), calculate the frequency as seen by the blood that is traveling toward the ultrasound transducer at 92.00 cm/s. The transducer, which both transmits and receives the sound waves, is not moving. It’s fine to use lots of significant figures here, so you can see the difference in frequency.

b)Calculate the shift in frequency for the waves received by the transducer after the waves have reflected off the flowing blood back to the transducer. The shift in frequency is the difference in frequency between the incoming and outgoing waves.

c)The transducer is then re-positioned so that the blood is flowing away from the transducer. Again, calculate the shift in frequency for the waves received by the transducer after the waves have reflected off the flowing blood back to the transducer. [

d)For (c), calculate the magnitude of the percentage difference between the incoming and outgoing frequencies. (It’s essentially the same magnitude for part (b), too, because the speed of the blood is so much smaller than the speed of sound.)

Select a controversial globalization topic that interests you (Poverty, Environment, Jobs, Human Rights, Pollution, Loss of National Sovereignty, ect) and visit the websites of organizations that have opposing views on this topic. For the topic you have chosen, report on...
1. The specific positions of each opposing side in the debate
2. The evidence each side uses to support its position(s)
3. The policy agenda, if any, each side promotes

1. Which side of the debate do you agree or disagree with most?
2. Have your views on this topic changed as a result of your research? If so how?
3. In your opinion which types of firms/industries do you think
are most affected by this topic? Explain. Write up a short summary of your research findings and include any key web sites you found helpful. (Minimum of 450 words, maximum 500 words, APA format.)
Note: If you are over 500 words or 5 pages total, you will need to edit your paper below 500 words.

Psychologists have found that human memory involves three processes: encoding information into memory, storing information in memory, and retrieving information from memory. Psychologists have also identified specific strategies to help people encode, store, and retrieve information. How can this research help you study for this class more efficiently? What strategies could help you encode and store information in your memory as you study? What strategies could help you retrieve this information when you take a test?

In a multi-paragraph essay, describe how you could use specific memory strategies to improve your study skills. Be sure to explain how each strategy will improve how you encode, store, or retrieve information in memory.

Human Resource Consulting (HRC) surveyed a random sample of 53 Twin Cities construction companies to find information on the costs of their health care plans. One of the items being tracked is the annual deductible that employees must pay. The Minnesota Department of Labor reports that historically the mean deductible amount per employee is $501 with a standard deviation of $102.

1. Point vs. Interval Estimation

Here you will discuss the importance of constructing confidence intervals for the population mean. You want to be sure to address these questions:

• What are confidence intervals?
• What is a point estimate?
• What is the best point estimate for the population mean? Explain why it is the best.
• Why do we need confidence intervals?

2. Mean Estimation

First clearly give the best point estimate for the population mean the data was drawn from. Next you will construct two confidence intervals: a 95% confidence interval and a 99% confidence interval. Bear in mind that the population standard deviation is unknown, but you may assume that the population is approximately normally distributed. Please show your work for the construction of these confidence intervals. If you used technology or a calculator please explain what you used and how you got your intervals.

3. Interpretation and Conclusion

Compare and contrast your findings for the 95% and 99% confidence intervals. Did you notice any changes in your interval estimate? Be specific. What conclusion(s) can be drawn about your interval estimates when the confidence level is increased? Explain why you draw this conclusion.