A finance company issues commercial paper to an insurance company, which pays for them with the funds raised by issuing bonds to Mrs Jones. The finance company then buys shares issued by Telstra for the funding of its new tower.

Who provides funds to Telstra?

Developing Job Descriptions for Red Lobster

Red Lobster operates over 670 casual-dining seafood restaurants in the US and Canada, employing more than 63,000 people. When Red Lobster developed a new business strategy to focus on value and improve its image, it established a new vision, mission, and goals for the company. The restaurant chain simplified its menu with the highest-quality seafood it could offer at mid-range prices, traded its restaurants’ tropical themes for a crisp, clean look with white-shirt-and-black-pants uniforms for its employees, and added Northeastern coastal imagery to its menu and Web-site. Executing the new mission and differentiation strategy required hiring fun, hospitality-minded people who shared its values.

Although Red Lobster had not had any problem with hiring restaurant managers, the company felt that the managers it hired did not always reflect Red Lobster’s strategy, vision, and values. The company feels that their old job descriptions do not convey the passion and creativity that the new strategy requires from its employees. They want their job descriptions to help bolster recruitment of the kind of managers that will help advance the mission and create restaurant environments where employees feel motivated and customers feel welcome upon entering the establishment and positive about their experience when they leave.

The Charge

You have been hired as a consultant to help Red Lobster recruit management level staff. They have asked you to design an overall strategy that will help create job descriptions to improve the fit between its new management hires and its new business strategy. Job descriptions should help convey the importance of the Restaurant Manager position within the company and also in the restaurant itself. The process you design will help them, later on, develop other restaurant job descriptions for the service-level staff.

Question

Draw up a job description for the Red Lobster Restaurant Manager position that includes, at a minimum, the following:

Job title

Overall purpose statement - overall description of the broad function and scope of the position

List of duties or tasks performed critical to success

Decision-making requirements

Description of the relationships and roles within the company, including supervisory positions, subordinating roles and other working relationships

List of minimum qualifications and what experience/competencies an ‘ideal candidate’ would possess.

Most graduate schools of business require applicants for admission to take the Graduate Management Admission Council’s GMAT examination. Scores on the GMAT are roughly normally distributed with a mean of 540 and a standard deviation of 125.

a) What is the probability of an individual scoring above 515 on the GMA T?

b) What is the probability of an individual scoring below 460 on the GMA T?

c) If a sample of 36 individual are selected, find the probability that their average is between 470 and 580 on the GMAT?

d) How high must an individual score on the GMAT in order to score in the highest 10%?

5. Suppose the quantity of good X demanded by individual 1 is given by X1 = 10 − 2PX + 0.01I1 + 0.4PY and the quantity of X demanded by individual 2 is X2 = 5 − PX + 0.02I2 + 0.2PY

a) What is the market demand function for total X (= X1+X2) as a function of PX, I1, I2, and PY .

b) Graph the two individual demand curves (with X on the horizontal axis, PX on the vertical axis) for the case I1 = 1000, I2 = 1000, and PY = 10.

c) Using these individual demand curves, construct the market demand curve for total X. What is the algebraic equation for this curve?

d) Now suppose I1 increases to 1100 and I2 decreases to 900. How would the market demand curve shift? How would the individual demand curves shift? Graph these new curves.

e) Suppose PY rises to 15. Graph the new individual and market demand curves that would result.

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When Motorola assigned S.T. Kiosh, an American, to the European nation of Abendlandon his first overseas assignment, S.T. and his family soon became good friends with Bartholomew, a tried-and-true senior employee in the same department, and a native Abendlander. Their families, too, became good friends who genuinely enjoyed spending leisure time together. They would entertain each other on birthdays, holidays and other occasions. At first this entertainment was modest, but gradually it has become more and more lavish, with Bartholomew escalating the lavishness. However, some would say this is unexceptional, since Abendlanders have traditionally placed great emphasis on making foreign colleagues feel welcome and comfortable.

Over a period of months it gradually becomes clear to S.T. that Bartholomew would dearly love to get his oldest son, Florian, into a good university in the United States, Bartholomew could afford the tuition, but there is a problem: Florian is only an average student.

It so happens that S.T. is a graduate of, and contributor to, the famous business school at IvytwineUniversity. Although the standards of this old, established American university are not of the very highest, they are still quite respectable. And Ivytwine’s business school is renowned as an excellent place for students from all over the world to form friendships and alliances that will help them throughout their careers. For that reason, Abendlanders vie to get their children admitted there.

The Ivytwine admissions office has considerable integrity, but is not averse to giving a measure of special consideration to the applications of children, relatives or friends of generous alumni. It occurs to S.T. that with a strong recommendation from a generous alumnus like himself, Floridan could probably get into Ivytwine.

As time goes on, the situation within the local Motorola facility evolves in such a way that S.T. sees that he has a splendid opportunity for a major promotion, right there in Abendland. However, there are also several other strong candidates for this position, and whether S.T. succeeds will depend in part on the support he receives from Abendlander Motorolans – such as Bartholomew.

Meanwhile, S.T. has contacted the admissions office at Ivytwine, and, by persistence and the hint that in due course he might have a sizeable gift to bestow upon his alma mater, he has managed to get Floridan admitted. Since Florian could not have gotten into Ivytwine on his own merit, S.T. has in effect given Bartholomew something of substantial value. All of this has been handled quietly. Other employees are not aware of it.

Answer the following questions.

1.         What is the issue?

2.         Explain how this could be viewed as a bribe to help S.T. get his promotion.

3.         Explain how this could be viewed as simply S.T. helping a friend.

4.         Since Florian is already enrolled in Ivytwine what would you recommend that S.T. do?

Scenario You are the senior event services manager for a 12,000-seat arena located on a major university campus in the southeastern United States. The university’s athletics teams compete in the powerful Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). On this particular Saturday afternoon, the university men’s basketball team is playing a home game against one of its fiercest ACC rivals. In fact, the visiting team is the defending NCAA national champion and the fans were in a frenzied state for this game when you opened the doors. This televised marquee match-up is sold out. The game has commenced as tip-off was scheduled at 3:08 p.m. EST. As halftime approaches, the power goes out as a result of an automobile accident that knocked out a major electrical transformer. To the best of your knowledge, the power is out all across campus, as well as in the nearby surrounding neighborhoods. The campus police officers on duty have received word that the power will most likely not be restored for several hours. The majority of the campus police on duty in the arena have been directed to take other posts on campus to assist with traffic control and to protect some the highly sensitive research venues on campus. The operations manager reports that while the emergency generator started up and there is emergency lighting, for some reason the public address system is not working even though it is connected to the generator. You are the senior manager on-site and are responsible for decision-making and leading your staff in addressing this dilemma. The campus police have previously agreed that the decision whether or not to evacuate the venue during any event is ultimately the responsibility of the arena’s senior manager on-site during any emergency situation.

Assignment Emergency planning is an ongoing activity that should involve every department within a venue. From the event manager’s point of view, emergency preparedness takes on heightened importance during events because of the high stakes in a venue occupied by many people. The event manager must have the knowledge and competence to carry out emergency responses if necessary. In addition to venue management staff, emergency response will include appropriate actions from a broad range of venue occupants, including event staff (such as ushers and security personnel), medical staff, police, and fire officials. The emergency plan should include a chain of command protocol that includes an incident command system specifying who is in charge. Please answer the following questions as thoroughly as possible:

1. What is the first action you must take in this situation?

2. What instructions do you give to your on-site staff?

3. How do you communicate with the fans without the public address system?

4. How do you handle questions from fans regarding continuation of the game?