Case study :

The General Federation of Oman Workers is the federation in the Sultanate aimed to safeguard the interests of all the workers in the Sultanate and to defend their legal rights, improve the conditions and situations of their work, consolidate labor values, raise the productivity of the workers, and finally to promote the social dialogue between the parties of production, be they government, workers or employers.

The General Federation of Oman Workers (GFOW) is receiving too many complaints about the violation of the rights of the Omani and expatriate manpower in the Sultanate of Oman. Some of the private sector companies are targeting the expatriate workforce and deducting their wages or threatening to end the service.

GFOW said as of now it is received more than 94 complaints of labor violations which included the deduction of wages, non-payment and forcing the employees to opt for loss of pay, leave without pay, committing to reduce the number of workers at work sites, issuing the termination of service letters, and deduction of the quarantine lockdown days from the annual vacation period.

Number of reported violations are increasing day by day some of they are related to expatriate workers humanitarian aspects and some of they are related to minimum needs of human life like provision for housing, food and payment of in-time wages

The Federation called the private sector institutions and discussed the protection of the expatriate and national workforce and asked the commitment to pay their regular wages and to ensure the availability of the necessary health standards in their workplaces at residences and the need to make them aware of the precautionary measures issued by the competent authorities.

Finally in one of its statements the council stressed that; there should be no compromise on the in-time payment of the salaries of employees in the private sector.

The General Federation of Oman Workers is still continuously monitoring the pending cases and coordinating with the relevant and competent authorities to provide the solutions and the federation is urging all the workers in the Sultanate of Oman to follow all the safety precautions to overcome coronavirus disease.

Question:1

a) Irrespective of lockdown period the company wants to assess the performance of their marketing team; in this regard suggest any 10 key performance indicators for two key result areas of marketing

Background:

In the game “Rock, Paper, and Scissors,” two players simultaneously say (or display a hand symbol representing) either “rock,” “paper,” or “scissors.” The winner is the one whose choice wins over the other. The rules are: paper wins over (wraps) rock, rock wins over (breaks) scissors, and scissors wins over (cuts) paper.

Assignment:

A customer wants you to design and implement a program (RPS.py) for playing the game of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” for a single player against the computer. The player/user is to be prompted to enter a letter representing their turn in the game: R or r for rock, P or p for paper, S or s for scissors, and Q or q for quit.  The computer will take its turn as player 2 to select a choice of rock (1 = R or r), paper (2 = P or p) or scissors (3 = S or s).

So if:

            Player enters R

            Computer randomly chooses the number 3 (aka. Scissors)

Player wins - rock wins over (breaks) scissors,

Once the program ends, it should display/output the Total Attempts, Total Valid Attempts, along with the number of human player wins, losses and ties.

Question:

1)

What would happen if the customer asked you to change the program to be Rock, Paper, Lizard, Scissors, & Spock?

From the popular TV Show The Big Bang Theory, the rules are as the character Sheldon explains, "Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors."

Describe what portion of the code/logic would need to change in the code?  How many combinations does the program need to support now?

2)Test your code and show at least 3 iterations and the final output for the original customer problem.

Pulp and paper production is the third largest industrial polluter to air, water, and land in the United States. The main components of pulp mill related pollution are chlorine and chlorine based materials, sulfur, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide. With regard to water pollution, chlorine and compounds of chlorine are used in the bleaching of wood pulp, especially chemical pulps produced by the kraft process or sulfite process. Plants using elemental chlorine produced significant quantities of dioxins that are persistent organic pollutants that are one of the most toxic human-released pollutants. The used process water from a pulp mill contains a lot of organic material such as lignin and other organic material from the trees, including chlorinated organic material. The presence of these organic substances results in high biological oxygen demand (BOD) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC). There are 24 paper and pulp mills located along the Lower Fox River in Wisconsin. The Fox River is the largest tributary of Lake Michigan. There are many communities along the banks of the Fox River, such as Green Bay and the Fox Cities, that are directly impacted by pollution from these pulp and paper mills. In addition, the Fox River is used almost daily for recreational activities.

(a) If the State of Wisconsin were to use a regulatory approach to control this pollution of the Fox River, what are some alternative standards it might consider? How would you rank these alternatives in terms of economic efficiency?

(b) If the State of Wisconsin were to use a Pigouvian tax approach to control this pollution of the Fox River, what are some alternative tax approaches it might consider? How would you rank these alternatives in terms of economic efficiency?

(c) What would a cap-and-trade approach look like? How would it be designed? (d) What would a Coasian solution look like? How well do you think it would work?

（Please type all the answer, do not handwriting,thanks!)

1-Define and choose two terms (and explain why) that may assist you in the ability to evaluate business situation under a legal, social, and
economical perspective.

-Social Perspective
-Theory
-Symbolic Interaction
-Functional Analysis
-Conflict Theory
-Culture shock
-Ethnocentrism
-Cultural Relativism
-Folkways
-Mores
-Taboo
-Id
-Ego
-Super Ego
-Transitional adulthood
-Social class
-Social integration
-Stereotype
-In-groups
-Instrumental leader
-Expressive leader
-Authoritarian leader
-Democratic leader
-Laissez-faire leader
-Groupthink

2-According to Mead, learning to take the role of others entails three stages. Name and describe them:  
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-True or False:

4) More U.S. students are killed in school shootings now than 10 or 15 years ago.
5) Most rapists are mentally ill.
6) Couple who live together before marriage are usually more satisfied with their marriages than couples who do not live together before marriage.
7) Compared with women, men make more eye contact in face-to-face conversations.
8) Most husbands of employed wives who themselves get laid off from work take up the slack and increase the amount of housework they do.

9-According to Kohlberg, we go through a sequence of stages as we develop morality. Name and describe them:

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Fill in the blank:

10) ___________ also foster identity by showing in-group members what they are not.
11) ____________ consist of social ties that link people together.
12) The term ______________ refers to how individuals affect groups and how groups influence individuals.
13) A _______, consisting of two people, is the most unstable of human groups, but it provides the most intense and intimate relationships.
14) _____________ is the study of how people make sense of everyday life.
15) In _____________, the focus is placed on large-scale features of social life.

16) What was your favorite topic in the first five chapters of your book and why?

CASE Study :

Soltis & Sons is a management consulting firm that is attempting to grow its business by targeting small businesses that are run by women or immigrants. In pursuing this strategy, the company has hired employees of other cultures whose first language is not English. Many of these employees are under 30 and they do not have college degrees. While this effort is leading to a workforce that mirrors the clients, the company finds that employees and managers are experiencing difficulties communicating with one another. This leads to misunderstandings and a decrease in productivity and customer satisfaction. For example, if a manager gives instructions about completing a certain task to an employee who fails to fully comprehend the instructions, the employee may make mistakes.

The director of Human Resources is considering whether or not to offer some type of training, yet none has been offered to date. She thinks some employees may be

impacted by negative stereotypes associated with a lack of work experience with people from different cultures. She also noted that some work teams do not like to be

supervised by younger people of color. A few employees quit over this issue and management is trying to decide what to do.

Using the 3-Step Problem-Solving Approach and the Organizing Framework, how can Soltis & Sons address the problem?

Step 1: Define the problem. What are the gaps between the desired outcomes and the current state?

Step 2: Identify causes of the problem. Remember, the diversity climate is an important situation factor. There are also relevant processes across the individual

level (perception, attributions, and psychological safety), the group/team level (group/team dynamics), and the organizational level (options to manage diversity).

These inputs and processes have critical outcomes.

Step 3: Make recommendations for solving the problem. What options does Soltis & Sons have?

Word count should be more than 600 words( total of 3 steps ) .

Please help me !! Thank You.

1. The concept of technology managing value-exchange transactions and allowing access by businesses to information throughout the exchange is called _______________________________.

   	A.	Machine Learning
   	B.	Mesh Applications
   	C.	Conversational Systems
   	D.	Blockchain

2 points   

QUESTION 4

1. Supply Chain Information Systems would typically contain modules for the following, EXCEPT:

   	A.	Lead Generation and Tracking
   	B.	Inbound/Outbound Logistics
   	C.	Inventory Management
   	D.	Order Management

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and jobs?

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding Business Intelligence Information Systems?

   	A.	Business Intelligence systems are only used to support the development of marketing programs
   	B.	Business Intelligence systems analyze past performance and make predictions about future behavior
   	C.	Business Intelligence systems incorporate all five standard information system components
   	D.	Data Warehouses are generally a key element of Business Intelligence systems

2 points   

QUESTION 11

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding market-basket analysis?

   	A.	It is a data mining technique for determining sales patterns, and helps determine cross-selling opportunities
   	B.	Market-basket analysis focuses on the probability that two or more items will be purchased together
   	C.	Support is the conditional probability estimate of whether one item will be purchased given that the customer purchased a second item
   	D.	Lift shows how much the base probability for purchasing an item increases or decreases when other products are purchased.

Scenario: Six months into an academic development project, the client reviews the progress and issues a stop-work order. The main issues identified during their review were: 1. There were different expectations about the complexity of graphics in course development and course materials. 2. There were different opinions about the level of marketing required (marketing a course versus marketing the whole academy, no post-course promotions, etc.) 3. There were issues with instructors. These were instances where instructors had rescheduled on multiple occasions or cancelled. 4. There were concerns about the subject matter experts. Subject matter experts had been hired outside of the budgeted amount. 5. There were concerns about the subject matter experts not providing the level of technical writing expertise required, which resulted in having to hire additional technical writers. MRG HPI addressed some of these concerns by removing the videotaping requirement during the analysis phase and removing the repeat courses that were going to be offered during the final contract year. By eliminating videotaping and repeat courses, the remaining courses to be developed and presented were stretched over the rest of the contract of 2.5 years. This mean that instead of developing and offering the 15 courses using two teams in a staggered fashion over two years, MRG HPI must reduce staff. Currently, there are three senior instructional designers, six graphic artists, three document specialists, six technical writers, three subject matter experts, and two editors assigned to the teams. MRG HPI has subject matter experts as consultants under contract. They don’t want to lose their staff, but they may have no choice but to let some go.

Questions: 1. What re the challenges faced by the Human Resource department in this scenario?

2. What can be done to retain the employees?

3. What communication strategy should be adopted to implement employee retention strategies?

Scenario: Jorge, as the global team manager, was hired to manage some new global teams for AlternativeSource Inc. (ASI), an alternative-energy company implementing wind, solar, and water-generated energy systems throughout the globe. Jorge had worked previously for a gas exploration company in North America, so he simply hired many of his previous company’s employees who had worked for him at the gas exploration company. Jorge deployed the teams along with their families to work with Indian nationals and clients in India. Since India is such a large country, although there is some autonomy for the teams, all decisions were made by Jorge and then subsequently communicated with the teams. After 5 months in the field, the teams are not performing well. The team members are frustrated by what they termed as internal conflicts and “the clients’ lack of cooperation,” and their families seemed to be unhappy in the new environment. The ASI executive management team is beginning to ask questions not only regarding the team’s performance but also regarding the hiring process used. ASI has an employee handbook saying that the company hires people based on abilities from a diverse pool of candidates that also represent their diversity of global clients. After completing your chapter reading and reviewing the Learning Activity regarding culture and global human resource management (HRM), address the following checklist items.

● Describe the problems you discern in this situation from the brief facts provided.

● Describe how the global teams in India are managed versus how they should be managed.

● Apply global HRM concepts from your reading to the hiring of the teams.

● If you had been Jorge, how would you have applied all of the cultural adaptation concepts from your Reading and Learning Activities areas that would fit this scenario at the outset to help the team members and their families be successful in adjusting to India?

Please address all four bullet points :)

CASE Study of management of organization behavior :

Soltis & Sons is a management consulting firm that is attempting to grow its business by targeting small businesses that are run by women or immigrants. In pursuing this strategy, the company has hired employees of other cultures whose first language is not English. Many of these employees are under 30 and they do not have college degrees. While this effort is leading to a workforce that mirrors the clients, the company finds that employees and managers are experiencing difficulties communicating with one another. This leads to misunderstandings and a decrease in productivity and customer satisfaction. For example, if a manager gives instructions about completing a certain task to an employee who fails to fully comprehend the instructions, the employee may make mistakes.

The director of Human Resources is considering whether or not to offer some type of training, yet none has been offered to date. She thinks some employees may be

impacted by negative stereotypes associated with a lack of work experience with people from different cultures. She also noted that some work teams do not like to be

supervised by younger people of color. A few employees quit over this issue and management is trying to decide what to do.

Using the 3-Step Problem-Solving Approach and the Organizing Framework, how can Soltis & Sons address the problem?

Step 1: Define the problem. What are the gaps between the desired outcomes and the current state?

Step 2: Identify causes of the problem. Remember, the diversity climate is an important situation factor. There are also relevant processes across the individual

level (perception, attributions, and psychological safety), the group/team level (group/team dynamics), and the organizational level (options to manage diversity).

These inputs and processes have critical outcomes.

Step 3: Make recommendations for solving the problem. What options does Soltis & Sons have?

Word count should be more than 600 words( total of 3 steps ) .

Please help me !! Thank You.

Energetics and Metabolism Activity

Humans are described in a couple of different ways in relation to maintaining body temperature: homeotherm and endotherm are two common phrases. “Homeotherm” translates to “same temperature,” meaning humans maintain a stable body temperature regardless of the external environment. Related is the term “endotherm,” meaning “internal body temperature.” Humans, being warm-blooded, are dependent and capable of internally generating heat when needed. Regardless of the phrase used, the ability to maintain a stable body temperature is a critical part of our homeostasis. Therefore, we expend a lot of energy to maintain a near-constant internal environment of 37°C, which is largely accomplished by our metabolism.

Other organisms are poikilotherms or ectotherms; they cannot internally regulate their body temperature, and their body temperature can change depending on the external environment. Most fish, sharks, reptiles and amphibians fall into this category. While ectothermy is a significant energy-saving adaptation, it also means an organism’s metabolic rate is dependent upon the external environment. Higher temperatures increase metabolic rate, colder temperatures slow it down.  

In this activity, you will be examining the effects increased temperature has on the metabolic rates of three species of fish.

Go to the following website, and perform the experiment:

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT08/CT08.html

Fill in the table below with your results:

1. Interpret your results from the experiment; what do these data tell you about fish metabolic rate in response to temperature?

2. How might ectotherms have to compensate for their variability in metabolic rate in terms of how much they eat?

3. Compare and contrast the basal metabolic rate of a fish and a human. How are each maintained? How might the BMR of each change in a warm environment? A cold environment?