In recent years, two nationally known health care providers established satellite facilities a great distance from their main clinic locations:

• Mayo Clinic: The Mayo Clinic, of Rochester, Minnesota, opened facilities in Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota as well as Mexico City.

• Cleveland Clinic: The Cleveland Clinic also opened a Brain Institute in Nevada, a facility in Florida, and a hospital in Abu Dhabi.

Define the three levels of distribution intensity. Explain and assess the changes in distribution intensity these actions by the two clinics represent.

The purchasing manager of a local company is considering three sources of supply specially coated containers. Supplier A offers any quantity of container for $150 each. Supplier B offers in lots of 150or more at a price of $125 each. Supplier C offers containers in lots of 250 or more at a price of $100 each. The company requires 1,500 containers per annum.Ordering costs have been estimated at $400 per order, while carrying cost are 40% of unit price. Which supplier should be given the contract to supply the container?

List and explain the three-tiers security in network architecture?

CANADIAN ATLANTIC AND INTERNATIONAL BANK

Mary Keddy, Senior Vice-President HR, was facing Michael Bennett, the bank’s CEO, in his office. He had called her to an urgent meeting regarding the bank’s benefit expenses. He showed her some figures he had received from the Internal Auditor. The data indicated that the bank’s benefit expenses had reached almost 40 percent of the bank’s payroll. He also produced benchmark data from a survey, which showed that the industry average was close to 30 percent. “Why is it our benefit expenses are so much higher than those of our competitors?” he asked.

Mary pointed out that the data had assessed the financial services industry, not just banks, and that the industry included some trust companies with much lower benefit levels than banks—which, by and large, had benefit expenses similar to those of the CAIB—although the CAIB certainly occupied the high end of the scale.

Mr. Bennett wondered whether these expenses were really justified. “Where is the payoff?” he asked. Mary had no problems defending the bank’s benefit outlays. She pointed out that the CAIB had the lowest turnover rate among banks, 2 percent lower than any other, and that every employee attitude survey showed that the CAIB staff felt the bank to be a very good place to work and that job satisfaction was high. She also mentioned that the bank had no difficulties attracting top-flight applicants. She was convinced that the bank’s generous benefit package contributed significantly to this level of satisfaction. She concluded her explanation by saying: “Mike, look at the level of customer satisfaction. We beat out every other bank on this measure. I am sure the reason is that happy employees mean happy customers. And there is the main payoff.”

Bennett appreciated Mary’s explanation. He always had been proud when he saw the results of internal surveys. There was no doubt that people liked to work for the CAIB. “Still,” he wondered, “are there ways to cut the expenses without doing too much damage to employee satisfaction?” Mary agreed to look into that matter and to make suggestions regarding more efficient methods of delivering benefit services. She had heard and read about the use of the intranet and the Internet as more effective ways to administer benefit plans, but felt that she did not know enough about it to come up with convincing recommendations. It was obvious that she needed some expert advice.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The last time a benefit audit had been done was seven years ago—a year before Mary joined the bank. Ever since her arrival, Mary had been too busy introducing strategic changes in areas such as selection, diversity management, and training. In the past five years, the bank had also acquired several other financial institutions and expanded into other countries. But the need for a benefit audit had been on her mind for some time.

The bank’s flexible benefit package included, besides the usual supplementary health and life insurances, child care, elder care, a drug payment plan, wellness programs (the bank had its own exercise centre), personal counselling service (drugs, alcohol, smoking cessation), educational support, and financial advising. It was also possible to purchase more vacation time. There were three full-time employees responsible for administering the flexible benefit package. The administration expenses, including communication, were close to $300,000 annually. The bank used a quite-effective intranet mainly for training and public announcements.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

ETHICS 301 - Business ethics

1. Why is it important that businesspeople study business ethics?

2. Discuss how the three categories of institutions (political, economic, and social) are important in establishing a foundation for normative values.

3. Establishing systems to monitor and enforce ethical standards is an important component of ethics program. Discuss four distinct methods to monitor and enforce ethical standards.

4. What are the benefits of ethics program? Discuss at least four distinct benefits.

5. Define code of ethics and code of conduct, and discuss the difference between the two.

6. Discuss the importance of stakeholder perspective in business ethics. Discuss the steps to implement stakeholder perspective.

Hypothesis: If the temperature increases, then the air pollution will get worse.

Describe the procedures needed to test this hypothesis and what equipment would be needed.

A medical researcher wants to begin a clinical trial that involves systolic blood pressure (SBP) and cadmium (Cd) levels. However, before starting the study, the researcher wants to confirm that higher SBP is associated with higher Cd levels. Below are the SBP and Cd measurements for a sample a participants. What can the researcher conclude with an α of 0.05?

a) What is the appropriate statistic?
---Select--- na Correlation Slope Chi-Square
Compute the statistic selected above:  

b) Compute the appropriate test statistic(s) to make a decision about H₀.
(Hint: Make sure to write down the null and alternative hypotheses to help solve the problem.)
critical value =  ; test statistic =  
Decision:  ---Select--- Reject H0 Fail to reject H0

c) Compute the corresponding effect size(s) and indicate magnitude(s).
If not appropriate, input and/or select "na" below.
effect size =  ;   ---Select--- na trivial effect small effect medium effect large effect

d) Make an interpretation based on the results.

A.There was a significant positive relationship between systolic blood pressure and cadmium levels.

B.There was a significant negative relationship between systolic blood pressure and cadmium levels.

C. There was no significant relationship between systolic blood pressure and cadmium levels.

Write a C++ program to score the paper-rock-scissor game. Each of two players (player1 and player2) input a character which could be either ‘P’, ‘R’, or ‘S’ (in uppercase or lowercase). For any other input character should display a message “Invalid input”. The program then announces who is the winner as well as the basis for determining the winner which could be one of the following: “Paper covers rock”, “Rock breaks scissors”, “Scissors cut paper”, or “Nobody wins”. (Use switch statement)

Read the following quote attributed to Sun Tzu:

“When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”

In approximately 500 words, explain the meaning of these three sentences in terms of change and strategy.

Chapter I. Ten Principles of Economics

1. Explain the two main causes of market failure and give an example of each (6th edition). Relate this to examples in your home country Honduras.
2. Your roommate is a better cook than you are, but you can clean more quickly than your roommate can. If your roommate did all the cooking and you did all the cleaning, would your chores take you more or less time than if you divided each task evenly? Give a similar example of how specialization and trade can make two countries both better off.

The distribution of income is likely to be more UNEQUAL in a capitalist (market) economy compared to a socialist (command) economy. Explain why this is true. (Remember what determines the distribution of income in each type of economic system.)

Mention at least 3 significant changes that came about with the discovery or manipulation of fire.

Changes - what was the change "cooking"

Description - explain how it was manifested, "how it was done"

Reflection - how do you think this changed humanity in general

List and describe the changes that emerged after the discovery and mastery of the use of fire.

A few years ago, Anheuser-Busch Inc. created a new division dedicated to marketing to Hispanics and announced it would boost its ad spending in Hispanic media by two-thirds to more than $60 million, while Miller Brewing Co. signed a $100 million, three-year ad package with Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. But Hispanic activists immediately raised public health concerns about the beer ad blitz on the grounds that it targets a population that skews young and is disproportionately likely to abuse alcohol. Surveys of Hispanic youth show that they are much more likely to drink alcohol, get drunk, and engage in binge drinking than their white or black peers. A senior executive at Anheuser-Busch responded, “We would disagree with anyone who suggests beer billboards increase abuse among Latino or other minority communities. It would be poor business for us in today’s world to ignore what is the fastest-growing segment of our population.” Manufacturers of alcohol and tobacco products have been criticized for targeting unwholesome products to certain segments of the market—the aged, ethnic minorities, the disabled, and others.

1) Do you view this as a problem?

2) Should a firm use different criteria in targeting such groups?

3) Should the government oversee and control such marketing activities?

In a short paper describe the four different types of analytics needed to create insights and make decisions from big data. should be 2-3-pages in length and written in Word