Identify two (2) pieces of information not included in the principle financial statements (balance sheet, income statements, financial ratios) and legal actions being taken against the company, that you think would be important to someone considering whether to invest in your company. Explain your reasons for believing that this information would be important in making an investment decision.

An organization that is managed in a traditional and bureaucratic way will find itself stagnant, dysfunctional, and unable to adapt to its environment. Write a short essay that explains people change and culture change, and evaluate why they are necessary to achieve the change process. Be sure to include a detailed example of each in your answer.

Tell me about a retailer that has a distinct positioning other than the Disney Store, Big Bass Pro Shop, or Cabelas. What is the positioning and how has the retailer achieved it (i.e., in terms of their brand name, logo, products they carry, employees, where they're located, how the store is designed)?

Case 14.1 The LOGON Project
Top management of the Iron Butterfl y Company
(IBC) has decided to adopt a project-management
form of organization for the LOGON project. As
a consultant to top management, you have been
given two tasks to help implement this. First, you
must develop a project management policy statement
and a project manager job description. Your
policy statement should defi ne the project manager’s
role with respect to other functional managers,
as well as clarify the role of functional managers in
the project. Your job description must defi ne the
specifi c responsibilities and legal authority of the
project manager. You should consider the reactions
of functional managers to the policy statement
and job description, and how best to get their
“buy in.” How can you give the project manager
suffi cient authority to manage the LOGON project
without usurping the authority of other managers
who must give their support? You should also
suggest to top management what forms of evaluation
can be used as incentives for team members
to work together toward project goals. Remember,
the functional departments are also currently
involved in their own work and work in other
project activities.
Your second task is to specify and document
the qualifi cations for the position of LOGON project
manager. After considering the nature of the
project (technical scope, risks, complexity, etc.) as
described in Case 13.1 in Chapter 13, prepare a list
of qualifi cations—general background and experience,
personality characteristics, managerial,
technical, and interpersonal skills—for screening
candidates and making the fi nal selection. IBC has
some employees who have worked as project coordinators
and expediters, but no one with experience
as a pure project or matrix manager. Consider
the assumptions and pros and cons of selecting a
functional manager or technical specialist from
inside IBC, or an experienced project manager
from an outside the company. A contract has been
signed, and LOGON is to begin in 4 months.

Explain how do you do indexing in a circular queue? (java programing)

Children explore and react differently to their environment and experience according to

Kagan (1971). What behaviors might one observe in an impulsive child and a reflective child? Or a field-independent child and a field-dependent one?

What are the roles of the following groups in the healthcare value improvement process: boards of directors, senior leaders, physicians, employees, and payers?

Using the C language:

In the old days, data was stored on punched cards of 80 or 96 columns.

Presume your job is to update a database to include the newly found data in the file punchcard.txt
into a currently used data base. In order to do that, you must read in the data in columnar format
and convert it to comma separated fields so it can be imported.

Using buffered I/O functions (e.g. fopen, fclose, fprintf, fscanf, fread or fwrite, fgets, fgets, etc),
read the columnar data in punchcard.txt into your program. It has the following fields:

   unsigned int user_number 6 columns
   char name 32 columns
   char address 32 columns

Write the data out to a file called import.txt which is of the following CSV format for each line:

   user_number,name,address<carriage return>

If the data in name or address contains a comma, it must be delimited with double quotes around
it. Make sure you remove all extraneous spaces in front of, or behind the data so that the entry in
the import.txt file has no extraneous spaces which is not part of the data. This is often called
"trimming" the data.

punchcard.txt contains...

289383Estefana Lewey 9940 Ohio Drv, 85021
930886Burl Livermore 226 Amherst, 08330
692777Lannie Crisler 8143 Woods Drv, 20901
636915Zena Hoke 82 Roehampton St, 47905
747793Vicente Clevenger 9954 San Carlos St., 55016
238335Lidia Janes 348 Depot Ave, 29576
885386Claire Paladino 587 Front Ave, 32703
760492Leland Stillson 9793 Boston Lane, 08610
516649Wes Althouse 8597 Annadale Drive, 06514
641421Nadia Gard 218 George Street, 29150

Thank you in advance.

Answer the following questions (minimum 3 sentences for each question):

• Describe a time where you had to manage a number of projects at once.
• Next, discuss how you chose to assign your resources in order to complete them all (ie portfolio management).
• Lastly, respond to at least one classmate and share your thoughts on their portfolio management.

What are some reasons why and why Wikipedia should not be considered a scholarly source?

In 500-600 words: Describe how a teacher could use screening and assessment tools to develop individualized curriculum for children in their care and improve their overall abilities to care for infants and Toddlers? Why is it important to use details in observations? What are creative ways to use results from observations with children and in the classroom

Describe how each sociological perspective explains deviance.

For this bad news message, I want you to use the AIM planning process, the FAIR test, and the components of Bad News Messages as described in Chapter 11, particularly pages 336 to 345

Case study:

You are the manager for Macy’s Department Store and you manage 25 part-time employees. Many are retired individuals who are working to supplement their social security payments. It is difficult sometimes to hire and keep part-time employees because the pay is minimum wage and the hours you actually need people--- change.   Retirees have been very useful because they are available at all times and usually a good work ethic. Sara Smith is 66 years old, she has a Bachelor’s degree in Business and is working for you. She has shown up on time, works hard, and is very friendly. These qualities are great but upper management has complained to you about Sara. She is slow, they have seen her talk on her cell phone frequently, and she spends too much time talking to customers so other customers get frustrated when they need questions answered or to check out their items. You must tell Sara that she needs to be faster in her work, to limit her phone calls and to quit talking so much to the customers.

• Write out an agenda of a meeting you will have with Sara
• Read the components carefully to make sure you cover all of the points
• Write out how you will begin the negative review, how you will encourage Sara to be a better employee
• Make sure that this is professionally presented—ie, headings, numbers, bullets to explain your ideas

The Phone Company has the following costs of producing and selling a cell phone when it produces and sells 100,000 cell phones per month: Per unit manufacturing cost Direct materials $60.00 Direct labor 10.00 Variable manufacturing overhead cost 35.00 Fixed manufacturing overhead cost 20.00 Per unit selling cost Variable 25.00 Fixed 10.00 Note that ‘100,000’ is the denominator used to calculate fixed costs per unit. Total fixed costs do not change regardless of production/sales level. The selling price of a cell phone is $250, unless otherwise stated in the questions below. Each situation below is independent of the other situations. That is, when you answer one question, assume that the situations described in other questions have not occurred. When you are considering opportunities for increased sales, assume that Phone Company has enough manufacturing capacity to make these sales without incurring additional fixed costs (i.e., it has excess capacity). S

The Phone Company has received an offer by a contract supplier to make and ship the Phone Company’s cell phone (100,000 units) directly to the Phone Company’s customers. The Phone Company will continue to do some product design and marketing but will no longer manufacture the phones itself. If the Phone Company accepts this offer, its variable manufacturing costs would be $0 and its fixed manufacturing cost would be reduced by 75% of its current level. In addition, its variable selling cost would decrease by one-third and its fixed selling cost would not change. How much per cell phone could the Phone Company pay the contract supplier if it wants to maintain its present level of operating income?