...Mod 6: Discussion Questions Actions for Mod 6: Discussion Questions Part 1 Read the article People Can Equal Profits or Problems. Briefly identify the author’s position on personal relationships in the workplace. Do you agree with the author's position? Why? Why not? Have you encountered similar dilemma at your job, school, or other settings? How did you resolve it? Part 2 How do you see American society today in terms of class relations and social mobility? Do you see the American education system as reinforcing the opportunity for social mobility or perpetuating the class division in this nation? Why? Part 3 Referring to your readings in Mor Barak, what is the most prominent cultural style and relational mental model at your workplace or other organizations to which you belong (e.g. school) Part 1 In the article “People Can Equal Profits or Problems” by Joseph Schmitt, I believe that the author is against the personal relationship in the workplace, and he also points out that having a great leader is important for attracting good people. According to the article, “If companies have people problems, they probably have a problem with the leadership that is administering the people programs. If companies want to attract good people, then the first step they need to take is to be certain great people lead them. Worse than bad hiring processes, layers of nepotism and cronyism send clear messages that who you know and to whom you are related are much more important than...
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...apply concepts learned to a real-life simulation experience. Throughout the Course Project, you will assume that you work as a financial analyst for AirJet Best Parts, Inc. The Course Project is provided in two parts as follows: Part I – In Part I, you work with AirJet Best Parts, Inc. staff to identify the best loan options, as well as to valuate stocks and bonds. Part II – In Part II, you will provide the company with a recommendation for purchasing a new machine. You will base your recommendation on the Net Present Value (NPV) of the capital investment project using the cost of capital (WACC) as your discount rate. About AirJet Best Parts, Inc. AirJet Best Parts, Inc. is a company dedicated to the design and manufacturing of aviation and airplane technologies and parts. The company has commercial and military clients worldwide. Task 1: Assessing loan options for AirJet Best Parts, Inc. The company needs to finance $8,000,000 for a new factory in Mexico. The funds will be obtained through a commercial loan and by issuing corporate bonds. Here is some of the information regarding the APRs offered by two well-known commercial banks. Bank | APR | Number of Times Compounded | National First | Prime Rate + 6.75% | Semiannually | Regions Best | 13.17 | Monthly | 1. Assuming that AirJet Parts, Inc. is considering loans from National First and Regions Best, what are the EARs for these two banks? Hint for National Bank: Go to the St. Louis Federal Reserve...
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... “Ms. Mason. Ms. Mason. Open the door please.” I knew that little voice, Christine Collins the girl next door I watch. Tears rolling down her face, “Please it’s my mommy…help her.” Christine’s mother was lying on the living room floor. “Mrs. Collins? Can you hear me? It’s Beth.” I glanced at Christine whose head was berried in her hands. How do I tell an eight-year-old girl her mother wasn’t breathing? I pulled her next to me, “Sweetie” before I could talk she spoke, “Is she asleep like my daddy, Ms. Mason?” I have forgot that her father passed away less than two months ago. I just nodded, “Can I come with you?” kissing her head, “Of course you can. I can’t leave you here alone. Go get some things together.” I had no way of calling 9-1-1 so I laid a cover over her. Christine came out of her room with a book bag and a stuffed teddy bear. We went back over to my house. “Ms. mason?” I stopped her, “Christine I am only 18 you don’t have to talk to me like you do my mother honey. You can call me Beth.” She smiled, “Okay. Um Beth where is your mommy?” We got in my small two door car that looks like it could fall apart any second. It was hard to get down our street, cars where just in the middle of the road. I threw a jacket over Christine’s face. I didn’t want to see bloody people on the ground or leaning half way out of their car doors. What in the world has happened? The police stations was the exact same. Dead people were all around. I...
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...The mission of Club IT is according to the site (Club IT, 2000-2012), "We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT." The clientele of the club is a group of individuals that fall into the category of mostly Net Generation and Millennials (according to appendix d). This group of people regularly uses mobile technologies such as Blackberries, PDAs, camera phones, and other wireless communication devices. Online shopping is a regular part of their lives. Their functional areas of the business that they currently use information resources would include things such as; payroll, inventory ordering for food stuffs, scheduling, ticket sales, and the intranet that they have set up for their employees. Currently the two owners of Club IT have worked through the issues that have come to them as needed but, according to Appendix D, the back office is being run in a cramped office space with dial up internet service. The owners are currently using multiple suppliers to bring in all of the goods that they need and have the ability to order a portion of the goods on line and other cannot be. The second use of management that they are using is the booking of the entertainment for the club. The owners currently use telephone and in person sales to promote concerts that they host. The owners have asked to have an evaluation done to see what types...
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...``Shakespeare Was Not OF An Age But For All Time`` I agree with the statement ``Shakespeare was not for an age but for all time. `` The words of praise probably the most famous ever written about Shakespeare , were penned by Shakespeare`s good friend and follow writer `Ben Johnson`. For the poet and playwright generally considered the greatest ever is also one of the least known of all literary figures. And his works were indeed created for the popular entertainment of his day with little thought to their immortality. Shakespeare did not take any steps to preserve his writings past their immediate use. (Fortunately his friends did.) With all the academic study of Shakespeare and the trappings of fine culture that have been wrapped around productions of his dramas over the centuries, we often forget what a rollicking, bawdy and entertaining spectacle his plays presented to their original audience — and still can to a modern audience, in the right hands. The timelessness of Shakespeare's themes continue to keep his plays fresh. He dramatized basic issues: love, marriage, familial relationships, gender roles, race, age, class, humor, illness, deception, betrayal, evil, revenge, murder, and death. The essential question that Shakespeare explored in his plays is, "what does it mean to be a human being?" The genius of Shakespeare is that he manged to show us ourselves in every conceivable light. It really doesn't matter when the plays were written since they are about the...
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...I do think that by doing so it looses a lot of its original meaning. I believe that literature can be interpreted in to many different meanings and ways that other people don't see. To one person Shakespeare can be a legendary writer and to anot her person he can be some idiot that wrote a lot of garbage. After reading this section, I find it interesting that Shakespeare can be interpreted in several various ways. I have seen a few different productions of Shakespeare plays and I can understand the different ways that people have perceived the various plays. Personally, I believe that the difference between a “more faithful” versus a “more free” adaptation of a Shakespearean play is that a show that is “more faithful” tends to follow the time frame and setting that the play was placed in, whereas a “more free” adaptation can change to different time frames and have different surroundings than the play was actually placed in. With a more “faithful” adaptation of Shakespeare we learn more about the history behind the play and what it truly is about. Unfortunately, with a more “freer” adaptation we can lose the history behind the play because the context of the play can change based on the decisions of how the play was interpreted. In a faithful version of a play, the language, setting, costumes, and all other major aspects remain as the author originally wrote them; a free adaptation may change one or more of these elements. A more faithful adaptation has the advantage of...
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...customer service and quality products are the key factors for successful businesses. In company Q’s case, they are failing at both, especially when they don’t even have the support from their own community. It is probably a good thing that they closed two of their stores in higher-crime-rate areas of the city because being in a higher-crime-rate areas would drive their customers away even more so. Even though Company Q can care less about the social responsibility, maybe we can still recommend few pointers to help them improve the business. First, Company Q needs to understand that their manager doesn’t have the best interest in the company. I believe that the company should either let him go or let him know that they would love to be a part of their community and start respecting their wishes. In order to gain the respect from the community, the company should have the manager apologize sincerely to local food bank for the previous incident and make a big donation. Second, Company Q should definitely keep health-conscience and organic products and maybe even have varieties of it to make that their “thing”. This...
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...Club IT Part 1 Maria Acosta XBIS/ 219 December 20, 2012 Richard Vincent Club IT Part 1 Club IT is a night club that Rueben Keys and Lisa Tejada have put together, to provide some high quality entertainment for everyone to enjoy, especially their adult friends. The mission statement for Club It is “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space, and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT.” (R. Kelly Rainer & Turban, 2009) What Rueben and Lisa have done is take a 6000 square foot location, remodeled it to accommodate a 600 square foot dance floor, seating for 220 people, four wells and bar, a kitchen that serves appetizers and short orders. They have different music genres every week providing a variety of musical acts to fit a variety of consumers. They have a limited information system that provides just the basics for tracking, employees and information access and security. My goal is to provide the needed information that will guide Rueben and Lisa to make the necessary additions and changes to their technical and information systems that will ultimately prove to be profitable for them in the long run. First we need to address the security of their information system, we see that the employees and proprietors all have the same user name and password and can view the same information, personal and otherwise. Employees need their own...
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...AFIN818 ASSIGNMENT PART3 Individual Journal Reflecting On Group Experience. 1. Describe We have a lot of differences in choosing the research model and the data because each of us has our own understanding and opinion about this assignment. Our resources are different and limited so we cannot reach an agreement at the beginning. 2. Analysis The reason of the difficulty is that some parts of the assignment need the data on some websites like ASX and others come from the financial statement. That means the resources of each part is very different and limited. Using limited resources to do research is difficult and challenging. But this is a good opportunity to improve our academic ability. And also in order to improve the integrity and rationality of the whole assignment, we must consider our teammates as far as possible, such as using the same data range. Besides, there is a very important point in the whole assignment. Sometimes one person finishes his part and calculates a ratio as a result. It seems that he has done his part. In fact, the ratio is very important or the key point in the teammates’ part, so he must take the rationality of the result in consideration, or it will create a lot troubles for the teammates. 3. Evaluation A group assignment is different from the individual assignment. Although the distribution of the sections seems to reduce the burden of everyone, it is necessary to spend more time and effort on the discussion, compromise...
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...Case Study: Air Canada takes off with Maintenix 1) What problems does Air Canada hope that Maintenix will solve? Air Canada hoped to solve the following problems: • The usage of several different legacy software packages installed over the last 15 years. • The inability of the systems to interact with one another or with finance and inventory systems • The costs on Air Canada the inefficiencies of these systems were causing. • The unprofessionalism they had in some fields’ maintenance engineering, line maintenance and materials management (full implementation). And the insufficiency of some other departments; heavy maintenance, shop maintenance and finance. (partial implementation) 2) How does Maintenix improve operational efficiency and decision-making? • Matintenix provides a system platform that is accessible via the Web and easy to deploy to all stations around the world. Mxi claims that their software reduces repetitive tasks and time chasing missing or incomplete information by allowing maintenance, engineering, and finance divisions to easily share information. This assures the improvement of operational efficiency. • Maintenix can supply data to the company’s existing enterprise resource planning and financial software. • Wireless deployment also make Maintenix more effective, since aviation technicians, equipment, and parts are always on the move. • All of the information provided by Maintenix’s various modules is located in one place. This results in...
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...Data Collection: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. QNT/351 Data Collection: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. Overview Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. (BIMS) is a company that provides housekeeping and foodservices to large corporations and businesses. BIMS employs a total of 452 employees, including full-time and part-time workers as well as upper management employees. The average turnover rate for BIMS is typically 55 to 60%. During the past four months the turnover rate has increased to over 64%. Despite the efforts to get to the root of the issue causing the high turnover rate, management at BIMS has been unsuccessful. The morale is low at BIMS, and there has been an increase in the use of sick leave. The performance of workers has become inadequate, which has caused a number of complaints from clients. Data Collection Instrument A survey instrument was created in an attempt to allow the workers to express their views about their individual experiences at BIMS. The survey begins by asking questions about the employee’s feelings toward his or her position and the relationship he or she has with his or her boss. The survey also includes demographic questions that identifies the division they are assigned to and how long they have been employed. As the consulting group one can expect to find that the increase in turnover to be directly...
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...EFB210: FINANCE 1, 2012 S1 Assignment: Part A, Financial Mathematics and Security Valuation _______________________________________________________________________________________ General Information Marks: 10 Weight: 10% Format: Short Answer with workings File Type: Excel (.xlsx or .xls) Due: 29 March 2012 Upload soft copy of your Excel file to Blackboard under Assessment on or prior to the due date. Assignments submitted after the due date (late assignments) cannot be uploaded to Blackboard. Instead, they need to be emailed directly to Mark Doolan (m.doolan@qut.edu.au). Unless prior approval for late submission is granted, late assignments will incur a penalty. To avoid mixing up assignments, you must name your assignment with the following format: * unit code, your name, your student number, and the assignment number * for example: EFB210 John Doe n1234567 Assignment Part A.xlsx Finally, complete the table below and add it to your assignment. Notes to Markers * Assignments are accessed and marked through grade centre. If the student has submitted multiple assignments, mark their last submission. * Marking for Knowledge and Understanding * 1 mark per question * 1 mark for correct answer * 0 marks for incorrect answer – no part marks * This shouldn’t happen, but mark the student correct if their answer appears to differ from correct answer by a small rounding. Note that this is for small rounding...
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...Club IT Part 1 Tina Bell XBIS/219 October 26, 2013 Katherine Escobar Club IT Part 1 Club IT is a place to relax, make some new friends, dance, eat some delicious appetizers created by our very own kitchen. We will be even more creative in the future, and you can log on to our website and see the progress we are making. We want to make sure you know we cater to our customers; there will be a place on our website where you can interact with the establishment and let us know your every need. The owners and managers are Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada; they are realizing their dream with Cub IT. They both have attained their degree in Business Administration in 2005; in addition they are both musicians and have learned a great deal in the nightclub business through their work in music. One of our goals at Club IT is to have our customers set up an Internet account right here in the club on your lap-top or at home with the password we provide it will not matter where you are at. This will give you access to our website, this is where the fun begins online, right now you can get to know our employees and the rest of the gang. Our online community is fun, and we want to encourage everybody to join, it is free and you get a10% discount in our merchandise store. Here you can learn of the new activities we plan there our going to be some surprises in the future. You can learn business hours and menu items, prices, the band schedule and so much more. We have access to the Internet for anyone...
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...play will not be as heroic and godly as initially envisioned. This is because there is a shortage in the resources necessary to depict this great spectacle, and it is instead the audience’s responsibility to both create and imagine the play. The opening prologue alone sets the stage for how equivocally this war will be portrayed, and also how frequently the reader’s understanding of Henry will be challenged throughout the play. In Act 1, we are introduced to the crafty Bishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Ely, who discuss a bill that will cause the Church to lose a significant amount of money if passed. They then realize that if they can convince Henry to invade France in order to claim the throne, they can postpone the bill in the meantime, as Canterbury has already proposed to donate a generous amount of money towards the war. Soon after, we meet Henry for the first time, and Canterbury delivers a prolonged speech to justify his claim to declare war with the French, by reassuring Henry that he can indeed inherit the French throne. Leading up to Act 1, scene 2, lines 290-310, King Henry has been presented with a chest full of tennis balls sent from the Dauphin, as a form of mockery to suggest Henry’s immaturity and inability to lead a country. This provokes Henry’s powerful rant, a retaliation to the mockery. This speech provides an essential insight into Henry’s multifaceted personality. It portrays not only Henry’s unpredictable nature, but also in such ambiguity alludes to the...
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...Project Part 1 The top three security threats that Aim Higher College faces are the following: Mobile devices connecting to the network, Social Media, and Compromised routers intercepting sensitive information. These threats are the most common that any college faces. The threats have remained at the top of the list every year for a variety of reasons. This list of threats is also unique to college campuses. I will discuss each of the threats in this report. College students love new technology and each year smaller and more powerful devices are hitting the market. Students on the campus have a variety of devices ranging from cell phones, tablets, and laptops. These devices connect to the campus network and are used by students to check email, class schedules, get grades, and many other uses. The challenge is to allow these devices the necessary access and still have a secure network. Each device has to be checked for viruses, spyware, and other types of malware while still maintaining the C-I-A triad. A balance must be found between usability and security. Each time a remote device is connected to the network there is a possibility that the network can be compromised by one these devices. Every device should be authenticated, scanned, and identified. The use of social media has increased in recent years. Students and teachers both use things like Facebook, Myspace, and others. These applications have the potential to transmit malware every time they are used on the campus...
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