...Case Analysis Sun Medical Systems, INC Table of Contents Summary 2 1. Situation Analysis 2 2. Problem Analysis 3 3. Decision Analysis 5 A. Maintain Status-quo 6 B. Move to a different department or organization 6 C. Verify her stories and then decide the next course of action 6 Plan of Action 7 A. Prepare for the crucial Conversation 7 Summary The objective of the case analysis to apply the SA-PA-DA-PA (Situation Analysis, Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis and Plan of Action) framework to find out the right course of action for Shabana Jabeen of Sun Medical systems. Shabana feels frustrated and stagnated at her job in spite of her division doing exceptionally well and her contributions to the growth of the division are widely acknowledged by the Management. The case analysis has been structured in 4 sections as per the SA-PA-DA-PA methodology. Situation Analysis Situation analysis is defined as a process that examines a situation, its elements, and their relations, and that is intended to provide and maintain a state of situation awareness for the decision maker. A situation analysis defines and interprets the state of the environment of a person or organization and provides the context and knowledge for planning. Examining Shabana’s situation we come across the following facts – I. Shabana has been a top student and an exceptional...
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...risk perception within social groups and structures is predictable according to group and individual worldviews; therefore this paper examines the implications of cultural theory on IS risk management as a means for security experts to manage stakeholders perceptions. Findings – A basic theoretical element of cultural theory is the grid/group typology, where four cultural groups with differentiating worldviews are identified. This paper presents how these worldviews affect the process of IS risk management and suggests key issues to be considered in developing strategies of risk management according to the different perceptions cultural groups have. Research limitations/implications – The findings of this research are based on theoretical analysis and are not supported by relevant empirical research. Further research is also required for incorporating the identified key issues into information security management systems (ISMS). Originality/value – IS security...
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...Bias exists and is unavoidable in many disciplines of study. As a systematic error that can affect scientific investigations and the experimental processes, bias can significantly negatively affect a research study. Different types of bias may influence a research in different ways. This paper discusses three types of bias that affect research: the first type is design bias, second is reporting bias, and the third is unconscious bias. Design bias is often introduced when the researcher fails to take into account the bias that can potentially distort the results and their analysis. For instance, in the TED-talk by Ben Goldacre, he mentioned a 2001 Australian study found that olive oil offered protections against skin wrinkling; however, he questioned about the validity of this finding. He noticed there was a clear design bias in the study, since back in the 1930s, those who eat olive oil would likely be wealthier, do less outdoor chores, and have higher socioeconomic standings. Although people in the study who eat olive oil did found to have fewer wrinkles, there were interlocking social, political and cultural reasons that altered the finding (Goldacre, 2011). When researchers fail to recognize the existing bias in their study, as shown in this example where the study fails to recognize the external variables that affected the finding, the research loses its validity....
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...Detecting Media Bias Do you believe everything you read? While we may like to believe all articles are fairminded and presented in a manner where all viewpoints are relevant, unbiased and unprejudiced, this may not always be the case (Paul & Elder, 2012). Inaccurate articles may also be the result of the elements of irrationality which may find their foundation in human egocentrism and sociocentrism. In cases of human egocentrism, people view everything in relation to themselves. In regards to human sociocentrism (or group egocentricity) situations are viewed with the perspective of one’s group (Paul & Elder, 2012). Both of these elements are huge roadblocks to reasonable thinking. Examples of the impact of these factors can be found...
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...Humanities 101: Critical Thinking Week two assignment Analyzing United States Air Force Article “Project Blue Book: Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects” Lily Majdi Herzing University May 15, 2016 Analyze author’s perspectives related to “Project blue book: Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects” “UNITED STATES AIRFORCE” Based on critical thinking How you feel the author’s ideas relate to the concept of “evidence” as it has presented in this week’s material? Do you think they make valid claims about evidence? Why or why not? Identify and analyze any reasoning errors in the author’s argument. There are a lot of arguments about the existence of flying saucer. Some of them approved the theory and the rest of them disapproved it. The outcome is depending of what belief has been chosen and how to perceive the truth. I am analyzing this article based on week two assignment questions. According to the book we have to always evaluate our “claim” free from mistakes and biases through various perspectives. We have to provide logical supports as much as we can in order to achieve a correct knowledge and awareness (Boss, 2014, p. 109). Contradictory evidence, confirmation bias -In this article the author denies the existence of “flying saucer” based of the evidence of “flying saucer” has been seen by a lot of people who they would not be able to describe it in details how they look, so the article...
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...enterprise wide service interruption that lasted between a day, then the organization would not consider it a rare occurrence. For those who are accountable to the service outage, they may explain the outage as the result of a rare occurrence to save their credibility (and perhaps their job). The impact resulting from disk failures at UAA had a harsh impact on the organization. Some organizations might not survive a similar outage. In the case of the University of Alaska at Anchorage, comprehending the potential causes and impact of an EVA failure before the fact would have led to better planning for the potential of an EVA failure. A BIA and subsequent BCP would have reduced the effect EVA outage on the entire UAA organization. To further comment on the perspective of a disk failure being rare please note that from an IT operations perspective, I reject the notion a disk failures are rare. Although a hard drive manufacturer may quote meat-time-between-failure (MTBF) in the thousands of hours, hard drive MTBF can vary significantly in a storage array. Drive failures can increase or decrease due to the next firmware revision. When drive failures increase, the storage array vendor/manufacturer ALWAYS recommends a firmware upgrade. This underscores the importance of an experienced IT operations team. Although the Outage document discusses that the CIO is challenged by limited technical...
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...people believe that news without bias is nothing but a fantasy. Objectivity in media is very much attainable, but people are going about reaching it incorrectly. Gio...
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...and News Sites: These are categorized by typical bias, meaning they are organized by the conclusions they usually draw when examining the same facts. However, with these newspapers, you have little worry that the actual facts are in question. NEVER rely strictly on sources gathered from a single point of view. You must know the other side to counter-argue effectively at the very least. Liberal Conservative Huffington Post National Review National Public Radio (NPR) Drudge Report Time Wall Street Journal Slate New York Post Newsweek Washington Times US News and World Report Heritage Foundation Politico PJTV (Pajamas TV) New Yorker American Thinker Mother Jones American Spectator ACLU Forbes Harpers Stanford Review CBS Rush Limbaugh New York Times FOX News NBC (especially MSNBC) The American Conservative Mostly Centrist with Occasional Slant Libertarian CNN ACLU CSPAN (just shows the event) Ludwig Von Mises Reuters Reason Magazine PBS CATO Institute Real Clear Politics (both perspectives) Ayn Rand Foundation John Stossel, Reporter Milton Friedman,Economics Respected Think Tanks Always check their mission statement for bias or perspective, but these are known for accuracy in research even if they do cardstack and/or research from a biased perspective. They are helpful in stacking your case with relevant...
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...Memorandum This memorandum will elicit the implied lesson regarding effective leadership as portrayed in the film “12 Angry Men” through a dissection of the film’s characters and storyline. The following topics will be considered in our analysis: * Descriptions of characters * Analysis of informal leaders’ tactics * Assessment of the formally assigned leader * Factors for effective persuasion * Integral traits of a leader Descriptions of characters The twelve jurors come into the trial from different backgrounds and inevitably view the trial through different colored lenses. To analyze such deviation in perspective, it is necessary to briefly understand the psychological architecture and identifying any potential personaly biases of the following jurors: * Foreman * Vacillating and humble juror * Loud-mouthed and bigoted juror * Factually analytical juror * Empathetic shanty-town-raised juror * Honest and slow-thinking craftsman * Distracting baseball fan * The opposing architect * Late old man * Antagonistic old man * Impressionable justice-driven immigrant * Indecisive marketing executive Foreman This fair-minded individual is easily frustrated, sensitive about how others perceive his ability to lead, and really motivated to ensure that the process of jury deliberation is conducted properly. His desire to be perceived as worthy of the leadership role he has assumed leads him to side with the majority...
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...Methodology Section The proposed study assumes an approach adopted by Flynn, Sakakibira, Schroeder, Bates and Flyn (1990) on the way of conducting research. The process of research starts with the study design, followed by data collection techniques and their applications on the research consumers. These are followed by implementation and data analysis and discussion. The project would be organized into three phases. The first phase would entail conducting a field research to collect the data. The second phase would entail analyzing the data to draw inferences. The third phase will encompass discussions, where the results would be accounted by inferring from the secondary sources, theories and secondary resources. Research Question and Hypothesis The main research question is: does Emirates Airlines adequately cater the needs of the customers in terms of addressing a flight delay? There are a number of related research questions. They are as following: • Does Emirates Airlines experience delays, and at what frequency? • What efforts is Emirates Airlines doing to address the delay? • Can the measures taken be rated to be appropriate? The study’s relevant hypotheses are stated as follows; H0: Emirate Airlines does not cater to the needs of the passengers in terms of addressing a flight delay. H1: Emirate Airlines adequately cater to the needs of the passengers in terms of addressing a flight delay. Study design The study is quantitative, as well as qualitative. The...
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...The overall intention of this project was to explore the available research into how canine therapy can be widely utilised in different contexts such as counselling situations, working with individuals with autism and how dogs are utilised as co- therapist. The literature is inundated with accounts reporting successes with Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) and the number of professionals, programs and organisations that have embraced AAT continues to rise. Chapter One offers an explanation of Canine therapy and who it is used for and the theoretical perspectives that underpin the use of canine therapy. Chapter Two will be exploring the Benefits of Using Canines as Companion Animals for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Chapter Three will...
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...Noora Sarkkinen and Viivi Puuronen Advanced financial analysis term paper Term Paper Oulu Business School 12/2013 contents 1 INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………...3 2 DATA ANALYSIS………………………………………………………………..4 2.1 Table 1 Analysis…………………………………………………..5 2.2 Table 2.1 and 2.2 analysis………………………………………...8 3 CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………..10 APPENDIX 1 OVERVIEW OF THE TERM PAPER PROJECT……………..12 REFERENCES……………………………………………………………………..13 introduction The purpose of this term paper is to analyze accuracy of the analysts’ forecasts during 2012 on the Finnish stock markets, focusing on EPS and sales forecasts. We are using the forecasts from January 2012 which could be quite far from the actual for example comparing to the forecasts of December 2012. We are going to see if the analysts’ forecasts differ much from those of the Naïve model. According to the article “Comparative Analysis of European Earnings Forecasts” by Capstaff, Paudyal and Rees (Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 28(5) & (6), June/July 2001, 0306-686X), the bias in analysts’ forecasts is positive in all (European) countries and the naïve forecast bias is negative in all countries. Moreover, they state that analysts’ forecasts are substantially more accurate than the naïve model. We find this investigation interesting because it is nice to know if the Naïve model is better than the analysts’ forecasts. In that case we could consider whether there is a role for the analysts at all. Also it is nice...
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...psychology? Who was the American philosopher-psychologist who authored a textbook in 1890 for the emerging discipline of psychology? Wilhelm Wundt John B. Watson Sigmund Freud Correct! William James Question 2 1 / 1 pts After noting that a majority of professional basketball players are African-American, Ervin concluded that African-Americans are better athletes than members of other racial groups. Ervin's conclusion best illustrates the danger of After noting that a majority of professional basketball players are African-American, Ervin concluded that African-Americans are better athletes than members of other racial groups. Ervin's conclusion best illustrates the danger of replication. hindsight bias. the placebo effect. Correct! generalizing from vivid cases. Question 3 1 / 1 pts Random assignment minimizes ________ between experimental and control groups. Random sampling minimizes ________ between a sample and a population. Random assignment minimizes ________ between experimental and control groups. Random sampling minimizes ________ between a sample and a population. similarities; differences differences; similarities similarities; similarities...
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...hazards accumulated in parallel by epidemiologic investigations has raised controversies about the appropriate interpretation and the degree of bias and confounding responsible for reduced or increased risk estimates. data sources: Overall, I identified 33 epidemiologic studies in the peer-reviewed literature, most of which (25) were about brain tumors. Two groups have collected data for ≥ 10 years of mobile phone use: Hardell and colleagues from Sweden and the Interphone group, an international consortium from 13 countries coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. data synthesis: Combined odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) from these studies for glioma, acoustic neuroma, and meningioma were 1.5 (1.2–1.8); 1.3 (0.95–1.9); and 1.1 (0.8–1.4), respectively. conclusions: Methodologic considerations revealed that three important conditions for epidemiologic studies to detect an increased risk are not met: a) no evidence-based exposure metric is available; b) the observed duration of mobile phone use is generally still too low; c) no evidence-based selection of end points among the grossly different types of neoplasias is possible because of lack of etiologic hypotheses. Concerning risk estimates, selection bias, misclassification bias, and effects of the disease on mobile phone use could have reduced estimates, and recall bias may have led to spuriously increased risks. The overall evidence speaks in favor of an increased risk, but its magnitude cannot be assessed...
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...An Analysis of Media Within The Arab-Israeli Conflict “Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.” – Bob Hawke The media is used for many different reasons. Since technology has advanced, media is wide spread mainly through social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Since the first Zionist Conference in 1897, Palestine has fought to keep its land. Ever since, the Arab-Israeli conflict has been in the center of media news. Subsequently, in 1948, war was declared for the land between Israel and Palestine. Different sources have been bias and in favour of Israel in regards to how they describe the conflict, statistics and other governments’ support. The media has been bias and in favour of Israel because of how they describe the conflict. Firstly, the descriptions of the same events that have occurred differ between Israel and Palestine. For example, the legal status labeled replicates different positions of the West bank and Gaza Strip. One could be called a “disputed territories and the other “Occupied territories”. Although both are considered to be part of Palestine, it is labeled in favour of how the Israelis would call it. Secondly, when addressing the Israeli occupied areas, it has many names. For example, the blockage between the Palestinians and Israelis can be a security fence or...
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