...A compensable factor is any job element that is considered essential to properly evaluating the amount of pay that should be rendered as part of employment. Job evaluation must be done to find appropriate compassable factor. Job evaluation is the systematic process for assessing the relative worth of jobs within an organization. A comprehensive analysis of each positions tasks, responsibilities, knowledge, and skill requirements is used to assess the value to the employer of the jobs content and provide an internal ranking of the jobs. There are several compassable factor, one thing in mind, you can use a single compassable factor to determine the compensation or you can use more than one compassable factors, depends on type of the job. Typically an employer’s compensable factors encompass four major categories: (i) Skills i.e. experience, Education/training, Ability (ii) Responsibility i.e supervisory, fiscal (iii) Efforts i.e. Mental, Physical (iv) Working conditions i.e location, hazards, physical demands, and extremes in environment Source; http://classcomp.hr.wvu.edu/r/download/70146 I would say yes, the compassable factor would change based on the strategic plans of the organization. If the compassable factors does not align with organization strategy most likely it will not achieves its goal, they will hire employees that does not much with the jobs hired for which eventually becomes costly to the organization. As compensation expert Richard Henderson notes...
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...and then the Discussion section. From here you will see a forums menu box you will then click on the section titled Main. You can access the Individual forum by singing into your student webpage. Once there you click on the Classroom tab and then the Discussion section. From here you will see a forums menu box you will then see a section titled Individual Forum you will click on your name under that section. To find the Orientation Workshop readings you will sign into your student webpage, click on the classroom then the materials section. All the reading materials you will need underlined in blue text and are clickable all beginning with the word Reading. After you log into your student webpage you will go to the classroom tab and then click on the Assignments section. From there you will click on the week you are doing the assignment for in the Assignments menu under the summary section. You then will see the list of assignments for the week; you will click on the due assignment and then upload it from your folder on your computer by clicking the browse button. It will automatically upload when you select the file from your computer. Class discussions for participation take place in the Discussion section in the Main Forum. For participation you will reply to the DQ threads two times a day for four days. To read replies in the main forum you will click the Discussion section and click on the Main forum in the Forums menu. You will then see a list of threads created for the...
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...Discussion Board Forums Instructions As part of the collaborative learning environment, you are required to interact with your classmates and instructor in 2 Discussion Board Forums. Each forum is completed in 2 parts over the course of 2 modules/weeks. In the first module/week of the forum, you will post a thread that directly addresses the prompt provided by the instructor. In the subsequent module/week, you will post 2 meaningful replies to at least 2 classmates’ threads. The instructor will observe online discussions throughout the assigned modules/weeks and may interject his or her comments intermittently. Feel free to respond to the instructor's comments in addition to the required replies to your classmates’ postings. Follow the guidelines provided below as you complete each part of the forums. THREAD * Respond to the questions/ideas that are presented in the instructor’s prompt. * Summarize any related ideas that are presented in the Duvall and Hays textbook related to the 3 prompts. * Your thread must be 250–300 words. REPLIES Here, we are seeking to build rapport and community around the topic. We are also seeking to maximize our collective understanding of the material. Keeping that in mind, * Look for areas of common ground or diversity between your comments on the prompts and your peers’ finding(s) and engage each other. * Connect and comment on areas included or not included in your peers’ posts that you would like to share...
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...Discussion Board Instructions As part of the collaborative learning environment, you are required to interact with your classmates and instructor in 2 Discussion Board Forums. Each forum is completed in 2 parts over the course of 2 modules/weeks. In the first week of the forum, you will post a new thread that directly addresses the prompt provided by the instructor. In the subsequent week, you will post 2 meaningful replies to at least 2 classmates’ threads. The instructor will observe online discussions throughout the assigned modules/weeks and may interject his or her comments intermittently. Feel free to respond to the instructor's comments in addition to the required replies to your classmates’ postings. Follow the guidelines provided below as you complete each part of the forums. THREAD: * Respond to the questions/ideas that are presented in the instructor’s prompt. * Summarize any related ideas that are presented in the Duvall and Hays textbook related to the 3 prompts. * Your thread must be between 250–300 words. * Threads are due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of the first module/week the forum is assigned. REPLIES: Here, we are seeking to build rapport and community around the topic. We are also seeking to maximize our collective understanding of the material. Keeping that in mind, * Look for areas of common ground or diversity between your comments on the prompts and your peers’ finding(s) and engage each other. * Connect and comment...
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...Job Satisfaction I tend to agree with a lot of the statements in this article. I especially like the part where the one nurse wrote, “Please take the busyness of patients into account when scheduling.” This finding corresponds with Oermann and Moffitt-Wolf’s (1997) observation that new graduates experienced stress during orientation due to lack of experience, lack of organizational skills, and new situations. (Halfer & Graf, 2006) The inability to handle the intense working environment, advanced technology, and high patient acuity results in new graduate nurse turnover rates of 35% to 60%. All of this occurs within the first year of employment. Turnover has an inverse relationship to job satisfaction. As job satisfaction increases turnover decreases. Many factors influence the satisfaction of new graduates. (Halfer & Graf, 2006) New graduate nurses are leaving their current positions at an alarmingly higher rate than experienced nurses (Patterson, 2009) I do believe things can be done to change these issues. I feel it is important, though it is not always practical to involve the new staff in the scheduling process and, as the article states, include as a “Team scheduling” process, rather than a “self scheduling”. This may make more people feel involved, and although it may not solve all of the issues, such as weekends or holidays, it may be a small change that will improve job satisfaction. I wish they had something like this on the unit I work on. We...
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...US006785889B1 (12) United States Patent Williams (10) Patent N0.: US 6 9 785 9 889 B1 (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 31, 2004 (54) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING BANDWIDTH RESOURCES USINGA KALMAN ESTIMATOR WITH ACTIVE FEEDBACK 6,003,062 A * 12/1999 Greenberg et a1. ........ .. 709/104 6,105,053 A * 6,189,022 B1 * 6,263,358 B1 * 8/2000 Kimmel et a1. ..... .. 2/2001 Binns ............. .. 7/2001 Lee et a1. .... .. 709/105 709/100 .. 709/100 Inventor: Peter Williams, * Cited examiner (73) Assignee: Aurema, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US) _ _ _ _ Primary Examiner—Jack B. Harvey ( * ) Notice: SubJect to any disclaimer,~ the term of this Patent 15 extended or adlusted under 35 U'S'C' 154(k)) by 816 days‘ Assistant Examiner_Hai V_ Nguyen (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Michael Hetherington; Nick Ulman; Woodside IP Group (21) Appl. N0.: 09/596,026 (22) Filed: (51) Int C17 (52) U ' ' (57) G06F 9/00 709040 ’ ’ 718/106’ ABSTRACT Jun. 15, 2000 A community of collaborative software agents Works together in a domain to provide functionality such as pro vision of communications services or control of a chemical process. A scheduler is built into each collaborative agent Ci """""""""""" ' """"""""""" " (58) (56) Field of Search """"""""" ’ 709/104 229 718/104; 106’ ’ Which schedules tasks allocated to that particular agent and tasks sub-allocated by the agent. The scheduler has a mecha nism for over-booking...
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...Evaluation of the Orientation Program Question 1 Strengths · Once Simpson had accepted the job she was given a map of BANTEX Electronics and instructed to report to the company meeting room Monday at 8:30 am. Simpson was left well informed of where to go and when to be there, she was also given a map to help guide her to the designated room. · The orientation procedure was well organised · The orientation program contained a lot of information about the company and it processes; a company handbook was produced for later referral. · After orientation Simpson felt enthusiastic about her new employer. · During the orientation there is a chance for clarification. Weaknesses · Simpson felt she had been given a tremendous amount of information to digest in a very short time · Simpson wasn't sure which parts of the information she had been given, that needed to be known right away. · Simpson felt anxious after the orientation about her impending job responsibilities. · Simpson wasn't told who too contact if she had further questions or queries. You need to ensure that you clearly identify what are strengths and what are weaknesses – the easiest way is to have sub- headings The most important part of this question (other than of course identifying what the strengths and the weaknesses are – is to explain WHY!!! At the Diploma level, you are expected to demonstrate your analytical skills – so there is no point just saying what the issue is – you need to explain why...
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...A Road Map Through Nachos Thomas Narten Department of Computer Sciences Levine Science Research Center Duke University Box 90129 Durham, N.C. 27708-0129 narten@cs.duke.edu January 4, 1995 Abstract Nachos is instructional software that allows students to examine, modify and execute operating system software. Nachos provides a skeletal operating system that supports threads, user-level processes, virtual memory and interrupt-driven input output devices. Nachos is a complex piece of software and it is di cult for beginning students (and instructors) to easily gain on overall understanding of the various system pieces and how they t together. This document provides a road map to understanding the Nachos system. It gives a high-level overview of the source code, focusing on the big picture rather than on the details. It is not intended as a replacement for reading the source code. Rather, it is a companion that is intended to help students (and instructors) overcome the initial learning curve encountered when learning and using the system. Contents 1 Introduction to Nachos 2 Nachos Machine 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Machine Components : : : : : : Interrupt Management : : : : : Real-Time Clock Interrupts : : Address Translation : : : : : : : 2.4.1 Linear Page Tables : : : 2.4.2 Software Managed TLB 2.5 Console Device : : : : : : : : : 2.6 Disk Device : : : : : : : : : : : 1 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :...
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...allocate and schedule and the foundation of operation system architecture. (2)Process is a data structure to represent the inherent laws of dynamic system clearly and manage and schedule the run of program efficiently in the main memory of computer system. 2. (1)Thread is the minimum unit to operate and schedule in the operation system and it is the actual execution unit in the process. (2)Thread manage the file and control the communication in servers and deal with foreground and background program asynchronously. 3. The difference between process and thread are as follows: (1) The address space and other resources of different processes are independent, however, different threads share the resources in a process. (2) Process communicate with other processes under IPC, however, threads can read and write the data segment in process to communicate with each other. (3) The switch of context in thread is much faster than that in process. (4) Process is not a executable entity in a multithreaded operation system, but thread is. 4. Benefits: (1) It is easier to schedule and manage with process and thread. (2) It can be easy and efficient to achieve concurrency through threads. Process can create multiple threads to execute different parts of the same program. (3)It can develop the function of multi-processors fully and enable the concurrency of programs through the creation of multithreaded...
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...Homework #2 43. Measurements of a certain system have shown that the average process runs for a time T before blocking on I/O. A process switch requires a time S, which is effectively wasted (overhead). For round-robin scheduling with quantum Q, give a formula for the CPU efficiency for each of the following: a. Q=∞ Answer: No involuntary context switches will occur. Each process will pay 1 context switch per CPU burst. Efficiency=TT+S b. Q>T Answer: As long as the quantum Q is larger than T, then no involuntary context switches will occur. Efficiency=TT+S c. S<Q<T Answer: Efficiency=QQ+S d. Q=S Answer: Efficiency=QQ+S=Q=50% e. Q nearly 0 Answer: Efficiency=0% 44. Five jobs are waiting to be run. Their expected run times are 9, 6, 3, 5, and X. In what order should they be run to minimize average response time? (Your answer will depend on X.) Answer: For X, 3, 5, 6, 9 order: 0<X≤3 For 3, X, 5, 6, 9 order: 3<X≤5 For 3, 5, X, 6, 9 order: 5<X≤6 For 3, 5, 6, X, 9 order: 6<X≤9 For 3, 5, 6, 9, X order: 9<X 45. Five batch jobs. A through E, arrive at a computer center at almost the same time. They have estimated running times of 10, 6, 2, 4, and 8 minutes. Their (externally determined) priorities are 3, 5, 2, 1, and 4, respectively, with 5 being the highest priority. For each of the following scheduling algorithms, determine the mean process turnaround time. Ignore process switching overhead...
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...concurrent processing adds to an OS. (10 points) Answer) 1. Processes and system resources should protected from each other. 2. More than one process executing concurrently for protect performance degradation 3. It occurs deadlocks. So you can m Chapter 4: 4. Provide a programming example where multithreading does not provide better performance than a single-threaded solution. (5 points) Answer) Sequential program is not good at threaded. So example is Shell program. 5. Can a multithreaded solution using multiple user-level threads achieve better performance on a multiprocessor system than on a single-processor system? How does this change if kernel-level threads are used? Explain. (10 points) Answer) multiple user-level threads cannot make different processors in multiprocessor system at the same time. So, it shows lower performance. But If change kernel-level threads, it can make different processors at the same time. It is good at multiprocessor system Chapter 5 complications 6. Discuss how the following pairs of scheduling criteria conflict in certain settings. (15 points) a....
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...2.5 SCHEDULING When a computer is multiprogrammed, it frequently has multiple processes competing for the CPU at the same time. This situation occurs whenever two or more processes are simultaneously in the ready state. If only one CPU is available, a choice has to be made which process to run next. The part of the operating system that makes the choice is called the scheduler and the algorithm it uses is called the scheduling algorithm. These topics form the subject matter of the following sections. Many of the same issues that apply to process scheduling also apply to thread scheduling, although some are different. Initially we will focus on process scheduling. Later on we will explicitly look at thread scheduling. 2.5.1 Introduction to Scheduling Back in the old days of batch systems with input in the form of card images on a magnetic tape, the scheduling algorithm was simple: just run the next job on the tape. With timesharing systems, the scheduling algorithm became more complex because there were generally multiple users waiting for service. Some mainframes still combine batch and timesharing service, requiring the scheduler to decide whether a batch job or an interactive user at a terminal should go next. (As an aside, a batch job may be a request to run multiple programs in succession, but for this section, we will just assume it is a request to run a single program.) Because CPU time is a scarce resource on these machines, a good scheduler can make a big difference in...
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...1. |Round robin scheduling is essentially the preemptive version of __________fsecond | | | | |1) |FIFO | |2) |Shortest job first | |3) |Shortest remaining | |4) |Longest time first | | |Correct Answer: FIFO [hide] | | | |Marks: 1 | | | | | | | | | | |2. |A page fault occurs | | | |1) |when the page is not in the memory | |2) |when the page is in the memory | |3) |when...
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...APPLICANT INTERVIEW RATING SHEET Position: General Office Support Staff Applicant name:_________________________ Questions (Allow 20-30 minutes) Comments 1-low, 6-high Secretarial Skills 1. Using past work experience, discuss how you might handle a situation where you are asked to do several tasks at the same time to meet staff needs. 1--2--3--4--5--6 2. What kind of supervision have you had in the past and how have you responded to it? 1--2--3--4--5--6 3. Your reception duties will call for you to hand numerous questions from students and staff. How would you handle questions that go beyond your knowledge? 1--2--3--4--5--6 Interpersonal Skills 4. Drawing from past work experience, describe several situations where you had to interact with "difficult people" and how you handled the situations. 1--2--3--4--5--6 5. Comment on the following: "Students are the most important people in our business." 1--2--3--4--5--6 6. This office is many times "all things to all people." How do you see your skills and personality fitting into that expectation? 1--2--3--4--5--6 Professional Ethics/Behavior 7. Tell us how you have handled past work situations that required "confidentiality." How might that procedure impact this office? 1--2--3--4--5--6 8. Discuss your understanding of the word "teamwork" and how you have been involved with that process on the job or in other settings. How might teamwork (or lack of it) affect an office...
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...multithreading works in a server Multithreading occurs when a process executing an application, is divided into threads that can run concurrently. Multithreading is useful for applications that perform a number of essentially independent tasks that do not need to be serialized. When a multithreaded application is active in a server, the events that occur take place in three phases: i. Start-up phase- requests come in and are handed to a thread for processing. ii. Work phase- in this phase multiple client requests are handled concurrently in multiple contexts. The system allocates a separate thread for each request. In response to clients’ requests for a service, the server dispatcher creates multiple threads in one server that can be assigned to various client requests simultaneously. Each thread is associated with a separate context or request to the server. This feature is useful in both conversational and RPC servers which otherwise may stay idle waiting for the client side of a conversation. iii. Completion phase- When the application is shut down or stopped, the server performs any termination processing that is necessary such as closing a resource manager. 2. Advantages and Disadvantages of implementing multithreading As user space threads * Switching threads is faster when thread management is done in user space. * Fast thread switching. * Fast thread scheduling. * A multithreaded program operates faster on computer systems that have multiple CPU’s...
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