...MGMT 407.341 (CRN: 60240), Business Ethics Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:34 PM to 7:15 PM Summer Semester, June 7 to July 30, 2010 Fort Hood SDC, Room # D-112 A member of the Texas A&M System since 1917 Instructor: Mr. John La Lone, BS-BA, MS-HRM Department: Management, Marketing, and Administrative Systems Office: Room 135A Phone: (254) 519-5472 E-mail: lalone@tarleton.edu Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM. By appointment only. Office Secretary: Ms. Gabriele Fischbacher (254) 519-5437, Fax (254) 526-8403 A portion of this course is delivered via Blackboard Online Learning. http://online.tarleton.edu/Dual/DualLoginPage.htm You are required to check in online via e-mail within Blackboard within two days of this class. 1.0 Course Description: This course is designed to provide the student with a basic examination of the manager’s personal, social, and environmental responsibilities to oneself, ones employees, customers, the general public, the government and other agencies. It is also intended to totally familiarize the student with a basic understanding of Personal Business Ethics Concepts in today’s modern workplace environment. Emphasis will be placed upon the manager’s social and environmental responsibilities to employees, customers and the public. 1.1 Prerequisites: There are no pre-requisites for this course. 1.2 Expanded Course Description: The objective of this course is for each student...
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...State of Texas v. Hopwood HRM552 Stephanie Romagnoli State of Texas v. Hopwood The paper summarizes the case of Hopwood v. State of Texas and the court’s ruling. It covers the meaning for the organization in the case study and businesses in general, and the legal precedence the ruling sets for most businesses. It also outlines the role the federal enforcement agency plays in ensuring the organization's compliance with regulation standards. Case summary The Hopwood case, named for lead plaintiff Cheryl Hopwood, involved four White students who sued the law school after being denied admission to of the University of Texas at Austin. They successfully argued that the law school discriminated against them by admitting less qualified African American and Mexican American applicants for admission through use of a quota system, therefore violating the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which requires equal protection under the law (Andrews & Martin, 1998). The University initiated this affirmative action program in response to a history of discrimination against African Americans and Mexican Americans in the state of Texas (Byars, and Rue, 2008). The court’s ruling Affirmative action is a government policy that seeks to remedy old discrimination directed at particular groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities. The primary purpose of these policies and programs is to increase access to opportunities for higher education, employment, government...
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...ongoing. Researchers are working hard to link criminal behavior and genetics. This study tries to find supporting evidence that a criminal can inherit the notion to commit criminal activity through inheritance. On side believes that criminal activity is caused through inheritance while others agree that genetics has absolutely nothing to do with committing crimes and it’s a person choice when committing a crime or partaking in criminal activities. Included in these studies are adopted studies, twin studies, and testosterone studies. These studying link criminal activities with genetics and give supporting evidence that criminal activities are not inherited. The Link: Genetics and Criminal Behavior Research currently suggests that the genetic characteristics of anger and illegal behavior involve several different factors depending on multiple genes. Although no researcher has been able to put a finger on any genetic factor that could be applied to the concept genes play a part in the influence of aggressive and criminal behavior, many studies have been done to include twin studies and adoption. Twin studies, adoption studies, and testosterone studies are the leading studies that link genetics and criminal behavior. (University of Texas at Dallas, 2012) Studying the differences and similarities between single/identical eggs and non-identical egg twins is known as a twin study. Twin studies can be used to examine and explore the influences of shared and common environment,...
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...1. Who is the author? What are his/her credentials? • The author of Brown, Not White is Dr. Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. He was born in Corpus Christi and is residing in Houston, Texas. His credentials are as follows: In 1973, he received his Bachelor of Arts in History and Sociology at Columbia University in New York. After three years, he continued his studies at Stanford University in California, and earned his master’s degree in American History with Specialization in Chicano history in 1976. Moreover, after two years Dr. San Miguel Jr. acquired his doctorate in Social Sciences in Education at Stanford University in 1978. Currently, he is a professor of History at the University of Houston. Through the years, he specializes Mexican-American...
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...Curriculum Vitae of Md. Mahmud Al Zaman Papon 2303 Land Street Pearland Houston, Texas- 77584. Mobile : 8327696714 e-mail: mahmudpapon@gmail.com CAREER OBJECTIVE To work in an organization where discipline and high tech environment will ensure fast career development and the congenial atmosphere will enable to develop managerial qualities i.e., vision, positive attitude, interpersonal relationship, communication skill, attitude to take challenges and commitment to achieve results. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS |Institutions |Passing |Date of |Education/ | | |Year |Publication |Certificate | |Bangla |Excellent |Excellent |Native | |English |Excellent |Excellent |Fluent | . PERSIONAL INFORMATION Name : Mahmud Al Zaman Papon Father’s Name : Md. Yusuf Ali Mother’s Name : Bilkis Jahan Permanent Address : Atim khana Road, Upazilla: Kalapara, P/O: Khepupara-8650 District: Patuakhali Mailing Address : 2303 Land Street, Pearland, Texas-77584 Telephone No : 8327696714 (Cell) E-mail : mahmudpapon@gmail.com Date of Birth : December...
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...September 3, 2014 The Texas State Board of Public Accountancy requires each candidate to complete a minimum of two semester hours in accounting research and analysis or tax research and analysis from a recognized college or university. The semester hours may be obtained through a discrete course or offered through an integrated approach. If the course content is offered through integration, the college or university must advise the Board which course(s) contain the research and analysis content. Courses identified through integration must dedicate 1 semester hour, or quarter hour equivalent, to research and analysis. Courses used to meet this requirement may not be used to meet the requirement for accounting or business communications described below. Course(s) identified by a university to meet the requirements for research and analysis in accounting or taxation should primarily address the identification, organization, and integration of diverse sources of information such as authoritative literature and pronouncements, to reach a conclusion or make a decision; and should analyze accounting and taxation issues by reviewing information, using empirical data and analytical methods, recognizing data in patterned activities, forecasting, and integrating data. CPAs may be asked to conduct research and analysis when providing attest services, professional accounting services, or professional accounting work for clients and/or employers. The Texas State Board of Public...
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...|[pic] |BA 388T Strategic management | | |Section 02310 | | |SPRING 2014 | Professor Stephen E. Courter Class Time and Location 9:30 -11:00 am GSB 3.106 Office CBA 3.236 Office Hours Mondays 10:30-11:30 am and Thursdays 1:00-2:30 pm Also By Appointment Phone 512-232-3441 E-Mail Steve.Courter@Mccombs.utexas.edu Course Web Page via Blackboard Teaching Assistant Vanessa Gonzales Vanessa.Gonzales@mba14.mccombs.utexas.edu Course Objectives The traditional purpose of this course is to help you integrate your knowledge of the functional areas of business into a holistic view of the firm and thereby determine and execute proper business level and corporate strategies. Additionally, the field of strategic management has developed a number of concepts and models unique to a general management view, and designed to provide the tools to analyze the firm and its environment. A second purpose of the course will be to digest this body of knowledge, and explore real life situations in applying its...
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...Texas A&M University – Kingsville Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering IEEN 5313 - 800 Inventory Systems Spring, 2014 Instructor: Dr. Joon-Yeoul Oh, Associate Professor Office: EC 332 Phone: (361) 593 – 3941 Fax: (361) 593 – 4026 Email: kfjo000@tamuk.edu Class Time: W 6:00 pm – 8:50 pm @ EC136 Office Hours: M W 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm TR 10:00 am – 11:00am Or by appointment REQUIRED Textbook: Inventory Control and Management, 2nd Edition (2003), Donald Waters, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 978-0-470-85876-9 RECOMMENDED Textbook: Principles of Inventory and Materials Management, 4th edition (1994), Tersine, Richard J., Prentice-Hall, ISBN: COURSE DESCRIPTION: Deterministic/stochastic systems with static/dynamic models. Use of forecasting techniques. Practice of inventory management, manual and computerized procedures and MRP. Case studies in inventory systems management. Prerequisite: 3 hours undergraduate Production and Inventory Control or equivalent. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon completing this course, the student should be able to: 1. Define the main terms used for inventory management 2. Explain how the inventory management are set within an organization 3. Derive and calculate an economic order quantity 4. Calculate the best order size and optimal batch sizes 5. Understand the principles of services level and safety stock 6. Do an ABC...
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...explanations for why Texas executes far more people than any other state and is doing so at a pace that has no parallel in the modern era of the death penalty in the U.S. What follows is a summary of the analyses. Texas has become ground zero for capital punishment. Between 1976 (when the Supreme Court lifted its prohibition on the death penalty) and 1998 Texas executed 167 people. Next in rank was Virginia which executed 60 during the same period. (**my note** as of today, Texas has executed 237 individuals, and Virginia has executed 80) Why do capital murder cases proceed through the Texas state court system with a speed unimaginable in other parts of the country? Brent Newton, in an article entitled "Capital Punishment: Texas Could Learn a Lot from Florida,"1argues that there are three procedures unique to the state's judicial system that enable it to execute convicted murderers with astonishing frequency: 1. Texas' appellate judges are elected to office and hence serve according to the pleasure of the public. Not surprisingly, they require a record of toughness on criminals in order to win re-election. Also, there are many indications that elected appellate judges generally are of a lesser quality than their appointed counterparts in other states. Newton even claims that these elected judges do not carefully consider the complexities of each specific death penalty case. As evidence, Newton argues that "[e]specially during the past few years...the Texas Court of Criminal...
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...The University of Texas at Dallas Special Homework #1- Lifecycle Management Process Swapnili Jadhao 02/25/2015 SYSM 6301 Spring 2015 General “Case Study” Analysis Questions: 1. What was the general “subject” of the article? The general subject of this article is analysis of the ISO/IEC 24748 systems and software lifecycle management guide against other standards and academic material, and proposes additions to make to the standard for it to properly promote and support software quality engineering. The article explains the results of a term research project focused on the analysis guide for life cycle management a software quality engineering perspective. 2. What lifecycle stages were primarily focused on that needs to be improved? The lifecycle stages those were primarily focused on and needs to be improved are as listed below: • Concept – In this stage the stakeholder’s requirements trigger the project and drive the whole engineering effort. • Development – In this stage the stakeholder’s requirements are refined with the perspective of quality and are ‘baselined’. • Production – In this stage considering the quality model selected and the baseline accumulated from previous stages quality activities will be performed according to the plans. • Utilization – In this stage, the monitoring of performance and identifying, classifying and reporting of anomalies, deficiencies, and failures occurs. • Support – In this stage, the system-of-interest is deployed and logistics for...
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...In the United States, affirmative action refers to equal opportunity employment measures that Federal contractors and subcontractors are legally required to adopt. These measures are intended to prevent discrimination against employees or applicants for employment, on the basis of "color, religion, sex, or national origin".[1][2] Examples of affirmative action offered by the United States Department of Labor include outreach campaigns, targeted recruitment, employee and management development, and employee support programs.[2] The impetus towards affirmative action is to redress the disadvantages[3][4][5][6][7] associated with overt historical discrimination.[8] Further impetus is a desire to ensure public institutions, such as universities, hospitals and police forces, are more representative of the populations they serve.[9] Affirmative action is a subject of controversy. Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as racial quotas or gender quotas for collegiate admission, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination, and such implementation of affirmative action has been ruled unconstitutional by the majority opinion of Gratz v. Bollinger. Affirmative action as a practice was upheld by the court's decision in Grutter v. Bollinger.[10] Affirmative action in the United States began as a tool to address the persisting inequalities for African Americans in the 1960s. This specific term was first used to describe US government policy in 1961. Directed to all...
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...Teaching Assistants Dave Isquick (David.Isquick@mba12.mccombs.utexas.edu ) Course Objectives The primary objectives of this course are to: a) advance your understanding of concepts and tools useful in the analysis and development of pricing and distribution strategy, and b) help you develop skills and gain experience in formulating these strategies. Learning methods The course uses (a) individual and team assignments with field work, (b) case study briefs and discussions (c) lectures and discussions of readings, (d) guest speakers, and (e) a pricing simulation. The classroom environment will be very interactive, so prepare to get involved. Students come from a variety of backgrounds with a large and diverse base of knowledge and experience. Therefore, the primary role of the professor will be to facilitate discussions that bring out pertinent issues and to better frame the analyses of these issues. Required materials Case Packet: The case packet is available through www.study.net. Instructions to get materials from study.net are included in the last page of this syllabus, before the course schedule. Pricing Simulation – Universal Rental Car – Harvard Business School: Sign up instructions will be provided to you in early October. It will cost $12.50. There will be a practice round available from Nov. 4-9....
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...Performance of Computer Systems and Networks Fall 2014 TuTh 1:00 pm - 2:15 am, ECSS 2.311 Jason Jue jjue@utdallas.edu ECSS 4.408 (972) 882-4429 TuTh 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm, or by appointment Course Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, and/or Other Restrictions A first course on probability theory. Course Description Overview of case studies. Brief review of probability theory. Queueing models and physical origin of random variables used in queueing models. Various important cases of the M/M/m/N queueing system. Little's law. The M/G/1 queueing system. Discrete time queueing systems. Simulation of queueing systems. Product form solutions of open and closed queueing networks. Convolution algorithms and Mean Value Analysis for closed queueing networks. Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes Ability to understand and apply M/M/1 queueing models Ability to understand and apply Little’s result for FIFO and non-FIFO queues Ability to understand and apply continuous parameter Markov chains and state dependent queueing models Ability to understand and apply M/G/1 queueing models Ability to understand and apply discrete parameter Markov chains and discrete-time queueing models Ability to understand and apply continuous-time open queueing network models Ability to understand and apply continuous-time closed queueing network models Application of the above concepts in computers and computer networks Required Textbooks and Materials Thomas G. Robertazzi, Computer Networks and Systems: Queueing Theory and...
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...Collaboration to Build Healthier Communities A Report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America Wilder Research Wilder Research Wilder Research Report prepared for the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America by Paul W. Mattessich, Ph.D. Wilder Research Saint Paul, Minnesota Ela J. Rausch, M.P . .P Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minnesota With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation June 2013 Creating Healthy Communities Cross-sector partnerships are sparking widespread action to improve community health COATESVILLE , PA SEATTLE, WA Access to healthy foods Access to preventative care and healthy housing LOS ANGELES , CA Quality early child care and education CHICAGO, IL Data and evidence to build health into all policies and practices MIAMI , FL Opportunities for physical activity and healthy living health community development • community development finance • community planning • early child care/education • human services • housing Introduction “ Building a healthier America is feasible in years, not decades, if we collaborate and act on what is making a difference.” —Robert Wood Johnson Foundation In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened a commission of nonpartisan leaders to identify opportunities to improve the health of all Americans by creating environments that protect and actively promote health. Their report, Beyond Health Care:...
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...memory are symbiotic, and in doing so, have engaged in countless case studies in an effort to understand the learning-to-memory-link. However, to comprehend the functional relationship between learning and memory we must first define learning and memory. Learning is described as the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, practice, or study, or by being taught while memory is defined as the expression of what is acquired (Byrne, 2014). Learning and memory can be distinguished by the speed with which they happen. If a new ability or information is attained gradually and arduously, this is learning. If attainment occurs instantly, that is making a memory (Learning and Memory). In relation to the case study, The Woman Impervious to Pain and the disorder associated with her, her learning from life events and other influences including culture, environment, biological state, mental abilities, and societal advancement might have played a significant role in supporting her disorder. This knowledge might have affected how she stored memories, which in turn might have kept her cognizant of other symptoms that might arise and be indicative of a physical problem, thereby compensating for being impervious to pain. Byrne, J.H., Ph.D. Learning and Memory. Section 4. Chapter 7. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy | University of Texas...
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