...Week 4 Checkpoint How does e-mail benefit an organization? Why might an organization want to limit how an employee uses e-mail during work hours? What is an e-mail’s path once it leaves an organization? Since email first emerged as a business tool, companies have increased productivity, decreased costs and found new marketing venues. Executives are able to receive almost real-time status updates and can therefore make well-informed decisions. Email can also be used to rapidly disseminate information to multiple employees at the same time. An organization might want to limit how an employees use email during work hours to prevent lawsuits from someone outside the company and by not using emailing for personal use during business hours would bring up better productivity from the. An emails path, after it leaves an organization, is usually meant to go to a certain person or persons, but can end up spread throughout the internet by hackers. A benefit of instant messaging is that a notice can be sent immediately but has a drawback in that it is not very professional. What is the effect of instant messaging on organizational networks? What are benefits and drawbacks of using instant messaging in an organization? A benefit of instant messaging is that a notice can be sent immediately but has a drawback in that it is not very professional. The benefits of web pages and search engines are that an organization can put research into projects, create revenue with their own web...
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...Read Monitoring Employees on Networks: Unethical or Good Business? on p. 206 of Essentials of Management Information Systems. Answer the following questions in 200 to 300 words: How does e-mail benefit an organization? Why might an organization want to limit how an employee uses e-mail during work hours? What is an e-mail’s path once it leaves an organization? There are a number of benefits given to an organization when e-mail communication is utilized. The first benefit is: Easier and faster communication between clients and employees. E-mails are very efficient tool for organizational communication, but there are disadvantages to it as well. One disadvantage is that employees could use their e-mail to check personal emails instead of using it for business. This can lead to a decrease in productivity and the business might have to make the clients pay more. Another setback to using personal e-mail in the workplace is that a business has to hold on to all of its e-mail communication for a specific amount of time or risk paying a heavy penalty. This is mainly due to the fact that if the business is being sued or is suing another entity and the e-mails are needed as evidence. As far as the court system is concerned, if an e-mail is sent from a personal account or a business account, they are the same, It does not matter to the court what exactly is the e-mails makeup, but you can be sure that the business will be assumed to be in charge of the contents within the e-mail...
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...Post a 200- to 300-word response that identifies similarities and differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Provide five short examples for both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as they apply to an organizational setting. Intrinsic motivation comes from pleasure one gets from the teak itself or from the sense of satisfaction in completing merely working on a task. A person still feels that reward or pleasure when they get the job done. The employee however must be assigned well designed structure and ensure responsibility. There would be recognition, sense of achievement, and other intrinsic rewards. Examples of intrinsic motivations is writing memos at work because of the joy from writing them, reading an article for pleasure, solving a problem to an issue at work for a sense of achievement, researching a topic that can help the organization for enjoyment, or even taking more responsibility to feel a sense of achievement are all examples of intrinsic motivation. In the other hand, extrinsic motivation is the desire to do something because of external rewards. Examples of extrinsic motivation are for money, praise, awards, etc. Some people engage in certain activities seeking a reward. Someone at work can volunteer to do something in seek of praise, someone can sit in for another for a reward, accept a certain position to make more money, and even participating in an activity for the seeking of money . The similarity is that they both only engage in activities...
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...Kimmel, & Kieso., 2008). The purpose of subsidiary ledgers is so you do not have to list every customer’s account in the general ledger, which would take up a lot of space. All the information from the subsidiary ledger is entered as one figure in the general ledger. All the details are found in the subsidiary ledger. To keep a general ledger free of details we will use a control account; which is a summary account in the general ledger. Details of each transaction of a specific type of account(for example a control account could be accounts receivable) would be itemized on the control account and then entered into the general ledger for the time period the general ledger reflects. Entries would be total accounts receivable for that day, week, or month as opposed to every specific amount received. The two most common general ledger accounts which may act as control accounts for a subsidiary ledger are accounts receivable and accounts payable. The advantage of using subsidiary ledgers is to free the general ledger of detailed information which can be totaled from individual accounts and then entered into the general ledger as one...
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...The histories of the state and federal prison systems are alike but there are many differences in which make both systems very unique. The federal system usually has people incarcerated for extended periods of time and many people refer to the federal system to be associated with white collar criminals and state prisoners as blue collar criminals. From tons of books filled with knowledge of the original history of the federal prison system allows us to understand more on how and when all this originated. The history of the federal system started back in the 1890s but it was not until 1930 when president Hoover signed a bill establishing a federal prison system that would actually start the building of actual federal facilities. During this time the federal system was relying on the state and local levels of government to house their prisoners. The increase of the federal system was persistent since there was a rise in the United States government. Within the federal prison system there are some security levels which classify prisoners and institutions as minimum, low, medium, high and administrative. There are so many types of state jails that contain different types of security levels. “The state prison levels include level one minimum security, level two medium security, level three high security and a recently added in the last decade level four super maximum security. One type of institution is referred to as an open security facility in which has minimal staff.” (Burk...
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...Paying the Exciseman David S. Gibson HIS115 December 9, 2010 George Megenney Paying the Exciseman The portrait, Paying the Exciseman, portrays the colonists’ growing anger for the British government, and the Boston Tea Party. It is a picture of multiple topics within a multitude of issues. The taxman in the portrait is portrayed as the recipient of a “tar and feathering.” This punishment was used as a constant threat to government employees, and loyalists in the colonies. This was done by applying hot tar to the person’s skin, and topping that with feathers for humiliation purposes. The tree in the picture is the liberty tree. This tree is significant because every colony had a liberty tree. All of the original 13 original colonies selected a tree that was strong in stature for a meeting place to discuss a possible rebellion against Great Britain. The first liberty tree, and the tree in the portrait, was in Boston. After the passing of the Stamp Act, Bostonians awoke to multiple effigies hanging from the tree. Knowing what the tree meant to the citizens of Boston, the British soldiers cut down the Liberty Tree as they were being pushed out of Boston in 1775 (History of the Liberty Tree, n.d.). During this part of history, the colonists’ desires for freedom were beginning to grow immensely. They were getting tired of the growing taxation, and the tyrannical rule of the British. They began meeting at places such as the Liberty Tree to discuss a possible rebellion...
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...Kimmel, & Kieso., 2008). The purpose of subsidiary ledgers is so you do not have to list every customer’s account in the general ledger, which would take up a lot of space. All the information from the subsidiary ledger is entered as one figure in the general ledger. All the details are found in the subsidiary ledger. To keep a general ledger free of details we will use a control account; which is a summary account in the general ledger. Details of each transaction of a specific type of account(for example a control account could be accounts receivable) would be itemized on the control account and then entered into the general ledger for the time period the general ledger reflects. Entries would be total accounts receivable for that day, week, or month as opposed to every specific amount received. The two most common general ledger accounts which may act as control accounts for a subsidiary ledger are accounts receivable and accounts payable. The advantage of using subsidiary ledgers is to free the general ledger of detailed information which can be totaled from individual accounts and then entered into the general ledger as one...
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...Checkpoint: Methods with Multiple Parameters method The part of a class definition that implements some of the behavior of objects of the class. The body of the method contains declarations of local variables and statements to implement the behavior. A method receives input via its arguments, if any, and may return a result if it has not been declared as void. parameter See argument. argument Information passed to a method. Arguments are also sometimes called parameters. A method expecting to receive arguments must contain a formal argument declaration for each as part of its method header. When a method is called, the actual argument values are copied into the corresponding formal arguments. Citation: Barnes, D. J. (1998-2006). Glossary of Java and Object-Orientated terminology. Retrieved from http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/oop/glossary.html#m Example: 1. public String getInfo(String name, String address, String phoneNumber) { 2. return name + " " + address + " " + phoneNumber; 3. } The core element of a method with multiple parameters is defining each parameter properly, and then building a method that utilizes the information in the parameters in a way that is important and functional for the application at hand. In the above example the basic “digits and info” that one might gain from a colleague, friend, or cute girl at the local bar can be seen as a string method called getinfo, with the parameters of name, address...
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...Checkpoint IT/205 How does e-mail benefit an organization? Why might an organization want to limit how an employee uses e-mail during work hours? What is an e-mail’s path once it leaves an organization? E-mail communication can offer an organization a number of benefits. For one thing, communication between clients and employees becomes much easier, clearer , and faster. E-mails are a very effective organizational communication tool, but it has some disadvantages as well. For example, many employees would use their e-mail for personal instead of business use. Ultimately this decreases productivity and makes the company pass on higher prices to its customers. Another disadvantage of using personal e-mail at work is that a company must retain all of its e-mail correspondence for a certain period of time or pay heavy fines. If these e-mails are necessary in a lawsuit, it is important that they are available to the company. If a lawsuit should occur, it does not matter if a personal account or a work account sent the email – they are both the same thing as far as the court is concerned. No matter the nature of the email, ultimately the company will be held responsible for its contents What is the effect of instant messaging on organizational networks? What are benefits and drawbacks of using instant messaging in an organization? I see the effect of instant messaging being very useful tool for an organization. It allows a message to be sent immediately throughout an organization...
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...How does email benefit an organization? I believe that email is a great benefit to most companies because it allows ideas and or attachments to be shared instantly. Why might an organization limit how an employee uses email during work hours? By limiting email usage during work hours it decreases the chance of clients being overcharged for work hours and also decreases the chance of loss of profit due to an employee’s attention being somewhere other than work. What is an emails path once it leaves an organization? Depending on the company it could go directly to the person it is addressed to or it could go through the IT department then to the person it is addressed to. What is the effect of instant messaging on organizational networks? Instant messaging can be a very useful tool as long and it isn’t taken advantage of, it could be used to send mass messages to all employees and or messages to individuals who may not be in the same building when working on projects. What are benefits and drawbacks of using instant messaging in an organization? A benefit would be that it is instant unlike email that may take a while, and has to be checked. A drawback can be used with that same example it is instant so files and or information that is not supposed to be viewed by outside individuals can be transmitted instantly. What are the drawbacks and benefits of webpage and search engine use in an organization? A benefit would be information for research being very accessible...
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...SCI275 Week 4 Checkpoint The four factors that affect population size include: Birth rate: The number of births of a sample size (per1000 people per year). Birth rates are affected by many factors such as, the ability to receive health care, family planning, the use of availability of contraceptives, governmental policies, economic growth, education, social and cultural views, and the use of abortion. Death rate: The number of deaths of a sample (per 1000 people a year). Death rates are caused by the lack of availability of food and water, lack of education, disease, lack of medical care, suicide, car accidents, crime, war, and government entities. Immigration – People entering a country for various reasons. Pull Factors – A country offering incentives for immigration, education, social and economic factors. Emigration – People leaving a country for various reasons. Push Factors - Social and economic factors, natural hazard, education opportunities, political instability, war, and others. The factors that affect the population size in the video are birth rate and death rate. The female Nutria has the ability to give birth to up to 40 young in three years, with the young having the ability to reproduce at six months in age. This would give them the ability to flourish and build a very big population. The death rate would be regards to the vegetation population that the Nutria use as a food source. The Nutria have the capacity, and are, jeopardizing the vegetation...
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...b. Support from the Battalion due to constant targeting by certain individuals displeased with professional enforcement of the standard. This was not a rehabilitative move. Anyone making this statement is not stating the truth. 1SG Charter even welcomed me and knew nothing of the issues. I was integrated into Fco and started work for taking over the outgoing AIT PSG’s role. A rehabilitative would have come with a counseling laying out the issues. However, I was performing a great job at Bravo Company. 3. 12 November 2013: I assumed responsibility of 2nd Platoon Foxtrot Company. This was an exceptional platoon. I had a great relationship with them and sworn statements supported this. 4. 11 January 2014: I found the Company Reception and Integration counseling outdated and assisted improving the F Co company training room. This...
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...Week 4 Graphic Graphic Organizer / Flow Chart Glenn Hong Essentials of Managerial Communication 1/15/2012 Traci Reese Axia College of University of Phoenix Topic: The Three Key Steps in Business Writing Every business needs to represent itself as formal and living up to that expectation also takes place in the form of writing. Business writing at all times needs to be kept professional and clean cut since the majority of communication within a business is done by emails, memos, and letters. The following steps can help ensure that all business related writing is kept up to the highest standards while representing you and the company with the utmost respect. Topic: The Three Key Steps in Business Writing Every business needs to represent itself as formal and living up to that expectation also takes place in the form of writing. Business writing at all times needs to be kept professional and clean cut since the majority of communication within a business is done by emails, memos, and letters. The following steps can help ensure that all business related writing is kept up to the highest standards while representing you and the company with the utmost respect. The First Step: Planning Planning is important in identifying the key points of what you need to say in business writing. Finding the different ways of organizing how you are going to write out those key points is a part of the whole planning process. Creating new ideas to blend...
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...Case Study Critique Through the years the news has reported on several cases similar to the Jackson case. Each time this kind of neglect case is brought to light the public often wonders what happened. The most difficult part of this case is that the children were so malnourished they were not even growing at an average rate for children of their age. How could this have gone on for so long? With the amount of cases that social workers have it is a wonder that they catch any of these neglect cases. The social services system is bogged down with work that each social worker carries a heavy case load and, unfortunately, this means that things go unnoticed. I feel that it is entirely possible that the case workers were asking the right questions however; maybe the parents had all of the right answers as well. When there was no food in the refrigerator maybe they simply explained that they needed to go grocery shopping and had not had time yet. A social worker does not have enough time to figure out who is lying and who is not. Although a social workers main concern is the welfare of the children, they also have to ensure that all of their families are seen in a timely manner. Whether we like to believe it or not our social workers may not have the time to ensure that the children in our system are being properly cared for. I do believe that the nine social services workers that spent time in the Jackson home should have been fired. These people had a...
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...From the analysis of the Eastman Kodak Company’s consolidated statement of financial position or income statement, which is stated in millions except for share and per share data, there were some differences that are discussed in the following: operating income, comprehensive income, total liabilities, and total shareholders’ equity. Although there was no change in the cost per share there was a change in the retained earnings though. Under the company’s assets the substantial changes occur in the following from 2003 to 2004. There was a $5,000 increase in cash and cash equivalents in 2004. There is a $217 million dollar increase in net receivables in 2004. There was an increase of $80 million in the inventories net in 2004. The company’s deferred taxes in 2004 decreased $40 million compared to 2003. The other current assets for 2004 was 24 million less than 2003, as well as decrease of assets of discontinued operations in 2004 of 42 million. This left a total decrease of $109,000 in total current assets from 2003 to 2004. There was a decrease of $539,000 in 2004 in property, plant and equipment net. The company increased their goodwill assets by $97,000 in 2004 and raised their other long term assets by $202,000 in 2004. There were no assets of discontinued operations claimed in 2004 for the company’s long term assets. This left a total decrease of $109,000 in total assets from 2003 to 2004. Under the company’s liabilities and stockholders’ equity there were some substantial...
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