For this assignment, read the case study, “Best Homes, Inc.: Forecasting” on pages 447 – 448 of your textbook. Once you have read and reviewed the case scenario, respond to the following questions with thorough explanations and well-supported rationale:
What forecasting methods should the company consider? Please justify.
Use the classical decomposition method to forecast average demand for 2016 by month. What is your forecast of monthly average demand for 2016?
Best Homes is also collecting sales projections from each of its regions for 2016. What role should these additional sales projections play, along with the forecast from question 2, in determining the final national forecast?
Your response must be a minimum of three -two pages, and APA style must be followed when writing your response. References must include your textbook plus a minimum of one additional credible reference. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying in-text citations.
Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.
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Assume that you currently serve as the fire inspector for a municipal fire department and are considered as the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ). A newly planned community is being developed within your jurisdiction, and you have the authority to approve the fire protection water supply system prior to installation. Additionally, you will be responsible for ensuring that inspections and testing of the fire protection water supply system is completed prior to the certification of any occupancy within the planned community. The planned community includes single-family dwellings; multi-family dwellings; commercial buildings, including businesses and mercantile occupancies; and assembly occupancies.
As a part of your responsibilities as a fire inspector, you are to ensure that the appropriate type of hydrant is installed and that spacing is in accordance with the local code based on the occupancy types. Compile a report that includes the elements listed below.
◾Identify the type of hydrant to be installed, and explain why that type of hydrant was chosen.
◾Describe how the new hydrants would be inspected and tested.
◾Provide the spacing requirements based on your local jurisdiction’s requirements or policies (this should be where you work or where you reside).
◾Include a diagram detailing these spacing requirements, and note any local challenges.
◾List what the maintenance and inspection requirements will be and who will be responsible for handling each of those tasks.
Your report should be two pages in length. Any sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. Any references and citations used should be in APA style.
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Mission Statement of the Occupational Therapy Program at Stony Brook University
The Stony Brook University OT program has a five-part mission:
LEARNING: providing comprehensive undergraduate, graduate, and professional education of the highest quality to current and future occupational therapy practitioners to meet the demands of 21st century practice across the life span, enhancing their becoming critical reflective thinkers and lifelong learners;
SCHOLARSHIP: engaging in research and intellectual endeavors of the highest international standards in collaboration with other service providers in order to contribute to the body of knowledge related to the study of occupation and its immediate and long-range practical significance;
SERVICE: providing service to meet societal needs in neighboring communities and the wider geographic region through enhancing occupational performance and the facilitation of economic, personal, social, and aesthetic contributions by individuals and populations;
LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY: training occupational therapy practitioners to provide state-of-the-art innovative health care to assist persons to engage in meaningful occupation and full participation in society, serving as resources to health care providers, educational institutions, and human service communities, while striving to promote and strengthen the occupational therapy profession; and,
GLOBALIZATION: supporting diversity in local and global contexts through positioning the Stony Brook University Occupational Therapy Program in regional, national, and global com-munity initiatives and opportunities.
1.How does our mission statement, noted above, reflect your own life experiences?
2-What other information about yourself would you like the faculty and staff at Stony Brook University Occupational Therapy Program to know
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Analyze the case. In your case analysis, address the following:
Summarize the basic issues of government governance presented in the report.
Describe NIKE and FOXCONN business strategies and how they involved controversial manufacturing relations. Discuss your opinions about these strategies.
Explain why firms such as NIKE choose to outsource and send abroad what they used to do at home.
Explain how the tragedies at FOXCONN could have been prevented by the Chinese government.
Describe how outsourcing in this article has taken away some corporate accountabilities.
Do you think that NIKE and FOXCONN have manipulated the International Labor practices? Support your rationales.
As the U.S. Secretary of Labor, explain how you would help enforce global labor practices in under developed nations around the world?
Write a 3-page Word document. Apply current APA standards for writing style to your work. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
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Offenders commit crimes for different reasons. Criminological theories attempt to explain why crimes occur. For the Final Paper, you will evaluate the theoretical study of crime and crime causation by examining the crime of an offender and applying a criminological theory discussing why the offense occurred.
You must discuss both the offender and the crime in detail. Additionally, you must research the criminological theory to be used; discuss the theorist responsible for coining the theory, the year it was created, the premise of the theory, and how it is applicable.
Below is a list of offenders that were reported in the media as a result of the heinous nature of their offense. Select one of the offenders, and research their crime. You may only use scholarly sources when citing in your paper. Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.
First, select an offender from the list of offenders.
Offenders? Andrew Luster is the Offender i picked. So please write on him
Andrew Luster (Cosmetic fortune heir who was convicted of drugging, raping, and videotaping assault of young women)
Then, select one theory from the list.
Theories
Age-Graded Theory
Anomie Theory
Arousal Theory
Behavioral Theory
Biochemical Theory
Cognitive Theory
Control Balance Theory
Critical Criminology
Critical Feminist Criminology
Cultural Deviance Theory
Deviance Place Theory
Differential Association Theory
Differential Coercion Theory
Evolution Theory
General Strain Theory
Instrumental Theory
Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory
Interactional Theory
Left Realism Theory
Lifestyle Theory
Rational Choice Theory
Theory of Crime and Genetic Theory
After you research the criminological theory and the case, your paper must Explain the theory in detail.
Discuss the theorist responsible for coining the theory including the year the theory was created.
Describe the premise of the theory.
Explain how it is applicable.
Discuss both the offender and the crime in detail.
Discuss how the theory explains the actions of the criminal selected from the list above.
The Final Paper
Must be 12 to 15 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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You are the HR Director of Healthy Babies Inc. Your company manufactures baby milk bottles and baby toys. The bottle manufacturing unit has 2,000 employees and produces one million milk bottles every year that are sold in U.S.A. Your CEO announces that the company is looking to expand to overseas markets. She is happy that she has just signed an agreement with a Mexican retail giant that will buy 100,000 milk bottles from Healthy Babies every year for the next three years, generating additional revenue of 12 million dollars for the company every year. Naturally, this would require the production capacity to be raised by 10%. She entrusts you and the operations director to suggest the best way to achieve this. The new operations would start from next year (2017)
After discussions with operations director, you realize that investing in new equipment or technology will be very expensive. So the only feasible option is to employ more workforce. Your initial reaction is to increase the current working hours in the production unit by 10%, from 40 to 44 hours per week, and pay overtime to existing employees. This would achieve the desired 10% increase in production. However, your assistant director suggests that instead of increasing the work hours, the company should hire 10% additional workers to work alongside existing workers to achieve the desired growth in production.
If you increase the workweek to 44 hours, each employee would need to be paid overtime for 4 hours per week. The legally mandated overtime rates are time and one-half. Since the current hourly wage for the employees in manufacturing unit is $18.50/hour, the overtime premium would be $9.25 per hour, i.e. for each overtime hour, an employee would be paid $27.75 instead of usual $18.50. Their benefits will remain the same.
If you hire new employees, you will need to pay their wages at the current rate and a benefits package costing $8,850 per year to each employee. While the wages are expected to be unchanged in the next few years, the cost of benefits is expected to go up by 20% in 2018 and again in 2019 due to rising cost of health insurance. Furthermore, the costs of recruiting, selecting and training these new employees would amount to $15,000 per new hire. At the end of 3 years, you would need to terminate the new workers at an average termination cost of $3,500 per terminated employee.
For this assignment you are to prepare a business case to present the explanation and rationale for the proposed approach. Remember, you are proposing an HR solution to a business problem. It needs to be clear, direct, concise, and professionally written. It needs to be convincing and supported by the results of your calculations. It should be in the form of a memo to the CEO.
Your business case should cover the following:
Q1. Calculation of yearly costs, total nominal costs and discount rate for cash flows is 8% for each of the options.
Q2. Based on the ROI (for the entire period of three years), which option is financially more attractive to achieve the target? 10 points (for Q1 & 2)
Q3. What are the non-financial advantages of each of these options? Please think like an HR professional 5 points
Q4. Which option would you finally recommend to the CEO? Give reasons. 5 points
Q5. If the contract had been for one year only, would your recommendation be the same? Explain. 5 points
Writing, format and preparation of the report 5 points
Q6. When companies hire new workers for a project, sometimes it is possible to accommodate some of these employees in other areas of the company, instead of laying them off after the project is over. If at the end of three years, Healthy Babies can redeploy 80 workers instead of firing them, what would be the impact on ROI? bonus 3 points
The assignment should be typed in double space
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Similar to the challenge case presented in each chapter of your book (Modern Management Concepts and Skills 14th edition), you are being asked the following:
1) Identify a relevant, recent article from a credible news source.
2) Provide the title, author, date of publication and include a direct link.
3) Create 5 questions to ask your (imaginary students). (Look at the management skill exercises at the end of the chapter for examples).
4) Answer the questions. Each answer must be at least 4 sentences long. (5 paragraphs).
Part 2 S.W.O.T. Analysis
Create a SWOT analysis for a non-profit organization of your choice.
You may use NAECHY or any other non-profit such as Habitat for Humanity or any SJU sponsored organization.
After you complete the SWOT, provide 4 paragraphs explaining the rationale behind the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. (1 paragraph for each).
Part 3
Questions
1) List and explain the 4 management functions.
2) List the 7 skills managers need to perform tasks. Rank the most important to least important (your opinion) and provide rationale and reasoning as to your methodology. There should be at least 4 paragraphs.
3) Summarize the primary advantages and disadvantages regarding planning. In your opinion, what is the principal advantage of planning? What is the principal disadvantage?
4) What are the risks and rewards of operating a multi-national organization? (1 paragraph).
5) List 5 ways that you would promote diversity in an organization. How would you control your efforts to make sure they were successful? (1 paragraph).
6) How can society help businesses meet social obligations? (1 paragraph)
7) Describe the main components of entrepreneurship? (1 paragraph)
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Theranos has been subject of many recent news articles and investigative reports. Please read below a little bit about the company and “google” additional information and answer the questions below. Please post your answer and respond to another student’s post. Please have your post consist of 400 minimum words.
Theranos, aiming to stave off a bankruptcy, has reportedly laid off most of what is left of its employees as it tries to preserve cash.
The Wall Street Journal , citing people familiar with the matter, reported that with the workforce reductions, the company’s headcount went from roughly 125 employees to around two dozen or even less. The move comes as CEO Elizabeth Holmes agreed to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over “massive fraud” charges lodged against the company.
In mid-March, the SEC announced that it had charged Theranos, the Silicon Valley blood-testing technology company, as well as Holmes and the company’s former president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, with providing false information to raise more than $700 million from investors.
In a press release, the SEC said the company and its top executives engaged in years-long fraud in which they exaggerated or made false statements about the business’ technology and financial performance. As part of a settlement, Holmes agreed to pay a penalty and to give up majority voting control over the company, as well as to reduce her equity – which, combined with shares she previously returned, will lower her equity stake by a material amount.
According to the SEC, the complaints contend that the company, Holmes and Balwani made several false and misleading statements at investor conferences, product demos and in media interviews, tricking investors into thinking its portable blood analyzer, the company’s key product, could conduct a comprehensive analysis of blood just from the drops collected from a user’s finger — a claim that if true, would revolutionize the blood-testing industry.
However, the reality, according to the SEC, was that the company’s blood analyzer technology could only do a small number of tests. What’s more, the SEC contends that Theranos conducted most of its patient tests with modified and industry-standard commercial analyzers that weren’t made by the company.
The executives also falsely claimed that the U.S. Department of Defense used its product on the battlefields of Afghanistan and on MEDEVAC helicopters, and that the company collected $100 million in revenue in 2014. The product was actually never used by the Department of Defense, and revenue was only a little more than $100,000 in 2014.
Who started Theranos and what did she promise to deliver to the public? Tell me a little bit about her, as well.
What did she and other leaders do wrong in operating the company?
How has her actions affected the company and other start up companies?
What safeguards, if any, should have the company’s leadership taken to prevent the wrongdoing? Direct your answer to ethical considerations and safeguards.
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Create a Power Point presentation analyzing the future of Federal and state laws that deal with discrimination. Analyze these laws and regulations from both a domestic and global perspective. From your analysis, select five major developments that may occur in the next 10 years or so. Find five current references from research articles or publications that address potential future developments. You can select a state and country of your choosing as a reference point for this presentation.
Support your conclusions with references from a minimum of five (5) journal articles or publications.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as “speaker notes” for each slide.
Create a PowerPoint slide set or MS MovieMaker project creating presentation. Think about who your target audience is and how your topic affects them.
The required length of the PowerPoint Presentation option for this assignment is 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide). Your presentation MUST include notes containing 150-200 words per slide (this is your script). Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style.
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Average Yearly Mileage for Passenger Cars in the United States in the year 2005 Let y represent the average number of miles driven per year for commuter cars in the United States since 1980.
Average Yearly Mileage for Passenger Cars
Let x represent the year where x = 0 corresponds to 1980, x = 1 corresponds to 1981, and so on. The average yearly mileage for rider cars can be approximated by the equation y = 142x + 9060, where x ≥ 0. Use the linear equation to approximate the average yearly mileage for passenger cars in the United States in the year 2005. What is the slope of the line and what does it mean in the context of this problem? What is the y-intercept and what does it mean in the context of this problem?
