...Stats PaperCara Robertson September 19, 2013 Elements of Statistics MAT121.M2 Jenny Fiedeldey Chatfield College Statistics Paper #1 “It Ain't Necessarily So” Being as interested in news and politics as I am, I was already aware of the fact that statistics are extremely inaccurate. Statistics falsely portray their sample or population to be over exaggerated or under exaggerated. Either way, statistics are basically lies, whether that is the intention or not. Reading “It Ain't Necessarily So” has only further confirmed by beliefs about statistics and their falseness. I had never taken into consideration all of those who are involved in the inaccuracy of said statistics, though. I had always just blamed the news sources for that. However, reading this paper has taught me that the news sources are probably the only people not involved in what is basically a lie; they are just given the information and told to report it. I now know that the victim (or in some cases, so-called “victim”), investigator, and the person collecting the data are the ones who are to blame for the misrepresentation. These false studies are being presented to the public every day, concerning a very wide range of topics. Extreme confusion is caused when the public hears drastically varying numbers and reports concerning things such as presidential approval rates, unemployment rates, and any other topic one might think of. When each news source is reporting entirely different information on...
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...|The Case of the Unethical Boss The City of Newark Health Department serves over twenty thousand resident’s each year in the City of Newark, NJ. The department employs over five hundred city workers to render healthcare services to predominately African American and Latino residents. The City of Newark is the largest city in the State of New Jersey. The City consist of over three hundred thousand residents that are living in poverty where the household medium is $12,000 yearly. The Health Department has vital agencies that support the resident’s immediate needs, such as WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Immunization, Homeless Health Care Project, Sexual Transmitted Diseases, Dental and Medical Clinics, and most important Ryan White/ HOPWA Unit, for HIV/AIDS. The City of Newark at one time had the highest population of AIDS cases in the United States. The federal government had given the City of Newark $25 million dollars annually to combat the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS cases. The overall operating budget for the health department is $75 million dollars. The Ryan White AIDS Unit, consist of twenty employees, that administer financial services to community nonprofits and other entities in dealing with the HIV epidemic. It is imperative that funding from the city is allocated appropriately and expeditiously in order to meet the needs of its residents. The department contracts with homeless shelters, medical agencies, and food organizations to provide medical...
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...|ASSIGNMENT 1 | |Question 1 |What is meant in psychology by the term ‘attachment’? | | | | | |The psychological explanation for the term ‘attachment’ is where you form an emotional bond to| | |another person or object both physically and mentally. And to feel secure. | | |John Bowlby (1969) described it as a lasting psychological connectedness between human beings.| | | | | |He also stated that early experiences In childhood have an important influence on development | | |& behavior on the individual’s life. | | | | | |Attachment behavior is essentially a survival strategy from evolution for protecting infants | | |from predators. ...
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...Mother-Child Relationship. It was said and it will be said a lot about late Anna Nicole Smith and her late son Daniel’s relationship. The intimacy and the complicity of their relationship wasn’t a secret. Anna Nicole Smith used to say that her son Daniel was her best friend. It was an earthquake for Mrs. Smith when her son passed away. She couldn’t take it; she went depressed and started taking antidepressant medication, which finally intoxicate her to death. She and son proved to the whole world how closed they were. It was a beautiful relationship according to tabloids. Are all mother-child relationships perfect? What makes a mother-child rapport to be good or bad? One of the most prolific environments of interpersonal relationship is the family. Thus, the common form of a family is the nuclear family. It’s constituted with a marital couple living with their offspring in a common dwelling. The essence of the family is the relationship parent-child. The family is an institution where children learn from their parents the signification of the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, or the ethical and the unethical. Parents as guardians of the family have the role to provide basics to the entire family. A family is a place of a symbiotic relationship between parents and children, which involve a lot of exchanges of all nature. The mother-child relationship as well as the parent-child relationship could be classified in three different dimensions (clearly influenced by...
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...screen in 1963 by Mr. Ralph Nelson with a very low budget. With determination and tenacity Mr. Nelson achieved his dream. The entire film was shot in fourteen days! Incredibly, the picture was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Additionally, Lilies of the Field achieved motion picture history as Sidney Poitier was awarded the Best Actor Oscar, marking the first time in history an Academy Award was awarded to a black man. Choosing this movie for an analysis in negotiation was simple. Throughout the movie, the principal characters negotiated continuously. Lilies of the Field principle premise seemed to be partly based on the foundation of the bible scripture, Matthew 6:28-31 New International Version (NIV) 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear? The process of examining this movie in the relations to the process of negotiation I had to watch the movie several times. In watching this movie more than once, it afforded the opportunity to dissect the dynamic between the main characters. Upon my in-depth analysis of each character, I began to...
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...grows longer and more star-studded by the day. Among them are prominent billionaires, including Steven Spielberg; the owner of the New York Mets baseball team; Carl Shapiro, a nonagenarian clothing magnate who may have lost $545m; thousands of wealthy retirees; and a cluster of mostly Jewish charities, some of which face closure. Dozens of supposedly sophisticated financial firms were caughl out too,.including banks such as Santander and HSBC, and Fairfield Greenwich, an alternative-investment specialist that had funnelled no less than $7.5 billion to Mr Madoff. Though his operation resembled a hedge-fund shop, he was in fact managing client money in brokerage accounts within his firm, seemingly as Merrill Lynch or Smith Barney would. A lot of this came from funds of funds, which invest in pools of hedge funds, and was channelled to Mr Madoffvia "feeder funds" with which he had special relationships....
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...fraud that was considered to be one of the massive corporate scandals in US history. This company did not receive as much television and news exposure as Enron and WorldCom, but the fraud the Rigas family had engaged in caused the company to sustain tremendous losses. Adelphia was considered a family owned business to the Rigas family members. John Rigas had dominant control over the company and used his power in the company to engage in fraudulent activity to maintain the extravagant lifestyle they were used to living. Their unethical behavior bilked the company out of more than $100 million dollars, they also hid $2 billion of debt the family had accumulated in off-balance sheet partnerships, and lied to the public and investors about Adelphia’s operation and financial condition. The lack of virtually no internal controls or corporate governance in the company allowed the family members to participate in internal corruption, fraudulent activity, unethical behavior which caused the company to file bankruptcy. Adelphia History John Rigas and his brother Gus Rigas started the first cable system in 1952 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. The name they chose for the company was Adelphia since it is a Greek word that means “brothers”, and generations of the Rigas family would be hired as employees of the company (International Directory of Company Histories, 2003). John Rigas entered the cable industry and laid a foundation that would make Adelphia Communication Corporation one of the...
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...Chapter two The Evolution of Management Theory Learning Objectives 1. Describe how the need to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness has guided the evolution of management theory. 2. Explain the principle of job specialization and division of labour, and tell why the study of person–task relationships is central to the pursuit of increased efficiency. 3. Identify the principles of administration and organization that underlie effective organizations. 4. Trace the changes that have occurred in theories about how managers should behave in order to motivate and control employees. 5. Explain the contributions of management science to the efficient use of organizational resources. 6. Explain why the study of the external environment and its impact on an organization has become a central issue in management thought. A Case in Contrast Changing Ways of Making Cars Car production has changed dramatically over the years as managers have applied different views or philosophies of management to organize and control work activities. Prior to 1900, workers worked in small groups, cooperating to hand-build cars with parts that often had to be altered and modified to fit together. This system, a type of small-batch production, was very expensive; assembling just one car took considerable time and effort; and workers could produce only a few cars in a day. To reduce costs and sell more cars, managers of early car companies needed better techniques to increase efficiency. Henry...
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...CHAPTER 1 Accounting in Action ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE Brief Exercises A Problems B Problems Study Objectives 1. Explain what accounting is. Identify the users and uses of accounting. Understand why ethics is a fundamental business concept. Explain generally accepted accounting principles and the cost principle. Explain the monetary unit assumption and the economic entity assumption. State the accounting equation, and define assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity. Analyze the effects of business transactions on the accounting equation. Understand the four financial statements and how they are prepared. Questions 1, 2, 5 Exercises 1 2. 3, 4 2 3. 3 4. 6 4 5. 7, 8, 9, 10 4 6. 11, 12, 13 1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7, 11 1A, 2A 4A 1B, 2B 4B 7. 14, 15, 16, 18 5, 6, 7, 8 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 1A, 2A, 4A, 5A 1B, 2B, 4B, 5B 8. 17, 19, 20, 21 9, 10 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B 1-1 ASSIGNMENT CHARACTERISTICS TABLE Problem Number 1A 2A Difficulty Level Moderate Moderate Time Allotted (min.) 40–50 50–60 Description Analyze transactions and compute net income. Analyze transactions and prepare income statement, owner’s equity statement, and balance sheet. Prepare income statement, owner’s equity statement, and balance sheet. Analyze transactions and prepare financial statements. Determine financial statement amounts and prepare owner’s equity statement. Analyze transactions...
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...This week's graded topics relate to the following Terminal Course Objectives (TCOs): A | Given an organizational requirement to conform business practices to both the law and best ethical practices, apply appropriate ethical theories to shape a business decision. | I | Given specified circumstances of a business decision to expand to international markets, determine what international legal requirements or regulatory controls apply. | Topics for This Week's Discussion * Introduce yourself to your professor and the rest of the class. (not graded) * Thread over TCO A/I (graded) * Ethics and Patent Rights Post 9/11 (graded) * Q & A Forum for your questions and comments (not graded) | | There is a drop down arrow next to the "Select a Topic" box. Click on this arrow to select topics for discussion. | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Select a Topic: Bottom of Form The World Bank Situation (graded) | Class, please read Chapter 2, problem 5 from the Jennings text, p. 72. This week, we will discuss the Wolfowitz situation at the World Bank. Consider the questions at the end of the problem as you make comments in the threads this week. What are the ethics here? Was Wolfowitz trying to do the right thing? Does that make a difference ethically? Throughout the week, I will bring in further questions. Be sure to read the lecture and the international ethics article stated in your reading for the week as well. | ...
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...the new conditions. This report is for informational purposes only and the author does not accept any responsibility for any liability resulting from the use of this information. While every attempt has been made to verify the information provided here, the author and their resellers and affiliates cannot assume any responsibility for errors, Inaccuracies, or omissions. Any slights of people or organizations are unintentional. Your Rights To This Report [YES] May be freely given away [NO] May be sold for any price [NO May be sold on auction sites [YES] May be offered as a bonus to a paid or free product [YES] May be added to a paid or free membership site [YES] May be packaged [NO] May be modified in any way [NO] May be promoted using unethical marketing tactics (SPAM etc) If you have any questions about any of the above, please contact us at info@thesykesgrp.com. http://www.thesykesgrp.com/ – Jump Start Your Success! Fifteen Proven Secrets to Achieving More Success In Your Life! Copyright © The Sykes Group, All Rights Reserved. 2 http://www.thesykesgrp.com/ – Jump Start Your Success! Fifteen Proven Secrets to Achieving More Success In Your Life! Copyright © The Sykes Group, All Rights Reserved. 3 Table of Contents Jump Start Your Success by Mastering Your Mind and Body .. . 3 4 Jump Start Your Success by Overcoming Adversity . . . . ....
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...Title: Management Conflict and Ethics Netpanna Yavirach, Asst,prof., Department of management, Faculty of Business Administration, Rajamangala Institute of Technology In what sense can it be said that an organization can, as a whole, be ethical of unethical? What characteristics (e.g. structures, policies, powers, responsibilities, codes, cultures, procedures) would mark out an ethical organization? Business ethics is an applied ethics. It is the application of our understanding of what is good and right to do. A discussion of business ethics must begin by providing a framework of basic principles for understanding what is meant by the terms “good” and “right”. In popular usage the term “ethics” has a variety of different meanings. One of the meanings often given to it is: the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group. We use the term “personal ethics” to refer to the rules by which an individual lives his or her personal life, and use the term “accounting ethics” to refer to the code that guides the professional conduct of accountants (Velasquez (1988).,p.11). Ethics is concerned with the moral judgments involved in moral decisions. Ethics does not study all normative judgment, only those that are concerned with what is morally right and wrong, or morally good and bad. When something is judged to be morally right or wrong, or morally good or bad, the underlying standards on which the judgment is based are moral...
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...TITLE Social Contracts and Marketing Ethics CITE “Social Contracts and Marketing Ethics,” Journal of Marketing, 63(July): 14-32 1999. AUTHORS Thomas W. Dunfee 1 N. Craig Smith2 William T. Ross Jr. 3 1- The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19036-6369. Phone: 215.898.7691 Fax: 215.573.2006 Email: dunfeet@wharton.upenn.edu. 2- The McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057 Phone: 202.687.5405 Fax: 202.687.4031 Email, smithn@gunet.georgetown.edu. 3- School of Business and Management, Temple University, Speakman Hall (006-00), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19122 Phone: 215.204.8111 Fax: 215.204.6237 Email: rossw@sbm.temple.edu. Acknowledgements: The authors thank Thomas Donaldson, Diana Robertson and participants in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Seminar at Georgetown University, and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. Funding by the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research and the Georgetown University School of Business summer research fund is gratefully acknowledged. Abstract This paper describes the need and the search to date for a normative moral foundation for marketing. Social contract theory appears promising because of its clear correspondence to the exchange relationships central to marketing thought and practice. It is introduced in a specific formulation known as Integrative Social...
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...© MICHAEL NEWMAN/PHOTOEDIT Managing Human Resources, 14e, Bohlander/Snell - © 2007 Thomson South-Western c hapter 13 Employee Rights and Discipline objective objective objective 3 Identify and explain the privacy 4 Explain the process of responsibilities. employment at will, wrongful discharge, implied contract, and constructive discharge. rights of employees. establishing disciplinary policies, including the proper implementation of 5 objective objective 2 Explain the concepts of employee rights and employer 6 Differentiate between the objective objective 1 Explain the concepts of Discuss the meaning of 7 Identify the different types of objective After studying this chapter, you should be able to 8 Discuss the role of ethics in discipline and how to investigate a disciplinary problem. two approaches to disciplinary action. alternative dispute resolution procedures. the management of human resources. organizational rules. PART 5 Enhancing Employee-Management Relations Managing Human Resources, 14e, Bohlander/Snell - © 2007 Thomson South-Western 549 550 PART 5 Enhancing Employee-Management Relations n this chapter we discuss employee rights, workplace privacy, and employee discipline. Managers note that these topics have a major influence on the activities of both employees and supervisors. Robert J. Deeny, an employment attorney...
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...RESEARCH 2015 R E S E A R C H , 2 015 The Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School educate scholars who make a difference in the world through rigorous academic research that influences practice. More than 140 strong, HBS doctoral students represent diverse backgrounds, degrees, undergraduate schools, and disciplines includ— ing economics, engineering, mathematics, physics, psychology, and sociology. They examine the most critical issues in business management through rigorous research, creating and disseminating new knowledge as the next generation of thought leaders. By the time they graduate, students will have authored and co-authored publications with faculty members, who often become important mentors, colleagues, and collaborators. ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT Chattopadhyay, Akash , Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang. “Accounting Data, Market Values and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns Worldwide.” Working Paper, April 2015. (Revise and resubmit to Journal of Accounting and Economics.) Gow, Ian D., Sa-Pyung Sean Shin, and Suraj Srinivasan. “Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences.” HBS Working Paper 14-120, June 2014. Gow, Ian D., Sa-Pyung Sean Shin, and Suraj Srinivasan. “Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism.” HBS Working Paper 14-071, February 2014. Ioannou, Ioannis, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim. “The Effect of Target Difficulty and Incentives on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions.”...
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