...Mod 6: Discussion Questions Actions for Mod 6: Discussion Questions Part 1 Read the article People Can Equal Profits or Problems. Briefly identify the author’s position on personal relationships in the workplace. Do you agree with the author's position? Why? Why not? Have you encountered similar dilemma at your job, school, or other settings? How did you resolve it? Part 2 How do you see American society today in terms of class relations and social mobility? Do you see the American education system as reinforcing the opportunity for social mobility or perpetuating the class division in this nation? Why? Part 3 Referring to your readings in Mor Barak, what is the most prominent cultural style and relational mental model at your workplace or other organizations to which you belong (e.g. school) Part 1 In the article “People Can Equal Profits or Problems” by Joseph Schmitt, I believe that the author is against the personal relationship in the workplace, and he also points out that having a great leader is important for attracting good people. According to the article, “If companies have people problems, they probably have a problem with the leadership that is administering the people programs. If companies want to attract good people, then the first step they need to take is to be certain great people lead them. Worse than bad hiring processes, layers of nepotism and cronyism send clear messages that who you know and to whom you are related are much more important than...
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...apply concepts learned to a real-life simulation experience. Throughout the Course Project, you will assume that you work as a financial analyst for AirJet Best Parts, Inc. The Course Project is provided in two parts as follows: Part I – In Part I, you work with AirJet Best Parts, Inc. staff to identify the best loan options, as well as to valuate stocks and bonds. Part II – In Part II, you will provide the company with a recommendation for purchasing a new machine. You will base your recommendation on the Net Present Value (NPV) of the capital investment project using the cost of capital (WACC) as your discount rate. About AirJet Best Parts, Inc. AirJet Best Parts, Inc. is a company dedicated to the design and manufacturing of aviation and airplane technologies and parts. The company has commercial and military clients worldwide. Task 1: Assessing loan options for AirJet Best Parts, Inc. The company needs to finance $8,000,000 for a new factory in Mexico. The funds will be obtained through a commercial loan and by issuing corporate bonds. Here is some of the information regarding the APRs offered by two well-known commercial banks. Bank | APR | Number of Times Compounded | National First | Prime Rate + 6.75% | Semiannually | Regions Best | 13.17 | Monthly | 1. Assuming that AirJet Parts, Inc. is considering loans from National First and Regions Best, what are the EARs for these two banks? Hint for National Bank: Go to the St. Louis Federal Reserve...
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... “Ms. Mason. Ms. Mason. Open the door please.” I knew that little voice, Christine Collins the girl next door I watch. Tears rolling down her face, “Please it’s my mommy…help her.” Christine’s mother was lying on the living room floor. “Mrs. Collins? Can you hear me? It’s Beth.” I glanced at Christine whose head was berried in her hands. How do I tell an eight-year-old girl her mother wasn’t breathing? I pulled her next to me, “Sweetie” before I could talk she spoke, “Is she asleep like my daddy, Ms. Mason?” I have forgot that her father passed away less than two months ago. I just nodded, “Can I come with you?” kissing her head, “Of course you can. I can’t leave you here alone. Go get some things together.” I had no way of calling 9-1-1 so I laid a cover over her. Christine came out of her room with a book bag and a stuffed teddy bear. We went back over to my house. “Ms. mason?” I stopped her, “Christine I am only 18 you don’t have to talk to me like you do my mother honey. You can call me Beth.” She smiled, “Okay. Um Beth where is your mommy?” We got in my small two door car that looks like it could fall apart any second. It was hard to get down our street, cars where just in the middle of the road. I threw a jacket over Christine’s face. I didn’t want to see bloody people on the ground or leaning half way out of their car doors. What in the world has happened? The police stations was the exact same. Dead people were all around. I...
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...The mission of Club IT is according to the site (Club IT, 2000-2012), "We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT." The clientele of the club is a group of individuals that fall into the category of mostly Net Generation and Millennials (according to appendix d). This group of people regularly uses mobile technologies such as Blackberries, PDAs, camera phones, and other wireless communication devices. Online shopping is a regular part of their lives. Their functional areas of the business that they currently use information resources would include things such as; payroll, inventory ordering for food stuffs, scheduling, ticket sales, and the intranet that they have set up for their employees. Currently the two owners of Club IT have worked through the issues that have come to them as needed but, according to Appendix D, the back office is being run in a cramped office space with dial up internet service. The owners are currently using multiple suppliers to bring in all of the goods that they need and have the ability to order a portion of the goods on line and other cannot be. The second use of management that they are using is the booking of the entertainment for the club. The owners currently use telephone and in person sales to promote concerts that they host. The owners have asked to have an evaluation done to see what types...
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...``Shakespeare Was Not OF An Age But For All Time`` I agree with the statement ``Shakespeare was not for an age but for all time. `` The words of praise probably the most famous ever written about Shakespeare , were penned by Shakespeare`s good friend and follow writer `Ben Johnson`. For the poet and playwright generally considered the greatest ever is also one of the least known of all literary figures. And his works were indeed created for the popular entertainment of his day with little thought to their immortality. Shakespeare did not take any steps to preserve his writings past their immediate use. (Fortunately his friends did.) With all the academic study of Shakespeare and the trappings of fine culture that have been wrapped around productions of his dramas over the centuries, we often forget what a rollicking, bawdy and entertaining spectacle his plays presented to their original audience — and still can to a modern audience, in the right hands. The timelessness of Shakespeare's themes continue to keep his plays fresh. He dramatized basic issues: love, marriage, familial relationships, gender roles, race, age, class, humor, illness, deception, betrayal, evil, revenge, murder, and death. The essential question that Shakespeare explored in his plays is, "what does it mean to be a human being?" The genius of Shakespeare is that he manged to show us ourselves in every conceivable light. It really doesn't matter when the plays were written since they are about the...
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...I do think that by doing so it looses a lot of its original meaning. I believe that literature can be interpreted in to many different meanings and ways that other people don't see. To one person Shakespeare can be a legendary writer and to anot her person he can be some idiot that wrote a lot of garbage. After reading this section, I find it interesting that Shakespeare can be interpreted in several various ways. I have seen a few different productions of Shakespeare plays and I can understand the different ways that people have perceived the various plays. Personally, I believe that the difference between a “more faithful” versus a “more free” adaptation of a Shakespearean play is that a show that is “more faithful” tends to follow the time frame and setting that the play was placed in, whereas a “more free” adaptation can change to different time frames and have different surroundings than the play was actually placed in. With a more “faithful” adaptation of Shakespeare we learn more about the history behind the play and what it truly is about. Unfortunately, with a more “freer” adaptation we can lose the history behind the play because the context of the play can change based on the decisions of how the play was interpreted. In a faithful version of a play, the language, setting, costumes, and all other major aspects remain as the author originally wrote them; a free adaptation may change one or more of these elements. A more faithful adaptation has the advantage of...
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...Case Study: Air Canada takes off with Maintenix 1) What problems does Air Canada hope that Maintenix will solve? Air Canada hoped to solve the following problems: • The usage of several different legacy software packages installed over the last 15 years. • The inability of the systems to interact with one another or with finance and inventory systems • The costs on Air Canada the inefficiencies of these systems were causing. • The unprofessionalism they had in some fields’ maintenance engineering, line maintenance and materials management (full implementation). And the insufficiency of some other departments; heavy maintenance, shop maintenance and finance. (partial implementation) 2) How does Maintenix improve operational efficiency and decision-making? • Matintenix provides a system platform that is accessible via the Web and easy to deploy to all stations around the world. Mxi claims that their software reduces repetitive tasks and time chasing missing or incomplete information by allowing maintenance, engineering, and finance divisions to easily share information. This assures the improvement of operational efficiency. • Maintenix can supply data to the company’s existing enterprise resource planning and financial software. • Wireless deployment also make Maintenix more effective, since aviation technicians, equipment, and parts are always on the move. • All of the information provided by Maintenix’s various modules is located in one place. This results in...
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...AFIN818 ASSIGNMENT PART3 Individual Journal Reflecting On Group Experience. 1. Describe We have a lot of differences in choosing the research model and the data because each of us has our own understanding and opinion about this assignment. Our resources are different and limited so we cannot reach an agreement at the beginning. 2. Analysis The reason of the difficulty is that some parts of the assignment need the data on some websites like ASX and others come from the financial statement. That means the resources of each part is very different and limited. Using limited resources to do research is difficult and challenging. But this is a good opportunity to improve our academic ability. And also in order to improve the integrity and rationality of the whole assignment, we must consider our teammates as far as possible, such as using the same data range. Besides, there is a very important point in the whole assignment. Sometimes one person finishes his part and calculates a ratio as a result. It seems that he has done his part. In fact, the ratio is very important or the key point in the teammates’ part, so he must take the rationality of the result in consideration, or it will create a lot troubles for the teammates. 3. Evaluation A group assignment is different from the individual assignment. Although the distribution of the sections seems to reduce the burden of everyone, it is necessary to spend more time and effort on the discussion, compromise...
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...play will not be as heroic and godly as initially envisioned. This is because there is a shortage in the resources necessary to depict this great spectacle, and it is instead the audience’s responsibility to both create and imagine the play. The opening prologue alone sets the stage for how equivocally this war will be portrayed, and also how frequently the reader’s understanding of Henry will be challenged throughout the play. In Act 1, we are introduced to the crafty Bishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Ely, who discuss a bill that will cause the Church to lose a significant amount of money if passed. They then realize that if they can convince Henry to invade France in order to claim the throne, they can postpone the bill in the meantime, as Canterbury has already proposed to donate a generous amount of money towards the war. Soon after, we meet Henry for the first time, and Canterbury delivers a prolonged speech to justify his claim to declare war with the French, by reassuring Henry that he can indeed inherit the French throne. Leading up to Act 1, scene 2, lines 290-310, King Henry has been presented with a chest full of tennis balls sent from the Dauphin, as a form of mockery to suggest Henry’s immaturity and inability to lead a country. This provokes Henry’s powerful rant, a retaliation to the mockery. This speech provides an essential insight into Henry’s multifaceted personality. It portrays not only Henry’s unpredictable nature, but also in such ambiguity alludes to the...
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...customer service and quality products are the key factors for successful businesses. In company Q’s case, they are failing at both, especially when they don’t even have the support from their own community. It is probably a good thing that they closed two of their stores in higher-crime-rate areas of the city because being in a higher-crime-rate areas would drive their customers away even more so. Even though Company Q can care less about the social responsibility, maybe we can still recommend few pointers to help them improve the business. First, Company Q needs to understand that their manager doesn’t have the best interest in the company. I believe that the company should either let him go or let him know that they would love to be a part of their community and start respecting their wishes. In order to gain the respect from the community, the company should have the manager apologize sincerely to local food bank for the previous incident and make a big donation. Second, Company Q should definitely keep health-conscience and organic products and maybe even have varieties of it to make that their “thing”. This...
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...Club IT Part 1 Maria Acosta XBIS/ 219 December 20, 2012 Richard Vincent Club IT Part 1 Club IT is a night club that Rueben Keys and Lisa Tejada have put together, to provide some high quality entertainment for everyone to enjoy, especially their adult friends. The mission statement for Club It is “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space, and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT.” (R. Kelly Rainer & Turban, 2009) What Rueben and Lisa have done is take a 6000 square foot location, remodeled it to accommodate a 600 square foot dance floor, seating for 220 people, four wells and bar, a kitchen that serves appetizers and short orders. They have different music genres every week providing a variety of musical acts to fit a variety of consumers. They have a limited information system that provides just the basics for tracking, employees and information access and security. My goal is to provide the needed information that will guide Rueben and Lisa to make the necessary additions and changes to their technical and information systems that will ultimately prove to be profitable for them in the long run. First we need to address the security of their information system, we see that the employees and proprietors all have the same user name and password and can view the same information, personal and otherwise. Employees need their own...
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...#1 没有理论 （No theory） #2 概念和操作并不一致（Concepts and operationalization not in alignment） #3 缺乏充分的定义—理论 （Insufficient definition--theory） #4缺乏充分的合理性—研究设计（Insufficient Rationale-Design） #5 整体结构不统一和流畅（Macrostructure-Organization and Flow） 多个作者写一篇文章的时候要注意 #6 业余的文体和词句（Amateur Style and Ton） #7 不合适的研究设计（Inadequate Research Design） #8与期刊主题不搭边（Not Relevant to the Field） #9过于强调统计方法（Overengineering） #10 结论部分过于简单，没有将其同前文的理论，方法部分同等看重（Conclusion Not in Alignment） The important thing is to use the conclusion section to fully develop the theoretical contribution and to point out the new understanding from the study. 结论部分突出理论贡献，并指出本文的新理解 The conclusion section should build on and be congruent with previous parts of the manuscript. The conclusion section deserves as much attention as the theory, method, and results sections, because the conclusion section explains what it all means. #11 把数据切块发表论文（Cutting up the Data） 这里要注意不要造成一稿多发。 怎样写好一篇论文常常与如何评价一篇论文有关，知道了论文的评价标准，实际上也就大致知道了写好一篇论文的方向和要求。 1 何谓实证性研究论文 实证性研究论文包括试验报告、调查报告、经验总结报告、行动研究报告、观察研究报告、个案研究报告等。这些研究报告的文体有其独特的结构模式。例如，试验研究报告的结构模式为：①题目；②问题的提出；③材料与方法；④结果与分析；③讨论与结论；⑥参考文献。 一般而言，实证性研究的文体结构严谨，表述规范，格式相对固定，在大多数情况下，研究者需经历一定的研究行动或研究实践才能完成。这类论文以检验假设、证实理论判断，或获得经验体会为主要特征。在行文上，一般先陈述研究背景、研究价值、研究目的或假设，有关变量、研究过程和方法，然后，重点陈述研究结果，并对所得到的结果进行分析讨论，指出新发现的情况和问题，最后，针对所得的研究结果，回答对理论假设的检验情况和是否达到研究目的、解决了研究问题，或陈述研究者的见解，也可提出进一步探讨的问题和建议。必须注意的是，对研究问题、变量、过程与方法的陈述，要清晰、准确，简明扼要；对研究结果的描述和解释要客观、平实，条理清楚；讨论问题应以客观事实为依据，采用科学的语体，恰如其分地阐析和评价；作结论应全面归纳、高度概括。 2 评价方法 ...
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...Data Collection: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. QNT/351 Data Collection: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. Overview Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. (BIMS) is a company that provides housekeeping and foodservices to large corporations and businesses. BIMS employs a total of 452 employees, including full-time and part-time workers as well as upper management employees. The average turnover rate for BIMS is typically 55 to 60%. During the past four months the turnover rate has increased to over 64%. Despite the efforts to get to the root of the issue causing the high turnover rate, management at BIMS has been unsuccessful. The morale is low at BIMS, and there has been an increase in the use of sick leave. The performance of workers has become inadequate, which has caused a number of complaints from clients. Data Collection Instrument A survey instrument was created in an attempt to allow the workers to express their views about their individual experiences at BIMS. The survey begins by asking questions about the employee’s feelings toward his or her position and the relationship he or she has with his or her boss. The survey also includes demographic questions that identifies the division they are assigned to and how long they have been employed. As the consulting group one can expect to find that the increase in turnover to be directly...
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...Club IT Part 1 Tina Bell XBIS/219 October 26, 2013 Katherine Escobar Club IT Part 1 Club IT is a place to relax, make some new friends, dance, eat some delicious appetizers created by our very own kitchen. We will be even more creative in the future, and you can log on to our website and see the progress we are making. We want to make sure you know we cater to our customers; there will be a place on our website where you can interact with the establishment and let us know your every need. The owners and managers are Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada; they are realizing their dream with Cub IT. They both have attained their degree in Business Administration in 2005; in addition they are both musicians and have learned a great deal in the nightclub business through their work in music. One of our goals at Club IT is to have our customers set up an Internet account right here in the club on your lap-top or at home with the password we provide it will not matter where you are at. This will give you access to our website, this is where the fun begins online, right now you can get to know our employees and the rest of the gang. Our online community is fun, and we want to encourage everybody to join, it is free and you get a10% discount in our merchandise store. Here you can learn of the new activities we plan there our going to be some surprises in the future. You can learn business hours and menu items, prices, the band schedule and so much more. We have access to the Internet for anyone...
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...EFB210: FINANCE 1, 2012 S1 Assignment: Part A, Financial Mathematics and Security Valuation _______________________________________________________________________________________ General Information Marks: 10 Weight: 10% Format: Short Answer with workings File Type: Excel (.xlsx or .xls) Due: 29 March 2012 Upload soft copy of your Excel file to Blackboard under Assessment on or prior to the due date. Assignments submitted after the due date (late assignments) cannot be uploaded to Blackboard. Instead, they need to be emailed directly to Mark Doolan (m.doolan@qut.edu.au). Unless prior approval for late submission is granted, late assignments will incur a penalty. To avoid mixing up assignments, you must name your assignment with the following format: * unit code, your name, your student number, and the assignment number * for example: EFB210 John Doe n1234567 Assignment Part A.xlsx Finally, complete the table below and add it to your assignment. Notes to Markers * Assignments are accessed and marked through grade centre. If the student has submitted multiple assignments, mark their last submission. * Marking for Knowledge and Understanding * 1 mark per question * 1 mark for correct answer * 0 marks for incorrect answer – no part marks * This shouldn’t happen, but mark the student correct if their answer appears to differ from correct answer by a small rounding. Note that this is for small rounding...
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