...Wendell Hess Team Building and Group Process Peer Evaluation Discussion List some possible biases in peer evaluations. In addition, discuss possible ways to eliminate rater and ratee bias from evaluation processes? Given the diverse nature of teams and the increased span of control from restructuring, managers and supervisors often are not in a position to perform the traditional supervisor-employee performance appraisal (May & Gueldenzoph, 2006). These situations may require peers to evaluate one another. Though peer evaluations can be an effective way to evaluate individuals and teams, biases can stand in the way of an honest outcome. One of the possible biases that could be encountered in a peer evaluation is the Homogeneity Bias. According to May (2008), this error is a tendency of raters to judge more favorably those perceived to be similar to themselves in personality, attitudes, or background. Another bias that can be encountered in peer evaluations is the Halo Bias. This bias is the belief that an individual with one good trait has many good traits. Forgas (2011) states, an example would be judging a good-looking person as having a more desirable personality. The Bandwagon Bias is another obstacle that can be faced in peer evaluations. This is defined as the tendency to believe or go along with what the majority of the group believes. Though these aren’t all of the biases that could be faced in peer evaluations, they can certainly be avoided. Research...
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...running track and most of the employees visit this fitness center. The establishment cost for this center was around one million dollars and the rubbing cost as of now is also very high due to maintenance and the other services. Keeping this in view Zachary Evans the new VP, operations of the company plans to shut down the fitness center to cut the expenses of the company. On proper analysis of the situation I come to the conclusion that the fitness center should remain open and it should be made available to more number of people by encouraging them to join the center. Word Count: 99 Table of Contents Serial No. Contents Page No. 1 Situation Analysis 1 2 Problem Statement 1 3 Options 1 4 Criteria 2 5 Evaluations of options 2 6 Recommendations 3 7 Action Plan 3 Situational Analysis The fitness center of rocky mountain is in debate this year after the appointment of the new VP, operations Zachary Evans, However in view of joe Mirola fitness center is a necessary requirement of the company to increase the efficiency of the employees and to attract the new employees from nearby area to come to rocky mountain. Looking at previous two year trends the employees who use fitness center take 50% less leave as compared to other employees and also the expenses on medical bill of such employees is lesser as compared to other employees . In present situation Mr Mirola and the new VP, operations Zachary Evans...
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...industries. Countries with strong economic growth and population and a good disposable income are very accepting to the rapid uptake of technology. At the moment there is an enormous growth in information and communication fields. This has created a significant social change. (p167) Copy paragraph p168. Emerging technologies often result from an unorthodox combination of existing entities. The focus of these new technologies lies in the areas of: * Group collaboration on tasks * Next generation internet architecture that facilitates smoother communication * Real-world web services It is the norm to have multidisciplinary teams from around the globe working on one project. Collaboration tools * Podcasts * Peer to peer voice over IP * Desktop search * wikis Research of the new technologies p 170-171 Factors affecting emerging technologies and their development. They require constant finance and development. Factors that influence include: * The marketing strategies * Timing of release * Political factors * Economic boom or turndown * Cultural factors such as religious believes * Social influences and fashions * Legal factors – change of government and policy...
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...was trying to locate help for other classmates of mine I would never forget this ladies name her name was Lori. She was completely helpful with going beyond her call they even got in touch with the school and to give more assists to the family and the child. Their Mission and Vision was to provide information and referral, education and training and peer to peer support to all individuals living with disabilities and their families. Their Vision is to strengthen and support and empower the individuals and their families while providing home and the community inclusion. Point of information and Referral when a family is referred to the offices for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities they will determined to see their eligibility for the services and for their own they will referred to Families Helping Families then they will address any problems that need to handle. I would like to talk about three of the services Family Helping Families use one being Education & Support of those with Dual Diagnoses this program allow trouble students remain within their community and school. Personnel attends of ISC meetings and Evaluation & IEP meetings and they will also assist parents in handling services...
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... | |b. |Isolating network devices decreases costs. | |c. |Isolating network devices allows implementation of the sneakernet file sharing method. | |d. |Networks enable multiple users to share resources. | ____ 2. Which network model ensures that no computer on the network has more authority than another? |a. |client/server |c. |peer-to-peer | |b. |stand alone |d. |distributed | ____ 3. A common way of sharing resources on a peer-to-peer network is by modifying the ____ controls using the computer’s operating system. |a. |file-serving |c. |resource-sharing | |b. |file-sharing |d. |resource-monitoring | ____ 4. A ____ facilitates communication and...
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...dual-objective scheduling problem. The two objectives identified are to maximize the success rate of job execution and to minimize fairness deviation among resources. The challenge is to develop a grid scheduling scheme that enables individual participants to make autonomous decisions while producing a desirable emergent property in the grid system; that is, the two systemwide objectives are achieved simultaneously. We present an incentive-based scheduling scheme, which utilizes a peer-to-peer decentralized scheduling framework, a set of local heuristic algorithms, and three market instruments of job announcement, price, and competition degree. The performance of this scheme is evaluated via extensive simulation using synthetic and real workloads. The results show that our approach outperforms other scheduling schemes in optimizing incentives for both consumers and providers, leading to highly successful job execution and fair profit allocation. Index Terms—Computational grid, scheduling, incentive, peer to peer, market-like. Ç 1 INTRODUCTION GRID computing, which aims at enabling wide-area resource sharing and collaboration, is emerging as a promising distributed computing paradigm [1]. According to how they schedule computational jobs to resources, computational grids can be classified into two types: controlled...
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...Task 1.1 and 1.2, Significant features of Local Area Networks. A Describe in detail peer to peer. Peers are computer networks that are connected to each other through the internet. Files can be shared directly between systems without the need of a central server, which makes each computer on a p2p system its own client as well as a file server. A P2P (peer to peer) network requires only that you have an internet connection and P2P software such as, Kazaa , LimeWire, or bearshare. When a P2P is connected it allows you to search for files on other peoples computers, while at the same time allows other users on the network to access yours that are typically assigned onto a single folder that you have designated to share. One of the main upsides...
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...Security Aspects of Peer-to-Peer Computing Shayla J. Brock INSY 4900.51 May 9, 2014 It is important to enable peers to represent and update their trust in other peers in open networks for sharing files, and especially services. A trust model and a method for building reputation based on recommendations in peer-to-peer networks. Since trust is multifaceted, peers need to develop differentiated trust in aspects of other peers’ capability. The peer’s needs are different in different situations. Depending on the situation, a peer may need to consider it’s trust in a specific aspect of another peer’s capability or in multiple aspects. There are networks that provide a flexible method to present differentiated trust and combine different aspects of trust. The evaluation of the model using a simulation shows that the system where peers communicate their experiences outperforms the system where peers do not share recommendations with each other and that a differentiated trust adds to the performance in terms of percentage of successful interactions. Currently, a new and highly interesting paradigm for communication on the Internet, known as Peer-to-Peer (P2P), is emerging...
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...(For Six Months Industrial Training) By Nitika Sharma CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO. TITLE PAGE…………………………………………………………………………………….i ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………………………..ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………………………………………………….iii LIST OF TABLES & FIGURES…………………………………………………………iv 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Types of Peer to Peer………………………………………………………………..…...........2 1.1.1 Unstructured P2P…………………………………………………………………………2 1.1.2 Centralized P2P…………………………………………………………………………….3 1.2 Applications………………………………………………………………………..……………….....3 1.3 Advantages…………………..……………………………………………...............................3 1.4 Objective …………………………………………………………………………………………..…....4 1.5 Scope…………………….……………………………………………………………………….………….4 2. FEATURES OF PROJECT…………………………………………………………………………….5 3. HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS 3.1 Input Requirements…………………………………….……………………………………..8 3.2 Output Requirements………………………………………………………………………..8 3 3.3 Software Requirements…………………….………………………………………………..8 3.4 Hardware Requirements……………………………………………………………………..8 4. TOOL USED FOR DEVELOPMENT 4.1 NetBeans…………………………………………………………………………….……………….10 4.1.1 Features and Tools…………………..……………………………..………..…….10 4.1.2 Source Code Editor………………………………………………………………….10 4.1.3 GUI Builder………………………………………………………………………………..11 5. TECHNOLOGY TO BE USED 5.1 Introduction to Java…………………………………………………………..……………..13 5.1.1 Java Virtual Machine……………………………………………….…………..13 5.1.2 Principles………………………………………………………………………………..13 5.1.3 Versions………………………………………...
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...NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION Near Field Communication is an immerging technology in the field of wireless industry. NFC technology can be used in billing counters, buses, or sharing information to friends. It can be used by swapping the smart phone over NFC enabled device such as a NFC tag which has information stored in it. For example instead of swiping credit card in the card reader at any shop we can just simply take out phone from our pocket and wave it over the NFC enabled reader and credit card information will be transferred to the bank. HISTORY OF NFC NFC is not an innovation basically but an advance version of other short range wireless technologies like RFID. NFC forum was created to define the standards of NFC and facilitate it for further growth. NFC forum was founded in year 2004 in collaboration by Sony, Nokia and Philips. It define some standards which has to be followed by the NFC enabled devices and smartphones. The forum also ensures the inter compatibility of the NFC devices, which means that any NFC device can communicate with any other NFC device which provides a simple and fast way to transfer data and therefore it doesn’t restrict users to a few devices. Currently some companies have started using NFC technology such as Google and PayPal and this will encourage users to try this new technology. NFC is focusing on United States and is ready to establish itself as simple, contactless payment system. ...
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...Piracy- Now a major offense PHI 300 SEC 1 EMPL ID 773958 In America, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is the trade organization that works to protect intellectual property of artists and music labels. They attempt to prevent piracy of artists’ work by in some cases prosecuting offenders. According to the RIAA, global piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year, 71060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in workers earnings (RIAA). How exactly then do prosecutors solve this issue? Their answer is to sue for excessive amounts, and even prosecuting to where it can lead up to 5 years in prison. One prime example of this unfair justice is the fairly new case involving Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who illegally downloaded over 1700 songs from a p2p network. It is unethical for such a corporation to incarcerate or even sue for such a misdemeanor offense (Barret, 2010). The evolution of how we obtain music has become easier to the public due to programs that allow people to download single songs or even albums, preventing them from having to leave their homes. Although it may seem effortless, downloading music has some stipulations that go along with how you are receiving the files. Basically what it boils down to is, if you did not pay for it, then it is illegal and considered piracy (RIAA). Illegal actions should be dealt with, but the question is, “Should the RIAA be rewarded such unruly amounts of cash, or better yet send people to jail over...
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...McBride Financial Security Policy To bring McBride’s electronic key online will provide a great source of control in their area of physical security. Employees will only have access to areas that their work in and access to information according to their rank in McBride facility. Any unauthorized access to any area of any McBride facility will be punishable in accordance with McBride's Non-Compliance Policy. If an access card, key are lost or stolen or is not returned a fee will be charged for a new item. When an access card is lost, it will be deactivated immediately until a new card is issued. When processing a loan application, McBride is in control of large amount of sensitive customer information including the customer’s credit report and history. The protection of this information is very important. To protect data from loss, equipment failure, or intentional destruction, all mortgage applications and associated data will be backed up to magnetic tape as well as archived to a remote server daily. Magnetic tape backups will be performed every evening (except for Sunday when tape drives will be cleaned and maintained). All data backups will be perform only by an authorized member of McBride's in-house IT department. Another way that McBride will now protect sensitive data is through account access controls. Passwords, encryption, and pertinent classification of data are a few measures that will be implemented to ensure this protection. Every procedure and process...
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...Richman Investments holds requirements for the usage of the company network including filtering policies for network traffic through an AUP. Acceptable use policy (AUP) would start with the User Domain. The user domain is the employee within an organization who is granted access to the information system for the organization. There are roles and tasks, responsibility, and accountability that go into an acceptable use policy for the user domain. Within the user domain, access to the LAN to WAN, web surfing, and internet could be used help gather information between customers and employees. LAN to WAN is the activities between LAN to Wan and firewalls, routers, intrusion, detection, and workstations. Web surfing determines what a user can obtain on company time with company resources. Internet, is when the user has access to the internet with the types of controls the organization has on the certain internet sites being accessed. Although LAN to WAN, web surfing, and internet have some of the same characteristics, they also have different specific IT infrastructures it affects. . For the LAN to Wan AUP, it will goes with the roles and task parts of the user domain. Users would be given access to certain systems, applications, and data depending on their access rights. The AUP is a more of a rulebook for employees to follow when using the organization’s IT assets. If the AUP is violated, it could be grounds for termination from the company. The AUP will set rules for employees...
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...are discuss common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include manual sharing utilizing removable media, centralized servers on computer networks,World Wide Web-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking.We consider the specific case of file sharing and it’s effects on legal sales of music . 1. Introduction Files were first exchanged on removable media.Computers were able to accessremotefilesusing filesystem mounting and FTP servers.The mp3 encoding, which was standardized in 1991 and which substantially reduced the size of audio files, grew to widespread use in the late 1990s. In 1998, MP3.com and Audiogalaxy were established, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was unanimously passed, and the first mp3 player devices were launched. In June 1999, Napster was released as an unstructured centralized peer-to-peer system, requiring a central server for indexing and peer discovery. It is generally credited as being the first peer-to-peer file sharing system. Gnutella, released in March, was the first decentralized file sharing network. In the gnutella network, all connecting software was considered equal, and therefore the network had no central point of failure. In July The popularity of peer-to-peer file sharing applications such as Gnutella andNapster...
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...| How is Digital Piracy Hurting Modern Society? | | | Introduction Digital Piracy is a huge crime that is large hurting the entertainment business here in the United States and in other countries, but the question I ask myself is how digital piracy hurting modern society? What actions are our governments taking to stop people from downloading illegal music, movies, and software? How much of a profit loss is effecting the companies that are producing this digital material? If someone knows what the punishment is for downloading music, movies, and software would they still do it. This research will aim to understand what is digtal piracy is and why it is that people download illegal software, movies, and music. Literature review In the article Examine Digital Piracy: Self-Control, Punishment, and Self-Efficacy, the authors introduce what digital piracy is and how it changes on a constant basis. They show how the “United States government has been cooperating in the fight against digital piracy with the software, music and movie industries with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA)” (Zhang, Smith, McDowell, 2009). They discuss how most people think that digital piracy is acceptable, it a soft crime and it does not hurt anyone, and most think that this information should be exchanged freely. The authors also did an online-survey study on college students who were taking Management Information Sciences (MIS) course at a public university in the southern United...
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