...Terinie Williams Introduction to Management Unit 6 Assignment A control system consists of four steps. These steps are setting performance standards, measuring performance, comparing performance against the standards and determining deviations, and taking action to correct problems and reinforce success. First Lei should call a meeting with the employees to inform them what's going on. Lei should informed them about the company rules and regualtions, and about what is expected of them as the employees. She will need to achieve organizaional goals. Then she should give everyone a copy of the policy and procedures as well as an employee handbook for them to go over, and get an understanding of what is expected of them. Will need to come up with a solution in stopping employees from reporting extra time that they never did work. Performance standards can be set with respect to various measures of success such as quantity, quality, time used, and cost. When it comes to measuring performance, Lei should start measuring employees performance either by oral reports or personal observation. I think Lei will need to start observing the employees using personal observations to see if they are getting their job done properly and successfully. Lei should also do a written report after observing the employees to show them their peformance, and what is they are needing to improve. Awarding them for good work would increase leadership visibility. In comparing performance, Lei should...
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...1. From the interaction does it seem to you that Alan is actively listening? Why or why not? I don’t feel that Alan is using active listening at all during his interactions with his employees. Being mindful is the first step to communicating effectively. In her book, Interpersonal Communication, Wood states “that instead of focusing on information, we concentrate on what lies between and behind the content in order to understand what another is feeling, thinking, needing, or wanting in a conversation” (2013, pg.158). Alan shows this unwillingness to be mindful in both interactions with his employees. He concentrates on the negative and doesn’t care or concern himself with the reasoning for his employee’s shortcomings. Wood also suggests that initially one should avoid passing judgments. “Imposing our own judgments separates us from others and their feelings” (Wood, 2013, pg.158). During the first interaction, Alan starts the conversation by criticizing the woman for working too slow and how it is in turn slowing the entire team. This leads to the employee feeling that her job is now being threatened, leaving them both feeling uncomfortable and ineffective. 2. Describe how Alan’s opening thoughts on his job, narrated in the video, affect his approach to the performance reviews. Does Alan’s view of his job foster a negative or positive work atmosphere with his employees? Explain. Alan had extremely negative self-talk regarding his performance at work which lead to a very negative...
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...1. You decide to invest $15000 into a bank account that that is compounding its interest monthly. Assuming the bank is paying out an interest rate of the current prime rate - 1% (In the event that prime - 1% is less than 1%, use 1%), and the investment is for 5 years. a) How much money (total) do you have after the 5 years pass? 12*5=60 interest periods 2.25% = .1875% 12 15000*1.051249=$15768.74 b) How much do you earn in interest over the 5 years? 15768.74-15000=$768.74 2. You wish to have $500,000 saved up in 30 years. Assuming that you can get an interest rate of prime + 5% on your investment (compounded quarterly.) a) How much do you need to invest today to have $500,000 30 years in the future? Future Amount Needed=500,000 Interest Rate=8.25% Compounding Period= Quarterly Investment Time= 30 years Interest periods=30(4) =120 Period Interest Rate=8.25% 4 =2.0625% According to the $1 Chart =.08631 .08631(500000)=$43,155.00 b) How much of that total is interest? 500,000-43,155.00= $456,845.00 3. You borrow $50,000 at 5% interest (compounded daily). a) After 1 year passes, you pay off $25000 of the loan. How much do you still owe on the loan? 50000*1.0513= $52563.37 52563.37-25000= $27563.37 b) After another year passes, you wish to pay off the loan. How much do you need to pay to pay it off? 27563.37*1.0513=$28.977.37 4. While everyone dreams of high interest rates for investments...
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...GM500 MANAGEMENT PRACTICES and THEORIES UNIT #6 CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL INITIATIVES to APPRECIATE DIVERSITY And LEVERAGING HUMAN POTENTIAL DR.GIDDINGS KAPLAN UNIVERSITY APRIL 5, 2016 DEBORAH BEENE GM500 MANAGEMENT PRACTICES and THEORIES UNIT #6 CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL INITIATIVES to APPRECIATE DIVERSITY And LEVERAGING HUMAN POTENTIAL DR.GIDDINGS KAPLAN UNIVERSITY APRIL 5, 2016 DEBORAH BEENE INTRODUCTION The purpose of this assignment is to not only assess the situation of “Sunset Prayers”, or “True to myself”; but, to describe some specific organizational initiatives that I believe will advance diversity and the human potential within the workplace. This assignment is also to evaluate my level of skills that are involved with understanding where I am and where I need to be, as far as strengthening necessary skills for being a valuable employee in connection to being a vital member knowing how competitiveness and working collaboratively with a team can increase business in global markets. ANALYSIS Mr. Pichowski is the manager of North Woods Appliance’s. It is located in Minnesota. Mr. Pichowski has to hire forty more temporary workers. Most or nearly all of his temporary workers are hired through an employment staffing agency called Twin Cities Staffing. (Daft, 2014). Mr. Pichowski believed that by hiring temporary workers he was saving the company much needed money, therefore; he hired the temporary workers which were Somali’s by ethnicity...
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...Introduction Albatross Anchor started in 1976 in Small town, USA a family owned business. This company started off small but now has 130 employees. The problem is that the place is falling apart, it’s unsanitary and all the equipment is outdated. The biggest thing is the layout of the building is out of whack. The problem now is that times have changed and to become more efficient remodeling is needed to bring everything up to date to meet the needs of the company and customer. Question One Carefully review the assignment scenario/case study. From the limited information in the scenario/case study, along with your answers to the unit three written assignment, identify at least three direct and specific long-term and three direct and specific short term operations changes that Albatross Anchor must make to gain a clear and sustainable competitive advantage (provide detailed information to validate and support each recommended change) Long-Term Operational Changes (01) Layout- This is the first thing that has to be fix before any other moves are made. This company is already losing money, and now it’s losing time because of the floor plan. When they decide to put each department in the correct pairs the operation will go smooth. For example the way the layout is it is impossible to run an operation. Now for starters why would you have raw products and finished products on the opposite side of the building from shipping? If you put the three departments together...
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...Albatross Anchor Unit 6 Unit Six Written Assignment Ury Salinas MT435 Operations Management Introduction Question One Carefully review the assignment scenario/case study. From the limited information in the scenario/case study, along with your answers to the unit three written assignment, identify at least three direct and specific long-term and three direct and specific short term operations changes that Albatross Anchor must make to gain a clear and sustainable competitive advantage (provide detailed information to validate and support each recommended change) Long-Term Operational Changes (01) An improvement in technology can increase efficiency and effectiveness throughout the plant. It is obvious that technology changes at such a rapid rate, older technology can slow down or inhibit the manufacturing process, making it longer for the products to reach the consumer. A plan over the span of 3 to 5 years to update technology is realistic because it gives enough time for the updates to be made effectively. (02) The purchase of additional equipment can take away the need to share manufacturing equipment between the two different types of anchors. The new equipment should be top of the line, because this will not only fall in line with the upgrades to technology, but will be the most cost-effective. Time is what will be saved primarily, since the separate equipment will do away with the 36 hours that are needed during equipment change-overs between production...
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...Assignment Description: For the unit 2 assignment, I needed to develop a critical path method (CPM) for the design phase of the ABC Video Rental store project. It was suggested that we use table 6-6 from The New Software Engineering by Sue Conger (2008, p. 167) as a guideline for the development of the CPM. Table 6-6 outlines the functional requirements for the program and what different software options, existing or available for development of the application, would be able to meet those requirements. A table that I found more useful for the assignment goals was Table 6-16 which outlined and defined design phase tasks along with an estimated function point value for each task (Conger, 2008, p. 188). After displaying my CPM for the ABC project design phase I will outline the critical path, the various tasks that fit the dependencies from table 6-6, how the various tasks might be distributed between a two-person team of a project manager and software...
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...Tiffany Bridges Kaplan University Professor Thornton CM107: College Composition 1 Unit 6 Writing Assignment September 5, 2014 Unit 6 Writing Assignment Mr. Kirby, In regards to your concerns with paying sales taxes, there are some details to the tax matter that may be of interest to you. Understandably, having to pay sales tax is bothersome. Included in my email are different areas that sales tax contributes to our community and state that may change your mind once you have reviewed the information. Amongst the contributions of sales tax should that should be included are, water purification, maintence of parks, educational funding, salary funding for our local police and fire department, and also helps Social Services fund needed resources to the unfortunate....
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...Unit 6 Assignment 1: Cable Testers In almost every application in dealing with cable installations, cable testing is a must. Some methods of testing cables include testing for attenuation, continuity testers, DC Resistance, a wire mapper and cable length. In all cable types- copper or fiber, 10BASE-T or 100BASEFX, the standards are constantly being changed and developed into a new standard for all future technologies. When testing cable, you can guarantee that the users will be satisfied when all connections prove effective for not just uninterrupted transmission but correct bandwidths to support. A wire mapper is the most common tool. It simply provides a test of a standard Cat5 cable to ensure each individual wire not only carries a strong signal through the entire length of the route, but it proves if each wire ends up in the correct pin number on the opposite end to receive the transmission. It will give the technician an idea if a cable has a short, or if it is a crossover cable. It is also very useful with telephone connections. It should be a part of each cable installation kit. Another common tool is a continuity tester. It shows if there is a direct connection between two points. If there is a closed electrical pathway for the tester to detect, then the device will make a sound. This is useful not only to test for a short, but also to determine and identify which cable is which in a closet full of many cables. This is also a very important tool in any application...
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...IS3340-WINDOWS SECURITY | Minimizing Recovery Time Strategies | Unit 6 Assignment 1 | | | 5/5/2014 | | This document outlines the required steps to follow, in-order to properly scan the necessary servers and workstations in the Ken 7 Windows Limited Domain for security vulnerabilities. 1) Acquire and install MBSA(Microsoft Baseline Security Anaylizer) •Download MBSA. Download MBSA from the MBSA home page, and then install it to the default directory. •Updates for MBSA. If both the computer you will be scanning and the computer with MBSA installed have Internet access, the latest security catalog (.cab file), authentication files, and WUA installer files will be automatically downloaded, if needed. If either the target computer or the computer with MBSA installed does not have Internet access, download the following files and place them in the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\MBSA\2.0\Cache\ directory on the computer that is performing the scan. 2) Scan computers Run MBSA and clear the Check for security updates check box when performing the scan. Using the Graphical Interface Tool The following procedure describes how to use the MBSA GUI tool. To use the MBSA GUI tool to scan for updates and patches 1. On the Programs menu, click Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. 2. Click Scan a computer. 3. Make sure that the following options are not selected, and then click Start scan. * Check...
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...Chapter 6: Conceptual Review Questions (All Questions worth 5 points each) Match the information below with Questions 1 through 14. |A. Compound Interest |E. IRR |I. PMT |M. ROI | |B. CUMPRINC |F. NPER |J. PPMT |N. Simple Interest | |C. FV |G. NPV |K. PV |O. SLN | |D. IPMT |H. Payback Period |L. RATE |P. Type | 1. Function to calculate the interest percentage per period of a financial transaction 2. Function to calculate the value at the beginning of a financial transaction 3. Function to calculate value of the end of a financial transaction 4. Function to calculate periodic payments in or out of a financial transaction 5. Function to calculate the number of compounding periods in a financial transaction 6. Use a “1” for this argument to indicate that interest will be paid at the beginning of each compounding period 7. This type of interest is calculated based on original principal regardless of the previous interest earned 8. This type of interest is calculated based on principal and previous interest earned 9. Function to calculate straight line depreciation based on the initial capital investment, number...
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...Managing Microsoft Account and File Systems Access Controls In order to truly protect a company’s’ data, a multi-layered security approach using access controls must be developed and utilized keeping in mind that data has two states that has to be protected equally; data at rest (DAR) and data in motion (DIM). When securing DAR on a file system whole disk encryption is an essential first step followed by physical security (backups included) and the necessary access controls such as mandatory access controls (MAC), discretionary access controls (DAC), and/or role-based access controls (RBAC). For securing data that travels through the network or through the internet (in transit) known as DIM, standard network security such as intrusion detection systems (IDS), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and firewalls should definitely be implemented. To further layer the security in DIM, encrypting data including emails using the proper keys or creating a relational database with access controls would be efficient. To go even further a company could add the method of securing the communications channels using protocols such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), and could also potentially secure the path with a virtual private network (VPN). Protecting file systems are critical to securing data, the first step is to apply an access control policy by creating an access control list (ACL) to help control and manage rights of the data and audits...
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...CUC100 Academic Literacies. Student Name: Student Number: Tutor Name: Assignment Number/Title: Date Due: Date submitted: Fredrick Ateya 103987 Trial Essay 19/05/2015 19/05/2015 Extension Granted Yes/No Plagiarism paragraph.doc Comments: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grade: THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF INVENTORY MANAGEMENT WITHIN...
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...MY DIARY 23.05.2016 (Related to 7.3.1 & 7.3.2 & 7.3.3 & 7.3.4 ) and 10.3.3 ICT. Today I started my day by marking student’s homework. Their homework topic was about connection words. There was some gaps in the sentences and students filled the gaps by connection words. After assembly, Miss B explained about the pattern of adding by 10. for example, 7- 17 – 27- 37-47-57-67-77 and she asked all students some questions related to that. after that she explained how to subtracting numbers. T O 5 8 3 1 (8 – 1 = 7) (50 – 30 =20 ) (20 +7 = 27 ) 7.3.1 L.O. I can use expanded column subtraction....
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...1. Based on the beliefs of personal beliefs every culture has a different explanation to why people are born with disabilities. In the example of Pacific Islanders, Philipiens, and Chamorro they all have different beliefs and explanation to answer why they have been born with a disability. In comparison to American beliefs they are different because their beliefs are based on cultural assumptions. American beliefs are made by medical studies that try to explain why people are born with learning disabilities. Each culture has a different explanation for explaining why people are born with disability 2. Pacific Islander belief that the reason people are born with disability is because of an ancestor’s dishonest behavior. To work with a parent that beliefs that their child is a reflection of the behavior of an ancestor it to demonstrate to parents the students success. When addressing parents during a meeting, showing them sample work that the student has done and to show the progress they have done. As a teacher, you can not influence your personal beliefs towards a parents because teachers are trained to think with American belief and customes as a teacher it is not in our place to convince parents out of their. The best things for a teacher to do is to demonstrate how accomplished their child has become and how they have become successful. The role of a teacher is to work with the parent and child to see how the students is capable to successfully they are in school. 3. The cultural...
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