...Anthony Macias’ assumption that his participation in the weekend golf game could be a reasonable expectation of his work, and hence should be compensable. The rule governing this claim is a statute, California Labor Code § 3600(a)(8). The rule states: An injury is compensable if the injury arises from the scope of the employee’s employment. For off-duty events, an injury is within the scope of the employment if participation in it is a reasonable expectancy of employment. Reasonable expectancy is split into elements of subjective belief and whether that belief is objectively reasonable. To see if an employee’s belief is objectively reasonable, one would needs to consider the following factors: employer benefit, employer involvement, and job related...
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...employee named Tony and his supervisor Herman. The definition of the FMLA is discussed, covered persons, and employer eligibility. As relating to the video, an explanation of whether or not it matters that a parent’s involvement determines a child’s participation is discussed, whether the size of a business matters, whether or not Herman can imply Tony’s employment status when he returns back to work, and to what extent can an employer make their own decisions and eligibility determination concerning FMLA. In explaining whether or not the relationship between a child and his parent has any bearing on The Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, let me first explain what the law entails. This a law that grants employees entitlement of up to 12 weeks unpaid leave while protecting their job upon their return (http://www.dol.gov/cpmpliance/laws/comp-fmla.htm). The time off allows for employers to take time off for their immediate family such as parents, and children and also their spouse should they suffer from a health condition that warrants their care (http://www.dol.gov/cpmpliance/laws/comp-fmla.htm). The law does not specify whether or not that parent had anything to do with parenting that child but the fact that they are the parents. Like the case in the video, Tony talked about the fact that his father was very ill coming out of a nursing home and was going to need to live with him. He further explained that he didn’t have a relationship with his father because he wasn’t in...
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...PURDUE UNIVERSITY School of Languages and Cultures, Department of French Syllabus Confirmation Form Date: Name: Course: FR By signing below, I confirm that I have read the Syllabus for my French course this semester and am responsible for knowing its contents, policies, and dates. Signed _____________________________________________________________________ Please return signed form to your instructor. FRANÇAIS 101 – Printemps 2013 COURSE POLICIES AND GRADING PROCEDURES Professeur : _______________________________________ Email : ______________________________________ Bureau : ________________ Heures de Permanence : __________________________ Please contact your instructor about course related issues. If you have further concerns, contact the Language Program Director, Dr. Jessica Sturm, SC 186 (jsturm@purdue.edu), or the Program Assistant, Mrs. Mary Eddy, SC 111 (meddy@purdue.edu). Required Texts: HORIZONS Manley, Smith, McMinn, Prévost (5th ed.) [printed copy required for classroom use] HORIZONS iLrn Heinle Learning Center Access (includes access to on-line Student Activities Manual) Required Equip: headphones for use in computer lab; you will also need a microphone in order to complete certain homework activities. Recommended: Larousse Concise English-French, French-English Dictionary (Larousse, Paris) or another dictionary of your choice A copy of the textbook is available on reserve in the Undergraduate Library. COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: French 101...
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...and arithmetic/logical unit together known as CPU (central processing unit). –Arithmetic/Logic Unit: carries out mathematical operations and logical comparisons, consist of very large scale integrated circuits, can perform billion operations per second, numbers taking from memories as input and results stored in memory as output. -Control Unit: controls the other five compo of the comp system, enables the comp to take advantage of speed and capacity of its other compo, list of operations called a program, these operations read from memory, interpreted and carried out one at a time (stored program concept). –Cache memory: high speed, high cost storage, used as intermediary between control unit and main memory, compensates for speed mismatches built into the comp system. –Multiple processor configurations: a comp system usually contains more than one processor, dual processor contain two physical separate processors as two separate chips, dual core contain two complete processors manufactured as a single chip, dual processor are better and faster. –Input: devices allow users to enter data into the comp for processing, common devices: keyboard, disk drive, magnetic ink character, etc) –Terminal: Simpler than PC, design for input and output, connected to computer with telecommunication line. –Output: devices produce results in usable format, common output methods: printer, output to paper using various types of printers, video display unit, displays output on a screen. –Data: Streams...
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...Find more on www.studymaterial.ca ADMS 2511 MIS Notes Ch 1 – Modern Organization in the Global, Web-Based Environment Management information systems (MIS)- deals with the planning of info tech to help people perform tasks related to info processing and management Information technology (IT)- any computer-based tool used with info to support the needs of an org Importance of Planning for IT -a new info system can apply to the whole org, or a specific area of the org Application portfolios- are groups of new system proposals (apps that have to be added/modified) IT Planning -begins with an organizational strategic plan -states the firm’s mission, goals, and steps to reach those goals -IT architecture describes the way an org’s info resources should be used to accomplish its mission -includes both technical (hardware operating systems) and managerial aspects (managing the IT dpt, how area managers will be involved) IT strategic plan- LT goals that describe the IT infrastructure and major IT initiatives to achieve the organization’s goals -it must meet three main objectives: -must be aligned with the org’s strategic plan -must provide for an IT architecture that networks users, apps, and databases -must efficiently allocate IS resources among different projects so they can all be completed on time, within budget, and function properly IT steering committee- composed of managers/staff who rep diff organizational units -they establish IT priorities...
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...BIS5101 Strategic IT-Management Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Rau WS 2013/14 Term Paper Topic: How Companies Could Achieve Sustainable Competitive Advantage Gahn, Philip MACFA, ID# 309601 gahnphil@hs-pforzheim.de Kominek, Lukas MACFA, ID# 300953 komluk@hs-pforzheim.de Wenz, Eugen MACFA, ID# 300636 weneug@hs-pforzheim.de th Submission date: November 2 2013 2 Table of Contents 1 Purpose and Structure ......................................................................................... 5 2 Definition and Origin of Competitive Advantage .............................................. 6 3 Approaches and Methods to Achieve Competitive Advantages......................... 8 3.1 The Traditional Approach According to Porter ........................................... 8 3.1.1 Cost Leadership ................................................................................. 10 3.1.2 Focusing on Priorities ........................................................................ 10 3.2 Modern Approaches .................................................................................. 10 3.2.1 The Strategy as a Compilation of Simple Rules ................................ 11 3.2.2 The Blue Ocean Strategy ................................................................... 12 4 Ways to achieve Sustainable Competitive Advantage...................................... 13 5 Conclusion ............................................................................
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...advantages and disadvantages of being educated. When Malcolm X states, “My homemade education gave me a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America” (Malcolm X 232), this idea could be applied to every race on every continent and in all facets of life. Through out all three selections the apparent theme is the importance of total immersion into the realm of self-education. In the cases of both Fredrick Douglas and Malcolm X, without education neither man would have lived out the life he did. It is also safe to presume that with out the facts of slavery, the motivation behind the two men’s education would have been lacking. In Douglas’ instance being a slave in the first place started him on the path of education. He mentioned, “The first step had been taken, my mistress in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell” (Douglass 223). When Douglas learned to read, it helped him to understand the gravity of the situation he was in and to what extent it would take to get himself out. Like Douglas and Sedaris, education gave Malcolm X the feeling of being “mentally alive” (Malcolm X 232). After using the dictionary to learn to read, he later ingested such novels as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Story of Oriental Civilization, and other books about races struggles for existence. Both Douglas and X have made an important connection between educations vs. mental slavery...
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...courteous way, with a smile, to remember regulars and treat them as such. They find a way to incorporate the customer’s name into the order; they even greet regulars by their drink order instead of their name, and people love it. Those few things create the ‘Starbucks difference’ and have produced a long-term cult following unlike anything I have ever seen. While this is a very simple strategy, very few companies come close to doing any of this. Starbucks’ President, Howard Schultz, pointed out in his book, Pour your Heart into It, Starbucks is today’s ‘third place’ for people, a place away from work and home where they can safely connect with others area, a coworkers asks that employee: ‘Have you seen Beth’s new haircut?’ Because the salon doesn’t have an employee named Beth, it is a polite way to make the employee aware that she may want to change the topic of conversation. What does Starbucks really sell? Places like Starbucks and Seattle’s Best Coffee aren’t selling an expensive cup of coffee; they are selling really inexpensive rent. Think...
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...value is calculated by dividing board feet produced by 1,000 and multiplying by the sales price (e.g., [(1,500,000/1,000) × $300] = $450,000). Next, the percentage of market value is multiplied by $900,000 for the allocation. Market Value Percentage Grades (MV) of MV Allocation Firsts and seconds 450,000 .30 270,000 No. 1 common 675,000 .45 405,000 No. 2 common 262,500 17.5 157,500 No. 3 common 112,500 7.5 67,500 Totals 1,500,000 1.0 900,000 Unit cost: Firsts and seconds .18 (270,000/1,500,000) No. 1 common .18 (405,000/3,000,000) No. 2 common .18 (157,500/1,875,000) No. 3 common .18 (67,500/1,125,000) Comp. Prob. 2 (Continued) The physical units method, often used in the lumber industry, essentially assumes that it costs the same to produce each board foot of lumber regardless of grade. Thus, the same cost of lumber would be assigned to a sofa or chair regardless of which grade is used. This approach has some drawbacks. Intuitively, the higher grades should cost more. Certainly, if the company was buying this input from suppliers, there would...
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...Hallmark English Comp 1 3/18/2014 Source Summary Living to Work Sayers, Dorothy, Living to Work. Dorothy Sayers was displaying her views on the working people of the world as she sees it. She believes that out of all these people there are only two groups to be classified in; the people who live to work and the people who work to live. Her purpose in writing this was to convey how she feels about the much divided classes of work. The theme of this essay is the attitude the masses have towards work in the modern era. The work to live group hates the mundane jobs they occupy while the other group, the living to work category, love the occupation they chose for they are able to gain a sense of completion from their crafts. In class we are focusing on the future jobs that we have in mind and the life that will be a head of us. In this story we are able to see two different types of work and taking that into consideration apply that to what we have planned for ourselves. Do we want to take a career for money, love or convince? My first thoughts during and after reading were that this author believed there to be no grey lines. That there are the ones that hate and the ones that love their work. That the society sees a successful job as one that makes one wealthy, not one that that being moral comfort. That the world has become obsessed with the idea of success being something that gains money or fame, not something that will help others directly or works smaller than some...
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...Employee Conflict Management Reductions in force are not a pleasant situation for the employees of a company. I discovered through this simulation that reductions in force are not pleasant for the employer either. Being told a certain number of people have to be laid off presents a problem. People who have good productivity, attendance, and “wow” factors are those that a company wants to keep. However, the company has to consider discrimination when conducting layoffs. What may seem like a good reason for laying someone off may be a reason for an employee to file a lawsuit against the company. During my initial view of the candidates selected for potential layoff, I looked at the skill sets. Although my father works with computers specializing in Linux, networking, and Oracle, I have no knowledge in it myself. I felt like laying-off Carl Haimes or Brian Carter would be a mistake because I do not have skills that can match their skills. Sarah Boyd, Nora Manson, and Jenny Mills each have jobs that I could perform. Even though I may not excel in each job as I would prefer, I felt like it would be easier to cover those positions within the company than those of Carl and Brian. I also considered absenteeism and special achievements as well as overall productivity. Before I made my final selection, however, I considered discrimination. If I were to layoff Sarah, Nora, and Jenny at the same time, I could have a potential lawsuit regarding gender discrimination to consider. I decided...
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...A Problem Exists William Baughan Prof Valentine ENG 215 11/5/2013 A Problem Exists The liberals in our political system have always tried to get rid of guns that they are a danger to us as a society and the conservatives and libertarians follow the Second Amendment of our Constitution. The Second Amendment gives us the right to keep and bear arms as well as protection from others. I believe citizens should be permitted to carry concealed weapons in their workplaces, such as schools and offices, which would deter criminals, increase security, and create an atmosphere of safety. Homicides by weapon type, 1976-2004. Gun-involved homicides have increased since falling to a low in 1999. Homicides by weapon type, 1976-2004. Gun-involved homicides have increased since falling to a low in 1999. (Berry, 2013)First, gun violence has been a topic of conversation in the political arena for a long time. The most common gun violence as well as violence by itself occurs in poor urban areas usually associated with gang violence. There has been a lot of school shooting such as the Virginia Tech shootings and Columbine high school massacre. It’s almost like clockwork when mass shootings occur there will be a debate on gun laws. Politicians have sought for the correct balance between what regulations to add and what not to add. Second, there has been an increase number of violence in schools that usually involve guns. Every day you turn on the news or read...
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...UNIVERSITY OF KERALA B. TECH. DEGREE COURSE 2008 ADMISSION REGULATIONS and I VIII SEMESTERS SCHEME AND SYLLABUS of COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B.Tech Comp. Sc. & Engg., University of Kerala 2 UNIVERSITY OF KERALA B.Tech Degree Course – 2008 Scheme REGULATIONS 1. Conditions for Admission Candidates for admission to the B.Tech degree course shall be required to have passed the Higher Secondary Examination, Kerala or 12th Standard V.H.S.E., C.B.S.E., I.S.C. or any examination accepted by the university as equivalent thereto obtaining not less than 50% in Mathematics and 50% in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry/ Bio- technology/ Computer Science/ Biology put together, or a diploma in Engineering awarded by the Board of Technical Education, Kerala or an examination recognized as equivalent thereto after undergoing an institutional course of at least three years securing a minimum of 50 % marks in the final diploma examination subject to the usual concessions allowed for backward classes and other communities as specified from time to time. 2. Duration of the course i) The course for the B.Tech Degree shall extend over a period of four academic years comprising of eight semesters. The first and second semester shall be combined and each semester from third semester onwards shall cover the groups of subjects as given in the curriculum and scheme of examination ii) Each semester shall ordinarily comprise of not less than 400 working periods each of 60 minutes duration...
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...Questions for Store24 A and B Cases The data required for these cases is in the file Store24AB.xls. You can find the data files at the bottom of the course website: http://www.buec.udel.edu/kherh/BUAD820_Class_15.html Summary Statistics: Definitions of the different variables in the data are provided in the case itself. Briefly discuss the summary statistics presented in Exhibit 3 in Store24A and Exhibit 2 in Store24B. Use a maximum of 2 slides for this discussion. In your team’s opinion, what do the summary statistics tell us about Store24? Doucette wants to decide whether or not to put an employee retention program in place. But first, he wants Sarah Jenkins to check whether manager tenure and crew tenure are related to store profit. Accordingly, run the three regression models per instructions given below; data for these 3 models is in the worksheet labeled Data for Case A. Model 1: Run a full model for profit that includes both tenure and site location related variables. Tenure related variables are MTenure and CTenure. Site location related variables are population, number of competitors, street level visibility, pedestrian access, type of neighborhood, and whether a store stays open 24 hours. These variables are also defined on page 4 of the case Store24 (A). For categorical variables, be sure to use dummy variables for this and remaining models. Question Interpret the coefficients for MTenure and CTenure in model 1. Which of the two variables...
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...“Right step of Maintenance is the SOUL™ of efficiency” An ISO 900:2008 Certified Comp. BOILER-BASICS What is a Boiler? Boiler, also called STEAM GENERATOR, is an apparatus designed to convert a liquid to vapor. In a conventional steam power plant, a boiler consists of a furnace in which fuel is burned, surfaces to transmit heat from the combustion products to the water, and a space where steam can form and collect. A conventional boiler has a furnace that burns a fossil fuel or, in some installations, waste fuels. A nuclear reactor can also serve as a source of heat for generating steam under pressure. Boilers were built as early as the 1st century AD by Hero of Alexandria but were used only as toys. Not until the 17th century was serious consideration given to the potential of steam power for practical work. Denis Papin of France designed the first boiler with a safety valve in 1679; boilers were made of wrought iron; as the advantages of high pressure and temperature were realized, manufactures turned to steel. Modern boilers are made of alloy steel to withstand high pressures and extremely high temperatures. Most conventional steam boilers are classed as either fire-tube or water tube types. In the fire-tube type, the water surrounds the steel tubes through which hot gases from the furnace flow. The steam generated collects above the water level in a cylindrically shaped drum. A safety valve is set to allow escape of steam at pressures above normal operating pressure;...
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