Cause-and-Effect Diagram

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The cause-and-effect diagram is important in determining causes and effects of a problem. The cause-and-effect diagram is also known as the Ishikawa diagram, or the fishbone diagram. Creating the diagram requires knowledge of causes for a problem and the effect of the problem. This is also a good brainstorming tool.

Read the following scenario and respond the questions that follow in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.

A large farm produces a number of vegetables for sale to the highest bidder (usually buyers who aggregate the produce from lots of small farms and sell the produce to grocery store chains). The farm is receiving complaints about the quality of its produce. More specifically, complaints are being received about the produce being damaged or bruised, becoming inedible too quickly, or not being consistent with the package label (in terms of how much produce is in each box or container).

  • Identify potential quality concerns in the traditional areas of machinery, employees, measurements, and materials.
  • Organize these quality concerns using a cause-and-effect diagram.
  • Recommend potential changes to these traditional areas to attempt to reduce or eliminate the quality problems that are leading to the complaints.

Note: Click here to download a template of a cause-and-effect diagram.Diagram 

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Submit your document to the W4 Assignment 2 Dropbox by Tuesday, May 20, 2014.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points
Created a cause-and-effect diagram to identify the problems that could be leading to the complaints.

25
Recommended some potential changes that could reduce or eliminate the quality problems.

20
Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. Cited all sources using APA format.

5
Total:

50

Life in Our Solar System

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Design a Mission to a Planet or Moon in our Solar System to Search for Life

1. Where on the planet or moon should we explore? Why?

2. What evidence of life would you advocate we search for first? Why?

3. Argue for your choice of planet or moon. Why should we prioritize funds to go there as opposed to others?

You will be marked on how well you use evidence from scientifically valid sources to make your arguments. You should demonstrate your understanding of the unique features of this world and how life may have lived there in the past or lives there now.

Total Word Count should be about 500-1000 words.

You may use APA, MLA, or any other consistent academic format for citations.

Create a scatter plot based on information below.

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A researcher is interested in investigating the relationship between viewing time (in seconds) and ratings of aesthetic appreciation. Participants are asked to view a painting for as long as they like. Time (in seconds) is measured. After the viewing time, the researcher asks the participants to provide a ‘preference rating’ for the painting on a scale ranging from 1-10. Create a scatter plot depicting the following data:

Viewing Time in Seconds

Preference Rating

10

3

12

4

24

7

5

3

16

6

3

4

11

4

5

2

21

8

23

9

9

5

3

3

17

5

14

6

What does the scatter plot suggest about the relationship between viewing time and aesthetic preference? Is it accurate to state that longer viewing times are the result of greater preference for paintings? Explain. Submit your scatter plot and your answers to the questions to your instructor.

ECE-405-Week-4-Ass-2-Culturally-Relevant-Methods

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Week 4 – Assignment 2

Week 4 – Assignment 2

Annotated Bibliography – Resource Three

For the Final Paper in Week Five, you are required to complete a literature review. For your literature review, you will continue to develop your chosen theme by reviewing another scholarly source.

This week, you will choose an article from the resources provided in the course or find a scholarly source that is of interest to you and connect to your one chosen theme:

  • Culturally Relevant Methods
  • Anti-Bias Curriculum
  • Diverse Family Structures
  • Multicultural Education

You will complete an annotated bibliography for your chosen source. The annotated bibliography will be submitted each week as a component of your literature review. Your annotated bibliography must:

  • Summarize the content and focus of the article. Be sure to include the main ideas and provide supporting evidence from the article. The summary must be in your own words.
  • Describe the relevance of the source to your chosen theme and its real-world classroom application.
  • Evaluate the information presented in the article. What is your reaction to this source? Has it changed your thinking about your topic? Why, or why not?

Business law paper

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Purpose of Assignment

You may be familiar with personal torts such as negligence; however, business torts are different as they are being committed not against the person but rather against its intangible assets. Think about what this means and how each aspect of your work might result in a business tort being committed.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues: Ch. 5, Ch. 6 and Ch. 7; Legal Source database located in the Week 3 Electronic Reserve Readings

Scenario: In the midst of the ongoing rhetoric and movement to achieve Tort Reform, business tort liability must be acknowledged and planned for as a reality. As the manager of legal risk and corporate governance for a major multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, the board of directors has commissioned you to work alongside your CEO and General Counsel to prepare a report regarding this liability and the exposure it creates for the organization.

Complete the Business Tort Liability Research Worksheet. For each item, write a 100-200 word response for each regarding the liability and exposure it creates for the organization.

Address the following in the report:

  • Evaluate the impact of business tort liability on the pharmaceutical industry in general.
  • Determine the growth of business tort liability in the pharmaceutical industry and discuss where and why tort reform is needed.
  • Assess the impact of business tort liability on corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute.
  • Explain how business tort liability can be reduced through the implementation of the risk management process.
  • Analyze how business tort liability can escalate to criminal liability.

Cite a minimum of two references for the five content areas taken from a business or legal resource. One reference must be from the University Library.

Format your citations and references consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment as a Microsoft® Word document.

Ethic-in-Media

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Compare “Deontological” and “Virtue” theories.

A) Give a scenario which is the most functional/pragmatic on each theory.

WHY this ethical theory is practical in your chosen scenario? Give ONE reason of why.

B) Provide a scenario which is dysfunctional/does not work well for each theory.

WHY this ethical theory does not work well with your chosen scenario? Give ONE reason of why.

Just need to write 1 paragraph for one question.

Please write me in simple english.

Sparrow-Pharmaceuticals-is-the-maker-of-several-popular-drugs

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Sparrow Pharmaceuticals is the maker of several popular drugs used to treat high blood pressure and arthritis. Over time, the company has developed a positive relationship with many of the patients who use its medications through a quarterly newsletter that offers the latest information on new medical research findings and general health and fitness articles. The company just has been acquired by a group of investors who also own Soothing Waters Hot Tubs and Spas. The marketing director for Soothing Waters would like to use Sparrow’s mailing list for a direct-mail promotion.

Ethics Questions:

  1. What should Sparrow Pharmaceuticals do?
  2. Do you think it is ethical to use customer information across multiple divisions of the same company? Explain.
  3. To which marketing management philosophy do you think the marketing director for Soothing Waters subscribes? Explain.
  4. Does the AMA Statement of Ethics address the use of the customer information by multiple divisions of the same company? Go to http://www.marketingpower.com and review the statement. Then write a brief paragraph on how the AMA Statement of Ethics relates to Sparrow Pharmaceuticals’ dilemma.

(To locate the Statement of Ethics students would go to http://www.marketingpower.com and in the top right corner they would select, “About AMA,” and underneath “About AMA,” there are several Gray tabs to choose from, select “Statement of Ethics,” and begin to review the Statement of Ethics.)

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

  • Write between 500 – 750 words (approximately 2 – 3 pages) using Microsoft Word.
  • Attempt APA style, see example below.
  • Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
  • Include cover page and reference page.
  • At least 60% of your paper must be original content/writing.
  • No more than 40% of your content/information may come from references.
  • Use at least two references from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the two reference requirement.
  • Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must be identified in the paper and listed on a reference page.

Art-class-homework-homework-help

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Some examples

1.04 make small easy coat of arms

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Step 1: Research heraldic symbols of the Royal Coat of Arms of King James I and answer the Royal Coat of Arms Investigation Questions in complete sentences.

Step 2: Emblazon a shield of your own based on your values and lifestyle:

  • Incorporate what you have learned about heraldic colors and symbols to design your shield.
  • Also, give it a modern twist by including symbols that represent your current interests (a golden eagle listening to an iPod, for example).

You can use any program you’d like to create your shield, including:

  • design software on your computer
  • web 2.0 tools

Write a paragraph of at least five sentences explaining how all of the elements included (shape, color, and symbols) are representative of your life and your values. (Obviously since you don’t know me you can make it up, just make it up like “intregity” “Purtiy” idk) Your paragraph should include proper grammar, punctuation, and other language conventions.

due Sunday 11:59pm central time. Late work not accepted

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Read the following article by Jay Feldman and answer the questions that follow:

There was a time in the not so distant past when many, if not most, publicly held corporations, including the one for which I worked, embraced in their mission statements, codes of conduct and similar pronouncements a responsibility to serve multiple stakeholders: their stockholders, of course, but also their employees as well as customers, suppliers and the community in which they operated. Today, all too many companies, in deed and often in word, articulate a single-minded obligation to serve only their investors by focusing exclusively on profitability.

As a result, we have witnessed corporate downsizings and outsourcing of jobs; restructuring of pension plans or their complete termination; reductions in health care benefits; and wage stagnation in spite of increased productivity. Domestic suppliers have been squeezed or, more often, replaced by cheap foreign sources. Customers seeking service are confronted with automated answering machines and foreign call centers. Environmental concerns are viewed as obstacles to profitability.

At the same time, the senior managers of these enterprises have seen their compensation grow exponentially as a reward for their perceived contributions to the bottom line.

Sadly, what these corporations fail to appreciate is how their obsession with the bottom line is shrinking their markets, both domestic and foreign. The large number of people unemployed, underemployed, afraid of losing their jobs or without the means to pay all their bills perpetuates the present worldwide economic crisis.

Add to this the unwillingness of businesses to pay their fair share of taxes to support education, health care and the infrastructure that is critical to their success. In the end, these self-serving practices endanger the very profitability their practitioners seek to enhance.

We need to return to the earlier model of the corporation as a good citizen. Doing so can help ensure the long-term viability of our free enterprise system.

JAY N. FELDMAN

Port Washington, N.Y., Aug. 27, 2012

The writer is a retired corporate lawyer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-how-corporations-behave.html?ref=ethics

Considering the passage above, write a paper of 3–4 pages that addresses the following:

1. Discuss Alfred North Whitehead’s statement: “What is morality in any given time and place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.” Consider the following questions as guide:

a.  Businesses can have ethical standards, but Businesses are not moral agents. Do you agree or disagree?

b.  Is it true that the “bottom line” of business is profit and profit alone?

c.  In business, are there other less tangible goals that are intrinsic to and just as important as making money?

d.  Why should we be moral as individuals?

e.  Why should a corporation or organization be moral?

2. How would you apply the first formulation of Kant’s categorical imperative to a Business environment?

Consider deontological ethics, teleological ethics, moral objectivism, and ethical relativism in your argument. Provide at least 3 valid reasons to support your argument. Also, be sure to include the following in your paper:

Identify your argument—or thesis statement—within the introduction of your paper.

Include definitions of utilitarianism, Categorical Imperatives, Process Philosophy, moral relativism, moral absolutism, ethical relativism, moral objectivism, deontological ethics, and teleological ethics.

Consider morality and ethics from the perspective of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, and Immanuel Kant’s universal categorical imperative. Could you argue that Businesses can have ethical standards, despite the fact that Businesses are not moral agents? Why or why not? Please explain.

Distinguish between descriptive and normative definitions of morality

  • Use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.
  • You may find that you change your mind on the issue as you are writing your paper. That is fine, but be sure to present your ultimate decision at the beginning of the paper, and stick to it consistently throughout. This may require that you go back and change the first few paragraphs that contain your thesis statement.
  • Your argument should be clear, concise, and supported with logically valid claims.

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Reference

Feldman, J. (2012, August 27). Sunday Dialogue: How Corporations Behave. The New York Times. Retrieved fromhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-how-corporations-behave.html?ref=ethics