final-exam
I have a final exam online for ops management 571.
250-words-response-
Read Donald Murray’s “Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product†(1972)
. As you participate in your conference meetings this week, think about times in your life when “process†was more important to you than “product.†For example, consider a young child who attempts to make breakfast for a parent. The process of making the breakfast is a gesture that shows patience, dedication, and love–even if the product is ultimately burnt toast and raw bacon.
Post a response that reflects on “process†and “product†as they relate to you. Your response can take the form of structured paragraphs (around 250 words) or it can be more creative (personal narrative, poetry, comics, music, video, collage, etc). Use whatever genre best makes your point. Be sure to connect your ideas to Murray’s with effective quotes, paraphrasing, or other citation strategies. Try to also connect your post with the current writing process you are participating in with regards to the context of this class.
short case analysis
case one
QUESTION 1: Why do you think IKEA’s expansion into Europe went so well? Why did the company subsequently stumble in North America? What lessons did IKEA learn from this experience? How is the company now applying these lessons?
QUESTION 2: How would you characterize IKEA’s strategy prior to its missteps in North America? How would you characterize its strategy today?
case 2
QUESTION 1: How would you characterize the strategy for competing internationally that Ford was pursuing prior to the arrival of Alan Mullaly in 2006? What were the benefits of this strategy? What were the costs? Why was Ford pursuing this strategy?
QUESTION 2: What strategy is Mullaly trying to get Ford to pursue with his One Ford initiative? What are the benefits of this strategy? Can you see any drawbacks?
Help me to answer those two case, at least 200 words for each case(not for each question) . Totally at least 400 words is ok. No plagiarism.
1 Paragraph Response to 2 Classmate’s Posts – (2 Paragraphs total)
Respond by Day 7 to at least two of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:
- Ask a probing question.
- Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
- Offer and support an opinion.
- Validate an idea with your own experience.
- Make a suggestion.
- Expand on your colleague’s posting.
Classmate 1 Post (Tia):
The information I anticipate collecting through my proposed Final Project instrument is the development of cold and hot cognition parallel patterns of adolescent development. Since I want to understand the development of cold and hot cognition, my population would be adolescents with major symptoms and evaluation of self-control, mental illnesses, and how adolescents process information. The sample size will be approximately 50 adolescents. If there were unlimited resources I would increase the sample size to 200 adolescents to ensure a variety of parallel patterns.
Advantages
- Questionnaires are cost-efficient
- They’re practical
- It’s quick and easy to collect results.
- Allow for scalability
- User anonymity
Disadvantages
- Dishonesty can be an issue
- Lack of conscientious responses
- Differences in understanding and interpretation
- Hard to convey feelings and emotions
- Respondents may have hidden agendas”
Classmate 2 Post (Stephanie):
“With the created questionnaire, I hope to assess each candidate’s values in terms of trustworthiness and honesty. Organizations pride and promote themselves according to their values and standards, so, if there is some way that organizations can add an extra layer of screening to weed out the morally lacking, then this only saves time and money. I have high hopes that the situational questionnaire will be able to predict the trustworthiness and honesty of the candidates. The answer options do not leave any room for interpretation or weighing; there is only one preferred answer option.
If I had unlimited resources, I would ideally be able to screen each candidate with the questionnaire. The sampling method for this would be simple random sampling. The goal of this research is to assess candidate trustworthiness and honesty, so we do not need to know race, gender, age, etc. Prior to a face to face interview, each candidate would complete the questionnaire to assess their organizational fit. If they are within the 12-20 scoring range, they will receive an invitation to the next round of interviews (face to face). Since the questionnaire is short, it could be made a part of the application process like some personality tests, emotional intelligence tests, etc.
According to St-Sauveur, Girouard, & Goyette, the best scoring system for my situational judgement test will be the best-and-worst-answer method (2014). This method asks participants to choose the best and worst answers for the given situation (St-Sauveur, Girouard, & Goyette, 2014), and seeing as my instrument is limited to two choices, this will make the choice simple and quick. The score for the best answer will receive +2 points, while the worst answer will receive -2 points. If the candidate scores between the 12-20 mark, they are ideal for employment. Since there are only 10 questions, we want to leave the ideal score above 50% (5 best scores).
An advantage of the method of making the questionnaire apart of the application process is that we will be able to sort through the “bad apples” before spending money on background checks, drug screens, etc. Oliver, Shafiro, Bullard, & Thomas state that “introducing integrity testing into the hiring process can help to enhance employee and organizational health” (2012). Situational judgment tests (SJT) possess good criterion-related validity for job performance and accepted by test takers (Mussel, Gatzka & Hewig, 2016). Disadvantages include lack of construct validity or the measurement of what a test claims to measure (Mussel, Gatzka & Hewig, 2016). There is so much focus in the scenarios, that the consistency is also affected.”
Impending-Reduction-in-Workforce
Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, consisting of 10- to 12-slides, outlining the elements required to create a memo that informs staff in an accurate manner of an impending reduction in the workforce. Think about how you will be objective and informative in communicating this major management decision without deliberately raising anxiety amongst all staff.
Consider the challenges and elements of the attached case when constructing your memo. Your last 2–3 slides should be the actual memo.
Include references
Legal-Documents-represent-the-Defendant-City-of-Lyons-in-the-Dorite-case
For this assignment assume that your firm, Stahl & Beetum, PC, 13 Legal Ave., Wigmore, IL 00001, has been retained to represent the Defendant City of Lyons in the Dorite case. You just finished reading the Complaint, and that is all you know about the case. Your supervising attorney, B. G. Brothers asks you to draft interrogatories, and a notice to produce to be served on the plaintiff as well as a notice of deposition for the Plaintiff. She tells you that she wants information about witnesses, the facts, the plaintiff’s injuries, her past medical history and her medical bills, amongst other items.
She reminds you that the Plaintiff has to provide facts to establish each allegation of her Complaint. She further reminds you that the purpose of discovery is to find out as much information as possible about the plaintiff’s case and her background. Remember, she says, that Ms. Dorite has a good friend who may have given a written statement. She then tells you that the format of both documents should follow the court rules and hands you a copy of the applicable Wigmore Court Rules. She states that she does not want a definition section in the Notice to Produce as she has a definition section that she will add to your Notice. She wants the three discovery documents by Sunday evening at 1159pm. She adds that since the firm is new it does not have forms so you have to find a form to use on the internet or lexisnexis.
- Find and cite Wisconsin rules on interrogatories, notice to produce documents, and depositions. Use these rules when drafting the discovery documents listed below.
- Draft Defendant’s First Set of Interrogatories to Plaintiff that your firm as attorney’s for the City will propound on the Plaintiff’s attorney Rich N. Moore. The document should contain ten interrogatories seeking information from Ms. Dorite about her case.
- Draft Defendant’s First Notice to Produce Documents to Plaintiff that your firm as attorney for the City will serve on the Plaintiff’s attorney, Rich N. Moore. The Notice should contain five categories of documents for the Plaintiff to produce.
- Draft a Notice of Deposition for the Plaintiff’s deposition selecting a date and time that suits your schedule.
Please sure to follow each step carefully in 1-4 and make sure to have all forms! The complaint below is from Dorite. The PDF will help you out with this assignment, so please use it.
WACC-and-Corporate-Investment-Decisions
Purpose of Assignment
Students should understand corporate risk and be able to use the financial models learned in the class to evaluate and calculate a company’s weighted average cost of capital and use the analysis to make company investment decisions.
About Your Signature Assignment
This assignment is designed to align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad statements that describe what students should know and be able to do upon completion of their degree. The assignment may be graded with an automated rubric that allows the University to collect data that can be aggregated across a location or college/school and used for program improvements.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Tutorial help on Excel® and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft®Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web that offer support for office products.
Scenario: Wilson Corporation (not real) has a targeted capital structure of 40% long term debt and 60% common stock. The debt is yielding 6% and the corporate tax rate is 35%. The common stock is trading at $50 per share and next year’s dividend is $2.50 per share that is growing by 4% per year.
Prepare a minimum 700-word analysis including the following:
- Calculate the company’s weighted average cost of capital. Use the dividend discount model. Show calculations in Microsoft® Word. And Excel.
- The company’s CEO has stated if the company increases the amount of long term debt so the capital structure will be 60% debt and 40% equity, this will lower its WACC. Explain and defend why you agree or disagree. Report how would you advise the CEO.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit both word and Excel files.
References and In-text citations according to the APA format guidelines.
Choose an ad from a current issue of a print magazine and conduct a semiotic analysis.
You will be responsible for interpreting the “meaning” of the ad on a number of levels, making full use of the topics we’ve covered in our semiotics, representation, and ideology classes.
You should start your paper with a thesis statement: your argument about what the ad “means.” The rest of the paper will use semiotic analysis to show how the text conveys this meaning, deepening your analysis along the way. You are making an argument and using signs from the text as supporting evidence.
You should move naturally from surface or “denotative” meanings to the larger “connotations” of the ad, with an eye towards uncovering the potential “myths” that the ad is tapping into or furthering and connecting those to ideologies.
You will be graded on your ability to coherently and effectively utilize the analytic terms and concepts introduced in the readings and in class discussion.
The questions below are designed to get you started in your analysis. While you should address all of them, the assignment is not merely to go through them point-by-point. Some of the questions may relate more to your analysis and text than others.
1. Identify and examine the important signs in your text:
- What are the important signifiers? What do they signify? These may include characters, symbols, setting, typeface, logo, shapes, etc.
- What are the primary and secondary discourses used in the ad?
- How are they connected to the denotative and connotative meanings of certain signs, images, and symbols?
- How do the different signs relate to one another?
- What codes do the signs come from? How does your knowledge of codes shape your interpretation?
- What cultural and social meanings are involved? What signs communicate these myths?
- Does this ad interpellate the viewer? And if so, how?
2. Myth:
- What overall meaning do you ascribe to the text as a whole?
- How do the signs and their connotations help to construct a mythic meaning?
- How does the text tap into and reinforce or challenge prevailing social myths or ideas?
- How are the mythic meanings transferred to the product being advertised?
- How does the mythic meaning in the ad relate to our understanding of the “real world” outside the ad?
The paper overall should be making an argument that the ad can be interpreted in a certain way. You are not claiming that this is the only way to interpret the ad, or that this is necessarily what the producers of the ad intended.
Brain-Issues-Ted-talk
Watch the TED Talks discussion on brain issues by Tom Wujec.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_on_3_ways_the_…
In a thoughtful, one-page paper, discuss the following:
How do you think the ideas in this discussion relate to the definitions of tacit and explicit information? Does your organization use any of the techniques that are discussed in this video clip?
Operations Management and Factors Affecting Productivity
Read the required article on business process management by AlShathry. Notice that Chapter 2 of your text discusses factors affecting productivity, like standardizing processes and procedures and quality issues.
Write a 6 pages paper that analyzes the outcomes AlShathry describes for Saudi Arabian organizations and how productivity is impacted. Make a recommendation as to how productivity may be improved in Saudi organizations.
Be sure to use at least 3 current, scholarly references beyond any required course readings. Current sources are those published within the most recent five-year period, and scholarly sources are those from peer-reviewed journals.
Make certain for each listed reference that you have at least one supporting citation in the body of your content. Your reference page is always the last page of the submission where all individual references get listed.
Use the APA standard.
textbox:
Stevenson, W. (2018). Operations management (13th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin. ISBN-13:
9781259667473
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