What is the incremental costs associated with producing an extra 65,750 jars of sauce?

Consider the production cost information for Mama Italiano Sauce given below:
Mama Italian Sauce
Production Cost Budget
April 2008
Production – Jars of sauce 20,000
Ingredient cost (variable) $16,000
Labor cost (variable) 9,000
Rent (fixed) 4,000
Depreciation (fixed) 6,000
Other (fixed) 1,000
Total $36,000
The company is currently producing and selling jars of sauce The jars of sauce sell for $4 per jar. The company is considering lowering the price to $3.70 per jar. Suppose this action will increase sales. What is the incremental costs associated with producing an extra 65,750 jars of sauce?

How could an organization measure the effectiveness of its pay-for-performance plan(s)?

“Pay for Performance” has made inroads in business, but has remained a hard sell in public school systems. There are some successful examples where teacher pay has been linked to student test scores. For example, in Minnesota, some districts have stopped giving automatic raises for seniority and base 60% of all pay increases on performance. In Denver, unions and school districts designed an incentive program where teachers receive bonuses for student achievement and for earning national teaching certificates. However, some plans have not worked. For example, Cincinnati teachers voted against a merit pay proposal and Philadelphia teachers gave their bonus checks to charity rather than cashing them. It appears that having teachers involved in planning the incentive system is one key factor to success. The same can be said for all incentive plans – if employees don’t buy into them, they will not work.

Your paper may be based on a business entity of your choosing from the public or private sector and must answer the following Research Questions:

1. How could an organization measure the effectiveness of its pay-for-performance plan(s)?

2. From an employee’s perspective, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using a pay-for-performance plan?

3. From an employer’s perspective, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using a pay-for-performance plan?

Identify and explain one advantage and one disadvantage of the digitization of Humanities resources.

Technology and the Arts

Digital Humanities
After reading Terras’ chapter, “Digitization and digital resources in the Humanities,” please do the following:
(1)Identify and explain one advantage and one disadvantage of the digitization of Humanities resources.
(2)Explain the difference between a digital repository and a digital project.
(3)Find a specific digital repository OR digital project online and do the following:
(a)Provide a brief description of it. Include things like where it is housed, who created and maintains it, what kinds of information it contains, what subject in the Humanities it covers .
(b)Examine and describe how the information is presented. For instance, do you have to use a search engine? Are there subject guides? Does it use a mapping tool?
(c)Point out any difficulties you had navigating the information or any particularly well-designed features for the user.

Read pages 47-59, Terras, Melissa M. “Chapter 3: Digitization and digital resources in the Humanities” In Warwick, Claire, et al. Digital Humanities in Practice. Facet Publishing, 2012. EBSCOhost.
Just copy the link to the browser the reading will pop-up.
http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=558471&site=eds-live&scope=site&profile=edsebook&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_47

Write an argumentative paper of 700-750 words that demonstrates why globalization is good or not good for a business.

Write an argumentative paper of 700-750 words that demonstrates why globalization is good or not good for a business. The paper should define the term good, and should identify the premises and conclusions.
Identify the premise and conclusion by placing a number in bold at the beginning of the sentence with the word premise or conclusion. For example: (1, Premise), (2, Premise), (1, Conclusion), (2, Conclusion), and so on.

• Sentences labeled as “1, premise” are premises for the sentence labeled as “1, conclusion.”
• All premises should be labeled for each conclusion in the article. If a sentence is a conclusion and a premise for another conclusion, place two labels.
• At the end of the paper, identify one example of how you used deductive reasoning and one example of how you used inductive reasoning
• Include a minimum of two references.

Write in third person

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Demonstrate competencies relevant to a career focus area within health sciences.

Assignment: Mathematics in Healthcare

Course outcome:

In 2–6 pages; excluding any title page, references, appendices, etc.

Demonstrate competencies relevant to a career focus area within health sciences.

Relate mathematics to the discipline of Health Science.

Instructions

Give examples of two problems in the healthcare field that have mathematical solutions.

Description: Identify two healthcare problems with mathematical solutions. An actual or hypothetical situation may be used as an example. Any actual situation should be presented as a hypothetical one, with any names and other identifying information changed to protect anonymity. Begin with a brief summary of the situation. Provide step-be-step demonstration of the math execution. Give a rationale for why this example is important to practice.

Requirements

In 2–6 pages; excluding any title page, references, appendices, etc

What is digital growth?

Instructions

You are working for a local department store in the Operations Department. You notice that their business practices and use of technology are not up to date. You have worked other places that have relied more on digital technology that have been extremely successful, in part because of their operating efficiency.

Your company is considering making upgrades to several of your operating processes. Because of your history of working in more technologically progressive environments, you are asked by your supervisor to create a visual presentation with a timeline of digital growth in the organization and compare it to the digital growth in society in general. In discussing this project with your boss, it is clear that digital growth can refer not only to Internet and computers, but it can also refer to other aspects of business operations such as cash registers, phone services, advertisements, various tools for communication, etc. Your supervisor asks that this timeline be created to help you, your supervisor, and other stakeholders determine the advantages and disadvantages of a proposed upgrade in technology in the workplace with the overall goal of understanding what systems can be put into place or maintained that can help the store run as efficiently as possible. You are told that the timeline can be in any visual format that you choose.

For this timeline, you are to reflect and address the following sets of questions:

• What is digital growth? Where is the company now in terms of digital growth?
• What are some examples of technological advances that could be used in a department store operation?
• What are some possible advantages and disadvantages of using advanced technology?
• What is Big Data? How might Big Data be used in this business?
• What are some possible advantages and disadvantages of the store using Big Data?
• Do you believe that updating technology and business practices will be advantageous? Why or Why not?

executive summary in Microsoft Word (minimum three pages) that analyzes how additional investment in the workforce and the environment can increase the organization’s profits.

You have been hired as VP of Operations and part of the executive team of a U.S. based company. Due to conventional thinking, the shareholders of the organization feel the focus on promoting environmental efforts and increasing employee benefits may have a negative impact on profitability. Given that you have successfully implemented a corporate social responsibility plan for a global organization in your previous role, you are asked by the Board of Directors to create an executive summary that outlines and analyzes how additional investment in the workforce and the environment can increase the organization’s profits.

Instructions

• Write an executive summary in Microsoft Word (minimum three pages) that analyzes how additional investment in the workforce and the environment can increase the organization’s profits.
• Address the following:
• What is the triple bottom line, and why is it beneficial to move toward a corporate social responsibility model?
• How can the risk of financial capital and the allocation of resources result in positive returns?
• What ethical issues could arise from this initiative?
• What are the consequences if corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not addressed?
• Provide attribution for credible sources used in the professional executive summary.

Consider a recent interaction you have had with a co-worker or item that you saw in the media that might have included logical errors.

This week we are going to focus on basic logic and how you can use logic outside of the classroom. Unfortunately,

many of our daily interactions include logical errors.

Respond to the following prompts in a minimum of 175 words:

• Consider a recent interaction you have had with a co-worker or item that you saw in the media that might have included logical errors.
• Share the example as well as the logical errors that are present in the example. Be sure to use terms and concepts from the content covered this week to support your discussion

Benchmark – innovation in technology analysis

Write a 1,250-1,500 word analysis in which you discuss the following:

Technology is required to change at a rapid pace due to the dynamics of a global marketplace. Projects require shorter life cycles, and customers are demanding new products and services delivered in the mode they are using (phone, tablet, computer). IT organizations are required to keep pace with the constantly growing demands from consumers and the competitive market.

Research an innovative technology company and provide an analysis of the following:

Provide an overview of the organization, including their products or services. Describe the organization’s stakeholders, and identify how the organization is meeting stakeholder demands.

Evaluate how technology organizations benefit by having a physical presence and participating in a global marketplace.

Explain the culture that the leaders of the organization develop for their employees. Describe how the organization supports the professional development of their employees.

Describe the ways in which the organizational culture fosters innovation. Evaluate the leadership skills that drive technology innovation within the organization. How do leaders prepare employees to participate in the global technology ecosystem?

Include at least three academic references for this assignment to support your analysis and reflection.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Choose a special-interest group from a U.S. industry and examine their role in politics.

One of our main areas of focus in this session is special-interest groups. This is a topic that we could explore for weeks! It’s now time to have a discussion with your colleagues on this subject. Choose a special-interest group from a U.S. industry and examine their role in politics. Discuss how that interest group aligns with public choice theory.

Locate a recent article or event (published within the last year) that highlights your relevant microeconomics topic.

• State the article or event you selected.
• Identify the microeconomic concept(s).
• Describe your findings.
• Analyze the relevance to real-life applications.
• APA STYLE