What is the average amount of time a person can expect to spend in line?

1. The Bijou Theater shows vintage movies. Customers arrive at the theater line at the rate of 100 per hour. The ticket seller averages 30 seconds per customer, which includes placing validation stamps on customers’ parking lot receipts and punching their frequent watcher cards. (Because of these added services, many customers don’t get in until after the feature has started.)

A. is the average customer time in the system?

B. What would be the effect on customer time in the system of having a second ticket taker doing nothing but validations and card punching, thereby cutting the average service time to 20 seconds?

C. Would system waiting time be less than you found in (b) if a second window was opened with each server doing all three tasks?

 

2. To support National Heart Week, the Heart Association plans to install a free blood pressure testing booth in El Con Mall for the week. Previous experience indicates that, on average, 10 persons per hour request a test. Assume arrivals are Poisson distributed from an infinite population. Blood pressure measurements can be made at a constant time of five minutes each. Assume the queue length can be infinite with FCFS discipline.

A. What average number in line can be expected?

B. What average number of persons can be expected to be in the system?

C. What is the average amount of time a person can expect to spend in line?

D. On average, how much time will it take to measure a person’s blood pressure, including waiting time?

E. On weekends, the arrival rate can be expected to increase to over 12 per hour. What effect will this have on the number in the waiting line?

 

3. An engineering firm retains a technical specialist to assist four design engineers working on a project. The help that the specialist gives engineers ranges widely in time consumption. The specialist has some answers available in memory, others require computation, and still others require significant search time. On average, each request for assistance takes the specialist one hour.

The engineers require help from the specialist on the average of once each day. Because each assistance takes about an hour, each engineer can work for seven hours, on average, without assistance. One further point: Engineers needing help do not interrupt if the specialist is already involved with another problem. Treat this as a finite queuing problem and answer the following questions:

A. How many engineers, on average, are waiting for the technical specialist for help?

B. What is the average time an engineer has to wait for the specialist?

C. What is the probability an engineer will have to wait in line for the specialist?

Has Nike created and implemented an effective approach to social responsibility?

Carefully read each question. All questions should be answered with the minimum of two paragraphs (5-7 sentences). Students should analyze each question using the terminology, principles, or theories from the chapter. Points will be deducted for incorrect grammar, punctuation, and if the question is answered with less than two paragraphs. Points will also be deducted if the question is not answered in its entirety.

Remember, plagiarism is not accepted. If additional sources are used to answer the questions, the sources should be cited using APA format.

CASE STUDY DIRECTIONS: In your book, read the case entitled, “Marc Kasky versus Nike” on pages 183-193. Answer questions 1-5. Be sure to answer the questions in its entirety to receive full credit. Also follow the homework format guidelines.

1. What responsibility does Nike have for conditions of work at foreign factories making its products?

2. Could Nike have better anticipated and more effectively handled the sweatshop issue? What did it do right? What was ineffective or counter- productive?

3. Has Nike created and implemented an effective approach to social responsibility? Does it address root causes of problems in Nike’s supply chain? Should it now do more or do something different?

4. Did the California Supreme Court correctly decide the Kasky case? Why or why not?

5. How should the line between commercial and noncommercial speech be drawn?

what is the most pressing issue related to wrongful convictions?

please provide at least one example of a reform that could be enacted to help prevent wrongful convictions? Elaborate. Could there be an unintended consequences of this reform? Again, please elaborate. Next, what is the “Blackstone ratio” — please discuss this using your own words. Do you feel this is an adequate way to understand wrongful convictions. Why or why not? Next, after reflecting upon Chapter 14, what do you suppose could be an unintended negative consequence of a conviction integrity unit. Be sure to elaborate. Finally, in your opinion, what is the most pressing issue related to wrongful convictions? Why do you feel this way. In addition to responding to all of the above questions, please pose a critical thinking question to your peers.

minimum 450

Explain to him how a three-part media strategy might help his marketing efforts.

Choose  one of the three scenarios below. Answer in a word document. Spelling and grammar count. There is no defined amount you have to write. Just write enough to say what you need to say. If it’s more than two pages then you have written too much.

1. Your client is spending most of her marketing budget on magazine ads. Explain to your client how she might leverage Social Media in this situation. Include an explanation of how this paid media could potentially feed into earned media and owned media. You must discuss all three types of media: paid, earned and owned (partially owned).

2. You’re the content creation manager for a skateboard company, and your business just released a brand new version of your best selling board. You would like to generate some earned exposure about this release. List two outlets where you might gain some earned exposure. Explain why each outlet might find interest in spreading your message. Now how would you integrate paid media and owned media into that strategy? You must discuss all three types of media: paid, earned and owned (partially owned).

3. You’re working with a client whose marketing strategy consists only of running TV advertisements. This client sees a surge of leads when running TV advertisements but doesn’t have the budget to run TV ads year round. Explain to him how a three-part media strategy might help his marketing efforts. You must discuss all three types of media: paid, earned and owned (partially owned).

 

 

 

Now suppose the secretary of labor proposes an increase in the minimum wage. What effect would this increase have on employment?

Please read the case “ The Minimum Wage” from Chapter 6 “Supply, Demand, and Government Policies” Page: – 117 given in your textbook – “Principles of Macroeconomics”. A case study discusses the federal minimum-wage law.

Questions: 1

a. Suppose the minimum wage is above the equilibrium wage in the market for unskilled labor. Using a supply and-demand diagram of the market for unskilled labor, show the market wage, the number of workers who are employed, and the number of workers who are unemployed. Also show the total wage payments to unskilled workers. (100 – 150 words – 1.25 point)

b. Now suppose the secretary of labor proposes an increase in the minimum wage. What effect would this increase have on employment? Does the change in employment depend on the elasticity of demand, the elasticity of supply, both elasticities, or neither? (100 – 150 words – 1.25 point)

c. What effect would this increase in the minimum wage have on unemployment? Does the change in unemployment depend on the elasticity of demand, the elasticity of supply, both elasticities, or neither? (100 – 150 words – 1.25 point)

d. If the demand for unskilled labor were inelastic, would the proposed increase in the minimum wage raise or lower total wage payments to unskilled workers? Would your answer change if the demand for unskilled labor were elastic? (100 – 150 words – 1.25 point)

Important Note: – Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook.

Questions: 2

a. Should a nation tend to export or import goods for which it has a comparative advantage? Explain. Why do economists oppose policies that restrict trade among nations? (Minimum 500 words).

b. Maria can read 80 pages of economics in an hour. She can also read 40 pages of sociology in an hour. She spends 6 hours per day studying.

1. Draw Maria’s production possibilities frontier for reading economics and sociology.

2. What is Maria’s opportunity cost of reading 120 pages of sociology?

How does this poem use the resources of language to achieve its effect?

Choose  two poems, one of which must be one we have not read for class.  Then, you will write an essay in which you  analyze both poems in terms of a key feature they both share, comparing and contrasting the ways each utilizes or treats that feature. This feature could be, for instance:

· similar symbols used in different ways, such as a hummingbird to represent joy and a raven to represent death;

· typography that takes on a certain shape, like [Buffalo Bill’s] in the shape of a bullet, and how meaning is made from it;

· the way rhyme suggests a certain interpretation by drawing attention to certain words;

· or maybe similarities in how the poem develops an idea from the beginning of the end, such using an abrupt turn at the end.

How does this poem use the resources of language to achieve its effect?  What do you  notice and  what’s the takeaway?  What meaning do you make? Support your essay with  evidence from the text.

Potential places to find poems include websites such as  PoetryFoundation.com  or even song lyrics (provided you can identify poetic qualities in them!)

For this paper, you will do  no outside research.  This analysis should come solely from a conversation between you and the poems.

Requirements

· Length of 3+  pages, double-spaced, 12-pt. Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins all around

· MLA format (including a Works Cited page). Don’t forget the  MLA section of the Purdue OWL as a useful resource.

· Should be written in academic language (see the Writing Guidelines document if needed)

 

 

 

 

Poem Read in class:

The Valley of Unrest

BY  EDGAR ALLAN POE

Once it smiled a silent dell

Where the people did not dwell;

They had gone unto the wars,

Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,

Nightly, from their azure towers,

To keep watch above the flowers,

In the midst of which all day

The red sun-light lazily lay.

Now each visitor shall confess

The sad valley’s restlessness.

Nothing there is motionless—

Nothing save the airs that brood

Over the magic solitude.

Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees

That palpitate like the chill seas

Around the misty Hebrides!

Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven

That rustle through the unquiet Heaven

Uneasily, from morn till even,

Over the violets there that lie

In myriad types of the human eye—

Over the lilies there that wave

And weep above a nameless grave!

They wave:—from out their fragrant tops

External dews come down in drops.

They weep:—from off their delicate stems

Perennial tears descend in gems.

What approaches and styles did you use?

MANAGING CONFLICT

 

Alternative Assignment to Analysis and Reflection #3

 

This assignment is an alternative to the Reflection and Analysis Assignment # 3 on Negotiation. The purpose is to offer another format other than writings that will allow you to express your understanding of negotiation.

 

Outcomes

 

1. Verbally articulating an understanding of Negotiation and its process

2. Identify and use a negotiation style

3. Use a real-life scenario to engage in Negotiation

4. Experience and articulate the emotions connected to the negotiation process

5. Evaluate a lived Negotiation experience

 

Case

 

You will meet with your instructor and argue to have a higher grade in one of your assignments. You will use all elements of negotiation from unit 3c to make your case. After, the conversation you will have to evaluate your conversation in the following way.

1. What approaches and styles did you use?

2. What approaches or styles the instructor used?

3. What emotions did you experience as you engaged the conversation?

4. How well do you think you did and why?

Describe how your findings from the relevant research literature can shape, inform, and improve current business and professional practice related to your chosen topic.

Need 5 pages on GDPR research paper. Atleast 6 scholarly articles.

Following as the structure of the paper

Structure your paper as follows:

a. Cover page

b. Overview describing the importance of the research topic to current business and professional practice in your own words.

c. Purpose of Research should reflect the potential benefit of the topic to the current business and professional practice and the larger body of research.

d. Review of the Literature summarized in your own words.

e. Practical Application of the literature. Describe how your findings from the relevant research literature can shape, inform, and improve current business and professional practice related to your chosen topic.

f. Conclusion in your own words

g. References formatted according to APA style requirements

The paper should be in APA 7th edition format

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

You will have your students for approximately 90 minutes a day per subject area that you teach. How will you fill that time? You will create and administer multiple formative assessments each day. These assessments will give you the feedback you need to know if your students are making progress towards mastering your standard. Some of these assessments will be in written format while others may not. Some will be graded while others will not. Each assessment is meaningful and gives you, the teacher, imperative information that you will use to modify or plan upcoming lessons. Create a minimum of three (3) ungraded and three (3) graded assessments for your chosen standard.  You may NOT select a KWL chart, exit ticket or bell-ringer as a graded assignment. Each  assessment must be original  content that you created. Your submission must contain:

· a student copy that is ready for the student to complete and

· a teacher copy that includes the assignment, a key, grading information and

· a plan as to how you will use the results to direct future instruction.

 

RL. 6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

Do you think that companies can do without detailed job descriptions? Why or why not?

Answer each question and then reply on one classmate post for each one.

 

Question 1

Do you think that companies can do without detailed job descriptions? Why or why not?

Do detailed job descriptions give current employees the opportunity to say, “I’m not going to do that because it’s not my job.”?

 

Classmate answer

 

There are some companies that are well known for what they produce and what they stand for. Certain jobs that entail retail or the restaurant industry more than likely don’t require a detailed job description. I think for big and small unknown companies and even well known companies with unknown positions need job descriptions. I believe that a job description can make or break a applicants decisions based on where they see themselves and what they want to do. Job descriptions list what is required of their applicants for a reason because if you just go in blindly then you might make a big mistake and end up wasting your time. I do believe that detailed job descriptions give current employees the opportunity to say, “I’m not going to do that because it’s not my job.” I have seen it happen before to a company who would have made the employee question their morals and ethics, the employee stood up and stated that they didn’t have to go against their morals/ethics and do that task because it wasn’t in the description when they signed the contract so they weren’t obligated to do so. Job descriptions overall are important but I can see how some would have one and some wouldn’t have one.

 

Question 2

 

When recruiting, how could you ensure that you are not inadvertently violating equal employment laws?

 

Classmate answer

 

Recruitment process is one of the most important for businesses because it dictates the future of the business by dictating the talents the company attracts. Various issues might arise during this process that might be considered unfair or unethical. During the process, it is important to ensure that none of the employment laws are violated and to do so, a hiring manager or an organization should start as early as advertising. The first step to a free and fair recruitment is ensuring that the job advertisement does not state or imply job restriction to people on the basis of personal attributes such as gender, race, age among others. The advertisement should avoid language that relates to specific attributes and follow a standard set criterion. Business owners and recruiting managers should actively avoid discrimination during an interview process by only asking the questions that focus on professional and skill based qualifications. The interview questions should not focus on the protected area. For instance, asking a woman if she intends to have children during their time in the company or asking a candidate how their religious beliefs might impact the organization bring out an element of discrimination. Another important way of preventing the violation of employment laws is by avoiding unconscious bias. We are all biased in different ways and during an interview, an interviewer should avoid showing excessive empathy to someone of the same gender or race. The last and most important way of preventing the violation of employment laws is offering jobs based on ability.

 

Question 3

 

Oftentimes, when we check references, the only thing that former employers are willing to say is, “John was employed here from 2010-2014.” They are not willing to say anything negative about the employee for fear of retribution.

Explain some ways you would dig deeper to get the real truth out of former employers in order to get a better picture of whether or not an applicant would be a good fit for your organization.

 

Classmate answer

 

The first step in “digging deeper” would be asking the applicant if it is possible to contact a former employer. You need to make sure the applicant is okay with you contacting their previous employer. If they say yes, they are confident in their work ethic there and have no problem with you speaking to their former employer. If they say no, this can lead to some suspicion and make you wonder why they do not want you speaking to them. At the same time, if the former employer says negative things about the applicant, you could possibly directly or indirectly discriminate them which could lead to other problems.

I think a great way to dig deeper is doing a legal background check with consent. Another thing that may help is asking the applicant if they have been fired or voluntarily resigned from their former employers. If they resigned, you can ask why they made the decision. If they were fired, you can ask what caused it and what are the reasons for it. This will help you get a better picture of the applicant.