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First-In, First-Out (FIFO) and Shortest Processing Time (SPT). Compare the two sequences. Which sequence would you recommend and why?

A machining center in a local manufacturing company has five jobs to complete. The jobs are labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 based on the order they entered the shop. Your manager has asked you to compare two different job sequences to determine the best order for processing the jobs – First-In, First-Out (FIFO) and Shortest Processing Time (SPT). Compare the two sequences. Which sequence would you recommend and why? Be sure to include a variety of measures (average completion time, lateness, etc.) to compare the two sequencing rules. Include all calculations in your response.

You work for a healthcare insurance company as an industrial engineer. As part of the company’s customer service department, there is a call center that responds to customer questions by phone. Your manager has asked you to perform an analysis of some data that the call center has collected over the last two years in an effort to determine how many workers are needed. In particular your manager wants to find out if there is a relationship between how long it takes to answer a call (independent variable) and whether or not customers will hang up (dependent variable). Is there a linear relationship between these two variables? Include a graph and analysis to support your opinion. If the goal of the call center is to have fewer than 15% of calls abandoned, how quickly must the call center respond? Learning Outcome #2.

Data for Question 3

Average Answer Speed = Average number of seconds to answer an incoming call during the week

% abandoned = % of calls that are abandoned (hang up) before being answered during the week.

Describe the factors that are used in the NPV and the FV formulas.

Teaching Net Present Value (NPV) & Future Value (FV) You have been asked by a manager in your organization to put together a training program explaining Net Present Value (NPV) and Future Value (FV) and how they are used to evaluate the price of stock. You have been given the following objectives: Upon completing your Net Present Value (NPV) and Future Value (FV) Training Program, employees should be able to do the following: Explain NPV and FV. Describe the factors that are used in the NPV and the FV formulas. Give an example of how to use the formulas for NPV and FV for a stock purchase. Summarize the differences between the two formulas and the purpose of using each. Develop a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint Presentation (excluding title slide and reference slide) that cover each of the above topics. In the slide notes, include your explanations for each topic above. You must use a minimum of two scholarly sources. Format the presentation and cite your resources according to the APA style guide as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Write an essay describing your achievement of a goal and your friend’s or family member’s achievement of a goal using motivational theory of incentives or Yerkes-Dodson law.

Incentive theories state that we are motivated by positive goals. This motivation can be intrinsic or extrinsic. Think back to a time when you were able to achieve an important goal in your life. Then, ask a friend or family member to tell you about a time when he or she achieved an important goal. Write an essay describing your achievement of a goal and your friend’s or family member’s achievement of a goal using motivational theory of incentives or Yerkes-Dodson law. How were the experiences similar or different? Explain any similarities or differences in the experiences using research from motivational theory

What current study in Psychology (within the last three years) has been conducted in the area of Mind Set?

Semester Paper Assignment

Psychology is a scientific discipline. The knowledge that we have gained and the information written in your textbook have come from psychological research studies. Therefore, it is important that you have familiarity with influential research and theoretical articles in Psychology. You will be reading particular interesting and relatable articles that I have chosen. These articles are located in the Blackboard system in a file called “Review Articles.”

Part I: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH REVIEW
It is expected that you will read all articles given in the Review Articles file. Summarizing these six articles is the focus on part I of your paper. Your literature review should NOT be in essay format for this portion, and should be typed (single-spaced) on the template below (For each article, cut and paste this template, and then provide your responses). ALL RESPONSES NEED TO BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS—NO QUOTES EITHER…..or points will be deducted!! ☺ For a detailed description of each of the sections in Part I, please see “Explaining Part I below.

TEMPLATE:
1. Author(s) of the Article:
2. Title of the Article:
3. Purpose and/or Hypothesis(es) of the Study:
4. Results of the Study:
5. Method for Testing the Hypothesis(es)
6. Implications for the Results:

Part II: APPLICATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY / RESEARCH
Prepare written responses to each of the questions below by copying and pasting the questions and then inserting your thorough responses to each question.

What current study in Psychology (within the last three years) has been conducted in the area of Mind Set? For this, you should go to the IVC Ebsco database (see a librarian for help). Specify your search searching “peer reviewed” research articles written by professors from research universities. Also, when you are in the Ebsco data base, search by title or keywords of your interest. You can go to the American Psychological Association (www.apa.org , but you might have to pay for the article). Please make sure that if you are on a site other than apa.org or in Ebso, then you check to make sure the article is written by a professor from a research university. In answering this question, I am looking to see that you can find current psychological research, and then relate it to new ideas). Please include answers to the following questions:

1. Who was the author and what is the title of the article that you chose?
2. What is the date of its publication (must be within 3 years of the current date)?
3. From what research university is the first author of the study?
4. What was the hypothesis or purpose of the study?
5. How did they test their hypothesis?
6. What were the results of the study?
7. What are the implications or importance of these results?
8. In what ways are the findings of the current article consistent or inconsistent with other 5 articles on Mindset? What new information has been given? This should be VERY well-developed section of your paper—I want to see how you can assimilate the new information into existing literature. Be sure to mention and properly cite the other 5 articles when referring to each. DO THIS IN YOUR OWN WORDS—NO QUOTES!
9. APPLYING RESEARCH FINDINGS:
a. OVERALL CHARACTERISTICS: After reading 6 articles on mindset, what are the characteristics associated with a growth mindset? What characteristics are associated with a fixed mindset? Describe and explain.
b. SELF ASSESSMENT: In a well-developed paragraph, discuss your mindset orientation. When answering, consider the following questions: Do you tend to have a fixed or growth mindset? Observe your thinking patterns over a 3-day period. Was your mindset pattern easily identifiable? Do you think your mindset is dependent on the situation you are in? Describe and explain. How difficult do you think it would be to go from a fixed to a growth mindset?
c. CREATE A PLAN: In thinking about your highest goal, generate a plan using the findings from the Mindset literature to achieve your highest goal. This would need to include a plan for moving from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. Use the research findings from the 6 articles to help your plan. What growth mindset exercises would you create to help you make a habit out of growth mindset? Please indicate your highest goal, and indicate how you would proceed. Carry out your exercises for 3 days. Report your observations, challenges, successes, and projections for the future attainment of your highest goal.

10. WHAT IS MISSING OR NEEDS CONSIDERATION? THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PART (WORTH 5% OF YOUR PAPER GRADE):

a. In a well-developed paragraph, what further questions remain? (Don’t say there are no more questions, since the number of questions that could be asked is practically infinite. For example, one might wonder if there are gender differences in the degree to which a person has a growth mindset. Does society socialize males and females differently for these types of mindset orientation? Come up with your own question, and ask one of the authors in the articles that were posted on Blackboard and the one you found. For this, YOU WILL HAVE TO EMAIL ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF THE ARTICLE (to do this, locate the university from which the author is affiliated; see the librarian to show you how to look for this information but university affiliation is given on the title page). Once you have located the university, you can browse that university’s website to look for the email address of the professor who had written your article. By the way, do NOT tell them that this is for a class assignment—rather, you should genuinely express your interest in his/her work by introducing yourself, telling him/her that you are interested in his/her research, that you have read their article titled X (fill in the title), and that you would like to know if he/she has ever examined X (fill this in with your area of interest). Please check your spelling and grammar before sending an email to this professor! Copy and paste the email that you sent to the professor and include his/her response. After contacting the professor who you contacted, what are your thoughts after he/she responded to you?

b. What are your thoughts or conclusions about how this psychological theory, research and everyday experiences relate?

11. What are your overall conclusions about Mindset in general, and how this may or may not apply to your life? Do you think this is a useful construct and one in which gives useful direction and preparation for achieving success? Why or why not.

EXPLAINING PART I:

What and Where Do I Find the Information about the Hypothesis(es), Results, Method, and Implications?

1. Purpose / Hypothesis
* This is found in the beginning of the article, usually in the introduction or first part of the article. Look for statements about why is the author conducting the study or writing the article. The hypothesis is what the author expects to find? This should be worded as a predictive statement. Look for words such as, “it is expected that…..,” “it is believed that….,” “….thus, it may be that…..,” “the hypotheses of the study are…….” This should only be one or two sentences.

2. Results
* There is usually a section called “Results” when hypotheses are tested. Although, I am asking this out of order, I want you to focus on the research findings first. The research findings ARE the answers to the hypotheses. So, the results should directly relate to the hypotheses of the study—each result is an answer to each hypothesis. The results of the study are what textbook and research authors are interested—this is the information that gets discussed, often following statements such as “Research shows…..”

3. Method
* There is usually a section called “Method,” which is the next section that I’d like for you to think about. That is, now I want for you to think about how the authors tested his/her/their hypotheses. This is the “who,” and “what,” of the study—that is, who were the participants (e.g., were they college students, community workers, mothers and fathers…..), how many subjects participated in the study, and what was the experience of the subjects? That is, did they complete questionnaires? If so, what were the questionnaires measuring? Were they part of an experiment? If so, what did the researchers have the participants do in the study? Please provide enough detail here to clearly describe how the study was conducted.

5. Implications
*This is probably the most important part of your thinking. What is the “big deal” about the research findings? That is, “so what” that they found what they found. What do the results suggest for the “bigger picture?” In other words, now that we have found these results, what should happen as a result of knowing this.