Author: chris

Society has evolved over the last century causing organizations to change with the times.

This evolution has, in turn, required workers to “re-tool” to be a productive and indispensable member of the workforce.

• Using this lead-in as the context, describe the workforce shifts in types of jobs during the past hundred years. Also, answer the over-arching question, “What implications have these workforce shifts created for today’s HR manager?”

 

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

• Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

 

as part of the requirements analysis phase of your development process, you are tasked to look at the existing processing that is currently performed. The outcome of this analysis will be a list of entities and attributes needed for the consolidated database.

Review the attached document Shipping Invoice (attached), and complete the following:

• Identify the unique entities and attributes used in the current application.
• Include at least 3 entities with a representative sample of attributes form each.

PART 2

you will need to complete the steaps above first. The entities and attributes you created should be translated into Microsoft Access tables. Complete the following for your assignment:

• Create in Microsoft Access the tables you laid out
• Include the following in the table(s):
  • Appropriate field titles
  • Correct data type
  • Primary keys should be set
  • Create at least 10 filler entries per each table

Supply and demand show the relationships between two main variables, price and quantity. How are they depicted in demand, and in supply? What other factors impact the relationships between price and quantity in supply and demand? Which factors are more influential?

Elasticity shows the responsiveness of supply or demand to changes in price. What are the factors exerting influence on price elasticities of supply and demand?

What role does the entity-relationship (ER) diagram play in the design process? Discuss the different types of information represented in the ER diagram and the symbols used to represent them. Discuss the meaning of an entity as related to ER diagrams. How would you approach the diagramming process?

 

When designing database tables, the difference between a good design and a bad design can be a few seconds in response time and several minutes. You may think that this is not a huge difference, but imagine waiting several minutes on a web page for your results to load. How long would you wait? A slow database can mean the loss of customers. So let’s begin by discussing some of the common elements of tables and how you would approach the table design. What would you do to ensure that your page loads in a few seconds? Discuss the relationship types and how they affect your design.

• The following situation will be used to answer questions 1 through 5. (Adapted from chapter 3 problem 4)

Monthly demand and supply for a computer support service catering to small businesses can be represented by these equations:

Qd = 3000 – 10P

Qs = -1000 + 10 P

where Qd is the number of businesses demanding the services, Qs is the number of businesses that suppliers are willing to service, and P is the monthly fee, in dollars.

At what average monthly fee would demand equal zero?

3,000

300

-1000

100

 

• Refer to the situation in question 1.

At what average monthly fee would supply equal zero?

3,000

300

-1000

100

 

• Refer to the situation described in equation 1. What is the equilibrium price?

100

200

1000

4000

 

• Refer to the situation in question 1. What is the equilibrium output level?

0

10

1000

3000

 

• Refer to the situation in question 1.

Suppose demand increases and leads to a new demand curve:

Qd = 3500 – 10P

What will be the new equilibrium price and quantity?

P=0, Q=3500

P=200, Q=1500

P=225, 1250

P=350, 0

 

• The following situation applies to questions 6 through 9. (Adapted from chapter 3 problem 6)

Joy’s Frozen Yogurt shops have enjoyed rapid growth in northeastern states in recent years. From the analysis of Joy’s various outlets, it was found that the demand curve follows this pattern:

Q = 200 – 300P + 120I + 65T – 250Ac + 400 Aj where

Q = number of cups served per week,

P = average price paid for each cup,

I = per capita income in the given market (thousands),

T = average outdoor temperature,

Ac = competition’s monthly advertising expenditures (thousands) and

Aj = Joy’s own monthly advertising expenditures (thousands)

One of the outlets has the following conditions: P=1.50, I=10, T=60, Ac=15, Aj=10.

Estimate the number of cups served per week by this outlet.

200

235

4800

5100

 

• Refer to the previous question. Which of the following represents the demand curve for this market?

Qd = 200 – 300P

Qd = 4800 – 300P

Qd = 5100 – 300P

Qd = 5550 – 300P

 

8)   Refer to question 6. What will be the effect of a $5 thousand increase in the competitor’s advertising expenditure?

Quantity demanded would increase by $5000.

Quantity demanded would decrease by $5000.

Quantity demanded would increase by $1250.

Quantity demanded would decrease by $1250.

 

• Refer to question 6 and question 8. What would Joy’s expenditure need tobe to counteract the effect of the competitor’s increase in advertising that was described in question 8?

Increase advertising expenditure by $400.

Increase advertising expenditure by $1250.

Increase advertising expenditure by $3125.

Increase advertising expenditure by $5000.

 

10) The Teenager Company makes and sells skateboards at an average price of $70 each. During the past year, they sold 4,000 of these skateboards. The company believes that the price elasticity for this product is about -2.5. Which of the following would be the best option for the company?  (Question is based on Chapter 4 question 6.)

Raise the price and plan to increase the quantity supplied.

Lower the price and plan to increase the quantity supplied.

Raise the price and plan to decrease the quantity supplied.

Lower the price and plan to decrease the quantity supplied.

 

11) Refer to the situation described in question 10. What was total revenue for the past year, in dollars? (Enter as a whole number without the dollar sign.)

12) Refer to the situation described in question 10. Given the price elasticity of -2.5, and the proposed price of $63, what should be the quantity supplied? (Round to the nearest whole number)

 

13) Refer to the situation described in question 10. What would total annual revenue be at the proposed price of $63? (Enter as a whole number without the dollar sign.)

 

14) If the company’s belief is correct, would total revenue increase, decrease, or remain the same as a result of the $63 price cut?

Increase

Decrease

Remain the same

 

15) Questions 15 through 17 refer to the following scenario. A local supermarket lowers the price of its vanilla ice cream from $3.50 per half gallon to $3. Vanilla ice cream unit sales increase by 20 percent. The store manager notices that the unit sales of chocolate syrup increase by 10 percent.

What is the price elasticity of vanilla ice cream? Round to the nearest tenth and drop the minus sign when submitting your answer.

 

 

 

16) How would you measure the effect of the ice cream price on chocolate syrup sales?

Since chocolate syrup and ice cream are complements, one would measure this effect using the price elasticity of demand for syrup.

Since chocolate syrup and ice cream are substitutes, one would measure this effect using the price elasticity of demand for syrup.

Since chocolate syrup and ice cream are complements, one would measure this effect using the cross elasticity.

Since chocolate syrup and ice cream are substitutes, one would measure this effect using the cross elasticity.

 

17) Refer to question 15. Overall, do you think that the new pricing policy was beneficial for the supermarket?

No, revenues for both ice cream and syrup fall.

Yes, revenues for both ice cream and syrup rise.

Yes, while revenues for syrup fall, the increase in ice cream revenue more than offsets the decrease in syrup revenue.

No, revenues for syrup fall and the increase in ice cream revenue is not enough to make up for the syrup decrease.

 

18) Questions 18 through 21 refer to the following: The demand curve for a product is given as Q = 2000 – 20P. How many units will be sold at $10?

 

19) At what price would 2000 units be sold?

 

20) What will be the total revenue at a price of $70? (Enter as a whole number without the dollar sign.)

• Questions 1 through 5 are based on the following scenario (adapted from Chapter 5 demand estimation question number 3, p.163)

The maker of a leading brand of low-calorie microwavable food estimated the following demand equation for its product using data from 26 supermarkets around the country for the month of April:

Q = -5,200 – 42P + 20Px + 5.2l + 0.20A + 0.25M

(2.002) (17.5) (6.2)   (2.5)   (0.09)   (0.21)

R² = 0.55     n = 26     F = 4.88

Assume the following values for the independent variables:

Q = Quantity sold per month

P (in cents) = Price of the product = 500

Px (in cents) = Price of leading competitor’s product = 600

I (in dollars) = Per capita income of the standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA) in which the supermarket is located = 5,500

A (in dollars) = Monthly advertising expenditure = 10,000

M = Number of microwave ovens sold in the SMSA in which the supermarket is located = 5,000

Calculate the quantity using the given values for the independent variables.

 

• Refer to question 1. Calculate the price elasticity of demand. Hint: Use the point elasticity method described on page 72. A numeric example is demonstrated in the second paragraph on that page.

 

• Based on the price elasticity of demand, do you think that this firm should cut its price to increase its market share?

No, demand is inelastic so cutting price would reduce revenue.

No, demand is elastic so cutting price would reduce revenue.

Yes, demand is inelastic so cutting price would increase revenue.

**Yes, demand is elastic so cutting price would increase revenue.

• Using the information in question 1, compute the income elasticity.

 

• Based on the price elasticity of income, do you think that this company would be extremely concerned about the impact of a recession on its sales?

Yes, income elasticity is relatively high, so a recession (with lower income) would likely reduce sales.

Yes, income elasticity is relatively low, so a recession (with lower income) would likely reduce sales.

No, income elasticity is relatively high, so a recession would not have a large impact on sales.

No, income elasticity is relatively low, so a recession would not have a large impact on sales.

 

• What proportion of the variation in sales is explained by the independent variables in question 1?

 

• Office Enterprises (OE) produces a line of metal office file cabinets. The company’s economist, having investigated a large number of past data, has established the following equation of demand for these cabinets:

Q = 10,000 + 60B – 100P + 50C where

Q = Annual number of cabinets sold

B = Index of nonresidential construction

P = Average price per cabinet charged by OE

C = Average price per cabinet charged by OE’s closest competitor

It is expected that next year’s nonresidential construction index will stand at 160, OE’s average price will be $40, and the competitor’s average price will be $35.

Forecast next year’s sales.

• What will be the new sales forecast if the competitor lowers its price to $32?

 

• What will be the new sales forecast if OE reacts to the decrease mentioned in the previous question by lowering its price to $37?

 

• If the index forecast was wrong, and it turns out to be only 140 next year, what will be OE’s projected sales assuming the other variables remain as in the previous question (question 9)?

 

 

 

• The Ocean Pacific fleet has just decided to use a pole-and-line method of fishing instead of gill netting to catch tuna. The latter method involves the use of miles of nets strung out across the ocean and therefore entraps other sea creatures besides tuna (e.g. porpoises, sea turtles). Concern for endangered species was one reason for this decision, but perhaps more important was the fact that the major tuna canneries in the United States will no longer accept tuna caught by gill netting. Ocean Pacific decided to conduct a series of experiments to determine the amount of tuna that could be caught with different crew sizes. The results of these experiments follow.

Number of Fishermen	Daily Tuna Catch (lb)
0	0
1	50
2	110
3	300
4	450
5	590
6	665
7	700
8	725
9	710

 

At what point (what number of fishermen) does diminishing returns occur?

 

• Indicate the points that delineate the three stages of production.

 

• Suppose the market price of tuna is $3.50/pound. How many fishermen should the company use if the daily wage rate is $100?

 

• Suppose a glut in the market for tuna causes the price to fall to $2.75/pound. At this new price, how many fishermen should the company now use if the daily wage rate remains at $100?

 

• Suppose the price of tuna rises to $5.00/pound. At this new price, how many fishermen should the company now use if the daily wage rate remains at $100?

 

 

 

• The owner of a small car rental service is trying to decide on the appropriate numbers of vehicles and mechanics to use in the business for the current level of operations. He recognizes that his choice represents a trade-off between the two resources. His past experience indicates that this trade-off is as follows:

Vehicles	Mechanics
100	2.5 (includes part-time)
70	5
50	10
40	15
35	25
32	35

If the annual leasing cost per vehicle is $6000 & the annual salary per mechanic is $25,000. What combination of vehicles & mechanics should he employ?

 

• An American company that sells consumer electronics products has manufacturing facilities in Mexico, Taiwan, and Canada. The average hourly wage, output, and annual overhead cost for each site are as follows:

	Mexico	Taiwan	Canada
Hourly Wage Rate	$1.50	$3.00	$6.00
Output per Person	10	18	20
Fixed Overhead Cost	$150,000	$90,000	$110,000

If we use output per person as a proxy for marginal product, what is output/wage rate for each country?

 

• Which location has the highest MP per dollar?

You are the senior member of a two-man hostage negotiation team for a maximum security facility in the Northeast. You and partner are called to a cell block where an inmate, identified as Alfredo Albondigas, has taken two facilities maintenance personnel and a fellow corrections officer hostage. He is claiming that there are aliens from another planet living in his cell block and demanding that they leave immediately. He has given an ultimatum that if he does not see the flying saucer leaving the exercise yard area in 2 hours, he will kill the maintenance personnel that he has taken hostage because he knows that they are giving signals to the aliens about him and the other inmates.

Mr. Albondigas is armed with a handmade knife and has his head wrapped in aluminum foil. The corrections entry reaction team (CERT) is working with you has a green light to kill Mr. Albondigas, but there are no current opportunities presenting themselves. You have managed to get a throw phone into Mr. Albondigas and you have direct phone communication with him. Also, because of the phone’s design, when he hangs up, you can still hear what is going on in the room. He has not hurt the maintenance personnel so far, but he is using the corrections officer as a translator to speak to the maintenance personnel, as if the maintenance personnel were not speaking English, but some alien tongue.

This scenario may seem humorous because it is fictional, but if it were real, it would be very serious for both the hostages and Mr. Albondigas. You are tasked by the warden and incident commander to make an operations plan centered on dealing with this mentally ill offender.

Address the following questions in a 10–12 page position paper. Present this paper as if it were an operations plan to negotiate with Mr. Albondigas and end the hostage standoff. You do not need to plan the tactical response if the negotiations fail. The paper presented should confine itself to gathering the information that negotiator needs, and the approach to take when negotiating with Mr. Albondigas to end the standoff.

• Explain the mental state of the offender and the 2 most likely mental illnesses that are affecting him.
• Explain what type of medical personnel you would like to have at the scene, and why?
• Relate why you think that, if the deadline is reached without a solution, whether Mr. Albondigas will hurt the maintenance personnel or not. Explain your answer.
• Articulate the persons whom you would like to have brought to the scene for interviews to help with information that you can use to talk to Mr. Albondigas.
• Explain your approach as the negotiator when speaking with Mr. Albondigas, and why you would take that approach.

It is critical that, when you make a statement of fact in your presentation, you cite the reference that you used to obtain the information from. Do this in the text of the paper, and then include the reference in your References page. As always, your paper will be submitted in the current edition of APA format. No abstract is required because this is a short position paper, but a title page, reference page, and appropriate running header with page numbers are necessary.

Assignment Requirement Addition: Following the hostage development, you were asked to do the following:

Evaluate the five axes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the DSM system. Finally, using the DSM system, create the classifying system (Axis I – Axis V) based on the following information. Use the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) to evaluate if these types of disorders will result in future instances like this hostage situation.

• Antisocial personality disorder
• Borderline intellectual functioning
• Major depressive disorder with psychotic feature
• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (combined type)
• Cannabis abuse
• Alcohol abuse
• Life imprisonment without parole
• Hepatitis-C

 Write an algorithm  (in Pseudocode) for a program that computes the cost of painting and installing carpet in a room.  Assume the room has one door, one windows and one bookshelf (built into the wall and not painted).  Your program should do the following:

Output the cost of painting the room, and the square footage to paint

Output the cost of carpeting the room, and the square footage to be carpeted

  Given:

int x=1, m=2, h=3;

long z= 9; long w = 0;

double n = 5.0, y = 4.0;

 Which of the following assignments are valid.  If an assignment is not valid state the reason.  If the assignment is valid show the result of the calculation, and your work to derive the answer . NOTE assume that the effect of these assignment statements are not accumulative.

y = (z * 4 / 3) % 5;

n +=    17 /  7;

y = h * 3.5 + 8 / 3;

m =  (int) (15.5 * 2 – z/3);

x = m * 2 / 3 – h % 4;

w = h + (–x) + m++;

For problem P4.12 on page 174 of your text, give a valid Java expression (s) for the set of arithmetic calculations given in the problem.  An entire program is not necessary

Both political world leaders, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, were world renowned for their influences during the early Cold War era and their hand in the rivalry between the English-speaking world and the Soviet Union. Both men were well educated and well spoken. They were also influential and compelling, powerful, political world leaders.

When creating or implementing foreign policy, Churchill and Stalin were never quick to take action. Whether speaking publicly, positioning military or creating new policy, they acted in a calculated fashion and were always careful to consider the other’s position and agenda. Their calculated movements ensured that they would have the greatest impact on any issue they addressed. The rivalry between the two leaders and their actions did not only greatly affect their nations, but multiple foreign nations as well.

Within this assignment, you will describe dynamics that lead to the Cold War. In doing so, you will discuss how the rivalry between Churchill and Stalin became one of the factors that led to the Cold War.

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review Chapter 20 (pp. 304–3 24) in your course text.
• Review Churchill’s “The Sinews of Peace” speech and Stalin’s speech in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Examine the “Truman Doctrine” speech in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Compare and contrast Churchill’s and Stalin’s speeches.
• Reflect upon the differences and similarities between Churchill and Stalin’s leadership styles.
• Evaluate the rivalry between Churchill and Stalin.
• Think about what underlying factors could have led to the Cold War.
• Consider the following questions:

• What was the role of the United Nations in the context of maintaining international peace?
• Was Stalin correct in his assertion that Great Britain (and the United States) was motivated by their belief in the superiority of the English-speaking nations?
• Do you support Stalin’s argument in favor of a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Central Europe as legitimate?
• Do you agree with Churchill’s argument that the Soviet Union desires the “indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines” cannot be substantiated by Soviet actions before March 1946?
• How do Churchill and Stalin invoke the memory of Hitler’s unchecked expansion in the 1930s, and how do both make incorrect comparisons?
• What was Truman’s assessment of the world situation as expressed in his “Truman Doctrine” speech?

The assignment:

• Compose a 2- to 3-page essay in which you do the following:

• Analyze the underlying factors that led to the Cold War.

• Identify the origin of the rivalry between the two blocs and explain the potential strengths and weaknesses of the English-speaking world versus the Soviet world in 1946.
• Support your assertions by making at least 2 references, in proper APA format, to your course readings.

 

Franklin hears about people being discriminated against at the workplace and in society but rarely experiences it first hand. Cortez, on the other hand, speaks English poorly and is often subject to derogatory comments from peers and coworkers.

Reflect on your experience with racial discrimination.

Identify examples of racial discrimination and provide examples you have personally witnessed or heard about firsthand from the following three realms:

• family
• work place
• community

Write a brief summary that includes the following:

• Describe a racial incident pertaining to each realm in detail. Explain why you believe this is racial discrimination.
• Explain how this situation could have been handled to avoid discrimination against those belonging to another race.