Determine the probability of finishing the project in 287 days.

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You are a project manager and you successfully completed the project from Weeks 2 and 3. A program manager from another division is aware of your familiarity and success with the Technology Refresh Project. He has asked you to perform a schedule risk analysis on a different Technology Refresh Project, i.e., the Technology Refresh (Version B) Project, which is based on your project from Weeks 2 and 3. In fact, the project tasks are the same, only the durations and the critical paths are different (note: your project files from Week 2 and Week 3 are not relevant to this assignment).

Perform a schedule risk analysis for the Technology Refresh (Version B) Project by completing the following:

Open “Topic 4 Project Assessment Problems TEMPLATE.” Take note of the project information, including the expected durations and the tasks that are on the critical path.

Calculate the following;

The expected project finish time.

The variances for the applicable tasks.

The total critical path variance.

The total critical path standard deviation.

The customer has seen the Technology Refresh (Version B) project schedule and the expected project finish time. However, the customer is concerned about the schedule risk of the project. Therefore, he wishes to know the following (i.e., determine the following):

The probability of finishing the project in 287 days.

The probability of finishing the project in 273 days.

Hints:

If you wish to solve part 3 using the Z-value approach, refer to the Standard Normal Cumulative Probability Table at math.bgu.ac, (2014).

Note also that Microsoft Excel’s NORM.DIST function can be used to determine the probabilities in part 3, which does require use of the Z-Table.

This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Create a product design and a service design within an operations management environment.

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This competency assessment assesses the following Outcome(s):

MT435M2-2: Create a product design and a service design within an operations management environment.

Design is an important aspect in business. As applied to operations management, this is primarily product design and service design, and in a supporting role, facility design.

In this assessment, you will apply critical thinking to the application of design to operations management in an informative essay.

You can select an operations management environment of your own choosing, however ensure it is realistic and real world applicable, reflecting good judgment, business sense, and critical thinking skills. Consider the following topics and follow the instructions below; remembering to complete all elements of your assessment:

Product Design and Service Design:

Product Design

Create a product design within an operations management environment, using real world research to support your work. At the beginning of your paper, introduce your planned work, to include a description of the elements of the product design that you selected to focus on, and how you plan to apply it to a real world scenario.

Service Design

Create a service design within an operations management environment, using real world research to support your work. At the beginning of your paper, introduce your planned work, to include a description of the elements of the service design, that you selected to focus on, and how you plan to apply it to a real world scenario.

Ensure each topic is covered to appropriate breadth and depth demonstrating knowledge of the module concept and critical thinking skills. It is highly recommended that each topic comprises one-and-a-half full pages of your 3-full pages of content. Any diagrams or design elements should take up no more than one-half page, allowing at a minimum a one-half page of narrative to accompany and demonstrate critical thinking skills related to the diagram or design element created as part of your Assessment.

Minimum Submission Requirements

  • Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
  • This assessment should be a Microsoft Word® (minimum 750 words) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
  • In addition to the current APA style title page and reference page; ensure your paper covers the assigned topics, with a focus on quality. The following items provide additional guidance as to writing expectations.
  • Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your paper should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
  • Your submission must be written in Standard English; demonstrating exceptional content, organization, style, grammar, and mechanics.
  • Your paper should provide a clearly established sustained viewpoint and purpose.
  • Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
  • Ensure your paper uses current APA style for content, with properly indented paragraphs, and a minimum of 3-full pages (minimum 750 words) covering the assigned topics to appropriate depth.
  • A separate page at the end of your paper should contain a list of references in current APA style. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for credible research.
  • Ensure you have at a minimum three quality references supporting your work: defining words, or using dictionaries, wikis, or encyclopedias, does not count as a quality reference, or meet university standards for credible online research.
  • Be sure to include references for all sources and to cite them using in-text citations where appropriate. Your sources and content should follow current APA style. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
  • Your submission should:
    • include a title page;
    • be double-spaced;
    • be typed in Times New Roman, 12 -point font; and
    • be free of spelling or punctuation errors.

 

Provide sufficient, correctly cited support that substantiates the writer’s ideas.  

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Culture, Climate, and Ethical Decisions

The day after you hand in your situation audit, you notice the following headline in the business section of the newspaper: Employees Accused of Stealing from Company. Apparently, a group of employees who worked for a company similar to yours was routinely lying on their expense reports, claiming—and getting reimbursed for—personal expenditures, including Caribbean trips and four-star restaurants.

You nearly spit out your coffee when you read this. You work in the same sector! After completing your situation audit, you feel like you have a good grasp on the mission and values of your company, and you’d be very surprised if such behavior were tolerated. However, this article still makes you wonder about your industry as whole.

Once you get to your office, you discover that you aren’t the only one interested in this story; everyone is buzzing about it. You soon receive a message from the COO’s assistant stating that the COO, Kate Lindsay, wants to see you this afternoon. Why does Kate want to see you?

As you sit down in Kate’s office, Kate lives up to her reputation for being focused and direct and immediately launches into what she has to say. “You must have heard about the expense report scandal at our competitor’s organization. We need to ensure that the same thing is not happening here.” She continues, “I came to this organization because I considered it to be among the best—are we?” She begins reciting a list of questions: “How can we be sure what we believe and say matches what we actually do? How can we be sure we don’t have a culture and climate that are viewed as unethical and unhealthy? Do we put enough emphasis on ethical and caring behavior in our decisions and our actions?”

She answers your implied question, “I read your organizational analysis last night, and given your impressive work on that, think you could handle this particular task. I’m an engineer by training and I’m methodical, thorough, and detailed,” Kate says. “This report needs to reflect my—and, more importantly, this organization’s—careful and thoughtful approach to these issues. So even though organizational culture, climate, and ethics may seem like soft issues, I expect strong critical thinking and an evidence-based report. I don’t just want opinions. It might help to imagine yourself as an independent consultant we are counting on for both expertise and objectivity.”

“Absolutely!” you say as Kate heads out of her office. “Oh,” she says, turning around, “and I want to see some of your work in progress as you do this project. Talk to my assistant about that as well.”

You return to your desk thrilled that the COO has shared her concerns and asked you for your input. You have so many ideas and lots of questions—but you also realize you are going to need to proceed without all the information you would ideally have. You know you will need to rely only on publicly available information and not poke around in confidential work files or ask others in your office for input or advice.

How will you tackle this project? What evidence will you use to inform your understanding and strengthen your analysis? What will you tell Kate when you meet with her?

When you submit your project, your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check your work before submission.

  • 1.3: Provide sufficient, correctly cited support that substantiates the writer’s ideas.
  • 1.6: Follow conventions of Standard Written English.
  • 2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical consideration.
  • 2.2: Locate and access sufficient information to investigate the issue or problem.
  • 2.3: Evaluate the information in a logical and organized manner to determine its value and relevance to the problem.
  • 2.4: Consider and analyze information in context to the issue or problem.
  • 2.5: Develop well-reasoned ideas, conclusions or decisions, checking them against relevant criteria and benchmarks.
  • 5.1: Develop constructive resolutions for ethical dilemmas based on application of ethical theories, principles and models.
  • 9.3: Apply the principles of employment law for ethical practices and risk mitigation.

First, review the following resources:

After you have a good idea of the scope of work for this project, consider how you will approach an analysis of your own organization:

  • First, review these brief guidelines about conducting research on your organization.
  • Discuss with your instructor any limiting factors you may encounter as you write this report. After you’ve discussed these issues with your instructor, if you believe it’s best for you to research an organization other than your own, please read the guidelines about using an outside organization.

As you plan to complete this project, consider the following aspects of the work:

  • the information you need
  • how to get that information
  • allocating appropriate time to each step
  • other project management factors that may seem relevant

Step 2: Collect and Analyze Resources

Before beginning your research in business and management journals, there are some preliminary readings you should complete to help you develop a broad understanding of the key theories, concepts, and ideas that are relevant for this project:

As you read about each of the key concepts for this project—organizational culture, organizational climate, and  organizational ethics—think about the implications for industries and organizations like yours and for their leaders. Jot down ideas and questions you will need to research further to develop the expertise required to successfully complete this project. As previously suggested readings on ethics have highlighted, ethics includes many human resource focus areas: discrimination, hiring, promoting, diversity, and enforcement of a variety of federal statutes.

When researching for your presentation, recall what you learned about good graduate-level research practices in PRO 600 and prior coursework. Be sure to consult with your professor if you have questions about the strategy and process you plan on using to find good resources for this project.

Once you have completed your reading and library research for this project, apply what you have learned to your organization, looking for these useful resources:

  • any publicly available policies and procedures that provide helpful insights into how ethical conduct and desired organizational behaviors are managed
  • any nonconfidential sources where your CEO or other leaders may have written or spoken about these topics

Next, proceed to Step 3, where you will conduct independent research.

Step 3: Conduct Independent Research

As you did for the situation audit, adopt the perspective of an outside consultant when working on this report. This will increase your objectivity as you examine your own company. The COO, Kate Lindsay, needs absolute objectivity with this subject. Complete the following tasks:

  • Independently research (as a consultant would) the concepts of organizational culture, climate, and ethics.
  • Determine the consequences of organizational culture, climate, and ethics to your organization’s operations. Would legal measures (employment laws) need to be used to reshape the culture, climate, or ethics of the organization? If so, what impact would that have on the workforce?

When you have completed this step, proceed to Step 4 to create an annotated resource list.

Step 4: Create an Annotated Resource List

Next, create an annotated resource list of four key articles or sources dealing with culture, climate, and ethics that will be used in your memo and presentation. Consult creating an annotated bibliography for help. One of the four annotated resources can deal with the impact of employment laws on organizational culture, climate, and ethics.

Keep in mind that the quality of the resources matters in determining the quality of the memo and the quality of the presentation. A well-researched study or article by an acknowledged authority published in a peer-reviewed academic journal is considered primary research. The use of primary research is preferred over using an interpretation of the same academic content that is published in a newspaper column or summarized in a magazine, trade journal, or internet source—even where such secondary sources contain quotes from the original author’s work or attribute their interpretation to that material.

When you have completed Step 4, submit your annotated resources list in the dropbox located in the last step of this project for review and feedback. The annotated resource list is considered with the other graded deliverables in determining the overall grade for Project 3.

 

 

 

 

Select a multinational enterprise of any origin/host country other than Australia. For that company, you are to write up a report of no more than 2,000 words

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You are now to select a multinational enterprise of any origin/host country other than Australia. For that company, you are to write up a report of no more than 2,000 words that covers in depth the issues discussed in weeks 5 through 8. You will need to create a clear structure and relate each item to the theories and cases discussed in lecture and tutorial.

Please use only quality references.

 

Do you think it is possible to make money and still be socially responsible? Why or why not?

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the notion that corporations are expected to go above and beyond following the law and making a profit. Archie Carroll developed a global corporate social responsibility pyramid, with the levels of economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic. Figure 3.3 in the text describes the levels in the pyramid.

Carroll suggests that the priorities of the organization should be to:

o Be a good global corporate citizen, as defined by the host country’s expectations.

o Be ethical in its practices, taking host-country and global standards into consideration.

o Obey the law of host countries as well as international law.

o Make a profit consistent with expectations for international business.

Select a company identified as one of the “Companies With the Best CSR Reputations” reported by Forbes
Review Carroll’s publication The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility

Answer the following:

a. Consider the steps on Carroll’s “Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility” (economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic/voluntary responsibilities). Why do you think the company made the list? Do some research and provide specific examples of EACH step on the pyramid.

b. Do you think it is possible to make money and still be socially responsible? Why or why not?

forbes link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/vickyvalet/2019/09/17/the-worlds-most-reputable-companies-for-corporate-responsibility-2019/#d5d1a07679bd

What is the variable? How would you set up the hypothesis test?

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Describe the key question: What is the key question/claim that needs to be settled? What are the actions being considered based on the possible answers? (For example, the question for the sales manager is whether the bonus system is effective, and the actions are whether to continue the bonus system or not. HR’s question is whether there is discrimination and the action will be adjusting salaries or not.) Without hypothesis testing, how is management deciding on the answer to the question?
What is the variable? How would you set up the hypothesis test? First, pick an appropriate variable to measure the element in question (Note that this must be specific and measurable (countable)). Then, state what the null and alternative hypotheses would be and what kind of a test you would use.
Describe the data you would use: What do you need and where would it come from? Does it need to be collected or does it already exist?
How would you explain to management the significance of this test? How would you convince them that using this is necessary? What would be the drawback of not using a hypothesis test in this situation?

Compare and contrast some advantages and disadvantages to pursuing the merger as opposed to pursuing an association.

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Your company recently went through a global merger or acquisition in which at least one of the parties involved was from one of the following countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, or Cuba). You need to create a PowerPoint presentation that you will present to the Board to describe the rationale behind the merger or acquisition.
Instructions:
• Identify if the merger or acquisition was vertical or horizontal in nature.
• Compare and contrast some advantages and disadvantages to pursuing the
merger as opposed to pursuing an association.
• What are some of the social implications of doing business with this firm (human
rights, social responsibility, and etcetera)?

Identify and define the different value and belief systems present across cultures through cultural profiling and self-construal.

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1           Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding

·   Identify and define the different value and belief systems present across cultures through cultural profiling and self-construal.

2           Demonstrate the following skills and abilities

·       Demonstrate your understanding of different cultural frameworks and strategies used in intercultural communication by applying theories to practice in variety of intercultural business interactions.

Select three (3) peer-reviewed, scholarly sources to develop an annotated bibliography that you can use in your Doctoral Study.

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In each week of this course, you will research and select three (3) peer-reviewed, scholarly sources to develop an annotated bibliography that you can use in your Doctoral Study. You will need to take the three sources and synthesize the references into a single narrative annotated bibliography that compares/contrasts or supports your study. For example, you may develop three references that will fit into the Nature of the Study (or any other component) and then the synthesized version will help you in developing your Prospectus/Proposal. Please see this week’s Learning Resources for the Sample Annotated Bibliography Template, which you should use to complete your annotated bibliography.

Post your synthesized annotated bibliography narrative that includes an explanation of how these references relate to one or more components of your Doctoral Study and incorporates specific references to the Doctoral Study Rubric.

My Topic is: Assessing The Impact Of Information Technology Aided Customer Relationship Management On Business Performance At FBC Bank Ltd Zimbabwe

Discuss the ethical concerns with open access to original sources of qualitative data.

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Discuss the ethical concerns with open access to original sources of qualitative data. Describe any potential benefits to the academic community, as well as any limitations, for the researcher. How do these concerns align with the participant protections outlined by the university Institutional Review Board (IRB)?