Critically examine female offenders and the pains of prison.

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 Pains of prison

Critically examine female offenders and the pains of prison.

Given the actual powers of the office, do Texas citizens expect too much from their governor? What are realistic expectations? 

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Discussion Essay

In each paragraph we are given a set of questions answer each set of questions in paragraph form. For each paragraph there should be one citation in MLA format.

Paragraph 1

Given the actual powers of the office, do Texas citizens expect too much from their governor? What are realistic expectations? (Just for some background, the speaker of the house and the lieutenant government are both similar in “power” as the governor of Texas, according to the constitution of Texas.)

 

Paragraph 2

Does the election of judges, and the campaign process and electoral politics, serve the cause of justice?

 

Paragraph 3

Consider the the difficulty that the poor and indigent have in accessing legal services, especially quality counsel in criminal matters, and the effect on class differences in Texas. Does the system perpetuate the difficulty many low-income citizens have in getting ahead? How much influence do race and gender have on difficulties in gaining access to quality counsel?

 

Which of Deming’s 14 points do you agree with and which ones do you disagree with? Contrast and compare the Deming and Juran approaches to quality improvement. How different are these two approaches?

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Discussion Questions

  1. How can quality be measured for the following?
  2. Phone service
  3. Automobile repair
  4. Ballpoint pens
  5. What are the differences between quality of design and quality of conformance?

Product A has an MTBF of 30 hours and an MTTR of 5 hours. Product B has an MTBF of 40 hours and an MTTR of 2 hours.

  1. Which product has higher reliability?
  2. Which product has better maintainability?
  3. Which product has greater availability?

Recall a bad service experience that you recently had. What led to the service failure? Consider such dimensions as tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, or empathy.

  1. Suppose you manufacture 10,000 wooden pencils per day. What would be an appropriate quality planning and control system for this product? Consider such factors as product attributes, measures of quality, tests, and so forth.
  2. Can you name products and services that, in your opinion, have relatively poor quality? Relatively high quality? Are companies that provide better quality more successful? How can you tell?
  3. How can supplier certification contribute to quality products or services? Should all suppliers be certified? Why or why not?
  4. What products have recently been recalled? Why? Check the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission website.
  5. Which of the four manufacturing quality dimensions are most likely to improve revenue? Which ones are related more to cost reduction or to both revenue and cost?

The following costs have been recorded:

  • Incoming materials inspection $20,000
  • Training of personnel 40,000
  • Warranty 45,000
  • Process planning 15,000
  • Scrap 13,000
  • Quality laboratory 30,000
  • Rework 25,000
  • Allowances 10,000
  • Complaints 14,000

What are the costs of prevention, appraisal, external failure, and internal failure?

Which of Deming’s 14 points do you agree with and which ones do you disagree with?

Contrast and compare the Deming and Juran approaches to quality improvement. How different are these two approaches?

Why is ISO 9000 considered a first step or a basic approach to quality?

Critique the seven categories used by the Baldrige Award. Are there some items that you think are missing?

Compare the Baldrige-based approach to the use of ISO 9000.

What are some of the barriers to a successful quality implementation effort?

Describe the origins and evolution of lean thinking. Describe the five tenets of lean thinking and the seven forms of waste in a lean system.

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

LO7.1 Describe the origins and evolution of lean thinking.

LO7.2 Describe the five tenets of lean thinking and the seven forms of waste in a lean system.

LO7.3 Explain how a stabilized master schedule is achieved for repetitive manufacturing.

LO7.4 Design a kanban system for a lean system.

LO7.5 Explain how setup time, lot size, layout, and maintenance are related to lean thinking.

LO7.6 Differentiate how employees, quality, and suppliers are unique in lean systems.

LO7.7 Explain how to implement a lean system

Give an overall summary of this developmental stage from the perspective of all three domains be sure to include the theorists.

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Adulthood development

Use chapters 20-22 as reference.

Give an overall summary of this developmental stage from the perspective of all three domains be sure to include the theorists. You will summarise the major points in all three chapters.

Interview an individual who is currently in their middle age of development (40-60). The interview should focus on identified milestones in all three domains as covered in your text. It should cover current health status, sexual reproductive system, marriage/family and career of the individual.

 

Why is the service-profit chain important to operations management? Find some service guarantees in everyday life and bring them to class for discussion. What attributes are required of a service guarantee to make it effective?

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RESEARCH CASE

Classify the following services by their degree of customer contact (high, medium, or low). Also, determine how much uncertainty the customer introduces into the service delivery system by the ability to make customized service demands (high, medium, or low).

  1. Check clearing in a bank
  2. Bank teller
  3. Bank loan officer

Locate each of the following services on the service delivery system matrix:

  1. Vending machine
  2. Housecleaning service
  3. Appliance repair

How do the managerial tasks differ among the services described in question 2?

Describe the service-product bundle for each of the following services:

  1. Hospital
  2. Lawyer
  3. Trucking firm

Critique the customer contact model. What are its strengths and weaknesses?

Identify the front office and back office services for the following organizations. Could these services be improved by increasing or decreasing the degree of customer contact? By separating low- and high-contact services?

  1. Hospital
  2. Trucking firm
  3. Grocery store
  4. Appliance repair firm

Define a possible service guarantee for each of the following services:

  1. College classes
  2. A theater performance
  3. Buying a used car

Give an example of the service-profit chain for movie theaters. Define each of the components in the chain and explain how you would measure each.

  • Why is the service-profit chain important to operations management?
  • Find some service guarantees in everyday life and bring them to class for discussion.
  • What attributes are required of a service guarantee to make it effective?
  • What are the pros and cons of having a service guarantee?
  • How can we use the service delivery system matrix to improve service operations?
  • What does it mean for a service firm to outsource some of its services?
  • What key factors are most firms seeking when they offshore services?

 

Why is interfunctional cooperation important for new product design? What are the symptoms of a possible lack of interfunctional cooperation? In what circumstances might a market-pull approach or a technology-push approach to new-product design be the best approach?

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

  • Why is interfunctional cooperation important for new product design? What are the symptoms of a possible lack of interfunctional cooperation?
  • In what circumstances might a market-pull approach or a technology-push approach to new-product design be the best approach?
  • Describe the steps that might be required in writing and producing a play. Compare these steps to the three steps for NPD described in Section 3.2. Is there a correspondence?
  • Why has there been an increase in product variety in our economy?
  • How can the modular design concept control production variety and at the same time allow product variety?
  • What is the proper role of the operations function in product design?
  • What form does the product specification take for the following firms: a travel agency, a beer company, and a consulting firm?

Find examples of modular design of products in everyday life.

Work with one of your classmates as your customer; you are the supplier. Have your customer select a product and specify the customer attributes (CAs) that are desirable. Then you specify the engineering characteristics (ECs) required to meet the customer’s needs. Complete the house-of-quality matrix by specifying the relationships in the matrix. Ask your customer if the resulting ECs will meet his or her needs.

What are the essential benefits of using a QFD approach to product design? Also, identify any negative effects that might apply to the use of QFD.

A student would like to design a backpack for student books and supplies. The CAs are a (1) comfortable backpack that is (2) durable with (3) enough room and (4) not too heavy to carry. Think of some ECs that can be used to measure these customer attributes. Then construct a QFD matrix showing the positive and negative relationships that you expect to see in this case.

An entrepreneur is designing a sub sandwich shop that would be located on campus. Define the CAs that you would like to see for the service (not the product) delivered at this location. Then specify some ECs that can be used for measurement of the service.

Suppose a car you want to buy has five choices for interior colors, three types of radios, three engine choices, two battery types (regular and heavy duty), 10 exterior colors, two transmission choices, and four types of wheel covers. How many possible combinations of the car are possible for the manufacturer? What can be done to limit the number of combinations without limiting customer choice?

Why has Zimbabwe’s economic performance been so poor? Discuss. Do you think Zimbabwe’s economic performance would have been better under a different system of government? Which one? Explain your reasoning.

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Discussion Questions

  1. Discuss the economic reasons for government intervention in markets. (minimum words: 200, marks:2)
  2. Describe the five-step process that businesses can use to think through ethical problems.(minimum words: 400, marks: 3)

 

Case study

Read Case 2: “The Decline of Zimbabwe” available in your e-book (International business: Competing in the global marketplace (13th ed.), at page no.627, and answer the following questions:

 

Assignment Question(s):

  1. Why has Zimbabwe’s economic performance been so poor? Discuss. (minimum words: 400, marks: 3)
  2. Do you think Zimbabwe’s economic performance would have been better under a different system of government? Which one? Explain your reasoning. (minimum words: 500, marks: 4)
  3. Discuss the steps needed to be taken now to improve the economic outlook for Zimbabwe? (minimum words: 400, marks: 3)

 

 

Why did you choose X country ? Why at this particular university? Why this particular course? How are you going to contribute to the program?

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General Statement of Purpose

1- Purpose:
Why do you want to study a X?
Why do you want to study this particular course- don’t over explain just 2 sentences
(research base) what are you research interest
What type of knowledge or skills do you hope to gain through this program?
What do you want to do after completion of the program? (job, research, academia, start a business ( career goals right after school, 5- career goals within 5-10 years and why?)

2- Past experience
What and what kind and how much past experience do you have? (Teaching, work and etc. )
If you do already have work experience, what else are you trying to learn
Why did you choose your undergrad? and what did you learn during your undergraduate degree? (5 most important classes, Professor’s name, 1 sentence to explain you professor, what you did and what you learned from that class)
Share vivid, complete examples of your previous work, papers you’ve written, published or unpublished, project work or school projects, presentations, conferences, lectures & awards (We usually have 4 sections- Ungrad, Thesis, teaching and other projects- for any project that you name- we need very briefly what was the project, how did you do the project, the professor’s name.

3- Program (VERY IMPORTANT)
Why did you choose X country ?
Why at this particular university?
Why this particular course?
How are you going to contribute to the program?
Does the department have a certain research methodology that you like? or is there a certain part of a curriculum that appeals to you?
Is there a specific professor you like? (If thesis professor needed, inform us to email them first)

4- Personality
What makes you unique?
How do you think you fit into the program?
Introduction into you and what makes you, you (very brief in one or two sentences)

What conditions or problems do the programs aim to treat? What are the limitations of the programs? What type(s) of offenders should be treated?

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ASSIGNMENT

Written assignment on strategies for classifying and treating offenders (10-12 pages) Based on the seven (7) types of offender rehabilitation treatments: •Psychological •Behavior •Social •Educational/vocational •Substance abuse •Sex offender •Religious How should offenders and treatment needs be determined and classified? These programs have been proven to assist numerous offender populations, but there are no clear guidelines that address how or when they should be implemented within correctional institutions. In this assignment, students will select 5 of the 7 types of rehabilitative treatments to analyze and discuss. Assignment Guidelines •Select five (5) of the rehabilitative treatment types from the list above.

Write 5-6 pages that address the following: ◦The name and purpose of each selected rehabilitative treatment ◦The scope of the treatments

  • What conditions or problems do the programs aim to treat?
  • What are the limitations of the programs?
  • What type(s) of offenders should be treated?
  • How you classify offenders and treatment needs? ◦The effectiveness of the programs within your rehabilitative treatment categories
  • What types of offenders are ideal candidates for these types of treatments?

Be sure to use examples to support your explanation. In 3-4 additional pages, discuss the impact that one of your selected rehabilitative treatments has had on the field of corrections and society’s view of offender rehabilitation within the last 10 years