Chapter Eight (8): Information Governance and Legal Functions: According to the authors, Smallwood, Kahn, and Murphy, IG is perhaps one of the functional areas that impact legal functions most. Failure to meet them could be literally put an organization out of business or land executives in prison.   Privacy, security, records management, information technology (IT), and business management functions are very important.  However, the most significant […]

Q1:   HOOSING THE BEST MEASURE:  Suppose you applied to be a waiter or waitress at a local restaurant and asked the manager what a typical dinner shift was like. How might the manager describe the typical size of a party at a table? The mode would be useful, since there are a few repeated values. You might have an occasional table for 20, but, for […]

Post 7 Read: Chapter 8 Chin, J. L. & Trimble, J. E. (2015). Diversity and leadership. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. Discussion 7:  Identify a scenario where you and someone else are approaching a problem or decision from opposite perspectives. How might you reconcile this? Post 8 Read: Chapter 9 Chin, J. L. & Trimble, J. E. (2015). Diversity and leadership. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. Discussion […]

Case Study: Opening Your New Dunkin’ Donuts Locations Prior to completing this assignment, review the pertinent sections of Chapter 3. You have been the manager of a Dunkin’ Donuts store in the Midwest for the past two years. The store is owned by a Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee who owns 20 other Dunkin’ Donuts locations. Your employer took an employee inventory and examined all current employees. […]

Background: The Internet has changed the landscape for conducting business forever. Because of the highly connected, flattened world and broadened competition field, today’s companies are increasingly facing more opportunities (being able to reach customers and markets that they might never have thought possible) and more challenges (a globalized and ever-changing competitive marketplace). Companies with the vision and capabilities to deal with such a volatile environment […]

If you talk about a possible poor health outcome, do you believe that outcome will occur? Do you believe eye contact and personal contact should be avoided? You would have a difficult time practicing as a nurse if you believed these to be true. But they are very real beliefs in some cultures. Differences in cultural beliefs, subcultures, religion, ethnic customs, dietary customs, language, and […]

Details:   Refer to “Social and Cultural Paper Writing Instructions”   for a detailed explanation of the requirements for the Social and   Cultural Diversity Paper that you will be developing throughout the course.  For this assignment, prepare a reference list that includes the   sources you will be citing in the paper. The paper must include a   minimum of 10 scholarly references in addition to the textbook.  […]

 Post your responses to the following: The reasons why couples have children would seem to be fairly common; however, some explanations are not as obvious as others. Please refer to the following list of reasons polled by James Park for his 1996 book Why Have (More) Children? Choose one reason (or generate a reason of your own) and discuss whether or not you agree with […]

 Assume that you have received a capital expenditure request for $52,000 for plant equipment and that you are required to do a justification analysis using capital budgeting techniques.  The company’s cost of capital is 12% and the equipment (investment) is expected to generate net cash inflows of $13,000 per year for 8 years and then $9,000 for one year.   You are to calculate and explain […]

  For this case,  let’s explore the nature of genetically-modified food and where you reason your stance is on the ethical questions about GMO businesses.     First read the case AquAdvantage  Second,  it might be helpful to peruse (don’t spend excessive amounts of time, there’s too much there)  the information compiled by the US Food and Drug Administration on the product (Links to an external site.)..  […]