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    As a Board member of a non-profit organization, how should executive pay be based?

    You are a member of the Board of Directors for a non-profit organization. A new executive director has just been hired. The previous executive director received a salary and no variable pay. Several Board members have indicated they would like the new executive director to be paid based in part on the organization's achieving it

    Percent of sales forecasting

    (Percent of sales forecasting) Which of the following accounts would most likely vary directly with the level of a firm's sales? Discuss each briefly. Yes No Yes No Cash ___ ___ Notes payable ___ Marketable securities __

    Employee knowledge of a misappropriation of corporate funds: What should she do?

    Can you give me your opinion on this: The CFO comes up to you one night and asks you to go out for a drink with her. She tells you that she is scared out of her mind. She tells you that large amounts of compensation that were paid to the CEO were disguised and not reported properly. She says that the Board thinks the CEO w

    HR: Experience with performance appraisals; motivating or a waste of time.

    What is your experience with performance appraisals? Overall, have you found them motivating, de-motivating, a waste of time, or invaluable? As you answer this question, please give a personal example to illustrate your answer and use one outside reference to enhance and/or support your perspective of appraisals.

    The three forms of business organization

    What are the three forms of business organization and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each form? For a corporation, what is the overall goal of the financial manager? What is the objective of this firm? Do you agree with this goal? Why or why not?

    Pitfalls of Job Evaluation Methods: Three methods of evaluating jobs

    Pitfalls of Job Evaluation Methods Three methods of evaluating jobs are Ranking. Classification. Point Method. Prepare a short description of each method, considering: What are the essential weaknesses in each of these evaluation methods? Describe a situation in which it would not be effective for the busines

    Sexual harassment

    I need you opinion on this case of sexual harassment where a managing director of the defendant had hanging in his office a poster of fifty or so women on motorcycles naked; they had nothing on but red striped socks. It was a large poster which anyone entering his office could not avoid seeing. The Company saw nothing wron

    Pegasus: how to manage employee resistance to change

    Details: You anticipate a great deal of resistance to change from the employees of Pegasus, especially if there are layoffs involved. You and the HRD group must first identify the emotional factors of change and then present a plan to address these issues to the company in an "all-hands" meeting. You must consider the overall

    Layout Strategies: What is the takt time? Cross-trained employees for the cell?

    Please see the attached worksheet. After an extensive product analysis using group technology - has identifiy a product he believes should be pulled out of his process facility and handled in a work cell. Bob has identified the following operations as necessary for the work cell. The customer expects delivery of 250

    Higher inflation to spur economic growth and job creation.

    In August 1994, Alan Blinder, recently appointed as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, gave a talk in which he argued that the Fed should be willing to tolerate somewhat higher inflation in order to spur economic growth and job creation. The dollar fell, almost immediately. Explain the link between Dr. Blinder's views a

    Forecasting of sales

    Please submit in the excel document. 1. The owner of a computer store rents printers to some of her preferred customers. She is interested in arriving at a forecast of rentals so that she can order the correct quantities of supplies that go with the printers. The data is shown blow. a. Prepare a forecast for weeks 4 - 10

    Sample survey questions: Example problems

    Please help me so that I can complete the assignment: Prepare a 10-13-question survey to collect primary data regarding your selected problem statement. Please note that you will not administer this survey as part of this assignment. Your survey questions should include a mixture of categorical (nominal and ordinal) and quant

    Operations Management Multiple Choice Questions with Explainations and answers

    Please see the attached file. 1. What is the expected value of the following: X = 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 and P(X) = 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, respectively. a. 0.15 b. 0.00225 c. 0.555 d. None of the above 2. At a university with 1,000 business majors, there are 200 business students who are enrolled in an introductor

    IMF Policy

    Do you think the standard IMF policy prescriptions of tight monetary policy and reduced government spending are always appropriate for developing nations experiencing currency crisis?

    Critical Thinking: Influences in Identifying Problems

    What forces of influence should be considered while identifying a problem through critical thinking? What methods can be used during problem formulation? What is a problem statement? How can a problem statement be formulated so that it is considerate of stakeholders' perspectives? Please provide your own input not just a li

    What is succession planning in an organization?

    Please help me with these questions: Week 4 Question 1 What is succession planning in an organization? What has been your experience with succession planning in the organizations you've worked for? For those of you who have had limited exposure to succession planning, what could HR do to create a great succession plan? Be

    Critical Thinking phases are addressed.

    Discuss what the components are that critical thinking is made of and what phases does it go through. Perception is one component of critical thinking. Think of how your individual perceptions concerning a specific issue or problem have changed as a result of an event or experience. For example: A person's perception of a c

    This posting addresses critical thinking.

    Think about a situation where your critical thinking abilities would be tested and/or pushed to the limit. For example, even the most skilled critical thinker will surely have a difficult time making a decision in a life-or-death situation. With that said, one's ability to think critically can be greatly affected by influential

    Reliability, Mode, Generalization, Variance

    1. The average of the squared deviation scores from a distribution mean. ____ 2. Midpoint in the distribution of numbers. ____ 3. It has to do with the accuracy and precision of a measurement procedure. ____ 4. Examines if an observed causal relationship generalizes across persons, settings, and times. ____ 5. The differ

    Critical Thinking

    I need some help getting started. See http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/jte-v7n1/gokhale.jte-v7n1.html. After reading through this finding, what other types of activities, methods, techniques, etc., would you recommend to an individual looking for a way to polish up their ability to think critically?

    Ideas to Solve a Problem at Your Work Place

    Please provide an example of using brainstorming sessions to come up with ideas to solve a problem at your work place? What was the issue? What was the outcome after the brainstorming session?

    Formulate, develop, solve queuing problems for businesses

    Formulate, develop, and solve a queuing problem for a business unit. For example, the phone calls coming to the receptionist, or work arriving by mail, phone, or in person. List and explain the assumptions that you had to make to enable the problem to be solved, but caused the model to be unrealistic.

    Critical Thinking and the Decision Process

    Discuss what critical thinking is and its impact on the decision process. Think of your experience and reflect about what characteristics critical thinkers demonstrate, what the benefits of critical thinking are. Please cite some examples of critical thoughts that should be considered when making decisions. Please provide y

    Risk Management for Recruiting Manager

    Please provide your opinion on this: You are the Recruiting Manager and you are hiring an Accountant. You learn that an applicant was convicted of possessing a controlled dangerous substance twenty years ago when she was 18. Should that be a bar to employment from an enterprise risk perspective?

    What can I do to help improve critical thinking?

    The problem I have most with maintaining a critical thinking perspective is gathering and sorting the right information. I tend to see commonalities with so many things that it is sometimes hard for me to differentiate between certain boundaries. What can I do to help improve critical thinking?

    External Communitcation Plan

    Please help so that I can complete the following: a. Create an effective external communication plan for each team member's public policy issue. These plans must be tailored to meet the needs and address the concerns of all competing stakeholder groups. b. Evaluate the roles of elected and appointed officials in establishin