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    Professional Development Plan

    How might an employer focus on problematic staff without pointing fingers or making it obvious that those are the targets of the professional development?

    How many calendars Sue should order to maximize expected profits?

    The local Office of Tourism sells souvenir calendars. Sue, the head of the office, needs to order these calendars in advance of the main tourist season. Based on past seasons, Sue has determined the probability of selling different quantities of the calendars for a particular tourist season. Demand for Calendars Probability

    Under the impression that if the IMF agrees to

    I was always under the impression that if the IMF agrees to bailout a country, they do so with the understanding that the country has certain goals it needs to reach. The country goes to the IMF with a clear and concise strategy of how it plans on using the funds to better their economy. After the first bailout, Greece was not a

    Quantitative Analysis Problem-Ashley's Department Store

    Ashley's Department Store in Kansas City maintains a successful catalog sales department in which a clerk takes orders by telephone. If the clerk is occupied on one line, incoming phone calls to the catalog department are answered automatically by a recording machine and asked to wait. As soon as the clerk is free, the party tha

    net profit from market survey

    Anthony Gray has been interested in music since he was old enough to sit at the piano. He grew up with music and used his talent to earn his way through college. Anthony has now grown tired of his job at a large music house in Houston and is seriously considering moving back to his hometown in Massachusetts to open a small music

    Maximax and Maximin Strategies

    5. At Acme Home Products, Inc. the operations manager's staff has developed information for four manufacturing process, refereed to as T, R, Q, P. These process alternatives vary by production technology and the capacity of the machinery used. All choices enable the same level of total production, and the machinery used has the

    health care issues

    http://www.naturalnews.com/032550_health_care_reform_Obama.html http://www.naturalnews.com/032552_health_care_reform.html I need a summary of 1000 words. I need an evaluation 1000 words of the article.

    Questions about an RFP, clause on progress payments

    Assume you are the contracting officer. For each question, decide whether the disclosure of information to the contractor would be unfair to other offerors and explain why. How would you respond and to whom? 1. Contractor: May I ask some questions about this Request for Proposal for upgrading pollution-control devices?

    Triangle Solutions: Develop a Written Proposal

    Develop a written proposal outlining a specific product or service idea you have as the product manager for Triangle Solutions. Triangle's company type and product area have been left unspecified in order to allow you creativity in invention of your own product ideas and exploration of areas of interest in the market. You may no

    likert measurement scales

    Below is a likert type scare that may be use to evaluate a program ....there are five response catagories..............If stronly agree represents the most positve attitude, how do you value the items below? Record answers to the items SA A

    Product or Service Idea as a Manager

    Consider the following scenario: Develop a written proposal outlining a specific product or service idea you have as the product manager for Triangle Solutions. Triangle's company type and product area have been left unspecified in order to allow you creativity in invention of your own product ideas and exploration of areas o

    Arguments about vision, mission, and values

    Define your business a security guard business and define the business service, vision, mission, and value and how you differentiate your service from other security guard business.

    Hiring, Production, Supply and Cost.

    As a manager, how would you decide how many workers to hire? What factors might play a role in your decision? With retention becoming increasingly important due to the cost of hiring and training, how would you, as a manager, address retention issues? Include a summary of how this would impact your overall cost of production.

    Google Instant Messenger Application based on Virtual Team Collaboration: (1) How would you use this tool in a business context? (2) How and why would instant messaging be useful to virtual collaboration in a business environment? (3) Identify its particular advantages and disadvantages.

    Google Instant Messenger Application based on Virtual Team Collaboration: (1) How would you use this tool in a business context? (2) How and why would instant messaging be useful to virtual collaboration in a business environment? (3) Identify its particular advantages and disadvantages.

    Survey Research Designs

    What survey research designs would you propose to use in each of the three situations below? a. Conducting a survey of 3,000 professional association members b. Documenting opinions of online education from MBA graduates c. Understanding the mayoral candidate preferences of Atlanta voters

    Time Warp CVP Analysis

    It is now 1/2/2012 (again), still at the beginning of Time Warp 2. You have just completed your revised strategy using CVP analysis, and you are ready to charge ahead. You implement your decisions for 2012 and time flows by quickly. You see the results at the end of the year and you collect these results to use later. Again, you

    Kaiser Permanente's Market Expansion Grid

    Use the Product-Market Expansion Grid found in Fortenberry's chapter 7 text to prepare an expansion grid for the Kaiser Permanente healthcare organization. The grid should be one page. In additional, one to two pages should be added to explain the rationale for your grid and the supporting facts and data upon which the grid

    Making an Industry (6-1)

    Intro If you agree that the best HR strategy is the one that is aligned to the business, how much should you know about the business? If we are to develop an HR strategy aligned to the business goals, we need to know how a company fits into the bigger picture (from a global standpoint). An industry gives us the broadest v

    International Strategy

    From its humble roots, Southwest Airlines has emerged as a major airline in the U.S. In an industry where failure is more common than success, the company has achieved steady growth and an impressive performance record. With no reprieve from intense competitive pressure in sight, Southwest needs to determine if its technologic

    Intelligence Definition and Measurement Paper

    Chart is attached. Instuctions are below. 2. Select two assessments of intelligence (i selected WAIS- IV and WISC IV) and two achievement tests (none selected). 3. Fill in the cells in the table provided in the next message. Write an analysis of your selected instruments. In your analysis, address the following: a)

    Waiting Line Tables for pharmacist at Arnold Palmer Hospital

    The pharmacist at Arnold Palmer Hospital, Saad Alwan, receives 12 requests for prescriptions each hour, Poisson distributed. It takes him a mean time of 4 minutes to fill each, following a negative exponential distribution. Use the waiting line table, Table D.5 and Wq = Lq/^, to answer these questions: a) What is the averag

    Greatest expected monetary value and expected value

    Clay Whybark, a soft-drink vendor at Hard Rock Cafe's annual Rockfest, created a table of conditional values for the various alternatives (stocking decision) and states of nature (size of crowd) States of nature (demand) Alternatives Big