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In the background materials you read about some very traditional theories of motivation such as Theory X and Theory Y, and the hierarchy of needs. But one trend that has received a lot of attention in the media is that of weird or offbeat methods to motivate employees. The recent movie The Internship is set in the odd (or “googly”) workplace culture of Google. Zappos Shoes even mentions “weirdness” in the list of corporate values.
CashLinq , a financial services firm, is famous for their Nerf gun battles in the office. Eric Ryan, found of the highly successful soap company Method, was known to go to extremes to motivate employees such as dressing up as a chipmunk or holding impromptu office dance parties. Other examples of unorthodox motivation techniques may include unusual perks such as health insurance for your pets, or allowing employees to ride scooters in the office.
But is this just a passing fad for trendy new companies, or there actually a method to their madness? For this assignment, you will be doing some research on these offbeat new motivation techniques and investigating whether or not these techniques actually fit in with standard textbook theories of motivation. Review the background materials, and then read the following articles and also see if you can find any other examples of bizarre or unusual workplace motivation techniques:
Alsop, R. J. (2010). The last word. Workforce Management, 89(10), 50. [Proquest]
Petrecca, L. (Dec. 30, 2011). Quirky perks for workers: Pet insurance, massages. USA Today [Proquest]
Quirky offices may inspire employees. (Dec. 17, 2010, Dec 27). McClatchy – Tribune Business News [Proquest]
Habib, M. (Oct. 7, 2011). Foosball? bah. employers dangle offbeat incentives. The Globe and Mail [Proquest]
When you are done with your research, write a four to five page paper addressing the following issues:
1. Are these unusual motivation techniques more closely matched to McGregor’s Theory X, or his Theory Y? Cite at least one of the textbook chapters from the required background readings to support your answer.
2. Which of Maslow’s needs do you think these techniques address or do not address – physiological, safety, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization? Cite at least one of the textbook chapters from the required background readings to support your answer.
3. Overall, what do you think the main advantages and disadvantages are of these new and unusual motivation techniques as compared to more traditional techniques
This assignment is in two parts, one is quantitative problem, the other a short paper. You need to turn in both Part I and Part II to receive full credit for this assignment.
Part I: This part of the assignments tests your ability to calculate present value.
A. Suppose your bank account will be worth $15,000.00 in one year. The interest rate (discount rate) that the bank pays is 7%. What is the present value of your bank account today? What would the present value of the account be if the discount rate is only 4%?
B. Suppose you have two bank accounts, one called Account A and another Account B. Account A will be worth $6,500.00 in one year. Account B will be worth $12,600.00 in two years. Both accounts earn 6% interest. What is the present value of each of these accounts?
C. Suppose you just inherited an gold mine. This gold mine is believed to have three years worth of gold deposit. Here is how much income this gold mine is projected to bring you each year for the next three years:
Year 1: $49,000,000
Year 2: $61,000,000
Year 3: $85,000,000
Compute the present value of this stream of income at a discount rate of 7%. Remember, you are calculating the present value for a whole stream of income, i.e. the total value of receiving all three payments (how much you would pay right now to receive these three payments in the future). Your answer should be one number – the present value for this gold mine at a 7% discount rate but you have to show how you got to this number.
Now compute the present value of the income stream from the gold mine at a discount rate of 5%, and at a discount rate of 3%. Compare the present values of the income stream under the three discount rates and write a short paragraph with conclusions from the computations.
Part II: Read the following three sample business plans:
Ice Dreams
R J Wagner & Associates Realty
Interstate Travel Center
Which of these three projects do you think should have the highest risk from the point of view of investors (potential providers of funds) and would therefore be evaluated using the highest discount rate? Which one do you think should have the lowest? Write a paper explaining your reasoning.
In your assessment of the business plans consider the possible risk of each plan. Risk is one of the main considerations when deciding whether a plan should be evaluated and discounted to present value using a high or a low discount rate.
Note: you are not expected to fully analyze the numbers and financial statements in these business plans. There are only forecasts and projections. Nobody really believes them anyway. Use your intuition rather than calculations to assess risk and potential of each of these plans.
Both Part I and Part II in one Word document when completed.
Part I should be two pages long and contain calculations. Part II should be two pages long.
NETWROK CONSISTS OF 26 COMPUTERS AND 8 SERVERS (WEB,FTP,FILE,MAIL,PRINTER,3 ADDITIONAL)
NETWORK IS FOR A HOSPITAL WHERE SECURITY IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY…
List the user groups and access rights for the network. Include your justification for the user policy.
Describe the process that you plan to use for the implementation of the user policy on the network computers. The description should provide an overview of the process and does not require all details. The configuration options need to only include the most important settings.
Discuss additional security measures that you plan to implement for the network to meet the needs of the client and his or her intended use of the network.
use 3-4 credible sources!! not wikipedia.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper identifying three primary challenges when deploying Active Directory® and using it in an organization. Discuss specific ways an organization can prepare for and avoid the challenges. I need it tomorrow
Do a Library search for an articles about Robert Merton’s Structural Strain Theory. This theory talks about the kinds of responses that one might expect when the “normal” legitimate means to acquiring the “good” stuff in life is blocked. The block can be deliberate or the result of social structure. What advice would you have for any individual who exhibits these responses?
2)We often hear about the “glass ceiling.” Does it still exist? Are there invisible barriers to advancement that impact some groups more than others? Use examples from the course reading to support your points, and feel free to share your own experiences with the glass ceilin
Discussion, consider the stories told by the faculty and staff in the audio program. Each of these individuals represents a different perspective on issues at their institution. Imagine yourself as a program, department, or division leader at an institution like this. Your concerns are meeting the needs of all students, faculty, and staff in your area, implementing new initiatives or approaches that are likely to improve your area’s effectiveness, and working within budgetary and bureaucratic constraints—priorities that often conflict. You face challenges like those raised by leaders at different institutional levels, as described in your reading in Turnaround Leadership. Use the following questions to guide your Discussion:
How could an administrator or other leader working with faculty and staff like those in the audio program do a better job of addressing their differing perspectives?
What leadership challenges have you faced in your work environment? Are these similar to or different from those highlighted in the readings and audio program? What leadership skills appear to be necessary in higher education institutions?
How do you see people in these roles employing leadership strategies to effect change in the institution?
Are there common leadership strategies or qualities you can identify in the readings, in the audio program, and in the position announcements you found for the Application Assignment?
Do people in different roles or at different levels within the institution use different leadership strategies? How
Patricia is researching venues for a restaurant business. She is evaluating three major attributes that she considers important in her choice: taste, location, and price. The value she places on each attribute, however, differs according to what type of restaurant she is going to start. If she opens a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles, then taste is the most important attribute, three times as important as location, and two times as important as price. If she opens a restaurant in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, then location becomes three times as important as taste and two times as important as price. She is considering two venues, respectively, a steak restaurant and a pizza restaurant, both of which are priced the same. She has rated each attribute on a scale of 1 to 100 for each of the two different types of restaurants.
Steak Restaurant
Pizza Restaurant
Taste
Location
Price
80
55
65
70
80
50
Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answer for each question in complete sentences.
Which of the two options should Patricia pursue if she wants to open a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles? Calculate the total expected utility from each restaurant option and compare. Graph is not required. Describe your answer, and show your calculations.
Which of the two options should she pick if she plans to open a restaurant in the Los Angeles metropolitan area? Describe your answer, and show your calculations.
Which option should she pursue if the probability of finding a restaurant venue in a suburban area can be reliably estimated as 0.7 and in a metropolitan area as 0.3? Describe your reasoning and show your calculations.
Provide a description of a scenario in which this kind of decision between two choices, based on weighing their underlying attributes, applies in the “real-world” business setting. Furthermore, what are the benefits and drawbacks, if any, to this method of decision making?
Problem 2:
The demand function for Newton’s Donuts has been estimated as follows:
Qx = -14 – 54Px + 45Py + 0.62Ax
where Qx represents thousands of donuts; Px is the price per donut; Py is the average price per donut of other brands of donuts; and Ax represents thousands of dollars spent on advertising Newton’s Donuts. The current values of the independent variables are Ax=120, Px=0.95, and Py=0.64.
Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answer for each question in complete sentences, whenever it is necessary.
Calculate the price elasticity of demand for Newton’s Donuts and describe what it means. Describe your answer and show your calculations.
Derive an expression for the inverse demand curve for Newton’s Donuts. Describe your answer and show your calculations.
If the cost of producing Newton’s Donuts is constant at $0.15 per donut, should they reduce the price and thereafter, sell more donuts (assuming profit maximization is the company’s goal)?
Should Newton’s Donuts spend more on advertising?
This assignment provides an opportunity for you to apply what you have learned in this course to prepare a professional PowerPoint presentation, such as one you might present to coworkers when discussing discrimination.
Select ONE of the options below as the subject for your final project. Do your research, and then develop a PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate your understanding of the topic. Use the slide notes function to explain slide contents as necessary.
Your presentation must include at least the information presented under each heading. It must consist of a minimum of 20 PowerPoint slides, excluding the title and reference slides. Use proper APA formatting when citing sources, including your textbook. (Remember that unmonitored Internet sources, such as Wikipedia, are not acceptable.) If you need to review guidelines for effective PowerPoint presentations, the presentation is linked here. Additional information is available on the Internet.
Option 1: Disability Discrimination
1. Discuss a minimum of five benefits of organizational diversity.
2. Identify at least three factors that have led to increased emphasis on disability discrimination in the workplace.
3. What are three benefits of diversity in the workplace?
4. Discuss statistical data on education, participation rates, employment, and income levels of individuals with disabilities.
5. Provide a historical background of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1963. Compare and contrast these two pieces of legislation.
6. Find two lawsuits against companies in the United States that relate to disability discrimination, and discuss their basis and their results. Do you agree with the results?
7. Why does disability discrimination persist despite legislation and other efforts to eliminate it?
8. Explain the role of stereotyping and prejudice in perpetuating in-group favoritism and out-group bias.
9. Identify three ways in which employers can make reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities.
10. If you had to argue for including obesity as a disability, what information would you use to support your argument, and what piece(s) of legislation would be most helpful in supporting your stance? Why?
Option 2: Religious Discrimination
1. Discuss a minimum of five benefits of organizational diversity.
2. Explain at least two reasons for the increased emphasis on religious discrimination in the United States. Why is religious diversity so important for the U.S.?
3. Conduct research to determine how many different religions exist in the world.
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4. Research three religious groups in the United States, and explain why these groups continue to be victims of prejudice and discrimination.
5. Identify and describe Title VII of the Civil Rights Act as it pertains to religious discrimination.
6. Discuss two cases related to religious discrimination in the United States. Provide a minimum of two reasons for the persistence of religious discrimination.
7. Describe at least two ways in which religious discrimination can lead to in-group favoritism and out-group bias.
8. Should employers provide reasonable accommodations for religious practices? Why, or why not? Please substantiate your response with legal and moral reasons.
9. Discuss at least three ways in which employers can accommodate religious practices of employees and applicants.
10. Provide a minimum of three recommendations to improve organizational cultures for religious diversity.
Option 3: Gender and Sexual Preference Discrimination
1. Discuss at least five benefits of organizational diversity.
2. Provide a minimum of two reasons for the increased number of women in the workplace in the United States. How would employer-provided child and elder care impact this segment of the work force?
3. Explain the historical background of gender discrimination in the United States.
4. Provide employment data, educational attainment, and income levels for women and sexual minorities in the workplace.
5. Describe the basic purpose of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
6. Define sexual orientation. Should sexual orientation be protected under federal legislation? Please justify your response.
7. Although sexual orientation is not protected by federal legislation, is it acceptable to discriminate against sexual minorities because of their preferences?
8. Define sex discrimination, and provide at least one example.
9. Define the two types of sexual harassment and provide an example of each.
10. Discuss case details for two lawsuits: one involving sex discrimination in the United States and one involving sexual harassment in the United States.
11. Provide at least two reasons for the pervasiveness of sex discrimination in the workplace.
12. Provide a minimum of three recommendations to improve organizational cultures for gender equity and sexual minorities.
Option 4: Racial Discrimination
1. Discuss a minimum of five benefits of organizational diversity.
2. How have changes in the racial makeup of the U.S. population impacted racial discrimination?
3. Explain the historical background of race in America and the concept of “White privilege.”
4. Discuss affirmative action and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act as it relates to race in America. What are the major components of each piece of legislation?
5. Compare and contrast two racial groups in America on the basis of employment, education, and income levels.
6. Provide case information on a minimum of two lawsuits related to race discrimination in the United States.
7. Discuss a minimum of three reasons for the persistence of racial discrimination in America.
8. Explain how racial discrimination can lead to in-group favoritism and out-group bias in the workplace.
9. Provide a minimum of three recommendations to improve organizational cultures for racial equality.
Option 5: Age Discrimination
1. Discuss a minimum of five benefits of organizational diversity.
2. Explain recent and projected changes in the demographic makeup of the U.S. population as they relate to age discrimination.
3. Why has age become such a major topic in the American workforce?
4. Define and discuss the major components of the Age in Discrimination Employment Act.
5. Provide employment, education, and income levels of workers over the age of 40 in the United States.
6. Provide case information on a minimum of two lawsuits related to age discrimination in the United States.
7. Define ageism and discuss misconceptions about the performance and abilities of older and younger workers.
8. Discuss methods that can be used to improve organizational culture for the aging workforce.
This assignment will help you develop an understanding about the life cycle of supply chains including the models that are aligned with it and the cost it bears. In addition, you will develop an awareness of the elements of the supply chain that should be monitored to ensure the desired results are being obtained.
Scenario:
You have been asked to be a guest speaker in a high school business class. Your task is to explain the basic concepts of supply chain management to a group of students. The students will take a quiz on supply chain management based on the information in your presentation.
Instructions:
Develop a creative, engaging, educational handout that students can use to prepare for the quiz. Your handout should accomplish the following tasks.
Diagram and explain the life cycle of a supply chain.
Explain, and provide examples of, the models organizations use to manage forecasting, planning, and inventory.
Examine, and provide examples of, the costs absorbed by organizations with respect to inventory and logistics.
Describe how organizations use various parameters to monitor supply chain performance and provide examples.
Your handout should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner, as well as demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Write a 1–2-page handout in Word format along with a separate title page and reference page. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc