Write a paragraph describing a process done by either a person or a machine

1. Write a paragraph describing a process done by either a person or a machine

2. Write an opinion paragraph about “Is it better to save what you have for buy new things?”

3. Write a paragraph about “How do you make a good first impression?”

4. Write a descriptive paragraph about your favorite dish.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the process of onboarding and training Hubbs

• Read the entire case study carefully and then respond to the seven Discussion Questions on page 5. Answer all questions and all parts of each question. • Develop each answer to the fullest extent possible, including citations from outside resources and course resources, where applicable, to support your arguments. • Submit your assignment as a separate MS Word document in your assignments folder.

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Case Overview—Part B

In August, Jason Hubbs submitted a résumé to the human resource department of Big Time Computers Inc. in response to an advertisement in the local newspaper for a senior technical writer. After a short interview process in which three of the four individuals on the selection committee felt that he should be hired, Lisa Cavanaugh hired him. Hubbs spent a three-week training period learning departmental methods and procedures, becoming familiar with Big Time’s products, and preparing for his first writing assignments. As a senior writer, Hubbs was also expected to serve as a technical publications project leader for one of Big Time’s product groups. During the training period, Hubbs attended project meetings to meet the employees from other departments who were involved with that product group and to become current on what was happening within it.

Following the training period, Hubbs started his first writing assignment, the revision of a software manual to reflect upgraded product software. Hubbs went two weeks beyond the scheduled date for completing the first draft of the revision. In editing the first draft, Hamrick felt that the writing quality and organization were poor and suggested extensive changes before the manual was distributed for review. Hubbs implemented these changes and prepared the manual for review. One week before the review, Hubbs sent an advance notice email message to the reviewers, notifying them of the upcoming review. Mark Samson, the project leader for the product described in the manual, pointed out to Lisa Cavanaugh that the message was sloppy, and had misspellings and poor grammar. He expressed concern that the credibility of the technical publications department was at risk if the quality of any of the written material that went out to the entire company was poor. Hamrick and Samson also expressed concern to Cavanaugh about Hubbs’s writing ability.

Cavanaugh decided to implement some procedures to monitor Hubbs’s progress and temporarily give him more supervision. She scheduled weekly meetings with Hubbs during which he was to give her a detailed status report for the week, with particular emphasis on tracking manual schedules. She also required Hubbs to send his work to the technical editor on a chapter-bychapter basis, and each week Hamrick would meet with Hubbs to discuss his writing. Cavanaugh also decided to postpone giving project leader responsibilities to Hubbs, but she had him continue to attend project meetings with Murray and planned to give Hubbs a project in the future.

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Resentment was starting to develop in the technical publications department due to Hubbs’s failure to meet expectations. Several of the writers complained to Cavanaugh because Hubbs had been hired as a senior writer at a higher salary, yet his writing skills were apparently inferior to theirs. Murray also expressed dissatisfaction at having to serve as project leader for

two projects when the expectation was that Hubbs would take one of the projects. Hamrick fell behind in his editing assignments because of the extra time he was spending with Hubbs, and the editorial assistants complained about the quantity of cleanup required because of Hubbs’s poor work. In private meetings with dissatisfied employees, Cavanaugh expressed faith in Hubbs’s abilities and urged patience while she worked on developing his skills.

Hubbs showed signs of improvement in his writing skills and his ability to meet deadlines under the procedures implemented by Cavanaugh. As a result of this and because Hubbs now had four months’ experience at Big Time, Cavanaugh assigned Hubbs to write a marketing article on a topic related to his area of technical expertise. Hubbs was to work with a marketing engineer and a marketing product manager to develop the article by a specified date. When the initial review of the article was due, Hubbs gave the first draft to the marketing department without any review or edit from within the technical publications department. Marketing was dissatisfied with the organization and content of the article; Dennis Smith, marketing product manager, met with Lisa Cavanaugh to express this dissatisfaction. Although Cavanaugh assured Smith that technical publications could complete the article to his satisfaction and on schedule, Smith decided to have the article written by a marketing employee.

Though his writing skills were slowly improving, lingering resentment continued about Hubbs’s status and salary as a senior writer. Morale in the department was low. Hamrick continued to have a difficult time fulfilling his editing responsibilities because of the extra time he was spending with Hubbs, and Murray couldn’t meet manual schedules because of the time spent fulfilling project leader responsibilities for two projects. Lisa Cavanaugh knew that it was time to act.

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Big Time Computers inc.

Technical Publications Department

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Lisa Cavanaugh

Mark Samson

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Answer the following:

1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the process of onboarding and training Hubbs. What elements of the new hire orientation process would be particularly important to his successful performance? What other training opportunities could have helped him prepare for his role?

2. Assume the role of the manager in this case. How do you handle a new employee who lacks the specific skills that were presented during the selection process? How do you determine if training is the solution and how much training is reasonable or expected?

3. Discuss the risks versus the benefits of the manager’s decision to have Hamrick mentor Hubbs. Overall, do you think this decision was effective? If you do not agree, who do you think would have been a more suitable mentor for Hubbs?

4. Evaluate the manager’s process of handling Hubb’s performance problems. Was it effective or could it have been handled differently? Was anything overlooked? What other factors besides lack of skills or ability could have contributed to Hubb’s poor performance? How could the manager have mitigated some of these factors?

5. Consider the performance issue with the marketing department. What happens when poor performance affects a department’s reputation and credibility? What must the manager do to first improve that performance and secondly, control the damage from poor performance?

6. The manager needs to act. What are her options and what factors and/or additional information must she consider before making a decision?

7. Review Case A and reflect on the recruiting and selection processes used to hire Hubbs. • How could the recruiting and/or selection processes been improved to mitigate the new hire’s performance issues? • What effect could the recruiting and/or selection processes have had on Hubbs’s subsequent performance and his team’s perceptions of his performance?

Evaluate and provide examples of how hypothesis testing and confidence intervals are used together in health care research.

Evaluate and provide examples of how hypothesis testing and confidence intervals are used together in health care research. Provide a workplace example that illustrates your ideas.

Read “Chapter 11: Logic of Hypothesis Testing,” and watch the associated videos by Lane, from Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study.

URL:http://onlinestatbook.com/2/logic_of_hypothesis_testing/logic_hypothesis.html

Refer to the “Visual Learner: Statistics” to learn more about the statistical calculations presented in this topic.

URL:http://lc.gcumedia.com/hlt362v/the-visual-learner/the-visual-learner-v2.1.html

Read “Chapter 6: Research Design” and watch the associated videos, by Lane, from Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study.

URL:http://onlinestatbook.com/2/research_design/contents.html

Read “Chapter 10: Estimation” and watch the associated videos, by Lane, from Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study.

URL:http://onlinestatbook.com/2/estimation/estimation.html

Read “Probability, Clinical Decision Making and Hypothesis Testing,” by Banerjee, Jadhave, and Bhawalker, from Industrial Psychiatry Journal (2009).

URL:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016704/

The subsidiary has been financed by bank borrowings in the United States. One of your analysts told you that the Mexican peso is expected to depreciate by 30 percent against the dollar on the foreign exchange markets over the next year. What actions, if any, should you take?

You are the CFO of a U.S. firm whose wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico manufactures component parts for your U.S. assembly operations. The subsidiary has been financed by bank borrowings in the United States. One of your analysts told you that the Mexican peso is expected to depreciate by 30 percent against the dollar on the foreign exchange markets over the next year. What actions, if any, should you take?

Assume that you have been hired as a marketing consultant by HOM Furniture’s management.What specific type of the information should HOM Furniture collect to measure their customer satisfaction?

case 07
For this case please answer the following questions ( in addition to the case questions)

Assume that you have been hired as a marketing consultant by HOM Furniture’s management. The reason they hired you is that they are facing with the decline in sales in their stores recently.

1. what market segment should they focus on? Talk about demographic characteristics of the them.

2. Do you categorize furniture as high involvement or low involvement purchase type?

3. If you want to track the problem in the store, what data sources will you use to collect the information you need?

4. As a traditional method, stores usually track the effectiveness of their advertisement in any spike in their sales. What are the advantages of this method? What are the disadvantages of this method? Do you have a better suggestion for them?

5. What specific type of the information should HOM Furniture collect to measure their customer satisfaction?
Questions
1 (a) Identify the data sources
HOM Furniture uses in its marketing information system. (b) Which
would you classify as secondary
data sources? (c) Which would be
considered primary data sources?
2 When HOM Furniture advertises, it looks for a resulting spike
in sales using an extensive database. (a) What are the advantages
of this approach? (b) What are the
possible shortcomings of this approach and how would you address
them?
3 Assume that you have been
hired as a marketing consultant by
HOM Furniture’s management. (a) What specific types
of information should HOM collect to measure customer
satisfaction with its stores and services? (b) For each type
of information you identified in (a), how could HOM
Furniture make use of that information to improve customer satisfaction?

file case 09
Questions
1 Identify at least three bases for segmenting the lawn
mower market. Prepare a market-product grid illustrating
at least one of these bases.
2 What criteria should a lawn equipment company use
in assessing the attractiveness of market segments? What
sort of information is needed to fill in the market-product
grid and allow the firm to make that target market
decision?
3 How might a lawn mower company use segmentation
for positioning purposes? At present, the manual reel
mower market is rather small but growing. What marketing mix recommendations could be used to significantly
expand this market?
file case 11
Questions
1 What product attributes and benefits could an upscale
hotel provide a pet owner? Are these the same product
attributes and benefits provided by an upscale kennel?
2 What strategy would a company like Petco be pursuing by entering the pet hotel market? What strategy would
a company like Marriott be pursuing by entering the pet
hotel market?
3 What are the pros and cons of (a) a multiproduct
branding strategy and (b) a multibranding strategy in the
pet hospitality industry for companies such as (a) Petco
and (b) Marriott?
4 In what stage of the product life cycle is the pet hospitality industry? In what stage of the product life cycle is
an offering such as PetSmart’s PetsHotel? Explain and
support your answers.

Describe the “perfect” work environment, discuss if your ideas are realistic to the workplace.

Describe the “perfect” work environment, discuss if your ideas are realistic to the workplace. After you have developed your perfect workplace watch the following video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d8_lkiH7zs

After watching the video discuss the potential for changes taking place in the work environment to accommodate employees in the 21st century.

Describe positive and negative outcomes that can result from societal, political, and cultural differences when managing a corporation in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

1. What does effective global leadership achieve? What are the different roles that managers on international assignment often assume to enhance leadership effectiveness? Choose one country in South America and one country in Europe to describe some of the differences.

2. Describe positive and negative outcomes that can result from societal, political, and cultural differences when managing a corporation in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

3. Technology is one of the methods used in business overseas. Describe the impact of e-business on leadership. What differences would a manager have to be aware of if doing business in Africa, Australia, or South America?

 

4. Consider the role of culture when motivating employees. Describe some differences that can gain employee trust in at least three countries. Each country should be located on a different continent.

Which of the following statements best describes the role of gender in the association of coffee drinking and sense of well-being?

A hypothetical case-control study found that regular coffee drinkers were 1.8 times more likely to report a positive sense of well-being than non-coffee drinkers (OR = 1.8; 95% CI = 1.3-2.4). When the results were stratified by gender, the odds ratio for women was 1.1 (95% CI = 0.9-1.3) and the odds ratio for men was 0.9 (95% CI = 0.7-1.1). Which of the following statements best describes the role of gender in the association of coffee drinking and sense of well-being?