Category: Management

The State of California hires AXA Construction, Inc. to do some excavating work on a freeway. The State lays out the general objectives that AXA is to achieve but leaves the details of the job to AXA. The job involves digging trenches ten feet deep alongside the freeway to install water drainage pipes. Given the nature of the work, it is important to post flashing lights and warning signs to steer motorists away from the area. During the excavation, AXA carelessly failed to set up the lights and signs in one section of the freeway one night, and a motorist drove her car into a trench and was badly injured. If the motorist sues the State of California for AXA’s negligence,
the State isliable, because the work involved an inherently dangerous activity.
liable, under the doctrine of respondeat superior.
not liable, because AXA is an independent contractor.
liable, because the work involved a nondelegable duty.

A company opting to boost its sales of branded footwear by offering buyers 500 modelsstyles to choose from should considerreducing the $15 million annual costs for production run setup costs associated with producing 500 modelsstyles at eachproduction facility byinvesting in production improvement option B at those production facility locations producing 500 models.instituting production improvement options A and C at each production facility where 500 models are being produced.producing no more than 200 models at the company’s production facilities in other regions.cutting the percentage use of superior materials to help cover some (preferably all) of the costs of the $15 million in annualproduction run setup costs at each production facility producing 500 modelsstyles.doubling its expenditures for enhanced stylingfeatures to also increase the SQ ratings of its footwear brand.

Joseph Hansen, president of Electronica, Inc., was concerned about the end-of-the-year marketing report that he had just received.
According to Asha Kumar, marketing manager, a price decrease for the coming year was again needed to maintain the company’s annual sales volume of integrated circuit boards (CBs). This would make a bad situation worse.
The current selling price of $27 per unit was producing a $3-per-unit profit—half the customary $6-per-unit profit. Foreign competitors keep reducing their prices. To match the latest reduction would reduce the price from $27 to $21. This would put the price below the cost to produce and sell it. How could the foreign firms sell for such a low price?
Determined to find out if there were problems with the company’s operations, Joseph decided to hire Ahmed Kumar, a well-known consultant and brother of Asha, who specializes in methods of continuous improvem

Suppose that you are working for a company that produces two major products, A and B. The total budget for advertising is $10,000. Since two products are related, the advertisement made for one product impacts the sales of the other. Therefore, total profit obtained as a function of the advertising expenditure is (A2+B−11)2+(A+B2−7)2 where A is the advertisement budget for product A and B is the advertisement budget for product B.You formulated an optimization problem to determine how the advertisement budget should be allocated between the two products to achieve the highest profit. Which one of the following statement(s) is(are) correct regarding the optimization problem you formulated? Select all that apply.
Group of answer choices
There are three constraints.
It is a maximization problem.
There are multiple objective functions.
There is only one constraint.
It is a linear optimization problem.

When you wake up in the morning, I’ll bet you think about, “how can I innovate today” and make your day more effective. If this is how you roll, I’m thinking of a successful businessperson for sure. We might call this working with “best practices” in innovation. We heard about the 3M company and how they took our class protocols on supporting innovation and applied them in their business.
Select all below that apply to what we learned about “supporting innovation” and our 3M example?
Group of answer choices
Strategy – 30% of revenue new products past 4 years
Structure – builds in a day/week to work on innovation
Staffing – hiring includes both technical & culture components
Culture – awards both monetary and non-monetary for innovation
Leadership – invests in employee driven pilot projects
Functional – a way they commercialize innovation
Execution – creates incentives to increase productivity

As we approach the end of the discussion for the semester, it is hoped that the material in this course might have enhanced your understanding of lifespan development. Perhaps you have been able to dispel some common misbeliefs that are often circulated in our communities. As you reflect upon the material covered, please identify the top five things you have learned over the semester. Once you have selected them, rank order them so that the most important is number one, the second is number two, and so on. For each of these important things, explain what the concept is and then why it is important to you. Please give some details as to why it’s important and why you ranked it where you did. How did these concepts impact you personally, and/or how do you think you might use them going forward? Once you have completed your list and explain your viewpoint on the matter. Make sure to cite your sources.

Jim has worked for Dollar Mart for 17 years. The company was bought out by a venture capital firm that wants to reduce costs. A new manager, Rob, wanted to save money by replacing older, higher-paid workers with younger ones. Rob told an assistant manager, Jane, that he also wanted younger, more energetic workers. Jim was fired after being accused of stealing, though there was evidence that many employees who worked at night like Jim would have drinks or other items and pay for them the next day, and that Jim had done that in this instance too. Jim sues under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.Jim loses against Dollar Mart because it was the manager who made the decision.Jim wins because the company defamed him about stealing.Jim loses because the company was trying to save money, which is not a discriminatory intent.Jim wins because the manager said he wanted younger, more energetic workers.

The last few discussions prepared you for leveraging AI as a tool to add further depth and breadth to your learning experience and technical or professional prowess in a managerial role. Now, you are to first research an emergent topic of your choosing (must be emerging hence phenomena that has risen during the last 5 years) and follow the same structure to complete and share your work.
This is TWO (2) part assignment where:
The first week, you will turn in: Chosen topic: Must be emergent i.e., happening within the last TEN (ten) years, and Initial analysis: This is a rough draft of your preliminary analysis for my review
The second week, you will turn in: Completed analysis, and Completed summary of findings. Here you leverage what you learned in this course with what you’ve learned in your research, and provide a meaningful review to include course of actions you would take as a manager or leader.