Category: Management

Amina received her human resources diploma last year and has been working for six months in the human resources department of Global Success, an international marketing organization. When she accepted the position, she was very familiar with text messaging, instant messaging, blogging, and many other new technology-based communication channels, so she was confident that her communication skills would allow her to succeed in her new position. Amina’s position requires that she create documents, often posting them to the company human resources website, and make presentations about human resources policies and procedures at company meetings. Amina’s supervisor is conducting initial interviews with some job applicants, and wants Amina to sit as an observer. Which of the recommendations given in the text for Becoming an active listener is Amina’s supervisor practising?

Duff Soft Drinks, a division of Duff Beer, Inc. recently decided to invest more than $300 million for expansion in Brazil. Brazil offers considerable potential because it has 150 million people and their demand for soft drinks is increasing. However, the soft drink consumption is still only about one-fifth of the soft drink consumption in the U.S. Duff’s initial outlay was used to purchase three production plants and a distribution network of almost 1,000 trucks to distribute its products to retail stores in Brazil. The expansion in Brazil was expected to make Duff’s products more accessible to Brazilian consumers. Duff’s American parent was responsible for assessing the expansion in Brazil. When capital budgeting analysis was used to determine the feasibility of this project, should the project been assessed from a Brazil perspective or a US perspective? Explain.

How to solve This problem in excelThe Donnor meat processing firm produces wieners from four ingredients: clicken, beet, pork, and a cereal additive. The firm produces three types of wieners: regular, beel, and all-meat. The company has the following amounts of each ingredient avalable on a daily basis:
Pounda/Day
Cont/Pound
Cricken
200
80.20
Beet
300
0.30
Pok
150
0.50
Cereal addrive
400
0.05
Each type of wiener has certain ingredient specilications, as follows:
Specifications
Selling Price/Pound
Regular
Not more than 10% beof and pork combined
$0.90
Not less than 20% chicken
Boot
Not loss than 75% beot
1.25
Nilmeat
No coroal addilivo
1.75
Not more than 50% beet and pork combined
The firm wants to know how mary pounds of wieners of each type to produce to maximize profits.
a. Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.

The Successful Entrepreneur.
Select an entrepreneur who is successful and use the following questions and topics to create a submission. Identify him/her, their business. Provide an argument as to whether you believe they were “born” or made as an entrepreneur. Research his/hers business. How have they built integrity, customer focus and quality into their business? Provide some examples of each. What do you believe motivates this person for owning a business? Explain and support your argument. In Michael Gerber’s book, “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It” describes three personalities. Which personality do you believe this entrepreneur exhibited as they started their business? Explain. Does the business support social responsibility? How? How has this entrepreneur built integrity and ethics into their business? Explain

Structural and Functional Relationships in Fibrous Proteins
William Astbury discovered that the x-ray diffraction pattern of wool shows a repeating structural unit spaced about 5.2Å along the length of the wool fiber. When he steamed and stretched the wool, the x-ray pattern showed a new repeating structural unit at a spacing of 7.0Å. Steaming and stretching the wool and then letting it shrink gave an x-ray pattern consistent with the original spacing of about 5.2 A . Although these observations provided important clues to the molecular structure of wool, Astbury was unable to interpret them at the time.
a.
Given our current understanding of the structure of wool, interpret Astbury’s observations.
b.
When wool sweaters or socks are washed in hot water or heated in a dryer, they shrink. Silk, on the other hand, does not shrink under the same conditions. Explain.

Demand for stereo headphones and MP3 players for joggers has caused Nina Industries to grow almost 50 percent over the past year. The number of joggers continues to expand, so Nina expects demand for headsets to also expand, because as yet, no safety laws have been passed to prevent joggers from wearing them. Demand for the players for last year was as follows.
a.
Using linear regression analysis, what would you estimate demand to be for each month next year? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to \( \mathbf{2} \) decimal places.
b.
To be reasonably confident of meeting demand, Nina decides to use 2 standard errors of estimate for safety. How many additional units should be held to meet this level of confidence? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
Additional units