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Writing instruction

The written project requires you to analyze the financial statement of an organization. It will be 3 – 5 pages long. If you have not selected an organization to use then I would suggest looking at ShelterCare, which is a nonprofit located in Eugene. Most of what you need would be located at https://www.sheltercare.org/about-sheltercare/

you discuss this topic “protect the individual account and email” that you want to study describing your selected worldview, research design, and research method (See Figure 1.1 of Crewell)

If you need more details about worldview, research design, and research method in this link https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-bi…

You have to follow rules :

1-Introduction:

a-Research question

b-Thesis statement

c-Set the context – Provide general information about the main idea, explaining the situation so the reader can make sense of the topic and the claims you make and support.

State why the main idea is important – Tell the reader why he or she should care and keep reading.

2-Description of a Worldview:

a-Philosophical

See also: Philosophy and List of philosophies

A school of philosophy is a collection of answers to fundamental questions of the universe, based around common concepts, normally grounded in reason, and often arising from the teachings of an influential thinker.[12][13] The term “philosophy” originates with the Greek, but all world civilizations have been found to have philosophical worldviews within them.[14] A modern example is postmodernists who argue against the grand narratives of earlier schools in favor of pluralism and epistemological and moral relativism.

3-Describes an appropriate research approach and design:

A- answer a particular research question. how to protect your account and email?

B-Qualitative Research Methods (e.g., Ethnographies)

4-Describes an appropriate research method:

A-Questions

B-Data collection

C-Data analysis

D-Interpretation

F-Write-up

G-Validation

H-Surveys

How many respondents do you need and what sampling method will you use (e.g. simple random or stratified sampling)?

How will you distribute the survey (e.g. in person, by post, online)?

How will you design the questionnaire (e.g. open or closed questions)?

5-Conclusion.

6-Write a 2-page paper (double-spaced, 12 point font, one-inch margin all around)

7-These are links about answer this question” how to protect your account and email?”

https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/cyber…

https://assets.pureinsurance.com/pdfs/Cybersecurit…

https://www.keepersecurity.com/assets/pdf/Keeper-P…

Part 1: Post a Response

Organizations from time to time must make hard decisions (expand, layoff employees or close a facility). As a manager you will have to use work experiences, advice from supervisors and the organizational culture to support your decision. Organizational culture is the sum of the values and beliefs shared among employees.

Suppose you are a manager who is faced with having to reduce headcount (layoff one of your two employees) in your unit. Sales within the company have declined due to the downward spiral of the economy each department within the organization is faced with making the same decision. Fortunately, you only have to cut one job; others are reducing more.

Mary is in her mid-20s, single, college graduate, she is very hard working and was in the top 10% of the performance ratings this year, she constantly volunteers to travel, work weekends and evenings. However, she supports political causes that could be viewed as contrary to the goals of the company.

Alice is in her mid-40s, has two young children, her husband is a doctor, her performance is good, and she has above average performance reviews. However, she has limited availability on weekends and limitations onovernight travel due to her volunteer work with local charities.

• As a manager who would you select to layoff and why?
• What other factors can be used to decide who gets laid off in organizations?
• How should an organization choose between a decision that is legal and in the best financial interests of the organization, but which could be viewed as unethical?

View the video below for guidance.

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Part 2: Respond to a Peer

Read a post by one of your peers and respond, making sure to extend the conversation by asking questions, offering rich ideas, or sharing personal connections.

Students Response:

As a manager, I would select Alice to layoff opposed to laying off Mary. Alice’s availability is limited and during this layoff period I believe it would beneficial to have someone with the availability that Mary offers to fill in and take on roles that may require more of her time at work. Other things I considered in making this decision was Mary is single and is a college graduate. While I want to avoid considering peoples circumstances in situations like these, but along with Mary’s hard-working and willing attitude, she is responsible for herself. She does not, from the mention, have secondary income so this could be difficult for her and could be discouraging to be laid off and to be such a hard-worker. I believe her political views could be worked through if I attempted to delve into that area a bit more with Mary. I believe that Alice might be in a better position to stand a lay-off, because although she has 2 children she does have second income with her husband’s career and her volunteer at local charities speaks opportunity to me. I can appreciate that Alice volunteers at charities however and that can speak a lot to the type of person she is. Alice might be willing to cut some of her time at the local charities if her work required her to be available more due to the lay off. But my decision would have to remain with laying Alice off. I am not sure if the details about each character and their life situations are meant to be a distraction but they worked if they are:) Because this was a tough one to choose, in my opinion.

Other factors that can be used to decide who gets laid off in organizations are seniority and maybe communication skills. These could be used as an advantage or a disadvantage.

One thing that comes to mind when I think of making a decision that is legal and in the best financial interest of the organization but could be viewed as unethical is discrimination when it comes to age. Someone that is young in age, no kids and has a degree of freedom that older individuals with children may not have could be viewed as an extreme positive. The younger individual could offer, in some cases not all, a higher level of energy and could be molded to perform the way their employer wishes for them to. Older individuals could be viewed as stubborn and not willing to change. Some one with children could be viewed as employee with an excuse always on hand. It might seem, on it’s face legal and in the best financial interest for the business to lean towards keeping an individual with more positive aspects but could definitely have an unethical swing to it if it’s not fully supported with facts and holds discriminatory attitudes as I’ve mentioned behind them towards other groups of people. These decisions have to be ethical and considerate to fair reasoning while being beneficial for the organization.

I look forward to reading everyone’s else’s decision on who to lay off and why. 🙂

Angel

What should we do?

We are Three Dog Industries, Inc., a small company in the central United States that services and repairs high tech equipment for organizations all over the world. The type of equipment varies but includes medical monitors, security monitors, and inventory tracking monitors used in warehouses.

When these items malfunction or come up for planned service, our customers send these items to us, and they are assessed, repaired if needed, serviced (to include updating software), cleaned, and sent back to our customers. We have 50 full-time employees that do the work on the equipment, and another 25 employees that conduct administrative tasks, to include shipping and receiving, sales, accounting, etc..

The 50 equipment repair employees are given a daily quota (usually three to four) of devices to work on, using three different models of diagnostic equipment (the FLTWD MC, the EA GLS, and the ZZT 03). The diagnostic equipment is rather expensive (~$50,000 per unit). Additionally, with technological innovations happening all of the time, the repair employees have to constantly train on how to repair the equipment coming in from the customers. This training is very technical and time-consuming, taking the employee off the repair floor during the training time. Finally, all completed work passes through a Quality and Assurance (Q&A) department to make sure the device is ready to send back to the customer in prime condition. If all employees meet their quota for a given day, the company breaks even, so exceeding quota is just gravy for the company, but not at the expense of poor work.

Our company has been trying to improve productivity during the last fiscal year and was authorized to pay a $100 per day bonus to any employee that exceed their daily quota. Unfortunately, the improvement on productivity was not as much as the executives had hoped for over the time of the study. The Chief of Operations has asked you to look over some data that she has collected to see if you can identify any factors that affect the number of days that the employees have exceeded their quota of devices to repair.

In this exercise, students provide a business decision recommendation using SAS and Excel. You will prepare and submit a business memorandum that provides a recommendation based on your analysis of the dataset provided. Your COO has told you that any course of action you develop should address the cost of implementation, the time to implement, and the quality of repair services. Cost and time are important, but the quality of work is twice as important. Poor quality equipment repair means losing customers.

Be sure to:

• Address the memo to your instructor, date the memo, provide a meaningful subject line.
• Clearly identify the issue. Concisely state the research question(s), and provide the statistical question(s) you hope to answer.
• Provide descriptive statistics of the dataset.
• Conduct your analysis.
• Discuss your findings. Include any meaningful tables, charts, or figures. Make sure you put a caption on any table, chart, or figure you include in your memo, and make sure you reference any table, chart, or figure you include in your discussion.
• Based on your assessment of the data provided, identify any course of actions that company could make to improve productivity. Be creative, but logical and reasonable? what can be done within the limited resources of the company? Examples of courses of action might include: 1) paying more money to each worker, 2) getting more customers, 3) firing the COO, etc. (By the way, those are all bad examples).

Remember to be clear and concise, do not exceed four pages, use 1″ margins on all sides, Calibri, size 11 font. Use the template provided.

Data Fields

• WorkerID = Worker Employee Identification Number
• QuotaPlus = Number of days that an employee exceeded their repair quota and earned a bonus
• YWC = The number of years the employee has worked with the company
• Salary = The annual salary of the employee before any bonuses
• Training = The number of hours that the employee attended a training session
• EquipAge = The number of years that the primary diagnostic equipment used by the employee has been in service.
• EquipType = The type of diagnostic equipment used by the employee. All three models do the same thing, they are just made by different manufacturers.

For this program you will use simulated annealing to solve a small example of a real-world problem.

(you will have 29 hours to complete the assignment)

Consider the problem of producing a university class schedule. Each course must be taught. It must have a room, and a time. Only one course can be taught in a room at a time. The room must be able to hold the expected number of students. It must have an instructor. Each instructor can teach any of several courses, but only those courses, and there is an upper limit on how many courses one instructor can teach. A course can be taught by an adjunct or graduate student (‘Staff’), but faculty are preferred for teaching. Finally, we may have additional preferences regarding scheduling; for example, if there are courses that are usually taken the same semester, we would prefer (but not require) that they be taught in adjacent time slots, and if they’re in adjacent time slots, that they be in rooms that are close together. If a course has multiple sections, those sections should be separated in time; it doesn’t make sense to have a 1 PM section, then a 2 PM section of the same course.

You are given a list of 12 courses. (Some of these may be multiple sections of the same course, but that doesn’t affect our problem here.) You also have a list of several faculty members, and the courses each can teach. You also have a list of available rooms and time slots. Your task is to use simulated annealing to devise a suitable teaching schedule.

In a production system, we’d probably want the program to read the various options (courses, instructors, etc) from input files, but for this assignment you can use input files or put the data directly into your source code.

Courses and expected enrollments are: CS 101A (40), CS 101B (25), CS 201A (30), CS 201B (30), CS 191A (60), CS 191B (20), CS 291B (40), CS 291A (20), CS 303 (50), CS 341 (40), CS 449 (55), CS 461 (40).

Instructors and what they can teach:

• Hare: CS 101, CS 201, CS 291, CS 303, CS 449, CS 461
• Bingham: CS 101, CS 201, CS 191, CS 291, CS 449
• Kuhail: CS 303, CS 341
• Mitchell: CS 191, CS 291, CS 303, CS 341
• Rao: CS 291, CS 303, CS 341, CS 461
• Staff: any

Time slots: 10A, 11A, 12P, 1P, 2P, 3P, 4P (We’re assuming these are all MWF courses)

Rooms and capacities: Haag 301 (70), Haag 206 (30), Royall 204 (70), Katz 209 (50), Flarsheim 310 (80), Flarsheim 260 (25), Bloch 0009 (30)

Fitness function:

Assign instructors, times, rooms, and courses. For your initial schedule, this will be random. Assess the fitness function as follows:

• For each course that is taught by an instructor who can teach it, other than Staff: +3
• For each course taught by Staff: +1
• For each course that is the only course scheduled in that room at that time: +5
• For each course that is in a room large enough to accommodate it: +5
  • Room capacity is no more than twice the expected enrollment: +2
• For each course that does not have the same instructor teaching another course at the same time: +5
• For each schedule that has the same instructor teaching more than 4 courses: -5 per course over 4
• For each schedule that has Rao or Mitchell (graduate faculty) teaching more courses than Hare or Bingham (same number of courses is OK): -10
• CS 101 and CS 191 are usually taken the same semester; the same applies to CS 201 and CS 291. Therefore apply these rules to those pairs of courses:
  • Courses are scheduled for same time: -15
  • Courses are scheduled for adjacent times: +5
  • if these courses are scheduled for adjacent times, and
    • Are in the same building: +5 points
    • Are both on the quad (Haag, Royall, Flarsheim): no modification
    • 1 is in Katz and the other isn’t: -3
      1 is in Bloch and the other isn’t: -3
      (Yes, if one’s in Katz and the other’s in Bloch, that’s -6)
• CS101A and CS101B are scheduled 3 hours apart or more: +5
• CS191A and CS191B are scheduled 3 hours apart or more: +5

Annealing Schedule: It’s necessary to assign instructor, time, and room to each of 12 courses, so there are 36 items to be assigned. Lower your temperature parameter after 400 successful changes to the schedule, or 4000 attempts. Continue until you make a complete pass (4000 attempts) with no changes. Print your final schedule to an output file, along with its fitness score.

You may want to try running your program several times and see how much variation there is in the schedule or fitness score across multiple runs. Likewise, you may want to change your annealing schedule to reduce the temperature more slowly (T = 0.95T rather than T = 0.9T) and explore the relationship between running time and the fitness of the final schedule.

You will have to write it in C++ language.