How would they support your quest to help companies make the most informed decisions in the fields you have selected?
By now you have learned that decision science applies math and technology to solve business problems, involving analysis, visualization, and algorithmic/mathematical computations to extract insights in response to clearly defined business problems. For this discussion question, you will serve as a new decision scientist.
Select a field (i.e., advertising and marketing, human resources, insurance and supply chain management, logistics) and imagine that you are equipping yourself with the tools you will need to help companies make decisions within that field.
Pull an internet search for the many tools available.
Find at least three tools that you would seriously consider using as a new decision scientist.
List these and include hyperlinks to each.
Respond to the following prompts:
What is it about these tools that intrigued you?
How would they support your quest to help companies make the most informed decisions in the fields you have selected?
Explain why governments use fund accounting
Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation, with speaker notes, to a nonfinancial audience explaining how increasing scrutiny and demand for accountability by the public has influenced reporting for governmental entities.
Explain why governments use fund accounting.
Analyze the importance of budget and control of government resources.
Explain how the GASB revenue and expense recognition model may improve the usefulness of the information governments report to the public.
Define statesmanship and explain the necessary personal skills and statecraft needed to successfully achieve statesmanship.
Define statesmanship and apply it to the Public Administration context. In doing so, discuss the following relevant factors: 1) constitutionalism, 2) representative democracy, and 3) the necessary personal skills and statecraft needed to successfully achieve statesmanship.
Integrate Biblical principles in your responses, both initial
Textbook Readings
Watch Alex Laskeys speech entitled How behavioral science can lower your energy bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJ08wOqloc. Describe the types of evidence he employs to try to persuade his audience?
For this discussion board, you will Watch Alex Laskeys speech entitled How behavioral science can lower your energy bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJ08wOqloc. Describe the types of evidence he employs to try to persuade his audience?
2.Second, how does he establish his credibility during the speech?
3.Third, what types of appeals does he include in his speeches? (Ethos, pathos, logos).
4. Fourth, did you find his speech effective, and if so, why?
Identify the leadership factors most important to group morale and discuss the links between morale and performance.
Effective management is crucial for any leader/manager.
Identify the leadership factors most important to group morale and discuss the links between morale and performance. How might this affect political appointees who may not know the organizational processes and/or culture of their agency? Include at least one source which can be your textbook. 75-100 words.
This week we reviewed chief executives and the challenges of administrative leadership. Find a contemporary news story about a prominent public official who faced leadership challenges and was ousted from office. Suggested sites on which to find credible news include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, or NPR, just to name a few. Provide a summary of the situation, using concepts described in this weeks chapter. What were the factors that lead to the officials downfall?
Explore the counselor role of client advocacy. What areas of advocacy are needed for this population and why are these necessary?
Explore the counselor role of client advocacy. The student will research the following topics and post their responses in a blog: help seeking behaviors, the marginalization of a specific population, and the characteristics of a specific population. The student is required to utilize and list at least 4 sources in constructing their responses to pre-set questions in a blog.
1) What are the characteristics of this population?
2) What factors impact the marginalization of this population?
3) What are the help seeking needs of this population?
4) What areas of advocacy are needed for this population and why are these necessary?
5). What plan would you implement to address client advocacy needs in this population.
One of your customers is delinquent on his accounts payable balance. Youve mutually agreed to a repayment schedule of $500 per month. You will charge 1.40 percent per month interest on the overdue balance. If the current balance is $13,000, how long will it take for the account to be paid off?
One of your customers is delinquent on his accounts payable balance. Youve mutually agreed to a repayment schedule of $500 per month. You will charge 1.40 percent per month interest on the overdue balance.
If the current balance is $13,000, how long will it take for the account to be paid off? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))
Explain each component of the transactional communication model
Question 1:
You are attending a town council meeting where you meet community leader Fran Richardson who is influential in the transportation business. You and Richardson obviously have a lot in common and your conversation is animated and friendly. As a manager in an engineering firm, you know that Richardson could be a valuable contact. Your conversation is interrupted with the start of the meeting. Richardson says to you, Lets meet for lunch. Ill call you soon.
Respond: Analyze Richardsons message from multiple perspectives, focusing on word choice and content. How could this message be interpreted? In your analysis, include the criteria for media richness, a discussion of multiple clues, message tailoring, and emotional context.
Create a response (to be delivered after the meeting) that communicates your interest and will increase the opportunity for meeting Fran again.
Evaluate your response in terms of media richness
Question 2
Transactional Communication Model. Please respond to the following:
Apply the transactional communication model to the previous scenario, when you met community leader Fran Richardson. Using each of the models elements:
Explain each component of the transactional communication model.
Assess how each element listed below influences the interpretation of a messages meaning:
Sender
Receiver
Channel
Message
Feedback
Noise
Context
Simultaneous and Continuous
In your response to Fran Richardson, which element of the transactional model would be the most difficult to get right? Why?
Question 3
Research the Internet and find an organizational leader, politician, or corporate executive who has framed a business message in such a negative way that he or she has jeopardized his/her reputation. Be sure to give references accordingly. 2 pages maximum for question 3.
A researcher wanted to know if there was a significant difference in cyber security breaches between cities on two different continents. What test should he conduct to determine if there is a significant difference in cyber security breaches between the continents?
A researcher wanted to know if there was a significant difference in cyber security breaches between cities on two different continents. What test should he conduct to determine if there is a significant difference in cyber security breaches between the continents? Write up the results and determine what do the results mean?
Here is the data set:
Asia
Europe
40
25
52
35
63
20
70
18
25
19
19
14
11
9
: In Excel write data analysis
Results are to be written in excel
power overstretch; what insights might we take from your example and what generalized hypotheses might you suggest?
Answer each question with properly citation and NOT plagiarisms and good grammar. minim 350 words
Question 1-
Power Overstretch
Give an example of power overstretch; what insights might we take from your example and what generalized hypotheses might you suggest?
Question 2-
Representative democracy is an anachronism in the Web 2.0 world; the correct way to run a polity is by the use of electronic digitized technologies such as crowdsourcing. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain.
