write a minimum 2-page report on Management decision-making in an organization and how managers make decisions supporting Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives even if it conflicts with growth or profitability measures. Include an example of where a major organization has prioritized decisions surrounding CSR over shareholder value.
write a minimum 2-page report on Management decision-making in an organization and how managers make decisions supporting Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives even if it conflicts with growth or profitability measures. Include an example of where a major organization has prioritized decisions surrounding CSR over shareholder value. Also, speak to your own personal belief on how to balance CSR decisions when they may conflict with financial outcomes.
Define self-care. What is this agency’s philosophy toward self-care? Evaluate how this philosophy benefits the staff and the work they do with clients. Discuss ramifications when self-care is not used in the human services profession.
Complete Part II of Stories of Transformative Leadership in the Human
Services
Define self-care. What is this agency’s philosophy toward self-care? Evaluate how this philosophy benefits the staff and the work they do with clients. Discuss ramifications when self-care is not used in the human services profession.
This agency functions better than the agency described in Part I. How much of this has to do with values? Where do their values differ? Where do their values overlap? How much of the agency’s success in Part II is based on implementation of values?
Describe the role staff self-awareness plays in their success.
The agency in Part II created a certain set of principles for their professional lives. Provide three examples of these, and explain how they benefited the staff. How might these benefit you?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
Using your own words, describe the difference between an experimental study, an observational study, and a comparative study. What sorts of questions are they each suited for? Give an example of each type of study from the Adaptation lecture or the textbook. 2. What is an evolutionary trade-off? Why do they occur? Give two examples. How does the occurrence of trade-offs illuminate the general question of whether all traits are adaptive?
BI 310
Evolution
Problem Set II
Answer each of the following questions (10 points each; 100 points total).
1. Using your own words, describe the difference between an experimental study, an observational study, and a comparative study. What sorts of questions are they each suited for? Give an example of each type of study from the Adaptation lecture or the textbook.
2. What is an evolutionary trade-off? Why do they occur? Give two examples. How does the occurrence of trade-offs illuminate the general question of whether all traits are adaptive?
3. Males in many species often attempt to mate with strikingly inappropriate partners. Ryan (1985) describes the túngara frogs clasping other males. Some orchids mimic female wasps and are pollinated by amorous male wasps – who have to be fooled twice for the strategy to work. Would a female túngara or a female wasp make the same mistake? Why or why not? (Think of general explanations that are applicable to a wide range of species.)
4. The graphs in the figure below show the variation in lifetime reproductive success of male versus female elephant seals (Le Boeuf and Reiter, 1988). Note that the scales on the horizontal axes are different. Why is the variation in reproductive success so much more extreme in males than females? Draw a graph showing your hypothesis for the relationship between number of mates and reproductive success for male and female elephant seals. Why do you think male elephant seals are four times larger than females? Why aren’t males even bigger?
5. When a Thomson’s gazelle detects a stalking cheetah, the gazelle often begins bouncing up and down with a stiff-legged gait called stotting (see figure below). Stotting was originally assumed to be an altruistic behavior that distracts the cheetah from the gazelle’s kin and also alerts the gazelle’s kin to the presence of the predator, at considerable risk to the stotting gazelle. However, T.M. Caro (1986, 1994) reports that stotting does not seem to increase the gazelle’s risk of being attacked. In fact, once a gazelle begins to stott, the cheetah often gives up the hunt. a) If Caro is right, how does
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(the cost of stotting) for a gazelle compare to
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(the cost of trilling, a.k.a. alarm calls) for a Belding’s ground squirrel? b) Do you think stotting is altruistic, selfish, spiteful, or cooperative (mutualistic)? If you are not sure, what further studies could you do to answer this question?
6. With respect to mutualisms, what is “the cheater problem”?
7. What are Batesian mimicry and Müllerian mimicry?
8. After a gene is duplicated, what eventual evolutionary outcomes are possible? What is the most likely outcome?
9. Codon bias is a phenomenon whereby certain codons are substituted more often in phylogenetic lineages than other (synonymous) codons that encode the same amino acid. What might account for codon bias?
10. What is reinforcement? Is it an example of genetic drift, natural selection, or sexual selection?
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Cameron Industries is purchasing a new chemical vapor depositor in order to make silicon chips. It will cost $6 million to buy the machine and $10,000 to have it delivered and installed. Building a clean room in the plant for the machine will cost an additional $3 million. The machine is expected to have a working life of six years. If straight-line depreciation is used, what are the yearly depreciation expenses in this case? $1,000,000 $1,001,667 $1,500,000 $1,501,667
Cameron Industries is purchasing a new chemical vapor depositor in order to make silicon chips. It will cost $6 million to buy the machine and $10,000 to have it delivered and installed. Building a clean room in the plant for the machine will cost an additional $3 million. The machine is expected to have a working life of six years. If straight-line depreciation is used, what are the yearly depreciation expenses in this case?
$1,000,000
$1,001,667
$1,500,000
$1,501,667
You have just been appointed the new supervisor for a team of 15 employees within a large manufacturing company. Your team includes all exempt employees within the marketing and promotions department. Although you have never worked in this department before, you are excited to have the opportunity to work with a very diverse team of creative professionals. Your first task is to make the supervisory transition so that you can successfully lead this team. 1.What are your critical roles and responsibilities relative to supervising the team? 2.What challenges and limitations might your leadership style involve? 3.How will you communicate with your employees?
You have just been appointed the new supervisor for a team of 15 employees within a large manufacturing company. Your team includes all exempt employees within the marketing and promotions department. Although you have never worked in this department before, you are excited to have the opportunity to work with a very diverse team of creative professionals. Your first task is to make the supervisory transition so that you can successfully lead this team.
1.What are your critical roles and responsibilities relative to supervising the team?
2.What challenges and limitations might your leadership style involve?
3.How will you communicate with your employees?
4.How you will motivate and inspire performance from your team?
5.What tools you will use to problem-solve and make the tough supervisory decisions?
6.How will you address a disciplinary problem should one arise from a member of your team?
Support your paper with a minimum of four (4) resources, which may include your required text(s). In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
Length: 6-8 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA 6th edition standards, including the proper reference page.
Suggested articles:
Berkley HR. (n.d.). Skill development: Resources for supervisors & managers. Managing your developmental experiences as a supervisor/manager.http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/learning/career-development/skill-development/resources-supervisors
County of San Mateo Human Resources Department. (n.d.). How to set SMART goals: Guide for supervisors and employees.https://hr.smcgov.org/how-set-smart-goals-guide-supervisors-and-employees
Management Study Guide. (n.d.). Functions of a supervisor.http://www.managementstudyguide.com/functions_of_supervisor.htm
Describe the major differences between acute pain and chronic pain, and how they would be treated differently. Explain the gate-control theory of pain and how this helps us understand chronic pain. Describe how you would measure pain. Describe the differences between nociception, pain, pain behavior, and suffering. Find and illustrate examples of how people can have nociception without pain, pain without pain behavior, and pain without suffering.
Describe the major differences between acute pain and chronic pain, and how they would be treated differently.
Explain the gate-control theory of pain and how this helps us understand chronic pain.
Describe how you would measure pain.
Describe the differences between nociception, pain, pain behavior, and suffering. Find and illustrate examples of how people can have nociception without pain, pain without pain behavior, and pain without suffering.
Explain how psychological states such as anxiety and depression influence the development of chronic pain.
What has been reported in the literature about sociocultural differences in pain perception?
The direct-to-consumer (DTC) space is viciously competitive and yet extremely exciting to watch as hundreds of products from razors to mattresses are attempting to dominate this space. This market has come to fruition with the invention of the Internet and mass distribution of PCs and mobile devices. The appeal of the DTC movement goes like this: By selling directly to consumers online, you can avoid exorbitant retail markups and therefore afford to offer some combination of better design, quality, service, and lower prices because youve cut out the intermediary.Why does DTC allow a company to offer products at a lower cost than traditional manufactures? 2. What is the relationship between disintermediation and a DTC business model? 3. What types of Clickstream analytics will a DTC business want to monitor on its website to ensure success? 4. D
Read Closing Case Two: Direct-to-Consumer: The Warby Parker Way (Highlighted in Yellow) and respond to the four questions below (note that the chapter in text only has three questions). Be sure to use the Rubric as a guide to the requirements.
CLOSING CASE TWO
Direct-to-Consumer: The Warby Parker Way
The direct-to-consumer (DTC) space is viciously competitive and yet extremely exciting to watch as hundreds of products from razors to mattresses are attempting to dominate this space. This market has come to fruition with the invention of the Internet and mass distribution of PCs and mobile devices. The appeal of the DTC movement goes like this: By selling directly to consumers online, you can avoid exorbitant retail markups and therefore afford to offer some combination of better design, quality, service, and lower prices because youve cut out the intermediary.Why does DTC allow a company to offer products at a lower cost than traditional manufactures?
2. What is the relationship between disintermediation and a DTC business model?
3. What types of Clickstream analytics will a DTC business want to monitor on its website to ensure success?
4. Discuss a startup that has caught your attention over this past year. Briefly describe the startup and what it expects to accomplish is it in the AI industry? the IoT industry? or?
By connecting directly with consumers online, you can also better control your messages to them and, in turn, gather data about their purchase behavior, thereby enabling you to build a smarter product engine. If you do this while developing an authentic brandone that stands for something more than selling stuffyou can effectively steal the future out from under giant legacy corporations. There are now an estimated 400-plus DTC start-ups that have collectively raised some $3 billion in venture capital since 2012.
For most of its history, University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School of Businesss reputation has been built on turning out the worlds finest spreadsheet jockeys. But a few years ago, four students met at Wharton and started a company that would help ignite a start-up revolution: Warby Parker. The concept: selling eyeglasses directly to consumers online. Few thought the idea would work, but today Warby is valued at $1.75 billion, and its founding story has become a fairy tale at Wharton. Cofounders and co-CEOs Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa give guest lectures at the business schoolas does Jeff Raider, the third Warby cofounder, who went on to help hatch Harrys, a DTC razor brand. Professors, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs are fueling an entire generation of Warby Parkers.
James McKean wants to revolutionize the manual toothbrush. Its January 2018. The 31-year-old MBA candidate at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School whirls his laptop around to show me the prototype designs. Bristle, as the product might be called, has a detachable head and a colorful pattern on the handlesuch as faux woodgrain, flowers, or plaid. Customers would pay somewhere around $15 for their first purchase and then get replacement heads, at $3 or $4 a pop, through a subscription service.
There are a few reasons McKean likes this plan. A Bristle subscription would be more convenient than going to CVS when you need a new toothbrush: Youd order online, set your replacement-head frequency, and forget about it. Also, Bristle brushes are friendlier looking than, say, Oral-Bs spaceshiplike aesthetic. Who knows what product will be launched next as over 400 start-ups begin tackling this market with products from toothbrushes to strollers?
Questions:
1. Why does DTC allow a company to offer products at a lower cost than traditional manufactures?
2. What is the relationship between disintermediation and a DTC business model?
3. What types of Clickstream analytics will a DTC business want to monitor on its website to ensure success?
4. Discuss a startup that has caught your attention over this past year. Briefly describe the startup and what it expects to accomplish is it in the AI industry? the IoT industry? or?
Your paper should include an introduction and responses to the four question in a paper format. Please do not bullet points for your answers and do not list the case questions. Consider using subheadings and write a paper that flows from paragraph to paragraph. Use APA format (double-spaced) and cite any resources
Required Elements of the Closing Case Two: Direct to Consumer:
· Title page with your name, course, title, and date
· Responses that reflect your understanding of each of the four questions
· Writing is coherent and supports the central idea in an APA format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Because of the human aspect of ethics and its links to business success, corporate leaders must be careful about their behaviors, and how they address problems. For this assignment, you must select the code of ethical conduct for one (1) of the following restaurants: As a basis for your written assignment, you will assume that you are the CEO of your chosen restaurant. Be sure to identify the restaurant you have chosen in your written paper. Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you: Describe key areas of the selected company’s code of conduct that are of significant importance to the business, and explain why. Explain the key steps that the company should take to ensure that employees follow the code of conduct. Suggest three (3) ways in which the restaurant can engage in socially responsive activities in the community within which it operates.
Assignment 2: Ethical and Socially Responsive Business
Due Week 10 and worth 120 points
Because of the human aspect of ethics and its links to business success, corporate leaders must be careful about their behaviors, and how they address problems. For this assignment, you must select the code of ethical conduct for one (1) of the following restaurants:
As a basis for your written assignment, you will assume that you are the CEO of your chosen restaurant. Be sure to identify the restaurant you have chosen in your written paper.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
Describe key areas of the selected company’s code of conduct that are of significant importance to the business, and explain why.
Explain the key steps that the company should take to ensure that employees follow the code of conduct.
Suggest three (3) ways in which the restaurant can engage in socially responsive activities in the community within which it operates.
Use at least two (2) quality resources. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as a quality resource.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Discuss the roles of ethics and social responsibilities in business.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in business.
Write clearly and concisely about business issues using proper writing mechanics.
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 has had an impact on assessment of children with disabilities. School districts must test at least 95% of students with disabilities and incorporate their test scores into school ratings (Wortham, 2012, p. 18). There are some who feel that this measure is important to ensure all children receive a quality education, while others feel that this places students with disabilities at a disadvantage. Which category would you place yourself in and why? Do you feel that research-based programs like Response to Intervention (RTI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) support early intervention for children with developmental delays well enough to hold them accountable for these assessments? Why or why not?
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 has had an impact on assessment of children with disabilities. School districts must test at least 95% of students with disabilities and incorporate their test scores into school ratings (Wortham, 2012, p. 18). There are some who feel that this measure is important to ensure all children receive a quality education, while others feel that this places students with disabilities at a disadvantage. Which category would you place yourself in and why? Do you feel that research-based programs like Response to Intervention (RTI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) support early intervention for children with developmental delays well enough to hold them accountable for these assessments? Why or why not?
Journal Options:
A written reflection
Assignment must be at least 300 words.
References
Berns, R.M. (2013). Child, family, school, community: Socialization and support (9th ed.). Belmont, CA. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Morrison, G. (2009). Early childhood education today. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Wortham, S.C. (2012). Assessment in early childhood education (6th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Here is a video regarding the steps of RTI:
§ EducationalImpact. (2012). Mastering RTI: Response to intervention A step-by-step approach [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtGHJncXDy4&feature=youtu.be
Here is a video that provides an overview of UDL:
§ UDLCenter. (2010). UDL: Principles and practice [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGLTJw0GSxk&feature=share&list=PLSoSkHi93VQBmuI2JDxwkey1wk2j9tj4O
To be honest, my last job was about four years ago when I was working for a call center so my memory of my last performance evaluation, but I will do my best to answer the questions. When they did their evaluation they listened in on one of your calls to see if you were adequately answering the calls’ concerns about their mortgage and if you were not disrespectful or showing any attitudes or tones while doing so. They also ensured you followed protocol when confirming they were the people that could talk about that information on the mortgage so we were not giving out someone’s information. After they listen to the call they would call you to their office and let you know what you did wrong or if you need to fix anything, they also made sure to let you know what you did right and made sure you had positive feedback. I think to keep employees you need also to make sure you are letting them know they are doing good because no one likes to get negative feedback. Do you think that it is important to show positive feedback as well as negative feedback?
In response to your peers, suggest ways to apply the evaluation or evaluation process to future work performance.
1# To be honest, my last job was about four years ago when I was working for a call center so my memory of my last performance evaluation, but I will do my best to answer the questions. When they did their evaluation they listened in on one of your calls to see if you were adequately answering the calls’ concerns about their mortgage and if you were not disrespectful or showing any attitudes or tones while doing so. They also ensured you followed protocol when confirming they were the people that could talk about that information on the mortgage so we were not giving out someone’s information. After they listen to the call they would call you to their office and let you know what you did wrong or if you need to fix anything, they also made sure to let you know what you did right and made sure you had positive feedback. I think to keep employees you need also to make sure you are letting them know they are doing good because no one likes to get negative feedback. Do you think that it is important to show positive feedback as well as negative feedback?
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My most recent performance evaluation involved a meeting with my supervisor at my current job to discuss my goals, accomplishments, and areas for improvement. They had decided I showed enough initiative and promised to be considered for a promotion and a raise. I went from an entry-level front-of-house staff to a shift lead supervisor. We also reviewed the new things I would have to learn for the new position and what would be expected of me, and my supervisor provided feedback on my performance. It was a helpful process to reflect on my work and set new goals for the future. I also had the opportunity to provide input and feedback on any concerns or issues. My supervisor actively listened and addressed my concerns, ensuring my perspective was valued in the evaluation process. It was a collaborative and constructive experience. This evaluation was super helpful in introducing me to the new role I would soon be undertaking and clarifying my work expectations and priorities. It helped me prioritize my tasks and goals and guided me on where to focus my efforts and how to align them with the organization’s objectives.
Do you think an evaluation is the time to introduce an employee to a new position?
