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 you’ve 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 you’ve 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” brand—one that stands for something more than selling stuff—you 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 Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business’s reputation has been built on turning out the world’s 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 school—as does Jeff Raider, the third Warby cofounder, who went on to help hatch Harry’s, 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. It’s January 2018. The 31-year-old MBA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s 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 handle—such 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: You’d order online, set your replacement-head frequency, and forget about it. Also, Bristle brushes are friendlier looking than, say, Oral-B’s 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? 
2#  
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?

Presidential Election Despite commonly held beliefs about the popularity of presidents, presidents are elected by the Electoral College. This uniquely American institution consists of representatives of each state who cast the final ballots that actually elect the president. The total number of electors for each state is equal to the number of senators and representatives from that state in the U.S. Congress. The District of Columbia is accorded three electoral votes bringing the total number of votes to 538. Thus, the magic number for winning the presidency is 270 votes.   Research the most recent presidential election using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet and write a paper on the topic. Include the following in your paper:   Identify the major issues of concern to voters and compare how each presidential candidate addressed those issues. Summarize information relevant to the issues and the election.

Presidential Election
Despite commonly held beliefs about the popularity of presidents, presidents are elected by the Electoral College. This uniquely American institution consists of representatives of each state who cast the final ballots that actually elect the president. The total number of electors for each state is equal to the number of senators and representatives from that state in the U.S. Congress. The District of Columbia is accorded three electoral votes bringing the total number of votes to 538. Thus, the magic number for winning the presidency is 270 votes.
 
Research the most recent presidential election using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet and write a paper on the topic. Include the following in your paper:
 

Identify the major issues of concern to voters and compare how each presidential candidate addressed those issues.
Summarize information relevant to the issues and the election.
Evaluate the validity of each candidate’s arguments.
Cite your sources and prepare a title and reference page according to APA standards.

 
Write a 2–4-body page paper in Word format (excluding title and reference pages). Apply APA standards for writing style to your work while including intext-citation, with seperate TITLE and REFERENCE Page.

What are the specific concerns for supply chain design have been related to cost efficiency and on-shelf availability? Describe some emerging issues or new factors that might become increasingly critical, such as traffic congestion in urban areas, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions? What are the transportation concerns?

 Week 4 DiscussionAfter reading the Future Supply Chain article (located in Documents and Resources) by Wednesday post your first response, answering the following questions, and on two of the following days (Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday) respond thoughtfully to two of your classmates. Consider the organization that you used for Assignment 1 and answer these questions using that organization for context. Initial post of 300 to 500 words by Wednesday, subsequent graduate level posts to two different students on two different days of at least 100 words.Questions:

What are the specific concerns for supply chain design have been related to cost efficiency and on-shelf availability?
Describe some emerging issues or new factors that might become increasingly critical, such as traffic congestion in urban areas, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions?
What are the transportation concerns?
What other concerns did you think of when reading this above article?

Ethics and Information Management Using Campbellsville University library and/or other sources, read at least four (4) academically reviewed articles on the ethical issues that may arise in information management. Please note that Wikipedia articles will not be accepted for this discussion. 1.    Write a comparative analysis of the articles noting the similarities and differences.

 
Ethics and Information Management
Using Campbellsville University library and/or other sources, read at least four (4) academically reviewed articles on the ethical issues that may arise in information management. Please note that Wikipedia articles will not be accepted for this discussion.
1.    Write a comparative analysis of the articles noting the similarities and differences.
2.    Compare the information in those articles to the materials in Chapter 14 of your textbook. Does the premise of those articles support the overall theme of the materials in Chapter 14 of your textbook? Why or why not?
3.    Discuss what you learned from those articles. In your discussion, give example(s) of your organization handles ethic concerns as they relate to information management.