Calculate the present value of the company offer for each of the employee groups.
Instructions
· Please show your work in order to earn part marks.
· Answers must have correct units.
· Accuracy should be to the nearest dollar, percentages to the nearest 0.1%, and decimal equivalents to the nearest 0.0001.
· The assignment should be submitted in document format.
· Each of your final answers should be in statement form with correct notation.
Project Case
Should they go on strike?
Total 40 marks
The Situation It is time to negotiate a new contract with some of Lightning Wholesale’s unionized employees. The company believes in dealing fairly with its employees. Based on the current economic environment, cost of living increases, and the financial health of the organization, management feels that the best it can offer is a 3% wage increase. From its own analysis, the union believes that the company is holding out and that a 5.5% wage increase is more than possible. Unfortunately, negotiations have broken down, and the union has turned to its employee group seeking strike action. The union is certain of achieving its wage increase through the strike action, though it advises the employees that they may need to go on strike for three months to achieve the goal. The employees are trying to figure out their best course of action—should they vote to go on strike or not?
The Data
• The typical an employee in the unionized group currently earns $48,000 per year, which is paid out at the end of every month equally.
• Six employees have five years until retirement.
• Eight employees have 10 years until retirement.
• Nine employees have 15 years until retirement.
• Seven employees have 20 years until retirement.
Important Information
• During the three months that employees would be on strike, employees receive no wages from Lightning Wholesale.
• The time value of money is unknown, but employees have three annually compounded estimates of 6%, 5% and 4%.
• Assume employees make their strike vote according to their best financial outcome.
• The decision to go on strike is determined by the majority vote.
• No future wage increases are important when making this decision to strike or not.
Your Tasks
The employees are uncertain of the time value of money, so they need to run a few scenarios. Perform steps 1 through 3 below using EACH of the time value of money estimates as a different scenario. Determine the outcome of the strike vote (go on strike or not go on strike).
1. Calculate the present value of the company offer for each of the employee groups. (12 marks)
2. Calculate the present value of the union increase for each of the employee groups. (12 marks)
3. Cast the votes according to your results and determine the strike vote outcome under each time value of money possibility. (12 marks)
4. Management is trying to figure out the most likely outcome of the strike vote so that they can adjust their bargaining strategy if necessary. Based on the completed scenario analysis, what outcome should management plan on?
Are we born with morals or do we learn them? On what are your personal views of right and wrong based?
Students striving for a superlative grade should go far above and beyond the minimum requirements of the assignment.
Assignment:
View the short videos/articles:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
As the videos show, we all have some sense of our own morality. Are we born with morals or do we learn them? On what are your personal views of right and wrong based? Discussion must be 200+ words long.
discuss why you consider yourself more of either a ‘deontologist’ or ‘utilitarian.’
Deontology and Consequentialism (most often referred to as Utilitarianism) are two of the primary schools of ethical decision-making. After completing this week’s readings and viewing the videos, discuss why you consider yourself more of either a ‘deontologist’ or ‘utilitarian.’ Also, consider the following situation: You are walking through the woods and come to a clearing. You see 10 people standing at gun point. For our purposes, you know they are all equally innocent people (none deserve to die more than any other). The men with the guns inform you that they want you to pick one person that will die and then they will let the other 9 go free. If you do not choose, they all die. There are no other options such as choosing yourself (though a noble choice) or defeating the gunmen. Will you choose? If so, how? If not, how do you justify your decision?
Discussion must be 200+ words long.
Do you agree with ATN’s decision not to proceed with the cloud migration for the myTrendek application?
Assignment
Taking all of the information that we have discussed in our readings and the case study below, please prepare a 3-5 page analysis for your CIO which will be used to highlight potential risks within your organization.
In your analysis, you will need to perform independent research beyond the course text materials in order to discuss and explain the elements of your evaluation.
- Do you agree with ATN’s decision not to proceed with the cloud migration for the myTrendek application?
- Can the risks identified be responsibly mitigated?
- Are there other risks that your research identified?
You may find that an appendix with examples could be helpful in presenting your analysis.
Your analysis should include the following pieces:
- Cover page
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- References in APA format.
- Checklist or appendix if necessary
Respond
Answer the following questions in a substantive manner:
- Do you agree with ATN’s decision not to proceed with the cloud migration for the myTrendek application?
- Can the following risks be mitigated: no complex passwords; no encryption; data must be deleted after six months. Please explain.
How would you have decided if you were the boy’s mother or father?
Watch the short video:
Though it is old and a bit hokey, watch how various individuals make decisions in the video. Specifically, what ethical standards are each applying to make their decisions? Consider and discuss the decisions of the night watchman, the boy’s mother, the owner, the police officer, the boy, and Mr. Barker. How would you have decided if you were the boy’s mother or father? If you were the boy? Or, any other of the characters?
Discussion must be 200+ words long.
Compare and contrast THREE threats to cloud computing either from your textbook or independent research.
Threats to Cloud Computing
As you craft your initial post, you will be using information from your texts, along with conducting independent research with sources outside of the required texts. Start your discussion with the following:
- Compare and contrast THREE threats to cloud computing either from your textbook or independent research.
- Based on your research, of those three threats what threat do you feel poses the biggest risk to the cloud provider as well as the cloud customer?
- What countermeasures can be implemented to try to stop this threat?
- Do the countermeasures outlined impact operations?
- Pretend that you preparing to brief your team on this topic… In preparing for your discussion, how do the above factors impact negotiations between a cloud provider and customer?
Keep in Mind: You will need to perform independent research beyond the course text materials in order to discuss and explain the elements of a comprehensive and well-thought-out position. Consider all facets that are necessary to be proactive and successful in evaluating not only what is happening now, but also the potential future landscape.
What, according to you, are the necessary activities that a penetration tester needs to perform while conducting a penetration test to discover valid usernames?
Penetration Testing
What, according to you, are the necessary activities that a penetration tester needs to perform while conducting a penetration test to discover valid usernames?
Initial Post:
1. Do these activities change your approach if you are performing Black, White, or Grey Hat pen testing? How so? What would be different and why?
2. In today’s environment and culture, how important do you feel that enumerating valid usernames is? Compare and contrast these methods (used to obtain usernames) against sending phishing or whaling emails to gain access for example. In which scenarios would you need to perform either or both to accomplish your task?
Why is it difficult to estimate mega project (i.e., costs and benefits (i.e. airports, stadiums, etc.) costs and benefits?
Chapter. 5 Estimating Project Times and Costs
Chapter. 6 Developing a Project Plan
Initial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- Why is it difficult to estimate mega project (i.e., costs and benefits (i.e. airports, stadiums, etc.) costs and benefits?
- Define what a “white elephant” is in project management? Provide a real life example.
- Why bother creating a WBS? Why not go straight to a project network and forget the WBS?
Text-
Title: Project Management: The Managerial Process
ISBN: 9781260238860
Authors: Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. Larson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication Date: 2020-01-09
From a stakeholder perspective, how does power relate to and impact interests, influence, and knowledge?
Assigned Readings:
Chapter 3 – Prioritizing Stakeholders
Initial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- From a stakeholder perspective, how does power relate to and impact interests, influence, and knowledge?
Text
Title: Managing Project Stakeholders
ISBN: 9781118504277
Authors: Tres Roeder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Date: 2013-04-22
If you have team members that are taking more of a ‘descriptive role’ or ‘non-supportive role,’ how do you plan on managing that?
When acquiring resources and preparing to implement a project, team members can or will take on one of two roles: “Supportive Roles” or “Destructive Roles”. The project manager must be cognizant of both types of roles, so he/she can manage them.
The simulation exercises in this course are done as teams(Assume there are 4 team members in the project). State the team number assigned to you, the names of your team members, and the method(s) your team have decided to collaborate for the simulation decisions. When was the last date and time you met with your team members? If you have team members that are taking more of a ‘descrictive role’ or ‘non-supportive role,’ how do you plan on managing that?
Text
Title: Project Management
ISBN: 9780134730332
Authors: Pinto
Publisher: Pearson
Edition: 5TH 19
