Author: chris

laucon (Ring of Gyges) says that we obey the laws only from fear of punishment. Provide four reasons for obeying the law or ethical principles that do not involve punishment or reward.Is there a difference between people who obey the law out of fear and those who obey the law out of a sense of duty or character?What are those differences?When is it acceptable not to obey the laws?What types of laws ought we obey and which ought we disregard? Be sure to back up your answers with information you have learned from the readings in the week.

Effective management of human resources contributes to mission accomplishment and vision achievement. Given that a vision is the future preferred status for an organization, it is critical to align people with the processes and resources necessary to propel the organization forward. As easy as this may seem to the uninformed, there are many challenges as pressure is applied to consistently reduce costs while delivering superior goods and or services.

Whether you are part of a small entrepreneurial start up, a civil servant with a mature and large government entity, or a volunteer for a non-profit organization, someone is fulfilling the role of HR oversight. No matter what type of organization you are working for the HR functions typically associated with building human capital are: analysis and design of work, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, employee relations, personnel policies, compliance with laws, and strategies for supporting the mission.

This assignment is designed to integrate the reflection of personal experience, and the information covered in the textbook. Assuming you are Juanita, answer the following questions:

• How can human resource management strategically contribute to the organization’s mission and vision on a daily basis?
• What skills might Juanita have to develop to better fulfill her role?
• How might Juanita engage line managers to become more involved in what has traditionally been HR’s function in this organization? Why?
• Which aspects of human resource management would she want to entrust to specialists? Why?

Writing Assignment

Read the Case: TSA and do the following:

• Summarize the case in 1-2 paragraphs.
• Explain which of the HR practices described in the case you think contribute to greater efficiency and effectiveness of TSA employees. Why? Recommend at least two other practices which could be employed to increase efficiency and effectiveness of TSA employees. Justify your response.
• Explain which of the HR practices described in the case you think can contribute to ethical behavior by TSA employees. Why? Recommend at least two other practices which could be employed to encourage ethical behavior of TSA employees. Justify your response.
•  Explain at least 3 practices you would recommend to ensure TSA follows equal employment guidelines. Justify your response.

This is a two paged double spaced theme analysis paper about “vision” in darkroom, a graphic novel by Lila Quintero. I am trying to focus on how her perspective changes throughout the book. An example would be her adding her eyes throughout the book to show that her growth and what she learned or seen that changed her perspective. Another example of vision of be her vision of the imagined. During the civil rights movement protest, she included an image of a black protester’s eyes in fear. I think it meant how she could picture those imagined scenes because she wasn’t there physically at the civil rights movement. Please elaborate more on it, you might have to read few pages of the book which can also be downloaded online for free. Thank you.

It is critical to make the best of every interaction with the customer.

Analyze the key elements of buying products through customer service or direct services from the Coca Cola Company.

Create a blueprint (diagram) for Coca Cola detailing the service delivery process involving the frontline employee–customer contacts before, during, and after the purchase. Each contact should be clearly identified and deliberated.

On the basis of the blueprint, select possible contact point failures where you would create improvements in the form of new or improved services. Why do you consider these to be contact point failures?

For these contact point failures, identify and analyze at least two areas for improvement or creation of new services. Why are you suggesting these areas? How will customers benefit by improving these areas or creating new services?

In addition, write a statement positioning the brand around the new or improved services.

• Present your analysis as a 6-page report in a Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
• On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.

 

Considering the definition of “point estimate,” used in determination of an “interval estimate” (construction of a confidence interval) for an unknown population parameter, determine just the numerical value of the point estimate for a sample of your choice when

an “interval estimate” for the unknown population mean is of interest.

an “interval estimate” for the unknown population proportion is of interest.

NOTE: You may consider either one sample or two different samples with the size(s) of your choice. For the proportion case you may consider gender, if people are involved in your sample; or, you may consider “defective” and “non-defective” if members of your sample are, say, calculators.

When you construct a 95% confidence interval, what are you 95% confident about?

All other things remaining the same, is a 90% confidence interval narrower or wider than a 95% confidence interval? Briefly and clearly explain your answer. HINT: Think of the corresponding margins of error (or error bounds).

All other things remaining the same, what is the impact of an increase in sample size on the width of the confidence interval? Explain your answer briefly and clearly.

Briefly,

compare the Z-distribution with Student’s t-distribution (t-distribution), focusing on the four attributes of probability distributions (random variable name, behavior [curve], mean, and standard deviation).

compare the format of the Z-table with that of the t-table, focusing on the fundamental differences in format and the information involved.

Briefly answer the following questions:

When should we use the t-table, instead of the Z-table, while constructing confidence intervals or conducting tests of hypotheses.

When must the requirement of the normality (or approximate normality) of the population distribution be met when we use Z or t?

What would be the impact on the confidence interval, if a mistake is made and Z table is used instead of the t-table? Support your answer with a brief description and/or computation. HINT: Examine the superimposed graphs of Z-distribution and t-distribution given in Lane, and focus on the relative magnitudes of Za/2 and ta/2, each being a factor in the margin of error (error bound).

(Show your work.) In a recent Zogby International Poll, nine of 48 respondents rated the likelihood of a terrorist attack in their community as “likely” or “very likely.”

Use the “plus four” method, as explained by Illowsky, to create a 97% confidence interval for the proportion of American adults who believe that a terrorist attack in their community is likely or very likely.

Explain what this confidence interval means in the context of the problem.

You can use the statistical tables provided on LEO (Content > Course Resources > Statistical Resources).

(Show your work.) A Nissan Motor Corporation advertisement read: “The average man’s I.Q. is 107. The average brown trout’s I.Q. is 4. So why can’t man catch brown trout?” Suppose you believe that the brown trout’s mean I.Q. is greater than four. You catch 12 brown trout. A fish psychologist determines the I.Q.s as follows: 5; 4; 7; 3; 6; 4; 5; 3; 6; 3; 8; 5. Conduct a hypothesis test of your belief. Use a significant level of 5%. The standard deviation of the I.Q.s listed is approximately 1.62. You can use the statistical tables provided on LEO (Content > Course Resources > Statistical Resources).

(Show your work.) According to the Center for Disease Control website, in 2011 at least 18% of high school students have smoked a cigarette. An Introduction to Statistics class in Davies County, KY conducted a hypothesis test at the local high school (a medium sized–approximately 1,200 students–small city demographic) to determine if the local high school’s percentage was lower. One hundred fifty students were chosen at random and surveyed. Of the 150 students surveyed, 82 have smoked. Use a significance level of 0.05 and using appropriate statistical evidence, conduct a hypothesis test and state the conclusions. You can use the statistical tables provided on LEO (Content > Course Resources > Statistical Resources).

(Show your work.) A study is done to determine if students in the California state university system take longer to graduate, on average, than students enrolled in private universities. One hundred students from both the California state university system and private universities are surveyed. Suppose that from years of research, it is known that the population standard deviations are 1.5811 years and 1 year, respectively. The following data are collected. The California state university system students took on average 4.5 years with a standard deviation of 0.8. The private university students took on average 4.1 years with a standard deviation of 0.3. What would be your conclusions based on significance levels of 5% and 1%? You can use the statistical tables provided on LEO (Content > Course Resources > Statistical Resources).

Here are the instructions that need to be followed to the tee! There is no room for error on this assignment. It needs to be done exactly as requested in the instructions. Please follow the link highlighted in blue!! I have also provided two sample papers of exactly how this assignment must be done per the instructor so please feel free to view them as a guide. Thank you!!

My course book is

Mills, G. E. (2014). Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher. (5^th Ed). Pearson Education Inc.

 

 

Sample Action Research Report Evaluation

The purpose of this assignment is for you to review a FINISHED action research report showing the entire planning process and allowing you to put together visibly, what a finished action research proposal consists of including the planning stage you are responsible for in this course as well as the results portion of the report for which you will be responsible for in EDU675 (MAED students).  Having this exposure to a finished report should help you make connections with what you’ve been planning as well as what you will be actually implementing through your proposed intervention/innovation once you begin EDU675.

According to Mills (2014), “To evaluate a research study competently, you must have knowledge of each component of the research process” (p. 215). For this assignment, you will consider all that you have learned and practiced up to this point in our course and apply criteria for evaluating action research to the following: Sample Action Research Report 1: Effect of Technology in Enthusiasm for Learning Science. Finally, you will include a self-reflection. Note that it is acceptable to write in the first-person voice in the reflection.

Content

The assignment needs to include the following areas of content.

 

• Area of Focus (1 point): Describe the area of focus and whether it involves teaching and learning. Include support from the literature where appropriate.
• Research Questions (0.5 points): List the research questions and discuss whether the researcher states questions that were answerable given the researcher’s expertise, time, and resources.
• Locus of Control (1 point): Discuss the locus of control and whether the area of focus was within the researcher’s locus of control.
• Data Collection (1 point): Describe the data collection techniques and whether the researcher used appropriate data collection techniques to answer the study’s research questions (e.g., qualitative and/or quantitative). Include support from the literature in your description.
• Ethics (1 point): Describe the ethical challenges the researcher faced and how they were resolved.
• Reflective Stance (1.5 point): Explain the ways the action research effort contributed to the researcher’s reflective stance on the ways teaching and learning are viewed.
• Action (0.5 points): Describe the actions that resulted from the study.
• Action-Data Connection (1.5 points): Describe how the proposed action connects to the study’s data analysis and interpretation.
• Reflection – Learning (0.5 points): Describe what you learned from this study and the process of evaluating it, considering what insight this researcher gave you indirectly regarding the process of action research.
• Reflection – Application (0.5 points): Describe what you have taken away from this experience for use in your Final Project in this course.

This is a two paged double spaced theme analysis paper about “vision” in darkroom, a graphic novel by Lila Quintero. I am trying to focus on how her perspective changes throughout the book. An example would be her adding her eyes throughout the book to show that her growth and what she learned or seen that changed her perspective. Another example of vision of be her vision of the imagined. During the civil rights movement protest, she included an image of a black protester’s eyes in fear. I think it meant how she could picture those imagined scenes because she wasn’t there physically at the civil rights movement. Please elaborate more on it, you might have to read few pages of the book which can also be downloaded online for free. Thank you

1. Considering the definition of “point estimate,” used in determination of an “interval estimate” (construction of a confidence interval) for an unknown population parameter, determine just the numerical value of the point estimate for a sample of your choice when

 

1. an “interval estimate” for the unknown population mean is of interest.
2. an “interval estimate” for the unknown population proportion is of interest.

 

NOTE: You may consider either one sample or two different samples with the size(s) of your choice.  For the proportion case you may consider gender, if people are involved in your sample; or, you may consider “defective” and “non-defective” if members of your sample are, say, calculators.

 

 

 

1. When you construct a 95% confidence interval, what are you 95% confident about?
2. All other things remaining the same, is a 90% confidence interval narrower or wider than a 95% confidence interval? Briefly and clearly explain your answer.  HINT: Think of the corresponding margins of error (or error bounds).

    

3. All other things remaining the same, what is the impact of an increase in sample size on the width of the confidence interval? Explain your answer briefly and clearly.

    

4. Briefly,

 

1. compare the Z-distribution with Student’s t-distribution (t-distribution), focusing on the four attributes of probability distributions (random variable name, behavior [curve], mean, and standard deviation).
2. compare the format of the Z-table with that of the t-table, focusing on the fundamental differences in format and the information involved.

    

 

1. Briefly answer the following questions:

 

1.  When should we use the t-table, instead of the Z-table, while constructing confidence intervals or conducting tests of hypotheses.
2. When must the requirement of the normality (or approximate normality) of the population distribution be met when we use Z or t?
3. What would be the impact on the confidence interval, if a mistake is made and Z table is used instead of the t-table?  Support your answer with a brief description and/or computation.  HINT: Examine the superimposed graphs of Z-distribution and t-distribution given in Lane, and focus on the relative magnitudes of Z_a/2 and t_a/2, each being a factor in the margin of error (error bound).

    

 

1. (Show your work.) In a recent Zogby International Poll, nine of 48 respondents rated the likelihood of a terrorist attack in their community as “likely” or “very likely.”

 

1.  Use the “plus four” method, as explained by Illowsky, to create a 97% confidence interval for the proportion of American adults who believe that a terrorist attack in their community is likely or very likely.
2.  Explain what this confidence interval means in the context of the problem.

 

 

 

You can use the statistical tables provided on LEO (Content > Course Resources > Statistical Resources).

 

 

 

1. (Show your work.) A Nissan Motor Corporation advertisement read:  “The average man’s I.Q. is 107. The average brown trout’s I.Q. is 4. So why can’t man catch brown trout?”  Suppose you believe that the brown trout’s mean I.Q. is greater than four. You catch 12 brown trout. A fish psychologist determines the I.Q.s as follows: 5; 4; 7; 3; 6; 4; 5; 3; 6; 3; 8; 5. Conduct a hypothesis test of your belief. Use a significant level of 5%. The standard deviation of the I.Q.s listed is approximately 1.62.  You can use the statistical tables provided on LEO (Content > Course Resources > Statistical Resources).
2. (Show your work.) According to the Center for Disease Control website, in 2011 at least 18% of high school students have smoked a cigarette. An Introduction to Statistics class in Davies County, KY conducted a hypothesis test at the local high school (a medium sized–approximately 1,200 students–small city demographic) to determine if the local high school’s percentage was lower. One hundred fifty students were chosen at random and surveyed. Of the 150 students surveyed, 82 have smoked. Use a significance level of 0.05 and using appropriate statistical evidence, conduct a hypothesis test and state the conclusions. You can use the statistical tables provided on LEO (Content > Course Resources > Statistical Resources).

    

3. (Show your work.) A study is done to determine if students in the California state university system take longer to graduate, on average, than students enrolled in private universities. One hundred students from both the California state university system and private universities are surveyed. Suppose that from years of research, it is known that the population standard deviations are 1.5811 years and 1 year, respectively. The following data are collected. The California state university system students took on average 4.5 years with a standard deviation of 0.8. The private university students took on average 4.1 years with a standard deviation of 0.3. What would be your conclusions based on significance levels of 5% and 1%? You can use the statistical tables provided on LEO (Content > Course Resources > Statistical Resources).

 

It is critical to make the best of every interaction with the customer.

Analyze the key elements of buying products through customer service or direct services from the Coca Cola Company.

Create a blueprint (diagram) for Coca Cola detailing the service delivery process involving the frontline employee–customer contacts before, during, and after the purchase. Each contact should be clearly identified and deliberated.

On the basis of the blueprint, select possible contact point failures where you would create improvements in the form of new or improved services. Why do you consider these to be contact point failures?

For these contact point failures, Identify and analyze at least two areas for improvement or creation of new services. Why are you suggesting these areas? How will customers benefit by improving these areas or creating new services?

In addition, write a statement positioning the brand around the new or improved services.

• Present your analysis as a 6-page report in a Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
• On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format.