Consider yourself a Quality Consultant/Operations Management Specialist hired by me (CEO) to develop a quality system for the OI Glass mfg operation. Consider basic needs for incoming inspection, process control and outgoing quality for the OI operation. This will require some research and creativity.
Your were earlier asked by the Chief Executive Officer of Heartfelt Health Service to determine the most pressing and strategic workforce issue that requires a strategic workforce plan to resolve and present this to the executive committee of the health service in order to secure budget to undertake strategic workforce planning and implementation.
You are very pleased to learn that the proposal you presented to the board has been accepted and you have been given funds to undertake a workforce plan to address the issue.
You are now required to submit the workforce plan and a written rationale for that plan based on the evidence that you have discovered that supports your approaches to dealing with workforce issues that you identified.
1. Identify the investment strategy or the objectives of the infrastructure fund for part (b).
These are usually available from the annual reports or prospectus of the fund.
2. (a) Justify your decision to your selection of fund for part (c), ETFs & ETCs, above. Why have
you decided to select this particular fund over the others?
(b) Identify some potential factors that might influence their performance over the next 12
months.
Note:
Identify the strategy or the objective of the fund, do not discuss about who they are. Write
about the fund’s investment objectives or the type of assets that meet their requirements. That
is, if you are a potential investor how do you know if the fund you are (will) invest in, is meeting
its investment objective?
There are thousand and one events happening in the market every day and financial markets
are closely integrated. The factors you have selected must have direct impact to the fund of
your choice. Otherwise one could relate the Tornado in Texas is set off by the flap of
Butterfly’s wings in Brazil.
Question (ii) (20%, 300 words)
3. Download their monthly closing or average prices for the last 2 years (from FinAnalysis or
Yahoo! Finance).
(a) Calculate the performance (return) of your portfolio and compare it against the return of the
benchmark ASX S&P200 index, that is:
(1) Calculate excess return and the tracking error of your portfolio.
(2) Discuss your observation from part (1).
(b) How much is your investment portfolio is influenced by
(1) Return and volatility of the Australian market? Is there a lag effect?
1 http://www.asx.com.au/products/managed-funds-product-list.htm
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(2) Fluctuation at the European equity markets?
Note:
You can select which ever method of tracking error covered in Chapter 20 of the textbook.
When you are trying to answer, if your portfolio is influenced by XYZ factor, you could use
either regression analysis or correlation. Your answer to Q3 part (a) should not be just “yes”,
“no” or “I think”. Provide some justifications in terms of “how strong/weak” the relationship is.
That is your conclusion has to be justified by a quantitative answer. Actual investment is not
just about gut feeling.
Part Two (total of 15 marks, maximum 700 words)
“…stock exchanges [are] helping companies raise funds while at the same time providing an
investment avenue for those with savings. Side by side with stock exchanges are the world‘s stock
markets. It is the stock market which allows investors to change their investment decisions.
Whereas the stock exchange provides rules .and regulations and administrates the stock market “
Bennetts, R.J.(2004)
You are required to
1) explain the role and size of the share market of Indonesia2, including how it has developed,
its growth over the last decade, and how it is regulated.
2) Compare or contrast the difference between the Australian equity market (or an equity
market of your choice from the Asia Pacific region) and the Indonesian market.
Part one:
Watch this TED talk by Chris Abani.https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_abani_muses_on_humanity
Think deeply about Abani’s message of Ubuntu stories. Please apply Abani’s message to Clotel, The Sport of the Gods, Of One Blood, or The Blacker the Berry. Please do not think about what I want you to do. Think about what you want to do to connect Abani to one of the abovelisted texts.
For the work cited as you want.
Part two:
Please read this article,
From the far side of the urban frontier: The detective fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley
Please write a summary of the article.
The reflection must:
1. Begin with a brief description of a specific clinical situation involving a woman and/or baby in your direct care that is relevant to a topic or topics the course module to which it is posted. NB: you are advised to choose an incident/event that enables you to undertake the full reflective process, including the plan for future action
2. Analyse your experience of this situation, exploring your feelings and your perception of the feelings of others in this situation (based on their behaviour)
3. Identify what you most needed to learn in order to be more effective in future (in line with course content)
4. Provide evidence of scholarly inquiry by discussing knowledge that is directly relevant to clinical situation (include at least five primary references, do not cite only textbooks).
5. Return to the experience and provide a plan for future action (Based on findings from your scholarly inquiry), describing how you would prevent a similar situation arising and/or, how you would more effectively manage a similar situation and/or, how you would assist another caregiver to more effectively manage a similar situation.
6. Always use pseudonyms (and state that you have)
Intention: To support you with developing the ability to accurately assess the validity of scientific statements that you hear or read about. You will have an opportunity to search for literature that will provide you with credible, scientific information to broaden your knowledge-base, enhance your understanding of important issues related to agricultural and food systems, and determine whether what you are reading is accurate.
Process: Identify one statement or “fact” that relates to agriculture and/or food production from a reading, presentation or website you encounter, or that you have heard about in discussions with people that seems questionable to you as far as accuracy is concerned (e.g. confined animal operations are cruel to animals; GPS technology reduces production costs, etc.). Issues surrounding the use of genetically modified organisms or organic vs. conventional agriculture may not be used for this assignment since we will be discussing both topics at length in class at a later date. Please choose a novel issue that you are interested in learning more about, or something that elicited an emotional response (i.e. anger, enthusiasm, fear, support, concern, etc.) when you read or hear about it. Your goal is to search for information in the scientific literature to assist you with determining whether the statement you have identified is true or not true. Based on your assessment of scientific literature, you will verify or refute this statement.
The aim of this assessment is twofold. Firstly, the concept maps are designed to help you to develop a deeper understanding of the unit content, as well as the relationships between and within each of the topics. In doing this task you also have the opportunity to learn a new computer program. Second, you will learn the importance of developing the ability to reflect on your own performance and appreciate the complexities of developing and applying an assessment tool. This understanding is core to psychological practice, as well as self-development and self-directed learning.
The six topics for this unit are as follows:
1. Psychology as a Science
2. Biological Bases of Behaviour (Genetics and Neuropsychology)
3. Learning Principles
4. Intelligence
5. Memory
6. Motivation and Emotion
Assessment Description: Create six concept maps
1) Supply chain management:
Characteristics of a good SCM & implementation of a SCM –include benchmarking, vendor evaluation, lead time management etc.
Case studies of supply chain management Xerox and Dell +other case studies
(Logistics & supply chain management by Martin Christopher)
2) Order winners & qualifiers (factors influencing the ability to win orders)
(Compare methods adopted by Dell/Apple for PC products or any other firms through this concept) –‘Manuf. Strategy – Terry Hill’
3) Design for manufacture and assembly. (methods for products, processes; mechanical/
electrical/plastic components & assemblies, poko-yoko, SMDE etc.)
4)**Product & process Analysis
**Product & Process Analysis
a) Strip down the product to its components (the number of components in the product must be> 6): draw the ‘Product tree’, Analyse /describe the manufacturing methods/materials used/process plan/tolerances etc. of each component.
b) Carry out a ‘Value Analysis’ of the product and components—with the aim to improve the product, reduce the costs, no. of components etc.
Detail out the new design (apply ‘design for assembly’ rules): product tree, materials, manufacturing methods etc to be given.
c) Assemble & disassemble the product a few times and determine the assembly times for each stage of assembly & for the product.
Determine the learning rate (learning curves) : Determine the appox. Allowable times for the Tasks (use principles of Work Study).
d) Draw the Assembly chart & the Assembly ‘Precedence diagram’ for the product.
Design, an assembly line for the product to produce X items /day on the line operating 420 mins/day. (The no. of work stations, efficiency of the line etc.) Select X so that the line is occupied throughout the day.
Suggest a physical configuration for the line (placement of parts /tools/operators /machines at each work station.
e) Simulate the line;( assume a suitable breakdown rate at each work station)
Use the ‘Witness’ simulation software programme. (Use the hand-out/ help file, demo. programmes and programmes in the ‘workbook’ to learn about Witness –self– directed learning).Witness is a visual interactive simulation programme where the models are created by graphical drag & drop operations.