Managers Hot Seat #1: Diversity in Hiring: Candidate Conundrum Summary of the case: The company personnel Robert (Manager) and Paul (Project leader) are interviewing two potential candidates Sonya and Jacqueline for a new position at the company. After interviewing both candidates Paul feels Sonya is the one they should hire while Robert believes they should hire Jacqueline. Paul’s reasoning is that he feels he’d work better with Sonya both being Caucasian while Robert thinks Paul may have personal
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effective communicator and can dissolve conflict very easily. When dealing with highly emotional people who are often under the influence of alcohol or drugs‚ I have great abilities to help diffuse potentially bad situations. My greatest conundrum is why I struggle with conflict resolution in my personal life‚ but deal with it so effectively in my professional life. In
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When is enough‚ enough? Do you think the way we consume products effects the Earth’s survival? In “The Conundrum of Consumption”‚ author Alan Thein Durning believes the consumer behavior and the detrimental effects of consumption are destroying the world’s natural environment. Durning discusses that consuming goods has become the way of life. Durning exposes that our appetites to live the American Dream have taken a toll on the earth’s natural environment‚ and suggests that there are other paths
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GenEthics: The Confidentiality vs. Duty to Warn Conundrum GenEthics: The Confidentiality vs. Duty to Warn Conundrum This report will examine the ethical conundrum of patient confidentiality vs. a doctor’s duty to warn a patient of a potential health risk (see Appendix one for scenario). Primarily‚ this report will argue that patient confidentiality cannot be overruled‚ as there is not adequate legal or ethical reasoning to do so and as such
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essence of cultural and individual identities. The favored notion that mankind can be holistically apprehended only when viewed as a bipartite entity of culture and individuality‚ is both inaccurate and oblique. Scientifically‚ the nature vs. nurture conundrum does indeed indicate the influence that both identity and customs have on a person that is an appendage of a larger conglomerate. However‚ what it fails to bring across is the central facet of how nature and nurture work against each other and not
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A Theoretical Conundrum Franklin Roosevelt once said‚ “We are trying to construct a more inclusive society‚ we are going to make a country in which no one is left out” (Roosevelt n.d.). In today’s world‚ nowhere is this ideology more evident than in the workplace. Diversity‚ long a catchword of Human Resource departments‚ has brought people of different backgrounds and genders together into the workplace and today’s managers must equip themselves with the tools necessary to successfully supervise
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Religion: A Trivial Conundrum Religion in fiction‚ much like religion in politics‚ has grown to be considered taboo. Religious characters are often expected to be comedic and used only as experimental or secondary. Their only true attribute is that of piety‚ playing on old stereotypes to drive the characterization. In a world where being politically correct gets in the way of day-to-day talk‚ approaching controversial topics in any form of writing can be seen as potentially unprofitable
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INTRODUCTION Gone are the days when “buyer beware” was the trend. The sellers used to dictate their terms as the competition was less. But after the Liberalization‚ Globalizations and Privatization in 1991‚ more companies entered into India. This changed the situation form “Buyer’s beware” to “Sellers beware”. It became more difficult for the companies to sustain in the cut throat competition. They had to shift their focus from product centric to customer centric. Companies had to think smart instead
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have done above is a “full-cost” analysis. This is in contrast to a “direct-cost” analysis that ignores overhead costs. Is full cost the right metric for job profitability and customer profitability? What assumptions are we making about the variability of overhead costs when we do a “full-cost” analysis? By allocating the overhead costs to jobs and customers there is an implicit assumption that these are variable with the cost driver. In reality‚ some of the overhead costs are fixed‚ at least in the
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Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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