Proposal: Four Day Work Week I propose that we implement a four day work week over the conventional five day work week. 1938 was the year that the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed. This act stated that there was a need for a standardized work week‚ and that the new standard work week was to be eight hour days‚ five days a week. There need for this act stemmed from employers taking advantage of their employees and working them to many hours a day and to many days a week. The basis for the eight
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Week 4 Discussions Week 4 Discussion Question 1 What is break-even analysis and how does it work with cost–volume–profit analysis? As a manager‚ what decisions would you make to achieve a lower break-even point? The CVP analysis is the level of activity at which total revenues equal total costs (both fixed and variable). A break-even analysis is the process of finding the break-even point. The cost-value-profit is the study of how specific costs respond to changes in the level of business
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MBA Decision Quent Mikeal BUS650: Managerial Finance Instructor: Rick Kwan February 22‚ 2013 MBA Decision 1. Age is obviously an important factor. The younger an individual is‚ the more time there is for the (hopefully) increased salary to offset the cost of the decision to return to school for a MBA. The cost includes both the explicit costs such as tuition‚ as well
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distributing over the four weeks in each month‚ we have 30 per week in June and 40 per week in July. Now‚ suppose that there are currently 64 pumps in inventory and there are customer orders that have been committed and must be filled. These inputs result in the following table. Next‚ we need to use this information to determine projected inventory‚ master production schedule (MPS)‚ and ATP. If no production is planed‚ projected inventory becomes negative from week 3. This is a signal that
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4 day school week pro’s final draft Jincy Who wouldn’t want a four day school week? This would be really beneficial. In my opinion a four days of school each week sounds good. First of all‚ a four day school week can lead to more family time and activities. Usually when we have a 5 day school week‚ we don’t get to spend a lot of time with our families. Or we don’t get to do other activities we would like to do. So this idea would make the time for that. We can also
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This work includes BUS 201 Week 3 Assignment Motivation Business - Management Motivation Motivation may be defined as psychological forces that determine the direction of a person’s behavior in an organization. Motivation is central to management because it explains why people behave the way they do. In a 1-2 page paper‚ discuss the principle needs/desires of the typical employee. Then‚ using two motivation theories presented in the course readings‚ discuss how managers can best motivate
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Chapter 12 & 13 1. A sales manager collected the following data on salespersons’ annual sales and years of experience. Years of Annual Sales Salesperson Experience ($1000s) 1 1 80 2 3 97 3 4 92 4 4 102 5 6 103 6 8 111 7 10 119 8 10 123 9 11 117 10 13 136 a. Develop a scatter diagram for these data with years of experience as the independent variable. b. Develop an estimated regression equation that can be used to
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in dollar sales for 12‚000 pairs: Fixed expenses / CM ratio = $150‚000 / 0.40 = $375‚000 3. Break even point in unit sales for 12‚000 pairs: Fixed expenses / unit CM = $150‚000 / $12 = 12‚500 * Refer to the original data. As an alternative to (4) above‚ the company is considering paying the store manager 50 cents commission on each pair of shoes
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Solutions to Week 4 Problems and Exercises Business Systems Analysis MGMT340 Chapter 7 Problems and Exercises Solutions Solution to Question 5 a. The figure shows a ‘many to many’ relationship. Therefore‚ any EMPLOYEE can work on a PROJECT and there can be several PROJECTS with several EMPLOYEES working on them. b. The degree shown in the used_on relationship is “one to many” with a minimum cardinality of zero. (The zero through the line near the ‘task’ entity means a minimum cardinality of zero
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to a four day school week‚ but not all of the benefits are for students. There are “Sixty-two school districts‚ constituting 34% of the 178 school districts in Colorado” and those sixty two school districts “schedule 7.5 hours per day for 144 days of school instead of the normal six hours for 180 days” (Dam). By switching to a four day school week‚ students grades and their attendance were improved. The school saved money and since there is only four days in the school week students and teachers
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