CHAPTER 9 FAMILIES Thinking about relationships and experiences within their own families will help students to prepare for reading the selections in this chapter. You might consider having students begin with a brief writing describing an incident or a tradition that is a part of their family experience and have them analyze in what ways this has given them new insights about themselves or about others in their family. In “My Papa’s Waltz” an adult son looks at his connections with his father
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1. Is crowdsourcing‚ as used by AOL‚ a form of outsourcing? Why or why not? In a way yes because the work is ”outsourced” to workers outside the company itself. The tasks are not done by companies employees instead the tasks are put on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and half a milion workers that are registered there could read about the tasks and decide if they wanted to perform them. Outsourcig means that the purchase of a god or service that was previously provided internally or that could be provided
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Benchmarking Thor Industries’ Inventory Management - Group 2 Teddy Dwork‚ Alexa Esquivel‚ Noelle Fennessy‚ Alec Madow‚ Marc Milgrim 1. Inventory Share of Total Assets Net Accts Rec. Share of Total Assets Gross Profit Percentage (GP/Sales) SG&A Percentage (SG&A/Sales) 2008 15.3% 14.7% 12.2% 6.7% 2007 16.0% 16.7% 12.7% 6.2% 2. 2008 5.8% 13.2% 20.2 25.3 2007 6.9% 17.6% 22.7 24.7 Return on Sales = EBIT/Revenue Return on Equity = NI/Inv Days Receivable = AR/(sales/365) Days Inventory= (Avg Inv/COGS)
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1. What is the difference between a soft commitment and no commitment? In making no commitment‚ a firm has not taken an action or made an investment that alters its own and/or its rival’s competitive responses. In contrast‚ a soft commitment is one that‚ no matter what its competitors do‚ the firm will behave less aggressively than if it had not made the commitment. Thus‚ in a Cournot game a soft commitment will cause the firm to produce relatively less output‚ while in a Bertrand game a soft
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HM130 Lab 1 SAFETY‚ EQUIPMENT ‚ AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD Name: 1. A student enters their laboratory setting and is getting ready to set up. What preparations should be made? (16 points) The pan student should know the reason for being there and be prepared with all the tools needed for the lab. They should follow all safety measures and make sure they understand the assignment. They should wear all PPE and read all instructions and labels carefully. The student should
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1. uncharged object such as paper? A charged object will attract an uncharged object until they touch‚ and then they will repel one another. When charged objects attract uncharged objects‚ such as when the negatively charged plastic comb or fur attracted the paper‚ the negatively charged comb/fur repelled some of the electrons in the paper. This results in a redistribution of charges in the paper so that one side is more negative than the other side. The net effect is that the paper is attracted
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The Hawthorne experiments were conducted at the Hawthorne Plant of the Western Electric Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s and involved a variety of different studies of workplace behavior. From sole attention focused on environmental conditions of work in the initial illumination experiment‚ the Hawthorne studies extended to the first relay experiment to investigate effects of working environment‚ physical requirements‚ management‚ and social relations upon output. The subsequent studies
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"As Good As It Gets" In the movie "As Good As It Gets" there are three main characters with three different lives brought together out of need. Melvin‚ played by Jack Nicholson‚ is an obsessive compulsive who speaks what is on his mind. Carol‚ played by Helen Hunt‚ is a single mother trying to make it in a world that has not been kind to her. Simon‚ played by Greg Kinnear‚ is a gay artist who plays the role of the victim. The movie revolves around Melvin’s life and the people he comes in contact
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Accepting personal responsibility maximizes the control we have over the outcomes and experiences of our lives. a. True b. False Choosing and committing to personally meaningful goals and dreams generates strong self-motivation. a. True b. False One of the keys to effective self-management is consistently doing first what is important to achieve our personally meaningful goals and dreams. a. True b. False Successful people build networks of mutually supportive people who
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Evaluate the threats to public companies identified in The Economist Special Report (19-May-2012.) How serious is this threat? Will limited liability companies survive? Do they deserve to survive? The IPO crisis has coincided with a boom in other corporate life forms. Alternative to public companies are prevalent. Public companies have got worse at managing their problems. The split between the people who own the company (principals) and those who run it (agents). The rise of new economic powers
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