Entries by Peter

Corporate Governance

  Governance mechanisms are considered to be effective if they meet the needs of all stakeholders, including shareholders. Governance mechanisms are also an important way to ensure that strategic decisions are made effectively. As a potential employee, how would you go about investigating a firm’s governance structure? Would that investigation weigh in your decision to […]

MGMT640 FINAL EXAM

1) Management accounting plays a role in A planning new products. B evaluating operational processes. C controlling costs. D all of the above. 2) Management accounting, managers are more concerned with receiving information that is: A completely objective and verifiable. B completely accurate and precise. C relevant, flexible, and immediately available. D relevant, completely accurate, […]

BUSN – Business 101 Reveiw Questions

TRUE/FALSE____1. The chain of command defines lines of authority throughout the company.____2. Tactical planning usually involves short term statements.____3. A reason for imposing trade restrictions would be to protect jobs of domestic workers.____4. A problem for corporate stockholders is double taxation.____5. Reverse discrimination works against whites or males.____6. Theory Y assumes employees generally do not […]

Black History

  Initial post of at least 250 words.Ensure to cite correctly.                         “What was the famous case of the Scottsboro Boys??”                                      

Affirmative Action

As the manager of human resources (HR) in a medium-size company that is involved with several Affirmative Action initiatives, you have noticed that the racial makeup of your workforce has an increasing number of multiracial employees (or workers who are the offspring of a biracial couple). You are wondering how these employees should be counted in any kind of […]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

 This week’s second discussion forum will focus on the populations of the chronically ill and the disabled. You may be familiar with the common quote “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In reality, however, you may know of a person, family, or group who is not receiving adequate preventive or medical […]

Teamwork and Motivation Assignment 3 – HSA/599

App, please click “View in Browser.”  Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, […]

Directions for Annotated Bibliography Project

      X.     Directions for Annotated Bibliography Project Students will choose FOUR topics from the following research list below: Askia Muhammad, The Middle Passage, John Newton, Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker, Crispus Attucks, Toussaint L’Ouverture, The Haitian Revolution for Independence, David Walker, Richard Allen, Paul Cuffe, The America Colonization Society, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, The Underground Railroad, Sojourner Truth, […]

Supply Chain Management

For all the problems, to receive full scores, you have to show your complete and accurate work. If you only provide the final answers without showing your computations, you will not be assigned a full score (or you will miss the opportunity of receiving partial credit).   Problem 1: Line Balancing (9 points) Employees at […]