• Watch the short video in the following link:

3 Ways to Allocate Costs to Multiple Support Departments (Direct, Step-down, and Reciprocal methods)

Find some structured ways of dealing with complex managerial decision problems.

· Explain simple decision models and management science ideas that provide powerful and (often surprising) qualitative insight about large spectrum of managerial problems.

· Demonstrate the tools for deciding when and which decision models to use for specific problems.

· Build an understanding of the kind of problems that is tackled using spreadsheet modeling and decision analysis.

9.2 Action Required:

Read the following chapter of your Textbook.

Chapter 9: Linear Optimization

9.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

Q· What are the properties of Linear Functions?

Q· Explain the Data Envelopment Analysis.

9.4 Instructions

·Answer both questions in test your knowledge section.

The purpose of this exercise is to determine whether the ten examples properly integrate material from an original source and properly reference that source. The original source material and citation are provided at the start of this exercise. All the student samples rely on that material.

Below are 3 companies where students are required to write and include all 5 critical areas/points in their answers. You are required to introduce all below 5 critical areas/points while discussing the company, where each company is considered as a single question and carries 5 MARKS.

Students are required to go through the companies mentioned below and for each company, the word count is 200 to 250 Words.

Walmart Incorporation https://www.walmart.com/c/brand/ksa

Amazon https://www.amazon.sa/-/en/

Any known Saudi based Company of your choice

Kindly write your suggestions using the below areas/points for each of the companies mentioned above,

1. Identify key Supply Chain Practices from the enterprises mentioned above.
2. Discuss Supply Chain Integration, Collaboration, and Procurement Planning adopted by the above companies
3. Define the Web traceability systems practiced by the companies mentioned above for your reference.
4. Evaluate, how the present technologies (Radio-frequency identification (RFID), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management, Predictive Analysis) are being used by the above companies.
5. Identify and evaluate best practices for improving Supply Chain Management

❑ Two minimum number of required references and reference style (APA, Harvard…etc.)

❑ Quotations must be cited to its resources.

❑ For the paper styles use Times New Roman, 12 font size, 1.5 line space and adjusted text.

❑ The student must check the spelling and grammar mistakes before submitting the

assignment.

❑ Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of assignment.

Structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes, referencing and word count.

# taking student Id as input

DISPLAY “Enter a StudentID? ”

READ studentId

# reading how many classes student want to opt for

DISPLAY “Enter how many classes you want to add? ”

DISPLAY “*****1 class free if you opt for three classes*****”

READ no_of_classes

# checking if user enters more than 3 classes

IF no_of_classes > 3 THEN

OUTPUT “More than 3 classes not allowed, max allowed is 3 classes”

EXIT

ENDIF

# reading class titles of each of the class user enters

FOR i <- 1 TO no_of_classes

OUTPUT “Enter the class title”

READ class[i]

ENDFOR

# reading number of hours user work per week

DISPLAY “Enter number of hours you work per week? ”

READ no_of_hours

# if no of classes opted is 3

IF no_of_classes == 3 THEN

# one class free thats why subtracting 150

class_cost = 150 * no_of_classes – 150

# calculating the bill

bill = class_cost + (5/100) * class_cost

# if no of hours greater than 20 per week

IF no_of_hours > 20

THEN

OUTPUT “Please make an appointment with faculty advisor”

ENDIF

# if no of classes opted is less than 3

ELSE

class_cost = 150 * no_of_classes

bill = class_cost + (5/100) * class_cost

ENDIF

OUTPUT “STUDENTID : “, studentId

OUTPUT “Total bill need to be paid is: “, bill

Part 3:

Iteration Structure

Modify the pseudocode design that you created in part 2 to include statements to prompt the user to enter the class title one class at a time. After the customer has finished entering the class titles, the system will calculate and print the bill.

Hint: use a loop to add the class titles.

• Add the statement(s) for the following: If a customer adds 3 classes, they receive 1 of the three classes for free.

Save the file as ITP100Project-Part-3

Part 4:

Modify the pseudocode design that you created in ITP100 Project-Part-3 to include at least the following modules:

• Enter Student ID
• Calculate the Bill
• Print the Bill

After you finish entering the course titles, the system will calculate and print the bill. Create a hierarchy chart for the modules. Save the hierarchy chart as ITP100Project-Part-4-Hierarchy. @ files total for pa

You are in the DevOps group at a government agency where the organization runs a case management application. They are having performance problems running the application in-house (a web server in their own data center), and there is too much downtime. They are looking to your advice about whether they need to procure one or more new web servers (Dell) or they should move to a cloud service.

There are about 1200 concurrent users on the application each day, most of them at remote locations.

Details of the application
The application has a major web interface with a menu allowing the user to create a new case, update a case, find a specific case, or search for a case by a variety of terms.

Main Menu
The current front-end application requires 0.5 GB of memory to run each instance and each instance can handle a maximum of 300 concurrent users.

New Cases
20% of the users create a new case when they access the system. The “new case” component calls 4 different services to collect different parts of the required information. Each service is called sequentially so only 1 service is in memory at any one time. The new case component stays in memory and takes 1.2 GB of memory. The maximum load it can take is 150 users. The maximum size of each of the services called is 0.5 GB and it can handle 50 users at the same time.

Update Cases
About 30% of the users are simply updating one or more of the pages created as above. Again,the component has 4 different services representing each of the different parts of the information. As above, each service is called sequentially so only 1 service is in memory at only one time.

The “update case” component stays in memory and takes 0.75 GB of memory. The maximum load it can take is 300 users. The maximum size of each of the services called is 0.4GB and it can handle 300 users at one time.

Find Specific Case
About 30% of the users merely use the application to retrieve data on a specific case. The component is a stand-alone application. The maximum load is 80 users and the size of the component is 0.5 GB of memory.

Search Cases
The remaining 20% of users are performing searches to identify one or more relevant cases. The search system has a service to handle each of the five different search terms (e.g. topic, name, location, date, and prosecution status).

Searches can involve 2 of these topics at the same time so 2 service instance can be in memory at the same time. The search case outer module stays in memory (1.5GB) and so does 2 of the 5 services (0.4 MB) each. The module and services have maximum local factor of 100 users.

Non-Functional Considerations
Downtime has been a factor so the government organization wants to have at least 2 different VMs or servers. Each VM/server must have enough memory to carry the entire load in the case of failure of one of the machines (e.g., a hard disk failure).

Memo

Draw a component diagram of the application making for each module the number of instance that are necessary to adequately support the estimated workload.

Prepare a spreadsheet identifying the various component memory requirements and calculate the total memory requirements, allowing for the multiple instances necessary to support the anticipated concurrent users.

Prepare a memo to the CIO (Elizabeth Jones) with a copy to the CFO (Nathan Andrews) which summarizes the features of the 2 options, including the time it might take to provision them.

Include information on the urgency of the requests as the inspector general will be doing an audit in 3 months’ time.

In the last paragraph detail your recommendation, attached a spreadsheet showing your calculations, and the component diagram.

Notes:

1. In addition, the application requires a Registry/Load Balancer and this is a 1.2 GB application and should be in memory at all times.
2. The application will require about 3 TB of data and has a service to retrieve data for each part of the system which requires 2GB of memory. It has capacity of handling 600 users.
3. You may recommend the cloud service of your choice but your memo should justify why you selected the cloud provider, there should be at least 3 justifications.

3. Explain the following accounting principles / assumptions, using your own words.

A. Materiality: Explain how it is related to decision making by capital providers

B. The Going Concern Assumption: Explain how it is related to depreciation

I want you to answer this question with a short answer

Assignment Purposes/Learning Outcomes:

After completion of Assignment-2 students will able to understand the

LO 1.1: State the concept of management functions, roles, skills of a manager and the different theories of management.

LO 2.2: Employ knowledge and techniques of strategic planning, problem solving, decision making and change management.

LO 3.1: Use management function effectively on teamwork activities, and skills to create a developmental plan.

Assignment-2

For Part I of the Assignment, please read the case “What Motivated Workers in the Face of a Pandemic?” given on Page number 558, Chapter 12 – “Motivating Employees” available in your textbook/e-textbook “Management: A Practical Introduction” 10^th edition by Angelo Kinicki, & Denise B. Soignet and answer the following questions:

PART-I

QUESTIONS (Each of your answer should be around 100 -125 words)

Q1. What is the underlying problem in this case from the perspective of Hospital administration? (2 Marks)

Q2. What role did extrinsic and intrinsic motivation play in this case? (3 Marks)

Q3. What are the major motivation issues at play in the health care industry according to the major needs-based theories of motivation. (Maslow’s need Hierarchy theory, McClelland’s acquired needs and Deci & Ryan’s self-determination)? (3 Marks)

Q4. What do you think were the major equity issues faced by health care workers during the pandemic? (2 Marks)

PART-II

QUESTION (Your answer should be around 200 -300 words)

Q5. Describe the needs for achievement, power, and affiliation, and how these needs affect work behaviour. Review the hygiene and motivators in the two-factor theory. Are there any hygiene factors that you would consider to be motivators and vice versa? (05 Marks) (Min words 200-300

10 pages
Industry: Finance Institution

Company: Citizen Bank

Leadership Model: Transformation Leadership

Pros :

Establishes strong relationships

Helps bring enthusiasm and motivation into being

Encourages learning and stimulates creativity

Reduces employee turnover

Cons:

Lost Details

Exaggerated Disagreements

Constant Maintenance

Top Five Organizational Strategic Goals:

Five strategic organizational for the enhancement

Improve employee satisfaction

Decrease the number of product returns

• Customer Delivery time
• Create impact measurement
• Increase in new customers

Top Five Decisions that Leadership will have to make with the Implementation of the New Product:

Track organizational progress

Seek advice from a mentor

Encourage open discussions with your employees

.

Navigate risk and uncertainty

Anticipate outcomes and see logical consequences

Any Organizational Changes that must occur for the Product to be Successful:

Successful and Fit into the Organization’s Strategy: (Challenges):

Answer 1 or more of the following questions in 1-2 pages: How was the Gulf Coast region affected by the
Deepwater Horizon rig oil spill? What changed? What did not change? Why do you think the film was
titled “The Great Invisible”? Give specific examples from the film.
You can watch The Great Invisible Film here: https://www.kanopy.com/en