Self-Assessment

Access the Student Companion Site for your textbook. You will be completing a number of short surveys in the “Self Assessments” section of this resource:

  • #5 Terminal Values
  • #6 Instrumental Values
  • #11 Your Intuitive Ability
  • #25 Cognitive Style

After you complete these instruments, reflect on the interpretations – how did you rate? Please write a 500 word summary, including your actual results (scores, for example) along with your areas of strength and opportunities for growth.
Submit this assignment as a Word document, using the APA format. Title page and references are not included in the 500-word requirement.

Network Attacks

Research denial-of-service attacks (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDos). Compose a 1-2 page paper giving an explanation on each type of network attack and what network administrators can do to prevent these types of attacks. For example, if the Triton Corporation has a DoS attack, what would be your forensic plan of action? Write an outline of this plan of action and include it in your paper.
Please compose paper in APA style format and include 2-3 cited sources of information.

Civil Rights Breakthroughs

  •  identify at least two (2) events of the 1960s which you believe spurred the Civil Rights Movement forward. Explain the key ways in which the events that you have identified supported the movement. Provide a rationale for your response.
  • From the scenario, name at least three (3) different events within the Civil Rights Movement that accelerated the freedom movements of the 1960s and the Great Society movement. Investigate the manner in which the Civil Rights Movement sparked other groups to push for equality. Include at least one (1) example of such influence of the Civil Rights Movement to support your response. Provide a rationale for your response.

the beam bending capacity

Project description We introduced three ways to improve the beam bending capacity in class. Write a technical report to discuss the optimized beam design by reasonably arrange the supports, reasonably apply loads and reasonably choose the cross section area. The cross section of the beam is rectangular with b as width and h as height. 1. Reasonably arrange the supports Baseline case: A simply supported beam with a span of L is subjected to a distributed load over the span with load density of q. Find the optimized design by arranging the location of supports. Don’t change the beam 2. Baseline case: A simply supported beam with a span of L is subjected to a distributed load over the span with load density of q. Find the optimized design by considering the location where the concentrated force F is applied. F=qL. 3. Use the two configurations I give you in class. Project requirements: 1. Technical report show include detailed steps of analysis. For example, the shear force and moment diagrams, the locations in the beam where  max and max  are found. The analysis of  max and max  , etc. 2. Present and discuss your results in a clear and concise manner. Be creative to use graphics to show your results. 3. 10 points bonus for discussing other reasonable ways to improve beam bending capacity.

Helping an International Friend Develop as a Team Leader

 
Your company has just hired your foreign friend to work in a middle-management position. Since you have lived in the United States for many years, your friend believes that you understand job coaching for a traditional American company. She wants to work with you and has many questions—some of which concern the manner in which cultural nuances related to religious customs, verbal and nonverbal communication, etc. may affect leadership roles.
Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

  1. Recommend whether or not your friend should insert herself as a coach from the beginning. Provide a rationale for your response.
  2. Determine two (2) conflicts that could possibly arise as a result of asking people to work on days of religious significance. Propose concrete solutions for these two (2) possible conflicts.
  3. Determine whether or not cultural quirks could restrain the foreign manager from expressing his or her ideas readily. Provide a rationale for your response.
  4. Determine two (2) actions that you can take in order to prepare yourself and your friend to become multicultural leaders. Provide two (2) examples to support your response.
  5. Predict two (2) major conflicts that may arise out of nonverbal communication misunderstandings (e.g., words misinterpreted, hand gestures, looks, shoulder shrugs, names of objects, etc.). Suggest two (2) actions that your friend could take in order to diffuse these types of misunderstandings and thus make the workplace more harmonious. Justify your response.
  6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Examine how leadership influences organizational performance.
  • Determine key leadership qualities that contribute to leadership effectiveness.
  • Determine basic approaches to resolving conflict and negotiating.
  • Write clearly and concisely about leadership strategies using proper writing mechanics.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in leadership strategies.

business assignment

For the dinner special at a restaurant, the customer must choose an appetizer, a salad, an entree, a side dish, and a dessert.
Here are the items to choose from.
 

 Appetizer   Buffalo Wings, Potato Skins, Chicken Strips, Nachos 
 Salad   Garden, Southwest, Caesar 
 Entree   Salmon, Roast Turkey, Grilled Chicken 
 Side Dish   French Fries, Baked Potato, Corn, Rice 
 Dessert   Brownies, Chocolate Cake, Apple Pie, Ice Cream 

How many dinner specials are possible?

Statistics

Prompt: A major tire manufacturer claims their heavy-duty truck tires have an average usage life of 71,000 miles. The shipping department of the company you work for has been using these tires for several years and feels they are not getting the mileage promised. The manager pulled 25 maintenance records and found an average tire life of 68,050 miles, with a standard deviation of 11,602 miles. He asks you to conduct a test of hypothesis to determine if the actual life of the tires is less than the manufacturer’s claim.
Response Parameters
Use what you have learned about hypothesis testing to answer the following questions.
What type of test should you perform? Which of the three equations for hypothesis testing should you use? Why did you choose that one? You may assume tire life is normally distributed.
State your null and alternate hypotheses. Why did you choose those values and mathematical operators?
What is the value of your test statistic? (Clearly show how you arrived at this value.)
Interpret the test statistic: Choose an appropriate confidence level, then evaluate the test statistic using either the critical value or the p-value approach. Why did you choose the confidence level that you did?
Clearly state the outcome of your test of hypothesis.
What does your outcome mean in statistical terms?
What does your outcome mean in terms of the problem?
Strict Deadline no extensions
Use the example format uploaded.

Statistics

The board of directors at a large corporation wants to base their division managers’ pay raises on the profit performance of their respective divisions. They have asked you to evaluate the performance and raises at other companies and propose a formula for calculating the percentage increase in base pay based on the percentage change in the division’s profit. You collected information from 50 divisions at similar companies and performed a linear regression on the percentage change in the division profits vs. the percentage change in the manager’s salary.
Use what you have learned about linear regression to answer the following questions. Click here to download the output from the Excel ToolPak, Regression Tool.
Response Parameters
What is the regression equation from the Summary Output? Is this a useful model? How do you know?
Are the assumptions of regression satisfied? How did you verify them?
Does change in division profit appear to be a good predictor for the manager’s pay raise? Why do you think that?
One of your company’s divisions had a –0.51 percent change in profits last year, while another had a 20 percent increase. What is the predicted percentage change in salary for these two division managers?