Day: April 26, 2018

Locke maintained that each of us has the power to decide which religious community to join, if any. He also maintained that no religious community has doctrinal jurisdiction over any other, and maintained that those communities and their members should tolerate the existence of diverse communities with diverse doctrines. Finally, he believed that no individual should be subject to civil prejudice or penalty due to his or her religious convictions and that religious authorities should have no special civil powers or authorities.

Locke also believed that governments do not have — and cannot be given by the consent of the people — the right to force its members to hold specific religious beliefs or to engage in specific religious behaviors.

Please discuss Locke’s conception of religious toleration and the separation of church and state in an essay that answers the following questions:

Do you find Locke’s expansive vision of toleration useful and ethical? Why or why not? Do you believe that there are ever cases where it is acceptable for a society to decide not to tolerate religious communities whose beliefs or practices seem ‘too extreme’ to be tolerated. If so, what considerations or principles can help one to determine exactly which religious communities should be treated as intolerable? Do you believe that it is ever acceptable for individuals’ religious beliefs to affect the administration of law? Why or why not? Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay should be 600-900 words long

he United States criminal justice system has a court system that is modulated in different parts. The Supreme Court is the highest authoritative court in the United States, and for cases to arrive at this court, they must pass through a variety of courts and have a legitimate consequence toward the nation. You also have state, appellate, and local courts that serve jurisdictions where criminal cases must be trialed and sentenced for fair due process of every citizen that is a suspect. It is vital to understand that certain crimes like fraud can be tried not only in the criminal sections of the criminal justice system but also in the civil, where another set of courts provide judgments over cases that do not have to be criminal but of assets. Please answer the following questions. As you answer each question you must provide support or evidence that will enhance and empirically prove your answers. Academic criminal justice articles or real life criminal justice findings that are not found in journals or other academic sources must be used in supporting your answers. Please use APA style for all cited sources including your resource page. What is the dual court system? Why do we have a dual court system in America? Could the drive toward court unification eventually lead to a monolithic court system? Would such a system be effective? Judges have specific philosophical rationales and sentencing guidelines when providing a judgment over presented facts. If you were a judge, what would be your sentencing goals and philosophical rationales? Why? Can you envision any circumstances that might make your guidelines or sentencing goals change? Why? Provide an example of a situation that might be extremely difficult to judge that could put you as a judge in a situation to change your sentencing goals or philosophical rationales.

Polly purchased a Ford Pinto from Fred s Ford in Farmersville, Florida. It was her first car. She was proud of her purchase and drove it to work and on weekend trips. One Saturday, Polly packed up her Pinto and headed to a state park in Pensacola. As she was driving on Alligator Alley, traffic began to back up. Rodney Roadrage was also on the road, and being an aggressive driver was speeding well above the speed limit. As he talked on his cell phone, Rodney took his eyes off the road and ran into Polly s Pinto. The collision ruptured the gas tank located in the rear of Polly s Pinto. The gas tank exploded and Polly and Rodney Roadrage were seriously injured as a result of the explosion. Polly suffered cuts and abrasions from the broken glass and severe burns from the explosion. Polly was in the hospital for three weeks. Polly comes to your office. She wishes to recover damages for the injuries she sustained. As her attorney what course of action would you recommend to Polly? In discussing your answer please discuss the tort theories of product liability. Which one would you choose and why? Discuss your choice in detail. Please define and discuss the defenses that may be applicable in this product liability case. Your answer must be between two and four pages in length, double spaced, with 12 point Times New Roman font.

You are a board member of a large company that manufactures and distributes aftermarket automobile parts. The board consists of six members. You are number two in seniority and the CEO is NOT on the board. The CEO has been a strong leader and an effective manager for over five years but lately the organization’s performance has fallen off and you will now have two consecutive years in the red. The CEO is highly regarded by the subordinates, but it is clear to you as a member of the board that many changes and adjustments have to be made. The serving CEO appears to be entrenched in approaching current challenges and opportunities with tried and true approaches.

The current CEO is internally focused, tradition based and conservative. He has shown some overly cautious actions with respect to entering new markets and expanding the company’s product line. The organization has little in the way of external investment activities and the CEO came close to dismissing the Deputy to the vice president for finance for an investment decision he felt was both risky and radical. He has consistently promoted managers from within and has a poor relationship with the VP for HR. There have been some long term problems with the quality level of one major product line (wheels) and the CEO has moved very slowly to correct it. Finally, he recently rejected the introduction of an enterprise architecture platform that was recommended by a major consulting firm.

What should you do and what should the board do? How should you do it?

For a business organization to sustain its operations over an extended period of time, it is necessary to maintain proper management over its cash flow. For each of the following scenarios, describe in detail the practices you would recommend: Scenario 1: Over the past five years, your organization has experienced increasingly negative cash flow, requiring the business to take out a line of credit through a local bank to supplement cash shortfalls. Describe, in detail, the practices you would recommend to improve cash flow. Consider credit policies, collections, product pricing, and accounting processes, for example. Be sure to consider options for operating, financing, and investing activities, in your answer. Scenario 2: Over the past three years, your business organization has experienced positive cash flow, in excess of the expectations of company management. Describe, in detail, your recommendations for bringing cash flow in line with management s expectations. Be sure to consider options for operating, financing, and investing activities, in your answer.

The operating model of an organization is more important as the organization grows larger and diversifies into multiple businesses. An example may be a healthcare organization that consists of multiple hospitals and clinics. The two primary concepts to think about when evaluating the operating model of this business are standardization and integration. An organization might allow the hospitals and clinics to run autonomously, in terms of deciding what technology they will use, or how they will purchase supplies, so that they basically function as independent businesses that just happen to have a common owner. This organization would have low standardization and integration. Another organization might integrate all of the records of the different hospitals and clinics into a single Electronic Medical Record. They may manage the the human resource, payroll, purchasing, and inventory activities of all of the hospitals and clinics in the same Enterprise Resource Planning system. If the organization documents all of the hospitals and clinics health care activities using these kinds of integrated technology, then they would be considered to be high on the integration and standardization scale. A chart on page 29 of the text that demonstrates these concepts and evaluates the particular operating model that is the result of how these kinds of activities are shared or are independent between components of the business. After considering the existing structure of your project organization, identify an operating model for your organization. Write a short paper in which you do the following: Describe the chosen operating model in terms of business process integration. Describe the chosen operating model in terms of business process standardization. Compare the selected organization to the sample organizations using the chosen operating model in terms of business process integration. Compare the selected organization to the sample organizations using the chosen operating model in terms of business process standardization. Describe the chosen operating model in terms of the financial benefits available to the organization as a result of the selection. Explain your rationale for the selected operating model. Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for references and citations, and create a document that is clearly written and free of grammatical errors

The operating model of an organization is more important as the organization grows larger and diversifies into multiple businesses. An example may be a healthcare organization that consists of multiple hospitals and clinics. The two primary concepts to think about when evaluating the operating model of this business are standardization and integration. An organization might allow the hospitals and clinics to run autonomously, in terms of deciding what technology they will use, or how they will purchase supplies, so that they basically function as independent businesses that just happen to have a common owner. This organization would have low standardization and integration. Another organization might integrate all of the records of the different hospitals and clinics into a single Electronic Medical Record. They may manage the the human resource, payroll, purchasing, and inventory activities of all of the hospitals and clinics in the same Enterprise Resource Planning system. If the organization documents all of the hospitals and clinics health care activities using these kinds of integrated technology, then they would be considered to be high on the integration and standardization scale. A chart on page 29 of the text that demonstrates these concepts and evaluates the particular operating model that is the result of how these kinds of activities are shared or are independent between components of the business. After considering the existing structure of your project organization, identify an operating model for your organization. Write a short paper in which you do the following: Describe the chosen operating model in terms of business process integration. Describe the chosen operating model in terms of business process standardization. Compare the selected organization to the sample organizations using the chosen operating model in terms of business process integration. Compare the selected organization to the sample organizations using the chosen operating model in terms of business process standardization. Describe the chosen operating model in terms of the financial benefits available to the organization as a result of the selection. Explain your rationale for the selected operating model. Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for references and citations, and create a document that is clearly written and free of grammatical errors

Rx’s R Us is a mail order dealer of homeopathic medications. It has 6 phone lines for receiving orders. Order takers answer the phones, check that inventory is available, and then prepare “picking tickets” for the warehouse stock pickers. One order may consist of several lines, with a different medication or multiples of medications ordered on each line. Each order taker can prepare picking tickets at a rate of one line every three minutes. The telephones are normally answered from 6 am to 4 pm Pacific Time. Stock pickers can fill and package the meds at a rate of one line every five minutes. RX employs 8 stock pickers who normally work weekdays from 8 am to 5 pm (except for one lunch hour).
a. What is the effective capacity of order taking (in lines per week) vs. stock pickers?
b. The eight warehouse employees work 10 hours per day between 7 am and 6 pm, 6 days a week for 3 weeks after the fall catalog is mailed in October. What is the peak capacity of the system, in lines per week? [State whatever assumptions you make in order to generate your response.]
c. During the second week of October, Parts R Us filled 5,000 order lines. What is the utilization as a percent of effective capacity vs. peak capacity?

1. Motivators
Motivators can either be positive (as in using a rewards system) or it can be negative (as in the fear of disciplinary action or being fired).

Think back on your experience and write about an example of each you were subjected to. (We’re not talking about things you might have observed; what we want to hear about are occasions when others have tried to
motivate you using positive and negative means). Which had the greater impact on you? Which produced the better results?
Do you consider motivation in the workplace an important factor in accomplishing a task or project? Explain.

2. Power and Influence

You must have read about five types of power. Again based on your experience, which has had the greatest motivational influence on you? Why? Think of a situation which you did use power or one where you could have used power, briefly describe the situation and say which one you used? or in the case of could have which one do you think would have been most helpful in this situation? Was the result what you wanted? If not then which one might have been better?

A second thought, is using power and influence a way in your mind to get ahead? Why should you engage in this behavior or why not? Is this ethical in your mind? Why or Why not? Now that you know more about it has the reading influenced you one way or the other?

3. Groups and Teams

It is more challenging to motivate a group of people than it is to motivate a single individual. Why do you think that is so? If you were placed in charge of a group or are currently in charge of one, which type of power would you think works best in motivating a group? Why?

4. Learning

Learning is about change, and applying newly learned concepts to existing problems or to overcoming barriers. Write about an event in your experience where organizational learning produced change. How do you think this relates to the different theories of learning?

5. Organizational Decision Making
What are some of the most effective approaches to organizational decision making that you have seen, used, or experienced? What distinguished these approaches from each other, yet still made them effective?

When advertising expenditure is increased, which of the aggregate and average (cost and revenue) curves shift their positions? Explain the direction of the shift. As an industry moves from being a monopoly to a monopolistically competitive one (due to the entry of new competitors as the monopoly’s patents expire, for example), what happens to the elasticity of the demand curve facing the firm? Why?

2. What is the service or product supplied by your firm? If there are more than one, pick one. What is the market structure for the market in which your firm supplies this product? Why? What does economic theory tell you about the short-run and long-run economic profits for a firm operating in this market structure?Do you observe that for your firm? Why or why not?

3. In the presence of excess capacity, firms sometimes launch new brands in an effort to increase their profits. Why would a monopolist not launch a new brand? Why do you think that launching a new brand is often done in monopolistic competition? Has your firm launched a new brand (provided a slightly differentiated service) in an effort to increase profits? Should it do/have done so? Why or why not?

4. Why is it that firms can earn profits in the long run in monopoly and oligopoly but not in monopolistic competition and perfect competition? What can firms do in monopolistic competition or perfect competition to make the short run last as long as possible since they can only make profits in the short run? Have you observed any firms employ such tactics? Can