NextGen Technology
In your opinion, what impact could Next Gen have on airspace congestion, especially in the Northeast Corridor?
2. Would NextGen have a positive or negative impact on passenger safety?
3. What impacts might NextGen have on aircraft efficiency and fuel consumption?
4. Are there any negative impacts from the implementation of NextGen Technology?
For the event you have selected which is 9/11 the attacks, provide some relevant background information regarding the event and the type of disaster it represents.
At a minimum answer the following: What were the main public health impacts of the event? What agencies or persons served as the leaders for the response and recovery of the event? Who were the affected communities? What were the costs involved in response, recovery and what would it have cost to conduct mitigation strategies specific to the selected event?What were the mental health impacts? How were vulnerable populations impacted? What agencies, organizations or individuals served as the leaders for the response and recovery of the event?
Medical Licensure
The field of medicine has experienced much growth over the past century. Likewise, regulatory compliance has increased. One method of trying to ensure the provision of quality care is to develop and mandate medical licensure.
Focus your discussion on the following:
Discuss the implications of medical licensure relative to raising the quality of medical care.
Does medical licensure improve quality, or does it just raise the profitability of medical practice?
Company: Waste Connections
https://www.wasteconnections.com
The task is POLITICAL/GOVERNMENT/LEGAL/REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT in part 1 Macro or general environment. Threat of Entry and Power of Suppliers in part 2 Industry analysis.
No introduction needed.
PART I MACRO OR GENERAL ENVIRONMENT
This section MUST:
include a complete analysis of opportunities and threats captured by graphs, charts, tables of the industry in which your firm operates in the following 4 environments:
o technological
o economic
o socio-cultural
o political/government/legal/regulatory
provide quantitative data for each trend analyzed charts, graphs, tables not words. All primary and secondary sources (including web sources) MUST be cited and sourced in footnotes – NOT endnotes
identify each trend as an opportunity or threat
Important:
Do NOT analyze the industry or the firm in the macro environment.
Do NOT mention your firm in the MACRO as you are NOT analyzing your firm in this section
Analyze the technological TRENDS disruptive innovation – that MAY IMPACT your industry if they are inputs to firms in the industry OR because they are substitutes that will eliminate the need for the products or services of your industry.
USE data from the government agencies that produce the data Statistics Canada, US Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Do NOT use data aggregators eg Statista, IBIS
Order of Analysis
Complete your analysis in the following order:
Political/legal Environment Trend Analysis O/T (opportunities and threats)
Note: There is a rough causality to the order above. An innovation in the technological environment stimulates entrepreneurs in the economic environment to exploit and commercialize the technology innovation. This, in turn, causes changes in the socio-cultural environment as consumers change their behavior by adopting it, and this finally triggers a response by elected officials and regulators in the political/legal environment who develop laws and regulations to deal with these changes and transformations.
1. POLITICAL/GOVERNMENT/LEGAL/REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
4 pages, double spaced.
This section MUST:
ID the MOST important federal or state or provincial government departments and agencies that regulate the industry of the firm that is being analyzed e.g. NR Can and National Energy Board are most important for oil and gas while DOT, NTSB are most important for airlines, railroad and trucking
Do NOT analyze city or municipal by-laws far too many in Canada or US
ID the industry association that represents the industry of your firm e.g. Canadian Bankers Association
ID the issues the association identifies as the most important
ID the most important relevant laws that specifically target and affect your industry of the selected firm.
Do NOT analyze generic laws such as general taxation or copyright; only laws that specifically affect your industry (e.g., Bank Act for banking e.g. taxes imposed only on alcohol)
evaluate each law or regulation as an opportunity or threat, and provide reasons for this judgment
Hint: Identify and review the industry association web site to see which issues the association identifies as most important
Read the Globe and Mail and the National Post.
PART 2 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
In this section you MUST:
complete an industry structural (NOT cyclical) analysis of the industry in which your firm competes
structural = permanent change e.g. aging of the population, decline of birth rate, major technological innovation
cyclical = the recurring economic changes relating to the seasons, the business cycle including interest rates, exchange rates and GDP
provide empirical data for each TREND analyzed. All sources, primary and secondary (including web pages), MUST be cited and sourced
1. Threat of Entry
3 pages, double spaced.
In this section, you MUST:
identify and analyze any barriers facing potential entrants, including:
o average capital investment needed to enter the industry
o presence of strong brand names among existing firms
o economies of scale (i.e., annual break-even point in units)
o government regulation e.g. CRTC, Investment Canada Act
o patents
provide quantitative or empirical data when analyzing each barrier
Important: Do NOT title the heading Barriers to Entry. It is a Threat of Entry. You are examining and analyzing barriers to entry to determine the threat of entry.
low barriers to entry = high threat of entry
high barriers to entry = low threat of entry
2. Power of Suppliers
3 pages, double spaced.
In this section, you MUST:
identify the AGGREGATE numbers of firms and revenues in the supplier industry
analyze the availability of substitutes for the products supplied
identify whether the supplier industry is concentrated or fragmented (i.e., less than 5 firms account for more than 50 percent of industry sales)
determine whether suppliers are price takers or price makers
Hospital Costs
Hospital costs vary greatly according to ownership, geographic location, and affiliation.
Pretend that you are the chief executive officer (CEO) of a hospital in your town. Estimate the cost of hospital admission, including direct and indirect costs.
Focus your discussion on the following:
What additional costs are necessary for an emergency room visit that leads to hospital admission?
As the CEO, if your costs were to increase by 25%, what would you do to offset this cost?
The next Section covers Public Health Tools During Emergencies (Chapters 9-11) Epidemiological Studies, Surveillance and Monitoring and Rapid Needs Assessment. I will attached chapter 9-11
For this weeks discussion, I would like for you to address the following:
1) Does the cost of surveillance justify the necessity of its implementation or is it waste of finances and resources?
2) What are some of the pros and cons of syndromic surveillance?
3) Write about the use of Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) during the Preparedness, Response and Mitigation phases. Is conducting an RNA in one phase more important or useful than conduct it in other phases? Why or why not?
First Short paper..make your own histography
The Greek development of historiography was a major new intellectual tool through which Humans could understand their lives and world. I will soon post a video on historiography. The sort of historiography Herodotus created, while it admitted stories and myths that had no factual basis, showed how he also understood that history is more than list of kings, political develops, wars and so forth. He realized that the political events of a country are tied to economic, environmental or cultural factors, which also influence each other. Here, in a paper of at least six hundred words (with a word count) create a passage of historiography which contains as many of these elements as you can include. You can even make a map if you wish. I have posted my own example in Course Documents. It does not need to be that elaborate. Paste your essay into the space below.
A description of the nations geography and topography
How the topography and geography relate to social and cultural history
Major cities and how they function
Patterns of agriculture and commerce.
Foundation myths
Political myths
Marriage customs
Religion
Forms of Government
minor variance staff report
Description: Staff reports are the main tool used by municipal councils and committees to inform the decision making process. Municipal experts, including planners, use staff reports to identifying issues, analyse solutions, and offer conclusions for decision makers to consider and base their decisions on. An essential skill for all planning professionals (and students) is the ability to provide well researched and written staff reports that offer clear and concise recommendations grounded in critical planning analysis.
In Assignment #1 Minor Variance Staff Report, students will take on the role of a professional planner for the City of Toronto and draft a staff report to the Committee of Adjustment recommending approval or refusal of an application for minor variance to the city’s zoning by-law.
Students will select a current active minor variance application from those listed on the city’s Development Applications Information Centre website, found here: http://app.toronto.ca/AIC/index.do.
Students will then critically analyse the minor variance proposal using the statutory “4 Tests” for minor variance, including applying all applicable provincial policies, official plan policies, zoning by-law requirements, and guidelines, to determine their planning opinion as to whether the application is supportable or should be refused. Research in arriving at a planning opinion should include a site visit to observe the existing conditions of the property and the character of the surrounding neighbourhood (given the current pandemic restrictions, “virtual” site visits on Google Streetview are permitted). Students will prepare and submit a 4-5 page (1000-1250 word) staff report communicating their planning analysis, providing a planning conclusion, and offering recommendations to the Committee of Adjustment. The staff report will be in the standard format used by City of Toronto Community Planning staff.
Read the following article and answer the questions.
Please use some of these key terms in your response
Human resource management (HRM)
Bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)
Disparate treatment
Adverse impact
Four-fifths (or 80%) rule
Sexual harassment
Quid pro quo sexual harassment
Hostile work environment
Recruiting
Job analysis
Job description
Job specifications
Internal recruiting
External recruiting
Selection
Validation
Human resource information system (HRIS)
Employment references
Background checks
Specific ability tests (aptitude tests)
Cognitive ability tests
Biographical data (biodata)
Personality test
Work sample tests
Assessment centers
Interview
Unstructured interviews
Structured interviews
Training
Needs assessment
Performance appraisal
Objective performance measures
Subjective performance measures
Behavior observation scales (BOSs)
Rater training
360-degree feedback
Compensation
Employee separation
Job evaluation
Piecework
Commission
Profit sharing
Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
Stock options
Wrongful discharge
Downsizing
Outplacement services
Early retirement incentive programs (ERIPs)
Phased retirement
Employee turnover
Functional turnover
Dysfunctional turnover
Questions:
What decision would you make? Would you hire this person or re-open the search?
In your opinion, are companies justified in using an applicants Facebook or Twitter accounts when considering them for a job?
Do you believe that a company should be concerned with how a potential employee spends his or her personal time?
For the past six months, youve been heading a hiring committee in charge of hiring a new division manager. Its been a grueling processfiltering through thousands of applications, seemingly endless meetings and discussions debating peoples qualifications, so many interviews in different cities that its hard to remember whom you met and where, and even more debates about who should be flown to your headquarters for a day of final interviews.
But its almost all over now. After so many interviews and meetings and discussions, the committee has settled on a candidate that everyone thinks is ideal for the jobIvy-league educated, lots of management experience, a great personality, driven to succeed, willing to learn. He was near the top of your list
when you began this process six months ago, and here he is now, in first place at the finish line.
You head into the last hiring committee meeting with lots of relief. Not only are you happy that you found the right person for the job, but youre really glad that this meeting is just going be a formality. No more debates or arguments about applicants work experiences, education, or hobbies. Just walk on in, take a quick vote, and then make a call with the job offer.
But as you walk into the committee meeting, theres a strange vibe. Some people look quite worried, whereas others are just angry. When you ask whats going on, one of the committee members responds that in the past few days, she added the final candidate as a friend on Facebook, and what she found on his profile was quite disturbing. There were several photos of him passed out on the sidewalk after drinking too much. Other photos showed him smoking marijuana at a friends apartment. Another photo shows him wearing a Nazi costume for what you assume is a Halloween party. And theres the languagealmost all of his posts are filled with obscenities.
After seeing all of this, half the committee wants to go with another candidate. They cant imagine that this is the kind of person they want leading your companys most important division. The other half of the committee thinks its not a big deal at all. They believe that how he spends his personal time has absolutely no reflection on his ability to manage, and theyre angry that committee members would try to use it against him.
So here you are, faced with a split (and angry) committee. Theyre looking to you to make break the deadlockshould we hire this guy or move on to someone else?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izP5n1SBEaI
https://ecorner.stanford.edu/videos/ideas-come-from-everywhere/
Write a paper which details what was conveyed in the videos. Be substantive – not generalized or superficial.
At the top of the paper, please include 1-2 bullets of what the total video analysis has covered from the chapter. What are the main concepts (from the chapter) that the video covered? These main points should correspond to the underlined quotations discussed below.
Needs to include a direct quote from the chapter explaining the concept the video is addressing. Use “quotations”, APA citations, page number and underline the entire quotation it in the work. Use of a general comment from the chapter which has no direct bearing on the video will not be counted as completed – be purposed and specific. The pdf attached is Chapter 7 where the direct quote can be referenced.
