Purpose: Chapter 4 discusses forecasting supply and demand of a company’s employees (human resources).Scheduling is always a consideration when forecasting supply and demand.The purpose of this assignment is to discuss a hospitality organization’s perspective on flexible work hours or compressed work week schedules.

Skills:As a result of completing this assignment, you will learn to collaborate effectively with others to share information.You will practice written communication and responding to peer’s in a professional manner.

Knowledge:Students will gain knowledge of issues with scheduling employees fairly while covering the organization’s need.

Task: In order to complete this assignment you will execute the following.

• Answer the following questions:What are the drawbacks to using flexible work hours or compressed work-weeks from a hospitality organization’s perspective? How should the HR department deal with these challenges?
• Answer should be 400-500 words.
• Post your original comment to the discussion questions with your last name in the title of the discussion posting.
• Post your original answers to the questions by Wednesday at 10:00 pm.
• The participation part of this week is each student must then post a comment to at least two other student’s postings by Friday night by 10:00 pm. Five peers have been automatically assigned to you.You must respond to at least 2 or then – you can respond to all 5!!
• Your response should include a discussion of what different department in the hospitality industry could use flex scheduling.
  • Prepare a response of a minimum of 100-150 words to at least two peers.
  • Provide at least one reference other than the textbook to support your answers. Be sure to put the reference information in your posting using APA formatting.

Criteria for Success: A successful assignment will have the following characteristics:

• You are required to respond to at least 2 fellow classmates this week.
• A critical evaluation of the peer postings you are responding to.
  • You add information to the postings you respond to.
  • Posting your agreement is not adding to the discussion.
• You cite one additional reference to support your response to the discussion questions and peer responses.The textbook is not an additional reference.
• Sources will be cited the end of your discussion using APA format. Articles, podcasts, or videos may not be older than 2012.
• Students do not begin reading the answers until after Wednesday at 10 pm – so you have the opportunity to read all postings.No response postings before 6 am Thurday.
• Notes to posting on the discussion board:
  • You may use a word processor to complete the discussion before posting in Learn.Then copy and paste the information into the discussion board.
  • Do not attach the file to the discussion area.
  • It is nearly impossible for the class members and for me to keep up with reading each posting if we have to download attached files.
• Proper grammar, spelling, and professional language are used.
• Late assignments are not accepted.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this speech is to make a claim of value based on your ideas as to whether a topic is good or bad, right or wrong, moral or immoral, etc. A persuasive speech can only occur in a situation in which two or more points of view exist. Therefore, you must take a stance on the value of a particular issue or idea.

TOPIC: For a value speech, most topics are generally issued based. However, you could choose to advocate the value of an object or product (Zaxby’s has the best chicken fingers, Ford make the best car, etc.). For issue-based speeches, there are several topics that are off limits for this speech as they have been overused and really do not have “new” arguments that can be developed. These topics include:

Legalizing Marijuana, Seatbelts Organ/Blood Donation, Abortion, Gun Control, Euthanasia, Death Penalty, Lowering the Drinking Age, Same Sex Marriage, Why to Exercise, Why not to Smoke, Drink, Engage in Unsafe Sexual Practices. Be unique.

When choosing your topic, try to pick a subject that foremost interests you. Then, based on the information you read from your textbook about audience adaptation, try to make that subject interesting to your classmates. The ultimate power of making your speech engaging and interesting lies in your hands. Remember, the more you care about your topic, the more likely the audience is going to be interested in it, even if they weren’t before your speech. Keep in mind for this speech that if your topic does not directly affect your audience in some way, they won’t care enough to be persuaded.

2. The topic is appropriate for the assigned general purpose.

3. A minimum of five sources should be used to provide adequate supporting material -These sources must be cited in the delivery of the speech as well as on your bibliography. You should also cite any additional sources you use over and above the five required sources. All sources should be cited within the body of the speech itself, and each main point must contain a source. Sources cited within the introduction and/or conclusion of the speech will not count towards the citation requirement.

-Encyclopedias, dictionaries, Wikipedia and other general reference materials may not be used. -Only two sources may come from the Internet. -At least one of the sources must carry a publication date within the last 12 months.

4. One copy of your full-sentence outline and bibliography (as one Word doc) must be submitted

5. A copy of the bibliography/reference should be attached to your outline. We use APA style for source citation. If you are unfamiliar with APA format, you may utilize the tools at http://citationmachine.net(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)as a resource.

Entrepreneurial Business Plan Part F:

The purpose of this assignment is to determine the startup cost of the firm, discuss new funding sources for the firm and a discussion of key financial and accounting ratios. To do this, students will integrate lessons learned from the course reading assignments, conduct outside research, and apply their critical thinking skills to properly estimate the various costs needed to start their firm. (CLO’s 1, 4, and 8)

General Guidelines:
1. Your paper should meet all APA (6th Ed.) writing standards.
2. The Change Matrix must be placed immediately following the Title Page.
3. Beginning in Wk. 2 – Instructor’s feedback, recommendations, and corrections must be addressed and detailed on the change matrix page.
4. Include a faith integration component – The faith integration component should be present throughout your business plan (e.g., not just a paragraph or mention of faith at the end of each section). In other words, how does your faith or world view influence your firm?

Specific to this week’s component:
1. Conduct outside research to determine startup cost for their firm.
2. Create an Excel spreadsheet to display each category and the estimated first-year cost.
3. Copy and paste the spreadsheet into the Entrepreneurial Business Plan
4. Provide an in-depth review of two leading sources for new business funding.
a. Students should also discuss their option that is best-suited for their firm
5. Using your firm’s financial data, provide a discussion of the firm’s profit margin, break-even points (include a break-even graph), and the industries profit margin.

Feedback that should be implemented in the Change Matrix:

“Just as in Wk. 1, I reviewed your paper using the Review feature within Word. I encourage you to take a look at each of the comments I posted directly on your paper.

Your final paper is due soon. In order to maximize your point opportunity, be sure to:

1. During the past several weeks, I intentionally provided several notes, comments, recommendations, or suggestions. Each of these comments was made to help you improve your paper. I, therefore, encourage you to review each of these notes (dating back to Wk. 1) and make all the necessary corrections.

2. Review the final rubric – both your final paper and presentation should meet each of the mentioned dimensions

3. Throughout this course I have stressed the importance of writing according to the guidelines set by APA – I encourage you to ensure:

1. The table of contents is properly working

2. All Headers are properly formatted

3. All in-text citations and references are properly formatted

4. Your writing uses proper grammar and sentence structure.”

I have also attached the annotated PDF of last week’s paper. Please go through the paper and look at all the instructor’s comments and make appropriate changes, noting them in the Change Matrix.

There are four questions with multiple parts

• Use Baseball Players sheet to answer this question.
• Use Score sheet to answer this question
• Use Temperatures sheet to answer this question.
  • Indicate the level of data measurements for temperatures. [Hint: whether nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio.]
• Use Part-4 sheet to answer this question.

The file Exam_1.xlsx, sheet named Baseball Players, contains salary data on all Major League Baseball players for year 2011. Create a table of counts of the various positions, then express as percentage of all players for the year. Construct 2 charts: (1) create a column chart (so-called Bar) of counts, and (2) create a pie chart of these percentages for the year. Use an appropriate title for your charts. Which chart you prefer – Column or Pie? Why? Which position is most common? [Note: Your answers – table, graphs and any comment should be placed in Baseball Players sheet. Do not create a new sheet or a new workbook.]

The file Exam_1.xlsx, sheet named Score contains midterm (X axis) and final exam (Y axis) scores for 96 students in a corporate finance course. Do the students’ scores for the two exams tend to go together, so that those who do poorly on the midterm tend to do poorly on the final, and those who do well on the midterm tend to do well on the final? Create a scatterplot to answer this question. Use an appropriate titles for your plot including X axis and Y axis.

The file Exam_1.xlsx, sheet named Temperatures, shows daily high temperatures (in Fahrenheit) recorded in Alexandria, Virginia for the month of December, 2015.

b.Construct a frequency distribution table using 5 class intervals. Determine relative frequency, percent and cumulative percent for these data.

c.Using cumulative percent values in part (b), what percent of the times daily high temperatures was less than 63? [Do not calculate this value manually. Use part (b) to answer this question.]

d.Construct a histogram.

e.What does histogram tell us about the daily high temperature for the month of December, 2015?

[Note: Your answers – table, graph and any comment should be placed in Temperatures sheet. Do not create a new sheet or a new workbook. For (e), insert a text box. Type your comment inside the text box.]

The file Exam_1.xlsx, sheet named Part-4 contains data from a survey of 399 people regarding a government environmental policy. Recode the data into a new data set, making one transformation: change Children to list “No children” or “At least one child”. Then create a column chart (so-called Bar chart) of counts for the new Children variable. Use an appropriate title for your chart.

I have an attachment for the numbers and the Excel sheets.

Module 1:

Discussion Forum: Using Technology to Change the World

There are lots of cool technologies available in the market that some of us are unaware of, especially with the integration of Web enabled applications with the smart phones in Web 2.0 environment. There are tablets such as IPad mini, Surface Pro, Nexus, Kindle Fire, Nook, Galaxy, Envy, Vivo, Lenovo and other electronic gadgets. Visit an electronic storefront such as Best Buy. Identify and SELECT three different manufacturers’ products. Review the specifications of three (3) tablets and three (3) smartphones from these manufacturers. The due date is Thursday, Sep 12, 2019 and you must respond to two of your classmates’ posts.This will be graded.

Used the benchmark below to provide your choice for the technology product that you have selected.

Hot but cool technologies sample:

Tablets and Smart Phone Format

Product	Manufacturer 1	Manufacturer2	Manufacturer 3
Tablets:	Apple i-Pad 4th Generation Specs: OS: iOS (More specs)	Samsung Galaxy S Specs: OS: Android 4.4 Kitkat (More specs)	Microsoft Surface Pro 3 RT Specs: OS: Windows 8.1 (More specs)
Phones:	Apple i-Phone 6 Specs: OS: iOS (More specs)	Samsung Galaxy S V Specs: OS: Android 4.4.2 (More specs)	AT & T Nokia Lumia 1520 Specs: OS: Windows 8.1 (More specs)

Provide the specifications (specs), and select your preferred tablet and smart phone by addressing the following concerns:

1: Which of the tablets did you prefer and why?

2. Which of the smart phones did you prefer and why?

3: Are they ideal for cloud computing? What is Cloud Computing and what specific features of your selected tablet and smart phone make them ideal for Cloud Computing?

4: Respond to at least two of your classmates postings.

The following rubric will be used for assessing your participation on discussion boards.

	Levels of Achievement
Criteria	Meets Expectation	Approaches Expectation	Below Expectation	Limited Evidence	No Evidence
Content	20 Points	15 Points	10 Points	5 Points	0 Points
	Demonstrates excellent knowledge of concepts, skills, and theories relevant to topic.	Demonstrates fair knowledge of concepts, skills, and theories.	Demonstrates significantly flawed knowledge of concepts, skills, and theories.	Demonstrates poor or absent knowledge of concepts, skills, and theories.	Did not participate.
Support	20 Points	15 Points	10 Points	5 Points	0 Points
	Statements are well supported; posts extend discussion.	Statements are partially supported; posts may extend discussion.	Support is deficient; posts do not extend discussion.	Statements are not supported.	Did not participate.
Writing Quality	20 Points	15 Points	10 Points	5 Points	0 Points
	Writing is well organized, clear, concise, and focused; no errors.	Some significant but not major errors or omissions in writing organization, focus, and clarity.	Numerous significant but not major errors or omissions in writing organization, focus, and clarity.	Numerous errors or omissions—at least some major—in writing organization, focus, and clarity.	Did not participate.
Timeliness	20 Points	15 Points	10 Points	5 Points	0 Points
	Initial before deadline.	Initial post 1 day late (Friday).	Initial post 2 days late (Saturday).	Initial post 3 days late (Sunday).	Did not participate.
Quantity	20 Points	15 Points	10 Points	5 Points	0 Points
	Initial post and two other posts all on separate days.	Initial post and two other posts with two on same day.	Initial post and one other post.	Initial post only.	Did not participate.