1. Watch the Ted Talk: How to run a company with (almost) no rules

2. Read the case study on Work Life Balance scenarios:

• • • • Organizational Culture and Working Hours at W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc
      • Job Sharing at Motorola
      • Health Promotion at IKEA
      • Emergency Leave and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) in the Scottish Court Service
      • Career Breaks in Lothian and Borders Police Service in Edinburgh, Scotland

(Located in the Important Documents Folder)

3. Initial Post

Choose one case study scenario. Answer the questions that follow the case scenario. What is your work-life balance like? Share your story.

The architectures aligns with mechanisms and mechanisms create the features/business drivers of the Cloud. View the attached matrix. A third column architecture has been added that is blank. For this assignment, complete the third column by adding the different architectures.

Required Text Book

Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture by Thomas Erl, Ricardo Puttini, Zaigham Mahmood, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 9780133387520.

Recommended Reading:

• Yeluri, Raghu., & Castro-Leon, Enrique. Building the Infrastructure for Cloud Security Gendron Michael. Business Intelligence and the Cloud
• Chandrasekaran, K. Essentials of Cloud Computing
• Newcombe, Lee. Securing Cloud Services, A pragmatic approach to security

In this week’s response discuss and analyse one of the articles provided below related to gender issues in the tech industries:

• http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/21/12241890/women-game-development (Links to an external site.)
• http://news.mit.edu/2018/3q-d-fox-harrell-video-game-metoo-sexual-misconduct-0119 (Links to an external site.)
• https://www.altmaguk.net/2014/08/androgyny-in-video-games.html (Links to an external site.)
• https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/science/studying-the-effects-of-playing-violent-video-games.html

Use the week’s readings(see the attachments) – particularly models and concepts covered – to analyse, comment on, critique and/or respond to a current issue. Responses should be approximately 500 words each. (use APA style)

1. Arguments:

Identify and organize the arguments made by the plaintiff(s) and defendant(s). This should be written in your own words. It must be a minimum of three paragraphs. Paragraphs are usually about 150-200 words long.

2. Court’s Rationale/Reasoning

Describe how the court applied the rules/legal principles to the particular facts in the case to reach its decision. This could derive from a statute/regulation, similar cases as well as policy arguments the court used to justify its holding. It must be a minimum of four paragraphs. Paragraphs are usually about 150-200 words long.

Write a business brief on the business etiquette of a country of your choice.It must be a country you are not from or have been.You should write this as a short guide to the “general” business etiquette.Be sure to include how you greet people, order to which you greet them, how to accept a business card, sitting arrangements at an official function, paying for a meal, accepting a gift or invitation, and anything deemed informant for good business relations.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iese/2015/03/24/why-you-need-cultural-intelligence-and-how-to-develop-it/#544dc32817d6

https://guide.culturecrossing.net/

https://www.commisceo-global.com/resources/country-guides

https://www.business.com/articles/so-international-business-etiquette-from-around-the-world/

at least 200 words and one reference