Download the dataset. The data set is information about the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings in a city. The following is a list of the variables in the database:

• Floor Area: square feet of floor space
• Offices: number of offices in the building
• Entrances: number of customer entrances
• Age: age of the building (years)
• Assessed Value: tax assessment value (thousands of      dollars)

As you work through the following exercises, note your answers to the given questions so you can easily summarize them in your reflection.

Use the data set to construct a model that predicts the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings with specific characteristics.

1. Construct a scatter plot in Excel with Floor Area as the independent variable and Assessment Value as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and R2 in your graph. 

• Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2      variables?

2. Use Excels Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of Floor Area and Assessment Value. 

• Is Floor Area a significant predictor of Assessment      Value?

3. Construct a scatter plot in Excel with Age as the independent variable and Assessment Value as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and R2 in your graph. 

• Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2      variables?

4. Use Excels Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of Age and Assessment Value. 

• Is Age a significant predictor of Assessment Value?

Construct a multiple regression model.

• Use Excels Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression      analysis with Assessment Value as the dependent variable and Floor Area,      Offices, Entrances, and Age as independent variables. 
• What is the overall fit R2? What is the adjusted R2?
• Which predictors are considered significant if we work      with =0.05? Which predictors can be eliminated?
• What is the final model if we only use Floor Area and      Offices as predictors?
• Suppose our final model is: Assessed Value = 115.9 +      0.26 x Floor Area + 78.34 x Offices. 
• What would be the assessed value of a medical office      building with a floor area of 3500 sq. ft., 2 offices, that was built 15      years ago? 
• Is this assessed value consistent with what appears in      the database?

Reflection

In a minimum of 500 words, reflect on the types of medical offices you would advise management to close and open, and why. Use your exercise notes to support your rationale. 

The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate leadership within the professional learning process by creating systems to ensure sharing, collaboration, and reflective feedback.

Research and design a system that uses technology for shared learning (or professional development) among school staff. Outline a structure that will allow teachers and staff to share best practices from supplemental learning experiences (e.g., information from conferences, workshops, formal coursework).

In 500-750 words, answer the following questions about your technology-based shared learning system:

• How will professional learning topics be evaluated for relevance and worthiness prior to being shared?
• How will the professional learning be shared?
• How will the shared information be applied or implemented into professional practice?
• How will teachers provide reflective feedback on what they implemented as a result of the professional learning?
• What is an appropriate timeline for sharing information, implementing concepts, and monitoring professional learning outcomes?

Beneath your plan, write a 250-500 word rationale that explains the decisions you made, supported by 2-3 scholarly resources.

caso study

Instructions

Students much review the case study and answer all questions with a scholarly response using APA and include 2 scholarly references. Answer both case studies on the same document and upload 1 document to Moodle.

 Case Study 3 & 4 change every semester. Topics will be delivered at due time.

The answers must be in your own words with reference to the journal or book where you found the evidence to your answer. Do not copy-paste or use past students’ work as all files submitted in this course are registered and saved in turn it in the program.

Answers must be scholarly and be 3-4 sentences in length with rationale and explanation. “No Straight forward / Simple answer will be accepted”. 

Turn it in Score must be less than 25 % or will not be accepted for credit, must be your own work and in your own words. You can resubmit, Final submission will be accepted if less than 25 %. Copy-paste from websites or textbooks will not be accepted or tolerated. Please see College Handbook with reference to Academic Misconduct Statement.

All answers to case studies must have the references cited “in the text” for each answer and a minimum of 2 Scholarly References (Journals, books) (No websites)  per case Study

 Critical Thinking Questions caso 3

 1. Why was this patient in metabolic acidosis? 

2. Do you think the patient will eventually be switched to an oral hypoglycemic agent? 

3. How would you anticipate this life changing diagnosis is going to affect your patient according to his age and sex? 

4. The parents of your patient seem to be confused and not knowing what to do with this diagnoses. What would you recommend to them?  

case 4

 Critical Thinking Questions

 1. Why would the patient be instructed to avoid tobacco and caffeine?

 2. Why did the physician recommend 6 weeks of medical management?

3. How do antacid medication work in patients with gastroesophageal reflux? 

4. What would you approach the situation, if your patient decided not to take the medication and asked you for an alternative medicine approach? 

Need help arguing only the Employers Side for the case Hester v. Bell-Textron Inc., 5th Cir., No 20-11140 (Aug 23, 2021). 

We are asked to make a powerpoint presentation only

Need to present Evidence, Analysis, Explanation of the law surrounding this issue & Conclusion
Any articles you can find to help back up Employers Side is strongly recommended

Here are 2 links pertaining to the case to help formulate the stance:

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-11140-CV0.pdf

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/court-report-fmla-claim-fired-while-on-leave.aspx

Please read each passage below and respond to each part. I DO NOT need a reference or title page, however please provide the reference(s) underneath the passage. Please label as I have done below, example Part 1 and place your response along with the reference. Please keep each one on the same document! Please cite properly and use correct grammar. 

Part 1

 Throughout Asian countries, China has the highest average pay rate (Martocchio, 2017). As Martocchio (2017) went on to explain, Chinas high wages can be attributed to a large trade surplus in the country as well labor shortages that China has experienced. According to Asinta (2021), China has mandated retirement funds, medical coverage, unemployment benefits, workers compensation, and maternity benefits. 

In the US, there are also mandated benefits that companies must offer, but they are not as generous as those offered in China. For example, maternity leave is an additional bonus, many times new parents need to wait until they qualify for FMLA to cover their time away from work to welcome or place a new child. In the US, minimum wage has been slowly increasing, in 2013 Obama started the initiative by raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour (Martocchio, 2017). Now, many states are making the decision to raise their own wage requirements and companies are establishing their own pay rates to attract and retain employees. Additionally, even though employee benefits are not mandated as they are in China, more and more companies are choosing to offer generous benefits because that is what attracts desired talent. Even though the benefits are not mandated as they are in countries such as China, it is becoming more and more obvious that offering these benefits are beneficial to companies and furthermore, the economy. 

References: 

Asinta. (2021, August 25) China. https://www.asinta.com/countries/employee-benefits-in-china/ 

Martocchio, J.J. (2017).  (9th ed.). Pearson.

Part 2

 It is known that each country has pay and benefits practices that differ from other countries due to the difference in the economy and government of each country. However, similarities may arise due to the interaction between nations in the global market (Martocchio, 2017). In this discussion, I look to compare the compensation in the United States and China. The currency in China is the Renminbi, while the US is the US dollar. The US dollar has more value than the Renminbi in the international market, being approximately six times more valuable. Their purchasing power in their respective local markets is pegged. Therefore, their compensation is relative to each other if compared.

In both countries, compensations are in the form of salaries and wages, with commissions and bonuses provided depending on an individual’s profession. The hourly wage in China is set at 1.73 dollars, while in the US, it is 7.25 dollars (NATIONMASTER, 2022). Therefore, the compensation in China is lower than that of the United States. The United States does not have medical care benefits for all employees, while in China, medical care and maternity benefits are provided (asinta, 2022). This is an important sector that puts China ahead of the US in that sector, as the population’s welfare is taken care of. Most of all, the other benefits are similar in both countries. This entails retirement benefits, unemployment benefits, and workers’ compensation. The employees in the United States of America have paid vacation days as a benefit, where they get vacations catered for by their employers. This is not the case in China, as there are no paid vacation days. It is also important to note that both nations have the same working hours, set at forty. Therefore, the population must earn whatever they earn with the same amount of work time.

References

asinta. (2022). Employee Benefits in China. Retrieved from https://www.asinta.com/countries/employee-benefits-in-china/

Martocchio, J. (2017). Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach.

NATIONMASTER. (2022). Labor Stats: compare key data on China & United States. Retrieved from https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/China/United-States/Labor

Please read each passage below and respond to each part. I DO NOT need a reference or title page, however please provide the reference(s) underneath the passage. Please label as I have done below, example Part 1 and place your response along with the reference. Please keep each one on the same document! Please cite properly and use correct grammar. 

Part 1

 Home country-based pay, headquarters-based pay, and host country-base pay are still more concepts. Well each one might have their individual differences, they both arrive from a understanding of compensation and benefits. When looking at Home Country Based Pay it is understood that the expatriate is receiving compensation and benefits that are the standards of their home country while working in another. Its important to understand that the highlight of this pay is that the expatriate is gaining what would be the standard of their home country in another location. This is a key factor in ensuring that the employee is as comfortable as their home country counterparts. While on the other hand a challenge of this understanding is that companies and organizations are required to support the expatriate and bringing this standard. A counter part of the group is Headquarters Based Pay. This concept looks at the core foundation of where the organization lies. Its understood that it doesnt matter where the employees are located but they will still receive the conversation and benefit that is fly to the home base of the company. For example if the company is located in United States and they have employees and expatriates all over the US and in Canada and Mexico and Japan and China, they will all receive the compensation and benefits pulled from headquarters. The highlight of this concepts is the benefit of having every employee be within a set of standards that is based upon the organizations headquarters. Doing so helps the organization and all the employees build a clear distinguish unified understanding. A challenge to this might be that if the employee is located at a country that might have better benefits and standards of conversation the employee does not qualify for that understanding. For example if the company is in the US but they are located in Germany working for the company they might not receive the German working laws in benefits requires. So the employee can easily be missing out on paid education or even parental support. Finally the concept of Host Country Based Pay is very similar to the other two based pay. But rather being pulled from their home country or headquarter country they are being reviewed in their host country. So the employee can be working for the organization in one location might be located at another. Ive been looking at another they will see if that host countries compensation benefit standards. So when looking at this concept if the expatriate is in another country instead of receiving the benefit of conversation of their headquarter or the Home country they will receive the benefit and conversation of the house country. The country that is hosting where they are living. As a benefit or highlight of this understanding the organization can find success in paying less than normal. Theyre able to have employees work for a standard that might be below what the organization has but is the common standard for where the employer is located. The downside shoe this concept is for the employee as theyre not getting the same conversation and benefits that is available to them in the country that the organization comes from. Being that the employee is only receiving what is common to their country which might be a very low standard.

All three of these Face pay unique within their own understanding. They do follow a similar outline but have their own unique benefits and challenges. When using the idea of approaching these base pay is critical to understand the overall budget and approach that the organization would like to do. If an organization wants to utilize their budget as best as they can in order to meet the needs of their environment they might want to look into home country base pay. And the summer concept is organization is hefty enough to provide excellent compensation and benefits they can just simply pull from the host country base pay concept. While on the other hand if the organization is located in a successful country or a country that is sustainable they can review the concept of headquarters base pay as an option too. As a whole the organization has considered where they are located compared to where they would like to pull from. Its critical to understand the environment and the countries to gain an overall support in terms of their budgeting. Doing so will help support their decision on making what is appropriate for international pay. Keeping track and understanding their environment helps organize and balance how host country income tax can be reviewed. With a team that understands the guidelines and standards of benefits and compensation for every country that they have an employee in or have an employee coming from help sustain the clear balance between every different country. It can be a clear challenge when trying to get employees willing to accept foreign assignments. Employees have to understand where their needs meet with the standards of the organizations conversations plan. If an organizations to cost cautious about their overall operation and offer something that might be too low to the standards of the employees they might not be willing to support the assignment. In doing so this reduce the attraction and overall approach to an assignment for an organization. On the other hand when an organization might have a wealthy sustainable compensation plan employees are willing to do anything to stay within the loyalty of organization. In doing so this helps the company grow its success and ability to become approachable and gain a reputation of preference. So while organizations might not be fully aware that the compensation plan does speak volumes is critical to build a reputation that is open minded and aware of the employee situation.

References

Martocchio, J.J. (2017).  (9th ed.). Pearson.

Part 2

Martocchio (2017) advises that home country-based pay is most suitable for expatriates that are on short-term assignments (less than one year) (Section 13.4). This is generally because employees are likely to compare their salary overseas to the wages they earned in the U.S. With no drastic change between the duties and responsibilities of their roles, maintaining the same salary will decrease the likelihood of compensation/equity problems. 

Headquarters-based pay 

Organizations will spend less time and cut costs as the location where an employee works will not have any effect on compensation. Each employees pay will be based on the pay scales being used at the headquarters location. This is especially beneficial in regards to planning and cutting costs for employees that will be moving around to several locations throughout their time with the company. 

Host country-based pay 

Employee compensation is determined using pay scales and data from the host country to create a compensation package that is equivalent to the individuals in that country. Martocchio (2017) says that Expatriates base pay will be competitive with other employees base pay in the host countries, and companies may be seen as more legitimate employers by following local norms (Section 13.4). This pay method is typically used for employees that will be working/living in the host country for more than one year. I believe this is a beneficial method because the employee will be able to become acclimated to the societal and cultural norms of the host country. Employees may be subject to living at a lower standard than what they are used to if the rate of pay norm in the foreign country is less than what they make in their regular position. Martocchio (2017) says that this creates risk and uncertainty for the employee as purchasing power decreases (Section 13.4).

Currency stabilization is an important factor to consider when determining appropriate pay strategies. The conversion rates from one currency to another can result in a loss of compensation for employees. When traveling to another country for vacation, I initially converted my U.S dollars to pesos before I left the U.S. When I arrived at the resort and decided to book an excursion it turns out the price in American dollars was less than the price in pesos considering the loss from converting my U.S dollars. While visiting different locations during my trip I quickly realized that the conversion rates fluctuated from one place to the next. As an employee living in a new country and receiving income that must be converted I would imagine that it would be frustrating to deal with converting currency on a regular basis. 

The compensation plans set by employers affect employees willingness to accept foreign assignments because essentially these assignments play a role in their daily living especially as they will need to adjust to cultural differences and norms. In my opinion, the compensation plan is key to making employees feel that it is worth it. After all, there is so much discussion over compensation because it is a retention and attraction factor for employers nd thier ability to gain a competitive advantage. 

Reference: 

Martocchio, J. J. (2017). Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach. (9th Edition). Pearson.

 Reflect on ethical issues that are arising as increasingly personal data is being collected by all types of organizations. What ethical issues do human service organizations have to consider? Is reduced privacy worth the ability to provide potentially more effective services? 

7 questions on Randstad Australia. Must be completed in 2 hours. Very urgent.

Study guide for reference as attached!

Questions are very detailed and the number of words are written in as a guideline.

NO EQUATIONS THANK YOU.

This HOMEWORK MUST INCLUDE CITATION AND REFERENCE. (APA FORMAT)

 Assessment Description

Supply chain integration is a major contributing factor to organizational success. The goal of supply chain integration is alignment within the supply chain. As a business leader, how can you achieve greater supply chain integration with suppliers and customers?

Amazon is a prime example of a company that has successfully managed its supply chain to achieve growth and profitability. Research the progression of Amazon’s supply chain integration. Write a 1,000-1,250-word paper that address the following questions:

1. How do sales and operations planning in supply chain integration impact the company overall? What would Amazon’s medium- and long-term forecast inform the operations management department? How do logistics, transportation modes, and warehouse locations impact Amazon’s competitiveness?
2. How does global sourcing and procurement impact the overall effectiveness of the supply chain? What are the benefits and challenges that have occurred when outsourcing logistic and other functions?
3. How has Amazon successfully leveraged e-commerce strategies to promote supply chain integration and boost sales and growth for the organization? Which strategies have been particularly effective and why?
4. Do you feel that Amazon sets an example for other companies to model regarding supply chain integration? Be sure to explain your rationale. 
5. How would conscious capitalism and a Christian worldview impact Amazon’s supply chain integration?

Incorporate five to seven resources to support your paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Week 10 Assignment 2 – Business Plan Presentation

As you know, the ability of a business owner to create and deliver a strong presentation about the core aspects and value proposition of their business model is a critical skill to move the project forward. Therefore, you will create a PowerPoint presentation covering the main elements of your business plan. First, develop a PowerPoint that describes the major sections of your business model that were identified in your written assignments. Next, decide which method of presentation you will use: a PowerPoint with audio narration on each slice, a webcam or Kaltura video recording of you presenting your business concept, or a PowerPoint that includes detailed speaker notes using the notes section.

Prepare

Use these resources on how to prepare an effective PowerPoint presentation.

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Instructions

1. Create an 810 slide PowerPoint presentation (not including the title or references slides) in which you: 
   • Present the major elements of your business plan, including the problem your business solves, your businesss solution, your pricing plan, business operations information, marketing plan, industry overview, financial projections, and your team. 
   • Provide a rationale for each major point of your business plan and identify two reasons why this venture should be undertaken. 
   • Create a summary slide with your conclusion and two recommendations. 

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Please check with your professor for any additional instructions. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

You are now in the final stage of the business plan development. You have done a tremendous amount of research, planning, and strategizing to complete the key elements of your business plan. The business plan is very detailed. However, the executive team is only interested in a ten-minute summation. Therefore, you also must create a compelling executive summary, in which you justify your new product or service venture and how it would benefit the company.Please complete the following:

• Write a 12 page Executive Summary that summarizes the market opportunity, market solution, timeline and costs, and five key points from your business plan.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Please check with your professor for any additional instructions. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Create a presentation on all major elements of a business plan, including a rationale for each element.