Your boss has noticed that stress levels have been increasing in your work unit and has asked you to assess the problem and propose a plan of action for addressing it. What steps would you take to meet this request? What would be the first thing you would do, what factors would you take into consideration in conducting your assessment, and what plan of action do you think would be most promising?
Stress related to work can be assessed in terms of the below areas:
Your boss has noticed that stress levels have been increasing in your work unit and has...
You have been asked by your new boss at Belk's to do a survey of customers on their preference of the location of the customer service desk. She would like a 95% confidence interval with a margin of error of 0.09. How many people do you need to survey?
2:41 Recently, you ve noticed that your associates' level of engagement has declined. What would you be most and least likely to do? Most Pick One of Each Leasi Ask the associates who report to you to work together and present a plan for improvement Rather than talking about the decline, lead by example and show how engaged you can be with your work. Think about what you can do to improve associate engagement, then present the plan to the...
You work at a manufacturing company that makes car seats. There are seven manufacturing plants in the US, and your boss has asked you to assess time efficiency in current production lines. Your boss has no idea how long or short the manufacturing process takes or how variable the process may be. Create a data collection plan and describe what data you would present to your boss. This is an open ended question, and there are many correct answers. Go...
You have taken a job as an entry-level analyst, and your boss has asked you to find the expected value of Pandar Corp's stock. As you were doing your research, you found out that Pandar Corp just paid a dividened (Do) of $3.75. The firm has experienced consistent growth of 5% for the last couple of years, and you belive that the firm will continue to grow at the same rate in the future. 1. If investors require a return...
Your boss has asked you to evaluate the economic viability of refinancing a loan on your plant's process equipment. The original loan of$700,000 was for 7 years. The payments are monthly and the nominal interest rate on the current loan is 9%per year. As of the present time, your company has had the loan for 36 months. The new loan would be for the current balance (i.e. the balance at the end of the 36th month on the old loan)...
You are asked to finish a task by your supervisor. By considering various factors you have developed work objectives in order to complete the task on time. 1.1) Identify the four (4) factors that may affect the achievement of your work objectives. 1.2)Explain what you would do to reduce the impact of those factors in terms of developing a contingency plan (in 30-50 words).
As a leader of your hospital you have been presented with three projects for consideration, they each have approximately the same capital expenditure request, and you have the capital resources for only one of these projects. 1. New primary Care office $1,100,000 request NPV 12% 2. New DaVinci Robot $1,300,000 request NPV 11% 3. Remodel of Med/Surg Beds $1,200,000 request NPV 5% Which project do you approve? Why? What other factors, other than finance should...
The casino has lots of data on its old slot machines and your boss tells you that they have averaged $2,450 per month in earning for the casino. Your boss wants to knoww hether (based on your data—collected in part 2) the new machines you have purchased are significantly different from the old ones. You decide to perform a hypothesis test using an alpha = 0.05 to find out. n=100 Standard deviation=200 xbar=2500 1. What type of test would you...
Laura is a very successful businesswoman in the high-stress high-powered world of corporate finance. She has been referred to you by the company’s employment assistance program. You are the company's occupational nurse. Laura presents herself as a no nonsense business professional. She is frank and honest about the events that has brought her to your office. Laura tells you that although she tells herself that she will only have one or two glasses with dinner, she usually finishes the whole...
Maria is a professional tennis player, and your firm manages her money. She has asked you to give her information about what determines the level of various interest rates. Your boss has prepared some questions for you to consider. 1. Can you suggest the fundamental factors that typically affect the cost of money, or the level of interest rates in the economy? What are other factors we should also take into consideration? 2. Consider the terms inflation premium (IP), default...