Management

Fiona Barnes did not feel well as the deputy commissioner’s office door closed behind her. She walked back to her office wondering why bad news seems to come on Friday afternoons. Sitting at her desk, she went over the events of the past several days and the decision that lay ahead of her. This was clearly the most difficult situation that she had encountered since her promotion to the position of Director of Evaluation in the Department of Human ServicesFiona’s predicament had begun the day before, when the new commissioner, Fran Atkin, had called a meeting with Fiona and the deputy commissioner. The governor was in a difficult position: In his recent election campaign, he had made potentially conflicting campaign promises. He had promised to reduce taxes and had also promised to maintain existing health and social programs, while balancing the state budget.The week before, a loud and lengthy meeting of the commissioners in the state government had resulted in a course of action intended to resolve the issue of conflicting election promises. Fran Atkin had been persuaded by the governor that she should meet with the senior staff in her department, and after the meeting, a major evaluation of the department’s programs would be announced. The evaluation would provide the governor with some post-election breathing space. But the evaluation results were predetermined—they would be used to justify program cuts. In sum, a “compassionate” but substantial reduction in the department’s social programs would be made to ensure the department’s contribution to a balanced budget.As the new commissioner, Fran Atkin relied on her deputy commissioner, Elinor Ames. Elinor had been one of several deputies to continue on under the new administration and had been heavily committed to developing and implementing key programs in the department, under the previous administration. Her success in doing that had been a principal reason why she had been promoted to deputy commissioner.

Finish Chapter 9: Prob. # 1,3,4 (‘Questions and Applications’ – at end of each chapter)1. Motives for Forecasting Explain corporate motives for forecasting exchange rates.3. Fundamental Forecasting Explain the funda- mental technique for forecasting exchange rates. What are some limitations of using a fundamental technique to forecast exchange rates?4. Market-Based Forecasting Explain the market- based technique for forecasting exchange rates. What is the rationale for using market-based forecasts? If the euro appreciates substantially against the dollar during a specific period, would market-based forecasts have overestimated or underestimated the realized values over this period? Explain.

Your company wants to develop special leadership-oriented resources for project managers in its new project management office. This is a complex topic due to a wide variety of recognized, mainstream styles of leadership combined with different team situations across projects and within the same project from stage to stage.What would you do to prevent clash of leadership styles from impacting your organization’s proposed new leadership initiative negatively and why?How does management of a project differ from management of a program that consists of several inter-related projects?What project communication methods and tools will be appropriate in this case?In your own words, post a substantive response to the Discussion Board question(s) and comment on other postings.  Your response should address the DB question(s) and move the conversation forward.  You will be graded on the quality of your postings, including mastery of the concept as well as critical thinking.  If asked for your opinion, do not simply state that it is a good or bad idea; elaborate on your reasons and argument. Include enough detail to substantiate your thinking as well as your position on the questions or comments.For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

 Problem Statement DOMAIN: Linux Fundamentals Focus: Development Tom needs to create user accounts for new joiners Jane and Jack in his system and give them permission to view and edit common repositories. He needs to create a cron job to delete empty files and directory every day at 00:00 am and need to upgrade the system every week on Tuesday 6:00 am. As part of his role he also needs to monitor system usage (CPU load, Memory usage, disk usage, network usage, active logged in users). He needs to install Git as SCM in a remote system and put system usage data there.He would need to fetch the data on remote server and needs to maintain the remote server from his desktop as well. He also needs to restrict users to access youtube from this machine. Approach to Solve: 1. Tom creates user accounts for Jane and Jack in his system. 2. Separate home directories are created for each of the three users. 3. They have a common repository script where every user has access to view and edit files. 4. Tom installed git as the SCM in a remote system. 5. He set a chron job to delete empty files and directory from /tmp folder at 00:00 am. 6. He set a chron job to upgrade the system every week on Tuesday 6:00 am. 7. Tom creates a script which has functionalities to display CPU load, Memory usage, disk usage, network usage, active logged in users. 8. He puts them in git repository. 9. He runs the scripts to get data for remote server to check and maintain the remote server from his desktop. 10. He restricts users to access youtube from this machine.

By paying attention to what you have learned from your analysis of the high performing work teams, in conjunction with the stages of team development, you and your team will be able to establish the roles, rules, and norms of how you will work together early on in your team’s development.  For more information on ensuring team success, please read the Team Work document posted in the Week 4 Supplemental module in our classroom. The document includes a 14-step action plan and some frequently asked questions (FAQs) about team work.YOUR TASKFor this assignment you will be placed in a team.  This will be your team for this assignment and for the Group Consulting Project you’ll complete later in the term.  There are two deliverables for this assignment:· a team charter andan individual reflection paper.Team CharterWorking together with your team, you will research elements for an effective team charter. Please use the UMUC library to identify a minimum of five appropriate sources about team charters.  Appropriate sources are scholarly or practitioner journals and academic books published within the last ten years.  Your team will use the results of your research to create a team charter that will guide how you will work together to complete the Group Consulting Project. Your team charter should include, but is not limited to, the following elements:· A team mission and vision – an initial team vision that summarizes what your team needs to accomplish and describes how you will interact in order to accomplish its mission. Include any other thoughts to help your team form and focus.· A communications plan – agree on how you will communicate, parameters for communication (e.g., no phone calls after 9:00 p.m. EST); how frequently you’ll check in with each other; how your interactions will be documented (meeting agendas, minutes of meetings), etc. A work division plan – agree on how you will divide work, who will take on what role (will you have a team leader or coordinator or will leadership rotate?), expectations about quality and quantity of work.· A conflict management plan – discuss areas of potential conflict for the team; decide and document how your team will deal with conflict and resolve disagreements.Please add other elements to your team charter, based on your research. Once everyone signs off on the charter, one team member will post a copy in the appropriate discussion forum so other students can read and give your team feedback on the charter. Decide how you will handle responding to comments and questions posted in the discussion forum.Each team member will upload a copy of the team’s final charter to his/her assignment folder. Make sure your team number and the names of all team members appear on the cover page of your charter.Name your team charter this way:Team X_Charter(Example: Team 1_Charter)Please include this academic integrity statement on the cover page of your team charter:This charter is the work of our team that we jointly created specifically for this course and this section.  All research or material that we used in preparing this charter has been properly acknowledged within the assignment in accordance with academic standards for complete and accurate citation of sources.Individual Reflection PaperAfter your group has completed your team charter, each person in your group will then write a 2-3 page reflection paper (not counting cover and reference pages) discussing: (1) what you personally learned from working on developing the team charter; (2) your thoughts on how the process worked within your group; and (3) the advantages and disadvantages of using this process to create team charters. Since this is a reflection paper, you may write it in the first person (e.g., I, we, me, our). There is no minimum number of references required for your reflection paper; however, the paper should cite appropriate sources to support your statements and opinions and can include sources cited in your team’s charter. Use APA style for all citations, quotations, and references. Your paper should be double spaced, with one inch margins and a font size of 11 points or larger.

You are a Consultant tasked with creating an ERM framework for an organization.  You can choose an organization you are familiar with, your own organization or make one up.  You will select one of the ERM solutions discussed from a use case explained in Weeks 1-7 to help define a ERM framework for the organization.In your 2-4 paged paper include the following requirements:Discuss the organization and reason for selecting it.Explain 2-3 potential risks in the organization.Describe the proposed ERM solution to resolve the proposed risks based on Weeks 1 -7 use case ERM example. Be sure to include timelines, resources, visualizations, etc.Discuss the benefits and challenges with the proposed ERM.In your paper include:Title PageContentReferences [required]

International cooperation and partnerships became an important asset for VN universities, where in order to facilitate such international cooperation, selecting partners and arranging partnerships are considered as major organizational steps towards the success of the partnership itself. This study aims at investigating the organizational process of international strategy in VN universities through institutional partnerships. Focusing on the ‘mechanisms’ of international partnerships, the study results are based on data collected in earlier work by the author with senior and very senior university managers from four VN civil universities. The results indicate that the mechanisms of international institutional partnerships for each university of the four universities in this study are grouped into the process of partner selecting and the process of arranging partnerships. The study ends up with a model of the organization of international partnerships in universities. When evaluating international partnerships with other universities worldwide, managers can rely on this model as a monitoring model. Researchers in the field are encouraged to test the viability of the study results.

International cooperation and partnerships became as an important asset for VN universities, where in order to facilitate such international cooperation, selecting partners and arranging partnerships are considered as major organizational steps towards the success of the partnership itself. This study aims at investigating the organizational process of international strategy in VN universities through institutional partnerships. Focusing on the ‘mechanisms’ of international partnerships, the study results are based on data collected in earlier work by the author with senior and very senior university managers from four VN civil universities. The results indicate that the mechanisms of international institutional partnerships for each university of the four universities in this study are grouped into the process of partner selecting and the process of arranging partnerships. The study ends up with a model of the organization of international partnerships in universities. When evaluating international partnerships with other universities worldwide, managers can rely on this model as a monitoring model. Researchers in the field are encouraged to test the viability of the study results.

Q1. List out appropriate usage of Online processing and Batch processing with reasoning for each. Q2. Example of how you would use Decision Support System to resolve organizational problems in the supply chain. Q3. Describe how you would design/architect an Office Automation System. Q4. Describe your understanding of how MIS maps to operational excellence. Q5. What are the strategies to formulate the appropriate MIS design? Q6. How would you enable transitioning from traditional paper-based filing to a DBMS (map the steps involved)? Q7. List out risks and mitigation measures in planning a move to the Cloud. Domino’s Pizza use case study: Domino’s proprietary point-of-sale system, Pulse, is an important asset in maintaining consistent and efficient management functions in each of its restaurants. A point-of-sale system captures purchase and payment data at a physical location where goods or services are bought and sold using computers, automated cash registers, scanners, or other digital devices. In 2003, Domino’s implemented Pulse in a large portion of its stores, and those stores reported improved customer service, reduced mistakes. As with most instances of organizational change of this magnitude, Domino’s experienced some resistance. Domino’s originally wanted its franchises to select Pulse to comply with its requirements for data security, but some franchises have resisted switching to Pulse and sought alternative systems. After Domino’s tried to compel those franchises to use Pulse, the U.S. District Court for Minnesota sided with franchisees who claimed that Domino’s could not force them to use this system Answer the all the questions. Each question carries 5 marks. a. What could Domino’s have done to improve the acceptability of its Pulse system? b. Outline how you would enhance Pulse to accommodate modern-day Domino’s with coronavirus restrictions/change in consumer acceptance patterns. c. Apply 5 Forces analytical framework to Dominos Pulse with plausible use case inferences/justifications d. What are the security threats you will plan for while developing the enhanced Pulse System

Porter’s Diamond of national competitive advantage 1) Please pick any country 2) Please use Porter’s National Advantage Model to explain what industry should the country nurture and why?