Mental Model

Assume you work in Human Resources as a part of the management team for AAA Transportation in Waukegan, WI, which has recently been acquired. AAA Transportation is an interstate trucking company that specializes in transporting wholesale produce in refrigerated trailers throughout the Midwest. The new owners want to make some sweeping changes in the services offered. One of the things that they would like to do is add delivery of nonperishable products, such as canned foods, to their delivery routes, allowing AAA to expand the area they cover and to provide expanded service to their existing customers. They think that, because many of the routes do not require a full load on the trucks, there is room to add the nonperishable goods and provide delivery at a lower rate than the customers are now paying.

 

Two of your coworkers, Vernon and Bud, are resistant to the changes proposed by the new owners. Vernon supervises the company’s drivers and Bud works in the corporate offices. Vernon does not think that it is a good idea to expand out of their core business, while Bud thinks that AAA is not strong enough to compete with existing companies that service the nonperishable foods market (several of whom AAA has had a long history of mutually respecting each others’ customers and routes); they risk alienating long-term customers; and transporting nonperishable goods in refrigerated trailers is inefficient. Both employees have been with the company for more than 20 years and have much influence among the rest of the employees. Management does not want to terminate such long-term and influential employees but need for Vernon and Bud to join the effort to make the company successful.

 

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you define and discuss mental model/mindsets and their impact on you and your two coworkers.

 

Identify the four steps to changing mental models/mind sets and how you could use them to bring Vernon and Bud onto the team.

 

Identify the five forces that influence those mental model/mindsets of your coworkers and discuss how those forces might affect your coworkers’ mindsets.

 

Include examples of what mental models/mindsets are possibly affecting Vernon and Bud’s decision-making processes and affecting their relationship with the company.

 

Analyze your most commonly used mental models/mindsets that guide your decision making in the workplace. How do these models influence your decision making?

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Analyzing Speech Introductions and Conclusions

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The purpose of this lab is to understand the important role of introductions and conclusions in public speaking. First, watch one of the following speeches listed below:

Barack Obama: Presidential Inaugural Address

Delivered 20 January 2009
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnygQ02aW4
Transcript: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barackobama/barackobamainauguraladdres s.htm

Hillary Clinton: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address

Delivered 26 August 2008
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeFMZ7fpGHY
Transcript: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2008/hillaryclinton2008dnc.htm

Steve Jobs: Stanford Commencement Address

Delivered 12 June 2005
Video & Transcript:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

JK Rowling: Harvard Commencement Address

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36c
Trancript: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/

Sam Berns: TEDTalk, My philosophy for a happy life

Video & Subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36m1o-tM05g

Cameron Russell: TEDTalk, Looks Aren’t Everything. Believe Me, I’m A Model.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4Xe6Dlp0Y
Transcript: http://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_m odel/transcript?language=en

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Analyzing Speech Introductions and Conclusions

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After watching the speech, write a 1-2 page paper explaining how the speaker effectively used the introduction and the conclusion. Your paper should answer the following questions:

1. What was the speech topic and who was the speaker?

2. What was the objective of the speech? (For example, informative, persuasive, special occasion, etc.)

3. Did the speaker use the introduction to tie the entire theme of the speech together? If so, how? If not, what suggestions do you have to accomplish this?

4. Did the speaker use the introduction to get people’s attention in some way? If so, how? If not, what are some ideas for getting the audience’s attention in this speech?

5. Did the speaker use the conclusion to educate the audience on the significance of her/his topic? If so, how? If not, what suggestions do you have for accomplishing this?

6. Was the speaker effective in using her/his introduction and conclusion? If so, why? If not, why and how could she/he improve her/his speech in terms of the introduction and the conclusion?

NOTE: In order to effectively answer these questions, you should be connecting them back to course concepts and the textbook (Ch. 8).

Times New Roman, 12pt. font, 1 in. margins, double spaced

Turn in on Turnitin and bring in a hardcopy to class on due date.

 

 

go to this link to read chapter 8:

 

http://login.cengagebrain.com/cb/entitlement.htm?code=MTPN-CC1P-PH4S

user name: lama.almusaad.563@my.csun.edu

passowrd:lama1325

 

 

Opportunity cost with computations

Economics Help

How can we measure the opportunity cost of leisure?  

Why is the supply curve for labor usually upward sloping?

 

2.In the graph below, assume that the market demand curve for labor is initially D1.  Answer the following questions.

 

 

a. What are the equilibrium wage rate and employment level?

 

 

b. What area represents economic rent?

 

 

 

 

c. Assume that the price of a substitute resource decreases, other things constant. What happens to demand for labor?

 

 

 

What are the new equilibrium wage rate and employment level?

 

What happens to economic rent?

 

 d. Suppose instead that demand for the final product increases, other things constant. Using labor demand curve D1 as your starting point, what happens to the demand for labor?

 

 

What are the new equilibrium wage rate and employment level?

 

 

What happens to economic rent?

 

 

Use the following data to answer the questions below. Assume a perfectly competitive product market.

 

 

 

b. If the wage rate is $15 per hour, how much labor will be hired?

 

c. What is the firm’s total revenue and total amount paid for labor at the level of labor input you determined in (b)? 

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Accident Prevention Plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Shatha Aldahban)

TECH 462 –Industrial Safety Engineering

March 16, 2015

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction

               Goal & Intentions                                                                 Page 5

          Company Presidents Statement                                                        Page 6

Management Responsibilities                             

Manager Responsibilities                                                                  Page 8

Supervisors Responsibilities                                                   Page 8-9

Employee Orientation

How and When                                                                       Page 11

Emergency Action Plan                                                           Page 12-24

Emergency Shutdown Procedures                                           Page 25

Injury and Illness Procedures

Procedures                                                                               Page 27

Record Keeping                                                                       Page 27

Supervisor Responsibilities                                                     Page 28

Report Form                                                                           Page 29

Incident/Accident Investigation Procedures

Procedure Steps                                                                      Page 31

Worksheet Form                                                                     Page 32

Incident/accident Table                                                            Page 33

Safety Guidelines

General Guidelines                                                                  Page 35-36

Equipment Specific                                                                 Page 37

Individual Specific                                                                   Page 38

Safety Disciplinary Policy

Safety Disciplinary Policy                                                       Page 40

Safety Awareness Program

Safety Committee                                                                             Page 42

Safety Meetings                                                                       Page 43

Safety Training Forms                                                             Page 43-44

Safety Award Program                                                            Page 45

Appendix A: Material Safety Data Sheet

(ACETOPHENONE) MSDS                                                   Page 47

(CALCIUM CARBONATE) MSDS                                        Page 48

Appendix B: State and Federal Posters

(Job and Safety It’s the Law)                                                  Page 50

(In Case of Injury at Work)                                                     Page 51

(Fire Safety)                                                                                      Page 52

(Health and Safety at Work)                                                   Page 53

(Speak Up For Safety)                                                             Page 54

(Please Use Your Safety Gear)                                                          Page 55

Appendix C: OSHA Forms and Instructions

OSHA Form Instructions                                                                  Page 57

OSHA Form 300                                                                     Page 58

OSHA Form 300A                                                                  Page 59

OSHA Form 301                                                                     Page 60

          ADDITIONAL FORMS                                                              Page 61-73

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

            SAFETY AND HEALTH POLICY FOR XYZ COMPANY

XYZ COMPANY places a high value on the safety of its employees. XYZ COMPANY is committed to providing a safe workplace for all employees and has developed this program for injury prevention to involve management, supervisors, and employees in identifying and eliminating hazards that may develop during our work process.

It is the basic safety policy of this company that no task is so important that an employee must violate a safety rule or take a risk of injury or illness in order to get the job done. The time during which employees are participating in training and education activities shall be considered as hours worked for purposes of wages, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment.  The training and education shall be provided at no cost to the employees.  Members of the Safety/Health Committee will be allowed reasonable time to exercise the rights of the committee without any loss of pay or benefits.

Employees are required to comply with all company safety rules and are encouraged to actively participate in identifying ways to make our company a safer place to work.  Supervisors are responsible for the safety of their employees and as a part of their daily duties must check the workplace for unsafe conditions, watch employees for unsafe actions and take prompt action to eliminate any hazards.

Management will do its part by devoting the resources necessary to form a safety committee composed of management and elected employees.  We will develop a system for identifying and correcting hazards.  We will plan for foreseeable emergencies. We will provide initial and ongoing training for employees and supervisors.  And, we will establish a disciplinary policy to insure that company safety policies are followed.

 

 

Letter From The President

 

The purpose of this policy is to create a high criterion of safety all the way through operations of XYZ Company,and to make certain that no employee is expected to work under any conditions, which are risky or unhygienic.

 

We know that each employee has the right to obtain personal satisfaction from their job and the prevention of occupational injury and illness is of such significance to this belief that it will be given top priority at all times.

 

It is our goal here at ZYX Company to begin and maintain complete accident prevention and safety training programs.  Each distinct individual from upper management to the working person is accountable for the safety and health of those persons that are in charge and their coworkers around them, our employee’s.

 

Signed,

                        The Company President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Management Responsibilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities for safety and health include the establishment and maintenance of an effective communication system among workers, supervisors and management officials.  To this end, all personnel are responsible to assure that their messages are received and understood by the intended receiver.  Specific safety and health responsibilities for company personnel are as follows:

 

A.     Management Officials

 

Active participation in and support of safety and health programs is essential.  Management officials will display their interest in safety and health matters at every opportunity.  At least one manager (as designated) will participate in the safety and health committee meetings, incident investigations and inspections.  Each manager will establish realistic goals for implementing instructions for meeting the goals.  Goals and implementing instructions shall be within the framework established by this document.  Incentives will be included as part of the instructions. 

 

 

B.     Supervisors

 

The safety and health of the employees they supervise is a primary responsibility of the supervisors.  To accomplish this obligation, supervisors will:

 1.

Assure that all safety and health rules, regulations, policies and procedures are understood and observed.

 2.

Require the proper care and use of all required personal protective equipment.

 3.

Identify and eliminate job hazards quickly through job safety analysis procedures.  (See the sample Job Safety Analysis form attached to this document.)

 4.

Inform and train employees on the hazardous chemicals and/or procedures they MAY encounter under normal working conditions or during an emergency situation.  (See the sample hazard communication program.)

 5.

Receive and take initial action on employee suggestions, awards or disciplinary measures.

 6.

Train employees (new and experienced) in the safe and efficient methods of accomplishing each job or task as necessary.

 7.

Review injury trends and establish prevention measures.

 8.

Participate in incident investigations and inspections.

 9.

Promote employee participation in the safety and health program.

10.

Actively follow the progress of injured workers and display an interest in their rapid recovery and return to work.

 

 

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employee Orientation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How and When

 

 

Safety is everyone’s job at Small Business Notes. Small Business Notes provides a clean, hazard free, healthy, safe environment in which to work in accordance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. As an employee, you are expected to take an active part in maintaining this environment. You should observe all posted safety rules, adhere to all safety instructions provided by your supervisor and use safety equipment where required. Your workspace should be kept neat, clean and orderly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN for: XYZ COMPANY

 

Facility Name: ____________________

Facility Address: ___________________

DATE PREPARED: ___/_____/______

 

EMERGENCY PERSONNEL NAMES AND PHONE NUMBERS

DESIGNATED RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL (Highest Ranking Manager at

_____________site, such as __________, ___________, or ____________):

Name: Phone: (________________)

EMERGENCY COORDINATOR:

Name: Phone: (______________)

AREA/FLOOR MONITORS (If applicable):

Area/Floor: Name: Phone: (_______________)

Area/Floor: Name: Phone: (_______________)

ASSISTANTS TO PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED (If applicable):

Name: Phone: (_______________)

Name: Phone: (________________)

Date ____/____/____

 

 

 

 

 

EVACUATION ROUTES

Evacuation route maps have been posted in each work area. The

following information is marked on evacuation maps:

1. Emergency exits

2. Primary and secondary evacuation routes

3. Locations of fire extinguishers

4. Fire alarm pull stations’ location

a. Assembly points

• Site personnel should know at least two evacuation routes.

 

EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS

FIRE DEPARTMENT: ________________

PARAMEDICS: _______________

AMBULANCE: _______________

POLICE: ________________

FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE: ________________

SECURITY (If applicable): _________________

BUILDING MANAGER (If applicable): ________________

 

UTILITY COMPANY EMERGENCY CONTACTS

(Specify name of the company, phone number and point of contact)

ELECTRIC: _____________________

WATER: _______________________

GAS (if applicable): __________________________

TELEPHONE COMPANY: _______________________

Date: ___/____/_____

EMERGENCY REPORTING AND EVACUATION PROCEDURES

Types of emergencies to be reported by site personnel are:

• MEDICAL

• FIRE

• SEVERE WEATHER

• BOMB THREAT

• CHEMICAL SPILL

• STRUCTURE CLIMBING/DESCENDING

• EXTENDED POWER LOSS

• OTHER (specify)___________________________________

 

MEDICAL EMERGENCY

• Call medical emergency phone number (check applicable):

Classroom Assessment

Tomlinson (2009) described differentiated assessment as an ongoing process through which teachers gather data before, during, and after instruction from multiple sources to identify learners’ needs and strengths. In a quality class that is built on the foundation of differentiation, the teacher will infuse a constant stream of assessments (before, during, and after) to help identify student’s needs and to help improve learning. 

Use the information in your text and from the following websites and video to explore definitions, explanations and examples of pre-assessments, formative assessments, and summative assessments.

Instructions

After viewing the resources:

  • Explain the role of assessment as it applies to theoretical foundations of differentiated instruction. 
  • Describe how assessment can be created that evaluates a student’s true knowledge without bias towards language barriers, learning differences, or cultural differences. 
  • Choose one differentiated assessment strategy (either pre, formative, or summative) from the course text (or from the recommended websites or video) and present a rationale for using the assessment to meet the needs of diverse learners and how it will be used to drive future instruction. 

Biotechnology

Assignment details Part 1- (1-2 Paragraphs)

Biotechnology is the use of a living thing or any part of a living thing to make a product or process that improves human life. For this part of the assignment, discuss the following:

• What are some of the examples of biotechnology that have made improvements to your life?

• Describe how 1 of these has made your life better.

• Do you have any concerns with biotechnology? Explain. Part 2-(1-2 Paragraphs) In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved food derived from cloned animals. In addition, these products will not need to be labeled as “cloned” or “from clones” (Black, 2008). The FDA explains that you will not be eating the clone itself. It takes thousands of dollars to clone a food animal such as a cow or pig. Animals that are cloned for improved food production will be used for a breeding program to produce many offspring with the desirable traits for increased meat or milk yield. These offspring of the clones will be fair game for food. Discuss the following:

• Do you think there are differences between a clone and a “normal” animal?

• How do you feel about eating a cloned animal?

• Is your opinion of eating a cloned plant different? Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the largest Phylum in the plant kingdom Plantae. (Note that the Phylum Angiospermophyta may also be called Anthophyta or Magnoliophyta in different classification systems.) These plants have true roots, stems, leaves, and flowers. The roots grow into the soil to anchor the plant in place and take up water and nutrients. The leaves are above ground and act as the main organs for photosynthesis. Stems provide above ground support for the plant and operate as conduits to move nutrients and water throughout the plant. Flowers contain the male and female reproductive organs of the plant. Part 3 (1-2 Paragraph) Plants develop specialized roots, stems, leaves, and flowers to make them better adapted to their environment. People exploit many of these modifications as vegetables. An example of this is the taproot of carrots. The carrot plant stores sugars in the taproot to supply energy for the formation of flowers in later development. People dig up and eat the taproots while the sugar content is still high. Complete the following:

• Describe the anatomy (structure) and physiology (function) of one of your favorite plants. Is the structure of your plant a modification from the standard root, stem, leaf, or flower?

• Explain how this structure differs from the standard root, stem, leaf, or flower.

• Compare the plant that you have chosen, its structure, and its function with 1 or more of your classmates’ choices. Part 4 (1-2 Paragraphs) Plants are important for humans in ways other than providing food. Medicines, clothing, beauty, fuel, air quality, building materials, and industrial products are a few of the ways in which humans exploit plants. Complete the following:

• Choose 1 product or benefit that people get from plants (besides food), describe it, and explain how people benefit.

• Which do you think is the most important benefit of plants? Select one and explain. Provide references in APA format. This includes a reference list and in-text citations for references used throughout the assignment. Total of 6-8 Paragraphs

film

1.      How did the Paramount decision of 1948 change the U.S. film industry?  To what degree did the decision alter the way the industry did business?

 

2.      How did changes in postwar American lifestyles affect the domestic film market?  Amidst a climate of more selective moviegoers, what type of film was judged to be capable of attracting audiences?  How did the Hollywood Majors exploit technological advances to produce this type of film?

 

3.      Identify the major segments of the U.S. filmgoing audience targeted by producers in the 1950s.  What kinds of films were produced for each of these segments?

 

4.      What factors lay behind the “upscaling” of Hollywood film genres during the 1950s?  Identify the significant genres of the postwar period, and explain how each was affected by enhanced production values and increased thematic complexity.

 

5.      Pick two of the following directors: Max Ophüls, Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau.  What were the particularly important or influential qualities of these directors’ postwar French films?  In what ways did each director use visual style to complement his characteristic thematic or narrative concerns?

 

6.      Why did the United States, as represented by SCAP (Supreme Commander of the Armed Powers), take a keen interest in the postwar Japanese film industry?  What steps did SCAP take to help rebuild the Japanese studio system?  In what ways did SCAP both assist and hinder the efforts of the major postwar Japanese directors?

 

7.      In what ways did film production in the Soviet bloc nations adhere to and depart from the Soviet industry structure and the Socialist Realist aesthetic?  Specifically, how did “de-Stalinization” affect film practice?

 

8.      What were the essential traits of the postwar Hindi film?  Identify its conventions using the films discussed in the text as examples.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

Chapter 5 states:

Differentiated instruction is built on a foundation of effective teaching practices. Quality curriculum is one of these defining principles, as what is taught serves as the basis for how it is taught. Quality curriculum has its basis in standards, or descriptions of student outcomes in content areas. (p1)

However, many educators have concerns regarding these new standards for various reasons outlined in Chapter 5 in the textbook including, but not limited to:

  • Lack of training to implement the new standards
  • A realistic view of standard mastery of students with special needs
  • Too much government control over creative freedom of instruction
  • How these new standards will be implemented on such a large scale

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are meant to provide educators and parents with a consistent and clear understanding of student expectations. While written to address English Language Arts and Mathematics, the CCSS address college and career ready knowledge and skills in preparing students to transition from high school to college.

Assignment Instructions:

First, read Chapter 5 of the course text. Then view the webinar, “Common Core State Standards: Where Does Differentiating Fit”.

Next, read and respond to the following scenario:

Ms. Phillips instructs in a middle school inclusion class with 20 ‘typical’ students, three students who have an IEP for a Specific Learning Disability, one student who has an IEP for “Other Health Impairment” (ADHD) and two students who are identified as ELL.  Her class is beginning with a unit on the American Civil War that will focus on the significance of the Civil War Battle and the reason and significance behind President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

As the unit starts, Ms. Phillips provides her students with a KWL chart to share what they already know about the Civil War 

 

Civil War Chart

 

Example of a Student Response to the KWL Chart (Creately, 2011)

After reviewing the student’s KWL charts (see an example above), Ms. Phillips realizes that she should integrate differentiated strategies to provide a more well-rounded and accurate understanding of the topic and to make it more personally relevant.

For this discussion:

  • Create two measurable lesson objectives that are aligned with one Common Core Standard, and two differentiated content strategies to master the objective/ standard. 
  • Explain how the strategies you’ve suggested are engaging to diverse learners. 
  • Cite scholarly sources to support how your strategies are examples of differentiation. 

Chapter 24 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply


1.     Graph a Phillips curve.  Explain why the long-run Phillips curve is vertical.  Could there be more than one short run Phillips curve?  (Hint:  Consider a change in price expectations.)

2.     Explain the wealth effect, the substitution-of-foreign-goods effect, and the constant nominal income effect.

3.     What are the major sources of changes in aggregate demand? What are the short-run effects? The long-run effects?

4.     What does investment spending consist of? How is investment spending related to the interest rate? Which is more volatile, consumption or investment? Which makes up a larger component of GDP?

5.     Explain why only government purchases of goods and services, and not transfers, are a component of aggregate demand.

6.     What are net exports? How are they related to the exchange rate?

7.     If prices and wages always change by exactly the same percentage and are expected to always do so, how is the short-run aggregate supply curve shaped? Make an argument that in this case, there is no such thing as a short-run aggregate supply curve. What is the real wage?

8.     What is the GDP deflator?

9.     Can the natural level of real output ever change? If so, when? How is the natural level of real output related to the long-run aggregate supply curve?

10.  How do price expectations affect the position of the short-run aggregate supply curve?

11.  What is the difference between rational expectations and adaptive expectations?  Consider the impact of a predictable change in the economy in the context of each.

12.  Graphically illustrate the difference between a change in aggregate demand and a change in the aggregate quantity demanded of real GDP. Illustrate an increase in aggregate demand and an increase in the quantity demanded of real GDP.

13.  Use aggregate supply and aggregate demand curves to explain what will happen to prices, output, and employment, ceteris paribus, in each of the following situations:

a.The government cuts spending.

        b.       The Fed makes open market purchases.

        c.       Corporate tax rates are increased.

        d.       Interest rates abroad increase.

14.  Why is the demand curve for wheat downward sloping? Why is the aggregate demand curve downward sloping? Explain why the reasons are different.

15.  Draw a short-run aggregate supply curve. Why is the curve upward sloping? What causes the short-run aggregate supply curve to shift?

16.  Use graphs to explain demand-pull inflation.


17.  Assume that the economy is originally in long-run equilibrium and that there is a drop in demand. Use graphs to explain how and why the economy initially moves to a short-run equilibrium with unemployment. How does the economy return to long-run equilibrium?

18.  Explain the difference between aggregate demand and the aggregate quantity demanded of real output. Ceteris paribus, how is quantity demanded related to the overall price level?

RES 351 FINAL EXAM

A _____ scale is a scale that scores an object or property without making a direct comparison to another object or property.

 

ranking

 

rating

 

categorization

 

sorting

 

Northwest Airlines applied mathematical models to determine which customers in its database were currently responsible for most of its profitability and which customers were not currently profitable but had similar characteristics to the most profitable customers. Northwest Airlines utilized _____ to identify these customers.

 

computer programming

 

customer relationships management

 

data mining

 

data warehousing

 

 

To be categorized as a customer, an individual must have a history of shopping at the establishment at least twice before the start of the study with expenditures of more than $10. This is an example of _____.

 

an operational definition

 

a hypothetical construct

 

a dictionary definition

 

a conceptual scheme

 

 

The goal of ethics in research is to _____.

 

ensure research sponsors fulfill their legal obligations

 

ensure that no one is harmed

 

protect researchers from legal liability

 

identify what behavior is appropriate

 

What type of data is produced by simple category scales?

 

Nominal

 

Interval

 

Ordinal

 

Ratio

 

The use of a control group in experimentation _____.

 

serves as a comparison to assess the manipulation

 

provides for the manipulation of the independent variable

 

allows for discovery of the average effect of the independent variable in different situations

 

minimizes the cost of experimentation

 

Which of the research questions/hypotheses below is best answered using cross-tabulations?

 

What happens to sales when prices drop?

 

What percentage of men and women prefer Brand A over Brand B?

 

What percentage of residents shop at the local grocery store?

 

Is brand loyalty related to brand image?

 

Minute Maid sees research as the fundamental first step in any business decision, and it created proprietary methods for conducting research. At what level of the hierarchy of business decision makers does Minute Maid operate?

 

Foundation tier

 

Top tier

 

Middle tier

 

Base tier

 

James is entering data on client gender. Because the values entered reflect male or female, this variable is _____.

 

continuous

 

discrete

 

dichotomous

 

ratio-scaled

 

In the Southeast, the potato chip market share held by the Lays brand is 46%. This is an example of _____.

 

an explanatory hypothesis

 

a research question

 

a descriptive hypothesis

 

a relational hypothesis

 

If a difference is not caused only by random sampling fluctuations, it is said to have _____.

 

substantive significance

 

statistical significance

 

resistance

 

reasonable doubt

 

Which variable in an experiment is the variable expected to be affected by the manipulation?

 

Extraneous variable

 

Independent variable

 

Moderating variable

 

Dependent variable

 

The measure of deviation from the mean such that cases stretch toward one tail or the other is called _____.

 

ku

 

kurtosis

 

platykurtic

 

skewness

 

The goal of a formal study is to _____.

 

provide insight

 

discover future research tasks

 

expand understanding of a topic

 

test hypotheses

 

Which of the following is true of quantitative research?

 

Data analysis is ongoing during the project

 

Sample sizes are generally small

 

Results are generalizable

 

It uses a nonprobability sampling method

The list of elements in a population from which the sample is drawn is known as the _____.

 

sampling frame

 

population extent

 

database

 

sampling base

 

The process of ensuring the accuracy of data and their conversion from raw form into classified forms appropriate for analysis is called _____.

 

data measurement

 

data entry

 

data preparation

 

coding

 

Which of the following questions is considered first when discussing a management dilemma?

 

What is the recommended course of action?

 

What does the manager need to know to choose the best alternative from the available sources of action?

 

What symptoms cause management concern?

 

How can management eliminate negative symptoms?

 

Which type of management question asks what do we want to achieve?

 

Evaluation of solutions

 

Choice of purpose

 

Control

 

Troubleshooting

 

What is the first step in conducting an experiment?

 

Control the experimental environment

 

Select relevant variables

 

Choose the experimental design

 

Specify the level(s) of the treatment

 

The fundamental weakness in the research process is _____.

 

identifying a flawed sampling frame

 

incorrectly defining the research question

 

misdefining the target population

 

failing to identify all relevant secondary information

 

_____ occurs when the participants are told only part of the truth or when the truth is fully compromised.

 

Coercion

 

Informed consent

 

Debriefing

 

Deception

 

The standard error of the estimate is a type of measure of _____.

 

significance

 

accuracy

 

central tendency

 

standard deviation

 

Data originating from studies that are conducted by others and created for a purpose different from the purpose of the study for which the data are being reviewed are called _____ data.

 

statistical

 

secondary

 

quantitative

 

primary

 

_____ is the extent to which a measurement tool actually measures what we wish to measure.

 

Significance

 

Practicality

 

Validity

 

Reliability

 

The process of stating the basic dilemma and then developing other questions by progressively breaking down the original question into more specific ones is called the _____.

 

management question

 

research question

 

management dilemma

 

management-research question hierarchy

 

_____ involves assigning numbers or other symbols to answers so that the responses can be grouped into a limited number of categories.

 

Editing

 

Data entry

 

Measurement

 

Coding

 

Qualitative research seeks to _____ theory while quantitative research _____ it.

 

apply; builds

 

test; understands

 

examine; interprets

 

build; tests

 

_____ are summary descriptors of variables of interest in the population.

 

Sample statistics

 

Standard errors

 

Systematic estimates

 

Population parameters

 

An increase in hours of television viewing leads to increases in the sales of snack foods. This is an example of a _____.

 

descriptive hypothesis

 

research question

 

causal hypothesis

 

correlational hypothesis