Category: Business and Management

Choose a US-based nonprofit local to you or that you care about, supported in the past, or one that you’re interested in and are considering supporting. Choose one that has at least three years of data available. You will use this organization as your focus for the rest of the discussions and assignments.
Things to consider as you complete this assignment:
Visit your selected nonprofit’s website. Review its site and locate its: a) most recent annual report and b) most recent 990 forms. (If you need help finding the most recent 990 forms available on the website, look for them on the IRS website.) Review the organization’s mission.
Using the template provided, construct a high-level financial analysis for this organization. Provide three years of data. You will disregard the fourth (current budget) column and use only the most recent three years of data for columns one, two, and three.
Reviewing the nonprofit’s most recent annual reports or 990s (which should be available for public disclosure), identify the organization’s total revenues, total expenses, and net assets at the end of the year. You should see a comparison of how the nonprofit did in recent and prior years. What do the numbers tell you? Is there anything you find concerning or surprising? What are the nonprofit’s most significant sources of revenue or their largest expenditures? Do those items support the stated mission?
Choose another similar nonprofit (with three years of financial data available). Complete the financial health analysis tool. How does your chosen organization compare? What is similar? What is different? Do you see a trend between the two?
What other thoughts did you have doing this analysis?
Submit as a Word document, double-spaced, 11-12-point font, between 8-10 pages.
You may use the graphics from the analysis tool to illustrate your points, but you do not need to submit the analysis tools with your assignment.

“Central to the effective management of diversity within organisations is the support of a strong management and leadership team”.
State the role of the Human Resource Department in promoting and sustaining diversity in the workplace and explain the impact of the following HR functions – recruitment, performance appraisal and employee welfare.
Why should organisations promote managers as leaders of diversity in the workplace? Identify and describe three (3) characteristics that such leaders in a multinational environment should have. 
Word Limit:  1,900 words (excluding the cover page and list of references)
Please note that the rubric below is to be used as a general guide only.
DIMENSION
DESCRIPTION
Introduction (5 points)
There must be an Introduction
Discussion/ Presentation of Arguments (40 points)
Discussion/Arguments must be relevant.
Conclusion/ Summary (5 marks)
Conclusion must not introduce new points.
Writing (5 points)
Writing must be error free.
Referencing (5 marks)
Should have at least five references in the APA 7th ed. format.
TOTAL = 60 MARKS

the relationship between organization’s culture and the productivity of the organization and how can the culture highly affect on the improvement of the general performance of the organization 

You are a data and business-intelligence analyst working for a network of hospitals in rural districts. The hospital’s chief of behavioral health services (CBHS) would like to use existing research data to create a model to predict or classify newer patients as at-risk or not at-risk for clinical depression. Such predictions will enable them to provide early mental health interventions to at-risk individuals. The CBHS has tasked your team with creating the predictive model and then testing the model on five new patients at the hospital.
You applied logistic regression to build a predictive model for the data set and presented your report to the CBHS. After reviewing the report, the CBHS is now interested in exploring additional predictive methodologies that could be used to analyze the historical depression data set, and potentially create more accurate predictions to improve the hospital’s ability to detect patients who are at-risk for depression.
In Module Two, you applied logistic regression techniques to build a predictive model in Excel. In this assignment, you will apply advanced predictive models such as a decision tree and a random forest model to the same historical clinical depression data set using Rattle, a package for R Studio, within the VDI. You will then use the predictive model to classify five new patients at the hospital network as at-risk or not at-risk. You will then compare your results from the different models and share your analysis with the CBHS.
Directions
Create a report with your analysis about advanced predictive analysis models, such as the decision tree and random forest models. Include relevant screenshots from Rattle.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Build a Decision Tree: Build a decision tree prediction model for the given historical data set. Include relevant screenshots.
Identify the independent and dependent variables in the given data set.
Apply the decision tree algorithm on the given data set to produce a binary classification model.
Generate a visualization of the decision tree.
Interpret the results of the algorithm.
What does the output tell you about the risk factors for depression?
What business rules did the model generate, and what do they tell you about the data set?
Apply the Decision Tree: Apply the decision tree model to make predictions about new data. Include relevant screenshots.
Apply this model to the new set of patient data you have been given.
Make predictions about the risk of depression in each of the new patients.
Build a Random Forest: Build a random forest prediction model for the given historical data set. Include relevant screenshots.
Apply the random forest algorithm on the given data set to produce a binary classification model.
Interpret the results of the algorithm.
What does the output tell you about the risk factors for depression?
Apply the Random Forest: Apply the random forest model you built to make predictions about new data. Include relevant screenshots.
Apply this model to the new set of patient data you have been given.
Make predictions about the risk of depression in each of the new patients.
Compare Predictive Models : Compare and contrast the random forest model, the decision tree model, and logistic regression.
Discuss the differences (if any) in the final predictions for the five new patients using each of the models.
What do you think led to these differences?
Compare the accuracy of your prediction models.
Discuss the out-of-bag (OOB) error rate of the advanced predictive models and how this might affect your predictions.
Which model do you think is more accurate? Why?
Share your thoughts about the pros and cons of each model.
For which type of situations or business requirements would you choose each model?

It’s a research paper the first file will be what’s it’s about and the next couple files will be what is needed 

I have to use data from the automobile engine and parts industry to find a problem to have a reason to want to sell to another industry and i chose the Boat dealership and repair industry  and i included the web pages i’m  suppose to pull from. 

You are the Senior Legal Payroll Specialist working in the Human Resources Department for a start-up company with approximately 60 employees. Your organization is hosting a New Hire Onboarding Welcome Event for 20 additional new hires and will be discussing the various details to being employed with the company. Create a PowerPoint presentation and discuss the critical details to employment standards and labor laws in accordance with your state of employment. Research and discuss the following topics as part of your Onboard Training:
Briefly Introduce your company
Identify the organization’s employment-at-will doctrine in accordance with your state of operation.
Differentiate between exempt employees versus covered (nonexempt) employees and exemplify hourly wages earned as it relates to working overtime: minimum wage, maximum hours, and overtime.
Research and discuss employee rest and meal periods in accordance with your state of business.
Discuss whistleblowing and the measures enacted by your organization to protect the individual from unlawful termination.
Your assignment should be in current APA Style with both a title slide and a reference list that includes all of the sources used. At least two scholarly sources should be used (your textbook can be one of the sources).
See rubric for specific grading criteria.

No citations necessary. 
Read the Introduction to the IRS twenty-factor test, the twenty factors, and the relevance of worker
classification, all contained in this document. Then, do some research on the job duties and aspects
of the work that Uber drivers perform. Finally, write a 300-word minimum memo explaining why
you believe Uber drivers should be classified as either employees or independent contractors. Note
that you are reaching your own conclusion based on the IRS twenty-factor test; do not research
what courts have determined  

As you have learned from your reading, knowing when a part or system will fail is important for a company. Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the expected time between failures of a part, process, or system and is a common matrix for a firm to use to understand how often a failure will occur.
Assume that you are the manager of a production line and are responsible for keeping the machines running 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. When a machine breaks, it must be repaired and put back onto operation as soon as possible. The problem is that your machines are always breaking down, and you really do not have a good understanding of how often a machine breaks down.
Hint: For this assignment, you will NOT be using the OM software but should use Excel to work the problem.
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Step 1: Calculate the MTBF
You decide to run a test to determine the mean time between failures. During the test, you start with 75 operational machines on your production line producing widgets. You record breakdowns during a 120-hour observation period in which three of the machines broke down. One at 40 hours into the test, one at 50 hours into the test, and the 3rd failure comes at 90 hours.
Use Excel and the data you collected to calculate the MTBF of your machines. Analyze your results and place them on the spreadsheet.
Continue to Step 2: Calculate the Expected Breakdown Maintenance Costs . . . 
Step 2: Calculate the Expected Breakdown Maintenance Costs
After collecting and analyzing the MTBF data, you were surprised at how often your machines really broke down. At your last company, you remember that they had a service firm that would come in and perform preventive maintenance (PM) on your machines and you wonder if this would be an option to reduce breakdowns. However, before you go to your boss to pitch the idea, you want to see if using an outside PM firm would reduce your cost.
So you do some research on the cost and run another study on the number of breakdowns of your machines.
Over the last 12 months, the machines have broken down at the rate indicated in the following table:
Number of Breakdowns Number of Months that Breakdowns Occurred
0 1
1 7
2 4
3 1
You also do some research on breakdown cost and find that the average cost of a breakdown to your firm is $350. You find a service firm and request a price quote from them. The PM service firm costs $200 per month, but they tell you that you can still expect on average of 2 breakdowns per month even with the PM service.
Use Excel and the data to calculate the expected breakdown maintenance cost versus hiring the PM firm to service your machines.
Analyze your results and indicate which of the options you will recommend to your boss – hire the firm or continue dealing with the breakdowns at the current rate?
Continue to Step 3: Recommend and Submit . . . 
Step 3: Recommend and Submit
Submit one spreadsheet containing a tab for each step. Be sure to include a detailed analysis of your results on each of the tabs. Save your assignment using a naming convention that includes your first and last name and the activity number (or description). Do not add punctuation or special characters.
Review the Problems Rubric for detailed grading information.

Welcome to Week 8, Ethics, Security, and Terrorism in IHRM
The complexity of international human resources management suggests the organization should meet the constituency needs and be responsible on ethics issues. So, it is necessary to analyze the ethical and social responsibility issues that arise in IHRM practices.
Managers involved in international business activities face many of the some of the same ethical issues as those in domestic business, but the issues are made more complex because of the different environment.
Since 9/11, organizations have been concerned with Homeland security war on local and international terrorism and destruction from natural disasters to kidnapping threats, to the employee privacy act.  Organizations (MNCs) must be better prepared to address the full range of threats that expatriates working globally may face.
IHRM is responsible for recruiting good employees on an international level, as many employees came from different countries and different cultures. So, that their thinking level and behaviors may be very different from the local staff. This becomes a challenge for the IHRM practices to manage the human resource, where training and measures must be set in place.
Week 8 Discussion Questions:
What is your view of international initiatives to criminalize foreign bribery?
Beyond checklists and systemic analysis, what actions can MNEs take to reduce risks related to terrorism? What roles can HRM take in these processes?
What IHRM activities would be pertinent to the sending, by Médecins Sans Frontieres, of a medical team into a country such as Bangladesh?
List each heading to you know when the criteria is met in APA Format with 2 references.
Global and international courses must use current resources – 2009 to current – as the global community is ever evolving.
Articles from 2009 – present only. Use your online library.  No Wikipedia, BLOGS with Ads from Yahoo, UK Essay Buzzle.com, or sites that challenge as they present a biased opinion. Google Scholar is accepted. Works in APA Format with a minimum of 2 references.
***I also attached the powerpoint from the learning this week***