Cases for Management Decision Making

Kris is a 19-year-old high school graduate who is seeking counseling to assist her in choosing a major for college. She graduated in the top 10% of her class and seems to identify well with other females in her age group. Kris grew up in a very traditional family where gender roles are very structured and evident inside and outside the household. Kris relies heavily on approval from her brothers and struggles to make decisions of her own.

The objective of this report was to analyze Vivint-Smart Home Solutions’ performance in terms of organisational culture, management and leadership styles and motivation and how organizations have been affected by them. In this report, we identified that Vivint has an association of Hierarchy and Market organisational culture, relationship-oriented and task-oriented leadership styles and servant leadership style. Moreover, it demonstrated that Vivint has intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. These resulted in successful and unsuccessful practices of Vivint based on the Undercover Boss TV series based on three aspects which have been mentioned above. In addition, this report critiqued the Undercover Boss method for discovering the problems within an organisation and recommended other processes for uncovering issues. The results showed that organisational culture, management and leadership styles as well as motivation played significant roles in Vivint’s performance. Recommendations have been made to improve the unsuccessful practices of Vivint such as training managers to be empathic problem solver, examining and updating the working condition regularly, bonus for employees who give feedback voluntarily on management processes and offering fund to employees who are in need of support.

1.For which of the following products would job order costing be least likely to be used?

4) The purpose of the committee is to find the best possible solution to tackle the financial crises faced by the university. However, it is not something that is guaranteed to be accepted by the President. The president will consider the report of the committee as the solution to the financial crises but the president does have the power to override, make suggestions or modify the solution as he see fits. It was wise to appoint her assistants as the vice provosts, to the task force to ensure that the president had easy access to information and minutes of the meetings. While the intent is to lower the cost of fringe benefits, the president does not want to

Presently, Ethan Allen relies heavily on the use of technology to conduct their business operations. According to their 2014 Annual Report, the company understands that any disruption to the Internet including, ‘acts of God”, malware, insecure coding, data leakages, and human error could adversely affect Ethan Allen’s operations, revenues, and the consumer’s ability to shop online. Consequently, Ethan Allen has taken measures by investing and continually investing in technology risk management and disaster recovery plans. Despite the risks associated with the use of technology, Ethan Allen realized that the Internet is a highly competitive medium for marketing home furnishings and that consumers are spending more time browsing the Internet before entering stores. Ethan Allen is no longer a one dimensional company, they are remaining relevant in the marketplace thinking long term using digital strategy technology to meet the ever growing consumer demand to buy direct. The in-store Design Centers (place) coupled with technology (promotion) will empower Ethan Allen’s on-site designers to provide superior customer service and in turn drive additional sales. Ethan Allen is becoming more competitive and consumers who want to customize products will have interior design support online using

We recognize that the projected high NPV of $346 and IRR of 41% could be lower if there are changes in the assumptions we made on penetration rate, order frequency, order size, and cost per order (see Exhibit 2). Among the four metrics, penetration rate and order size are the most important factors in determining the return of the investment. For example, NPV will be negative if there is no order size increase as a result of implementing the web portal. Similarly, a minimum increase of 3% in the penetration is needed to obtain positive NPVs. Sensitivity analysis with these two variables is also illustrated in Exhibit 3.

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The process of Reconstruction ending was aggravated by the mishap of President Andrew Johnson but formally took place during the presidential election between (Democrat) Sam Tilden, and (Republican) Ruth B. Haynes. When Johnson filled in as president for late former President Abraham Lincoln, he deceived all the southerners by making them think that he had intentions of carrying out the same plans to “achieve restoration quickly”, as Abraham had originally yearned to do. Instead, Johnson passed black codes in which were “intended to reduce African Americans as close to slavery as possible.” Not only did southerners attest the ideals and motives of Johnson, but Congress as well did not agree with his ideas either. Once Congress passed the

The following annotated bibliography includes a list of references that address cost measures, direct and indirect costs and pricing systems. Cost accounting systems are well-developed for tangible goods. Accounting principles are applied to businesses for financial reporting to analyze the profitability of the business. Direct and indirect costs is the basis to setting regulated prices on products.

Through the years Billy and the team have most effectively used media through the radio program “The Hour of Decision” this was before his televised publicity. In 1950 two men wanted Billy to start a radio program, he didn’t believe he had the time so he brushed them off. Laughingly, however, Billy said that night at a crusade in Portland that if before he were donated $25,000 for that purpose by midnight he would comply. At the conclusion of the meeting $24,000 had been donated for the broadcast. When Mr. Graham returned to the hotel he way staying at, two donations of $500 each awaited him – both for radio.25

Predication: On 08/16/16, Point Of Contact (POC) Troy Hennessy contacted Asset Protection Manager (APM) Jakub Orlando, regarding suspicions price modification on a prescription.

1. Use the decision-making model (page 196) presented in the chapter to map the decisions being made in these situations. Identify how, where, and why different decisions might be made.

Many organizations industriously look for the opportunity to gain the competitive advantages in their industries. One of the opportunities that frequently used by the organization is the implementation of e-commerce. Thus, the e-commerce and the online sale transaction become popular in each industry. E-commerce provides many benefits, such as the saving of shopping time, the cost savings, convenience, and free from geographical constraints.

“First, it neglects the fact that those who benefit may not be the same as those who pay the costs.

Decision-making is very vital in the study of administration. Decision-making is the act of deciding the best choice or alternative that brings success or advantage to a situation that will ensure maximum benefits and least risk. Probability can be applied to decision-making in public administration because it is possible to estimate the probability of occurrence of specific events. A part of decision-making in relationship to public administration has to do with goals. The probability of you meeting those goals depends on decision-making. For example a restaurant owner has received more revenue on Thursdays than on any other day And less Revenue on Saturdays than any other day. The owner has looked at everything that could have influenced his sales. The owner realized that the only things that were different on Thursdays than any other day was the chief special and the drink special. According to the receipts of the last four Thursdays the probability that a customer orders a drink special is 60%. The probability that a customer orders the chief special is 50%. The probability of them ordering both is 42%. This shows the restaurant owner that Thursdays drink special should be considered on both Thursdays and Saturdays.