Do you consider ethics and/or corporate social responsibility to be important to business and society today? Explain your answer, and use examples from the activities. (10 marks)

Instructions: Refer to additional files for course journaling activities that I have done for assignemntsRead all of the following nine questions in Parts A, B, and C before beginning this project. Use the questions to reflect on the activities you completed in Modules 1 to 4.Write a paper addressing the following questions and reflections. The paper should be no more than 20 pages double-spaced (approximately 5,000 words) and should include examples from your journalling activities.
Part A: Stakeholders and InterrelationshipsDescribe how the activities influenced your awareness and understanding of the interrelationship between business and society. Use examples from your activities in each of the modules to support this answer. (10 marks)Using examples from your activities, describe the challenges of dealing with the conflicts and/or confluence of stakeholder needs, wants, expectations, and perspectives. Identify whose perspective you are representing in each of your examples. List examples of some of the ramifications of ignoring or improperly addressing stakeholder interests. (10 marks)Comment on how the use of circles of reflection can affect your perspective of an issue or situation. Cite examples from your activities to demonstrate how use of the circles of reflection affected your analysis. (5 marks)Part B: Forces and InfluencesComment on how ethics and social responsibility relate to some of the internal and external forces in business and society that we discussed in this course. Review activities in Modules 3 and 4, as well as Module 2, for examples. (10 marks)Describe how the readings and journalling activities influenced your views on workplace ethics and corporate social responsibility. Did you have a shift in your perspective? Comment on the interrelationship between external forces such as globalization, economics, technology, and the environment, and internal influences on business and society including governance and corporate citizenship (CSR), consumer protection, employee rights and responsibilities, and workplace diversity. Remember to support your argument with multiple examples such as sample journal entries, and readings. (20 marks)Is the government an external force, an internal force, a stakeholder, or all of the above? Using examples from your activities, comment on the governments role in business and society. (5 marks)Part C: Final ReflectionComment on how journalling activities helped you recognize the real or potential impact of stakeholder biases as well as your own biases. How do biases or differing perspectives influence the media, public opinion, and decision-making in business and society? Use examples from your activities to support your commentary. (15 marks)

Bressn, Jernimo Montero, and Ayeln Arcos. How Do Migrant Workers Respond to Labour Abuses in Local Sweatshops?

Bressn, Jernimo Montero, and Ayeln Arcos. How Do Migrant Workers Respond to Labour Abuses in Local Sweatshops? Antipode, vol. 49, no. 2, Mar. 2017, pp. 437454. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/anti.12250.

Jankowski, Glen S. Who Stops the Sweatshops? Our Neglect of the Injustice of Maldistribution. Social & Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 10, no. 11, Nov. 2016, pp. 581590. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/spc3.12272.

Meyers, C. D. Moral Duty, Individual Responsibility, and Sweatshop Exploitation. Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 620626. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9833.2007.00402.x.

Mayer, Robert. Sweatshops, Exploitation, and Moral Responsibility. Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 605619. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9833.2007.00401.x.

Meyers, Chris. Wrongful Beneficence: Exploitation and Third World Sweatshops. Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2004, pp. 319333. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9833.2004.00235.x.

Heintz, James. Beyond Sweatshops: Employment, Labor Market Security and Global Inequality. Antipode, vol. 36, no. 2, Mar. 2004, pp. 222226. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00403.x.

Hapke, Laura. A Shop Is Not a Home: Nineteenth-Century American Sweatshop Discourse. American Nineteenth Century History, vol. 2, no. 3, Nov. 2001, p. 47. EBSCOhost, ncc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=7165423&site=ehost-live. These are the sources. for the bibliography can chose 4, chose any 4 and just annotate

Discuss the types of data and variables:Are the data quantitative or qualitative?

About Your Signature AssignmentThis signature assignment is designed to align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad statements that describe what students should know and be able to do upon completion of their degree. The signature assignments might be graded with an automated rubric that allows the University to collect data that can be aggregated across a location or college/school and used for program improvements.Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this assignment is for students to synthesize the concepts learned throughout the course. This assignment will provide students an opportunity to build critical thinking skills, develop businesses and organizations, and solve problems requiring data by compiling all pertinent information into one report. Assignment Steps Resources: Microsoft Excel, Signature Assignment Databases, Signature Assignment Options, Part 3: Inferential StatisticsScenario: Upon successful completion of the MBA program, say you work in the analytics department for a consulting company. Your assignment is to analyze one of the following databases:
Select one of the databases based on the information in the Signature Assignment Options. Provide a 1,600-word detailed, statistical report including the following:Explain the context of the case
Provide a research foundation for the topic
Present graphs
Explain outliers
Prepare calculations
Conduct hypotheses tests
Discuss inferences you have made from the results
This assignment is broken down into four parts:Part 1 – Preliminary Analysis
Part 2 – Examination of Descriptive Statistics
Part 3 – Examination of Inferential Statistics
Part 4 – Conclusion/Recommendations
Part 1 – Preliminary Analysis (3-4 paragraphs)Generally, as a statistics consultant, you will be given a problem and data. At times, you may have to gather additional data. For this assignment, assume all the data is already gathered for you.State the objective:What are the questions you are trying to address?
Describe the population in the study clearly and in sufficient detail:What is the sample?

What are levels of measurement for the data?
Part 2 – Descriptive Statistics (3-4 paragraphs) Examine the given data.Present the descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, variance, CV, and five-number summary).Identify any outliers in the data.Present any graphs or charts you think are appropriate for the data.Note: Ideally, we want to assess the conditions of normality too. However, for the purpose of this exercise, assume data is drawn from normal populations. Part 3 – Inferential Statistics (2-3 paragraphs)Use the Part 3: Inferential Statistics document.Create (formulate) hypotheses
Run formal hypothesis tests
Make decisions. Your decisions should be stated in non-technical terms.
Hint: A final conclusion saying “reject the null hypothesis” by itself without explanation is basically worthless to those who hired you. Similarly, stating the conclusion is false or rejected is not sufficient. Part 4 – Conclusion and Recommendations (1-2 paragraphs)Include the following:What are your conclusions?
What do you infer from the statistical analysis?
State the interpretations in non-technical terms. What information might lead to a different conclusion?
Are there any variables missing?
What additional information would be valuable to help draw a more certain conclusion?

Why can’t the federal government balance its budget?

Watch this Youtube video:
United States Budget Dilemma.wmv (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
United States Budget Dilemma.wmvI’m not sure I completely agree with Mr. Mason’s gloom-and-doom predictions, but his math is correct. The federal government now spends more just on entitlements and debt service than all the revenue it brings in each year. If we kept taxes the same and shut down the entire government, the military, everything, we still wouldn’t have enough money to keep up with entitlement payments and interest.This week’s assignment should be pretty easy. All you have to do: balance the federal budget and explain how to address our $20 trillion national debt.I’m serious. This is going to have to be done within the next decade, and its your tax money and government services at stake. You have just as much right to have input into these choices as anybody else.Instead of writing an essay this week, go to the website of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and find their Budget Simulator: http://www.crfb.org/debtfixer/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Pretend you’ve been elected to Congress, and now serve on both the Appropriations (spending) and Ways and Means (tax) committees. Follow the directions and work through the simulation until you’ve found a way to stabilize the federal debt. You have a short-term goal of stabilizing the debt at no more than 70% of the economy within 10 years – still shockingly high, but you have to start somewhere, right? You then have a long-term goal of stabilizing the national debt at its historical average of about 40% of the economy by 2050.It’s not easy, but if you keep making hard choices (watch your progress on the right side of the screen), you’ll eventually get to a screen that says “You fixed the debt.” Use the “Print” feature to create a printer-friendly version of your results, then right-click and save that page as a PDF file.I know I usually want your assignments in Word, but – this week only – submit the .pdf file as your assignment.You do not need source citations for this assignment.

What were your thoughts as to how St.Georges was received in his new environment?

Le Mozart NoirLe Mozart Noir is available on YouTube. If you go to YouTube and put in Le Mozart Noir, it will appear as Le Mozart Noir: Reviving legend.The essay is to be based solely on what you saw and heard in the documentary. You may include your impressions of the music you heard: For example, does it compare either positively or negatively to classical music you might have heard. Questions:
– Were you surprised that St.Georges father brought him and his mother to Europe?

– Even though St.Georges reached the top of his profession, was he seen as a full member of Parisian society?
– In spite of everything that he managed to accomplish, was he still subjected to the same racial attitudes and prejudice that people of color experience in todays world? Compare his struggles by using specific examples in todays world and in the world in which St. George lived to explain how we are still struggling with the same racial issue that St.George faced during his lifetime.
– Why is he not in any textbooks?Remember: much of the documentary and St.Georges life takes place during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe.
You may also include anything that you find to be of interest or important in your essay.Please understand that you are not being asked to trade this assignment as a biographical essay on the life of St.George!!! You are being asked to write an essay that makes connections between how St.George was treated during his lifetime, in spite of all of his talent and abilities, and how he was not given the respect that his achievements and accomplishments demanded.

In book XXII of The Iliad, Achilles kills Hector to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus. In book XXII of The Odyssey, Odysseus kills the suitors who disrespected his household while he was away. Analyze differences and similarities in Achilles’ and Odysseus’ conduct. In your analysis, consider at least one of the following themes portrayed in both books : revenge, fate, misconduct, sacrificial killing, and sacred pollution.

In book XXII of The Iliad, Achilles kills Hector to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus. In book XXII of The Odyssey, Odysseus kills the suitors who disrespected his household while he was away. Analyze differences and similarities in Achilles’ and Odysseus’ conduct. In your analysis, consider at least one of the following themes portrayed in both books : revenge, fate, misconduct, sacrificial killing, and sacred pollution.

Explain the difference between a continuous and a discrete probability model. Give an example of each.

Week 6 – Assignment: Calculate ProbabilitiesInstructionsFor this task, write a paper using the following structure: Begin with a one or two-paragraph introduction that summarizes the meaning of the reading material.
Answer all of the questions included in Parts 1 and 2 below. Be sure to answer questions using complete sentences and show all work in your calculations.
Provide a written conclusion, when appropriate
Include an essay section in your paper, which is described in Part 3 below.
Use the last part of your paper to include a paragraph or two that explains the information that you learned in the assignment. Explain all answers thoroughly. Support your paper with at least two references.
Part 1A basketball player shoots six free throws during a game. Give the sample space S for counting the number of free throws made.

In the popular American game of roulette, the roulette wheel has 38 spaces that are numbered 0, 00, and 1 through 36, 0.
Find the probability of getting the following:
a) A number that is less than 15, not counting 0 and 00;
b) A number that is a multiple of 3 or 5, not counting 0 and 00;
c) An odd number that is less than 15, not counting 0 and 00;
d) A number that is between 1 and 12, inclusive.
Playing cards are used in many popular card games such as poker and black jack. An image of a complete deck of cards is available at the website: Playing Card Frequencies (located under your weekly resources). Problems 4 and 5 are based on this set.Suppose that a card is randomly selected from an ordinary deck of cards. Find the probability of getting:
a) A card that is between 4 and 8, inclusive.
b) A card that is between 4 and 8, inclusive, or a club.
c) A card that is red, or is a queen.
d) A card that is not red and not a queen.
Two cards are chosen at random and without replacement from an ordinary deck of cards. What is the probability that they are both hearts?
When three dice are rolled find the probability of getting a sum of 7.
Suppose that you live in a city where the most popular car colors are as follows in terms of probabilities.
Color White Black Silver Gray Red Beige Blue Yellow Probability 0.25 0.19 0.16 0.10 0.09 0.08 0.06 0.02 a) Suppose that you were asked to choose a new car from this city at random and record its color. What is the probability that the vehicle you choose has a color not listed in the above colors?
b) What is the probability that the vehicle you choose is neither white nor is it black?
c) What is the probability that the vehicle you choose is either: Red, White or Blue?
d) If you were a car dealer and you had to order 50 new cars, would the color probabilities effect your decision of what colors to order?A fair die is tossed three times in a row. What is the probability that three sixes occur?
A certain lottery game has a probability of winning of 0.03 on any one game. Plays of this game are assumed to be independent. If you play this lottery four times, find the probability that you will win:
a) None of the four times.
b) Exactly one of the four times.
A broker at Goldman Sachs must decide among a computer stock and a beverage stock for a clients portfolio. There exist 5 possible computer stocks, and the probability of each being chosen is 1/5. There are four possible beverage stocks and the probability of each being chosen is 1/4.
a) Is the choice of the computer stock independent of the choice of a beverage stock? Explain why or why not.
b) Suppose that the broker decides that the computer stock is IBM and the beverage stocks is Coke-a-cola. Assuming these are independent, what is the probability the broker picks these two stocks?
Part 2Suppose that a shipment of 250 netbooks contained three defects, and 247 good units. Find the probability that when a company buys three units from this sample, they will receive:
a) There are three good units.
b) All three units will be defective.
c) There will be at least one unit that is good.
At a ceremony at a naval flight school, there were 18 Marines, 10 members of the Navy and three members of the Coast Guard who were given their wings. If we were to select three pilots at random to feature in an advertisement, find the probability that there will be:
a) One member from each of the four branches of the service.
b) Exactly three Marines out of the three chosen.
Suppose that 22 percent of United States households have a 3D television. Choose five households at random. What is the probability that at least one has a 3D television?
Suppose that the distribution of adjusted gross income reported on income taxes in a recent year is given below (in thousands of dollars):
Income < 15 15-29 30-99 100-199 200 Probability 0.283 0.234 0.348 0.103 0.032 a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen return shows an adjusted gross income of $30,000 or more? b) Given that a person shows an income of at least $30,000, determine the probability that the persons income $100,000 or more? An automobile company has 6,500 dealers who are polled to find out their annual incomes as well as their age. The number of dealers in each category are given below: Incomes (dollars) Dealers under 40 Dealers 40 and above TotalUnder 100,000 1,500 1,500 3,000100,000 and over 1,000 2,500 3,500Total 2,500 4,000 6,500 What is the probability that a randomly chosen dealer will: a) Have an income under $100,000? b) Will have an income under $100,000, given that he or she is under 40? c) Be age 40 and above, given they have an income of $100,000 and over? Company X retains a psychologist to assess whether job applicants are a good match for working on an assembly-line. The psychologist classifies applicants as one of A (good match), B (marginal), or C (bad match). Company X is also concerned about the event D, which occurs when an employee leaves the company within a year of being hired. Data on all people hired in the past five years give the probabilities below: P(A) = 0.5 P(B) = 0.45 P(C) = 0.3 P(A and B) = 0.2 P(B and C) = 0.15 P(A and C) = 0.2 P(A, B and C) = 0.1 P(A and D) = 0.1 P(B and D) = 0.1 P(C and D) = 0.2a) Use the Insert Shapes tools in Word to sketch a Venn diagram of the events A, B, and C. Place the appropriate probability in each of the eight regions. There are also some applicants that end up unclassified. b) What is the probability that an employee leaves within a year? Length: 5- 7 pages References: Include a minimum of two scholarly peer-reviewed resources.Upload your document and click the Submit to Dropbox button.Due Date Dec 16, 2018 11:59 PM External Resource (S): Books and Resources for this Week 1. Statistics in Practice Moore, D.S., Notz, W.I., & Fligner, M.A. (2015). Statistics in practice. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman. Read Chapters 11 and 122. Milefoot.com. (n.d.). Playing card frequencies. http://www.milefoot.com/math/discrete/counting/cardfreq.htm3. BUS-7200_Grading_Rubrics Supplemental (External) Resource

Formulate and evaluate hypothesis tests for population parameters based on sample statistics using both Critical Regions and P-Values, and be able to state results in a non-technical way that can be understood by consumers of the data instead of statisticians.

Student ProfileYou are a statistician working for a drug company. A few new scientists have been hired by your company. They are experts in pharmacology, but are not experts in doing statistical studies, so you will explain to them how statistical studies are done when testing two samples for the effectiveness of a new drug. The two samples can be dependent or independent, and you will explain the difference.Concept being StudiedYour focus is on hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for two populations using two samples, some of which are independent and some of which are dependent. These concepts are an extension of hypothesis testing and confidence intervals which use statistics from one sample to make conclusions about population parameters.What to SubmitYour research and analysis should be presented on the Word document provided. All calculations should be provided on a separate Excel workbook that should be submitted to your boss as well.