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Homework Set #5: Chapter 12

Due Week 10 and worth 100 points

Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link above.

In your own words, complete the Mini-Case on Page 562 of your textbook.

Suppose you decide (as did Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg) to start a company. Your product is a software platform that integrates a wide range of media devices, including laptop computers, desktop computers, digital video recorders, and cell phones. Your initial market is the student body at your university. Once you have established your company and set up procedures for operating it, you plan to expand to other colleges in the area and eventually to go nationwide. At some point, hopefully sooner rather than later, you plan to go public with an IPO and then to buy a yacht and take off for the South Pacific to indulge in your passion for underwater photography. With these issues in mind, you need to answer for yourself, and potential investors, the following questions.

1. What is an agency relationship? When you first begin operations, assuming you are the only employee and only your money is invested in the business, would any agency conflicts exist? Explain your answer
2. If you expanded and hired additional people to help you, might that give rise to agency problems?
3. Suppose you need additional capital to expand and you sell some stock to outside investors. If you maintain enough stock to control the company, what type of agency conflict might occur?
4. Suppose your company raises funds from outside lenders. What type of agency costs might occur? How might lenders mitigate the agency costs?
5. Suppose your company is very successful and you cash out most of your stock and turn the company over to an elected board of directors. Neither you nor any other stockholders own a controlling interest (this is the situation at most public companies). List six potential managerial behaviors that can harm a firm’s value.
6. What is corporate governance? List five corporate governance provisions that are internal to a firm and are under its control.
7. What characteristics of the board of directors usually lead to effective corporate governance?
8. List three provisions in the corporate charter that affect takeovers.
9. Briefly describe the use of stock options in a compensation plan. What are some potential problems with stock options as a form of compensation?
10. What is block ownership? How does it affect corporate governance?
11. Briefly explain how regulatory agencies and legal systems affect corporate governance

Write a 300 word essay on Mentorship. 2 peer review articles less than 5 years. There are 4 questions that are to the answered in this discussion essay. The first question is to identify an indivdual by position not by name who has assisted me in accomplishing my professional goals as a registered nurse. That individual would be a charge nurse on the Critical Care Unit at Southern Regional Medical Center. I was mentored and precepted by her at the same time. 2. How was she chosen to be your mentor? She was chosen by my unit manager. Please note that questions 2-4 must be supported by evidence from scholarly literature. 3. What qualities does this individual possess that makes them an effective mentor? She has been a nurse for over 30 years. She started her nursing career as a Certified Nursing Assistant for 5 years. I myself was an certified nursing assistant before I became a nurse. She has good leadership skills, excellant clinical skills and a caring spirit when providing care to patients.4. Are there qualities that detract from their ability to effectively mentor. As I learned from her, I did not observe a lack in her ability to effectively mentor. She made sure I recieved the best training and would always encourage me to pursuing my goals. To the writer please include this information in the essay with supportive scholarly literature. Single spaced with double space between each paragrah.

How might you research the connection between dopamine and operant conditioning if you had
some human volunteers who gave informed consent and were found to have lowered levels of this
neurotransmitter? What things might you try in an experiment? Answer: If I had humans to study, I
would first get baseline dopamine levels on all of them. I would include a group with normal
dopamine levels for comparison. I would also get baseline dopamine levels when subjects are
exposed to behavior reinforcers. Then with the subjects who have lowered dopamine levels, I would
try various interventions shown to influence brain chemistry and function: for example, 5
psychological interventions such as cognitive therapy and biological interventions such as drugs. I
would then test post-treatment dopamine levels. If only certain interventions resulted in normalized
dopamine levels in the subjects with initially lower levels, I might also try those same interventions
with the subjects whose levels had not been afiected by other interventions, to see if any
intervention(s) were efiective in all individuals. Finally, I would test the subjects whose dopamine
levels were normalized by treatment, by exposing them to reinforcers again and seeing whether
their responses were like those of the individuals with initially normal levels of dopamine.

Assignment 3: Long-Term Investment Decisions

Due Week 9 and worth 300 points

Assume that the low-calorie frozen, microwavable food company from Assignments 1 and 2 wants to expand and has to make some long-term capital budgeting decisions. The company is currently facing increases in the costs of major ingredients.

Use the Internet and Strayer databases to research government policies and regulation.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Outline a plan that managers in the low-calorie, frozen microwaveable food company could follow in anticipation of raising prices when selecting pricing strategies for making their products response to a change in price less elastic. Provide a rationale for your response.
2. Examine the major effects that government policies have on production and employment. Predict the potential effects that government policies could have on your company.
3. Determine whether or not government regulation to ensure fairness in the low-calorie, frozen microwavable food industry is needed. Cite the major reasons for government involvement in a market economy. Provide two (2) examples of government involvement in a similar market economy to support your response.
4. Examine the major complexities that would arise under expansion via capital projects. Propose key actions that the company could take in order to prevent or address these complexities.
5. Suggest the substantive manner in which the company could create a convergence between the interests of stockholders and managers. Indicate the most likely impact to profitability of such a convergence. Provide two (2) examples of instances that support your response.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Propose how differences in demand and elasticity lead managers to develop various pricing strategies.
• Analyze the economic impact of contracting, governance and organizational form within organizations.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in managerial economics and globalization.
• Write clearly and concisely about managerial economics and globalization using proper writing mechanics.

Explain the history of the discotheque as a physical space from the advent of recorded sound to the installation of the RLA soundsystem at the Paradise Garage.
-Explain the rise and fall of disco beginning with Stonewall in 1969 and ending in 1979 with Disco Demolition Night
– Explain the history of Chicago house. How is it similar but also different from disco? How does Italo fit into the picture? 2 pages about Paradise Garage (3 quotes)
ideas
What was the significance of the Paradise Garage? What kind of music was played there? What were the circumstances surrounding its rise in the early-’80s. Feel free to talk about its relationship to other forms of post-disco NY club.3 pages about techno (3 quotes)
ideas

-Explain the relationship of techno to the city of Detroit using examples from the reading. to shine a light on how certain historical processes created the music. I recommend you start with either the Ford Model T or the Detroit riots.
-How did the “waves” differ (or go in-depth on one “wave” if you’d like)? How does Berlin fit into the Detroit narrative? And, most importantly, how is techno distinct from the electronic music of New York and Chicago?
-Explain the history of Detroit techno as a form of musical expression. Who were the key players?

for this part only(techno) you can find more resources in this link
http://valuesandculturesfsu.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-additional-resources.html

Marvel of Plant 4 — Reflection Paper 4
1. What 2 things are most surprising to you in the story of Plant 4 in Muscatine? 2. Using Goleman’s 5
principles of Emotional Intelligence in leadership, indicate where you see 2 of them coming into play in
the Plant 4 case. 3. Based on what you know about Plant 4, how much would you like (or not like) to
work there? Why?

What are the different types of perception? How do the different types of perception come together to determine cognitive functioning? Is it possible for a person to function cognitively solely on one type of perception? Why or why not?

PSY 450 WK 2 DQ 2

What are emotions? Do you believe that human emotions are universal? Why or why not?

Social Psychology Project 

This handout helps explain your class project. Your task is to develop a creative project that demonstrates/comments on one of the social psychological phenomena we have covered in class (attitudes, attitude change, conformity, obedience, compliance). I encourage to you to scan through the chapters and explore different social theories, concepts, famous experiments, etc. Find some area of social psychology you have an interest in and further explore that area (i.e. Milgram’s experiment, cognitive dissonance, implicit bias, altruism, Prisoner’s Dilemma, etc). Projects that bring together multiple phenomena are especially encouraged.

PROPOSAL (Due 9/10): Please submit a 1-2 page paper describing your project in detail. Address the medium you will be using, the phenomena you will be examining and the general concept of the project. You may submit HERE in canvas your proposal early to get a jump start on the project.  

http://www.duluth.umn.edu/~hrallis/guides/researching/litreview.html
For the paper, the English Department requires a minimum of 10 sources; for your literature review, you need to have 8 peer-reviewed/scholarly/academic

sources at a minimum.

You also may need some background sources. Sources for background MUST BE APPROVED BY ME if they are not from one of the following places: Gale Virtual

Reference Library, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Merck Manual (professional version preferred), DSM-V, or the Drug Handbook. Open web sources MUST BE

APPROVED unless they are clearly from a database like the NCBI that many of you used on the Library Exercise.

Also, all of your sources must be from 2010 forward–anything older than that MUST BE APPROVED by me.

For this skill building exercise, you need to assemble a 30-item working reference list that meets these needs. The grade for this is very similar to

the grading of the summary–you either have a reference list entry that is either correct or incorrect (you will be allowed ONE MINOR GLITCH). When

correct, you are awarded a point. If incorrect, then you redo.

This assignment must include ALL SOURCES USED IN YOUR PAPER and is submitted for the first time on the same day your paper is due.