Assignment: Write a 1- to 2-page memo to a business manager that is not familiar with network communication. Describe the role of protocols in network communication.

 

• What widely used networking protocols support or make possible video calls also known as video teleconferencing? What role does each protocol play in the video call process? Include basic connectivity roles.
• What is a troubleshooting model? Describe how you would use a troubleshooting model to resolve a user’s inability to connect to the Internet from a physically connected networked laptop in an office. What protocols are used in this situation to connect a networked laptop to the Internet?

 

Accrual Accounting System

The accrual accounting system is a standard system used by most businesses and is also the system used in the simulation. In relation to the rules of accrual accounting, consider the following questions:

• How does the accrual accounting system impact the financial statements and the standing positions of firms in the simulation such that these may not reflect the true, long-term sustainability of the firms’ strategies?
• What is being “unaccounted” for?
• What contrasts are there between what is shown in cash flow statements and the need for firms to borrow at high rates and firms’ income statements?

 

Answer the questions in a complete sentences and in paragraph form.

 

Jennifer, the owner and manager of a company with ten employees, has hired you to take over the HRM function so she can focus on other areas of her business. During your first two weeks, you find out that the company has been greatly affected by the up economy and is expected to experience overall revenue growth by 10 percent over the next three years, with some quarters seeing growth as high as 30 percent. However, five of the ten workers are expected to retire within three years. These workers have been with the organization since the beginning and provide a unique historical perspective of the company. The other five workers are of diverse ages.

In addition to these changes, Jennifer believes they may be able to save costs by allowing employees to telecommute one to two days per week. She has some concerns about productivity if she allows employees to work from home. Despite these concerns, Jennifer has even considered closing down the physical office and making her company a virtual organization, but she wonders how such a major change will affect the ability to communicate and worker motivation.

Jennifer shares with you her thoughts about the costs of health care on the organization. She has considered cutting benefits entirely and having her employees work for her on a contract basis, instead of being full-time employees. She isn’t sure if this would be a good choice.

Jennifer schedules a meeting with you to discuss some of her thoughts. To prepare for the meeting, you perform research so you can impress your new boss with recommendations on the challenges presented.

1. Point out which changes are occurring in the business that affect HRM.

2. What are some considerations the company and HR should be aware of when making changes related to this case study?

3. What would the initial steps be to start planning for these changes?

4. What would your role be in implementing these changes? What would Jennifer’s role be?

What influenced American Art at the turn of the Twentieth Century?  How did it impact artists?  How did impact Collectors? Discuss Courbet, a Realists,  Manet, and the Impressionists.  What about the Post-Impressionists?

 

How does Courbet influence later Americans?  The Ashcan Artists?

 

Why are these French Painters so important to American Art?

 

Many of the Ashcan artists were illustrators working for newspapers.  (Was there a European Precedent for this?)  Do you think this experience influenced their paintings? Explain your answer.

 

How did emerging technology change American art? How does it continue to change? Do you think the effects of technology have been positive or negative? Why? 

 

Week 2 Discussion

 

Global Forces and Diversity

 

In this week’s reading, you have read about some aspects of business in the global environment and about the rewards and challenges that come with a more diverse environment. You have also encountered the idea of “global outsourcing” and “global supply chain management.” The readings explored how new technology developed in a distant land, and changes of political alignments , can impact global business operations and ripple across the world to affect all types and sizes of businesses.

 

Post by Day 3 a 150- to 500-word statement in the Discussion thread that responds to all of the following:

 

• What are some of the global forces that affect businesses today?
• Give an example of how a specific business, company or industry has been, or could be, affected by global forces ?
• How might a company’s diversity of employees, customers, and suppliers affect its success in today’s global business environment?

 

Support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources. You are allowed to draw from additional sources to support your argument, but you must cite using APA standards. All quoted material must be identified, cited, and referenced per APA standards.

 

You are encouraged to enrich your posting with your personal examples, experience, or insights.

 

Edit your postings carefully for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.

 

Respond by Day 6 with at least 75 words each to two or more of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:

 

• Ask a probing question.
• Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
• Offer and support an opinion.
• Make a suggestion.
• Expand on your colleague’s posting.

 

Required Resources

 

Readings

 

• Jones, G. R., & George, J. M. (2014). Essentials of contemporary management (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Chapter 3, “Managing Ethics and Diversity” (pp. 78–117)

    This chapter addresses concepts of ethics and beliefs about right and wrong. The concept of stakeholders and their importance and effects on organizations and decision makers are also discussed. The authors examine the reality, value, effects, and challenges of increasing diversity in the workforce and the general environment, as well as the reality of workplace harassment and how it is dealt from a practical and ethical viewpoint.

    Focus on the definitions and concepts provided throughout this chapter. After reading this chapter, ask yourself if you have a clear understanding of your own ethics. Do you operate according to your own clear understanding of right and wrong? Are there behaviors that you consider virtuous or wrong? What do you really think of the course text authors’ advocacy of utilitarian ethics? Do your ethics manifest in the way that you interrelate with others and make decisions in the workplace? Do you really value a diversity of opinions and perspectives? What, if anything, do race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or age have to do with having access to or ensuring a diversity of opinions and perspectives? How would you, as a manager, deal with an incident of workplace harassment based on race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or age?

  • Chapter 4, “Managing in the Global Environment” (pp. 118–153)

    This chapter addresses the global environment of business. The subject is divided into two parts: (1) the big picture or general environment that all industries or businesses operate within, and (2) the more specific task environment of suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors that influence managerial decision on a daily basis. The authors also examine the global forces and factors that contribute to rapid change in those environments, as well as how a change or trend in one of those factors can affect a specific business, region or entire national economy. The emphasis of this chapter is on smart adaptation to changing conditions by knowledgeable, sophisticated and flexible managers.

    Focus on the definitions and concepts provided throughout this chapter. After reading this chapter, ask yourself, which products or service that you use originate in some form from an overseas location? In what way does the company that you work for benefit and/or is damaged by products or services from an overseas location? Which businesses in your community, state or region benefit from the ability to sell to overseas markets? Which business do you know are not taking advantage of overseas markets or resources to stabilize or grow? What do you, as an actual or potential manager, need to do to better prepare yourself to be successful in the changing global business environment?

  ***You should already have the login info for the textbook…..

You are trying to describe the Ethernet as the most common local area networking standard for your coworkers, friends, or family members. Discuss the following:

• Provide a detailed description about the Ethernet as the most common local area networking standard for wired networks.
• Discuss the most common components that are used to create an Ethernet network.

 

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/if-a-liberal-arts-education-is-valuable-then-its-valuable/36432

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Do-Your-Grads-Make-/127891/

 

Question 1:How do employers measure a Liberal arts applicant?

Question 2:Should a grads salary be important in measuring the value of a liberal arts degree?

 

Question 3:Employers measure “Teamwork” as an important attribute for success. Where does a liberal arts student gain that attribute?

 

Question 4:Your analysis of the two articles

Week 2 Discussion

Design Basics Used to Create Balance

The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it’s true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You’ve just got to choose a subject, and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

––Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was a highly original photographer who has greatly influenced the course of contemporary photography. In her Photography: A Cultural History (2002), Mary Warner Marien writes:

Arbus turned normalcy on its head, making the ordinary bizarre and naturalizing the unusual. In her photographs of people, many of them made while she roamed the streets of New York, clothes and cosmetics are futile efforts to camouflage psychic emptiness or damage. When Arbus photographed children, she revealed them as little versions of bad-tempered, mean-spirited adults. […] On the other hand, her photographs of people at the margins of society, such as female impersonators, show them to be more virtuous for having unmasked their subjective inclinations. For Arbus, marginal people were symbols for her own psychological fragility and trauma (p. 352).

The thematic power of Arbus’s work is based on the masterful composition of her subject matter, balancing key elements within a square frame format, which is uniquely identified with her mature style.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review Chapters 2 and 3 in your course text, The Photographer’s Eye.
• Review Diane Arbus’s photograph, Child with Toy Hand Grenade, 1962.
• Review the websites from this week’s Learning Resources for more inspiration and examples of photographs.
• Consider the following questions regarding the Arbus photograph:
  • How does the use of a square frame impact the balance of the photograph?
  • What elements contribute to the balance of the photograph presented here? Would you say this is a balanced photograph? Explain your response.
  • Does this composition draw your eyes more to the center of the frame or more to the edges? Give evidence for your response.
  • How does the photograph demonstrate contrast, tension, rhythm, and/or depth?
  • How does the subject of the photograph relate to the background?
  • How is perspective created in the photograph?
  • Is the photograph more weighted toward information or emotion? Explain your response.
• While considering the questions above, compare the assigned photograph with Arbus’s 1967 photograph, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J., 1967. Explain how these photographs differ and how they are similar.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a response that addresses three of the questions. Analyze how Arbus uses placement to create or disrupt a sense of balance in her composition. (Approximately 250 words).

In your post, be sure to:

• Refer to one specific example from your course reading.

Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week’s Learning Resources, or something you have read, heard, seen, or experienced.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Respond by Day 5 to at least two of your colleagues’ postings that contain a perspective other than yours.

• Explain how your colleagues’ perspectives can either:
  • Align with or complement your perspective.

    or

  • Contrast with or be in opposition to your perspective.

   

  Resources:

  Required Resources

  Readings

• Freeman, M. (2013). The photographer’s eye: Graphic guide: Instantly understand composition & design for better digital photos.Burlington, MA: Focal Press.
  • Chapter 2, “Placing” (pp. 30–47)
  • Chapter 3, “Dividing” (pp. 48–61)

    In these chapters, you will learn about different aspects of color photography, including the uses of rich color, pastel hues, muted color, contrast, and accent, and the relationship between color and theme.

• Expert Photography. (2015). Balance in composition: Everything you need to know. Retrieved from http://expertphotography.com/basic-composition-techniques-balance/
• Garrison, T. (n.d.). Visual balance—means taking another look. Retrieved from http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/visual-balance-in-photography/

  On this website, Garrison explains the difference between formal balance and informal balance.

• Gumport, E. (2011). The long exposure of Francesca Woodman. The New York Review of Books. Retrieved from http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jan/24/long-exposure-francesca-woodman/

  This resource focuses on the eerie quality to the black and white art of a young photographer on the 30th anniversary of her death.

• Oppenheimer, D. (n.d.). Diane Arbus. Retrieved from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arbus.html

  This website provides a biography of well-known New York photographer Diane Arbus.

The following websites comprise galleries that allow you to experience the fundamental elements of photographic art.

• Arbus, D. (1962). Child with toy hand grenade, 1962. Retrieved from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2001.474
• Arbus, D. (1967). Identical twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967. The photography of Diane Arbus. Retrieved from http://photography-now.net/diane_arbus/index.html
• Benjamin Krain, photojournalist. (2005). Retrieved from http://www.benjaminkrain.com/
• Sherman, C. (1997). Cindy Sherman: The complete untitled film stills. Retrieved from http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/sherman/