Dave is a driver for Empire Courier Service. Around the company, Dave is known as sort of a hothead. During his previous employment at another company, Dave had been involved in a workplace fistfight with a fellow employee, resulting in criminal charges.

One day, between deliveries and in a company vehicle, Dave decides to get lunch. While leaving the parking lot at Big Burrito Bistro, the favorite lunch spot for most Empire Courier employees, Dave negligently causes a car accident with another vehicle, resulting in injuries to Victor, the driver of the other car. As Dave and Victor are waiting on the side of the road for the police to arrive, Victor comments to Dave, “Oh, you drive for Empire Courier Service. It doesn’t surprise me that Empire hires bad drivers because their service stinks, and their prices are too high!” Dave is so offended that Victor would insult his employer’s professional reputation that he punches Victor in the face, causing Victor to suffer even more injuries. Empire Courier Service does not, as a matter of policy, do criminal background checks on its employees.

Within your paper, define agency and how an agency relationship is created. Identify the various types of agency relationships, and explain tort liability and how it relates to the agency relationship.

Then, considering the legal principles discussed in Chapter 20, explain who is liable for Dave’s negligence for causing the car accident, and explain who is liable for Dave’s intentional tort for punching Victor.

Provide your answers in a case analysis of at least two pages in length.

One source is required. Include an introduction in your paper. Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however, is not necessary.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=765171493197958827&q=manning+v.+grimsley&hl=en&as_sdt=40006&as_vis=1

 

Human resource managers are largely responsible for creating and managing the workforce policies and guidelines of an organization. By encouraging both the leadership of an organization and employees, they acknowledge and comply with the organizational policies. Additionally, the human resource management (HRM) team ensures that the organization’s workforce policies align with the corporate mission and goals, ultimately resulting in the organization’s ability to attract and retain a diverse workforce.

Imagine you have just started working as the HR manager for a new start-up company. You have been asked by the president of the company to create an employee handbook. Watch the following video:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/human-resources-creating-an-employee-handbook?contextUrn=urn%3Ali%3AlyndaLearningPath%3A1~AAAAAAQstyI%3D579730&u=70039330 

 

Once you have watched the video, write a minimum 3-page analysis that answers the following questions and supports your plan for creating an employee handbook for your organization. Identify in your plan a minimum of 3 points from the questions answered that support your strategy.

Deliverable Requirements: 10 questions from the video

1. Why is it a good practice to have an employee handbook?
2. Can an employee handbook be considered a risk management tool? Why or why not?
3. What is a culture-first employee handbook and should that type of handbook be considered in your plan?
4. Define the term code of conduct.
5. Which type of conduct rules in an employee handbook are most frequently challenged by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)?
6. Are employee handbooks meant to deal with contractual or legal employee privileges? Explain your response.
7. What is the most commonly litigated wage and hour violations and why?
8. Who do you recommend within the organization assist with the final development and creation of the employee handbook and why?
9. How do you plan to bring your handbook to life to your employees?
10. Why is it an advantage to have an online version of your employee handbook?

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
• Length: 3 pages minimum
• Abstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third person.
• Body: This begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
• Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Econometrics PS 1

Due: Feb 2

Complete the entire problems in each section as required. There are two sections!

Section 1: Probability theory: Expected Value and Lotteries (ONE QUESTION TOTAL)

We discussed how the sample mean can be skewed by an extreme value. In a sample of 100 people from Texas, if a multi-millionaire oil baron is randomly chosen for the sample, the mean income in the sample would be skewed higher than the median.

The sample mean is sometimes referred to as the expected value, written E[X] for the expected value of X. In probability theory the expected value is the sum of all potential outcomes, weighted by the probability/chance of the occurrence. For example, assume you are close friends with the oil baron. You need money for school, and as your friend he will agrees to give you one of two cars he never drives, which you will immediately sell for cash. He will flip a coin to determine which one, giving you a 50/50 chance of each. Let’s say one car is worth $12,000 and the other car is worth $118,000. The expected value is written E[X] = 0.5 × $12,000 + 0.5 × $118,000 = $65,000. Notice that this is also the average of the two values.

Question 1: Consider a random lottery, where 2,250 people enter their name (only once per-person) and a machine selects one winner at random. Each player has an equal chance of selection and the winning prize is $425,000.

a. Absent any costs associated with winning or playing the lottery, what is the expected value of entering the lottery one time?

b. Assume the winner must pay a 20% tax on lottery winnings. Further, the dealer wants to charge an entry fee. Exactly 2,250 people believe in luck and will play if the expected value of the gamble is greater than or equal to zero. What is the maximum entry fee the dealer can charge? Will the dealer make a profit? 

c. What is the fundamental difference between the typical Powerball or Megamillions lottery and the one we established in our example above? Use two sentences or less to explain.

Section 2: Stata Exercises (FIVE QUESTIONS TOTAL)

For this section you will download data from this site: https://www.stata.com/texts/eacsap/

Connect to the virtual Stata console here: https://vcon.lib.uh.edu/portal/webclient/index.html#/ 

– Find the data “labsup.dta” which contains variables for birthing mothers and their background characteristics. Save the file to your computer in a folder you can track down.

– Boot up StataSE 15 by clicking on the icon .  

(File Transfer)

– Upload the labsup.dta file to your virtual desktop using file transfer. Open the tab on the far left side of the console and select the file transfer option (circled in red in the screenshot). Your file will be stored in the virtual “documents” folder. You will also use this tab to toggle between open files (circled in blue).

– Stata allows us to write programs, so our work is reproducible. We save the program codes as .do file format, which is Stata specific but other statistical software have the same functionality. Once Stata is up and running, click the icon to open a new .do file. Of the two with a pencil, it is the one on the left.

– Before proceeding, save your .do to the documents folder. In the .do file pane, click “file…save as…”, select desktop, then your user folder, then documents folder.  While you have the window open, save the filepath by right clicking on “Documents” at the top and selecting “Copy address as text.”

 

– Navigate back to your .do file. The first step is to set the working directory using the cd (change directory) command. We will use the documents folder as the directory. Next, load the dataset with the use command. In this example I clear the temporary memory, set the working directory, and load the data. Select the block you wish to execute and press the “do” button.

 

By this point you will see the data loaded up in the main Stata panel. That’s the way it works. You code up something in the .do file and it is executed in the workstation. 

Other than the .do file you can tell Stata to execute something by typing directly into the command line in the main Stata panel.  Note that for any Stata function you can use help followed by the command name, directly into the command line. Also note that to see the data table, type browse into the command line and press enter.

  

1. The labsup dataset contains variables describing the fertility of n=31,857 mothers. Summarize the variable “kidcount” in detail and answer the following questions.

a. Describe the sample based on the number of kids. Are there any women in the sample with no children? Use three sentences or less.

b. Let’s say a big family is one that has three kids or more. Based on this definition, what fraction of the total sample has a big family? Use the count function.

c. If I were to randomly select a mother from this sample, what is the probability that I would choose a woman with 5 kids or more? What about 3 kids or less?

2. Random variables can be categorized as discrete or continuous. A discrete variable is one that has values determined by counts: the number of kids, total family size, etc. A continuous variable is measured and can take on fractional values: income, miles, square footage of a house are a few examples. 

a. Based on your summary output in #1, is the median or mean a better descriptor for the number of kids each mother has? Why?

b. There are three income variables in the dataset. Use the kdensity function to plot the probability density for “labinc” (mom’s labor income in 000’s). Also summarize “labinc.” What is informative from looking at the probability density that you might not have picked up just by looking at the mean? Paste a screenshot of your density here as well.

c. Now plot the probability density for “faminc” (total household income). Does this variable approximate a normal distribution? Are there observations in the data you might flag as erroneous?

3. Use the correlation command to create a single correlation matrix for the following variables: agefstm (mother’s age at first birth), kidcount, faminc, and educ (years of education). 

a. Paste a screenshot of your correlation matrix here.

b. Some of the correlations are obvious, for example years of education is positively correlated with income. Identify one positive and one negative correlation that would have been less obvious before running this correlation.

c. A researcher looks at the correlation between family income and kidcount and notices that the sign is negative. She then says to herself, “wow, lower income families have more kids. This is surprising given they would have less resources than a richer family.” Think like an economist- given the correlation between family income, years of education, and mother’s age at first birth, what might be an alternative explanation for why lower income mothers have more children? Use four sentences or less.

4. Indeed, the correlation between family income and number of kids is not very strong. Let’s run a regression to test for the effect of increasing income on the number of kids. Using the regress command, run the following regression equations.

a. First run the regression 

 

where Yi is kidscount, and X1i is faminc (family income). What is the coefficient for B1?

b. Now run the regression 

 

Where X2i is years of education and X3i is mom’s age at first birth.  Does the coefficient B1 become smaller or larger?

c. Now run the regression

 

Where Zi is labinc (mom’s labor income). Which coefficient is larger, the coefficient for family income (B1) or the coefficient for mom’s income (B4)? Also paste a screenshot of your regression results for part c (only) here.

5. In the 1980’s the FDA approved oral contraceptives commonly referred to as birth control pills. Think like an economist – what is the opportunity cost of childbirth for a woman of working age? What effect do you think birth control pills had on college graduation rates of women since the approval? Given what you found in the prior steps, what is one mechanism in which birth control pills might decrease the fertility rate in the United States, outside of directly preventing contraception? Write two paragraphs or less summarizing your thoughts about these questions.

 

An Integrated Marketing Strategy

The Final Paper should demonstrate understanding of the reading assignments as well as the discussion points. The purpose of this assignment is to integrate the concepts studied in this course into a cohesive and comprehensive paper.

The Final Paper will be titled “An Integrated Marketing Strategy for ____.” You will fill in the blank with an existing or a new brand name of your choice. The goal of the paper is to integrate theories and concepts from the textbook and readings into your own ideas to create specific marketing ideas to promote the brand (good or service) with a particular target market. Refer to the previous assignments completed in this course for insight on how to develop your Final Paper. You must

• Provide an Overview/Executive Summary of the marketing strategy.
• Describe the good or service and desired brand image.
• Describe the target market, including buyer motivations, demographics, and psychographics.
• Describe the overall marketing strategy, including positioning strategy versus competitors.
• Describe a promotions and advertising campaign that includes a description of one advertisement.
• Recommend and describe a Public Relations campaign.
• Describe the use of an Internet marketing campaign, including web site and use of email.
• Describe a direct marketing campaign, including Customer Relationship Management.

The An Integrated Marketing Strategy Final Paper

• Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course text, including a minimum of two from the University of Arizona Global Campus library.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the benefits of regular exercise, for both body and brain

Directions

Sometimes getting started is the hardest part of being physically active. The important thing is to find activities you like to do, so you’ll stick with them. In order to help you understand how much activity you need to do on a regular basis, your task is create a sensible routine.

Start by creating a plan that will help you see the benefits of regular exercise. The following five steps will help create an exercise plan, and if you need more guidance, do an internet search using the phrase “exercise plan” or “workout plan.”

1. List three physical activities that you enjoy doing or would like to try.
2. Identify any special requirements or equipment you need before doing the activities you’ve listed. For example, will you need a gym membership? Do you need to purchase running shoes? etc.
3. Set a realistic, weekly exercise time goal for yourself. Aim for at least 150 minutes or more per week.
4. Using a digital or printed calendar, plan and label the days of the week, times, and places that you plan to exercise. Specify the activity or activities that you intend to do. (For example: Monday, 6–7 a.m., 30 min on stationary bike, college gym; Wednesday, 2–3 p.m., 60 min speed-walking with Maya, Riverside Park; Saturday, 1–2 p.m, lift weights, college gym.)
5. Track your progress for one week. Recording the amount of time you actually exercised. If you engaged in any unplanned physical activities. Say you ended up riding your bike to school instead of taking the bus, include those, too.

Now that you’ve created your plan, the next step is to reflect on your experience. Share about your experience in a short response (250-300 words) and reflect on what you learned:

• What kinds of exercise did you engage in, and which did you enjoy the most?
• What was your weekly time goal? Did you meet it?
• What worked or didn’t work?
• What might you need to change in order to make exercise a regular habit?