What should companies do to develop talented women to take top management positions? Provide support for your recommend

M.P. VanOyen Manufacturing has gone out on bid for a regulator component. Expected demand is 700 units per month. The item can be purchased from either Allen Manufacturing or Baker Manufacturing. Their price lists are shown in the table. Ordering cost is $\$ 50$, and annual holding cost per unit is $\$ 5$.

What is the optimal order quantity and total annual cost of ordering, purchasing, and holding the component?

Authentic Thai rattan chairs (shown in the photo) are delivered to Gary Schwartz's chain of retail stores, called The Kathmandu Shop, once a year. The reorder point, without safety stock, is 200 chairs. Carrying cost is $\$ 30$ per unit per year, and the cost of a stockout is $\$ 70$ per chair per year. Given the following demand probabilities during the lead time, how much safety stock should be carried?

You establish a straddle on Walmart using September call and put options with a strike price of $80. The call premium is$7.00 and the put premium is $8.50. a. What is the most you can lose on this position? b. What will be your profit or loss if Walmart is selling for$88 in September? c. At what stock prices will you break even on the straddle?

How would you prepare a team of three managers to go to Warsaw, Poland, to oversee the operations of a recently acquired financial services firm? They will be leaving in one month, and the assignment lasts two years.

Watch the YouTube video about millennials’ career expectations at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN009pksHas. How are their career expectations similar or different from your career expectations? Based on what you read in the chapter, what do you think companies should do to help manage and meet millennials’ career expectations

Do you think that disbanding employee resource groups such as those for women, Hispanics, veterans, and other groups helps or hinders efforts to improve diversity and inclusion in the workplace? Explain why.

Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzHKpgTCic. What is the purpose of the FCA Manufacturing Academy? What type of training is used? What are the learning advantages of the training shown in the video compared to using only classroom instruction?

What is the purpose of unconscious bias training? Provide an example of how unconscious bias training can affect who gets to attend training or who is asked to participate in development activities.

Is it good or bad to operate a supermarket bakery system on a strict first-come, first-served basis? Why?

Go to http://fairuse.stanford.edu, a website called Copyright and Fair Use created by Stanford University’s library system. How does work fall in the public domain? That is, how can you use someone else’s work without having to obtain permission to use it

Assume you were asked to investigate whether or not a police officer training program adequately covered use of force. What would you review? Would you look at any data?

Go to www.workingmother.com, the website for Working Mother magazine. Search for and review any five of the “100 Best Companies for 2017.” What practices do they use to help employees achieve a work-life and work-family balance? What types of outcomes or metrics would you collect to see if these practices were effective?

How could you help the survivors of a downsizing remain motivated and productive? Which of your recommendations is most important? Explain why