Organizations today have adopted innovative measures to retain key talent and reduce turnover. These measures include dual-career paths and alternative or flexible work arrangements. In addition, some organizations also provide their employees with outplacement, recruitment, and coaching services.

Managers should know and understand how to develop an employee in his/her preferred career path.  In order for the assessment data to be beneficial to the employee, the manager should understand and know how to interpret the data.   For this assignment, you will conduct an interview with someone who is in or has been in a management position and write a 4-5 page paper covering the following items:

• What value does the manager you interviewed place on career self-assessments?
• What role does the interviewee play in helping his or her employee reach their career objectives? Does the manager see any room for improvement in this area? Why or why not? 
• Based on your interview, outline proactive approaches employees can employ to gain assistance from his/her manager to advance within the organization and discuss how the information gathered from a career assessment can be used to promote internal career development
• In addition, address the steps the employee can take to ensure assistance is received on a continual basis from the manager to promote workplace self-development.

All sources should be cited in proper APA format.

One of the major changes affecting today’s organizations is diversity in the workforce.  In the United States, perhaps more than in any other country, diversity has become the norm rather than the exception.  This reality presents new challenges for contemporary managers.  Learning new management techniques and how to apply them is paramount.  The challenges become greater when organizations venture beyond their state or country’s borders. Transnational organizations work in a variety of countries and settings and produce a variety of products and services to meet the needs of their customers.

In this assignment, you will review the concluding case study: The New Frontier for Fresh Foods Supermarkets at the end of the chapter, “Managing the Diverse Workforce,” and prepare a case study analysis (approximately 3-4 pages). You will need to use additional resources in preparing your report.

• Investigate and analyze the company’s origin, history, corporate structure and growth.
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses within the company in reference to their diversity initiatives
• Identify opportunities and threats within the company’s external environment in reference to their diversity initiatives
• What steps can Vivian Noble take to recruit and develop her new workforce?
• What other ways can Noble help her company reach out to the community?
• How will Fresh Foods Supermarkets as a whole benefit from successfully moving into this new region of the country?

CONCLUDING CASE: The New Frontier for Fresh Foods Supermarkets

Fresh Foods Supermarkets is a grocery store chain that was established in the Southeast 20 years ago. The company is now beginning to expand to other regions of the United States. First, the firm opened new stores along the eastern seaboard, gradually working its way up through Maryland and Washington, DC, then through New York and New Jersey, and on into Connecticut and Massachusetts. It has yet to reach the northern New England states, but executives have decided to turn their attention to the Southwest, particularly because of the growth of population there.

Vivian Noble, the manager of one of the chain’s most successful stores in the Atlanta area, has been asked to relocate to Phoenix, Arizona, to open and run a new Fresh Foods Supermarket. She has decided to accept the job, but she knows it will be a challenge. As an African American woman, she has faced some prejudice during her career, but she refuses to be stopped by a glass ceiling or any other barrier. She understands that she will be living and working in an area where several cultures combine and collide, and she will be hiring and managing a diverse workforce. Noble has the support of top management at Fresh Foods, which wants the store to reflect the surrounding community—in both staff makeup and product selection. So she will be looking to hire employees with Hispanic and Native American roots, as well as older workers who can relate to the many retired residents in the area. And she will be seeking their input on the selection of certain food products, including popular ethnic brands, so that customers know they can buy what they need and want at Fresh Foods.

In addition, Noble wants to make sure that Fresh Foods provides services above and beyond those of a standard supermarket to attract local consumers. For instance, she wants the store to offer free delivery of groceries to homebound customers who are either senior citizens or physically disabled. She wants to be sure that the store has enough bilingual employees to translate for and otherwise assist customers who speak little or no English. Noble believes that she is a pioneer of sorts, guiding Fresh Food Supermarkets into a new frontier. “The sky is almost always blue here,” she says of her new home state. “And there’s no glass ceiling between me and the sky.”

By Wednesday, November 20, 2013, deliver your assignments to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Simple MCQs question can be done within 10 minutes i guess

1. Given f (A, B, C) = Σ (0, 3, 5, 6, 7). Realize this function
a. as a two-level AND-OR network. Assume that the inverted versions of the inputs are
already available.
b. as a two-level OR-AND network. Assume that the inverted versions of the inputs are
already available.
c. as a NAND-only network based on the SOP expression for f
d. as a NOR-only network based on the POS expression for f
2. Consider a 3-bit ripple-carry adder (RCA) circuit. Assume that the sum of each
constituent full-adder of this RCA is obtained using a 3-bit XOR gate that has a
propagation delay of 3 ns. The carry-out bit of each individual full-adder is generated
using AND and OR gates. These gates have a delay of 2 ns and 2 ns, respectively. What
is the overall delay of this RCA?
3. Show the complete design of a 2-bit ALU whose functionality is described in the table
below. The ALU receives two 2-bit-wide data inputs, A and B. It also has two 1-bit-wide
function-control inputs S1 and S0. Depending on the value of S1S0, the ALU performs and
outputs one of the functions specified in the table below:
S1    S0        Function
0        0         ALU output = A
0        1         ALU output = A + B
1        0        ALU output = bitwise AND of A and B
1        1        ALU output = bitwise complement of A
4. Realize the function f (A, B, C) = A + BC using a decoder of the minimum possible size
and other logic gates, as necessary.
5. Design a full-subtractor using 4-to-1 multiplexers only. Assume that the inverted versions
of the full-subtractor inputs are already available.