Describe a cultural diversity policy for the firm expanding overseas operations. Highlight any differences that might arise in some Middle Eastern countries where a distribution center is currently being built.

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You are a business consultant to the National Minority Supplier Development Council. An international petroleum products distribution company, based in the U.S., consults with you on cultural diversity matters. It faces some complex choices at its overseas locations.  While equal opportunity, affirmative action, and individual civil rights are the law of the land in the U.S., this frequently is not the case in other countries. Therefore when moral and legal issues run counter to host-country customs, problems are bound to arise.

Prepare an executive summary, briefly discussing the following specific topics:

  • Should U.S. civil rights laws apply to U.S. companies’ foreign operations? Express your opinion on this issue.
  • Describe a cultural diversity policy for the firm expanding overseas operations. Highlight any differences that might arise in some Middle Eastern countries where a distribution center is currently being built.
  • Explain the value of understanding the importance of, and complying with, the other country’s legal system while operating in a foreign country.
  • Americans tend to believe that the U.S. legal system is better than that of most other countries. Discuss the ramifications of this belief in an overseas, culturally diverse operation.

Create a two-page executive summary in Word. Use at least three resources to justify your responses. Apply current APA standards for writing style to your work.  Include a title page and reference page(s) in addition to the summary.

Determine how compliance with the regulations and development of risk- and quality-management systems for each type of organization contribute to the organization’s overall performance-management system.

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As a team, discuss and compare your chosen organizations selected in this week’s individual assignment, Organizational Management Performance Table to complete this paper.

As a team, create a 2- to 3-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (not counting the title or reference slides) with detailed speaker notes of at least 100 words per slide in which you compare and contrast the organizations selected by each learning team member.

Here are the organizations that some of the team has chosen: www.petersonhealthcare.org, www.AHA.org,  www.wellstar.org/foundation/about/pages/default.aspx

Include the following in your presentation:

  • Determine how compliance with the regulations and development of risk- and quality-management systems for each type of organization contribute to the organization’s overall performance-management system.

Cite at least 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references and your textbook to support your assignment.

Discuss what the term “pollution prevention” (P2) means to you, either personally or professionally.

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Read the lecture materials and click here to visit the EPA web page on P2. Discuss what the term “pollution prevention” (P2) means to you, either personally or professionally. Share with your classmates what involvement you have with pollution prevention in your work.

3) What allows information to be more closely packed on blue ray discs than DVDs?

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1) An 8 bit video card can display how many colors?

A) 8

B) 16

C) 64

D) 256

E) 512

2) POS terminals are found everywhere BUT the following?

A) Grocery store

B) Gift shop

C) Clothing store

D) Office building

E) Auto parts store

3) What allows information to be more closely packed on blue ray discs than DVDs?

A) The information on DVDs is encoded in a more complex manner than on blu ray discs.

B) Blu ray discs are read with a blue laser, whereas DVDs are read with a red laser.

C) DVDs are created out of a different material than blu ray discs.

D) Blu ray discs are read with a red laser, whereas DVDs are read with a blue laser.

E) The information isn’t more closely packed. Blu ray discs are just twice as big as DVDs.

4) Which of the following is a computer language used in designing web pages?

A) HTML

B) GUI

C) LAN

D) TCP/IP

E) OLTP

5) A person sits down at a computer and moves their mouse to click on an icon. The reason they are able to do this is because of

A) VPN

B) DSS

C) HTML

D) WAN

E) GUI

6) A student needs to email her thesis paper to her teacher and she knows the file is 12,000 bits. However, she knows that her email carrier will only allow her to at­tach a certain number of bytes to an email. How many bytes is her paper?

A) 120

B) 150

C) 1200

D) 1500

E) 3000

7) After its creation, ASCII later developed into

A) CIO

B) Unicode

C) HTML

D) CSS

E) None of the above

8) _____________ provides access to a remote computer for retrieval of files.

A) FTP

B) EDI

C) URL

D) TCP

E) TCP/IP

9) When you copy something to the clipboard, it will remain there until

A) It is pasted.

B) It is sorted.

C) It is replaced.

D) It is collated.

E) It is bolded.

10) Which of the following correctly orders the steps which the CPU follows in executing a command?

A) Fetch, Execute, Decode, Writeback

B) Fetch, Decode, Execute, Writeback

C) Fetch, Writeback, Execute, Decode

D) Decode, Writeback, Execute, Fetch

E) None of the above

CLEP Practice Test Answer Key:

D:) 256.

D:) Office building.

B:) Blu ray discs are read with a blue laser, whereas DVDs are read with a red laser.

A:) HTML. This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

E:) GUI. Graphical User Interfaces allow a person to interact with their computer. Before there were GUIs, computers could only be operated through the use of a command line.

D:) 1500. There are eight bits in one byte. 12,000 bits/8 = 1500 bytes.

B:) Unicode.

A:) FTP.

C:) It is replaced.

B:) Fetch, Decode, Execute, Writeback.

Which of the following is the standard for electronic data interchange transfers from the American National Standard Institute?

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  1. When using a web browser, each address normally starts with the letters http. What does the “h” represent?High
    1. Hyper
    2. Head
    3. Height
    4. Hydro

CLEP Exam Study Guide with Practice Questions

  1. A web browser browses the Internet with all of the following types of connections EXCEPT a:
    1. wireless connection.
    2. firewalled connection.
    3. proxy-server connection.
    4. stand-alone connection.
    5. direct connection.
  2. To view web pages, the best protocol to use is:
    1. http.
    2. ftp.
    3. nntp.
    4. smtp.
    5. www.
  3. To transfer files, the best protocol to use is:
    1. http.
    2. ftp.
    3. nntp.
    4. smtp.
    5. www.
  4. To transfer e-mail messages, the best protocol to use is:
    1. http.
    2. ftp.
    3. nntp.
    4. smtp.
    5. www.
  5. A specialized system used to aid geographic mapping systems is called:
    1. geographic information system.
    2. business intelligence.
    3. decision support system.
    4. expert system.
    5. statistical analysis.
  6. A specialized system used to help make high-level decisions based on complex business intelligence information is called:
    1. geographic information system.
    2. business intelligence.
    3. decision support system.
    4. expert system.
    5. statistical analysis.
  7. A specialized system designed to ask questions, collect data, and provide a suggested solution, often with a specific degree of accuracy, is called:
    1. geographic information system.
    2. business intelligence.
    3. decision support system.
    4. expert system.
    5. statistical analysis.
  8. Which of the following is the standard for electronic data interchange transfers from the American National Standard Institute?
    1. IEEE
    2. 802.11
    3. X12
    4. ACM
    5. ASCII
  9. Benefits of electronic data interchange include all of the following EXCEPT:
    1. it is more accurate than traditional transaction processing.
    2. it is faster than traditional transaction processing.
    3. it uses fewer natural resources than traditional transaction processing.
    4. it is more secure than traditional transaction processing.
    5. it makes just-in-time processing more difficult and time-consuming.

What deficiencies existed in the internal environment at Springer

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Answer the following questions about the audit of Springer’s Lumber & Supply

 

a.

What deficiencies existed in the internal environment at Springer

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s?

The “internal environment” refers to the tone or culture of a company and helps determine how risk consciousness employees are. It is the foundation for all other ERM components, providing discipline and structure. It is essentially the same thing as the control environment in the internal control framework. The internal environment also refers to management’s attitude toward internal control, and to how that attitude is reflected in the organization’s control policies and  procedures. At Springer’s, several deficiencies in the control environment are apparent: 1.

 

Management authority is concentrated in three family members, so there are few, if any, checks and balances on their behavior. In addition, several other relatives and friends of the family are on the payroll. 2.

 

Since the company has a “near monopoly” on the business in the Bozeman area, few competitive constraints restrain prices, wages, and other business practices. 3.

 

Lines of authority and responsibility are loosely defined, which make it difficult to identify who is responsible for problems or decisions. 4.

 

Management may have engaged in “creative accounting” to make its financial  performance look better, which suggests a management philosophy that could encourage unethical behavior among employees.

b.

 

Do you agree with the decision to settle with the Springers rather than to prosecute them for fraud and embezzlement? Why or why not?

3) Describe the leadership approaches preferred in the cluster that will be visited.

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For this assignment, imagine that you have been tasked with preparing a cultural brief for an upcoming trip that will put you and your travel companions in touch with a different societal cluster. Choose one cluster other than the one in which you currently operate, and create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the following items:

1) List and describe the cultural cluster that will be visited.

2) Provide information on cultural norms from the cluster to be visited, including specific information from the GLOBE study (see article by Javidan, Dorfman, De Luque, and House in the unit’s required readings).

3) Describe the leadership approaches preferred in the cluster that will be visited.

4) Describe considerations for leading multicultural teams.

Utilize the in-class materials to support the content of this presentation and include at least one image in your presentation. Your PowerPoint presentation should be at least10 slides in length. The title and reference slides do not count toward the total slide count.

5) Be sure to include the rubric elements from the guidelines below:

6) Your presentation should have originality, and the content should be presented in a unique and interesting manner.

7) Speaker notes must be provided

8) The analysis should be thorough and fully developed.

9) The organization should be clear. The main points should be arranged logically to support the information provide, with similar ideas grouped together with smooth transitions.

10) All graphics and texts should be appropriate, attractive, and support the theme and content. Be sure to use a consistent and appropriate background.

11) Any sources used should be properly cited and referenced according to APA format.

12) The writing should be clear and concise with proper sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation, and it should be free from spelling errors.

Determining whether fraud has actually occurred is sometimes quite difficult,and proving that it has occurred is even more difficult.5.

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Should the company have told Jason and Maria the results of the high-level audit?Why or why not?

Whether or not Jason and Maria should have been told the results of the high-levelaudit is also a matter of opinion. The investigative team is apparently trying to keepits agreement to maintain silence by telling as few people as possible what reallyhappened. On the other hand, Jason and Maria were the ones who first recognizedthe problems; it seems only right that they be told about the outcome.Many lessons may be drawn from this story.1.

Auditors should view the condition of an organization’s control environment asan important indicator of potential internal control problems.2.

Fraud is more easily perpetrated and concealed when many perpetrators areinvolved, and especially when management is involved.3.

Purchasing and payroll are two areas that are particularly vulnerable to fraud.4.

Determining whether fraud has actually occurred is sometimes quite difficult,and proving that it has occurred is even more difficult.5.

Frauds do occur, so auditors must always be alert to the possibility of fraud.6.

Auditors should not accept management’s explanations for questionabletransactions at face value, but should do additional investigative work tocorroborate such explanation