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As the manager of a hotel belonging to a national chain of four star hotels, you estimated the demand (in room nights) for one of your hotels (QH). The estimation has resulted in the following demand function:
LnQH = 2000 – lnPH – 1.5lnPC – 2.25 lnPSE + 0.8 lnPOH + 0.01lnM
where PH is the dollar price of a room at your hotel, PC is the price of music concerts in your area, PSE is the price of sporting events in your area, POH is the average room price at other hotels in your area, and M is the average income in the United States. How would the following events impact the demand for your hotel? Show all your work.
A. With the booming economy, average income in the US increases by 5%.
B. Price war! Other hotels reduce their per night rates by 10%. You are forced to match this price cut.
C. The mayor and the city council raise the tax on tickets to sporting events but not music concerts. The after-tax ticket price of local sporting events increase by 10%.
D. All music conert ticket prices increase by 5%. Coincidentally, local economy is doing particularly well and the income of your city residents rises by 10%, compared to a 5% increase for the US.

Course : Strategy Planning (book attached)
write a one page essay answering the following questions supporting your essay with at least 2 academic references and following APA writing system :
Explain the role of organizational culture in realizing strategy
Discuss the new directions in strategic thinking
Attachments:
3249011_1_Foundations-of-Strategy-2nd-Edition—Ro.pdf

Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
In 1944, finance specialists and bankers from around the world met to discuss what the post-WWII monetary system would be. Given the instability of the pre-war period, the goal was to create a new system. The outcome of this was the Bretton Woods system, which had the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency linked to gold at $35 an ounce. All other currencies were tied to the dollar with limits on how much they could appreciate or depreciate. The system lasted until the 1970s, when the United States decided to move away from gold convertibility. The modern system is based on supply and demand for currency and a managed float. Discuss the following in your main post:
The U.S. dollar remains the world’s reserve currency. Is this good for the United States, and if so, why?
People usually think a “strong” dollar is good. Is this true for U.S. businesses, and does it help or hurt the U.S. balance of payments?

Drawing on the Lingard & McGregor reading, briefly
explain
Queensland’s New Basics curriculum and the Australia Curriculum, highlighting key differences between the two (feel free to also draw on any other reading material you like). (approx. 400 words).

Q2 A government data processing center has been plagued in recent years by complaints from employees of back pain. Consultants have estimated that upgrading office furniture at a net cost of K425,000 would reduce the incidence and severity of back injuries, allowing the center to avoid medical care that currently costs K68,000 each year. They estimate that the new furniture would also provide yearly benefits of avoided losses in work time and employee comfort worth K18,000. The furniture would have a useful life of five years; after which it would have a positive salvage value equal to 10 percent of its initial net cost. The consultants made their estimates of avoided costs assuming that they would be treated as occurring at the beginning of each year.In its investment decisions, the center uses a nominal discount rate of 9.5 percent and an assumed general inflation rate of 3 percent. It expects the inflation rate for medical care will run between 3 percent and 5 percent but is uncertain as to the exact rate. In other words, it is uncertain as to whether the cost of medical care will inflate at the same rate as other prices or rise 2 percent faster.Should the center purchase the new furniture? Write your Comment in the report form based on your calculation and its results

Read the following excerpt from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Fireside Chat 19”:
On the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the Germans in, let us say Serbia or Norway, helps us; that a successful Russian offensive against the Germans helps us; and that British successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.
Remember always that Germany and Italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the United States at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with Britain or Russia. And Germany puts all the other Republics of the Americas into the same category of enemies. The people of our sister Republics of this Hemisphere can be honored by that fact.
The true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. When we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. We Americans are not destroyers — we are builders.
Analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. How does it function within the speech as a whole? How does the structure of the excerpt help to convey the speech’s purpose and key points? Support your argument with evidence from the speech.

1. Why a strict economic definition of development inadequate? What do you understand about economic development to mean? Can you give hypothetical real example of situation in which a country may be developing economically but may still be under developed?

The task shown below are to be assigned to the appropriate workstations. Assume working hours as 8 hours per day (5 days work week)
Task Preceding Task Task Time
(minutes)
A – 7
B A 6
C A 7.5
D B 6
E C, D 6.5
F D, E 5.7
G F 7
a) Draw the precedence diagram of task to be performed
b) Determine the cycle time
c) What is the maximum capacity of the line?
d) Determine the minimum number of workstations require
e) Based on the number of workstation, draft the layout for the product flow and also identify the bottleneck stations.
f) What is the efficiency of of the line?
g) If wages is RM40 per day, find the total cost of idleness per month.
h) If the company’s desired capacity per day is 70 units, what would be the most appropriate cycle time per unit.

Overview
A critical review of literature should help you as a researcher get familiar with the relevant knowledge related to topic area of interest.
Assessment brief
You will need to write a critical literature review based on the list of topics provided to you. Once you have chosen your topic, you will need to refine the topic further and find a suitable context to address for your literature review. This process will require you to define your problem statement.
For example, if you were to choose topic “Workplace diversity”, you will need to ask yourself the following:
1. What specific aspect of workplace diversity am I focusing on? Gender? Ethnicity?
2. How is this specific aspect of workplace diversity a relevant problem/issue/topic of discussion today?
Your critical literature review should cover the following:
1. Introduction
• Describe the background of the research. Why is your topic so relevant to business organizations today?
• Describe the purpose of your critical literature review. What does your literature review seek to understand better or solve? What is your research question?
2. Methods
• Describe your approach for finding the literature. This includes details about your article selection process such as the databases you have used, search terms, as well as your inclusion/exclusion criteria
3. Body
• Organize the information that you have found about your chosen topic. What were the key themes that have emerged from existing literature?
• Discuss and objectively critique the existing knowledge in your chosen topic area. What have existing scholars in the area found? Are they inconsistencies or disagreements between specific issues?
• What were some of the key theories being examined, and how have various scholars in the area applied/used them?
4. Conclusion
• Summarize the main themes you identified and how it relates back to answering your research question
• Identify the research gaps. What has existing research not explored, or adequately addressed yet?
*Please ensure that organize and structure your literature review by coming up with your own headings/ sub-headings. Do not simply use Introduction, methods
Attachments:
3276385_1_BRM-Critical-literature-review-brief-2-.docx

Evaluate the benefits of pursuing a specific hobby. The evaluation essay needs 500 to1000 words. it is for my English composition class.