Alan Lu

Company OverviewOrganiGram was founded in 2013 in Moncton, New Brunswick. In 2014, there were only approximately 17 staff members. The company employed 70 people as of December 2016, and it was looking forward to expanding its workforce up to about 170 staff in the next year or two to staff its new and expanding facilities. The  organizational  structure  consisted  of  three  levels:  the  C-suite  (i.e.,  chief  executive  officer,...

TaskYour task is to carry out an investment appraisal and identify the best investment opportunity based on your conclusions. Paragon systems is a financial technology company who has been approached by the Chinese government to offer FinTech solutions to Chinese Banking sector for the duration of 5 years. The data on which you will base your investment appraisal is available to download here. The Chinese government proposed an attractive annual payment, which includes a year-on-...

a)Critically assess the key principles and theories underlying strategic people management and explain how their application enhances organisational and individual performance.b)Critically evaluate the effectiveness of different approaches and the relationships between effective people management and organisational performance. Your facilitator will pair you with another student and you will be provided with a link to view the relevant presentation. You are not required to meet, hold discu...

Pet Ownership and Heart Attack Survival1.A medical researcher wants to know if pet ownership increases the probability of living one year after a heart attack. A total of 200 coronary patients were asked if they owned a pet and were followed up one year after a heart attack to see if they were still alive. 2.A memory researcher is interested in how atypical actions in an event (e.g., the cash register falling on the floor while your in line at the grocery store) are remembered over time. 5...

Learning OutcomesLearning Outcomes1: Critically review options appropriate for the context and formulate a logistics system implementation project.2: Select and critically apply appropriate analytical tools to solve problems in facility location and fleet composition and sizing.3: Evaluate and apply appropriate analytical tools to solve problems in warehousing and distribution route planning.4: Critically review options appropriate for the context and formulate a logistics system implementation...

Experiment with MagnetsMagnets: First begin by grabbing two magnets that you might find lying around home.  If they are fridge magnets, or similar, then place the two faces towards each other about 10 cm apart, and slowly bring them close together. 1. Do you feel any force, push or pull, interacting between the magnets?  Describe what you notice.  Be sure to comment on the distance between magnets. 2. Now, flip ONE magnet to the other face, and repeat the experiment, start...

ConflictEach member must add a reflective paragraph describing their experience in this virtual collaborative activity! Write in first person and use your own words.  Describe the conflict that arose amongst members as the Urban Race progressed. Discuss what type of conflict you experienced and how you managed through it. Be sure to include each team member’s conflict management style and how this was utilized. Identify one course reference on conflict to include in your report ...

Assignment OverviewIn  this  assignment,  you  will  apply  concepts  learned  in  the  Information  Management  and Written  Communication  Workshops  to  write  a  ~2  page  review  of  a  scientific  topic.  It  is  a descriptive paper, meaning you are being asked to describe a process and/or phenomenon.   In  order  to  do  this &...

InstructionsInstructions:  You will create a story of your life with two alternate versions: one that describes you now, and a second in which you vary at least two key sociological aspects in your life, to show how things might have gone if those aspects were different. The goal of this creative writing assignment is for you to critically consider how the starting conditions of your life set you on a particular path, and how that path might be different if sociological conditions had b...

Problem Set 1 - Decision MakingCariTech (CT) Company produces and sells 7,000 Special purpose chairs per year at a selling price of $850 each. Its current production equipment, purchased for $1,850,000 and with a five-year useful life, is only two years old. It has a terminal disposal value of $0 and is depreciated on a straight-line basis. The equipment has a current disposal price of $500,000. However, the emergence of a new technology has led CT to consider either upgrading or replacing th...