Scenario:

You are a new corrections officer in a very effective cell block unit. Your coworkers are professional in almost every aspect of their work. You have been in the same cell block with them through your probationary period and now you are out on your own, managing your section of the cell block. Early one evening, you get dispatched to an adjacent cell block to assist other corrections officers with an unknown incident. Upon arrival, you find a total of five other corrections officer teams. Your concern is that something serious is happening. As you approach the cell block hallway intersection, you can see movement in the hall mirror that is used for monitoring what is around the corner. You can also hear laughter just around the corner. As you approach your fellow corrections officers, you see one senior officer hand a roll of aluminum foil to a male inmate who appears to be about 45 years of age and very animated. The inmate asks the corrections officer if he is sure that the foil will work and the corrections officer says yes. The man unrolls the foil and begins to wrap it around his head and face, poking out eyeholes and a mouth hole to breathe. The other officers are laughing.

You find out that the inmate is known as Karl, and that he is delusional in that he believes that large “Grays” (aliens from another planet) can read and steal his thoughts. Karl tells the officers that he has been looking for a method to keep the Grays from getting his thoughts. The corrections officers told him that the foil is special antialien foil. They tell him that it is in the corrections officers’ hats as well, and it protects them from aliens reading their minds. You find out that the corrections officers have been entertaining themselves with Karl for the past year and a half. Nobody has made any attempt at getting Karl a mental health referral, and they have been encouraging his delusions for their amusement. Although it is not clear to you what the exact nature of Karl’s problem is, it is evident that he is the victim of declining mental health. In addition to the incident, it is clear that the other inmates locked in nearby cells are not happy with what the corrections officers are doing to Karl.

In 3-5 paragraphs please include answers in your main posting for the following questions. You must provide meaningful feedback to the main postings of at least two of your classmates:

• What professional ethical issues exist for corrections officers to engage in this behavior?
• How could this behavior adversely impact your cell block corrections officer’s unit?
• What action do you feel compelled to take concerning this situation both with Karl and your colleagues? Why?

With the help of your CFO, you have put together the following preliminary budget figures based on last year’s numbers for a planned production and sales level of 4,000 units per year:

You are planning for the future and working on a report based on data from last year’s actual performance. You are going to use the breakeven formula to determine the businesses breakeven point and to answer some important questions regarding your data.

Using only the data from last year’s actual performance write a report answering the following questions:

1. Which of these 8 cost categories would be considered variable, and which fixed, and explain why?
2. Which costs would be considered mixed (i.e., semi-variable or semi-fixed)?
3. Ignoring utility costs altogether, compute the contribution margin per unit, in dollars and in percentage and the breakeven level of sales?
4. Ignoring utility costs altogether, if instead of breaking even, the firm wants to make $10,000/month profit, answer the following:
   • How many units must be sold each month?
   • To how many sales dollars is this unit volume equivalent?
5. In year 2, the CEO plans to add $300,000/yr. expense in added administrative salaried headcount. Ignoring utility costs altogether, how many additional units must be sold just to pay for this added expense?

Show ALL calculations.

Please complete by 5/2/15 2pm

Stage 3 critism from professor:

1. Even if I accepted you approach to an ERP solution instead of selecting a simple process improvement, you have not complied with the requirements of this assignment. The idea is to rank the level of need of the attributes of your technical solution to the technical solution you have selected – Not to review the features of a software product. Your paper is not acceptable in this format. I will permit you to resubmit this week in the correct format. Let me know. We can discuss if you wish. If you want to do this, you will have two Case Study assignments due next week.

2.The purpose of this assignment is to identify your assessment of the degree of need of your technical solution for the attributes listed, and your rationale for that decision – not what your solution offers.  The center column should contain only H, M, L, or N/A (as indicated in the column head), and the Explanation column is to justify the reason for that decision relative to the health club.

 Your submission continues to identify the features available in the software solution you selected. 

 I explained this to you quite explicitly in my comments to your first submission, and again, in class this week. 

Also, some of your explanations misinterpret the attribute (i.e. Acessability is about varying levels of access, not remote operation).

 PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT BEFORE PROCEEDING OR I WILL DISPUTE PAYMENT 

Stage 3

Using the case and the provided template (containing IT considerations such as architecture, security, etc.), identify and explain which areas in particular need to be considered more fully for the solution proposed in Stage 2. Your template will be completed in the format provided (Word).

Stage 4

Using the case provided, identify how the solution from Stage 2 could support and enhance the business, explain the business benefits of the solution, and address the considerations put forward in Stage 3. Your deliverable will be an executive briefing in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Stage 5

Using the case provided, prepare an annotated outline that identifies the next steps in implementing the solution proposed in stage 4, addressing project management, system development life cycle, change management, etc. Your outline will be developed in Microsoft Word.

USE THE WALMART AS AN EXAMPLE AND READ STAGE 1 AND 2 TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT