Chapter 4: Individual Perception and Decision-Making ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN 1st Semester (Autumn) GADE and GADE+GE International Group Bibliography • Robbins‚ S.P. (2013): Essentials of Organizational Behavior. Global Edition (12th ed.)‚ Pearson Education. • Chapter 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making • Slides • Class notes Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education‚ Inc. After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Define
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Homework 2 Solution‚ Fin 500Q‚ Quantitative Risk Management 1. Assume gold price risk is diversifiable‚ and the riskless rate is 5%. A firm produces a unit of gold a year from today. Assume all interest is compounded annually and is tax deductible. The price of gold is either $500 or $200‚ each with probability 0.5. Suppose the firm pays taxes at a rate of 40% for all its cash flow in excess of $300. The value of the firm is the expected discounted value of its cash flow less the expected discounted value
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Quantitative Chemical Analysis Lab Chemistry 223 Dr. Dean Olson Fall Semester 2013 Friday‚ August 30 Who Am I? B. Chem. – U. of Minnesota‚ Minneapolis M.S. – U. of North Carolina‚ Chapel Hill Environmental Chemistry; Copper kinetics in estuaries Later work: Calcium and magnesium binding to blood coagulation proteins Ph.D. – U. of Illinois; Oscillatory enzyme kinetics NMR Lab Director; see web page ( http://scs.illinois.edu/nmr/ ) 11 magnets‚ 350 users‚ 4 locations
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Final Assignment Take-Home Exam – Example Solutions QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND BUSINESS DECISION MAKING Question 1 – 5 Points Leila took a standardized test and was told that her score was in the 89th percentile. Explain clearly and in only one sentence what this means. Notes: Percentiles are a way of describing the position of a particular score within a set of scores As per the question‚ I was looking for one simple sentence to explain the meaning of the statement Ideal Answer: If Leila’s
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Chapter 25 Discriminant Analysis Content list Purposes of discriminant analysis Discriminant analysis linear equation Assumptions of discriminant analysis SPSS activity – discriminant analysis Stepwise discriminant analysis 589 590 590 593 604 When you have read this chapter you will understand: 1 The purposes of discriminant analysis. 2 How to use SPSS to perform discriminant analysis. 3 How to interpret the SPSS print out of discriminant analysis. Introduction This chapter
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Linear Programming D.V. – Decision Variables O.F. – Objective Funtion S.T. or CONST - Constraints Constrained Mathematical Model – a model with an objective and one or more constraints EXAMPLE: 50D + 30C + 6M is the total profit for a production run($50 profit for Desk‚ $30 profit for Chair and $6 per pound for steel) Functional Constraints - ≤ ≥ or = --Restrictions that involve expressions with 1 or more variables EXAMPLE: 7d+3c+1.5M <= 2000 (constraint on raw steel) Variable Constraints
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final project entails systematic extraction of decision-aiding insights out of a dataset. The project will provide hands-on experience in conducting and interpreting different types of function-wise statistical analysis. The focus of the analysis will be on marketing strategies and analysis-related topics (South University Online‚ 2012). The sample set was examined thoroughly to reveal findings relevant to the marketing strategies and the interpretation of the data. The median income is between
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Quantitative Analysis Teaching Suggestions Teaching Suggestion 1.1: Importance of Qualitative Factors. Section 1.2 gives students an overview of quantitative analysis. In this section‚ a number of qualitative factors‚ including federal legislation and new technology‚ are discussed. Students can be asked to discuss other qualitative factors that could have an impact on quantitative analysis. Waiting lines and project planning can be used as examples.
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petrol-driven small cars that were sold in Bangalore in the last one year is expected to be roughly 5500. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the average mileage of the above mentioned car population in Bangalore. Question 2: [4 marks] The tollway management company managing the elevated flyover on Hosur Road in Bangalore is interested in knowing the proportion of Electronics City employees who actually take the elevated flyover. The company would like to be 98% certain in estimating this proportion
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CASE ONE Two advertising media are being considered for promotion of a product. Radio ads cost $400 each‚ while newspaper ads cost $600 each. The total budget is $7‚200 per week. The total number of ads should be at least 15‚ with at least 2 of each type‚ and there should be no more than 19 ads in total. The company does not want the number of newspaper ads to exceed the number of radio ads by more than 25 percent. Each newspaper ad reaches 6‚000 people‚ 50 percent of whom will respond; while each
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