CASE STUDY ANALYSIS REPORT | MANAGEMENT

Assessment 2 Authentic tasks - Case study analysis report

Type of Collaboration Individual assessment

Marking Criteria Correct identification, use and interpretation of statistical techniques.

Appropriate interpretation of computer output.

Overall, you are required to demonstrate the following knowledge and skills

in this assessment:

 Demonstrate the use of visualising data in presentation of real world data

 Demonstrate the use of statistical concepts/techniques in business data

 Demonstrate how to conduct various hypothesis tests and regression analysis using computer software such as Excel/KaddStat

 Demonstrate the use of computer software to get necessary statistical output

 Demonstrate the skills of preparation of a managerial report

Style and Format Business Report.

ITC568 | ASSESSMENT ITEM 1 PRIVACY AND SECURITY REFLECTION | IT

Task

This assignment is designed to get you to reflect on your personal approach and feelings on information security and privacy.

Read: 

Lau, Y. (2015). Cybercrime in cloud: Risks and responses in Hong Kong, Singapore. In Ko, R., & Choo, K.(Eds.). (2015). The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues. Waltham, MA: Syngress.

MNG81001 | MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION | MANAGEMENT

Assessment task

Your boss is keen to understand the challenges and opportunities that technology has brought to corporate communication. She has asked you to prepare an executive summary giving a brief outline on how to embrace these challenges and opportunities in the workplace.

Please follow these guidelines to complete the assessment:

1. Read the article by Argenti, P 2017, ‘Strategic Communication in the C-Suite’, International Journal of Business Communication, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 146 – 160 (located on the Blackboard – Assessment Tasks and Submission Task 1).

QUALITY MANAGEMENT | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Quality Dimensions

I have decided to purchase a new tablet computer and am considering the latest Apple iPadPro. I have been an Apple user for the past six years. I have a MacBook, an iPhone and an older iPad, I know that the products are well constructed and I have never had a failure of any Apple product. I heard that Apple products are made in china by Foxcon and have seen the have seen the label saying Designed in California made in china, I have read that foxcon uses up to date quality control in their assembly plant.

I like the retina screen and fast processor in the iPadPro and also like the Apple the Apple Pencil that writes directly on the screen.

I am aware that there are Apple shops that can do authorized repairs but have heard that it can take a week to get the repair done.

ASSESSMENT 2 AUTHENTIC TASKS CASE STUDY ANALYSIS AND REPORT | CASE STUDY

In order to find who is buying different types of luxury cars Automobile Association conducted a survey of luxury car buyers. In this case study, data is collected for three types of luxury cars; BMW, Lexus and Mercedes. The ages, household incomes and years of education for each type of luxury car were collected in the survey. The data set is organised as follows:

Column 1: Type of car, 1 for BMW, 2 for Lexus and 3 for Mercedes.

Column 2: Age of the customer

Column 3: Household Income in Dollars

Column 4: Years of Education

Data set is loaded on eLearning site under assignment data.

MGMT6002 | INFLUENCING AND MAKING DECISIONS ASSIGNMENT 1 REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS | MANAGEMENT

Context:

The first half of this subject focuses on the individual and the specific processes—cognitive or otherwise—that individuals engage in when faced with a decision to make. Your task in this first assessment is to reflect on those processes in the context of your own experience and in accounts found in wider reading, and to identify and critique the specific models and frameworks available to you as a decision-maker.

MNG03217 | ASSESSMENT 1 QUIZZ | MANAGEMENT

Requirements

Please note that bullet points are not acceptable in the 150 word paragraph; responses need to be written in full sentences. This assignment must be submitted through the Turnitin link for this assignment.

The following assessment aims to differentiate between the different types of leadership required for developing engaged employees based on awareness and respect of group diversity. It begins the development of Cultural Competence Learning Outcome and Graduate Attribute by facilitating students’ preliminary knowledge and awareness about the different types of leadership required to engage a diverse employee workforce.

MNG03217 | ASSESSMENT 2 ESSAY | MANAGEMENT

The following assessment aims to examine how well you understand the relationship between authentic leadership, effective Leader-Member Exchange and management support and the psychological capital of employees of different employee groups. It continues the development of Cultural Competence Learning Outcome and Graduate Attribute by facilitating students’ increased knowledge and awareness about how authentic leadership, effective Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) and management support interact on employees outcomes.  

MNG03217 |ASSESSMENT ITEM 3 POSITIVE LEADER PRESENTATION | MANAGEMENT

The following assessment develops Communication and Social Skills Learning Outcome and Graduate Attribute by facilitating students’ knowledge and awareness about how to run an evidence-based intervention targeted at a specific type of employee so as to develop their communication skills in a professional setting.

Requirements

You are required to develop a powerpoint presentation. The powerpoint presentation must be supported by references on the final page. It should show how one small part of the Positive leader theory can be turned into a skill development exercise useful in the workplace.  

MNG03217 | ASSESSMENT ITEM 4 THE POSITIVE LEADER (MNG91211) | MANAGEMENT

Task

Read the following quotes:

1. Jordi (2010, p2)

Reflection is defined as the “activity in which people recapture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate it” … cognitive reflection is the key process through which individuals extract knowledge from their concrete experience … [it] requires that we critique the cultural, class, and gender assumptions and prejudices.”

And/ Or

MNG81001 | ASSESSMENT 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | MANAGMENT

Assessment task

Your boss is keen to understand the challenges and opportunities that technology has brought to corporate communication. She has asked you to prepare an executive summary giving a brief outline on how to embrace these challenges and opportunities in the workplace.

Please follow these guidelines to complete the assessment:

1. Read the article by Argenti, P 2017, ‘Strategic Communication in the C-Suite’, International Journal of Business Communication, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 146 – 160 (located on the Blackboard – Assessment Tasks and Submission Task 1).

MNG81001 | ASSESSMENT 3 CASE STUDY | MANAGMENT

Assessment task

The objective of Assessment 3 is to understand the concept of ‘analysis’ and learn how to analyse information efficiently and effectively using a case study. According to Rosenwaser and Stephen (2009, p. 4), analysis is:

More than just a set of skills, analysis is a frame of mind, an attitude toward experience. It is a form of detective work that typically pursues something puzzling, something you are seeking to understand rather than something you are already sure you have the answers to.

Analysis finds questions where there seemed not to be any, and it makes connections that might not have been evident at first.

RSA SECURITY SOLUTION | CRYPTOGRAPHY

Using any programming language of your choice implement the Key Generation procedure of the RSA algorithm.

• Specifications: The program should take two inputs, non-negative integers a, b, which will define a range within which two random prime numbers p, q will be generated by your program i.e. a <= p,q <= b). The program should select numbers randomly from the range [a,b] and test them for primality. It should continue to do this until it has found two prime numbers that are not equal.

The program should output three values 1) The public key {n, e} 2) The private key {n,d} 3) The values of p and q generated

MNG81001 | ASSESSMENT 4 REPORT | MANAGMENT

Assessment Task

Effective communication throughout a workplace is an essential ingredient to align people’s efforts towards achieving organisational goals. Yet it seems that ‘communication problems’ are continually mentioned as one of the main difficulties for most organisations.

Your boss, the CEO of ABC Company, has asked you to prepare a report investigating the question: 'why managers should make effective communication a priority'? In so doing she expects you to examine four issues:

1. The personal and interpersonal aspects of communication - communicating to persuade and influence others (key points for practicing the art of persuasion) - including personal networks and the grapevine.

MNG81001 | ASSESSMENT 2 PERSUASIVE MEMO | MANAGMENT

Assessment Task

An exciting new approach to teamwork has resulted from advances in information technology, shifting employee expectations and the globalisation of business, namely the virtual team. A virtual team is made up of geographically or organisationally dispersed members who are linked primarily through advanced information and telecommunications technologies.

Your Sydney HQ is developing a new marketing team with team members located in Sydney, New York, Beijing and Mumbai. This will necessitate the establishment of a virtual team spread over four different time zones using both synchronous (real time) and asynchronous (not concurrent) communication. One of the primary advantages of virtual teams is the ability to assemble the most talented group of people to complete a complex project through creativity and innovation.

ROBIN MILLER CODE | JAVA

1. CODING FOR GRAPHIC PRIME:

package javaapplication2;

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.geom.*;

import javax.swing.*;

public class GraphingData extends JPanel {

    double[] data = {

MNG93100 | SCENARIO ASSESSMENT | MANAGEMENT

• Introduction

To enable you the opportunity to exercise your learnings from this unit, a scenario simulation has been prepared to provide students the opportunity to make a series of decisions at differing points in the life cycle of an engineering system. The initial objective of this scenario is to allow students to reflect on the role and impact of stakeholder engagement techniques through the life of a project. As the unit progresses you will engage with different aspects of the project, from a corporate and community perspectives through to the design team and the role of virtual teams. 

MNG93100 | CLASS CHALLENGE 2 | MANAGEMENT

Background

Part A – Review an Existing Stakeholder Engagement Plan (1,000 words)

You will need to source a stakeholder engagement plan, preferably from your current workplace. Review the plan and assess it against the content provided to date and supplement with any further research to support your assessment.Respond to these key issues;

MNG93100 | CLASS CHALLENGE 3 | MANAGEMENT

• Background

Much of the engagement between parties during a construction project is increasingly becoming ‘virtualised’.

Using the template sheet provided consider the various parties during the construction phase and apply a SWOT analysis towards issues related to the virtual environment, such as;

• Communications Management
• Information Management
• Conflict Management

Develop a 10 minute presentation to be presented in class on the issue. Use the presentation template provided for your presentation.

SBM1108 | ACCOUNTS ASSIGNMENT | ACCOUNTS

Assignment Task Description

You are required to analyse the following problems and discuss an appropriate decision making or modelling approach for your proposed solution.

Q5. Lars Van Hoek is about to install a new machine for making parts for domestic appliances. Three suppliers have made bids to supply the machine. The first supplier offers the Basicor machine, which automatically produces parts of acceptable, but not outstanding, quality. 

MITS 5004 | IT SECURITY | INFORMATION SECURITY

Task

Part A: 30 Marks

Answer the following questions:

1. Search the web for news on computer security breaches that occurred during April-August 2015-2018. Research one such reported incident. Prepare a report focusing on what the problem was, how and why it occurred and what are the possible solutions. - 15 Marks

ONPS2506 | PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES | SCIENCE

The professional scientist

Details of tha project:

DNT-contaminated soil

Concentration of DNT: 50-100 mg/kg

Area to remediate: 50 square meters

Physicochemical properties of the soil:

   . Mixture of clay and sand

   . pH: 7

   . Particle size: >0.42 mm

   . Organic matter: 0.18%

ITC568 | ASSESSMENT ITEM 4 | CLOUD COMPUTING

 Tasks

After the successful engagement of your team to develop privacy and personal data protection strategies for the charity, the team has now been engaged to develop a Personally Identifiable Information (PII) privacy and personal data protection strategy for the charity.

Team Setup 

This assignment is the last of the team assignments for this subject. The rationale for using a team approach is that most IT policy formulations are normally conducted by teams of between 2-5 Architects, Information Security experts, Operations and Business leaders for each problem. You are already assigned to a team and the team, as a whole, will be responsible for the development of the policies.

ITC568 | ASSESSMENT ITEM 3 | CLOUD COMPUTING

Tasks 

After your successful engagement to provide a security and privacy risk assessment for the charity, you and your team have again been engaged to develop privacy and personal data protection strategies for the charity.

Team Setup 

This assignment is the first of the team assignments for this subject. The rationale for using a team approach is that most IT policy formulations are normally conducted by teams of between 2-5 Architects, Information Security experts, Operations and Business leaders for each problem. You are already assigned to a team and the team, as a whole, will be responsible for the development of the policies.

ITC568 | ASSESSMENT ITEM 1 | CLOUD COMPUTING

Task

This assignment is designed to get you to reflect on your personal approach and feelings on information security and privacy.

Read: 

Lau, Y. (2015). Cybercrime in cloud: Risks and responses in Hong Kong, Singapore. In Ko, R., & Choo, K.(Eds.). (2015). The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues. Waltham, MA: Syngress.

ITC568 | PRIVACY SECURITY AND ETHICAL REFLECTION ASSESSMENT ITEM 5 | CLOUD COMPUTING

Task

This assignment is designed to enable you to reflect on privacy, security and ethics based on your studies in this subject. You may include personal approaches and feelings on privacy, security and the ethics of some of these approaches.

Consider:

The charity scenario introduced in assignment 4. This assignment looked at the practice of Governments divesting some of their administrative functions to NGOs (Non Government Organisations).

ITC568 | RISK ASSESSMENT ITEM 2 | CLOUD COMPUTING

Tasks

You have been engaged to provide a risk assessment for the planned moves to SaaS application offerings.

You are to write a report that assesses the risks to the charity for just their planned moves in the HR area:

1. Consider the data and information that the charity holds on its employees in the current HR system. 
   1. Establish the existing threats and risks to the security of that data and information contained in the in-house HR database. (10 marks)

ICTICT501 | GATHER DATA TO IDENTIFY BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS | IT

TASK 1 - EVALUATE CURRENT BUSINESS STRATEGY

1. Identify an organization that you would like to work with, it can be a department or a part of your institution. (RMIT UNIVERSITY)
2. Research the organization and the key stakeholders.
3. Identify a key decision maker – can be a manager or a general manager. If you can get to speak to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), that would be great!
4. Organize an interview with this key decision maker, informing the person that you would like to study the organization and make recommendations to help the organization to improve.
5. Prepare a template for the interview e.g. a SWOT analysis framework, to gather information about the internal and external environments.