How does each metric support the overall financial performance of the organization? What data would be used to support this metric and how would you ensure that the data are of sufficient quality? How does data analytics support your metrics?
Question 1.Of the options listed below, which is the most effective way to organize a document describing the events that led to an Internet company’s bankruptcy?
Question 2.Chapter 7 states that one disadvantage of the problem-methods-solution organization is that you cannot alter the sequence of those three elements.
Question 3.Your supervisor has asked you to write a brief description of an abandoned silver mine that is slated for hazardous-waste cleanup. Of the organizational patterns discussed in Chapter 7, which would be most logical and effective in describing the mine?
Question 4.Evaluation refers to having other people read your document or use your Web site and then communicate with you about its strengths and weaknesses.
Question 5.Generally, it is best not to use company employees as participants in a usability test.
Question 6.In describing your company’s product, you should not compare it with a competitor’s product because the competitor will sue your company for misrepresentation.
Question 7.Proofreading is the process of looking again at your draft to see if your initial assumptions about your audience, purpose, and subject still pertain, then making any necessary changes.
Question 8.In describing your company’s product, you should not compare it with a competitor’s product because the competitor will sue your company for misrepresentation.
Question 9.Which of these groups are “publics” with which an organization might need to interact?
Question 10.Of the options listed below, which is the most effective way to organize a document explaining which of three different trucks your company ought to buy for its fleet?
For each of the following claims, write one paragraph identifying the logical flaw: The election couldn’t have been fair—I don’t know anyone who voted for the winner. It would be wrong to prosecute Allied for age discrimination; Allied has always been a great corporate neighbor.
You are researching portable GPS systems for use in your company’s existing fleet of 35 delivery vans. You are considering such factors as ease of use, size of screen, number of points of interest, and Bluetooth compatibility. You conclude that the three leading models are quite similar in all but one way: price. One model costs about 30 percent less than the other two models. In organizing your discussion of the three models, should you use the whole-by-whole pattern or the part-by-part pattern? Why?
You are researching portable GPS systems for use in your company’s existing fleet of 35 delivery vans. You are considering such factors as ease of use, size of screen, number of points of interest, and Bluetooth compatibility. You conclude that the three leading models are quite similar in all but one way: price. One model costs about 30 percent less than the other two models. In organizing your discussion of the three models, should you use the whole-by-whole pattern or the part-by-part pattern? Why?
The principle of utility involves maximizing happiness as a desirable outcome of decisions. Although it does not get directly said, there is an inverse intention to minimize the undesirable outcome of disaster. Utilitarian decisions are directed toward outcomes—that is, the consequences of decisions.
The Olympic hostage situation was a high-tension moment, full of dangerous surprises and strategies to deal with the situation that did not work out for the best. Among the strategies was the idea to kill the leader of the terrorists so as to disrupt the terrorist plot and to allow a good outcome in which the
hostages would be saved. In the situation it was also entirely possible that a terrible outcome might occur in which all would die. The situation was an emergency.
The German legal system might eventually take the terrorists and their leader to trial, but first there was the need to end the hostage situation. The account in our text ends with, “But it was the lesser of two evils.”
As utilitarian ethicists this week, how shall we reason through to the decision of the law enforcement authorities at the 1972 Munich Olympics?