Embry BUSW500 All Assignment latest 2016 July

Embry BUSW500 Module 1.2 Library Basic Training Assignment latest 2016 July

This library-sponsored course was designed to introduce you to the capabilities and services available at the Hunt Library. For you to fully understand how the Hunt Library can guide you in your business research, you must first complete a Library Basic Training (Links to an external site.) assessment. You must pass the brief quiz at the end of the tutorials to obtain a certificate of completion.

Save your certificate page with the naming convention: Lastname_Lib_Basic_Training, (e.g., Smith_Lib_Basic_Training) and submit.

Note: The Hunt Library Basic Training is not compatible with devices that are not capable of running Flash.

Embry BUSW500 Module 1.4 Evaluating Sources Training Assignment latest 2016 July

The Evaluating Resources (Links to an external site.) training was designed to introduce you to more specific ways with the Hunt Library to find scholarly information and how to evaluate those articles found. You must pass the brief quiz at the end of the training to obtain a certificate of completion.

Save your certificate page with the naming convention: Lastname_Eval_Source_Training, (e.g., Smith_Lib_Basic_Training) and submit.

Embry BUSW500 Module 2.6 Annotated Bibliography Assignment latest 2016 July

Using the Hunt Library (Links to an external site.) and EagleSearch, search for articles on Evidence-Based Management (introduced in Module 1) or Stakeholder Theory versus Shareholder Theory (introduced in Module 2). Articles should discuss the topic you choose. The goal is to search for 8 articles published within the last 5 years and then choose 4 articles from which to create an annotated bibliography. Do not choose the first 4 articles you come across; make sure they are articles that you feel contribute to your topic

The annotated bibliography should include an APA citation and approximately 2-3 paragraphs of text evaluating the content of the article, its relative value as a scholarly contribution, the accuracy of the article, the quality of the sources use to compose the article, and any limitations of the article's findings. Repeat this process for each of the 4 chosen articles. Additionally, you should provide the APA formatted citations for the articles not included in your annotated bibliography.

The following links will provide more information on how to construct an annotated bibliography and several samples. Make sure the example you reference is in the current APA format.

Annotated Bibliographies (Links to an external site.)

Annotated Bibliography Samples (Links to an external site.)

Note: If you need assistance with the Hunt Library, please Ask a Librarian (Links to an external site.).

Prior to submitting your assignment, please use the following naming convention for your file: Lastname_Activityname (e.g. Smith_EBM_Bibliography).

Please review the Project/Activity Rubric below. It will be used to evaluate this assignment.

Embry BUSW500 Module 4.2 Reading Financial Statements Assignment latest 2016 July

Note: All Embry-Riddle students have access to Lynda.com. This service provides short training videos on software, hardware, managerial topics, and other short courses. These courses are extremely informative and often are used by the industry. In addition, these courses are a great way to learn new technology and/or computer skills. While only several Lynda.com courses will be used in this course to illustrate certain points, you are encouraged to take advantage of this free service provided by Embry-Riddle. To access Lynda.com, you must login to ERNIE, select the Software tab at the top right of the screen, and choose the Lynda.com icon. You will not have free access to this service from Lynda.com directly. YOU MUST go through ERNIE.

graph.jpgWatch the following video and download the Exercise Files to follow along. This video walks you through the four items that make up a financial statement and discusses ways to interpret financial data.

To access the video:

Access Lynda.com.

Once you are in Lynda.com, search for “Financial Literacy: Reading Financial Reports” by Rudolph Rosenberg.

View the video and follow along with the exercise files.

Upload the completion certificate as a deliverable for this activity.

***To access the completion certificate, in Lynda.com, click on My Courses at the top right and then Certificates of Completion. Select the certificate of completion for the proper course, open the certificate, and at the top left choose Save as PDF. Do not forget to attach your PDF certificate for submission.

Embry BUSW500 Module 5.3 Create a Topic Annotated Bibliography Assignment latest 2016 July

Using the Hunt Library (Links to an external site.) and EagleSearch, search for articles on your chosen topic in the previous activity. The goal is to search for 8 articles published within the last 5 years and then choose 4 articles from which to create an annotated bibliography. Do not choose the first 4 articles you come across; make sure they are articles that you feel contribute to the topic you chose.

The annotated bibliography should include an APA citation and approximately 2-3 paragraphs of text evaluating the content of the article, its relative value as a scholarly contribution, the accuracy of the article, and the quality of the sources use to compose the article, and any limitations of the article’s findings. Repeat this process for each of the 4 chosen articles.

The following links will provide more information on how to construct an annotated bibliography and several samples. Make sure the example you reference is in APA format.

Annotated Bibliographies (Links to an external site.)

Annotated Bibliography Samples (Links to an external site.)

Note: If you need assistance with the Hunt Library, please Ask A Librarian (Links to an external site.).

Prior to submitting your assignment, please use the following naming convention for your file: Lastname_Activityname (e.g. Smith_Annotated_Bibliography).

Please review the Project/Activity Rubric below. It will be used to evaluate this assignment.

Embry BUSW500 Module 6.5 Research Proposal Outline Assignment latest 2016 July

The textbook provides a good model for defining a problem and working towards a solution. Apply the 6-step model in Chapter 6 of the textbook to your research topic fromActivity 5.3.

1. Understand the situation – Identify key symptoms.

2. Identify the problems from the symptoms.

3. Write managerial decision statement and corresponding research objectives.

4. Determine the unit of analysis.

5. Determine relevant variables.

6. Write research questions and/or research hypothesis.

Submit a 1-3 page outline using a minimum of one robust paragraph per step in the model. Focus on clearly telling the reader how you would approach this problem. Be as detailed as possible without being wordy. Err on the side of specifics as opposed to generalizations. If you do not have access to a certain parcel of information, you may create portions of the scenario as needed. Be as realistic as possible.

Review the Project/Activity Rubric below. It will be used to evaluate this activity.

Embry BUSW500 Module 7.2 Managing and Analyzing Data Assignment latest 2016 July

Note: All Embry-Riddle students have access to Lynda.com. This service provides short training videos on software, hardware, managerial topics, and other short courses. These courses are extremely informative and often used in industry. In addition, these courses are a great way to learn new technology or computer skills. Several Lynda.com courses will be used to illustrate certain points and students are encouraged to take advantage of this free service provided by Embry-Riddle.

Watch the following video and download the Exercise Files to follow along. This video walks through the process of managing large volumes of data in Excel and shows how to turn data into Information by sorting, filtering, and using basic Excel formulas to automatically generate results. (Note: there may be times in your career where Excel will not be able to handle your data file. This actually occurs rather frequently for those analyzing stock market data, large firms analyzing consumer credit risk (think about how big a file could be for MasterCard), and other common phenomena that generate large amounts of data. Using this software (SPSS, STATA, SAS, and others) is beyond the scope of this course but you should at least be aware there are software packages available for very large data sets.

You must complete the exercise files at the end of the video in order to obtain a certificate of completion. Please follow the steps to complete the activity and save your certificate for submission to your instructor.

To access the video, follow these steps.

Access Lynda.com.

Once you are in Lynda.com, search for “Managing and Analyzing Data in Excel” by Dennis Taylor*

View the video and follow along with the exercise files.

To access the completion certificate, in Lynda.com, select My Courses at the top right and then Certificates of Completion. Click on the certificate of completion for the proper course, open the certificate, and at the top left choose Save as PDF

Save your completion certificate with the naming convention: Lastname_Manage_Analyze_Data and submit.

* For those who have never used Excel before, feel free to watch the Excel 2010 Essentials course to learn the basics of this software.

Embry BUSW500 Module 8.2 Frequencies and Histograms Assignment latest 2016 July

Note: Before you begin this activity, you will need to load the free Data Analysis Toolkit. This is an add-on built into Excel. Depending on which version of Excel you have, the steps differ slightly. View this tutorial (Links to an external site.) for details. (or go re-watch the video in Module 7 demonstrating how to add the Data Analysis Toolkit to Excel.) You do not need to download or pay for anything, just activate this included add-on in MS-Excel.

Frequency information is a great way to summarize data. In essence, you create bins with ranges and using a Histogram to show how many data points fit within each bin. An example of when this type of data is useful is viewing organizational salary structures and how staff members earn certain salary ranges. Save the following MS-Excel worksheetPreview the documentView in a new window (.xls) to your local computer and open the worksheet in MS-Excel or equivalent.

In this exercise, you will determine the salary range distribution of all occupations within the state you chose. Using the Bureau of Labor Summary Statistics create a histogram by doing the following:

Choose a single state you would like to live in (e.g., family there, etc.). Filter the data to show only that state.

Proof the data in the Annual Mean Wage column and make sure that only numerals are present. If a * or # is present, delete that value and leave that cell blank. A histogram cannot include non-numerical data in Excel.

Create the bin ranges to the right of the data. See the example. Use the bin ranges present in the example.

Click on Data Analysis in the Data tab. If this toolkit is not present, the Data Analysis Toolkit may not have been properly installed.

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Select Histogram.

Enter the input range. Since you have filtered the data, you cannot simply select the Annual Mean Wage column. You must select the first and drag to the last data point.

Enter the bin range. Select the range that includes the bins you wish to create. You should have bins already in your worksheet from Step #3.

Enter the output range. This is where you want your histogram and frequency data to appear.

Click OK.

Here is an example for creating histograms in Excel. Another resource is provided below for assistance.

(Note: The example does not edit chart titles, axis titles etc. This example simple creates a histogram; for you projects you may want to make the necessary edits to any charts you create.)

What does this data tell you? Answer the following questions:

Is the data normally distributed, skewed right, or skewed left? What does that mean? For the data used does it make sense?

What does the histogram tell you about the “middle class” in the state you chose?

What does the histogram tell you about the income distribution in that state?

See the following exampleView in a new window (.xls). This is just one of several ways to complete this activity. It’s okay if your deliverable looks slightly different. There are many chart formats to choose from. Create what makes sense to you and what you find visually appealing.

Note: This example worksheet is locked and can only be viewed.

Hint: If you need assistance with using Excel for this assignment, access Lynda.com via ERNIE and search for a course titled Excel 2007: Business Statistics with Curt Frye. You do not need to watch the entire tutorial. Scroll down below the presentation and watch the brief module that applies to your assignment. Module 3, Creating a Histogram seems most useful here. This module is not required for this assignment and no completion certificate is required. But, this module may be useful to students who are not proficient with Excel.

Prior to submitting your assignment, please use the following naming convention for your file: Lastname_Activityname (e.g. Smith_Frequencies_Histograms).

Review the Problem Set (Quantitative Only) Rubric below. It will be used to evaluate this activity.

Embry BUSW500 Module 9.2 Descriptive Statistics Assignment latest 2016 July

There are a large number of air carriers in the United States. Most people have never heard of many of them.

To answer the assignment questions, follow these steps:

Download the dataPreview the documentView in a new window (.xls) set and save it to your computer.

Complete all of your work and answer the following questions in Excel to the right of the data set.

You will need the Data Analysis Toolkit that you should have installed in Module 8.

Delete all of the airlines (rows) that flew zero passengers.

a. This may be easier if you sort the data from lowest to highest.

Using the Data Analysis Toolkit, select the Descriptive Statistics feature.

a. Don’t forget to check the box that says Summary Statistics. (Recall the histogram video in module 8 used this feature in Excel.)

Select an output range next to the data set so Excel knows where to place this new information.

Use Descriptive Statistics to answer the following questions:

What is the minimum and maximum number of passengers flown by these carriers and which carriers flew the most and fewest passengers?

Are there any outliers in this data set? If you find an outlier, delete it and recalculate the descriptive statistics without the outlier. Explain your actions and thoughts. What effect did this outlier have on the data?

a. Hint: Visit www.smokeybayair.com (Links to an external site.).

What is the total number of passengers flown by all of these air carriers?

What is the average (mean) number of passengers flown by these air carriers?

What do the median and mode tell us about this data set and why does it differ so greatly from the mean?

What is the standard deviation and what does that tell you about the data set?

What does the skewness tell you about the shape of the data? Is the data skewed? If so, which direction and why is it skewed?

View this abbreviated examplePreview the documentView in a new window (.xls) of what the output should look like.

Hint: If you need assistance with using Excel for this assignment, access Lynda.com via ERNIE and search for a course titled "Excel 2007: Business Statistics with Curt Frye". You do not need to watch the entire tutorial. Scroll down below the presentation and watch the brief module that applies to the assignment. Module 4, Summarizing Data Using Descriptive Statistics seems most useful here. This module is not required for this assignment and no completion certificate is required but may be useful to students who are not proficient with Excel.

Prior to submitting your assignment, please use the following naming convention for your file: Lastname_Activityname (e.g. Smith_EBM_Bibliography).

Review the Problem Set (Quantitative Only) Rubric below. It will be used to evaluate this activity.

Embry BUSW500 Module 9.3 Literature Review Part III Assignment latest 2016 July

In Module 8 you were asked to begin writing your literature review. Now is the time to finalize your literature review using the below standards. Submit your final literature review here for grading.

Remember, your final literature review must meet the following criteria:

Contain an APA formatted cover page with the title of your topic.

Contain an APA formatted abstract with your research topic summarized.

Contain 8-10 pages of content synthesizing the scholarly literature on your topic or research question(s):

a. At least 10 scholarly references should be used.

i. Literature should be no older than 5 years unless you are taking a historical or longitudinal perspective.

ii. Literature should cover differing opinions, viewpoints, and/or schools of thought.

iii. The thought leader, guru, or seminal works should be identified and included.

iv. Trade publications or opinion pieces should be used sparingly but may be included for a specific purpose such as to show a current event or an industry stance on an issue.

Contain an APA formatted references section.

Here is an example of a literature reviewPreview the documentView in a new window (PDF) from a piece on resistance to change and a new theoretical model. This example is only a guide on how to synthesize literate and organize a literature review.

This assignment will be submitted through the plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin (Links to an external site.), to ensure that the material submitted is the original work of the author and free from plagiarism. To avoid plagiarism, review Activity 1.5.