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McGee Carpet and Trim installs carpets in commercial offices.  Andrea McGee has been very concerned with the amount of time it took to complete several recent jobs.  Some of her workers are very unreliable.  A list of activities and their optimistic completion time, the most likely completion time, and the pessimistic completion time (all in days) for a new contract are provided in a given table.  Following are the activities that are required to install the carpets in the offices: Activity 1 (Measure office room dimensions), Activity 2 (Estimate cost), Activity 3(Material Requisition), Activity 4 (Workforce Requisition), Activity 5 (Special Tool Requisition), Activity 6(Installation), Activity 7 (Inspection and customer acceptance).

Activity 2 starts immediately after Activity 1. Activity 3, Activity 4, and Activity 5 start concurrently afterActivity 2. Activity 6 does not start until after Activity 3, Activity 4, and Activity 5 are completed. The carpet installation project is complete after Activity 7 is completed. If OT = Optimistic Time, MT = Most Likely Time, andPT = Pessimistic Time, use Program Evaluation Review Estimate (PERT) to compute the statistical time for each activity in the table shown below.  

 

Activities	OT		MT					PT
Activity 1				4	6				14
Activity 2	5	12				16
Activity 3	7	15				23
Activity 4	13	16				28
Activity 5	17	20				35
Activity 6	20	32				50
Activity 7	5	6				13

 

 

Also, (a) Determine the expected completion time and the variance for each activity (b) Determine the total project completion time and the critical path for the project.  (c) Determine Early Start (ES), Early Finish (EF), Late Start (LS), and slack for each activity.  What is the probability that McGee Carpet and Trim will finish the project in 40 days or less? 

 

Please submit your assignment in an APA formatted paper.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

Individual Assignment: Personal Ethics Development Paper

• Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word paper on personal ethics development that examines your personal ethical system and ground rules, including its origins and development.
• Incorporate the terms found in the University of Phoenix Material: Key Terms located on the student Web site.
• Focus on the developmental aspect of your ethics rather than on a particular position on any issue.
• Define your underlying ethical system, its primary principles, the sources that helped shape your ethics—such as people, institutions, events, and so forth—and the criteria and decision-making factors you used to revise them.
• Discuss the potential effect of your ethics on your performance or use of them in your workplace using a specific personal example.
• Explain why ethics are needed in an organization and how ethics are integrated into the organization to achieve its direction and goals. What effect does the application of these ethics have on individuals, organizations, and society?
• Format your paper according to APA standards.

 

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·         Character: Moral actions based on duty-driven ethical principles. These include trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship (Josephson Institute, 2009).

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·         Ethical System: Underlying ethical principles, which a person uses to make decisions

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·         Ethics: “The principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual or organization” (Treviño & Nelson, 2011, p. 17); ethics form the basis for determining the correct action, or moral behavior, in a particular situation.

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·         Morals: Actions based on one’s underlying ethical principles

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·         Values: Those things or actions upon which the individual or organization spends time and money

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·         Duty-based: A moral obligation or commitment to act in a certain manner, with clear right and wrong being determined by an outside authority

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·         Entitlement-based: Moral decisions are based entirely on what is in the best interest of the individual, regardless of relationships, the needs of others, or business.

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·         Goal-based: Focuses on the outcome or final purpose, which may be localized, as in business, or universal, as in feeding all the hungry children in the world

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Book report on “Its Not Summer Without You” by Jenny Han

1,000 – 1,200 words with references

Research Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and discuss why it is so significant.

Your paper should discuss the state of race relations in the United States prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It should also discuss the political environment that led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, please include a response to the following in your analysis:

• What is the purpose of this law?
• What groups does it protect? What groups does it not protect?
• How were the Jim Crow laws tested during this time period?
• What is the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson about? Is the rule established in the Plessy case still the rule today?