Class 1
Week 1 Assignment
Question 1
- Determine which of the following statements is descriptive in nature and which is inferential. Refer to the data below in How Old is My Fish?
| How Old is My Fish | |||||||
| Average age by length of largemouth bass in new York State | |||||||
| Length | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Age | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
- All 9-inch largemouth bass in New York State are an average of 3 years old.
- Of the largemouth bass used in the sample to make up th NYS DEC Freshwater Fishing Guide, the average age of 9-inch largemouth bass was 3 years.
In your answer also describe and explain the difference between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.
Question 2
2. Since 1981, Fortune magazine has been tracking what they judge to be the “best 100 companies to work for.” The companies must be at least ten years old and employ no less than 500 people. Below are the top 25 from the list compiled in 1998, together with each company’s percentage of females, percentage of job growth over a 2 year span, and number of hours of professional training required each year by the employer.
| Company Name | Women (%) | Job Growth (%) | Training (hr/yr) |
| Southwest Airlines | 55 | 26 | 15 |
| Kingston Technology | 48 | 54 | 100 |
| SAS Institute | 53 | 34 | 32 |
| FEL-Pro | 36 | 10 | 60 |
| TDIndustries | 10 | 31 | 40 |
| MBNA | 58 | 48 | 48 |
| W.L.Gore | 43 | 26 | 27 |
| Microsoft | 29 | 22 | 8 |
| Merck | 52 | 24 | 40 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 37 | 10 | 0 |
| Synovus Financial | 65 | 23 | 13 |
| Goldman Sachs | 40 | 13 | 20 |
| MOOG | 19 | 17 | 25 |
| DeLoitte&Touche | 45 | 23 | 70 |
| Corning | 38 | 9 | 80 |
| Wegmans Food Products | 54 | 3 | 30 |
| Harley-Davidson | 22 | 15 | 50 |
| Federal Express | 32 | 11 | 40 |
| Proctor & Gamble | 40 | 1 | 25 |
| Peoplesoft | 44 | 122 | 0 |
| First Tennessee Bank | 70 | 1 | 60 |
| J.M. Smucker | 48 | 1 | 24 |
| Granite Rock | 17 | 29 | 43 |
| Petagonia | 52 | 5 | 62 |
| Cisco Systems | 25 | 189 | 80 |
- Find the mean, range, variance, and standard deviation for each of the three variables shown in the list. Present your results in a table.
- Using your results from (a), compare the distributions for job growth percentage and percentage of women employed. What can you conclude?
| Grading Criteria Assignments | Maximum Points |
| Meets or exceeds established assignment criteria | 40 |
| Demonstrates an understanding of lesson concepts | 20 |
| Clearly present well-reasoned ideas and concepts | 30 |
| Mechanics, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling that affects clarity, and citation of sources as needed | 10 |
| Total | 100 |
Multinational Management Class 2
Week 1 Assignment
Building an International Company
Grass Roots Company:
How does a company grow to become an international entity? Identify one international company, trace its roots and explain a success and a challenge it had growing to an international status. Also, create a new product idea of your own and describe how you could take the company from a local business to an international success.
- Identify one internationally successful company.
- Briefly describe its growth history
- Describe a success and a difficulty it had growing to international status
- Create your new product idea
- Describe how you would grow the company to international status.
This assignment should be approximately 1,500 words. It is to be written in APA format, type face: Times New Roman – 12 point, with a cover page. Remember to cite your sources in APA format. Minimum of 2-3 sources, not Wikipedia, one source can be your textbook.
| Grading Criteria Assignments | Maximum Points |
| Meets or exceeds established assignment criteria | 40 |
| Demonstrates an understanding of lesson concepts | 20 |
| Clearly presents well-reasoned ideas and concepts | 30 |
| Uses proper mechanics, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling | 10 |
| Total | 100 |
