Chapter 14, Problem 8PE

Competitors, as internal stakeholders, should be included in the stakeholder management consideration of a company and in its mission statement. a) True b) False

At what level in the organization should the strategic management perspective be emphasized? Multiple Choice   a) throughout the organization   b) from the bottom up in an organization   c) at the top of the organization   d) at the middle of the organization

A good manager can be flexible when it comes to sticking to the original plan; to get good results, the intended strategy has to become the realized strategy. a) True b) False

________ tend to be quite enduring and seldom change. Multiple Choice   a) Strategic objectives   b) Vision statements   c) Strategic plans   d) Mission statements

The idea that organizations are not only accountable to stockholders but also to the community-at-large is known as social responsibility. a) True b) False

Among the leaders needed for an effective strategic management process are ________, who, although they have little positional power and formal authority, generate their power through the conviction and clarity of their ideas. Multiple Choice   a) executive leaders   b) triple bottom line advocates   c) internal networkers   d) local line leaders

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Last Chance Securities The IT director opened the department staff meeting today by saying, "I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that management approved the payroll system project this morning. The new system will reduce clerical time and errors, improve morale in the payroll department, and avoid possible fines and penalties for noncompliance. The bad news is that the system must be installed by January 1st in order to meet new federal reporting rules, all expenses from now on must be approved in advance, the system should have a modular design if possible, and the vice president of finance would like to announce the new system in a year-end report if it is ready by mid-December." Tasks 1. Why is it important to define the project scope? How would you define the scope of the payroll project in this case? 2. Review each constraint and identify its characteristics: present versus future, internal versus exter- nal, and mandatory versus desirable. 3. What…

2. Signed Integers Unsigned binary numbers work for natural numbers, but many calculations use negative numbers as well. To deal with this, a number of different methods have been used to represent signed numbers, but we will focus on two's complement, as it is the standard solution for representing signed integers. 2.1 Two's complement • Most significant bit has a negative value, all others are positive. So, the value of an n-digit -2 two's complement number can be written as: Σ2 2¹ di 2n-1 dn • Otherwise exactly the same as unsigned integers. i=0 - • A neat trick for flipping the sign of a two's complement number: flip all the bits (0 becomes 1, or 1 becomes 0) and then add 1 to the least significant bit. • Addition is exactly the same as with an unsigned number. 2.2 Exercises For questions 1-3, answer each one for the case of a two's complement number and an unsigned number, indicating if it cannot be answered with a specific representation. 1. (15 pts) What is the largest integer…