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The purpose of this lab is to construct a practical Colpitts RF Oscillator circuit with MultiSIM. The frequency of output waveforms will be measured using a virtual oscilloscope. Students will gain an understanding of the effects biasing resistors on the output frequency of oscillator.

 

1.    Review the document Week 4 – RF Oscillator.pdf

 

2.    Calculate the value of RG in order to produce the following output voltages (peak-to-peak).

 

Vout	RG
5V
7V
10V
12V
15V

 

3.   Construct the Colpitts Oscillator in Figure 2 of the PDF document in Multisim.

 

4.    Using the values of RG from the table, run the simulations to confirm the output voltage, Vout.

 

5.    Using Agilent Oscilloscope, plot the output waveform of Vout for each case and measure the frequency of the output. Take the screen capture for each measurement.

 

6.    Reverse the polarity of the diodes and redo steps 4 and 5.

 

RG	Measured Frequency (in Hz)	Vout (Forward Biased)	Vout (Reverse Biased)

 

7.    Observe the differences in the output voltage and the frequencies between forward and reverse biased diode settings and explain the significance of diodes in the operations of this oscillator.

 

8.    Answer the following questions:

 

1.    Describe the operations of the Colpitts oscillator circuit and explain how it helps in generating clean sinusoidal output?

 

2.    How does the two diodes help in providing linear input to the voltage follower circuit?

 

3.    Discuss how the resistor Ros can be setup to perform soft clipping operations.

 

9.    Verify all calculations from analysis and measurements from simulation. Save the results along with the table and paste the screen captures in the word document.Make sure to answer the questions.

 

 

 

 

 

Equipment/Components:

 

 

 

Procedure: 

 

 

 

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Analysis:

 

 

 

Conclusion:

1. Describe four changes to the traditional 7-Eleven supply chain that the move to fresh foods will require. In addition, discuss four advantages that 7-Eleven can gain by outsourcing all or most of the fresh food supply chain responsibilities.
2. Use a basic flow diagram to create a simple supply chain model for delivering fresh sandwiches with eight distinct boxes. You may use the software of your choice to create the diagram; however, it must be readable when copied and pasted or imbedded into your MS Word document.
3. Recommend either a push-based strategy or pull-based strategy for ordering fresh foods and justify your recommendation.
4. Discuss three advantages and three disadvantages of using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in the proposed supply chain.
5. Describe four businesses that have successfully implemented the retail of fresh foods that would be suitable for 7-Eleven to benchmark.
6. Discuss four important pieces of information that must be gathered and transmitted using 7-Eleven’s IT networks to support the fresh food supply chain.
7. Describe how the practice of tanpin kanri (item by item management) may be transferred from 7-Eleven Japan to the United States operation.

 

1. Must be eight to twelve double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.
2. Must include a cover page that includes:
   • ctory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
3. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
4. Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
5. Must use at least five scholarly or professional resources,

Question 2

What is toxicokinetics? Describe each component of the ADSME model.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Question 3

Discuss the findings of recent epidemiological studies on ozone. You may use the information in your text, or the EPA website (http://www.epa.gov/). After analyzing this information, do you think that the EPA should set lower limits on ozone emissions? Why, or why not?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Question 4

Discuss the three main types of toxicology studies. What are the benefits and drawbacks of each?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Question 1

What were some of the main initiatives of the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988 (MWTA)? How does the MWTA compare with regulations in the UK and China?

Your response should be at least 150 words in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Question 2

What are the key pollution prevention methods that can alleviate the pollution risks associated with the incineration of medical waste?

 

Your response should be at least 150 words in length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Complete the “What is My Level of PsyCap” self-assessment.

 

Write a 1000-word paper in which you include the following: PART ONE – you may write in first person

•  Explain why you agree or disagree with your results.

•  Discuss how your results relate to creating a strategy to advance your career using your strengths.

•  How can you use goal-setting to increase motivation and improve job performance?

•  How might your engagement as an employee and job satisfaction influence job performance

PART TWO

 

•  Discuss at least 2 of the following motivational theories and explain specific things an organization can do to motivate employees based on these two theories

 

•  Extrinsic motivation

•  Intrinsic motivation

•  McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y

•  Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy

•  Acquired needs theory

•  Self-determination theory

•  Herzberg’s theory of motivation

•  Equity theory

•  Expectancy theory

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Include at least two references (that are used as citations in the paper) from peer reviewed journal articles.

Article 1
ECG management consultants. (2007). The Strategic Imperative of Adapting the Hospital’s Management Structure. Insight, 1-6. http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/86219.pdf
a)
The author points out that many hospitals are struggling with how to execute strategic plans effectively in their organizational structure. These institutions lack efficient decision-making processes, accountability for the performance of key strategies and the recognition of the importance of hospital strategies to propel them to new business. The key challenge in provider-based organizations is their inability to focus their strategies on the provision of high-quality patient care services. Hospitals should stop focusing on performance-driven traditional strategies and instead align their strategies to focus on a service line.
To ensure that such procedures are executed efficiently, it is important that their organizational structures are informed by the care service strategy. The organizational structure should ensure that the strategy is encompassed in their strategic plan, organizational control structure, management responsibilities and physician leadership. In today’s world, patients are seeking more care on their heart conditions, cancer or other illnesses or injuries rather than on traditional hospital departments such as nursing, physical therapy or radiology. By focusing on patient care functions along these service lines, hospitals can optimize performance. The organizational structure should also be streamlined to support key strategies. Laying a strong foundation for the organization structure is important to ensure that key strategies are executed effectively. The control structure should also be flexible enough to adapt to shifts in strategy. Introducing changes such as a focus on traditional performance-driven strategies to a service line is sometimes stalled due to a rigid management structure. It is important to have a flexible control structure to facilitate decision-making processes that are most times challenged by poor leadership structures.
b)
Given the opportunity, I would correct an inefficient hospital strategy by reorganizing the organizational structure to focus entirely on key strategies of a service line. Clinical services, planning, marketing and public affairs are some of the new elements that I would to traditional organizational structures in hospitals. This way, any shifts in strategies can easily be adapted due to a flexible control structure. At the same time, as a leader, I would focus on building value around my employees by assigning them responsibilities based on the right service lines. This will ensure that they remain accountable for their performance and use of resources along with their service lines. A good management structure is also necessary to maintain a good relationship between the business strategy and the performance of my employees.

Article 2
Perera, F. D. P. R., & Peiró, M. (2012). Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations. Revista Española de Cardiología (English Edition), 65(8), 749-754.
Strategic planning as defined by Perera is a systematic process where an organization outlines the manner in which it plans to progress from its current situation to the desired state in future through a written document. The strategic plan is used to guide decision making by the organization in all its activities and structures in a definitive way. A strategic plan is essential for healthcare organizations as it helps to conduct simulations for the future. A strategic plan is expected to reveal any future threats and opportunities that may be acted upon in the present. The plan also provides a decision-making criteria for day-to-day decisions for a period which facilitates managerial decision making. The strategic planning process brings together the participation and commitment of the entire healthcare organization in achieving planned goals. Eventually, a good strategic plan puts the organization in the good light in its public image.
However, for some organizations, the need for the development of a strategic plan may not be favorable due to certain prevailing conditions. For instance, the whole process is expensive regarding consuming long periods of valuable time and resources for the organization. If the development of a strategic plan imposes large expenses on, the group then it probably shouldn’t be explored. Also, if the strategic plan is too complex and burdensome, the management should not go ahead with it. This is because it will incur future problems and make it irrelevant. The projected outcomes of the strategic plan should be used to determine whether it should be implemented or not.

Article 4
Mitchell, P., Wynia, M., Golden, R., McNellis, B., Okun, S., Webb, C. E., & Von Kohorn, I. (2012). Core principles & values of effective team-based health care. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine.
A “team”, in a corporate environment, usually refers to members of a group who come together to achieve set objectives for the organization. Team-based care is used in healthcare organizations to conduct operations based on individual teams in various departments. As suggested by the author, team-based care is used to bring together the collaborative efforts through various contributions by teams to achieve goals in the care process. As the manager of a ten-person team in the Physical Therapy Department in a hospital, I would apply team-based care principles to set the foundation for team-based care implementation.
It is important for my team to realize that we have a shared goal of providing quality physical therapy services to our patients. Our main priority is the patients in need of physical therapy, and the team should work to support the care of these patients. I will also give clear roles and my expectations of each of the team member’s contribution to the team. Through this, I will ensure that each member of the team remains accountable for the entire success of the team. This will optimize the efficiency of the team through the division of labor. I will also work to develop mutual trust among the team members. Each team member will work to earn each other’s trust and facilitate great dependability on achieving shared success. Effective communication will also be a key principle that I will develop among team members. By developing their interpersonal communication skills, information will be easily passed across the department in a smooth way. The final key principle would be to ensure measurable processes and outcomes are involved. The team should be able to provide timely feedback on successes and failures to implement proper functions of the team. Through this, the team performance can be tracked and improved over time.

References
ECG management consultants. (2007). The Strategic Imperative of Adapting the Hospital’s Management Structure. Insight, 1-6. http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/86219.pdf
Mitchell, P., Wynia, M., Golden, R., McNellis, B., Okun, S., Webb, C. E., & Von Kohorn, I. (2012). Core principles & values of effective team-based health care. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine.
Perera, F. D. P. R., & Peiró, M. (2012). Strategic Planning in Healthcare Organizations. Revista Española de Cardiología (English Edition), 65(8), 749-754.

1). To answer the question, refer to the following data.

 

Ten students were sampled at random from a student population. Each was asked how many courses he or she was planning on studying in the upcoming year. The following is a list of the reported data values: 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6

 

What is the standard deviation for the data values?

 

A. 1.44

 

B. 2.84

 

C. 2.56

 

D. 1.687

 

2). Several ways to make a bar graph deceptive appear below.  Which of these is sometimes used to exaggerate differences from one data value to the next?

 

A. Making the graph taller than it needs to be

 

B. Making the graph shorter than it needs to be

 

C. A gap in the vertical axis

 

D. Starting the vertical axis at a point greater than zero

 

3.) To answer the question, refer to the following data.

 

Ten students were sampled at random from a student population. Each was asked how many courses he or she was planning on studying in the upcoming year. The following is a list of the reported data values: 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6

 

What is the variance for the data values?

 

A. 2.844

 

B. 1.6

 

C. 2.56

 

D. 1.687

 

4). To answer the question, refer to the following list of raw data.

 

63, 71, 72, 77, 77, 78, 86, 77, 88, 88

 

What is the median for the data?

 

A. 77.5

 

B. 77.7

 

C. 77

 

D. 88

 

5). Use the following data sample to answer the question.

 

4, 14, 6, 9, 21, 3, 7, 10

 

What is the median of this data sample?

 

A. 9.25

 

B. There’s no median value.

 

C. 8

 

D. 7

 

6). Which of the following statements about interpreting standard deviation is true?

 

A. The Empirical Rule can’t be applied unless the frequency distribution is mound-shaped and symmetric. Chebyshev’s Rule can be applied to any data set, regardless of the shape of its frequency distribution.

 

B. Chebyshev’s Rule can’t be applied unless the frequency distribution is mound-shaped and symmetric. The Empirical Rule can be applied to any data set, regardless of the shape of its frequency distribution.

 

C. Neither the Empirical Rule nor Chebyshev’s Rule can be applied to data unless the frequency distribution is mound-shaped and symmetrical.

 

D. Neither Chebyshev’s Rule nor the Emprical Rule require any assumptions about the frequency distribution.

 

7). A particular sample contains 50 data values. According to Chebyshev’s theorem, which of the following is the number of values you would expect to fall within 3.0 standard deviations of the mean?

 

A. 5

 

B. 25

 

C. 45

 

D. 35

 

 

 

8). When creating a histogram, it’s important to ensure that the classes of data satisfy which properties?

 

A. They must include each interval on the number line.

 

B. No requirements are made; the individual creating the graph is free to choose any classes.

 

C. They must be all the same size.

 

D. They must be mutually exclusive and exhaustive.

 

9). Which of the following are parameters of a population?

 

A. α and σ

 

B. σ and n

 

C. μ and σ

 

D. μ and x

 

10). Which type of plot takes quantitative data and forms classes out of it, thus turning it into qualitative

 

data?

 

A. Histogram

 

B. Dot plot

 

C. Stem-and-leaf plot

 

D. Pie chart

 

11). When a sample is taken from a larger population, this suggests that which of the following will be used?

 

A. Descriptive statistics

 

B. Computation of a sample mean

 

C. Independent events

 

D. Inferential statistics

 

12). Use the following data sample to answer the question.

 

4, 14, 6, 9, 21, 3, 7, 10

 

What is the variance of this data sample?

 

A. 34.79

 

B. 243.5

 

C. 5.90

 

D. 4.31

 

13). Which of the following statements is true about a stem-and-leaf plot?

 

A. Stem-and-leaf plots are histograms whose bars have been arranged in decreasing order of frequency.

 

B. It separates data at the decimal point, creating horizontal rows whose values are close together.

 

C. It involves creating columns of dots, one for each datum in the sample.

 

D. It uses vertical bars to illustrate a probability distribution.

 

14.) If there are an odd number of data values in a set, the median will be the

 

A. value that appears in the center.

 

B. average of all of the values divided by the number of values in the set.

 

C. value that appears the greatest number of times.

 

D. average of the two end values.

 

15). Which of the following involves inferential statistics as opposed to descriptive statistics?

 

A. A class of 50 statistics students earned an average grade of 73.5.

 

B. The city business office reported 35 building permits for new single-family housing units.

 

C. The Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms department reported that Houston had 1,791 registered gun dealers in 1997.

 

D. A local cable system, using a sample of 500 subscribers, estimates that 40 percent of its subscribers watch a premium channel at least once per day.

 

16). If a great many data values cluster to the left of a data distribution, which then tails off to the right, the distribution is referred to as

 

A. leftward skewed.

 

B. normal.

 

C. rightward skewed.

 

D. uniform.

 

17). A population is a collection of _______ about which we will measure certain characteristics or properties, called _______.

 

A. individuals, sample values

 

B. data, numbers

 

C. experimental units, variables

 

D. people, traits

 

18). In a sample with mean x = 12 and standard deviation s = 3.5, a data point at 16.8 would have what sample z-score?

 

A. 1.4

 

B. 4.8

 

C. We can’t know the answer without knowing the population mean μ and standard deviation σ. D. 1.37

 

19). Consider the following chart:

Bus Planning Software	Price ($)
GOFAR	61,500
SIMPLE Software	4,600
E-Manger	335
LAND-O	49
Entre-2	117
Year-to-Date	405
Yale Business Planner	233
In the Black	710
SYBIL 20/20	375
Macroficient	606
Orion11	299
Pathmaker	250
Proplanner	999
Quickstepper	798
Selectronic	196
Taskmaster	311

 

Which of the measures of central tendency would best represent that data?

 

A. Standard deviation

 

B. Median

 

C. Mode

 

D. Mean

 

20). What is the difference between a histogram and a bar chart?

 

A. A histogram reflects qualitative data, while the bar chart represents quantitative data.

 

B. The adjacent rectangles in a histogram have a gap, while those for a bar chart don’t.

 

C. A histogram and a bar chart both reflect qualitative data.

 

D. The adjacent rectangles in a bar chart have a gap, while those for a histogram don’t

Business Unit Analysis

Directions: Create a Feasibility Study for Harley-Davidson using the following outline:

Part I: Differentiation Strategies

The analysis of current strategy and competitor analysis you conducted last module impressed the senior vice president. She now needs you to delve into the brands and analyze them by conducting a business unit analysis and presenting your findings in a three-part PowerPoint presentation.

Research the Harley-Davidson (H-D) Web site for each brand, and review the annual report for relevant details of the size, scope, target market, services and amenities, and other salient points of differentiation. Include these details in Part I of your PowerPoint presentation.

From the research and analysis of the business units, identify:

• A description of each brand or business unit that provides a clear picture of the brand and its place in the overall portfolio of Harley-Davidson.
• The target market of each brand.
• How the brands are alike and how they differ.
• A preliminary analysis of any gaps that exist in the portfolio that might lead to opportunities to add to the brands.
• Your analysis of possible merger/acquisition/joint venture possibilities and what would be achieved or accomplished through the merger/acquisition/joint venture.

Part II: SWOT Analysis

Perform a SWOT analysis for Harley-Davidson and include this information in Part II of your PowerPoint presentation.

• Based on the internal analyses of the SWOT analysis, assess the functional areas, resources, capabilities, and strengths H-D possesses. Please be sure to cover the following functional areas in your assessment:
  • Marketing: New product development, integrated marketing planning, marketing communications, and building customer loyalty.
  • Operations: Quality, service, and consistent execution.
  • Human Resources: Hiring, training, developing talent, and performance planning. Avoided lawsuits and bad PR due to its hiring practices. Is ethical in its HR practices.
  • Executive Leadership: Industry knowledge and experience, vision about where the industry is heading, and strategy execution.
  • Supply Chain Optimization: Strategic sourcing of input, vendor management, integrated IS, and joint forecasting with suppliers.
  • Corporate Responsibility and Ethics: Concern for corporate citizenship and the environment. Present any potential ethical concerns as well.
  • Safety and Quality: How the motorcycle industry is dealing with safety and quality issues.

Part III: Growth and Profitability Strategies

In addition, the executive board is interested in your ideas about bold strategies for the future. The strategies you recommend will have to contribute to growth and profitability, as outlined in the Annual Report.

You will want to pay special attention to exploring vertical integration, strategic alliances, and the internal growth of new brands entering new geographic markets, and/or additional acquisitions.

Consider the following:

• Is Harley-Davidson, Inc., (H-D) competing in the right businesses, given the opportunities and threats present in the external environment? If not, how can H-D realign its diversification strategy to achieve a competitive advantage?

  This may include additional diversification to take advantage of opportunities such as further vertical integration.

• Is the corporation managing its portfolio in a way that creates synergy among its businesses? If so, what additional businesses should it consider adding to its portfolio?

After you have reviewed the growth and profitability strategies, create a list of possible strategies to present a full range of ideas.

Part III of your presentation should include your complete list—all potential ideas—for the senior vice president. This is your chance to be creative.

Next, rank your ideas from best to worst. To do this, keep in mind several things such as fit with current strategy, resources and capabilities, and difficulty of execution.

For each of your top five ideas, add the following:

• Briefly describe the strategy.
• Why you picked it as one of the top five.

Think about such things as:

• Does the strategy build on current competencies and foster horizontal relationships among brands? In other words, what can be leveraged or shared? What are the pros and cons of this strategy?

Your PowerPoint Feasibility Study presentation will also include slides pertaining to the following assessments:

• Part I: Identification of size, scope, target market, services, amenities, and points of differentiation.
• Part II: SWOT analysis that includes marketing, operations, human resources, executive leadership, supply chain optimization, corporate responsibility, ethics, safety, and quality.
• Part III: Growth and profitability strategies, including your top five strategic ideas and support.

 

Submit the PowerPoint Feasibility Study presentation to the senior vice president so that she can review the alternatives and provide you with feedback about your ideas.

Write one-page single space essay that I have highlighted in red.

 

Assignment 1: Coty Inc. – Upon graduation from Acadia University, you have a joined a prestigious management consulting firm.  They have put you onto a project team that has been engaged to undertake an analysis of theindustry and regulatory environment within which Coty operates.  Your industry analysis should take the form of a five forces analysis.  Please identify and assess each of the five forces and recommend whether it is an attractive industry to enter into. Please identify the key barriers to entry. Please assess the competitive environment in terms of its level of complexity and change.* Please also identify some of the key performance metrics in this industry and briefly describe the market structure.  In terms of the regulatory assessment, please identify the key regulators, the key industry associations and document the important industry issues from the points of view of the regulators and the industry players. Please reference online information sources appropriately using endnotes. Please end the analysis with a discussion regarding implications. In other words, after gathering the data, so what? What does it mean?  

 

Suggested Readings:

 

• Michael Porter 2008 The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy. Harvard Business Review 86 (1) 78 – 93

 

• Wikipedia note on Market Structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_forms.

 

• * See Duncan, R. (1972) Characteristics of Perceived Environments and Perceived Environmental Uncertaintly.

 

• Administrative Science Quarterly, 313-327.

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Write one and half page single space essay that I have highlighted in red.

Assignment 2:   Canfor The solid reputation of your consulting firm is paying off.  An important client, Canfor has asked your firm to undertake a McKinsey style (sequential) value chain analysis that highlights the flow of activities in the breakfast cereal industry.  Please identify the key activities (minimum of eight) and offer a very brief description of each. Identify where your company fits on the value chain, and where its major competitors fit.  Also please identify some of the other companies (suppliers, customers, etc.) that participate in activities in the value chain. Please offer commentary as to whether there is evidence that some value chain components are growing or contracting. Finally, the client is asking for a brief note on some of the common risks faced by your company and its key competitors in this industry. Please offer five key risks.  Please reference online information sources appropriately using endnotes. Please end the analysis with a discussion regarding implications. In other words, after gathering the data, so what? What does it mean?

Write an essay in which you compare Art Spiegelman’s Maus to a more traditionally formatted story assigned for this class or a comic book you are familiar with.  How are elements including theme, plot, and conflict different or alike in the two works?  How successful do you think Spiegelman is in conveying his message through the more unfamiliar format of the graphic novel?

 

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BUS490 Week 4 Assignment 1
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Assignment 1: Preparing a Comprehensive Case Analysis, Part 1 on Johnson & Johnson 2009

Due Week 4 and worth 200 points Research a public corporation that you believe is not doing as well as it could in the marketplace. For this first paper, you will complete the first steps of a comprehensive written analysis as described in Part 6 of the textbook. The written analysis will be completed in the second written assignment in this course. Write a 4–5 page paper in which you:
1. Identify the firm’s existing objectives and strategies.

2. Explain one (1) strategy that the company might use to take advantage of an external opportunity, and one (1) strategy that the company might use to address a potential threat.

3. Construct a Competitive Profile Matrix. Include the company you are researching and one or two (1 or 2) of its major competitors and at least six (6) success factors that you believe to be critical to success in this industry. This Matrix should follow the format of the examples in Chapter 3.

4. Construct an External Factor Evaluation Matrix. This Matrix should follow the format of the examples in Chapter 3.

5. Research and cite at least three (3) reputable, academic sources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
1. Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length.
3. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
4. Explain the concepts and models of the strategic management process, including strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation.
5. Conduct an industry analysis (external audit) and an internal audit of an organization, and present the results using various matrices and analysis tools.
6. Use technology and information resources to research issues in business policy.
7. Write clearly and concisely about business policy using proper writing mechanics.