Business

Assignment 1

Virtual Analysis

Suppose your company takes orders for its products, which are supplied to your company by vendors. You want to create a relational database of this information. Discuss the relationship between orders and products and between products and vendors. What tables would you create for this database and what would you include in these tables?

Write your responses in detail with examples. Be sure to identify the source of your example in your posting. Your initial post should be of minimum 250 words.

Assignment 2

Case Study

Suppose you are an HR (human resources) manager at a big university, and you sense that the university is becoming too top-heavy with full professors. That is, there do not seem to be as many younger professors at the assistant and associate levels as there ought to be. How could you study this problem with a simulation model, using current and/or proposed promotions, hiring, firing, and retirement policies?

Write your responses in detail with examples. Be sure to identify the source of your example in your posting. Your initial post should be of minimum 250 words.