1.  You have just accepted the position of Director of HR for a start-up company in the biotechnology field. Your initial task is to hire 10 research biologists who will produce highly creative research in this field. You have advertised, and 70 persons who have the necessary education and experience have applied.

How will you select the 10 persons? Describe the concepts, tools and procedures you would use. Defend your views from the scientific viewpoint.

2. You are an assistant director of marketing for a large company, with five years of experience in the job. Your boss, the Director of Regional Marketing, recently retired, and you applied for the position. While conforming to legal guidelines, the company emphasizes promotion from within, so you’ve felt you had a very good chance for the position. However, the company depends heavily on tests and personal interviews for promotion, more so than experience and recommendations. In this case, the company had all applicants take an intelligence test and a personality test. You’ve just now been informed that the VP for Global Marketing has promoted a relatively new assistant director of HR to the Director of Regional Marketing position. This person has some marketing experience but has only been with the company two years.

What should you do? Defend your views from the scientific viewpoint.

3. Reveiw the following web page:

http://www.tsa.gov/stakeholders/general-aviation

 Tell us your thoughts on how important and if you feel the TSA is involved enough on security within General Aviation.

4.  Airline financing is complex and requires careful considerations when making decisions on what areas to fund or invest.  Partnerships produce code sharing and managerial decisions, such as hedging, that can produce positive effects on financial statements. Choose and airline and discuss one managerial strategy effecting their current financial position and future outlook to the best of your ability. Try not to exceed a paragraph.  Also tell why you choose them.