Unit IV Journal

The three primary options for what to evaluate in performance appraisals are traits, behaviors, and results. What are the pros and cons of measuring each of these options? As a manager, which option would you choose? Do you think your option would vary at all by employee, rank, or industry?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit V Journal

What is one scenario that you have experienced where employees were resistant to change within an organization? How did management handle it? How would you handle the situation as a leader of that company? What actions would you have taken to either prevent the resistance or change the resistance to acceptance?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit V Powerpoint Assignment

Over the past 40 years, union membership has declined, and it continues to do so. Instead, many companies are turning to alternative dispute resolution. We know one of the best union avoidance tactics is good communication and providing job satisfaction for employees.

Create a PowerPoint presentation (with speaker notes) that focuses on unions in the workplace. Address the following concepts in your presentation.

• Identify the factors      that have contributed to the reduction in union membership. Be sure to      include the rationale you use in your speaker notes.
• Evaluate whether or not      the reduction in union membership is a good or bad thing for employees in      the United States. Be sure to include the rationale you use in your      speaker notes.
• Explain what alternative      dispute resolution involves, and identify the pros and cons from the      perspective of the employee and the pros and cons from the perspective of      the employer. Remember, you want to include the bulk of your explanation      in the speaker notes, not on the slide.
• Describe a situation      where employees or managers would want to use some form of alternative      dispute resolution such as mediation or arbitration as opposed to direct      negotiation or litigation to resolve disputes. Be sure to include the      rationale you use in your speaker notes.
• Explain how each of the      seven determinants of job satisfaction (individual personality, the work      itself, compensation, growth and upward mobility, coworkers, management,      and communication) help to create the type of environment where employees      experience job satisfaction. Remember, you want to include the bulk of      your explanation in the speaker notes, not on the slide.

Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion to your presentation. Include at least two images or graphics in your presentation.

Your PowerPoint presentation must be at least eight slides in length, not counting the title or reference slides. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.

Unit VI Essay

Instructions

For this assignment, you will write an essay that explores the topics of gender gap and compensation.

In your introduction, explain whether you think the gender gap is a women’s issue, men’s issue, or both. Explain your response and reasoning within your introduction.

Then, divide the body of your paper using the headers below, and cover in that section what is indicated under the header.

Closing the Gap

Explain why the gender gap continues to be an issue in our society and what can be done to help close this gap in terms of opportunities and pay.

Legal Provisions

Identify legal provisions that are in place for addressing the gender gap. Hypothesize why legal provisions have not been successful in closing the gap. Discuss how ethics may play a role in future changes.

Recruitment Planning

Explain what human resource professionals should consider when planning compensation and pay during recruitment planning.

Support your essay with a minimum of two resources from the CSU Online Library. Your essay must be at least two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

Unit VI Journal

Pay and incentive programs are being used both for knowledge workers and in non-knowledge worker occupations. In every industry, from restaurants to construction and low-tech manufacturing, companies are using more comprehensive pay and incentive programs to attract and keep workers in a tight labor market. Think about an industry you currently work in, have worked in, or would like to work in.

What incentive programs do you believe would motivate you to perform at a higher level?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VII Journal

In analyzing the needs of the workforce, work-life balance is high on the list of issues facing both employers and employees. Balance between work and home lives is sought but rarely happens for long because of work-family conflict. This conflict is also linked with some other bad consequences such as stress; absenteeism; burnout; and dissatisfaction with job, family, and life—all of which can lead to excessive job turnover and the breakup of families. Would you consider flexible scheduling which allowed you to have work-life balance a benefit? Why, or why not? What step would you like to see your current (or previous) employer take to help enhance your own work-life balance? Explain the benefit to both you and the employer.

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VII Powerpoint

Instructions

For this assignment, imagine you are an expatriate manager for a subsidiary of a major company headquartered in the United States. You are preparing a PowerPoint presentation to brief the CEO on your plan to address the safety issues specific to the country (of your choice) where you are working as the expatriate manager.

In your introduction, discuss four concerns in the workplace: benefits, safety, health, and global security issues. List one issue for each concern listed.

Next, prepare a solution for each of the four concerns. Discuss how your solutions address the issues within the workplace. Discuss what would be the responsibility of the global leadership team.

Conclude your presentation with a summary of how you noted the needs of your global audience, how you will design and deliver the training for employees keeping in mind Geert Hofstede’s research about cultural differences, and your plans to assess its success.

Be sure to include clear and specific speaker notes for each slide. You must include a minimum of one image or graphic within your presentation. You must use at least two sources, with one being the textbook.

Your PowerPoint presentation must be at least seven slides in length, not counting title or reference slides. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.

Unit VIII Journal

How can information you learned in this course be applied to your life and/or work to increase your future success?

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VIII Essay

For this assignment, select a specific business; it can be one you work for or, better yet, one you would like to work for in the future. Make sure the company you select meets the following criteria: It must have a written code of ethics and operate at the benevolent level of CSR (corporate social responsibility).

Search online for the company’s website, and review its code of ethics and its report on its corporate social responsibility programs; be sure to identify any of its sustainability practices—this may be a separate link.

Write a report on your chosen company’s code of ethics and CSR. In your report, address whether you believe that leaders of organizations have a duty to all stakeholders or just to stockholders. 

Present a business argument either for or against corporate social responsibility.

Be sure to include an introduction. Your report must be at least two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

 

1. Overview
   Congratulations! The members of the United Nations found great value in the two analyses you provided. They are now asking you to develop a PowerPoint presentation that addresses four of the most critical threats to the global environment. Critical threats include:
   • Energy sources.
   • Globalization.
   • Lack of educational opportunities.
   • Inappropriate use of technology.
   • Civil war.
   • Poor health of entire population.
   • Cultural taboos.
   • Climate change.
   • Instructions
     Step I. Narrow the List from Eight to the Four Most Critical Threats
     To complete this step, complete the following tasks in order:
   1. Review research on each of the eight threats.
   2. Determine what you believe to be the current and potential future impacts of each threat on the global environment.
   3. Choose the four threats that you see as the most critical by considering which pose the greatest or most immediate risk.
   4. Step II. Create the PowerPoint Presentation
      The completed version of this presentation will include a minimum of 16 slides. Your audience consists of the United Nations General Assembly.
      PPT Content and Structure
   5. Title Slide: Include your name, course title, current date, and the name of your instructor.
   6. Introduction Slide: List the four threats you chose, and in the Notes section offer a brief narrative justifying these choices
   7. Body Slides: The slide content is listed in the outline below. For each body slide you develop, please include a paragraph in the Notes section explaining how the details you have provided in the slide are pertinent to the United Nations’ discussion on selecting and prioritizing goals.
      1. For your first threat (this is the threat you consider to be the greatest risk/highest priority):
         • One slide on a brief history and assessment of the threat.
         • One slide on the countries most affected by the threat, and how those countries are affected (please give examples).
         • One slide on the effects of this threat on the world population as a whole.
         • One slide including a chart, graph, or compelling visual that relates to the content you present in body slides a–c.
      2. For your second threat (this is the threat you consider to be the second greatest risk/second highest priority):
         • One slide on a brief history and assessment of the threat.
         • One slide on the countries most affected by the threat, and how those countries are affected (please give examples).
         • One slide on the effects of this threat on the world population as a whole.
         • One slide including a chart, graph, or compelling visual that relates to the content you present in body slides a–c.
      3. For your third threat (this is the threat you consider to be the third greatest threat/highest priority):
         • One slide on a brief history and assessment of the threat.
         • One slide on the countries most affected by the threat, and how those countries are affected (please give examples).
         • One slide on the effects of this threat on the world population as a whole.
         • One slide including a chart, graph, or compelling visual that relates to the content you present in body slides a–c.
      4. For your fourth threat (this is the threat you consider to be the fourth greatest threat/highest priority):
         • One slide on a brief history and assessment of the threat.
         • One slide on the countries most affected by the threat, and how those countries are affected (please give examples).
         • One slide on the effects of this threat on the world population as a whole.
         • One slide including a chart, graph, or compelling visual that relates to the content you present in body slides a–c.
   8. Conclusion Slide: Summarize your findings for the Assembly.
   9. (Optional) Reference Slide: You can include full-text citations in the Notes section of each slide or provide a reference slide at the end of the presentation with the full citations of your sources.
   10. Note:
   • Please discuss the threats in order of priority as described above, so the threat you consider the greatest should be discussed first in the presentation and so on.
   • Please use at least five credible sources to back up your discussion.
   • The body slides should summarize your key takeaways, whereas the notes section of each body slide should discuss the evidence and the details that support your takeaways. The content in both the notes and body sections requires citations and sources.
   • This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
     Success Tip
     For more information and help in creating a PowerPoint, review the content found in the LinkedIn Learning course, PowerPoint 2019 Essential Training: The Basics. 
     The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:
   • Assess the current threats to the global environment.
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Paper CE: Analysis of a Current Events article.

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a current events article (i.e., only one)that you may choose from any online current periodical, trade magazine, or other electronic publication about a global digital ethical issue. While this assignment will increase your knowledge in that subject area from a corporation viewpoint and enable you to analyze digital ethical issues of a current GLOBAL situation or event, it will also help enhance your research and writing skills, as well as your critical-thinking abilities.

Start by selecting one current IT related online article (2017 sources or later) about a global ethical issue. Note that this assignment is not a general assignment about the topic selected, it must be about the current event article that you have selected. In addition, please note that while articles from journals may be of interest, they are ultimately too long and involved for this assignment – it is best to find an article from the World Wide Web from a trade magazine, or other electronic publication.  Provide the source citation that is in compliance with the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting rules, as well as the persistent URL – one that anyone can click on to re-access the original article.

The following elements must be addressed:

• Summarize the whole article by all of its key or salient points. It may help if you use bullets to note the salient points of the article, as you read through it. A summary is desired, not just the “thrust’ of the article.
• Analyze the multi-national and global ethical aspects of the article – what is the impact or what is the importance of the information in the article and what are the ethical issues connected to the situation or event?
• Determine three critically important questions not otherwise included in the article that you would like to address to the author regarding the article – you are not expected to answer the questions!

Prepare a double-spaced paper and submit it to the LEO Assignments Module as an attached Microsoft Word file. The instructor will provide your grade and feedback via the LEO Grades tool. This assignment does not have a specific length, as the length depends upon the length of the article that is being summarized, but you want to make sure that you have fulfilled the three requirements listed above. Remember to use headings for each topic criteria. The length of Paper CE is not a factor considered in its grading!

Use APA formatted source citations for all sources utilized, in your reference list.  Remember, as a minimum, the source citation for your article must be included along with an external link. In addition to critical thinking and analysis skills, your paper should reflect appropriate writing mechanics, good organization, and proper business-writing style.  Include a Cover Page with your Name, the UMGC/Name of the Class, and the Title of the Paper.

Part I. 20 points each question (60 points total). Answer THREE of the following questions. Use a page, or about 200-250 words, for each answer. Remember to include citations and to identify historical context. Do NOT draw from other sources—from sources I did not assign in the class.

1.  Compare/contrast the concerns of José María Sánchez, as stated in his report from Texas in 1828, with the concerns of the Tejano leaders in 1832. Are these concerns primarily different or similar? Why? In your answer, draw from “José María Sánchez Criticizes Tejanos and Anglo-American Immigrants in Texas, 1828” and “Tejano Leaders Give Their Opinion of Anglo-American Immigrants, 1832.”

2.  How did the Cherokee respond to pressures imposed on them by the expanding American nation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century? What arguments did the Cherokee use against their removal? What was the result? In your answer, draw from at least two of the following sources: Roark, et. al.; Calloway; Cherokee Women, Petitions. Students may use other assigned sources, as appropriate.

3.  What role did women play in the abolition movement? What was the relationship between abolition and the women’s rights movement? In your answer draw from lecture and Angelina Grimké, “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex”

http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abesaegb5t.html.

In addition to these two sources, you may also draw from other course materials as appropriate. 

Part II. 10 points each question (20 points total). Answer TWO of the following questions. Each answer should be a paragraph/about 100 words. Remember to include citations and to identify historical context. Use Roark, et. al. (and/or you may draw from lecture and other assigned readings IF appropriate). Do NOT draw from other sources—from sources I did not assign in the class. 

1.  What factors caused the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion, and what was the result of the Rebellion? 

2.  What was Haitian Revolution and what impact did the Haitian Revolution have on the United States?

Part III. 10 points each question (20 points total). Answer TWO of the following questions. Each answer should be about a paragraph/100 words.  Use Roark, et. al. to answer the questions Use Roark, et. al. (and/or you may draw from lecture and other assigned readings IF appropriate). Remember to include citations and to identify historical context. Do NOT draw from other sources—from sources I did not assign in the class.

1.   How did the party system change in the 1850s?

2.  Why did the Dred Scott decision strengthen northern suspicions of a Slave Power conspiracy?

 

During this module you have examined eight personality theoretical perspectives and some of their corresponding theories. Additionally, you have examined cultural considerations to consider when analyzing a subject. In this Discussion, you practice analyzing a subject from the perspective of personality theory and consider cultural considerations as part of the analysis. (Note: Your fictional character analysis is for the purposes of this discussion only. Clinical analysis and diagnosis require additional formal training and would never be conducted without first meeting the individual).

To Prepare

• Select a public figure or celebrity, real or fictional character to analyze from the personality theory/theoretical orientation of your choice. Be sure to select a character about whose personality you know a solid amount.
• Reflect on cultural considerations applicable to your character analysis. 

Post the character you chose and a 3-4 paragraph analysis, including the personality theory/theoretical orientation you chose and cultural considerations you considered. 

 Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations. 

 

Cervone, D., & Pervin, L. A. (2019). Personality: Theory and research (14th ed.). Wiley.

• Chapter 6, “Rogers’s Phenomenological Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research”
  • “Developments in Research: The Self and Authenticity” (pp. 163–169)  (previously read in Week 4)
• Chapter 8, “Trait Theory: The Five-Factor Model and Contemporary Developments”
  • “Age Differences Throughout Adulthood” (pp. 213–214)
  • “Cross-Cultural Research: Are the Big Five Dimensions Universal?” (pp. 221–224)                                                                            (previously read in Week 2)
• Chapter 14, “Personality in Context: Interpersonal Relations, Culture, and Development Across the Course of Life” (pp. 394–416)