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· You are the HR manager for an upscale retail store which sells clothing, shoes, handbags, and other accessories. Due to the economic downturn, the company has experienced a significant reduction in earnings, resulting in the layoff of a number of retail sales associates. Business seems to be rebounding, but you are concerned about the performance of the retail sales staff. The CEO has requested that you recommend ways to increase sales and customer service. You believe that implementing a performance management system may help modify employee behavior and improve results. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Create a job description for a retail sales associate, which includes the most significant components necessary to describe the job both internally and externally. 2. Create an organizational behavior modification (OBM) plan to define four (4) key behaviors that are required for successful job performance as a retail sales associate. Suggest the significant ways that your plan will benefit the organization. 3. Specify two (2) ways that you would measure whether current employees exhibit the key job performance behaviors. Propose two (2) methods that you could use to inform employees of the new performance standards. 4. Outline a plan with two (2) methods of providing feedback to employees. Include the frequency with which the feedback will be provided. Propose two (2) actions company leaders should take to reinforce positive employee behaviors. 5. Examine at least three (3) key legal and ethical issues that could potentially impact the performance management system. Support your response with specific examples of the identified issues’ possible effects on the performance management system. 6. Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: . 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. . 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: . Examine performance management issues and processes. . Examine the influences on and various approaches to compensation. . Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management foundations. . Write clearly and concisely about human resource management foundations using proper writing mechanics .

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. 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.
. 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 and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
. Examine performance management issues and processes.
. Examine the influences on and various approaches to
compensation.
. Use technology and information resources to research issues in
human resource management foundations.
. Write clearly and concisely about human resource management
foundations using proper writing mechanics

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· Review the case study titled “Terms of Endearment”, where teacher Virginia Lawson is confronted with issues of racially insensitive name-calling in her classroom and struggles with handling the situation appropriately. Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you: 1. Take a position on whether or not Anthony’s explanation of why he was using the n-word made his actions less of a problem. Take a position on whether or not there are any circumstances in which it would be appropriate for someone to use the n-word or any variation of it in a classroom or school, and explain those circumstances. Provide a rationale for your position. 2. Suggest at least one (1) alternate way that Ms. Lawson might have decreased tension in the class following the incident instead of chastising Keisha and ordering her to sit down. Analyze how the way you suggested would have addressed Keisha’s comments, and the feelings underneath them, more effectively. 3. Examine at least one (1) other way that Ms. Lawson might have checked in with Reggie following the incident instead of calling attention to him in front of the whole class and causing him embarrassment. Analyze whether the way you chose would have more effectively allowed Reggie to express his true feelings. 4. Determine how you would handle the necessary task, after this incident, of addressing the use of the n-word with the class. Provide a list of steps that you would take, as well as a rationale for your response. 5. Use at least four (4) peer-reviewed academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and many Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Peer-reviewed academic resources refer to articles and scholarly journals that are reviewed by a panel of experts or peers in the field. View this video for more information on obtaining peer-reviewed academic resources through your Blackboard course shell. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: . 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. . 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: . Examine the historical context of contemporary issues in education. . Survey and analyze issues facing the changing demographics of education. . Critique issues related to teaching, learning and assessment within schools. . Use technology and information resources to research contemporary issues in education . Write clearly and concisely about contemporary issues in education using proper writing mechanics Case Study 1: Terms of Endearment Ms. Lawson was glad to be teaching math at Greenstown High Scho.

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· Respond to 3 posts listed below. Advance the conversation; provide a real-world application and experiential examples; · Conceptually discuss your key [most significant] learning insight or take-away from the selected forum topic comments. · Responses should be a minimum of 150-250 words, supported by at least one reference outside of the textbook (use academic journals), either supporting or refuting the position of the author of the forum topic response or peer response. Topic #1: The Cost of Capital The cost of capital refers to the “cost” a company must incur in order to use funds towards a new project or investment. The funds may come from lenders by borrowing the funds, by financing equity, or by selling bonds or assets. The cost of capital is expressed as an annual interest rate that the company will be charged on the capital funds. Therefore, this is the minimum return a company must be striving for when undertaking a new project, making a purchase, or making an investment. Otherwise, they are simply losing money. The cost of capital is used as the minimum rate of return that the project must achieve and is also the rate that is used in a discounted cash flow analysis. If the return of future net cash flows on an investment or project are greater than the cost of capital, then the investment or project is worthwhile to the business. For example, if a project generates a return of 20% and the cost of capital was estimated at 15%, then this project has added value to the business. In addition, the NPV formula can be used to compare multiple projects using different costs of capital. For instance, Project A and Project B compared by using 10%, 15%, and 20% costs of capital. This can allow businesses to see how investing more or less capital would affect the outcome of the NPV. Just as you can compare these different costs of capital, you can also add the element of risk into your calculations by increasing the cost of capital to reflect a riskier project or investment. Very simply put, if investment B is riskier than investment A, then you could compare them with B having a cost of capital at r = 15% and A having a cost of capital at r= 10% - therefore adjusting for one project/investment being riskier than the other. Interestingly, there has been much discussion and debate over how companies set their cost of capital rates. In the case of large Fortune 500 companies, they spend hundreds of billions of dollars per year. If they miscalculate the cost of capital rate on an investment or project with a difference of even 1%, this could mean a gain or loss of billions of dollars depending on which way the value was incorrectly estimated. For example, if a company plans to invest $52 million dollars into a new project that is estimated to bring in $10.5 million per year over the next seven years, and the company incorrectly estimates the cost of capital by 1%, then you can see by the table below the affect this small percentage pot.

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· Paper need to be 6 pages. · Times New Roman Font (11) Double-spaced · Ensure paper addresses all 8 of the below questions a. Number Questions on page as they are answered. · Use at LEAST 1 reference for each question. a. (Paper should have at least 8 different references) b. (Wikipedia does not count) · Show work for all calculations. 1. Explain how governments restrict international trade and who benefits as well as who loses from the restrictions. 2. Because wage rates are so low in Africa, why don't Microsoft, Cisco and other major corporations close down their American operations and move to Africa? 3. Consider the foreign exchange market for Japanese Yen and Dollars. Assume a market where the U.S. dollars are on the x axis as shown in the background material. Indicate whether the dollar would APPRECIATE or DEPRECIATE if the following events occur (be sure to explain your answer such as including reference to the demand or supply curve): a. The interest rate in Japan is lowered. b. Prices are lower in U.S. c. Higher US interest rates. 4. What is the effect of a higher exchange rate on exports and imports? -ONLY ANSWER THE ABOVE QUESTIONS 1-4 ON PAGES 1-3 OF THE REPORT- 5. (a.) Suppose real GDP was $13.1 trillion in 2013 and $13.3 in 2014, what is the growth rate? (b.) How many years would it take for GDP (gross domestic product) to double (using your answer from part (a)? 6. What are the sources of human capital? Discuss some specific examples. 7. What is the law of diminishing returns? Give an example of what the law of diminishing returns implies. 8. What happens when the government raises taxes and uses revenue to engage in spending? -ONLY ANSWER THE ABOVE QUESTIONS 5-8 ON PAGES 4-6 OF THE REPORT- Raab English 100 NOTE-TAKING/DISCUSSION WORKSHEET: The Social Network Part I: As you watch and reflect on The Social Network, pay attention to the characters/topics and their rhetorical significance in the film. How are they portrayed? How are we, as viewers, supposed to perceive each character or idea? What choices do the filmmakers make to invite that response? COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION MEDIA CALIFORNIA LEGAL SYSTEM CONTEMPORARY COLLEGE STUDENTS GENDER SOCIAL CLASS RELIGION Part II: As you watch and reflect on the film, pay attention to the deliberate choices of the filmmakers and the impact of those choices on viewers. It may be helpful to organize your thinking around four key elements of film, listed below. CINEMATOGRAPHY (Camera Angle, Camera Distance, Camera Movement, etc) EDITING (linking/cutting together of different shots, added effects, arrangement) SOUND (emerging from within the scene AND sound that was added later, like musical score) MISE-EN-SCENE (means literally “put into the scene” and can include: props, costuming, makeup, staged body language, lighting—any element that makes the scene) Part III. Analyze the rhetorical situation and intend.

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