Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric:
Points: 150
Assignment 1: Geico Case Study
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 70% F
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Determine which facets of the Geico total rewards program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and discuss your reasoning.
Weight: 25%
Did not submit or incompletely determined which facets of the Geico total rewards program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and did not submit or incompletely discussed your reasoning.
Partially determined which facets of the Geico total rewards program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and partially discussed your reasoning.
Satisfactorily determined which facets of the Geico total rewards program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and satisfactorily discussed your reasoning.
Thoroughly determined which facets of the Geico total rewards program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and thoroughly discussed your reasoning.
2. Create a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan addresses all of the advantages.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely created a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan addresses all of the advantages.
Partially created a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan addresses all of the advantages.
Satisfactorily created a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan addresses all of the advantages.
Thoroughly created a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan addresses all of the advantages.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the communication of Geico’s total rewards program based upon the Website’s descriptions of the benefits. Recommend two (2) areas for improvement.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely evaluated the effectiveness of the communication of Geico’s total rewards program based upon the Website’s descriptions of the benefits. Did not recommend two (2) areas for improvement.
Partially evaluated the effectiveness of the communication of Geico’s total rewards program based upon the Website’s descriptions of the benefits. Partially recommend two (2) areas for improvement.
Satisfactorily evaluated the effectiveness of the communication of Geico’s total rewards program based upon the Website’s descriptions of the benefits. Satisfactorily recommend two (2) areas for improvement.
Thoroughly evaluated the effectiveness of the communication of Geico’s total rewards program based upon the Website’s descriptions of the benefits. Thoroughly recommend two (2) areas for improvement.
4. Assuming employees are unhappy with the current plan, offer two (2) impro ...
2Interdisciplinary Plan ProposalWrite a brief introductio.docxstandfordabbot
2
Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal
Write a brief introduction (2 to 3 sentences) to your proposal that outlines the issue you are attempting to solve, the part of the organization in which the plan would be carried out, and the desired outcome. This will set the stage for the sections below.Objective
Describe what your plan will do and what you hope it will accomplish in one or two succinct sentences. Also, comment on how the objective, if achieved, will improve organizational or patient outcomes. For example:
Test a double-loop feedback model for evaluating new product risk with a small group of project managers with the goal of reducing the number of new products that fail to launch. This objective is aligned to the broader organizational goal of becoming more efficient taking products to market and, if successful, should improve outcomes by reducing waste.Questions and Predictions
For this section ask yourself 3 to 5 questions about your objective and your overall plan. Make a prediction for each question by answering the question you posed. This helps you to define the important aspects of your plan as well as limit the scope and check its ability to be implemented.
For example:
1.
How much time will using a double-loop feedback model add to a project manager’s workload?
a. At first, it will likely increase their workloads by 5 to 10 percent. However, as the process is refined and project managers become more familiar and efficient, that percentage will decrease.Change Theories and Leadership Strategies
For this section, you may wish to draw upon the research you did regarding change theories and leadership for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. The focus of this section is how those best practices will create buy-in for the project from an interdisciplinary team, improve their collaboration, and/or foster the team’s ability to implement the plan. Be sure that you are including at least one change theory and at least one leadership strategy in your explanation. Always remember to cite your sources; direct quotes require quotation marks and a page or paragraph number to be included in the citation.
Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:
· What is the theory or strategy?
· How will it likely help an interdisciplinary team to collaborate, implement, and/or buy in to the project plan?
· Make sure to frame this explanation within the organizational context of the proposed plan, that is, your interviewee’s organization.Team Collaboration Strategy
In this section, begin by further defining the responsibilities and actions that represent the implementation of the plan. One strategy to defining this is to take a “
who,
what,
where, and
when” approach for each team member.
For example:
·
Project Manager A will apply the double-loop feedback model on one new product project for .
12 20 22-Recorded Webinar-Maximizing MarketPay-Structures-Job-Based-Ranges.pdfPayScale, Inc.
Join Payscale’s MarketPay Product Manager and Education team for a group discussion and training that covers roadmap, best practices, and how to implement range-based structures amidst the current pay legislation landscape.
The Course Project is due. The project should be 1,200–1,800 words.docxcherry686017
The Course Project is due. The project should be 1,200–1,800 words, excluding title and reference page. It should include items 1–7 as listed under Course Project Overview above. The
The course project relates to the compensation and benefit strategy of an organization. Students will select an organization that is experiencing challenges with its compensation and/or benefit program. Some examples where challenges exist within the organization's compensation and benefit plan could include a high rate of employee turnover, an inability to recruit talented employees due to lack of proper compensation, an inability to fund an adequate benefit program, an incentive program where few employees reach their objectives, an inadequately funded retirement system, or a retirement plan that does not offer proper investment choices. Your paper will be graded according to how well you meet the tasks below.
1. Follow proper APA style/citations, grammar and punctuation, and so on. An APA tutorial is located on the HUB for assistance.
2. Identify an organization with compensation or benefits challenges. It could be an organization with which you are familiar personally or through the media.
3. Provide a detailed review of the compensation and/or benefit challenge (problem) at the organization. It is recommended that you concentrate on the principle compensation and/or benefit challenge(s) within a single organization, rather than a number of less important issues. Be careful to avoid selecting a topic that is too broad. At the same time, the challenge facing the organization should be broad enough to provide multiple strategies to help resolve the problem.
4. Discuss the compensation and/or benefits strategies other organizations have utilized related to your challenge, along with a review of their success and failure. As an example, if you are interested in an employee assistance program and why usage is less than expected, detail the strategies other organizations have followed to improve participation and see a return on their investment. Information regarding other organizations should be gathered through a research process and consist with academic-quality materials rather than word-of-mouth information.
5. Recommend the strategy you propose the organization should follow to address its compensation and/or benefit challenge. Explain why you have selected this strategy. Include research (theory) to substantiate your selection.
6. Discuss impediments to this strategy, including any contingency plans that should be considered.
7. Finally, detail how the strategy you propose would address the organization's challenge (as detailed in step 2 above) and its impact on both the organization and the employee. Include specific items that should be included in the action plan.
TEACHERS NOTES ON FIRST PART OF COURSE PROJECT - I think you have potential here but you need to tie this to compensation. Focus your energies on the perspective of the organization, not ...
Aligning your compensation philosophy with business prioritiesPayScale, Inc.
As an HR leader, you play a key role in your organization's success. It's crucial that you work with your company's executive leaders to develop a compensation strategy that supports company business objectives.
In this free, one hour webinar session, Stacey Carroll, SPHR, MBA will present the basics of leading an organization through the steps to align its compensation philosophy with its mission, and values. This webinar will give you a core understanding of the connection between business and compensation strategy.
Rubric Name Undergraduate Generic Case and SLP Grading Rubric - Nov.docxjoellemurphey
Rubric Name: Undergraduate Generic Case and SLP Grading Rubric - Nov 4, 2013
Criteria
Level 4 - Excellent
Level 3 - Proficient
Level 2 - Developing
Level 1 - Emerging
Score and Feedback
Assignment-Driven Criteria
25 points
Demonstrates mastery covering all key elements of the assignment in a substantive way.
22 points
Demonstrates considerable proficiency covering all key elements of the assignment.
18 points
Demonstrates partial proficiency covering all key elements of the assignment.
14 points
Demonstrates limited or poor proficiency covering all key elements of the assignment.
18 points
Critical Thinking
10 points
Demonstrates mastery conceptualizing the problem, and viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated thoroughly; conclusions are logically presented with appropriate rationale.
9 points
Demonstrates considerable proficiency conceptualizing the problem, and viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated proficiently; conclusions are presented with necessary rationale.
7 points
Demonstrates partial proficiency conceptualizing the problem, and viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and partially evaluated conclusions are somewhat consistent with the analysis and findings.
6 points
Demonstrates limited or poor proficiency conceptualizing the problem, and viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and limited or poorly evaluated conclusions are either absent or poorly conceived and supported.
7 points
Scholarly Writing
5 points
Demonstrates mastery and proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience.
4 points
Demonstrates considerable proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience.
3 points
Demonstrate partial proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience.
2 points
Demonstrates limited or poor proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience.
4 points
Quality of References and Assignment Organization
7 points
Demonstrates mastery using relevant and quality sources and uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to support ideas, convey understanding of the topic and shape the whole work.
6 points
Demonstrates considerable proficiency using somewhat appropriate sources and demonstrates considerable proficiency in using appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to support ideas, convey understanding of the topic and shape the whole work.
5 points
Demonstrates partial proficiency using occasionally appropriate sources and partially uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to support ideas, convey understanding of the topic and shape the whole work.
4 points
Demonstrates limited or poor proficiency using sources and appropriate and does not use appropriate, relevant, a ...
2Interdisciplinary Plan ProposalWrite a brief introductio.docxstandfordabbot
2
Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal
Write a brief introduction (2 to 3 sentences) to your proposal that outlines the issue you are attempting to solve, the part of the organization in which the plan would be carried out, and the desired outcome. This will set the stage for the sections below.Objective
Describe what your plan will do and what you hope it will accomplish in one or two succinct sentences. Also, comment on how the objective, if achieved, will improve organizational or patient outcomes. For example:
Test a double-loop feedback model for evaluating new product risk with a small group of project managers with the goal of reducing the number of new products that fail to launch. This objective is aligned to the broader organizational goal of becoming more efficient taking products to market and, if successful, should improve outcomes by reducing waste.Questions and Predictions
For this section ask yourself 3 to 5 questions about your objective and your overall plan. Make a prediction for each question by answering the question you posed. This helps you to define the important aspects of your plan as well as limit the scope and check its ability to be implemented.
For example:
1.
How much time will using a double-loop feedback model add to a project manager’s workload?
a. At first, it will likely increase their workloads by 5 to 10 percent. However, as the process is refined and project managers become more familiar and efficient, that percentage will decrease.Change Theories and Leadership Strategies
For this section, you may wish to draw upon the research you did regarding change theories and leadership for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. The focus of this section is how those best practices will create buy-in for the project from an interdisciplinary team, improve their collaboration, and/or foster the team’s ability to implement the plan. Be sure that you are including at least one change theory and at least one leadership strategy in your explanation. Always remember to cite your sources; direct quotes require quotation marks and a page or paragraph number to be included in the citation.
Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:
· What is the theory or strategy?
· How will it likely help an interdisciplinary team to collaborate, implement, and/or buy in to the project plan?
· Make sure to frame this explanation within the organizational context of the proposed plan, that is, your interviewee’s organization.Team Collaboration Strategy
In this section, begin by further defining the responsibilities and actions that represent the implementation of the plan. One strategy to defining this is to take a “
who,
what,
where, and
when” approach for each team member.
For example:
·
Project Manager A will apply the double-loop feedback model on one new product project for .
12 20 22-Recorded Webinar-Maximizing MarketPay-Structures-Job-Based-Ranges.pdfPayScale, Inc.
Join Payscale’s MarketPay Product Manager and Education team for a group discussion and training that covers roadmap, best practices, and how to implement range-based structures amidst the current pay legislation landscape.
The Course Project is due. The project should be 1,200–1,800 words.docxcherry686017
The Course Project is due. The project should be 1,200–1,800 words, excluding title and reference page. It should include items 1–7 as listed under Course Project Overview above. The
The course project relates to the compensation and benefit strategy of an organization. Students will select an organization that is experiencing challenges with its compensation and/or benefit program. Some examples where challenges exist within the organization's compensation and benefit plan could include a high rate of employee turnover, an inability to recruit talented employees due to lack of proper compensation, an inability to fund an adequate benefit program, an incentive program where few employees reach their objectives, an inadequately funded retirement system, or a retirement plan that does not offer proper investment choices. Your paper will be graded according to how well you meet the tasks below.
1. Follow proper APA style/citations, grammar and punctuation, and so on. An APA tutorial is located on the HUB for assistance.
2. Identify an organization with compensation or benefits challenges. It could be an organization with which you are familiar personally or through the media.
3. Provide a detailed review of the compensation and/or benefit challenge (problem) at the organization. It is recommended that you concentrate on the principle compensation and/or benefit challenge(s) within a single organization, rather than a number of less important issues. Be careful to avoid selecting a topic that is too broad. At the same time, the challenge facing the organization should be broad enough to provide multiple strategies to help resolve the problem.
4. Discuss the compensation and/or benefits strategies other organizations have utilized related to your challenge, along with a review of their success and failure. As an example, if you are interested in an employee assistance program and why usage is less than expected, detail the strategies other organizations have followed to improve participation and see a return on their investment. Information regarding other organizations should be gathered through a research process and consist with academic-quality materials rather than word-of-mouth information.
5. Recommend the strategy you propose the organization should follow to address its compensation and/or benefit challenge. Explain why you have selected this strategy. Include research (theory) to substantiate your selection.
6. Discuss impediments to this strategy, including any contingency plans that should be considered.
7. Finally, detail how the strategy you propose would address the organization's challenge (as detailed in step 2 above) and its impact on both the organization and the employee. Include specific items that should be included in the action plan.
TEACHERS NOTES ON FIRST PART OF COURSE PROJECT - I think you have potential here but you need to tie this to compensation. Focus your energies on the perspective of the organization, not ...
Aligning your compensation philosophy with business prioritiesPayScale, Inc.
As an HR leader, you play a key role in your organization's success. It's crucial that you work with your company's executive leaders to develop a compensation strategy that supports company business objectives.
In this free, one hour webinar session, Stacey Carroll, SPHR, MBA will present the basics of leading an organization through the steps to align its compensation philosophy with its mission, and values. This webinar will give you a core understanding of the connection between business and compensation strategy.
Rubric Name Undergraduate Generic Case and SLP Grading Rubric - Nov.docxjoellemurphey
Rubric Name: Undergraduate Generic Case and SLP Grading Rubric - Nov 4, 2013
Criteria
Level 4 - Excellent
Level 3 - Proficient
Level 2 - Developing
Level 1 - Emerging
Score and Feedback
Assignment-Driven Criteria
25 points
Demonstrates mastery covering all key elements of the assignment in a substantive way.
22 points
Demonstrates considerable proficiency covering all key elements of the assignment.
18 points
Demonstrates partial proficiency covering all key elements of the assignment.
14 points
Demonstrates limited or poor proficiency covering all key elements of the assignment.
18 points
Critical Thinking
10 points
Demonstrates mastery conceptualizing the problem, and viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated thoroughly; conclusions are logically presented with appropriate rationale.
9 points
Demonstrates considerable proficiency conceptualizing the problem, and viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated proficiently; conclusions are presented with necessary rationale.
7 points
Demonstrates partial proficiency conceptualizing the problem, and viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and partially evaluated conclusions are somewhat consistent with the analysis and findings.
6 points
Demonstrates limited or poor proficiency conceptualizing the problem, and viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and limited or poorly evaluated conclusions are either absent or poorly conceived and supported.
7 points
Scholarly Writing
5 points
Demonstrates mastery and proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience.
4 points
Demonstrates considerable proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience.
3 points
Demonstrate partial proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience.
2 points
Demonstrates limited or poor proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience.
4 points
Quality of References and Assignment Organization
7 points
Demonstrates mastery using relevant and quality sources and uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to support ideas, convey understanding of the topic and shape the whole work.
6 points
Demonstrates considerable proficiency using somewhat appropriate sources and demonstrates considerable proficiency in using appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to support ideas, convey understanding of the topic and shape the whole work.
5 points
Demonstrates partial proficiency using occasionally appropriate sources and partially uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to support ideas, convey understanding of the topic and shape the whole work.
4 points
Demonstrates limited or poor proficiency using sources and appropriate and does not use appropriate, relevant, a ...
For more course tutorials visit
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1. Explain the concept of lead and lag indicators. How would the development of lead and lag indicators link to the development of a robust and effective quality strategy? This answer must be in your own words—significant cut and paste from the text or other sources is not acceptable.
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1. Explain the concept of lead and lag indicators. How would the development of lead and lag indicators link to the development of a robust and effective quality strategy? This answer must be in your own words—significant cut and paste from the text or other sources is not acceptable.
Project 2 Instructions and Grading RubricProject 2 will consist .docxwkyra78
Project 2 Instructions and Grading Rubric
Project 2 will consist of completing the Comprehensive Problem for Chapter 15 which can be found on page 951 of the text. You are asked to calculate a series of ratios and utilize these figures in a variety of analysis to determine the viability of this firm as a sound investment. You can use either Excel or Word to create and submit your data. No other file formats are permitted. (You must show all the supporting data and the calculation used for each ratio. If you just turn in the ratios without support for how you got them, you will receive a zero for that portion of the assignment). Listed below you will find hints on how to lay out the data. Use these hints, plus the grading rubric listed below to complete your assignment. This project is worth 12.5% of your course grade, so I suggest you give it the attention it deserves for the best possible score.
In each of requirements 1-5 you will create a table of data. At the top of each column of data you should list the years. Since 2014 is the base year in each case you should have the year 2018 as the first column after the description of the row and the last column should be the year 2014.
Sample:
Item Description
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Requirement 1: Worth 20%
Here you should have listed net revenues and the trend percentage for each and then Net Earnings and the trend percentage for each.
Sample:
Item Description
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Total Net Revenues
Trend Percentages
Net Earnings
Trend Percentages
Requirement 2: Worth 10%
Here I would expect to see the 2 components that make up the profit margin followed by the Profit Margin Ration itself.
Requirement 3: Worth 10%
Here I would expect to see the data and calculations for the Gross Profit Percentage, the Inventory Turnover and the Days Sales in Inventory for each of the 5 years.
Requirement 4: Worth 30%
Here I would expect to see the data and calculations for the Debt Ratio, Debt to Equity Ratio, Times Interest Earned Ratio, Current Ratio, and Quick Ratio for each of the 5 years.
Requirement 5: Worth 10%
Here I would expect to see the data and calculation of the Dividend Payout Ratio for each year.
Analysis Requirement: Worth 10%
Write an analysis of not more than one page that touches on each ratio trend calculated (whether it is positive or negative) and incorporate these trends into a final recommendation for whether you feel this firm would be a good investment or not.
This assignment is due by 11:59 PM Eastern time on May 3rd. No Late assignments will be accepted.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Points: 280
Assignment 1: Developing a Public Relations Plan, Part 1
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. State the name of the orga ...
PAD 631 Module Six Memo Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: This activity will allow you to practice making recommendations, which is a skill needed for the final project.
Prompt: Making recommendations is an important component of the final project. This assignment allows you to practice making recommendations. In order to
prepare for this assignment, view the video How to Analyze a Case Study. Then, examine the case study Artesanias de Colombia. What best practices led to
program success? Use the provided Memo Template and format your submission as you would a memo to an organization.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Program Success: Identify program outcomes and best practices, and, based on the measures used to evaluate them, explain which best practices
decision makers could implement to enhance the likelihood of program success.
Overcoming Constraints: How effective were the strategic management processes used to overcome the constraints they faced?
Organizational Success: Explain how governmental and nonprofit agencies can improve organizational success by best utilizing the principles of
benchmarking, best practices, and comparative governmental performance.
Customer Service: Recommend a strategy to mitigate the impact of the challenge of providing effective and efficient customer service. Justify your
recommendation.
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted using the Memo Template Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New
Roman font, and sources cited in APA format.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Program Success Determines appropriate best practices
decision makers could implement to
enhance likelihood of program success,
based on measures used to evaluate
program outcomes and best practices
identification
Determines best practices decision
makers could implement but practices
are not appropriate for enhancing
likelihood of program success or are
not based on measures used to
evaluate program outcomes and best
practices identification
Does not determine best practices
decision makers could implement
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Overcoming Constraints Assesses effectiveness of strategic
management processes used by the
organization to overcome constraints
Assesses effectiveness of strategic
management processes used by the
organization to overcome constraints
but assessment is cursory or inaccurate
Does not assess effectiveness of
strategic management processes used
by the organization to overcome
constraints
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Organizational Success Explains how governmental and
nonprofit agencies can improve
organizational success by best utilizing
the principles of benchmarking, best
practices, and comparative
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Two GCU library scholarly databases that will help me find the best research articles for my proposal are two databases that I appreciate, and currently use often: CINAHL Complete and PubMed. I like CINAHL Complete because it is quite specific to nursing. It also provides many full text articles free of charge, which is unfortunately not that common. Some databases provide only abstracts, and some require one to purchase the article (which can be 50 dollars!). I like PubMed because it has a wide array of health science articles that are peer-reviewed, but often have language that is easier to understand. PubMed is also quite user friendly.
These two databases are better than Google Scholar and/or a general internet search, for several reasons. While Google Scholar provides scholarly articles, it can sometimes be difficult to limit the search. Inexperienced users an easily become overwhelmed with the amount of data the search returns. A general internet search is not only daunting in terms of qualified research, but can be dangerous as well: Wikipedia sources, the evil of internet research, are often returned with general internet searches. Anyone can post on Wikipedia (and the internet in general). Scholarly databases are the safe way to go: safe for the researcher, and safe for the patients under the researcher’s
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3
Strategies That Facilitate Influencing Power
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc Company
STRATEGIES THAT FACILITATE INFLUENCING POWER
Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has always provided quality service to its clients but the adoption of an online drugstore is a project that could make the services even better. However, various measures have to be put into place to facilitate the success of the project.
Strategies to Adapt Organizational Change
To adopt the online marketing and networking with customers then the Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has to undergo some organizational change. Though the internet is the Internet could enable profound changes in the nature and structure of the healthcare industry and, ultimately, the delivery of healthcare services its adaptions should be strategic. First, there is need to carry out the change in phases with the start-up phase being clarifying the expectations and roles, assessing readiness, contracts and getting buy-in. In this phase is usually where the relationship between you (the initial change agent) and your client starts, whether you are an external or internal consultant. This means that Acel has to establish who its clients actually are, define the project conduct field research on the opinions of the customers after which they have to make the customers feel the problem at hand and the need to adopt this new technology which is aimed at making things better. It is important that the change agent should have good communication skills both verbal and non-verbal and a good listener.
Second in line is a jo.
Assignment 2 Needs AssessmentDue Week 5 and worth 175 points.docxjosephinepaterson7611
Assignment 2: Needs Assessment
Due Week 5 and worth 175 points
You and your assigned classmate(s) have formed a human resource consulting company. You have been hired to provide training to the sales force for an automobile dealership. As part of your preparation for this consulting engagement, you and your team members must determine how best to approach the automobile dealership to engage the interest of the decision makers. Your part of this assignment is to propose the types of needs assessment tools that could be used to determine how to design and develop the automobile dealerships training programs. These could include software, models, or analysis methods. Once you complete your need assessment, you must now meet with the owner of the dealership to discuss the needs assessment. Do Not Create a Training Program!!!
From the perspective of a team member, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1. Prepare, in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. (You will use a hierarchical topic and sentence outline for this paper only.)
Review chapter 4 on needs assessments. It discusses different types of assessments. Select the best one(s) to use to gather information. Keep in mind that you are trying to find out the organizations needs related to their sale force. Hence, you need to outline the method you are going to use to gather information and make a recommendation to management on what type of training may be required. Use this information in conjunction with your research from the week 3 discussion.
2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and discuss how you will overcome them.
The text also discusses obstacles to conducting needs assessments such as time, cost, leadership buy-in, employee willingness to participate. The most common are time to conduct a thorough assessment and cost. You should mention the others briefly as supporting information.
3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field.
Feasibility is the likelihood your process would happen in this industry. Is your process a standard practice?
4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver.
Your goal here is to answer what can happen if you develop training without understanding the training needs and why it is important to determine the issues correctly to avoid wasting time and money, in addition to not solving the problem. Remember you are training the sales force but the training may not be sales related it could be a process, time management, or low morale. This is what your consulting company has been hired to find out.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Two resources in addition to your textbook for maximum points.
Review the week 3 discussion thread where you can find other types of needs assessment processes. If.
Assignment 2 Needs AssessmentDue Week 5 and worth 175 points.docxbraycarissa250
Assignment 2: Needs Assessment
Due Week 5 and worth 175 points
You and your assigned classmate(s) have formed a human resource consulting company. You have been hired to provide training to the sales force for an automobile dealership. As part of your preparation for this consulting engagement, you and your team members must determine how best to approach the automobile dealership to engage the interest of the decision makers. Your part of this assignment is to propose the types of needs assessment tools that could be used to determine how to design and develop the automobile dealerships training programs. These could include software, models, or analysis methods. Once you complete your need assessment, you must now meet with the owner of the dealership to discuss the needs assessment. Do Not Create a Training Program!!!
From the perspective of a team member, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1. Prepare, in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. (You will use a hierarchical topic and sentence outline for this paper only.)
Review chapter 4 on needs assessments. It discusses different types of assessments. Select the best one(s) to use to gather information. Keep in mind that you are trying to find out the organizations needs related to their sale force. Hence, you need to outline the method you are going to use to gather information and make a recommendation to management on what type of training may be required. Use this information in conjunction with your research from the week 3 discussion.
2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and discuss how you will overcome them.
The text also discusses obstacles to conducting needs assessments such as time, cost, leadership buy-in, employee willingness to participate. The most common are time to conduct a thorough assessment and cost. You should mention the others briefly as supporting information.
3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field.
Feasibility is the likelihood your process would happen in this industry. Is your process a standard practice?
4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver.
Your goal here is to answer what can happen if you develop training without understanding the training needs and why it is important to determine the issues correctly to avoid wasting time and money, in addition to not solving the problem. Remember you are training the sales force but the training may not be sales related it could be a process, time management, or low morale. This is what your consulting company has been hired to find out.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Two resources in addition to your textbook for maximum points.
Review the week 3 discussion thread where you can find other types of needs assessment processes. If ...
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Week 8 Assignment 2 Submission
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Assignment 2: Compensation Plan Outline
Using the same company you researched in Assignment 1, evaluate the company’s compensation plan to determine how it could be improved.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
· Evaluate the existing compensation plan to determine if it is the most appropriate for your company. Explain your rationale.
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· Determine the most beneficial ratio of internally consistent and market consistent compensations systems for the company you selected.
· Evaluate the current pay structure used by your company and assess the recognition of employee contributions.
· Make two (2) recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the discretionary benefits provided by the company you selected.
· Evaluate the types of employer-sponsored retirement plans and health insurance programs provided by the company you selected and compare them to that company’s major competitors.
· Use at least three (3) quality references. 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; 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 page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Evaluate the effectiveness of traditional bases for pay (seniority and merit) against incentive-based and person-focused compensation approaches.
· Compare and contrast internally consistent and market-competitive compensation systems.
· Evaluate the role of benefits in strategic compensation.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in compensation management.
· Write clearly and concisely about compensation management using proper writing mechanics.
The assignment will be graded using the following rubric:
Points: 300
Assignment 2: Compensation Plan Outline
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Evaluate the existing compensation plan to determine if it is the most appropriate for your company. Explain your rationale.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely evaluated the existing compensation plan to determine if it is the most appropriate for your company. Did not submit or incompletely explained your rationale.
Insufficiently.
1- Business Case Template comments For this assignment you wer.docxjeremylockett77
1- Business Case Template comments
For this assignment you were to develop a business case template for a social relevant project in collaboration with your team. The template should be the same template of every member of your group.
Although you had good discussion in the group discussion board and have similar components of the Business Case Template, you each submitted a different format. It is important to read and follow direction. This is a critical skill for the project manager to manage the scope of the project.
Your description of the purposes of the business case reflected a good understanding of the role in developing business case template to represents the value of the project to the organization.
You discussed background (an important component)
Climate change (this is true only if the project is designed to address climate change). A larger aspect might include the impact of the project on society, called a social impact analysis that addresses impact to people, plant, as well as profit.
You discussed purchasing. I do not see the connection to purchasing and the justification of the project.
Benefits and values are two separate concepts. Benefits is one of the baseline components that should be addressed in the business case. Values can also be a component but needs more explanation.
The ROI is a critical business case component.
You may want to review the ideas submitted in the group discussion for additional items or changes in your project business case. For example; Delvin suggested components that you might want to consider.
2- Project Concept Paper Comments:
Your project appears to be a socially relevant project although more definition is needed for your project. It appears that your project will develop a new business that serves the dairy farmers in a specific region by providing specific services that will allow the dairy farmers to take advantage of collective action.
Your project objectives a quick market for dairy products. This sounds like the new organization or new company that the project will create will purchase the milk from the farmers. It also appears that the facility that you will build or create for milk storage will be a significant improvement and offer increased safety and quality.
Under your project outcomes, you indicate that the project will offer milk storage services. Does this mean you will build a storage facility or there is some other means of storing milk? You also indicated that the new organization will market and sell the milk. It appears that the organization may have already developed a reliable buyer the new organization will not need to develop a market for their product.
You indicated that the project benefit would include new job opportunities. You did not indicate how many jobs will be developed. It is important to be specific in these areas. You indicated that the project was also generate revenues. It is important to include a revenue and cost projection ...
Assignment 1 LASA 2—Company Analysis ReportReview the following.docxtrippettjettie
Assignment 1: LASA 2—Company Analysis Report
Review the following scenario:
Assume that you have recently been hired as the director of continuous improvement of a company. You are an outside hire with limited history of the firm and personal capital at the firm, and you are responsible for lean production, total quality management (TQM), six sigma, and best practice implementation.
Lean production means doing more with less, such as less inventory, fewer workers, or less space. A recent trade in quality management is lean six sigma (also known as lean sigma) that integrates six sigma and lean production.
The capacity for which you were hired has existed for three years with a direct line of report to the vice-president of operations and dotted line of report to the head of information technology (IT), the chief information officer (CIO), and the director of internal controls and audit. You are the second person to fill in this position. You have a team of internal consultants; half of your team has six sigma black belt or equivalent capabilities with the remainder having a solid understanding of operations and IT. You also have a budget for two external vendor resources.
You have taken six months to familiarize yourself with the organization and its people, mission, goals, strategy, and structure. In this time, you have also evaluated current operations. At the end of this period, you are assigned to deliver a report identifying the three most promising avenues for achieving best practices within the company. You have already been told that the company suffers from both aging and complex information systems and that your recommendation must include a major upgrade of those systems. The executive officers anticipate major investments in IT over the next several years. Your best practice implementations, coupled with new technology, must be measurable in terms of speed, quality, productivity, and efficiency or other key performance indicators that you identify in your report.
For this assignment, you will choose a company with which you are familiar. You are encouraged to choose a company for which you currently work or have worked, but you may choose some other firm if you believe it will be a compelling analysis.
You may choose one area of the company, such as a manufacturing plant or product design, to focus on if you can make a strong case. Your recommendations should have the following features.
· Repeatable: If you “fix” three things in a manufacturing plant, you should be able to tackle the “next” three in iteration.
· Scalable: If they work in one plant, they should work in all of them.
· Replicable: Your process for improvement should be repeatable in different, disparate parts of the organization.
This is a key initiative at the “C” level, and your recommendation will reach the board of directors.
Your paper must include the following sections:
1. Strategic Overview: (1 page)
Provide a brief description of the following elements:
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Discussion QuestionsQuestion 1 (200 words minimum)The LyndonPelletier761
Discussion Questions
Question 1 (200 words minimum)
The value of a common stock is based on the present value of the future cash flows that will accrue to that stock. Of course, the present value calculation necessarily involves the use of a required rate of return (a discount rate) which reflects the risk. The textbook indicates that “To some extent, the two concepts of P/E ratios and dividend valuation models can be brought together. A stock that has a high required rate of return (Ke) because it’s risky will generally have a low P/E ratio. Similarly, a stock with a low required rate of return (Ke) because of the predictability of positive future performance will normally have a high P/E ratio” (Block et al, p. 322). In this discussion, you will examine the relationship between a stock’s required rate of return and its P/E ratio.
Initial Response:
For this discussion forum,
· Watch the video, Dividend Discount Model (DDM) (Links to an external site.).
· Select a publicly traded company that pays dividends. You may select any publicly traded company that pays dividends, or choose one of the companies discussed in 65 Best Dividend Stocks You Can Count On in 2021 (Links to an external site.).
· Determine the most recent stock price and the total dividends paid over the past year.
· Calculate the current dividend yield on the stock.
· Calculate the required rate of return (Ke) for an investment in the common stock. You should use formula 10-9 in the textbook to do this calculation and use an assumed growth rate of 5%.
· Identify the current P/E ratio for the company from a source such as Yahoo! Finance or Barron’s.
In your post,
· Show your calculations of the dividend yield and required rate of return (Ke), and present the P/E ratio.
· Explain the relationship between your chosen company’s Ke and P/E ratio and what that relationship indicates about the risk of the company’s future cash flows.
· Explain whether the general relationship between a high Ke and a low P/E ratio (or low Ke and high P/E ratio) is supported by the data for your chosen publicly traded company.
· Predict the impact on the company’s stock price based on your forecast that the company will grow its dividends by a rate higher than 5%.
· Compare your company’s P/E ratio with the P/E ratios of two other companies in its industry.
· Hypothesize which company in this industry should have the lowest Ke based on the P/E comparisons.
· Summarize the connection between a company’s growth rate, its required rate of return, and its value (stock price).
Your initial response should be a minimum of 200 words. Graduate school students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly and/or credible resource in addition to the text.
Question 2 (200 words minimum)
In your initial post, discuss five MBA graduates with interesting career titles and explain their current role based on their LinkedIn profile details. You do not need t ...
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You have been asked to explain the differences between certain categories of crimes. For each of the following categories of crime, provide a general definition of the category of crime and give at least two detailed examples of specific crimes that fall into each category:
Crimes against persons
Crimes against property
Crimes of public morality
White-collar crime
Cyber crime
Then for the following scenarios, discuss the categories of crimes involved in each scenario and explain the specific criminal charges that you would apply to each scenario. You can utilize the Library, Internet and other resources to research the criminal statutes of a state of your choice in order to help you determine which criminal charges should be applied:
David S. was running around a public park without his clothes on, singing and shouting loudly, at 3 in the morning. Police arrived after neighbors called to complain. They saw David S. tipping over a garbage can and when they shouted for him to stop, he threw the garbage can into a car, breaking one of its side windows. The police arrested David S, His blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit.
Gary M. was arrested by the FBI when he showed up at a local mall to meet a "14 year old girl" for a date, which he arranged over the Internet. He didn't know that the "14 year old girl" was actually a 35-year old male FBI agent.
Elaine R. was an accountant working for a large corporation. She had been falsifying the accounting records and sending some of the corporate funds to her own bank accounts in an offshore bank. The corporation found out what she had been doing and reported her to the police.
Please submit your assignment.
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You have been asked to help secure the information system and users against hacking attempts. Complete the following:
Take this opportunity to describe the 4 different approaches and techniques a hacker would use to steal the organization's data.
For each approach, discuss what methods can be used to circumvent the attack, prevent it, or minimize the disruption caused by the event.
Include 2–3 pages of material covering the 3 discussion areas in Section 5 of your Key Assignment document (including the completed previous 4 sections).
social engineering,dumpster diving,identify theft,cyberterrorist
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You have been asked to participate in a local radio program to address the role of corrections in the community. The audience is specifically interested in discussing whether corrections should be focused on one or all of the following functions:
Rehabilitation of offenders
Punishment of offenders
Isolation of chronic offenders
After carefully considering available information and points of view on the subject, decide which role you believe should be the focus of the community's corrections policy. To prepare for the program, create 5 questions you believe callers may ask. Explain your point of view on the role of corrections in the criminal justice system to each of the questions asked, and draw a connection to the topic you are researching for this course. How do issues in corrections correlate with the topic you are researching?
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You choose one and I will upload the materials for u.
Choose 1 of the following 3 questions, and answer it in a paper of no more than 1000 words. Submit that paper by
November 4
at midnight PST in the appropriate IICS515 Moodle dropbox.
4. Monday October 27 lecture
Themes: Global Media Governance and Regulation; The Internet and Digital Media
Readings: Chapter 5, “The Medium: Global Technologies and Organizations,” and Chapter 6, “The Internet”
In this lecture, we discussed the definition and history of communication rights as one element or dimension of communication policy, and used it to bring to life a subject—policy—that sometimes seems abstract and technical in nature.
In doing so, we noted the evolution from a “negative” rights view of communication rights, as expressed in Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, to the more “positive” definition of communication rights explained in the lecture content derived from the work of Marc Raboy (and Jeremy Shtern).
Remember that “negative” does not mean “bad” here nor “positive” good. “Negative” and “positive” rights—which are ways of thinking about all human rights, not just communication rights—are instead ways of characterizing the orientation of rights toward individuals and society. Negative rights are defined in terms of freedom
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In your paper, and in your own words, define “communication rights,” and then briefly explain the evolution from the negative to the positive rights approach to communication rights.
Once you have done that, and with reference to the cyberbullying pamphlet from the Canadian government attached to your lecture notes, demonstrate how a “positive” rights approach to communication rights can help us better understand and prevent cyberbullying. In other words, what are the limitations of approaching cyberbullying from a “negative” rights perspective, and what does a “positive” approach to communication rights do to help us understand and perhaps act against cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is a problem in international communication that affects many, especially vulnerable teenagers, as illustrated in the case of the late Amanda Todd (from British Columbia).
You do not need to use the McPhail chapter here, as it is not directly relevant to this question. Rather, draw on the lecture notes and the podcast as your sources here.
5. Wednesday October 29 lecture
Themes: Global Media Case Study in Media and the Arab World; Orientalism
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You are Incident Commander and
principal planner for the DRNC event. As you commence the planning process, consider the two fundamental types of error committed by policy makers in their reliance on intelligence reports to formulate policy. What would you do to minimize these errors from occurring and adversely affecting your policy decisions?
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Cryptographic Tunneling and the OSI Model
Write a paper consisting of 500-1,000 words (double-spaced) on the security effects of cryptographic tunneling based on an understanding of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) model (Review the OSI Simulation in the Week 3 Lecture).
Provide input on the type of cryptographic tunneling protocols (e.g., L2TP, IPSEC, SSL, etc.) that may be used, the layer(s) of the OSI at which each operates, and also recommend how they may be implemented. Cryptographic tunneling is inherent in building any common virtual private network (VPN).
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You are working as a behavioral health specialist in a neurological research center and are responsible for participant education. There are three participants to choose from: Stephanie has experienced a stroke; Jamie has experienced an amputation; and Robert has experienced a traumatic brain injury. Choose one participant to work with.
We are chosing Robert and his traumatic brain injury
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Project 2 Instructions and Grading Rubric
Project 2 will consist of completing the Comprehensive Problem for Chapter 15 which can be found on page 951 of the text. You are asked to calculate a series of ratios and utilize these figures in a variety of analysis to determine the viability of this firm as a sound investment. You can use either Excel or Word to create and submit your data. No other file formats are permitted. (You must show all the supporting data and the calculation used for each ratio. If you just turn in the ratios without support for how you got them, you will receive a zero for that portion of the assignment). Listed below you will find hints on how to lay out the data. Use these hints, plus the grading rubric listed below to complete your assignment. This project is worth 12.5% of your course grade, so I suggest you give it the attention it deserves for the best possible score.
In each of requirements 1-5 you will create a table of data. At the top of each column of data you should list the years. Since 2014 is the base year in each case you should have the year 2018 as the first column after the description of the row and the last column should be the year 2014.
Sample:
Item Description
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Requirement 1: Worth 20%
Here you should have listed net revenues and the trend percentage for each and then Net Earnings and the trend percentage for each.
Sample:
Item Description
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Total Net Revenues
Trend Percentages
Net Earnings
Trend Percentages
Requirement 2: Worth 10%
Here I would expect to see the 2 components that make up the profit margin followed by the Profit Margin Ration itself.
Requirement 3: Worth 10%
Here I would expect to see the data and calculations for the Gross Profit Percentage, the Inventory Turnover and the Days Sales in Inventory for each of the 5 years.
Requirement 4: Worth 30%
Here I would expect to see the data and calculations for the Debt Ratio, Debt to Equity Ratio, Times Interest Earned Ratio, Current Ratio, and Quick Ratio for each of the 5 years.
Requirement 5: Worth 10%
Here I would expect to see the data and calculation of the Dividend Payout Ratio for each year.
Analysis Requirement: Worth 10%
Write an analysis of not more than one page that touches on each ratio trend calculated (whether it is positive or negative) and incorporate these trends into a final recommendation for whether you feel this firm would be a good investment or not.
This assignment is due by 11:59 PM Eastern time on May 3rd. No Late assignments will be accepted.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Points: 280
Assignment 1: Developing a Public Relations Plan, Part 1
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. State the name of the orga ...
PAD 631 Module Six Memo Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: This activity will allow you to practice making recommendations, which is a skill needed for the final project.
Prompt: Making recommendations is an important component of the final project. This assignment allows you to practice making recommendations. In order to
prepare for this assignment, view the video How to Analyze a Case Study. Then, examine the case study Artesanias de Colombia. What best practices led to
program success? Use the provided Memo Template and format your submission as you would a memo to an organization.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Program Success: Identify program outcomes and best practices, and, based on the measures used to evaluate them, explain which best practices
decision makers could implement to enhance the likelihood of program success.
Overcoming Constraints: How effective were the strategic management processes used to overcome the constraints they faced?
Organizational Success: Explain how governmental and nonprofit agencies can improve organizational success by best utilizing the principles of
benchmarking, best practices, and comparative governmental performance.
Customer Service: Recommend a strategy to mitigate the impact of the challenge of providing effective and efficient customer service. Justify your
recommendation.
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted using the Memo Template Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New
Roman font, and sources cited in APA format.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Program Success Determines appropriate best practices
decision makers could implement to
enhance likelihood of program success,
based on measures used to evaluate
program outcomes and best practices
identification
Determines best practices decision
makers could implement but practices
are not appropriate for enhancing
likelihood of program success or are
not based on measures used to
evaluate program outcomes and best
practices identification
Does not determine best practices
decision makers could implement
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Overcoming Constraints Assesses effectiveness of strategic
management processes used by the
organization to overcome constraints
Assesses effectiveness of strategic
management processes used by the
organization to overcome constraints
but assessment is cursory or inaccurate
Does not assess effectiveness of
strategic management processes used
by the organization to overcome
constraints
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Organizational Success Explains how governmental and
nonprofit agencies can improve
organizational success by best utilizing
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Two GCU library scholarly databases that will help me find the best research articles for my proposal are two databases that I appreciate, and currently use often: CINAHL Complete and PubMed. I like CINAHL Complete because it is quite specific to nursing. It also provides many full text articles free of charge, which is unfortunately not that common. Some databases provide only abstracts, and some require one to purchase the article (which can be 50 dollars!). I like PubMed because it has a wide array of health science articles that are peer-reviewed, but often have language that is easier to understand. PubMed is also quite user friendly.
These two databases are better than Google Scholar and/or a general internet search, for several reasons. While Google Scholar provides scholarly articles, it can sometimes be difficult to limit the search. Inexperienced users an easily become overwhelmed with the amount of data the search returns. A general internet search is not only daunting in terms of qualified research, but can be dangerous as well: Wikipedia sources, the evil of internet research, are often returned with general internet searches. Anyone can post on Wikipedia (and the internet in general). Scholarly databases are the safe way to go: safe for the researcher, and safe for the patients under the researcher’s
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Strategies That Facilitate Influencing Power
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc Company
STRATEGIES THAT FACILITATE INFLUENCING POWER
Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has always provided quality service to its clients but the adoption of an online drugstore is a project that could make the services even better. However, various measures have to be put into place to facilitate the success of the project.
Strategies to Adapt Organizational Change
To adopt the online marketing and networking with customers then the Acel Rx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has to undergo some organizational change. Though the internet is the Internet could enable profound changes in the nature and structure of the healthcare industry and, ultimately, the delivery of healthcare services its adaptions should be strategic. First, there is need to carry out the change in phases with the start-up phase being clarifying the expectations and roles, assessing readiness, contracts and getting buy-in. In this phase is usually where the relationship between you (the initial change agent) and your client starts, whether you are an external or internal consultant. This means that Acel has to establish who its clients actually are, define the project conduct field research on the opinions of the customers after which they have to make the customers feel the problem at hand and the need to adopt this new technology which is aimed at making things better. It is important that the change agent should have good communication skills both verbal and non-verbal and a good listener.
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Assignment 2 Needs AssessmentDue Week 5 and worth 175 points.docxjosephinepaterson7611
Assignment 2: Needs Assessment
Due Week 5 and worth 175 points
You and your assigned classmate(s) have formed a human resource consulting company. You have been hired to provide training to the sales force for an automobile dealership. As part of your preparation for this consulting engagement, you and your team members must determine how best to approach the automobile dealership to engage the interest of the decision makers. Your part of this assignment is to propose the types of needs assessment tools that could be used to determine how to design and develop the automobile dealerships training programs. These could include software, models, or analysis methods. Once you complete your need assessment, you must now meet with the owner of the dealership to discuss the needs assessment. Do Not Create a Training Program!!!
From the perspective of a team member, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1. Prepare, in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. (You will use a hierarchical topic and sentence outline for this paper only.)
Review chapter 4 on needs assessments. It discusses different types of assessments. Select the best one(s) to use to gather information. Keep in mind that you are trying to find out the organizations needs related to their sale force. Hence, you need to outline the method you are going to use to gather information and make a recommendation to management on what type of training may be required. Use this information in conjunction with your research from the week 3 discussion.
2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and discuss how you will overcome them.
The text also discusses obstacles to conducting needs assessments such as time, cost, leadership buy-in, employee willingness to participate. The most common are time to conduct a thorough assessment and cost. You should mention the others briefly as supporting information.
3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field.
Feasibility is the likelihood your process would happen in this industry. Is your process a standard practice?
4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver.
Your goal here is to answer what can happen if you develop training without understanding the training needs and why it is important to determine the issues correctly to avoid wasting time and money, in addition to not solving the problem. Remember you are training the sales force but the training may not be sales related it could be a process, time management, or low morale. This is what your consulting company has been hired to find out.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Two resources in addition to your textbook for maximum points.
Review the week 3 discussion thread where you can find other types of needs assessment processes. If.
Assignment 2 Needs AssessmentDue Week 5 and worth 175 points.docxbraycarissa250
Assignment 2: Needs Assessment
Due Week 5 and worth 175 points
You and your assigned classmate(s) have formed a human resource consulting company. You have been hired to provide training to the sales force for an automobile dealership. As part of your preparation for this consulting engagement, you and your team members must determine how best to approach the automobile dealership to engage the interest of the decision makers. Your part of this assignment is to propose the types of needs assessment tools that could be used to determine how to design and develop the automobile dealerships training programs. These could include software, models, or analysis methods. Once you complete your need assessment, you must now meet with the owner of the dealership to discuss the needs assessment. Do Not Create a Training Program!!!
From the perspective of a team member, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1. Prepare, in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. (You will use a hierarchical topic and sentence outline for this paper only.)
Review chapter 4 on needs assessments. It discusses different types of assessments. Select the best one(s) to use to gather information. Keep in mind that you are trying to find out the organizations needs related to their sale force. Hence, you need to outline the method you are going to use to gather information and make a recommendation to management on what type of training may be required. Use this information in conjunction with your research from the week 3 discussion.
2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and discuss how you will overcome them.
The text also discusses obstacles to conducting needs assessments such as time, cost, leadership buy-in, employee willingness to participate. The most common are time to conduct a thorough assessment and cost. You should mention the others briefly as supporting information.
3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field.
Feasibility is the likelihood your process would happen in this industry. Is your process a standard practice?
4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver.
Your goal here is to answer what can happen if you develop training without understanding the training needs and why it is important to determine the issues correctly to avoid wasting time and money, in addition to not solving the problem. Remember you are training the sales force but the training may not be sales related it could be a process, time management, or low morale. This is what your consulting company has been hired to find out.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Two resources in addition to your textbook for maximum points.
Review the week 3 discussion thread where you can find other types of needs assessment processes. If ...
Week 8 Assignment 2 SubmissionIf you are using the Blackboard Mo.docxmelbruce90096
Week 8 Assignment 2 Submission
If you are using the Blackboard Mobile Learn App, please click "View in Browser".
Click the link above to submit your assignment.
Students, please view the "Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment" in the Student Center.
Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.
Assignment 2: Compensation Plan Outline
Using the same company you researched in Assignment 1, evaluate the company’s compensation plan to determine how it could be improved.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
· Evaluate the existing compensation plan to determine if it is the most appropriate for your company. Explain your rationale.
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· Determine the most beneficial ratio of internally consistent and market consistent compensations systems for the company you selected.
· Evaluate the current pay structure used by your company and assess the recognition of employee contributions.
· Make two (2) recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the discretionary benefits provided by the company you selected.
· Evaluate the types of employer-sponsored retirement plans and health insurance programs provided by the company you selected and compare them to that company’s major competitors.
· Use at least three (3) quality references. 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; 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 page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Evaluate the effectiveness of traditional bases for pay (seniority and merit) against incentive-based and person-focused compensation approaches.
· Compare and contrast internally consistent and market-competitive compensation systems.
· Evaluate the role of benefits in strategic compensation.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in compensation management.
· Write clearly and concisely about compensation management using proper writing mechanics.
The assignment will be graded using the following rubric:
Points: 300
Assignment 2: Compensation Plan Outline
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Evaluate the existing compensation plan to determine if it is the most appropriate for your company. Explain your rationale.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely evaluated the existing compensation plan to determine if it is the most appropriate for your company. Did not submit or incompletely explained your rationale.
Insufficiently.
1- Business Case Template comments For this assignment you wer.docxjeremylockett77
1- Business Case Template comments
For this assignment you were to develop a business case template for a social relevant project in collaboration with your team. The template should be the same template of every member of your group.
Although you had good discussion in the group discussion board and have similar components of the Business Case Template, you each submitted a different format. It is important to read and follow direction. This is a critical skill for the project manager to manage the scope of the project.
Your description of the purposes of the business case reflected a good understanding of the role in developing business case template to represents the value of the project to the organization.
You discussed background (an important component)
Climate change (this is true only if the project is designed to address climate change). A larger aspect might include the impact of the project on society, called a social impact analysis that addresses impact to people, plant, as well as profit.
You discussed purchasing. I do not see the connection to purchasing and the justification of the project.
Benefits and values are two separate concepts. Benefits is one of the baseline components that should be addressed in the business case. Values can also be a component but needs more explanation.
The ROI is a critical business case component.
You may want to review the ideas submitted in the group discussion for additional items or changes in your project business case. For example; Delvin suggested components that you might want to consider.
2- Project Concept Paper Comments:
Your project appears to be a socially relevant project although more definition is needed for your project. It appears that your project will develop a new business that serves the dairy farmers in a specific region by providing specific services that will allow the dairy farmers to take advantage of collective action.
Your project objectives a quick market for dairy products. This sounds like the new organization or new company that the project will create will purchase the milk from the farmers. It also appears that the facility that you will build or create for milk storage will be a significant improvement and offer increased safety and quality.
Under your project outcomes, you indicate that the project will offer milk storage services. Does this mean you will build a storage facility or there is some other means of storing milk? You also indicated that the new organization will market and sell the milk. It appears that the organization may have already developed a reliable buyer the new organization will not need to develop a market for their product.
You indicated that the project benefit would include new job opportunities. You did not indicate how many jobs will be developed. It is important to be specific in these areas. You indicated that the project was also generate revenues. It is important to include a revenue and cost projection ...
Assignment 1 LASA 2—Company Analysis ReportReview the following.docxtrippettjettie
Assignment 1: LASA 2—Company Analysis Report
Review the following scenario:
Assume that you have recently been hired as the director of continuous improvement of a company. You are an outside hire with limited history of the firm and personal capital at the firm, and you are responsible for lean production, total quality management (TQM), six sigma, and best practice implementation.
Lean production means doing more with less, such as less inventory, fewer workers, or less space. A recent trade in quality management is lean six sigma (also known as lean sigma) that integrates six sigma and lean production.
The capacity for which you were hired has existed for three years with a direct line of report to the vice-president of operations and dotted line of report to the head of information technology (IT), the chief information officer (CIO), and the director of internal controls and audit. You are the second person to fill in this position. You have a team of internal consultants; half of your team has six sigma black belt or equivalent capabilities with the remainder having a solid understanding of operations and IT. You also have a budget for two external vendor resources.
You have taken six months to familiarize yourself with the organization and its people, mission, goals, strategy, and structure. In this time, you have also evaluated current operations. At the end of this period, you are assigned to deliver a report identifying the three most promising avenues for achieving best practices within the company. You have already been told that the company suffers from both aging and complex information systems and that your recommendation must include a major upgrade of those systems. The executive officers anticipate major investments in IT over the next several years. Your best practice implementations, coupled with new technology, must be measurable in terms of speed, quality, productivity, and efficiency or other key performance indicators that you identify in your report.
For this assignment, you will choose a company with which you are familiar. You are encouraged to choose a company for which you currently work or have worked, but you may choose some other firm if you believe it will be a compelling analysis.
You may choose one area of the company, such as a manufacturing plant or product design, to focus on if you can make a strong case. Your recommendations should have the following features.
· Repeatable: If you “fix” three things in a manufacturing plant, you should be able to tackle the “next” three in iteration.
· Scalable: If they work in one plant, they should work in all of them.
· Replicable: Your process for improvement should be repeatable in different, disparate parts of the organization.
This is a key initiative at the “C” level, and your recommendation will reach the board of directors.
Your paper must include the following sections:
1. Strategic Overview: (1 page)
Provide a brief description of the following elements:
a. ...
Discussion QuestionsQuestion 1 (200 words minimum)The LyndonPelletier761
Discussion Questions
Question 1 (200 words minimum)
The value of a common stock is based on the present value of the future cash flows that will accrue to that stock. Of course, the present value calculation necessarily involves the use of a required rate of return (a discount rate) which reflects the risk. The textbook indicates that “To some extent, the two concepts of P/E ratios and dividend valuation models can be brought together. A stock that has a high required rate of return (Ke) because it’s risky will generally have a low P/E ratio. Similarly, a stock with a low required rate of return (Ke) because of the predictability of positive future performance will normally have a high P/E ratio” (Block et al, p. 322). In this discussion, you will examine the relationship between a stock’s required rate of return and its P/E ratio.
Initial Response:
For this discussion forum,
· Watch the video, Dividend Discount Model (DDM) (Links to an external site.).
· Select a publicly traded company that pays dividends. You may select any publicly traded company that pays dividends, or choose one of the companies discussed in 65 Best Dividend Stocks You Can Count On in 2021 (Links to an external site.).
· Determine the most recent stock price and the total dividends paid over the past year.
· Calculate the current dividend yield on the stock.
· Calculate the required rate of return (Ke) for an investment in the common stock. You should use formula 10-9 in the textbook to do this calculation and use an assumed growth rate of 5%.
· Identify the current P/E ratio for the company from a source such as Yahoo! Finance or Barron’s.
In your post,
· Show your calculations of the dividend yield and required rate of return (Ke), and present the P/E ratio.
· Explain the relationship between your chosen company’s Ke and P/E ratio and what that relationship indicates about the risk of the company’s future cash flows.
· Explain whether the general relationship between a high Ke and a low P/E ratio (or low Ke and high P/E ratio) is supported by the data for your chosen publicly traded company.
· Predict the impact on the company’s stock price based on your forecast that the company will grow its dividends by a rate higher than 5%.
· Compare your company’s P/E ratio with the P/E ratios of two other companies in its industry.
· Hypothesize which company in this industry should have the lowest Ke based on the P/E comparisons.
· Summarize the connection between a company’s growth rate, its required rate of return, and its value (stock price).
Your initial response should be a minimum of 200 words. Graduate school students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly and/or credible resource in addition to the text.
Question 2 (200 words minimum)
In your initial post, discuss five MBA graduates with interesting career titles and explain their current role based on their LinkedIn profile details. You do not need t ...
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You have been asked to explain the differences between certain categories of crimes. For each of the following categories of crime, provide a general definition of the category of crime and give at least two detailed examples of specific crimes that fall into each category:
Crimes against persons
Crimes against property
Crimes of public morality
White-collar crime
Cyber crime
Then for the following scenarios, discuss the categories of crimes involved in each scenario and explain the specific criminal charges that you would apply to each scenario. You can utilize the Library, Internet and other resources to research the criminal statutes of a state of your choice in order to help you determine which criminal charges should be applied:
David S. was running around a public park without his clothes on, singing and shouting loudly, at 3 in the morning. Police arrived after neighbors called to complain. They saw David S. tipping over a garbage can and when they shouted for him to stop, he threw the garbage can into a car, breaking one of its side windows. The police arrested David S, His blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit.
Gary M. was arrested by the FBI when he showed up at a local mall to meet a "14 year old girl" for a date, which he arranged over the Internet. He didn't know that the "14 year old girl" was actually a 35-year old male FBI agent.
Elaine R. was an accountant working for a large corporation. She had been falsifying the accounting records and sending some of the corporate funds to her own bank accounts in an offshore bank. The corporation found out what she had been doing and reported her to the police.
Please submit your assignment.
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You have been asked to help secure the information system and users against hacking attempts. Complete the following:
Take this opportunity to describe the 4 different approaches and techniques a hacker would use to steal the organization's data.
For each approach, discuss what methods can be used to circumvent the attack, prevent it, or minimize the disruption caused by the event.
Include 2–3 pages of material covering the 3 discussion areas in Section 5 of your Key Assignment document (including the completed previous 4 sections).
social engineering,dumpster diving,identify theft,cyberterrorist
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You have been asked to participate in a local radio program to address the role of corrections in the community. The audience is specifically interested in discussing whether corrections should be focused on one or all of the following functions:
Rehabilitation of offenders
Punishment of offenders
Isolation of chronic offenders
After carefully considering available information and points of view on the subject, decide which role you believe should be the focus of the community's corrections policy. To prepare for the program, create 5 questions you believe callers may ask. Explain your point of view on the role of corrections in the criminal justice system to each of the questions asked, and draw a connection to the topic you are researching for this course. How do issues in corrections correlate with the topic you are researching?
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You choose one and I will upload the materials for u.
Choose 1 of the following 3 questions, and answer it in a paper of no more than 1000 words. Submit that paper by
November 4
at midnight PST in the appropriate IICS515 Moodle dropbox.
4. Monday October 27 lecture
Themes: Global Media Governance and Regulation; The Internet and Digital Media
Readings: Chapter 5, “The Medium: Global Technologies and Organizations,” and Chapter 6, “The Internet”
In this lecture, we discussed the definition and history of communication rights as one element or dimension of communication policy, and used it to bring to life a subject—policy—that sometimes seems abstract and technical in nature.
In doing so, we noted the evolution from a “negative” rights view of communication rights, as expressed in Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, to the more “positive” definition of communication rights explained in the lecture content derived from the work of Marc Raboy (and Jeremy Shtern).
Remember that “negative” does not mean “bad” here nor “positive” good. “Negative” and “positive” rights—which are ways of thinking about all human rights, not just communication rights—are instead ways of characterizing the orientation of rights toward individuals and society. Negative rights are defined in terms of freedom
from
things, and positive rights in terms of freedom
to
have or do certain things. Both negative and positive rights derive their legitimacy from fundamental and universal consideration of what it means to be human and to be treat people as human beings.
In our case study at the end of the lecture, we then discussed how a “positive” approach to communication rights could help us better understand and perhaps act against cyberbullying.
In your paper, and in your own words, define “communication rights,” and then briefly explain the evolution from the negative to the positive rights approach to communication rights.
Once you have done that, and with reference to the cyberbullying pamphlet from the Canadian government attached to your lecture notes, demonstrate how a “positive” rights approach to communication rights can help us better understand and prevent cyberbullying. In other words, what are the limitations of approaching cyberbullying from a “negative” rights perspective, and what does a “positive” approach to communication rights do to help us understand and perhaps act against cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is a problem in international communication that affects many, especially vulnerable teenagers, as illustrated in the case of the late Amanda Todd (from British Columbia).
You do not need to use the McPhail chapter here, as it is not directly relevant to this question. Rather, draw on the lecture notes and the podcast as your sources here.
5. Wednesday October 29 lecture
Themes: Global Media Case Study in Media and the Arab World; Orientalism
Readings: Said, Edward (1978)..
You are Incident Commander and principal planner for the DRNC even.docxshericehewat
You are Incident Commander and
principal planner for the DRNC event. As you commence the planning process, consider the two fundamental types of error committed by policy makers in their reliance on intelligence reports to formulate policy. What would you do to minimize these errors from occurring and adversely affecting your policy decisions?
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You Decide
Cryptographic Tunneling and the OSI Model
Write a paper consisting of 500-1,000 words (double-spaced) on the security effects of cryptographic tunneling based on an understanding of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) model (Review the OSI Simulation in the Week 3 Lecture).
Provide input on the type of cryptographic tunneling protocols (e.g., L2TP, IPSEC, SSL, etc.) that may be used, the layer(s) of the OSI at which each operates, and also recommend how they may be implemented. Cryptographic tunneling is inherent in building any common virtual private network (VPN).
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You are working as a behavioral health specialist in a neurological research center and are responsible for participant education. There are three participants to choose from: Stephanie has experienced a stroke; Jamie has experienced an amputation; and Robert has experienced a traumatic brain injury. Choose one participant to work with.
We are chosing Robert and his traumatic brain injury
Prepare
a 1,000- to 1,200-word paper that explains the functions and limitations of neural plasticity in the participant's recovery process.
Include
two to three peer-reviewed sources.
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You are to write up a reflection (longer than 2 pages) that discusse.docxshericehewat
You are to write up a reflection (longer than 2 pages) that discusses what happened in the prisoner's dilemma activity we did in class on Monday, April 20. Some points to cover include why you took the action you took, what you thought others were going to do and why, and what actually happened. And what implications this has for situations in the work place where individuals may take different actions than might be the most beneficial for the team as a whole.
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You can only take this assignment if you have the book Discovering the Humanities. This homework needs to be done by reading Chapter Nine. It needs to be a minimum of 150 to 200 words. It needs citations and referances.
Western art and architecture has influenced and been influenced by cultures in India, China, and Japan.
Part I:
Using examples provided from this unit's reading, discuss how the artistic culture in either India, China, or Japan (select one) exhibits influence from Western cultures. Discuss, too, the reciprocal connection, specifically explaining how India, China, or Japan influenced Western art and architecture.
Part II:
Add to your post by discussing the similarities and differences between art from your selected culture (India, China, or Japan) and ancient Greek sculpture. Use examples and images to support your ideas.
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You are to interview a woman 50 and older and write up the interview.docxshericehewat
You are to interview a woman 50 and older and write up the interview
in a 5 page MLA paper. You ask questions intended to elicit information about her life
and how it relates to the history of women in the late 20th century. Your paper
should be normal margins, 10-12 pt. font, typed and double-spaced. It should
include the approximate age of your interviewee—it does not have to include her
name.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS ..........
What’s your first, most vivid memory? Going to my grandma and grandpa’s farm and making grandma walk me out to the outhouse for fear of a mean bannie rooster would peck me to death. He was afraid of grandma.
What was the apartment or house like that you grew up in? How many bedrooms did it have? Bathrooms? I lived with my mother and father mostly in a house in the city that had 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom. I had to share a room with my older brother that was upstairs.
What was your bedroom like? Very simple. It had 2 beds made of feathers, a desk with a lamp and one dresser for our clothes. Dallas (my brother got the bottom 2 and I got the top 2)
Can you describe the neighborhood you grew up in? Not really. Every chance I got I went to grandma and grandpas and spent time with them. They lived deep in the country. I had one friend out there that lived about 3 miles away on the next farm. His name was Carl.
Tell me about your parents. Where were they born? When were they born? What memories do you have of them? Both parents were born in Richmond, IN. Memories include more of my mother than my father. He was a drunk that stayed out all the time. He only came home when he was ready to pass out or to beat us.
Who was more strict: your mother or your father? Do you have a vivid memory of something you did that you were disciplined for? Since mom was the main one around I would say that she was more strict. I remember one instance when I was about 16 and mom had kicked me out of the house because she was forced to work with dad being gone all the time and I was telling her that I no longer wanted to take care of my little brother because I felt like I was his mother rather than her and that I didn’t want to do anymore of the house work. It was her house she should have to clean it. She kicked me out. I was sitting on the porch crying and dad came home (sober for once) and sat on the porch with me, got me calmed down and offered to give me a ride to grandma and grandpa’s.
Did your parents have a good marriage? No they had a horrible marriage.
How did your family earn money? How did your family compare to others in the neighborhood – richer,
poorer, the same? My family earned money from my mother working in a diner. Dad worked in a mill but we rarely saw his money. We did alright but I would say that we were on the poorer end of society.
What kinds of things did your family spend money on? The necessities and that was it.
How many brothers and sisters do you have? When were they born? What memories do yo.
You are to complete TWO essays and answer the following questions. .docxshericehewat
You are to complete TWO essays and answer the following questions. Here are your questions:
1) How has the information provided in this class changed or reinforced your perspective on an issue(S). Please provide details.
2) What do you believe is the biggest challenge facing our nation and why? Be specific and detailed. What can be done to address this challenge? Be realistic and detailed in your responses.
750 - 800 words each essay
no plagiarism
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You are the vice president of a human resources department and Susan.docxshericehewat
You are the vice president of a human resources department and Susan has been your executive assistant for one (1) year. She effectively completes her given assignments, sometimes ahead of schedule. Susan has a welcoming personality and is commended on her willingness to help when asked. As a result of her efficiency, Susan often has spare time on her hands.
In several conversations, you have spoken with Susan about taking a proactive stance and involving herself in the business to increase her knowledge base. You have suggested she attend strategic planning meetings, shadow other Business Partners, and take professional development courses geared towards human resources. Susan has not incorporated any of these suggestions.
The organization promotes and encourages employee development and has a requirement of 24 professional development (PD) hours for each employee per annual review cycle. As VP of the department, you have offered to mentor Susan; yet she has not taken advantage of the offer. Given Susan’s capabilities and potential, you want to mutually establish future performance goals and developmental opportunities to enhance her effectiveness and maximize her organizational contributions.
Susan’s professional appearance and interaction with co-workers is superb. When asked to complete a task, she fulfills the assignment willingly and with very few errors. She is well liked and respected by her peers. She has impeccable oral and written communication skills. Overall, you are pleased with her performance but want to see Susan take initiative to seek out tasks to complete rather than waiting to be told what to do.
As the VP of HR, you have been tasked with a two part assignment. In part one of this assignment you will explain the importance of performance appraisals, analyze the essential elements which should be included and describe how performance appraisals can be used to promote employee growth. In part two of this assignment you will create a performance appraisal for Susan.
Your paper should be 8-10 pages in length incorporating both parts I and II. You can either design a performance appraisal document or use an existing template. The performance appraisal should be no more than 3 pages of the total page count for the assignment. Be sure your paper addresses all of the following components:
Part I: Importance of Performance Appraisals:
Explain how performance appraisals can be used as part of employee development.
Explain why rankings are given to employees and the advantages and disadvantages of including rankings.
Address why organizations should deliver appraisals in a timely manner to employees.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of three different types of performance appraisals. Make a recommendation of which type of performance appraisal is most appropriate for Susan.
Provide suggestions on how the manager can give feedback on a continual basis to the employee to encourage continual development.
Part II: Sus.
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You are the purchasing manager of a company that has relationships with many different suppliers. All information about orders, shipments, etc. is still manually exchanged. You have discussed incorporating Internet technologies to help manage the supply chain.
In 1-2 pages, summarize the advantages of using Internet technologies versus traditional methods in supply chain management.
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You are to briefly describe how the Bible is related to the topics c.docxshericehewat
You are to briefly describe how the Bible is related to the topics covered in the course. An integration of the Bible must be explicitly shown, in relation to a course topic, in order to receive points. In addition, at least two other outside scholarly sources (the text may count as one) should be used to substantiate the group’s position.
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You are the manager of an accounting department and would like to hi.docxshericehewat
You are the manager of an accounting department and would like to hire another managerial accountant to focus on internal accounting. The chief executive officer (CEO) is not convinced that a managing accountant position is needed. Prepare a 2-page memo for the CEO on the following:
Explain the objectives and characteristics of an internal accounting system.
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You are the new chief financial officer (CFO) hired by a company. .docxshericehewat
You are the new chief financial officer (CFO) hired by a company. The chief executive officer (CEO) indicates that in the past, there was little rhyme or reason for the prior CFO to approve or disapprove of large capital projects or investments that various managers proposed. You mentioned to the CEO that there are three primary methods of capital budgeting, and they are as follows:
Simple payback method
Net present value method
Internal rate of return (IRR) method
Discuss the following topics on the Group Discussion Board and write a group paper between 700–850 words. Assign topics to be written by each group member and compile it all together before submitting your group paper:
A company's cost of capital and how it is calculated
What the marginal cost of capital is and how it differs from the weighted average cost of capital
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You are the manager of a team of six proposal-writing professionals..docxshericehewat
You are the manager of a team of six proposal-writing professionals. You are tasked with completing one 50 page formal proposal as well as a 1-2 page summary advocating funding for a new sports arena. Your supervisor, a member of the senior leadership team, wants to know how you plan to successfully accomplish the assignment. Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation to your supervisor that conveys the following information:
As manager, how will you organize the work to prepare a proposal?
What tasks will each professional be assigned and why?
What three or four communication tools will you propose be used to effectively articulate the proposal and why? (For example, formal paper-based, PowerPoint Presentation, blog, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)
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Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
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Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of Labour
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic.docx
1. Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing
skills, using the following rubric:
Points: 150
Assignment 1: Geico Case Study
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 70% F
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Determine which facets of the Geico total rewards program
align with the five (5) top advantages of a total rewards
program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and discuss your
reasoning.
Weight: 25%
Did not submit or incompletely determined which facets of the
Geico total rewards program align with the five (5) top
advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of
the textbook and did not submit or incompletely discussed your
reasoning.
Partially determined which facets of the Geico total rewards
program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total
rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and
partially discussed your reasoning.
Satisfactorily determined which facets of the Geico total
rewards program align with the five (5) top advantages of a
total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and
satisfactorily discussed your reasoning.
Thoroughly determined which facets of the Geico total rewards
program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total
2. rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and
thoroughly discussed your reasoning.
2. Create a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan addresses
all of the advantages.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely created a strategy for ensuring
that the Geico plan addresses all of the advantages.
Partially created a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan
addresses all of the advantages.
Satisfactorily created a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan
addresses all of the advantages.
Thoroughly created a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan
addresses all of the advantages.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the communication of Geico’s
total rewards program based upon the Website’s descriptions of
the benefits. Recommend two (2) areas for improvement.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely evaluated the effectiveness of
the communication of Geico’s total rewards program based upon
the Website’s descriptions of the benefits. Did not recommend
two (2) areas for improvement.
Partially evaluated the effectiveness of the communication of
Geico’s total rewards program based upon the Website’s
descriptions of the benefits. Partially recommend two (2) areas
for improvement.
Satisfactorily evaluated the effectiveness of the communication
of Geico’s total rewards program based upon the Website’s
descriptions of the benefits. Satisfactorily recommend two (2)
areas for improvement.
Thoroughly evaluated the effectiveness of the communication of
Geico’s total rewards program based upon the Website’s
descriptions of the benefits. Thoroughly recommend two (2)
areas for improvement.
4. Assuming employees are unhappy with the current plan, offer
two (2) improvements or changes to Geico’s total rewards
program.
3. Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely assumed employees are unhappy
with the current plan offered two (2) improvements or changes
to Geico’s total rewards program.
Partially assumed employees are unhappy with the current plan
and offered two (2) improvements or changes to Geico’s total
rewards program.
Satisfactorily assumed employees are unhappy with the current
plan and offered two (2) improvements or changes to Geico’s
total rewards program.
Thoroughly assumed employees are unhappy with the current
plan and offered two (2) improvements or changes to Geico’s
total rewards program.
5. 5 references
Weight: 5%
No references provided
Does not meet the required number of references; some or all
references poor quality choices.
Meets number of required references; all references high quality
choices.
Exceeds number of required references; all references high
quality choices.
6. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
Weight: 10%
More than 6 errors present
5-6 errors present
3-4 errors present
0-2 errors present
Week 1 Data Model Assignment: Conceptual Data Modeling
Student Name: XXXXXX
4. Entities, Attributes, Relationships:
Entities
Attributes
Relationships
Customer
· Customer_ID
· Customer_Code
· Customer_Name
· Customer_address
· Customer_Phone
· Customer_Email
· A customer can place zero or many orders.
· A Customer can have at least one contact detail
Author
· Author_ID
· Author_First Name
· Author_Initials
· Author_Last_Name
· An author can have one or many Books.
· An author can be booked by one or more Customers
· An author can be on one or more Book_Categories
Books
· Book_ID
· ISBN
· Book_Title
· Publication_Date
· Book_Comment
· A Book can be written by one or more authors.
· A Book can be ordered by one or more customers
· A Book can be on one or more Book_Categories
· A Book has an Item_Agreed_Price
Orders
· Order_Date
· Order_Value
5. · An order is always related to customers
· Order will have one or more Order_Items
· An order can be for one or more Authors’ Books
Order Items
· Item_Number
· Item_Agreed_Price
· Item_Comment
· Any book can be an Order_Item
· Any book can have an Item_Agreed_Price
· A Book may or may not have an Item_Comment
Contacts
· Contact_ID
· Contact_First _Name
· Contact_Last_Name
· Contact_WorkPhoneNumber
· Contact_OtherDetails
· Any Customer can have at least one contact detail.
·
Reference Contact Types
· Contact_Code
· Contact_Description
Any customer can have at least one Reference_Contact_Type.
Book Categories
· Book_Category_Code
· Book_Category_Description
· A Book Category can have zero or many Sub_Categories
· A Book_Sub_Category can belong to only one Book_Category
Business Rules:
1. A Book has a price
2. A Book must have at least one author, Book_category,
Item_Agreed_Price,
6. 3. All orders can be based on Book_Name and Author.
HERE IS THE QURSTION FROM THE PROFESSOR
You have to work on the above as per the instructions below.
Please keep it simple, precise and straight.
1. Create a conceptual data model of data management project
showing the entities and relationships.
2. Add a new 'Conceptual Data Model' section to your DBMS
assignment you submitted last week.
3. Add the conceptual data model to the new section.
4. Make sure you correct the DBMS assignment document from
week 1 based on my feedback before submitting this assignment
Running head: NEW AND IMPROVED REWARDS AT WORK
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New and Improved Rewards at Work
Student XXXXX
Strayer University
HRM 533 - Total Rewards
May 20, 2019
NEW AND IMPROVED REWARDS AT WORK 2
New and Improved Rewards at Work
7. This paper will explore how the scope of a total rewards
program can be improved to creatively
meet the needs of their employees. First, an analyzation of how
employee benefit innovations
can improve an organization's competitive compensation
strategy. Second, an explanation of
how innovative benefits can be linked to specific jobs and how
they can help attract talent. Next,
a critique of the effectiveness of equity-based rewards systems
for compensation and benefits.
Then, a discussion about the key elements of integrating
innovation into a traditional total
rewards program. Finally, a process recommendation that
optimizes an employee-based
suggestion program to routinely refresh an organization's total
reward program.
Innovations Improving Organizations
Organizations are always researching new ways to make an
impact on the job market.
The companies that are going to grab the attention of the high-
quality talent pools are
diversifying their total rewards packages for employees. The
trick is to anticipate how the total
8. rewards modifications will be received by their employees.
After all, the value is in the eye of
the beholder. It will take research and trial and error to create
total rewards packages that will set
organizations apart. These rewards systems may take more time
and thought to plan out, but
once they are implemented, they can almost run themselves if
the proper work is put into them
(Wilson, 2003, p.221). The more value that can be added on top
of the compensation, the more
desirable the package will be to employees.
The current and emerging talent pool finds more value in being
able to move around to
do new things, work in various positions. The days of working
at the same position are not
common any longer. So, businesses need to capitalize on this
hunger for professional work
diversity and accommodate their employees before the
employees look elsewhere for these
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opportunities. Allocating additional funds for employees to
return to higher education
9. demonstrates that a business is interested in helping their
employees grow and for their minds to
be stimulated. It is a great way for a business to outwardly
display that they care about their
careers and also their personal growth. Some companies can
also link the educational goals to
specific work-related opportunities, that may correlate into a
promotion or an increase in base
pay.
A company that chooses to be innovative with their total
rewards strategy can also
promote that on their career landing portal online and at job
fairs. If a company is going to take
the time and ownership in being a cutting-edge rewards provider
for employers, they should let
the talent pool know this. That can be a very attractive strategy
for businesses. These attributes
are very desirable to a person looking for work because it
outwardly demonstrates some of the
active business culture (Wilson, 1999, p.3). Many people want
to be on the ground floor and
moving up with companies that are willing to be open to trying
new things. They may come with
very desirable perks that are specific to their industry. If an
10. employee is already very tuned into a
specific line of work, then they will be employed by an
organization that will help them
maximize their portfolios.
The willingness to be innovative with the total rewards also ties
directly into the
organizational culture. If a potential employee is on the outside
looking in, and they see that a
company is offering the standard benefits that companies have
been offering for years, then that
may not be very appealing. But, if a candidate can observe the
standard benefits in addition to
benefits tailored specifically for company employees, then this
can increase the interest in
working for the organization. At the very least it may intrigue a
candidate to want to learn more
about what the company offers. That will then open the door the
company to sell their
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opportunities and organization to the candidates that may have
overlooked them otherwise. After
all, this is the talent pools market. Any time a company can
11. share why an employee should work
for them; it is time well spent.
Tailoring Innovative Benefits
As the employment climate changes and new waves of
employees come into an
employment market, the types of benefits innovations also have
an opportunity to evolve.
Businesses need to increase awareness of the specific people
that they want to fill certain
positions within a company. Total rewards programs do not
have to be standardized like they
once were. It is imperative to be able to customize and link the
total rewards program to the
vision and values of the business (Sizemore, 2018, p.42).
Increasingly, employees would like to
have the ability to customize or be apart in selecting how their
employment benefits can work for
them.
Organizations can now offer options to employees working in
specific job roles, in ways
that they could not have done so in the past. For some roles,
such as technology positions, the
employees may not need to be at the business location to
12. perform their job. So, they may benefit
from telecommuting and engaging with their peers via
electronic means such as email, chat
programs, and video conferencing. This benefit saves the
employee commuting time, allows
them to work from their own home office, and possibly save on
expenses for meals.
Attracting talent for specific jobs based on innovative benefits
programs can also apply to
salesforce positions. These positions can have specific benefits
that are based on their
performance metrics to allow for bonus pay rewards. An
innovative approach to bonus pay could
be to allow employees to place the bonus pay into their
retirement accounts at an untaxed rate.
Employees can be offered an opportunity to select how they
would like percentages of their
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bonus pay allocated during their upcoming pay periods. This
enables employees to still have
their base pay, and then their bonus pay can be split up as they
see fit. Employees that are more
13. interested in the financial savings will find this to be an
attractive option.
The talent market is also very diversified. There are all age
ranges of people seeking
employment. Having an innovative benefits program should be
mindful to include options that
are attractive to all potential talent. Some candidates may be
seeking a flexible work schedule to
accommodate personal or family commitments. Others may
value extensive health benefits for
themselves and their family members. Other people that value
their educational growth may
specifically look for jobs that offer a tuition assistance program.
If an organization is wanting to
find the best talent to fulfill their positions, then they need to
have a variety of options available
since not everyone’s needs or view of what is valuable may be
the same,
Equity-based Reward Systems Effectiveness
Equity-based reward systems may be another part of a total
rewards plan that a company
may offer. Equity is typically a piece of company stock that
represents a piece of ownership for
an employee (World at Work, 2007, p.368). Companies that are
14. seeking creative ways to offer
additional options or incentives to their employees may explore
how they can integrate equity
into a rewards package for employees. This strategy can be
beneficial to both the employer and
the employee, depending on how it is arranged in their plan.
From a compensation plan perspective using equity allows an
employer to offer a share
of stock to an employee as a bonus, or at discounted rates.
Using company equity in this manner
can be viewed as an innovative way to be competitive in the job
market. It all comes down to
finances. If a business creates additional equity rewards for its
employees, it can be view
favorably. In most case, when equity is offered as a bonus
reward, there may be additional
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strings attached, such as how the stock options are paid out, and
the company will set these
parameters. Or just like offering company discounts on the
products or services provided by a
company, employees may be offered shares at a discounted rate
15. (Book. p.367). Whichever angle
the company chooses to pursue the awards will be interpreted as
how much value they hold for
the employee.
From benefits, perspective equity is more commonplace.
Employees are often provided
options to create and contribute to a 401(k) plan. Most
companies will then match the amount an
employee contributes, up to a certain percentage. This equity
benefit allows companies too
outwardly display investment in their employees every pay
period. So, this is often viewed as
favorable by the employees. Building wealth as a result of a
partnership between the employer
and the employee also has a silver lining for the organization.
Companies are often searching for ways to get the most
productivity out of their
employees’ time with the organization. Providing these equity
options can be a key part in
solidifying the partnership with the company. If an employee
can be directly impacted by the
actions that they make for the company, it will often be a
hidden incentive to encourage
16. behaviors that benefit the company. I believe this is the major
reason why companies use equity
to reward their employees. It makes the employee a business
owner. The money that is
facilitating the growth of their investment portfolio can be
impacted by the decisions they make
for the company. For example, if an employee is constantly
issuing credits for fees to a customer,
this is impacting the company and the employee. Those credits
continue to add up and take away
from the bottom line. Since that is the case, it may inspire the
employees to come up with other
creative solutions that add value that benefits the customer, the
business, and the stockholders.
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This approach is very effective because it forces the employee
to think like the business owner
when it comes to making business decisions.
Integrating Innovation
In my current total rewards program, the elements that I would
focus on innovative
integration would be talent development, work-life balance, and
17. financial benefits planning. The
total rewards plan can be an integral part of building key
behaviors and motivation for
employees (Elwood Gopal & Hoarty, 2013, p.57). The talent
development innovation will
include their employees obtaining specific certifications that are
desirable to improve the
employee’s knowledge and performance at work. For example,
an IT administrator can obtain
their Network Plus certification at the expense of the company.
The IT admin will then receive a
five percent pay increase once the certification is obtained. That
employee will also now be
eligible to move into additional roles at the organization since
they possess this certification.
This ties in the organizational goals with employee
development.
Employees also want to be able to have a work-life harmony
with any company that they
choose to work for. This may look differently depending on the
home life dynamic for the
individual employee. Perhaps one employee commutes a
significant distance to work each day.
They may benefit from working from home for two weeks out of
18. the month on a rotating
schedule. This allows the employee to stay engaged with the
business culture atmosphere, but
also provides the ability to gain some of their time back each
month.
Another group of employees may benefit from having an on-site
or nearby, a daycare
facility for their children. This facility will be linked to the
company and will offer subsidized
rates for using the services. This will not only save the
employees money spent in childcare but
will also save the employee travel time going to and from
another daycare facility each day. A
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company that is willing to help improve the work-life balance
will inevitably decrease lost time
from work as well as reducing attrition.
The third element will be the assistance of financial benefits
planning workshops. Many
employee’s opt-in to the retirement savings plan that their
company offers. A company can help
their employees understand how to maximize their earning
19. potential by offering semi-annual
workshops. The workshops can be led by financial planning
experts to assist employees in
understanding how to diversify their portfolios as well also
understanding the ins and outs of
how the actions that they take on the investments can impact
them. This added transparency and
education when it comes to their finances will be something that
employees will view as a life
learning opportunity.
Employee-based Suggestion Program
Organizations can often benefit from gathering information on
what is perceived as
valuable from the direct individuals that they impact. Having an
employee-based suggestion
program is a powerful tool because it builds a transparent
partnership with the employees.
Building reward systems together can be an important integral
building block for an organization
(Mahajan, V. & Sarin, S., 2001, p.35). It provides an
opportunity for their suggestions to be
heard and then applied in instances wherever possible. The
program will be based around a
20. regularly scheduled employee feedback session that will include
a variety of employees,
supervisors, senior leadership, and the human resources team.
The structure for the feedback sessions will be a round table
discussion. The roundtable,
led by human resources, will allow each participating member
to voice their opinions on one
current benefit included in the total rewards program, and one
benefits that they would like to see
included in the program. The human resources team will catalog
all of the feedback to keep track
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of the valuable information. This feedback about the current
benefits program will allow the
human resource team to discover the portions of the existing
plan that may not be delivered at
the desirable capacity.
The feedback that the employees provide that they would like to
see implemented will all
be put into a list. This list will then be voted on, and the round
table employees will select their
top 5 selections for that meeting. The round table employees
21. will select one employee to be their
Employee Suggestion, the Team representative. The selected
employee will then meet up with
the individual teams across the large employee team to present
these five options and to gather
their votes. This feedback may be done in person, or via email.
The reason for having the
employees vote on the top five options is to have the entire
employee team be a part of the
decision making.
The team leader will then gather all of the votes and present
them to the human resources
team for their consideration. The human resources team will
then present the selections to their
leadership team and put these items into a review process. The
review process by the human
resource team will have a few different phases. The first phase
will be to catalog all of the items
to retain for future review. The second phase will be to compare
these items with others that are
already in place or the pipeline for a rollout. This will include
pairing up items that are similar to
enhance them and to eliminate redundancies.
22. Once the human resource team has taken all of the information
and completed their
research, they will lift these items to the corporate offices to
determine the feasibility of
implementing any of these items for a short-term trial run.
Based on the corporate decisions, the
human resources team will return to the employee team
representative to relay their findings and
potential plan to move forward. The important thing about the
employee-based suggestion
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program is that there is continuous communication with the
employees, and this builds trust with
the team.
Conclusion
Total reward systems will continue to evolve and transform the
ways that companies
attempt to gain a competitive edge. There will be trial and error
when it comes to out of the box
solutions for rewards that meet the employees and
organizational needs. However, the important
factor is that the companies are willing to try something
23. different that the employees may
respond favorably to. Companies that can develop a transparent
partnership with employees
about their benefits and compensation strategies will typically
end up ahead of companies that
only offer standard benefits. Employees expect more and are
willing to do more for a company if
the price is right.
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Running head: SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE 1
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE 2
26. Systems Development Life-Cycle: Phase III Design
Student XXX
University
HRM 520 – Human Resources Information Systems
February 04, 2019
Systems Development Life-Cycle: Phase III Design
It is essential to invest in the correct HRIS system to meet
your organization’s needs. Our initial needs assessment on
Larson Property Management Company (LPMC) identified a
need for a new HRIS system, which had input from stakeholders
and what they’d like to see with a new system. (Kavanaugh &
Johnson, 2018, pg. 114-115)
In this paper, we will analyze data and process perspective and
address its needs. Stakeholders will be briefed on the two ways
to view the HRIS system and gather their input as we move
forward with the plan for the new system. After viewing
presentations of HRIS systems, we will announce who will be
the vendor and layout the physical design for LPMC.
(Kavanaugh & Johnson, 2018, pg. 114-115)
Ways to View An HRIS
An effective organization will look at the HRIS system from
two different perspectives. One being data perspective and the
other process perspective. In order to make informed decisions
we will brief the stakeholders the importance of viewing data
and process perspective and how it represents the new HRIS.
According to Kavanaugh & Johnson, 2018, (pg. 96), “data
perspective focuses on an analysis of what data the organization
captures and uses, and on the definitions and relationships of
data, while ignoring how and why the data will be used.” In
other words, the system will capture important data tailored for
27. a specific task in the HRIS. The data perspective uses the best
way to use the data for accuracy during operation.
On the other spectrum, the process perspective focuses on
how the business wants to operate and use their processes and
activities to determine needs. It drives the organizational data
through the HRIS. (Kavanaugh & Johnson, 2018, (pg. 96).
Through the process perspective, the software designer will
focus on current operations systems and processes. The designer
will focus on the driving force of the system allowing it to feed
information but bypass what data is captured.
Our change team made up of the HR department, IT, and finance
committees have provided details on what’s needed for this new
HRIS. After briefing the stakeholders on multiple occasions,
they determined what they’d like to see in the new HRIS system
with ATS. Both data and process perspective make up the entire
HRIS system. To give the stakeholders a better picture of the
two, Kavanaugh & Johnson, 2018, (pg. 96), explains that, “by
modeling each separately, the organization is better able to
understand and communicate its needs to the technical staff.”
The technical staff can include, HR (acting as the project
manager), IT, vendors, consultants, and software developers.
(Kavanaugh & Johnson, 2018, pg. 96).
Data Flow Diagrams and Physical Design
A process model describes and represents the key business
processes or activities conducted by the organization, such as
applicant tracking. (Kavanaugh & Johnson, pg. 97). The data
flow diagram represents the activities of the process model and
many areas of the HR system. The data flow diagram shows
how data will be moved through the system representing four
symbols. Those symbols are an entity, data flow, process, and
the data store. (Kavanaugh & Johnson, pg. 97).
When choosing the best HRIS to fit the needs of your
organizations, you must keep in mind that the stakeholders
come first. We are in a day and age where keeping up with
technology will prove to increase profitability and productivity.
While working for a previous employer and witnessing the
28. success of these three HRIS in action, we decided on the three
software to be included in our HRIS, which are found on Human
Resources Software, 2018, (para 1).
1. ADP Workforce: ADP manages capital for companies with
more than 50 employees with core capabilities to manage
payroll, benefits, compliance, talent, time, and labor.
2. Kronos Workforce Ready: Kronos is a single cloud-based
platform where employees manage their time with oversite from
HR and managers.
3. iCIMS Talent Platform: iCIMS manages applicant tracking
with the ability to e-sign documents. Operators can create
requisitions and automate job board postings. There is the
ability to move candidates through the hiring process through
this system.
Our team has decided to move forward with the upgrades to the
current system due to the need for more storage space in the old
HRIS. Rapid company expansion and growth further provides a
reason to upgrade. We will be outsourcing this work choosing
one of the vendors that offered us presentations on their
capabilities.
We have chosen this design because it fits our needs as a
rapidly growing company. By combining Kronos, iCIMS, and
ADP Workforce, the three platforms will give us the ability to
manage every employee form senior management to entry level.
It will provide oversite for the candidate’s application process
through onboarding. According to Human Resources Software,
2018, (para 21) some, “key capabilities of the software is
sourcing, recruiting, applicant tracking, personnel tracking,
onboarding, time and attendance, payroll, performance reviews
and learning management.” One key component will allow us to
manage benefits and enrollment.
It’s important to get this right for the betterment of the
company, and it’s current and future employees. Below is an
example of our physical design for the new HRIS showing how
the three systems will flow together providing coverage for
every employee.
29. Choosing HRIS Vendors
Many HRIS vendors that offer similar services. We will analyze
a few vendors that have made presentations and offers before
selecting one. The three vendors we reviewed are Zenefits,
Kronos, and PDS. An explanation and comparison of the three
are broken down below.
1. Zenefits- is a California based company founded in 2013.
Why people choose Zenefits derived from Zenefits, 2018, (para.
1-2)
· Single online dashboard.
· Automation with the ability to connect all HR, payroll, and
benefits.
· Ability to integrate with current software.
· Paid for by the Health Insurance Carrier (no monthly fees).
2. Kronos- is a Massachusetts based company founded in 1977.
Why people are choosing Kronos derived from Kronos, 2018,
(para. 6).
· Proven, intuitive, and a modular solution offering enterprise
power.
· Single employee record for HR, payroll, timekeeping, and
self-service.
· Ability to interface with current software.
· Supports multi-language to include English, French, Spanish,
and Dutch.
3. Vista- is a Pennsylvania based company founded in 1974.
Why people are choosing PDS derived from PDS, 2018, (para.
4)
· Easy configuration and personalization.
· Integrates easily with systems using an external interfaces
tool.
· Compliance reporting, (EEO, OSHA, HIPAA, Federal/ State
W2,
and FMLA.
· Export data to excel with one click technology
Our selection process drives on current customer satisfaction
30. and the ability to provide user-friendly software. After careful
consideration, we have chosen to move forward with Kronos.
Kronos has been in the market since 1977, providing HR
solutions to many organizations with great ratings. Utilizing
Kronos will make our HR more convenient, improve recruitment
and job satisfaction, better reporting and visibility, and improve
compliance. (Kronos, 2019, para. 7-10).
Conclusion
Based on our research and information provided by our
change team, we agree that we have chosen the best HRIS for
our organization. By identifying needs and improving on them
will eventually make your organization have more of a
competitive advantage and save money as you move into the
future. Competitive advantage has strategy researchers asking,
“why is Sony, as a new entrant into the market for home video
games dominating the incumbent firm Sega, who helped create
the industry.” (Rothaermel, 2016, pg. 2).
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