the paper should be an exercise in persuasive writing with the main assertion supported, then with argumentation that is intended to persuade someone to accept your main points. My position in this debate is “Yes, assisted suicide should be legal.” There must be a counter argument , application of a philosophical theory. the Sources can not be exclusively web-based. format must be APA format, including Introductory paragraph,
Research problem: the project is focused on the analyses of Companys short-term current business strategy and evaluation of new potential long-term growth pathways: developing alternative business models, entering new markets, investing in new (adjacent) products or through selected M&A initiatives, and is aimed to define the long-term strategy that embraces key opportunities to accelerate the shareholder value growth. The task of literature review: the document should provide a set of relevant propositions, research questions/hypotheses, conceptual framework based on a critical evaluation of current management research around key issues that relate to research issue/problem.
The paper should include AT LEAST 3 READINGS (which will be added in additional files) to make an argument about a contemporary issue (ex. gentrification, immigration reform, police brutality).Rather than simply writing a description of the issue, the paper should include a thesis statement that offers a concise summary of the central claim of the paper.The paper should explain WHY this is important. A complete description of the assignment will be added to additional files. Writer must have a good understanding of Asian Pacific American history (ex. Chinese Exclusion Act, Philippine American War, overthrow of Hawaiian Monarchy). Please do not hesitate to message me throughout the writing process to formulate a relevant thesis and argument.
talk about how social media has influence on young girls body image with women they look up to such as Kim Kardashian and nicki Minaj
These papers are a great way for you to talk back to the readings and class discussions, to analyze
the particular topic from your own perspective. This is a time for you to participate in producing your
own knowledge around race and racism in the 21st century. Critiquing an author, text, or idea is also a
great way to engage with the courses major themes. You may also reflect on the theme and ask how
it affects, or if it affects your daily lives. Bringing in current events, and using class text to process
these events, is another option. The choice is yours. The paper should have three major parts:
1) A major thesis statement or question that is to be presented in the paper
2) A set of themes or questions that will help you address your thesis statement
3) Your own original perspective and/or take on the major themes discussed in the paper.
4) Engage with the text by including quotes and information directly from the article, book
chapter, video clip, etc.The papers will be graded in the following way:
Clarity of thesis statement and or major question you expect to investigate. Does the paper
clearly explain the main points it will be addressing?
Does the paper include details and examples of material discussed in class and additional
material to support your argument?
Creativity. How creative are you in presenting your main ideas?
Grammar and correctnessMake sure to back up your thesis statement and make sure that main points are clearly stated.
The opening case deals with unique compensation at Wegmans. Students can utilize the book and other sources for more in-depth research to answer the case ending questions. The paper should be 2-3 pages not including the title and reference page. Please post papers before 11:55 pm on the due date.Please read and answer the questions in APA formatting. Do not write the questions and the provided the response under. Incorporate the questions and answers in the paper. The paper needs to reflect the junior/senior level of the class. Unique Compensation at Wegmans
If youre looking for the best Parmesan cheese for your chicken parmigiana recipe, you might try Wegmans, especially if you happen to live in the vicinity of Pittsford, New York. Cheese department manager Carol Kent will be happy to recommend the best brand because her job calls for knowing cheese as well as managing some 20 subordinates. Kent is a knowledgeable employee, and Wegmans sees that as a key asset. Specifically, Wegmans believes that its employees are more knowledgeable than are the employees of its competitors.Wegmans Food Markets, a family-owned East Coast chain with more than 80 outlets in six states, prides itself on its commitment to customers, and it shows. It consistently ranks near the top of the annual Consumer Reports survey of the best national and regional grocery stores. But commitment to customers is only half of Wegmans overall strategy, which calls for reaching its customers through its employees. How do we differentiate ourselves? asks Danny Wegman, who then proceeds to answer his own question: If we can sell products that require knowledge in terms of how you use them, thats our strategy. Anything that requires knowledge and service gives us a reason to be. Thats the logic behind one of Kents recent assignmentsone which she understandably regards as a perk. Wegmans sent her to Italy to conduct a personal study of Italian cheese. We sat with the families that make the cheeses, she recalls, broke bread with them. It helped me understand that were not just selling a piece of cheese. Were selling a tradition, a quality.Kent and the employees in her department also enjoy the best benefits package in the industry, including fully paid health insurance. And, that includes part-timers, who make up about two-thirds of the companys workforce of more than 37,000. In part, the strategy of extending benefits to this large segment of the labor force is intended to make sure that stores have enough good workers for crucial peak periods, but theres no denying that the costs of employee-friendly policies can mount up. At 1517 percent of sales, for example, Wegmans labor costs are well above the 12 percent figure for most supermarkets. But according to one company HR executive, holding down labor costs isnt necessarily a strategic priority: We would have stopped offering free health insurance [to part-timers] a long time ago, she admits, if we tried to justify the costs.Besides, employee turnover at Wegmans is about 6 percenta mere fraction of an industry average that hovers around 19 percent (and can approach 100 percent for part-timers). And, this is an industry in which total turnover costs have been known to outstrip total annual profits by 40 percent. Wegmans employees tend to be knowledgeable because about 20 percent of them have been with the company for years, and many have logged at least a quarter century. Says one 19-year-old college student who works at an upstate New York Wegmans while pursuing a career as a high school history teacher, I love this place. If teaching doesnt work out, I would so totally work at Wegmans. Edward McLaughlin, who directs the Food Industry Management Program at Cornell University, understands this sort of attitude: When youre a 16-year-old kid, the last thing you want to do is wear a geeky shirt and work for a supermarket, but at Wegmans, he explains, its a badge of honor. Youre not a geeky cashier. Youre part of the social fabric.We would have stopped offering free health insurance [to part-timers] a long time ago, she admits, if we tried to justify the costs.Footnote WEGMANS HR MANAGER
Wegmans usually ranks high on Fortune magazines annual list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. It says that were doing something right, says a company spokesperson, and that theres no better way to take care of our customers than to be a great place for our employees to work. In addition to its health-care package, Wegmans has been cited for such perks as fitness center discounts, compressed work weeks, telecommuting, and domestic partner benefits, which extend to same-sex partners.Finally, under the companys Employee Scholarship Program, full-time workers can receive up to $2,200 a year for 4 years and part-timers up to $1,500. Since its inception in 1984, the program has handed out $80 million in scholarships to more than 24,000 employees. Like most Wegman policies, this one combines employee outreach with long-term corporate strategy: This program has made a real difference in the lives of many young people, says President Colleen Wegman, who adds that its also one of the reasons weve been able to attract the best and the brightest to work at Wegmans.Granted, Wegmans, which has remained in family hands since its founding in 1915, has an advantage in being as generous with its resources as its family of top executives wants to be. It doesnt have to do everything with quarterly profits in mind, and the firm likes to point out that taking care of its employees is a long-standing priority. Profit sharing and fully funded medical coverage were introduced in 1950 by Robert Wegman, son and nephew of brothers Walter and John, respectively, who opened the firms original flagship store in Rochester, New York, in 1930. Why did Robert Wegman make such generous gestures to his employees way back then? Because, he says simply, I was no different from them.Think It Over
Why does Wegmans approach to compensation seem to work so well?In your opinion, why dont other grocery chains use the same compensation model as Wegmans?Chapter Review 9
Learning Objectives/Key Terms/Key Legislation
9-1
Describe the basic issues involved in developing a compensation strategy.
Compensation and benefit programs have several fundamental purposes and objectives. One fundamental purpose is to provide an adequate and appropriate reward system for employees so that they feel valued and worthwhile as organizational members and representatives. Firms, however, can adopt one of three basic strategies when it comes to compensation: pay above-market compensation rates, pay at-market compensation rates, or pay below-market compensation rates. Several different factors contribute to the compensation strategy that a firm develops. The critical source of information that many organizations use in developing compensation strategies is pay surveys.Compensation
Benefits
Internal equity
External equity
Pay surveys
Wages
Salary
maturity curve
9-2
After an overall strategy has been chosen, human resource (HR) managers must determine what any given job should be paid. The starting point in this effort is job evaluation, which is a method for determining the relative value or worth of a job to the organization so that individuals who perform that job can be compensated adequately and appropriately. Several job evaluation techniques and methods have been established, although alternative approaches to compensation such as pay for knowledge and skill-based pay are increasingly popular.Job evaluation
classification system
point system
point manual
factor-comparison method
Pay for knowledge
Skill-based pay
9-3
Identify and describe the basic issues involved in wage and salary administration.
Continued administration of the wage and salary structure in an organization requires consideration of how to deal with such things as pay secrecy and general market conditions, including those resulting in pay compression.Wage and salary administration
Pay secrecy
Pay compression
pay inversion
9-4
Discuss the basic considerations in understanding benefit programs.
Benefits take up an ever-larger portion of employers total compensation costs. Organizations sustain these costs because they believe that competitive benefits packages attract better applicants and help the company retain the employees they have already hired. Although benefits costs are high in the United States, levels of mandated benefits are much higher in Europe and elsewhere. The kinds of benefits that are attractive or appropriate to employees around the world differ considerably. Several laws provide guidelines for how benefits plans should be administered.9-5
Identify and describe mandated benefits.
Additional laws mandate that all employees must have certain benefits such as Social Security, unemployment insurance, and workers compensation. In addition, many organizations offer optional protection plans such as health and dental insurance coverage and private pension plans. The recent passage of the Affordable Care Act has, in essence, made health insurance a mandated benefit as well.Unemployment insurance
Social Security
Workers compensation
9-6
Identify and describe nonmandated benefits.
Paid time off is another important benefit. The most common forms of paid time off are vacation time, holidays, religious days, sick leave, and personal time. This benefit, in particular, varies widely from country to country. Organizations are also becoming more likely to offer benefits in areas such as wellness programs, child care, elder care, and employee assistance programs (EAPs). Finally, some benefits provided by organizations are services and perks that the employee would otherwise have to pay for.Private pension plans
Defined benefit plans
Defined contribution plans
Wellness programs
Cafeteria-style benefits plans
9-7
Discuss contemporary issues in compensation and benefits.
Because needs and preferences differ, some organizations offer cafeteria-style benefits plans in which the employee gets to pick and choose the benefits desired. These programs are expensive to run, but they result in employees getting exactly what they want, which makes the benefits program more cost-effective. Executive compensation issues have attracted considerable attention in recent years. This attention was increased when executives in the financial sector received substantial bonuses even after their firms received large infusions of government bail-out funds in 2009. There are also numerous ongoing legal issues that confront managers as they manage their organizations compensation and benefits programs. Given the enormous cost of compensation and benefits packages to an organization, it is clearly important that managers also carefully assess the advantages of those packages to the organization. In other words, they need to assess the effectiveness of the firms compensation structure to ensure that organizational and employee interests are optimized.Vesting rights
Key Legislation
Affordable Care Act of 2010The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) guarantees a basic minimum payment that employees could expect to be paid upon retirement.The Equal Pay Act of 1962 states that men and women who perform essentially the same job must be paid the same.The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) established a minimum hourly wage for jobs and further stipulated that wages for hourly workers must be paid at a rate of 1.5 times the normal rate for work in excess of 40 hours per week.The Social Security Act of 1935, among other things, provides social welfare and social insurance coverage for retired workers.Key Points for Future ManagersCritical strategic decisions relate to determining what should be paid to employees and what that rate should be relative to market rates.The decision concerning what to pay employees for is probably the most critical, and new pay-for-knowledge and skill-based pay systems advocate paying employees for what they know rather than what they do.All decisions to pay wages and salaries at rates below, above, or at the going market rate should be made with full knowledge of the implications of each decision.Indirect compensation and benefits represent a large portion of total compensation costs. Many of the benefits are required by law; others (e.g., vacations and medical insurance) have become such a strong part of employee expectations that they cannot easily be eliminated.Cafeteria-style benefits plans may allow the company to spend its benefits dollars so that the plan has the greatest impact on employee satisfaction, although these plans have some disadvantages.Executive compensation and the legal context of compensation and benefits are important issues that affect businesses.Communication is a key part of the indirect compensation strategy, but the link between indirect compensation and organizational-level outcomes is unclear.
Be sure that the topic interests you; that it intrigues you. Try to find something about which you feel passionateabout which you want to write. Specific topics include the following: How does Dantes Ulysses compare with Homers Odysseus as a type of Western masculinity?
How do Romeo and Juliet compare with Dantes Paolo and Francesca as a loving couple?
How does Wyatts lady in They Flee from Me compare with Marie de Frances Fairy maiden in Lanval?
How does Dantes relationship with Beatrice compare with Petrarchs relationship with Laura?
How does Dantes relationship with Beatrice compare with Surreys relationship with his wife in Give place, ye lovers?
What kind of leadership do Romeo and Juliet provide to Western culture?
What causes the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?
Advice I: 1) For all topics, assume that your purpose is to persuade our class community of the validity of your argument. This means that you can assume as common knowledge everything that we have spoken together; such an assumption allows you to build on what weve said. Assume that we know the story well. 2) Construct an interpretive argument as your thesis not an opinion or textual fact; then support that thesis with evidence: analysis of textual detail and logical argument. 3) Start fast- no opening “histories of the world.” 4) Dont “rewrite the work.” 5) “Economize your prose” at all points no verbiage. 6) Avoid repeating your main idea discover its depth. 7) Avoid strict “character analysis”; characters are not real people but literary constructs; consider “function” for audiences.
An argument is an arguable propositionan idea against which someone might reasonably argue. I love the Odyssey is an opinion. The Odyssey is a romantic epic ending in marriage is a fact. An argument might be: The Odyssey champions a family ideal over a warrior ideal. Work carefully to reveal the architecture of your argument: clarify your thesis and select a clear set of supporting evidence. Gear the evidence to the thesis, as support, not a retelling of the story. If writing on a comparative prompt, how will you organize your support: by looking at each work in turn, or by selecting ideas by which to compare them? Neither is wrong; both can work. Select one, reveal it, and carry out the analysis.It is a requirement of this paper and all papers in ENGL 15S.7- that you “enter the conversation” of the course that you demonstrate your knowledge of and contribution to the topics of our discussion. Failure to do so could result in failing the assignment.Please observe the following guidelines: 1) include a title that is both imaginative and informative (identify the work and the topic even the angle you’ll take [examples: “Odysseus: A Model of a Family Mind”; Phaeacian Fairyland: The Family Ideal. Avoid a title with a complete sentence 2) number your pages, beginning with page 2; 3) type using double space; 4) indent quotations longer than 3 or so lines (without quotation marks), reproducing the format in the text (such as capitalized first words), and include the citation outside the period of the quotation in parentheses for example: (4.22 23); 5) build quotations into the text of your paper if shorter than 3 or so lines (with quotation marks and with slashes [/] between verse lines [but not prose lines]) and include the citation as noted above with the exception that the citation goes inside the terminal punctuation (usually a period); Consult a style manual of your choice for further details.Examples of quotation:1. Indented quotation:
The enigma of The Phoenix and Turtle begins with its opening word, line, and stanza:
Let the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.
(The Phoenix and Turtle 1-4)2. Built-in quotation:
The concept of obedience is important in Shakespeare; for instance, it shows up in the final speech of King Lear, when Edgar says, The weight of this sad time we must obey (5.3.324), as if the whole concept of Jacobean obedience were being re-routed, and right where The Phoenix and Turtle takes us: to the heavy weight and sad time of tragedy itself.Some dos and donts1. When writing about literature, generally use the present tense (not the past tense), with respect both to the author or work and characters within the fiction: In the Odyssey, Homer stages the. . . or Odyssey presents the . . .; and Odysseus voices his. . . . This seems counter-intuitive, since Homer is no longer living, and were describing an event in a play we have read; but the present tense is a convention of the field.
2. Avoid saying that you are going to prove something. Arguments about literature are not scientific experiments. Simply exchange prove for such words as the following: argue, show, demonstrate, illustrate, suggest, indicate.
3. Avoid stating your certainty about what an author or work intends to accomplish. Intentionality, as it is called, is a controversial topic in literary criticism. Most often, including for Homer, we do not know what an author intends, and usually we can make the same point simply by suggesting that Homer or an author aims to do something.
4. Generally avoid assuming that a characters view in the fiction equates with the authors or the works view. Sometimes, we can indeed find spokespeople in text, but this is not usual. You simply need to be careful here.
5. Dont use your second paragraph to re-state your first paragraph, or to re-state the first paragraph in the middle of your paper. I see both phenomena fairly often, believe it or not. Make sure that every paragraph takes the discussion forward; that each paragraph advances the argument.
6. Generally avoid imposing your ideologyincluding your religious orientationon to an authors work. While we can never be completely objective, we can start with the work, not ourselves, and try to enter sympathetically into the spirit of that work. That is one way to understand your job as a literary critic.
http://calhum.org/files/uploads/program_related/TD-Indian-Removal-Act-1830.pdfusing the following link above, answer the following questions in essay format (1-4 at least three four sentences for each):1. 3. Which President forcefully removed Native Americans and why?4. Which Significant Events preceded and followed the Forceful Removal of Native Americans?5. Give the excat date of forced Indian Removal
Write a 2 page paper on the difference between confrontational negotiations and cooperative negotiations.
Discuss the theme and its effects on the characters within the play by examining three separate incidents in which pride is the dominant element.