Incentive Plans
Imagine you are designing an incentive plan for your organization’s (or an organization of your choice) middle managers. Create both short-term and long-term incentives, explaining why you feel they will be motivating to middle-managers. Why does this group require separate consideration?
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In many cities throughout the United States, the prevalence of hate crimes has increased. You have been asked to provide your insight into this and recommend ways to decrease the occurrence of these types of crimes.
Research the topic of hate crimes and address the following:
• Create a profile of the typical individual who commits hate crimes.
• Who are some targets or victims of hate crimes?
• What are some of the causes and effects of these crimes?
• What actions can be taken to minimize the occurrence of hate crimes?
2-3 Pages APA format
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Part 1 is attached
In Assignment 2, using the same company from Assignment 1, you will focus on the company’s mission, introduction, and branding.
Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a four (4) page paper in which you:
Develop a branding strategy for your product that covers the brand name, logo, slogan, and at least one (1) brand extension.
Assemble a marketing strategy for your product, and determine an appropriate time table to implement your plan). Provide a rationale for your response.
Prepare a positioning statement. Include a perceptual map that shows your company’s position against its competitors. From this map, create a statement that depicts your position. For example, “Our product is the fastest in its class for half the price.” Note: See pp. 54 – 55 in the textbook for examples of perceptual maps. You may use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or other equivalent software to create your perceptual map.
Examine the relevant consumer behavior for your target market. Explain the main reasons why the brand name, logo, slogan, brand extension, as well as the positioning statement and marketing strategy are right for the identified target market.
Develop your company’s mission statement and company introduction.
Use at least three (3) academic resources as quantitative marketing research to determine the feasibility of your product / service. These resources should be industry specific and relate to your chosen product / service. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment pa
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The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) nations are increasingly important in international business. Also, describe the internal and external forces that may influence organizational success as it relates to these countries.
Must have book LABOR and RELATIONS Dessler, G. (2015). Human resource management (14th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
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Question 1
List and briefly explain the new focus of today’s HR manager.
Question 2
Discuss the importance of Griggs V. Duke Power Company and its effects on equal employment legislation.
Question 3
When may an organization legally hire employees based upon religion, sex, or national origin? Provide an example of a job that would permit such a restriction (one example for each of the three qualifications).
Question 4
Describe six competencies important to today’s human resource manager. How may the HR manager demonstrate his or her mastery of this knowledge?
Your response must be at least 200 words in length per question. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style
Gómez-Mejía, L., Balkin, D., & Cardy, R. (2012). Managing human resources. (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Please write up 150 to 200 word count for questions 1 to 12; #13 is a matrix, #14- Create a Flowchart. Try and relate the material to real-life applications and also to the textbook and Human Resources in Health Care. Do not plagiarize!
1. Why is career development and succession planning an important component of an organization’s strategic plan?
2. Chap 8- Performance problems seem all too common in your workplace. People do not seem to be putting forth the needed effort, and interpersonal conflict on the work teams seems to be a constant. Is training the answer? If so, what kind of training should be done? What other actions may be appropriate?
3. Chap 8- How effective do you think training can be in raising employee motivation?
4. Chap 9- It has been argued that training can lead to turnover, but career development can reduce it. Differentiate between training and career development. Why might training lead to turnover whereas career development might improve retention? Explain.
5. Chap 9- How would you go about retaining and developing older employees who are part of a dual-career couple?
6. Why are training and development opportunities important to certain employees and not others? To which employees do they appear to be the most important and why?
7. According to the article “The Balancing Act”(Workforce Management 2008), “training and development are extremely critical. Employees must be trained and must understand their career paths. Organizational development is a massive responsibility: How will we lead and motivate our people? How do we prepare for the future? How do we think strategically? In the training area, the focus is on developing mandatory, brand-related training in values and actions, such as onboarding, communications and harassment prevention; customer service skills and financial knowledge; and management and leadership development”. The article discusses how the manager places a high value in training and developing and takes the time to enforce and encourage proper training methods.
In the past I have also observed managers that did not place value in training, sending an employee out for training was a cut in the financial budget and a day the employee is out of the office. Basically the manager is focusing on the present rather than preparing for the future.
As a manager how will you justify implementing a training program?
Salopek, Jennifer.J.(2008) The Balancing Act Workforce Management, October 29, 2008. Retrieved August 07, 2015 from www.workforce.com/archive/feature/25/89/74/index.php
8. The Lakeside Hospital has been going through rapid expansion after a recent take-over by ACME, a major health care management system. Shirley has been the head nurse on the pediatric floor for 10 years. She has been consistently recognized for her high performance over the years. Today she was called into her new Director’s office and reprimanded for not submitting the shift report on ACME’s new form. She stated she did not know ACME had a special form and therefore she used the old standard form.
Does Shirley need training in being a head nurse? What is the root issue? What action do you suggest?
9. According to the following article,”10 Elements for a Successful, Effective Corporate Learning Program” (Workforce Management 2005), Anovarism a successful pharmaceutical company developed a program named appropriately “Corporate Learning in 1998 with the goal of “developing a stable of future leaders who could grow with the business”. The programs success is related to the implementation of the following 10 elements;
1. Secure management support
2. Focus on key initiatives
3. Hire the right employees
4. Put quality first
5. Manage carefully and with consensus
6. Act globally
7. Select and partner with the best training providers
8. Assess learning results and align with the business
9. Persevere and thrive
10. People management
Considering the #1 element is strategic management support, in what ways will HR need to strategically partner with management and employees to identify issues impacting performance levels?
Reference Waltmann,F. (2009) “10 Elements for a Successful, Effective Corporate Learning Program”.Workforce Management, March 11, 2009. Retrieved August 6, 2015 from www.workforce.com
10. Why are career development and succession planning important components of an organization’s strategic plan?
11. Expanding the job vertically gives employees responsibilities that empowers the employee. The manager is able enrich the job to increase the skill variety, task identity, task significance and feedback.
What are some ways that management can provide support when the job is expanded vertically?
12. Discuss this transcript below: Align Your Training Organization to the Business
Whether you view yourself as a training professional, being in the shared service, or the service organization, whatever it happens to be, you cannot be successful in this role—or as an organization—without great alignment. In my case, we were supporting partners, customers, engineering, global services, sales, and so forth. I make sure that on my team I have the right people who can build relationships with each one of those audiences, as appropriate; at the highest level, at the individual contributor level, left, right—we have relationships all over the place. What we have found, just because of alignment and having the right people in place is: we need to develop less, we develop the right things, and even better, the consumption with our audiences is through the roof. The audiences that we’re aligned with help us determine—we determine together—what’s required and then each quarter we roll out required training. Within eight weeks, ninety-five percent of the field is trained; and much of this is scaleable or it’s local workshops using our content. I challenge anybody to say, “We can get ninety-five percent of our field up to speed on multiple topics each quarter within eight weeks.” Before we put this whole program together—again, based on the alignment and the relationships—but before we put this together, we would put training out to the field and maybe forty percent would do it over a couple of quarters. So [it’s a] huge turnaround. But it all came down to step one, being: you need to have great alignment with your audiences. The way to create great alignment: first of all, on the education team, you need to have the right people. The first thing that we did, when we consolidated all the different training organizations, the first thing we did as a management team, is everybody who reports to me came from the business. I actually don’t have a single traditional training person on my direct staff. The person that manages sales education came from sales; the person that manages the technical training actually ran all of the technical workforce in Asia Pacific—200 to 300 people over there—built the training organization, understands that audience, and now they’re in the training function. Now we have plenty of great training professionals on our organization—director of training strategy, director of curriculum design, things like that—but the people who are most front-facing to the audiences all came from those specific audiences. At the end of the day, it’s all about over-achieving the business requirements. Whether it’s sales, services, the consumer group, we’re in business to help these organizations be successful. You have to understand their business. You have to align with them. The more you do, I guarantee you you’ll have more success, and your businesses will have more success, and you will have more value to the company.
13. Complete the Recruitment Matrix
Recruitment Strategy or Method External or Internal Strategy Identification A detailed 200-word description of the strategy and why the strategy is appropriate for health care
Internal Bulletin and Personal Recommendations • •
Employment and Recruitment Agencies • •
14. Create a Flowchart identifying the different components of the two selection process (Internal Bulletin and Personal Recommendations and Employment and Recruitment Agencies).
Include the following in the Flowchart:
• A detailed 200-word description that differentiates between job analysis, job description, and job specification for the two Strategies (Internal Bulletin and Personal Recommendations and Employment and Recruitment Agencies) (**200 words each**)
Cite and Reference each work properly.
Econ 1740 Name: _______________________________________________________
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Answer all of the following questions. (You don’t need to include the question, but you can. If you do, leave a space between the question and your answer)
You must have 1” margins, and your answers must be double spaced, with a 12pt font (times new roman or arial). (10pts for proper formatting)
For questions 1 and 2 you must write one page minimum.
1. At the beginning of the classic film Plan 9 from Outer Space, the Amazing Criswell says, “We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events …. will affect you in the future.” Indeed, future events will affect us in the future. That’s hard to deny. But, perhaps, past events can help us understand and design policy for the future. SO, what past event, policy, or broad trend in US economic history will be of greatest use to us in the future? That is, what topic that we have studied will be most relevant for citizens and policy makers in the coming decade or so? Be specific and complete in your answer.
(20 points)
2. Name three people who you feel have most influenced the development of our country. Explain what they did, (e.g. what they produced, what they were known for, what policies they created, etc.) and why you think this was important. (20 points)
Although there is not a specified page length for these questions, your answers must be complete (i.e. 1-2 sentences is probably not enough).
3. Was average income growth greater from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s or from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s? What was one important source of strong income growth in the period you have identified? Explain, and be specific. (10 points)
4. Based on our textbook readings, and the video series we watched, do you think immigration poses different problems, or creates different benefits, for the US today than it did in the late 1800s? Explain, and be specific. (10 points)
5. Briefly describe one topic that came up in the reading which we did not spend much time on in class, but which you would have liked to explore further. (10 points)
6. Discuss the “bank holiday” implemented by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression. What was its purpose? What were the effects? Explain, and be specific. (10 points)
7. Name and briefly describe one New Deal-era policy or program aimed at the problems of unemployment and low incomes. Be specific. (10 points)
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Capella University MBA 6022
There are two parts to this assignment.
Part 1: Continue your analysis of the organizational problem and the process you will propose in your OIP by researching, collecting, and verifying further data. Complete the following:
Address the following questions, as well as any other new questions you encounter in your research:
Does any information from the cause-and-effect diagram or the flowcharts you created in Unit 3 seem to point to a particular cause?
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Does the cause-and-effect diagram reveal any process steps that were not previously documented?
Do you need to do further research on any causes identified in the cause-and-effect diagram?
Is there a key stakeholder who might have additional or updated feedback for the process flowchart? If so, identify the position (or role) of the stakeholder and describe what he or she might say.
Does any of this information change or impact your problem statement?
Update the before-and-after flowchart you initially created in Unit 3, changing the information based on your new findings, focused on the causes of the organizational problem. Write a summary describing your revisions to the flowchart. Describe how (if at all) your problem statement is impacted by the revisions. Include copies of both the original flowchart and the revised version within the text of your paper.
Part 2: The tool that you use to measure the effectiveness of your new process will make a difference in defining and quantifying your outcomes. For this part of your assignment, complete the following:
Research various measurement strategies that you might use for your OIP.
Develop a measurement strategy that enables you to measure the improvements your proposed process will offer. Your measurement strategy should help you determine whether the results are actually positive and ensure that your process does not have an unanticipated negative impact elsewhere. Note that you may need to revise your measurement strategy as more historical data is gathered.
Identify what types of quantitative or qualitative measures you will employ in your measurement strategy, including the following:
An analysis of potential quantitative and qualitative measurement strategies that would apply to your OIP.
A description of the qualitative or quantitative measure (or measures) you have chosen.
A description of how often the improvement results are measured when using this strategy.
Submission Requirements
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
Resources: Minimum of 2 sources required.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
History
This week, you are to write a course project portfolio essay on the issue of globalization. Give an example of a current, active website that is based in the US, which expresses the values of globalization, and analyze the site.
Your essay should answer the following questions:
What is globalization, and in what ways has the Internet served as a vehicle for it?
What cultural values do the site you chose reflect?
What political values are reflected?
Is the site culturally or politically biased in some way? Explain.
How are these values that are reflected by the website distinctly American?
Your thesis for this essay should attempt to argue why this site is an example of the values of globalization, and use your answers from the questions above to explain why this is true.
This essay should be 2-3 pages, in APA style,