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Discussion

1. Prompt/Topic: Assume that the Barnes and Ardmore partnership agreement provides for a two-third/one-third sharing of income but says nothing about losses. The first year of partnership operation resulted in a loss, and Barnes argues that the loss should be shared equally because the partnership agreement said nothing about sharing losses. Is Barnes correct? Explain why or why not.

After the partnership makes the decision above, what financial statement would show the allocation of partnership income among the partners?

2. minimum of 100 words.

List and explain the reasons why our productivity growth has varied in recent decades. Reference your answer.

In a well-written, 4- to 5-page paper (not including cover and reference pages), apply Duty Ethics to the Enron case study.

Briefly (1-2 paragraphs) describe what is meant by duty ethics.
Choose two ethical issues raised by the Enron case, e.g., Enron’s accounting fraud, the company’s reward systems, use of special purpose entities, “deal making” company culture, etc.
Apply duty ethics your two Step 2 choices. How does use of duty ethics as a lens inform the ethical nature of your two choices? Remember that duty ethics concerns duty and rights, so be sure to address both in your written analysis.
Be sure to include at least two sources from the library to support your discussion and analysis.
Be sure that you properly cite your sources using proper APA style, and use proper in-text citations.
Follow the guidelines in The Student Guide to Writing a High Quality Academic Paper
You are expected to demonstrate evidence of critical thinking – as defined in the Module 2 background materials and the grading rubric.

Question 1

Homer Plessy of the separate but equal case was seven-eighths White and could have passed for White, based on his appearance. What role does the invisibility of someones race or ethnicity play in their treatment, experiences, and identity?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. 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.

Question 2

Discuss the potential negative individual and organizational consequences for Asian Americans being perceived as a model minority.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. 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.

Assignment Objectives

Explain the effect of diversity on group performance

Assignment Description

You are preparing to write an article for a professional magazine regarding the value of diversity in teams. Diversity can include any of the following:

Gender
Age
National origin
Race
Sexual orientation
Marital status
Parental status
Height
Weight
Profession
Education
Geographic location of residence
Financial status
Artistic endeavors

Every generation of psychologists seems to engage in practices that the next generation looks back upon with concern and regret. Many of the former treatments for the mentally ill are now viewed as unethical.

Reflect back on what you have learned throughout this course about the evolution of psychology throughout history.
Research a form of treatment used with the mentally ill during a particular decade in the 20th century. Include information about the key historical events that were happening around the time this treatment was being used, as well as identifying the popular culture of the time.
How might the psychological theories of the time have influenced attitudes fostering discrimination of people with mental illness?
Analyze the themes and perspective(s) that underlie the rationale for this treatment.
Explain how all of the above (i.e., historical events, culture, and the underlying rationale for this treatment) related to the popular psychological theory at that time.
Conclude your presentation with a question raised about a current treatment that may be parallel to your findings.

OL 211 – Human Resource Management – Milestone 3

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Using the attached documents as reference for this 2-3 page, double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, in APA format, answer the following items:

1. Determine Human Resource Management’s role in the performance management process, including how the process aligns with the organization’s strategic plan. The description must be well supported and plausible.

2. Differentiate between the trait, behavioral, and results-based performance appraisal systems, and provides an example where each would be most applicable. Your example must be well supported and contextualized.

3. Determine how to identify best suited appraisals for the Maersk Customer Service – CARE Business Partner employee job duties, and support your response with an example. You must use scholarly research to substantiate claims and cite your references.

4. Identifies a variety of performance scales that can be used in organizations including graphical scales, letter scales, and numeric scales, and describes each. The description must be clear and contextualized.

You are a data analyst with John and Sons Company. The company has a large number of manufacturing plants in the United States and overseas. The company plans to open a new manufacturing plant. It has to decide whether to open this plant in the United States or overseas.

What is an appropriate null hypothesis to compare the quality of the product manufactured in the overseas plants and the U.S. plants? Why? How would you choose an appropriate level of significance for your statistical test? What are the possible outcomes and limitations of your statistical test?

Importance of Reputation Management

Write a paper that discusses the importance of reputation management in relation to an organization’s credibility. If a PR person only has their credibility to offer and is only as good as his or her deserved reputation, how can social media help or harm that reputation?

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
Include cover page and reference page.
At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

Analyze Leadership Skills Best Practices

Assume that you are a mid-level leader within an organization of your choice. Top leadership has given you the task to study the best practices in terms of leadership today. You will create a report that analyzes the leadership skills and guidelines recommended based on the current research. In your written report, be sure to address the following:

Determine guidelines for exercising authority. What guidelines would you recommend for reward power and coercive power?
Determine which skills are most important at each level (lower, middle and executive) of management. Provide examples for each level.
Explain the importance of top level leadership within organizations. Why is it important?
Describe how selection and placement can be used to improve leadership in organizations.
Determine the types of professional development that can be used to improve leadership in organizations.

SUGGESTED TOPIC: Corruption of Public Officials (any matter related to ethics in public administration is acceptable)

1. Begin by selecting a topic to research. The research paper requires a public administration topic selection that focuses on an ethical scenario that confronts you in public administration.

2. What is the problem that you want to investigate? State the problem as a question.

3. Why does this problem interest you?

4. What does the literature say? Find three to five research-based articles about the topic as a literature review.

5. What did you learn about this topic in relation to addressing the problem that you researched? What new knowledge, recommendations, or proposed solutions have you uncovered?

6. Develop your conclusions. As you have completed the work in this course, you have noticed themes in the unit lessons, the assigned readings, and the assignments. Now, you will combine that knowledge with your personal examples and previous experiences to construct your research paper.