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Review the instructions for the Working with Employees Portfolio Assignment.

Complete your 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on Working With Employees.

Format your paper consistant with APA guideline.

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Instructions:

Read the University of Phoenix Material: Working With Employees located on your student website. Begin working on the assignment, which is due in Week Five. This assignment is designed to help you identify common problems that managers face when dealing with employees and the solutions that managers use in an attempt to solve those problems. You are provided an opportunity to evaluate the efficacy of the solutions from a practical perspective and from the perspective of research in Industrial/Organizational psychology.

Civil Liberties v. Civil Rights: Create a PowerPoint slide show explaining what Civil Liberties and Civil Rights are. Your slide show should consist of 10-14 slides (not including a title slide and reference slide which you must have) and should include, but not be limited to:  Definition of civil liberties and discuss how these rights are protected on a federal and state level  Definition of civil rights and discuss how these rights are protected on a federal and state level  Two cases involving civil liberties taken up by the Supreme Court from 1800-2005  Two cases involving civil rights taken up by the Supreme Court from 1800-2005  One case involving civil liberties ruled on by the Supreme Court in the last 2 years  One case involving civil rights ruled on by the Supreme Court in the last 2 years  One leader of civil liberty causes  One leader of civil rights causes (within the last 5 years)  Two pictures  Explanation of how each of these Supreme Court decisions have influenced minority groups, and the effects they have had on the struggles for equal rights  The status of equal rights today You may include additional information you feel is relevant, but do not create more than 14 slides. Remember that you must include a title slide and proper APA reference slide in addition to the 10-14 slides. Use your creativity, and organize the material in a logical and understandable manner. Please feel free to use the notes portion of each slide as well.

How would you summarize the main point of this article? (1 point)

What is the methodology for this research? what are its shortcomings, if any? (6 points)

Applying what you have learned in this course so far, what is your critical evaluation of the author’s argument? (3 points)

1. Your company has been sued for product liability and has a case going to trial next week. In researching some of the applicable cases, you have found some favorable language that interprets the applicable statute. Your supervisor has asked you to write a summary of the circumstances under which the judge should rely on existing case law to determine the intent and purpose of a statute.

How do case law and statutory law interact in the American legal process? Does one trump the other or take priority? When there is a statute and case law that apply, does the court have any discretion in how to apply the law to your case?

2. The state of Delmarva is making an effort to become greener and conserve more energy to set an example for its corporations from a corporate social responsibility standpoint. The state would therefore like to ban the power utilities from using any advertising if conservation could be accomplished by less restrictive means.

Is Delmarva within its rights as a state to pass this legislation in the interest of energy conservation? Why or why not? What type of speech is the state trying to limit? What, if any, protections are available for the utility companies?

3. Create a brief scenario and walk it through the litigation process, beginning with how to select the proper jurisdiction of a court, and progressing through the basic steps leading to a resolution of the dispute through appeal.

4.Sandy mails a letter back to Andrea that she has signed; the letter makes reference to a car Andrea has for sale and Andrea’s desired price. When Andrea later delivers the car to Sandy, Sandy returns the car, claiming she does not want the car and that they did not have a contract, so she is not bound to keep the car. Andrea, however, claims they do have a contract and wants to enforce said contract for the price of the car. What standard would the court use to determine whether there is a contract between the parties for the sale of the car?

5. What is the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)? What transactions are covered by the UCC? Provide two original examples of transactions that would be covered by the UCC in a business context

6. Explain the function and purpose of an administrative agency. At what level of government do we find agencies, and how and by whom or what are they empowered to do what they do?

Assignment 1:

Before completing this discussion, be sure to review Chapter 1 of your text and the Nature vs. Nurture: Part One and Nature vs. Nurture: Part Two required videos. You may also want to explore the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development website, and the “Toward an integrative science of life-span development and aging” article from the recommended resources.

Option A: Each theory of development contributes a unique perspective to our overall understanding of human development. Choose and examine a theory of human development and describe it in your own words. Compare this theory to at least one other theory, taking into account developmental issues such as nature versus nurture, stability versus change, and continuity versus discontinuity.

Option B: After examining the research presented in the required resources, choose and examine a theory of human development. Then, identify at least one aspect of the selected theory that has been criticized. On what evidence is this criticism based?

Read and respond to a case study to demonstrate your understanding of, and ability to apply, the concepts of organizational design and culture.

review a case study of Pfizer in the 9th edition of the course textbook.

Write an integrated essay that addresses the following items:

Describe and evaluate how Pfizer is allowing employees to be more productive with its PfizerWorks.
Analyze an organization for which you work, or are familiar with, by considering the structural implications—good and bad—that the PfizerWorks approach would have in the specifics of productivity. (Think in terms of the six organizational design elements.)
Compare this arrangement with other types of organizations (including nonprofit, volunteer, etc.) and whether this structure would work.
Discuss the global aspect of adapting a structure similar to Pfizer and how the culture of the organization may, or may not, be impacted.

Effective Leadership

Three of the leaders profiled in Chapter 2 (Mother Teresa, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey) have started foundations, schools, or other projects to support causes they believe in. Conduct online research of a favorite celebrity or professional athlete who has also set up a foundation or project for social good. In your paper:

Describe the foundation or project for social good.
Discuss how the foundation reflects the personal values of the celebrity or athlete.
Explain how the foundation or project is an example of leadership integrity.
Describe how the foundation or project enhances the celebrity’s image.
Describe whether integrity and image management are compatible.

Assume that you are a member of an HR consulting team providing human resource management (HRM) consultation for a new small business that will have 15–25 employees (full-time and part-time). The business will open soon, and you are now developing a policy manual/employee handbook.

Select a minimum of 4 issues that you will want to include in the policy manual. These issues must correspond with the general topics addressed in the textbook and supported in the research paper. For each issue, write a relevant policy that you believe would be needed in your business. This is not to be an all-inclusive policy manual; you are only providing a few of the elements of a policy manual for the purpose of this course.

Write your policy for each issue and format it the way you would like to include it in your policy manual. Write a policy that is truly meaningful and useful to you and that reflects your personal philosophy. You are a strategic partner to the business owner and this must be an area that you want to make sure to cover. However, do not write it as a contract between 2 individuals. A policy manual is provided to employees from the standpoint of the organization.

Looking for two well written papers on the following. Must be MLA formated with Works Cited, double spaced, 12 pt font

Paper 1: How has the status on women changed in the post 1945 world? You may discuss individual countries or regions. You might want to consider how economic circumstances, government policy or cultural, religious trends have affected the status of women.

Paper 2: How has globalization been good or bad for the post 1945 (and you may want to begin in the 1980’s) world? It would probably be better to discuss only briefly the general pros and cons, and focus more on a few selected areas or countries.

For its advocates, globalization has been lauded for increasing economic opportunities and individual freedom and empowerment. And yet, many people, both in the rich and poor worlds, view it as an oppressive force and a direct threat to their freedom.

Hence, does globalization cause inequality, instability, unemployment, cultural homogenization, and environmental degradation, or is it an engine of prosperity, wealth, and general human advancement for the vast majority of the world’s peoples?