Day: March 5, 2018

Recognizing Employee Contributions

You are the HR manager of a relatively new retail company that has both retail stores and Internet sales.  Your company is steadily growing in revenue and profitability. The company realizes that in order to retain the solid, highly productive workforce it currently has in place, it is important to enhance the base compensation and benefits package offered to the employees. The company currently offers a basic compensation program and only federally mandated benefits. Employee surveys suggest the compensation and benefits program may be out of date. Employees are beginning to consider leaving the organization.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Propose two (2) methods an HR professional could use to determine incentive pay. Specify the principal manner in which the proposed methods take into consideration individual, group, and company performance. Justify your response. 
2. Examine the core legal requirements affecting employee benefits in today’s competitive environment. Determine the legally mandated benefits that the company must currently offer to its employees. 
3. Recommend at least four (4) additional benefits that the organization should consider providing to its employees. Suggest at least three (3) important concepts that a company must consider when designing benefit plans. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Assess the efficiency of common techniques for effectively communicating compensation and benefit plans to employees. Support your answer.
5. Suggest two (2) ethical risks of making incentive pay a large portion of employees’ total compensation. Propose two (2) recommendations for ways the company might mitigate or reduce these risks.  
6. Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment. 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 page length. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the influences on and various approaches to compensation.
• Analyze issues related to developing and implementing employee benefit packages.
• Apply relevant theories and knowledge to human resource practices in organizations.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management foundations.
• Write clearly and concisely about human resource management foundations using proper writing mechanics.

Human Performance Technoloy

1. Due to a down-turn in the economy, your company has been experiencing financial losses in revenue. You have been asked to put together a team that will find 3-5 low-cost or no-cost ways to resource costs by 25% for your company’s main product line. You are being given less 6 weeks to identify and test these cost-cutting measures. If they work in a pilot, you and your team guide the organization through the changes, if not your team will be “redeployed”. With no margin for error, you feel that it is imperative that evaluation be “right” from the beginning. Identify the evaluations and key decisions that need to be made in each of the next six weeks. (Reminder: this isn’t about designing the solutions but the plan to get to solutions.)

 

2. What is the relationship between a cause analysis and a requirements definition (often a document)? How does one impact the other? How does information flow between the two? Also explain what a “cause analysis” is including what information is needed before starting the cause analysis, what information would be gathered during the analysis and what decisions would be made based on that analysis. Then, explain what requirements are and how they will be used.

 

3. Explain what a “gap analysis” is including how gaps are defined and measured. Be sure to address how gap analysis relates to needs, requirements, design, project scoping, evaluation and evaluation planning.

Culture In Nursing

People of Korean Heritage.

People of Mexican Heritage.

Read chapter 20 and 21 of the class textbook and review the attached Power Point presentations.  Once done; answer the following questions:

1.  Give an overview of the development of the Korean and Mexican people as culture.

2.  Discuss the health care beliefs of both heritages and how they influence the delivery of nursing care.

3.  Do you think is there any similarity in these two culture healthcare beliefs and the beliefs in United States?  If yes or not please explain your response.

 

As stated in the syllabus please present your assignment in an APA format,   Your assignment must contained a minimum of 2 evidence based references besides the class textbook. 600 words minimum 

The Space Traders Essay

Read “The Space Traders” by Derrick Bell and write at least a five-paragraph essay on

Bell’s claims that “the space trade is somewhat familiar to the first African slave trade, and that these two events occur because of “the permanence of racism” in American society and the structures that allow this repetition to exist. Agree or disagree?

Voices Of Africa

Introduction to Camara Laye’s Dark Child  

(1) You need to prepare these activities at home, type them on your computer and bring your work to class on the dates indicated below. These will count as a journal entry.  You will give all of your activities on the date indicated below to your teacher. 

(2) All written answers need to be in coherent paragraphs and/or clear complete sentences.  

Deadlines:   For Monday, January 29, I will read the syllabus and check the general course outline in their entirety.  I will also bring my questions so that I can have them answered in class if need be.  Finally, you will also prepare activities #1-3.  For Monday, February 5, I will prepare activities #4 and 5. I will also turn in all my activities about Growing up in Africa, Camara Laye and The Dark Child that same day.   

Activity #1: At home and in class.  

 Read the first document, “Introduction to Guinea-Conakry” and watch the 10-minute video clip  below called “Geography Now! Guinea” in the “Growing up in Africa” folder.   Write down 15 reflective questions (i.e. that have a solid content and need an explanation) and their respective answers about these two documents and in preparation for the in-class activity.    During class time, with a group of 3-5 people, each of you will take turn to quiz each other with your questions.  The objective of this in-class activity is for all to assimilate the information about this country. You will turn in your questions and answers for a grade to your instructor.  

Activity #2: At home. 

Read the second document, “Introduction to Camera Laye” in the “Growing up in Africa” folder and answer the following questions in coherent paragraphs and/or complete sentences:  

(1) What are 5 facts you learned about Camara Laye’s life?  Explain why they are significant in 1-2 lines. 

(2) Write an imaginary letter to Camera Laye from the biographical notes and literary work you have read about this author. In this letter which must contain a minimum of 250 words, you explain to him how much you appreciated his work.  

Activity #3: At home.  In Camara Laye’s novel, you will read the first six chapters.  Do the following: 

(1) Give each of these chapters a short title (5-6 words) that summarizes each of these chapters. 

(2) Choose one of the characters in these first six chapters, present this character in a 10-15 line paragraph and write down two quotes pertaining to that character. Explain why these two quotes strike you.  

Activity #4:  At home. 

How to? This should help you with you reading.  Go to the “How to?” folder.  Look to the left of your screen, the folder is the eight blue button from the top. 

 Check the two following documents: “Types of Reading” and “Speed Reading Self-Pacing Methods: A Crash Course”.  Answer the following two questions in clear and coherent sentences and explain your answers: 

(1) Which type of reading would you use for reading Camara Laye’s book?  

(2) Which one of the five self-pacing methods do you think would help you?  

Activity #5:  At home.

  In Camara Laye’s novel, you will read the last six chapters.  Give each of these chapters a short title (5-6 words) that summarizes each of these chapters.  Choose one of the following topics and write 200 words about the topic you choose: 

(1) Camara Laye’s family vs. yours.   

(2) Your world & school experience vs. his?  

(3) Becoming a man in Dark Child.   

(4) Traditional vs. modern way of life in Camara Laye’s 

Opinion Writing

Read the article "Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals".  A copy of the article is attached. Please elaborate and substantiate your opinion. Limit the response to 1-2 pages, single-spaced font size 11.  Don't use another sources. Make sure that the writing is 0% plagiarism.   

 

Popular Music In Higher Education

This is gonna be a 4 page english essay written for english as a second language professors (ESL) , this essay should help the reader see how popular music might enhance student's live in higher education. How popular music can help college students in variety of ways , you should include personal experience, identify to whom this essay for. English professors for example can help students bond together by maybe giving them music assignments to work together 

Compare And Contrast Essay

(a) Study the transition of images and storylines between early and recent Disney feature film—images of manhood, womanhood, male-female relations, age, race, ethnicity, class (you would study one or more of these images). OR

(b) Relate characters and events in one or more films to some historical phenomena. OR

c) Combine [a] and [b] above. For example, you could do a paper on the changing perceptions of women and work between Snow White and Seven Dwarves and Mulan, and include an explanation of how women’s changing roles in American society are reflected in the difference between Snow White and Mulan. 

 

  

For main topic. This means that you must come up with a focus. For example, it is not enough to say that you want to compare and contrast Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Maleficent. You must narrow down your idea and decide on the focus or theme of your comparison and contrast. Will you be comparing beauty standards? Leadership roles? Family roles (mother, wife, lover)? Changing images of body types? The meaning of magic in relation to gender? The changing meanings of true love and the kiss? These are just examples of a focus. You should come up with your own thematic focus. And you should try to make it sound as sensible and direct as you can.

Week 11-Discussion 2

"Leveraging What You’ve Learned"  Please respond to the following:Identify at least three (3) key concepts that you have learned in this course, and explain how those concepts will help you in your current or future positions.Suggest how the lessons learned in the course could be applied by someone not going into the health care field. Provide specific examples to support your response.

 

IT 304 Week 3 Discussion Board

Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to  the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This  will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be  substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

 

• Describe the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model layers, and explain how they interact with each other.  
• Do you think that the model can work with any layer missing in any particular type of situation?  
• Choose 2 of the elements of the Transmission Control  Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite and describe in-depth how they  play a role in the TCP/IP model. This can include a description of  elements within the layers of the TCP/IP model or anything else that is  related. 

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2  of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their  Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and  enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the  following questions:

 

• What did you learn from your classmate's posting?  
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?  
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?  
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates' postings?