Day: March 8, 2018

Essay Assignment: Examine employment law and its impact on managing talent

Objective: Explain how employment law provides rights to employees and employers, and the steps employers must take to comply with employment law.

Introduction

This essay will allow you to demonstrate your understanding of various areas of employment law. You will describe “at-will” employment, explain limitations on employers under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and describe the limitations and delimitations of the use of drug testing by employers. By being able to explain these areas of employment law, you will internalize your knowledge and be a more effective manager. 

Deliverable

The essay for this lesson is required to be a minimum of 750 words that clearly demonstrates your understanding of the activity. Essays should have a clear introduction, thesis statement and conclusion, written in APA format (APAstyle.org). A minimum of three sources must be cited in-text and in the Reference list.

Activity Details

Step 1: Read the following questions, and use what you have learned about this lesson’s objective to summarize your responses. It is highly recommended that you use these questions/prompts as level 1 subheadings in your essay.

• What is employment “at will” and under what circumstances is an employer restricted from terminating an at-will employee without cause? 
• What disability-related information does the law prohibit an employer from asking an applicant for employment, and what actions must an employer take when hiring an employee with disabilities? Are there limits to what an employer must provide?
• Describe the process by which an employer may drug test employees without violating employees’ privacy rights.

 

Project : Children's Science Interview 

For this project, you will interview a child in elementary school to assess their understanding of a science concept. Follow this procedure:
a) Design an interview protocol to assess a child's understanding of a concept.
b) Construct a rubric to evaluate the child's level of understanding.
c) Conduct the interview.
d) Provide a transcript of the interview questions and responses.
e) Summarize the child's understanding of the concept in narrative form.
f) Evaluate the child's level of scientific understanding using your rubric.
g) Describe in narrative form the basis for categorizing the child's scientific understanding at each level in the rubric.

Unit VII Journal

 

During this course, you have compiled a marketing plan for your fictional start-up company. Share the most important part of the marketing plan, and include an explanation of your company and product/service, situation analysis, and the application to the four Ps (marketing mix). 

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

LTE & Advanced Communications

With the help of diagrams where appropriate, illustrate and evaluate the basic LTE/SAE network infrastructure. Access, core, databases, mobility, interworking and support for service delivery functions should be considered. Highlight the key differences to the protocols and structure used in 2nd and 3rd generation networks. What do you think are the main drivers behind the changes?

Industrial relations assignment

Research Study

 The topic for the research study is outlined in some detail below. The Research Study structure must contain an Introduction Section, a Discussion Section and a Conclusion Section (use of these subheadings). The Introduction Section should situate the reader in the study and make it clear what the position is that is being argued in relation to the topic. A good Introduction Section will also define key terms or concepts used and tell the reader about the sources used and the structure of the study. The Discussion Section needs to address the five questions presented below as well as presents a coherent narrative about how employee voice is or should be part of employment relations best practice in Australian workplaces. The Conclusion Section should synthesise the research literature cited in the Discussion Section into a persuasive summary of the position being argued in the research study that was discussed in brief in the Introduction Section. Students who simply answer the research study topic questions in the Discussion Section will not do as well as those who attempt to develop a coherent narrative throughout their research study.

 

 

Research Study topic

 Topic: Direct employee participation and employee voice have re-emerged as key features of how organizations are managing their relationship with their employees, particularly in knowledge-based industries. There is a growing interest in understanding how employee voice mechanisms compliment and/or replace more traditional forms of indirect representation involving unions. This research topic allows students to explore in some detail the research around employee voice and its application to different occupations and industry sectors in Australia. In the Discussion Section students are required to address the following questions:

 

1. Provide two different definitions of employee voice drawing upon the research

literature and compare these two definitions.

2. Explain how the mechanisms of employee voice differs from employee representation

by unions and what the trend is in Australia towards employee voice complimenting

or substituting for direct representation involving unions?

3. Describe and explain what the research literature suggests is the perceived

relationship between employee voice, employee attitudes at work and employee and

organizational performance?

4. Explain what the research literature suggests is the best form of employee

representation, direct, indirect or a mix of the two and why? Describe a type of

organization or industry sector where a mix or hybrid approach to employee

representation makes sense from an employer and from an employee perspective.

5. The Fair Work Act 2009 mandates the role of unions in indirect representation but is

silent on direct representation mechanisms. Why might it be argued that formal

voice mechanisms not involving unions should also be mandated in law to ensure all

employees have a say in decision-making at work?

 

 

In this literature essay I need at least 8 references.5 peer reviewed journal articles and 3 scholarly texts

 

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN FACILITIES MANAGEMENT – Maximum 6,000 words

You have just been appointed the Facilities Manager of a business HQ by a company that has not recognised FM as a separate function before. Your new team are people who will continue in the same roles that they had before, but now under your leadership.

As a new function, FM has not had its own budgets before and one of your first tasks is to establish what the budgets should be.

Alternatively you may base your answer using your own organisation as the example, clearly stating any assumptions.

Task 1

You should produce a Financial Management Policy document to help you and your team to start and maintain the financial management process.

The document should cover the following topics:

1 Describe management accounting techniques which support the facilities management process and the financial systems and processes used for the effective management of facilities management budget within your company. (AC 1.1, 1.2)

2 Explain the principles of financial auditing and describe how these principles are deployed within your own area of responsibility. (AC 2.1, 2.2)

3 Review the financial implications of using codes of ethics within in the context of corporate responsibility and explain how you would make suitable adjustments to improve good practice and transparency. (AC 2.3, 2.4)

4 Explain ways in which a true and fair view of assets, liabilities, profits and costs can be presented. (AC2.5)

5 Explain how you would prepare, review and manage revenue budgets. (AC 3.1, 3.2)

6 Set out how to apply the techniques used by facilities managers to set, acquire, review and manage capital budgets. (AC 3.3, 3.4, 3.5)

7 Explain the tools of financial appraisal and how these are used to inform financial management and budgetary decisions. (AC 3.6)

8 Apply the principles, techniques and processes of cash-flow projections to manage the flow of cash within the facilities management business cycle, including how this impacts on contracts and projects. (AC 4.1, 4.2)

Task 2

9 Identify and apply the principles and techniques to prepare financial cases and prepare a financial case to secure the required approval. (AC 5.1, 5.2)

NOTES

1. Remember to always title your assessment e.g.

“ FM5.01 Facilities management development and trends”

3. It is recommended that you annotate your work with the assessment criteria number for ease of marking.

4. Any text which has been copied MUST be accurately referenced to the original source (e.g. Harvard Referencing). Any text which is copied and not referenced is deemed as plagiarism which may result in your work being voided (please refer to the BIFM Malpractice Policy & Procedure). You will be asked to sign a statement to the effect that your assessment is your own work before submission to BIFM for marking.

5. When presenting your assessment please use font size 12.

6. Please ensure every page is correctly numbered.

7. Maximum word count 6,000 words

 

Written Assignment 2

This written assignment builds upon the work presented in Written Assignment 1. It provides the opportunity for you to demonstrate your ability to integrate your academic understanding as covered in this course into effective and evidence-based care for a person requiring acute care in an in-patient environment.

When preparing this assignment, please insert the formulation developed for Written Assignment 1 at the commencement of the paper (this is not included in the word count).

This assignment requires you to present:

· The plan of care that you have developed for the person considering:

 – the environment in which the person is cared for

 – the priorities for care

– psycho-social aspects of care

– specific nursing interventions

– and biological treatments

 

· Provide a critical review of the experience of care:

 – From the perspective of both the person and yourself as a nurse

– And of the outcomes of care

 

 NB: This will require that you discuss with the person their experience of mental health acute care as well as reflect upon your own and perhaps other’s experience of providing care in this environment.

Medical companies which use CRSPR-Cas9 for gene editing

Create a professional quality independent research report (10-15 pages) on an agreed upon topic, technology or industry related to the course material. 

John Maynard Keynes is often considered “the father of macroeconomics”. Discuss this characterisation of Keynes.

Description

These essays are studies in influence and inheritance of ideas. You should make sure that you pay attention to economists who came before and after the author you choose to write about.

Written assessment

Written assessment 1 (1375 words, in-text reference and reference list are not included in total word count of 1375 words)

 

In this assignment, you are required to provide a case study of a client admitted to an acute inpatient facility:

(NB: All information is to be de-identified and you must use a pseudonym for the person). You are required to provide the following:

 · A succinct yet detailed assessment of the person’s mental and physical health, and of psychosocial health including vulnerabilities and strengths.

 · A formulation of the problems that include the symptoms of mental illness, the context of the admission to acute care, vulnerabilities and strengths

While this is a clinically-based assignment, your assignment must:

 · Be supported with relevant references (avoid a reliance on health policy documents as your sole source)

· Demonstrate your capacity for sound clinical reasoning