Day: January 15, 2020

Identify the laws of employment practices that managers follow.

Introduction: In your Reading in Chapters 1, 3, and 15, you examined some of the laws impacting the human resources function. In this Assessment, you will read a scenario and identify the laws and actions to be addressed by this hospital in order to be in legal compliance.

Scenario: Wings Hospital has had a busy week. Two issues have arisen: (1) an employee was dismissed just prior to unionization, and (2) a veteran was interviewed but not hired for a position and is alleging discrimination and harassment.

The hospital has just been unionized, and an employee was dismissed who was a designated union representative. The employer said she was found chatting with other employees on social media about the union during the lunch break on company computers 24 hours before the union was voted in, and the former employee filed a charge with the regional labor relations office.

In addition, the companys CEO has received a charge of discrimination and harassment regarding a female veteran who was interviewed but not hired for an insurance coordinator position. The veteran claims the interviewer was making unseemly gestures towards her during the interview.

You can consult both your assigned chapter reading and the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) website to address the checklist items below:

Checklist:

Identify the labor relations law(s) pertaining to the two dismissed employees.
State the potential steps that will be taken by the NLRB regarding the charges filed by the former employee.
Identify the EEOC laws related to the alleged discrimination and harassment charges brought by the veteran who was interviewed but not hired.
State remedies or actions needed to be taken by the HR Department/Wings Hospital to comply with the EEOC and labor relations laws that applied to this scenario.
Access the MT203M1 Competency Assessment rubric. 

Write your original response in a minimum of a 2-page paper (i.e., 500 words) with additional title and reference pages in APA format and citation style, addressing the checklist items.

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Minimum Submission Requirements

  This Assessment should be submitted in a Microsoft Word (minimum 500 words) document with additional title and reference pages and the paper should follow APA format and citation style.

  Respond to all of the checklist items in a thorough manner.

Read the attachment and thoroughly answer the following questions:

Carter Racing Preparation

1. Do you plan to race or not race?
2. What are the pros in support of racing? (Be specific.)
3. What are the cons associated with racing? (Be specific.)
4. How did you weight the pros and cons you identified?  In short, how did you approach determining whether or not to race? 

Explain how financial managers use financial calculators, Microsoft Excel, and financial statements to measure the financial performance of a business entity.

PC-1.1: Engage in a team setting with professional integrity and respect.

Understanding the classification and definitions of financial statement accounts is a fundamental requirement in assessing business management. Assessment of financial data provides the quantitative measures allowing managers to use past and present data to make effective decisions.

Directions

In Part 1 of this Assessment, you will define and classify accounts into an Income Statement or Balance Sheet. In Parts 2 and 3 you will assume the role of a financial manager who has been tasked to report to senior management in an upcoming finance meeting. Senior management is particularly interested in learning the performance of the company in two particular areas. The first focus of your discussion with management, Part 2 of this Assessment, relates to the markup on Cost of Goods Sold (COGS). The second focus of your discussion with management, Part 3 of this Assessment, relates to capital structure.

Part 1

To properly measure financial statements managers must know account definitions and classifications. Using the accounts below, define each and classify each as an Income Statement or Balance Sheet account.

1. Cash
2. Notes payable/Short term debt
3. Inventory
4. Property, plant, and equipment
5. Long term note-debt
6. Stockholders equity
7. Interest and taxes
8. Sales
9. Cost of Goods Sold
10. Selling and general administrative expenses
11. Gross profit
12. Earnings before interest and taxes
13. Net income
14. Accounts receivable
15. Accounts payable

Before you move on to Part 2 and Part 3 below, you must first complete the following Excel Spreadsheet. You must complete the Income Statement tab and the Balance Sheet tab. Then, answer the following questions in Part 2 and Part 3 below.

Part 2

After completing the Income Statement, you should be able to measure a companys COGS and its effect on the Gross Profit Margin (GPM). Based on your assessment of the firms Income Statement, you are to report to senior management on these key components:

a. What is the markup on COGS?

b. Compare this companys markup to a COGS Industry Standard of 70%. What is the result?

c. Explain how the difference in this companys markup and industry markup rates affect profitability, or levels of the GPM?

Part 3

After completing the Balance Sheet in the Excel Spreadsheet hyperlinked above, you should be able to measure a companys capital structure. Based on your assessment of the firm’s Balance Sheet, you are to report to senior management on these key components:

a. What is the nature of this company’s capital structure? Include percentages in your commentary?

b. Compare this capitalization structure percent to an industry standard of 50%. What is the result?

c. To what extent is this company ‘leveraged’?

Minimum Submission Requirements

This Assessment should be in a separate Microsoft Word document. Use this template for your Assessment.

Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your paper should be highly organized, logical, and focused.

Your paper must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, grammar, and mechanics.

Your paper should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.

Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.

A separate page at the end of your paper should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and/or the internet for research.

Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations were appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. Review the APA formatting and citation style resources found in the Writing Center. The Writing Center can be found in the Academic Success Center in the Academic Tools area of your course. (It should be in Times New Roman 12-point font, include correct citations, Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors, and correct references at the bottom of the last page.)

If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.

Read the attachment and answer the following questions thoroughly.

Why Should My Conscience Bother Me Discussion Preparation

1. Who is principally to blame for the unethical behavior? (Select two individuals that are most responsible for the brake situation that developed at Goodrich.)

2. Which ONE of the pitfalls or risks identified by Bazerman and Tenbrunsel best accounts for Lawsons and each of his coworkers decisions and actions (or lack thereof)? Briefly justify your selection.

3. What could Lawson have done differently to prevent the production of a flawed brake?  Be specific.

4. Have you ever contemplated “blowing the whistle”–either internally to someone within the organization or externally to someone outside the organization–in response to a situation at work (or elsewhere)?
    -List the factors and/or considerations that ultimately influenced your decision to engage in whistle blowing (or not), or would influence your decision did you ever find yourself confronted with such a situation.
    -Briefly explain how these factors and/or considerations did (or would) influence your ultimate decision whether or not to engage in some kind of formal whistle blowing activity.

5. Reflecting on your own experience and what you have learned from the readings, what can management do to promote ethical behavior?