In this assignment, you will be assessed on the following outcome:
HR485-3: Illustrate the factors that affect an organizations performance.
In this assignment, you will apply the key guidelines associated with performance management and apply
them to the scenario described below.
You are the Human Resource manager for a mid-size organization (300 employees). You have been
charged with revising your organizations performance evaluation process with a goal of moving toward a
comprehensive performance management process.
You prepare a 2- to 3-page paper which describes how you would incorporate the following elements into
your plan:
Questions:
1. What types of tools will supervisors use to keep track of performance? Identify at least two tools.
2. What steps will be put into place to ensure that employees are receiving regular feedback about their
performance? Identify at least three steps.
3. What type of appraisal format you will use?
4. How would you prevent rater errors? Identify at least three strategies.
To successfully complete the assignment, the following are the minimum requirements:
Complete a 2- to 3-page paper, in addition to the title and reference pages, in APA 6th edition
formatting 12-point font, double-spaced, indented paragraphs, citations, reference list, etc. Review
the APA formats found in Writing Resources accessed through the Academic Success Center within
the Academic Tools area of the course.
Your assignment should have a title page with the following information: Title of the paper, your name,
course and section number, and date.
Your writing should be well-ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful. Your
viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained.
Include introductory and summary paragraphs.
Limit the use of direct quotations instead, paraphrase and cite the author’s work. For a refresher
on paraphrasing, view this short Guide to Paraphrasing video and explore the additional resources
prior to starting your assignment. You can access tutorials, how-to videos, tutoring services, and
more by visiting the Academic Success Center.
Reinforce your personal opinions with at least two credible or scholarly research articles (quotes
from and paraphrases of these articles should not exceed 1015% of your papers content). Peerreviewed articles, journal articles, textbooks, and Library resources are examples of high-quality
resources. Note that Wikipedia, Investopedia, etc. are not considered reliable resources for this
research.
Unit 5 [HR485]
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Demonstrate your understanding of the weekly objective(s) through your response.
Ensure that a response to each question of the case study is included in your paper.
Day: November 1, 2020
The main part of the paper is due later but a detailed outline is due rather soon. One part of the paper could be to draw in trumpet as well as timpani, and how they have been used by baroque composers to reference war or war-like effects (victory, for example).
I’m sending you one source right now.
Performance Management Steps
Measuring, monitoring and assessing performance is one of the key functions that occurs in an organization. There are a number of methods and formats for measuring performance. In this discussion you will be comparing and contrasting several of these methods.
1. What are the steps involved with the performance management process?
The forced ranking approach is one of several methods of managing performance described in the textbook. Compare and contrast the fairness of forced rankings relative to two other methods of measuring performance described in Chapter 8.
2. What are two benefits and two potential pitfalls of using a multisource performance rating?
Read the below case study and answer the questions below based on the material you learned in Chapter 9 (1 2 pages not including title page or references is fine for this assignment):
Kelly received no training and knew nothing about Japan. She and her husband had expectations that he would also be able to find a job in Japan. They moved into a tiny apartment with high rent in Tokyo. The Japanese were unused to taking orders from a woman, especially one who broke cultural norms such as referring to people by their first names, patting customers on the back, and so on. Overall, Kelly was completely unprepared to work in Japan, deal with the Japanese, or be successful in this assignment. There had been no preparations made for Kelly, her husband, or children on employment, schooling, or cultural differences.
What stage of culture shock is Kellys family experiencing?
Turn back the clock to when Kelly was offered the position in Tokyo. What, if anything, should have been done differently and by whom?
You are Kelly. What should you do now?
Group cohesion and climate are important dynamics within a small group. Identify and then compare and contrast a current, or former, small group that was cohesive and one that was not cohesive, including a discussion of how the presence or lack of cohesion affected the groups climate.
Topic: Innovate Phase
Your book suggests that the purpose of the Innovate phase is to make the process(es) within the scope of the project as efficient and effective as possible. Further, it says that the best way to develop the new process options and alternatives is through the use of various workshops. The practice of using workshops and group input to examine processes and identify potential avenues for improvement has been well researched (see step 7 in your text for some discussion). There are various potential obstacles in this effort and many methods have been suggested to handle them.
For this Discussion, do the following:
Research and describe one methodology suggested for improving the efficiency of innovate workshops for evaluating processes and recommending improvements. The book contains a list of various innovation activities.
Describe your experience with such a process where you were part of a process improvement effort. What kinds of difficulties did you experience and how were these resolved, if at all?
You may find that you will need to do additional research using the Library or the Internet.
Do not forget to cite and reference your sources in APA format (use the Writing Resources located in the Academic Tools area of your course for APA help).
you will be required to write a thesis-driven Extended Definition Paper in which you will select a word, term, phrase of your choosing, and explore its multiple meanings. Keep in mind its one word with different meanings, which means your paper must show differentiation: how one usage differs from the next. Avoid words such as success, love, power, kindness, etc., as those are largely subjective. You must also make an attempt to find words with at least four categories– and you can also use colloquialisms, slang, or culturally specific words.
Read the case first then answer those two questions:
1. Would you recommend Waypoint expand their business model by purchasing more single family homes (SFRs) in either their current markets and/or new markets?
2. What issues may Waypoint face to meet investor return criteria?
Each question no less than 1 page.Thanks!
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Background
Shorelines at the intersections of land masses and oceans are dynamic regions shaped by wave energy.
Longshore drift refers to a net movement of sand parallel to a shoreline. Waves tend to approach
shorelines diagonally rather than precisely head on (see image below). This oblique approach results in
a longshore current, or movement of water in the surf zone (region of crashing waves). In addition to
moving water, the longshore current moves many tons of sand each year. Further landward, waves
swash up the beach face (swash zone) at an angle, but drain straight back down the beach. This action
entrains particles of sand in a zig-zag pattern, and over time they move along the swash zone in the
same direction as the longshore current in the surf zone.
The sand found on beaches and transported as longshore drift comes mainly from rivers, but may also
derive locally from rock cliffs, volcanoes, corals, or shells. When rivers are dammed for hydropower,
water supply, recreation, or flood control, beaches are deprived of an important source of sand.
Engineers attempt to stabilize shorelines with various structures, including groins, jetties, breakwaters,
and seawalls. Typically, groins, jetties, and breakwaters consist of large boulders accumulated into linear
ridges that rise above sea level; respectively, they maintain or widen beaches, keep the mouths of rivers
open, and protect ships or property from crashing waves. Seawalls are generally made of concrete or
large boulders and constructed on land rather than offshore. Their purpose is to protect the land behind
them from hurricanes and storm surges.
The map below shows a groin, jetty, and breakwater (shaded rectangles) in the sea near the shoreline.
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These structures can have both positive and adverse outcomes. By design, groins trap sand up current of
the structure; however, they often increase beach erosion down current of the structure. The longshore
current deflects around the groin, thus diminishing sand supply to the immediate down current area.
Jetties may induce similar patterns of deposition and erosion. Calm water behind breakwaters tends to fill
in with sand (the beach grows outward). Seawalls require heavy maintenance and, by protecting rock
exposures behind them, reduce the amount of sand supplied to beaches.
Rising sea level compounds coastal erosion problems. Sea levels fluctuate naturally over time, but can
also be influenced by human actions. Currently, we are in a warming period, and globally sea level is
rising.
Shorelines mark the beginnings of vast oceans, which cover about three-fourths of the earths surface.
We knew little about the topography of ocean floors until the 1940s and following decades, when echo
sounders (devices transmitting sound waves) were developed and deployed for military (detecting
submarines) and mapping applications.
Echo sounders transmit sound waves from a ship, measuring how long it takes for them to reach the
ocean floor and travel back. The travel time depends on the distance from sea level to the ocean floor. Let
D denote the distance from sea level to the ocean floor, t denote the two-way travel time of a sound wave,
and v denote the velocity of sound in water. It follows that 2D=vt, or D=vt/2.
By measuring the distance from sea level to the ocean floor at thousands of points, scientists were able
to construct topographic maps of the ocean floors (maps depicting the shape of the ocean floor). These
maps revealed complex forms rather than flat, featureless plains as previously thought. Oceans include
three major topographic units: continental margins, ocean basin floors, and mid-ocean ridges.
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Continental margins occupy the perimeters of ocean basins where they meet the continents. Many
continental margins exhibit three distinct segments: a shelf, slope, and rise. Shelves (most landward
segments) are flooded extensions of the continents. Slopes (middle segment) are steep as the name
implies, and represent the approximate boundary between oceanic and continental crust. The rise (most
seaward segment) is a gradual descent to the deep basin.
Ocean basin floors consist of flat plains (called abyssal plains) dotted with seamounts and also include
deep trenches. Seamounts are underwater volcanoes. Most seamounts are extinct. Often they form at
mid-ocean ridges (discussed below). Embedded in moving plates of lithosphere, seamounts migrate
away from mid-ocean ridges and gradually subside. Guyots are seamounts with flat tops, formed by
waves eroding a volcano that once rose above sea level.
Ocean trenches are long narrow features of the ocean floor, which form where moving plates plunge into
the mantle below. This setting is called a subduction zone. Trenches are the deepest parts of oceans; the
deepest trenches are approximately 11 km beneath sea level.
Extensive faulting and volcanic structures characterize mid-ocean ridges (sometimes called spreading
centers). Plates on either side of a mid-ocean ridge spread apart from one another. Mid-ocean ridges
average about 1,300 km wide, with a 20-80 km wide central depression called the rift valley, a site of
active volcanism. In some places, the volcanoes extend above sea level to form islands such as Iceland.
Assignment
1. Sketch and label areas of erosion and deposition resulting from the groin (top), jetty (middle), and
breakwater (bottom) in these three maps:
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2. Rising seas inundate land, compounding coastal erosion problems outlined above. Calculate how
much land would be inundated by water if sea level rose 1 foot over the next 30 years. Use three
scenarios for land surface slope: 1%, 50%, and 100%. For example, a 50% slope (0.5 in decimal form)
means that as you move inland, the land elevation increases 0.5 feet for every 1 foot of horizontal
distance. To solve this problem, express each slope in decimal form, set it equal to (change in
elevation)/(change in horizontal distance), and solve for change in horizontal distance.
1%:
50%:
100%:
3. The velocity of sound in water is approximately 1,500 m/s. Calculate the depth from sea level to the
ocean floor given the following two-way travel time measurements taken by an echo sounder (see
equation above, D=vt/2).
0.17 seconds:
3.60 seconds:
11.23 seconds:
4. (This exercise is from Physical Geology by Steven Earle and is used under a CC BY 4.0 license.) The
following map shows part of the sea floor near the southern tip of South America. North is toward the top
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Assignment 5 Rubric
of the map. Cooler colors (purples and blues) represent lower elevations, and warmer colors represent
higher elevations.
Identify the locations of the following features on the map:
continental shelf
continental slope
spreading ridge
subduction zone with a deep trench
an abyssal plain
some isolated seamounts
5. Worldwide, the oldest rocks at the ocean floor are about 180 million years old. In contrast, the oldest
continental rocks are approximately 4 billion years old.
Is this observation consistent with the observed tendency for oceanic rather than continental
lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath ocean trenches?
Is it consistent with the observed density of oceanic (3.0 g/cm3) versus continental (2.8 g/cm3) crust?
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Total Points: 28.0
Criteria Ratings Pts
6.0 pts Question 1
2 points for each sketch
6.0 to >0.0 pts
Full Marks 0.0 pts
No Marks
6.0 pts Question 2
2 points for each calculation
6.0 to >0.0 pts
Full Marks 0.0 pts
No Marks
6.0 pts Question 3
2 points for each calculation
6.0 to >0.0 pts
Full Marks 0.0 pts
No Marks
6.0 pts Question 4
1 point for each location
6.0 to >0.0 pts
Full Marks 0.0 pts
No Marks
4.0 pts Question 5
2 points for each interpretation
4.0 to >0.0 pts
Full Marks 0.0 pts
No Marks
Please read attached texts and watch both videos, from the book you need to choose only 1 chapter to include in answering questions.
Answer must thoroughly addresses each question, including diverse perspectives when relevant (e.g., explaining arguments for and against a particular approach, or offering cautions when using a particular method)
You must integrate ideas from across all reading attached. Also you should use specific quotes or examples from the assigned texts as evidence to support arguments. All claims and arguments are supported by specific quotes and examples from the texts.
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1. What are some ways teachers can support students making educational transitions? Please use specific examples from the texts and your own areas of expertise.
2. What are some things that might make a transition more difficult for students? Please use specific examples from the texts and your own areas of expertise.
3. What are some equity concerns that may arise when you are helping students plan for educational transitions? (i.e., what are some problems that are more likely to affect some groups of kids than others?)
4. What are some questions this week’s text raises for you?
