Day: February 26, 2021

Week 8: Compensation Strategies Assignment

February 26, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Instructions
Write an analytical paper, summarizing your key findings from this course, focusing on the question of how business organizations should design and adapt their compensation systems to stay competitive and legally compliant on the contemporary labor market (both national and global). Which strategies do companies need to employ to recruit, manage, and retain talent, from the standpoint of compensation system and benefits?

Use at least ten concepts covered in the course to support your conclusions.
Your submission should be 4-6 pages long, excluding the title page and reference list.
Use at least 10 additional sources other than reading materials, including 5 empirical studies from peer-reviewed journals to support your argumentation.
Note: The APU Libraries has a tutorial on peer-reviewed journals if you have any questions. Also, the database search engines allow you to specify that you are searching for peer-reviewed journals.
Evaluation
The grading rubric, which represents the performance expectations for this assignment, is located below.

Submission
To submit your assignment, select Submit Assignment, follow prompts to upload or add your work, add any comments for your instructor in the comments box (optional), and then click Submit Assignment.

References
HKANSSON, P. G., & BEJAKOVI, P. (2020). Labour market resilience, bottlenecks and spatial mobility in Croatia. Eastern Journal of European Studies, 11(2), 525.

References
Agyekum, B. (2020). Neighbourhood characteristics and the labour market experience: A qualitative analysis of the second generation Ghanaian-Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 29(1), 116.

References
Lebid, I. (2020). The Importance of Transport Technology Professionals Training through the Prism of Their Status in the Ukrainian Labour Market. Proceedings of National Aviation University, 84(3), 8087. https://doi.org/10.18372/2306-1472.84.14957

References
MARKOVA, E., & TOSHEVA, E. (2020). Why to Go for Early Retirement? Determinants for Early Exit from the Labour Market: The Evidence from Bulgaria. Balkan Social Science Review, 16, 299313. https://doi.org/10.46763/bssr2016299m

References
Boissonneault, M., Mulders, J. O., Turek, K., & Carriere, Y. (2020). A systematic review of causes of recent increases in ages of labor market exit in OECD countries. PLoS ONE, 15(4), 115. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231897

References
BOKOVI, B. (2020). Labour Market Policies and Social Investment in Montenegro: Attaining European Standards and Practice? Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku, 27(1), 3753. https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v27i1.1622

english

February 26, 2021 Leave a comment English and Literature, Undergraduate

Part1. Choose one of the three pivotal situations below. Write a 250-300 word story (or beginning of a story) that shows one of the following:

– When you first learned that you wouldn’t live forever. This is a question about mortality. Recall an incident as a child where death came to mean what you know it to mean as an adult.
– When you learned about love outside of the realm of family. When did you first fall in love? What happened?
– When you first realized that your parents weren’t infallible, omniscient or omnipotent.

Although the prompts above use the word “you,” you aren’t required to write directly from your own life. If it feels more comfortable, you may create a fictional character and situation; however, you’ll want to draw from your true experienced emotions.

Remember, too, that your exercise should be written as a story, not an essay. “Show, don’t tell.”

Part1-1. PEER REPLY: Please give critical feedback by analyzing the details they’ve used. Where did the student show? Where did they tell? What details or actions or behaviors that were shown were the most evocative or curious? Why? (50words)

    Peer’s post: Silence was all I heard. I slowly tried to remove my head from the elongated staircase railings as soon as I heard the bottom legs of the metal stool scrape against the floor. The exhaustion of removing my particular small head from the staircase rose in me so I walked to the room and laid down. As usual, I pondered about what this time caused the conversation to end so tensely. It usually doesn’t last me long to think because I knew that the core of that conversation was caused by how they were married at a very young age. However, this time I heard my mother’s footsteps swiftly walking towards my bedroom. I felt an odd turning in my stomach that made me want to bring back up my breakfast. My mother says to me that she and I would be going across the west coast to stay at my cousin’s house for a bit. What was strange about this conversation was that I knew it all along that my parents were getting a divorce, yet my mother didn’t even mention that. Instead, she decided as my father does, to avoid explanations and keeping things simple.

Its four years later from the time my mother and I spoke about moving across the states. That means three birthdays, three Christmas, three Thanksgiving spent without my father. Its almost like he decided to go off-grid and in order to avoid awkwardness and tension. I was just excited to move into my dorms in New York City and to rush my sister and mother back home. After our farewells and numerous hugs with one another, I was finally on my own.

Every time I pushed open the massive steel doors and scanned my college badge, I felt my smile gradually stretch. It was just as uncontrollable as when I felt my heart race every time my fashion professors lectured in class. During my lunch breaks, I always went to the park and listened to old classics that my father would have danced to if he was standing right next to me. As usual, my mother called right as it was noon and we discussed how much I loved it here. I told her that I couldnt stop smiling for some reason and with her broken English accent she said, Well its because you love what you are doing and you are very passionate about it. Youre lucky because neither your father and I are artistic. Without any hesitation, I responded, Yeah none of you guys are artistic, but you guys never stopped me from trying. Silence was all I heard. I had a flashback of that day of the argument and all the previous times they have argued and then I noticed something. Every game that they went to of mine they cheered on the sidelines while they still felt the pain and regret from the argument that they had that morning. I realized that although they failed their marriage, they didnt fail to support the things I was passionate about. The phone crackles and I hear my mothers voice again. We said our farewells and disconnected from one another.

Part2. Please read and summarize the story in cohesive paragraphs, not with numbers. (400words)
–  In your first paragraph summarize the story based off of the summary evaluation below. What literally happened? How did the character change from beginning to end? What did the protagonist gain or lose by the end of the story? Do your best to analyze the purpose (themes) of the story.
– In your second to third paragraphs write a thesis on *how* Alexie reveals (i.e shows) his main characters conflict and how Alexie reveals/shows his main character. To do this, you’ll analyze the main character’s conflict. What does he want/not want? How do you know? How does Alexie show us the main character’s conflict in action, dialogue, thoughts? Does the narrator get what he wants?
– Cite *at least* two specific places by using direct quotation that illustrate where and how Alexie shows us the narrator’s conflict. You should only cite small, specific sections from the text (i.e. don’t cite large sections of the story). You might analyze any metaphors or similes used.

Part2-2. Peer Reply instructions: Critically comment on another student’s post. How? agree/disagree/add to another student’s analysis. You’ll need to cite directly from the story to do this. That is, you can’t simply write: “I agree” or “that’s true.” You need to give reasons why. (100words)

        Peer’s post: Shermans Alexies What You Pawn I Redeem is a heart-tugging story of a homeless Indian man.

The story is told in a detailed hour by hour account of Jackson Jackson, the main character. It begins with the character along with two other, also homeless friends wandering the streets aimlessly. They happened upon a mysterious Pawn Shop that seemed to appear out of nowhere. He spotted his grandmothers powwow regalia, that was stolen fifty years ago. This sent him on a quest to redeem it.

Jackson begins a quest to redeem his grandmothers regalia. He felt the desire to earn it back as opposed to reporting it stolen and claiming it for himself in his grandmothers name. He was terrible at gathering the nine hundred and ninety dollars he needed to do that. Jackson as was depicted by Alexie seemed to be free-spirited and unfettered by lifes daily responsibilities. He wandered the streets aimlessly with his friends or alone. He didnt seem to have a care in the world other than to gain possession of that regalia. He seemed unconcerned about the fact that he was homeless and showed no desire to rectify that problem. He wandered where he will and lived only in the moment.

Every time Jackson lucked upon any kind of aid that would help his quest, he would throw it away. Newspaper man tried to help him by giving him newspapers to sell, I sold five in one hour, dumped the other forty-five in a garbage can, and walked into McDonalds, ordered four cheeseburgers for a dollar each, and slowly ate them. Then there was Officer Williams who gave him twenty-five dollars after hearing his story of his grandmothers regalia. Jackson spent it on breakfast for himself and his three companion brothers, as he told the waitress, Ive got twenty-five dollars I can spend. Bring us all the breakfast you can, plus your tip.

Although, in the end Jackson was able to reclaim his grandmothers regalia. I think it would be safe to say that he was a man without any real sense of purpose, or cares, or the desire to seek a change in his homeless state. He was a drifter, a wanderer who moved whichever way the wind of life blew him. But he did have a sense of family and his heritage.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

February 26, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Law

Guiding question: Should physician or a nurse  be allowed to go on strike? Why or why not?

Instructions:

1. Click on the links below to watch the videos that present pro and con positions.
National Nurses Union, argues that unionizing nurses is pro-patient and pro-nurse: We Have to Stick Together (02:04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO6Uw3VxtMU&feature=youtu.be
National Right to Work Federation anti-union position in health care:  Right to Work on Fox Business: Beware the Union Health-Care Label (04:37) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I0Ly_XuZQQ

2. write an Initial Post (250 – 300 words) taking the “PRO” position.
3.  Include at least one resource in your Initial Post.and cite it using APA Style.

Environmental Racism and Human Dignity

February 26, 2021 Leave a comment Political science, Undergraduate

Prepare and submit an 8-10 page (+ references) scholarly paper (1.5-line spacing) with proper citations (Chicago Manual of Style or American Psychological Association style) addressing one significant historical aspect or conception of human dignity that you assert remains relevant to contemporary public policy (in the United States, another country, or globally), but which you think has a high probability of being impacted (for better or for worse) by the climate change crisis. Describe that probable impact, and what it might signify, specifically from a moral and ethical perspective. (20% of total grade). Include interpretations of human dignity with appropriate references to Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, but also other sources from Cicero to Nussbaum.

Week 7: Remote Virtual Office Creation Presentation

February 26, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Instructions
Imagine yourself as an HR manager of a mid-size IT-company located in California. You are invited to participate in the Board of Directors meeting. The agenda for this meeting contains a question of coming up with two alternative locations for creating a remote virtual office in Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. Using table A1 on p. 87 of the Global Wage Report, select any two countries that represent this region and do background research on them. Then, develop a PPT presentation that would address the following:

compare and contrast relevant statistics that relate to wages, income level, macroeconomic conditions, as well as peculiarities of compensation and provision of benefits for the two countries (for this, you may use World Bank data reports available at http://www.worldbank.org/ (Links to an external site.) and any other resources that you will be able to locate)
compare and contrast relevant information on cultures and business norms of the two countries, as well as the US, and outline implications that those might have on motivation of the future virtual team
develop recommendations in terms of which country looks more attractive as the best choice for such location with the rationale of why you think so
Your PPT presentation should be at least 15 slides long, excluding the title page and reference list. Be sure to include detailed speakers notes to support the brief points presented on the slides. Use at least 5 additional sources other than reading materials to support your argumentation. References to the reading materials and/or additional sources must follow APA style.

Week 7: Global Labor Trends Discussion

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Week 7: Global Labor Trends Discussion
11 unread reply.11 reply.
Prompt
What standards should be applied to determine fair levels of compensation for a U.S. citizen working in the United States? What standards should be applied for a U.S. citizen working in another country? If there are multiple applicable standards, which one(s) should take precedence? 

Evaluation
The quality of your posting will be assessed, not your viewpoint. Your posting will be assessed based on your understanding, thinking, writing, communication, application, and documentation, using the rubric provided. To view the grading rubric associated with this discussion, click the Options icon (3 dots) in the top right corner of the page, and select Show Rubric.

Engagement
Click on Reply below to post an initial post to the discussion prompt by 11:59PM on Thursday of this week. Your Initial post must be at least 400 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. Comment on at least two colleagues’ posts, by clicking on Reply below their posts, by Saturday,11:59 PM of this week. Response posts must be 150 words minimum, debate or substantiate the original post, and provide support for each reply post position.

Week 7: Faith Integration Discussion

February 26, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Prompt
In his book Moral Courage, Rushworth Kidder notes that morally courageous action involves three elements: a commitment to moral principles, an awareness of the danger involved in acting on those principles, and a willingness to act despite danger. We must commit to the moral values we will stand for, possess the moral awareness to recognize situations in which those values are called into question,  and then act on our values, regardless of the risks.

Give an example of a time when you or one of your colleagues demonstrated moral courage.

Evaluation
The quality of your posting will be evaluated, not the viewpoint or expression of your beliefs. Your posting will be assessed based on your understanding, thinking, writing, communication, application, references, and response postings, using the rubric provided. To view the grading rubric associated with this discussion, click the Options icon (3 dots) in the top right corner of the page, and select Show Rubric.

Engagement
Click on Reply below to post your initial thread to this discussion. Comment on fellow students’ posts by clicking on Reply below their posts. Each initial post must be at least 250 words. Your posting to the Faith Integration Forum must be posted by Tuesday, 11:59PM of this week. A response posting (150 words minimum) to at least one of your colleagues postings is due by Thursday, 11:59PM of this week.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

February 26, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Format your document with one-inch margins and 12-point Times New Roman font.

One page, double-spaced for each part.
                                                                                                         
Instructions: Part 1

1. Read the following scenario:

A group of 10 general surgeons have decided to form a group practice, George Mason Surgical Associates.  They have left other practices to form this new group.
You have been hired as the practice administrator, and are attending the first organizational meeting with the ten doctors.
The doctors have expressed frustration with financial reporting at their other practices, and want to you develop a monthly financial package and presentation.

2. Write and answer the following questions:
What financial reports (excluding the Executive Summary) will you present to them on a monthly basis?

Explain why you chose these? Why are they important to this practice?

What is the relationship among the financial statements? What key elements relate to each other?

Instructions: Part 2  ..Refer  Attachment… “Clearer Picture”     

1.  Review the following articles:

Getting a Clearer Picture of Your Practice’s Finances https://mymasonportal.gmu.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-12121933-dt-content-rid-188365204_1/xid-188365204_1

Monitoring the Right Reports Monitoring the Right Reports https://mymasonportal.gmu.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-12121933-dt-content-rid-186777439_1/xid-186777439_1

2. Write and answer the following question:

In your opinion  explain the three top /most important ratios in running a medical practice  and why you think they are important.

Instructions:  Part 3  |

1. Review the following reading:

Reduce Medical Practice Embezzlement Risk by Implementing Cash Controls https://www.physicianspractice.com/embezzlement/reduce-medical-practice-embezzlement-risk-implementing-cash-controls

2. Llist and describe three internal financial controls which should be implemented by a medical practice to control embezzlement, theft, and fraud..

Week 7: Practicum Activity 7

February 26, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Instructions
Presentation to the Class

Step 1: Upload your presentation here for instructor evaluation.

Step 2: Present your PowerPoint to the class by posting it in the Week 7: Content Discussion, where your peers will provide feedback.

Choose one of the following technologies to deliver your presentation:

The preferred method is for you to make a video of yourself presenting the materials
You may submit an audio recording of you making the presentation
Least preferable, you may annotate each slide with the notes that you would verbalize or provide a script of your what you will say relative to each slide.
Evaluation
Your grade will be based on content as well as presentation skills.

Submission
To submit your presentation for instructor evaluation, select Submit Assignment, follow prompts to upload or link to your presentation, add any comments for your instructor in the comments box (optional), and then click Submit Assignment.

this one is connecting with week 7: Content Discussion (Performance Improvement Presentation Critique )