Unit IV Journal

The three primary options for what to evaluate in performance appraisals are traits, behaviors, and results. What are the pros and cons of measuring each of these options? As a manager, which option would you choose? Do you think your option would vary at all by employee, rank, or industry?

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

Unit V Journal

What is one scenario that you have experienced where employees were resistant to change within an organization? How did management handle it? How would you handle the situation as a leader of that company? What actions would you have taken to either prevent the resistance or change the resistance to acceptance?

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

Unit V Powerpoint Assignment

Over the past 40 years, union membership has declined, and it continues to do so. Instead, many companies are turning to alternative dispute resolution. We know one of the best union avoidance tactics is good communication and providing job satisfaction for employees.

Create a PowerPoint presentation (with speaker notes) that focuses on unions in the workplace. Address the following concepts in your presentation.

• Identify the factors      that have contributed to the reduction in union membership. Be sure to      include the rationale you use in your speaker notes.
• Evaluate whether or not      the reduction in union membership is a good or bad thing for employees in      the United States. Be sure to include the rationale you use in your      speaker notes.
• Explain what alternative      dispute resolution involves, and identify the pros and cons from the      perspective of the employee and the pros and cons from the perspective of      the employer. Remember, you want to include the bulk of your explanation      in the speaker notes, not on the slide.
• Describe a situation      where employees or managers would want to use some form of alternative      dispute resolution such as mediation or arbitration as opposed to direct      negotiation or litigation to resolve disputes. Be sure to include the      rationale you use in your speaker notes.
• Explain how each of the      seven determinants of job satisfaction (individual personality, the work      itself, compensation, growth and upward mobility, coworkers, management,      and communication) help to create the type of environment where employees      experience job satisfaction. Remember, you want to include the bulk of      your explanation in the speaker notes, not on the slide.

Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion to your presentation. Include at least two images or graphics in your presentation.

Your PowerPoint presentation must be at least eight slides in length, not counting the title or reference slides. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.

Unit VI Essay

Instructions

For this assignment, you will write an essay that explores the topics of gender gap and compensation.

In your introduction, explain whether you think the gender gap is a women’s issue, men’s issue, or both. Explain your response and reasoning within your introduction.

Then, divide the body of your paper using the headers below, and cover in that section what is indicated under the header.

Closing the Gap

Explain why the gender gap continues to be an issue in our society and what can be done to help close this gap in terms of opportunities and pay.

Legal Provisions

Identify legal provisions that are in place for addressing the gender gap. Hypothesize why legal provisions have not been successful in closing the gap. Discuss how ethics may play a role in future changes.

Recruitment Planning

Explain what human resource professionals should consider when planning compensation and pay during recruitment planning.

Support your essay with a minimum of two resources from the CSU Online Library. Your essay must be at least two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

Unit VI Journal

Pay and incentive programs are being used both for knowledge workers and in non-knowledge worker occupations. In every industry, from restaurants to construction and low-tech manufacturing, companies are using more comprehensive pay and incentive programs to attract and keep workers in a tight labor market. Think about an industry you currently work in, have worked in, or would like to work in.

What incentive programs do you believe would motivate you to perform at a higher level?

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

Unit VII Journal

In analyzing the needs of the workforce, work-life balance is high on the list of issues facing both employers and employees. Balance between work and home lives is sought but rarely happens for long because of work-family conflict. This conflict is also linked with some other bad consequences such as stress; absenteeism; burnout; and dissatisfaction with job, family, and life—all of which can lead to excessive job turnover and the breakup of families. Would you consider flexible scheduling which allowed you to have work-life balance a benefit? Why, or why not? What step would you like to see your current (or previous) employer take to help enhance your own work-life balance? Explain the benefit to both you and the employer.

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

Unit VII Powerpoint

Instructions

For this assignment, imagine you are an expatriate manager for a subsidiary of a major company headquartered in the United States. You are preparing a PowerPoint presentation to brief the CEO on your plan to address the safety issues specific to the country (of your choice) where you are working as the expatriate manager.

In your introduction, discuss four concerns in the workplace: benefits, safety, health, and global security issues. List one issue for each concern listed.

Next, prepare a solution for each of the four concerns. Discuss how your solutions address the issues within the workplace. Discuss what would be the responsibility of the global leadership team.

Conclude your presentation with a summary of how you noted the needs of your global audience, how you will design and deliver the training for employees keeping in mind Geert Hofstede’s research about cultural differences, and your plans to assess its success.

Be sure to include clear and specific speaker notes for each slide. You must include a minimum of one image or graphic within your presentation. You must use at least two sources, with one being the textbook.

Your PowerPoint presentation must be at least seven slides in length, not counting title or reference slides. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.

Unit VIII Journal

How can information you learned in this course be applied to your life and/or work to increase your future success?

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

Unit VIII Essay

For this assignment, select a specific business; it can be one you work for or, better yet, one you would like to work for in the future. Make sure the company you select meets the following criteria: It must have a written code of ethics and operate at the benevolent level of CSR (corporate social responsibility).

Search online for the company’s website, and review its code of ethics and its report on its corporate social responsibility programs; be sure to identify any of its sustainability practices—this may be a separate link.

Write a report on your chosen company’s code of ethics and CSR. In your report, address whether you believe that leaders of organizations have a duty to all stakeholders or just to stockholders.

Present a business argument either for or against corporate social responsibility.

Be sure to include an introduction. Your report must be at least two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore: One Name Two Fates

Please provide a clear claim of the Intertextual connections between Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates , AND “O’ Father, Where Art Thou?” by Joshua Alston. Please be sure to provide specific details and examples from BOTH texts to support your claim. Use your graphic organizer to help.

This paper should be 2-3 pages long, in MLA format, and well-edited. MLA citations include the author’s last name and the page number. (Moore 5).

Make sure to include an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, body paragraphs (however many you think you need. There is no required number), and a conclusion paragraph.

Individual Project: Details and Guidelines

Marketing Plan for Product/Service

In this course you will complete an Individual Project consisting of a marketing plan for a product/service of your choice. This product/service can be an existing one or something you would like to bring to market. For example, you could choose to do a plan for your favorite chewing gum, sneaker or car. Intangible examples would be a phone app, life insurance, and a customer service call center. You can also do a plan for a technology that does not exist, for example, time travel or dream recording.

This is not a research project where you report on what a company has already done in terms of a marketing plan. This is a project where you assume the lead role as the marketing manager and put forth a marketing plan for that product/service.

This project should be in a presentation format. A slide deck presentation of 20-30 slides in length is the most common format. A verbal narration of approximately 2,000 words (approximately 30 minutes in length) should accompany the presentation. You may choose to use an audio or video file to narrate the presentation. Try utilizing a site such as VoiceThread, YouTube, SlideShare, ScreenCast-O-Matic, Google Docs, VisMe, etc. for posting the links to your Individual Project in this forum to share with your classmates and so the instructor can issue your grade. Please submit an active link in the assignment box in MyCC. The instructor cannot issue the project grade in the Forum format.

There are multiple resources for marketing plans. Several URLs have been provided in the Bookmark section of MyCC as well as a WORD document in Handouts. It is important to note that a standard formatted template is NOT provided for your Individual Project. This is to encourage creativity in how you present the marketing plan. Please bear in mind that a marketing plan is NOT a full business plan. We don’t need to know about venture capital, profit and loss statements or balance sheets or who the management team is. A marketing plan must be persuasive and demonstrate how you will encourage a Potential Pool of Customers to inquire or buy your product/service. (that is your #1 mission as a marketing manager).

It is also important to realize that the marketing plans you review might not apply entirely to your product/service. Edit accordingly. The use of graphics, charts, and photos is encouraged as they help tell your story. Demographic and Psychographic data is interesting. How you will allocate your media budget on a percentage basis is effective information. Examples of your advertising and promotion are a must-have. This is the section where you should challenge yourself to be as creative as possible. Make a radio ad, a video commercial, a sample brochure, or promotional piece, etc.

The standards for the presentation are:

o Length: 20-30 slides

o Verbal narration of approximately 2,000 words (approximately 30 minutes in length)

o Mechanics: well written in terms of use of language, clarity, brevity, mechanics (spelling and grammar); passes the spell check.

The presentation should follow APA (6th or latest edition) formatting.

(See the following page for an example table of contents)

Final Exam Part 2 and 3  Dahrien Beasley.

Complete both parts of the Final Exam on this form. 

Change the file name to indicate your own last name and first initial before attaching your completed exam to the Final Exam Parts 2 and 3 area on BlazeView.

Part 2 – Performance Task

1. Choose one of the wicked problems in the box at right (as they exist in Valdosta, GA).
2. Use design thinking and other strategies we learned to tell how you would explore the problem and formulate a potential solution.
3. Complete the organizer to explain your strategy.

Type your response directly into the table below. 

Each cell should contain approximately 100-150 words. 

Bullet-point formatting or enumeration are encouraged.

 

Empathize

 

Ideate

 

Define

 

Prototype

 

Test

Part 3 – Reflective Essay

This course was designed to give first-year students the skills and tools they need for academic success. The choices you made each week as you read the lectures and worked on your project controlled how many of these valuable skills and tools you learned over the past 15 weeks. This learning was deepened by our reading and discussion of Mindset, GRIT, and The Happiness Advantage, all of which emphasize the powerful role our thinking plays in the quality of our lives.

Please respond to these questions:

• What did you put into this course? (Describe your effort.)
• What have you taken away from this course? (Describe any changes you’ve undergone, skills you’ve learned, transformations, realizations, insights, etc.)
• Do you feel that you are better prepared for college now than you were before this course began?

Grading Criteria:

• A high quality answer will include evidence from the course to support your statements.
• Your opinion cannot be wrong, but you must substantiate your statements with facts and reasons.
• Your response should be approximately 300 words long. It should utilize correct English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
• Most importantly, it should demonstrate your learning and personal insights.

Type your response below the line.