increase motivation within your company

proposal that is intended to increase motivation within your company

Throughout this course, we are going to build a proposal that is intended to increase motivation within your company. Several topics will be analyzed in preparing this proposal to ensure that it will be successful upon implementation. Topics that will be addressed include company culture, motivation, economics, managerial accounting, decision making, and risk management. We will work through these issues as they relate to your idea for a new policy and end with a final proposal to the executives to gain approval.

Assignment 1:

Throughout the first two weeks, you have read about the importance of motivating employees within a company as well as how this is an economically wise decision. The first step in this project is to come up with your idea as to how you are going to increase motivation within the company (it can be a real or fictional company). I want you to explain the idea, and present research to support the importance of motivation (how it benefits both the company and the employee) as well as support for your idea specifically.

This does not need to be written as a formal research paper, but all research provided does need to be cited in APA format. You may write in the first person because you are presenting your own ideas. You do not need to provide an abstract, but you do need an APA formatted title page and reference page. Your paper should be a minimum of 2 pages (approx. 700 words) not including the title and reference.

management theory/principle

 

Instructions

Assignment Title: The five key management theory/principle milestones over time.
Based on your readings and research, develop a timeline of five key management theory/principle milestones over time. Please address the following questions for each of the milestones you elect to include on your timeline:

  • Why was this milestone significant for the period of time it was created? What was going on in the world of work that allowed the environment to know the time was right for this particular milestone?
  • Which theorist “fathered” the principle? What were the signs of the time which led the theorist to develop the management concept?
  • What are the highlights and limitations of the theory/principle?

Directions:

  • The assignment should be between 5-7 pages which include the cover page and reference page.
  • Your paper should include an introduction and conclusion that summarize the contents of the entire paper.
  • Your paper should be written in proper APA format.
  • References: A minimum of two references are required for this assignment. You may use your textbook as a reference in addition to the two references.

propose a compensation survey that will help to determine the organization’s pay structure

propose a compensation survey that will help to determine the organization’s pay structure

For the purpose of this assignment, imagine that you are employed as a compensation specialist by an organization that provides warehousing and distribution services across the United States. Your company also recently expanded operations into Canada.

As a growing multinational enterprise, managers are concerned with keeping up with industry standards to maintain a competitive edge. You have been asked by your human resources (HR) director to develop a PowerPoint presentation for your corporation’s board of directors in which you will propose a compensation survey that will help to determine the organization’s pay structure. In your presentation, you should explain to the board why a compensation survey is needed, how it will be conducted, and how it will help determine a pay structure of your choice for the organization.

Discuss how international growth will play a role in this. Your presentation should consist of at least 10 slides, not counting the title slide and reference slide(s). You are required to enhance the presentation by adding speaker notes to explain the information on each slide. Be sure to cite and reference any sources used, including your textbook, using APA formatting.

You are interested in looking beyond a single group and attempt to determine the implication of a group’s performance on a population of interest

300-500 WORDS. PLEASE USE THE 7TH EDITION APA FORMAT

Part 1

You are interested in looking beyond a single group and attempt to determine the implication of a group’s performance on a population of interest. The group can be described both in terms of its makeup—such as males and females, new employees and old employees, and so forth—and the scores in the group that represent some aspect of performance by the members of the group. The terminology used for the above are terms such as independent and dependent variables. Remember that variables have to be clearly definable and measurable. Remember that variables have more than one value or level. For example, the variable of SEX has both Male and Female, or the possible choices on a Likert scale are from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest).

Provide an example of a scenario that uses the following types of variables:

  • 1 independent variable and 1 dependent variable
  • 2 independent variables and 1 dependent variable

Note: IV and DVs do not mean nominal, ordinal, or scale variables.

Part 2

When comparing two groups of subjects in a study, there are two kinds of variance (between groups and within groups). What does each represent? Be sure to discuss this answer in terms of variance and not research design.

Part 3

An executive is looking at the job performance resulting from two different manufacturing processes and finds that the mean performance of process A is 83.2 and the mean performance of process B is 80.5. Why can the executive not automatically assume that process A will consistently outperform process B? Use what you know about the two kinds of variance from the preceding part to explain your answer to this question.

choose a peer-reviewed article to reviewchoose a peer-reviewed article to review

Many people today believe that U.S. executives are paid too much while others believe that the size of their compensation packages are justified. For this assignment, choose a peer-reviewed article to review.. The article must be at least three pages long, and no more than 3 years old. Write a two-page review of the article that includes the following information:

Briefly introduce and summarize the article.

Identify the author’s main points.

Who is the author’s intended audience?

What types of executive compensation were addressed in the article?

How does the article apply to this course?

Does it support the information in your textbook?

How could the author expand on the main points?

After reviewing the article and the information in your textbook, state whether you think executive compensation is justified or is out of hand.

Give at least three points to justify your argument.

Please utilize at least two sources, one of which must be the article.  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. Your persuasive essay should be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages.

Discuss the social construction of oppression and discrimination.

Discuss the social construction of oppression and discrimination.

complete a 2-3 page paper addressing the following:

culture: African American culture

1. Discuss the social construction of oppression and discrimination.

2. How have acts of oppression and discrimination affected your culture historically.

3. Based on your social construction of oppression and discrimination and your culture, analyze the psychological effects that each may have on your culture.

4. As a social work practitioner, discuss the knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively intervene and address the issues of oppresion and discrimination. Your answer should discuss all three levels of practice (micro, mezzo, and macro).

Poem: Hades Welcome His Bride.

Poem: Hades Welcome His Bride.

Write an essay in which you show how and why the speaker experiences a conflict between particular ways of looking or being. Also look at how the speaker’s attitude toward, or thoughts about, something or how our vision of the speaker’s character changes over the course of a poem. Be sure to clearly identify the speaker’s conflict and what changed during the poem.

Your postings will be reviewed according to the following criteria:

  • Be sure that your thesis is explicit and supported with one to two quotations from the literature.
  • Do not write in first or second person.
  • Following the rules of Standard English. Please proofread your writing before clicking the ‘submit’ button!
  • When you include a quotation from the literature in your mini-essay, please place an in-text citation (also called a parenthetical citation) immediately after you close the quotation marks and before you place a period at the end of your sentence. That way, anyone in the class (including me!) can easily find the quotation in the literature if necessary. If you’re not sure what to place inside the parentheses, there is instruction in the textbook in Chapter 34- Quotation, Citation, and Documentation. 
  • When you include in-text citations, there must be a Works Cited listing at the bottom of your post.
  • Be sure to follow the “Quote Sandwich” when you insert quotations.

Scream from the Shadows, Setsu Shigematsu

  • In Scream from the Shadows, Setsu Shigematsu writes of the philosophies and solidarity practices of the ribu movement: “By recognizing the subject’s constitution in a system of historical and structural violence, such a feminist ethics would recognize that the eruption of counterviolence becomes recognizable only through its break with the normalized (and often nonvisible) conditions of state violence” (170). According to your reading and understanding of the violence of the URA/JRA uprisings and ūman ribu, what are the conditions that Shigematsu is describing? Describe why “critical solidarity,” which often meant being in solidarity with violence, was crucial to their goals.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s story ‘Birdsong”

1.What are your thoughtful reactions to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s story ‘Birdsong”, Follow her use of language to indicate character predicament, her use of symbolism, and the story’s comment on gender relations in modern Lagos, Nigeria. Do you see any similarities  between the character’s predicament and the situation of women in the modern USA? Any differences?

2. “The sex life of African Girls’ by Selasi  unlike “Birdsong which uses the first person “I” is told in second  person. Why do you think Selasi used the second person to tell the story of a young girl’s dawning realization of the disturbing undercurrents around her? what do you think this story has to say about gender roles in middle class Accra? What do you make of the last line of the story

culture relationship book

Rationale:  

The main goal for writing this paper is analyze a popular culturerelationship book, using both personal and academic expertise to critique the claims made in the book.  In doing this, communication graduate students will demonstrate how to read various information sources, identify key features of each, critique and analyze these in a logical and orderly way, recognize overlaps with other materials, and then take a stand of their own.   Finally the practice of professional writing is a process, and this assignment adds to this process of practice and incremental improvement.

Basics for the Paper:

• 3-4 pages double spaced, 12 pt. font, standard margins• Professional objective writing style (“Based on evidence A, this means that…”) as opposed to subjective writing style (i.e., “I believe that…” “In my experience…”) • Title page  (title, name, school, date)• Properly cited paper and reference page in APA or MLA format (+3 academic sources)

Steps for Completion:

1. Acquire a pop-culture/self-help book that you haven’t read already.   Examples of books in recent history that fit this mold would be “Women are from Mars, men are from Venus,”  “He’s not that into you,”  “Coping with Difficult People.” Acquire professor’s approval for your selected text (DUE NEXT WEEK)2. Read the entire book, taking notes on aspects (i.e., ideas, arguments, examples) that jump out at you as significant or relevant to class, relational communication field or research, personal reasons, etc.3. Draft #1:   Organize your paper into three sections:  Overview of the book, three main points, and Conclusion/Summary.   NOTE:  Content in each section below represents ideas for what to write about, not necessarily a strict list of requirements.a. Overview:  This section should introduce the book and your critique, as well as give us a peek at the general relational ground the book covers, how it informs the reader (i.e., advice, description), and perhaps information about the writer.  It should ultimately convey the structure for the following section.b. Three Main Points:  Based on what you read, what jumps out at you as the most important aspects of the reading as they relate your experience of these ideas, the readings we do in this class, overlapping theory, or big picture society stuff?   Remember this is a communication class, so keep in mind the overall thrust should be about what your book and its points say about communication lessons/behavior/messages.c. Conclusion/Summary:  Pull it together…what do these three points (above) say in general about how the text informs not only a general “mainstream America” audience, but also relational/interpersonal/general communication scholars?  Is it garbage?  Informed garbage?  The new modern relationship handbook?  The next great American novel?  4. Draft #2:  After you have sufficiently walked away and thought about your ideas as they stand, rewrite, reject and reintroduce, or revise your previous draft.  Consider how ideas flow together, how you summarize the collection of points you make, and how you are using other academic sources or quotes within the primary book to support your points.  If a paragraph seems flimsy or on the other hand too cumbersome, consider what you want to say and if you are saying it with enough substance or too much.  Think about how paragraphs lead into each other.5. Final Draft #3:  After you have walked away again, read the paper for grammar, punctuation, quotation, or other writing issues.   Double check your use of objective vs. subjective writing (if you are confused or having trouble with this, read any of our assigned articles for ideas; they all use objective writing).  Double check your cited sources and your reference page, and ensure you’ve used proper format.  Correct tense confusion, passive vs. active voice mistakes, etc.6. Staple the paper in the upper-left hand corner of the paper.  Exhale.  Turn it in!

Final Checklist (before Turn-in):

o Page limit met (do not count title page and reference list toward page count)o Correct text size, color, spacing and formatting used o Writing structure reflects the three sections (Overview, Main Points, Conclusion)o Three academic sources have been used “in-text” to support claims in a substantive way, and also are not on our class reading list (you have found them independently)o Paragraphs are mostly between 3 and 6 sentences long.  o Evidence, in the form of citations and quotations, is accurately and completely cited according to APA or MLA style.o Reference page reflects APA or MLA style, and features everything you cite in the paper.o Staple in the upper right hand corner;  Pages are in the correct order.o Double check the entire document before you hand it in.  Everything should reflect your final and complete effort on the paper.

Dr. Beck’s Suggestions & Helpful Tips:

• Take clear (not excessive) notes as you read, with the goal of helping yourself to organize the paper later on.  When you are immersed in a text/source sometimes a connection to a theory, example, or another source is most clear at that particularmoment.  Don’t lose the moment!• Each of us knows how long it takes to write papers, but I’m asking you to write something “three drafts” worthy.  If you turn in a “one draft” worthy paper it will most likely show.  Put in the time and you will have a higher quality product (which is the bar for graduate level work).