No plagiarized answers. Everything needs to be cited APA

Course Textbook

Martocchio, J. J. (2013). Strategic compensation: A human resource management approach (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Unit II

You are the Total Rewards Director for your organization. Over the past few years employees have been leaving to work for competitors. The CEO has expressed that she wants to conduct an organization wide review of the company’s current compensation strategy. The company now uses a seniority pay rewards system. The CEO wants to know if they should change to a merit pay strategy in order to make the company more competitive.

Prepare a memo to the CEO outlining your recommendation as to whether or not the company should continue to use the seniority pay system or change to a merit pay system. Be specific as to what model would be the best option for your company, and why. Include pros and cons of your options and conclude with your recommendation. The company is not unionized and is privately held. You do not have to factor in a collective bargaining agreement.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length

Unit III

Employers can use a variety of individual incentive programs to contribute to their compensation strategy. Which of the four types of individual incentive plans would you prefer? Explain your choice. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the individual incentive programs? Do you prefer an individual incentive program or a group incentive program? Explain your choice.

Unit IV

Create job descriptions and at least three pay level structures for one of the following positions: Warehouse Manager, Call Center Representative, or Director of Operations for a nonprofit organization.

Unit V

You are the compensation manager for a manufacturing company of about 200 employees. You are responsible for the company’s healthcare budget. The company has been spending an increasing amount of money on health insurance every year with no relief in sight. Currently, the company offers one plan, a traditional HMO that employees contribute to every pay day. The CEO wants to know what options are available to decrease the rising costs without sacrificing employee coverage. She does not want to offer less coverage, just pay less for the same thing or better. In a memo to the CEO, briefly summarize some of the options that the company should explore to contain its costs. You will need to clearly explain each option; however, you do not have to provide any calculations as this is just a starting point to examine all potential plans and options to lower and contain costs.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Unit VII

You are the human resources manager for a small technology company. Currently you have 50 regular full-time employees. The CEO wants to add additional staff to complete a project, but is not comfortable with hiring the ten people that are needed for the project all at once as full-time employees. Based upon your knowledge of contingent and alternative work arrangements, what would you suggest to the CEO? Draft a memo to the CEO explaining your recommendations. Make sure you justify your reasons as to why you chose the options you selected. You will need to cover ten full-time positions using contingent workers.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

An anecdote about an event in Auschwitz appears on page 134 of Religions of the West Today

Explain the significance of what is described there, especially the fervor with which the Jews present “sang and danced and cried.”  Why is the knowledge of Sh’ma Yisrael (shema) by the young boy an occasion for such joy among the Jews in the death camp?  Be as specific as possible in explaining the meaning of this anecdote.

2 pages, typed and double-spaced

Assignment 1: “What Makes ______ the Best Place to Work and Why?”

Due Week 3 and worth 100 points

Choose one (1) company that you believe would be an ideal company to work for based on working conditions, salary, opportunity for advancement and work involved. Use the Internet to research.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate the fundamental driving forces that shape the organizational environment of the selected company. Be sure to address the following: competing in a global marketplace, workforce diversity, ethics and morality, and technological innovation.
2. Examine the selected company’s specific practices or policies. Speculate on the major influences that these practices or policies have on individual and organizational outcomes.
3. Determine which practices related to work attitudes in U.S. organizations are most strongly affected by diversity and suggest a strategy to address the effects.
4. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Evaluate human behavior in organizations and the forces shaping the behavior.
• Analyze individual differences within organizations and their impact on organizational behavior.
• Use technology to research issues affecting organizational behavior in order to deliver assignments which are clear, concise and have proper writing mechanics.
• Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.

Peer Feedback on Research-Based Paper Outline

Prepare and post a draft outline for your Research-Based Paper in this discussion for peer feedback. Include an introduction in paragraph form and:

• Identify, examine, and discuss two diseases prevalent in specific ethnic or racial groups.
• Identify disparities and causes within different cultures.
• Examine major ethnic groups’ values, beliefs, and behaviors as they relate to health care.

Post your draft outline by mid-week, preferably Wednesday, so that you have time to incorporate changes from feedback into your final research-based assignment, which is due in Unit 3.

Response Guidelines

Read outlines posted by your peers and respond to two. Provide insightful, helpful, and appropriate comments. Be sure to include what you liked best about the ideas and any suggestions you have to help strengthen the outline.

Cultural Competence and Organizational Challenges

Changing demographics and health disparities challenge our health care leaders, managers, and practitioners. Patti Rose, author of Cultural Competency: For Health Administration and Public Health, provides one explanation for disparities based on the context of various racial and ethnic groups (p. 4).

The DHHS Office of Minority Health defines cultural and linguistic competence as “a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations” (Rose, p. 12)

In your initial post, answer the following questions:

• Consider a local health care provider such as a hospital, clinic, doctor’s office. What are some of the major considerations involved in the provider’s ability to improve the practice of cultural competence?
• How important is an effort of community outreach for health care leadership when addressing health disparities?
• Imagine yourself in the role of advising a health care leader who has limited knowledge of diversity and cultural competence. What major suggestions would you make relative to developing a culturally competent and diverse workforce?

Reference

Rose, P. (2011). Cultural competency for health administration and public health. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Response Guidelines

Read the posts of your peers and respond to at least two. When you reflect on what each says about cultural competencies or issues facing health care leadership, do you agree or respectfully disagree? Provide specific ideas to support your agreement or disagreement to extend the discussion. Include follow-up questions if need to help clarify their perspectives.

Assignment 1: Discussion Question – Affirmative Action

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), affirmative action (AA) refers to the actions taken to overcome the effects of past or present practices, policies, or other barriers to equal employment opportunity. AA provides companies an opportunity to correct previous injustices and past mistakes so that equal opportunities are afforded to all employees within the organization.

Using the Argosy library, the Internet or other sources, locate and review an Affirmative Action plan. A sample plan is located in the Webliography.

Look at the following key components in the plan:

• The organization’s commitment to affirmative action.
• Managerial responsibility, or authority, to direct implementation.
• Communication methods to broadcast the policies and procedures.
• Goals and timetables to improve the utilization of males, females, and minorities in underutilized areas.
• Internal audit and reporting processes to evaluate the progress.
• A community outreach program to develop internal and external support for diversity programs.

In what ways does the plan you selected provide a fair opportunity for all employees in the organization? Why?

compensation and benefits

Must be completed by tomorrow at noon…..

After spending some time this module learning about dramaturgy, now it is your time demonstrate what you learned by answering the following questions:

What is dramaturgy and why is it useful for understanding day-to-day interactions?

Provide an example of when you have used or witnessed dramaturgy in a social situation.

Discuss how the Anglo-American-Soviet alliance came apart in the aftermath of World War II. Were the British and Americans justified in pursuing a containment strategy against the Soviets? (150 Words)

READ THE FOLLOWING (ATTACHED)

What is your position on the issue of amnesty? Do you think that illegal immigrants should be granted amnesty? If so, why? If not, then what are the alternatives? As both authors have pointed out, the situation is not a simple one. How do you understand it? How do you feel about it? These articles are from 2007 and 2004, respectively, but there does not seem to be a solution proposed since. Some states, like Arizona and others, have and are writing new laws in response to illegal immigration from Mexico. What are your thoughts on some of those new laws? Do you think that boarder states have more at stake than the rest of the country? Although Mexican immigrants are thought of most often in association with these types of debates, there are immigrants from all over the world who are subject to these new laws. Should the country an immigrant is from or the number of immigrants from that country matter to lawmakers? Why is America, especially, so conflicted about the issue of immigration?

If you quote from the readings above, use quotation marks, and supply in-text citations with the author’s last name, date of publication, and page number. (200 WORDS)