You know that many factors affect the overall satisfaction of employees. As part of your efforts to continually improve performance and employee satisfaction at your own organization, you decide to learn what other top companies are doing in this area. Consolidate your research into 4-6 pages that can be shared with decision makers at your organization.

Choose one of the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For from this year’s list. Use the library and Internet to research the company and its employee programs.

• Describe the employee programs that have helped this organization make the Top 100 list.
• Explain how the effectiveness of these programs can be measured.
• Explain the measures used to compile the Top 100 rankings.
• Describe how a performance management system can lead to positive organizational outcomes.
• Include as much specific information as possible to support your ideas.
• Cite resources using APA style.

Please refer to the following multimedia course materials:

• Unit 5: Developing Strategic HR Policy

Please submit your assignment.

 

 

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Grading Criteria	Percentage
Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and writer’s message and intent are clear.	35%
Scholarly research that supports the writer’s position is properly acknowledged and cited. Direct quotations may not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable (excluding title page, abstract, or table of contents if used and tables, exhibits, appendices, and reference page). Inclusion of plagiarized content will not be tolerated and may result in adverse academic consequences.	20%
Critical thinking: Position is well-justified, there is logical flow, and there are examples.	20%
Structure: Includes introduction and conclusion, proper paragraph format, and reads as a polished, academic paper or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable.	10%
Mechanical: No spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors.	10%
APA: Deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual (6th ed.).	5%

Discussions———- 75-150 words——–

Zombie Attacks / Insanity Plea?

Please respond to the following discussion prompt and submit it to the discussion forum as your initial post. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. Your initial post should be at least 150 words and each of your responses should be approximately 75 words in length.

Recently, a bizarre rash of crimes have occurred dealing with individuals eating parts of other individual’s bodies. These “zombie” attacks are odd to say the least, however, legally, one must ask, are these individuals legally insane? Could they use this as a defense? Not Guilty by reason of Insanity? Here is a recent news article that explores one of those specific cases (NOTE: Infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer who ate parts of his victims was found criminally responsible, the court rejected his insanity defense).

Explain why you do or do not think these individuals will have a successful insanity defense and make sure to apply the necessary elements of insanity to your answer.

http://www.standard.net/Police/2012/06/19/Accused-brain-eating-cannibal-moved-to-mental-hospital.html

Stand Your Ground Law

Please respond to the following discussion prompt and submit it to the discussion forum as your initial post. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. Your initial post should be at least 150 words and each of your responses should be approximately 75 words in length.

The George Zimmerman case has gained national attention, focusing on the Florida Statute, “Stand your Ground” law. Included in the Power point is the specific stand your ground law existing in Florida. review the statute and the news story, and describe whether or not the defendant fulfills the requirements for stand your ground. You may go into various hypothetical’s as many of the facts surrounding the case are still unverified.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/george-zimmerman/

Entrapment

Please respond to the following discussion prompt and submit it to the discussion forum as your initial post. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. Your initial post should be at least 150 words and each of your responses should be approximately 75 words in length.

The police leave a car sitting in a parking lot with the keys in the ignition and the driver side door open. The defendant walks by, sees the car door is open, gets into the vehicle and drives away. As he was driving away the police stop him and charge him with motor vehicle theft. Does the defendant have a good entrapment defense? Would it make a difference if the police were looking specifically at this defendant and left the car in the street outside his house?

Paper———————————————–

Booby Traps = Justified?

In a two to three page paper, please discuss the following issue. Remember to use appropriate APA format and citations throughout your paper.

Contrary to common law, today, in most, if not all states, a person cannot use deadly force in the defense of their property. Do you agree with this challenge. Should a property owner be allowed to use a bobby trap as long as notice, by use of sign for example, is provided to an intruder?

Please provide a legal analysis, note the terms within Chapter 6 and the case law, use both within your analysis to support your argument.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper analyzing the biological and humanistic approaches to personality. Your paper should cover the following areas:

• Use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to discuss the extent to which growth needs influence personality formation.
• Describe biological factors that influence the formation of personality.
• Examine the relationship of biological factors to Maslow’s theory of personality.
• Explain the basic aspects of humanistic theory that are incompatible with biological explanations of personality.

Include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

The World Bank is currently advising newly industrialized countries on how to encourage growth and they have asked for your help.

• Using the Internet, library, or other resources, research and briefly explain 2–3 methods currently being used to encourage economic growth for the typical firm in Hong Kong and for the typical firm in Singapore.
• Which of these methods of encouraging growth would you suggest for the typical company in Hong Kong and Singapore?
• Explain the rationale for your choice.

This assignment will also be assessed using the Common Assessment criteria provided here.

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. Click here to view the grading rubric

Throughout class, you have been working with a product of your creation that dealt domestically. This week, you will switch gears and address a real company that does global business.

Note: Please refrain from using assignments from other classes that you have taken.

The Analysis

Select a global company of your choice in the service industry. Using your selected global company as the subject matter, research the principles of marketing that impact this organization, and prepare an APA paper with the following:

• Describe the main line of business of the company.
• Name 4 of the countries in which the company operates.
• Explain in detail the implementation of the 4 Ps marketing mix concept by the company, including the following:
  • Competition
  • Target market
  • Product strategy
  • Distribution strategy
  • Communication strategy
  • Pricing strategy
• Describe any differences observed in the implementation of this concept from one country to another.

This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here.

 

 

Plan for a Potential Solution

 

 

Write a paper in which you begin by restating briefly your purpose statement, affected population, and the geographic location. Next, identify a proposed solution or solutions to the problem and recommend ways to support implemented solutions until the problem is resolved. What would the estimated outcome of the solution look like optimally? If you have identified multiple potential solutions, what is the likelihood that each would be successful? Summarize your analysis by providing specific examples where applicable. Use citations and documentation of related solutions to similar problems to help you do so.

Support your paper with a minimum of three (3) additional resources, which may include your text(s) from previous courses.

Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

Application: Competence to Stand Trial and the Insanity Defense

Forensic psychologists deal with two particularly controversial issues: judging whether a defendant is competent to stand trial and whether a defendant was legally insane at the time he or she committed an offense. Both issues require evaluations of the defendant’s mental state. A defendant is deemed competent to stand trial if he or she has the ability to function with full awareness and understanding in a trial. If a defendant cannot assist in his or her own defense, or does not understand the legal proceedings, he or she usually is declared incompetent. How does a forensic psychologist determine a defendant’s mental competence? Does mental illness or mental retardation automatically signify a defendant is incompetent? What if a defendant is competent with medication, but incompetent without it?

The insanity defense also raises a number of controversial issues. A successful insanity defense proves that a defendant was unable to distinguish right from wrong or understand the consequences of his or her actions. This defense usually stirs fierce debate because it is difficult to assess insanity, especially at the time of the crime, which could have been months or years before the trial.

For this assignment, review the Week 4 Application Case Study in the Learning Resources and analyze whether the insanity defense or a claim of incompetence to stand trial might be more successful in this case. This assignment is due by Day 7 of Week 5. You should begin analyzing the case now to submit the assignment by next week.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review Chapters 8 and 9 in your course text, Forensic and Legal Psychology, and focus on the issues surrounding competence to stand trial and the insanity defense. Also consider criteria psychologists frequently use to determine whether a defendant is competent to stand trial or legally insane.
• Review the Week 4 Application Case Study provided in this week’s Learning Resources
• Search the Walden Library, and select one peer-reviewed article related to competency to stand trial and one peer-reviewed article related to the insanity defense.

The Assignment (3-page minimum):

• Review the Week 4 Application Case Study provided in this week’s Learning Resources, and identify factors in this case that might be relevant to the defendant’s competence to stand trial or use of the insanity defense.
• Identify circumstances under which a defendant might be found incompetent to stand trial and the circumstances that might warrant the insanity defense.
• Explain whether or not the insanity defense might be successful in the case.
• Make sure you briefly summarize both articles you selected from the Walden Library, and apply the findings to this case.
• Explain whether or not the claim for incompetence to stand trial might be successful in the case.
• Be sure to provide references in APA format for the two peer-reviewed articles you selected from the current literature.
• Remember, this application is a two-week assignment and counts twice as much as your Week 1 Application Assignment. Therefore, your response to this assignment should be more substantial than your response to the Application Assignment in Week 1.

Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resou

Your instructor has returned your Week 4 Individual Project Key Assignment with comments and suggestions to improve your overall plan. Additionally, you have had the opportunity to discuss your case and plan with your peers.

2-3 page of content not including title page or abstract

Assignment Guidelines

• Revise and amend your Week 4 Key Assignment by adding what you learned in the Discussion Board posts following the task, as well as taking into consideration your instructor’s comments.
• Address the following, and add your responses to your Key Assignment final draft:
  • Using your Week 4 Key Assignment, what behaviors did you observe that you would like to examine with experimental research? Explain.
  • What theories did you create or consider by doing this study, and how would you go about furthering your study of human behavior through this technique? Explain.
  • What did you learn about social psychology and the differences between styles of research? Explain.
  • Which do you think is most beneficial in studying group behavior? Why?
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

 

You will then write an essay of at least 600 words, drawing information from this course, outside readings, and presentations for that module/week. The essay must be strongly supported with proper citations of 2–3 current, scholarly sources in current APA format; include a reference page at the end. These sources must be less than 10 years old. DO NOT write opinions, but support your answers to the questions with your readings

 

Explain in detail (using course readings/presentations from this and the last module/week) the relationship between family systems and healthy development. How can one discern a healthy family system? What are the determining factors that distinguish healthy family systems? Discuss the effects of an unhealthy family system on development. Give details on family systems and how they affect physical (neural), emotional, spiritual, and social development. Are differing viewpoints considered, analyzed, and treated?