MANAGING EMPLOYEES’ ATTRIBUTION

 

David was just promoted to manage a small medical transcription department and has inherited a problem. His predecessor recently completed annual performance evaluations of the staff, and it is now time to distribute annual raises based, in large part, on these evaluations. Of the seven employees David now manages, all received fairly strong evaluations, mostly in the “above average” range, although no one received the highest rating of “excellent.” The budget for David’s department will not be growing much for the next few years, and there is very little room for salary increases. Had any of the employees achieved higher performance levels, he might have been able to apply for extra merit pay funding, but this does not appear to be an option.

 

Because all seven employees received relatively strong evaluations, and there was not much difference between the highest and lowest performers, he has decided to allocate the raises equally among them. These raises will probably be disappointingly small, however. David is trying to decide how to break the disappointing news to his staff in the least demotivational way possible. He is weighing the following options:

 

1. Explain to the staff that they deserve larger raises but, based on the long-term departmental budget, this was the best he could do for them.
2. Explain to the staff that he could have gotten them larger raises if their performance levels had been higher.
3. Explain to the staff that they deserve larger raises and that he, as their manager, failed them by not doing more for them.
4. Explain to the staff that these raises are fair, given their performance levels.

 

 

 

Questions

 

1. What attributions are being communicated in each of these explanations? Are they internal or external? Are they stable or unstable?
2. From a motivational standpoint, what potential pros and cons do you see for each of these explanations?
3. Which of these four options (or which combination of two or more) do you think would be least demotivational for the staff? Why?

    

   Due by Friday, February 12, 2016, submit a 2 – 3 page paper in APA format

    

    

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Assignment 2: LASA 1: Final Project: Early Methods Section

Due Wednesday, February 10, 2016.

In your final paper for this course, you will need to write a Methods section that is about 4 pages long where you will assess and evaluate the methods of research.

In preparation for this particular section, answer the following questions thoroughly and provide justification/support. The more complete and detailed your answers for these questions, the better prepared you are to successfully write your final paper.

Please submit your answers as a single 4- to 6-page document as a numbered list; this will ensure you do not inadvertently miss a question.

Additionally, please submit a title page and a reference page in proper APA format.

1. 1. What is your research question?

 

1. 1. What is your hypothesis or hypotheses? What is the null hypothesis?

 

1. 1. How many participants would you like to use and why? What are the inclusion characteristics, i.e., what must they have in order to be included in your study (for example, gender, diagnosis, age, personality traits, etc.)? Are there any exclusion characteristics, i.e. are there certain characteristics that would exclude them from being in your study? Does the sample need to be diverse? Why or why not?

 

1. 1. What sampling technique will be used to collect your sample? What population does your sample generalize to?

 

1. 1. What are the variables in your study? HINT: Refer back to your hypothesis or hypotheses.

 

1. 1. Provide operational definitions for each variable.

 

1. 1. How will you measure each variable? Discuss the reliability and validity of these measures in general terms.

 

1. 1. What technique will be used for data collection (e.g., observation, survey, interview, archival, etc.)?

 

1. 1. What type of research design is being used?

 

1. 1. Briefly discuss the procedure that would be followed when conducting the research.

 

1. What are some POTENTIAL ethical issues? How might they be addressed?

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Explanation and justification of research question.	12
Presentation of hypothesis and null hypothesis.	16
Analysis of participants exclusion/inclusion factors.	16
Explanation of sampling technique and characterization of population that sample generalized.	12
Identification of study’s variables.	12
Operational definitions for each variable are defined.	16
Development of methods to measure each variable, and the reliability and validity of these measures are evaluated.	16
Description of technique(s) used for data collection.	12
Description of the research design being used.	12
Identification of the research procedure.	12
Prediction of POTENTIAL ethical issues; POTENTIAL ethical issues are evaluated in terms of how they would be addressed.	20
Organization: Introduction Thesis Transitions Conclusion	12
Usage and Mechanics: Grammar Spelling Sentence Structure	12
APA Elements: Attribution Paraphrasing Quotations	16
Style: Audience Word Choice

your studies for this unit, you have examined the Apollo Corporation Case Study, a study that illustrates the discharge of a plant maintenance engineer involved in union organizing. For this discussion, address the following questions:

• What, if any, violation of the law did the corporation commit in the case study?
• What arguments could the employee, Bob, and the HR director, Jean, use to support their cases?
• What strategies could have been used to defuse the situation or peacefully resolve it?
• What strategies should HRM professionals use to avoid unfair labor practices?
• How can an HRM professional create an environment that could prevent this kind of incident from happening in the first place?

Must Be 3 parargraphs long with 2 references

The Case Study

Bob Thomas was discharged after nineteen years as a plant maintenance engineer with Apollo Corporation. During that time he had received average, and sometimes below-average, annual performance appraisals. Thomas was known as something of a complainer and troublemaker, and he was highly critical of management. Prior to his termination, his attendance record for the previous five years had been very poor. However, Apollo Corporation had never enforced its attendance policy, and Thomas had never been disciplined for his attendance problems. In fact, until recently, Apollo management had been rather laid-back in its dealings with employees.

Apollo Corporation produces general component parts for the communications industry—an industry known for intense competitive pressures. To meet this competitive challenge, Jean Lipski, HR director, held a series of meetings with managers in which she instructed them to tighten up their supervisory relationship with employees. They were told to enforce HR policies strictly and to begin disciplinary action against employees not conforming to company policy. These changes did not sit well with employees, particularly Bob Thomas. On hearing of the new management approach, Thomas became irate and announced, “They can’t get away with this. I wrote the book around here.” But secretly Thomas believed his past conduct was catching up with him, and he became concerned about protecting his job.

One night after work, Thomas called a union organizer of the Brotherhood of Machine Engineers and asked that a union drive begin at Apollo. Within a week employees began handing out flyers announcing a union meeting. When Lipski heard of the organizing campaign and Thomas’s leadership in it, she decided to terminate his employment. Thomas’s termination paper read: “Discharged for poor work performance and unsatisfactory attendance.” Thomas was called into Lipski’s office and told of the discharge. After leaving her office, Thomas called the union organizer, and they both went to the regional office of the NLRB to file an unfair labor practice charge on Thomas’s behalf. The ULP alleged that he was fired for his support of the union and the organizing drive.

Jean Lipski had little experience with unions in general and no specific experience with union-organizing campaigns. Unfortunately for Lipski, the Brotherhood of Machine Engineers, Local 1463, began an organizing drive against Apollo on June 1. Although the union’s initial efforts were confined to passing out flyers about an organizational meeting, by June 10 it was obvious that employee support for the union had grown and union campaigning had greatly intensified. The question faced by Lipski was no longer “Should Apollo do something?” but rather “What should Apollo do?” It was obvious to Lipski that the union was committed to a full-fledged effort to unionize the company’s employees. Supervisors reported to her that union supporters were passing out authorization cards in order to petition the NLRB for a certification election.

Read the following scenario, and in your discussion response, use the three social justice principles to critique the situation.

 

In the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, children are raised in a boarding school to become organ donors for society.

The children eventually find out they are genetic clones created for the expressed purpose of providing another individual backup organs to prolong that individual’s life.

 

 

Are cloned life forms the same as the original of the copy?

Do they have the same rights and privileges of individuality if they are genetically identical to someone else?

How might our own history with copied things influence our perceptions and interactions with clones?

assignment 2: Terry V.Ohio 392 U.S. 1, 88 S. Ct. 1868, 20 L. ED.2d 889, 1968 U.S.

Due Week 8 and worth 150 points

 

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution limits the power of the police to make arrests, search people and their property, and seize objects and contraband, such as illegal drugs or weapons. These limits are the bedrock of search and seizure law and are ultimately at the root of your right to privacy.

 

Analyze the following case in preparation for a systematic approach to your synthesis of law and fact:

 

• Terry v. Ohio located at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=392&invol=1

 

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page legal Memorandum paper in which you:

1. Summarize five (5) key aspects of Terry v. Ohio.
2. Posit whether or not you believe law enforcement violated Terry and the other men’s right to privacy which the Fourth Amendment guarantees. Justify your position.
3. Examine the dissenting opinion of Justice Douglas, as discussed in the case. Discuss the origins and importance of probable cause as it relates to law enforcement’s discretion to search Terry’s car in this case.
4. Examine the two part test provided by the Court in Terry that first asks whether the officer’s action is justified at its inception; and second, asks whether it is reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place.Discuss whether or not this test leaves officers with too much discretion when making a determination to stop an individual. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Examine the Court’s holding in Terry that provides that probable cause is based upon the totality of the circumstances. Review the factors that help shape the totality of circumstances, such as specialized knowledge of the officers, investigative inferences, personal observations of suspicious behavior, and information from other sources. Question whether these factors in question are too subjective to establish probable cause. Provide a rationale for your response.
6. Debate the validity of the Court’s holding that “whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has “seized” that person with the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Justify your response.
7. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify 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 or school-specific format. 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:

 

• Illustrate the workings of the adversary system.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in U.S. Courts.
• Write clearly and concisely about U.S. Courts using proper writing mechanics a

dealth Disparity

Read the article, Of disparities and diversity: Where are we? by Gloria Sarto, M.D., PhD.

In a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document, provide your answers for the questions given below:

• Provide a brief summary of the article.
• Explain how this article has contributed to your understanding of health disparities experienced by women.
• Discuss why it is important to identify disparities between and within different racial and ethnic groups of women.
• Explain why African American women have a higher mortality rate from breast cancer although their Caucasian female counterparts have a higher incidence rate. Cite at least two additional articles to support your explanation.
• Identify the strategies that are in place to decrease the health disparities of all women.

SOURCES ARE TO BE CITED IN WORK AS WELL AS

team Communication Challenges APA format 300-500 words

assignment 2: Normalization

Due Week 6 and worth 100 points

Suppose that you are the database developer for a local college. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has asked you to provide a summary of normalizing database tables that the IT staff will use in the upcoming training session.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the steps that you would use in order to convert database tables to the First Normal Form, the Second Normal Form, and the Third Normal Form.
2. Provide one (1) example that is relevant to a college environment that illustrates reasons for converting database tables to the First, Second, and Third Normal Forms.
3. Explain typical situations when denormalizing a table is acceptable. Provide one (1) example of denormalizing a database table to justify your response.
4. Explain the significant manner in which business rules impact both database normalization and the decision to denormalize database tables.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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 or school-specific format. 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:

• Recognize the purpose and principles of normalizing a relational database structure.
• Design a relational database so that it is at least in 3NF.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in database systems.
• Write clearly and concisely about relational database management systems using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.