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This is a continuation of the first and second assignments and uses your accumulated research. Imagine you are two different lobbyists, supporting two different sides of the policy issue you wrote about in Assignment 2.

 

Submit your Assignment 1 and 2 revisions based on your professor’s feedback. You will be graded on your revisions. Then, write a 4-5 page paper in which you:

1. Write a one-page position in favor of the policy.
2. Write a one-page position against the policy.
3. Write a one-page response to the argument in favor of the policy.
4. Write a one-page response to the argument against the policy.
5. Use at least two (2) of the following arguments from Chapter 10 in your paper: normative, positive, anecdote, and evidence arguments. Clearly label these to receive credit.
6. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in anything other than “.gov” do not qualify as peer-reviewed.

Note: The Assignment 1 and 2 revisions must flow together with Assignment 3 as one seamless paper.

 

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the tile 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 page length. The Assignment 1 and 2 revisions are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze how historical trends and conditions have affected social, political, and management theories, and how they have influenced the evolution of public administration in theory and practice.
• Understand how relationships between participants in the policy process (including official and nonofficial actors) influence the policy process.
• Interpret what public policy is and how it is created.
• Understand the different policy types, and how policy type influences policy design, policy tool choice, and implementation.
• Analyze ethical issues and standards that influence public policy.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues and in politics, policy, and ethics in the public sector.
• Write clearly and concisely about policy for issues in politics, policy, and ethics in the public sector

Excel Assignment 2

This week you will continue to work with the scenario from last week (although don’t worry if you were not able to do the calculations within the spreadsheet).  The owner thinks it will be easier to look at sales and profits if charts are used.  The owner also wants to identify the products which were not creating as much revenue as the others.

1. Use your spreadsheet from last week.  If you did not calculate the profits in column E within the spreadsheet, fill in that column now in any way that you want (although no two numbers should be the same or widely different, like 1 and 100).  The important thing is to have some numbers in that column for monthly profits.
2. Look at the range of numbers you have for monthly sales of each product.  These are the numbers in rows 3 to 5 and in columns B to D.  Pick a number somewhere in the middle or slightly lower.  For instance, if I have a range of numbers scattered between 10 and 100, I might choose the number 40.  Using the conditional formatting feature, highlight in red the sales figures which are less than the number you chose (less than 40, for instance).
3. Create a bar graph of the monthly sales based on product.
4. The months should display along with a legend of the three products.
5. Give the chart a title of Monthly Sales.
6. Give the y-axis a title of Sales in $.
7. Create a pie chart of the monthly profit.
8. Give the chart a title of Monthly Profit.
9. See if you can get the legend to display the months.  (Hint:  You can select one column, hold the shift key down, and then select another column in order to select two different columns.)
10. Create a line chart of monthly sales.
11. Give the chart a title of Monthly Sales.
12. Give the y-axis a title of Sales in $.
13. The legend and months should display if columns and rows are properly selected.

 

The charts should look something like the ones below.  The actual charts, of course, will depend on your spreadsheet numbers.

 

Save your spreadsheet with the filename LastNameWeek7 and upload it in the assignment area.

 

 

Assignment 4: Recognizing Employee Contributions

 

Due Week 10 and worth 300 points

 

You are the HR manager of a relatively new retail company that has both retail stores and Internet sales.  Your company is steadily growing in revenue and profitability. The company realizes that in order to retain the solid, highly productive workforce it currently has in place, it is important to enhance the base compensation and benefits package offered to the employees. The company currently offers a basic compensation program and only federally mandated benefits. Employee surveys suggest the compensation and benefits program may be out of date. Employees are beginning to consider leaving the organization.

 

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

 

1. Propose two (2) methods an HR professional could use to determine incentive pay. Specify the principal manner in which the proposed methods take into consideration individual, group, and company performance. Justify your response.
2. Examine the core legal requirements affecting employee benefits in today’s competitive environment. Determine the legally mandated benefits that the company must currently offer to its employees.
3. Recommend at least four (4) additional benefits that the organization should consider providing to its employees. Suggest at least three (3) important concepts that a company must consider when designing benefit plans. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Assess the efficiency of common techniques for effectively communicating compensation and benefit plans to employees. Support your answer.
5. Suggest two (2) ethical risks of making incentive pay a large portion of employees’ total compensation. Propose two (2) recommendations for ways the company might mitigate or reduce these risks.
6. Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment. 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:

 

• Examine the influences on and various approaches to compensation.
• Analyze issues related to developing and implementing employee benefit packages.
• Apply relevant theories and knowledge to human resource practices in organizations.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management foundations.
• Write clearly and concisely about human resource management foundations using proper writing

this is due Saturday by 6pm and no borrowed material from online so means no plagiarism, must read all instructions on the attachments i attached. 

Tinnitus reports will be monitored and there is NO borrowed material permitted on this assignment. If you get anything besides a zero (0%) on your TII, be sure to open the originality report and make sure it is just the template that is “hitting” on the TII report.

 

 

Examples of KSA-based question for customer service position:  (these questions would qualify for full-points consideration)

 

How do you handle an irate customer?

 

The phone is ringing, a co-worker is standing at your desk needing assistance, and you are in the middle of putting notes in the system from your last call while they are fresh in your mind. What do you first? Why?

 

 

Example of questions that would NOT receive points and why (noted in parentheses):

 

What are your strengths/weaknesses? (generic question)

Where do you want to be in your career in 5 years? (generic question)

What do you bring to this job? (generic question)

What do you know about our company? (generic question)

When are you available to start work? (generic question and more of an application form question)

Are you eligible to work in this country? (application form question)

What are your salary requirements? (generic question and more of an application form question)

 

Another example and how to make it more KSA-based:

 

How do you handle stress? (generic question, meaning it could be asked in virtually ANY interview)

 

Here is how we could make this question KSA-based:

 

There are tight deadlines associated with this position. How do you prioritize your work, meet those deadlines, and also keep your stress in check?

Memory Allocation and Deallocation

Chapter 9: Production Cycle 1.     Certain features of the production cycle make it Inherently Risky. List 4 inherent risk factors 2.     What…

 

Chapter 9: Production Cycle

1. Certain features of the production cycle make it Inherently Risky. List 4 inherent risk factors
2. What is NRV?
3. What are the GAAP-Approved Inventory valuation methods?
4. Physical Inventory
5. What is a Physical Inventory (PI)?
6. What is the Company’s objective for conducting a PI?
7. What is the External Auditors role related to physical inventory observations
8. Is it required by Auditing Standards (AU 331)
9. What does the auditor do per paragraph 11 of AU 331?

iii.     What information is generally document by the auditor during the PI observation?

1. What are cycle counts?
2. What is an inventory roll-forward?
3. What are consignment goods? What are they a concern for Auditors? For which assertion?
4. Why are slow moving or obsolete inventory items a concern to auditors? Which assertion?

 

Chapter 10: Finance and Investment (F&I) Cycle

 

1. What are the primary assertions that auditors focus on in the F&I cycle?
2. Certain features of the F&I Cycle make it Inherently Risky. List 4 inherent risk factor
3. Give an example of tests of controls and an examples of substantive testing for
4. debt transactions
5. stockholders equity transactions
6. What are loan covenants and why are they a concern to auditor?
7. Management Estimates
8. What are the 2 primary reasons estimates are required when recording transactions using GAAP?
9. Give an examples in F&I when estimates are used
10. What are examples of internal controls over management estimates?
11. What are Fair Value Measurements in GAAP?

As an employee of the World Bank, you have been asked to research 1 economic concern in a South American country and write a report on your findings. •Select a South American country to research. •Select 1 of the following economic concerns to research: ◦Quantities of specific goods and services ◦Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ◦Unemployment ◦Inflation •Research data sets for the one economic concern within the South American country that you have chosen. •In a 3–4-page report, answer the following questions: ◦What are 2–3 relationships between the economic concern you selected and that specific country’s economy? ◦What trends do you see in the data sets? ◦Support your assertions of the trends with statistical evidence. ◦Cite all of your sources correctly and include a reference list, both in APA style.

From the instructor: A Western-based non-governmental organization (NGO – Non-governmental Organization) (e.g., Amnesty International, UNICEF, Doctors without Borders, Green Peace) plans to sponsor a large campaign aimed at increasing the number of women in the workforce of a traditional (gender-conservative) developing country, citing world opinion that women are often treated as “second class citizens” in this country. Although there has been limited impetus or support for this campaign generated by the individuals of the country itself (both male and female), the NGO still plans to implement the campaign. Analyze the potential impact of this plan from the side of the NGO and the individuals in the country, using ethnocentrism as related to the deficit and difference models and culture conflict related to gender socialization (gender roles, gender stereotypes, sex-role ideology). Remember to include some discussion from both the side of the NGO and the individuals within the country, those for and against (remember, ethnocentrism can work both ways!) Side Note: For this essay we are expected to clearly tie in course themes and concepts using our power point notes from class. I have sent them in the attachments below! Also we are not expected to have a work cited page, only to cite the resources in our paper if we have any.