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Performance Appraisals and Positive Psychology

For this assignment you will write a two- to- three page reflective paper evaluating your experience with performance appraisals in the workplace. If you have never had a workplace performance appraisal, interview a friend or family member who has had one.

Describe the occasion in which you were being evaluated (e.g., annual review, quarterly review). Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the evaluation process using concepts and/or theories from the week’s readings. Provide at least two strategies to improve the performance appraisal process in your workplace for a more positive experience in the future.

Your assignment must be at least two to three double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Include a cover page and reference page in APA format. In addition to the textbook, you must utilize at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed source that was published within the past five years. Your sources must be cited according to APA format

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Collaboration leverages the collective knowledge of a team. Peer evaluation and support, provided in the spirit of continuous improvement and organizational success, result in higher quality deliverables than generally possible by the efforts of an individual. Please describe the process you plan to use to conduct research, identify findings, and develop the Comprehensive Project due in Unit 5 and present a brief outline indicating how you intend to organize the project deliverable.

What resources will you use to determine retention guidelines for employee files?  How will state laws be applied?  Can all documents be included in the same file? If not, how will you go about determining this?

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(UNIT 4)rite a 3-5 page paper, including a title page and reference page, responding to the following questions:

• Discuss the responsibilities of the first responding officer at the crime scene.
• Describe the basics of processing a crime scene including the proper documentation and collection of collecting physical evidence.

Use materials from the text and/or any outside resources to support your response.

You may use the textbook as a source, along with personal interviews, research and scholarly academic journals, available through the Kaplan online library. Follow American Psychological Association (APA) format with proper citations and references.

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Assignment 2: Organization Project – 3: Comprehensive

Research your chosen company(APPLE).  Find a minimum of three library sources, which will support your thesis in this assignment.  Review your assigned weekly lecture and text reading.  Select from this reading 8-10 key concepts, which will also support your thesis.  In a four to five page paper, address the questions below.  Your paper should follow APA format including a title and reference page.  The four to five page paper length requirement does NOT include the title page and reference page.  Refer to your classroom area titled South University Policies and Guideline: Using APA Standards in Your Coursework to ensure you are following the correct format.

In weeks one and two, you gathered information about an organization as it relates to planning and decision making.  In this assignment, you will apply the functions of Planning, Organizing, and Controlling. You will be required to use concepts and analyze the current management situations at the organization you have chosen.

Your paper must include research and should include a clear introduction with a thesis statement and a conclusion.  Your research paper should address the following:

Describe how the organization was managed in the past.  Compare the difference between management approaches in the past to those the organization currently uses.  Ensure you identify relevant management theory both for past practices and current approaches.

Describe how the organization is structured.  Include a copy of the organizational chart.  Describe how managers perform the organization function of management based on the structure of the organization.  Ensure one of the five types of structures as described in the textbook is identified and analyzed.

Identify a key manager in the organization and describe his/her primary functions and responsibilities.  Evaluate how effective this manager is in fulfilling these responsibilities making clear recommendations for improvement. Ensure you refer to the functions of management as described in your textbook.

Describe how decisions are made in this organization.  Using materials from the textbook or other relevant sources on decision making evaluate the effectiveness of the decision making process and make clear recommendations for improvement.

Describe the system of controls the organization uses.  Include in this description how control is used to ensure the organization meets its goals and objectives as well as how the organization uses a quality control process to ensure products and/or services are delivered as promised.  Evaluate the role of managers in these processes.  Make clear recommendations for improvement.  Ensure you refer to your textbook or other relevant sources in your evaluation.

Summarize the key recommendations you have made identifying each with the relevant function of management.

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Imagine you work at a company and it is time for an employee named Jim’s annual review. While he was a model employee the first nine (9) months of the year, recently Jim has been coming in late. It has not been just a few minutes each day, either. It is starting to cause problems in the production line. In this assignment, write a one (1) page summary of your conversation with Jim. How will you address his recent performance issues while still praising him for his previous nine (9) months of good work? Your goal is to balance the negative and positive feedback so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.

 

Write a one (1) page paper in which you:

 

1. Explain how you will address Jim’s recent performance issues.
2. Suggest both constructive and positive feedback designed so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.
3. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Explain effective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations, including career development, fostering ethical behavior, discipline, labor relations, and dismissals.
• Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of performance appraisal programs.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
• Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanic

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You are the VP of human resources for a 1,000 employee meat packing company in the small town of Fort Hays, Kansas. You recently examined the turnover data for the plant operation (the people who kill, butcher, and process the hogs) and discovered that turnover among employees who were in their first year of employment was 85% for 2004. In addition, exit interviews with recent quits confirm what the attitude survey you conducted last year: morale is low, despite a competitive compensation and benefits package.

At last week’s executive committee meeting, the President demanded that something be done to decrease turnover and increase morale, and soon. You suggested that by using an employee orientation program or a realistic job preview program, new employees will be more satisfied and less likely to quit. The president nixed the idea of using an RJP. He argued, “If people don’t know what they are getting into when they answer ads for jobs in a meat packing plant, I’m not going to waste money telling them.” Besides, he added, “the hiring process already includes a brief tour of the plant, and most prospective employees know somebody who already works there.”

That left you with the employee orientation program, which the president said he would consider if you could make a good case for why it should be done and what benefits could be gained. The president asks you to write a memo that addresses the following:

1. The stage or stages of Feldman’s socialization model that may be influenced by an orientation program. Support your choice(s).
2. Two key content areas of an orientation program that may reduce turnover and increase morale.
3. The role of the supervisor and the new employee in an effective orientation program.
4. The timing of orientation activities (i.e., one shot? spaced over time?). Support your choice.
5. One potential problem that must be addressed to increase the chances the program will be effective, and what you could do to address it.

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Answers need to be at-least 200 words

Expand sales and service business, especially via repeat customers and word-of-mouth recommendations.

 

This mid-size auto dealership sells late model used automobiles, many of which are recently off-lease cars the owner gets from large new-car dealers in a southwestern city. IAS is owned by Stephany and Lee Bergen, a husband-and-wife team. They have been in business for 15 years and have a positive reputation for honesty. Many of their sales come from referrals from past customers. Competing with other new- and used-car dealerships is always a battle. New cars are sometimes being offered with zero interest loan incentives. IAS, however, can almost always offer a much better purchase price, especially on two- or three-year-old cars with some mileage on them.

 

With a difficult economy and reduced sales of cars, Steph and Lee have decided to emphasize their repair services in addition to sales. They have three full-time mechanics on duty. The service manager is Ray, a man with good skills but not much of a personality. Nevertheless, repairs now account for about 15 percent of IAS revenues.

 

In addition, IAS has been cultivating additional business-to-business (B2B) sales efforts. They recently got a contract to provide servicing for the vehicles owned by their local city government as well as a major building contractor. This increase in service business has posed some problems due to lack of repair staff. Sometimes Ray promises more than he can deliver or misses deadlines. IAS is recruiting qualified mechanics to meet this need. They are also on the lookout for good salespeople.

 

 

 

 

1.Identify some core values of this organization as best as you can. What do they believe in (beyond organizational success or profitability)? How might their revealing these values to customers and employees create opportunities to exceed expectations? How can they translate core values into actions to produce A-plus value, thus strengthening relationships?

 

2.Do some creative thinking about possible ideas you could apply to create A-plus value using the seven areas described in this chapter. Describe at least three ideas for each:

 

•packaging, guarantees (warrantees)

 

•goodness of product fit

 

•“memorability” of product experience

 

•uniqueness and shared values

 

•company credibility

 

•add-ons

 

3.Consider ways to get employees of your organization involved in generating A-plus value ideas. How would you do this? Be specific about the following:

 

•What you would teach employees before soliciting their ideas?

 

•Who would be involved in idea-generating sessions?

 

•How you would collect and process ideas (specifically)?

 

•How often you would gather ideas?

 

•How people might be rewarded for participating in the process?

 

4.What would be necessary for your organization to engage in ongoing A-plus idea generation? How could this become part of the culture of the company? How could you get buy-in from participants and what should you do to avoid turning people off to the process. Be specific. (Timm 177)

 

Timm, Paul R. Customer Service: Career Success Through Customer Loyalty, 6th Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions, 04/2013. VitalBook file.

 

The citation provided is a guideline. Please check each citation for accuracy before use.

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In this module you will start thinking about what social injustice is and how public policies at the local, state, and national level may contribute to social problems.

Research social welfare policies using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet.

• Select a social problem, for example, poverty, crime, or unemployment.
• Identify and describe the social factors that contribute to the problem.
• Identify and examine a federal or state social welfare policy that aims to address this social problem.
• Employ the textbook’s National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics as a frame of reference and complete the following:
  • Explain whether this social policy addresses the social problem adequately and ethically.
  • Give reasons and examples in support.

Research the selected social problem as it exists in one other country. Respond to the following:

• Compare the implications of this social problem in your community to that of the other country.
• Discuss how this problem is handled in the other country. For example, pollution of local water sources may be a problem in your community, but how is it addressed in Norway?
• Give examples and reasons in support of your response.

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This assignment will help you understand the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of age for anyone over the age of 40. This kind of legislation, like other types of anti-discriminatory legislation, will not end all discrimination. However, such laws clearly state society’s values.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Based on your research, create a 4- to 5-page paper in a Microsoft Word document that includes answers to the following questions:

• Which demographic groups are protected by this Act?
• Which types of discrimination are prohibited under the Act?
• Is the Act still relevant for seniors today? If yes, how? If not, why not? Provide examples.
• What amendments are required to the Act as more baby boomers age?
• Has this Act affected any of the minority groups in US? If no, why not? If yes, how?

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Research the Internet for recent litigation, censures, and fines involving national public accounting firms.  Examples of litigation cases against national public accounting firms include fines by regulatory authorities and censures by professional societies.

 

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze the primary accounting issues which form the crux of the litigation or fine for the firm, and indicate the impact to the firm as a result of litigation or fine. Provide support for your rationale.
2. Examine the key inferences of corporate ethics related to internal controls and accounting principles which lead to the litigation or fine for the accounting firm.
3. Evaluate the primary ethical standards of the accounting organization’s leadership and values which contributed to approval of the accounting issues and thus created the litigation or fines in question.
4. Identify specific conduct violations committed by the organization and accounting firm in question. Next, create an argument supporting the actions against the organization and accounting firm, based on the current professional code of conduct for independent auditors and management accountants.
5. Make a recommendation as to how regulators and professional societies may prevent this type of behavior in question for the future. Provide support for your rationale.
6. Use two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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