Labor Relations and Management Review and Reflection

Review and reflect on what you learned in the past 8 weeks. What is the most practical and easily applied lesson you learned? What was the hardest to grasp? Why?Why or why not?  

Provide a brief overview of the lessons over the past eight weeks.  Nothing was too hard to grasp, the material was straight forward and informative. 

Racial and Ethnic Identity discussion

 

Racial and Ethnic Identity – Affinity Group

In Unit 1, you completed reading “Section II: Race and Ethnicity” in the Culture and Identity text. Select the story you most identify with and respond to the following questions:

  • Which aspect of the story is closest to your own experience of racial or ethnic identity?
  • Which aspect of the story is furthest away from your own experience of racial or ethnic identity?
  • Each story presents an assessment section. Use your personal experience and respond to the questions in the assessment section of your selected story.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the posts of at least two learners. Compare and contrast the key aspects of their racial or ethnic identity with your own assessment of your racial and ethnic identity.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

  • Explore the historical or cultural and social factors that impact the development of personal identity.
  • Explore factors that impact the development of cultural beliefs.

Resources

Employ: Research Process High-speed rail

Instructions

Employ: Research Process

Evaluation Title: Research

This course requires the completion of a major research paper (8 to 10 content pages, not including the title, abstract and reference page) for the final assignment. In order to do this, the writing must be in a style appropriate for an academic discourse community and the references should be academic references. At least five of the articles must be located in the Herzing University Library

This week’s assignment builds on the unit 4 assessment and completes the gathering of reference materials.

  • Begin with the introduction to the paper which should include the thesis statement.
  • Submit a minimum of 7 primary resources and 3 secondary resources, for one of the following topics (In Unit 4, 3 primary and 2 secondary resources were submitted-please highlight these resources in the new document)
    • 3D Printing
    • High-speed rail
    • Stem Cell Research
    • Crowdfunding
  • Complete the literature review for each of the resources identified
  • Include the APA reference page

The literary resources and introduction should be in APA format.

All citations and references should be in APA format.

Unit IV Assessment, Unit IV Article Review,

The assessment questions do not need to have any references. 

Also the article review should be on a separate word document. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format 7th edition

Unit IV Assessment 

1. Generally why do both management and the union favor no-strike, no-lockout provisions? Discuss commonly used methods for peacefully resolving a negotiation impasse, and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each. Your response should be at least 400 words in length.

2. Discuss how negotiators prepare for negotiations. Explain the distributive and integrative bargaining approaches. How do these methods differ? When would a negotiator likely choose each? Your response should be at least 400 words in length.

3. Social security, unemployment insurance, and workers’ compensation are employee benefits required by law and are not negotiated. Based on the reading in this unit, identify and discuss the 5 groups of those benefits that are mandatory issues for negotiations. Provide an example of each. Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

4. According to the reading, the company has a financial obligation to its employees. The issue of organizations having the ability to pay the employees can be an important factor during the negotiation process. In efforts to make certain the organization has the ability to meet the financial responsibility to the employees, some things should be considered. Not only do the organization look at the financial obligation, they should also look at the worth or importance of the job. Within the reading, some processes that can be done to accomplish this goal has been mentioned. Based on what you have learned in this unit, define job analysis. Identify and discuss in detail two things that are a result of the job analysis. Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Unit IV Article Review

Instructions

Using the CSU Online Library, locate an article from a scholarly journal or industry magazine about a specific arbitration case, involving a union or non-union, related to the topics introduced in Chapter 5 of your textbook. Some topics to consider, but not limited to, bargaining, negotiations, norms, and zone of possible agreement. The article must have been published in the past five years. The format for the article critique is as follows: 

  • Article Title 
  • Journal Name and Date 
  • Key Points: (Five to seven key ideas from the article) 
  • Summary: (Two to three paragraphs summarizing the article in your own words) 
  • Personal Evaluation: (Two to three paragraphs highlighting the relevance of this article to your position or occupation, your agreement or disagreement with the author and/or findings, and any additional insights you may have.) 

Note: The arbitration does not need to be one specifically related to your occupation. It can involve any job field 

Your response must be a minimum of two pages. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format.

CSU Online Library Research Guide

Choose a regulation

Instructions

Complying with legal requirements is an important function within human resources. These legal requirements may be compiled complex, and may change over time or based on a company location. A company’s compliance with these laws and regulations is generally considered a minimum standard for an HR department. 

In this assignment, you will research legal regulations, the impact of these regulations regarding the HR processes and HRM.

  • Choose one of these regulations (e.g., the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Employment Opportunities [EEO] Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act, or affirmative action) that impacts HR processes.
  • Address the following questions in your paper:
    • How does your chosen regulation impact HRM?
    • How does the chosen regulation impact day to day operations in a organization? What amendments have been made to the chosen regulation in the past five to ten years? How have these amendments affected HRM?
  • Find peer-reviewed articles.
  • Weekly written assignments have a  requirement of 4 pages and 5 scholarly resources (this does not include the title or reference pages) in APA format on the information researched from the article and your views as well.

mgmt 3

2-3 page requirement

You have discussed various theories on effective leadership. This week, you will assess why good leaders fail and if these leadership theories support their failure.

 Complete the following for this assignment:

Why do you think good leaders fail? 

Which leadership theories support your reasoning about why good leaders fail? 

Have you ever failed as a leader? If not, apply the question to a leader you personally know that failed in a leadership position. 

Did the aforementioned reasons apply to this situation? Support your statements with appropriate scholarly references.

ORG Paper

Week Four Essay Assignment

Please use APA formatting, double-spaced, 6-8 pages, include references.

-You are in upper management for a mid-sized manufacturing company. Recent economic changes forced upper management to move much of the manufacturing to a foreign country. As a result, many of the state-side employees will be forced to work directly with foreign counterparts. There is great concern that the existing employees may not embrace the change, and you’ve been tasked with creating a plan to minimize the fallout.

-Develop a plan that will facilitate as smooth of a transition as possible, optimizing employee buy-in, satisfaction, and productivity. Write a report that explains the details of your plan, and be sure to integrate concrete examples and supportive reasoning for how to implement this plan following each step of Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change.

Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change : Web Reference https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_94.htm

Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change: Text Book Reference 

Nelson, D. L., & Quick, J. C. (2012). Organizational Behavior: Science, The Real World, and You (8th ed., Vol. 8). Cengage Learning.

BUS 680 Week Replies Needed

 

I need someone to respond to peers’ 4 discussion responses. and need back tomorrow. 150 to 250 words each response. It is a total of 4 responses needed. Also, DO NOT BE CRITICAL IN RESPONSES AND ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS 

Please follow all directions as noted in graduate writing skills. And use the text book as a reference.