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New and Improved Rewards at Work
 

Employers have been coming up with innovative employee rewards to boost morale and acknowledge employee needs for creativity and personal goal accomplishment. Some of the latest potential employee rewards include using the Internet at work for personal reasons such as shopping, communicating with friends, or personal finances; bringing a pet to work; instituting a controlled napping policy, and the sports and office betting pools.
 

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

1. Determine how innovations in employee benefits can improve the overall competitive compensation strategy of the organization.

2. Explain how innovative benefits could be tied to specific jobs.

3. Critique the effectiveness of equity-based rewards systems versus those with more creative approaches.

4. Discuss the key elements of integrating innovation into a traditional total rewards program.

5. Recommend a process that optimizes an employee-based suggestion program to continually refresh the total rewards of the organization.

6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment
 

ODC 2

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. 

You have completed Part 1 of the Organizational Change Action Plan. This week, you will begin to work on Part 2 of the plan. References and appendices will be worked on throughout the course.

Based upon the course readings, supplementary materials, and your own literature search via the CTU online library, provide the following for discussion:

• Review and  analyze the academic literature of organizational change and development.
• Provide at  least 2 scholarly resources to support your response. 

Use the LIBRARY or the MGMT Doctoral Library for help.

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Assignment 2: Avon Products or GE Money America Case Study
Due Week 4 and worth 150 points

From the Goldsmith & Carter textbook, select either the Avon Products (Chapter 1) or GE Money Americas (Chapter 6) case study for this assignment.

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

1. Provide a brief description of the status of the company that led to its determination that a change was necessary.
2. Identify the model for change theory typified in the case study of your choice. Discuss what led you to identify the model that you did.
3. Illustrate the types of evaluation information that were collected and how they are used to benefit the company.
4. Speculate about success of the changes within the next five (5) years and how adjustments could be made if the results become less than ideal.
5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality 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; 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 page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explore how to identify and develop high-potential talent.
• Analyze behavior change theories and their impact on talent management processes.
• Determine the effects of leadership in the management of talent pools and the talent review process.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in talent management.
• Write clearly and concisely about talent management using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.
 

It is critical for healthcare professionals to be prepared to handle large-scale, public health emergencies. Consider the readings for the week, and think about what you’ve learned regarding preparedness strategies. Then, write a discussion post that lists the three most important things that a healthcare organization can do to be prepared for these types of emergencies, and justify your choices. 

• Discussion: Using Balance Scorecard to Measure Project Effectiveness
  • You are a project manager for a large electronics retailer (e.g., Best Buy) who will be implementing a new time keeping system to track hourly and salary employees’ time and attendance. You have been asked to develop a balance scorecard that can be used to manage the effectiveness of this project. Select an area (e.g., financial, customer, business, and learning) that you will focus on from a balance scorecard viewpoint and explain how you will measure the effectiveness of the project. 

• For the conference, please discuss:
  • how flexibility helps employees and/or organizations work-life integration?
  • identify what is flextime and outline how you are managing or would manage a flextime schedule?
  • how has COVID-19 affected telework for your organization and other organizations across the United States?
  • identify ways that organizations can utilize technology to promote flexibility and work-life balance into the workplace?
  • Open discussion on topic. Write a 1-2 page paper 
  • We need to cite a minimum of one journal article

The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (The National CLAS Standards) represent a set of standards to improve health care quality and advance health equity in health care organizations. While these standards are certainly important for health care administrators to not only adopt but also implement within their agency, perhaps the Principal Standard of The National CLAS Standards serves as the true hallmark of ensuring culturally and linguistically appropriate standards.

The Office of Minority Health (2014) defines the Principal Standard as follows:

“Provide effective, equitable, understandable and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health literacy, and other communication needs.”

As a health care administrator, how might you ensure that you adhere to The National CLAS Standards when engaged in the design and development of culturally relevant messages while avoiding cultural bias?

For this Discussion, review the media images in the resources for this week. Reflect on how media might impact the cultural sensitivity of health messages. Then, consider how cultural sensitivity might impact a health services campaign and marketing plan.

By Day 3

Post any insights you had or conclusions you drew based upon your analysis of the media images provided in the media for this week. Explain how the media images in the resources for this week might present challenges based on the ethical, moral, and legal compliance considerations for the practice of health care administration. Then, explain how you might apply the information you gained from your analysis to your Final Project. Be specific and use examples to illustrate your points.

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• Determine  the importance of equal pay between men and women. Then, suggest two  (2) valid reasons why their pay may be different for the same position.  Justify your response. 
• Assess  the importance of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)  when an employer provides benefits of any kind. Classify two (2) pros of  an employee using the benefits that the employer provides and at least  one (1) con that may be a conflict for an employee using such benefits. Note: Refer to cases in your textbook as you formulate your response. 

Read the following hypothetical problem. After analyzing the problem, describe what actions Supervisor Jan should take in addressing Jason’s request.

Jason works for a car rental agency. Part of his religious observance is to pray several times per day.  He approaches Supervisor Jan with a request for two additional 10-minute breaks per day in order to engage in prayer.

Instructions: Please write in essay format.  Include the guidance below in your analysis:
a) Set forth the federal statute and/or theories of law that are applicable.
b) Identify the legal issue(s) that exist.
c) Apply the facts of the case to the elements of the law/theories of law.
d) Cite a case in the text which is on point with the scenario, or compare and contrast with a case in the text.

Use the Internet to research companies that utilize external recruiting processes. Next, based on your research, provide three (3) characteristics of a job where external recruitment would be ideal. Next, determine two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of using each recruiting process. Support your position with specific examples of the identified advantages and disadvantages.