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The Value of Fair Treatment in the Workplace

You have been hired as a management consultant by a large company to examine the company’s business decisions regarding employee protections. The applicable laws are federal anti-discrimination laws, federal health and safety laws, and employer firing practices related to the employment-at-will (EAW) doctrine.

In response to the three questions below, write a 4–6 page paper in which you do the following:

Analyze, identify, and explain recent legislation, within the last 10 years, that helps to protect employees from discrimination in the workplace. Provide at least two federal legislative protections. Provide some insight when the federal legislation conflicts with the state.  

Explain the EAW doctrine and all exceptions to the doctrine. Look at the scenarios below and determine whether the decision to fire the employee is a smart one. Identify why or why not, and determine all the possible exceptions per the EAW doctrine that are, might be, or could be applicable if the employee sues for wrongful termination.

Brenda, a manager, started a blog on the company website for employee grievances. She noticed that a worker was protesting that no Asian American employees had gotten a raise in two years at the company. The worker also criticized how much the CEO made and how the CEO was “out of touch.” Brenda reprimanded the worker. The next day, the worker talked to fellow co-workers about forming a union. Brenda subsequently fired the worker.

Jason, a department supervisor, requests approval to fire his secretary, Alice. Alice, a devout Christian, has been putting Right-to-Life flyers in the employee breakroom. Alice is also taking time out to pray each day during the busiest time of the morning.

Brian, the head of the accounting department, refused to sign Lori’s leave request for jury duty. Lori is a tax attorney in his department. Brian wants to fire Lori for being absent without permission during their busiest time—tax season.

Peter has worked for the company for one year. He has a rare form of liver disease and works with chemicals that make his condition worse. Peter does not want to stop working, but his boss is not happy with his performance and wants to let him go.

Determine the federal law regarding undocumented workers and whether they are eligible for state workers’ compensation in the United States. Advocate for or against this practice and substantiate your response with research to support your position.

Write a page answering questions below

Why are there competing systems of innovation classification?

Are some systems inferior, or do different systems drive towards different and results?

Why would a business create a complementary product instead of building those complementary features into the existing product? Give an example. Is this a viable corporate strategy?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Using a texas prison, analyze the six (6) rules for evaluating needs and solutions based on fact and evidence and how they can be applied to the workplace. Choose at least two (2) tools and two (2) techniques that you feel would benefit the organization. Develop a plan that could be used to introduce and utilize the tools and techniques into the workplace.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

·  Write at least 4 pages using Microsoft Word in APA style.

·  Use font size 12 and 1” margins.

·  Include cover page and reference page.

·  Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

For this course, you will be creating an Organizational Change Action Plan. Please read the following description of the Key Assignment to understand what this will entail.

Key Assignment Description You have been engaged as an Organizational Development (OD) consultant by an organization with which you have deep familiarity that has endeavored to implement a system of organizational change and has failed. For the purposes of the assignment, the organization should be one that you know well, such as your employer, former employer, or a client. For the sake of confidentiality, you may disguise the actual identity of the organization. The chief executive officer (CEO) of the organization has asked for your help to determine what went wrong with the failed change attempt and to develop an action plan for re-engaging the organization with change efforts that are based upon systems thinking and decision making.

Stages for Developing the Organizational Change Action Plan Start with a thorough analysis of the current situation, an analysis of the factors requiring the organization to adopt change, and an analysis of the failed change effort. Ground your analysis in a comprehensive review of the literature that is pertinent to the organizational environment as well as for academic and practitioner support for the new action plan that you will develop.

1) In the past few weeks, we have discussed several models, theories, and/or technologies describing best practices and details regarding change initiatives. For this specific question, utilize Kotter’s Eight-Stage Model of Transformational Change   to articulate how YOU would implement a change initiative in your department or workplace. 

For this journal, first review the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document and post any questions to the General Questions Topic. Then review the Nimble Storage: Scaling Talent Strategy Amidst Hyper-Growth case study. 

In your journal, answer the following questions:

• What are some common concerns companies have that keep them from being more effective in the global market?
• In a global market, what should a company consider changing to better embody social and cultural norms and to become a more geocentric organization? Consider possible changes to the company’s technology, interpersonal policies, business practices, or other variables.

For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric document.

COMPLETE TWO ASSESSMENTS—CHOOSE TWO FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST.

• Daft, R. L. (2018). The leadership experience (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage. 
  • Chapter 6, “Courage and Moral Leadership.” 
    • Leader’s Self-Insight 6.1: Ethical Maturity, page 172.
    • Leader’s Self-Insight 6.2: Your Servant Leadership Orientation, page 180.
    • Leader’s Self-Insight 6.3: Assess Your Moral Courage, page 184  

    Your leadership assessments this week focus on ethical maturity, servant leadership, and moral courage. Choose one of the assessments you completed this week to discuss. You will also go back to the role discussion you had in Week 1 to connect the assessment to the role you chose there. Once you have identified these two items, answer the following questions in your discussion:

• Describe the role and the assessment you will be discussing.
• How does the assessment you have chosen advise the effectiveness of the role you selected in Week 1?
• How will you use this knowledge to advise your personal leadership? You will find this knowledge helpful as you identify your personal leadership statement for the assignment you will complete for Week 8.

Support your ideas with course concepts and ideas. Be explicit in your use of course material. Use APA style and format for in-text citations and references.

Emotions, mood, and organizational culture can create a positive or negative experience for employees. They can also cause problems for leaders. 

1. Imagine a leader arriving at work each day with a very emotional or moody disposition. How would you handle someone who has an uneven personality and brings a negative air and context to the workplace and organization? How might this impact organizational effectiveness? Support your answer with research. 
2. Practical Application: Describe your experiences with someone who is moody and who has responsibilities of decision making for an organization. What impact does this have on his or her directives for the organization? If you have no such experiences, try interviewing a friend or family member about their experiences. Alternately, you may research an organization or leader. If you choose this option, you must support your findings with credible reports or articles. 

APA FORMAT

1-2 PARAGRAPHS

REFERENCES

Read the case study titled “Revitalizing a Brand”, located in the online course shell. Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the branding and communication strategies of one (1) health services organization that is similar to the health services organizations mentioned in the case study.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
2. Conduct a Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT) analysis associated with the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
3. Assess the importance of benchmarking in Plaza Home Health Services’ development and implementation of an effective brand strategy (marketing communication, identity, and brand position).
4. Compare branding and communication strategies of a similar health services organization with that of Plaza Home Health Services. Determine whether or not Plaza Home Health Services should apply additional best practices into its current branding and communication strategies. Provide a rationale and support for your response.
5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources. 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 marketing research process and market segmentation strategies in the health care industry.
• Analyze business planning based on an analysis of domestic and global operating environments, market dynamics (supply and demand), commercialization, and product-market expansion.
• Explain how branding strategies apply to the health care market for existing and new products.
• Determine the marketing communications strategy used in health care services.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services strategic marketing.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services strategic marketing using proper writing mechanics.

Instructions

This assessment addresses the following course objective(s):

• Develop findings and recommendations for an IT innovation project.

This is the third part of a three-part project in technology innovation. Through these three assessments you will

• identify a potential IT innovation,
• create a plan to implement that innovation
• describe how the plan could be executed

In this stage of the project, assume that the IT innovation was executed within the organization. You will be creating a presentation to organizational stakeholders that discusses the innovation that you have implemented, how it was executed and what you have learned from this process. Because this is not an actual implementation you are free to use your industry experience and imagination to create details on the actual implementation.

Create a presentation that:

• describes your IT innovation and why you chose to implement it
• the steps or process you used to implement and execute the idea
• a discussion of why you selected this process
• the issues that you encountered during planning, implementation and execution
• what you learn from this process, and how these learnings can be applied to future projects

Presentations should be a minimum of 12 slides, be a professional appearance, and include references to the concepts referenced.