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Read and Review Chapter 12. 

“From a strategic perspective, it is imperative that employers provide the types of benefits that motivate workers and encourage them to stay with a company.”  Research indicates the importance for HR professionals to identify and implement competitive benefits that are desirable to employee.

Research Employee Benefits and explain/identify:

– How companies utilize benefits as a competitive advantage?  

– Trends in retirement plans and also compare the advantages and/or disadvantages of a defined benefit versus defined contribution plans.

– Growth and trend of financial, family-oriented, and time-off benefits and outline their importance to employees.

– Importance of managing the cost of health benefits and identify how organizations are mitigating the rising cost(s)?

Paper Requirements:

• Write a 3-4 page double-spaced, 12 font, and APA formatted paper that addresses the items above.
• Do not use first person. This paper isn’t your opinion. Your paper is guided by your research. 
• The 3-4 pages does not include the title page or reference page.
• Include a title page properly formatted in APA. 
• You Do NOT need to include an abstract
• Make sure to include an Introduction to your paper. Your introduction needs to include a strong preview sentence.
• Create headings in the body of the paper (between the Introduction and Conclusion) that are named based on the content in that section of the paper. For example, your headings could be the trends you identified. Please review the APA Heading Format Guidelines (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) in order to develop a good understanding of how to format the headings in your paper.
• Include a Reference page. You must include a minimum of 5 references (textbook and 4 scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles from Welder Library E-Resources). 

Please refer to the rubric for the grading requirements.    

Your submission will go through turnitin. Turnitin evaluates the originality score of your paper. Your turnitin score should be 25% or less. 

Rubric

Iaskas

Corporate Social Responsibility

5 pages assignment 

(Coffee beans in Jazan)

MUST FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS!!!

-APA 7th Ed, double spaced, times new roman, 12 pt font, no excessive spacing, no images/charts/etc.

-All writing must be in essay/paragraph format (NO BULLETS). 

Below is the following information that must be used in the paper

Company: AECOM ( https://aecom.com/about-aecom/ )

Position: Construction Project Manager ( https://aecom.jobs/arlington-va-va/project-manager/A06B4CB49FD94554918BE8EFDF5EAF08/job/ )

-Begin by providing the formal definition of job analysis as described in the textbook. 

-Conduct a job analysis of the select position. 

-Discuss your decision to conduct job analysis (using both JOB REQUIREMENTS and COMPETENCY-BASED job analysis).

-Describe the process of collecting information about the select position. 

-Bring in info and data from O*net to create your task list or KSAO’s. (https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-9021.00 )

-Based on the job analysis, prepare a Job Description of the select position

REFERENCE PAGE

– Must utilize provided textbook (PDF FILE ATTACHED)

– ANY WEBSITES MUST BE USA BASED and DOCUMENTED AS REFERENCES and CITED IN THE PAPER (APA 7th Ed.)

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Describe business ethics and its importance and talk about the assessments.  300 words. 

Self-assessments are a beneficial tool to provide one with more insight on why they are the way they are. During week one you will complete three self-assessments in this course related to ethics. You will record your results on your ethics portfolio.

Based on your ethical assessments completed for this course during week one, what are your initial thoughts on how your individual results compare to have you view ethics personally and how you view ethics in business. You are encouraged to share some specific examples of your assessment results to support your opinion. However, if you would like to keep your results private, you can speak to your results in general terms.

Please provide 1-2 examples to support your viewpoints that other learners will be able to assess and debate within our weekly discussion forum.

Instructions

Write a paper evaluating three ethical theories. Compare and contrast as well as discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.

This written assignment must have 5 pages (not including the title and reference page).

Also, the paper must be written in accordance with APA writing standards. The appropriate citation is required and 5 scholarly sources are a must.

 This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin®.Instructions

You are the Employee Relations Specialist for a national retail company with locations across the United States. The nearly 500 company employees are diverse in terms of age and demographic differences. Your primary work location is Southeast Pennsylvania. Recently, the employees in the mid-Atlantic region, managed by Kristopher Kolumbus, have expressed dissatisfaction with the work environment. There are approximately 125 employees in the mid-Atlantic region. Their specific concerns include receiving small pay raises for the past 2 – 3 years, limited employee benefits, lack of career mobility and progression, and heightened security controls implemented due to theft concerns. There has been recent talk among the employees about the possibility of unionization, and some workers have begun exploring options such as United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Before either of these unions will send an organizer to the organization, it wants to be sure that sufficient employees will back union representation. Some employees have started company-wide communication to increase interest in unionization.

As the Employee Relations Specialist, it is your responsibility to ensure that supervisors and managers follow the rules regarding a union organizing campaign. In response to this potential campaign, you decide to take some initial actions and prepare several documents to share with your boss, the Director of Human Resources: [You must use the underlined headings as separate discussion areas in your paper and in the order provided below. -.5pt if fail to do this.]

Late penalties: Paper is due by due date. There will be no extensions granted for this paper. 

This paper will require outside of the class room research to fully address all questions. 

• A summary email to the Director of Human Resources describing the issues and what actions you are taking (which includes the below items)
• A one-page memo to all managers and supervisors indicating what they can and cannot do during any union organizing effort.
• An email to your human resource colleagues about actions the HR team should consider in response to some of the concerns raised by the Mid-Atlantic Region employees
• An outline for a meeting to be held between Human Resources and the organization’s leadership team regarding the organizing effort.

Each document must be double-space, Times New Roman font 12, and APA format. Paper must be in narrative format, not bullets. [in word document not pdf] -.5pt if fail in any of these formatting requirements.

eadership is the ability to influence others to achieve  organizational goals. Organizations spend billions of dollars each year  to improve the leadership skills of its employees. Leadership skills are  needed within organizations to execute the vision, mission and  strategic goals of the organization.

Visit the mind tools website and complete the short Leadership Skills exercise (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_50.htm). After you explore your strengths and areas for growth, address the following items in your response:

• What are your strengths?
• Where do you have opportunities to grow your leadership skills?
• Based on your assessment results, propose three things you can do to improve your leadership skills

Debriefing and Progress Report