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As discussed in the unit lesson, resolving conflict in the workplace requires using interpersonal skills, management skills, and techniques. Interpersonal skills can consist of understanding individual differences, self-esteem, self-confidence, communication, teamwork skills, problem-solving skills, cultural relations skills, motivation skills, customer service skills, ethical behavior skills, and stress management skills. Management skills focus on the type of management skill applied such as collaborating, accommodating, forcing, avoiding, and compromising. As a member of the workforce, you must be able to effectively resolve conflict, either with the use of interpersonal skills, management skills, or by applying the recommended ways of responding to tension in the workplace (e.g., overcoming defensiveness, accepting of the tension, and resolving the tension). 

For your Unit VI Assignment, please reflect on your knowledge of resolving conflict that you have experienced or observed in the workplace. Please analyze what you have learned. Describe how your learned knowledge can be used. Also, identify how this information can be used to resolve conflict in the workplace in your current job or from a past incident you have experienced. What steps/methods were used in resolving the conflict? 

Your reflection paper should be at least three pages in length, including an introduction, a body that supports your reflection, and a conclusion. Be sure to include a title page. The title page does not count toward the total page requirement.

Based on your experiences, as well as the chapter information, what are some good “rules of thumb” for conducting successful performance appraisal interviews?

Your discussion is to be submitted in 12-point Times New Roman font using APA format.  You must have a minimum of two sources to support your answer. You must also have a minimum of two intext citation of your sources. This is very important.

Students are required to post their primary response (200 word minimum) by Sunday midnight. Students will respond to 1 other posting (150 words minimum each) by Sunday midnight..

Value Proposition in Patient Care

Paradise Hospital, Inc., is a for-profit hospital. As the facility’s new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in current-day America.

Note: You may create or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

• Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.
• Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital’s service value. Recommend the key methods that you would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.
• Specify four specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital, and argue the most significant reasons why such a value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.
• Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to find four recent (within the last five years) quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Please complete in detail

At some point, all of us will be called upon to work in a team. This week, we will explore what differentiates teams from groups, what defines an effective team, and what skills are needed to effectively work in a team.

For this week’s discussion, consider a situation in which you had to work with others.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

• Briefly share a situation in which you had to work with others.
• What were the most important factors that influence how well your team worked together?
• Do you consider the team in your example effective? Why or why not? How did the location of your team members influence its effectiveness?
• What concepts from this week’s learning activities do feel apply to the team you were in?

reply to the students’ response and not the question  in 150 words minimum and provide 1 reference. Respond to the students response as though you are talking to them, use name 

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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 tex

students response

In looking at Jason’s request, Supervisor Jan should consider a few important items. When looking at religion in the terms of anti-discrimination in the workforce there is a unique take on it because it is not absolute. “Unlike the other categories included in Title VII, there is not an absolute prohibition against discrimination on the basis of religion. Rather, under Title VII, we see for the first time a category that has built into it a duty to reasonably accommodate the employee’s religious conflict unless to do so would cause the employer undue hardship” (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2019, p.540). Supervisor Jan will need to try to comply with Title VII  and she has the duty to try to find a way to avoid conflict between workplace policies and an employee’s religious practices or beliefs. She will need to consider if undue hardship exists. Specifically this is, “The burden imposed on an employer, by accommodating an employee’s religious conflict, that would be too onerous for the employer to bear” (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2019, p.540).

An interesting case to compare this against is Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC,58  where the Court unanimously determined that religious organizations have full authority to determine who their religious leaders are and to apply their religious dictates even when those dictates conflict with workplace antidiscrimination laws (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2019, p.540). In Supervisor Jan’s case, since she is working at an Accounting Firm, this does not apply to her and she will need to comply with Title VII and try to reasonable accommodate if there is no undue hardship.

References

Bennett-Alexander, D. D., & Hartman, L. P. (2019). Employment Law for Business.

1. Ask an HR manager or a manager of an organization how the strategic plan contributed to his/her position.
2. Post his/her answer, identifying if it is from an HR manager or a manager.
3. Identify the importance of having a strategic plan available for that manager.

Use of KPIs

Consider a project you know, either from experience or from research. Even though we focus on what went well on projects, we must also be mindful of those things that did not meet our expectations. Your textbook author described things to keep in mind that may cause difficulty in using KPIs.

• Explain how KPIs can fail the project, and bad habits that project managers and project teams can get into in selecting KPIs.
• Then, explain how your chosen project successfully or unsuccessfully used KPIs.

Support your statements and conclusions using at least one readings and one peer-reviewed scholarly article. Current means that the article was published in the most recent five years. Be sure to include your citation/reference pair in accordance with CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.).

 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 sports and office betting pools. Write an eight- to ten-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 quality academic resources in this assignment. 

Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not quality as academic resources.  

1. Which arguments should be given more weight: those based on company policy, the employee handbook, and the labor agreement or mitigating factors given by the grievant and his witnesses? Explain.
2. How might unprofessional conduct be defined? Explain.
3. If you were the arbitrator, how would you rule in this case? Explain fully the reasons for your decision.

The following requirements must be met:

Write 1,300 words using Microsoft Word in APA 6th edition style.

Use an appropriate number of references to support your position, and defend your arguments. The following are examples of primary and secondary sources that may be used, and non-credible and opinion based sources that may not be used.

Primary sources such as government websites (United States Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Census Bureau, The World Bank), peer reviewed and scholarly journals in EBSCOhost (Grantham University Online Library) and Google Scholar.

Secondary and credible sources such as CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal, trade journals, and publications in EBSCOhost (Grantham University Online Library).

Non-credible and opinion based sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. should not be used.

Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased statements, information, etc.) in the paper and list each source on a reference page using APA style. An overview of APA 6th edition in-text citations, formatting, reference list, and style is provided here.

Download an APA sample paper from the Purdue OWL here.