Think about a financial decision you made regarding the purchase of a big-ticket item within the last five years. Provide a summary on the discussion thread, answering the following questions:
Create an 8- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation, excluding the title page and the reference page, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of union representation and how this increases or decreases employee motivation or morale.
The following exercise introduces you to pay equity in a corporate context and team discussion and collaboration.
Complete the exercise, Interactive Analysis: Employee Development – Pay Equity. A transcript of this interactive exercise is also available.
Consider what you learned in the experience and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Review Riverbend City: Microaggressions and identify microaggressions that occur in the scenario. Use Chapter 2, “Taxonomy of Microaggressions,” in the Sue (2010) text to discuss the microaggressive themes in the scenario. Consider the Racial Microaggression in Counseling Scale presented in the Unit 4 study.
Self-reflection: Provide an example from your personal experience of a microaggression you have faced or a microaggressive statement or action you have made.
Respond to the posts of at least two learners. Share if you have ever witnessed the microaggressions discussed.
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
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.
