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Assignment 2: Employee Incentives

For this assignment, you are to use the text, the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet to research the use of incentives in motivating employees.  Find an organization with a form of incentive you consider highly motivating.  Find an organization within your current industry or an industry where you would like to be employed in the future. Submit a report in which you describe, analyze and evaluate the incentive plan of your chosen company.  Include the following in your report:

1. Description of company, industry and incentive plan.
2. Distinguish why you think this particular plan is highly motivating and explain how it stimulates employee productivity.  Connect the plan to one or more models of motivation.
3. Evaluate how well the incentive plan supports a well-aligned compensation plan and   how the plan aligns the employees’ efforts to the organization’s mission and objectives.
4. Explain how this plan helps with the supervision, retention, and recruitment of employees.
5. Determine which of the following you feel would be the most valid format for performance appraisal to use with this incentive plan—standard ranking, paired-comparison ranking, standard rating scales, behaviorally-anchored rating scales, Management by Objectives or essay.

Justify your responses with reasons and examples.  Cite scholarly sources.

To complete this assignment, submit a 3–5 page report in Word format.  Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Description of company, industry and incentive plan is clear, accurate and concise.	15
Explained why the plan is motivating and how it stimulates employee productivity. Connected the plan to one or more models of motivation.	20
Evaluated how well the incentive plan supports a well-aligned compensation plan and how well the plan works for aligning the employees’ efforts to the organization’s mission and objectives.	20
Explained how this plan helps with supervision, retention, and recruitment of employees.	15
Determined which would be the most valid format for performance appraisal to use with this incentive plan.	15
Response demonstrates application of concepts, analysis of research information, justification of responses, critical thinking, Writing Craftsmanship, APA and Ethical Scholarship

Assignment 2: Employee Incentives

For this assignment, you are to use the text, the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet to research the use of incentives in motivating employees.  Find an organization with a form of incentive you consider highly motivating.  Find an organization within your current industry or an industry where you would like to be employed in the future. Submit a report in which you describe, analyze and evaluate the incentive plan of your chosen company.  Include the following in your report:

1. Description of company, industry and incentive plan.
2. Distinguish why you think this particular plan is highly motivating and explain how it stimulates employee productivity.  Connect the plan to one or more models of motivation.
3. Evaluate how well the incentive plan supports a well-aligned compensation plan and   how the plan aligns the employees’ efforts to the organization’s mission and objectives.
4. Explain how this plan helps with the supervision, retention, and recruitment of employees.
5. Determine which of the following you feel would be the most valid format for performance appraisal to use with this incentive plan—standard ranking, paired-comparison ranking, standard rating scales, behaviorally-anchored rating scales, Management by Objectives or essay.

Justify your responses with reasons and examples.  Cite scholarly sources.

To complete this assignment, submit a 3–5 page report in Word format.  Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Description of company, industry and incentive plan is clear, accurate and concise.	15
Explained why the plan is motivating and how it stimulates employee productivity. Connected the plan to one or more models of motivation.	20
Evaluated how well the incentive plan supports a well-aligned compensation plan and how well the plan works for aligning the employees’ efforts to the organization’s mission and objectives.	20
Explained how this plan helps with supervision, retention, and recruitment of employees.	15
Determined which would be the most valid format for performance appraisal to use with this incentive plan.	15
Response demonstrates application of concepts, analysis of research information, justification of responses, critical thinking, Writing Craftsmanship, APA and Ethical Scholarship

The assignment for the next class period is to read question #1 and type an answer to the two part question. It should be no less than two paragraphs, 12 point, times new roman font of course and double spaced. I am not looking for a 5 page paper here folks.

 

The question is : Discuss the difference between reasonable supicion and probable cause as well as the permissible behaviors associated with these legal thresholds.

 

* I will attache a picture of the points .

Define sunk costs, opportunity costs, side effects, and allocated costs.  Have you had an occasion to use any of these and if so how?

 

What is capital rationing and have you experienced it?

 

Describe the following project evaluation processes: Payback, NPV, PI, and IRR! Is anyone evaluation process better the others? Why?

 

Which portion of the WACC calculation is impacted by taxes?  How can a company reduce its cost of capital?  How is WACC used in financial planning to optimize capital structure?

 

Consider the toothpaste product presented in your Consumer Behavior/Target Market Report from Module 3, and prepare a Consumer Behavior/Market Analysis Report that covers the following:

• • Explain your product and the demographics and culture of your target market. Discuss whether factual or emotional appeals are more effective to the different segments.

 

• • Discuss the particular American values you can target successfully with your product. Discuss any ethical considerations that need to be considered when targeting these values.

 

• • Consider the current economy. In this context write an analysis of the current state of consumer spending with reference to your product. Is your product dependent on the economy, or will consumers choose to purchase it regardless of issues like employment figures and interest rates? How does this help or hurt you?

 

• • Discuss the potential of your product as a success or failure in different cultures. What geographies and nationalities will not currently be interested in your product and why? Discuss whether you can make changes that will improve your product’s appeal to different cultures.

 

• • Write an analysis of the U.S. subcultures that will desire your product and those that might not. Do specific age groups, genders, ethnicities, and/or religions see your product through a lens that differs from other consumers? Propose ways to combat this.

 

• Describe what you will do differently to gain market share and attract consumer behavior decisions toward greater purchasing of your product over competitors.

Write a 10- to 12-page professional Consumer Behavior/Market Analysis Report. Justify your ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and at least 4 references from text books, Web sites, and other references using APA format.

Be sure to also include some history of the firm and the product.

Discuss the marketing mix, the target segments, positioning, and the benefits and drawbacks of different marketing strategies, including the one the firm currently utilizes.

Use the APA format.

Prepare your report and submit it to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox by Monday, February 8, 2016.

Consider the toothpaste product presented in your Consumer Behavior/Target Market Report from Module 3, and prepare a Consumer Behavior/Market Analysis Report that covers the following:

• • Explain your product and the demographics and culture of your target market. Discuss whether factual or emotional appeals are more effective to the different segments.

 

• • Discuss the particular American values you can target successfully with your product. Discuss any ethical considerations that need to be considered when targeting these values.

 

• • Consider the current economy. In this context write an analysis of the current state of consumer spending with reference to your product. Is your product dependent on the economy, or will consumers choose to purchase it regardless of issues like employment figures and interest rates? How does this help or hurt you?

 

• • Discuss the potential of your product as a success or failure in different cultures. What geographies and nationalities will not currently be interested in your product and why? Discuss whether you can make changes that will improve your product’s appeal to different cultures.

 

• • Write an analysis of the U.S. subcultures that will desire your product and those that might not. Do specific age groups, genders, ethnicities, and/or religions see your product through a lens that differs from other consumers? Propose ways to combat this.

 

• Describe what you will do differently to gain market share and attract consumer behavior decisions toward greater purchasing of your product over competitors.

Write a 10- to 12-page professional Consumer Behavior/Market Analysis Report. Justify your ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and at least 4 references from text books, Web sites, and other references using APA format.

Be sure to also include some history of the firm and the product.

Discuss the marketing mix, the target segments, positioning, and the benefits and drawbacks of different marketing strategies, including the one the firm currently utilizes.

Use the APA format.

Prepare your report and submit it to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox by Monday, February 8, 2016.

Discuss the following topics in your own words and provide examples of discoveries for each.

 

(1)  Why does context matter?  How is it recorded?

 

(2)  What determines preservation?

 

(3)  What is the difference between arbitrary and natural levels?  Why do these matter?

 

(4)  How do archaeologists recover the smallest artifacts and ecofacts?

ocus your discussion on the following:

 

 

• • How confident are you that companies today take culture into proper account and balance along with other aspects of productivity? Why?

 

 

• • • What specific instances can you cite from experience and from academic literature? Be sure to include APA-formatted references in your response.

 

 

• • What can an individual do in any of these areas (music, literature, art, theater, education, or religion) to sustain and grow a healthy and useful culture?

 

 

• • • What reasons do you have for doing anything?

 

• • • What is the role of the individual versus the role of government in sustaining and building a healthy and robust culture through the humanities?

 

• • • What should be the individual’s role in his or her own community and country, and what should the role be in regions outside of the home country?

 

 

• • What is the role of educational institutions in shaping and encouraging specific cultural and humanities concepts alongside the emphasis on knowledge and facts?

 

Positive self-esteem helps children succeed in school and in life. Your course text discusses the ways that family, school, peers, mass media, and community act as socializing agents that can influence the development of self-esteem. To explore the topic of self-esteem further, review the “Influences on the Development of Self-Esteem” section of your text (pages 442-446). Also review the article by early childhood authority Lilian Katz, “How Can We Strengthen Children’s Self-Esteem?”

 

As you review these readings, consider the following:

• How socializing agents can influence the development of children’s self-esteem both positively and negatively
• The relationship between praise and self-esteem
• Strategies that resonate with you for supporting children’s developing self-esteem

 

Next, read the following scenario and reflect on the influence of self-esteem on a young child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development:

 

Four-year-old Simone always seems willing to go along with what other children want to do but is usually timid about suggesting ideas or helping to solve problems in play scenarios. Her teacher notices that the other children let her join in, but give her the least interesting roles in dramatic play or “jobs” to do in projects that call for group effort. In turn, Simone often tires of the play quickly and wanders off by herself. During the day, Simone looks for frequent reassurance from adults in the room. Whether she’s painting a picture or working on a block building, she wants to know if she is “doing it right” and gets anxious when her efforts aren’t praised. In the mornings when Simone’s mother brings her to school, she is busy with Simone’s infant sister and so doesn’t have time to stay. A neighbor who picks up her own child in the afternoon, picks up Simone as well. Simone’s father, who works at a local “big-box” store has yet to bring Simone to school or visit. Developmentally, Simone seems in the normal range, but her teacher is concerned about how she will do next year in kindergarten, when she will be in a much larger class than her preschool group and there

With the increase of health information technology used to store and access patient information, the likelihood of security breaches has also risen. In fact, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ):

In the United States, there was a whopping 97% increase in the number of health records breached from 2010 to 2011… The number of patient records accessed in each breach has also increased substantially, from 26,968 (in 2010) to 49,394 (in 2011). Since August 2009, when the US government regulated that any breach affecting more than 500 patients be publicly disclosed, a total of 385 breaches, involving more than 19 million records, have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services.

A large portion of those breaches, 39%, occurred because of a lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised portable electronic device—a problem that will likely only get worse as iPads, smartphones, and other gadgets become more common in hospitals. (CMAJ, 2012, p. E215).

Consider your own experiences. Does your organization use portable electronic devices? What safeguards are in place to ensure the security of data and patient information? For this Discussion you consider ethical and security issues surrounding the protection of digital health information.

To prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources dealing with the security of digital health care information. Reflect on your own organization or one with which you are familiar, and think about how health information stored electronically is protected.
• Consider the nurse’s responsibility to ensure the protection of patient information. What strategies can you use?
• Reflect on ethical issues that are likely to arise with the increased access to newer, smaller, and more powerful technology tools.
• Consider strategies that can be implemented to ensure that the use of HIT contributes to an overall culture of safety.

Post on or before Day 3 an analysis of the nurse’s responsibility to protect patient information and the extent that HIT has made it easier or more difficult to protect patient privacy. Comment on any security or ethical issues related to the use of portable devices to store information. Assess the strategies your organization uses to safeguard patient information and how these promote a culture of safety. Describe an area where