Author: chris

NOTE:  As you prepare for this assignment, you should research typical United States, Japanese, and German approaches to compensation using your textbook, the Argosy University online library, and the Internet. Consider arguments for and against each of the three countries’ approaches to compensation.  Research the trends and issues affecting the global workforce. As you conduct your research, make note of the recent trends affecting the three approaches and the factors which might be causing each country’s approach to change.

The assignment:

MPBS has requested your assistance in developing a new and comprehensive compensation plan that will meet the company’s needs in both their domestic operations and their international operations.  MPBS management has asked you to review their current plan and prepare a report describing the new plan.

You have asked MPBS to describe the most important criteria they would like to see in the new plan and they have indicated they would like to have a compensation program that will:

• Help align organizational efforts to the company’s mission and strategic plan.
• Recognize, reward and stimulate good and excellent performance.
• Be considered fair and equitable by as many company personnel as it is realistic to expect.
• Withstand legal challenges.
• Be cost effective.
• Address the diverse needs of the scientific, administrative, sales, management, and technical staff.

MPBS recognizes that they have taken a very haphazard approach to employee benefits and have asked you to ignore the benefits they now provide as you develop a new employee benefits package for the company.  Your consulting team has met and worked up the framework of the report that should be submitted.  In addition to employee benefits, it must provide for annual adjustments to base pay, whether salary or hourly wage, and a pay for performance plan.   MPBS management has asked you to design the total compensation plan that will cover all employees located within the United States in detail first, then follow that detailed plan with recommendations on how it should differ for employees living and working in Germany and in Japan.

Your report should include the following:

1. The core of the benefits package [e.g., insurance, paid time off (PTO), and retirement programs].
2. Lifestyle benefits with appropriate summary details on each of these benefits.
3. Classification of the percentage of the total compensation budget that should be allocated for the benefits plan.
4. Annual adjustments to individual base pay.  Be specific.  Determine the extent (if any) to which adjustments to base pay should be tied to seniority, cost-of-living, or performance, or a specified combination of these.  Indicate any difference in guidelines for adjustments that should differ for specific occupational groups and/or geographical locations.
5. Short-term and long-term incentive, or pay-for-performance plans, including whether the incentives should be based on individual, team/group, or organization-wide performance.
6. Compare any differences that should be made for employees living and working in Germany and in Japan.
7. Provide rationale for how well your plan meets the most important criteria MPBS provided you in the beginning of the assignment.
8. Distinguish how your plan will motivate employees to best align themselves to MPBS’s goals.  Briefly describe the motivational theories that support your reasoning and tie the theories to the different parts of your plan.
9. Evaluate how the components of the recommended compensation plan shape a consistent message to employees and summarize the message the plan conveys.

To complete this assignment, you must submit a 6-9 page paper that addresses the twelve elements of the task as numbered above and provide reasons for your recommendations.

The paper must be submitted as a Word document and it must follow APA style guidelines. By Monday, February 8, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Detailed the core benefits package including insurance, PTO and retirement programs.	28
Summarized the lifestyle components of the benefit plan.	24
Classified the percentage of total compensation budget that should be allocated for the benefits plan.	28
Determined the annual adjustments to individual base pay and explained the extent to which adjustments to base pay should be tied to seniority, cost of living or performance. Explained any adjustments for specific occupation groups or geographical locations.	28
Explained the short-term and long-term incentive, or pay-for-performance plans, including whether the incentives should be based on individual, team/group, or organization-wide performance.	28
Determined how the plan should differ for expatriates working on location in Germany and Japan.	28
Provided a rationale for how well the new plan meets MPBS’s criteria for the company’s plan.	24
Distinguished how your plan will motivate employees to best align themselves to MPBS’s goals. Described the motivational theories that support your reasoning and tied the theories to the different parts of your plan.	24
Evaluated how the plan shapes a consistent message and summarized the message.	2

dentifying themes in your literature is very important because it helps you create a scaffold for your literature review. Without knowing themes, patterns, and trends, the literature review usually reads like a meaningless list with no connection between one study and the next. Also, without identification of themes, there is no appreciation of how scholars are actually having a conversation on paper regarding their discoveries.

By now you have taken part in multiple exercises and assignments which were intended to assist you in clarifying the themes you will pull together in and through your literature review. Now is the time to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard), and to take all of the preparatory work you have done and to actualize it in a draft of your literature review.

For this assignment, you will develop a Title page, Abstract, and a References page. Articulate your main research/focal question as the opening for your paper. Be sure it is specific, researchable, and important to the field. Then go on to list a detailed outline of the body of the paper, (including all headings and subheadings). Be sure to format your entire paper, including the headings and subheadings according to APA style.

 

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Completed Title page, per APA guidelines.	10
Completed Abstract page, per APA guidelines.	15
Articulated a research question which was specific, researchable, and important to the field.	15
Provided outline of body of paper, including all headings and subheadings, pertinent to subject matter, and complete enough to engage. Format headings per APA guidelines.	20
Completed References page, per APA guidelines.	20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.	20

Research a public health ethical concern. Explain the societal impact that such a concern has on population health. Describe the role of policy makers in reducing ethical concerns within a specified population.

The writing assignment you submit must meet the following requirements:

·       ·be at least two pages in length, (not including the cover and reference pages), MUST BE FULL 2 PAGES

 

A manager who understands the concepts for developing and managing teams and can apply those concepts to improve team performance is likely to be successful in managing a high-performing team. In this assignment, you will apply these concepts to a given situation. You will examine issues within a team, uncover root causes, and develop a plan to improve team performance.

Research concepts to improve team performance using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Select at least threeauthoritative resources, one of which may be your text, to use in this assignment.

Assume, you are the supervisor of a product development team that creates designs for widgets for your company’s ABC product line. After they are approved, the designs are sent to manufacturing. The last set of designs your team submitted to manufacturing were altered to reduce manufacturing costs as mandated by senior management. The widgets were then manufactured using the altered design. Unfortunately, the sales of the widgets are not making the target numbers as published in the sales marketing plan. Your team believes the poor sales results are because of the changes in design.

Additionally, there have been some performance issues with the widgets produced so far. Each time one is found, it is brought to the attention of top management and your team. Your team provides a fix to the design, which is then sent to manufacturing. Management is concerned about the number of performance issues that keep arising week after week. Your team has regular, weekly meetings to discuss risks, issues, product improvement ideas, and the status of any project work currently underway. These meetings have become unproductive and a waste of time because team members continue to rehash old issues. They believe senior management is to blame for the market failure of your teams’ product. As a result, you are unable to get anything accomplished. One team member is particularly outspoken and has become belligerent in your team meetings.

The team seems unfocused and unwilling to look at root causes for the poor development of designs that do not perform well. Several of the team members are even looking for new jobs because they are afraid they will soon be laid off. Both motivation and morale continue to decline each week.

Download and review the Team Performance Report template from the Doc Sharing area. Analyze the case information and fill in the template.

Write a detailed report for senior management addressing the issues you described in the Team Performance Report. Use the filled in template to support your assertions.

In your report, include the following:

• Identify at least one performance issue that could be contributing to the team’s poor performance and at least three root causes for the performance issue(s) identified.
• Develop two specific suggestions for improvements that could positively impact each root cause. You will have six suggestions in all.
• Create a communication plan for your performance improvement suggestions for three different audience types in the organization. Include at least one written communication sample piece. Identify as many details as possible that will need to be considered for each audience type.
• Determine two strategies for motivating/incentivizing employees that would improve performance and morale. Justify your suggestions.
• Identify two strategies for developing the team as a whole. Justify your strategies.

Give reasons and examples from your selected resources in support of your assertions.

Write a 5–6-page paper in Word format. Be sure to include your filled-in Team Performance Rep

Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word paper using definitions, principles, and concepts from previous assignments, in which you establish a thesis regarding the future of criminal justice policy making. Include the following:

• Describe your thesis regarding the future of criminal justice policy making.
• Analyze the future of criminal justice policy.
• Describe the limitations associated with criminal justice policy making.
• Suggest a realistic solution to anticipating policy outcomes.

• What are the key elements of the design that are distinctive based on plan, elevation, axon and perspective drawings and diagrams?
• What are the different specific materials that the building uses? What challenges and opportunities do those materials present to construction?
• What are the structural systems that the building uses? What challenges and opportunities will there be in replicating the structure?
• What are the challenges and opportunities offered by the site?
• The answers to these questions require research in reliable scholarly sources on architectural history.

Each bullet point should have a separate paragraph (5-7 sentences). Include with your answers with a bibliography (an A requires you to format it correctly in one style). FORMAT REMINDERS: Include your name and the building project name, date and place. Double space. Submit in WORD or

new due monday by 2pm pst minimum 350 words

 

Decide upon an initiative you want to implement that would increase sales over the next five years, (for example, market another product, corporate expansion, and so on).

Using the sample financial statements, create pro forma statements of five year projections that are clear, concise, and easy to read. Be sure to double check the calculations in your pro forma statements. Make assumptions that support each line item increase or decrease for your forecasted statements.

Discuss and interpret the financials in relation to the initiative. Make recommendations on potential discretionary financing needs.

Write a 350 – 700 word analysis of the company’s short term and long term financing needs and determi

ased on what you have learned as a university student, including information and ideas gathered from the Week One and Week Three readings and discussions about general education, write a brief journal entry (350- 500 words) in which you will

• Explain newly-developed skills as well as other learning opportunities acquired through your university experience.
• Describe where and how you acquired the necessary skills that helped you excel through the progression of your education. Be sure to include examples.
• Develop a plan illustrating how you plan to transfer those skills into everyday life.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills by effectively communicating ideas or points clearly, thoroughly, and accurately

Everyone has personal biases and stereotyped beliefs to some degree. It is critical to identify our beliefs and challenge ourselves to grow in order to most effectively serve our clients.

Tasks:

Describe your personal beliefs about aging with respect to physical, cognitive, and psychosocial domains. Which aspects of aging do you view positively? Which aspects do you view negatively? What influences your belief system? If you identify a negative stereotype related to aging or older adults, identify one activity you could engage in to increase your understanding of this stage in the life span.

Note: Express your honest beliefs in this assignment; however, keep in mind that respectful language and terminology must be used at all times.

Submission Details:

• By Saturday, February 6, 2016, post your responses to this Discussion Area in a minimum of 200 words. Your response should rely upon at least two sources from professional literature. This may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Discuss what you believe is the most strategic competency, resource or capability exhibited by your Strategic Audit firm. Explain why you think it gives your firm a competitive advantage over its competitors.