Author: chris

Using the “Selection of Bargaining Team Members” case on pages 201-202, please answer the following questions.  There are two parts to this exercise. 

 

Part A:  Value = 14 questions worth 5 points each.  Total = 70 points.

Note:  Please use the provided Answer Sheet.  Post Part A only in your assignment folder.  Do not post it in the discussion forum.

 

1. True or False: As we already learned, 90% of employers accept the results of a union election and shift their energy into preparing to negotiate the first contract in good faith.

 

2. True or False: The Employee Free Choice Act, which has not passed Congress, proposes methods to complete first contracts when a conflict arises between the parties.

 

3. The labor law that governs the collective bargaining rights for employees in the organization in this case is:
4. Wagner Act
5. Railway Labor Act
6. Federal Labor Relations Act

 

4. True or False: Selecting a bargaining team is an important strategic element for a party that relates to one of the key ground rule decisions.

 

5. True or False: When the union claims the company committed an unfair labor practice, it means that the employer has acted illegally and, as such, the union can point to a specific labor law provision that has been violated.

 

6. According to Principled Negotiation, the company’s position is:
7. It needs to have an efficient operation of its call center.
8. It requires union negotiators to use PDO (personal day off) time.
9. It needs to maintain consistency in administering policies that are already adequate to the task.
10. It is helpful to show employees that the union has limited power.

 

7. True or False: Per Principled Negotiation concepts, the union provided objective criteria for its position.

 

8. The Union assumes its BATNA is to:
9. Pay bargaining team members who participate by taking leave without pay.
10. Meet outside normal work times.
11. Restrict which bargaining unit members can serve on the team.
12. Charge the Company with an unfair labor practice.
13. True or False: Because the company’s PDO policy was in place before the union won the election and the company has administered the policy consistently, the rules for collective bargaining do not apply to the policy.
14. True or False: To support its claim that it is not interfering with the Union’s ability to select bargaining team members, the Company can say that it is not preventing the employee representatives from trading shifts with coworkers.

 

11. According to Common Writing Issues, which of the following is the best introductory sentence for this assignment?
12. The Company and the Union have reached a critical conflict in the beginning of the collective bargaining process.
13. The issue in this case is the fact that the union and the company are trying to reach an agreement on a time that employee members of the union’s negotiating team should attend negotiations.
14. In order to determine whether the Company committed an unfair labor practice, both the Union’s and the Company’s views of the action will be analyzed.
15. This case study involved an Information System Company that provides call-in services of financial and/or legal matters, substance abuse programs, and mental health to bargaining employees.
16. Negotiations between management and unions can be a very tense and difficult issue.

 

12. True or False: According to Common Writing Issues, the “it’s” and “its” in the following sentence are properly used.

 

In it’s effort to win the case, the Company argued that its ready to approve all PDO time for bargaining team members.

 

13. According to APA, which of the following is incorrect in this reference:

Carrell, M. R., & Heavrin, C.  (2013).  Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining:  Private and Public Sectors

(10^th ed.).  Boston, MA:  Pearson.

 

1. Publisher’s name
2. Book title
3. Location
4. Authors’ names

 

14. According to APA, for the Carrell & Heavrin text, which of the following in-text references is correct for a first citation?

 

1. Carrell, 2013, p. 60
2. Carrell, M. R. & Heavrin, C., 2013, p. 60
3. Carrell & Heavrin, 2013, p. 60
4. Carrell et al, 2013, p. 60

 

 

 

 

Part B:  Value = 30 points  NOTE:  Post Part B both in your assignment folder and in the discussion forum.

 

In this case, did the Company commit an unfair labor practice?  Yes or No.  In one or two very concise sentences explain why you think that is the answer.  In other words, explain the pivotal point in your decision, not the whole rationale. An introduction and summary are not needed.  A Turnitin score is not required.

Grading:

50% = Content (the logic of your key determining factor)

50% = Presentation (including brevity and grammatical correctness)

 

 

 

 

THIS PAPER MUST BE PROPERLY WRITTEN WITH PROPER DATABASE, PROPER CHARTS, PROPER GRAMMER WRITING AND PRONUNCIATIONS….YOU MUST PROVIDE PROPER SCHOLARLY ARTICLES FOR THIS PAPER….THEY MUST BE PROPERLY CITED IN APA FORM THROUGHOUT THE PAPER AND WITH AN REFERENCE PAGE ALSO….

 

SERIOUS INQURIES IN THIS FIELD ONLY….NO PLAIGIARISM….DO NOT TAKE THIS PAPER IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO WRITE IT….

 

Select a company and access the last three years’ annual reports.

 

Next, select a company that is a direct competitor and download the previous three years’ annual reports.

 

Tip: For help with reading an annual report access this handy guide from Moneychimp (http://www.moneychimp.com/articles/financials/fundamentals.htm)

 

Using the annual reports of both companies, complete the following in a three- double spaced aper, excluding title and reference page(s):

 

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS BELOW THOROUGHLY….

 

1. For each company, report the amount of capital spending for the past three years.

 

2. Quantitatively determine whether the amount of capital spending has been consistent or if it has fluctuated. Be sure to provide the calculations used to determine your answer.

 

3. Describe the capital expenditures of each firm and the factors that impacted the companies’ debt capacities and capital structures.

 

4. Next, compare the level of capital spending across the two firms.

 

5. Point out how the spending was similar and/or different and speculate why the similarities or differences might exist.

 

You must use FOUR SCHOLARLY SOURCES.  Support your comparison with evidence from the text, external sources, and articles/reports.

 

 

THIS PAPER IS DUE 10/05/2015….12 HOURS FROM NOW THE SOONER THE BETTER NO LATER…

You need to work on a written case study analysis of either Mark Mix’s talk or Economics in One Lesson. Information about how to write the paper is in the cours syllabus, which I’ve copied:

The paper should start out with a thesis or argument (in a first paragraph) about either Mark Mix’s talk or EOL that you prove in the second paragraph.  The third paragraph should summarize your main point and the evidence

1. In a PowerPoint presentation, detail the regulatory requirements for maintaining and operating an Underground Storage Tank onsite (2 slides). Review RCRA Sect 262.41- 262.44 to detail the records, documents, and reports that need to be generated and maintained (2 slides). Give your recommendation (and reasons based on the RCRA regulatory requirements) to keep the UST as is or to convert the UST to an above ground tank (2 sides).

 

 

 

Your response should be at least 250 words in length (for all questions except Power Point presentation). You are required to use at least the references in the reading assignment but are also encouraged to seek additional information from external resources. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Describe the definition of a solid waste and a hazardous waste as defined in RCRA. Give an example of a gaseous waste that qualifies as both a solid waste and as a hazardous waste under RCRA. Give an example of a liquid waste that qualifies as both a solid waste and as a hazardous waste under RCRA.

 

 

 

Your response should be at least 250 words in length. You are required to use at least the references in the reading assignment but are also encouraged to seek additional information from external resources. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

The minimum length for this assignment is 1,500 words. Be sure to check your Turnitin report for your post and to make corrections before the deadline of 11:59 pm Mountain Time of the due date to avoid lack of originality problems in your work.

 

The maintenance of homeostasis is of major importance to all organ systems in the body and the overall survival of the individual. Explain how homeostasis is the maintenance of a dynamic range of environmental qualities rather than holding the internal environment at a set point. What would be wrong with a set point (say for body temperature) rather than a working range of temperatures?

 

The endocrine system is closely tied to homeostasis functioning. Give two examples of hormones (including their glands of origin and action) that play major roles in homeostatic processes in the body. What happens if these hormones are disrupted in their actions?

 

Also, look at how we adapt to survival in the outside world. Discuss how maintaining homeostasis gives us greater freedom of activity from dependence upon changes in the external environment. What happens during extremes that force our bodies out of homeostatic bounds? Give specific examples.

 

Why is the maintenance of homeostasis especially important during development of new humans within the bodies of their mothers? What can go wrong if specific homeostatic functions are disrupted?

Question #1 (250 word + essay) APA format with references

Discuss the bombing campaign the RAF and the USAAF conducted against the Third Reich. How did the two differ in objectives and why? What resistance impediments did the campaign experience? What was accomplished by the bombing campaign?

 

Question # 2 (250 word + essay) APA format with references

Outline the factors which resulted in the choice of Normandy as the site of D-Day. What other options did the Allies contemplate, and where these alternatives sites ruled out? Describe the military events which composed D-Day on the beaches of both Omaha and Utah. Finally, what was the German reaction the D-Day and why?

 

Question # 3  Place the events below in correct chronological order.

1) Following Hitler’s suicide, his German successors surrender to the Allies

2) Allies met at a conference in Portsmouth to determine the fate of a cross channel invasion (D-day)

3) The Tehran conference ended the debate concerning OVERLOAD

4) At the Casablanca Conference the Allies determined POINTBLANK must be a critical element of any invasion of Germany

 

5) A group of both German citizens and generals unsuccessfully attempt the end the Nazi regime through a foiled attempt on Hitler’s life.

 

It was still warm in the late­afternoon sun, and the city noises came muffled through the trees in the park. She put her book down on the bench, removed her sunglasses, and sighed contentedly. Morton was reading the Times Magazine section, one arm flung around her shoulder; their three­year­old son, Larry, was playing in the sandbox: a faint breeze fanned her hair softly against her cheek. It was five­thirty of a Sunday afternoon, and the small playground, tucked away in a corner of the park, was all but deserted. The swings and seesaws stood motionless and abandoned, the slides were empty, and only in the sandbox two little boys squatted diligently side by side. How good this is, she thought, and almost smiled at her sense of well­being. They must out in the sun more often; Morton was so city­pale, cooped up all week inside the gray factorylike university. She squeezed his arm affectionately and glanced at Larry, delighting in the pointed little face frowning in concentration over the tunnel he was digging. The other boy suddenly stood up and with a quick, deliberate swing of his chubby arm threw a spadeful of sand at Larry. It just missed his head. Larry continued digging; the boy remained standing, shovel raised, stolid and impassive.

“No, no, little boy.” She shook her finger at him, her eyes searching for the child’s mother or nurse. “We mustn’t throw sand. It may get in someone’s eyes and hurt. We must play nicely in the nice sandbox.” The boy looked at her in unblinking expectancy. He was about Larry’s age but perhaps ten pounds heavier, a husky little boy with none of Larry’s quickness and sensitivity in his face. Where was his mother? The only other people left in the playground were two women and a little girl on roller skates leaving now through the gate, and man on a bench a few feet away. He was a big man, and her seemed to be taking up the whole bench as he held the Sunday comics close to his face. She supposed he was the child’s father. He did not look up from his comics, but spat one deftly out of the corner of his mouth. She turned her eyes away.

At that moment, as swiftly as before, the fat little boy threw another spadeful of sand at Larry. This time some of it landed on his hair and forehead. Larry looked up at his mother, his mouth tentative; her expression would tell him whether to cry or not.

Her first instinct was to rush to her son, brush the sand out of his hair, and punish the other child, but she controlled it. She always said that she wanted Larry to learn to fight his own battles.

“Don’t do that, little boy,” she said sharply, leaning forward on the bench. “You mustn’t throw sand!”

The man on the bench moved his mouth as if to spit again, but instead her spoke. He did not look at her, but at the boy only.

“You go right ahead, Joe,” he said loudly. “Throw all you want. This here is a public sandbox.”

She felt a sudden weakness in her knees as she glanced at Morton. He had become aware of what was happening. He put his Times down carefully on his lap and turned his fine, lean face toward the man, smiling the shy, apologetic smile he might have offered a student in pointing out an error in his thinking. When he spoke to the man, it was with his usual reasonableness.

“You’re quite right,” he said pleasantly, “but just because this is a public place….”

The man lowered his funnies and looked at Morton. He looked at him from head to foot, slowly and deliberately. “Yeah?” His insolent voice was edged with menace. “My kid’s got just as good right here as yours, and if he feels like throwing sand, he’ll throw it, and if you don’t like it, you can take your kid the hell out of here.”

The children were listening, their eyes and mouths wide open, their spades forgotten in small fists. She noticed the muscle in Morton’s jaw tighten. He was rarely angry; he seldom lost his temper. She was suffused with a tenderness for her husband and an impotent rage against the man for involving him in a situation so alien and so distasteful to him.

“Now, just a minute,” Morton said courteously, “you must realize….”
“Aw, shut up,” said the man.
Her heart began to pound. Morton half rose; the Times slid to the ground. Slowly the other man stood up. He took a couple of steps toward Morton, then stopped. He flexed his great arms, waiting. She pressed her trembling knees together. Would there be violence, fighting? How dreadful, how incredible….She must do something, stop them, call for help. She wanted to put her hand on her husband’s sleeve, to pull him down, but for some reason she didn’t.

Morton adjusted his glasses. He was very pale. “This is ridiculous,” he said unevenly. “I must ask you….”

“Oh, yeah?” said the man. He stood with his legs spread apart, rocking a little, looking at Morton with utter scorn. “You and who else?”

For a moment the two men looked at each other nakedly. Then Morton turned his back on the man and said quietly, “Come on, let’s get out of her.” He walked awkwardly, almost limping with self­consciousness, to the sandbox. He stooped and lifted Larry and his shovel out.

At one Larry came to life; his face lost its rapt expression and he began to kick and cry. “I don’t want to go home, I want to play better, I don’t want any supper, I don’t like supper….” It became a chat as they walked, pulling their child between them, his feet dragging on the ground. In order to get to the exit gate they had to pass the bench where the man sat sprawling again. She was careful not to look at him. With all the dignity she could summon, she pulled Larry’s sandy, perspiring little hand, while Morton pulled the other. Slowly and with head high she walked with her husband and child out of the playground.

Her first feelings was one of relief that a fight had been avoided, that no one was hurt. Yet beneath it there was a layer of something else, something heavy and inescapable. She sensed that it was more than just an unpleasant incident, more than defeat of reason by force. She felt dimly it had something to do with her and Morton, something acutely personal, familiar, and important.

Suddenly Morton spoke. “It wouldn’t have proved anything.”
“What?” she asked.
“A fight. It wouldn’t have proved anything beyond the fact that he’s bigger than I am.”
“Of course,” she said.
“The only possible outcome,” he continued reasonably, “would have been—what?

My glasses broken, perhaps a tooth or two replaced, a couple of days’ work missed – and for what? For justice? For truth?”

“Of course,” she repeated. She quickened her step. She wanted only to get home and to busy herself with her familiar tasks; perhaps then the feeling, glued like heavy plaster on her heart, would be gone. Of all the stupid, despicable bullies, she thought, pulling harder on Larry’s hand. The child was still crying. Always before she had felt a tender pity for his defenseless little body, the frail arms, the narrow shoulders with sharp winglike shoulder blades, the thin and unsure legs, but now her mouth tightened in resentment.

“Stop crying,” she said sharply. “I’m ashamed of you!” She felt as if all three of them were tracking mud along the street. The child cried louder.

If there had been an issue involved, she thought, if there had been something to fight for…. But what else could her possibly have done? Allow himself to be beaten? Attempt to educate the man? Call a policeman? “Officer, there’s a man in the park who won’t stop his child from throwing sand one mine….” The whole thing was as silly as that, and not worth thinking about.

“Can’t you keep him quiet, for Pete’s sake?” Morton asked irritably.
“What do you suppose I’ve been trying to do?” she said.
Larry pulled back, dragging his feet.
“If you can’t discipline this child, I will,” Morton snapped, making a move toward the boy.
But her voice stopped him. She was shocked to hear it, thin and cold and penetrating with contempt. “Indeed?” she heard herself say. “You and who else?”

 

ssay topic: Reflecting on the concepts you have studied in the course, discuss the legal and ethical issues surrounding Solyndra, the California based solar panel manufacturer.  You will need to research the company through the American Military University library. Your essay should include the following:

Project Four Miranda Fact Pattern Analys
Instructions
Students will analyze the following fact pattern and discuss how Miranda v. Arizona and subsequent rulings apply. Four police officers storm an apartment of a suspected drug trafficker with a history of illegal firearm possession. The officers, exercising a valid search warrant, conduct a quick sweep of the apartment to account for all individuals inside, discovering the suspect in the living room reclining in a chair. The officers immediately handcuff the suspect, place him in an upright position, and explain the reason for being there. Then, the officers asked the suspect, “Is there anything we need to be aware of?” The suspect responds that a loaded semi-automatic pistol is under the bed in the master bedroom. Officers also find nearby, used drug paraphernalia and a box of unused bullets. Over the course of two hours the officers discover various amounts of illicit weapons, drugs, and money throughout the dwelling. After about 45 minutes into the raid, the suspect asks a nearby officer, “Why are you picking on me?” and asks in jest whether he should call his cousin “Vinny the Lawyer”. Another officer proceeds to ask the suspect if there was “more to find”. The suspect says “yes” and then leads them to a closet full of shoeboxes containing cocaine and marijuana. After the second exchange, and two hours after entering the dwelling, one of the officers reads the suspect his Miranda warnings. The defense attorney has filed a motion to suppress each of the statements made by the suspect and the pistol and shoeboxes containing cocaine and marijuana seized during the execution of the warrant. Please do a 3-4 page memorandum of law evaluating the issues raised and citing appropriate authority and case law in support of your opinion as to whether or not the Court should grant the motion as to the statements and evidence seized. Your memorandum should include a statement of the facts, the issues presented, summary of relevant case law, application of the relevant law to the facts of this case and a conclusion. Format: A minimum of 3 (maximum of 4) full pages of narrative text that responds to the items listed above Use American Psychological Association (APA) citation format for all narrative and Resource page citations, including judicial rulings. Double-spaced, 12 font, 1″ margins Cover Page: student’s name, name and number of the course, name of the project, date of submission Resource page:  Any resources, including course instructional materials, referenced in this project, using APA citation formatting.

his is a power point presentation that has already been started.

 

This powerpoint Needs SPEAKER NOTES, PICTURES AND MORE INFORMATION ON CLOUD COMPUTING.

 

This is the final assignment-

 

THE SYSTEM BEING OFFERED IS ON CLOUD COMPUTING

 

Finalize work on the Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® slide presentation, Include 10 to 12 slides with speaker notes.

• A high-level discussion of how the system should be acquired and maintained
• A discussion of the strategic role the system will play in the company
• An executive summary of the project, succinctly summarizing the rest of the material in the paper
• Four to six references 

Present the completed presentation.

Note: Riordan Manufacturing is one of the Virtual Organizations. Please see the link under Academic Resources or on this entry.

 

IF YOU ARE FIMILIAR WITH RIORDAN MANUFACTURING PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!

 

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