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The purpose of this assignment is to apply the motivation and job satisfaction theories to a specific situation. Describe the theories and key assumptions on what motivates people or makes them satisfied. Apply one of the theories to a specific situation related to motivation you have witnessed or experienced professionally. In your paper

Define each of the following major motivation and job satisfaction theories: need theories, individual differences, cognitive theories, situational theories, and job satisfaction.
Describe a specific situation in the workplace related to motivation and job satisfaction from your own professional experience and apply one of the theories to the situation.
Discuss how useful this theory is in explaining the lack of effort or the high performance of employees.
Provide examples of the advantages and disadvantages of this particular theory in explaining employee motivation or job satisfaction.

analyze a company from http://fortune.com/fortune500/ (Google will be the company to use)

Download the most recent Annual Report from your chosen company’s Web site; this is commonly located on the Investor Relations page. Prepare a report analyzing business mathematics concepts. Be sure to include the following in your report:

Explain how mathematics is used in the preparation of financial statements.

Discuss examples of business problem solving using mathematics from the Annual Report.

Explain the cost recovery methods used in the Annual Report, and indicate how these are factored into the Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

Discuss the types of indebtedness reported on the Balance Sheet and how the interest is computed.

Prepare and explain a horizontal analysis of the Balance Sheet for all years presented in the Annual Report.

Prepare and explain a vertical analysis of the Income Statement for all years presented in the Annual Report.

Explain the importance of using ratios and percentages in communicating financial results.

3-4 pages minimum

n this assignment you will demonstrate your understanding of the following learning objective:

Justify the collaborative role of transition team members who actively participate in transition meetings and examine the steps required in a transition-planning meeting.

The assignment represents your mastery of the Course Learning Outcome 5.

In this assignment you will consider a hypothetical transition meeting. To make this meeting more productive, you have decided to create an informational brochure or handout that you would want others in the meeting to understand. For example, as a special educator, what would you want the general educator to know about the transition process, or what would you want the parents to know?

To prepare for this assignment, view the video below titled Be a Superstar – Take the Survey – Student. This video interviews high school graduates one year post-graduation to ask “Where are You Now?” Next, reflect on how creating a realistic and attainable transition from high school to post-graduation independence takes time, planning, and a strong team of professionals and family who all have the student’s best interest at heart. The transition meeting can include the school principal (who may have links to community agencies), representatives from community agencies, a school counselor or psychologist (who was involved in assessments and interest inventories), the special educator, a general educator (who may have a role in the student’s education), the parents, and the student. In addition, parents can invite anyone else they believe will add value to their child’s independence (Levinson & Palmer, 2005).

Unit VIII Case Study

Select one of the three NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Reports listed below, and perform a critical analysis of the report:

Option 3. Health hazard evaluation report, HETA 2007-0098-3061. (2008). Ergonomic Evaluation of Frank Hangers at a Turkey Processing Plant – California.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/2007-0098-3061.pdf

Your case study review must include the following headings per APA guidelines:

1. Introduction –Provide a description of the selected case. Describe the issues of the case, and state the purpose for the paper.

2. Methods – State the evaluation criteria used in the NIOSH HHE Report.

3. Results – Present the findings from the Health hazard evaluation.

4. Recommendations – Describe the recommendations for improvements.

5. Discussion – Review relevant literature on the subject. Does research support the recommendations of the case? In addition, are there any other issues of concern?

6. Conclusion – Present your comments on the case. What did you learn in this review? What more would you like to have seen discussed in the report? In general, your own opinions should only be included in this section.

“Presidential Elections and Peaceful Transitions”

In the first paragraph, describe three key campaign strategies that the next U.S. presidential candidate can use in order to ascend to presidency in today’s political environment. Provide 3 concrete examples to support your answer.

In the second paragraph, compare at least three such successful strategies that were used in the past by U.S. presidential candidates. Provide 3 concrete examples to support your answer.

Make sure you respond to one of your peers initial posting and check back to see if you need to answer a response from the professor or another peer on your initial posting. Don’t just respond to your peer with “I like what you said”, or “I agree”, or “Good posting”. Your response to your peer should keep the discussion going by asking or inquiring further into what he/she stated.

Topic 2: Do independent directors add value to a board of directors?

Literature pointers:

Zattoni, A., Cuomo, F. (2010) ‘How Independent, Competent and Incentivized Should Non-executive Directors Be? An Empirical Investigation of Good Governance Codes’, British Journal of Management, Vol. 21, Iss 1, pp.63-79.

Johanson, D., Østergren, K. (2010) ‘The Movement Toward Independent Directors on Boards: A Comparative Analysis of Sweden and the UK’, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp.527-539.

Below is a list from which you will select one topic for the Week Two assignment, another topic for the Week Three assignment, and a third topic for both the Outline of the Final Paper and the Final Paper. The topic you select for your Outline of the Final Paper and this Final Paper must be different from the topics you select for the Week Two and Week Three assignments.

The topics include:

What do twin and adoption studies tell us about the effects of nature (i.e., genetic influences) and nurture (i.e., environmental influences) on human development? Select at least one of the main domains of human development (physical, cognitive, or social-emotional) for your answer.
How much credit or blame do parents deserve for the way we are? Select at least one of the main domains of human development (physical, cognitive, or social-emotional) for your answer.
To what extent are the lives of adolescents and young adults shaped by parental and peer influences?
Why do we have a need to belong (to affiliate with others)?
How do our bodies and minds change from early to late adulthood?
What are the factors that affect our well-being as middle aged and older adults?
Why are some people attracted to members of their own sex whereas others are attracted to members of the opposite sex?
How do memory and intelligence change as we age?
Does an infant’s temperament shape his/her cognitive and socio-emotional development?
Are babies pre-wired for survival?
Are adolescents more likely to engage in risk-taking behavior than older adults?
Can physical exercise affect cognitive performance in old age? Consider the time of occurrence of physical exercise (i.e., earlier in life or during old age) in your answer.
Are there personality traits related to longevity?
Does bilingualism improve brain functioning?
Why do students in the United States tend to under-perform in math and science?

ASSIGNMENT:

Read about the common methods of e-training and related examples. In a 2 – 3 page report, explain at least three e-learning methods and give an example of how each can be used in Human Resources. Incorporate into your report the current e-learning hot topic in human resources and training; gamification and give one example of how HR can use gamification. Conclude with if you think gamification can take training to the next level.

This paper should be 3 pages of complete content (cover page and reference page are separate) and have in-text citations. The paper will be in APA style (both in formatting the paper and reference page). One scholarly article as a minimum should be included in the paper.

Assignment 4: Change Management Plan

Using the organization where you work, one where you have worked, or one in which you are very familiar, identify a Human Resource Management program, policy, procedure, or initiative that you believe needs to be changed. Your goal is to apply Kotter’s 8 Stage Process of Creating Change to the HR situation you have selected, with corresponding suggestions for how to put this change initiative into practice. Once it is formulated, you will present your recommendations to upper management.

Change Management Plan

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:
Describe the organization in terms of industry, size, and history.
Describe how the HR program /policy / process / procedure / initiative that has been proposed should be changed.
Describe three (3) reasons why this change is important to make.
Describe the recommended change.
Develop a strategy that illustrates how you would address each of the eight (8) Stagesof Change (Establishing a sense of urgency; creating coalition; developing vision and strategy; communicating the vision; empowering broad-based action; generating short term wins; consolidating gains and producing more change; anchoring new approaches into the culture).
Identify potential resistance to change and describe how the resistance would be managed.
Outline at least three (3) communications strategies you would use.
Propose two (2) diagnostic tools to identify the changes that need to be made in organization.
Recommend two (2) strategies for sustaining the change.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Planning the Honeymoon

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”- B. Olatunji

New employees bring enthusiasm, new ideas, interest as well as their knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAOs). While top management shapes the culture through their actions, new staff adds to the mix bringing a fresh perspective. Making new hires feel welcome and getting them up to speed is the role of human resources through the training function or organizational development activities. The core motive of this process is to make the employee effective as early as possible and to reduce the learning curve.

All Aboard!

Just as the staffing function is planned and executed in steps to hire on the best talent, the next phase determines the success of that hire becoming integrated into the organization. The term “onboarding” is used to describe this period. It is a transition period for both the new team member and the coworkers. Organizations are focusing more on the onboarding process and designing more creative and exciting techniques in an effort to get their newly hired employees productive sooner and to lay the foundation that will help to retain them.