Category: human resource management

Chapter 10 details how externalities distort market outcomes. In this comedy skit, “Senator Collins” attempts to describe an oil spill disaster and the resulting 20,000 tons of crude that spilled into the ocean (This is a fictitious event and would certainly be a disaster if real). The term externalities refers to all costs or benefits of a market activity borne by a third party, that is, by someone other than the immediate producer or consumer. In production, these externalities may occur when a power plant burns high-sulfur coal or an oil tanker spills thousands of tons of oil and therefore damages the surrounding environment. The damage inflicted on the neighboring people, vegetation, and ecosystem is external to the cost calculations of the firm and are not reflected in the price of the products created by the firms. The behaviors of profit maximizers are guided by comparisons of revenues and costs, not by philanthropy, aesthetic concerns, or the welfare of fish. What might be an example of an external cost associated with the oil production (including oil transportation) described in the YouTube mock interview? If a firm’s price of its product did, in fact, include all external costs, how would this change production decisions?
Video link – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8DVvOpQfA
(I have added the transcriipt below)
Senator Collins, thanks for coming in. It’s a great pleasure. Thank you. This ship that was involved in the incident off Western Australia this week, the one the front fell off. Yeah. Yeah. That’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point. Well, how is it untypical? Well, there are a lot of ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that tankers aren’t safe. Was this tanker safe? Well, I was thinking more about the other ones, the ones that are safe, the ones the front didn’t fall off. Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it have 80000 tonnes of oil on it? I’m not saying it wasn’t safe. It’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones. Why? Well, some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all because in this built. So the front wouldn’t fall. Well, obviously not. How do you know? Well, because the front fell off and 20000 thousand tonnes of crude oil spilled into the sea, caught fire. It’s a bit of a giveaway. I just like to make the point that that is not normal. Well, what sort of standards do these oil tankers built? Oh, very rigorous maritime engineering standards. What sort of thing? Well, the front’s not supposed to fall off for a start. And what other things? Well, there are regulations governing the materials that they can be made of. What materials cardboards out and no cardboard derivatives like paper, no paper, no string, no sellotape rubber, no rubber that they’ve got to have a steering wheel. There’s a minimum crew requirement. What’s the minimum crew? Oh, one, I suppose, to the allegations that they’re just designed to carry as much oil as possible, hold the consequences. I mean, that’s ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous. These are very, very strong vessels. So what happened in this case? Well, the front fell off in this case by all means. But it’s very unusual, isn’t it, Collins? Why did the front book fall off? Well, a wave hit it. The wave hit it. A wave hit the ship. Is that unusual? Oh, yeah. At sea chance in a million. So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this? The ship was towed outside the environment into another environment. No, no, no. It’s been towed beyond the environment, not in the environment, but from one environment to another environment. Now it’s beyond the environs, not in an environment, beyond the environment. Well, what’s out there? Nothing’s out there. There must be something. There is nothing out there. All there is is sea and birds and fish and and twenty thousand tonnes of crude oil. And what else? And a fire and anything else. And the part of the ship that the front fell off. But there’s nothing else out there. Senator Collins, thanks for a complete void. If we’re out of the environment’s perfectly safe, we’re out of time. You can you book me a cab? But didn’t you come in a Commonwealth car? Yes, I did. But what happened on the front fell off.

Do your independent research and give us a 1-3 page analysis on the topic:
“Using Strategic Goals to Drive Diversity” . ( Word doc )
Then….within the 1-3 pages, give us 3 companies who have done, as what you have just analyzed, who have done it well.

Prepare an individual report demonstrating that you a) understand the key ideas presented in the assigned and recommended readings for Week 1 and b) can analyze critically the extent to the Defense contract management agency. Your report should be 800-1000 words and must cite supporting evidence from the readings. Your report should be double-spaced and you should use an appropriate writing style (APA) The title page, reference list, and any appendices are not included in this suggested word count. You do not need to include an abstract. The questions your report must address are: What business model does your company use? What is your organization’s vision and mission? What objective evidence is there that your organization’s vision, mission, and objectives is helping it gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Only briefly touch on what objective evidence, using the Three Tests of a Winning Strategy, is there that your organization’s vision, mission, and objectives support its strategy? (We will address the three tests in more detail later) Be sure to introduce your argument, explain your understanding of key terms, present your reasoning, and include independently verifiable supporting evidence.
Week 1 readings
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_mastering-strategic-management/s05-01-defining-strategic-management-.html
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_mastering-strategic-management/s05-04-understanding-the-strategic-ma.html
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_mastering-strategic-management/s06-01-vision-mission-and-goals.html
http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umgc.ehttp://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?
url=http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/reference/hdbk_strategymgmt/n3.xmldu/reference/management/n92.xml

Please review the attached case study and answer the following questions:
1. Should the company’s treatment of the grievant for the first two “sleeping on the job” incidents influence the outcome in this case? Explain.
2. Did the Company have just cause to dismiss the grievant for violating safety rules when in each instance cited, the truck was out of gear with the safety brake on?
3. Is the union’s argument that the grievant just appeared to be “sleeping” creditable in the absence of any testimony of support by the backhoe driver, a fellow union member?
Response should be a minimum of 275 words per question. Thanks.

You are the Human Resources manager for large distribution site. Your recent employee opinion survey indicated that overall, employees felt that this was a good place to work. However, recent downturns in the economy have resulted in the loss of large contracts, which provided a significant portion of the company’s revenue. One of the impacts from this loss in revenue is that the company will be unable to provide annual COLA or merit increases for the first time in more than 15 years. You have heard rumors from employees close to you that there is talk about efforts to unionize. What guidelines will you develop for supervisors to successfully respond to employee questions about unionization? What can your supervisors say or do that is legally permissible in this situation?

Please see attached for instructions.
Course textbook can be accessed via :
https://sso.bncollege.com/bes-idp/ssologin?pub=WVVaVQ==
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Textbook for this assignment is Employee Training & Development 9th Edition by Raymond Noe available on Vital Source. Give thoughtful answers to the Chapter 7 & 8 questions below:
Ch. 7 Case: Developing Leadership at Farm Bureau Financial Services. Read the case and answer the questions at the end.
Ch. 8: Discuss how new technologies make it easier to learn. How do they facilitate transfer of training? Identify and explain two pitfalls to consider.
Ch 8 Case: Training Customer Service Team Members at Valvoline Instant Oil Change. Read the case and answer the questions at the end.
The response to each question should be at least a paragraph long and should thoroughly answer the question, referencing content from the textbook or cited outside sources. All work should be submitted as an attached Word document.

I need an explanation on the abstract section, I did highlight the area to be explained. I want to know from where the numerical results came from if they are not presented in the research paper then how it was calculated ?. Moreover, i want a simple explanation on how the mean was interpreted in table 2 and 5 (for example as stated in the explanation of table 5 in page 42, on what bases the statistical analyst says that the mean of 2.74,2.61,2.49 and 2.57 show that its employee disagree that the company’s BAS encounters irregular power supply), etc.

Read the Northrop Grumman Case study and respond to the following questions:
1. What is the most important lesson(s) that NGC thinks it has learned about evaluating and integrating acquisitions well from an HR perspective?
2.  How successful is NGC, really, at managing MAs? How do you measure success?
3. NGC has moved to the use of a “virtual data room,” which means that MA team
members no longer have to meet physically. Explain the pros and cons of this
innovation. Should NGC continue in this vein?
4. What recommendations would you make to NGC’s HR manager to make to improve the integration of employees of newly acquired organizations into the NGC culture?
Your response should include at least 4 outside references.  
A cover page should accompany all assignments. 
APA formatting is required for this assignment.

For this assignment, you are a benefits consultant responsible for keeping your clients abreast of employee benefits trends. You will team up with a few other people in class (you can either email me your group name and topic or let me know what you are interested in for the topic and I will create the groups) and deliver a presentation to your client based on a published survey. You are not required to complete a paper, in addition to the presentation. The presentation can be with or without video. You will be comparing various benefit provisions and looking at historical trends. A good consultant is able to provide analysis and context in addition to merely stating the facts. Your team will be consultants meeting with your client to review the latest survey results that your company has compiled. Create a PowerPoint presentation to lead the discussion with the client. Your presentation should be about minutes 10-15 minutes in length and include the following components:
-One thing that surprised you and why
-One thing that did not surprise you and why
-One recommendation to your client that is supported by the findings. Remember trends should not be followed blindly. Make up some aspect about the client that makes your recommendation a good fit with their strategy and explain why. (e.g., “Knowing that you are an organization that is striving for maximum health care consumer engagement, we recommend you introduce an HRA or HSA account to your medical plan.”)
-Anything else you deem relevant and interesting to the client
The topic is 2019 Best Practices in Health Care Employer Survey Report. I will attach the file for the survey report.