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Assignment 1: Management Team Briefing on Employment Laws

Due Week 3 and worth 200 points

In your new role as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for a major retail organization, you have been tasked within the first 30 days by the CEO to conduct a presentation to the management team on employment law awareness. The CEO informed you that under the previous CHRO the company experienced lack of employment law understanding, resulting in a few lawsuits that were not in the company's favor. Avoiding similar experiences is a high priority and your thorough presentation to the management team is the first big step to success.

Prepare a fifteen to twenty (15-20) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

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Database, Database Management System, and Business Applications

1. Watch the following two videos from the lynda.com course Relational Database Fundamentals with Adam Wilbert.

• Database Management Systems (DBMS)? (4 min 36 s)
• Relational Structures (3 min 57 s)

2. Review Figure F2.1 Database, Database Management System, and Business Applications on page 28 of the textbook. Based on the videos, and your readings this week, please respond to the followin

BU450 Leadership Skills

Directions: Be sure to make an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English spelling and grammar.  Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the "Assignment Format" page for specific format requirements.

Part A: What is charismatic leadership? 

Part B: Explain what is meant by the statement that charismatic leaders use active impression management with their followers to support their image. Provide and elaborate on one example. 

Part C: Why is charismatic leadership considered a double-edged sword that requires careful monitoring to avert abuse?

You will be a member of the newly-formed project staff team. This team will need to realize process gains within its first three months. You want to help, not hinder, the team's progress, so you decide to do some research upfront. You bring up your challenge at your managerial networking meeting. You pose the following questions to the group.

What kind of work group is the project staff team - task force, command group, or friendship group?

What characteristics of the team are likely to contribute to the goal of process gains within the next three months?

What are some sources of potential process losses?

You don't just listen, you also participate. Go to the Small Group Discussion Board and post your ideas on each of these questions. Respond to at least one other posting.

You've benefited from your group's discussion and you also have time to read an article or two. You still want to run your ideas

As an employee of a company that is considering investing in a foreign economy, you have been asked to research a country and make a presentation to your colleagues about an area of economic concern in the country. 

• Select a country in Africa, Asia, or Latin America to research. 
• Select 1 of the following economic concerns to research: 
  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 
  • Unemployment 
  • Inflation 
  • Quantities of specific goods and services 
  • Exports and imports
• Research data sets for the one economic concern within the country that you have chosen. 
• Write a 5-page report, and answer the following questions: 
  • What are 23 relationships between the economic concern you selected and that specific country's economy? 
  • Support your discussion of the trends with statistical evidence.&n

I must have ORIGINAL work ONLY with up to date references...

• Assignment 1: To Organize or Not to Organize?
  Due Week 3 and worth 240 points
  Select one (1) company headquartered in your home state that you would like to work for, that does not currently have unionized employees. Assume that you are an employee of this company and interested in starting a union. Use the Internet to research industry union.
  Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:
  
  1. Create a scenario of the specific working conditions that has prompted the attention of employees.
  2. Outline the major benefits of organizing a union for this particular company.
  3. Create a mission, purpose, and objective statement for a strategic plan to organize a union for this group.
  4. Outline the components you would need to start a union and brainstorm ideas for each step of the process.
  5. Determine a possibl

Resource: Turnover Evaluation Grading Guide

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you evaluate the various types of turnover outlined in the following scenarios:

• A sales associate, who is slightly above average in the number of sales, has decided to leave the company for a competitor.
• As the HR Manager, what are your concerns about this person's exit from the company?
• In what ways might this be positive turnover?
• In what ways might it be negative?
• After training a new inspector for a year, a city decides to terminate his employment. Although the inspector is technically competent, local contractors have made many complaints about his lack of customer service and his approach to enforcement.

"American Disability Act (ADA) and Job Analysis"

• Go to the U.S. Department of Justices Website to read the article titled ADA: Know Your Rights Returning Service Members with Disabilities, located at http://www.ada.gov/servicemembers_adainfo.html. Develop an outline to educate your management team to recognize returning service members who may be showing signs of PTSD, as well as steps that could be taken to help them transition back into the workforce.
• Analyze the position you currently hold (or would like to have after graduation). Determine the major actions that you would take in order to execute a job design for that position. Provide a rationale for your response.

 (3- 4 pages, abstract, conclusion and reference)

The final project in this course requires that you visit the Web site of a local health care organization (e.g., hospital, long-term care facility, ambulatory care clinic) in your town, city, county, or state and asses its goals and mission.

Once you have assessed your chosen facilitys goals and mission statement, complete the following:

• Write a paper that integrates what you have learned throughout this course, and describe and discuss 46 important competencies that you need to have to effectively lead your chosen organization, based on its goals and mission.
• Explain why those competencies are important and how the information you gleaned from this course will improve your own leadership style and strategy.

Assignment Details (300 words, reference)

• What competencies were you able to develop in researching and writing the Comprehensive Project that is due in Unit 5?
• How did you leverage feedback from your peers in the Discussion Board for Units 14 in completing the project?
• How will these competencies and knowledge support your career advancement in health care management?