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Workforce 2020 Executive Report

 M5 Assignment 2 SubmissionAssignment Task: Submit to complete this assignment Due February 7 at 11:59 PM

Assignment 2: LASA 2 Assignment—Workforce 2020 Executive Report

Both leadership and organizational strategy in the next decade will see major trends affecting the way organizations conduct business. These include the deployment of more technology to extend reach and access, increased globalization, increased diversity, more focus on extended supply chains, and a more nomadic workforce. In this assignment, you will consider these trends and analyze how they may impact your selected organization and what actions are necessary to get ready to address these trends.
You have been appointed by your organization (either a hypothetical one or one you are familiar with) to prepare its Workforce 2020 executive report.
The report should be as detailed as possible for the CEO of your organization. That means it should include the key points of your research, analysis, and findings. The report should also contain examples of specific application to your company in a clear, concise, and informative document.
In Module 4, you began your research on Workforce 2020. In this module, you will expand on the work you did in Module 4. Take Module 4’s paper, and incorporate the items below into your work. Be sure to use the module readings, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, including federal guidelines. Select at least 3–4 scholarly resources for use in this assignment.
Complete the following:

  1. Analyze your organization in its present form. Explain your organization’s structure, workforce diversity, market/customer diversity, and communications technology.
  2. Forecast future trends. Identify the economic, social, demographic, and workforce parameters that are expected to be in the U.S. in the year 2020. Explain how those trends will or will not be reflected in your organization. Consider addressing the following:
    1. What are the general workforce trends?
    2. How will these trends impact your industry?
    3. What are the general trends in leadership/management that are impacting your organization?
  3. Synthesize data and recommend changes needed for the future. Identify and recommend leader, organizational, and workforce trends that must be considered for change in the larger macro environment (for example, advances in technology or globalization) in your organization. Identify related outcomes for each specific topic: Consider addressing the following:
    1. What leadership actions should the organization take?
    2. What competencies will be needed?
    3. What does the organization need to do to be prepared?To conduct a holistic assessment of your selected organization and the challenges and opportunities it faces in addressing the noted trends, consider some of the concepts listed below as you develop your recommendations for the organization. It is not necessary to include all the concepts, but you should include 2–3 of them to do a thorough analysis. For example, leadership models and diversity management are likely to be pivotal areas for the organization. You could talk about the environment trends that were noted in the beginning of this assignment and then discuss how leadership practices and approaches in your selected organization may have to change to meet or address those trends.
  4. Analyze how the following concepts apply to your organization:
    • Diversity management
    • Leadership models
    • Ethics
    • Decision-making models
    • Problem solving
    • Conflict management processes

Ensure that your paper includes the following:

  • An integrated report with an introduction and summary
  • A set of recommendations that will enable the organization to meet the expected challenges of 2020
  • Trends in your own organization
  • 3–4 credible, cited sources supporting your projections

Support your assertions using the selected scholarly resources.
Your final product will be in a Word document and be approximately 12–15 pages in length and utilize 5–7 scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.
Click here to download the grading rubric for this assignment.Assignment ComponentsProficientMax Points
Content Knowledge: Understanding
Communicates understanding of the organizations structure.
Response incorporates analysis and synthesis of central concepts of the assigned topic.
Response reflects understanding of the nature of the specific topic within the discipline and its applications in contemporary times.
Response provides necessary details and specific examples./100 pts.
Content Knowledge: Application Component 1
Communicates the ability to explain how economic, social, demographic, and workforce trends will be reflected in an organization.
Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge.
Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area  using relevant details and examples.
Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real world contexts.
Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature ./40 pts.
Content Knowledge: Application Component 2
Communicates the ability to recommend leader, organizational, and workforce trends to be considered in the larger macro environment, and Identify related outcomes for each specific topic.
Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge .
Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area  using relevant details and examples.
Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real world contexts.
Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature./100 pts.
Written Communication/Personal Effectiveness
Conveys through written word understanding and application of the essential assignment components.
Writing is concise and clear in content, language use, grammar, organization, and sentence structure.
Writing is free of major grammatical and usage errors./60 pts.Total: /300 pts

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Diverse Workforce- Human Resources

Assignment 3: Diverse Workforce- Human Resources BUS 310

Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Course Info section.  Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center. 
Assignment 3: Diverse Workforce
Due Week 6 and worth 125 points
Imagine that you work for a company with an age diverse workforce. You have baby boomers working with millenials. Their backgrounds are different, and how they view work is different. This is causing some friction within the workforce. Before the tension escalates, you need to have a meeting to discuss the issue. Prepare a five to seven (5-7) slide PowerPoint presentation for your staff meeting that addresses this issue and proposes a solution.
Create a five to seven (5-7) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:
1. Propose a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce.
2. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
a. Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and at least one (1) relevant graphic (photograph, graph, clip art, etc.). Ensure that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from up to 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
b. Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Explain effective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations, including career development, fostering ethical behavior, discipline, labor relations, and dismissals.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
· Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.
Click  here  to view the grading rubric for this assignment.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Points: 125 Assignment 3: Diverse Workforce
Criteria  
Unacceptable
Below 60% F		 Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D		  
Fair
70-79% C		  
Proficient
80-89% B		  
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Propose a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce.
Weight: 75%		 Did not submit or incompletelyproposed a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce. Insufficientlyproposed a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce. Partiallyproposed a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce. Satisfactorilyproposed a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce. Thoroughlyproposed a solution that will relieve friction in your company’s age diverse workforce.
2. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
Weight: 25%		 More than 8 errors present 7-8 errors present 5-6 errors present 3-4 errors present 0-2 errors present
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Finding the Distance to Stars Using the Parallax Angle

ES 1010 Unit VIII Assignment Worksheet
Part 1: Finding the Distance to Stars Using the Parallax Angle

Instructions:

Read Chapter 15 and Appendix D (pp. 543-545) in the textbook and the background information below.

Answer the three questions at the bottom directly in this lab worksheet.

This NASA web page provides additional explanation:

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/nearest_star_info.html
Background:
Stellar Parallax is the apparent shift in the location of a star due to the orbit of the Earth. In other words, the star will appear to be in a different place depending on the line of sight from the Earth. By knowing the diameter of Earth’s orbit and by measuring the angle of apparent shift (the parallax angle), astronomers can calculate the distance to the nearby stars using trigonometry. This method has been used for centuries. The ancient Greeks were able to measure some of the closest stars this way. Today, sophisticated telescopes have greatly enhanced this method. Figure 1 is a graphic from your textbook showing how this works:
Figure 1. Geometry of stellar parallax, (Lutgens, Tabuck, & Tasa, 2014)
Assignment:
For this assignment, you will determine the distance to a star, “HT Cas”, using the method of stellar parallax. Figure 2 and 3 below are photos of HT Case, taken six months apart:

Image of HT Cas taken 06/96 Fig 2. Image of HT Cas taken 06/96 Image of HT Cas taken 12/96 Fig. 3. Image of HT Cas taken 12/96

When we super-impose these photos, we get the following image (figure 4):
Fig. 4. Composite image of measurements of HT Cas (shown in red) taken six months apart.
You can see that the position of the star appears to have changed over the six-month time period. However, it is actually the angle from which the photos were taken that has changed. During that 6-month period, the Earth moved from one side of the sun to the other.
Using a stellar astrometric catalog, we find that the two stars closest to HT Cas are a distance of 0.01 arcseconds apart. Based on this information, we can estimate that the angle of shift of HT Cas (the parallax angle) to be approximately 0.015 arcseconds apart.
We also know that the radius of the Earth’s orbit is 1.0 A.U. (astronomical units).
Using these two measurements, we can then determine the approximate distance to HT Cas using the following equation:

d= distance to HT Cas
a=radius of the Earth’s orbit
p=parallax angle
1. (10 points) Given the above equation and information provided, about how far away is HT Cas?
a. 133 parsecs
b. 67 parsecs
c. 33 parsecs
d. 0.015 parsecs
Answer (show work):
2. (10 points) Your answer was calculated in parsecs. Given that 1 parsec = 3.2616 light years, about what is the distance to HT Cas in light years? (Your answer from above in parsecs X 3.2616 light years = The Distance to HT Cas in light years).
a. 0.025 light years
b. 217 light years
c. 434 light years
d. 219 light years
Answer (show work):
Answer:
3. (30 points) Based on your answer, do you think this is a star that we might be able to send a space probe to? Why or why not? Support your answer.
Answer:
Part 2: Using a Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Instructions: After reading the Unit VIII lesson, click here to access the NASA web page “Stars” and answer the questions using Figure 5 below. You can also copy and paste the web address into your browser:
http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/how-do-stars-form-and-evolve/
Background:
Notice that the stars in Figure 5 are not uniformly distributed. Rather, about 90 percent of all stars fall along a band that runs from the upper-left corner to the lower-right corner of the H-R diagram. These “ordinary” stars are called main-sequence stars. As you can see in Figure 5, the hottest main-sequence stars are intrinsically the brightest, and, conversely, the coolest are the dimmest. The absolute magnitude of main-sequence stars is also related to their mass. The hottest (blue) stars are about 50 times more massive than the Sun, whereas the coolest (red) stars are only 1/ 10 as massive. Therefore, on the H-R diagram, the main-sequence stars appear in decreasing order, from hotter, more massive blue stars to cooler, less massive red stars (Lutgens, Tarbuck, & Tasa, 2014).
Assignment: Use Figure 5 to answer the questions. Once all questions have been answered for both part 1 and part 2, save this worksheet with your last name and student number and upload to Blackboard for grading.
1. (10 points) Main Sequence stars can be classified according to which characteristics? What are the characteristics of our Sun?
Figure 5. Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. (Lutgens, Tarbuck, & Tesa, 2010)

2. (10 points) Which main sequence stars can be found with a surface temperature of between 3000K-4000K? Which stars have a luminosity about 100 times less than that of the Sun?

3. (30 points) Briefly describe the solar evolution time-line of a common star like our own from formation through collapse.
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The San Andreas Fault Transcript

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The San Andreas Fault Transcript
The theory of plate tectonics explains so much about the world around us. Mountains, great valleys, shorelines, sea beds. Yet it’s hard to point to a particular rock or canyon and say “there! That’s plate tectonics.” Many earth processes operate on time scales that are so long we don’t realize they are taking place right before our eyes. We’re so small compared to planet earth that it’s hard to get a true perspective. Let’s gain a little elevation above one of North America’s greatest examples of tectonic movement. And see what comes into focus. Over California’s San Andreas Fault we’ll be asking questions like ‘can I really see evidence of plate tectonics?’ , ‘how does this Fault actually move?’ and ‘Am I likely to be directly affected by the San Andreas?’. While we’re climbing let’s review some basics. Earth’s rigid outer layer called the lithosphere is divided into 7 dominate plates. When plates move around the surface of the earth, they can interact in only one of three ways. They can converge, diverge or they can slide past one another. During convergence, an oceanic plate usually slides under a continental plate. At divergent boundaries, plates are being pulled apart. The third interaction where plates slide past one another produces what’s called a transform Fault. Finally it’s tempting to think of plates as either thick continental or thin oceanic. But that’s not always correct. The pacific plate is mostly oceanic but has some continental lithosphere on it’s edges. Conversely, a lot of the North American plate is continental. But it also contains a large amount of oceanic lithosphere over on it’s Eastern edge. You gotta understand, California is mess. During past collisions, exotic terrains arrived here from all corners of the globe. Great volumes of magnum beneath California rose toward the surface to become the Sierra Nevada. Volcanoes belched the salt that now covers many parts of the state. And then, beginning 28 millions years ago, along comes the San Andreas Fault slicing cleanly through the smorgasbord, 750 miles south to north from the salt sea to shelter cove. The San Andreas offers a world class illustration of two plates, North America and the Pacific, sliding past one another along a transform Fault. *See text on video screen* The first stop on our search for tectonic motion is Pinnacles National Park. The parks volcanic rocks have been eroded into elegant canyons and spires. These same rocks are also found in Antelope Valley, 195 miles to the southeast. Same age, same chemistry, same rocks. They were created as a single body 23 million years ago. But the two halves are now separated almost 200 miles by the San Andreas Fault. Pinnacles is riding aboard the Pacific plate, moving steadily away toward the North-West. The Calaveras Fault, a splendor of the San Andreas lies directly beneath the town of Hollister where sidewalks buckle a little more every year. You can sit and stare, hoping to see movement on the Fault but if you blink, you’ll miss it. Homeowners though, know that their fences and foundations are being twisted maybe a quarter inch every year. In places, the presence of water can mark the trace of the San Andreas. Unlike Northern parts of the state, central California tends to be dry, so any lake automatically stands out. So called sag ponds are found where the Fault is shoved up scarfs to form small enclosed basins. These otherwise unlikely lakes are found along the Fault near the Coalinga and the San Bonito valley. Now, lets’ head for the Carrizo Plane. Not much grows here, some grass and an occasional scrub tree. The geology is stark, undeniable.
This is Wallace Creek. Not surprisingly, it is dry today. When water does fall it flows west out of the Temblor Range. But something funny happens right there. The creek bed suddenly jogs to the North West before resuming it’s Westerly downhill course. The jog marks the exact trace of the San Andreas Fault where lower Wallace Creek has been carried to the North West. There is an even older, lower part of the creek that has been carried so far that is has been cut off entirely from the upper section. In fact, creek beds all along the face of the Temblor Range show this offset. Each in the same direction. If you stand on either side of the Fault, the other side always moves to the right during an earthquake. So the San Andreas is called a right lateral strike-slip Fault. The San Andreas accommodates most movement of the Pacific plate as it slides past North America. Most, but not all. Did you notice the little jog in the San Andreas, north of Los Angeles? The jog ,called the Big Bend, acts locally to bind up movement between the two plates. Here, instead of just slipping occasionally, the two plates are squeezed together. As a result, the transverse ranges have been shoved thousands of feet above sea level in the last 2-4 million years. How does offset occur along the San Andreas? In Hollister, we saw that a Fault can slowly and inexorably creep. This is true because the Fault isn’t locked and the two edges glide past one another. But along most other portions of the San Andreas, movement is much more likely to be abrupt. Here, the Fault is usually locked. The respective plates continue to move and stress builds up at the boundary. When the boundary eventually snaps, energy is instantly released as an earthquake. The Creza Plane experienced it’s last big earthquake in 1857 when the Fault edges jumped 30 feet. 30 feet. Do earthquakes matter? Of course they do. 30 million people live within a stone’s throw of the San Andreas Fault. When the Loma Prieta earthquake struck San Francisco in 1989, 63 people died. But this occurred when just a small branch of the San Andreas slipped near Santa Cruz. Historically, major earthquakes have occurred along the main San Andreas Fault about every 150 years. The last time the San Andreas itself slipped beneath San Francisco was 1906 when thousands of lives were lost. A century has passed and now millions more live in harms way. The two plates are still moving relative to one another, almost an inch a year. Having studied the San Andreas, geologists know that the plates continue to move and that earthquakes will happen again. *See text on video screen* This volcano was a single intact cinder cone. Does it offer any clues about what sort of Fault runs under this part of California’s Death Valley National Park. Less than 300,000 years ago, magma rose along the southern Death Valley Fault zone where the lithosphere has already been fractured. Since then, movement along the Fault split the cone and has carried the two halves apart. So this is likely to be a strike slip Fault.
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Staffing Plan for a Growing Business

Staffing Plan for a Growing Business
Due Week 6 and worth 280 points
Please choose from one (1) of the scenarios below. Note: The scenario that you choose in this assignment will be the one (1) with which you continue for Assignment 2.
Scenario 1
You are a Human Resources Manager of an expanding technology company consisting of 170 employees that develops and distributes small electronic devices. Over the past two (2) years, a research group formed, designed, and built prototypes of small remote surveillance cameras used for security. Recently, your company won a contract to build and provide these remote surveillance cameras to various government agencies. The contract will begin with your company supplying these cameras to agencies within your home state. If all orders are fulfilled sufficiently, the contract will be expanded to supplying agencies outside of your home state.
For the immediate future, you will need to secure a larger facility and hire more staff to sustain the first part of the contract. This staff will consist of ten (10) Assembly Technicians, one (1) Certified Quality Control Engineer, one (1) Contract Administrator, and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional. Meanwhile, there is a contract clause requiring that you provide a staffing plan in order to ensure future product deliveries and sustain the possible future growth.
Scenario 2
You are a former certified education administrator who departed your former position to become the owner of a small, in-home day care consisting of you and a part-time assistant where you care for children from age three (3) to age ten (10). Over the course of time, your demographic population has increased due to significant business growth that has resulted in many families relocating to your area. With more businesses projected to move to the area and the building of new housing developments, it is projected that this growth could be long term.
You have decided that this is a good opportunity to expand your day care business as you have received many inquiries for childcare. In order to comply with your home state regulations, you will require a larger facility and will need to hire additional staff in order to sustain the larger demand for day care. This staff will consist of five (5) Certified Day Care Professionals, one (1) Registered Nurse Professional, five (5) After-School Assistants and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional. You have secured approval for a bank loan and qualify for future loans for future expansion if your current endeavor is successful. Meanwhile, the state in which you operate has requested that you provide a staffing plan before it will issue licensure for your expanded capacity.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments.
Select one (1) of the scenarios and write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

  1. Identify two (2) types of staffing models that could apply to your chosen scenario and determine which model would be best suited for efficiency, productivity, and possible future growth. Examine the significant effect of each identified staffing model on processes that may be occurring within the organization (e.g., outsourcing, contingent workers, consulting firms, etc.).
  2. Predict the major potential legal issues that you may encounter when establishing equal employment opportunities and diversity within the workplace while still aiming to acquire employees with the needed certifications and credentials. Next, explain the method of achieving transparency within your staffing model. Justify your response.
  3. Specify three (3) tasks that you need to perform to identify, analyze, and develop job requirements and task statements that you will include in formalized job descriptions. Next, predict the frequency with which you would need to review and adjust these job descriptions as your company progresses. Provide a rationale for your response.
  4. Describe three (3) methods to deal with high employee turnover and the availability of employees with required knowledge, skills, or abilities. Next, describe the primary manner in which the described succession-planning methods would be beneficial to your company. Justify your response.
  5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Explain the role of staffing to support an organization’s strategy and improve productivity.
  • Develop a model for staffing an organization that supports the firm’s Human Resources Management strategy and sustains productive operations.
  • Summarize the key legal compliance issues associated with staffing organizations.
  • Explain the planning considerations for staffing organizations, the use of job analysis, and the components of a staffing plan.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in staffing organizations.
  • Write clearly and concisely about staffing organizations using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric.

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research companies that utilize external recruiting processes

Can’t make a down-payment until Friday.

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biblical integration

Discussion Board Assignment

Answer the following questions below consisting of 500–750 words PER QUESTION.
1. Some answers will require a paragraph-style response, whereas others will be best answered with a table or bullet points. Use the style that is most appropriate for the specific question.
1. Each answer must be supported by references to at least 2 peer-reviewed sources and 1 biblical integration.
1. Use proper grammar and current APA format.
Reference to Business Research Methods book by Donald Cooper and Pamela Schindler for help
Questions
5.6 – You have been approached by the editor of Gentlemen’s Magazine to carry out a research study. The magazine has been unsuccessful in attracting shoe manufacturers as advertisers. When the sales force tried to secure advertising from shoe manufacturers, they were told men’s clothing stores are a small and dying segment of their business. Since Gentlemen’s Magazine goes chiefly to men’s clothing stores, the manufacturers reasoned that it was, therefore, not a good vehicle for their advertising. The editor believes that a survey (via mail questionnaire) of men’s clothing stores in the United States will probably show that these stores are important outlets for men’s shoes and are not declining in importance as shoe outlets. He asks you to develop a proposal for the study and submit it to him. Develop the Management-Research Question Hierarchy that will help you to develop a specific proposal.
5.12 – Develop the management–research question hierarchy (Exhibits 5-6 and 5-8), citing management dilemma, management question, and research question(s), for each of the following:
a. The president of a home health care services firm.
b. The vice president of investor relations for an auto manufacturer.
c. The retail advertising manager of a major metropolitan newspaper.
d. The chief of police in a major city.
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professional goals- global talent management

Please develop an essay of no shorter than 500 words (typed, double-spaced) that discusses your professional goals and addresses each of the following questions: Why is this Graduate program right for you, both academically and professionally? What might you contribute to the program, both as a student and afterwards?
Information:
The Graduate Program: professional studies in Human Resource Management, concentrating on global talent management
Professional Goal: To be a financial analyst in a global company