You are a captain in charge of operations within your police department. As part of your responsibilities, you supervise the human resources department. It has been brought to your attention that a complaint has been filed by one of the departments female officers alleging instances of sexual harassment by her supervisor. In reviewing the departments sexual harassment policy, you find that it was written by the previous administration and is not in compliance with the sexual harassment policy guidelines as handed down by recent Supreme Court decisions. How you would implement a training program for all of the employees related to the revised sexual harassment policy? What challenges exist to this policy-making process and training implementation? Explain.
You are a captain in charge of operations within your police department. As part of your responsibilities, you supervise the human resources department. It has been brought to your attention that a complaint has been filed by one of the departments female officers alleging instances of sexual harassment by her supervisor. In reviewing the departments sexual harassment policy, you find that it was written by the previous administration and is not in compliance with the sexual harassment policy guidelines as handed down by recent Supreme Court decisions.
How you would implement a training program for all of the employees related to the revised sexual harassment policy?
What challenges exist to this policy-making process and training implementation? Explain. You bring this to the attention of your chief, and he has instructed you to do the following:
Key Assignment Guidelines Complete the following:
Provide a draft sexual harassment policy that is in compliance with the latest Supreme Court decisions.
How you would implement a training program for all of the employees related to the revised sexual harassment policy?
What challenges exist to this policy-making process and training implementation? Explain.
Contrast and compare at least 2 established sexual harassment policies.
Choose 1 from your local police department and 1 from your state law enforcement agency.
How are they similar?
How are they different?
Explain in detail.
Do you think that sexual harassment is a common experience among women in law enforcement? Why or why not? Use external research to fully justify your argument.
Be sure to reference all of your sources using APA style.
Gaining competitive advantages from innovation is often about how quickly and effectively a manager brings the idea to market. This week, discuss ways to improve effectiveness and efficiency of procedures to bring ideas to market. What are some advantages and disadvantages of having?formalized procedures to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of?innovating?
Gaining competitive advantages from innovation is often about how quickly and effectively a manager brings the idea to market. This week, discuss ways to improve effectiveness and efficiency of procedures to bring ideas to market.
What are some advantages and disadvantages of having?formalized procedures to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of?innovating? Provide at least 1 example of each to support your response.
Response Requirements
By Thursday, respond to the prompt above in a minimum of 175 words.
Using a real-life example, either someone personally known to you or someone that you read about in the news, discuss the following: How rehabilitation programs can provide offenders with the advantages commonly associated with reform efforts How rehabilitation programs can fail and what could be done differently to better help offender rehabilitation efforts
In a 1985 issue of Texas Monthly, Dick Reavis discussed How They Ruined Our Prisons at great lengths. Specifically, he discussed the conditions of American prisons in general and, more specifically, the conditions of the Texas prison system. In this, he acknowledged that the prison system wasnt ideal and that it made little, if any, effort at rehabilitating convicted offenders. However, in the same breath, he argued that it is not the States responsibility (and in particular, the responsibility of taxpaying citizens) to finance rehabilitation programs.
After reading the article, please discuss your opinion of offender rehabilitation programs.
Using a real-life example, either someone personally known to you or someone that you read about in the news, discuss the following:
How rehabilitation programs can provide offenders with the advantages commonly associated with reform efforts
How rehabilitation programs can fail and what could be done differently to better help offender rehabilitation efforts
Describe where, if at all, EBP appears (e.g., the mission, vision, philosophy, and/or goals of the healthcare organization, or in other locations on the website). Then, explain whether this healthcare organization?
March 21, 2010, was not EBP?s date of birth, but it may be the date the approach ?grew up? and left home to take on the world.
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, it came with a requirement of empirical evidence. Research on EBP increased significantly. Application of EBP spread to allied health professions, education, healthcare technology, and more. Health organizations began to adopt and promote EBP.
You will consider this adoption in the post. You will examine healthcare organization websites and analyze to what extent these organizations use EBP.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the definition and goal of EBP.
Choose a professional healthcare organization?s website (e.g., a reimbursing body, an accredited body, or a national initiative).
Explore the website to determine where and to what extent EBP is evident.
Write a description of the healthcare organization website you reviewed. Describe where, if at all, EBP appears (e.g., the mission, vision, philosophy, and/or goals of the healthcare organization, or in other locations on the website). Then, explain whether this healthcare organization?s work is grounded in EBP and why or why not. Finally, explain whether the information you discovered on the healthcare organization?s website has changed your perception of the healthcare organization. Be specific and provide examples. Reference 3 scholarly citations
Explain the importance of viewing the HRIS from both a data and process perspective.
Assignment 2: System Development Life Cycle: Phase III Design
Now that you assessed the business, identified some of the inefficient HR related processes plaguing Larson Property Management Company, and pinpointed a few possible solutions, it is time to choose an HRIS application that will best suit the business. In this assignment, you will provide a blueprint for the new system, and select a vendor that provides the type of HRIS you believe is most efficient and effective.
To prepare for this assignment, review the Larson Property Management Company case scenario, and then research logical process modeling with data flow diagrams and HRIS vendors that may suit the needs for Larson Property Management.
Instructions:
Write a three to four-page proposal, in which you:
Two Ways to View an HRIS: Data Versus Process
1. Explain the importance of viewing the HRIS from both a data and process perspective. Next, explain how the change team will use this information to address identified needs from Phase II: Analysis.
Logical Process Modeling with Data Flow Diagrams and Physical Design Choice
2. Based on your research of logical process modeling with data flow diagrams, explain the key business activities and processes in the HR system, and how the data will flow. Next, determine the physical design and explain your reasoning for the design. Defend your decisions with theory and findings from past readings and class activities.
Choose HRIS Vendor
3. Now that you know the type of HRIS you will be implementing, it is time to choose an HRIS vendor. Compare and contrast three vendors, including a description of the cost, capabilities, and HR functions that the HRIS caters to. Based on your comparison, choose the HRIS vendor that you will recommend to your client, and explain the main reason why you decided to choose this vendor over the others.
Resources
4. Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
You are an accountant in the budgetary, projections, and special projects department of Fernetti Conductor, Inc., a large manufacturing company. The president, Richard Brown, asks you on very short notice to prepare some sales and income projections covering the next 2 years of the company?s much-heralded new product lines. He wants these projections for a series of speeches he is making while on a 2-week trip to eight East Coast brokerage firms. The president hopes to bolster Fernetti?s stock sales and price. You work 23 hours in 2 days to compile the projections, hand-deliver them to the president, and are swiftly but graciously thanked as he departs. A week later, you find time to go over some of your computations and discover a miscalculation that makes the projections grossly overstated. You quickly inquire about the president?s itinerary and learn that he has made half of his speeches and has half yet to make. You are in a quandary as to what to do. Instructions What are the consequences of telling the president of your gross miscalculations? What are the consequences of not telling the president of your gross miscalculations?
You are an accountant in the budgetary, projections, and special projects department of Fernetti Conductor, Inc., a large manufacturing company. The president, Richard Brown, asks you on very short notice to prepare some sales and income projections covering the next 2 years of the company?s much-heralded new product lines. He wants these projections for a series of speeches he is making while on a 2-week trip to eight East Coast brokerage firms. The president hopes to bolster Fernetti?s stock sales and price.
You work 23 hours in 2 days to compile the projections, hand-deliver them to the president, and are swiftly but graciously thanked as he departs. A week later, you find time to go over some of your computations and discover a miscalculation that makes the projections grossly overstated. You quickly inquire about the president?s itinerary and learn that he has made half of his speeches and has half yet to make. You are in a quandary as to what to do.
Instructions
What are the consequences of telling the president of your gross miscalculations?
What are the consequences of not telling the president of your gross miscalculations?
What are the ethical considerations to you and the president in this situation?
When implementing change in an organization, there are always culture issues that are faced, such as not accepting change, determine how differently this would be handled thinking about the management versus leadership constructs?
Q1. Please review Table 1.2 in the text and review the distinction between leadership and management. Then think about this in regard to how senior leaders versus senior managers lead change in an organization (especially when it comes to technical change in an organization). Please reflect on these concepts and answer the following questions:
1. When implementing change in an organization, there are always culture issues that are faced, such as not accepting change, determine how differently this would be handled thinking about the management versus leadership constructs?
2. When dealing with performing work, how is this implemented differently within the management versus leadership constructs?
Please be sure to answer all the questions above in 250-300 words. At least one scholarly (peer-reviewed) resource should be used. Use APA references and in-text citations.
Q2. Give examples of systems in which it may make sense to use traditional file processing instead of a database approach.
Instructions: Your response should be 250-300 words. There must be at least one APA formatted reference (and APA in-text citation) to support the thoughts in the post as needed. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author’s words and continue to use in-text citations.
Q3. If you were designing a Web-based system to make airline reservations and to sell airline tickets, which DBMS Architecture would you choose from Section 2.5? Why? Why would the other architectures not be a good choice?
Instructions: Your response should be 250-300 words. There must be at least one APA formatted reference (and APA in-text citation) to support the thoughts in the post as needed. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author’s words and continue to use in-text citations.
David Doe is a network administrator for the ABC Company. David is passed over for promotion three times. He is quite vocal in his dissatisfaction with this situation. In fact, he begins to express negative opinions about the organization in general. Eventually, David quits and begins his own consulting business. Six months after Davids departure, it is discovered that a good deal of the ABC Companys research has suddenly been duplicated by a competitor. Executives at ABC suspect that David Doe has done some consulting work for this competitor and may have passed on sensitive data. However, in the interim since David left, his computer has been formatted and reassigned to another person. ABC has no evidence that David Doe did anything wrong. What steps might have been taken to detect Davids alleged industrial espionage?
STRICTLY NO PLAGARISM
Consider this hypothetical situation:
David Doe is a network administrator for the ABC Company. David is passed over for promotion three times. He is quite vocal in his dissatisfaction with this situation. In fact, he begins to express negative opinions about the organization in general. Eventually, David quits and begins his own consulting business. Six months after Davids departure, it is discovered that a good deal of the ABC Companys research has suddenly been duplicated by a competitor. Executives at ABC suspect that David Doe has done some consulting work for this competitor and may have passed on sensitive data. However, in the interim since David left, his computer has been formatted and reassigned to another person. ABC has no evidence that David Doe did anything wrong.
What steps might have been taken to detect Davids alleged industrial espionage?
What steps might have been taken to prevent his perpetrating such an offense?
Write your answer using a WORD document. Do your own work. Submit here. Note your Safe Assign score. Score must be less than 25 for full credit.
You have three attempts.
Describe what culturally responsive approaches you would use in your intervention at all levels of the client system ? individual, family, school, community, social support systems, and society ? to advocate for change.
Use cultural humility, culturally responsive practices and advocacy skills in cross-cultural service delivery.
PC-4.1: Assess the value of multiculturalism and diversity in a global environment.
For this assignment, you will explore issues related to working with clients from a historically marginalized and disenfranchised group. You may use the group that you discussed in your Unit 4 Assignment, but it is not required.
Please answer the following:
What are some of the challenges and injustices this group has experienced domestically or abroad?
How can you help the client draw on their individual and cultural strengths to creatively address these life challenges?
Cultural humility involves taking an interpersonal stance that is other-centered rather than focusing on one?s self interests. In this regard, the client is actively involved in the helping experience, while the worker acknowledges and respects the client?s lived experience. Discuss how you would work through the lens of cultural humility to interact and engage with the client. Additionally, discuss the following:
How to position yourself as a learner and the client as the expert
How to have open and direct conversations about cultural differences with the client
Describe what culturally responsive approaches you would use in your intervention at all levels of the client system ? individual, family, school, community, social support systems, and society ? to advocate for change.
A colleague from another country has limited English-speaking skills and does not comprehend the group task. Additionally, this colleague has the habit of giving gifts to business associates at the end of projects. Gift-giving is an expected part of business etiquette in her culture. How do you deal with these issues to ensure the success of the group? What criteria would you set early on in the process?
For the initial post, address one (1) of the following:
Scenario 1: A colleague from another country has limited English-speaking skills and does not comprehend the group task. Additionally, this colleague has the habit of giving gifts to business associates at the end of projects. Gift-giving is an expected part of business etiquette in her culture. How do you deal with these issues to ensure the success of the group? What criteria would you set early on in the process? Please reference the textbook and an outside source as you attend to the questions for this scenario.
Scenario 2: Your manager asks you to take on a new project that you think you could take on by yourself. He suggests that you form a task group with 15-20 members, which you think is too much. One of the members he recommends adding to the team is John. This gives you additional concern because you think John has had hidden agendas in the past. Even though you think you can do this on your own, how is a group decision different from an individual decision? How can you convince your manager that a smaller group would be better? How do you deal with John if your manager insists on him being in the group? Please reference the textbook and an outside source as you attend to the questions for this scenario.
Click on the following link for the format you should use for the initial post:
Discussion Template
Scenario #
(Address your chosen scenario, answer the questions, reference textbook and outside source)
References
(In APA format)
