What is the role of a father during the pregnancy and during the birth process?

 Prenatal Discussion (Discussion 2)For this discussion, you will be submitting an original post of at least 250 words and a reply post of at least 100 words. Select one option and post your original discussion as well as a reply post in that same discussion. A score of 100% will earn you 2 points towards your final grade.Option 1: As you have read in your textbook, infertility is on the rise for a number of reasons. Please share your own personal experiences with the process of getting pregnant(you are not required to share any information that makes you uncomfortable, only what you are willing to disclose).If you have not had any personal experiences with the process of conception, then ask your mothers, sisters, or any of your friends who have.Option 2: Females: Describe your own experiences with the birth process, if applicable. If you haven’t had any personal experience(s) with the birth process, ask your mothers, sisters, or friends what their experiences were like and share those. Males: Describe your own experiences as fathers, if applicable. What was the birth process like for you? If you have no experience, you may ask your family members to describe theirs, or you may discuss what you think will be your role-based upon what you have learned in this course. What is the role of a father during the pregnancy and during the birth process?Remember the criteria for the discussions:This discussion is worth 2 points. Your work will not be available for grading by your instructor until you have submitted the two posts.

Create a food web that involves your chosen character

 Think of a cartoon show or a character. Create a food web that involves your chosen character (can use characters from the show or from other shows – it just has to make sense). The food web should have at least 4 cartoon characters (species). The only exception is producers (plants/algae/phytoplankton) since you may not find a cartoon character for it, so you can just use a graphic. Make sure your food web starts with a producer.You may use , , PowerPoint or any other tool that you are familiar with to create your infographic. Your infographic should encompass the concepts in a visually pleasing way (including photos of the characters chosen). An infographic is a collection of imagery, charts, and minimal text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of a topic, typically on one page not multiple slides (learn how to to make it all one page).

What other incentives would assist the company in motivating the sales staff?

Read the case study.Submit in essay form, following APA format, the answers to the questions related to the case study Sodexo Incentives.Be sure to follow APA guidelines and write your paper in the proper format, not as a question and answer.420 SECTION 1 Environment of Human Resource Management HR EXPERIENTIAL PROBLEM SOLVING Your insurance company needs to update the sales incentive program for its sales/marketing representatives. Due to growth in the volume and diversity of the products being sold, the existing system of having one incentive program for all sales marketers no longer meets the needs of the company. To maximize sales in each of the product lines, the system needs to provide an incentive and reward system to encourage employees to focus on their specific product lines while also cross-marketing the company’s portfolio of other products. To identify the key facets of a sales commission program, visit websites including www.8020salesperformance .com/sales_compensation.html. 1. Would a compensation program that offered only commission work for your company? Why or why not? 2. What other incentives would assist the company in motivating the sales staff? Many employers offer incentives to employees working in different jobs. Often, the incentives are to reward employee performance, both in the short and the long term. But some company incentive plans are viewed negatively by employees, while others are seen as highly positive by employees at all levels. One firm that has a well-regarded, broad-based incentive plan is Sodexo, a large food and facilities service firm with more than 350,000 employees in 80 countries. Being such a large firm, Sodexo has a variety of clients, including many corporate and governmental entities, hospitals, manufacturing firms, and universities. Thus, the firm’s client services are varied, with many of them being basic ones such as cleaning offices, maintenance of all types of facilities, doing landscaping, and managing other basic and professional activities. In North America, including the United States, Sodexo has almost 125,000 staff members. More than 40,000 of the North American staff members work in health care, including clinics, offices, and hospital sites. Being such a large firm with employees doing many different types of jobs, a key part of Sodexo’s organizational and HR cultures involves engaging its employees in many ways. One aspect is having a widely based employee rewards program containing recognition and incentives. The company’s “Spirit of Sodexo” program focuses on three general-award facets: service, teamwork, and progress. To operate this program, the company has required executives, including the top HR officer, to develop processes for the nomination of employees who make significant contributions, locally and regionally, as well as in business and corporate divisions of the firm. Some of the recognitions and awards provided to employees are interesting. Because the biggest division of workers is in health care locations, a special incentive program called Sodexo CARES has been used for several years for employees who accomplish especially unique results. At one hospital, a small group of dieticians developed a new system for ordering medication and devices online, something that is not done in most hospitals. These dieticians received recognition and incentive awards for their job-related accomplishments. Another incentive reward for exceptional efforts went to a female employee who worked as a food caterer and prepared special meals for a young foreign hospital patient who had difficulty eating typical U.S. foods. The employee homecooked various items for that patient when the patient had surgery. Her efforts were increasingly recognized throughout Sodexo, and she received a national incentive award. Both she and her husband attended a national meeting in a different city where she was recognized and became the subject of a short video. She also received a $500 gift card and a lot of publicity. Numerous other examples exist showing how Sodexo uses employee incentives as part of its culture in many different industry jobs. To learn more about Sodexo and its organizational and HR culture, go to www.sodexo.com. The overall picture of such widely focused incentive recogition efforts Sodexo Incentives CASE 5315X_12_ch12_p394-423.indd 420 315X_12_ch12_p394-423.indd 420 17/07/10 5:54 PM 7/07/10 5:54 PM CHAPTER 12 Incentive Plans and Executive Compensation 421 SUPPLEMENTAL CASES Cash Is Good, Card Is Bad Both the positive and negative issues associated with the use of an incentive plan are discussed in this case. (For the case, go to www.cengage .com/management/mathis.) Incentive Plans for Fun and Travel This case discusses incentive plans that stimulate employee interest and motivate them to perform well. (For the case, go to www.cengage .com/management/mathis.) illustrates how incentives can significantly influence the motivation and performance of employees.50 QUESTIONS 1. Based on the Sodexo example, discuss the importance of widespread incentives in improving both the culture and employee retention efforts in a firm. 2. How might having employees receive recognition and incentives at a national level impact the performance of their coworkers and colleagues? NOTES 1. Based on David J. Cichelli and Angie Keller, “Cox Communications Tackles Central vs. Local Compensation Design,” Workspan, September 2007, 53–56. 2. Allison Avalos, “Salary Budget Increases,” Workspan, September 2009, 27–30. 3. M. Rush Benton, “Hope Is Not a Business Strategy . . .” Investment News, June 1, 2009, 1. 4. Bruce Ellig, “What Pay for Performance Should Measure,” WorldatWork Journal, Second Quarter, 2008, 64–75. 5. Brad Hill and Christine Tande, “Incentive Pay: Short-Term Change Agent or Long-Term Success?” Workspan, September 2009, 61–64. 6. Ken Abosch, “The Past, Present, and Future of Variable Pay,” Workspan, July 2009, 27–30. 7. Eric Chapman, “Where Executive and Employee Compensation Is Headed in the Next 12 Months,” Workspan, July 2009, 23–25; Robert J. Fulton, Jr., “How Do Professional Services Firms Tie Pay to Performances?” Dear Workforce Newsletter, April 30, 2009, www .workforce.com. 8. Based on Susan Lackey, “Fill Those Unpopular Shifts,” HR Magazine, April 2009, 63–66. 9. Jinyu He and Heli C. Wang, “Innovative Knowledge Assets and Economic Performance,” Academy of Management Journal, 52 (2009), 919–938. 10. M. J. Gibbs, et al., “Performance Measure Properties and Incentive System Design,” Industrial Relations, 48 (2009), 237–264. 11. Ken Abosch, et al., “Broad-Based Variable Pay Goes Global,” Workspan, 56–62. 12. Tyler Gentry and Karl Glotzbach, “Incentives Without Borders,” The Power of Incentives, 2007, 77–82. 13. Leo Jakobson, “$46 Billion Spent on Incentives,” Incentive, November 2007, 27–28. 14. Chris Silva, “An Incentive to Provide Incentives,” Employee Benefit News, May 2007, 11–12. 15. Michael Marino and Steve Van Putter, “Four Cardinal Directions for Navigating Incentive Design in Uncertain Times,” Workspan, December 2008, 57–61. 16. Patricia K. Zinghelm and Jay R. Schuster, “Revisiting Effective Incentive Design,” WorldatWork Journal, First Quarter, 2005, 50–58. 17. Scott A. Jeffrey, “Justifiability and the Motivational Power of Tangible Noncash Incentive,” Human Performance, 22 (2009), 143–155. 18. Peter A. Lupo, “Keep It Simple,” Workspan, October 2009, 65–68. 19. Jean VanRensselar, “Designing an Incentive Program for NonSales Employees,” The Power of Incentives, 2007, 87–96. 20. Bonnie Schindler, “Understanding Private Company Incentive Pay Practices,” Workspan, March 2008, 43–48; Dan Kleinman, “Getting Our Bonus Expectations Right,” Workspan, July 2009, 75–76. 21. Christopher Cabera, “Non-Cash Rewards . . .,” Workspan, July 2008, 25–26. 22 Leo Jakobson, “Don’t Show Me the Money,” Incentive, September 2009, 14–19. 23. Rebecca R. Hastings, “Length-ofService Awards Becoming More Personal,” HR Magazine Supplement on SHRM’s 2009 HR Trend Book, www.shrm.org, 43–48. 24. Robert Masternak, “Gainsharing and Lean-Six Sigma—Perfect Together,” WorldatWork Journal, First Quarter, 2005, 44–49. 25. M. W. Van Alstyne, “Create Colleagues Not Competitors,” Harvard Business Review, September 2005, 24–28. 26. A. Bayo-Moriones and M. LarraaKintana, “Profit-Sharing Plans and Affective Commitment,” Human Resource Management, March–April 2009, 207–226. 27. “In Depth Profit Sharing: Share Peace of Mind,” Employee Benefits Magazine, January 2006, 42. 5315X_12_ch12_p394-423.indd 421 315X_12_ch12_p394-423.indd 421

What was the problem in the joint venture that triggered the conflict between the two companies?

This week’s discussion will focus on cultural negotiation using the case study Danone’s Wrangle with Wahaha (p. 255).This case is a cautionary tale of how important cultural differences are when forming strategic partnerships or joint ventures with companies from different countries.Our content this week reflects on the impact of conflict on decision-making. As a decision-maker within your organization, it is important for you to deal with conflict in a skilled manner. Doing so can create positive outcomes and provide opportunities for improvement rather than undesirable results. After reading the case, reflect on the following:What was the problem in the joint venture that triggered the conflict between the two companies?What were the differences of each company’s understanding of their own respective roles and responsibilities in this venture?Did any aspect of organizational cultural or national culture affect this perspective?As a leader, what are some ways you can handle conflict when it arises?Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories, which require supporting citations along with two scholarly peer-reviewed references supporting your answer. Keep in mind that these scholarly references can be found in the Saudi Digital Library by conducting an advanced search specific to scholarly references. Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument, citing all sources referenced. Post your initial response early and check back often to continue the discussion. Be sure to respond to your peers’ posts as well.2 pages 3 references

Do you have any advice for Logan?

  · Book: Forensic and Investigative Accounting· Please answer the questions listed below and submit in a word document.  The Dirty Accountant? Logan Johnson is a recent graduate of MidUniversity’s accounting program. She has begun her work as the accountant for Platinum Automotive run by Joe and Tom Younger. Platinum has a series of car lots where they sell top-end “previous driven” cars in Baltimore, Maryland. On February 6, 2011, Joe Younger sold a 2010 BMW X3, 3.01 SUV for $38,000. Logan entered the following entry into the accounting database for the sale:Feb. 6, 2011  Cash    9,800Note Receivable      28,200BMW X3      38,000Logan thought nothing of the sale. On February 10, Joe Younger dropped off documentation that showed $9,900 of the loan had been paid off. Logan booked the proper entries. On February 15 and again on February 20, documentation showed that the loan was being repaid and paid off with payments of $9,500 and $8,800, respectively. Shortly afterward, Logan received an envelope with $250 in cash on her desk. On the front of the envelope, the word “bonus” was written. Logan is happy that her work is being favorably recognized by the owners.Do you have any advice for Logan?

How has the evolution of the internet piloted the growth of e-contracts?

 In this module, we have explored the surge of e-commerce and the escalation of online contracts. How has the evolution of the internet piloted the growth of e-contracts? With the implementation of legislation, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN Act) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), what is the impact and significance of digital signatures in cyberspace?Finally, in responding to your peers’ posts, discuss the validity of e-contracts within an information technology business model. What are the boundaries of e-contracts? Offer suggestions on how your peers can protect contracts that fall outside the boundaries. 

Critically evaluate how Employment Relations policies and practices in an organisation with which you are familiar have impacted on organisational outcomes

Analysis from the latest 2011 WERS survey showed that Employment Relations played a part in ensuring the workplaces survived the recession. Critically evaluate how Employment Relations policies and practices in an organisation with which you are familiar have impacted on organisational outcomes such as organisational performance and employee engagement”.Tip: focus on one or two topics (if two look at linked ones) – otherwise not enough words (3,500) to cover in sufficient depth. NB: you can choose any aspect of ER that impacts on organisational outcomes such as discipline, grievance, dismissal, redundancy, health and wellbeing, diversity  Evaluate the impact of different roles controlling & managing the employment relationship (10-15% of word count)ManagementWhat is the role of senior management and line management?Any employer bodies that are an influence e.g. national associations?What is the management style – Purcell and Sisson? ER themes – power & authority, co-operation & compliance, which are at play?Employees What’s the impact on employees and their representatives and Trade Unions if applicable? Has feedback from employees driven a change in policy, what’s the make-up of the workforce?Are the interests of employers and employees divergent or convergent? Reality vs Rhetoric?Government What impact on your organisational context particularly e.g. relevant employment legislation, EU law, Acas early conciliation, ET fees etc.  Make appropriate recommendations on your findings (15% of word count)Linked to the previous critical evaluation and flow through answer, don’t introduce a NEW idea not mentioned earlier here.Recommendations could include but depend entirely on your organisation and findings…Omissions, what’s missing?Awareness – ER Comms?Role of Line Manager or HR in implementation e.g. training?Alignment to other policies/practices?So what? What is the business significance of good ER 

Discuss your strengths, challenges/obstacles, action plan, support resources, and monitoring process for your goal.

This task has two parts. In Part 1, you will state your SMART goal. In Part 2, you will write a reflection on what you have learned about from this experience.Based on the SMART goal you wrote above. You will discuss your strengths, challenges/obstacles, action plan, support resources, and monitoring process for your goal. 

What tables and columns would you create in your relational database, and how would you link the tables?

You have been hired to create a relational database to support a car sales business. You need to store information on the business’s employees, inventory, and completed sales. You also need to account for the fact that each salesperson receives a different percentage of their sales in commission. What tables and columns would you create in your relational database, and how would you link the tables?

Research one autosomal dominant disease, one autosomal recessive disease, and a sex-linked disease.

 Assignment Guidelines:Essays: (at least 300 words per prompt)1. Kate is born with features that do not look quite normal. Her eyes are wide-set and slightly slanted. Her nose is short and flat, and she keeps her mouth slightly open. There is a straight crease across her palm, and her fifth digit is unusually short. The doctor tells her parents she has an inherited disorder. If you were the doctor what would you diagnosis Kate with? Discuss the etiology of Kate’s disorder? What is the biggest risk factor for this disorder? How can or will this disorder affect Kate? What test could have been completed to diagnosis this disorder before Kate’s birth?2. Research one autosomal dominant disease, one autosomal recessive disease, and a sex-linked disease. For each disease discuss: 1. Etiology, 2. Signs and Symptoms, 3. Diagnosis, 4. Treatment and Prevention. Provide additional information from an outside source.3. A 12-year-old child experiences high fever and chills. He also says that his heart feels like its pounding. Two weeks before these symptoms, the child fell off his bike and skinned his knee. This child also has a history of a heart murmur. What disease should be considered and what is the treatment? What congenital heart disease is associated with heart murmurs?4. A 59-year-old male calls the paramedics after experiencing an episode of chest pain while shoveling snow. He describes his pain as a crushing, tight feeling that radiates to his left arm and jaw. What type(s) of heart disease is this patient experiencing (explain)? What diagnostic test would you expect the physician to order and why? What is the treatment?

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