Discuss the differences between pure employment at will and employment at will with exceptions.
To be wrongfully terminated is to be fired for an illegal reason, which may involve violation of federal antidiscrimination laws or breach of contract. The legal standards governing termination differ substantially depending on whether private-sector and nonunion employees or public-sector and unionized employees are being considered. As the company HR leader, you are accountable to the organization to ensure that all employee terminations are initiated and completed while maintaining strict adherence to current employment laws and EEOC guidelines.
- Address your understanding of the term constructive discharge—what is it? Then, identify factors courts might focus on to determine if constructive discharge exists. How might the organization avoid claims of constructive discharge? Hint: Read Constructive Dismissal and Wrongful Termination.
- Discuss the differences between pure employment at will and employment at will with exceptions. Do you believe employment at will is fair? If not, what is an alternative?
- Briefly describe what the Montana Wrongful Discharge from Employment Act (WDEA) is. What do you see as benefits of this act to employees? Employers?
- Identify and discuss a minimum of three actions organizations may want to consider as they seek to handle employee terminations legally.
- Evaluate the legality of an employee termination in five pages.
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Why is it important to understand management style in a human relations course?
Why is it important to understand management style in a human relations course? Discuss at least three points.
Exercise Instructions: You are required to submit a 2-Page (Title Page and Content Page), APA formatted paper with substantial content. Substantial content requires staying on topic and fully addresses the assignment in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner. The deliverable length of your posting responses must be at least 2-pages, (Title Page and Content Page) APA format.
Exercises must be the students original thoughts based on the topics from the “Open Educational Resource” (OER) Course Textbook and/or other referenced sources. Direct quotes from references must be less than 20 words. Please review for sentence structure, grammar and punctuation errors. Plagiarized submissions may result in a “0” for the submission.
Late submissions will be deducted 5 points.
All assignment(s) derive from the OER Textbook. For academic purposes, at least 1 APA formatted reference is required pertaining to the topic(s).
What school or district policies might affect your decisions?
School administrators are responsible for evaluating the performances of various employee groups. Being able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of employees and provide them with quality feedback is essential to the success of the entire school. As the school leader, you will need to evaluate the instructional leadership capacity of your entire staff.
Read the following case studies and choose either the Elementary or Secondary to inform the assignment.
Elementary
You are a school principal in an elementary school. In preparation for meeting with your third grade team lead, Ms. Juarez, you have been analyzing the students’ reading performance data. You have identified that the students in four of the five teachers’ classes exhibit good to exceptional outcomes on their DIBELS benchmark data. Additionally, three of the teachers have historically yielded student scores with above average state standardized test results in comparison to schools in your district with similar demographics. In previous discussions with Ms. Juarez, she has cited the teachers’ efforts to plan together utilizing the pacing guide, core program, and assessment results as the primary reasons for their students’ positive outcomes.
One teacher, Ms. Monroe, has been identified as an outlier by the district’s assessment coordinator, relative to the results of her students, compared to the other four teachers. Additionally, you have observed evidence that suggests Ms. Monroe is behind on the pacing guide, compared to her colleagues. You also have received anecdotal information that she does not engage with her teammates during scheduled grade level meetings, which leads you to believe that she is not making an effort to plan with them outside the scheduled meetings.
Secondary
You are a school principal in a 9-12 grade high school. In preparation for a meeting with your ELA department chair, Mr. Wong, you have been analyzing the students’ ELA performance data. Including Mr. Wong, your school has eight ELA teachers. For seven of the ELA teachers, 70% or more of their students are demonstrating good to exceptional outcomes on their writing benchmark data. Four of the teachers have historically yielded student scores with above average state standardized test results in comparison to schools in your district with similar demographics. In previous discussions, Mr. Wong has cited the teachers’ efforts to plan together utilizing the pacing guide, core program, and assessment results as the primary reasons for their students’ positive outcomes.
One teacher, however, Mr. Blumenstock, has been identified as an outlier by the district’s assessment coordinator, relative to the results of his students, compared to the other two teachers. Additionally, you have observed evidence that suggests Mr. Blumenstock is behind on the pacing guide compared to his colleagues. You also have anecdotal information that he does not engage with his teammates during scheduled content team meetings, which leads you to believe that he is not making an effort to plan with them outside the scheduled meetings.
In 750-1,000 words, analyze your chosen case using the three-part guiding questions below.
Part 1: Analyze the Case
Consider the following questions to begin analyzing the situation:
- What do you consider the responsibility of the team lead/department chair in assisting the outlier teacher?
- What stakeholders should be included in the conversation relative to next steps? Are these individual conversations or a group discussion or both?
- What questions should be considered when making a determination about next steps?
Part 2: Identify the Larger Issues
Consider the following questions to analyze the contextual issues present in the situation:
- What school or district policies might affect your decisions?
- What additional information do you need as part of your decision-making process?
- What are the potentially positive and negative outcomes of doing nothing?
- What are the potentially positive and negative outcomes of taking action?
Part 3: Create an Action Plan
Use the following questions to guide you in describing what approach you will take to assist the team lead/department chair to help the outlier teacher, including 3-5 specific action steps:
- What is your plan moving forward?
- How does your plan sustain a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations?
- How will you include the critical stakeholders in the decision-making process?
- What challenges do you anticipate?
- How will you provide ongoing support to your team lead/department chair?
- How will you evaluate the results of your teacher leader’s efforts?
- What does the timeline look like?
Support your analysis and plan with 2-3 scholarly resources.
Evaluate two of the barriers and provide solutions for how health care organizations can overcome them.
DNP-835A: Patient Outcomes and Sustainable Change
ASSIGNMENT 1:
Quality and Sustainability Paper: Part 1
Assessment Description
This assignment will be completed in two parts, which will be synthesized into a final paper.
The purpose of this assignment is to investigate a quality and/or safety issue in a health care entity. You will use the issue and health care entity that you select in this paper for Part 2 of the assignment and for the sustainability assignments. You may use an issue identified at the practice site in your DPI Project.
General Guidelines:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments.
This assignment requires that you support your position by referencing six to eight scholarly resources. At least three of your supporting references must be from scholarly sources other than the assigned readings.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite to verify similarity scores.
Directions:
Write a paper (1,500-1,750 words) discussing the role of quality or safety in nursing practice. Include the following:
In your own words, define quality and safety measures and describe their relationship and role in nursing practice today.
Create a table that identifies three barriers, and three facilitators or methods for addressing the barriers, in today’s health care that impact both patient outcomes and organizational outcomes. Evaluate two of the barriers and provide solutions for how health care organizations can overcome them. Describe two of the facilitators or methods and explain how the facilitators or methods will assist overcoming or reducing barriers. Attach the table as an appendix to this assignment.
Identify a health care entity. Provide an overall description of this entity without using the real name (e.g., location, size, profit or nonprofit, years in operation). In addition to not using the name of the health care entity, do not use the name of any person described.
Select a specific contemporary quality and/or safety issue that is measured at the health care entity and explain how that measure is applied in nursing practice. You will use this selected issue for all quality and sustainability assignments.
Describe the current quality and/or safety program the health care entity has in place to address the quality and/or safety issue you selected. Describe the key quality measures or components currently used to analyze the health care program’s outcome. Discuss what is working and what is not working.
Summarize the specific variables used to track improvement of the health care quality and/or safety program’s outcome.
RESOURCES
Werlau, T., Soares-Sardinha, S., Overman, A. S., Chutz, J., Emory, J., Jones, C. M., Lee, G., & Smith-Miller, C. A. (2020). Creating microclimates of change: Transparency in disseminating nursing quality performance data. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 50(7/8), 385-395. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000000905
Graves, L. Y., Tamez, P., Wallen, G. R., & Saligan, L. N. (2021). Defining the role of individuals prepared as a doctor of nurse practice in symptoms science research. Nursing Outlook, 69(4), 542-549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2021.01.013
Kennedy, K., Campis, S., & Leclerc, L. (2020). Human-centered leadership: Creating change from the inside out. Nurse Leader, 18(3), 227–231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.03.009
Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020, December 17). Health outcomes measure [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W2GuZO853Q
Explain how principles of Christian leadership could influence a leader’s philosophy on public service.
Compare the various approaches to leadership as covered in your textbook readings for this topic. Include the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
Choose one of the approaches. Describe how that approach might influence a leader’s philosophy on public service.
Explain how principles of Christian leadership could influence a leader’s philosophy on public service.
Use two to three scholarly resources to support your explanations.
What is your role in advocating on behalf of individuals with disabilities who are struggling with addiction?
What is your role in advocating on behalf of individuals with disabilities who are struggling with addiction? What is required of you, ethically speaking?
Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.
Case Study
LM is an 89-year-old female resident of a long-term care facility who has been experiencing multiple falls, some resulting in injuries such as bruising and skin tears. Over the last 6 months, her ambulation status has declined from independent to wheelchair level. She complains of pain in her legs when walking more than short distances across the nursing unit.
PMH:
HTN
Alzheimer’s disease
Hypothyroidism
Osteoarthritis
Diabetes
MEDICATIONS:
Amlodipine 10 mg QD
Donepezil 10 mg QHS
Levothyroxine 0.88 mg QAM
Celecoxib 200 mg QD
Furosemide 40 mg QAM
Metformin 500mg, 1 BID
Glyburide 5mg, 1 BID
ALLERGIES: NKA
SOCIAL HISTORY:
Widowed with 2 adult children living in town, retired photographer and owner of an art supply store
VITALS: LABS:
Weight: 129 lbs TSH 2.45 Free T4 0.98
Height: 64 inches Na 135, K+ 3.8, Cl 99, CO2 25,
BP: Supine = 177/82 Glucose 101, SCr 0.9, BUN 42
HR: 78 bpm WBC 7.0, RBC 4.5, Hgb 11.9, Hct 34.1
Plt 255
Cr: 1.6 UA: Clear
eGFR: 45 ml/min
PE:
HEENT: Normocephalic, no evidence of trauma, PERRLA, EOMI, Dry mucous membranes
CV: RRR
Respiratory: Clear to auscultation bilaterally
Abdomen: Soft, non-tender, no masses or guarding
G/U: Skin intact, assisted with toileting and personal hygiene by staff
Extremities: Bilateral 2+ edema to lower extremities; skin dry, dark bruising and skin tear to right elbow and forearm
Neuro: Alert and oriented to person only. MMSE 18/30, stable over last 12 months.
PAIN ASSESSMENT:
Faces pain scale: No pain occurs at rest, upon walking, pain is moderate to severe
To Prepare
Review the case study assigned by your Instructor for this Assignment.
Select one the following factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, or behavior factors.
Reflect on how the factor you selected might influence the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.
Consider how changes in the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy.
Think about how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan based on the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes. Reflect on whether you would modify the current drug treatment or provide an alternative treatment option for the patient.
Assignment
Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:
Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.
Describe how changes in the processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.
Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.
What safeguards should Facebook have in place to maintain the ethical integrity of its AI driven business model?
INSTRUCTIONS
The ethics paper must be typed and submitted on Canvas for evaluation. This written assignment should be 4-page paper, double-spaced, 11-12 readable font, excluding reference section. Please do not exceed four (4) typed pages.
The ethics paper should be typed with one (1) inch margins for the sides, top and bottom. It should contain a heading that includes, title of the assignment, date, and instructor’s name (No cover sheet required). It should include in-text citations pursuant to APA formatting style. The paper should include a reference section at the end of the document (endnotes) with proper citation for each source. For APA guide and APA citation examples please visit https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html. Also, you can watch https://youtu.be/Q7TBmi8-9G0on how to write in APA style.
This paper requires critical thinking and research. In your writing avoid informal verbiage.
You may use any materials you want. When you use textbook, articles, reports, supplementary materials or class handouts, you must provide an ACCURATE citation each time you use such materials in your writing. A link to APA citations is provided in your syllabus as well as under item 3 above.
Read the facts in part A and questions carefully and outline your answers prior to writing. Organization is Key.
There is no single correct answer. If your arguments are persuasive and compelling, based on your outline and organization of the essay, content and proper format you will be eligible to gain all points no matter what your chosen answer to the question is.
Part A: Facts
While new technologies can break the barriers and empower people by combating discrimination and encouraging dignity assurance, there are alerting concerns around the discriminatory outcomes these machines themselves can create. An increasing body of research suggests that algorithms and artificial intelligence aren’t necessarily a panacea for ending prejudice, and they can have disproportionate impacts on groups that are already socially disadvantaged.
As Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms learn patterns in the data, they also absorb biases in it. For example, Google showed more ads for lower paying-jobs to women than to men, Amazon’s same-day delivery bypassed black neighborhoods, and the software on several types of digital cameras struggled to recognize the faces of non-white users. In one of the most striking examples, an algorithm called COMPAS, used by law enforcement agencies across multiple states to assess a defendant’s risk of reoffending, was found to falsely flag black individuals almost twice as often as whites, according to a ProPublica investigation. There are similar concerns about algorithmic bias in facial-recognition technology, which already has a far broader impact than most people realize: Over 117 million American adults have had their images entered into a law-enforcement agency’s face-recognition database, often without their consent or knowledge, and the technology remains largely unregulated. Another example of a data bias emerged in Nikon’s camera software, which misread images of Asian people as blinking, and in Hewlett-Packard’s web camera software, which had difficulty recognizing people with dark skin tones. These challenges are either related to the data itself or to the way algorithms are designed, developed and deployed. Machine learning systems lack transparency and auditability and are almost entirely developed by small, homogenous teams most often of men.
On August 13, 2018, the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (“Assistant Secretary”) filed a complaint with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) alleging that Facebook Inc. violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin and disability. Subsequently, HUD issued a Charge of Discrimination (“Charge”) on behalf of aggrieved persons following an investigation and a determination that reasonable cause exists to believe that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred.
Facebook is the second largest online advertiser in the United States and is responsible for approximately twenty percent of all online advertising nationwide. Facebook collects millions of data points about its users, draws inferences about each user based on this data, and then charges advertisers for the ability to micro target ads to users based on Facebook’s inferences about them. These ads are then shown to users across the web and in mobile applications. As Facebook explains, its advertising platform enables advertisers to “[r]each people based on zip code, age and gender, specific languages, the interests they’ve shared, their activities, the Pages they’ve liked, their purchase behaviors or intents, device usage and more.” Thus, Facebook “uses location-related information-such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go, and the businesses and people you’re near to provide, personalize and improve its Products, including ads, for you and others.”
Facebook holds out its advertising platform as a powerful resource for advertisers in many industries, including housing and housing-related services. Such ads include ads for mortgages from large national lenders, ads for rental housing from large real estate listing services, and ads for specific houses for sale from real estate agents.
Facebook has provided a toggle button that enables advertisers to exclude men or women from seeing an ad, a search-box to exclude people who do not speak a specific language from seeing an ad, and a map tool to exclude people who live in a specified area from seeing an ad by drawing a red line around that area. Facebook also provides drop-down menus and search boxes to exclude or include people who share specified attributes. Facebook has offered advertisers hundreds of thousands of attributes from which to choose, for example to exclude “women in the workforce,” “moms of grade school kids,” “foreigners,” “Puerto Rico Islanders,” or people interested in “parenting,” “accessibility,” “service animal,” “Hijab Fashion,” or “Hispanic Culture.” Facebook also has offered advertisers the ability to limit the audience of an ad by selecting to include only those classified as, for example, “Christian” or “Childfree.”
Facebook alone, not the advertiser, determines which users will constitute the “actual audience” for each ad. Facebook structured its ad delivery system such that it generally will not deliver an ad to users whom the system determines are unlikely to engage with the ad, even if the advertiser explicitly wants to reach those users regardless. Facebook uses machine learning and other prediction techniques to classify and group users to project each user’s likely response to a given ad. In doing so, Facebook inevitably recreates groupings defined by their protected class. For example, the top Facebook pages users “like” vary sharply by their protected class, according to Facebook’s “Audience Insights” tool. Therefore, by grouping users who “like” similar pages (unrelated to housing) and presuming a shared interest or disinterest in housing-related advertisements, Facebook’s mechanisms function just like an advertiser who intentionally targets or excludes users based on their protected class.
Part B – Questions
Based on facts provided above, write an essay and answer below questions:
Should Facebook be held ethically liable for its biased dwelling advertisements? Why?
Identify procedures that help Facebook prevent data bias, ensure data quality and improve its ethical responsibility towards its users. What safeguards should Facebook have in place to maintain the ethical integrity of its AI driven business model?
Do you think Facebook must have strict liability? Meaning that all Facebook agents, employees, successors, and all other persons in active concert or participation with it, have participated in discriminating because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin or disability in any aspect of the sale, rental, use, marketing, or advertising of dwellings and related services must be held liable? Or we should only hold Facebook liable based on theory of negligence?
End of the Ethics Paper Assignment
Compare and Contrast Japanese vs. US Management Styles
Compare and Contrast Japanese vs. US Management Styles Essay
The purpose of this research paper is to compare and contrast U.S. and Japanese styles of management. Include in the essay an Introduction – what the paper will be about, discuss each national culture, discuss each workforce, discuss each management style, discuss employee-employer relationships, and a conclusion – which style do you feel is a better fit for you. A minimum of 5 full pages addressing the components listed above, but not including title page and reference page. Need at least 5 “peer-reviewed” sources, must be cited in the text of the paper. Do not use direct quotes, be sure to paraphrase. Use APA style to properly cite all sources. Make sure the paper begins with a Level One Heading: Introduction (Do not confuse an Introduction with an Abstract). Include a properly formatted APA cover sheet. Include a properly formatted APA reference page. Use 12 point Times New Roman font. Double-space the entire paper. Accurate In-text citations must be included. APA documentation and formatting style used appropriately (including in-text citations, reference entries, and format). Avoid bullet points and write in third person.
What roles do decision trees and influence diagrams play in helping to understand and communicate the structure of your decisions in this project?
BBA312 Decision Making Final Assignment Brief and Rubrics
Task
• This is an individual task
• Read and study the information below and answer the questions.
• There are 8 questions. Make sure the questions are clearly labelled.
• Document format (upload in pdf format)
Formalities:
• Wordcount: 2000 words
• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
• Text alignment: Justified.
• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
The Project Information
Madrid FC own land in the metropolitan area of Madrid. They would like to build a sports complex which would include state-of the art training facilities for elite athletes. Your consultancy office with the help of architects and sports consultant have drawn up three different projects) (i) 10 hectare site with small capacity for athletes (ii) 20 Ha site and moderate level of capacity; (iii) a high-level complex at 30 Ha.
The success of the project depends upon several factors. Madrid FC want to build make the largest profit. There is uncertainty concerning the demand for the three projects. The decision is to select the optimum project depends on following three decision alternatives:
Decision 1: a small sports complex at 10 Ha
Decision 2: a medium complex at 20 Ha
Decision 3: a large complex at 30 Ha
Some other information investigated:
Decision 1 would be in the centre of town where property and land are expensive but would have some kudos as it is close to the football ground.
Decision 2 is close to the centre but transport would be needed to get to it.
Decision 3 is out of town with lots of opportunity for expansion.
A study was conducted to get some prior knowledge for the probability of each alternative occurring at 2 different demand level. The two directions investigated were high demand and low demand and based on various financial metrics and a probability assigned to these variables (see table 1 below).
Thus, management must first select a decision alternative (complex size), then other states of nature will be investigated e.g. (demand for the sports facility).
Given the three decision alternatives and the two states of nature, which sports complex should Madrid FC advance?
To answer this question, Madrid FC will need to know the consequence associated with each decision alternative and each state of nature.
Table 1: Payoff for Madrid FC Sports Complex (payoff in Euros million)
Low Demand High Demand
Size Decision S1 (p=0.4) S2 (p=0.6) Small D1 3000 3200
Medium D2 2500 2800
Large D3 2000 2100
Table 2: A survey was completed with 100 people that showed strong interest in signing up to train at the complex. A contingency table of the data is shown below
Trains more than 3 times a week
Trains less than 3 times a month TOTAL
Football fan 20 40 60
Non-football fan 20 20 40
TOTAL 40 60 100
Questions:
1) Based on the information in the case, what are Madrid FCs key drivers and objectives in this decision- making process?
2) Are there any other objectives that you think they should consider?
3) Identify the basic elements governing Madrid FCs decision-making (values, decisions, uncertain events, consequences, etc) ? 4) Develop a decision tree for this decision-making process.
5) What roles do decision trees and influence diagrams play in helping to understand and communicate the structure of your decisions in this project?
6) Which decision would you recommend based on your investigations. Justify your recommendations?
7) Given the information in the contingency table, what is the significance of this data and which marketing solutions might be applicable for Madrid FC?
8) Develop arguments on how decision-making could be improved in a project of this nature?
Submission: Week 12 – 8th January 2023, 23:59
Weight: This task is worth 60% of your total grade for this subject.
This assignment assesses the following learning outcomes:
• Outcome 1: to have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of effective decision-making processes within a business context marked by uncertainty
risk danger opportunity and growth.
• Outcome 2: Identify and apply interpretive and analytical methods for effective analysis and decision making
• Outcome 3: Apply the framework of effective decision-making within a business context and of risk management.
• Outcome 4: To critically appreciate the framework of problem analysis within the context of decision-making
