Analyze how personality, values, and attitudes contribute to an employee’s satisfaction.
Week 1 ProjectAssignment Due December 7 at 12:59 AM
Evaluating Employee Characteristics
This course has major project assignments due in Week 3 and Week 5. It will take more than a week’s effort to adequately complete them. Plan time to start the research and work on those assignments earlier than the week in which they are due.
Evaluating Employee Characteristics
Some research studies (Ilies & Judge, 2003; Saari & Judge, 2004) report that genetics play a very important part in whether an employee has a high level of job satisfaction. Their work suggests that the attitudes, personality, and values that a person brings to the workplace are better predictors of whether the employee will be satisfied than any of the external factors a company or manager might provide the employee. In fact, their studies indicate that a person with high satisfaction will generally report being highly satisfied, no matter the situation within the company. Similarly, a person who reports low satisfaction will consistently report low satisfaction, no matter what the company may do to increase the employee’s satisfaction.
If these studies are correct, then there would seem to be some rationality in only hiring applicants with positive personalities.
In this assignment, you will develop a ten item survey that will be given to all applicants at your company. The purpose of this survey is to determine whether the applicant is a positive or negative person. First determine what attitudes, personality characteristics, and values you want to look for based upon your reading and research. You may ask up to nine questions to determine those individual characteristics. Let question ten ask whether the applicant is satisfied with the company.
Once you’ve completed your survey, write a well-researched, convincing paper to be read by your company’s head of the Human Resources Department in which you do the following:
Analyze how personality, values, and attitudes contribute to an employee’s satisfaction. Include support from your reading and research.
Justify why you chose to include the questions you did. Explain how each question will contribute to determining whether the applicant is a positive person.
Include your full survey as an appendix to your paper.
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Submission Details:
Submit your plan in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
Name your document SU_MGT3002_W1_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
References:
Ilies, R., & Judge, T. (2003). On the heritability of job satisfaction: The mediating role of personality. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(4), pp. 750–759.Saari, L., & Judge, T. (2004). Employee attitudes and job satisfaction. Human Resource Management, 43(4), pp. 395–407.
You will receive feedback and suggestions from your facilitator.
Discuss some of the measures, challenges, and financial interdependence that has occurred with the Ministry of Health since the inception of the COVID 19 virus.
As we have experienced, COVID 19 has drastically changed the way in which healthcare is creating policies and procedures.
Address the following requirements:
Discuss some of the measures, challenges, and financial interdependence that has occurred with the Ministry of Health since the inception of the COVID 19 virus.
Discuss some of the actions and policies that have been implemented by the MoH since COVID 19 had emerged.
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.
What are some examples of how the FMLA provides employees with job protection during their FMLA leave?
Deliverable length: 400-600 Words
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
You are a Human Resources Manager for Green Branch Coffee, a national chain of urban-style coffee shops. Employees need to work with the human resources (HR) department to ensure a fair, safe, and legal workplace. In this discussion, you will explore the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The FMLA provides time off for employees so they can deal with a serious medical condition of their own or one of a family member. Employees in companies such as Green Branch Coffee that have at least 50 employees are generally eligible for FMLA. Please review the Employee’s Guide to FMLA from the U.S. Department of Labor, and discuss the following:
What is the process of requesting FMLA leave?
What are some examples of how the FMLA provides employees with job protection during their FMLA leave?
What are some of the responsibilities that employees have during their FMLA leave?
Reference
U.S. Department of Labor. (n.d.). Family and Medical Leave Act employee guide. Wage and Hour Division (WHD). https://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/employeeguide.htm
Explain the major components of a blockchain.
The final portfolio project is a three-part activity. You will respond to three separate prompts but prepare your paper as one research paper. In addition to your textbook (which means you’ll have at least 4 sources cited).
Start your paper with an introductory paragraph.
Prompt 1 “Blockchain” (2-3 pages): Explain the major components of a blockchain. Be sure to include how blockchain is affecting a global economy and how you see it growing in the future.
Prompt 2 “Big Data” (1-2 pages): Describe your understanding of big data and give an example of how you’ve seen big data used either personally or professionally. In your view, what demands is big data placing on organizations and data management technology? How does big data affect a global economy?
Prompt 3 “Government and Policies” (1-2 pages): Discuss the role government plays in a global economy. Also, look at what policies are currently in place and then discuss what policies should be put in place.
Conclude your paper with a detailed Conclusion section.
The paper needs to be approximately six to eight pages long, including both a title page and a references page (for a total of eight to ten pages). Be sure to use proper APA formatting and citations to avoid plagiarism.
Your paper should meet these requirements:
Be approximately six to eight pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook.
Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.
The paper goes through the safe-assign university database plag checking process. Please keep the content 100% original.
What are your weaknesses that make you human and relatable in leadership?
Summary:
5 HBR [5] Goffee & Jones: Why Should Anyone Be Led by You:
“You can’t do anything in business without followers, and followers in these “empowered” times are hard to find. So executives had better know what it takes to lead effectively…” (p.79)
1) Reveal your weaknesses: What are your weaknesses that make you human and relatable in leadership?
2) Become a sensor: How do you read people around you?
3) Practice tough empathy: What does it mean to give people what they need rather than what they want?
4) Dare to be different: How are you superior but still approachable?
Requirements:
150-300 words, double spaced.
All HBR reflections are pass-fail
Describe some changes that commonly occur in the macroenvironment facing companies today.
Changing of Environment Conditions
- Describe some changes that commonly occur in the macroenvironment facing companies today. What kinds of changes do companies make to adjust to those changes? Identify a few examples of companies that have adjusted well to changing environmental conditions.
- File Management
Explain the importance of file management and how to control files over time. Be sure to give examples based on the hierarchical system used by Windows. How would you use file and folder names to assist you in managing your files? How would you apply this for your personal, professional and educational file management?
Determine the time for the feather to fall to the surface of the moon.
A feather is dropped on the moon from a height of 1.40 meters. The acceleration of gravity on the moon is 1.67 m/s2. Determine the time for the feather to fall to the surface of the moon.
What factors are important to ongoing team dynamics? Describe guidelines to evaluate the function and productivity of teams.
Review the Harvard Business School reprint, Leading Teams. Consider the criteria for successful teams and the factors needed to ensure teams are structured for success.
Create a plan (750-1,000 words) describing the steps necessary to create more successful teams at various levels within your organization. Include the following in the plan:
Define the characteristics and structure of successful teams within your organization. How are independent teams vital to the success of your organization?
What are important factors to consider when leading teams within the various levels of the organization?
What factors are important to consider when leading teams at the executive level?
What aspects are essential in identifying appropriate members for teams and ensuring the teams are successfully launched?
What factors are important to ongoing team dynamics? Describe guidelines to evaluate the function and productivity of teams.
Compassion is a significant attribute of many religions and philosophies, including a Christian worldview, as well as being important for both authentic and servant leadership. As a leader, how would you empower your teams through compassion to honor diversity and support equality for all members as they work toward a common goal?
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
If you find the defendant responsible, what damages would you award, and for what reasons?
The following is a fictitious scenario:
Following an automobile accident, a 16-year-old boy who had recently escaped from a detention center was brought to the hospital emergency department by ambulance. The patient seemed to be alert and claimed to be suffering withdrawal symptoms from a drug habit. The patient claimed that he participated in a methadone treatment program. The physician administered 40 milligrams of methadone. The patient needed blood but refused it. After being observed in the emergency department for several hours, the patient was placed on a medical-surgical unit for observation. The following morning it was not possible to awaken him, and he was pronounced dead. It was discovered that he had never been an addict or in a methadone treatment program. Rather, the previous night he had been drinking beer and taking librium. He had not told this to hospital authorities. His estate sued the physician.
Consider the possible outcomes if death was the result of (1) overdose, (2) failure to administer blood, or (3) subdural hematoma. Consider the possible outcomes if the patient was not a minor.
How would you argue for the plaintiff? And what evidence would you present?
How would you defend the defendant? And what are your defense options?
If you were on the jury, what would your finding be, based on only the facts as presented above?
If you find the defendant responsible, what damages would you award, and for what reasons?
Without knowing many details of healthcare law and legal obligations (that’s why you are in this class), answer the above questions based on what you think is ethical. You are responsible for at least a 250 word post, plus an educated response, including thoughtful comments or questions, to two of your classmates. This discussion board response is worth 10 points of your grade.
How important is fairness with respect to work motivation?
How important is fairness with respect to work motivation? What are the strengths and the drawbacks of the equity perspective? Provide examples of each.
