Consider the three stages of Hydro One’s enterprise risk management (ERM) process: Workshops; Risk-based Asset Planning; the Regular Update of the Corporate Risk Profile. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this ERM process?

1. What is Hydro One’s strategy and what risks does the company face?2. Consider the three stages of Hydro One’s enterprise risk management (ERM) process: Workshops; Risk-based Asset Planning; the Regular Update of the Corporate Risk Profile. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this ERM process? 3. Should private-sector companies embrace ERM in a way similar to Hydro One’s approach? What are the contingencies of this process?4. What recommendations would you make to CEO Laura Formusa about the ERM process? 5. To learn about Hydro One’s business, watch the video segments in Chapters 1–2. How would you describe Hydro One’s strategy? What type of risks and uncertainties does Hydro One face? 6. The video segments in Chapters 3–5 illustrate the three stages of Hydro One’s enterprise risk management (ERM) process: Workshops (Ch 3); Risk-based Asset Planning (Ch 4); the Regular Update of the Corporate Risk Profile (Ch5). What are the strengths and weaknesses of the ERM process? 7. What recommendations would you make to CEO Laura Formusa about the ERM process?

Book Critique on Martin’s, Prevailing Worldviews of Western Society Since 1500.

Book Critique on Martin’s, Prevailing Worldviews of Western Society Since 1500. The Book Critique must be 3–5 pages, not including the title and reference page. Format the body of your critique in 4 main sections: summary, critique, application, and policy review. Do not summarize or critique the chapters chronologically. Consider the book as a whole. Avoid excessive quotations. State the authors’ viewpoints in your own words and give specific page references when paraphrasing. Be sure to review the Book Critiques Grading Rubric before starting this assignment. Each submission must be in a Microsoft Word document.• SummarySummarize the main theme of the book. What is the overall perspective, purpose, or argument of the book? If the author wanted you to get 1 idea from the book, what would it be? • CritiqueThis section needs to balance the book’s strengths and weaknesses in order to unify your evaluation. What strikes you as noteworthy? What has the book accomplished? In what ways was the book effective or persuasive? Challenge assumptions, approaches, or arguments made by the author. Does the argument make sense? You can offer agreement or disagreement as well as identifying where you find the work exemplary or deficient in its knowledge, judgments, or organization. Provide concrete evidence for your assertions. Support judgments with references from the textbook readings in this course and other scholarly resources. The paper must include at least 2 references in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible. All citations must be in current Turabian format. Be sure that your evaluation is balanced, respectful, and fair. Control the tone of your critique.• ApplicationThis section must demonstrate how the book has enhanced your understanding of current public policy issues. Why is this topic important today? How can this information be used in forming and maintaining a strong foreign policy? • Policy ReviewIdentify and assess a current public policy issue in current events in light of the theories presented in this material. Do not merely state what the policy is. Explain the policy and provide a short but detailed briefing on the policy. Additionally, state if the policy is good or bad based on the perspective you gained in reading this book. You must also introduce new ideas that go beyond the book if they complement ideas you have gleaned from reading in the book.

Discuss the challenges regarding corporate social responsibility that companies in the apparel industry face in their supply chains around the world. Discuss the meaning and implications of the statement by a Nike representative that “ consumers are not rewarding us for investments in improved social performance in supply chains.”

1. Discuss the challenges regarding corporate social responsibility that companies in the apparel industry face in their supply chains around the world.2. Discuss the meaning and implications of the statement by a Nike representative that “ consumers are not rewarding us for investments in improved social performance in supply chains.”3. What does it mean to have an industry open- systems approach to social responsibility? What parties are involved? Who are the stakeholders?4. What is meant by “ leadership beyond borders”?5. Is it possible to have “ a compatibility of profits with people and planet”? Whose responsibility is it to achieve that state?6. Research Nike’s CSR actions since this time frame and why it has earned the reputation as one of the world’s foremost organizations in sustainability.Complete your answers in a Microsoft Word Document and submit your case study to the Assignment 2 assignment area – Minimum 2 pages, Calibri 11 point, double spaced.

Understanding Your Employee Benefits: Qualifying for Unemployment Benefits

Answer each case question according to the information given in the case.Each answer should be between 150-200 words. 1. Understanding Your Employee Benefits: Qualifying for Unemployment BenefitsDuring the three years that you have worked at your current company, the company has had some success, but mostly, it has not done well. The most recent downturn in business has made you concerned about the future of the company. Several employees who work in your department were laid off in the past six months due to lack of work, and you are concerned that you may be next on the list. It seems that others feel the same way, as company morale is at an all-time low. In fact, the overall company morale, coupled with the poor attitude of your supervisor, is making your job miserable. You aren’t sure if it is worthwhile at this point to try to stick it out.Every day you dread getting up and going to work. Your supervisor is frustrated about trying to get work done with a lean staff, and you feel that he is taking it out on you. He criticizes you constantly and sometimes makes it seem that it is your fault that things are going so poorly. He has mentioned several times that the department will likely be closed within the year. You know that he is under a great deal of stress, given the impending lay offs, but the situation is becoming unbearable. You still show up to work and do your best, but you’re not sure how much longer you can do it. It seems inevitable that you will lose your job, so you are starting to think that it might be a better idea to resign your position now.You know that you are going to need to look for a new job soon, regardless of what you do, but it is hard to even think about a job search while you are working full time. You are thinking that maybe quitting your job now will relieve some stress and give you the time you need to conduct a job search. However, you rely on your weekly paycheck, and you aren’t sure what you will do if it takes you very long to find a new job. A former coworker who was laid off last year told you that the unemployment insurance payment that he received helped bridge the gap between the lay off and finding a new job. After a one-week waiting period, he received a weekly benefit that helped him pay his bills until he found another job. As the job market is uncertain, you think that you need the support of unemployment insurance to sustain yourself until you find another job.You are pretty sure that you will be eligible for unemployment insurance if your company does ultimately lay you off. However, you’re not sure if you can still qualify for unemployment insurance if you resign. If you are able to collect unemployment insurance,214you would like to quit soon so that you can move on with your job search, and you must do some research to understand the unemployment insurance benefit.1. Are you eligible to receive unemployment if you resign?2. Should you resign or wait to find out if and when you are laid off?2. Managing Employee Benefits: Social Security and Retirement Planning at Taylor FoodsAs Gavin Jackson leaves the monthly professional luncheon for human resource executives in his area, he starts to consider how the information he learned will affect his company, Taylor Foods. The program speaker provided an update on the Social Security system and how challenges in financing the system may affect organizations. As the director of human resources at this large food-processing and distribution company, Gavin must plan the retirement benefits for the organization’s employees. Gavin had been aware that the Social Security system is in trouble, but now has some clear ideas about how it will affect both the retirement benefits offered by Taylor Foods and the retirement plans of its employees.Gavin learned that the current Social Security system is unstable and that the future of benefits to be provided is uncertain. In particular, the Old-Age, Survivor, and Disability Insurance (OASDI), which provides retirement benefit payments to retired workers, is under a strain. Retirement benefits comprise a majority of the payments made by the Social Security system, and the instability of the system suggests that current workers may not be able to rely on the Social Security system as it exists today to support them in retirement. Gavin knows that this information affects the retirement benefit planning at Taylor Foods.The speaker also noted that employees retiring in the relatively near future may base their retirement decisions to some extent on the Social Security benefits available to them. While employees may receive their retirement benefits from Social Security starting at age 62, the amount is reduced if they haven’t reached the full retirement age, which is determined based on year of birth. For example, the age for full retirement is 67 for anyone born in 1960 or later. Further, the system contains other incentives to encourage individuals to delay retirement. This is important to Taylor Foods, as the age at which employees plan to retire affects the company’s human resource planning process. Annually, Gavin creates staffing plans that include estimates for turnover of employees, and employee retirements are included in those estimates. This information, coupled with a current downturn in the economy, leads Gavin to believe that Taylor Foods may experience a lower level of turnover as employees delay retirement.Gavin is considering both of these issues as he considers retirement benefits, as well as staffing planning at Taylor Foods. While the company currently offers a competitive retirement plan, he knows that he needs to reexamine the benefits in the context of his new understanding of the Social Security system. He also needs to consider how employees planning to delay retirement will affect the organization and the human resource planning process.1. How does the instability of the Social Security system affect retirement benefit planning at Taylor Foods?2. Should Gavin consider the possibility of employees delaying retirement in the company’s human resource planning process? 1. Understanding Your Employee Benefits: The Decision to Work from HomeAs you make the nearly hour-long commute home from your job at your company’s downtown office, you think about today’s announcement with some excitement. The director of human resources introduced a new company policy that permits employees to apply to telecommute. The company is doing well and is hiring new workers. As a result, management recently reviewed company policies and practices to accommodate the needs of the growing workforce. The company is looking to save some facility costs and also respond to employee requests for more flexible work options. The company will allow people in certain positions, including yours, to work from home either full time or a just a few days each week.With high gas prices, daily parking expenses, and the logistics challenges that the two hours a day you spend commuting causes, you see this as a great opportunity. You have two children, and, although they are in school full time, it is almost impossible for you to attend your children’s special events at school without taking a full day off and using one of your limited vacation days. Further, when your children get sick, you have to use a sick day to stay at home taking care of them and not working.The new company policy states that employees who telecommute must use their own computers and provide evidence that they have a safe and quiet work environment. The company will provide you with any other work supplies that you need. All of the information you need to do your job is available to you via an online connection, so the transition to working at home should be fairly easy. You already have an office at home with a computer, so you could begin telecommuting as soon as your request is approved.It seems like the perfect solution to your daily challenges, but you worry about how telecommuting will affect your career. You’ve heard from others that old adage, “out of sight, out of mind” and have concerns about your chances for future promotions if you aren’t in the239office every day. Further, you have high productivity expectations and you consider whether working at home alone will allow you to work harder, as you would not have the typical office distractions, or whether you would be distracted by work that needs to be done around the house. You also think that you might feel somewhat isolated, as you generally are a social person and enjoy seeing your coworkers each day. As you consider some of the negatives of telecommuting, your excitement wears off, and you aren’t sure what you should do.1. Should you apply to telecommute? If so, should you pursue a part-time or full-time work-at-home arrangement?2. If you do telecommute, what can you do to make sure that the arrangement does not negatively impact your career? Are there any other concerns you should have?2. Managing Employee Benefits: Transitioning to a Paid Time-Off BankHuman Resources Manager Stan Gomez finds that he is spending a lot of time talking with supervisors about employee absences. Stan is the Human Resource Manager works for Custom Call Services, a contract customer service-call center that provides year-round online and telephone service to the customers of a wide variety of clients. Staffing levels are essential to meet the demanding level of calls and inquiries the center receives each day. The company offers paid time-off options to its employees to allow them to balance work and nonwork interests. A goal of the time-off program is to keep unscheduled absences to a minimum in order to keep productivity and service quality high. Unscheduled absences create a problem, as the company has to cover the workload of the absent employee with little advance notice.Custom Call Center offers a generous paid time-off program to allow employees to have time off to rest and relax, to meet personal obligations, and to manage unexpected illnesses. Currently, employees receive 10 vacation days, 3 personal days, and 5 sick days per year. Due to the nature of the business and the need to provide service to clients every day, the company does not close on any holidays. Thus, in addition to other time-off benefits, the company provides seven floating holidays and encourages employees to take these on or near traditional holidays.The time-off program currently creates some challenges for the company. While the company uses an automated system to track employees’ time off, supervisors still need to record and properly allocate time off as it is taken. This requires the supervisors to know the reasons for each absence and the scheduling policy for each type of absence. For example, employees must schedule vacation and floating holidays in advance. They are encouraged to schedule personal days in advance, but personal days may be taken without advance notice if necessary. Finally, sick days do not require advance notice, but they may require a doctor’s note if an employee uses a few days in a row, or if the supervisor questions the need for the absence.The sick days create the most challenges for supervisors, as sick days are typically taken without advance notice. Many supervisors suspect that not all last-minute call-offs are necessary. Some employees have admitted that they use sick days even if they are not sick when they have exhausted all of their other time-off options. Essentially, they plan to take a day off, but because the policy does not allow them to schedule sick days in advance, they call off shortly before they are scheduled to work. As a result, supervisors must quickly arrange to cover those shifts.To overcome these challenges, Stan is considering transitioning the company to an integrated paid time-off (PTO) policy in which all time off is grouped into one bank. Instead240of the current time-off allotments, the company would offer 25 PTO days each year. Under this policy, employees could still call off on the same day due to illness, but they would be encouraged to schedule most of their time off in advance. Further, supervisors would not need to know the reasons for the absences; they only would need to track the number of days taken off by employees. Stan thinks that the PTO bank would eliminate many unscheduled absences and ease the administrative burden of the company’s current time-off policies.1. Should Custom Call Services switch to a PTO policy? What are the pros and cons of doing so?2. If Custom Call Services does transition to a PTO policy, what are some things that Stan should consider including in the policy to address concerns about absenteeism?

Evaluate the impact of globalization on the value chain by applying elements from the Contemporary Value Chain model and additional decision-making factors.

Globalization and the Value ChainThe purpose of this Assignment is for you to evaluate the impact of globalization on the value chain by applying elements from the Contemporary Value Chain model and additional decision-making factors.Checklist: Use the APA formatted Microsoft Word document template in Course Documents titled “Unit 4 Assignment Globalization” as the starting point. Download the template and save it as your own document, for example, YourNameUnit4GB570.docx.Write an APA formatted 4–6-page paper, exclusive of the Title and References pages.In your paper, address the following requirements using the directions included within the Unit 4 Assignment template.Write your paper using third person perspective (do not use first or second person pronouns; (e.g., “I,” “me,” “you,” “we”).In your paper, apply the 21 elements from the Contemporary Value Chain model, plus additional decision-making factors (all listed below) to evaluate the impact of globalization on a value chain. Here is the list of considerations that need to be addressed in the paper; all are related to the ultimate goal to earn customer value (includes customer delight and profitability). Within each element, describe what decisions may need to be made, for what reason, by whom, for what reason and how the elements are interrelated.21 Value Chain Elements BudgetingCompetitive advantageCorporate social responsibilityCultureCustomer needExternal resourcesFinancialGoalsIdea generationInformation managementInfrastructureLeadershipPeople – human resourcesPeople – customersPeople – shareholdersPolitical (external)Political (internal)Product developmentStrategySupply chain managementTechnological considerations.Include a conclusion summarizing the paper’s content without introducing any new information.Support your response’s content with at least three separate applied and cited references. Accepted sources are: Library article(s) and your textbook. No other internet references are acceptable for the Unit 4 Assignment. Apply and cite no more than one referenced sentence per paragraph. Not every paragraph requires use of a reference; originality is appreciated. Use APA in-text citations within the response and list the applied reference(s) at the end of the response using APA formatting. APA formatting resources are available in the Academic Tools area titled, “APA Style Central.”Proofread your paper, confirm correct APA formatting, run spell check and grammar check, and proofread again. Submit your completed paper into the Unit 4 Assignment Dropbox.Access the rubric

Was the decade that followed World War I a decade of “progress” in the United States? Why or why not?

1.) Was the decade that followed World War I a decade of “progress” in the United States? Why or why not? In your answer, please explain what the idea of “progress” means to you. 2.) What was the “new consumer society” of the 1920s? Who benefited and who suffered from its emergence?3.) What were “business interests” in the 1920s? How did they relate to government policies?4.) Why did the protection of civil liberties gain importance in the 1920s? 5.) What were the tensions within the national culture during the 1920s, and how did they relate to changes in the world of business?6.) What were the causes of the Great Depression, what were the government’s responses by 1932?Please answer one or two of these questions in no more than 500 words.

Read Commonwealth v. Henson, 259 N.E.2d 769 (1970). Did the course render the correct decision?

Read Commonwealth v. Henson, 259 N.E.2d 769 (1970). In Henson, the defendant fired blanks at a police officer and was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. The defendant appealed, claiming that he had no present ability to shoot the police officer because the gun was not loaded with bullets. Did the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts uphold the defendant’s conviction? Did the course render the correct decision? The case is available at this link:http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11962310018051202223&hl=en&as_sdt=2002&as_vis=1

Summarize the development of federalism in the United States from 1789 to present. What is the only national or federal city in the United States? What makes this possible, and what are some unique characteristics of this city per the U.S. Constitution and federal law?

1. summarize the development of federalism in the United States from 1789 to present. 2. What is the only national or federal city in the United States? What makes this possible, and what are some unique characteristics of this city per the U.S. Constitution and federal law? 3. Analyze the impact of state and local politics on the daily lives of citizens. 4. Describe the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal and state governments. Then, describe how federalism impacts all levels of government to include local, state, and the federal governments.

Some say that analytics in general dehumanize managerial activities, and others say they do not. Discuss arguments for both points of view. What are some of the major privacy concerns in employing intelligent systems on mobile data?

Robotics, Social Networks, AI and IoT1. Some say that analytics in general dehumanize managerial activities, and others say they do not. Discuss arguments for both points of view. 3. What are some of the major privacy concerns in employing intelligent systems on mobile data? 4. Identify some cases of violations of user privacy from current literature and their impact on data science as a profession.5. Search the Internet to find examples of how intelligent systems can facilitate activities such as empowerment, mass customization, and teamwork. Must add APA formatted references. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author’s words and continue to use in-text citations.

What are some of the system integration challenges faced by UPS? Discuss the systems integration solutions at UPS. How does it help UPS integrate new technologies? Discuss the advantages of systems integration for UPS customers.

Test your understanding of Module Two, and complete Case 2-2 Real-World Case (Systems Integration at UPS Corp.). The case can be found in the Enterprise Systems for Management textbook, pages 54–56.What are some of the system integration challenges faced by UPS?Discuss the systems integration solutions at UPS. How does it help UPS integrate new technologies?Discuss the advantages of systems integration for UPS customers.

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