Justify why you chose those criteria and why you assigned particular weights.
You are the newly appointed department manager. Your department has not been performing well, and you have been investigating why. You soon realize that the firm has had no formal performance appraisal system. Supervisors that need to do a better job have not been receiving any kind of formal feedback.
To correct this situation, you will begin by creating a performance grading form that will be used to assess the front-line supervisor’s performance. Create a form that includes areas the supervisors should be graded on and the relative weight or importance assigned to each category. For example, should 30% of the weight be assigned to communication skills versus 20% for coaching skills?
You want to make sure that the grading form reflects what you feel are the indicators of a good front-line supervisor’s performance.
Create the form including the relative weights of each category and the grading scale to use (for example, for grading criteria you could use 1–9; low, mid, or high; or poor, mediocre, average, or excellent). Justify why you chose those criteria and why you assigned particular weights.
Please refer to the following multimedia course material(s):
Unit 3: Monitoring Performance
Unit 3: Setting Fair Standards
Unit 3: Quality Overview
Unit 3: Measuring Performance
Unit 3: Strategies to Improve Performance
Unit 3: Production Decisions
Unit 3: Pricing Decisions
Unit 3: Input & Output Decisions
Describe the findings of the research and provide a suggestion for future investigation.
High-Performing Teams
Adopting high-performing teams to solve problems where direct supervisors and managers recognize service, and quality outcomes could promote quality initiatives.
Using Google Scholar or EBSCO Library find two peer-reviewed articles written in the last three years illustrating researched teams in healthcare, information technology, education, or the general business sector.
Read the articles and describe in your own words the setting of the investigation and characteristics that demonstrated the problem under investigation relating to teams.
Describe the findings of the research and provide a suggestion for future investigation.
should be a minimum of 150 words
What are the effects of ability grouping according to the following article
What are the effects of ability grouping according to the following article: https://www.teachermagazine.com/au_en/articles/the-negative-effects-of-ability-grouping
Next, discuss your stand on the issue after reading this article.
Which are more closely related to crocodiles: birds or lizards? Explain.
Answers should be double spaced; 11-12 font size; standard margins. Proper grammar and paragraph format is expected. All answers should be written in complete sentences.
Answer each question individually.
1. Which are more closely related to crocodiles: birds or lizards? Explain.
2. Feathers evolved for purposes other than flight. What are some possible functions for these early feathers?
3. List and describe three features of plants that help them avoid or reduce predation.
4. You encounter the organisms: Homo sapien. What does the first term refer to? What does the second term refer to?
5. What are the three key factors that influence species richness in an ecosystem?
You will be graded on this assisgnment using the following rubric:
a. Content: 15 points (Each question is worth three points for content. Partial credit may be awarded in each question when content is not mastered, but is demonstrated.)
b. Grammar and spelling: 4 points
c. Following directions (as posted above): 1 point
Do you think that males and females view ethical issues differently? Or is gender irrelevant?
Consider the issue of gender in terms of ethics and morality. (In order to keep this simple, let’s consider gender to refer to biological males and females, even though many people might claim that is too exclusionary.
Do you think that males and females view ethical issues differently? Or is gender irrelevant? Think of any ethical issue or ethical dilemma. It can be one that we’ve already explored here. Briefly, describe that ethical issue and discuss how a male and female might (or might not) view this issue differently. Try to be very concrete—you and your spouse….or you and your significant other….or you and your sibling….or you and your opposite gendered friend….or you and your opposite gendered work acquaintance. Is their reasoning different? Are the outcomes different? If you have trouble imagining this dialogue between people you actually know, you may use hypothetical examples.
1. Important!!! Write this as a dialogue, using simply MALE and FEMALE.
2. Your dialogue should take up most of your assignment. If it’s only a few lines, you will only get partial credit.
3. The ethical dilemma should be part of the dialogue. For example:
MALE: The legalization of marijuana is on the ballot in Ohio next month. Do you think that it should be legalized?
FEMALE: No, I don’t think we should encourage drug use..
(Please don’t use this particular issue for your assignment.
Compare and contrast the 10 Commandments with the 8-Fold Path of Buddhism, the Confucian Virtues, and the 12 Vows of Jainism.
One of the criticisms of the Hebrew Bible is the violence of God. Scriptures from other religions (Hinduism: The Bhagavad Gita is set entirely in war; the Qur’an talks of war; Christianity is based on a final battle and destruction of the world) depict their gods as violent as well. However, throughout the Hebrew Bible God is also depicted as a God of love.
Main discussion questions for the week:
Given the Covenants between the Israelites and God, the 10 Commandments, the beauty of the Psalms, and the predictions of the prophets, provide three (3) of your own observations about this violent/loving God.
Judaism is a religion of doing and faith is seen in actions towards others.
Compare and contrast the 10 Commandments with the 8-Fold Path of Buddhism, the Confucian Virtues, and the 12 Vows of Jainism.
Are we seeing the same concept of doing and faith today, or has there been a shift as we move to Western religions?
Discuss something specific that you have learned in this class that supports or challenges this assumption.
Answer the question posed in the discussion description related to Chapter 11 Becoming an Ethical Adult (Starts on pg 200) in the Discussion as your Initial Comment Then respond to three other classmates’ Initial Comments
1. The textbook states that the best determiner of personal moral development “is the recognition that motive, not consequence, is a critical factor in deciding if an act is ethical (p. 384)”. Discuss something specific that you have learned in this class that supports or challenges this assumption.
What is meant by “evolutionary change”; meaning what is it and how would you know when it has occurred?
Discussion Topic 1
Natural Selection
A novel fungicide is introduced and widely applied to cereal crops. After five years, resistant genotypes of the fungal pathogen are detected at a frequency of about 1%; resistance is widely distributed across the pathogen’s range. Within two years, these have become so common that the fungicide becomes worthless.
Explain how this pattern can be explained by the basic features of natural selection. Include in your answer:
A brief description of what natural selection is.
The conditions that must be met in order for natural selection to occur.
How natural selection explains the scenario above.
Discussion Topic 2
Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change
This unit we are learning that there are several mechanisms that lead to evolutionary change within a population or species: mutation, migration, genetic drift, non-random breeding and natural selection.
What is meant by “evolutionary change”; meaning what is it and how would you know when it has occurred?
Select two of the mechanisms listed above and explain how each can lead to evolutionary change as defined in Q#1. Be specific and use an example of each.
What everyday activity or product have you chosen to present? Why did you choose this activity or product? Why is it important?
After learning about several ways in which our everyday actions impact climate change, choose one action to conduct more research on and create a PowerPoint presentation to tell us more! Use the unit material and reliable online resources to gather more information.
There are several ideas with information throughout the unit but there is even more information out in the world! Think about what you do every day, and how the activity uses energy or natural resources. Think about a product you buy—how it was made, what natural resources were used to make it? You can also do a quick google search of “everyday activities that effect the environment” and start reading some articles for more ideas.
Remember to use reliable sources from the Internet. There is a lot of misinformation out there and finding reliable information can be difficult. The best sources of reference material for your presentation are scientific journals found in the CSU Online Library databases. Click here for a biology research tutorial that demonstrates how to locate library resources relating to biology You can also find reliable statistics at organization websites listed in the Unit under “Combat Climate Change.”
Your presentation must include:
1. What everyday activity or product have you chosen to present? Why did you choose this activity or product? Why is it important?
2. Connect the activity/product to its impact on the environment and climate change.
How does doing the activity or making the product use natural resources, disrupt habitat, impact wildlife or other effects on the environment?
3. Report data and statistics, with references, on how this activity/product effects the environment.
4. What can people do to decrease the activity/product’s impact on the environment?
Be sure to follow the formatting and guidelines provided below:
Include at least three visual aids.
Include three reliable references, and at least one source must come from the CSU Online Library.
Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability and Governance
QUESTIONS:
SECTION 1 (45 points)
- Define the concept of Code of Ethics, and critically evaluate its effectiveness in managing business ethics (15 points).
- Define what Agency Theory is and critically evaluate its possible problems. (15 points)
- Critically evaluate what Sustainability marketing is, and what makes it important? (15 Points)
SECTION 2 (55 points)
(Read the below case carefully, and answer the questions followed.)
CASE:
You are the board director of Z-Med, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, UK. The company’s Research & Development department is working on a novel breast cancer drug. The drug could provide breakthrough treatment for millions of women in the company’s core markets in Europe and the US and is likely to be a source of high revenue for Z-Med which has recently seen a fall in profits and resulting drop in share price.
In order to have approval, company still needs to conduct further trials to test for the effectiveness and safety of the drug. However, in Europe these kinds of clinical trials are rather lengthy and very costly to conduct, due to the strict regulatory environment.
In a board meeting, the CEO of Z-Med suggests carrying out a large part of the trials in country X, a developing country in Asia, whose government provides more favourable conditions for clinical trials. The government of country X regards international drug trails as a cheap way of providing treatment for poor people who cannot afford to buy drugs or other kinds of medical treatment. Furthermore, in country X, a significant proportion of poor women suffer from breast cancer; and therefore, it will be relatively easy to recruit participant for the trial.
The company has no plans to make the drug available below market price in country X after its approval. Also, at the current stage of the drug’s development the Research & Development department cannot yet rule out the occurrence of harmful side effects, even though they believe that the likelihood of this happening is very low.
The CEO’s suggestion sounds like a tough call for you to endorse!!!
Questions:
2.1 Identify key stakeholders in the above case and explain what the ethical issues around each stakeholder are. (10 points)
2.2 Critically evaluate the case using TWO of the following ethical theories: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Rights and Justice, Virtue ethics. (30 points)
2.3 If you were the board director, what would you do? Explain your opinion with proper justification. (15 points)
