Weekly written assignments are to be written in a formal, academic, expository (research) manner. There is no need for an abstract in the weekly written assignments. The weekly written assignments should be written in APA format with appropriate credible, academic, peer reviewed references/citations. The written assignment topic can be of your choosing as long as it’s from subject material we have studied. The weekly essay should be a short 1 to 2 page expository essay. This does not include the title page or reference page (per APA). Information on expository writing and an APA sample paper will be posted for your use. The sample paper will provide you with information about format and writing style. Please read the syllabus carefully to determine the grading criteria for the written assignments. I would highly recommend that you visit the Purdue OWL writing lab web site and click on the “site map.”  There is a wealth of information about writing on that site.  ( http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ ) 

The assessment questions do not need to have any references. 

Also the case study should be on a separate word document. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format 7th edition

Assessment

1. Several national labor policies were created with the establishment of unions. Discuss the impact of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, The Wagner Act, Executive Order 10988, Women’s Trade Union League, and Fair Labor Standards Act. What circumstances prompted Congress to pass these acts along with the Taft-Hartley Amendments and the Landrum-Griffin Act? What are the key provisions of these acts? Your response should be at least 400 words in length.

2. According to the reading in this unit, there have been some noted differences among private sector and public sector labor relations. Discuss in detail how public employees’ rights generally differ from those of private sector employees. Discuss right to strike and its impact on private and public employees. Identify and explain some of the challenges of public sector collective bargaining. Your response should be at least 400 words in length.

3. Describe the onset of the American labor movement, and explain how it relates to the growth of national unions. Your response should be at least 200 words.

4. Realizing every workforce is different, identify and discuss the four basic steps involved in launching a union organizing campaign. Does this differ in the public and private sector? Explain. Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

5. Identify and discuss in detail the steps in a secret ballot representation election. Who initiates this process? Explain. Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

Unit III Case Study

Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining, 10th Edition

Christina Heavrin, J.D.; Michael R. Carrell

Down below is the case study that’s comes from Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining, 10th Edition Christina Heavrin, J.D.; Michael R. Carrell

Read Case Study 4-1, “Salting,” on pages 155-156 of your textbook. Then, address the following: 

1. Explain how the company’s treatment of both the “covert” and “overt” salts applications for jobs compares to the recommended counter-salting steps for employers. 
2. Would either the “covert” or the “overt” salts in this case satisfy the NLRB ruling that applicants for employment must be genuinely interested in seeking employment before claiming protection under the NLRA? 
3. Does the company’s opposition to becoming a union shop indicate that there was anti-union animus in refusing to consider the “overt” salts for employment? 

Your response should be a minimum of 150 words per question. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format.

CASE STUDIES Case Study 4-1 Salting

The Company is engaged in the business of removing or cleaning hazardous waste. Most of its employees fall into three categories; (1) field technicians who are unskilled laborers; (2) drivers and operators of trucks; and (3) field supervisors who go out into the field and are in charge of jobs. The driver and equipment operator positions require commercial driving licenses (CDL). All parties agree that the people who are called field supervisors are employees and not supervisors within the meaning of Section 7of the act.

The Union was engaged in organizing companies in the area handling hazardous materials. The Union sent a letter dated March 9 to the Company indicating (a) that it was commencing an organizing drive; (b) that the NLRA precluded the employer from restraining or coercing its employees; and (c) that it would be distributing literature to its employees at various projects. Subsequently, the Union began leafleting to the Company’s employees on their way into and out of the workplace.

On March 21, the Company placed a help-wanted ad, seeking to hire operators who had CDL licenses and H&T (hazardous material handling endorsements). The Union sent two members, Castillo and Rivera, to apply for a job. And even though neither had the required commercial driver’s license, they were allowed to fill out applications and were interviewed. They both were told that they could have jobs as field technicians, and arrangements were made for them to get a drug test. Neither informed the Company that they were members of a union or that they intended to organize employees on behalf of the Union. They were “covert” salts and were instructed to keep their union membership secret until the appropriate time. Castillo and Rivera were told by the Union that if they obtained jobs, the Union would make up the difference in the wage rate paid by the Employer and the wage rate that they had been getting from being employed as shop stewards at union employers. Also, the Union agreed to provide them with any benefits not provided by the Company. They started as field techs on April 16 or 17.

On the morning of April 13, the Union sent teams of union agents into the Company’s office to apply for work at the Company as “overt” salts. The overt salts went to the Company’s facility in pairs, wearing union clothing and carrying recording devices to record what was said during the application process. When the overt salts entered the facility, they asked the Company’s receptionist for employment applications and advised her that it was their intention to organize the Company. She responded that the Company was not interested in becoming a union shop, but informed the applicants that they could apply for one of the available driver positions but that, in order to apply for such positions, they would have to produce driver’s licenses with CDLs and HAZMAT endorsements. Although some of the applicants indicated to the Receptionist that they possessed those licenses, it is undisputed that, in fact, none of them did. When none of the individuals were able to produce the required licenses, she advised them that they could come back and fill out applications when they had obtained them. One of the applicants then inquired whether he could fill out an application for a field technician position. She told him that the Company did not have openings for field technicians at that time, but that he could complete an application and she would keep it on file. He did not, however, complete an application. None of the applicants returned to the Company after April 13, nor did they make any further attempt to apply for employment with the Company.

The Union filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Company for refusing to hire or consider for hiring the union members in violation of the NLRA.

In order to establish a refusal-to-hire violation the Union must establish the following elements: (1) that the Company was hiring, or had concrete plans to hire, at the time of the alleged unlawful conduct; (2) that the applicants had experience or training relevant to the announced or generally known requirements of the positions for hire, or in the alternative, that the employer has not adhered uniformly to such requirements, or that the requirements were themselves pretextual or were applied as a pretext for discrimination; and (3) that antiunion animus contributed to the decision not to hire the applicants. In order to establish a refusal- to-consider violation the Union has to show (1) that the Company excluded applicants from a hiring process; and (2) that antiunion animus contributed to the decision not to consider the applicants for employment.

The Company argued that none of these applicants had the qualifications necessary to be hired as drivers. Nor were these “overt salts” actually looking for employment. All of them had full-time jobs at the Union, as business agents, organizers, or dispatchers. When they were invited by the office person to submit applications for nondriver jobs, accompanied by their social security cards and driver licenses, they never followed up on this invitation and not one made any further attempt to apply for employment. Furthermore, the Company, having recently decided to hire around four laborers (including union salts Castillo and Rivera), did not immediately need any field technicians. Put simply, they were not qualified for the jobs advertised and they did not apply for jobs for which they were qualified, but which were not immediately available.

The Union argued that the Company’s decision not to hire or consider for hire the “overt salts” was clearly motivated by antiunion animus for when the two “covert salts” applied for jobs for which they were not qualified, the Company allowed them to complete the application process and they were, in fact, hired as field techs. In addition, the Receptionist’s statements that the Company did not want to be a union shop clearly showed the antiunion animus amid the ongoing organizing drive.

Source: Adapted from Allstate Power Vac, Inc. and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 78, 354 NLRB No. 111 (2009).

There are various reasons why training is needed. Identify some causes, and pick one to explain in detail.
Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Who should be included in a needs assessment, and why? Explain the three components of a needs assessment.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

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2 assignment

As discussed in the unit lesson, resolving conflict in the workplace requires using interpersonal skills, management skills, and techniques. Interpersonal skills can consist of understanding individual differences, self-esteem, self-confidence, communication, teamwork skills, problem-solving skills, cultural relations skills, motivation skills, customer service skills, ethical behavior skills, and stress management skills. Management skills focus on the type of management skill applied such as collaborating, accommodating, forcing, avoiding, and compromising. As a member of the workforce, you must be able to effectively resolve conflict, either with the use of interpersonal skills, management skills, or by applying the recommended ways of responding to tension in the workplace (e.g., overcoming defensiveness, accepting of the tension, and resolving the tension). 

For your Unit VI Assignment, please reflect on your knowledge of resolving conflict that you have experienced or observed in the workplace. Please analyze what you have learned. Describe how your learned knowledge can be used. Also, identify how this information can be used to resolve conflict in the workplace in your current job or from a past incident you have experienced. What steps/methods were used in resolving the conflict? 

Your reflection paper should be at least three pages in length, including an introduction, a body that supports your reflection, and a conclusion. Be sure to include a title page. The title page does not count toward the total page requirement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/sports/basketball/under-armour-shoes-nike-stephen-curry-lebron-james.html

PART 1: Read this article, “In Sneaker Wars, It’s Also Curry (Under Armour) vs. James (Nike)”, on the use of celebrity endorsements in the competition between Nike and Under Armour. Think about a time when a celebrity endorsement influenced you to buy a product. In the discussion thread, describe the following:

1. The product and the celebrity endorsing it
2. How the endorsement influenced your decision to buy the product

You are to select 1 business that does not already have a Website, and develop an Internet strategy for it. Most large corporations already have Web sites, so you may have to think of something on a smaller scale such as a local bike store. Sole proprietorship businesses that provide services like car repair, house cleaning, tax preparation, and that use the Internet and similar services are also good options. You will also consider and describe how the business that you select can use social media to achieve its objectives. Use the Internet and the library to research and analyze markets and competitors.

After selecting a business, you will need to answer the following questions:

• What Internet business model would be appropriate for the company to follow in creating a Web site and why?
• In what ways can the business benefit from a Web site? What functions should it perform for the company (e.g., marketing, sales, customer support, internal communications, etc.)?
• In what other ways might the company use the Internet for its own benefit?
• Prepare functional specifications for the company’s use of the Web and the Internet. Include links to and from other sites in your design.
• Prepare a list of technological specifications for implementation (e.g., what hardware and software are necessary to support your design)?

Please submit your assignment.

Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. Click here to view the grading rubric.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
• Abstract: A summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third-person voice.
• Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 1,050-1,400 words. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
• Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper- and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference Page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Anticipating Barriers to Implementation

Marcus is a health care administrator who recently approved a new youth anti-smoking program at community centers located throughout an urban residential area. When Marcus approved the health program for his health care agency, he was awarded a substantial budget to implement this program for a period of three years. However, Marcus was just informed that his budget has been reduced by 25% and initial brochures and flyers that have already been distributed will need to be revised before the first initial community meeting that will introduce the youth anti-smoking program. How might Marcus address these challenges and how might these barriers impact the implementation of the youth anti-smoking program?

For this Discussion, review and reflect on the types of barriers covered in this week’s resources. Consider how these types of barriers might affect the implementation of a marketing plan. Then, consider strategies that a health care administrator might implement to address these barriers.

By Day 3

Post a brief explanation of what types of barriers that health care administrators might face during the implementation process of a marketing plan. Then, propose two strategies that health care administrators might use to best address the barriers identified, and explain why. Be specific and provide examples.

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Supporting Lecture:

Review the following lecture:

• Privacy Rights in the Workplace

Project

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction

Major areas where an employer is likely to risk liability for invading the privacy of its employees in private (non-government) workplaces include the following:

• Surveillance and eavesdropping
• Monitoring and reviewing computer information and use
• Requests for information from third parties, particularly job reference requests
• Requests for medical information
• Maintenance of personnel files
• Drug testing of potential or current employees

Tasks

Select one of the potential liability risks from the list above and complete the following:

• Analyze in detail the risk you chose.
• Identify and describe a current news event related to the risk.
• Examine a strategy that employers use to avoid being sued for the risk.
• Evaluate the ethical balance between employee rights and employer needs regarding the risk.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details

• Create a 3–4 page Microsoft Word document.
• Name your file as SU_HRM5020_W1_Project_LastName_FirstName.doc.

Old Power Generator Vs New Power Generator Comparison

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