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Evaluating Sources

As you search out resources for your literature, consider the resources you have found. Where are you finding your information? How are you determining whether the information is valid and credible?

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A BID FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH GRADUATE LEVEL WRITING TERMS AND CONCEPTS. ALL DIRECTIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED AND NO PLAGIARISM. MY SCHOOL USES SOFTWARE TO DETECT COPIED MATERIAL. AND REFERENCE THE BOOK AND USE SCHORLARY SOURCES. 

Imagine you work at a company and it is time for an employee named Jim’s annual review. While he was a model employee the first nine months of the year, recently Jim has been coming in late. It has not been just a few minutes each day, either. It is starting to cause problems in the production line. In this assignment, write a summary of how you would approach your conversation with Jim. How will you address his recent performance issues while still praising him for his previous nine months of good work? Your goal is to balance negative and positive feedback so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best. This assignment should focus on your goals for the conversation and which employee relations approaches you will use to address the situation.

You will create and submit your assignment by using the ecree link. Just click on the link, and start writing. Your work will be saved automatically. You’ll see some feedback on the right-hand side of the screen, including text and videos to help guide you in the writing process. When you’re ready, you can turn in your assignment by clicking Submit at the bottom of the page.

Click the assignment link to start your assignment in ecree. Please note that ecree works best in Firefox and Chrome.

Write a 5–7 paragraph paper in which you:

• Explain how you will address Jim’s recent performance issues.
• Suggest both constructive and positive feedback designed so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.
• Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
  • This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. 
  • Include at least one reference to support your paper.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Recommend a plan for addressing performance issues in an annual review that includes motivational feedback.

Read and Review Chapter 12. 

“From a strategic perspective, it is imperative that employers provide the types of benefits that motivate workers and encourage them to stay with a company.”  Research indicates the importance for HR professionals to identify and implement competitive benefits that are desirable to employee.

Research Employee Benefits and explain/identify:

– How companies utilize benefits as a competitive advantage?  

– Trends in retirement plans and also compare the advantages and/or disadvantages of a defined benefit versus defined contribution plans.

– Growth and trend of financial, family-oriented, and time-off benefits and outline their importance to employees.

– Importance of managing the cost of health benefits and identify how organizations are mitigating the rising cost(s)?

Paper Requirements:

• Write a 3-4 page double-spaced, 12 font, and APA formatted paper that addresses the items above.
• Do not use first person. This paper isn’t your opinion. Your paper is guided by your research. 
• The 3-4 pages does not include the title page or reference page.
• Include a title page properly formatted in APA. 
• You Do NOT need to include an abstract
• Make sure to include an Introduction to your paper. Your introduction needs to include a strong preview sentence.
• Create headings in the body of the paper (between the Introduction and Conclusion) that are named based on the content in that section of the paper. For example, your headings could be the trends you identified. Please review the APA Heading Format Guidelines (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) in order to develop a good understanding of how to format the headings in your paper.
• Include a Reference page. You must include a minimum of 5 references (textbook and 4 scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles from Welder Library E-Resources). 

Please refer to the rubric for the grading requirements.    

Your submission will go through turnitin. Turnitin evaluates the originality score of your paper. Your turnitin score should be 25% or less. 

Find a course that you attended recently enough to: (a) have the course materials and (b) remember the flow of the course and its timing. ( I WILL SEND A LIST OF COURSES THAT I HAVE ALREADY TAKEN FOR YOU TO CHOOSE ONE)
 

Use the design template provided (in Module 1) for this course’s special project. Recreate the course design of your chosen course showing the key learning elements along with a minimal amount of content. The content should only be enough to guide you or an experienced instructor through teaching the course and should not go as deep as a step-by-step what-to-say or do-next level of detail. Focus your attention on design elements used by instructors and/or students. Write a one-page review of the course and attach your design document using APA format.

Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.

Many grant applications require an abstract and a cover letter. The cover letter is your first opportunity to form a first impression with your potential funder and show that you understand their “philanthropic mission” (Grantspace.gov, n.d.). While the cover letter is ideally brief and succinct, it is not an executive summary. There are specific strategies used to write the cover letter. Using the template below, you will draft a cover letter.

Another important document that is a part of the grant process is the abstract. This narrowly focused document provides the grant reviewer with a summary of your proposal contents. Abstracts are generally constrained to a specific word count. Please use the template below to draft your abstract.

In preparation for this Assignment:

• Review the Gitlin & Lyons textbook pp. 82–83 for information on abstracts.
• Review the cover letter template in the Module 5 Learning Resources.
• Review the grant application abstract template Module 5 Learning Resources

In 1–2 pages, address the following:

• Submit a cover letter to be included in your grant application.
• Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words of your grant application.

Apa format

1-2 paragraphs 

references 

We have all worked in a group or team at some point in our careers. A team is brought together to achieve a common goal. The team needs to have members who have complementary skills and who are committed to a common purpose to achieve performance goals. However, teams don’t move immediately toward performing, but instead evolve over time. There are five stages of group and team development:

1. Forming: Getting oriented and getting acquainted. High degree of uncertainty as members as they try to figure out who is in charge.
2. Storming: Personalities start to emerge, along with roles and conflicts within the group.
3. Norming: In the third stage conflicts are resolved, relationships developed, harmony and unity surfaces.
4. Performing: The members concentrate on solving problems and completing the assigned task.
5. Adjourning: Members prepare to disband. Some members may be reassigned, terminated from the group or the group is resolved.

Think about a time when you joined a new group—it could be at work, in a family setting or with a social group.

We know that scope creep can be good or bad for our projects. Explain how you deal with scope change when the proposed change will be good for the firm, but your project sponsor has no willingness to approve the scope change.

                                       Section 1 – Subject Organization and Rationale

The purpose of the Portfolio Project is to synthesize current research about the project management office (PMO) for the purpose of developing a PMO recommendation. The Portfolio Project is structured to help you demonstrate understanding of the course material, as well as the implications of new knowledge gained from research beyond the course readings and lectures.

Your Portfolio Project will be developed in three independent but cohesive sections, which considered in whole constitutes your PMO recommendation. The three sections are:

• Section 1: Subject Organization and Rationale
• Section 2: PMO Mission, Charter, and Competency
• Section 3: PMO Recommendations

Section 1 and Section 2 will be submitted as Portfolio Project milestones in Module 3 and Module 6, respectively.

Section 3 will constitute your final Portfolio Project due at the end of the course in Module 8.

              **********Option #1: Recommendation for the Implementation of a New PMO**********

A key aspect of the Portfolio Project Section 1 is to secure instructor approval for the Portfolio Project subject organization selected, which is required before commencing with subsequent Portfolio Project sections.

Based on your research of the subject organization, substantively address the following key elements:

• Subject organization information:
  • Organization name
  • Organization’s mission, vision, and values statement
  • Industry type and organization demographics
  • Description of organization’s culture
  • Executive sponsor and key stakeholders
• PMO business case:
  • Assessment of existing project management:
    • Project management methods
    • Project management tools
    • Project management experience
    • Project management maturity
  • Perceived PMO benefits for the organization:
    • Overarching business rationale
    • Long term measurable goals (2-3)
    • First year specific goals and metrics
    • Quantified value proposition (short and long term)

Your essay should address the following requirements:

• Your well-written PMO recommendation essay thesis should be 4 pages in length, which does not include the title, reference, or appendix pages. You need to add headings associated and subheadings with each of the bullet points listed in the Section 1 requirements.
• Format your paper per the C (Links to an external site.)SU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.), which includes an introduction and conclusion.
• Include title and reference pages.
• In addition to your course textbook, cite at least three current (published within the past 5 years) scholarly resources (peer-reviewed, official governmental reports, and other scholarly sources) to support your suppositions, assertions, and conclusions. To enhance your learning experience, scholarly resources are available from the CSU Global library.
• Include an appendix for tables and figures as appropriate.

Please write clearly, concisely, and cohesively; use section level headers to organize the key elements of your thesis.

Respond and disagree. Try to choose a post that you respectfully disagree with. Respond from the perspective of either a union member or the manager of an organization. If your peer provided a real-world example, respond from the opposing perspective referred to in your peer’s post.

In the twentieth century unions played an important vital part in the labor movement by increasing employees wages, bettering working conditions, and providing employees a voice in the workplace. Unions were pertinent then because organized labor provided a policy by which employees could better broker these matters with employers. In the 21st century unions are more important today than they ever were. It is no secret that in a global economy, the nature of work is changing and some employers may be resisting unions . The one sector where unions remain relevant is the government. Today in the 21st century almost half of all union members now work in the public sector. The typical union member today works for the local, state, and federal governments, and not on the assembly line. Unions fit more comfortably into government workplaces than the private sector (Sherk, 2008). Labor unions represent just 6.4 percent of America’s private-sector workers and 10.5 percent of workers overall (Wertheim and Chakrabarti, 2019). This is the lowest percentage in more than a century, and has decreased from approximately 35 percent in the 1950s. The UAW union has dwindled to 430,000 members from its peak of 1.5 million in 1979. 

For unions to remain relevant in the 21st century they need to be able to adapt in today’s economy. In the present day, and in the future, labor unions will continue to play an important role in the United States labor force, and for the standard of life for working families today. Additionally, working families in the United States need the representation, collective bargaining power, satisfaction in their work, and equitable treatment in the workplace that they deserve.

There are some differences between unionized and non-unionized human resources departments in their handling of labor laws. In a nonunion company, labor laws aren’t much of a thought. This is due to human resources managers being more concerned with employment law, rather than the regulations that control unionized labor. In a unionized company, human resources managers need to have knowledge of labor law so that they can handle the relationship between employers, their managers, and the union that represents them. This assists the Human Resource department from overstepping its boundaries in important negotiations, which include everything from employees salaries, and pay raises for employees. This also goes hand in hand with hiring and termination.