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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. 

Rubric

I need 6 slides PPT. See the instructions given below. No Plagiarism. Speaker notes are also there. Everything is given below.  

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 18, and Chapter 19 from your textbook; the Week 2 Weekly Lecture; Making PowerPoint Slides: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Bad Slides PowerPoint presentation; the article The Challenge of Exceptional Communication; and the web page Self Assessment: Learn About Your Personality and Strengths (Links to an external site.).

In preparation for the Final Paper as well as having real-world applicability, this week’s assignment is a PowerPoint presentation that will provide you an opportunity to create a career skills inventory and associated gap analysis. Using the article The Challenge of Exceptional Communication as a guide, the goal for this assignment is to professionally present your current skills and identifiable gaps in existing skills to promote yourself as an ideal candidate for the career of your choice. The information derived from this assignment should accurately reflect your existing skills.

In your presentation,

Describe the skills you possess that make you an ideal candidate for your chosen career.

Identify any gaps in your existing skill set that an employer may require.

Explain how you plan on honing these gaps in your existing skill set.

Explain how you would effectively and persuasively communicate this gap in a manner that would still qualify you for your career choice.

The Making PowerPoint Slides: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Bad Slides PowerPoint is a good resource to use for tips and guidelines for creating an effective PowerPoint presentation.

The Skills Inventory and Gap Analysis presentation

Must be five to six slides in length (not including title and references slides), formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.) resource, and include substantial speaker notes (no less than 100 words per slide).

Must include a separate title slide with the following:

Title of presentation

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.

Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.

The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.

Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)

Must include a separate references slide that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment

Discussion #1

What do you see as the most important provision in the Wagner or National Labor Relations Act? Support your view with at least one reference from the class materials.

Discussion #2

Review the NLRB Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) process. What is the value of this process? How does it compare to processes in non-union environments?

References

1.  https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/who-we-are/our-history/1935-passage-of-the-wagner-act 

2.   https://learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/content/510257/Home 

3.  https://www.nlrb.gov/resources/nlrb-process/unfair-labor-practice-process-chart 

NOTE……..Pls stick to the references

Stereotype Threats

For this assignment, you will write a paper of 5–6 pages (excluding the cover page and references list) that compiles the content from your first two assignments and includes a final section that addresses the topic of stereotype threat.

You will be expected to complete the following:

• Compile knowledge of your own racial, ethnic, and cultural identity: 
  • Summarize your own race, ethnicity, cultural influences, traditions, beliefs, and values.
  • Align description of your racial, ethnic, and cultural identity with the racial and cultural identity theory and support this discussion with two scholarly references.
  • Compare and contrast your findings from taking various cultural competency assessment scales and tools. Refer to the scales and tools and summarize your current level of cultural competence.
• Compile knowledge of your selected disenfranchised racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group: 
  • Summarize your understanding of microaggressions faced by the disenfranchised racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group.
  • Align your description of microaggression encountered by the disenfranchised racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group with at least two scholarly references.
  • Summarize three strategies or therapeutic interventions to counter the identified microaggressions and support discussion with two scholarly references.
• Identify the type of stereotype threat your own racial, ethnic, or cultural group might face. Support discussion with at least one scholarly reference. 
  • Compare and contrast the stereotype threat of the two groups referred to above.
  • Given your racial, ethnic, or cultural identity, develop a culturally competent response to stereotype threat for your chosen disenfranchised racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group. Consider issues of countertransference, cultural sensitivity, imbalance of power between client and worker, and so on. 
    • Note assumptions may your client make about you.
    • Identify a culturally competent response.
    • Support your discussion of cultural competence with at least two scholarly references.

Assignment Requirements

• Include a cover page, page numbers, and a running head.
• It is acceptable to write in the first person for this assignment.
• Cite at least 10 sources.
• Use current APA style and formatting, particularly for citations and references.

Resources

• Stereotype Threats Scoring Guide.
• Capella Writing Center.
• APA Style and Format.
• Capella University Library.

Human Services Skills and Attributes

Identify 2–3 roles within human services that interest you after you have earned your degree. Based on your self-assessment from Unit 5, what are the skills and attributes you have that align with those roles?

Choose your controversial topic and submit to your faculty member for approval. (Prostitution) 

It is important that you answer all questions are you will lose major points that would effect your grade. Please follow all directions as indicated in the text.

Within your community or online locate sex education materials on this topic that may be a resource for someone looking to learn about the topic.

Complete a 1 page evaluation of the materials in terms of adequacy of information presented. Include at least two reasons why you choose this topic.

What age group would most benefit from the material? What alternatives might you propose?

Paper should be in APA format, if using in-text citation please reference as well.

1. What are the most important contributions to improving health of the public that public health administration makes today? What other careers carry out core functions and essential services of Public Health?
2. What features make public health administration a career worth pursuing?
3. What do you think are the most important new or expanded roles for public health administrators in the 21st century?

Why is it important for HR management to transform from being primarily administrative and operational to a more strategic contributor? 

1. More than 250 words
2. NO plagiarism
3. Always cite your sources using APA format
4. Always use in-text citations
5. 2 References must.

 Write a 2-3 page essay identifying the critical components (most important programs) of a Talent Management Program and provide a detailed rationale of why companies invest millions of dollars in Talent Management Programs (e.g. learning and development programs, performance management, succession planning, mentoring, etc). 

In your initial post, answer the following questions:

• How might the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. M. be affected by this situation?
• Should the parents tell their surviving child that he had a twin brother? Why or why not?
• If you said yes, at what age would it be appropriate to do this? 
• What roles might the grandparents play in this situation? 
• What conflicts might result?
• What services might be required? 
• Do you think this experience would bring the parents closer together or drive them apart? Support your answer.
• Do you anticipate the parents would consider having another child?  Why or why not?