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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

Based upon what we learned from our required learning activities from this week:

• Who should be part of setting the rules and regulations for public sector communication?
• Should there be a requirement to have community members included in the establishment of rules and regulations in public sector communication?
• Should police reports and other public documents be open for public release? Should current public records law be expanded or retracted?  

Comfort Systems USA, Inc. (NYSE:FIX) provides heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) installation, maintenance, repair and replacement services within the mechanical services industry. 

• The Company has 38 operating units in 72 cities and 86 locations throughout the United States. 
• The Company operates primarily in the commercial, industrial and institutional HVAC markets. In addition to standard HVAC services, it also provides specialized applications, such as building automation control systems, fire protection, process cooling, electronic monitoring and process piping. 
• The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘FIX’.

3.1.1.General Environmental (PESTEL) Analysis (2-4 pages): This section needs to include a
complete analysis of the general external environment. Please refer to figure 3.1 and Table 3.1 on pages 38-39 of your textbook (5th Ed.). You should explicitly analyze how any trend you identify in each of the segments in the external environment may affect the industry. You need to explicitly state the implications. For example, if the industry you are analyzing is personal computers and you see an expanding economy in some emerging economies, but a recession and declining disposable incomes in other economies, your analysis should include how these trends are likely to influence the personal computer industry. Do not discuss specific companies in this section. At the end of this section, you need to identify the industry top two driving forces (DFs). A driving force is an external environment change (e.g. change in a governmental policy or emergence of a new breakthrough technology) which may significantly change the rule of the game in the industry competition. Please refer to Table 3.2 and pages 52-54 of your textbook (5th Ed.).

* Political Segment

* Economic Segment

* Socio-Cultural and Demographic Segment.

Home

Part I includes an analysis of the general environment, the industry and the assigned firm’s competitors. You are expected to provide a specific definition of the industry and an in-depth analysis of the industry’s current and future outlook. Your focus in Part I is the external environment.

• Describe what an IRB is and how research is approved.  
• Comment on regulatory protections of human subjects in research, and most particularly when IRB approval is needed.  
• Include two examples of human research studies that went awry, and the lessons learned from those examples. 
• Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words

HR CHALLENGE: NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT ANALYSIS

Introduction

Not all human resource specialists will have to navigate situations with unions and management, but all human resource professionals need to think legally. By studying a seminal case between management and the union, National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp., 1963, you will gain background knowledge about the agency model of union membership and what the court defines as unfair labor practices. 

The habit of mind that you develop by studying and analyzing this case will serve you as you think about the legal ramifications of negotiations with employees and management on a wide range of issues.

Scenario

Your company is reviewing its approach to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Your human resources team has been tasked with giving a presentation about the history of the NLRA that is appropriate for leaders as well as other human resource specialists in order to prepare them for ongoing discussions about the issues presented by NLRA for your company.

Your Challenge

You are a human resource specialist who has been tasked to present the key points from this case to various small groups of company leaders and other human resource specialists so that they have the background to discuss how the NLRA could impact your business.

Instructions

Based on key guidelines from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), analyze National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp., 1963. Prepare a 4–6-slide PowerPoint presentation explaining and analyzing key elements of the case.

1. Read the National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp., 1963case, noting the bulleted elements below.
2. Review the IRAC strategy for analyzing cases and apply those steps in your study of this case.
3. Prepare 4–6 PowerPoint slides that address the following: 

• Introduction. 
  • Summary of the events leading up to the case.
• Analyze General Motors’s position in the case. 
  • What was their position about ______? What was their rationale for their position? 
• Analyze the union’s position in the case. 
  • What was their position about ______? What was their rationale for their position?
• Analyze the role of the court in the case. 
  • What is the effect of the court’s decision on all organizations and unions?
• Analyze the relationship of the case with the NLRA. 
  • Consider case assertions, evidence, and findings.
• Evaluate the historical impact of this case on the union/management power struggle. 
  • What was the relationship before the case? Who was considered the winner in this case? How did the case affect future challenges?
• Assess how this case changed the relationship between management and all employees at GM, and in unionized organizations in general.

1. To support your assertions, cite specific examples from the case and from your other assigned readings. 
2. Record your presentation using Kaltura. The presentation should not exceed 6 minutes. Or another option is to write out the script of your presentation in the presentation notes section of each PowerPoint slide.
3. Review the HR Challenge: National Labor Relations Act Analysis Scoring Guide before submitting this assignment to ensure that you have thoroughly addressed the grading expectations of this assignment.

Submission Requirements

The deliverable for this assignment applies professional skills in Human Resources Management (HRM) to workplace situations that you will likely encounter in your day-to-day work in HRM. As part of your learning, we focus on the development of effective professional communication skills for the workplace.

• Prepare a 4–6 slide PowerPoint presentation explaining and analyzing key elements of the case.
• Use short phrases that are clear, comprehensible, and free of jargon for each bullet point.
• Include no more than three bullet points per slide if possible. Include APA-formatted in-text citations where appropriate
• Ensure your presentation is relevant to and easily understood by everyone in the audience. Remember, you will be speaking to people of all levels in the company.
• If you include a voice-over in lieu of presenter’s notes, your recording should be no longer than six minutes.
• Your written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Include an APA-formatted references slide at the end of the presentation, this is an additional slide at the end of the presentation, Slide 7.

Note: Your instructor may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assignment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assignment, once your work has been evaluated. Learn more about the Writing Feedback Tool on the course Tools and Resources page. 

SCORING GUIDE

Your Work will be evaluated using this criteria.

VIEW SCORING GUIDE

Competencies Measured

Competency 1: Apply legal thinking to human resource management issues in the workplace to ensure compliance. 

• Analyze both General Motor’s and the union’s position in the NLRB case.
• Analyze the role of the court in the NLRB v. General Motors case.
• Analyze the relationship of a case with the NLRA.

Competency 2: Evaluate the relationship between historical perspectives and events and the alignment of human resource management and the law. 

• Evaluate the historical impact of a case on the union/management power struggle.

Competency 3: Examine relationships between law, human resource management practices, and business activities.

• Assess how a court decision changed the relationship between management and employees in a case, and in unionized organizations overall.

Competency 6: Communicate clearly, accurately, and professionally in the HR field. 

• Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
• Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

Question 1

Mission statements represent the reason that an organization exists.

True

False

Question 2

Artifacts include an organization’s acronyms, manner of dress, and myths and stories told about the organization.

True

False

Question 3

In the encounter phase of organizational socialization,

employees’ values, skills, and attitudes start to shift as the new recruit discovers what the organization is truly like.

recruits anticipate realities about the organization and the new job.

people master critical tasks.

individuals resolve competing role demands.

individuals anticipate the organization’s need for someone with their skills and abilities.

Question 4

_______ are specific behaviors used to deal with a stressful situation.

Tertiary appraisals

Coping strategies

Secondary appraisals

Escape strategies

Primary appraisals

Question 5

Organizational climate is defined as the set of shared, taken-for-granted, implicit assumptions that a group holds and that determines how it perceives, thinks about, and reacts to its various environments.

True

False

Instructions

Read Application Case “Improving a College Recruitment Program,” and address the questions below (Heneman III, pages 260-262).

1. What topics should be covered in the training program?      Explain how the recruitment briefing conducted by Marianne could have been      more effective.
2. What materials and training aids will be needed for the      program? Tell why the materials and training aids would be needed. How did      you decide these would be needed? 
3. What skills should the trainees practice during the      training? Select the top two skills (in your opinion) and state why these      skills are more important than the others?
4. Who should conduct the training? Provide information to      support your answer.
5. What other changes might have to be made to ensure that      the training has a strong impact on the managers and that during the      recruitment process they are motivated to use what they learned in      training?

What topics should be covered in the training program? Explain how the recruitment briefing conducted by Marianne could have been more effective.

For this Portfolio Milestone, perform the following:

• provide a two-page submission in Module 2 noting your selected option for the Portfolio Project found in Module 8,
• a timeline of activities over the remaining weeks for portfolio production,
• concerns and roadblocks you have on the portfolio, and
• how you will overcome those. No need for formal APA submission for this assignment.

Your timeline of activities is most critical as are your concerns, roadblocks, and how you will overcome those. It is expected that your timeline shows at least one task each week from Week 2 through Week 8, and many weeks should have multiple tasks. Every effort should be made to thoroughly examine your portfolio options, and to complete this milestone in Week 2 to give you enough time to complete the work. Once your work on this milestone is graded, you may not change portfolio options and should move forward with your Week 2 selection.

Option from module 8 info : Option #1: Develop Applications Relative to Course Objectives

As part of successfully completing this course, you should be able to master the eight course objectives:

1. Demonstrate the need for project management metrics.
2. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope.
3. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics.
4. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management.
5. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics.
6. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations.
7. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
8. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management.

In this portfolio project, you are to show your mastery of the eight course objectives at a master’s level. You are to write a paper that covers each of the eight topics.

Notice that each objective is written with a verb as the first word to show some action that students must achieve for success in this class. Verbs like “demonstrate,” “apply,” and “create” require that the student takes some action on a project to satisfy the requirement. You should find a project to use in this portfolio where you may take those actions and document them in your paper. You might apply earned value analysis on a project underway to satisfy course objective number 5, for example.

Verbs like “establish,” “characterize,” and “explore” require that the student shows mastery of current thinking on the subject. This part of your paper may be taken from research, or interviews. You might explore an application of dashboards by interviewing a project manager and performing research on current thinking about dashboards, for example.

1-2 pg 

Provide a brief description of the roles and responsibilities of health services administrators. Devote a paragraph or two to your ideal position within the health care system; where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years?

Your assignment should be no less than 2 double-spaced pages using 12 font, Times New Roman.

Unit I Case Study

Instructions

Please read the case DCS Sanitation Management v. Eloy Castillo (and supporting notes), linked in the reference below: 

DCS Sanitation Management v. Castillo, 435 F.3d 892, (8th Cir. 2006). Retrieved from https://advance-lexis-com.libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/api/permalink/0662e8d7-58b8-4877-a028-3ae9a3249480/?context=1516831

Once you have read and reviewed the case scenario, respond to the following questions: 

1. Discuss the legal implications for employers and employees for requiring employees to sign noncompete agreements. What factors did the court consider in making its decision? Compare and contrast Ohio and Nebraska’s positions on noncompete clauses. 
2. Which state’s laws support ethical reasoning in the resolution of this case? 

Your response should be a minimum of two pages in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA style citations.

Unit II Journal

Instructions

Read the Case Problem, Cianbro Corporation in Chapter 5, p. 113, #10. Discuss whether a temporary restraining order should be granted. Do you agree with the union’s objections? What is the rationale for your decision?  Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

During August to October 2002, Cianbro Corporation applied to the United States Department of Labor and the Maine Department of Labor for H-2B temporary labor certifications for as many as 120 foreign workers to be employed as structural and pipe welders on two giant oil rigs known as the Amethyst 4 and 5 that were under construction in the harbor of Portland, Maine. To make their determinations, the DOL and the Maine DOL were required to calculate prevailing wages and working conditions for the jobs for which Cianbro sought temporary labor certifica- tions pursuant to a DOL regulation, 20 C.F.R. § 656.40. Federal regulations (8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(6) (iii)(A)) provided that before filing a petition with the INS (now USCIS) director in whose jurisdiction a petitioning employer intends to employ an H-2B nonagricultural temporary worker, the employer must apply for a temporary labor certification with the Secretary of Labor. The Secretary of Labor’s temporary labor certification provided advice to the INS director on “whether or not United States workers capable of performing the temporary services or labor are available and whether the alien’s employment will adversely affect the wages and working conditions of similarly employed United States workers.” Many qualified and available U.S. workers applied for positions with Cianbro as structural and pipe welders during the period when the DOL was supposed to be reevaluating the matter after receipt of the relevant union’s letter, opposing the company’s application; however, none was offered employment by Cianbro. Meanwhile the federal and state agencies proposed to issue more than 50 H-2B visas. On March 21, 2003 the relevant unions filed an application for a temporary restraining order. Should the court grant this TRO, blocking the issuance of the H-2B visas, pending resolution of the unions’ objections? What policy considerations should the judge take into account on both sides of the controversy when making this decision? [See Maine State Building and Construction Council v. Chao, 265 F. Supp.2d 105 (D. Maine 2003).]

Unit II Essay -link to book is below  

use Chapter 3, 4, and 5 ensure you reference this book and another. 

Employment and Labor Law, 9th Edition

Patrick J. Cihon; James Ottavio Castagnera

Instructions

Choose one of the common workplace torts discussed in the chapter readings for this unit (except genetic testing). Prepare a specific policy for the employer that balances the employer and employees’ rights. Give the rationale and support for your policy. 

This assignment should be a minimum of one page in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations per APA guidelines.