The Fig Technologies Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has received several requests for transfer to the United States from nations of diminished tolerance. The ELC has asked you to develop a presentation briefly explaining the history of diversity-based legislation. In your presentation, describe the challenges of legislating diversity, and compare historical legislation of diverse populations to more recent diversity legislation. Also, explain how diversity legislation impacts […]

You work in the Human Resource department and have just been promoted to a supervisor position. Your role in this new position will be to lead your team as well as be a human resource strategic partner and resource to leaders and employees in the organization. In order to be effective in this new position, you need to learn what it means to be an […]

In completing your reading for the week you learned about the benefits and challenges faced in accounting data.  Chapter 21 and 22 introduced you to managerial versus financial accounting and activity based costing (ABC).  ABC, though challenging to implement, can bring a wealth of clarity to the actual costs and performance of the organization.  Unfortunately it’s not easy to implement, support, and once in existence […]

Imagine you are a Benefits Manager and your busiest time of year is approaching – Open Enrollment.  Your employees are going to be presented with all new benefit options this year and you will need to explain them.  Your company is now able to offer three different options:  An HMO, a PPO, and an HDHP.  Your employees all received an information packet.  Here is the […]

You are the Compensation Manager for a large company that manufactures bicycles. The Operations Department of the firm is responsible for manufacturing the bikes, which is done in an assembly-line fashion. The process is quite man-power intensive. The operation makes use of 22 different assembly lines, each of which is able to produce one bicycle every sixteen minutes. Each line requires eight workers to fully […]

You might think that social problems only affect those who suffer from the problem directly, but they actually have much broader impact. For example, the public education system shapes the educational experiences of those who are not a part of the private school system. The government provides policies and procedures necessary to develop the public education system and make recommendations on ways to engage youth. […]

The workforce is changing, in many cases there are younger employees entering and engaging within the workplace. Race, and gender will continue to play a major role within the work environment, yet in today’s world there are diverse emerging concepts that organizations must be aware of and sensitive to. These include sexual orientation, religious points of view, and generational changes that are vastly different than […]

 Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 3, Chapter 6, and Chapter 9 from your textbook, the article Fair to All People: The SEC and the Regulation of Insider Trading (Links to an external site.), and the Week 4 Weekly Lecture. In a minimum of 200 words, supported by textbook evidence and other research, describe a recent example of insider trading. Determine if the […]

Milestone Two: Section 1: Internally Consistent Job Structures Section 1 introduces you to the specification of internally consistent job structures. Through writing job descriptions, the development of job structures, and both the development and implementation of a point evaluation method to quantify job differences objectively, you build the framework for internal equity. In Section 1, you will focus on building an internally consistent compensation system. […]

Traditionally, performance reviews are completed using preset performance appraisal forms or templates. An appraisal form should have detailed framework for measuring performance. Whether you are an employee, HR representative, or manager, you will have to complete and/or review performance appraisals. For this discussion, you will create a performance appraisal template that you believe would benefit the organization you currently or have previously worked for. Prior […]