Jack White is the newly appointed general manager of the pet food division of Strickland Corporation. He has completed a strategic review that has convinced him that the division needs to undergo rapid and substantial change in a number of areas, given the recent strategic moves of key competitors. Although Jack is new, he is familiar enough with the company to know that there will […]

Topic:  Part 1: Chapter one of the course textbook discusses what makes the human service field distinct from other fields, such as social work and counseling psychology.  For the first part of your thread, discuss why the human service field is a much needed profession and share one or two possible careers that you might be interested in pursuing.  Remember that the Human Service degree […]

The Fig Technologies Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has asked you to compile a report regarding the age demographics within the organization. Your findings are that employees between the ages of 18 to 25 comprise 11% of the workforce, employees 26 to 39 comprise 31%, employees 35 to 55 comprise 34%, employees 56 to 69 compose 18%, and the remainder are age 69 and above. You […]

 Using the online library sources available at Amridge University, construct a brief 2-3-page paper on achieving better habits. In your paper, be sure to address the following: 1. Discuss your personal experiences with achieving better habits; 2. Describe what the textbook and other sources suggest for achieving better habits; and 3. Suggest what changes will need to be made in someone’s life to achieve better […]

 Follow directions to prepare for this Assignment, select three peer-reviewed scholarly articles, with each article addressing a topic of your interest for research. For more information and an example of an annotated bibliography, refer to the Walden Writing Center’s annotated bibliography resource in this week’s Learning Resources. Submit an annotated bibliography for the three peer-reviewed resources you selected. In your annotated bibliography, include the following: […]

Throughout history, groups of people have received mistreatment that has little to do with who they are as people and more to do with their age, gender, socioeconomic status, skin color, or physical disability. People who face such challenges are more at risk for developing mental health and other life problems. Such problems might include substance abuse, trouble with law enforcement, and homelessness. Human services […]

Within organizations, the human resources department is considered an ally by some managers and a barrier by others. The legal requirements of managing HR require you to be the dispenser of policies, procedures, and rules at times and a trusted counselor and guide at other times. There are varying perspectives on the value HR policies bring to an organization. In other words, the policies, procedures, […]

SaharaOasis.com is an online retailer that currently has 1,500 employees and warehouse operations in New York, Nebraska, and Nevada. The company is prospering and has decided to expand its operations globally by opening a new warehouse in South Korea, with hopes of continued expansion into Europe.   To open the new warehouse, management staff will be transferred from the company’s current locations. They will also have […]

You were hired to work as a HR Consultant for a small local hospital, with the task of expanding the workforce of certified medical assistants.  Looking at the current three employees, you find a discrepancy in compensation between Susi, a 2-year employee at $28,000, Tom, 5-year employee at $27,000, and Raul, a 10-year employee at $33,000. All are employed as certified medical assistants, yet they […]

Assessing value in health care is based on outcome. The policy that is implemented to analyze value must be one that is specific to the healthcare organization, and must address the value issues (i.e., past, current, and forecasted). It is important to note that ethics and values are both inclusive and exclusive of each other in terms of policy; from both the stance of “professional […]