Health, Nutrition, and Wellness Presentation As a teacher, you have the opportunity to share the knowledge you have gained in this course with your colleagues to support a collaborative approach to shared health, nutrition, and safety goals. For your Final Project, you will create a presentation for other educators in your center that is focused on the development of a program valuing health, nutrition, and […]

complete Case 35, page 112-113. You will will consider “Recruiting and Selecting High-Level Managers Through the Internet” – the all-too-real need to from high-level managers is increasing and many companies are using internet recruiting. You will need to answer the questions on Page 113 noting the advantages and disadvantages of this recruitment source, which approach you would use, what prescreening hurdles you need, and what […]

Until the early 1960s, healthcare was largely a not-for-profit business dominated by foundations that employed physicians. Over time, for-profit organizations have flourished, and in the case of some sectors, notably pharmaceuticals, organizations are almost entirely for-profit. There remain differences in the two organization types, though they both serve the same population. A number of behaviors are similar, but there are significant differences. Understanding these differences […]

Unit VII Case Study Write a two- to three-page analysis using the Case Study on pages 325-327 of your textbook, “Expatriate Management at AstraZeneca.” Your analysis should address the following questions: 1. Critically analyze AstraZeneca’s expatriate management practices. 2. According to the 2007 Expatriate Work/Life Balance Survey, 65% of expats report feeling the strain of managing the demands of work and home, leading to more […]

Compensation Purpose and Strategy Document The purpose of this assignment is to choose a compensation philosophy that is appropriate for your chosen firm and articulate a rationale for this selection. There are two aspects to this assignment. First, describe the risks and benefits with leading, meeting, and lagging the market in overall compensation and benefits. Next, choose the appropriate strategy (lead, meet, or lag) for […]

Database Marketing This week you will obtain information on database marketing to support the Marketing Mix section of your Final Project. As discussed in Chapter 10 of the course text, database marketing centers on gathering customer-based information such as gender, age, occupation, and lifestyles. As an example, to better understand the wants and needs of patients and their families, the Happy Valley marketing director monitors […]

Please read the Case 1.6, DCS Sanitation Management v. Eloy Castillo, found on page 20 of the textbook. Once you have read and reviewed the case scenario, respond to the following questions:  1. Was the hiring of DCS employees by Packers ethical? 2. Should companies who employ personnel to clean buildings be allowed to require them to sign non-compete agreements? 3. Is the resolution of […]

Arrow furniture is a family-owned and operated manufacturer of high-end furniture located in North Carolina. The furniture industry has suffered from foreign competition over recent years. Nationwide, there have been massive layoffs and several large companies have closed. Arrow’s workers are feeling these pressures and have begun displaying counterproductive behaviors. The HR manager recently told Mary Baker, the family member serving as CEO, that employees […]

 Team Project: There are five essential principles of management. These include planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and leading. For this assignment you will select a classmate to work with. You and your classmate will: • Review Chapter 13 of your textbook • Conduct outside research of the topics of planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and leading (consider using the Kaplan library databases) You and your teammate have […]

o    A potential client wants you to be the project manager for a project that involves moving to a new computerized human resource management system that supports the firm’s staffing, compensation, employee relation, and benefit functions. The client is very vague about what needs to be done for all that they know is that they do not like the current system. Identify the types of […]