Contemporary Issue

In a 3-4 page memorandum to your HRM supervisor, you will outline a contemporary HRM issue and the laws associated with it. In the memorandum, you will provide background research on the issue, which your supervisor will share with the leadership team as they plan for scientific, technical, or social trends that might impact the workplace in the near future.
Introduction
The employment relationship is predicated on the exchange of power and authority for compliance and reward. As a result, employees voluntarily relinquish control of their time, effort, and industry. When employees determine that their employers inadequately compensate them for their work and seem to control their lives, conflict can result. This transforms a viable transactional relationship into a crucible of conflict and strife. When people come together in a workplace, they bring with them their values, opinions, prejudices, and sensitivities. Frequently, conflict occurs from within the employer-employee relationship as a result of these differences.
Controls, policies, and procedures must thus be created to address conflict and enable organizations to operate effectively. Employers predominantly control the workplace, so most laws and regulations restrict, inhibit, or guide the behavior and authority of employers with respect to employees. Employment law guidelines provide the philosophical, legal, and moral foundations for conflict resolution in the workplace. They embody a vital component of our system of government.
This assessment investigates a contemporary, HR law-related issue of your choice (not social media, it is addressed later in the course) and create a memorandum to your supervisor describing the scientific, technical, or social issue and how it impacts the workplace.
Introduction
In your work as an HRM professional, you will often encounter situations where current events, issues, and technologies impact your work with the employees and systems in human resources. This assessment asks you to take a broad look at the human resources spectrum of topics and select a current, law-related topic. You will then analyze and assess the ethical ramifications of the issue in the workplace.
Scenario
Your supervisor has asked you to research some of the latest law-related trends in human resources so that the team can project ahead to scientific, technical, or social trends that might impact the workplace in the near future. This is intended to be a background research project—you will present your findings in a 3–4-page memorandum to your supervisor that might also be shared with other HRM executives.
Your Challenge
You are an HRM professional who is tasked with researching at least one law-related article about a current issue in human resources and writing a memorandum about the background research that you have completed.
1. Write a memorandum to your supervisor describing and analyzing a contemporary scientific, technical, or social issue impacting the workplace. Select your issue from the list below (do not choose social media because it will be addressed in another assessment). You may use the listed article as your required resource.
EEOC-Discrimination by Type
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.). Discrimination by type. Retrieved from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/index.cfm
LEAP 2019: The top 10 lessons for HR. (2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 49(5), 5.
Age Discrimination
How to avoid age bias when talking retirement with employees. (2014). HR Specialist, 12(1), 8.
Race/Color Discrimination
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.). Race/color discrimination. Retrieved from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/race_color.cfm
Assigning black employees to black clients: Is that racial bias? (2010). HR Specialist, 8(1), 3.
Hawkins, D. (2016, February 8). Racial discrimination – Title VII. Wisconsin Law Journal.
Inclusion and Diversity
Bisco, J., Gradisher, S., & Mulholland, B. (2019). Women and diversity: Why the conversation must continue in financial services. Journal of Financial Service Professionals, 73(1), 72–84.
Burnham, C., Puckett, B., & Deakins, O. (2017). In contentious times, reaffirm commitment to inclusion, diversity. HR Specialist, 15(2), 7.
Respect Culture
Ahlrichs, K. (2018). Go beyond harassment best practices: Add respect to your culture. HR Specialist, 16(8), 8.
Whistle-Blowers
Whistleblower at work? Protect, don’t reject. (2019). HR Specialist, 17(11), 3.
LGBTQ Protections
Nagele-Piazza, L. (2019). Creating LGBTQ-inclusive workplace policies. HRNews.8.
Gun Violence at Work
Are you prepared for gun violence at work? (2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 49(10), 1–2.
2. Research the topic you selected using the law-related article associated with the issue from the list. Support your assertions with citations from your course readings, workplace examples, and any relevant additional research.
3. Address the following elements in your issue synopsis:
Describe your chosen contemporary scientific, technical, or social issue, including how it has impacted the workplace.
Analyze how your issue influenced or could influence employee productivity in your own current or former organization. Be sure to keep the organization anonymous.
Explain the impact of your issue from your perspective of an HRM executive.
Assess how relevant legislation affects your issue in the workplace.
Assess the ethical ramifications of your issue on HRM practices in the workplace.

individual

What is a community health assessment? Briefly describe the CHA process.
How are CHAs and CHIPs useful in improving the health of communities
Describe two tools used to conduct a CHIP.
What types of data are useful in a CHA?
What is the community benefit standard?
How can the community benefit standard be useful in improving population health?
Compare MAPP to MAP-IT. Discuss the similarities and differences.
All work must be supported and cited in APA
If you need the pages from the book please reach out, I dont have a PDF version of the book

The negative Affects Of Social Media

Write in the 3rd person
(he, she, it, the driver, the student, people, they),
avoiding ALL use of the first and second person pronouns
(I, you, me, we, etc.)
Approximately 7-10 pages (about 2000 words), plus a Works Cited page
Typed, Double-spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 point font
8-9 cited sources (only 2 internet sources)
cited material should be evident, including the use of quotations, paraphrases, and summaries.
MLA formatted headers, citations, and works cited page.

Social Media Policy

Write a 3-page executive summary about best practices, risks, and other considerations to take into account when creating a social media policy for a small trucking company. You will highlight three main bullet points at the end of the summary that you would use to discuss the social media policy issues with stakeholders.
Changes in technology and society will always impact the work of the HRM professional. In this assessment, and with the issues in your future career, you will need to collect the relevant historical background, legal compliance issues, ethical considerations, and organizational information to be ready to facilitate conversations between stakeholders around policy decisions. The pendulum may swing back and forth throughout your career, but with a sound background researching issues and clarifying the decision points, you will be prepared to lead change.
Introduction
Scenario
The HR division of your organization, a small private trucking company, has tasked you to lead a discussion about the key considerations when developing a social media policy for the company. You are to provide direction as to key considerations of legal compliance, ethics, and the relationship to the organizational mission. Ultimately, the internal committee of stakeholders to who you are presenting will create the social media policy and you need to lead them through the decisions that they should make in that process.
Your Challenge
You are an HRM leader for a small private trucking company and you have been asked to lead a discussion to develop the social media policy for the company. You will present your information and discussion points in the form of an executive summary including the issues that the internal committee should discuss and take into consideration when developing the policy.
Review the Sample Social Media Policy [PDF].
Write a 3-page executive summary that includes the following:
Describe best practices for creating a social media policy for an organization.
What should be included in the policy?
Are we allowed to control comments about our company?
Identify the legal and ethical risks of social media policies.
What mistakes should be avoided?
Evaluate the risks for private and governmental organizations of actions that may or may not be defined as “protected concerted activity.”
Are there protected activities that may be seen as a “protected concerted activity?”
Does a First Amendment right to free speech apply?
At the end of the summary, reiterate and list three brief bullet points of your most important recommendations for the development of the social media policy. Bullet points should be no longer than a simple sentence.

The Annotated Biblograpy

Before you start working on the first major assignment for this course–the Annotated Bibliography–you need to know what the assignment entails and what is required of you.
The completed Annotated Bibliography is due by 9 a.m. on Friday, March 11th. You must upload the assignment to the Assignments link provided in Module 8 (Week 8).
Your Annotated Bibliography must contain at least 3 academic, credible sources. The annotation for each source should be at least 500 words, for a total of at least 1500 words in the completed assignment.
Please click on the links in the pages and modules that follow in order to learn more about what an annotated bibliography is.
(The information in the following links are the content of and used with permission from the Olin Library Reference, Research & Learning Services, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, USA.)
1. The first link describes what an Annotated Bibliography is and provides a sample Annotated Bibliography for your perusal.
*** Please understand that you will write your Annotated Bibliography in MLA format.
2. The second link later in the course provides you with information on how to critically analyze sources for your annotated bibliography.

OSHA Analysis

In a 2-3-page executive memorandum for the organizational leadership team, you will explain the mission and function of OSHA and analyze the overarching safety standards that impact the cost of regulations and enforcement in modern organizations.
Creating a culture of workplace safety and legal compliance is a very real task for the human resource professional. Each type of work setting has some overarching safety standards. Compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is part of everyday record keeping and expenses within a business.
You will have the opportunity to learn more about OSHA and how its work impacts modern organizations. By creating a memorandum for your leadership team, you will get practical experience communicating the legal issues, expenses, and benefits of compliance with OSHA regulations.
Introduction
Scenario
Your organization is reviewing their Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) practices and expenses to determine if they are currently effective or if they need to be revisited. Your executive memorandum will serve as background information for the ongoing discussions between organizational leadership and the human resource department.
Your Challenge
You are a human resources specialist with experience in establishing OSHA protocols and the related costs. You will write the memorandum of explanation to the organizational leadership team so that they can carry on an informed discussion about practices in your organization.
1. Write a 3–5-page executive memorandum to organizational leadership regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and its effectiveness in the workplace. Include the following:
Describe the mission and function of OSHA.
What is OSHA intended to do? Is it working?
List some of the compliance objectives, or the overarching safety standards.
Analyze the impact of OSHA in modern organizations.
What does the HRM professional need to know about OSHA?
Analyze the cost of regulations and enforcement versus the benefit in reduced worker injury. Is the cost of regulations and enforcement worth the results?
Develop health- and safety-related best practices for human resources and organizational leadership.
Are there different perspectives toward interpretation, monitoring, and compliance with OSHA, and do the differing perspectives enhance or hinder workplace safety?
Evaluate the ways in which a company can mitigate risk.
2. Your executive memorandum is to be written coherently to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a business professional.
3. Support your assessment with citations from relevant readings, and use real-world organization examples to demonstrate the importance of the concepts and analysis you have provided.

Choose a legislator on the state or federal level who is also a nurse and discuss the importance of the legislator/nurse’s role as advocate for improving health care delivery. What bill did they support to help health care?

Choose a legislator on the state or federal level who is also a nurse and discuss the importance of the legislator/nurse’s role as advocate for improving health care delivery. What specific bills has the legislator/nurse sponsored or supported that have influenced health care.

Physical Activity and Overall Health

MLA page formatting
Tentative argument claim/thesis statement before the first source entry
10-15 sources
MLA 8th or 9th citation format for each source; hanging indention source formatting; alphabetical order of sources
2-7 sentences summarizing each source under the citation, adhering to hanging indention (see samples in GFC for reference); summary must follow summary characteristics (no quotes or copy and pasting)
1-2 closing sentences evaluating and justifying each source’s credibility and use toward the argument (summary and evaluation/justification are one cohesive paragraph)
Submit to Canvas link as .doc or .pdf by Sunday, March 13, 11:59 p.m. (10% per day deductions without an excused absence).
50 points

Communicating with Students on the First Day of My Field Experience

Week 1: Discussion Thread Question
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Discussion Question:
Discuss how you plan to communicate with the children on the first day of their field experience? What get-acquainted activities or games can they play to introduce themselves, to learn the children’s names and get to know them?
*Cite sources in text using APA format.