What is the specific policy or general policy area to be analyzed?

What is the specific policy or general policy area to be analyzed?
What is the nature of the problem targeted by the policy?
1. How is the problem defined?
2. For whom is it a problem?
What is the context of the policy being analyzed (i.e., how does this specific policy fit with other policies seeking to manage a social problem)?
Choice analysis (i.e., what is the design of programs created by a policy and what are alternatives to this design?)
1. What are the bases of social allocation?
2. What are the types of social provisions?
3. What are the strategies for delivery of benefits?
4. What are the methods of financing these provisions?
II. Historical Analysis
What policies and programs were previously developed to deal with the problem? In other words, how has this problem been dealt with in the past?
How has the specific policy/program under analysis developed over time?
1. What people, or groups of people, initiated and/or promoted the policy?
2. What people, or groups of people, oppose the policy?
What does history tell us about effective/ineffective approaches to the problem being addressed? To what extent does the current policy/program incorporate the lessons of history?
III. Social Analysis
Problem Description
1. How complete is our knowledge of the problem?
2. Are our efforts to deal with the problem in accord with research findings?
3. What population is affected by the problem?
Size
Defining characteristics
Distribution
What theory or theories of human behavior are explicit or, more likely, implicit in the policy?
What are the major social values related to the problem, and what value conflicts exist?
What are the goals of the policy under analysis?
1. Manifest (stated) goals
2. Latent (unstated) goals
3. Degree of consensus regarding goals
What are the hypotheses implicit or explicit in the statement of the problem and goals?
IV. Economic Analysis
What are the effects and/or potential effects of the policy on the functioning of the economy as a whole- output, income, inflation, unemployment, and so forth (macroeconomic analysis)?
What are the effects and/or potential effects of the policy on the behavior of individuals, firms, and markets- motivation to work, cost of rent, supply of commodities, and so forth (microeconomics analysis)?
Opportunity cost; cost/benefit analysis.
V. Political Analysis
Who are the major stakeholders regarding this particular policy/program?
1. What is the power base of the policy/programs supporters?
2. What is the power base of the policy/programs opponents?
3. How well are the policy’s/program’s intended beneficiaries represented in the ongoing development and implementation of the policy/program?
How has the policy/program been legitimized? Is this basis for legitimation still current?
To what extent is the policy/program an example of rational decision making, incremental change, or change brought about by conflict?
What are the political aspects of the implementation of the policy/program?
VI. Policy/Program Evaluation
What are the outcomes of the policy/program in relation to the stated goals?
What are the unintended consequences of the policy/program?
Is the policy/program cost effective?
VII. Current Proposal for Policy ReformPolicy Analysis Outline

Discuss current events surrounding this issue and the role government should play in the process, if any.

Option 1:
Based upon your research into the field please discuss the changing role of unions in the American workplace. Discuss current events surrounding this issue and the role government should play in the process, if any. Do you believe the role of unions in the U.S. should increase? What role should HRM personnel play in employee relations within Organizations?
Option 2:
The US Department of Labor – through their Online Public Disclosure Room provides access to a large library of current and passed collective bargaining agreement. Review the following collective bargaining agreement. LU725 ACHRP CBA 2019-2022 CLEAN no cover_LU725 ACHRP CBA 020711.qxd (dol.gov) If you were on the management team renegotiating the agreement – identify an item that would concern you and warrants renegotiation? Please explain. Is there anything missing that you would propose? Please explain.

What are the ethical considerations surrounding your topic?

My Ethics topic is Workplace Monitoring
In a APA formatted paper explain:
What is your ethics topic about?
What are the ethical considerations surrounding your topic?
Give 3 current examples involving your ethics topics.
Why is your ethics topic important to individuals, IT professionals, businesses, and the government?