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Research Assignment – Asset Misappropriation

Conduct some research in the Kaplan Library accessed through the home area of the course room and locate an article for each of the types of asset misappropriation fraud schemes:

Checklist:

Analyze the asset misappropriation fraud scheme in terms of the three prongs of the fraud triangle, and then discuss methods and techniques that can be used to prevent the fraud from occurring.
Cash Receipts Scheme
Cash Disbursement Scheme
Make sure to use two short citations from your two articles and include an accompanying reference for each in APA format and style on an additional last page

Submit your 2–3 page paper with an additional title and reference page to the Assignment Dropbox

Performance Appraisals” Please respond to the following:

• Determine why organizations can have higher productivity when top managers encourage supervisors to set goals, assess performance, and provide feedback to employees. Support your answer with examples. Then, describe the experience you have had with performance appraisals and how your performance has been influenced by them.
• From the e-Activity, rate the importance of measuring performance and providing an opportunity for feedback. Support your position.

Q2:

“Performance Measurement” Please respond to the following:

• Imagine you are working at an ice cream shop. It is the middle of summer, the shop’s busiest season, and the electricity goes out during a storm. Rank the actions that you should take in order of importance, as your performance will be measured regarding your immediate actions.
• Assess the advantages and / or disadvantages of having more than one source of performance measurement within a company. Support your position with examples. Of the performance measurement sources you provided, select one that you believe your current or previous company could benefit from and explain why.

Q3:

“Environmental Responsibility” Please respond to the following:

• From the e-Activity, determine two (2) other costs that BP might have incurred. Give your opinion as to whether or not BP would have been better off had the company taken the necessary precautions to prevent or minimize an oil spill. Support your answers.
• Give your opinion on whether governments should be able to rezone and condemn residential land and displace homeowners in the process, in order to facilitate commercial development. Explain your rationale

Four companies—Dualism, Inc., Materialism, Co., Idealism, LLC, and Alternative Views, Ltd.—are competing for the right to claim that they are “The Correct Metaphysical/Epistemological View.”

Select one of these companies, and imagine that you are the company’s head of public relations.

 

Create a promotional brochure to promote your company’s viewpoint. In your brochure, acknowledge the other companies’ positions, but present convincing evidence as to why your position is superior and should be chosen for this coveted award.

Suppose that you have been alerted of a potential incident involving a suspected worm spreading via buffer overflow techniques, compromising Microsoft IIS Web servers. As the IR Team leader, it is your responsibility to determine the next steps.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

Explain in detail the initial steps that would need to be made by you and the IR team in order to respond to this potential incident.
Construct a process-flow diagram that illustrates the process of determining the incident containment strategy that would be used in this scenario, and identify which containment strategy would be appropriate in this case, through the use of graphical tools in Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Construct a process flow diagram to illustrate the process(es) for determining if / when notification of the incident should be relayed to upper management, and explain how those communications should be structured and relayed through the use of graphical tools in Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Detail the incident recovery processes for the resolution of this incident.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

READ THIS WEEK’S ASSIGNED MATERIAL (CH 3) IN THE TEXT and do additional research in suggested sources and on your own thinking. Review the material noted below. Your assignment is not to be exhaustive on the topic, but rather to have some meaningful information to contribute to the debate and discussion. Collectively we will be able to cover the topic quite well.
Type up your arguments and summary evidence in 3-4 pages and turn this in at the beginning of class.
In class, be prepared to talk about what you find in class during the debate. DO NOT READ verbatim from your paper or other document. Rather, practice speaking to others as you would in a work environment. (Assume that you have about 30-60 seconds to state your position). Notice that many people will want to talk, and probably somebody else will state one or more of your points before you get recognized. Therefore you will want to have a number of viewpoints ready.
DEBATE TOPIC: “In spite of the Equal Pay Act (1963) women on average earn approximately $.78 for every $1.00 that men earn. [Note that this is based on $ per hour worked. This “wage gap” refers to cash compensation only, and does not include the cost of employee benefits.] Therefore a new law requiring Equal Pay for Men & Women should written and become Law in the US.”

BACKGROUND FOR EQUAL PAY:The focus of this debate/discussion is the Male-Female “Wage Gap” in the US. This issue pertains to all men and women working for pay in the economy, whether paid hourly or salary, and no matter when the individual finished their education or began working. Note that the EQUAL PAY ACT of 1963 requires equal pay for men and women doing the same or “essentially the same” work. (Be sure to read about the Equal Pay Act in the text.)

Since the 1940’s, the labor force participation rate of women has increased on a consistent basis, and today as many or more women as men engage in paid employment. It is also true that women have consistently increased their average years of education over this period of time. (Although not always in the highest paying occupations.) The “wage gap” is defined as the difference between the average pay per hour worked for women versus the average pay per hour worked for men. This is often expressed as something like: “Women earn on average only $.78 for every $1.00 that men earn.”

The difficulty with this comparison is that it includes many factors that are legitimate (i.e. not sex discrimination) reasons for pay differences, such as less work experience; self selection into lower paid occupations (e.g. public school teacher rather than perhaps engineering); choosing employers who offer higher employee benefits (not included in calculation the pay gap) and correspondingly lower cash compensation, fewer hours per worked per week, etc. Self-selection, or the choices women make, are usually seen as legitimate differences in average compensation.

You’ll find some general discussion of the issues here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disparity_in_the_United_States#Explaining_the_gender_pay_gap

You’ll find the actual “Gender Wage Gap” study here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/djnqk52bre5lpcg/ukXvHeGBQv

In 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor commissioned a study to review all existing empirical studies of the male – female wage difference. This study was quite well done, and concluded that most (almost all) of the difference between men’s pay average, and women’s pay average was due to choices that women made, such as occupation, time out of labor force, working fewer hours, etc. I am attaching a copy of that report to this message.

THE DEBATE should focus on:

1) Does a pay gap between men and women exist?

2) What is the size or amount of that pay gap?

3) Why such a gap in average pay does or does not exist.

4) If you are arguing in favor of additional legislation, sketch what this law would include and how it would work.

(In your paper, be sure to answer all 4 questions, and label them individually.) It may be most efficient to begin with the sources I have given here, and then add to that with your own research. You may want to present data in this debate process. If you choose to do this, be sure to make a clear 1-page document I can put up on the overhead camera for you. You’ll need large type, and it must be hard copy, because it takes far too long to load digital copy on the classroom computer. Be sure to give this to me before class

Imagine you are a facilitator at a university. Develop a scenario where you would like to influence a specific student’s behavior.

Write a 350- to 700-word paper including the following:

Describe the scenario.

Describe the student’s behavior that you wish to influence.

Describe how you would use feedback and praise with your student to elicit the desired behavior.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Please be sure to use concepts and terminology from our text to address each topic. (This means you’ll need to list and cite our text as a reference.

StopNShopToday, Inc., founded in 1991, is a family-owned corporation with 15 combination convenience store/gas station locations and approximately 150 employees. A store manager is responsible for each store location. All accounting, budgeting, payroll, human resources, bulk ordering, energy corporation franchising, and overhead costing is handled at the corporate office.

The company currently uses a loosely structured management training program to develop future store managers. The program consists solely of assistant managers who have been hired or promoted from cashier positions. These individuals learn managerial skills and functions through on-the-job training during a 1 to 2 year period. The minimum qualifications for the management training program are that the applicant has a bachelor’s degree (no specific curriculum), 6 months experience as a cashier, demonstrated dependability, and good customer service skills.

During the management training period, the assistant manager is responsible for the following:

compiling the store’s weekly employee shift schedule
filling scheduling holes
interviewing cashier applicants
making recommendations for hiring
totaling each shift’s cash register receipts
observing the duties and activities of the store manager

Most of these functions are handled in the office in the back of the store. Each store manager handles the training process based on his or her own individual preference and needs. Approximately 20 to 30% of the assistant manager’s week is spent on these functions. When not performing these tasks, the assistant manager performs the role of the cashier. Overall, an assistant manager will work between 50 to 60 hours per week, depending on the number of unscheduled absences by cashiers. Although the cashiers report solely to the store manager, they are expected to follow the instructions of the assistant manager.

The assistant manager’s position is salaried between $21,800 and $32,000 annually and is exempt from overtime pay rates. When a cashier is promoted to an assistant manager, he or she generally receives a $1.00 per hour pay increase, which generally results in an offset of the lost overtime pay he or she would have received for the same amount of work. The pay increase is intentionally structured in this way because the main motivation for employees taking the promotion is to become a store manager with StopNShopToday, Inc.

In this assignment, you will assume the role of a StopNShopToday, Inc. corporate human resources generalist. You have been assigned the responsibility of performing an analysis of the assistant store manager position. You must determine if the position is in compliance with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Create a memo to the vice president of human resources summarizing your interpretation of the requirements of the FLSA as the requirements apply to this position.
Segregate your findings into a minimum of 5 bullet points, and provide an introduction, summary, and recommendation(s).
Use the library and Internet to locate specific information on the requirements of the FLSA. It is recommended that you begin your search at the U.S. Department of Labor Web site.

There are 2 question of this assignment.

question 1. This week’s AAS100 theme touches on different forms of anti-Asian violence involving 9/11 and homeland security AND America’s political means that some Asian Americans have taken to bring justice to their experiences with institutional racism and discrimination.

Read and watch 1, 2, and 3 about Wen Ho Lee carefully; focus on the important-major AAS100 issues (Asian Pacific American experiences);

Write a 3-fully-developed-paragraph paper about the three major AAS100 issues, from the less to the more important order; begin your response with a specific thesis statement such as:

The two most important AAS100 issues that Wen Ho Lee faced are:

(a) … ; and (b) … .

So, the first paragraph of your response must be short and simple, indicating just the thesis in the form provided (= The two most important … (a)… and (b) … .).

Then, analyze (a) and (b) one by one; each/paragraph (in what order?). Relate your discussion to APAE8.26 to secure the most persuasive answer.

question 2. Respond to the following question (in 1 fully-developed paragraph) Peter Chua argues that “U.S. Asian communities have been severely affected” [since 9/11] by DHS’ practices of institutional racism, “regardless of citizenship status.” Who are the specific Asian Pacific American groups Chua identifies as most often targeted by the DHS security measures and why? How are their immigration rights violated?

Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking Paper (Social Psychology)

Locate an article concerning conflict resolution and peacemaking using the course readings, the University Library, and other resources.

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you analyze your article. (at least two references plus the textbook)

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Discussion Questions on Altruism

Answer each discussion in 150+ words with intext citations and references.

Discussion 1 – Various Motivations – Examine various motivations to engage in altruistic behavior.

Discussion 2 – Philanthropy – Examine philanthropy in terms of the social exchange theory and pro-social behavior.

Discussion 3 – Activism – Examine social activism in terms of the social exchange theory and pro-social behavior.

Discussion 4 – Examine volunteerism in terms of the social exchange theory and pro-social behavior.

Discussion 5 – Motivation – What motivates individuals to help others? How have you been motivated to help others?

Discussion 6 – Sustainable Living – What are ways that we, as a society, can enable sustainable living? What have you done to contribute to sustainable living? Why do you think exploring sustainable is important to study in a class on social psychology?