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Image that you are in a training and development for a global organization. You have been tasked with the creation of a cultural diversity training course that all employees will be required to take. Before designing the course, you must consider the ethical and cultural issues of the task.

In an eight page paper, you must address the following:

a. Examine and legal implications in creating a training course that discusses culture. Identify what laws and regulations should be considered.

b. Explain how the demographic diversity of your employees affects discussions of cultural diversity.

c. Examine which ethical implications should be considered.

d. Examine if training can be standardized for all locations in a global organization. Analyze what media is best suited for training in a global setting.

e. Provide recommendations for implementing the training course

Image that you are in a training and development for a global organization. You have been tasked with the creation of a cultural diversity training course that all employees will be required to take. Before designing the course, you must consider the ethical and cultural issues of the task.

In an eight page paper, you must address the following:

a. Examine and legal implications in creating a training course that discusses culture. Identify what laws and regulations should be considered.

b. Explain how the demographic diversity of your employees affects discussions of cultural diversity.

c. Examine which ethical implications should be considered.

d. Examine if training can be standardized for all locations in a global organization. Analyze what media is best suited for training in a global setting.

e. Provide recommendations for implementing the training course

International Business

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Daniels, J. D., Radebaugh, L. H., & Sullivan, D. P. (2015). International business: Environments and operations (15th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Must use three sources. One is the text book and find two additional sources. Paper needs to be two pages. APA style, excluding title page and reference page.

Guidelines

– You are the CEO of XYZ manufacturing company. You have decided that you would like to market your product to Turkey. Consider the following points in your paper; you can make assumptions, but support your work with facts and scholarly references:

– Discuss the reasons why your company would want to expand overseas.

– Discuss what your mode of international business would be and how moving abroad will expand sales.

– How will you minimize risks and acquire resources?

– What are the factors you may face expanding into a foreign market? How might you mitigate those barriers

Research Report on Issue in Human Services History

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In this assignment, you will explore the field of human services with emphasis on its history and the effects, both positive and negative, it has had on people. This assignment allows you to identify and follow the evolution of the influence of social policy, theory, and outcomes of practices on human services delivery. The activities in this assignment will introduce students to the types of activities that have influenced real-world administrative roles. At the end of the assignment, you will be able to conceptualize how the policy and practice issues influence the operation of human services agencies.

Tasks:

Select and research an issue in human services history that has impacted the delivery of services. In a 6- to 7-page report, complete the following:

Describe the issue, its background, and the key people who were involved.
Explain how the issue or these key people have changed or defined human services.
Discuss the issue and the key people’s impact on theory, practices, and ethics, and how these issues have changed service delivery systems.
Evaluate and discuss if the changes are still evident today or have become extinct.

Examples of issues may include, but are not limited to, the Civil Rights Movement, Family Medical Leave Act, GI Bill, work/life balance, and childhood vaccinations.

Submission Details:

By Wednesday, September 15, 2015, prepare a 6- to 7-page report. Your response should rely upon at least three sources from professional literature. This may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

magine that you have been appointed as Apple’s Chief Compliance Officer. Prepare a paper for Apple’s suppliers regarding Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct to deliver via a web meeting. To prepare for your presentation, review Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct, located at https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/. Then submit a four to six (4-6) page paper.

Part 1: Paper

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

List specific changes that Apple has made to its Code of Conduct in recent years. Provide at least one (1) example of each change.
Explain the identified changes to the suppliers in such a way that they will understand the standards that Apple requires in order to maintain their relationship with the company.

Part 2: PowerPoint Presentation

Create a six to eight (6-8) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

Summarize Apple’s Supplier Responsibility information.
Discuss Apple’s stance on each of the following areas:

Empowering workers
Labor and Human Rights
Health and Safety
The Environment
Accountability

Identify the key ways that Apple’s Progress Report has changed since last year.
Examine the manner in which Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.
Provide detailed speaker notes of what you would say if you were delivering the presentation.
Submit a reference page with at least two (2) quality references that you have used for this presentation / paper. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your PowerPoint presentation must follow these formatting requirements:

Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away.
Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title and reference slides are not included in the required slide length.

The written paper, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Evaluate the influences of changing economic, political, social, cultural, and technological forces on business and society.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in business and society.
Write clearly and concisely about business and society using proper writing mechanics

Discuss with the group the results of your Frames of Leadership Analysis. What did you learn? What surprised you?

Evaluate the Internal and External Conditions that Influence the Design of Pay Programs

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For this written assignment, consider the factors that shape the compensation program of an organization. Analyze compensation concepts that influence market factors, pay structures including pay grades and levels, and other internal and external factors that influence these pay decisions.

Assess how HRM communicates these concepts of pay structures to employees. Include examples of best practices from the literature among organizations that have been successful in recruiting, motivating, and retaining employees. How do these examples of successful strategies support a healthy balance of internal and external factors? Your examples should justify your thoughts.

Support your paper with a minimum of three (3) scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages

Animal use in toxicity testing has long been a controversial issue, however, there can be benefits. Read “The Use of Animals in Research,” which is an article that can be retrieved from

http://www.toxicology.org/pubs/docs/air/AIR_Final.pdf.

Evaluate the current policies outlined in the Position Statement. Use the instructions to guide you in your analysis. Feel free to use additional information and avenues of information, including the textbook, to critically analyze this policy.

In addition, answer the following questions:

How do toxicologists determine which exposures may cause adverse health effects?

How does the information apply to what you are learning in the course?

What were the objectives of this toxicity testing?

What were the endpoints of this toxicity testing?

Finally, include weather or not you agree with the Society of Toxicology’s position on animal testing.

Your Case Study assignment should be three to four pages in length. Use APA style guidelines in writing this assignment, following APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and referencin

Attached are 5 articles dealing with bottled water. Please answer the follwing questions using the articles must be 1-2 page paper, using APA format.

Based on what you have read, do you believe that pollution standards should be established for bottled water? What arguments most influenced your decision? How would you explain your position to someone who disagrees with you?

You will apply economic principles presented in Weeks One through Three in this week’s assignment. Your assignment will be reviewed by your peers and by your facilitator in week five and should be revised as necessary based on feedback as the first part of the final assignment in week six.

Select a new, realistic good or service for an existing industry.

Write the economic analysis section of a business proposal. This will include statements about the market structure and the elasticity of demand for the good or service, based on text book principles. You need to create hypothetical data, based on similar real world products to estimate fixed and variable costs.

Required Elements:

Identify market structure
Identify elasticity of the product
Include rationale for the following questions:
How will pricing relate to elasticity of your product?
How will changes in the quantity supplied as a result of your pricing decisions affect marginal cost and marginal revenue?
Besides your pricing decisions, what are your suggested nonpricing strategies? What non pricing strategies will you use to increase barriers to entry?
How could changes in your business operations alter the mix of fixed and variable costs in line with your strategy?

In addition to your week four paper, the second part of your paper will use the revised information tore commend appropriate pricing and nonpricing strategies for your new or existing good or service based on the projected economy’s stage in the business cycle and the prevailing projected economic conditions for one or more macroeconomic factors. Explain the evidence that supports these recommendations.

Required Elements:

Describe the current global economic conditions and their effect on local macroeconomic indicators for your good or service.
Describe the local economy’s stage in the business cycle.
Describe how current credit market conditions affect your planning or operating decision for your good or service.
No more than 2100 words (in addition to the 1400 word paper completed in week four, an additional three pages at most is needed