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Utilizing the checklists prepared in Units V and VI, rev iew your current organizational safety program ,   and look specifically  for the following:   

   h azard identification ;   

   p rovisions for the identification and/or treatment of muscular ,   skeletal , or cumulative trauma disorders;   

   environmental safety; and   

   e thical dec ision  making and corporate culture .   

If you do not have a current organization, use the safety program from an organization that has displayed their program  on the Internet, or have a friend or  family member   provide you with the safety program from their o rganization. If you are  still unable to obtain a safety program, then ask local industries in your area for a copy of their safety program.   

Review the safety program you have chosen.  In your review , write an  essay to address you r findings and   recommendati ons, and provide applicable references as   needed. This p roject should be  at least three pages in length (not  counting the title and reference pages), and it should be   created using APA style guidelines.   

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 Congratulations! You have been chosen by your chief officer to present for an upcoming officer’s seminar that is a part of the Officer Candidate School being held at your department. All future officers in your department must successfully complete this seminar before they can sit for the promotional exam to become a company officer. Your PowerPoint presentation will be included in Part III of the Officer Candidate School, which involves personnel management. For your presentation, which is comprehensive in nature, you will first need to select of one of the following humanistic management concepts: FIR 4302, Fire Service Personnel Management 4 McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y; Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; or Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid. Next, you will need to meet the criteria provided below. Explain your chosen theory. Apply real-life examples that support your chosen theory. Correlate how your chosen theory and real-life examples relate to managing personnel. Your presentation should be a minimum of 14 slides, with a maximum of 16 slides, not counting the title and reference slides. Include at least five content-specific images to support your material. Include at least three sources, one of which will be your textbook. As always, you must use proper APA format for citations and references, including those for the pictures used. If you have any questions regarding the assignment, contact your instructor. Information about accessing the grading rubric for this assignment is provided below 

 "The Tata Nano: The People’s Car (A) and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs". Please respond to the following:

From the case study, categorize the Nano’s marketing segments that have the greatest influence on its sales. Assume you are the marketing manager at Tata responsible for consumer marketing. In your own words, outline a plan that Tata could implement in order to make the process to purchase the Nano more efficient for potential buyers.

* One way that marketers use Maslow’s Hierarchy is by identifying their product with a certain level of needs. Marketers use imagery in commercials to motivate customers to satisfy their needs using the company’s product. A great number of companies position their brands to make customers feel like their product or service will make them belong to a certain group or that they will receive social acceptance and respect. However, there are just as many brands that use pitches for reliability and security to make customers feel the companies’ products cover their basic needs.

You can find more on this topic can in your textbook on page 20 in section 2-3. From the scenario, analyze each level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, and articulate the level which most affects you when making a purchase. Provide support for your rationale by utilizing an example. (Response: Friendship-Love and Belonging affects me when making a purchase)

Resource: Avery Foster v. Federal Express Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53779 (E. Dist. Ct. MI)

The issue in the case is whether the company's employment handbook created an implied contract. Avery Foster was terminated for falsifying an employee timecard. He argued that he was told in his initial interview that he would be guaranteed employment at Federal Express as long as he was a good worker and was protected from "just cause" termination. The court found there was good cause to terminate Avery Foster and that the handbook did not create an implied contract of guaranteed employment.

Progressive discipline is an employee disciplinary process that provides a graduated and measured range of responses to employee performance or conduct issues. Critical thinking consideration: Short of termination, could progressive discipline have been effective in this matter?

Given the circumstances and issues that arose in the Avery Foster case, create the following:

• Design a Progressive Discipline      Policy that would be appropriate for most organizations to follow, with      consideration to the following measures:

• Identify the discipline issues       to be addressed: attendance, performance, conduct, or a single broad       category of non-performance.
• Determine whether or not the       provisions of the policy should permit the company to modify and/or apply       the policy in any manner it deems appropriate under the circumstances,       including acceleration of steps, exclusion of steps, or repetition of       steps.
• Assess when a supervisor may       act independently or needs to seek upper management approval.
• Explain instructions on when       to involve Human Resources.
• Clarify the role of Human       Resources to advise or approve disciplinary action.
• Determine when a witness       should be present.
• Outline the different       sequences and progressive levels of discipline that an employee can       receive.
• Develop rules regarding merit       increases in relation to disciplinary action.

Write the policy in the third-person in no more than 1,400 words.

Use headings that appropriately signal the steps and keep your policy organized.

Use a minimum of three different research resources, and identify all sources in your Reference 

Provide in your own words, not as a copy and paste from other sources, a short paragraph, of no more than 200 words, witha description of:The magnetic resonance imaging system, the fundamental principles, the main applications and the advantages or disadvantages, compared to other image systems in medicine

  "The Tata Nano: The People’s Car (A) and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs". Please respond to the following:

From the case study, categorize the Nano’s marketing segments that have the greatest influence on its sales. Assume you are the marketing manager at Tata responsible for consumer marketing. In your own words, outline a plan that Tata could implement in order to make the process to purchase the Nano more efficient for potential buyers.

* One way that marketers use Maslow’s Hierarchy is by identifying their product with a certain level of needs. Marketers use imagery in commercials to motivate customers to satisfy their needs using the company’s product. A great number of companies position their brands to make customers feel like their product or service will make them belong to a certain group or that they will receive social acceptance and respect. However, there are just as many brands that use pitches for reliability and security to make customers feel the companies’ products cover their basic needs.

You can find more on this topic can in your textbook on page 20 in section 2-3. From the scenario, analyze each level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, and articulate the level which most affects you when making a purchase. Provide support for your rationale by utilizing an example. (Response: Friendship-Love and Belonging affects me when making a purchase)

Analyzing Diversity

Option #1: Analyzing Diversity

Your book lists four different types of diversity: species diversity, genetic diversity, ecological diversity, and functional diversity. Pick one type of diversity and create a plan to assess it in your backyard or a local outdoor area. Write a paper addressing the following:

1. Describe your location. Does it receive a lot of rain? What time of year is it? Give a general description of the kinds of species found here.
2. Discuss the type of diversity you would like to assess in the area and why. Make a hypothesis about the diversity you would expect to find.
3. Create your plan.
   1. What data would you need to assess that kind of diversity? How could you collect that data?
   2. Create a hypothetical table of the data you might find in your area.
   3. What are different ways you could analyze that data?
4. Discuss the importance of diversity for a healthy ecosystem.
5. What impact do you think humans have on diversity in this natural area?

Requirements:

• Your written paper should be three to four pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages, which you must include.
• You need to cite at least three sources for this assignment, outside of the textbook. 
• Your paper must be formatted according to APA CITATIONS 

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 Understanding IFSAC and PROBOARD PowerPoint Presentation As the president of your state’s fire chiefs’ association, you have been tasked with presenting a program on training agencies. Your presentation should be designed to help problem-solve and manage the latest trends, which are voluntary certification and accreditation. However, there are some fire chiefs who have expressed that the services provided by both organizations yield great benefits to all fire departments. This presentation should be based upon your research, utilizing the existing state training specialists of your state, the Internet and other chief officers to help create and move a group discussion that addresses the following: The title of your presentation is “Understanding IFSAC and PROBOARD and their Value to the Fire Service.” Your presentation must include the following items: Include 16-20 slides (not counting the title and reference slides). Include title and reference slides. Include an introduction. Explain both organizations’ approach to certification and issuing of certificates. Explain both organizations’ concept of accreditation. Identify your state fire training agency’s accredited courses and levels (if any). Identify at least five state agencies and their accredited PROBOARD courses and levels. Identify at least five state agencies and their accredited IFSAC courses and levels. Identify at least two non-state agencies and their accredited PROBOARD courses and levels. Identify at least two non-state agencies and their accredited IFSAC courses and levels. Explain the return on investments for organization which affiliate with PROBOARD and IFSAC. Express how career and volunteer fire departments will likely be impacted by their state fire training agency’s affiliation with PROBOARD and IFSAC. In addition, explain how networking through these affiliations can impact your department’s ability to problem-solve and manage trends within the field. Elaborate on the importance communication (technology, networking, and the Internet) to help problem-solve and manage the latest trends. Do you feel that communication today has or has not helped the fire service problem-solve and manage trends? Although not required, you may enhance your presentation by including photographs and other graphics 

Advanced Solid Waste Management

How can information you learned in this course be applied to your life or work,in order to increase your future success as an environmental engineering professional

Solution to Population Growth

Option #1: Solutions to Population Growth

Reducing population growth is a rather controversial topic. Many different solutions have been proposed to help reduce population growth (in addition to those mentioned in your textbook) to help save the environment. Research different ideas to reduce population growth. Choose three options you found that you think would be the best options to reduce population growth in the United States. Compose an argumentative paper to describe the solutions and why you think they are the best options for the United States. In the paper you should:

1. Summarize the problem with human population growth in the United States.
2. Present the three options you think would be good to help reduce population growth in the United States and describe why they would be good options. How will their impact be beneficial for the environment?
3. For each of your options, present an opposing view and then describe why that view is not valid.
4. Design a test to assess the solution you think may be the best. First provide your hypothesis presented in the following format: If this happens/is controlled this way, this will be observed. Describe how data would be gathered and then the expected results.

Requirements:

• Your written paper should be three to four pages in length not counting the title and reference pages, which you must include.
• You need to cite at least three sources for this assignment
• Your paper must be formatted according to APA Citations