WRITING ASSIGNMENT – RESOLVING CONFLICT PRESENTATION

You have been asked to serve as the lead developer for a special project that involves the topic of conflict management and its importance in the workplace.  Your job is to research and develop an instructional briefing and prepare a PowerPoint presentation.  This presentation will be used to orient a new supervisor in your organization on the topic of resolving conflict.  Use the speaker notes section to provide more detail about the information you present on your slides.

Create a 15- to 20-slide PowerPoint presentation with approximately 900 words of speaker notes that includes:

• An introduction to the topic of conflict management.
• An explanation of why it is strategically important for new supervisors in the HRM realm. 
• Differences associated with how diversity plays a potential role in conflict and negotiations.
• A model for understanding and defining the causes of conflict.         
• The importance in pursuing a reputation as a “good public employer.” 
• Key issues and practices in negotiations to resolve conflict

Include 3 scholarly sources to support your analysis.

Primary and Secondary Authorities

Identifying primary and secondary sources is crucial for effective research. Primary sources dictate what the applicable law is in a case, and mandatory sources must be used in the jurisdiction where the issue is being addressed. Nonetheless, a primary source in another jurisdiction might persuade a judge to make a particular decision in cases where there are no primary sources, or in cases where a change in precedent could be warranted. Secondary sources merely explain primary sources.

For this week’s Assignment, please complete Assignment 5 (questions a–h), which is located at the end of Chapter 1 in the Putman textbook.

All the information you need to complete the Assignment is contained in your textbook; there is no need to do additional research or find the cases summarized. Please make sure that each question is answered in at least 1 paragraph (5–7 sentences).

Your Assignment must have a title page in APA format. All of the legal sources used in the Assignment itself must be in Bluebook format.

Online Research

Legal research can be very easy and quick if you know how to use a database such as Westlaw. Sometimes it can be extremely time-consuming and frustrating to find what you are looking for if you are not familiar with how it works. The best way to learn how to use Westlaw is by diving in and doing research.

For this Assignment, you will explore Westlaw for at least 1 hour. Please log onto Westlaw through the Library link located on the course resources page. Based on the facts below, please find federal statutes, case law, secondary authority, and other material that can be used to answer the issue presented. You need to locate and review at least four primary and secondary sources. You will create a research trail that must be saved and uploaded to the Dropbox. The research trail will show a list of every site and document that you retrieved and accessed. Make sure that you spend at least 1 hour researching on Westlaw. The research trail will show the time online, and list the documents accessed. Before you begin your research, you must first click on the link at the top of the page that allows you to save the trail on Westlaw. Make sure that as you do the research, you click on the individual results so that the research trail will show that you read some of the information retrieved.

Facts to be used for the Westlaw research:

Sarah Whitman has come to the office for a legal consultation. She worked for AeroSpecs, a federal government defense contractor. She claims that one of her coworkers offered her a drink one night, and the next morning when she woke up, she realized that she had been drugged and raped. Her employment contract has a mandatory arbitration clause. Can she sue her employer for damages resulting from the alleged rape? Would she have to forego a civil lawsuit and instead proceed with arbitration?

Please find cases, statutes, secondary authority, or any other material that could help you determine if Ms. Whitman can sue AeroSpecs. Make sure you first save your trail and spend at least 1 hour doing research on Westlaw. Please do not answer the questions presented; only conduct research that would help you find the answer.

In addition to the research trail, you must submit a short, 1–2-page paper discussing which sources you would use to answer the question presented and why. The title page must be in APA format, and the sources cited in the paper will be in Bluebook format.

Individual: Task and Resource Scheduling

Complete Exercise 1, in Ch. 8, "Scheduling Resources and Costs" of Project Management: The Managerial Process, using Microsoft® Project 2016. 

Create a network schedule using the information provided in the exercise, apply resources, and adjust the schedule to eliminate over commitment of resources.

Submit the Microsoft® Project file to the Assignment Files tab.

Please go to the following link below to access book and exercise one for chapter 8. Please contact me for password for sign in for book.

DISCUSSION 5 – CONSUMER BEHAVIORS

You are contracted to research consumer behaviors in your community.  You live in a small town, and there are three gas stations.  The purpose of this study is to determine why consumers choose one gas station instead of another.  Which study would be a better fit for this particular research, qualitative or quantitative and why? 

DISCUSSION #6 – VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY

How does a researcher address validity and reliability in qualitative research?  Provide an example that describes how you determined the validity and reliability from research. 

Case Study – Finding Potential Solutions To Quality Issues Identified By Quality Reports

Your hospital's quality scorecard shows that the facility had a lower  rate of compliance for the following quality measures compared to other  hospitals in the area: 

• Percent of heart failure patients with left ventricular systolic  dysfunction (LVSD) who are prescribed an ACEI or ARB at hospital  discharge
• Number of acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients who are prescribed a beta-blocker at hospital discharge
• Percentage of ischemic stroke patients administered (given) anti-thrombotic therapy by the end of hospital day 2

Hospital administration wants the performance improvement team to  research the possible causes for these rates and to develop some  potential solutions that will help improve compliance. Select the  components of the processes evaluated in these measures that you think  may affect compliance. (You may want to review the measure definitions  and content at www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov  which explain the processes and outcomes involved). Then, develop one  or two ideas for solutions for each measure, such as educating staff or  changing a workflow.

Using APA format, write a 3 page proposal to the performance  improvement team that details the clinical and administrative processes  which you believe are involved that the team should address in creating  an improvement plan. Be sure to identify the clinical and administrative  data that will be needed to analyze processes and determine how they  affect outcomes (mortality).

Google Case Study

Case Study Requirements

Each case is worth 5% of course grade.

The following are the minimum case study requirements:

Each case study MUST consist of at least four pages (no more than five).

Cover page (one page) – A 10 point penalty will be deducted from the case study grade if any of the following information is not included:

· Your name (Please don’t make me guess your identity)

· Date

· Name of course

· The case study name

Then write your paper in complete sentences in third person voice using a narrative writing style.

NOTE: This is a written business case study. Therefore, proper spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc. are REQUIRED. This is not a series of text or Twitter messages!

Content Pages (2-3 pages: a minimum of 750 words but no more than 1000 words of content).

Fully answer the questions at the end of the case in a report format. You may provide section headings for each question, but do not number and just answer each question separately. Please make sure to use sources for your information.

Any references (and you should use at least three different references) should be done in APA format.

GRAMMAR REQUIREMENTS (10 points) (One (1) point penalty for each violation of these basic directions.)

· Document MUST be left justified in a portrait format.

· Black (no other color!) 12 point Times New Roman or Arial typeface only. (Five (5) point penalty for each page submitted with any color other than black).

· No background color on any page is acceptable. A five (5) point penalty will assessed for each page that contains a background color.

· Write in third person voice (he, she, it, the company, etc.) only. Do not use first person (I, we, and us) or second person (you, them) voice.

· Your content MUST be broken into paragraphs. The first line of all paragraphs should be indented. Whole blocks of type are not acceptable. A 5 point penalty per page submitted with no paragraphs.

· Numbers 10 or larger, type the number. Less than 10, type the word (one, two, etc.)

· Financial figures are to be written as $50 (not fifty dollars); $1,500 (not one thousand, five hundred dollars); $1M (not one million dollars); $3.2B (not three billion, two hundred million dollars).

· Never end your sentence with a preposition like ‘to, from, by, with, between, before, after or during’. (E.g. The company could not have anticipated where the threat came from.)

· Always use italics for the name of a source (magazine, book or newspaper title) e.g. Wall St. Journal.

· NEVER use the words ‘sticking’ (instead use ‘placing’ or ‘inserting’ the product into the market); ‘everyone’ (no product appeals to/or is used by everyone-ever!), ‘stocks’ (it is ‘stock’) or ‘came up with’ (use ‘developed’).

· Always capitalize the first letter of proper names.

· When you attach your project to the online drop box, use SINGLE MS Word file or PDF attachment IN THE ORDER YOU WANT IT PRINTED AND READ. No multiple MS Word or PDF file attachments will be accepted. (10 point penalty per attachment for multiple documents submission).

· Always include page numbers on the bottom right corner of each page.

· Text MUST be double spaced. A 5 point penalty per page not double spaced.

Human Resources Managemet

1_Do you feel that in the modern organization that we are compensated fairly? 

2_In what ways should we as leaders reward performance?

3_On 3-5 pages, in APA format, provide an example of one of the areas and share an experience positive or negative that you have had associated with:

Equal Employment

Sexual Harassment

Workplace Violence

Performance Appraisal

Compensation

Full Performance Strategy Analysis

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is to give learners an opportunity to apply lessons learned about performance management. 

Use the same company you did in Week 2.  Please refer to the resources below to assist with the assignment. 

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Human Resource Management; Supplemental Resources.

Develop a 1,225-word Full Performance Strategy Analysis based on your chosen organization( Coca Cola  company. Include the following:

• Describe the overview of the performance management process.
• Include a flowchart of the performance management process.
• Explain the job analysis.
• Examine the skills gap analysis and performance evaluation.
• Determine ways to measure employee performance.
• Assess counseling for exceptional or performance that needs improvement.
• Attach an appendix of the resources needed to create a comprehensive performance analysis. 

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.