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Review the concept of judicial review

Case Study 1: Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 1 Cranch 137, 2 L. Ed. 60 (1803)

In 1803, the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Marshall, decides the landmark case of William Marbury versus James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States and confirms the legal principle of judicial review-the ability of the Supreme Court to limit Congressional power by declaring legislation unconstitutional-in the new nation.

Analyze the following case in preparation to answer the questions that follow a systematic approach to your synthesis of law and fact.

The final work product is a legal memorandum that articulates whether judicial review is still vital to the power of the Supreme Court which is to be presented to members of a judicial tribunal.

Review the following case:

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 1 Cranch 137, 2 L. Ed. 60 (1803) located at

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=5&page=137.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

Prepare a two to three (2-3) page briefing on the case that you reviewed in which you utilize the following areas of importance: a) issue presented; b) short answer; c) the facts of the case; d) a summary of the case; and e) a conclusion of the case outcome.

Review the concept of judicial review, and explain the fundamental manner in which the Court obtained the power of judicial review.

Interpret the following quote from Thomas Jefferson in a letter to W.C. Jarvis, dated Sept. 28, 1820: “It is very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate authority of all constitutional questions.” Provide a rationale for your interpretation.

Specify whether or not you believe Chief Justice John Marshall’s claim of the power of judicial review for the judicial branch constituted a usurpation of power.

Review the Court’s decision in Marbury and determine whether the Court acted in any fashion in order to improve the system of checks and balances that exits among the branches of government.

Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

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. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

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:

Illustrate the workings of the adversary system.

Analyze the functions of law and identify various types of law.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in U.S. Courts.

Write clearly and concisely about U.S. Courts using proper writing mechanics and APA style conventions.

Value of studying the humanities in business

What is the value of studying the humanities in a business or technical curriculum? How might a topic such as ancient art enhances contemporary of life

Globalization Rocked the Ancient World Too by Jared Diamond

From: ( https://books.google.com/books?id=QMIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=Globalization+Rocked+the+Ancient+World+Too+by+Jared+Diamond&source=bl&ots=t2S-gTkukM&sig=icaYazoF-AROLiJj21C2GIJkc58&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1oeW8_8vSAhVFy2MKHUnWBNQQ6AEILjAD#v=onepage&q=Globalization%20Rocked%20the%20Ancient%20World%20Too%20by%20Jared%20Diamond&f=false ) pg 177~180
Have to required these
1. 3-4 sentence summary of the essy’s purpose that integrates a brief quote

2. 3 sentence explanation of the essay’s primary audiance

3. evaluation of the effectiveness of each of the three rhetorical appeals
-Logos(2~3 sentences)
-Ethos(2~3 sentences)
-Pathos(2~3 sentences)

4. 3-4 sentence personal reaction to the author’s argument

5. one interpretative question.

Rubric:
Purpose The summary of purpose is clear, specific, and accurate, smoothly integrating a quote from the text with appropriate citation.

Audience The audience is identified with specificity and substantiated with evidence

Rhetorical Appeals All three rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) are evaluated with specificity.

Personal Reaction The personal reaction is thorough and relevant.

Question The interpretive question is open-ended and engages thoughtfully with the reading.

Clarity & Mechanics The writing is easy to understand and contains almost no errors interfering with comprehension.

problems that plagued the United States under the Articles of Confederation

1. Name at least four of the problems that plagued the United States under the Articles of Confederation?

 

 

2. What was Shays’s Rebellion and why was it important?

 

 

3. Why did nationalists meet in Philadelphia in the spring of 1787?

 

 

4. Who attended and who did not attend? (Name a couple of names and social ranks)

 

 

 

5. How did the Philadelphia convention resolve the three most controversial and divisive issues of a) the representation of large and small states, b) state power, and c) slavery? Explain for each.

 

 

 

6. What were the major arguments for and against ratification of the Constitution and why did people believe that way? Explain two examples for both sides.

 

 

Now that you have read and watched a movie clip about the problems of the Articles of Confederation and the drafting of the Constitution, please answer the following analytical question.

 

7. What is your opinion of the original American Constitution? Did the Constitution of 1787 reflect true republicanism? Did it establish a better or worse government than had existed under the Articles of Confederation? Would you have supported or opposed its ratification? Explain your opinion with specific examples.

“Truth and Consequence”

 

For this assignment, you will need to watch the Stephen Ceci video, “Truth and Consequence”. Then, answer the following question in a 750-word response:

Imagine you are a jury member in a case with a child eyewitness. Would you put more credence in the eyewitness testimony of a child who had a lot of prior knowledge about the person who was accused of a crime or a child who had never met the person? Why? Use evidence and terminology from the video to support your answer. Then, write one thing that you learned from the video that surprised you.

Write a thoughtful, 750 word (double-spaced, 12 pt. font, 1” margins) response based on what you learned in the video. You must cite specific things from the video to get credit. Upload to canvas as a word doc.

Truth and Consequence Video (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

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1 Topic-4 Employee Motivation PROBLEM-SOLVING APPLICATION CASE (PSAC) A Fickle Cat Long-time employees complain that Caterpillar has changed. John Arnold, a 35-year-
old parts auditor at Caterpillar’s distribution facility in Morton, Illinois, says some of his coworkers are on food stamps. Arnold has worked for Caterpillar since
1999. More than 10 years later, he’s making $15.66 an hour. To succeed today, does an employer have to worry about motivation? In recent years, Caterpillar, a Wall
Street darling and mainstay of American manufacturing, has rolled back traditional extrinsic motivators. ? Item: Caterpillar laid off 30,000 workers in 2009. ? Item:
By the second quarter of 2012, Cat’s profit had jumped 67 percent from the previous year. (Net profits in 2011 2Q of $1.01 billion, or $1.52 per share, rose to net
profits of $1.69 billion or $2.54 per share in 2012 2Q.) ? Item: About the same time, Cat was freezing wages and reducing benefits. New contracts created a two-tier
system so that new hires were brought in on an even lower wage scale. ? Item: Further layoffs followed the newer, concessionary contracts. Disparities In May 2013 a
feature in Bloomberg Businessweek noted that while workers were losing jobs, pay, and benefits, CEO Oberhelman prospered. In 2011 his pay rose 60 percent to over $16
million, and in 2012 to more than $22 million. So what serves as employee motivation in this environment? Maybe survival. The article quoted Emily Young, a welder at
Caterpillar’s Decatur plant: “You’re basically expendable. For every one person who doesn’t work, there’s five waiting in line.” The same article quoted CEO Oberhelman
affirming, “We can never make enough profit.” Weakened Unions. As Businessweek reported, Caterpillar toughed out a strike at its Illinois plant in 2012 for over three
months. Eventually union workers agreed to virtually the same offer that caused the strike. Existing workers accepted a six-year wage freeze and reduced benefits. New
workers would be brought in at a lower wage scale. In Wisconsin in 2013, union workers didn’t even try to strike. When their contract expired, workers simply stayed on
the job. After a few months of on-again, off-again talks, the workers agreed to conditions similar to the Illinois contract. Worsening Results. Recently Cat’s march to
higher peaks of profit have stalled. With greater use of natural gas and dropping coal prices, sales of big mining trucks (used in surface coal mining) also declined.
This forced the company to scale back production and lay off even more workers. This on top of an overall drop in spending in the Asian mining sector contributed to
Cat’s decline in earnings. 2 A Money Problem Some industry watchers see Caterpillar’s worries as a money problem. As in too much of it. Fortune senior editor Matt
Vella, in a Fortune Brainstorm podcast with magazine staff, sees it this way: “The criticism from labor is the company is doing better than ever; why aren’t we seeing
some of the rewards of that? The company will say, ‘Well, we can’t afford to give too much away because we don’t know what’s going to come down the road.’” The
Businessweek article brought such questions to a head: Caterpillar has become a symbol of the growing divergence in corporate America between profits and wages. As a
percentage of gross domestic product, corporate earnings recently hit their highest level in more than 60 years, and wages fell to new lows, according to Moody’s
Analytics. “What’s interesting,” says Fortune writer Nin-Hai Tseng, “ … is that Caterpillar makes itself out to be this poster child of everything that went right with
manufacturing in America. With that reputation carries a lot of responsibility…. [P]eople can ask … does it have a responsibility to pay its workers more?” What
Employees Say While Glassdoor.com doesn’t provide objective analysis, this job research site provides ready access to employee voices. The site includes posts by
current and former company employees so people looking for work can research a potential employer. Most reviews include a simple yes or no on whether the reviewer
would recommend the company as an employer. While there’s no guarantee that all posts are legitimate, Glassdoor.com remains one of the best places to get a quick read
on the way current and former employees likely feel. Reviews for Caterpillar vary. Some workers say good things about their future with Caterpillar and the corporate
culture. But more critique the company. Critics of the company’s policies include both current and former employees. Tellingly, many current employees who would
recommend the company as an employer have misgivings. Major themes include: ? Lack of chances to advance, stand out, prove one’s worth, or improve one’s compensation.
? Rueful acceptance of problems in the workplace because of the need to have a job. ? Over-management in face of shrinking pay. ? Overemphasis on cost-cutting programs
by middle managers who frequently lack product or process knowledge. ? Lack of progressive vision for future growth, with single focus on reducing costs. You get a
sense of the tone of many comments in this post from a former employee, let go after eight years: “They will preach values, morality, safety, people, and quality, but
in the end they only care about profit. Never been so disappointed in what a company has become as this one.” 3 The Executive View When Businessweek asked Oberhelman
about increasing wages, he sounded wistful. He can raise wages “when we start to see economic growth through GDP,” he says. “Part of the reason we’re seeing no
inflation is because there’s no growth. Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I’d love to see a little bit of that. Because I’d
love to pay people more. I’d love to see rising wages for everybody.” Real GDP has grown slightly during the period in which Oberhelman has reduced and frozen wages,
from a negative 3.1% in 2009 up 2.4% in 2010, 1.8% in 2011, and 2.2% in 2012, according to the US Dept. of Commerce. In the meantime, Oberhelman justifies the growing
disparity by invoking competitiveness. For Cat to be competitive, his executive salary needs to increase dramatically. For Cat to be competitive, workers’ wages need
to be reduced or frozen. Then and Now In contrast to its current frosty relations with labor, once Caterpillar was seen as an exemplar of an enlightened management
that could justify spending to increase employee engagement by its return on investment. As recently as 2006, a human resources guide on employee engagement cited
Caterpillar as a success story. The guide noted Caterpillar’s gains as follows: ? Annual savings of $8.8 million from decreased attrition, absenteeism, and overtime
(Europe). ? Increase in output by 70% in less than 4 months (Asia Pacific). ? Decrease in break-even point by almost 50% in units/day, and of grievances by 80%
(unionized plant). ? Increase of $2 million in profit and 34% in highly satisfied customers (start-up plant). Now Caterpillar has decided to increase profitability
almost solely by going leaner. The staff at Fortune doubt that today’s Caterpillar will ever restore the kinds of manufacturing jobs of the past—jobs that brought US
workers into the middle class. Instead, Cat hews to a global view of managing labor costs. The company continues to increase its overseas operations in places like
Korea, Russia, and Brazil. Over half of its labor force and its profits are overseas. Domestically Caterpillar continues to reduce and reshape labor, moving to lower
pay scales and benefits, and with a greater reliance on guest workers. (Oberhelman has lobbied to make it easier for corporations to bring in lower-cost, highly
trained foreign PhDs.) As modern manufacturing continues to do more for less, organic demand for labor will continue to decrease.89 Time will tell if the company can
remain competitive with a primary focus on managing costs only, or if it will find reason to elevate employee engagement as a company priority. Apply the 3-Stop
Problem-Solving Approach to OB ? Stop 1: What is the problem? o Use the Integrative Framework for Understanding and Applying OB (Figure 5.9) to help identify the
outcomes that are important in this case. 4 o Which of these outcomes are not being achieved in the case? o Based on considering the above two questions, what is the
most important problem in this case? ? Stop 2: Use the Integrative Framework to identify the OB concepts or theories that help you to understand the problem in this
case. o What person factors are most relevant? o What environmental characteristics are most important to consider? o Do you need to consider any processes? Which
ones? o What concepts or theories discussed in this chapter are most relevant for solving the key problem in this case? ? Stop 3: What are your recommendations for
solving the problem? o Review the material in the chapter that most pertains to your proposed solution and look for practical recommendations. o Use any past OB
knowledge or experience to generate recommendations. o Outline your plan for solving the problem in this case. FIGURE 5.9 FIGURE 5.9INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR
UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING OB

Why are companies like Chrysler now looking more favorably at the Internet as a greater medium for their advertising dollars? What has happened to change their view?

Why are companies like Chrysler now looking more favorably at the Internet as a greater medium for their advertising dollars? What has happened to change their view?

Explain your initial impression of the organization based upon your initial review of their corporate website.

Assignment 1: LASA 2: Organization Website Review
Directions:
Select either an international service organization or a multinational corporation and conduct a preliminary assessment of their website.
In your review:
• Explain your initial impression of the organization based upon your initial review of their corporate website.
• Analyze their Vision, Mission and Goals in reference to the company’s competitive strategy, branding and messaging
• Analyze the company’s strategic approach to globalization and their approach to competition, sustainability, CSR, marketing, analysis (external, internal,
industry), and cross border issues
• Examine the company’s financials included in their most recent annual report and review the profit margin statement from the CEO. What conclusions can you draw
from their financial statements?
• Evaluate the firm’s Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Policy. What expectations are presented in the policy? Explain the tangibility of the
company’s policies
• Include an organizational assessment using SWOT or Porter’s Five Forces
• Explain the company’s capacity to be able to fulfill strategic missions while increasing profit margin
• Include an Introduction and Summary statement in your review.

Your paper should be between 7 -10 pages in length, in correct APA format and use 4-5 outside sources.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Explanation of initial impression of corporate website
24
Analyze vision, mission and goals in reference to company’s competitive strategy, branding and messaging
36
Analyze the company’s strategic approach to globalization and their approach to competition, sustainability, CSR, marketing, analysis and cross border issues
40
Draw conclusions from their financial statements
32
Evaluate expectations and tangibility of Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
36
Organizational assessment using SWOT or Porter’s Five Forces is included
40
Explanation of the company’s capacity to be able to fulfill strategic missions while increasing profit margin is provided
32
Writing components: Organization, usage and mechanics, APA elements and style
60
Total:
300

Organization Website Review

Assignment 1: LASA 2: Organization Website Review Directions: Select either an international service organization or a multinational corporation and conduct a
preliminary…

Assignment 1: LASA 2: Organization Website Review
Directions:
Select either an international service organization or a multinational corporation and conduct a preliminary assessment of their website.
In your review:
Explain your initial impression of the organization based upon your initial review of their corporate website.
Analyze their Vision, Mission and Goals in reference to the company’s competitive strategy, branding and messaging
Analyze the company’s strategic approach to globalization and their approach to competition, sustainability, CSR, marketing, analysis (external, internal, industry),
and cross border issues
Examine the company’s financials included in their most recent annual report and review the profit margin statement from the CEO. What conclusions can you draw from
their financial statements?
Evaluate the firm’s Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Policy. What expectations are presented in the policy? Explain the tangibility of the
company’s policies
Include an organizational assessment using SWOT or Porter’s Five Forces
Explain the company’s capacity to be able to fulfill strategic missions while increasing profit margin
Include an Introduction and Summary statement in your review.

Your paper should be between 7 -10 pages in length, in correct APA format and use 4-5 outside sources.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Explanation of initial impression of corporate website
24
Analyze vision, mission and goals in reference to company’s competitive strategy, branding and messaging
36
Analyze the company’s strategic approach to globalization and their approach to competition, sustainability, CSR, marketing, analysis and cross border issues
40
Draw conclusions from their financial statements
32
Evaluate expectations and tangibility of Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
36
Organizational assessment using SWOT or Porter’s Five Forces is included
40
Explanation of the company’s capacity to be able to fulfill strategic missions while increasing profit margin is provided
32
Writing components: Organization, usage and mechanics, APA elements and style
60
Total:
300

Business Expansion and Sustainability

Assignment 2: Business Expansion and Sustainability
Due Week 10 and worth 280 points
In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario that you chose in Assignment 1.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments.
Using the scenario from Assignment 1, write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:
Identify three (3) job requirements (e.g., needed certifications, previous work experience, external influences, etc.) that could apply to your chosen scenario.
Determine two (2) ways these requirements could impact staffing at your organization. Next, suggest one (1) strategy that you could utilize to ensure that all
applicants meet the identified job requirements for your organization. Justify your response.
Outline a long-term recruitment plan that contains at least four (4) components, is aligned with your company’s recruitment strategy, but also addresses possible job
skill or credential shortages. Note: Consider concepts such as succession planning and hiring retirees.
Describe three (3) branding strategies that you would employ to attract qualified applicants to your organization. Next, suggest three (3) communication methods that
you would utilize to reach out to applicants. Predict the outcome of integrating your branding strategies and communication methods at your organization. Provide a
rationale for your response.
Determine two (2) selection processes for recruiting new employees that could apply to your chosen scenario and then identify five (5) selection criteria that you
could use when hiring new employees. Next, analyze the effect of the five (5) identified selection criteria on long-term employee retention and preservation of
organizational knowledge. Justify your response.
Suggest two (2) assessment methods that you could employ to select new employees for your organization and then analyze the validity and reliability of each method in
regards to the job your organization is offering. Next, identify four (4) job predictors that you believe can assess candidates’ knowledge, skills, abilities, and
other skills and experiences (KSAO’s). Provide support for your rationale.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.
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; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with
your professor for any additional instructions.
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 page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Explain the role of staffing to support an organization’s strategy and improve productivity.
Explain the planning considerations for staffing organizations, the use of job analysis, and the components of a staffing plan.
Develop recruitment plans using both internal and external recruitment.
Design a selection process that incorporates a variety of assessment methods and a supporting decision method for candidate selection.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in staffing organizations.
Write clearly and concisely about staffing organizations using proper writing mechanics.