Case Study-Training Assessment

Case Study-Training Assessment
Assignment 2: Case Study—Training Assessment
Training assessment is an important task for HR personnel. Use the Argosy University online library and textbooks to read about training assessments.
Then, consider the following scenario:
You have recently been appointed as a training manager for the southeast region of a major supermarket chain in the U.S. Your territory includes 15 retail stores. Your responsibility involves working directly with store managers and other stakeholders to develop training solutions to meet specific needs of employees in various stores. This includes, but is not limited to, performing needs assessments, determining appropriate instructional design and training delivery methods, as well as implementing and evaluating training initiatives.
Three of the stores in your territory have missed sales goals for the last two quarters. All three stores have received low customer satisfaction scores and are experiencing increased employee turnover rates. The high employee turnover has resulted in the store managers hiring many new and relatively inexperienced sales associates, which further contributes to the problem.
The senior management team of the supermarket chain believes that training and development may help decrease employee turnover and increase customer satisfaction. You have been asked to assess training needs and develop a proposal to address the situation in these three stores.
Instructions:
Use scholarly resources and your learning, address the following:
Identify, using simple heuristics, the indicators that show that the specific problems experienced by the three stores can be resolved through training.
Design a needs assessment plan and identify three specific training initiatives you would recommend for these employees. Include the expected outcomes for the three training initiatives in your proposal.
Select one of the specific training initiatives you identified and develop a budget of projected costs to implement this initiative.
Write a seven-to-nine-page training proposal in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

ETHNOGRAPHIC FOR SOCIOLOGY CLASS

ETHNOGRAPHIC FOR SOCIOLOGY CLASS
Conduct a participant observation (ethnographic study) wherein you study through participation in a particular cross- cultural group event or social organizational meeting. Samples of events may include a visit to a religious group other than the one you usually attend, hanging out at a greasy spoon café or coffee shop and observing tipping behavior, attending a cross-cultural sporting event (e.g. if you are American, perhaps soccer but NOT American football or baseball), or volunteering with an organization that serves a cultural population somehow different than your own. To complete the assignment paper, first consider what cultural norms may be different from your own and discuss them in writing. Then, participate in the event, writing down your observations, noting any patterns you observe, and pointing out any observations or patterns that particularly surprise you. Why are they surprising to you? What might be the purpose(s) behind the perceived difference? Throughout your paper, you should reflect on your own cultural identity compared to the group being observed. Additionally, you should apply Sociological theory in an attempt to explain multicultural and global diversity.

Instruction:

between 1.5 and 2 pages in length (typed, double spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins).

How to align the organizational structure with the work processes

How to align the organizational structure with the work processes
Organizational Structures
“Organizational Structures” Please respond to the following:
Watch the video “How to align the organizational structure with the work processes,” found at http://www.organizationdesign.net/how-to-align-the-organizational-structure-with-the-work-processes-video-3-of-5.html. Select an organization of your choice and examine the structure. Then, briefly describe the type of structure the organization has and explain how it is effective in accomplishing the organization’s goals. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the structure, and provide two recommendations to address those disadvantages.

Sociology Participation Assignment

Sociology Participation Assignment
1. 1- Pick any two of the following sociological theorists and discuss the theories they proposed. What are your feelings; do you think the theory was true or untrue? (in what ways). The list of theorists are as follows: Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Jane Adams, W.E.B Dubois

2. 2- Pick an article from a newspaper that your feels captures a current hot issue in sociology, and summarize the article. What aspects of the topic tie it into the field of sociology. Does the article focus on a Micro, or Macro Sociological issue?

3. 3 Describe the ethical issues presented in the Milgram Obedience Experiment? How was the contemporary experiment changed to get around the ethical digressions of the 1962 experiment? What were some of the conclusions that were drawn from this experiment?

4. 4 Write about a Milgram experience in your own life, whereby someone in authority was telling you to do something that you thought was totally wrong. Feel free to substitute an experience of a friend, or a case in the news—if you can’t think of one in your life.

PS. The Stanley Milgram Experiment on Obedience can be accessed through www.youtube.com For the original experiment, a nice overview can be found by typing into youtube: (Milgram Obedience Study)
And by typing into the youtube search engine: (ABC Prime Time Milgram) you can find a more contemporary (2009) version, with significant changes from the original experimental design.

Analytical Essay of an Image

Analytical Essay of an Image

This assignment requires a rough draft and a revised draft to be completed and turned into the designated Dropbox folders.

For this assignment, write a 750-1000 word essay that provides an in-depth analysis of one of the images you looked at in this week’s discussions. In your analysis, provide pertinent details about the image (who, what, when, where) and consider some of the following questions:

• Who is the audience? What is the market for the product?
• What statement is being made?
• What rhetorical devices are being used?

Be sure to substantiate your analysis using what you find in the image or sources that directly discuss the image. Finally, discuss the impact of the image. Do you believe it serves its intended purpose? Why or why not? Include a copy of the image you chose to discuss in the paper.

You can use the following example to assist you in ensuring your paper is APA styled format:
APA Template

Discussion: Health Assessment of Children’s Weight

Discussion: Health Assessment of Children’s Weight

Body measurements can provide a general picture of whether a child is receiving adequate nutrition or is at risk for health issues. These data, however, are just one aspect to be considered. Lifestyle, family history, and culture—among other factors—are also relevant. That said, gathering and communicating this information can be a delicate process.

For this Discussion, you will consider examples of children with various weight issues. You will explore how you could effectively gather information and encourage parents and caregivers to be proactive about their children’s health and weight.

To prepare:

• Consider the following examples of pediatric patients and their families:
  • Overweight 5-year-old boy with overweight parents
  • Slightly overweight 10-year-old girl with parents of normal weight
  • 5-year-old girl of normal weight with obese parents
  • Slightly underweight 8-year-old boy with parents of normal weight
  • Severely underweight 12-year-old girl with underweight parents
• Select one of the examples on which to focus for this Discussion. What health issues and risks may be relevant to the child you selected?
• Based on the risks you identified, consider what further information you would need to gain a full understanding of the child’s health. Think about how you could gather this information in a sensitive fashion.
• Consider how you could encourage parents or caregivers to be proactive toward the child’s health.

Post an explanation of the health issues and risks that are relevant to the child you selected. Describe additional information you would need in order to further assess his or her weight-related health. Taking into account the parents’ and caregivers’ potential sensitivities, list at least three specific questions you would ask about the child to gather more information. Provide at least two strategies you could employ to encourage the parents or caregivers to be proactive about their child’s health and weight.

Write a research paper on paul robeson

Write a research paper on Paul Robeson. I have already completed an annotated bibliography, and have all the source documentation for the research paper in 5 separate documents which I will attach. Just refer to the documents that I attach with most of the paper focused on source 3 which is information told from his son’s perspective, and more about the private man. Again, I am attaching 5 documents to use for the paper, with most of the focus on source 3 “Paul Robeson Jr., The Undiscovered Paul Robeson, Quest For Freedom, 1939-1976.”

Establishing Case Definitions

Project Part 4: Establishing Case Definitions. Answer the questions below. Write your answers in complete sentences. You may need to use additional resources outside of your textbook to complete this part of your project. Please be sure to cite any sources you may use with APA and include a Reference page.

1. Although no new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, you are concerned a second wave of illnesses could happen soon. What method of disease surveillance would you implement to find new cases among the population at risk?
2. To document and organize the surveillance information, you will need a standard method of collecting data. Create or show an example of a form you would use (a disease report form) to collect information on suspected ill individuals. The form does not need to be complicated but should provide the information you need to determine if a person matches the outbreak case definition and can be used to analyze commonalities in terms of person, place and time. All state health departments will have an example of a generic disease (morbidity) report form.
3. Based on the limited information at this point of the investigation, what do you believe is the agent causing the illnesses? List what you believe are possible agents (specific bacteria, toxin, virus) of the GI illness among the ill residents. To state you believe the agent is a food borne or contaminated food would not be a correct answer. If you believe it is a food borne outbreak you are to list what you think bacteria, virus or toxin was in the food or beverage. Use any reputable resource to answer this question. The Federal Department of AgricultureÂ’s (FDA) Bad Bug Book, http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FoodborneIllnessFoodbornePathogensNaturalToxins/BadBugBook/default.htm (Links to an external site.), CDCÂ’s Outbreak Net http://www.cdc.gov/outbreaknet/ (Links to an external site.), and CDCÂ’s A-Z Index of Foodborne Illnesses  (Links to an external site.)are useful references.

Issues facing native people beyond mascots and casinos

Read the article “13 Issues Facing Native People Beyond Mascots and Casinos.”

Select the issues (2-4) you feel are the most important and relevant to Native Americans today.

Summarize each issue.

Explain what you feel should and/or could be done to eliminate each issue and prejudice and discrimination facing Native Americans today. Consider what could be done on a national, state, and/or local level

Write an essay on the origin of christianity

Write an essay on the origin of Christianity and its triumph over the old pagan traditions in the Roman Empire. What historical and cultural developments account for Christianity’s extraordinary success?