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Assignment 2: Diversity and Discrimination

Create a double-spaced, two-page report on the impact of diversity and discrimination regulations on human resource management policies. Complete the following tasks to create the report:
Task 1: On, conduct online research using the Internet for companies that are known for their ethical business practices. Select three publicly traded companies from this list and gather information about their HR practices related to diversity, discrimination, and people with disabilities.
Task 2: By, based on your analysis of this information, create a list of recommendations that can be implemented to ensure ethical conduct with employees in an organization.
The recommendations must address the following concerns:
Does diversity mean that corporations must hire and promote only women and minorities?
Do white men fit into a diversity requirement?
Task 3: On, compile the report. It should include the following:
Page 1: A summary of the HR policies related to diversity, discrimination, and people with disabilities in the three companies you chose
Page 2: A list of recommendations to ensure ethical conduct with employees in an organization
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources. By, post the report to the appropriate Discussion Area.
By, review and comment on at least two of your peers’ posting. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise in your postings. Also go through your peers’ comments on your submissions, using the Discussion Area as a forum to strengthen your understanding on the subject.

Assignment 1: Corporate Labor Relations Policy

Write a double-spaced, three-page research article on the instances of ethical breaches in corporate labor relations. Complete the following tasks to create the article.

Task 1: By, research the Internet for reports on U.S.-based organizations that have allegedly breached laws related to ethical conduct in business with respect to labor or human resources. Limit your research to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity requirements. Identify two examples of poor corporate labor relations policy, related to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity requirements, along with examples of the breaches.

Task 2: On, analyze the available information, including case studies, to determine whether these breaches were downright unlawful. To determine if these breaches were illegal, you may search for and analyze the rulings from the following bodies:
Department of Labor
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Provide insight into employee rights related to the two examples you chose.

Task 3: On, compile the research article. Use the following format:

Page 1: A summary of the two ethical breaches related to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity requirements.

Page 2: Analysis of these ethical breaches from the legal point of view with appropriate references

Page 3: A summary of employee rights related to the two ethical breaches you identified

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Assignment 1: Industry Report

prepare a double-spaced, two-page industry report summarizing the key ethical issues in the banking and finance industry.

Follow the structure given below:
Page 1: Outline of the processes in which ethics review boards and other governance bodies within organizations tackle ethical breaches, such as:
Tax fraud
Tax evasion
Insider trading
Embezzlement
From the banking and finance industry, cite at least one real-life example for the ethical breaches listed above.
Page 2: Provide a brief historical context of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002. Identify at least four major ethical questions in the historical context that made the Act necessary. Explain, with rationale, if the Act has made audited financial records more reliable.
Access the Argosy University online library and the Internet and use the given keyword strings to conduct online research on instances of tax fraud, tax evasion, insider trading, and embezzlement in the banking and finance industry.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Assignment 1: Poverty and Crime

n this assignment, you will examine the relationship between poverty and crime.
As you read in the module readings, poverty does not cause crime. Crime does not cause poverty. Drug abuse does not cause crime, nor does crime cause drug abuse. All of these are common misnomers in society based on the media’s presentation of the common criminal, crime rates, and other related factors.
However, in relationship studies, quantitative research has linked a lower socioeconomic status with street crime. That is, researchers have determined that there is a relationship between the two variables—street crime and low socioeconomic status. Find an article that either supports or refutes the relationship between crime and poverty and explain from the qualitative perspective why the two variables might be related.

Assignment 1: Understanding School Violence

School is a place of growth before a person steps into the uncertainties of adulthood. However, for a few individuals school is a stressful, negative environment, which may result in them becoming violent.
In terms of student victimization, the United States does not have the highest rate of violence compared with other nations. Although US schools are occasionally sites of horrific attacks, on a day-to-day basis, US public schools appear about as safe (or unsafe) as those in other nations.
The impact of widespread coverage of these violent incidents is difficult to measure, but surveys of student and teacher concerns show a pervasive pattern of fear of violence. School violence has been a topic of national concern throughout the past decade as the public has repeatedly witnessed horrifying shooting incidents in US public schools.
When studying violence in schools, it is important to consider both offenders and victims. Many studies have found a positive relationship between physical abuse and suicide.
In light of these factors, it is important for you to understand the impact of violence in schools on victims, their families, and the public.
Task:
Use the textbook readings, the Argosy University online library, and any other outside sources to research school shootings and select a school-shooting incident.

Drugs and Sobriety

Drugs and Scheduling
Some stimulants can be used in the treatment of hyperactive disorders, which can lead to abuse. Do you think more scheduling is necessary to prevent this? If so, what type of criteria should be included? Argue your opinion as to why the above listed criteria need to be included. If not, argue your reasons for leaving the scheduling as it is.

While the schedule of a drug will help determine the severity of the charge against a suspect in a drug case, the amount of drug also plays a factor. Explain the necessity of the following:

Analysis of drugs in a criminal case
The chain of custody, and
The preservation of evidence
The body of your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from this week’s required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

Field Sobriety Tests
An officer responds to an accident in which a vehicle has crashed into a parked car. The driver seems to have the odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath but does not exhibit any other signs of impairment. The officer conducts several field sobriety tests on the driver. One of the most familiar sobriety tests is the walk and turn test. Do you think this is an effective way to judge whether a person has been drinking? Why or why not? Inventory the benefits and drawbacks.

Considering your newfound knowledge of ethanol, why do you think the tests used in the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing program help in the determination of alcohol use and impairment in the individual?

The body of your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from this week’s required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

CJ WK 10 TOT

n the scenarios and resulting simulations, Robert Donovan, a Jurisville probation officer, discusses the intricacies of probation. Kris, the defendant, is offered an intensive supervised probation plan to follow. Brennan Brooke, a senior criminologist, discusses the tailoring of the inmate to the appropriate facility. Finally, Orlando Boyce, a sergeant at the fictional Deephall correctional facility, discusses measures that could conceivably make prison life effective and thus decrease the likelihood of recidivism.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

Outline your findings from your review of the file of Kris, for whom Robert is considering probation. State whether or not your results from the file review match Robert’s. Explain two (2) instances in which your views and those of Robert are both similar and different.
Develop a profile of the so-called perfect candidate to participate in an intensive supervised probation program. The profile should contain at least three (3) attributes that you believe make this defendant the perfect candidate for this type of probation.
Defend or critique the strategy of matching the inmate to the correctional facility as a response to the legal concept of cruel and unusual punishment. Provide a rationale for your position with concrete examples.
Defend or critique whether programs and amenities geared to making prison life effective—which run the gamut from hiring extra officers, to counseling and therapy, to building a garden—are time and taxpayer money well spent.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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:

Outline the major characteristics and purposes of prisons, including prisoners’ rights and prison society.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in criminal justice.
Write clearly and concisely about criminal justice using proper writing mechanics and APA style conventions.

Business Law Essay Question

Suppose you are a vendor and have been awarded a contract. Due to your vigilance and expertise, the project will be completed prior to the deadline. This event is great news as it is your first contract and you want to do the job well. However, due to issues on behalf of your client, the government, delays have occurred in the final stages of completion.

Describe your rights and remedies for the damages caused by the government’s delay. Then, describe the rights and remedies of the government even though the government purportedly caused the delay. If it is determined that you, as the contractor, are not responsible for the delay, how would you assess the damages against the government?

Case Study Analysis Discussion—Ethical Standards

HealthSouth Corp., according to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), overstated profits by at least $1.4 billion between the years 1999 through 2003 to meet or exceed Wall Street estimates. The allegations came just seven months after an earnings restatement and insider-trading charges triggered the investigation. Read more about it:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). (2003). SEC charges HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy with $1.4 billion accounting fraud. 34. Retrieved March 10, 2009, from http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2003-34.htm
There is a tremendous amount of publicly available information about the fraud committed by HealthSouth Corp., a Birmingham, Alabama, health-services company. The fraud committed by this healthcare organization included many of the typical earnings-manipulation tricks such as capitalizing expenses, understating reserves for receivables, and extending the useful lives of equipment. There was none of the highly technical fraud such as seen in Enron.
The case study includes two elements. Consider the following aspects in your analysis.
Identify the specific methods used by management to manage earnings.
Establish a scenario where you are a midlevel manager in a healthcare organization and you suspect that management is manipulating earnings. You benefit from the manipulation because your bonus is based on earnings. In addition, you have determined that becoming a whistleblower will be detrimental to your career. What will you do? If you decide to be a whistleblower, what protection is available to you?
Write a 2- to 3-page paper in Word. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

“Strategic Planning and Business Plan”

Ascertain the importance of strategic planning for an organization. Next, suggest one (1) strategy you may use to structure the strategic planning session for a not-for-profit mid-sized health organization that is competing with several for-profit facilities in the area. Then determine your approach to communicate the mission, vision, and value statements for the strategic planning. Provide a rationale for your response.

Use the Internet or databases to research articles on business plan creation within health organizations. Next, based on your research and analysis, recommend three (3) best practices of business plan creation and support your response.

Note: Sources must be current, meaning published within the last 3 years. This discussion question only requires 250-350-word response (equivalent 2 paragraphs).