identify the social issues that have changed urban planning from a study of architectural and engineering outputs to a study of human needs and the planning response.
In: Psychology
What is Human Rights and should we measure it by the culture metrics? Does Humanitarian Intervention work? (½-1p.) See also Heywood's chapter
In: Psychology
In Human Resources, qualitative and quantitative evaluation measures are used often. How might you use this data from a workforce planning perspective?
In: Operations Management
The Belmont Report, ( the ethical basis for human subject guidelines used at many colleges and universities). Summarize with 200 words.or as close to 200 words
In: Psychology
legal and cultural considerations for human resources
for an international firm in India when hiring top level management
using the
Hofstedes Cultural dimensions
In: Operations Management
What are the economic and human costs of White-Collar crime? How are the costs different from street crimes?
Please answer in 300 words.
In: Psychology
In: Operations Management
Strategic Human Resources – Assignment Sheet 2
Case Study:
In the past, the decision criteria for mergers and acquisitions
were typically based on considerations such as the strategic fit of
the merged organizations, financial criteria, and operational
criteria. Mergers and acquisitions were often conducted without
much regard for the human resource issues that would be faced when
the organizations were joined. As a result, several undesirable
effects on the organizations’ human resources commonly occurred.
Nonetheless, competitive conditions favor mergers and acquisitions
and they remain a frequent occurrence. Examples of mergers among
some of the largest companies include the following: Honeywell and
Allied Signal, British Petroleum and Amoco, Exxon and Mobil,
Lockheed and Martin, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, SBC and Pacific
Telesis, America Online and Time Warner, Burlington Northern and
Santa Fe, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, Daimler-Benz and
Chrysler, Ford and Volvo, and Bank of America and Nations
Bank.
Layoffs often accompany mergers or acquisitions, particularly if
the two organizations are from the same industry. In addition to
layoffs related to redundancies, top managers of acquiring firms
may terminate some competent employees because they do not fit in
with the new culture of the merged organization or because their
loyalty to the new management may be suspect. The desire for a good
fit with the cultural objectives of the new organization and
loyalty are understandable. However, the depletion of the stock of
human resources deserves serious consideration, just as with
physical resources. Unfortunately, the way that mergers and
acquisitions have been carried out has often conveyed a lack of
concern for human resources.
A sense of this disregard is revealed in the following
observation:
Post combination integration strategies vary in tactics, some
resemble to “marriage & love’ but in reality, collaborative
mergers are much more hostile in implementing forceful decision and
financial takeovers. Yet, as a cursory scan of virtually any
newspaper or popular business magazine readily reveals, the simple
fact is that the latter are much more common than the former.
The cumulative effects of these developments often cause employee
morale and loyalty to decline, and feelings of betrayal may
develop. Nonetheless, such adverse consequences are not inevitable.
A few companies, such as Cisco Systems, which has made over 50
acquisitions
(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-office/acquisitions/acquisitions-list-years.html),
are very adept in handling the human resource issues associated
with these actions. An example of one of Cisco’s practices is
illustrative. At Cisco Systems, no one from an acquired firm is
laid off without the personal approval of Cisco’s CEO as well as
the CEO of the firm that was acquired.
QUESTIONS:
1. Interview someone who has been through a merger or acquisition.
Find out how they felt as an employee. Determine how they and their
coworkers were affected. Ask about the effects on productivity,
loyalty, and morale. Find out what human resource practices were
used and obtain their evaluations of what was helpful or
harmful.
In: Operations Management
Post-Laboratory Questions 1. Determine the % yield of aspirin. 2. Compare the melting point of the crude and the recrystallized aspirin with the theoretical melting point. a) Determine the % error b) Did the recrystallization process achieve any purification effect? c) Should the melting point of the recrystallized aspirin be higher or lower than that of the crude aspirin? 3. Discuss the FeCb test for impure and recrystallized aspirin. 4. 2.52 g of salicylic acids are reacted with 9.87 g of acetic anhydride. a) What mass of aspirin can be maximally produced? b) What mass is left of the excess reactant? c) If in the reaction above only 1.23 g of aspirin is obtained, what is the percent yield?
In: Chemistry
Select all of the following processes or events that INCREASE during untreated or poorly managed diabetic ketoacidosis.
options:
|
1 |
fatty acid oxidation, gluconeogenesis & ketogenesis in liver. |
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2 |
reliance on fatty acids & proteins as primary fuels throughout the body. |
|
3 |
lipolysis & fatty acid release from adipose. |
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4 |
plasma & urine [glucose]. |
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5 |
renal H+ excretion & HCO3- reabsorption as a compensation for plasma pH imbalance. |
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6 |
plasma pH. |
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7 |
respiration depth & rate as a compensation for plasma pH imbalance. |
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8 |
fluid & electrolyte loss in urine. |
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9 |
plasma & urine [ketone]. |
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10 |
glucose uptake & use as a primary fuel in skeletal muscle. |
In: Biology