As the Director of Human Resources at a transitional health care organization, you are charged with the overall administration of over 700 health care professional employees. This transitional health care orga- nization is currently celebrating its 40th year in the community and serves as a model organization envied by local competitors. As the Director of Human Resources, you are responsible for hiring, orientation, training and development, compensation and benefits, and employee relations. Given the long existence of the organization, there have been many instances where management has been tasked with creating or modifying the company personnel policies and procedures.

You have recently met with the CEO regarding some topics related to human resources, including the concern that the facility is experiencing some complaints regarding management, especially in the area of employee-related adverse actions. Some employees complain that they are being unfairly singled out for corrective actions and progressive discipline. They claim that current policies are being unfairly ad- ministered and some of the policies are out of date. Additionally, there have been too many medication errors and harmful patient treatments by the nursing staff that have resulted in nursing management creating new policies and procedures in an effort to fix immediate issues.

The CEO has directed you to resolve these issues. Given the above scenario, respond to each question with and include references to support your proposed solution.

Question 1

What are some methods or practices to rationally and effectively discuss issues and resolve conflict? (What would your plan be to determine if the undesired patient outcomes are related to policy, related to procedure, or related to some other issue?

Question 2

What are the differences between the Personnel Policy Manual and the Employee Guide?

Question 3

How do you plan to create procedures from policies?

Question 4

What kind of tools would you use to create procedures?

Question 5

How do you determine if each manager is up to date with the policies and procedures?

Question 6

How often should policies and procedures be updated?

Question 7

Who performs the updates to policies and procedures?

1. The current size of the human population on Earth is

A. approximately 7.5 billion and decreasing.

B. approximately 7.5  billion and increasing.

C. approximately 7.5 billion and remaining stable.    

D. approximately 7.5 billion but there is no way to tell where the population is heading.

E. none of the above.

2. For findings of scientific research to be accepted the findings must be

A. repeatable/reproducible

B. involve a large enough sample size to be significant

C. made following the recognized scientific method

D. conducted in an objective fashion

E. all of the above

3. Risk assessment attempts to measure the probability of an event happening as well as assessing the severity of the event should it happen

A. True            B. False

4. Regarding energy, the Earth is a closed system

A. True            B. False

The average (mean) amount of time that a manager at the Mount Pleasant Department of Human Services spends in the annual performance review with an employee is 27.2 minutes, with a standard deviation of 4.9 minutes (normal distribution). What percentage of the annual performance reviews in the department take between 22.3 and 32.1 minutes? Between 17.4 and 37 minutes? Between 12.5 and 41.9 minutes? Explain your answers.

1. The human resources manager at Humber Electronics is interested in relating an employee’s score on a job satisfaction questionnaire to his or her length of service, hourly wage rate, and workload. She defined the variables as follows:
   
   x₁ = number of years with company
   
   x₂ = number of years in current position
   
   x₃ = annual salary (in thousands of dollars)
   
   x₄ = workload (number of hours worked per week)
   
   y = job satisfaction score (out of 15)
   
   The HR manager randomly selected relevant information (see below) about 30 employees. Using Excel, obtain the regression output for the data and answer the following questions:
   1. Explain the meaning of the b₃ coefficient as it relates to this data. [5 point]
      
   2. Calculate the coefficient of determination ( R² ) (4 decimal places). Explain the meaning as it relates to this data. [10 point]
      
   3. State the values of the adjusted coefficient of determination and the standard error of estimate (4 decimals). [5 point]
      
   4. Estimate the job satisfaction score for an employee with 10 years with the company, 4 years in the same position, who is paid $35,450 annually and works 35 hours per week . [5 point]

The coronavirus pandemic is a human tragedy, affecting hundreds of thousands of people globally. It is also
having a growing impact on the global value chain, hence the global economy. All serious companies around
the world have therefore found innovative ways of keeping business going nonetheless. One of such notable
companies is Ghana’s Kantanka Inc. The company has established a dedicated team to ensure a simple but well-
managed set of processes that maximize the health and safety of colleagues and customers. This team is led by
the CEO of the company. The focus of the team has been broken down into five distinct work streams:
 Employee management and wellbeing
 Financial stress-testing and contingency planning
 Supply chain monitoring
 Marketing and sales
 Any other business
Kantanka Inc. is a car manufacturing company originating from Ghana which produces low-end vehicles. The
company’s competitive advantage stems from its unconventional but effective and energy efficient technology
which is not found in most vehicles around the world. The dashboard and other interior parts of the vehicles are
made from wood, and the vehicles are powered by car batteries and solar energy.
Recently, they have added on aircrafts and mechanized farming technologies. The company is set to take the
African market by storm. The company decided in 2015 to enter Nigeria and Germany. With the backing of the
government of Ghana, negotiations with both countries succeeded as negotiators from Nigeria and Germany
were in natural sync with the Ghanaian lobbyist contracted.
Once the company has gone international, it was only natural that value chain activities of the company would
have to be rationalized to deal with the expansion, as well as all forms of risk with respect to exchange rate
fluctuations. Speaking of financials, in this coronavirus pandemic period, companies such as Kantanka Inc. that
entered into future contracts and used currency options as hedging instruments would have less to worry about
since excuses from business partners would almost be non-existent.
Recently in 2017, a company from Sậo Tome and Principé, called PreZi contacted Kantanka Inc. to obtain
permission to use its technology. As to whether to agree or not to the agreement is still under scrutiny by
Kantanka’s international expansion team.
a) Discuss five (5) ways the two negotiators can get along in order for their cultural backgrounds not to
affect the outcome of their bargaining process. [5 marks]
b) Explain three (3) financial risks Kantanka Inc would definitely encounter. [3 marks]
c) What five (5) benefits is Kantanka Inc likely to gain from entering the German market?
[5 marks]
d) Explain five (5) problems Kantanka Inc’s international expansion team should anticipate before entering
the German market. [5 marks]
e) Explain the contractual strategy that would best characterize the Kantanka-PreZi agreement once agreed
to. [2 marks]

Discuss the accomplishments of global justice (Tribunals, ICC) in relationship to human rights. Is this a significant achievement, a goal of global governance – to punish those responsible – or simply a means to an end? And what would that end be? What issues does global justice resolve, and what does it leave open and/or fail to address? instructions: write your opinion on this topic (100-150 words)

The effects of smoking on human performance was investigated using three tasks that differed in the level of cognitive processing that was required to perform them, with different participants serving in each task.

Pattern recognition task - participants had to locate a target on a screen

Cognitive task - participants were required to read a passage and then recall it at a later time

Driving simulation video game

In each case the dependent variable was the number of errors that the participant committed.

Participants were further divided into three Smoking groups

Group AS was composed of people who actively smoked during or just before carrying out the task.

Group DS participants were regular smokers who had not smoked for 3 hours before the task (D stands for delay).

Group NS were nonsmokers.

Pattern Recognition

NS: 9   8   12   10   7   10   9   11   8   10   8   10   8   11   10

DS:   12   7   14   4   8   11   16   17   5   6   9   6   6   7   16

AS:   8   8   9   1   9   7   16   19   1   1   22   12   18   8   10

Cognitive Task

NS:   27   34   19   20   56   35 23   37   4   30   4   42   34   19 49

DS: 48   29   34   6   18   63   9   54   28   71   60   54   51   25 49

AS: 34 65 55 33 42 54 21 44 61 38 75 61 51 32 47

Driving Simulation

NS: 15   2   2   14   5   0   16   14   9   17   15   9   3   15   13

DS: 7   0   6   0   12   17   1   11   4   4   3   5   16   5   11

AS:3   2   0   0   6   2   0   6   4   1   0   0   6   2   3

Compute a 3 (Smoking Group) x 3 (Task) ANOVA

Can one of you PLEASE explain how to put the 3 dependent variables into one column in SPSS?? I don't need help with the analysis.

The Vice President of Human Resources for the international position you pretended to apply for in the International Job Search experiential exercise is trying to determine the appropriate compensation for the job. Based on the key components of an international compensation program mentioned in your textbook, you are being asked to develop a compensation package for the position you pretended to apply for. Explain the rationale for your design. Your recommendations must include numerical data, percentages, etc. based on the text and research, and must include your response to the following instructions:

1. a) Now that you have determined the components of the salary for the position, what benefits will you include in the compensation package? b) What are the main points you will have to consider when deciding how to provide the benefits you are proposing? For example, what considerations are there for pension plans?