4. Working in HR requires handling significant amounts of information, usually in digital format, and this information is often confidential in nature.
a. Give an example of when you handle confidential information in work, at school, or at home.
b. What practices could you use to ensure private information is not leaked on the Internet?
c. Describe the features of a typical Employee Self-?Service product an HR department would implement to handle large amounts of digital information.
d. Using a SWOT analysis, describe the advantages and disadvantages of introducing an HRIS into a company
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Discuss the manifest and latent functions of education? Identify rules or regulations that some educational institutions may use to encourage students to maintain the status quo and discourage individual creativity, can you also relate? What trends in education are beneficial and which are not? (Is mandatory testing/STAR doing its job? Is bilingual education working? should students learn a language before graduating?) Consider the high school you attended, do you feel like you received a good education; did it prepare you for college?
In: Psychology
I need to draw an ER diagram for a future database necessary to hold application data for students wishing to apply for an internship at a tech company.
The students will provide the following information on the application:
first name, last name, email, phone number, address, city, state, postal code, major, currently enrolled in school?, expected date of graduation, web framework of choice, list of programming languages in which the student is proficient, SAT score, ACT score, GPA, 4 character references, list of previous employments.
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The problem of many developing businesses has always been attributed to insufficient or lack of capital to run these enterprises. But on taking an MBA course at the University of Ghana Business School, you have come to realize that most businesses in Ghana and Africa fail not because of capital adequacy issues but rather, human resources management issues. What significant expectations would you give to all HR managers as needed competences to be equipped with if you are the consultant general to businesses in Ghana? Discuss these factors or requirements (in not more than One and half pages).
In: Psychology
For each of the studies, please indicate the following:
a) Independent variable(s)
b) Is there more than one independent variable?
c) Levels of the independent variable
d) Dependent variable
e) Level of measurement of the DV
Will students to do better in school if you “pay for grades”? To test this question, an instructor gives students a math test. Before taking the test, half the students were told that they would receive $0.25 for every correct answer. The other half was not given a monetary incentive. The number of correct answers was recorded for each student.
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A visiting American executive finds that a foreign subsidiary that produces cigarettes in a less-developed country has hired a 12-year-old girl to work on a factory floor making cigarettes, in violation of the company’s prohibition of child labor. He tells the local manager to replace the child and send her back to school. The local manager tells the American executive that the child is an orphan with no other means of support, and she will probably become a street child if she is denied work. What should the American executive do?
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A visiting American executive finds that a foreign subsidiary that produces cigarettes in a less-developed country has hired a 12-year-old girl to work on a factory floor making cigarettes, in violation of the company’s prohibition of child labor. He tells the local manager to replace the child and send her back to school. The local manager tells the American executive that the child is an orphan with no other means of support, and she will probably become a street child if she is denied work. What should the American executive do?
In: Operations Management
Recall every aspect of human development that are pertinent to you as a human being. Go all out to gather information about yourself i.e. your family of origin – where did they come from etc. Talk about your birth, your childhood life, school life, adolescence, adulthood and current life situation. By doing so, you will not only analyze the details about yourself but also of others that are significant in your life such as your parents, siblings, grandparents, peers, spouse and children (if any), in-laws, schools
In: Psychology
9.9. Is gender independent of education level? A random sample of people was surveyed and
each person was asked to report the highest education level they obtained. Perform a hypothesis
test. Include all 5 steps.
| High School | Bachelors | Masters | |
| Female | 30 | 60 | 54 |
| Male | 25 | 40 | 44 |
10.9. Compute and interpret the correlation coefficient for the following grades of 6 students
selected at random.
| Mathematical Grade | 70 | 92 | 80 | 74 | 65 | 83 |
| English Grade | 74 | 84 | 63 | 87 | 78 | 90 |
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Waste elimination and process improvement can be applied to virtually any process. Identify a process at work or school or home that you feel lends itself to waste elimination. You should first characterize the process, noting the value added and non-value added activities. Can the non-value added activities be eliminated? The value added activities should be examined and analyzed for potential improvements. Describe the system as it exists and as you think it should be. Describe how you went about identifying and eliminating waste?
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