The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) hopes to manage natural capital for improved human wellbeing for centuries to come. Among the ways it does this is to come to an agreement on a 10 yr strategic plan for the CBD that carries within it specific targets. Some of those targets address drivers of biodiversity loss, some address global conservation goals and some try to manage the financial landscape within which biodiversity investments are made. Each country then constructs its own National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan to feed into the global goals. A) What are the CBD targets that have explicit economic content? B) why are they important to achieving biodiversity conservation objectives? C) is the national level the best level to address these economically oriented targets? If so, why so? If not, why not?

Q4. Human blood is grouped into four types: A, B, AB & O. Type O blood can be transfused to anyone (the universal donor) while people with Type AB blood can receive any blood type (the universal recipient). A country is recruiting soldiers but unsuccessful applicants accuse there exists discrimination on their blood type—too many Type A & B applicants are rejected while too many Type O & AB applicants are accepted. Use goodness-of-fit test, test whether the number of recruited soldiers in each blood type are different from the country’s national proportion significantly at the level of significance of 5%.

Human resource management activities like recruiting, selecting, training, and rewarding employees is not just a job for a centralized HR group for an organization, but is rather a concern for every manager and something they all should engage in. This is especially critical for small businesses where there is usually no specified HR staff to reply upon. The success of the entrepreneur is often dependent upon their effectiveness in recruiting, hiring, training, evaluating, and rewarding. Each week you will be given a case study to complete based upon a single company. The company is Laurel Laundry and is co-owned and managed by Erica Laurel.  

Laurel Laundry Services

Erica Laurel graduated from college in January, and, after considering several jobs and job offers, decided to do what she always planned to do - go into business with her father, Jack Laurel.

Jack Laurel opened his first coin laundromat in 1999 and his second in 2002. The main attraction of these coin laundry businesses for him was that they were capital - rather than labor intensive. Thus, once the investment in machinery was made, the stores could be run with just a single unskilled attendant and none of the labor problems one normally expects from being in the retail service business.

The attractiveness of operating with virtually no skilled labor notwithstanding, Jack had decided about 5 years ago to expand the services in each of his stores to include the dry cleaning and pressing of clothes. He embarked, in other words, on a strategy of "related diversification" by adding new services that were related to and consistent with his existing coin laundry activities. He added these for several reasons: he wanted to better utilize the unused space in the rather large stores he currently had under lease, he was tired of passing along profits to a dry cleaner 5 miles away. To reflect the newly expanded line of services, he renamed each of his stores Laurel Laundry Services and was sufficiently satisfied with their performance to open four more of the same type of stores over the next 4 years. Each store had its own on-site manager and, on average, about seven employees with annual revenues of about $500,000. It was this six-store chain that Erica joined after graduating.

Her understanding with her father was that she would serve as a troubleshooter/consultant to the elder Laurel with the aim of both learning the business and bringing it modern management concepts and techniques for solving the business's problems and facilitating its growth.

She is asking for your help. Acting as a consultant for Erica, prepare a report on the following:

1. List and describe several (at least 4) human resource management issues Laurel Laundry might encounter, either now or in the future?
2. Which of those concerns would you look to take on first and why?

Be sure to provide actionable suggestions to Erica while keeping in mind the costs associated with any suggestion made.

there are many different ways to resolve human conflict. Mediation and arbitration both involve a third-party neutral, but operate very differently. Explain the difference between mediation and arbitration. Give one detailed example of a conflict that might be better resolved through mediation; give one detailed example of a conflict that might be better resolved through arbitration. Give details in each of these examples to demonstrate your knowledge of the differences between the two processes, and where one might be “better” than the other for a particular conflict.

You have just been hired as the new human resource manager for Delta Inc. On your first day at work the CEO wants to meet with you to discuss a proposed evaluation of compensation practices at Delta. Unfortunately, the CEO is very busy and wants you to - in a short meeting - thoroughly describe the most important generic aspects of a compensation system that should be considered when evaluating Delta’s compensation practices. The CEO tells you to plan on a 10 minute meeting – you have to be brief and succinct – what are you going to tell the CEO?

10. Questions can be a great catalyst for human progress and organizational development. Using your special (hedgehog) leadership topic, imagine three questions that a naïve colleague might ask you about the topic if they found out that you were studying it. Write them down here. Now imagine three questions that a sophisticated fellow theorist from MGMT 630 might ask. Write down these questions as well. Which of the six questions will you address in your research report? Why do you plan to include them?

1) A human cannonball is launched straight up from the top of 100- meter-high rampart at 400 m/s. How long is the cannoneer in the air above the rampart? Answer: 81.6 s

2) A cheerleader is thrown straight up from the ground with an initial velocity of 1.5 m/s. On the way down, she makes eye contact with a fan when she is 2.8m above the field. How much time passes between the initial throw and when they make eye contact? Answer: 1.05 s

3) You throw a basketball from the ground straight up in the air with an initial velocity of 12.2 m/s. On its way down, it passes through a hoop 3.05 m above the ground. How long does it take the ball to reach the ground after it passes through the hoop? Answer: 0.28 s

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HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE is an autosomal dominantly inherited, degenerative human disease of the nervous system. Individuals homozygous for this dominant gene almost always die as a fetus. The disease has no obvious phenotypic effects in a heterozygous individual, until a person is about 35-40 years old, well into child-rearing years. There is no known cure for this genetic disease.

E. Determine the results of a mating between two parents, both of whom will get Huntington’s disease.

1. Provide the Punnett square and the potential offspring phenotypes and genotypes.
2. What percentage of children from this mating will develop Huntington’s?
3. What percentage of children from this mating will carry at least one Huntington’s allele?

Discussion: On Project Charter

You have been hired to oversee the decentralization of your client’s human resources function in which corporate functions will be relocated to each regional office. Your boss wants you to start the project immediately, but you are insisting that a project charter be established first. Explain to your boss the importance of a project charter and what could happen if you decided to proceed ahead without a charter.

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