Case Three   Change Management   

As a Human Resources Business Partner, you have been asked by a Production Manager to help her create a change management plan. The change that will be implemented with involve modifying a work process that has been in place for over ten years and that front-line team members have become extremely accustomed to…but just isn’t efficient anymore. The Production Manager is concerned about resistance and the lack of adoption by the team members if the change is not rolled out “correctly”.

Question:

• Outline five strategies that should be employed, with examples, that will help minimize resistance to the change and enhance adoption of the new process.

Case Application 3: TEAM FUN!

Tony, the new director of human resources, and Edna, the compensation and benefits manager, are hanging employment legislation posters in RETREAT, the TEAM FUN! employee cafeteria. Edna offers, “I remember some woman who applied for a job to advertise men’s baseball gear and sued when she didn’t get the job. The EEOC said she had no case. A couple of years ago, we moved Fred from fitness demos to stock management because he couldn’t do the treadmill or lift the big weights anymore. There was talk about an age discrimination case because he was 57, but that never went anywhere.” Tony asks, “Do you realize that all of the warehouse workers are male and all the RETREAT workers are female?” Edna replies, “What’s your point?” Tony waves his hand at the EEOC information they have displayed. Edna shrugs, “This is the best job I ever had. If you ask anyone else who works here, they will say the same thing.”

Questions:

1. What is the probable defense for the baseball gear job (BFOQ, 4/5ths rule, glass ceiling)? Explain.

2. Why didn’t Fred’s age discrimination case go anywhere?

3. Is TEAM FUN! open to discrimination charges in other areas?

4. What should be done to protect TEAM FUN! from discrimination charges?

i need the answer in order for each question

Human

Describe the Continuity and Competence and Environmental Press theories. Provide examples to illustrate each theory. What strategies do you recommend for older adults to use to preserve or extend the intellectual stamina? How do ethnic and cultural factors influence how people behave in later life? What are your thoughts regarding retirement? Should age be a determining factor in retirement? What factors should be considered? Be sure to address each of the following in your discussion post: Describe Continuity Theory. Provide an example. Describe Competence and Environmental Press. Provide an example. What strategies do you recommend for older adults to use to preserve or extend their intellectual stamina? Describe how ethnic and cultural factors influence behavior in late life. Describe your thoughts on retirement. Describe your position on age as a determining factor for retirement. Describe what factors you think should be used to determine retirement.

Q9

Provided the amplitude is sufficiently great, the human ear can respond to longitudinal waves over a range of frequencies from about 20.0 Hz to about 20.0 kHz. (a) If you were to mark the beginning of each complete wave pattern with a red dot for the long-wavelength sound and a blue dot for the short-wavelength sound, how far apart would the red dots be? m How far apart would the blue dots be? cm (b) In reality would adjacent dots in each set be far enough apart for you to easily measure their separation with a meterstick? Yes No (c) Suppose you repeated part (a) in water, where sound travels at 1480 m/s. How far apart would the red dots be? m How far apart would the blue dots be? cm Could you readily measure their separation with a meterstick? Yes No

Submission Question 3: Polymorphism

Problem

You are writing software for a company’s human resources department. As part of the requirements, it would like to have a function that calculates the salary of an individual based on the position he or she holds, years of service, and hours worked.

This program will demonstrate the following:

• How to create an abstract class,
• How to overload a method,
• How to use polymorphism to call functions on similar objects.

Solving the Problem

Step 1

The first thing that you must determine is what attributes are common to all employees and what methods they can share. Can salary be easily calculated by the same method without some additional input from the user? By using polymorphism, you can make one method that calculates salaries for different groups. First, determine the base class and what method needs to be implemented by the child classes. By making the calcSalary() method abstract, it will be a required method of the child classes.

Step 2

You can then define the child classes that inherit the shared attributes from the base Employee class but also inherit the requirement that they implement from the calcSalary() method. Each employee type will have a different set of attributes and a different method of calculating the salary, but the same method call will be used to calculate it.

Step 3

You can now create a list to hold all employee types and populate it.

Step 4

Because you used polymorphism in the classes, you can now use one loop to calculate and output the salaries of the employees.

Documentation Guidelines:

Use Python Programming. Use good programming style (e.g., indentation for readability) and document each of your program parts with the following items (the items shown between the '<' and '>' angle brackets are only placeholders. You should replace the placeholders and the comments between them with your specific information). Your cover sheet should have some of the same information, but what follows should be at the top of each program's sheet of source code. Some lines of code should have an explanation of what is to be accomplished, this will allow someone supporting your code years later to comprehend your purpose. Be brief and to the point. Start your design by writing comment lines of pseudocode. Once that is complete, begin adding executable lines. Finally run and test your program.

Deliverable(s):

Your deliverable should be a Word document with screenshots showing the source code and running results, and discuss the issues that you had for this project related to AWS and/or Python IDE and how you solved them for all of the programs listed above as well as the inputs and outputs from running them. Submit a cover sheet with the hardcopy of your work.

Write a Java program to play the game Tic-Tac-Toe. Start off with a human playing a human, so each player makes their own moves.

Follow the design below, creating the methods indicated and invoking them in the main program.

Use a char array of size 9 as the board; initialize with the characters 0 to 8 so that it starts out looking something like the board on the left.

Make sure the board lines up properly so that the entries and borders all line up properly. DO NOT print a board that looks like or is similar to the output below where columns are misaligned.

0| O|2

3|X | 5

6 | X|O

You will need a variable to keep track of whose turn it is. Use a char variable named turn and initialize to X when the game starts. After a move, if there is no winner and no draw, switch to the O and continue to take turns as the game progresses. Declare additional variables as you build your program.

1. After the variable declarations, begin a while loop which will keep the game going the user indicates to stop the game. (see a. below)
   1. When a new games starts, allow the user to terminate the program by entering an S or s (remember String has toLowerCase and toUpperCase methods). Any other entry will start a new game.
2. If you are starting a new game, invoke a method to initialize the board and turn and another method to print the board
3. Start an inner while loop that runs as long as the game isn’t over (a win or draw will terminate the game but not the program).
4. Invoke a method to allow the user to make a move
   1. If there is no empty spot, (the game is a draw), print a message and ask the user whether to start a new game or terminate the program
   2. If the value entered is invalid (not 0 to 8), print a message and allow the user to re-enter a move
   3. If the user enters a value but it’s already taken, print a message and allow the user to retry
   4. If the user enters a value and it’s available, set the spot to X or O (depending upon the value of turn) and print the board
5. After a valid move is made, invoke a method to check if the last one to make a move won the game
   • Winner - print the winner and start a new game
   • No winner - switch turn and ask for the next position

SAMPLE OUTPUT – NOTE OUTPUT BOLDED TO SHOW HANDLING OF BAD ENTRIES

Assignment Details

The human resource employee benefits and compensation programs are built upon the in-depth evaluation of each position and the determination of its value within the construct of the organization. Job analysis is a critical component in this process. Another major part is market pricing, which assumes that the pay set by the employers is an accurate reflection of a job’s worth. Both parts are important to ensuring that equity in pay and compensation exists. In the event that equity and fairness are not always met for compensation and benefits, this could lead to employee dissatisfaction and retention problems. It is therefore incumbent upon the organization to correct any inequities.

This discussion has three parts, as follows:

1. From your perspective, what type of compensation is a greater motivator for you, and why? Ensure that your discussion provides substantial detail.
2. Think about the pros and cons associated with the concept of market pricing. What have your personal experiences been in relation to fairness and equity of your own compensation where you have worked? Use your experience to provide examples of pros and cons. Use 4 examples in your response.
3. Discuss how a compensation method can be used to assist with employee retention. Consider 4 different ways in your discussion and from your personal experiences in which you were personally impacted by the examples you have provided.