Organizational development is an effort, which is planned, organization wide and managed from the top to increase organization effectiveness and health. In this connection write down:

4.1. The different points of significance of OD in organizational effectiveness.

4.2. Write down the broad categories of organizational development.  

BACKGROUND

Laura Moore has recently left her job as a Graphic Designer to open her own Company; a Graphic Design Agency dedicated to the creation and design of apps for mobile devices. Laura has decided to be self-employed.

To do so, she will have her business premises, which belongs to her father, in Barcelona downtown and she will have to hire:

• A visual designer
• A developer
• An administrative assistant

1. To hire the administrative assistant, Laura has decided to offer an indefinite contract. It is her first employee that she will hire and this has a recognised degree of disability of 37%. Explain to Laura what bonuses and reductions could be applied in the hiring of the administrative and what type of contract should do exposing its main characteristics. You must prepare the work contract of the Administrative Assistant in the corresponding oficial model.

Once the contract has been drafted and completed according to Spanish regulations, you must specify in detail the differences of this if it had been made in the United Kingdom.

2. We know the salaries agreed with two of the workers.

It develops the different steps to follow to prepare the payroll of each of them and the financial nature of each of the ítems involved:

a. Administrative Assistant. Three-month seniority. He has an indefinite work contract, base salary: € 1,500. Collective bargaining: € 50.

He has two extraordinary six-month accrual pays and receives the mon 06/30 and 12/31 of each year for an amount equal to the base salary. He has a disability of 37% and is single without children. He has made two overtime hours that month at a rate of € 15/h.

b. Visual designer. 2-month seniority. He has a temporary contract.

Base salary: € 1,950. Collective bargaining: € 100. Productivity: € 6 / day. It has two extraordinary six-month accrual payments and receives them apportioned each month. He is married and has a 9-year-old son (his spouse receives income of over € 1,500/year).

Once you have developed all the steps to follow in each case and the amount of the items, make the offcial payroll of the administrative assistant.

3. A year and a half after being hired, the administrative officer requests a period of leave of six months due to personal reasons.

Make the severance taking into account that:

-    The leave is granted from July 25^th.

• The worker has 10 days of vacations pending.
• During the month of July he made a total of 6 overtime hours

You must specify the conditions of the periods of leave in Spain and compare them with the terms of one of the countries studied; UK, United States or Canada (you can choose the country you want).

In December 2015, representatives from 195 nations gathered in Paris and signed an international agreement to address climate change, which many observers called a breakthrough for several reasons. First, the fact that a deal was struck at all was a major accomplishment, given the failure of previous climate change talks. Second, unlike previous climate change accords that focused exclusively on developed countries, this pact committed both developed and developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the voluntary targets established by nations in the Paris climate deal fall considerably short of what many scientists deem necessary to achieve the stated goal of the negotiations: limiting the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius. Furthermore, since the established targets are voluntary, they may be lowered or abandoned due to political resistance, short-term economic crises, or simply social fatigue or disinterest.

As philosophy professor Stephen Gardiner aptly explains, the challenge of climate change presents the world with several fundamental ethical dilemmas. It is simultaneously a profoundly global, intergenerational, and philosophical problem. First, from a global perspective, climate change presents the world with a collective action problem: all countries have a collective interest in controlling global carbon emissions. But each individual country also has incentives to over-consume (in this case, to emit as much carbon as necessary) in response to societal demands for economic growth and prosperity.

Second, as an intergenerational problem, the consequences of actions taken by the current generation will have the greatest impact on future generations yet to be born. Thus, the current generation must forego benefits today in order to protect against possibly catastrophic costs in the future. This tradeoff is particularly difficult for developing countries. They must somehow achieve economic growth in the present to break out of a persistent cycle of poverty, while limiting the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted into the atmosphere to protect future generations. The fact that prosperous, developed countries (such as the U.S. and those in Europe) arguably created the current climate problems during their previous industrial economic development in the 19th and 20th centuries complicates the tradeoffs between economic development and preventing further climate change.

Finally, the global and intergenerational nature of climate change points to the underlying philosophical dimensions of the problem. While it is intuitive that the current generation has some ethical responsibility to leave an inhabitable world to future generations, the extent of this obligation is less clear. The same goes for individual countries who have pledged to reduce carbon emissions to help protect environmental health, but then face real economic and social costs when executing those pledges. Developing nations faced with these costs may encounter further challenges as the impact of climate change will most likely fall disproportionally on the poor, thus also raising issues of fairness and inequality.

2. To what extent do humans have a moral responsibility to future generations that are yet to be born? Explain your reasoning.

Goodtime Food Products Ltd. produces processed foods, including pickles, relish, and canned vegetables. The production workers of Goodtime Food Products Ltd. are covered by a collective agreement. In September of this year, the Company terminated Rano, one of the employees in the bargaining unit after an incident in the plant. She had worked for the company for 7 years without incident prior to the day of her dismissal. Rano worked at a packing station monitoring a machine that filled pickle bottles with small cucumbers before they moved to additional processing. Occasionally when there was not enough work, Rano had been moved to another job in the plant inspecting bottles. On the day of the incident, Ed Thomas, her supervisor, decided that another employee should be trained on Reno’s regular job so there would be a replacement available if Rano were absent. Because Rano spoke very little English, Thomas instructed another employee who spoke the same language as Rano, Lucy Battaglia, to tell her to report to the inspection area when she arrived at work. Battaglia was not told the reason for the transfer, just to tell Rano to move. When Rano arrived for work and Battaglia told her she was been taken off of her regular job, she became enraged and swore about Thomas. She then walked a short distance to another workstation where Thomas was speaking to another employee. When Thomas refused to speak with her, Rano pointed at his ears and gestured at Thomas with a pair of scissors suggesting that he didn’t need them as he refused to listen. A few minutes later, Rano spoke to the shop steward. The steward immediately prepared a grievance for her rate of pay as the inspection job paid less than the filling job. When Rano and the shop steward presented the grievance to Thomas in his office, he crumpled it up in front of them and threw it in a garbage can. Thomas then told Rano to get back to work. Fifteen minutes later, Thomas went to the inspection area where Rano was working. Rano became enraged, when Thomas suggested that she make use of the local foodbank to offset her pay cut. She swore at Thomas, picked up a knife that was on a workbench, shouted obscenities and made slashing gestures about three feet from Thomas’ lower body. Thomas left the area. The company discharged Reno later the same day. The union filed a grievance challenging the dismissal. The grievance states that Reno has been “disciplined without just cause” contrary to the provisions of the collective agreement and requests she be “made whole” (reinstated to her job with no loss of compensation or seniority). The dispute has gone through the grievance process, and will now go to arbitration.

Answer the question: 1), At the arbitration hearing, what arguments will be presented by the employer.

Julie paid a day care center to watch her two-year-old son while she worked as a computer programmer for a local start-up company.

What amount of child and dependent care credit can Julie claim in each of the following alternative scenarios? Use Exhibit 8-9

b. Julie paid $5,550 to the day care center and her AGI is $50,000 (all salary).

c. Julie paid $4,550 to the day care center and her AGI is $25,000 (all salary).

d. Julie paid $2,220 to the day care center and her AGI is $14,000 (all salary).

e. Julie paid $4,550 to the day care center and her AGI is $14,000 ($2,220 salary and $11,780 unearned income).

EXHIBIT 8-9 Child and Dependent Care Credit Percentage

Austin Peay State, a university near Nashville, Tennessee, is applying a data-mining approach to higher education. Before students register for classes, a robot looks at their profiles and transcripts and recommends courses in which they are likely to be successful or have higher chances of success. The software takes an approach similar to the ones Netflix, eHarmony, and Amazon use to make their recommendations. It compares a student’s transcripts with those of past students who had similar grades and SAT scores. When a student logs in, the program offers 10 “Course Suggestions for You.” This recommendation is based on the student’s major and other information related to that student. The goal is to steer students toward courses in which they will make better grades. According to Tristan Denley, a former programmer turned math professor turned provost, students who follow the recommendations do substantially better. In the fall of 2011, 45 percent of the classes that students were taking had been on their top 10 recommendations list. This data-mining concept is catching on. Three other Tennessee colleges now use Denley’s software. Institutions outside the state are developing their own versions of the idea.

1. What are the benefits and drawbacks of this approach to course recommendations?
2. Are there any data that should or should not be included in data mining for this purpose? Why or why not?

• Design, plan, test, and write a computer program in Java that asks the user to enter 1 number and a String. You will display the first n characters of the string where n is the number entered. For example, if the user enters 3 and java then you will print jav. If they enter 5 and Halloween then you print Hallo. If the user enters a number less than 0 then set the number to 0. Assume the user will not enter a number greater than the length of the string. Display the percentage of the word displayed. For 3 and Java, the percentage is 75%. For 5 and Halloween the percentage is 55.55555555555556%. No if, loops, arrays, classes or methods are needed. You will also need the String class to complete this problem.

Write the Java code for the program, the entire program can be written inside a main method.

Make sure the main method outputs your full name on screen.

Copy your code, with programmer comments, headers and place this into your MS Word document.

Follow Java Naming Conventions

Do not forget about importing java.util.Scanner, and using Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); with input.nextLine(); and input.nextInt();

Update the test table with the actual outputs

Sample Run

Enter a number:

3

Enter a String:

Java

Jav

You printed 75.0% of Java

Programming Project #6: Bowling Team

need to use python

Problem

Expected Duration: 3-4 hours

Prerequisites: None

Knowing that you are a budding programmer, your friends have asked you to create a scoring program for your Saturday bowling league. Your program should take a name, team number, and score for each player, and should deal with any number of players, but have 3 people to a team.
Your program should ignore invalid inputs, and not crash. Your program should print the following lists in columns:

1. the individual names, team and scores in descending order with high scorer at the top
2. the individual names, team and scores in alphabetical order
3. If anyone scores a perfect game, put an asterisk in front of their name.
4. The top 3 teams with the highest total scores and their score
5. Display a congratulatory message showing the individual high score and list who got it.
6. Display a sympathetic message showing the individual low score and who got it.

Last, your program should write each of the lists and the summary information
to a text file called game_results.txt in the same format it is displayed on the screen.

Note: You have the option of using pandas Dataframes in your program. Just make sure the console and file output
has the required structure and format.

Listed below is the number of movie tickets sold at the Library Cinema-Complex, in thousands, for the period from 2004 to 2016. Compute a five-year weighted moving average using weights of 0.1, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.3, respectively. Describe the trend in yield. (Round your answers to 3 decimal places.)

The weighted moving averages are:

Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of HHS, has promulgated regulations as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 that require every employer to provide a health insurance plan that guarantees access to abortification drugs. Some employers, like the Catholic church, consider this requirement to be immoral and to violate their rights to worship as they please. What do you think? Does the federal government have the right to impose regulations, in the name of the public good, that violate the rights of religious organizations to practice their religion? What would happen if a clinic or hospital would refuse to comply with this mandate?