For this project, you need to access The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, or The Economist and identify articles that are based on developments or factors that are having impact on the financial markets, bond market, or the outlook for specific companies, industries, countries.  Prepare a written report that is no more than three type- written pages that summarizes the articles that you reviewed, providing the appropriate citations of sources.  Include in this report at least two paragraphs that discuss how the stock price of your project company has performed since the beginning of the semester.  Highlight any unique events that may have impacted your company or its industry during the period.

Download my spreadsheet “Geffert Summary”.  This is a summary of information from the 2014 and 2015 “Economic Report of the President”.

 

 

1)    Are bond yields historically high or low?

 

2)    Are interest rates historically high or low?  What could explain why?

 

3)    Has the money supply increased, decreased or stayed the same since 2008?

 

4)    Is the rate of change in consumer prices (a measure of inflation) showing us rapid inflation?  Do you think that your answer to (6) above should show a different result from what you see in the rate of inflation?

 

Global strategy making involves a major shift in focus from analytic, reactive and past-focused thinking to creative, proactive and future-oriented thinking.  Identify a current global strategy that is reactive and past-focused and then reconstruct that strategy to one that is creative, proactive and future-oriented. Your post should illustrate how an organization can transform its thinking from reactive and past-focused to one that is proactive and future-oriented.

Performance management is an important HRM function as it is the processes and actions taken to align employee performance with organizational objectives. Read the article and in 300 or more words evaluate whether your company’s formal performance evaluation process is effective. What steps could be taken to make it more effective? What is the role of HR in performance evaluation? Who is responsible for it?

 

Jackson, E. (2010, January 9). Ten Biggest Mistakes Bosses Make In Performance Reviews – Forbes. Information for the World’s Business Leaders – Forbes.com.

What impact do benefit offerings have on marketplace competitiveness and the ability to attract and keep quality employees? Do you think pay is the primary motivating factor for most job applicants and existing employees? In 300 words or more.

 

Youssef, C. (2012). Human resource management. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.

Explain the pros and cons associated with the use of private probation in the supervision of offenders. Do you feel that probation or a government-run probation agency is better suited to supervise offenders? Why, or why not? Please remember to support y.

Resource: Case 10 of Ch. 10 of Management of Human Services Programs

Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper which addresses the following in reference to the case study:

• Develop at least one process evaluation measure and at least one outcome evaluation measure that you suggest for the Consultation and Education Department at Greenby Community Mental Health Center to display the program’s effectiveness and efficiency.
• What are the scope and purpose of your process evaluation measure and outcome evaluation measure and how did they influence your design?
• What issues and challenges may arise from evaluating the Greenby Community Mental Health Center?
• Explain why an evaluation may be helpful to the Consultation and Education Department director’s situation.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Consider forecasted changes in the U.S. and on a global level, and write an 8–10-page executive report addressing the following:

• Given increased globalization and demographic shifts, what changes in the workplace are likely to occur? Explain in terms of workforce demographics, new challenges, and benefits.
• How will these changes impact the way organizations function?
• How will HR practices change staffing, rewarding, employee relations, communication, performance management, training and development, and technology? Within that discussion, point out current best practices that may require modification as well as the most appropriate modifications.
• What are the legal and ethical implications of change?
• How should current employees and leaders begin to prepare for this change? Prepare a change management plan that includes strategies to communicate relevant information to employees.

Write an 8–10-page executive report in Word format. Support your predictions and suggestions with scholarly resources and empirical evidence. The executive report should include a cover letter, a title page, a reference page, and sections addressing the topics listed. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

STANDARD 38 Human service educators are committed to the principles of access and inclusion and take all available and applicable steps to make education available to differently-abled students.
STANDARD 40 Human service educators recognize and acknowledge the contributions of students to the work of the educator in such activities as case material, grants, workshops, research, publications, and other related activities.

What are some criminal law issues to consider in relationship to equal-employment opportunity laws and health and safety laws? What is your responsibility in regards to criminal law?