Assignment 1: Putting the Puzzle Together

Every group, whether social or professional, has roles that need to be filled in order for the group to function effectively. Sometimes, people choose the role they want to play. At other times, people may naturally fall into a role without even realizing it. Research group roles or group dynamics using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Write an essay on the topic. Address the following:

1. What types of group roles are there? Name and describe at least six different roles.  Also, note that similar roles are known by different names, for example, leader and facilitator. What you call a role is not as important as doing a good job of explaining the purpose and duties of each role.
2. Can some roles have more than one person in that role in one group? If so, which roles are they? Which roles, if any, cannot have more than one person in the role in one group? Why?
3. Can you rank the roles in order of importance? If yes, do so and explain your ranking. If you could not rank the roles, explain why. Is it because all roles are equally important?
4. What role do you tend to play in groups? Is it a role you choose because you enjoy it or because you are just naturally good at it?
5. We have all had to struggle with some roles we were required to play. Describe such an experience from your personal or professional life. Explain the difficulty and how you solved it.
6. In a summary paragraph, discuss the value or constraint that you find with group roles. Discuss how knowledge of group roles will help a group communicate and work together.

Write a 4-5 page essay in Word format. Apply APA standards for writing style to your work. Include a bibliography for any articles and websites used in your research.  When saving your essay, use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.doc.

By Saturday, February 22, 2014 deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox.

As a business owner, you need to approach the issue of globalization and trade in context. With all the complicated tariff and nontariff trade policies, organizations, and government involvement, the important question to ask is why the United States maintains certain economic policies.

Consider the following questions:

• Research where you would find the U.S. international trade policies and their history as they apply to various industries.
  • Chose two industries, and focus on those.
• Do the economic trade policies today help or hurt business owners and laborers?
  • Is the automobile industry protected?
  • Is it considered an infant industry?
  • What tariff policy is in place for automobile manufacturers?
  • What type of administered protection is in place, if any?
  • Compare the automobile industry to the two industries you chose to research.
• How could the state or local representative help or hurt a business owner in the era of globalization?
• How did the policies for manufacturers of automobiles evolve? For example, what influences do the following organizations have on business owners, and what is their history?
  • The World Bank
  • The IMF
  • GATT
  • The European Union
  • NAFTA
  • The Doha Round
• Does NAFTA affect the automobile industry’s decisions on what to do with labor costs? Capital costs? If so, how? Was this trade agreement good for the United States from an economic standpoint? Was it good for Mexico from and economic standpoint?

Looking for two different view points pertaining to suicide research and prevention.

Develop Professional Résumés

In order to demonstrate an awareness of psychological career alternatives in a community setting, you will develop résumés for each of the professional experts chosen for your presentation in the Week Three discussion.  Include relevant academic and professional experience that highlights their careers, appropriate skills, and expertise. Brief job descriptions identifying the major duties associated with each relevant work experience should also be included in the résumé. The job description format should be based on the Professional Experience section in the “Sample Resume for a Counseling Psychologist.” Each résumé should be two to three pages in length. You may use the resources available on the following web pages:

• Ashford University Career Services  (http://www.apa.org/careers/psyccareers)
• American Psychological Association PsyCareers  (http://www.apa.org/careers/psyccareers)
• Sample resume for a counselling psychologist  

You may use additional sources for career information as long as they are credible. An example of a credible source for this information would include The Chronicle of Higher Education. To begin constructing your résumés, utilize the Resume Builder tool provided by Ashford University. This will allow you to create drafts of your résumés so that you may revise and refine your assignments before submitting them. 

To utilize the tool:

• Log into the Ashford University Student Portal
• Click on Job Search & Resume Builder link under Career Services
• Go to the My Documents Tab
• Select the Resume Builder Tab
• Create, save, and edit these résumés to meet your assignment guidelines.

Writing Professional Résumés
The Assignment:

1. Must be four to six double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title page), and formatted according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  Résumés should be formatted according to the guidelines in the Ashford University Resume Builder tool.
2. Must include a title page with the following:
   • Title of paper
   • Student’s name
   • Course name and number
   • Instructor’s name
   • Date submitted

Assume that you are the HR Manager at a university. You want to create a way to recognize employee contributions in the Admissions Office. Determining the methods to motivate employees to enroll new students has been challenging. However, you are now being pressured by top management to reach admission goals. Employee participation in pay-related decisions could be part of a general move toward employee empowerment. Employees have hands-on knowledge about the kinds of behavior that can help the organization to perform well. Consider ways that you would attempt to meet the admission goals.

Create a PowerPoint presentation with fifteen to twenty (15-20) slides in which you:

1. As the HR manager, propose two (2) methods that you will use to determine incentive pay. Explain if the rewards are tailored towards individual, group, and / or company performance. Explain how you as the HR manager will create an incentive pay program that will motivate employees. 
2. The balanced-score card approach is useful in designing executive pay. Propose three (3) measures the HR manager can use to assess shareholder value, customer value, and employee value. 
3. As the HR manager, analyze two (2) difficulties in creating a benefits package that motivates employees. 
4. As the HR manager, propose three (3) incentives that can be used to motivate employees. 
5. As the HR manager, examine two (2) ethical risks of making incentive pay a large portion of employees’ total compensation. Propose two (2) suggestions as to how the company could balance or reduce these risks.  
6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the influences on and various approaches to compensation.
• Analyze issues related to developing and implementing employee benefit packages.
• Apply relevant theories and knowledge to human resource practices in organizations.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management foundations.
• Write clearly and concisely about human resource management foundations using proper writing mechanics.

Now that you have selected a product or service(cheeseburgers)get the ball rolling and begin your marketing campaign. Since you are a new company, you need to develop a name for your company before you start the campaign. It’s time to start getting your product in the public’s eyes. Your first step is to begin to get customers or retailers interested in your product. You have decided that the best way to get the word out is through a bulk email campaign. It is cost efficient and rather easy to do in a short amount of time. Your assignment is to design an email that would go out to the potential customers or retailers. Be as creative as you would like. You should persuade your audience to either purchase your product, or if a retailer, to carry it in the store. In other words, it should be based around the value proposition of your new company. Prepare an email for your company that you would send to potential customers/retailers. Make sure that you include your value proposition. Your document should be free of spelling and grammatical errors.

1. What are some of your favorite TV or Internet ads? Why? How effective are the message and creative strategies? How are they creating consumer preference and loyalty and building brand equity?

2. What are some of the metrics marketers use to evaluate the effectiveness of their campaigns once they’ve launched them? In other words, how might an organization measure awareness? What are some other useful metrics marketers might use to measure their campaigns?

3. interpersonal communication: Choose a company you think has effectively done this and analyze their efforts.  Do you think it was effective?  How might you improve the process?

Each question must be answered with a 250 word response, each question must have at least 1 reference. Please cite both intext citations and for a reference page, APA, no plagiairism, no spelling errors.

The Day the Machines Went off

In your introduction, briefly describe the plot of a disaster movie in which an electromagnetic pulse causes the shutdown of all electronic equipment and financial activity to grind to a halt.

Then, using what you have learned during the course, from the text readings, and from scholarly sources, forecast the effects of such an event on financial institutions and the economy using the following prompts as a framework:

1. Hypothesize how the four functions of money would be missed.
2. Explain what the immediate effects would be on:
   1. the rationing of goods,
   2. employment,
   3. demand for paper money.
   4. demand for commodity money (e.g., gold),
   5. production of goods and services
3. Speculate what emergency measures might be enacted to keep the economy running in lieu of having an organized banking system.
4. Identify and justify any incidents from history that tell us what we might expect if an electromagnetic pulse actually caused the shutdown of all electronic equipment and financial activity to grind to a halt.  

Writing the Paper

1. Must be eight- to- ten double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.
2. Must include a cover page that includes:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis
6. Must use at least three scholarly sources, including a minimum of one from the Ashford Online Library, in addition to the text.
7. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
8. Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center