Assignment 1: Discussion—Workplace Safety

Whether the workplace is a construction site, a factory, or an office, it has its own inherent risks, which should be identified and controlled. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations are designed to help employers protect their employees and help employees hold their employers accountable for work conditions.

Workers’ compensation insurance includes and supports employee health, ensuring that employees get appropriate healthcare if an accident occurs at the workplace. Employers are not obligated to provide workers’ compensation coverage but can be held financially responsible in the event of injury or death. Employers who choose not to carry workers’ compensation can be sued for lost wages and medical care by an injured employee. Workers’ compensation laws vary by state.

In this assignment, you will analyze laws related to health and safety arrangements in the workplace.

Tasks:

Look around your work environment or select one to observe. Identify at least two health or safety risks to the employees. The risks may be physical (such as improperly stacked boxes) or environmental (such as mold in air ducts).

In 3–5 paragraphs, analyze the risks identified. Answer the following questions:

• Which sections of OSHA regulations are being violated?
• What are the possible methods of resolving such issues?
• Does the employer carry workers’ compensation in the event of an injury, illness, or death? What workers’ compensation laws is the employer subject to in your state?

Use scholarly references, including original laws and regulations, to support your points. Give all citations in the APA format.

Submission Details:

• By Saturday, February 4, 2017, post your responses to this Discussion Area.
• Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the module as possible. Through Wednesday, February 8, 2017, respond substantively to at least two of your classmates’ postings. Include examples, critical-thinking questions, observations, or suggestions based on scholarly references. Consider the following questions:
  • Were the risks and solutions suggested by your classmates also applicable to your workplace?
  • Are the workers’ compensation laws cited similar to those in your state?

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Do the following when responding to your peers:

• Read your peers’ answers.
• Provide substantive comments by
  • contributing new, relevant information from course readings, Web sites, or other sources;
  • building on the remarks or questions of others; or
  • sharing practical examples of key concepts from your professional or personal experiences
• Respond to feedback on your posting and provide feedback to other students on their ideas.
• Make sure your writing
  • is clear, concise, and organized;
  • demonstrates ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and
  • displays accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Grading Criteria

Assignment Components	Max Points
Initial response was: Insightful, original, accurate, and timely. Substantive and demonstrated advanced understanding of concepts. Compiled/synthesized theories and concepts drawn from a variety of sources to support statements and conclusions.	16
Discussion Response and Participation: Responded to a minimum of two peers in a timely manner. Offered points of view supported by research. Asked challenging questions that promoted discussion. Drew relationships between one or more points in the discussion.	16
Writing: Wrote in a clear, concise, formal, and organized manner. Responses were error free. Information from sources, where applicable, was paraphrased appropriately and accurately cited.	8
Total:	40

 

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Business Policies and Strategies 

Part 1 Reading task Coulter, chap. 2 & 4

 Write 500–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

You plan to hold a weekly breakfast meeting with your team of strategic planners to practice assessing an industry. For the upcoming week’s breakfast meeting, you told your team that they should be prepared to discuss the business environment or industry analysis of the digital music distribution industry.

• Identify the major players in the industry, and how they are each currently competing.
• Discuss at least three current issues that this industry faces; they could be favorable or unfavorable to the industry
• Which of the major competitors has the best chance of survival, given the issues identified?

Part 2

Prepare, in a table format, a SWOTT analysis on any real company in the auto industry. As you prepare your analysis, it must be based on the following definitions for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends.

• Strengths: These are characteristics of a company that are stronger than its competitors are. If a company is good at something, but its competitors are as well, then it is not strength.
• Weaknesses: These are characteristics of a company that are weaker than its competitors are. If a company is weak at something, but its competitors are as well, then it is not a weakness.
• Opportunities: These are issues that are external to a company that can affect the company and its competitors in a favorable way.
• Threats: These are issues that are external to a company that can affect the company and its competitors in an unfavorable way.
• Trends: These are developing opportunities and threats.

Deliverable Format

The table should have columns with the following labels:

• Strength
• Weakness
• Opportunity
• Threat
• Trend

It should have at least eight rows for factors that are important to the success of a firm in that particular industry including:

• Type of Corporation
• Federal Regulations and Liability
• Price, Cost, Supply and Demand
• Code of Conduct
• Globalization, Global Trade and Global Strategy
• Labor, Employment Law, and Discrimination
• Economic Conditions (including Monetary Policy, Inflation, and Recession)
• Contracts and Intellectual Property

Cells should have one to two sentences of explanation as to why each has been identified as a strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, or trend. Not every identified factor will have its entire row of cells annotated.

 

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Please respond to each prompt (1 and 2) as directed.DB#1:What was your initial impression of the Cheyenne Ornithology article? How might your initial impression now be different than it would have been seven weeks ago? What, or anything in the article, would you be most likely to share with someone not in this course, and how would you explain it?  (Please see the article attached).DB#2:Consider your understanding of science at the start of the course and respond to the following:How would you summarize how you thought about science? (2 sentences)Has your view changed? If so, then describe in what way. If not, make a case for why not. (4 sentences)What would you say to yourself about your viewpoints then, if you could? Is it easier to have a conversation about the paradigm of science with your past self or with another person, currently? Why? (4 sentences)What is one positive from learning about science the way you have? What is one negative? What would you tell yourself back in week 1 of the course to help prepare you, if you could? (4 sentences)

 

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I need a one page summary, double spaced answering 2 of the following questions. These questions are on Starbucks ( the company).    

Discuss TWO of the following topics:

a. How is entrepreneurship encouraged? 

b. What sources of “employee empowerment are utilized”? 

c. What obstacles has the company overcome with managing information, ie cyber threats? 

d. What ethical dilemmas are faced in this organization?

Must be able to pass a plagiarizer check and have a works cited please

 

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You were recently hired as management director of the new I Can Business Incorporated (ICBI). You have been asked to establish policies and systems for the business. The first one you choose to work on is a financial reporting system.

For this assignment, you must develop a 4-5 page memo that you will deliver to the board of directors of ICBI. You will describe what a financial reporting system is and explain how management of ICBI should use an activity based budget instead of an operating budget. Be sure to explain the similarities and the differences of the two. Finally, give examples of budget guidelines for ICBI. You must answer the following questions:

• Describe the meaning and the components of a financial reporting system.
• Explain the budget cycle and process.
• Write a description of how management should use an activity based budget instead of an operating budget
  • Explain the similarities and differences of the two budgets
• Give an example of budget guidelines that ICBI should follow in order to successfully plan.
  • Identify and describe at least 5 basic budget guidelines.

Remember to use the library or other credible resources to support your argument. Be sure to cite your sources using the correct standard of APA.

 

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