Choose one of the options below to address the adult and middle adult stages of life.

Paper on Perspectives on Changes in Adulthood

Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper on your personal perspectives on changes that occur throughout early, middle, and late adulthood. Answer the following questions in your paper:

·What are your perspectives on lifespan changes?

·How do you perceive changes in activities, relationships, health, and mental outlook?

·Are your views based on experience or observation?

Refer to the information from your Life Stages Interview Learning Team Assignment to help you develop your paper. Because this is a subjective opinion paper, no research is required.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Paper on a Popular Movie

Watch a movie that focuses on adulthood and life transitions. The movie must relate to this week’s topics, objectives and readings.

Obtain instructor approval of movie selection.

Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper in which you address the following questions:

·How can the main character or characters be viewed from a biological, cognitive, and psychosocial perspective?

·What are the various ways in which each main character copes with biological changes as a result of aging?

·What changes occur in the family composition and lifestyle of these characters?

·How does each character cope with death, dying, and his or her theories on the afterlife, if any?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Include a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources.

1) Planning involves which of the following?

    A.  Analyzing current situations

    B.  Determining rewards for goals achievement

    C.  Motivating employees

    D.  Implementing necessary changes

2) _______ is specifying the goals to be achieved and deciding in advance the appropriate actions needed to achieve those goals.

    A.  Staffing

    B.  Leading

    C.  Organizing

    D.  Planning

3) Advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology are expected to produce some food products that will become available year-round even in northern climates. These changes will provide grocers with an opportunity to reduce their shipping costs while at the same time, offering fresher produce to their customers. These advances are an example of changes in the

    A.  technological environment

    B.  economic environment

    C.  political environment

    D.  ecological environment

4) _________ trends regarding how people think and behave have major implications for management of the labor force, corporate social actions, and strategic decisions about products and markets.

    A.  Psychological

    B.  Economic

    C.  Technological

    D.  Societal

5) Which of the following is a step in the decision-making process?

    A.  Generating an idea

    B.  Good business planning

    C.  Evaluating the decision

    D.  Delegating a task

6) Which is a step in the decision-making process?

    A.  Resolving and reducing conflict

    B.  Making the choice

    C.  Using the lack of structure

    D.  Delegating a task

7) The targets or ends the manager wants to reach are called

    A.  goals

    B.  missions

    C.  visions

    D.  strategies

8) In the _______________ stage of the planning process, managers should weigh the advantages, disadvantages, and potential effects of each alternative goal and plan.

    A.  goal and plan evaluation

    B.  goal and plan selection

    C.  implementation

    D.  alternate goals and plans

9) Tactical planning would include which of the following?

    A.  Profit goals

    B.  Design, test, and install the equipment needed to produce a new product line

    C.  Human resources requirements

    D.  Return on investment

10) The internal analysis component of the strategic management process assesses the organization’s

    A.  performance levels

    B.  competitors

    C.  industry growth rate

    D.  product substitutions in the market

11) Eagle Manufacturing, Inc., is in the middle of its first day of the senior management retreat. The topic on the agenda is corporate social responsibility (CSR). Most of the group has seen this brought up before and then shot down because it generally costs Eagle’s shareholders in the form of a lower stock price. But the new VP of Ethics, Gloria Wright, is about to explain why she believes CSR will actually benefit the shareholders and Eagle management alike. Her team begins the presentation with a discussion of CSR—its current definition and reconciliation of past views. Jeremiah then discusses the importance of being a good global corporate citizen by supporting the local school system. Ellen takes the floor to make the case for doing what is expected by global stakeholders even though there are no

laws requiring those actions. Finally Gloria wraps the discussion up with why Eagle should take legal and economic responsibility for the firm’s performance. To Gloria’s team’s credit, senior management does appear to buy into the pyramid of global corporate social responsibility and performance that her team just presented.

Ellen’s presentation most likely focused on the __________ responsibility of the firm.

    A.  economic

    B.  legal

    C.  ethical

    D.  social

12) Eagle Manufacturing, Inc., is in the middle of its first day of the senior management retreat. The topic on the agenda is corporate social responsibility (CSR). Most of the group has seen this brought up before and then shot down because it generally costs Eagle’s shareholders in the form of a lower stock price. But the new VP of Ethics, Gloria Wright, is about to explain why she believes CSR will actually benefit the shareholders and Eagle management alike. Her team begins the presentation with a discussion of CSR—its current definition and reconciliation of past views. Jeremiah then discusses the importance of being a good global corporate citizen by supporting the local school system. Ellen takes the floor to make the case for doing what is expected by global stakeholders even though there are no

laws requiring those actions. Finally Gloria wraps the discussion up with why Eagle should take legal and economic responsibility for the firm’s performance. To Gloria’s team’s credit, senior management does appear to buy into the pyramid of global corporate social responsibility and performance that her team just presented.

Gloria’s team’s presentation focused on the pyramid of global corporate social responsibility. To do what is desired by global stakeholders correlates with the _______ component of the pyramid.

    A.  philanthropic

    B.  ethical

    C.  legal

    D.  economic

13) In the study by Lawrence and Lorsch, companies in complex, dynamic environments developed _____ levels of differentiation; and

_____ levels of integration.

    A.  low; low

    B.  high; high

    C.  low; high

    D.  high; low

14) An aspect of the organization’s internal environment created by job specialization and the division of labor is called

    A.  differentiation

    B.  integration

    C.  division of labor

    D.  specialization

15) An organization with departmentalization that groups units around products, customers, or geographic regions is called a

    A.  divisional organization

    B.  centralized organization

    C.  matrix organization

    D.  functional organization

16) Which of the following statements about matrix organizations is true?

    A.  A matrix organization is the same as a functional organization.

    B.  A matrix organization is the same as a product organization.

    C.  A matrix organization is a hybrid of the functional and divisional organizational forms.

    D.  A matrix organization is considered out-of-date compared to the organic organization.

17) An organization with departmentalization that groups units around products, customers, or geographic regions is called a

    A.  centralized organization

    B.  matrix organization

    C.  virtual organization

    D.  divisional organization

18) Sports International (SI) began business by making shoes for athletes. They soon expanded into making shoes for non-athletic purposes. They now manufacture and distribute clothing, sporting equipment, and protective sports gear worldwide. They are departmentalized by products sold to serious athletes, products sold to “weekend” athletes and products sold to sports teams. SI has

utilized which form of departmentalization?

    A.  Geographic

    B.  Customer

    C.  Functional

    D.  Matrix

19) The trait known as leadership motivation suggests that great leaders

    A.  can motivate others to work hard

    B.  can motivate others to become leaders

    C.  can motivate others to join

    D.  want to lead

20) A leadership perspective that attempts to identify what effective leaders do and the behaviors they exhibit is referred to as the

    A.  behavioral approach

    B.  trait approach

    C.  transformational leadership

    D.  strategic approach

21) __________ leadership invites colleagues at the same level to solve problems together.

    A.  Horizontal

    B.  Collegial

    C.  Lateral

    D.  Linear

22) Leaders who relate to others to serve their needs and enhance their personal growth while strengthening the organization are known as

    A.  lateral leaders

    B.  shared leaders

    C.  bridge leaders

    D.  servant-leaders

23) A shift in worker values toward personal time, quality of life, self-fulfillment, and family is occurring among

    A.  men

    B.  women

    C.  women and men

    D.  minorities

24) Future trends in the labor force include a

    A.  smaller labor force

    B.  more experienced labor force

    C.  more homogenous labor force

    D.  younger labor force

25) Behavior that gives purpose and meaning to organizations, while envisioning and creating a positive future, is known as

    A.  strategic leadership

    B.  supervisory leadership

    C.  organizational leadership

    D.  task leadership

26) The correspondence between actions and words that include characteristics such as honesty and credibility is known as

    A.  drive

    B.  self-confidence

    C.  knowledge of the business

    D.  integrity

27) Owners from two businesses have asked you which type of control system they should utilize. To help you make your decision, they have each provided a brief description of their organization. Alpha Omega, Inc., is a large corporation built in the 1950s. They produce chemical concentrates for industrial cleaning. Their organization uses a strict set of rules and regulations with their workforce. They have

the ability to track a large amount of data using statistical techniques. Mid-Atlantic Health is a regional medical center. They want to use a control system that will allow them to tie pricing of services and profits to specific services in the medical center. The control systems that should be used in the scenarios above were developed by

    A.  William Ouchi

    B.  Xerox

    C.  Frederick Taylor

    D.  Motorola

28) Your manager is speaking to a group of employees about a problem in your department. Employees are not complying with the rules regarding clocking in and clocking out each day. The rules in this situation are very important as employees will not receive their correct pay if the clocking procedures are not followed. There are three suggestions being considered to address this problem.

    Employees will be monitored at the entrance during shift changes to make sure that each complies with the procedure.

    Reports will be reviewed at the end of each pay period. The reports will contain data tracking the number of employees not complying with the procedures each shift. Employees violating the procedure will be counseled to correct the problem.

    A new procedure will be developed describing an easier procedure for employees to follow. Training will be conducted so that each employee knows the policy and the procedure before it is enacted.

Option 1 describes which approach to bureaucratic control?

    A.  Feedback

    B.  Concurrent

    C.  Feedforward

    D.  Market

29) Suppose you are interviewing the CEO of a large company. The CEO is telling you about his or her job as a manager and how he or she spends time. Using the description below, which function of management is the CEO most likely describing in this example?

“My job, for some part of each day, is to empower our employees to think of things in new and different ways, not just to come to work and complete the tasks on a list.”

    A.  Organizing

    B.  Leading

    C.  Controlling

    D.  Decision making

30) Suppose you are interviewing the CEO of a large company. The CEO is telling you about his or her job as a manager and how he or she spends time. Using the description below, which function of management is the CEO most likely describing in this example?

“Every six months or so, my senior management team and I meet to discuss the goals that will be achieved over the next year, three years, and beyond. We then make sure we are clear on who will take responsibility to see that the appropriate actions are undertaken to achieve our goals within the time frame we set.”

    A.  Planning

    B.  Organizing

    C.  Leading

    D.  Decision making

Individual Assignment: Strategic HR Approach

Assume you are an HR director for a manufacturing company. Your responsibilities address all elements of employee well-being, which include compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and include employee benefits and relations.

Identify the problem in each of these scenarios. Detail different strategies on how you would approach each scenario, decide on an approach, and describe how that approach would be most effective.

An employee of 25 years received cancer treatment and was hospitalized for 2 months. He or she is now asking for additional money to help pay medical bills.

Accidents have been occurring in a department of 10 employees under a new supervisor. With the change in management, employees who worked for the company for more than 4 years complain that the new supervisor frequently micromanages, whereas the supervisor complains that the employees do not respect him because he is new and younger than his subordinates. Aside from the accidents, the supervisor thinks the team performance is below average.

A recently hired female employee was late more than eight times during her employment and was terminated because of the tardiness. The employee came back with a union representative asking to be rehired. She claims that some male employees and another female employee have been late many times. None of these employees have been terminated. The other female employee has not been fired because she is the manager’s wife.

A high-performing employee just had a baby and returned to work 3 weeks later. Since then, her performance has been low, but it is assumed she would be back to normal after a couple months. After 6 months, her performance level is below average, and her appearance has been messy. When coworkers talk to her, they say her attitude is depressing and she does not want to engage in conversations.

Write your approach to the scenarios in no more than 1,400 words.

Format your paper according to APA standards.

HRM 531 Final Exam

1) Distrust, disrespect, and animosity pertain to which component of indirect costs associated with mismanaged organizational stress?

A. Quality of work relations

B. Participation and membership

C. Performance on the job

D. Communication breakdowns

2) Inventory shrinkages and accidents pertain to which component of direct costs associated with mismanaged organizational stress?

A. Employee conflict

B. Performance on the job

C. Loss of vitality

D. Communication breakdowns

3) Thousands of equal-pay lawsuits have been filed, predominantly by ___________ since the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was passed

A. women

B. African Americans

C. the elderly

D. Americans with disabilities

4) What term refers to those actions appropriate to overcome the effects of past or present policies, practices, or other barriers to equal employment opportunity?

A. Reparation

B. Emancipation

C. Desegregation

D. Affirmative action

5) In the employment context, _______________ can be viewed broadly as giving an unfair advantage or disadvantage to the members of a particular group in comparison with the members of other groups

A. ethnocentrism

B. discrimination

C. seniority system

D. race norming

6) Thousands of equal-pay suits have been filed, predominantly by ___________ since the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was passed

A. women

B. African Americans

C. the elderly

D. Americans with disabilities

7) Which of the following observations is correct?

A. Diversity is problem focused, and affirmative action is opportunity focused

B. Diversity is government initiated, and affirmative action is voluntary

C. Diversity is proactive, and affirmative action is reactive

D. Diversity is quantitative, and affirmative action is qualitative

8) Which of the following would you associate with managing diversity?

A. Government initiated

B. Assumes integration

C. Internally focused

D. Quantitative

9) “To be the world’s best quick-service restaurant” is an example of what?

A. Organizational charter

B. Standard operating procedure

C. Code of ethics

D. Vision statement

10) _________ is a job analysis method that lists tasks or behaviors and involves workers rating each task or behavior in terms of whether or not it is performed. If the task is performed, workers also rate the frequency, importance, level of difficulty, and relationship to overall performance

A. Job performance

B. Structured questionnaires

C. Interviews

D. Critical incidents

11) Recruitment begins by specifying _____, which are the typical results of job analysis and workforce planning activities

A. human resource requirements

B. strategic imperatives

C. succession plans

D. affirmative action candidates

12) The step following recruitment is _____, which is basically a rapid, rough selection process

A. an orientation

B. an initial screening

C. a suspension

D. a workforce plan

13) During the _____ stage, it is most important to select the managers who can develop stable management systems to preserve the gains achieved during the embryonic stage

A. mature

B. high-growth

C. aging

D. embryonic

14) Increasing an individual’s employability outside the company simultaneously increases his or her job security and desire to stay with the current employer. What is this known as?

A. Training paradox

B. Pygmalion effect

C. Distributed practice

D. Massed practice

15) Which is a characteristic of the most effective training practices?

A. Training starts at the bottom of the organization

B. Training is part of the corporate culture

C. Training is evaluated by checking participant reactions

D. Little time is spent assessing training needs

16) Which analysis is helpful in determining the special needs of a particular group, such as older workers, women, or managers at different levels?

A. Individual

B. Operations

C. Demographic

D. Organization

17) Providing adequate resources to get a job done right and on time, and paying careful attention to selecting employees, are parts of

A. employee welfare

B. grievance management

C. performance appraisal

D. performance facilitation

18) This can be thought of as a compass that indicates a person’s actual direction as well as a person’s desired direction.

A. Management by objectives

B. Forced distribution

C. Central tendency

D. Performance management

19) What would you call a meeting that is typically done once a year to identify and discuss job-relevant strengths and weaknesses of individuals or work teams?

A. performance appraisal

B. performance facilitation

C. performance encouragement

D. performance standard

20) When managing careers, what should organizations do?

A. Plan for shorter employment relationships

B. Focus primarily on employee needs and aspirations

C. Allow employees to structure work assignments

D. Focus on and recognize career stages that employees go through

21) A sequence of positions occupied by a person during the course of a lifetime is characteristic of what type of career?

A. Subjective

B. Objective

C. Specific

D. General

22) In the new world of career management, the primary goal is to provide which of the following for employees?

A. Rising aspirations

B. Executive ranking

C. Psychological success

D. Time off when they need it

23) At a broad level, _____ includes anything an employee values and desires that an employer is able and willing to offer in exchange for employee contributions

A. a competency-based pay system

B. an employee stock ownership plan

C. an organizational reward system

D. a merit-pay method

24) This benefit, tied mostly to profitability and promising better job security, but not guaranteeing it, is at the center of the evolving bonus system

A. Contribution-based pay

B. Competency-based pay

C. Skill-based pay

D. Flexible pay

25) Financial rewards include direct payments plus indirect payments in the form of what?

A. Individual equity

B. Corporate compensation

C. Spot awards

D. Employee benefits

26) Which law offers full coverage for retirees, dependent survivors, and disabled persons insured by 40 quarters of payroll taxes on their past earnings or earnings of heads of households?

A. Federal Unemployment Tax Act

B. Social Security Act

C. Workers’ compensation

D. Employee Retirement Income Security Act

27) Plans are known as _____ when the employees share in the cost of the premiums

A. share-based

B. contributory

C. distributive

D. peer participating

28) Which type of justice refers to the quality of interpersonal treatment that employees receive in their everyday work?

A. Interactional

B. Informational

C. Distributive

D. Blind

29) Procedural justice affects citizenship behaviors by influencing employees’ perceptions of _____, the extent to which the organization values employees’ general contributions and cares for their well being.

A. due process

B. management accessibility

C. indirect compensation

D. organizational support

30) When companies discover they can communicate better with their customers through employees who are similar to their customers, those companies then realize they have increased their _____ diversity.

A. primary

B. secondary

C. internal

D. external

Assignment 1: The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008: Part 1

The US Congress has the authority to create laws through Article I of the US Constitution. When Congress authorizes an act, several related laws are clumped together into one massive law (hence, an act). The easiest way to read and process an act is to separate the document into major topics (concepts) and then outline the major policies associated with the topics.

Acts are an important part of the legislative process and are frequently used to initiate a series of interconnected laws (e.g., laws related to education, housing, and health and human services). You should have a basic understanding of this process because a number of laws that affect higher education processes have resulted from acts (e.g., the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA] of 1990).

In this assignment, you will review an act that has been reauthorized and analyze some significant changes due to its reauthorization.

Tasks:

In about 250 words, respond to the following:

• Review the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008.
• List and analyze the most significant policy changes and new programs established by the reauthorization.

Submission Details:

• By Saturday, May 23, 2015, post your responses to this Discussion Area.
• Through Wednesday, May 27, 2015, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. While responding, comment on ideas that are similar to and different from your own. When referencing the readings, be specific as to the case, policy, or law so that your classmates understand the basis for your discussion points and can respond appropriately.