Entries by Daphne Hanson

New roles and relationships among workers, employers and government.

Although mass strikes continued through the first half of the 20th century, the United States involvement in two world wars introduced new roles and relationships among workers, employers and government. Price controls, war boards, state intervention, federal troop occupation and in-fighting between workers and their unions were all part of the backdrop of the workers’ […]

A drug rehabilitation program

Bonds tested positive for cocaine and was fired by Selig, Inc. for violating its drug-free workplace policy.  Bonds then enrolled in a drug rehabilitation program and was able to end his drug abuse.  He was drug-free for over two years and reapplied to Selig to be rehired.  To support his application, he provided letters from […]

Reorganizing workforce due to slumping auto sales

DeLormer is sales manager for Fast Freddy’s Auto Sales, a local car dealer selling Kia, Hyundai, and Subaru cars.  Fred Fischer, the owner of Fast Freddy’s, decides to reorganize his workforce due to slumping auto sales.  Fischer tells DeLormer, who is sixty, that his job will be eliminated, and the position’s duties will be consolidated […]

Information security system

Consider three output variables from your information security system as follows: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. For simplicity, you treat each variable as binary, that is, they only have two states – maintained or not maintained. Thus, C = confidentiality maintained, and ~C = confidentiality not maintained, etc. Now suppose you are considering a single person […]

Types of assignments such as papers and presentations

During your time at Walden, you will likely complete many types of assignments. Your specific program content may call for certain types of assignments more often than others. For instance, assignments for students in a software engineering program will often take very different formats from those in a finance, nursing, or education program. There are, […]