Résumés identical with regard to the fictitious applicants

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In 2004, researchers Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan sent fictitious résumés in response to employers’ job postings. The researchers made the résumés identical with regard to the fictitious applicants’ qualifications but altered the names on the résumés to reflect male versus female names and “white-sounding” versus “African American-sounding” names. They found that résumés with “white names,” such as Emily and Greg, received 50 percent more callbacks for interviews than did résumés with “black names,” such as Tyrone and Lakeisha. The results of this study indicate that employment decisions of some employers might not be and could indicate illegal discrimination based on .

United States Securities & Exchange Commission

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1. Why do corporations provide quarterly earnings announcements and host earnings conference calls, if not required to do so by the United States Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)?

2. Describe the practice of selective disclosure and how it could be used to potentially mislead investors and other users of financial information.

3. Assess CEO Trey Prescott’s selective disclosure plan for LEXM Corporation’s third-quarter earnings release. Identify the benefits and risks of implementing this disclosure plan. Do the benefits outweigh the risks?

4. The IMA Statement of Ethical Professional Practices’ overarching ethical principles are honesty, fairness, objectivity, and responsibility. Nick is a CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) and a member of IMA, and he is required to abide by these ethical principles. If Nick decides to support and implement the CEO’s proposed selective disclosure strategy, how might he be violating each of the ethical principles?

5. How can CFO Nick Alexander resolve the ethical conflict in this case, when the individuals involved are held to different sets of ethical standards?

“No One’s a Mystery” by Elizabeth Tallent

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After reading “No One’s a Mystery” by Elizabeth Tallent, answer the questions below.  As always, students who respond fully, who use details from the readings, who have fresh and thoughtful insights, who interact with their classmates, and who use standard English will receive the higher grades.

  1. When looking at the work from a feminist perspective, what impression do you get of Jack, the female narrator, and their relationship as you read the first paragraph?  Make sure to reference specific character details from the text, rather than your own experiences or opinions, to support your answer.

For my eighteenth birthday Jack gave me a five-year diary with a latch and a little key, light as a dime. I was sitting beside him scratching at the lock, which didn’t seem to want to work, when he thought he saw his wife’s Cadillac in the distance, coming toward us. He pushed me down onto the dirty floor of the pickup and kept one hand on my head while I inhaled the musk of his cigarettes in the dashboard ashtray and sang along with Rosanne Cash on the tape deck. We’d been drinking tequila and the bottle was between his legs, resting up against his crotch, where the seam of his Levi’s was bleached linen-white, though the Levi’s were nearly new. I don’t know why his Levi’s always bleached like that, along the seams and at the knees. In a curve of cloth his zipper glinted, gold.

Should vaccines be patent protected in a pandemic

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Should vaccines be patent protected in a pandemic? As vaccine rollouts progress in a number of high-income nations, developing countries are lobbying the World Trade Organization to temporarily suspend patent protections on Covid19 vaccines. They argue a suspension will make vaccines more accessible to poorer nations. As things stand, the global share of vaccines is heavily skewed towards richer nations. At the beginning of the year, developed countries had secured over 3.7 billion doses, many through advanced-purchase orders agreed with vaccine manufacturers early in the pandemic. These doses account for 51% of targeted manufacturing capacity in 2021, and almost all of the publicly declared capacity for the year.

This has driven a significant shortage in the supply of doses available for purchase. As a result, the number of doses secured by developing countries – who largely rely on WHO not-for-profit initiatives to purchase vaccines on their behalf – is so far sufficient to provide only a small share of their populations with a full course of treatment. Because of this unequal landscape, developing countries are proposing a temporary suspension of intellectual property rights related to Covid-19. They argue that protecting vaccines and other treatments with patents concentrates them in the hands of richer countries, locking out poorer countries who have so far struggled to gain access to them.

 

Source : Should vaccines be patent protected in a pandemic? | Frontier Economics (frontiereconomics.com)

 

Based on the above article excerpt, answer the following questions:

a. Explain the impact of the patent waiver on the vaccine manufacturer.

b. Explain the impact of the patent waiver on the low income nation

Improve as a social worker

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  • Identify the social issue/problem that you are most passionate about or want to improve as a social worker. Describe one or two goals for addressing the larger problem.
  • Identify a policy that exists to address the social issue/problem.
  • Determine if there is a gap in the way in which the policy serves the population it is intended for.
  • Explain how you, as a social worker, could contribute to addressing the issue/problem through policy.

Problems with some of the questions contained on the application

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You have just been brought in as the HR Manager for a rapidly growing start-up company.  Founded in 2014, employment has grown from 26 employees in 2014 to 214 employees last year. Until you were hired, the CEO’s secretary was handling recruiting and benefits administration, and other functions such as payroll were outsourced.

With the rapid growth of employment in the company, the CEO decided to hire a full-time HR Manager and brought you on board. Since the company is seeking to hire a number of new employees within the next few months, you decided to review its online employment application (attached), and you’ve spotted a number of problems with some of the questions contained on the application. The job application form is posted immediately preceding this applied discussion exercise.
Questions:

  1. After reviewing the application, what specific questions should be eliminated, and why? Your discussion should include references to the specific employment law(s) is/are violated?
  2. With respect to each application question identified above, how would you rephrase the question so that it complies with the law?
  3. What legally defensible questions would you suggest adding to this application?

3 key strategic management concepts

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(1) Discuss 3 key strategic management concepts that you believe are useful to any manager in any organization. You can choose to describe any 3 concepts (except SWOT).

(2) Explain the strategic importance of each of these 3 concepts and why they are useful.

(3) Provide a few examples of real-life companies which have used these types of strategic management concepts to support their strategy.

Requirements:

· Each individual paper should be 4 to 5 pages long, not counting cover page and bibliography.

· The essay must be submitted in Microsoft Word “.doc” file format, and need to be formatted in proper APA 7th Edition style.

· The cover page and reference page/s are not included in the above-stated page requirement. These should be in addition to page requirements.

· Each paper requires a minimum of at least three outside peer-reviewed sources for your references.

o   Acceptable/credible sources include: Academic journals and books, industry journals, and the class textbook.

AWS developer 

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Working in Verizon as AWS developer 

1 How did this internship/job help prepare you for future endeavors, both academically and in the workplace?

2. What did you learn over the last semester in the classes that you use in the work place? (Subjects – Building secure web apps, Cyber security planning, Information Assurance)

3. What did you learn in the Internship/job that could not be or was not taught in the classroom?

4. What was the best and worst parts of your overall experience in the internship/Job?

5. What surprised you about this internship/job?

6. What, if any, were any disappointments in the job/internship?

Different organizations Google and Yahoo

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  • Choose two well documented case studies of different organizations Google and Yahoo.
  • Analyze the organizational structure and culture for both organizations.
  • What is the mode of communication adopted by both organizations? How do employees interact with each other?
  • What kind of leadership style these organizations prefer/follow? What is the management style of both organizations?
  • Explain how the organizational culture, structure and management style effects/relates to the success and failure of the organization?
  • What is the HR Strategic planning, recruitment and selection strategy, performance/ talent management strategy of both the organizations?
  • Based on the analysis performed propose suggestions and recommendations (5-6) based on the OBHR concepts learned in the course for both organizations.
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  • Analyze the organizational structure and culture for both organizations.
  • What is the mode of communication adopted by both organizations? How do employees interact with each other?
  • What kind of leadership style these organizations prefer/follow? What is the management style of both organizations?
  • Explain how the organizational culture, structure and management style effects/relates to the success and failure of the organization?
  • What is the HR Strategic planning, recruitment and selection strategy, performance/ talent management strategy of both the organizations?
  • Based on the analysis performed propose suggestions and recommendations (5-6) based on the OBHR concepts learned in the course for both organizations.

Project that suffered from scope creep

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1. Describe a project that suffered from scope creep. Could it have been avoided? How?

2. Can scope creep be a good thing? When?

3. What can organizations do to successfully manage inevitable changes in scope that are good for business?

2Q.

250 words min response

At work, we regularly need to speak with others either face to face, by phone, or in virtual meetings. Provide 2 examples of verbal communication you have had this week. What form were your communications in (Face to face, phone, virtual, etc.)? Did you face any challenges in your communications? In what ways could you strive to improve your communication at work?