compensation plans‚ hiring practices and behavior. Company executives may not always have a true understanding of their corporate culture‚ as they are often far removed from the "front lines" of the operation. Human resources personnel can provide the benefit of instructing top management as to what the culture is really like. This may lead to positive changes in the corporate culture‚ it could also lead to changes that meet with resistance from employees‚ such as when management decides it needs
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Discussion Questions Whistling Vivaldi Chapter 1 1. What are some of the identity contingencies that Steele mentions in this chapter‚ and what are some that you have faced in your life? The identity contingencies that Steele mentioned are racial order‚ segregations‚ constraining behavior and stereotype threat. Whenever I play basketball with my African American friends‚ I always go easy on them because I believe that their athletic genetics are naturally superior than mine‚ so there is no reason
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Discussion Questions 1. Explain what HR management is and how it relates to the management process. Human Resource Management is the process of acquiring‚ training‚ appraising‚ and compensating employees‚ and of attending to their labor relations‚ health and safety‚ and fairness concerns. The HR management function is all about the staffing activity. Staffing is all about personnel management. Staffing is basically determining what type of people you want to hire and the selection of those people
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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE SUMMARY‚ REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Ruben Colon Baker College TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE SUMMARY The “Nightline” show arranged a second interview with Morrie Schwartz. During this dialogue‚ Ted Koppel asked Morrie about his fear of dying and Morrie expresses his fear of losing his ability to move his hands and talk. He described how he didn’t really care about not being able to eat. He pointed out how he has a friend who is losing his capability of hearing. Morrie
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play. When we are able to look through Shakespeare’s old English‚ we can see that Hamlet is asking questions that we are usually too afraid to ask. Hamlet asks himself is about death‚ love‚ and revenge and shakespeare forces us‚ as reader‚ to ask the same questions when analyzing Hamlet. This is why Hamlet is relevant and important hundreds of years after it was written. Shakespeare asks many questions in Hamlet‚ but few are as famous as the ones that are asked in Hamlet’s soliloquy in act 3 scene
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Discussion Questions: 1. Does religion have anything to do with political theory? 2. What are the social and political implications of Genesis? For two examples‚ consider nature‚ and women. Are any of the cultural values described in this book still with us? 3. How did the Hebrew people define themselves as a people? In what specific sense are they a community? What is the relationship of community to covenant? How does any society define itself as a distinct society? 4. Can you find the three
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Chapter Questions Leadership 11/9/2013 Chapter 5: Page 158: Question 7. 7. Consider fear and love as potential motivators. Which is the best source of motivation for college students? For members of a new product development team? For top executives at a media conglomerate? Why? Fear can be a powerful motivator‚ but many of today’s leaders are learning that an environment that reflex care and respect for people is much more effective than one which
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not have been avoided‚ but the depths of its reaches could have been lessened. One of the main accounting principles readily ignored in the mortgage crisis was that of fair value accounting. Here‚ the cost of property was recorded at its original sale value and then documented at a different value when the asset was transferred to another entity‚ thus inflating the “books” of lenders. This inflation was caused by willful neglect of the lenders to adequately evaluate the fair value of subprime loans
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Earnings management is not always intended to produce higher income. The manipulation’s purpose is to give the illusion of a smooth income pattern. According to our text‚ “Most executives prefer to report earnings that follow a smooth‚ regular‚ upward path….It is better to have two years of 15% earnings increases than a 30% gain in one year and none in the next” (Spiceland‚ Sepe‚ & Nelson‚ 2011). Spiceland‚ J. D.‚ Sepe‚ J. F. & Nelson‚ M.W. (2011). Intermediate Accounting (6th ed.) The
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Jefferson Pilot: Growing the Sales Force Discussion Questions 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a career sales force versus an independent sales force? A career sales force that the company hires‚ trains‚ supervises‚ and compensates likely will be more loyal than an independent sales force. As the case notes‚ these career salespeople sell only JPF policies. They also learn and contribute to establishing and maintaining the organization’s “culture.” They learn how things work
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