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Building Strategic Compensation Project

The final compensation project should include all of the following:
1) Preface: historical perspective on compensation; 1-2 pages
2) Executive Summary
3) Strategic Analysis                                                                                                                                                        4) Section 1: Internally Consistent Job Structures including job descriptions, factor degree statements and job structure grids;                                                                                                                                                        5) Section 2: External Competitiveness including pie charts, graphs and a written explanation of decisions and results;                                                                                                                                                        6) Summary: summary of how you used strategic approach, research, communication, analytical skills and problem solving to present a compensation package for e-sonic; 1-2 pages
7) Elements in 1-6 should all be combined and submitted as one Word document.

Be sure to include all of the elements of the Outlines as follows:
Strategic Analysis Outline:
1. Executive Summary (Concisely conveys the project objectives and main findings. The executive summary is completed last, but included first in the strategic analysis.)
2. Strategic Analysis
a) Identification of e-sonic’s industry based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
b) Analysis of e-sonic’s external market environment
i. Industry Profile
ii. Competition
iii. Foreign Demand
iv. Long-Term Industry Prospects
v. Labor-Market Assessment
c) Analysis of Internal Capabilities
i. Functional Capabilities
ii. Human Resource Capabilities

Section 1 Outline:
1. Create Job Descriptions
2. Create Job Structures
3. Build Point Evaluation Method
a) Select benchmark jobs.
b) Choose compensable factors based upon benchmark jobs.
c) Define factor degree statements.
d) Determine weights for each compensable factor.
4. Calculate Point Values for e-Sonic Jobs
a) Determine point value for each compensable factor.
b) Use the job evaluation worksheet to calculate point values for each position.
c) Distribute points for each compensable factor across degree statements.
d) Rate jobs using point method.
e) Individually rate jobs to ensure reliability.
f) Resolve any discrepancies in point totals.
g) Rank jobs in each job structure according to results of your point evaluation.

Section 2 Outline:
Executive Summary Findings
1. Determine Appropriate Pay-Policy Mix
2. Pay-Policy Level Decisions
3. Compensation Survey
a) Choose competitors based upon industry, size, and union status.
b) Select benchmark jobs for each structure using benchmark job descriptions.
c) Reconcile differences using the benchmark job comparison sheet.
d) Update salary data for inflation using CPI-U.
4. Implementation of Salary Survey Results
a) Report and interpret results of regression analysis for each job.
b) Integrate external and internal structures by creating pay grades and ranges.
c) Evaluate and summarize decisions made for each job structure.

List the elements in the outlines as subject headings in your paper.Be sure to insert the grids, pie charts and graphs you created into your Word document and submit 1 document as your final assignment.

 

The final assignment should be at least 17 pages in length.

Be sure to watch your grammar and citations.

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Learning Analytics Reflection

Learning Analytics Reflection

The purpose of this assignment is to synthesize your learning and thinking and to be able to articulate your thoughts about the significance of learning analytics and big data in assessing and improving learning, as well as prospects and challenges associated with learning analytics in evidence-based learning and design. In this assignment, you are to write a paper that presents your understanding and views on the following:

• What is learning analytics? What is “big data” in education?
• Who are the various audiences with a stake or interest in learning analytics and big
data in education?
o What type(s) of data are these audiences interested in, and why?
• Generally speaking, what is the potential of using learning analytics and big data in assessing and improving learning?
• What are some connections between using alternate learning credentials and learning analytics?
• Generally speaking, what are some of the challenges associated with using learning analytics in education?
• In your opinion, what is the prospect of using learning analytics and big data to assess and improve learning in your organization?
o If your organization is already well on its way to designing and/or using a learning analytics strategy, please describe the process and why you’ve been successful.
o If your organization has not designed or implemented a learning analytics strategy, what has to happen before it can move forward with learning analytics? What are some concrete suggestions for moving your organization forward? Be specific!
Individuals will develop an 8-10 page reflection paper (not including title and references; 12-point font; double-spaced; 1-inch margins; APA format) that addresses the above points.

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Statistics

 
1. Plot distributions (histograms) of each of these four variables, using either:
a. Engineering paper, manually preparing these plots

b. Excel which can prepare these distributions for you

2. Ensure you identify the mean value on each plot and also determine the following statistics to demonstrate the variation of queuing performance:

a. For each variable, calculate the probability that the data will exceed 125, 150, 175 and 200% of the mean

b. Determine each increment until the statistic reaches near zero

c. Again you can do these calculations manually or by Excel

Note: Make graphs out of the excel sheet provided, and a graph of the interarrival times, the t que, the t ser, and the t sys.

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Ration formulation

Ration formulation
Task 1 (50% of assignment mark)
Consider yourself a nutritional advisor. You have been asked by the farm manager to evaluate the available forage and provide advice on rationing for his animals and he has provided you with the attached silage analysis. Using an appropriate rationing system, devise a complete daily ration for your chosen animal based on this silage and any other ingredients you think necessary. Write your report in a format which is accessible to a lay person (i.e. the farm manager). It should be brief and concise, clearly focused on the silage as described in the report, the specific chosen animal its requirements and how the ration meets them, with limited use of scientific jargon or citations.

Task 2: (50% of assignment mark)
With respect to the making and storage of grass silage, discuss how things can go wrong and how this can be avoided. Makes specific recommendations for change in the on farm making and storage of silage in relation to the silage analysis provided. This should be written in the format of a scientific report, with appropriate use of scientific references.

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When Do You Become an Adult

Research Based Argument Essay
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Assignment Description: This essay will put forth an argument on a topic of your choice that you support with research. The specific number of paragraphs is not important as long as the essay meets the length requirement and includes the key features listed in Writing for Success: Argument. This essay allows for limited first person pronouns. A minimum of three sources from JTCC library databases are required.

In choosing your topic, you will want to be very careful. Make sure that it can be debated and that more than one point of view exists about it; is manageable in its scope (can be covered in some depth in a short essay); concerns something that you have some knowledge about and experience with and does not require you to do extensive research for background and material; and interests you, something that you believe to be important.

Overall, your Research Based Argument essay should—

present a focused and debatable thesis that is clearly stated;

support and develop thesis with strong reasons and evidence;

deliver a coherent argument with an effective organization strategy and transitions;

address at least one counterargument; and

effectively integrate material obtained through at least three outside sources from JTCC library databases.

The purpose of this assignment is threefold: to familiarize you with using JTCC library databases to identify and document source material; to integrate credible outside source material in your own writing; to demonstrate your ability to support and develop a claim in a readable manuscript appropriate for a post-secondary academic community.

A note about research requirements

You are required to use a minimum of three sources from JTCC library databases. JTCC library databases are accessible from home via the Internet.

The library databases you are encouraged to use include Academic Search Complete and QuickSearch. You are encouraged to use these databases because they are great resources for accessing free, credible, and useful information online. Also, course instruction for documenting sources according to MLA guidelines will focus on these databases. No Wikipedia, standard encyclopedia, or dictionary entries are allowed as part of your three sources.

Length: 1500 words minimum

Format requirements:

File type must be .doc, or .docx

MLA guidelines must be followed (including font, page layout, headings, spacing, and citation)

Use a title that does not include the name of or description of the assignment, or the name of the text being analyzed, but rather offers something – an additional perspective on or point of interest in the essay itself.

My professor had the following to say to me once he approved the essay topic choice:

There is the biological side and sociological, both have been studied. You have to make sure you are clear on which society in research and your thesis. You can compare American society to others, but you will have to be clear if American society is the focus. It also has one of the greater disparities between bio and sociological.

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Children are not Born Mediated

Create a research paper based on your original topic “Children are Not Born Mediated.”

For the research paper, it is also required that you create a bibliography for each references.

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Does Canada provide enough benefits to the immigrations?

“Does Canada provide enough benefits to the immigrations?” please write it in 3 different terms. HEALTH, EDUCATION, JOB AND HOUSING.
To express your opinion toward a controversial issue.

To convince your readers to agree with you on a topic open to debate, with logical reasons, examples & evidence to support your position, proposal or interpretation.

A thesis statement should include:

Your major arguments or opinion about the relationship between pros and cons.

Your own position

Length: 1200-1500 words/ 5-pages double-spaced (Excluding the cover page and the reference page)
Font: Times Roman, 12 Font
Insert Page number
Outline is optional
Concise title

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Econometrics.

1. Listen to the Joshua Angrist EconTalk podcast:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/12/joshua_angrist.html

Write a second one page, double-space summary of the podcast.  Report on what Joshua Angrist is addressing and how it relates to causation.  Define the four econometric methods that he discusses for trying to isolate causal effects using cross sectional data.  For full credit, you must fill the page with substantive observations.
2. Listen to the Ed Leamer EconTalk podcast:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/05/leamer_on_the_s.html

Write a one page, double-space summary of the podcast.  Report on what Ed Leamer is addressing and how it relates to model specification.  For full credit, you must fill the page with substantive observations that relate to the econometrics that we’ve done so far this semester.

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In Craft of Research, Chapter 5

In Craft of Research, Chapter 5, “From Problems to Sources,” (68-83), primary, secondary, and tertiary sources are discussed. Review these types of sources and then, in your own words, define each and state how you might use each type for your own particular research topic this term. (200-250 words)

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Importance of Film Form.

Describe and discuss the significance of film form using the Bugs Bunny cartoon Wackiki Wabbit (1943)as your chief example. Video link

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xuSob6PAZc)

In your response, analyze the function and motivation of each major formal pattern in the cartoon. Are there important narrative or stylistic motifs that are developed over the course of the film? Your response should run about 500 to 600 words.
The setup: two shipwreck survivors are adrift at sea on a makeshift raft. Suffering from starvation, each of them begins to imagine the other as a source of food. Espying a distant tropical island, the pair make landfall and are greeted by Bugs Bunny. The castaways try to capture Bugs with the intention of cooking and eating him.

Hints for viewing and analyzing film form:

• Identify three or four particular motifs in the film and trace their development from the film’s beginning to its end. Some of these motifs may involve particular story elements. Other motifs may involve techniques of film style. What motivates the presence of each motif? How does each motif function in the film? How do these motifs contribute to the sense that the film is narratively and stylistically unified?

• Is there a pattern of similarity and repetition evident in the development of these motifs? Or are there some differences and variations in the way they develop? Do these patterns of repetition and variation create formal parallelisms that structure the film?

• Compare the film’s beginning and ending. Do the opening and closing scenes create a parallelism that is evident from this comparison?
• Your previous experience with Bugs Bunny cartoons may create certain expectations about how the story in the cartoon develops. Besides those specific story elements, your experience with other cartoons may also create expectations about the style of the images and sounds that you see. Did the cartoon fulfill those expectations? Were there aspects of the cartoon that you felt were unconventional?