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1.A summary of relevant facts in chronological order
2. Analysis (by answering all the questions in last page)
3. Conclusion (solution and recommendation)
4. Reference / Citations / Bibliography

What, according to Posen, are the advantages of a defensive strategy?

Unit I Assignment

Instructions: This assignment involves reading a case and then helping an organization by identifying the training needs to meet OSHA requirements. This assignment provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate the following course learning outcome:

1. Explain safety and health training requirements specified by standard setting organizations.

Read the case below, complete the table below, use the OSHA publication as a guide, save all of your work to this document, and submit it in Blackboard for grading.

Background on Carter’s Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing Company

Carter’s Materials Handling Equipment Company is a small business that employs between 38 and 55 employees throughout any given year. This firm manufactures materials handling equipment that includes small cantilever racks, hand trucks, and various dollies commonly used in the manufacturing sector. The facility was built in 1958 and is roughly 80,000 square feet. The firm receives raw materials in the form of round metal tubing, sheet metal, square tubing, and cold and hot rolled metal rods.

Raw materials are removed from flatbed trailers using a large, LP-gas-powered forklift with the assistance of smaller, LP-gas-powered forklifts. These materials are stored in racks in the receiving/shipping department. From there, raw materials are moved via forklift and various heavy duty carts to the fabrication department. This department cuts, punches, bends, copes, and shears the various materials into parts used to make the final product.

The metal fabrication department includes two 70-ton, part revolution mechanical power punch presses, three 250-ton, part revolution press brakes, a 300-ton hydraulic press, two pipe benders, a twelve-foot shear, a 10-foot shear, a mill for milling a bevel on hand truck toe plates, several off-hand grinders, and two large drill presses. The fabrication department can get quite noisy for days at a time (>85 dB), especially when making cantilever racks. The department includes maintenance workers to keep the machines running.

After being cut, punched, bent, and formed, fabricated parts go to the welding department or the Work in Process (WIP) crib. WIP includes a mezzanine and an area populated with pallet racks for storage.
In the welding department, there are 12 MIG welding machines that are used by welders to assemble the parts into the pre-finished items manufactured by the firm. The welders also use an assortment of hand-held grinders and an oxyacetylene torch. Once welded, items either go in their pre-finished condition into inventory, or are further processed by the painting department. Pre-finished items that are inventoried are taken to one of two mezzanines or placed in storage racks. In the painting department, items are wiped down with various solvents and hung on an overhead hook conveyor. Items go into the paint booth where they are painted using various enamels. Xylenes and Toluene are common solvents used in this operation. The paints also contain these solvents.

After painting, axles and wheels are applied, and the completed products are boxed up in the shipping/receiving department or, depending on their size, loaded directly on trucks with no packaging. Larger items, such as racks, are loaded onto flatbeds using an unmanned overhead crane controlled by a pendant control. Smaller items are typically loaded onto standard semi-trailers using battery-powered forklifts or pallet jacks.

Carter’s OSHA Form 300 log of injuries and illnesses for the past year reveals that eight employees experienced minor injuries (cuts) from handling metal parts, one employee lost 15 workdays after getting debris in his eye while grinding, six employees lost two days each due to back strains, and four welders were treated for minor burns.

The human resources manager provided you with this additional information about the departments and their employees:
• Shipping/Receiving Department: 60% male, 40% female. Age range 18-62. 80% have completed high school; some attend junior college. Temporary employees are added when production is high, usually in summer
• Metal Fabrication Department: 80% male, 20% female. Age range 30-45. All have completed high school and some have junior college technical training.
• Welding Department: 50% male, 50% female. Age range 25-50. All have completed high school and all have completed junior college technical training.
• Painting Department: 30% male, 60% female. Most have completed high school. Some are attending college, pursuing bachelor’s degrees.

While all employees understand and speak English, several employees in the Shipping/Receiving Department use Spanish as their primary language. All employees work 7 AM – 4PM with a one-hour lunch break, Monday through Friday. On Saturday, overtime is worked at peak production times, usually in the summer. The shop is not unionized, and employee relations are good. The annual employee turnover is 5%. The average employee has worked for Carter for 6.5 years. Some employees have worked for Carter for more than 15 years.

Instructions for completing the table below: You have been hired by Carter to develop an effective safety training program for his employees. Carter is concerned about being in compliance with regulations and standards, so your first task is to identify 10 training requirements from the OSHA standards that apply to Carter’s operations. Carter’s operation will be required to meet more than 10 OSHA standards; however, your job is to identify what you feel are the 10 most important. List the 10 requirements in the order in which they should be developed and specify which department(s) should receive the training. Then, provide a brief justification (rationale) for each training requirement identified—why is it one of the most important?

Use the following publication as your guide: Training Requirements in OSHA Standards (OSHA Publication No. 2254-07R 2015).

Training Need OSHA Standard Justification
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Unit V Assignment

In Unit IV, you completed a safety and health training assessment for one of Carter’s departments, and you established training goals and objectives for a specific training topic. In this assignment, we will develop a lesson plan for presenting the topic to the workers. This assignment provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate the following course learning outcome:

3. Develop strategies for communicating safety and health training in the workplace.

Review Carter’s case from the Unit I Assignment, follow the instructions below before completing each exercise, save all of your work to this template, and submit it in Blackboard for grading.

Instructions for completing the assignment: Using the goals and objectives worksheet you submitted as a part of the Unit IV Assignment, complete a series of exercises (Exercises 5.1 through 5.7) to develop a lesson plan that will meet the course objectives identified for your selected topic.

Exercise 5.1: A lesson plan often includes some sort of reading assignment. For this exercise, identify at least two sources from the CSU Online Library that you would have your attendees read for the training. Please format each source using APA style.

Source one:

Source two:

Exercise 5.2: With at least 75 words, provide a brief description of the location where the training will take place.

Exercise 5.3: With at least 50 words, provide a somewhat detailed description of who should conduct the training. What type of trainer do you want? What type of qualifications should the trainer have? What else do you want in a trainer?

Exercise 5.4: This exercise involves drafting the initial details for the lesson/presentation. (You do not need to write the lesson yet—this is just a detailed description to get started.)

Name of the lesson/presentation:
Expected length of lesson/presentation (Time):
List relevant learning objective(s):
Provide a brief description of the lesson/presentation and how it would be delivered:

Exercise 5.5: Next, draft a classroom or workplace activity that involves peer learning.

Activity 1
Name of the activity:
Expected length of activity (Time):
List relevant learning objective(s):
Provide a brief description of the activity, including how students would participate, how students would interact, how the trainer would prepare, what type of equipment is required, and the knowledge or skill gained:

Exercise 5.6: This exercise involves drafting two additional activities that you would like to include as a part of the training.

Activity 2
Name of the activity:
Expected length of activity (Time):
List relevant learning objective(s):
Provide a brief description of the activity, including how students would participate, how students would interact, how the trainer would prepare, what type of equipment is required, and the knowledge or skill gained:

Activity 3
Name of the activity:
Expected length of activity (Time):
List relevant learning objective(s):
Provide a brief description of the activity, including how students would participate, how students would interact, how the trainer would prepare, what type of equipment is required, and the knowledge or skill gained:

Exercise 5.7: Describe how you would document who attended the training. Your response should be at least 100 words.

Midsummer Nights Dream
1.contrast this “play within a play” by amateurs to the play within a play of melgibsons hamlet or there is another set of directions 2. discuss

the various elements of the title Midsummer nights dream

 

Environmental Issues in Packaging
For this assignment, you are to read Chapter Two and write a 250-word (one page, double-spaced) analysis of the reading assignment.
http://writerslabs.com/download/578170205_support_ch_2_bkg_rmuLepXCjTn2xvU.pdf/ch%202%20bkg.pdf

 

One of your readings for this week is Critical Responses to the short story, “Young Goodman Brown” taken from A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Fourth Edition.
For this post, you will compare any TWO critical approaches to this story. What is the focus of each approach? What element(s) of the primary text are important for each approach? What distinguishes both approaches to the text? Which approach do you find most compelling, and why?
Note that you are NOT analyzing the primary text, “Young Goodman Brown”, but are comparing two different critical analyses of the text. Use textual evidence from these critical responses in formulating your arguments about how they approach the literary text.

Discuss the conquests of Alexander the Great. Why is Alexander often lauded as being a great military commander? Do you believe he was more

lucky than skilled in his victories against the Persians

Please restate the question verbatim you’re answering before your response.

Try and keep your original response essay to the question to between 250 and 300 words. Please use historical examples from your reading in

this original essay. You are required to cite your textbook or outside sources using parenthetical citation (author, page number) or using

Turabian style footnotes. Please put your source(s) at the end of your essay (if using footnotes) and always include a bibliography.

Please put the number of the question you are answering in your Subject Line of your main essay response (example “Question #1”). This will

allow you to easily see how many times this question has been answered.

Assignment 2 is a case analysis of 3000 words (+/- 10%).

Your assignment is to produce a report based on an international HRM case study.

The submission deadline for this assignment is Friday 6 May 2016 by 5 pm. You must ensure that by this date and time you have submitted an electronic copy of the assessment through MyUCLan.
Assessment feedback will be returned to students no later than May 27 2016 through MyUClan. Please note, however, that in the event of students submitting work after the deadline, feedback for this work may be returned later than the specified return date.
Students must familiarise themselves with the material in the Module Information Pack (available on MyUCLan) on plagiarism, penalties for late submission and extenuating circumstances. Students should include the following declaration in their work:
I confirm that this assignment which I have submitted is all my own work and the source of any information and material I have used (including the Internet) has been fully identified and properly acknowledged as required in the School guidelines I have received
Any electronic submission of work will in any event be deemed to have agreed to this declaration.
Please note that students are not required to submit a paper copy of their assessment: with many of the class leaving the UK at the end of the semester, on-line assessment will allow students to access their feedback remotely. Please note that until the conclusion of the examination board when marks are confirmed, tutors will not be able to email marks to students although they can advise you in person of your mark and the provisional mark will be available to view on Blackboard.
Report writing
Your assignment should be in a report style. Additional guidance on how to draft a report will be given in class.
Material covered in the sessions related to the topics for the assignment should be used as a starting point. Don’t simply restate what was covered in the lecture or what you have read in the literature. Develop an analysis of the key issues using appropriate academic and practitioner material to support points or to forward the case that you are presenting. Simple statements of opinion or prescriptive assertions are not adequate to the task: you need to back up your arguments with evidence and examples, e.g. from other case or survey studies.
If you need any further guidance, including locating or identifying appropriate academic and practitioner material, please arrange to speak to your tutor.
Assessment Criteria
The criteria for the assignment are as follows:
Your recognition and appraisal of issues and potential problems faced by the company in the case study
Strength and worth of your arguments, conclusions and recommendations
Your application of theory selectively and critically in analysing the issues in the case study
Style/presentation of the report (including appropriate referencing)
For guidance on how work will be marked, please refer to the University Assessment Handbook:
https://www.uclan.ac.uk/aqasu/academic_regulations.php
Wherever practicable, students’ work will be marked anonymously.
Further reading and sources
A full range of reading material is included with the Module Information Pack.
How much to read?
Students are often concerned about the number of sources they should read and reference. There is no exact answer to this. The wider the reading the greater the likelihood the student will understand the issues they are being asked to discuss. It is recommended that students read a number of text books and a number of more specialist academic sources (journals, HR practitioner publications). Please remember using, reading and referencing material quoted in lectures is acceptable, but citing lecture slides is not! Even with a report style of assignment, your work must be fully referenced.
Material drawn from Internet sources should be used with caution and care, and should NOT be used as an alternative for a properly researched and argued essay using academic sources. Case Study: Tasty Foods
Your company, Tasty Foods, based in the UK, produces a range of ready-made meals using traditional British ingredients. You are considering taking your business into Europe to take advantage of an expanding market in this type of product.
Your company needs to recruit and select new international managers to take the business forward. Two managers will be based in Germany and two managers in France and will be responsible for acquiring new business for the company.
You have been asked by your senior manager to prepare a report that will enable the company to appoint, train and develop these new international managers. You have been told that the report must be based on current best practice and should contain appropriate academic and reputable HR practitioner material.
The areas that your manager specifically wants you to address are:
Recruitment and selection – how will you recruit and select the best managers for this international assignment?
Training and development – what training and development will the company give to the new managers to make them effective in their new appointments?
Performance and reward – what will be the most effective ways to manage and reward the performance of the new international managers?
Your report should include a brief executive summary (no more than one page) and a clear set of recommendations. The report template issued in class can be used to structure the report.

Please note that Tasty Foods is a fictional company and you must not make any assumptions based on material found on the Internet for any company with a similar name.

Graduate Nursing Competencies Matrix

 

Purpose:  The purpose of this document is twofold. First, it is designed to assist the graduate nursing student to reflect upon the MSN curriculum in relation to the Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing, The Graduate Level QSEN competencies and the AONE competencies for Nurse Executives. Second, the completion of this matrix will assist the Nursing Systems Management MSN program director and faculty in the evaluation of the NSM curriculum.

 

Directions:                                                                                          

 

1. Visit the following websites and review the explanation of the AACN MSN Essentials as well as the AACN Graduate-Level QSEN Competencies Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (2012) and the AONE Competencies for Nurse Executive. You will want to keep these documents open and refer to them as you complete the matrix.

www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/MastersEssentials11.pdf

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/faculty/qsen/competencies.pdf

http://www.aone.org/resources/nec.pdf

 

Review the chart on pages 2 and 3 of this document. Note that the AACN MSN Essentials, the corresponding QSEN KSA’s and the AONE competencies are listed across the top of the chart (columns) and the MSN courses you have taken are listed down the side of the chart (rows).

 

3. Indicate the points at which the assignments and/or content from a given class (as listed in the left hand column) intersect with one (or more) of the Essentials, KSA’s. and/or AONE competencies (as listed in the first 3 rows) by placing an “X” in the appropriate box. Ideally, you should be able to identify assignments from the NSM program that address each of the MSN Essentials as well as each of the QSEN KSA’s and each of the AONE competencies. Be advised that not every class meets every competency so please do not simply put an X in every box.  This is an exercise which requires significant thought and reflection on the MSN curriculum you are completing.

 

4. After completing the chart, return it to your MSN program director, along with a copy of the twoassignments you believe to be the most illustrative of achieving any of the essentials, any of the KSA’s and/or any of the AONE competencies.

 

5. Write an approximately 500-750 word composition which explains why you believe the two assignments you submitted are illustrative of the essentials, KSA’s, and/or competencies you cited. Submit this composition as directed by your program director who will review the submitted documents and communicate any suggestions or revisions to you for re-submission.

 

 

 

 

 

MSN Essentials

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

QSEN KSAs

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

AONE Competencies

I

II

III

V

V

MSN Core Courses

N-5310 Nursing Theory

N-5370 Research Methods

N-5338 Health Law, Policy,Ethics

NSM Specialty Courses

N-5300 Org. Theory and Culture

N-5335 Management Roles and Operations

N-5337 Health Care Financial Management

N-5366 Managing DiverseWork Teams

N-5365 Managing Health Outcomes

MSN Essentials

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

QSEN KSAs

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

AONE Competencies

I

II

III

V

V

N-5339 Nursing Management Residency

Electives/Nursing Education Certificate Courses

N-5347 Effective Teaching Strategies

N-5348 Evaluation of Learning

N-5345 Curriculum Design

 

1. A summary of relevant facts in chronological order
2. Analysis (by answering all the questions in last page)
3. Conclusion (solution and recommendation)
4. Reference / Citations / Bibliography