...Workforce Demographics Age staffing breakdown will be most useful for organisations that expect to experience significant knowledge drain from retirements in future periods or those that believe their labour flow dynamics are changing the age composition of their workforce. Age Staffing Breakdown indicates the percentages of the workforce that fall within various age groupings. Average workforce tenure is yet another important aspect of workforce demographics. Age, a component of demographics, is one of the most important components in determining the average workforce tenure. Ethnic background staffing breakdown will be most useful for organisations experiencing significant tenure imbalances within the workforce or experiencing shifts in tenure due to high turnover, reorganisation or a retiring workforce. It indicates the volume of workforce falling within various tenure groupings Gender staffing breakdown will be most useful for organisations that track the gender diversity of their workforce. It indicates the percentages of the workforce represented by each gender. This measure enables an organisation to monitor the gender balance of its workforce, to promote diversity among staff and to help ensure the lack of gender bias in the workplace. The HR function can play a critical role in guiding line managers to hire and retain the best available mix of high-performing employees regardless of gender. Staffing rate – disability refers to the rate in employment in cases of...
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...Transformational Leadership Consider what you have learned this week about various leadership approaches. What is your preferred leadership style? Does it work in your current organization? If so, why? If not, how do you need to modify to improve the effectiveness of your leadership style? In the various positions I have held in the long-term care sector I have utilized a combination of leadership styles. However, the leadership style that I have had the most success with is the transformational leadership style. As a transformational leader I have served as a role model for my employees, clearly communicated my goals and vision of the organization, and set good examples for everyone in the organization. I hold high standards of myself and in return I expect that my employees produce high quality work performances. It is my job to empower and inspire employees to assist them in exploring their own professional interests and focus on the needs and vision of the team and the organization as a whole. Transformational leaders are very creative by providing work that stimulates the individual’s interests based on their own behaviors and personal characteristics. In the past I have assigned employees projects and tasks that are closely related to their interests aligned with the organization’s overall mission. This becomes tricky and a lot of work in the beginning but finding the right people to accomplish a wide variety of job duties that matches their skill sets and experiences produces...
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...of this report was to investigate UniLab staff attitudes to personal mobile phone use in staff and team meetings. A staff survey on attitudes towards the use of mobile phones in the staff / team meetings was conducted. The results indicate that the majority of staff find mobile phone use a major issue in staff meetings. The report concludes that personal mobile phones are disruptive and should be turned off in meetings. It is recommended that UniLab develops a company policy banning the use of mobile phones except in exceptional circumstances. Introduction There has been a massive increase in the use of personal mobile phones over the past five years and there is every indication that this will continue. According to Black (2002) by 2008 almost 100% of working people in Australia will carry personal mobile phones. Black describes this phenomenon as ‘serious in the extreme, potentially undermining the foundations of communication in our society’ (2002, p 167). Currently at UniLab 89% of staff have personal mobile phones. Recently a number of staff have complained about the use of personal mobile phones in meetings and asked what the official company policy is. At present there is no official company policy regarding phone use. This report examines the issue of mobile phone usage in staff meetings and small team meetings. It does not seek to examine the use of mobile phones in the workplace at other times, although some concerns were raised...
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...league where you have to be the best at what you do to play. The use, distribution and testing policy of steroids in baseball has long been a worry for those involved in our national pastime, and the fans and those involved in baseball at any level deserve a resolution. How exactly do the ethics just drift away? The conversion into the major league is a conversion from game to business and once the players enter into the pros everything changes. Major League Baseball has become a giant business. How can you see it otherwise? Steroids in baseball have changed dramatically over the past ten years and a major factor impacting the changes may be players' use of performance enhancing drugs. Players need to realize that they are cheating and should be held accountable. In less than four years Babe Ruth's single season record of 60 home runs has been broken by Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds (Hacohen, 2012). Steroids are drugs commonly classified as anabolic, androgenic and corticosteroids. Anabolic steroids are used by athletes to bulk up and improve their performance. Anabolic steroids are synthetic hormones that cause the body to produce muscle and prevent muscle breakdown. Some athletes take steroids hoping that it will improve their ability to run faster, hit farther, jump higher, etc. Some people are not aware that anabolic steroids are a form of a drug. In the United States, it is against the law to use these steroids without a prescription. They create...
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...probably still opt for an out-of-town location in the suburbs of Dubai because of these costs. Another advantage would be the much lower business rates compared to the UK which are some 80% cheaper. Further savings on labor that are generally 70% cheaper than the UK. There is also a large amount of labor waiting to be employed. Company taxation is zero in Dubai compared with 23% in the UK. This could be very appealing to shareholders wanting better returns on their investment. Apart from economic conditions, there are some political risks because of the uprisings or Arab Spring which started in December 2010. They were a series of demonstrations (some very violent) and protests against corruption and the repressive policies of the regimes which resulted in the breakdown of some of them. However, there do seem to be many more advantages than disadvantages. The population has a very large spending power and therefore high disposable incomes to spend on non-essential...
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...NetContinuum’s NC-2000 AG firewall and Cenzic’s ClickToSecure service work in tandem to minimize the chance of a security breach. • Demonstrates IT’s role in combating cyber crime. • Illustrates digital technology’s role in achieving security on the Web. [pic] System Vulnerability and Abuse • An unprotected computer connected to Internet may be disabled within seconds • Security: • Policies, procedures and technical measures used to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, theft, or physical damage to information systems • Controls: • Methods, policies, and organizational procedures that ensure safety of organization’s assets; accuracy and reliability of its accounting records; and operational adherence to management standards Why Systems Are Vulnerable • Hardware problems • Breakdowns, configuration errors, damage from improper use or crime • Software problems • Programming errors, installation errors, unauthorized changes) • Disasters • Power failures, flood, fires, etc. • Use of networks and computers outside of firm’s control • E.g. with domestic or offshore outsourcing vendors • Wi-Fi Security Challenges • Many Wi-Fi networks can be penetrated easily...
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...constructs this course to render exposure of Auditing as well as the basic functioning of such. The course builds on the capacity developed in the principle of accounting practice basic concepts and apply them in real case situations. This will help me a lot, in accounting and auditing discipline and auditors decision making process in the real world. I am sincerely thanked to him, that he gives us this case as an assignment, which will help us in future. Because of, this case is based on the practical experience from ‘real world’ situation that is applicable to all business organization. It is making us familiar with real experience. We now know what kind of fraud is taking place in organization, how we can prevent them, how we improve breakdowns, what kind of process should an auditor follows to discover fraud, all of this will help us further carrier as an auditor Dhaka April 2011. Neaz Executive Summary An audit is an examination of a company’s financial statements prepared by the directors of the company. Its purpose is to give the company’s owners an independent, professional and informed opinion stating. Assurance services are a class of services provided by certified public accountants (CPAs) in public practice. While the term is sometimes used inconsistently among individual CPA...
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...required to refer these to the Principal Examiner. It must be stressed that a mark scheme is a working document, in many cases further developed and expanded on the basis of candidates’ reactions to a particular paper. Assumptions about future mark schemes on the basis of one year’s document should be avoided; whilst the guiding principles of assessment remain constant, details will change, depending on the content of a particular examination paper. Further copies of this Mark Scheme are available from: aqa.org.uk Copyright © 2012 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Copyright AQA retains the copyright on all its publications. However, registered centres for AQA are permitted to copy material from this booklet for their own internal use, with the following important exception: AQA cannot give permission to centres to photocopy any material that is acknowledged to a third...
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...Each day an individual will make a decision that will affect their life in some way. Should I wear the green shirt or the yellow shirt? Should I order a shake or lemonade? Should I wash the car today or wait until tomorrow? These simple decisions often happen without serious thought. Why? Because these decision are not life changing ones. But what happens when the decision is not so easy to make, when it’s life changing. Sometimes a person’s conscious greatly affects one’s decision making, especially when the topic of whistle blowing arises. In this paper, I will discuss and analyze whistle-blowing, where it occurs, the effects of whistle-blowing, whether whistle-blowing is an act of betrayal or public service, the consequences of whistle-blowing, and finally I close my paper with a conclusion. This paper also aims to provide a balanced approach to this topic. Understood correctly whistle-blowing is defined as an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization. Whistle-blowing is not about informing in the negative but more so, raises concern about malpractice within an organization. More so, it can also be defined as the release of information by a member (or former member) of an organization where there is evidence of illegal or immoral conduct in the organization, or conduct in the organization that is not in the public interest . The decision and bravery of being prepared to blow the whistle is directly related to the cultural resistance in many organizations...
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...BB ASSESSMENT 2 FOLDER FOR DETAIL) Please note that you are only required to submit an e-copy of your work through SafeAssign via the BSB113 Blackboard website. NOT ASSIGNMENT MINDER This document contains important information about your assessment. You will need to read it carefully to understand what is required. In addition to reading this document you are strongly advised to read the “Frequently asked Questions about Assessment 2” document (refer to the Assessment 2 folder on Blackboard). Background You are currently volunteering for Cancer Council Australia providing part time administration support for them at a local office. During a well-earned tea break a discussion ensues about the effectiveness of government policies aimed at reducing tobacco smoking. The discussion touches on ways of reducing smoking including a tax on cigarettes, a ban on advertising, plain paper covering for cigarette packs and shocking TV adverts depicting images of smokers with cancer associated with smoking cigarettes. You remember that your lecturer in BSB113 had spoken about cigarette taxes. You say that your lecturer had mentioned that the evidence is that taxes are fairly successful at reducing smoking and that in Australia overall rates of smoking have been declining for a number of years. Someone challenges this position, and notes that if this is the case, why has the government either used and/or is thinking about a adopting a range of other polices to target smokers...
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...scheme is a working document, in many cases further developed and expanded on the basis of candidates’ reactions to a particular paper. Assumptions about future mark schemes on the basis of one year’s document should be avoided; whilst the guiding principles of assessment remain constant, details will change, depending on the content of a particular examination paper. Further copies of this Mark Scheme are available from: aqa.org.uk Copyright © 2012 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Copyright AQA retains the copyright on all its publications. However, registered centres for AQA are permitted to copy material from this booklet for their own internal use, with the following important exception: AQA cannot give permission to centres to photocopy any material that is acknowledged to a third party even for internal use within the...
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...scheme is a working document, in many cases further developed and expanded on the basis of candidates’ reactions to a particular paper. Assumptions about future mark schemes on the basis of one year’s document should be avoided; whilst the guiding principles of assessment remain constant, details will change, depending on the content of a particular examination paper. Further copies of this Mark Scheme are available from: aqa.org.uk Copyright © 2012 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Copyright AQA retains the copyright on all its publications. However, registered centres for AQA are permitted to copy material from this booklet for their own internal use, with the following important exception: AQA cannot give permission to centres to photocopy any material that is acknowledged to a third party even for internal use within the...
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...It is not surprising that there should be so much confusion and conflict over the issue of language. It is assumed that it is single problem with a unique solution. One group argues that English language owes its position to British imperialism and that it is inconsistent with national self-respect to continue to use it to the exclusion of our beautiful regional languages. A second group contents that, whatever the evils of British imperialism, English has helped Indian nationalism to achieve freedom; that it has been the vehicle of higher education, technology and scientific research and that it has been the invaluable link for forging the unity of India and any attempt to discard it will result in a breakdown of our educational system and take the country back by two centuries in all aspects of modern life A third group is convinced that as all regional languages of India arc well developed and have worth literatures, all of them should have equal status. There is a lot of confused thinking going on in India today over the problem of finding a universally acceptable link language for the country. The debate on the subject rages 'ad infinitum' in all available forums like the parliament, the press, the platform etc; but none of the many points of view being put forward every day appears to be gaining acceptance. That is so mainly because most of the thinking on the subject is super-charged with emotion and the issues involved have been greatly clouded by the import of prejudices...
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... | |Length of Course: 8-Weeks | |Prerequisite: None | |Table of Contents | |Instructor Information |Evaluation Procedures | |Course Description |Grading Scale | |Course Scope |Course Outline | |Course Objectives |Policies |Course Delivery Method |Academic Services | |Course Materials |Selected Bibliography | |Instructor Information | Please see the Syllabus Tool in your classroom for your instructor contact information. Thank you! Table of Contents |Course Description (Catalog) | This course is a survey of United States history from the earliest European settlements in North...
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...This paper will briefly describe some common sources of conflict, the levels of social interaction at which conflict occurs, and the general strategies of approaching conflict that are available. There is an old Chinese curse which states, "I curse you--may I you live in an important age." Indeed, we do live in an important age, saturated with many forms and intensities of conflict. While conflicts of value are slow to erupt between individuals and institutions in a stable society, they are prevalent in times of rapid change. In our age of dynamic change it is imperative that the manager understand the source of; and various strategies for dealing with, conflict which inevitably occurs in organizations. Typical of this conflict is the breakdown of...
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