Imagine yourself in a 3° world – the stakes are high: the California coastal cities are flooded out, and the flood waters meet desertification, fires, and populations searching for food. California agriculture, which fed the world, no longer exists. Or supermarkets or gas stations. We will all be facing hardship and upheaval. What are the values that will sustain you and your family as the economy collapses with the environment? What sacrifices will you make, and how will you explain those sacrifices to your children?

8 Pages

• Write about how you will cope with and respond to the changes that 3° of global warming will make in your life in the next 25 years.
• Write about the changes in your life that you will CHOOSE to make. How are you deciding to live differently?
• Knowing what lies ahead, will you decide to bring children into this world?
• How will you decide to raise children in the context of the huge environmental, social, and economic changes that will be underway? What are your strategies? Write about the positive effects of raising children in these difficult times. What will be the high points of their lives? And write about things that will be difficult.

• Conclude your paper with what you will have to say to your children at breakfast 25 years from now, when they are the age that you are now – college seniors.

This paper is meant to be helpful to you as you imagine and chart the next 10 to 25 years of your life. When you write, be as specific as possible to your real life and your real life choices so that the act of writing the paper becomes useful, creative, courageous, and informative.

There are a number of useful websites that pop up quickly ranging from:

• “What would 3 degrees mean?” by David Spratthttp://www.climatecodered.org/2010/09/what-would-3…
• “Global temperatures on track for 3-5 degree rise by 2100: U.N.” by Tom Mileshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-un/global-temperatures-on-track-for-3-5-degree- rise-by-2100-u-n-idUSKCN1NY186
• “The three-degree world: the cities that will be drowned by global warming” by Josh Holder, Niko Kommenda and Jonathan Wattshttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned- global-warming
• 3 Degrees Warmer: Heat Wave Fatalities
• What Will Happen As The World Gets Warmer?https://news.sky.com/story/what-will-happen-as-the…

Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, you will prepare a professionally written report that includes three main components:

1. A position description with competitive salary
2. A recruitment and selection plan
3. An evaluation instrument with description of rewards or corrective action plan

I want you to write this report as if you were an HR director presenting it to a board of directors, city council, or county commissioners. This can be any position you choose.

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Paper and Presentation Components

Develop a Job Description

For the first part of your paper, the group will prepare a job description. You are to provide the following information for this section of the report:

• Job/Position Title
• Name of the Employer
• Department
• Title of the position that supervises this position
• A listing of all the major duties/responsibilities for this position
  • Essential functions
  • Tasks that are needed to accomplish each function
  • Percentage (%) of time for each function
• Job Qualifications
• Key Competencies
• Physical Requirements
• Job description

Based on the job description, you will need to propose a competitive salary and benefits package. You will need to look at comparable cities to see what types of benefits and salaries they offer for similar positions.

The following link may be used by the group to help them walking through the steps in preparing a job description: Online Job Description Template (Links to an external site.)

Recruitment and Selection Strategy

For the second part of your paper, you will use develop a recruitment and selection strategy. Questions that need to be answered are:

1. Will your city use an internal committee to hire this position, or will you use an outside firm?
2. Where/How will you advertise for this position?
3. How will you work to attract the best candidates for the position?
4. What criteria will you use to screen applications and applicants?
5. Will the candidate need to meet people out side the selection committee? If so, how will you do this?

You will also need to design a list of interview questions for your selected position. Use the information we discussed in class to help you form your questions and the Structured Interviews Guide (Links to an external site.) from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to help generate your interview questions and plan. Be specific about how these questions target the qualifications, competencies, and requirements you are looking for in a candidate.

Employee Evaluation

For the final element of your report, you will prepare an evaluation instrument for this position that your believe best complies with either a behaviorally anchored rating and/or a management by objectives rating evaluation instrument. You can identify instruments through a web or library search and by using the information we discuss in class. Your report must include the actual instrument, and it must also include a 2 to 3 paragraph explanation of why you believe this evaluation instrument represents either a behaviorally anchored instrument or a management by objectives instrument.

In addition to the instrument, you must also develop a proposed plan for rewards and a corrective action plan if needed.

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Submission and Assignment Grading

You will combine each of the three elements into a professionally written report.

Select a health care setting you want to focus on for your sustainability initiative (e.g., local hospital, veterans hospital, ambulance service, urgent care, nursing home, etc.).

Analyze the setting you have selected and break it down to the main departments, employee roles, operating activities, etc. While doing so, brainstorm opportunities to reduce costs or eliminate waste while improving patient care or outcomes.

Review the list of sustainable initiatives from the list below, and select one that you want to promote for your course project:

• Energy efficiency
• Lighting
• IR scanning
• Cogeneration
• Kanban Inventory
• Device exchange
• CR pack reformation
• Device reprocessing
• Red bag waste reduction
• Blue wrap recycling

Note: Ensure that the opportunity you select correlates with the setting you select. Additionally, if you want to complete a sustainable initiative that is not on the list, obtain approval from your instructor before completing the assignment.

Identify data sources you might need to collect and analyze for your initiative. Consider contacting people in the industry and at your organization who may be able to help.

Write a 525- to 700-word proposal of the sustainability initiative you want to promote at the health care setting you selected. Your proposal should:

• Create a clear vision or mission statement that defines the scope of the initiative and would generate buy-in.
• Define what outcomes you expect to achieve over time.
• Be specific with what you can realistically deliver.

Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

DNA Retention

The United Kingdom has begun a policy to collect and retain the DNA of juveniles involved in crime and recently came under fire for retaining the DNA for other juveniles who were never charged or convicted of an offense. Recently, the United States federal government has proposed a policy to collect DNA from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agent.

Create a position paper addressing the potential issues, both positive and negative, for the collection of DNA from citizens. Include examples to support your position.

Note: This Assignment will require outside research. Use at least two credible sources beyond the text material. Also discuss how you evaluated the credibility of the resources used.

Paper Format.

• The paper is to be completed in APA format.
• Page length is 4–5 pages of text (1,000 to 1,250). This does not include the title page or the References section.
• No more than 20 percent of paper may be copied directly from outside sources.
• Refer to the Assignment Guide under Course Resources for additional formatting details.

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