Employee satisfaction is the product of many factors, some directly related to the work situation and some related to the individual’s personal qualities or characteristics. This week, we examine social cognitive theory and social identity theory as applied to the work environment and employee satisfaction.

For this Discussion, review the media transcript titled Virtual Office, and evaluate the job satisfaction rates of the people in the media. Then consider the social cognitive factors that might affect their job satisfaction.

With that in mind:

Post a brief description of the employees with high job satisfaction and employees with low job satisfaction. Explain the reasons for their satisfaction beyond the score. Then explain how non–work-related social cognitive factors might have influenced employee satisfaction for two of the employees. Finally, explain two areas in which a consultant might use social psychology to maintain or improve work satisfaction.

1-2 Pages. APA Format. Reference material in text where appropriate.

As you are reviewing the growth of your selected company, you are noticing how diversity and sexual harassment issues are impacting the overall company culture. You want to make sure that your friend is not vulnerable to any legal issues that could jeopardize the survivability of the company. You realize that you may need to start implementing a few policies now instead of waiting until the HR department has been fully materialized. You will also need to communicate the policies to the managers, staff and employees of your selected company. 

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Create a diversity policy for your selected company to mitigate discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, etc. and to promote a diverse workplace. Note: Use the following samples as guidance.

Hint: Review the sample diversity policy 

Hint: Review the Sample Human Resources Policies, Checklists, Forms, and Procedures, or use a sample policy from a company you are familiar with as guidance.

2. Create a sexual harassment policy for your selected company to address a sexual harassment complaint. Cover both quid pro quo and hostile work environment types of harassment in your policy.

Hint:  Review “Sample Policy 1: Sexual Harassment”

Hint: Review the Sample Human Resources Policies, Checklists, Forms, and Procedures, located at , or use a sample policy from a company you are familiar with as guidance.

Hint: Review the article titled “How to address an employee sexual harassment complaint”

3. Use the Diversity or Sexual Harassment Training Plan template to develop a training plan to communicate one (1) of the policies you created (the diversity policy or the sexual harassment policy) to the company’s managers, staff and employees.

Note: The completed Training Plan should be incorporated into the paper and is counted towards the total page length requirement for this assignment.

Hint: Review the article titled “How Do I Plan a Human Resource Training Program in an Organization Setting” 

4. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

5. Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
• Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

Q. (a)  Bluegrass Tonight 
is a nightclub
in Nashville.
The information necessary for preparing bank
reconciliation for the company at November 30 appears below:

1.  As of November 30, cash per the
bank statement is $41,631 per the accounting records, $48,609.

2.  Cash receipts
of $9,366 on November
30 were not deposited
until December 1.

3.  Among the
paid checks returned
by the bank
was a stolen check for $1,512 paid in error after Bluegrass Tonight had officially notified
the bank not to make payment. Thus, payment of this check was
a bank error  and should not have been charged
against Bluegrass Tonight’s bank account.

4.  The following memoranda accompanied the bank statement:

a.  A debit memo for service charges $21

b.  A debit
memo  attached to an $1,167 check
which Bluegrass had accepted from
a customer and deposited in its account,
but which the bank had returned with the marking “NSF”

c.  A credit
memo for interest earned on
the account during November, $135.

5.   The following checks had been issued
by the nightclub but had not
been paid by the bank as
of November 30: No.921 for $2,346; No. 924
for $1,446; and No. 925 for $1,161.

Instructions: Prepare the November 30 bank reconciliation. Pass necessary
journal entries

ALL WORK MUST BE ORIGINAL. NO PLAGIARISM.

Unit 4 Discussion

This Discussion is based on the article, “A Pyramid of Decision Approaches” by Paul Schoemaker and Edward Russo fromCalifornia Management Review. Make sure to read this article before starting the Discussion.

While
analytics is very valuable, it is not practical to fully analyze every
decision situation. In the fast pace of the business world, you will
often allow decision analysis shortcuts (also called rules of thumb) to
replace proper analysis. Making decisions based on these shortcuts
allows businesses not only to save time but also to take advantage of
the expertise and experience of those who developed the shortcuts.

The
article you will read this week is fairly long and covers various
approaches to decision making. You will first focus on the discussion on
decision analysis shortcuts that starts on page 12. Then, you will
question your own organization’s use of shortcuts and see if you can
find improvements.

Please
note that, although the article uses the terms “rule of thumb” and
“rule” in its discussion, you should not confuse this with the rules and
policies within companies that have nothing to do with decision making.
The focus here is on decision analysis shortcuts, not policies,
procedures, and so on. These also do not refer to things like using
computers to automate or speed up procedures or skipping steps. First
understanding what a rule of thumb is and is not will be the key to this
Discussion.

For
this Discussion, you will apply the steps listed on page 15. Please use
the template below in your answers so everyone can easily follow your
answers to all the questions (copy and paste to your post).

Use this template for your Unit 4 Discussion

Step 0: What is an important decision that needs to be made frequently?

a) The decision to be made:

(Describe an important decision that needs to be made frequently in your business.)

b) The analysis:

(Describe, if time was not an issue, what in-depth analysis would be required to make this decision)

(Refer
to Exhibit 1 in the article for many examples of decision situations
and decision shortcuts from real life. Notice that all these examples
would require in-depth analysis, but managers are using “rules of thumb”
to accelerate the decision at the cost of potential mistakes. Also note
that these are all decisions, not simply rules or procedures: How much
to mark up prices, how many rooms to overbook, how to evaluate the
quality of an article, etc.)

Step 1: The decision analysis shortcut

The decision analysis shortcut (rule of thumb):

Describe
the rule of thumb that is being used to make this decision without
conducting a full analysis every time. If there is not one, what rule of
thumb (decision analysis shortcut) would you recommend to be used to
make the decision without a full analysis? Justify your suggestion: Why
should your rule of thumb work?

Make sure that your example is designed to replace a lengthy analysis in a decision situation.

Step 2: Success example

Give
an example of where this decision analysis shortcut comes close (or
would come close, if the rule is new) to the correct decision.

Step 3: Failure example

Give an actual example of where it failed badly and explain why (or where it may fail badly, if you are suggesting a new rule).

Step 4: Improvements

Suggest
possible improvements to the decision analysis shortcut. How can
analytics help in avoiding failure? (You can skip this step if the rule
is new.)

Step 5: Testing

Describe how the new decision analysis shortcut would be tested before being implemented organization-wide.

1. Give any two feedback based on that Read pages 64-79 of The Last Lecture. How have your experiences shaped your identity? How has your identity impacted your life thus far?

A. The definition of the word identity is, ‘condition of character as to who a person or what a thing is; the qualities, beliefs, that distinguish a person or thing.’

Basically, it is what makes me who I am.

Every experience in my life has shaped me to be who I am today, but one specific experience stands out to me.The day I became a mom, 2,194 days ago. In some ways it reminds me of ‘the brick wall’ Randy Pausch experienced with Jai. The day I found out I was pregnant I was terrified. I had no idea how I would get threw carrying and caring for a child. I figured things out along the way, but it took perseverance and determination because I didn’t want to just ‘get threw it’ I wanted to be amazing at it. This was an event that drastically changed my life forever, and not just mine, but everyone in my life that is close to me. Being a mother is by far the most rewarding and challenging job I could have ever imagined. As a result of it, I am more patient, forgiving, compassionate, mindful, appreciative, and joyful. Being a mother has helped me be more understanding in situations. This in turn has helped me establish better and lasting relationships. Motherhood has also taught me the importance of priorities. Wow has this impacted my life! Not just in school, but in every part of my life. Prior to being a mother my identity could have been best described as self centered and materialistic. My identity and priorities now are so much different thank goodness!

Another ‘quality’ I have gained from being a mother is my incredible ability to multi task. This is extremely helpful when juggling things in life; school, parenting and other adult responsibilities. Being able to multi task has enabled me to take care of my home, my now three children and has allowed me to go back to school.

B. To understand my identity i have to explain what i believe to be my own identity. so to start I’m Latino i grew up with Mexican music like banda, bachata, and corridos. but at the same time i listen to oldies like Coolio old school Micheal Jackson, Eminem, ice cube. this music that i listen to shaped me to be in all sense and purposes into a Chicano. born and raised in Utah, I love to watch the snow fall from the sky outside my home. but at the same time even thought I’ve had all this stuff happen that is great. but sadly at the same time I have seen lose i lost my grandfather pass away from cancer so with this book on The Last Lecture i really do Correlate with a lot of the things he says in his book. then two years later one of my closest friends in high school had suffered a horible accident and passed away.

The reason im explaining all of this is for us to know how our experiences has shaped us. We need to know, where we come from, what makes us happy, but at the same time we as people need to acknowledge the tough situation. as well these tough situations shape our identity. Yes many of the things that have happened in my life have been tough. but has helped me identify who I am, who I want to be, and has made a goal to achieve this person.

This final question ” how has your identity impacted your life thus far?” This questions is difficult for me to answer. due to the fact that i think the tougher the situations you are presented with shape your future. There is something my father aways says when any of his kids or grands kids, are knocked down and in the dumps. He says god gives you challenges and the tougher the challenge you get the better person you come out to be. i find this statement to sum up what this questions means. because i find your identity, my identity are shaped by the tougher the situation you are shown this is what makes you, you.

C. We are all shaped by our experiences and our identity. Mine might be a little different than most of the people here. I was raised in poverty with a loving single mother and six brothers and sisters. We lived and worked on a small farm in rural Chester County, Pennsylvania. I saw education as a way out of the poverty that I was raised knowing. I’m also a gay Latino male, who has been a victim of both racism and homophobia over the years. This has made me a super-resilient individual who always gives 150% so I can overcome people’s perceptions and stereotypes about me. In high school, I excelled. I was vice-president of my school’s FFA chapter and I learned how to take my personal and family situation and turn it into something good for them and my community.

My experiences that shaped my identity led me to eventually move to Delaware, where I took my challenges as a young, gay Latino and decided to become an advocate for underprivileged families and children. I ran for a seat on the Red Clay School Board earlier this year and I won!! I’m now the first Latino elected in the school board’s history, which is both amazing and sad at the same time that a District that is 1/3 Latino hasn’t seen some representation ever! So many people and their identities are viewed as a negative by society — many of them poor and people of color. I found the strength to overcome them and be a voice for change and I think that is so important!

2. Read pages 80-116 of The Last Lecture. Randy Pausch states in his book that time management is crucial for success. Why did he believe that this is so important? Are you an effective manager of your time? What techniques do you use to manage time in your day?

3.Read pages 117-156 of The Last Lecture.Work ethic is the idea that hard work is important to strengthen a person’s character. What is Randy Pausch’s philosophy on work ethic? Do you agree or disagree and why?

4. post your overall impression of the book. Briefly discuss how the book has impacted you and what lesson you might take away and implement in your life.

No plagarism or citation.