Review the appraisal best practices and techniques discussed in Module 9 and conduct additional research as necessary to develop a 2–3 page outline for a performance appraisal training program that incorporates that learning and addresses issues—i.e., cognitive bias.

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Performance Appraisal Training

If you’ve ever had a performance appraisal where the person conducting it really cared about the process, you know first hand the motivational impact. Unfortunately, that’s rarely the case. Appraisals are generally poorly researched and written, leaving the employee feeling unappreciated and demotivated. Given the business and human resource management implications, the ability to provide effective feedback—recognition and developmental—is an essential management competence and a critical HR and organizational priority.

Your Task
The firm’s Employee Engagement principal was particularly impressed with your Onboarding presentation and has requested your assignment to a second project with significant engagement implications: reimagining the Performance Appraisal process. Specifically, the principal has asked you to review the appraisal best practices and techniques discussed in Module 9 and conduct additional research as necessary to develop a 2–3 page outline for a performance appraisal training program that incorporates that learning and addresses issues—i.e., cognitive bias.

Your outline should reflect an understanding of Kim Scott’s Radical Candor, Lenny Rachitsky’s Performance Management System, and the agile methodology Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis discuss in The Harvard Business Review article “The Performance Management Revolution.” Since you will be synthesizing existing material, be sure to give credit where credit is due and cite sources appropriately.

How severely impacted was your country by the event? Does the article give any indication? Did the event impact the rest of the world or just your country? If the event impacted the US economy, how did outcomes differ in the U.S. verses the country being analyzed. Does your article talk about any fiscal policy responses by your country? Do you see evidence of these policies in your graphs? How does any response compare to the US based on your graphs?

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Economic Resources

Give a brief history of the country, including economic indicators and historical events that impacted economic outcomes. This should include a discussion of the overall economic health (including: unemployment, GDP growth, standard of living, inflation, and budget balances) of the country. For this section, you will create 2 graphs, each showing your country and the US over the past 20 years. These graphs should support your discussion in part 3…in other words, the graphs you choose for this section should directly relate the news article/economic event chosen for analysis in part 3. Each graph should include a brief discussion of why it is relevant for the analysis conducted in part 3.

Choose 2 of the variables below and include separate graphs for each (either by downloading the data and plotting yourself or taking a screenshot of provided graphs):
• GDP (per capita, which is the default option on the OECD site)
• Government expenditure as a share of GDP
• The budget balance as a share of GDP
• National debt as a share of GDP
• CO2 emissions
• Inequality
• Tax on personal income
• Other if relevant to the event/article discussed in part 3.

Creating Graphs: There are many data tools and sources available, including those listed on our “Economic Resources” Page on Canvas. For international data, the OECD is a great place to start, but any accredited sources are accepted. If using the OECD website, you’ll need to use the “Browse by Topic” and/or “Search” tools to find the relevant data. You can then create graphs by finding the relevant variable, and changing the year slider on the data page. Select “none” in the “background” option so that the graph only shows the US and your country.

Find a news article from a reputable source such as The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc. that talks about the impact of a recent event of economic significance for your country. The article used must be less than a year old (published after April 21, 2021). It is ok to choose an article discussing an event that took place more than a year ago, so long as the article itself was published in the last year. For example, you could discuss how a country is still recovering from the “Great Recession” of 2007 assuming you find an article about recent developments/outcomes from this previous event. Discuss the effect of this event on your country using the article and the graphs you’ve created in the previous section. Use the following questions as a guide, but write in essay format rather than bullets.

• Briefly summarize the key points of the article – keep summary to a half page or less.
• How severely impacted was your country by the event? Does the article give any indication?
• Did the event impact the rest of the world or just your country? If the event impacted the US economy, how did outcomes differ in the U.S. verses the country being analyzed.
• Does your article talk about any fiscal policy responses by your country? Do you see evidence of these policies in your graphs? How does any response compare to the US based on your graphs (and article, if applicable)?
• Based on your graphs (and article, if applicable), do you think your country took a Keynesian or a Classical approach to dealing with the event discussed and why?

To what extent has cinema both reflected AND shaped attitudes towards gender OR sexuality in society? Choose no more than two case-study films to base your essay around. Examine a specific genre or musician(s) of your choice to critically assess how music has been used to challenge and/or subvert patriarchy in society.

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Mass Media, Music and Society

This assessment requires you to choose and write a critical essay on ONE of the following six topics:

i) Author Nelson George (2004: xiv) has argued that “you can tell where black people are at any given point in history by our music.” critically evaluate this assertion by focusing on any twentieth century and/or twenty-first century black American or black British music.

ii) “Music can serve as useful primary source material to understand the character and identity of places” (Kong, 1995: 184). Critique this statement by analysing the relationship between music and a specific city or region, giving due consideration to the authorship, performance and reception of the music you choose to focus on.

iii) Technology has repeatedly transformed the content produced by the mass media and music industries. such transformations have, in turn, frequently re-shaped the structures/processes/priorities of both those industries and of society more broadly. Discuss how this has occurred by focusing on one technology of your choice, one that is associated with the mass media or music industries.

iv) To what extent has cinema both reflected AND shaped attitudes towards gender OR sexuality in society? Choose no more than two case-study films to base your essay around.

v) Examine a specific genre or musician(s) of your choice to critically assess how music has been used to challenge and/or subvert patriarchy in society.

vi) Music, film and TV have long provided key platforms for confronting social injustices. Critique this statement by choosing ONE social injustice theme (e.g. relating to societal attitudes towards sexuality, class, disability, mental illness etc.) and examine how your ONE chosen social justice has been addressed/ confronted in the work of EITHER a particular musician, OR in the content of a particular film or TV show (i.e. essay should be focussed on only one of: music or film or TV).

Should assisted suicide be legal for people who suffer from terminal illness?

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legalizing assisted suicide

Should assisted suicide be legal for people who suffer from terminal illness?

Visual Aids.

A visual aid is required for your Persuasive Speech. Be sure to have your visual aid in que and ready to show upon delivery. In addition, any visual aids such as photos or objects that you will present during your online presentation should either be placed in a PowerPoint, Google Doc or Prezi. Finally, your visual aid should be large enough for your audience to see.

Write a research paper on the Impact of COVID19 on Global Economy” by Jinjin Mou .

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 Impact of COVID19 on Global Economy

Write a research paper on the Impact of COVID19 on Global Economy” by Jinjin Mou .

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/jL9NlKY3K_dPZ7nNzjU8aGq4rI6TrhFh1dDjL-SEOQjtJEXgtT0xpZAAXSDLqEhIFirjTFfql6x53zY=w1423-h767

Write a essay on how racism suppresses the economic mobility of ”people of color” in the United States.

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Effect of racism

Write a essay on how racism suppresses the economic mobility of ”people of color” in the United States.

When a survey measures an organization’s employee engagement, it measures “retention elements” and “engagement elements.” What’s the difference?

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Building Positive Employee Relations

When a survey measures an organization’s employee engagement, it measures “retention elements” and “engagement elements.” What’s the difference?

Retention elements include pay, benefits, or an entire compensation package. These are items that keep an employee working, but they don’t create engagement. Employees will stay with a company that compensates them well. But this doesn’t mean that they go above or beyond to achieve their goals or the goals of the organization.

Engagement elements, on the other hand, are those elements that push an employee from a working drone to an active, engaged member of a work team who furthers the goals of the organization. Rewards and recognition is an example of an engagement element. When an employee is recognized for her contributions in front of her peers, for instance, her engagement level goes up. Other engagement elements include employee accountability/ownership, leadership, culture, company vision, and corporate responsibility.

Is this really the case, that some performance management scoring systems are gender biased? Why would a six-point scale work more in a woman’s favor than a ten-point system? Write at least a paragraph describing why this shift in rating scale would be more favorable to women.

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Performance Management and Appraisal

A recent article in Kellogg Insight (an online publication of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management) uncovered a gender bias in performance management that you will consider today.

In the article “Numeric Performance Reviews Can Be Biased Against Women,” authors Lauren Rivera and Andras Tilcsik claimed that ten-point rating systems in performance appraisals are biased against women, who score lower on the scale than their male counterparts, particularly in male-dominated fields. However, when that ten-point rating system is converted to a six-point rating system, women are scored much more fairly.

Discussion Prompt
Is this really the case, that some performance management scoring systems are gender biased? Why would a six-point scale work more in a woman’s favor than a ten-point system? Write at least a paragraph describing why this shift in rating scale would be more favorable to women. Then, in your next paragraph, provide some solutions as to how you, as a human resources professional, would put changes in place to level the playing field for your female employees.

Use studies to defend your statements and give evidence for or against the claims made in the ad. Is the use of this product supported by scientific evidence?

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KIN163 Health Benefits of Apple Watch

Introduction – Introduce the Product and why you are doing the paper (comparative analysis of product claims vs. scientific proof of health benefits) 1/2 page
Consumer Product Analysis 2 pages – what does the product promise or claim
Advertising Analysis vs. Scientific Proof 2 pages (in-text citations)
Conclusion – Critisism 1/2 page
Use studies to defend your statements and give evidence for or against the claims made in the ad. Is the use of this product supported by scientific evidence?

Reference 1: https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-series-7/why-apple-watch/

Identify the promoter expression of GmFWL1 gene in soybean. Observe where and how much GmFWL1 gene is expressed in soybean.

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Using reporter to identify the promoter expression of GmFWL1 gene in soybean

A reporter sequence and promoter of GmFWL1 are inserted into a plasmid and use bacterial transformation to insert the plasmid into soybean. The goal is observe where and how much GmFWL1 (nodulation) gene is expressed in soybean.