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Resource: Avery Foster v. Federal Express Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53779 (E. Dist. Ct. MI)

Resource: Avery Foster v. Federal Express Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53779 (E. Dist. Ct. MI)

The issue in the case is whether the company’s employment handbook created an implied contract. Avery Foster was terminated for falsifying an employee timecard. He argued that he was told in his initial interview that he would be guaranteed employment at Federal Express as long as he was a good worker and was protected from “just cause” termination. The court found there was good cause to terminate Avery Foster and that the handbook did not create an implied contract of guaranteed employment.

Progressive discipline is an employee disciplinary process that provides a graduated and measured range of responses to employee performance or conduct issues. Critical thinking consideration: Short of termination, could progressive discipline have been effective in this matter?

Given the circumstances and issues that arose in the Avery Foster case, create the following:

• Design a Progressive Discipline Policy that would be appropriate for most organizations to follow, with consideration to the following measures:
• Identify the discipline issues to be addressed: attendance, performance, conduct, or a single broad category of non-performance.
• Determine whether or not the provisions of the policy should permit the company to modify and/or apply the policy in any manner it deems appropriate under the circumstances, including acceleration of steps, exclusion of steps, or repetition of steps.
• Assess when a supervisor may act independently or needs to seek upper management approval.
• Explain instructions on when to involve Human Resources.
• Clarify the role of Human Resources to advise or approve disciplinary action.
• Determine when a witness should be present.
• Outline the different sequences and progressive levels of discipline that an employee can receive.
• Develop rules regarding merit increases in relation to disciplinary action.

Write the policy in the third-person in no more than 1,400 words.

Use headings that appropriately signal the steps and keep your policy organized.

Use a minimum of three different research resources, and identify all sources in your Reference page.

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Are Leaders Born or Created?:  This question maybe as old as time. Many people say that true leaders are born, whereas just as many others state that there are NO true born leaders. True leaders must be created or made over time, through their experiences, situations, and education.

So, where do you stand relative to this age old argument? Do you believe true leaders are born? Do you believe true leaders are made? Or do you believe true leaders are a hybrid of the two concepts?

Use the case study “The GM Culture Crisis: What Leaders Must Learn From This Culture Case Study” in the Module Three Reading and Resources section to complete your organizational analysis. After reading the case study, answer the Milestone One prompt (Sections I and II of your final project) in short paper format. For additional details, please refer to the Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric document in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course.

Guidelines for Submission:

Milestone One should follow these formatting guidelines: 750

words minimum, double spacing, 12 point Times New Roman font,

one-inch margins, and citations in APA format.

Oen the Attachment for the rest of the instructions. Follow them carefully

Reflection paper that shows the progression of quality management, drilling into the history of quality gurus with focus on the work of Genichi Taguchi and his contribution to quality management.

Referenced work.

7 pages – single spaced – times new roman (12)

work-cited page is crucial

Outside the courthouse, a convicted politician gives a short speech apologizing for the trial’s impact on the

people in his district. His apology is considered a type of _______ speech.

A. dedication

B. goodwill

C. acceptance

D. farewell 

A popular columnist is upbeat and enthusiastic, regularly giving reinforcement and approval to other members of the local press club. What group maintenance role is he fulfilling?

A. The follower

B. The elaborator

C. The harmonizer

D. The standard setter

Twelve people have one characteristic in common – they are all gay parents – which allows them to assist each other in coping with specific problems they confront in society. They have organized a/an _______ group.

A. intervention

B. consciousness-raising

C. encounter

D. assertiveness training

When someone gives a persuasive speech hoping to move listeners in one direction but actually shifts listeners in the opposite direction, this is called a

A. negative persuasion

B. positive persuasion

C. selective exposure

D. persuasion continuum

Based on criticism of her last speech, the one thing a student speaker wants to do is to be clear. What’s one of the guidelines for clarity that will help her accomplish this?

A. Avoid abstractions

B. feel free to include slang and street language

C. add extra words for embellishment and emphasis

D. Use specific terms and numbers

Business organisations should have policies and procedures to provide guidance with regard to managing conflict.

What might be addressed in these policies and procedures and how can they assist managers/ supervisors who are trying to resolve or mediate conflict situations? 150-200 words

According to the PMBOK® Guide, “the WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.” In other words, it lists the project’s deliverables and work packages. For this week, you will create a work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project you selected during Week 1.

Remember that the WBS starts with your major deliverables (that you stated in your scope management plan) at the highest level. The lower levels have the work package required to complete those deliverables. Review the textbook (and the PMBOK® Guide, if you have it) for some suggestions on how to create a WBS. From your work breakdown structure, develop a project task list with dependencies and add durations, using MS Project.

Develop the Work Breakdown Structure

• Your WBS should have a minimum of 100–150 line items in MS Project and be three levels deep.
• Make sure to use verb-object task names (for example, “Develop software”).
• Enter tasks in MS Project.
• Create the predecessor relationships.
• DO NOT LINK SUMMARY TASKS OR ASSIGN RESOURCES!

Deliverables for Week 4:

• Statement of Participation and status update
• The MS Project file (.mpp) saved from the Tracking Gantt chart screen 

Project subject is based on a community bookstore that allows customers to buy, sell or borrow books. This bookstore is placed in a rural area to help anyone looking expand their knowledge or simply doing a research paper. 

Describe a time in your life where you outperformed your expectations in a class or under-performed in relation to your expectations. What did you do that helped you succeed? What could you have done that would have made your performance better?

Discussion question:

Project success may be defined as the completion of the project within the cost, time, and performance constraints. In your estimation, what other factors may also be considered project success? How do you know? Be sure to use real world experience either in your organization, place of employment, or business. Also, be sure to integrate the reading material and other authoritative sources throughout your initial discussion board response.