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1: ASU
Suppose you have been hired to manage human resources for a small company that offers business services including customer service calls and business report preparation. The 20 person company has been preparing to expand from serving a few local clients that are well known to the company's owners. The owners believe that their experience and reputation for quality will help them expand to serve more and larger clients. What challenges will you need to prepare the company to meet? How will you begin?
Write at least 15 lines, single spacing, 12 font, New Times Roman. Place references at the end.
2: ASU
Merging, downsizing and re-engineering all can radically change the structure of an organization. Choose one of these changes and describe HRM's role in making the change succeed. If possible, apply your discussion to an actually merger, downsizing or reengineering effort that has recently occurred.
Write at least a page, single spacing, 12 font, New Times Roman. Please references at the end.
3: JJ
Political Socialization
Overview
The topic of our first paper project is political socialization. The purpose of this assignment is to help you further define your own political personality, and then to think about how you became the "political person" that you are in a typed paper of about 3 pages. Provide a citation for any sources on which you rely in APA format. For examples of how to cite works for your bibliography check out the APA website. Submit your paper to the dropbox by Sunday at midnight.
Directions
In the first part of the paper try to identify and discuss your core political beliefs. You may already have a good idea of where you stand politically. There are also internet sites designed to help you place yourself ideologically. Some use a simple scale of liberal to conservative. Others are more complex.
- The first site is IDEALOG. This site is part of the web page for a textbook on American Government written by Janda, Berry and Goldman. On this site you can take a self-test by answering a series of questions designed to help you identify your ideological perspective. Be sure to read the introduction and read through the tutorial before you complete the self-test. After completing the questions, the program will also tell you the ideological placement of the average person who has taken the survey on-line, as well as the American public.
- Next try a quiz called “Politics Match”. This quiz has a slightly different format than IDEALOG but will also tell you your ideological position. The various issues are highlighted, so if you click on them, you can find out more information.
- Next, try this Quiz designed to show you how your views fit with the political parties and the American public.
Try these quizzes after you have thought about your political views. Report the results.
- Were they what you expected?
- Were the results of the quizzes similar?
- Do you agree with them? Why or why not?
- Do you think such quizzes are useful tools?
- Which one(s) do you think had the best design? Why?
Why do you think you are the political person you are? In the second part of the paper you will apply the general concepts of political socialization to your own life. Assess your own experiences with politics and compare them with the theoretical material in the readings.
- Where do you think your core beliefs about politics come from?
- Do the theories of political socialization discussed in the class notes or in the text seem to apply to you?
- Consider for example:
- What is your earliest political memory?
- Do you share your parents’ political opinions in whole or in part?
- What other influences were important in your own political socialization (school, friends, significant events, etc.)?
- How did any of these influences shape your development?
- If you're already thinking that there are few or no issues that you care about, think about that as well. How would you explain why this is the case?
4: JJ
At least 500 words...discuss the realities of the CSI effect. Does the research support that this is a real phenomenon? Do you agree? What can be done to address this “bias?”