Imagine that you are an office manager and you have been tasked with the job of coordinating and heading the dismissal meeting for an employee layoff. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff. Describe a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting. Determine the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee. Using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice, create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation. Predict three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions: You work as a supervisor in a manufacturing firm. The company has implemented a balanced-scorecard performance-appraisal system and a financial bonus for exceeding goals. A major customer order for 1,000 units needs to ship to a destination across the country by the end of the quarter, which is two days away from its close. This shipment, if it goes well, will have a major impact on both your customer-satisfaction goals and your financial goals. With 990 units built, a machine breaks. It will take two days to get the parts and repair the machine. You realize there is an opportunity to load the finished units on a truck tomorrow with paperwork for the completed order of 1,000 units. You can have an employee fly out with the 10 remaining parts and meet the truck at the destination city once the machinery has been repaired. The 10 units can be added to the pallet and delivered as a complete shipment of 1,000 pieces, matching the customer’s order and your paperwork. What do you do?

Overview: When you use sources in your paper, you will need to either quote, paraphrase, or summarize the information. Summaries are used for longer passages; they provide a brief overview of the source using new and unique phrasing. Prompt: Summarize one of the following original texts using three to four sentences. Include a single citation of your selected reading at the end of your summary. ? "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan (2006)  Reading: Incubation Period This week is an incubation period, a chance for you to take a step back from your actual paper and focus instead on source integration and APA/MLA styles. During the incubation period, "the writer takes time off from the problem, does other things, and lets ideas cook in the subconscious...As writers alternate between exploration and incubation, their perception of the problem may change."1 In other words, the purpose of the incubation period is to let the Writing Plan assignment digest in the back of your mind before you begin the revision process. Note: You can also use this week to work on your essay, if you wish, but you should make sure to manage your time this week so that you are also able to complete the remaining activities in this module. A Note About Plagiarism The next few readings and activities will help you learn how to use and cite outside sources. The use of outside sources makes your argument stronger by showing the reader that you have done research and have facts and evidence to back up your claims. In addition to using this additional evidence throughout the essay, it is essential that you use proper citations to ensure that all content is credited to its original author(s). Citations help protect the intellectual property of others, and they are necessary for avoiding plagiarism. Plagiarism is using someone else's words, phrases, or ideas without attributing them. Here are a few examples of plagiarism: Using someone else's exact words without using quotation marks or citations to identify the source Not including a reliable Works Cited or References page Using someone else's idea, even if paraphrasing, without proper citation Using previously submitted work from another class without instructor approval. For more information, read SNHU's Academic Honesty Policy by clicking here. As a student, you may receive failing grades on assignments or be expelled from school if you plagiarize. In the business world, companies are often sued for infringement on intellectual property rights. You can avoid plagiarism by practicing good research habits—taking care to use quotation marks around any quotation or borrowed phrase and carefully documenting the page number and citation information for each source, even in your notes. Practicing good habits while taking notes will prevent accidental slip-ups in writing that you turn in. The following assignments in this module will explain APA and MLA conventions and best practices for using sources in your writing so that you can avoid plagiarism. Reading: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing When you use sources in your paper, you'll either need to quote, paraphrase, or summarize the information. Each quotation, paraphrase, or summary has a few essential parts: Read the examples below to grasp the difference between quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. As Medina writes in her introduction, "the key to developing that perfect recipe is practice, mistakes, practice, mistakes, and more practice and mistakes" (Medina 10). Quotations are exact phrases taken directly from the source material. They are denoted by quotation marks that enclose the specific borrowed phrase. According to Medina, the best way to come up with your own distinctive recipe is to keep trying new options and fixing your mistakes (Medina 10). Paraphrases convey the meaning of the source while using new and unique word choice and grammatical structure. It is still important to credit and cite the source and author, but there should not be quotation marks because it is not a direct phrase used by the author. The introduction to Medina's book, How to Become Everyone's Favorite Home Cook, describes her philosophy on cooking, which includes a good deal of trial and error, and encourages readers to never give up on their cooking goals. Summaries are used for longer passages; they provide a concise, holistic overview of the source's meaning, using new and unique phrasing. The purpose of summaries is to provide basic context of a source, but not to go into explicit detail. The following flow chart explains more about when you should quote, paraphrase, or summarize: Read the following passage and then observe the appropriate way to use a quotation from it. For all that we are inundated by films and TV shows—especially now that we can watch them on a mind-boggling variety of digital platforms and devices—we do not always realize that we are exposed to only a narrow perspective of reality. If you stop and look at the characters whose stories you are following, you may notice a lack of representation of minority groups, such as women and non-white ethnic groups. The number of fictional characters who belong to these groups is grossly disproportionate to the number of people in these groups who actually exist in the world. Furthermore, even when they do appear in media, they are frequently pigeonholed to roles that are stereotypical of their group and are not given the opportunity to be realistically fleshed out. Hollywood's current state of representation is utterly abysmal; most of its creations are drastically skewed toward stories revolving around white male characters. —from Evelyn Strahl's "The Frustration of Fantasy" Evelyn Strahl's anger toward the lack of representation in Hollywood is palpable; she writes "a scathing condemnation of the fact that many minority groups are left out of mainstream movies and TV shows." This is an inappropriate quotation. It does not use exact phrasing from the source material, so it should not use quotation marks. Evelyn Strahl's anger toward the lack of representation in Hollywood is palpable; she refers to its current representation statistics as "utterly abysmal" and claims that its products offer only "a narrow perspective of reality" (Strahl 15). This is an appropriate quotation. These phrases use the exact language from the source material, and as such they should be quoted properly with quotation marks. Using the same passage, observe the appropriate way to paraphrase it. For all that we are inundated by films and TV shows—especially now that we can watch them on a mind-boggling variety of digital platforms and devices—we do not always realize that we are exposed to only a narrow perspective of reality. If you stop and look at the characters whose stories you are following, you may notice a lack of representation of minority groups, such as women and non-white ethnic groups. The number of fictional characters who belong to these groups is grossly disproportionate to the number of people in these groups who actually exist in the world. Furthermore, even when they do appear in media, they are frequently pigeonholed to roles that are stereotypical of their group and are not given the opportunity to be realistically fleshed out. Hollywood's current state of representation is utterly abysmal; most of its creations are drastically skewed toward stories revolving around white male characters. —from Evelyn Strahl's "The Frustration of Fantasy" As Strahl points out, we can watch movies and TV shows on a mind-boggling variety of digital platforms and devices, but we still mostly only see stories revolving around white male characters. This is an inappropriate paraphrase and would qualify as plagiarism. It borrows phrasing that is too close to the original passage, which should be properly quoted instead. As Strahl points out, despite today's huge quantity and easy accessibility of film and TV content, most fictional stories are still told primarily from the perspective of white male characters (Strahl 15). This is an appropriate paraphrase. It captures the essential meaning of the source text without borrowing its exact phrasing. Using the same passage, observe the appropriate way to summarize it. For all that we are inundated by films and TV shows—especially now that we can watch them on a mind-boggling variety of digital platforms and devices—we do not always realize that we are exposed to only a narrow perspective of reality. If you stop and look at the characters whose stories you are following, you may notice a lack of representation of minority groups, such as women and non-white ethnic groups. The number of fictional characters who belong to these groups is grossly disproportionate to the number of people in these groups who actually exist in the world. Furthermore, even when they do appear in media, they are frequently pigeonholed to roles that are stereotypical of their group and are not given the opportunity to be realistically fleshed out. Hollywood's current state of representation is utterly abysmal; most of its creations are drastically skewed toward stories revolving around white male characters. —from Evelyn Strahl's "The Frustration of Fantasy" According to Strahl, we are flooded by movies and TV shows on a regular basis, but we do not always notice that there is a lack of representation among the characters who are featured in this content. Statistically speaking, there are far fewer fictional characters in minority groups than there are actual people in minority groups in the world. Even when we do get to see characters represent these groups, they are usually playing the same stereotypical, two-dimensional roles and are not allowed to explore other nuances of characterization. Hollywood is doing a poor job of representing minority groups, preferring to focus its content on white male characters. This is an inappropriate summary. Rather than giving a more succinct overview of the passage's meaning, it paraphrases every sentence in the passage. A summary should not get too specific or follow the exact structure of the passage too closely. According to Strahl, Hollywood does not provide nearly enough satisfying narratives involving characters who belong to minority groups; rather, it continues to flood the market with content primarily about white male characters and only offers paltry roles to female and non-white characters. This is an appropriate summary. It provides a clear and simple overview of the source's meaning without getting overly detailed about the passage's individual points. Click on each of the purple boxes to read more about quotations, block quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. Are the words themselves important? Alternatively, does the original author state information so concisely or perfectly that you could not possibly state it better? If yes, use a quotation. Do you need to quote more than 40 words? If yes, use a block quotation. If no, use a regular quotation. If no, are you looking closely at a few sentences? Alternatively, do you want to include ideas that span paragraphs, pages, or entire sources? If just a few sentences, use a paraphrase. If it is paragraphs, pages, or entire sources, use a summary. quotation block quotation paraphrase summary Adaptive Learning The following adaptive learning segment is an optional and ungraded enrichment activity. Answer the diagnostic questions below to test your knowledge of this topic. If you get more than 50% of the questions incorrect, you will be provided with extra help and additional exercises on this topic. If you score higher than 50% on the diagnostic and the subsequent review checkpoints, you will be given the option to access extra help or to simply move forward with the course. Assignment: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing (GRADED) While you take a break from your essay as it "incubates," let's learn some ways to effectively integrate sources into your writing so that you will be ready to confidently place them in your paper when the time comes. Complete the THREE activities on this page to review your understanding of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. NOTE: Your answers for Activity 3: Summarizing Assignment will be submitted for a grade. Activity 1: Quoting Quotations are exact phrases taken directly from the source material. They are denoted by quotation marks that enclose the specific borrowed phrase. 1. Which of the following is properly quoted from the original source material? Original passage, excerpted from page 23 Respect people. This begins with an understanding of the diversity of their gifts. Understanding the diversity of these gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other. DePree, Max. Leadership Is an Art, Doubleday, 1989. a. A number of American business people are sharing their business expertise via books. Among them are Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, and Max DePree. Reading their books helps us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other. b. A number of American business people are sharing their business expertise via books. Among them are Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, and Max DePree. Reading their books helps us "begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other" (DePree 23). 2. Which of the following is properly quoted from the original source material? Original passage, excerpted from page 45 Work enrichment and a high quality of life go hand in hand. Knowing the degree to which a worker is chafing is the first step. Altering that situation so you have a productive employee is the second step. Dichter, Ernest. How Hot a Manager Are You? McGraw Hill, 1987. a. Those who supervise others—whether informally or on the job—must be aware of two things. First is the distaste your employee/children/committee members/student may be experiencing in relation to the task before them. Learning how much they are "chafing" is the first step (Dichter 45). b. Those who supervise others—whether informally or on the job—must be aware of two things. First is the distaste your employees/children/committee members/students may be experiencing in relation to the task before them. Learning how much they are chafing is the first step. 3. Which of the following is properly quoted from the original source material? Original passage, excerpted from page 17 Taubert et al. signed up six men and seven women aged 55-64 for the study. All subjects had just been diagnosed with mild high blood pressure—on average, systolic blood pressure (the top number) of 153 and diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) of 84. Every day for two weeks, they ate a 100-gram candy bar and were asked to balance its 480 calories by not eating other foods similar in nutrients and calories. Rapitis, George. The Lighter Side of Dark Chocolate: Take It to Heart. Author House, 2007. a. Rapitis reports that a small but significant study was done on 13 people aged 55-64. Each had recently been given a diagnosis of a mild problem regarding high blood pressure. Participants averaged readings of 153/84. For a full two-week period, they ate a 100 gram candy bar and were asked to balance its 480 calories by not eating other foods similar in nutrients and calories. b. Rapitis reports that a small but significant study was done on 13 people aged 55–64. Each had recently been given a diagnosis of a mild problem regarding high blood pressure. Participants averaged readings of 153/84. For a full two-week period, "they ate a 100-gram candy bar and were asked to balance its 480 calories by not eating other foods similar in nutrients and calories" (Rapitis 17). Activity 2: Paraphrasing Paraphrases convey the meaning of the source while using new and unique word choice and grammatical structure. It is still important to credit and cite the source and author, but there should not be quotation marks because it is not a direct phrase used by the author. 1. Which of the following is properly paraphrased from the original source material? Original passage, excerpted from page 12 The [BP] spill is likely to change how we approach our liability laws and our regulatory policies. If companies aren't fully liable for their costs, they end up running greater risks. When regulatory rules say you're only liable up to $75 million—the current liability cap for the oil spill—people act on that. Zupan, Mark. "In Deep Water." Rochester Review, July-Aug. 2010, pp.12-3. a. According to Mark Zupan, the Dean of the Simon School and professor of economics and public policy, the BP spill will probably affect both liability laws and regulations. Zupan warns that if companies are not held liable for costs, they could face even more serious consequences. Companies will hold themselves accountable for the liability limits, which are currently capped at $75 million for oil spills (Zupan 12). b. The BP spill is likely to change how we approach both our liability laws and our regulations. Companies who don't feel they are responsible for their own costs of doing business "running greater risks." If the regulations only hold a firm liable for $75 million (the existing cap), people will act on that amount, according to the Dean of the Simon School (Zupan). 2. Which of the following is properly paraphrased from the original source material? Original passage, excerpted from page 141 The distinction between active and passive euthanasia seems, on the surface, easy enough. Active euthanasia occurs in those instances in which someone takes active means, such as a lethal injection, to bring about someone's death; passive euthanasia occurs in those instances in which someone simply refuses to intervene in order to prevent someone's death. In a hospital setting, a DNR (do not resuscitate) order is one of the most common means of passive euthanasia. Hinman, Lawrence M. Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus. 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2000. a. The controversial ethical issue of euthanasia is more complicated than whether or not you are killing a person. One must understand that there are different types of euthanasia, and that each type has its own set of moral arguments. For example, you can be in favor of passive euthanasia, which is when no one actively attempts to prevent a person's death, simply allowing a natural death to occur. But that would not mean that you support active euthanasia, which is when steps are taken to cause someone's death, such as when a person chooses to die on their own terms rather than continue to suffer a terminal illness (Hinman 141). b. The controversial ethical issue of euthanasia is more complicated than whether or not you are killing a person. One must understand that there are different types of euthanasia, and that each type has its own set of moral arguments. For example, you can be in favor of passive euthanasia, which is when someone simply refuses to intervene in order to prevent someone's death, which seems like allowing a natural death. But that would not mean that you support active euthanasia, which is when someone takes active means, such as a lethal injection, to bring about someone's death (Hinman). 3. Which of the following is properly paraphrased from the original source material? Original passage, excerpted from page 1 A Southern California pediatrician with ties to the anti-vaccine movement, Bob Sears, has suggested that measles in the United States is nothing to fear, minimizing the potential complications the virus can cause. He does acknowledge in a post that the outbreak is a "public health nightmare," which Sears himself knows well. A 2008 outbreak of measles beginning with an unvaccinated child returning from Switzerland was a patient of Sears'. That outbreak resulted in 11 cases, led to the quarantine of dozens more, and cost California more than $100,000 to contain. While the incidence of measles has dropped about 99 percent since the introduction of the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella, that doesn't mean we're out of the woods. The past year has shown a resurgence in measles infections in the United States. Last year was the worst year for measles in two decades. While we've seen fewer than 100 cases of measles in most years since the turn of the century, that number spiked to 644 cases in 2014, from 23 separate outbreaks in 27 states. Smith, Tara C. "Measles Outbreak at Disney: Anti-MMR-Vaccine Activists Claim Disease Isn't Dangerous." Slate Magazine, 23 January 2015, www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/01/measles_outbreak_at_disney_anti_mmr_vaccine_activists_claim_disease_isn.html. a. Some doctors with ties to the anti-vaccine movement, like California pediatrician Bob Sears, have suggested that measles in America is nothing to fear, minimizing potential complications of the virus. The past year (2014) has actually shown a resurgence in measles infections in the United States and was the worst year for measles in twenty years (Smith 1). b. Smith's interviews with anti-vaccine activists reveal that the movement is attempting to downplay the dangerousness of measles. Unfortunately, 2014 saw an increasing number of confirmed measles cases in the United States: 644 infections in 27 separate states, when normally the number would be less than 100 a year—at least, so it has been ever since vaccinations were introduced (Smith 1). Activity 3: Summarizing Assignment (GRADED) Summaries are used for longer passages. They provide a basic overview of a source using new and unique phrasing. Within the introductory paragraph of your critical analysis essay that will be the final submission for this course, you will be asked to include a summary of your chosen article to help readers of your essay become oriented to the work you will be discussing. In this assignment, you will summarize your chosen reading in 3-4 sentences and cite it properly. As you work on your summary, remember to refer to the assignment guidelines and rubric below to make sure you're fulfilling each aspect of the assignment. Assignment Guidelines Overview: When you use sources in your paper, you will need to either quote, paraphrase, or summarize the information. Summaries are used for longer passages; they provide a brief, overview of the source, using new and unique phrasing. Prompt: Summarize one of the following original texts using 3 to 4 sentences. Include a single citation at the end for your selected reading. "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan (2006) "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris (1999) "Some Lessons From the Assembly Line" by Andrew Braaksma (2005)