Instructions

Write a paper discussing the importance of law and its role in the business environment. 

This paper is to be general in nature and should address each major category of law covered in the course. You may focus your attention on either civil law, criminal law, or both. Further, attention should also be given to ethical theory and its role in the formation of American jurisprudence.

This written assignment must have 10 FULL pages (not including the title and reference page). Also, the paper must be written in accordance with APA writing standards.

Appropriate citation is required 7 scholarly sources. 

Instructions:

Part 1 write a page with reference in APA.

Locate a case or article about employment discrimination (you can start at www.eeoc.gov and www.shrm.org). Pick one and share the story.

Was there a lawsuit filed? If so, what was the outcome?

What can be learned from the issues in light of your own employment and/or professional career?

Part 2 write a page with reference.

Discuss how business owners and corporations can protect themselves from illegal discrimination practices.

Based on what you have learned thus far in the course, do you feel that your place of employment or business organizations has a sound policy to help curb possible discrimination issues? Fully explain.

 

Community Policy Proposals

You will be using the results of your Unit 3 Community Assessment assignment as the basis for this assignment. You have examined the social change and public policy environment of your home community by surveying the population demographics (taking into account gender, race, and sexual orientation, as well as varied nationalities and their social and economic status) and explored public sources of information in order to identify demands for social changes in businesses, non-profits, and government. These demands reflect the possible need for public policy development. 

• Draft and present two possible policy proposals that respond to the specific public demands you identified in your community in the previous assignment. 
  • These demands may apply to businesses, non-profit organizations, or government.
  • Utilize the document entitled, “Elements of a Standard Policy Statement,” which is located in your Social Policy Toolbox, to guide your development of these proposals.
  • Include a title for each proposal.
• Write a 750-word summary of your two possible policy proposals, emphasizing these elements:
  • State the proposed policy on which you have decided, with the following:
    • A descriptive title.
    • A statement of the public entity for which the policy is intended.
    • The beneficiaries of the policy.
    • The human service outcome for social change.
  • State which actors in the home community may play a constructive and active role to advance the policy process, and identify the actors or factors that may pose as obstacles to your proposed policy.
  • State the key discussion points raised by your peers in support of or in opposition to your proposed policy.
  • State your rationale for choosing the policy proposal.

Assignment Requirements

• Summary Length: 750 words.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Formatting: Present your paper in APA format. 
• Written communication: Written communication must reflect graduate-level writing skills and successfully convey the message.

Reference the assignment scoring guide to help you complete this assignment.

Submit your Community Policy Proposals summary in the assignment area.

Resources

• Community Policy Proposals Scoring Guide.
• APA Style and Format.

Write 7-page single space using the executive summary below, and reference the attached materials. You may have attachments in the addendum (create a salary grid from a reputable job, or a job classification family table. You may use APA or MLA format for citation. TURNITIN IS USED FOR PLAGIARISM.  

Executive Summary

Introduction 

Human resource management is a complex piece of workplace. So many businesses and employees are not aware of how important human resource is in providing the needed environment to the success of both employers and employees. 

Problem and Stakeholders

The problem to be discussed in this paper is the challenge of maintaining employee engagement in times of economic recession when minimal to zero annual increases or job layoffs may be imminent. During a difficult time, such as COVID-19, it is hard to keep employees engaged while they are concerned about job safety. 

In this case, stakeholders are those impacted by the challenges such as employers and employees. Other indirect stakeholders can be the family of employees impacted by losing jobs at a difficult time. Also, indirectly during difficult times, local cities are impacted by collecting less taxes from those impacted business plus providing some aids to the impacted employees as well. For example, we have seen states providing unemployment benefits and deferring tax collection in some areas. 

Research Methodology

The research will utilize companies’ best practice during difficult times and the routes they have taken during those times. The research will be built upon a market research involving major business cases where companies have faced this type of difficult time challenge and how they were able to survive it.

The class textbook will be utilized, and major human resource journals will be used to understand topics in the same areas and quote from HR experts who have managed HR departments during challenging times. 

Alternatives to Problem

Companies should be provided aid from federal governments during such time to keep employees on payroll as well as employees should also agree on a certain pay cuts to keep companies balances low. In this case, there can be a compromise that will allow companies to operate during difficult times. 

Steps that can be taken to resolve the issue:

· Modify business model to accommodate new requirements for this difficult time

· Reduce travel and meeting expenses by utilizing technology

· Give employees flexibility to boost their productivity and thus boost the business profit

· Be as transparent with customers and employees as much as possible

· Seek feedback from all stakeholders as may have great ideas to boost business revenues

Alternatives Evaluation

The above-mentioned alternatives can be evaluated as some may work and others may not in some cases. Different business cases will be presented in the paper and each of those alternatives will be applied to evaluate the effectiveness of using it. 

Final Recommendation

Final recommendation is going to be based on the alternatives that works most with different business cases. The paper will evaluate the effectiveness of each alternatives and thus recommend a sequence in applying those alternatives so companies can have order to follow during difficult times. 

Write 7-page single space using the executive summary below, and reference the attached materials. You may have attachments in the addendum (create a salary grid from a reputable job, or a job classification family table. You may use APA or MLA format for citation. TURNITIN IS USED FOR PLAGIARISM.  

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Identify the Problem

Internal pay equity is a huge problem at workplace in the United States and in so many countries around the world as well. Internal pay equity does not mean that there is discrepancy between women and men in compensation package, but it can also happen between male colleagues who are not equally compensated, and between women as well. However, it may be commonly happening between women and men. We still hear in the newspaper that women are getting the chance to be a cabinet member for the first time every in some countries such as Kuwait in the middle east. There is a discrepancy in pay between women and men in workplace, and women make up small portion of the executive members for the major United States companies. Stakeholders in this problem are women, men, business entity, and law makers who do not force companies to have internal pay equity or face consequences for violating the law. There should be a law mandating internal pay equity, and leaders should be trained on how to achieve internal pay equity at workplace. 

Research Methodology

Starting with the textbook of this course, there are a lot of sources within the book to build the skeleton of this paper. The research will include an interview with a HR professional from a major recruitment company in Los Angeles where questions about internal pay equity issues and how major companies are tackling it will be presented. Other sources such as human resource journals and market research will be included as well. 

Different Alternatives

While having a law regulating internal pay equity is the best solution for this issue, having the companies’ managers and leaders trained on how to achieve internal pay equity can be alternative. Also, HR professional should have training on how to calculate compensation while taking into consideration internal pay equity as the basis for those compensation. If the company is unable to achieve internal pay equity in terms of financial compensation, they should offer other benefits in which employees can perceive that they are fairly compensated.

Final Recommendation

Based on the research information, having a mandated law is the final recommendation. However, other alternative will be detailed in the paper so companies can look at other options of the option of achieving the law fairly has some blockers.