Exploring+Business-Chapter+7

**__ Monday, November 8: __**
1. Read Section 7-1 2.. Complete the assignment

//Share your work with jgrams@hlv.k12.ia.us. Use "Section 7-1" as the Subject//

1. What is meant by 'recruiting' potential employees? 2. What types of discrimination are illegal in recruiting and hiring of employees? 3. There are two types of recruiting. Identify the types and give a bried explanation of each. Which type is most difficult to do? 4. Describe the steps in the selection process of a potential employee.
 * Reviewing What You Read:**


 * Exercise:**
 * 1.** Do You Have What It Takes? Go to [|"Wise Entrepreneur"] to take the quiz. Which type of entrepreneur are you - Advisor, Superstar, Artist, Visionary, Analyst, Fireball, Improver, Hero, or Healer?

2. Work on your business magazine.

**__ Wednesday, November 10: __**
1. Read Section 7-3 2.. Complete the assignment

//Share your work with jgrams@hlv.k12.ia.us. Use "Section 7-2" as the Subject// 1. You read about four different theories of motivation: hierarchy-of-needs theory, two-factor theory, expectancy theory and equity theory. Breifly describe each theory. 2. According to Maslow, which needs must be satisfied first: hirgher-level needs or lower-level needs? 3. What implications does Maslow's theory have for business managers? 4. How can Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory motivate employees? 5. Explain how the Expectancy Theory can be applied in the workplace.
 * Reviewing What You Read:**

1. Each partner will choose a theory to write an article which will go into your business magazine. Descibe the theory and its impact on business managers, employees, and the workplace.
 * Exercise:**

__** Monday, November 15: **__
1. Read Section 7-4 2. Complete the assignment

//Share your work with jgrams@hlv.k12.ia.us Use Section 7-4 as the Subject// - flextime - job sharing - telecommuting - wages - commission - salary 1. Describe Henry Ford's new factory and how it worked. Why was the assembly line a new idea? (Start with a topic sentence that tells what the paragraph is about. Finish with a conclusion sentence that concludes your thoughts) 2. Work on your business magazine.
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 * Exercise:**

**__ Tuesday, November 16: __**
1. Read Section 7-6 2. Complete the assignment

//Share your work with jgrams@hlv.k12.ia.us Use Section 7-6 as the Subject//

labor union collective bargaining mediation arbitration grievances strike boycotting
 * Define**:

1. What happens in a unionized company when negotiations between labor and management break down? Identify and describe that tactics that unions can use against management and those that management can use against unions.
 * Reviewing What You Read:**

Exercise: 1. You might not like the idea of sitting across the desk from a corporate recruiter and asking for a job, but what if you were on the other side of the desk? As a recruiter, you'd encourage people to join your company. Or, mabe you'd like to help your company develop a new compensation and benefits program, implement a performance - evaluation system, or create a new training program. All these activies fall under the umbrella of HR (Human Relations).

To learn more about the field of HR, go to [|Wet Feet] and read the page "Human Resources Job Descriptions and Tips". Then answer these questions using complete sentence responses. 1. What is the human resources field like? 2. What do HR professionals like about their jobs? What do they dislike? 3. Are job prospects in the HR filed positive or negative? Which HR areas will experince the fastest growth? 4. Based on the job descriptions posted, which specific HR job would you want? Why?

**__ Wednesday, November 17: __**
You're the HR manager for a large environmental consulting firm that just started doing business in China. You've asked your top engineer, Ed Jones, to relocate to Shanghai for a yar. Though China will be new to Jones, working overseas won't be - he's already completed assignments elsewhere. His wife and 3 children will be going with him.

You've promised Jones some advice on adapting to living and working conditions in Shanghai, and you intend to focus on the kinds of cultural differences that tend to create problems in international business dealings. Since you know absolutely nothing about living in China, you must do some online research. You will use these sites: Executive Planet [] China Window [|http://china-window.com] Los Angeles Chinese Learning Center [|http://chinese-school.netfirms.com]

//Write a report to Jones in which you identify and explain five cultural differences between business behavior in the U.S. and China, and offer some advice on how to deal with them.// //Share with jgrams@hlv.k12.ia.us//

**__ Thursday, November 18 - Tuesday, November 23: __**
Maslow believes that the only reason that people would not move well in direction of self-actualization is because of hindrances placed in their way by society. He states that education is one of these hindrances. He recommends ways education can switch to person-growing approaches. Maslow states that there are ten points educators should address:
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1. Educators should teach students to be //authentic,// to be aware of their inner selves and to hear their inner-feeling voices. 2. Educators should teach students to //transcend their cultural conditioning// and become world citizens. 3. Educators should help student //discover their vocation in life,// their calling, fate or destiny. This is especially focused on finding the right career. 4. Educators should teach students that //life is precious,// that there is joy to be experienced in life, and if people are open to seeing the good and joyous in all kinds of situations, it makes life worth living. 5. Educators must //accept the person// as he or she is and help the student learn their inner nature. From real knowledge of aptitudes and limitations we can know what to build upon, what potentials are really there. 6. Educators must see that the student's //basic needs are satisfied.// This includes safety, belongingness, and esteem needs. 7. Educators should //refreshen consciousness,// teaching the student to appreciate beauty and the other good things in nature and in living. 8. Educators should teach students that //controls are good,// and complete abandon is bad. It takes control to improve the quality of life in all areas. 9. Educators should teach students to //grapple with the serious problems in life.// These include the problems of injustice, of pain, suffering, and death. 10. Educators must teach students to be //good choosers.// They must be given practice in making good choices.

//Respond to the following questions using complete sentences. Share with jgrams@hlv.k12.ia.us// //1. Identify which points you feel educators have helped you fulfill. Share why you feel you have fulfilled them.// //2. Identify an order which you feel these points should be fulfilled by the educator. (#1, #2, #3, etc)// //3. Why should an educator help the student fulfill these needs?// //4. Which items have you already fulfilled? Which item(s) do you need to fulfill, or realize, next? Which item(s) do you think will be the most difficult to fulfill?// //Research a labor organization or a union leader of your choice (examples: AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers, Walter Reuther, James Hoffa, Samuel Gomphers). A partial list of unions can be found at [|www.aflcio.org/aboutus/unions/]// //Biographical information can be found at [|www.biography.com]// //Create a MovieMaker presentation, including a brief history of the union or the union leader and conditions the union was trying to improve when it was developed or how the leader was trying to improve the workplace. Beginning of class on Friday, I will show you how to use MovieMaker. You can start before then with creating PowerPoint slides for a title slide and putting information and/or graphics on each slide you need. Save each slide with a JPEG extension.// //**Credit Slide:** The last slide of your movie will be a Credit Slide. What is needed on this slide?// //Title and artist of music// //Urls of images// //Created by __// //(you will not to add urls for sources of information - this time)// //**Adding Music:** [|www.4shared.com]// //Download and save music selection as an mp3. You must save music as this. You will need to edit music later to end appropriately with your movie.// //Save the presentation in the 'Grams' folder in the Shared (S) Drive.//
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