Discussion 5.1

Many organizations are concerned about the rising cost of employee benefits and question their value to the organization and to the employees.  In your opinion, what benefits are of greatest value to employees? To the organization? Why?  What can management do to increase the value to the organization of the benefits provided to employees?

Discussion 5.2 

When OSHA was enacted in 1970, it was heralded as the most important new source of protection for the U.S. worker in the second half of the twentieth century. From the information in this chapter, what is your opinion about the effectiveness or the ineffectiveness of the act? Should it be expanded, or it should businesses have more freedom to determine safety standards for their workers?

Case Study 5.1 4 pages

There are two (2) case studies per chapter. You are to respond to one (1) case from Chapter 9 and one (1) case study from Chapter 10.

Chapter 9 – Managing Compensation: (Choose one case study)

Case Study 1 – Pay Decisions at performance Sport, pg. 377 and answer the questions

Case Study 2 – An In-N-Out Pay Strategy: Costa Vida’s Decision to Boost Pay. pg. 378 and answer the questions

Chapter 10 – Pay for Performance: Incentive Rewards (Choose one case study)

Case Study 1 – United States Auto Industry Back on Top…of CEO Pay, pg. 413 and answer the questions

Case Study 2 – Team Based Incentives: Not Your Usual Office, pg. 414 and answer the questions

Weekly Summary 5.1

Write 2 pages from the chapter 9 and chapter 10 attached PPT

Topic 1: Section 3.1.1.4 of Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing provides several examples of information privacy and security laws, as well as legal frameworks from across the world. Select one of these areas, laws, or frameworks and discuss how it would impact a US-based company storing data with a cloud service provider or doing business with an organization or individual covered under that area, law, or framework.

Topic 2: Review Domain 4 of Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing. Your organization is transitioning workload from an on-prem data center to a PaaS cloud service offering. Discuss one specific way in which your audit activities must change to address the new hosting structure. What types of impacts could this change have?

1 page 

Search the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) website at http://www.us-cert.gov/ for information about buffer overflow attacks. How many programs or operating systems can you identify that are vulnerable to this type of attack? 

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First Assignment
Mock Dissertation Chapter Three Methodology
Overview: In week 1, you selected a topic and developed a research question for that topic. Then, you developed a data gathering instrument to measure the question either quantitatively or qualitatively. Now that you have had the opportunity to read how scholarly methodologies are written, you will write a condensed 3-4 page methodology section for your research question using the required headings from the University of the Cumberlands Dissertation Handbook.  Like we discuss in class, each university has unique parameters for what they expect in chapter 3, so you may see papers from other universities that look slightly different. The importance here is to focus on the content, not necessarily the organization. This assignment will help determine your readiness to write a full-length chapter three.
Directions:
1. Review your notes from class on the different methodologies and instruments used to measure. Also, review the examples:
 Exceeds Expectations.docx
Finally, review the rubric:  Rubric for Methodology.docx
2. Develop a 3-4 page (more is fine) methodology section that includes the following:
Introduction
Research Paradigm (qualitative or quantitative) Notes: Choose Qualitative or Quantitative based on what methodology you plan to use for your actual dissertation. You may not choose to do both qualitative and quantitative (mixed-methods)  
Research- or project- Design
Sampling Procedures and
Data Collection Sources
Statistical Tests Summary (quantitative) OR Data Organization Plan (Qualitative). Notes:  If you chose a quantitative research paradigm, you must choose a quantitative statistical test summary option in this section. If you chose a qualitative research paradigm, you must choose the qualitative organization plan option in this section.  
3. Upload your methodology section to this assignment box. 

Second Assignment

Article review. Attached instructions for article review

We have to write a small paper not too long about 2 paragraph max on peoples behavior on using technologies. That could be anything like mostly phones, machines anything around people. Actual instruction in attached below.