What are policies put in place by national governments in USA and around the globe to fight gender inequality?

Give examples of policies that are put in place in USA and one other country of your choice. Minimum of two policies for each country (4 different policies total)

Some few examples of policies:

• Education policies
• Human rights policies that guarantee legal protection and equality for women and men including specific groups of people such as homosexuals
• Health policies
• Work policies
• Gender-based violence policies

In your essay please include

• The name of the policy and the country
• When it was established
• What does the policy say?
• How effective is the policy in reducing gender inequality? Provide examples to support your claims.

Please do not discuss two different policies in one paragraph.

Minimum 5 written pages (cover page and reference page don’t count), double spaced, Times New Roman

Dear Tutor

Please find below the instructions for the work assignment as the following :-

Envision you are promoted to be the head of the HR department with subsidiaries in China, India and Germany. Feel free to consider the realistic conditions of your previous employer; alternatively, create an imaginative scenario. In any case, please briefly describe the underlying conditions in your introduction.

For your future role you are tasked to produce an internal report to your management in which they ask you to describe your employees involvement strategy. The management wants to make sure that team work, motivation, involvement and work performance is very high across all the locations. Please clearly identify which opportunities can arise from that, but also which challenges do you associate with working across the involved cultures. Please do provide related context information in the introduction.

In particular, you want to address relevant issues around leading/managing people in those countries, if you can see clear preferences for certain communication styles, are those associated with cultural patterns (of all underlying cultures), and if so, do those advance or hinder the unfolding of good cooperation within these dispersed cross-cultural teams? How do you envision communication taking place (face-to-face or virtually, and which issues do you associate with those to formats? And, based on your own work environment, can you make practically specific and relevant suggestions that you consider would help the future cooperation? If possible, please do include the perspectives of the other cultures, as this will be important in order for you to create a more balanced understanding of the underlying case.

Following the seniority of your position and the target audience – the management of your company – you are required to academically substantiate your proposed considerations and solutions. Please do include academic and non-academic sources that can advance your case. In any case, do use proper referencing. While you can choose which referencing style you follow, you are encouraged to employ ONLY one referencing style, and, hence, need to make sure that you fit all references into that one style.

Your written document shall be approx. 3,000 words (+ 10 %), and can be organized along the following structure (this is only a suggestion; feel free to choose your own structure):

Executive Summary (not included in the word count)

Table of Content (not included in the word count)

1.Introduction

2.Theoretical exploration of potential opportunities/challenges (draw from literature, i. e. Bennett, Hofstede, Trompenaars, Hall, etc.)

3.Discuss how the previously discussed opportunities/challenges fit into your underlying practically relevant scenario. Do you see any confirmation of literature, or any contradictions?

4.Conclusion

5.Recommendation

6.References

7.Appendix

You will be assessed along the following criteria:

Along structural requirements of senior management report, such as the above mentioned structure. Along formality requirements such as the ‘look and feel’ of your work with attention to detail in form of page numbers, chapter/headline numbering, ‘breathing space’ of the page, length of paragraphs (max 10 lines), referencing format, and stringent application of chosen formats such as line spacing between chapters and subheadlines. Along quality requirements, such as the relevance of your executive summary, your Table of Content, your Introduction, your literature review with sufficient references, the quality of the application to the content and formatting requirements of the Harvard Referencing System, your ability to display critical thinking and reflection in your submitted work, the quality of the discussion, your ability to conclude and the depth and relevance of suggested recommendations. Finally, you are also assessed along your ability to fit everything into a word count of 3,000 – 3,300 words.

Please make sure you comply with the above requirements, as this will ensure a high grade.

We are, indeed, looking forward to receiving and reading your [very] good work.

Good luck, and all the best.

Week 2 Assignment: Federal Budget Activity

This week we learned about how laws get made by the legislative branch of our government. One of the biggest laws that regularly gets made by Congress is the Federal Budget.. The Federal Budget is a law that spells out how the government will spend its money. This is a huge power that Congress has that is often called, “The Power of the Purse.” If the Congress doesn’t give the government money to do something in the Budget, the government won’t have the resources do what it might want to do.

Part 1 – Create Your Budget

To create your budget, you must use the website: http://crfb.org/stabilizethedebt/

Once you are at http://crfb.org/stabilizethedebt/ and ready to begin click the “next” button.

Begin to make your budget selections by selecting various check boxes. Click the “i” icon next to each line item if you want more information about any particular budget line item.

Once you have sufficiently addressed each of the specific budget line items and arrived at the tab labeled “results,” click the printer icon beneath the text that says “Print and follow the on-screen instructions detailing how to export your results as a .pdf document.

*Do not forget to also submit your essay. You can upload multiple files in a single assignment submission. If you need help with this please contact your student advisor or instructor.

**It is strongly recommended that you use the Chrome or Firefox web browserfor this activity. If you are having trouble getting your final results todisplay or are having difficulty exporting your final results as a PDFfile, please try the following steps:
(1) Use the Chrome or Firefox web browser.
(2) Take and upload screen shots of your budget selections to blackboardalong with your essay for this assignment.
(3) Contact your instructor to make alternative arrangements.

Part 2 – Federal Budget Activity Reflection Essay

In at least 500 words answer the following questions:

• Provide a justification of the budget choices you made within one of the following categories: Defense, Domestic, Social Security, Healthcare (you may NOT choose to focus on the categories labeled: “Budget Path,” “Other,” “Revenue,” or “Tax Expenditures”). In this defense you must address possible counter arguments to the budget decisions you made. If you are spending more under this category how are you going to get new revenue or gain public support for more deficit spending? If you are cutting funds – what are you going to do with these surplus funds?
• Discuss how this assignment impacted your understanding of the budget process, and the debates between the parties and within Congress have regarding the federal budget? Do you think anything should be done to streamline the current budget process?
• Discuss how difficult this would have been to do this activity as a group project – what budget issues would have been contentious? How could you have come to a compromise?

*Don’t forget to upload your pdf file of the budget as well as the text of your essay in your assignment submission. Both parts of this assignment at once must be submitted for grading.

Please note: APA formatting and citations rules apply to this and all essays in this course.

project for this module will require you to come up with a Quality Management Plan.

This plan should revolve around Quality Management as it concerns Risk Management for the organization. What would be required of the organization to provide a quality Risk Management program?

Sample plans can be viewed online here:

 http://www.acqnotes.com/Attachments/SampleQuali…

 http://www.dartnet.info/media/toolkit/FAQRes…CDC_UP_Quality_Management_Plan.doc

 https://wiki.cac.washington.edu/display/pmportal/S…

Include all of the factors necessary to create the Risk Management Program, provide for measurable goals and achievements and measurable quality. You should also include a short presentation. Present as though the CEO and Board of Directors are in the audience. This presentation should quickly explain the need for the Risk Management Program and how the Quality Management Plan will address implementation issues. The paper should be around 10-12 pages including references.

The presentation should be no more than 5 or 6 slides and should include speaker notes for each slide.