Responses to first 15 question should be in your own words and be 75 words or more

1. What are your own limits concerning questionable language, jokes, or forwarding e-mails? Do you have the same standards in the workplace? What are your views of those whose standards are either more or less tolerant of questionable language or jokes? How might these differences in perspective cause problems?

1. Workplace security focuses on protecting the employer’s property, inventory, data, and productivity. Employee theft, excessive time spent surfing the Internet, revealing trade secrets to competition, online gambling, viewing online pornography, sending offensive or harassing e-mails, or using the company’s customer database for personal gain could damage the company. But how far can this protection extend? Shouldn’t we consider employees’ rights, too? How do we create a balance?

1. What is your opinion of labor unions?

1. What can organizations do to make sure their hiring officials are not using data collection to discriminate against applicant’s, but rather hiring them based on skills?

1. Do you think there will ever be equal employment in the workforce?

1. How far can employers stretch the “green jobs” label before it loses legitimacy? Does Starbucks or McDonald’s policy of rewarding their coffee suppliers who use sustainable growing practices mean that they are green employers? How “green” do they need to be? Is the Society of Human Resource Management adequate by defining “green jobs” as those that meet the need for environmentally responsible production and work processes and the development of green goods and services? This includes “reducing pollution or waste, reducing energy usage, and reducing use of limited natural resources.

1. Employment branding makes the company name stand out when applicants are researching employers. Essentially, it’s about marketing the company as an attractive employer in the same way that consumer products and services such as cars, beverages, and hotels have distinctive brand images. Identify other employers in your area that seem to have an “employment brand.” Does that image help to recruit workers?

1. Should companies use stress interviews? Should interviewers be permitted to assess professionalism, confidence, and how one reacts to the everyday nuisances of work by putting applicants into a confrontational scenario? Does becoming angry in an interview indicate a propensity toward outbursts or violence under work stress? Should HRM advocate the use of an activity that could possibly slip out of control?

1. Few states lost more jobs in the great recession than Michigan where nearly one in every ten jobs disappeared. The country needs a new plan to attack unemployment. It needs to reinvent how to put those unemployed workers to work. Whose responsibility is it to deal with that problem; is it the governments, the businesses or the unemployed person?

1. What are your thoughts and opinions on employers who request potential new hires or current employee’s social media usernames and passwords? Some employers argue that access to personal accounts is needed to protect proprietary information or trade secrets, to comply with federal financial regulations, or to prevent the employer from being exposed to legal liabilities. But others consider requiring access to personal accounts an invasion of employee privacy.

1. How can managers be trained to be sincere and honest when evaluating an employee’s performance? Can organizations develop an ethical evaluation process? Should we expect companies to spend training dollars to achieve this goal? What do you think?

1. Back to the sticky issue of what to say to the employees with lower starting salaries if they find out what their coworkers are earning. What would you do? How can you justify your actions? Should you offer them the same salaries? Can you forbid employees from discussing salaries?

1. What are the advantages for organizations that offer benefits to domestic partners of employees? Are there ethical issues with either offering the benefits or not offering them? What is your opinion?

1. Inspire your sales force by rewarding them. What are your opinions about reward strategies to motivate your team?

1. Executive Compensation. What is your opinion on CEO’s that make way too much while their team/company is failing? What should be done to failing CEO’s, should they be replaced? Should their compensation be reduced? Or both and why?

During the nineteenth and the twentieth century, the term “nursing home” was synonymous with long-term care. Although today the exclusive use of the term “long-term care” is no longer accurate for nursing homes, it continues to remain and will not change easily. However, newer terms such as “nursing facilities” will help clarify the role of specific long-term care organizations and will differentiate them from others in the health care industry.

Subacute care is a relatively new but rapidly growing medical service in the continuum of care. Today, it is considered the fastest growing segment of the health care delivery system.

Research the online references such as EBSCOhost, SocINDEX, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), or PubMed for information on nursing facilities and subacute units and respond to the following questions:

• Do you agree with the change in the terminology of nursing homes to nursing facilities? Why or why not? How do the terms relate with each other?
• What impact does the historical perspective of the nursing home have on the stigma related to the quality of care?
• How were nursing facilities developed? What have been the consequences of the change in terminology? Do you think the change in terminology will impact the quality of care in the future? If yes, how? If no, why?
• What changes do you see nursing homes making in the future in order to keep up with the ever changing needs of the demographics of seniors?
• What are subacute units? How did subacute care emerge? What are the strengths and limitations of the emergence of subacute care in long-term care as related to issues in levels of patients’ acuity (various levels of nursing care based on the needs of patients)? Support your answer with relevant examples.
• What is the impact of subacute care on the cost and quality of care? Do you think subacute care needs to be an integral component of hospitals, or should it be an integral part of the long-term care system? Provide a rationale for your answer.