1) Local government leaders have asked you to provide information and recommendations for increasing sustainability in the community.  

Perform an initial search to learn about green initiatives for a city in your area. (Houston, TX)

Write a 350- to 525-word proposal to your local government.

Include the following:

• A summary of green initiatives for a city in your area.
• Recommendations to your local government for creating a greener, more sustainable and livable community.
• The proposal should include recommendations both for actions by the local government and by individual homeowners.
• Explain how implementing these recommendations would promote sustainability and improve like for residents.

Include appropriate images.

Include a list of the sources you use.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VERSION 1

 

Statutory benefits are:

 

[removed]		Optional benefits available to employees.
[removed]		The organization’s basic benefits package.
[removed]		Benefits provided under contract by external suppliers.
[removed]		Benefits required by state and federal law.

 

 

 

Many the personnel departments’ image problems were owing to the performance and behavior of personnel practitioners who were not fully prepared for the times.

 

[removed]		True
[removed]		False

 

 

 

The human resources specialty of labor relations was established for the purpose of dealing with labor unions.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

Federal and state wage-and-hour laws had little effect on the activities of the personnel department.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

A professional employer organization (PEO) provides the means for some smaller organizations to obtain most of their human resource services externally.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

The principal role of human resources may best be described as:

 

[removed]		Exerting control and direction over other organizational elements.
[removed]		Serving as the organization’s primary resource on employment-related legal issues.
[removed]		Providing service and advice to other organizational elements.
[removed]		Keeping all employees in line with policies and work rules.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The majority of chief executive officers (CEOs) ordinarily expect their human resource departments to:

 

[removed]			Supervise recruitment, administer compensation and benefits, and maintain personnel records.
[removed]			Provide advice and counsel on employee matters.
[removed]			Keep the organization out of employment-related legal trouble.
[removed]			All of the above.

 

The most effective reporting relationship for the human resources director is:

 

[removed]		Reporting to the chief operating officer (COO).
[removed]		Reporting to the organization’s financial executive.
[removed]		Reporting to the chief executive officer (CEO).
[removed]		Any of the above.

 

It is essential that every department manager be intimately familiar with all provisions of the organization’s benefits plans.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

All of a health care organization’s training and development activities are usually centralized in human resources.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

A health care organization’s employee pension fund is ordinarily managed by an outside specialist rather than by the organization’s HR department.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

The payroll office, once a constant feature of HR departments, was removed from HR primarily because:

 

[removed]		Payroll became too much work for the human resource staff.
[removed]		Human resources lost a political struggle with the finance department for the control of the payroll activity.
[removed]		It was seen as more efficient to have payroll done by an outside service.
[removed]		The most applicable knowledge and expertise became centered in activities having to do with accounting and finance.

 

The National Labor Relations Act (1935) established a number of rules for the conduct of both unions and employers in labor organizing and situations.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

 

 

Under the provisions of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA):

 

[removed]		At the option of an employer, all job applicants may be required to take polygraph tests.
[removed]		Routine use of polygraph tests is permitted in organizations that are concerned with nuclear power.
[removed]		An employee’s failure of a polygraph test must result in the employee’s discharge.
[removed]		Any employer is permitted utilize polygraph testing as long as the employees to be tested are selected at random.

 

 

 

If the same subject is covered by federal legislation as well as by state laws, the federal law always takes precedence over the state law.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

Of legislation in place prior to 1964, the regulations primarily affecting managers:

 

[removed]		Were non-existent.
[removed]		Affected only those managers working in financial capacities.
[removed]		Concerned only human resource managers.
[removed]		Were essentially limited to the Fair Labor Standards Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

 

It is strongly recommended that all managers describe their management styles in detail to their employees so the employees will know what to expect.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

The people-centered manager is must primarily focus on in getting the necessary work done through the efforts of people.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

People-centered management is appropriate, and in fact essential for efficient operation, when:

 

[removed]		Most jobs are repetitive and routine, requiring the workers to follow the same few specific steps.
[removed]		The primary concern of the manager is to turn out a predetermined number of product units each day.
[removed]		When all of the group’s workers are assigned to specific fixed work stations.
[removed]		Tasks are irregular and varied and output scheduling is difficult.

 

 

 

The most effective managers invest considerable effort in developing a one-top-one relationship with each employee.

 

[removed]True

 

[removed]False

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VERSION 2

 

1. It has been repeatedly proven that most health care workers are primarily motivated by the promise of material rewards.

2. It is unnecessary for department managers to be knowledgeable of compensation practices as long as there is a capable HR department in the organization.

3. It is essential that every department manager be intimately familiar with all provisions of the organization’s benefits plans.

4. The payroll office, once a constant feature of HR departments, was removed from HR primarily because:

5. The Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Act (1973) took precedence over all state regulations that presented any barriers to the formation of health maintenance organizations.

6. If the same subject is covered by federal legislation as well as by state laws, the federal law always takes precedence over the state law.

7. The National Labor Relations Act had the principal effect of:

8. Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, commonly referred to as the Taft-Hartley Act, amended the National Labor Relations Act and:

9. Technological changes are always good for the organization because they almost always lead to reductions in the cost of delivering health care.)

10. A professional employer organization (PEO) provides the means for some smaller organizations to obtain most of their human resource services externally.

11. The most effective reporting relationship for the human resources director is:

12. Competition is increasing in health care in part because elements of a shrinking hospital system are struggling to acquire or retain a specific market share.

13. The “employment office” gradually evolved into “human resources” because:

14. Statutory benefits are:

15. The National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act):

16. Federal and state wage-and-hour laws had little effect on the activities of the personnel department.

17. Managers in some health care departments must necessarily address the needs of employees of greatly varying education and capabilities.

18. The most effective managers invest considerable effort in developing a one-top-one relationship with each employee.

19. The people-centered manager is must primarily focus on in getting the necessary work done through the efforts of people.

20. Maintaining a genuine open-door policy is easier for a first-line manager than for a higher-level manager because:

21.  

 

I would like you to make a response just simple reply to these two students discussions.

 

Please use your own words do not copy any thing from the internet.

 

here is the first one 

 

I think terrorism is one of the biggest issues the world faces today. Although some countries suffers from terrorism more than others do this is still an issue that affects the world altogether. Terrorist groups have become more prevelant and have more ways to recruit than ever before. Although national terrorism is the so important home grown terrorism is still and important and dangerous form to keep in mind. Terrorism instills so much fear into the nations and it doesn’t allow for people to function within a normal mind set on the daily. People within every country live in fear because they know it is something that could strike at literally any moment. Dealing with terrorism is hard because I personally believe that once you take down one group another group would just form to take there place. I don’t really forsee there ever being a time when terrorism doesn’t exist. I think the terrorist organizations need to be taken down one by one to hopefully get a less radical terrorist group. On the other hand it does come to a point that we lessened the force of Al-Qaeda but we got and even worse group in there place, that being ISIS.

 

 

Here is the second one 

 

Terrorism is in fact a huge problem that the world faces today, but while it is a huge problem it is not the biggest. Unfortunately the amount of coverage that terrorist organizations get is to me too much, not only do we legitimize these organizations that pervert whatever ideal they are preaching but we also make it the main focus. Issues on war tensions and climate warming are far more important in a global scale as they affect the long term longevity of this planet. When it come to matters of terrorism it should be left in the states job to deal with but beyond that terrorist act from Isis who hide behind Islam should be handled by Islamic states such as Saudi Arabia and countries in the Arab Union. Fixing relations with countries like Russia and China are a more urgent matter as these are the countries who constantly are going up against the U.S.  We also have a more pressing matter in the form of broken democracies and increasing climate change problems, you have countries like Venezuela who are struggling to stay afloat because of a broken political system but you also have countries dealing with some of the worst weather patterns they have ever seen.

 

Assignment 9: Soil: Foundation for Land Ecosystems

Chapter 11

Soil and Plant Growth

1. List five management considerations for productive topsoil.

a. ________________________________ b. ___________________________________

c.________________________________ d. ___________________________________

e. ________________________________

2. What constitutes the base of the food chain in soil ecosystems? ____________________________________

3. The soil environment must supply the plant or at least its roots with ______________________________,

__________________________________, and _________________________________.

4. Three mineral nutrients required by the plant are _____________________________________, _________________________________________, and _______________________________________.

5. The original source of mineral nutrients is from the breakdown of __________________________________ through the process of ________________________________________.

6. The process of weathering is fast enough to sustain vigorous plant growth without other sources.

(True or False)

7. In natural ecosystems, the greatest source of mineral nutrients for sustaining plant growth is from ____________________________________.

8. In addition to the frequency and amount of precipitation, the amount of water that is actually available to plants will depend on:

a. the amount of water that infiltrates versus running off. (True or False)

b. the amount of water that is held in soil versus percolating through it. (True or False)

c. the amount of water that evaporates from the soil surface. (True or False)

9. Most plants have access to oxygen through the (roots, stems, or leaves).

10. List two ways of depriving plants of sufficient oxygen.

a. ___________________________________ b. _____________________________________

11. pH is a measure of relative _____________________________ and ____________________________.

12. Most plants require a soil environment that is

a. acidic b. basic or alkaline c. close to neutral

13. Neutral is expressed by a pH of ________________.

The Soil Community

14. List the five ingredients required of productive topsoil.

a. ________________________________________________________________________________

b. ________________________________________________________________________________

c. ________________________________________________________________________________

d. ________________________________________________________________________________

e. ________________________________________________________________________________

15. The workability of clay soils will be (more or less) difficult when compared to sandy soils.

16. As soil organisms feed on the detritus and reduce it to humus, their activity also mixes and integrates humus with mineral particles, developing what is called soil _______________________________.

17. Who gets what in the symbiotic relationship between some plants and mycorrhizae?

Plants: _____________________________________________________________________________

Mycorrhizae: ________________________________________________________________________

18. Green plants support soil organisms by being the direct or indirect source of all their food.

(True or False)

19. Soil organisms support green plants by making the soil more suitable for their growth.

(True or False)

20. The second tropic level of the food web in a soil ecosystem is

a. producers b. detritus c. humus d. decomposers