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2. MGT 434 Entire Course MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 1 MGT 434 Week 1 Individual Assignment Legal Process Paper MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 1 MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 2 MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 3 MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 4 What are the differences between employees and independent contractors? Is it possible for an employer to reclassify all of his employees as independent contractors? Explain why or why not. Provide an example.

3. MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 2 MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 3 The employer makes the employee’s life miserable and the employee quits. What is this called? Is it legal? Does the employer’s burden of proof change between constructive and wrongful discharge? Provide an example Can your company legally change your job responsibilities, reduce your salary, or assign you to a different department? Explain why or why not. Provide an example. What are the potential legal considerations for the employer in the event of such changes?

4. MGT 434 Week 1 DQ 4 MGT 434 Week 1 Individual Assignment Legal Process Paper What are the advantages and disadvantages for both employers and employees of resolving disputes through ADR? Why would a company have an employee sign a commitment to resolve disputes through ADR? What other methods exist for resolving disputes? Provide an example. John is an employee in a private sector organization. He wants to file a discrimination complaint against his employer. Resources: EEOC website at http://www.eeoc.gov and the U. S. Court System website at http://www.uscourts.gov.Search with the key words litigation process, mediation process, and dispute resolution.http://www.eeoc.gov http://www.uscourts.gov Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you analyze and explain the following discrimination complaint and civil litigation processes as it would potentially apply to John and his employer. In your paper, explain in detail how the complaint begins with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and proceeds through the civil litigation process from the state level up to the U. S. Supreme Court. Include a discussion on other relevant aspects addressing discrimination complaints and disputes in the workplace.

5. MGT 434 Week 2 DQ 1 MGT 434 Week 2 DQ 2 What is meant by the term glass ceiling? Who is affected by it? Provide an example. Is this a form of gender discrimination? What might companies do to help break the glass ceiling? Determine which of the following statements are legitimate BFOQs. If you determine something is not a legitimate BFOQ, what would have to be changed in the statement to make it a legitimate BFOQ?

6. MGT 434 Week 2 Team Assignment Employer Employee Relations Paper MGT 434 Week 3 DQ 1 Prepare a 1,050- to 1,750- word paper in which you identify and analyze the policy differences of one of your team's organizations. Address the treatment of the following: Regular employees versus temporaries or independent contractors Exempt employees versus nonexempt employees What are the rights protected under affirmative action? Are the rights of white males protected under affirmative action? Explain why or why not. Provide an example Does affirmative action require the meeting of quotas? Explain why or why not.

7. MGT 434 Week 3 DQ 2 MGT 434 Week 3 Individual Assignment Interactive Simulation Paper What types of employers must comply with affirmative action? How might affirmative action implementation conflict with EEO compliance? How might affirmative action be a positive force in the workplace? Provide an example. Resource: Preventing Workplace Discrimination Simulation Complete the simulation Preventing Workplace Discrimination found on the student web page for Week Three and answer the following questions: What are some measures a company may take to reasonably accommodate people with disabilities, or those with a known drug abuse problem, and how does the simulation demonstrate these?

8. MGT 434 Week 4 DQ 1 MGT 434 Week 4 DQ 2 Describe the range of testing that is allowed in the workplace. What are some of the limitations of workplace testing? What are some of the limitations of preemployment testing? What are some of the potential pitfalls for management? What might management do to avoid the pitfalls? What are some of the performance evaluation methods? How might these methods be perceived as discriminatory? How might employers ensure that their performance evaluation process is nondiscriminatory? What might employers do to help encourage fairness in performance evaluation?

9. MGT 434 Week 4 DQ 3 MGT 434 Week 4 DQ 4 What are some of the constitutional protections of privacy? What privacy rights are afforded to public and private sector employees? How might privacy rights be waived? Under what circumstances is it legal, advisable, or ethical to engage in the following practices: Require preoffer medical examinations of some applicants and not others Require post-offer, preemployment medical examinations of some applicants and not others Retain information generated by medical and preemployment testing in each applicant's general personnel file

10. MGT 434 Week 5 Final Exam MGT 434 Week 5 Team Assignment Employee Handbook Assignment Jenner began working for Encyclopedia Britannica as a part-times sales representative in 1983. Her position required selling Encyclopedia Britannica’s educational products. Until 1995, she worked as a part-times sales representative and then a district manager for Encyclopedia Britannica. In 1995, Encyclopedia Britannica decided to separate the parent division from the school and library division and reorganize its sales force by “outsourcing:” contracting with individual “regional directors” who would in turn contract with individual sales representatives. The same people who had worked for Encyclopedia Britannica under the previous arrangement filled many of the positions under the new structure, in which branch managers became separately incorporated regional directors and district managers while sales representatives took positions with the newly formed companies. Prepare a 1,750-to 2,050-word document in which you create a representation of actual sections of an employee handbook Note. The handbook must be original student content and work. In addition to describing the company to which the employee handbook applies, also address the issues of privacy, employee or applicant testing, and performance evaluations in the global workplace. This assignment must include, but is not limited to, the consideration of the following questions in drafting your handbook sections:

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