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18. PART 3-EXTENDED ESSAY An enduring issue is an issue that exists across time. It is one that many societies have attempted to address with varying degrees of success.
In your essay • Identify and define an enduring issue raised by this set of documents. • Using your knowledge of Social Studies and evidence from the documents, argue why the issue you selected is significant and how it has endun across time.
Be Sure to • Identify the issue based on a historically accurate interpretation of three documents. • Define the issue using evidence from at least three documents • Argue that this is a significant issue that has endured by showing: o How the issue has affected people or been affected by people o How the issue has continued to be an issue or changed over time • Include outside information from your knowledge of social studies and evidence from the documents.
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A family member passing feels like the entire world just collapsed, and sometimes it is in an instant and you could blink, and it could be their time. Something similar happened to my family and me a few months ago. Once I got the news that my grandma was in the hospital in a blink of an eye my universe collapsed, and it stayed that way for months. My feelings were a mix of emotions, and it was a mess. Something I did not think was going to happen anytime soon happened. Therefore, I was in for a bumpy emotional roller coaster, and I was not ready. It felt as if all the colors faded, and I was seeing black and white and that is when I realized that this was just the beginning. Covid19 played a huge role in my family, and that is what causes me to feel this way. When the news reached the entire family, everyone was asking how I felt and how the other kids felt but nothing would come out when I tried to explain I felt angry and emotional but most of all scared and worried. “How are you feeling?” my stepmom asked as soon as she got home from work. And I could not find the words to explain all that came out was “I’m okay I think.” She knew I was lying and so did I. Negative thoughts came upon me once she was not showing any signs of her getting better. Something that made the colors even darker came the next day I was told that she was not getting better and that my grandma was getting worse and did not know how much longer she had.
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Why teachers shouldn’t give us homework?Have you ever wished to shred or throw your schoolwork out the window with no repercussions? From the time they enter kindergarten at the tender age of five, children are assigned daily homework. Is it truly required? Is it even beneficial to improved learning or greater test scores? Because we do nearly the same thing in class that day, the quantity of homework we do wastes time, money, paper, and trees. Homework produces dissatisfaction, exhaustion, a lack of time for other activities, and possibly a loss of interest in school in children and teenagers. It also keeps everyone awake; it has youngsters and teens staying up till they finish it, parents attempting to assist them, and teachers trying to aid them.

Section ACase Study 1 (20 marks)Read the following hypothetical excerpt and based on your understanding of chapter 15 of the textbook answer the questions that follows.
The Suva Transport Union ClaimsThe Suva Transport Union (STU) enters into a contract with the State Transportation Authority of Fiji (STA). The agreement requires the STA to pay a yearly bonus to all of its STU members. However, a year after signing the contract, STA refuses to pay the annual compensation, which triggers a conflict between the STU and the STA. As a HR consultant, you have been requested by the ministry of labour to intervene and resolve the conflict between the two parties. Accordingly, the ministry requires you to submit a preliminary written report of your proposed course of action by this week.Question In three separate paragraphs (numbered as i, ii and iii) prepare a ministerial report on strategies to resolve the exiting standoff, paying particular attention to the following issues in your presentation. All discussion needs to be supported by appropriate examples, that is either from the case study or literature.
i) the economic implications of prolonged industrial conflict to employees and STA [6 marks]
ii) potential third party avenues and strategies at your disposal to resolve such conflicts [8 marks]
iii) the third part of your report is titled union-management cooperation(U-MC). Under this section discuss how both the STA and its employees being represented by STU could benefit through a U-MC initiative. [6 marks]
Case Study 2Walmart Refocuses Its Employee Retention Strategies (20 marks)For Walmart, the competitive environment keeps getting tighter. The company, which operates 5000 stores and employs more than 1.5 million people in the United States, is trying to stay ahead towards online shopping. Meanwhile, continually falling unemployment rates have been making employee retention difficult. Somehow the company needs to keep getting efficient (meaning spending less) while maintaining employee engagement.
Competing with online retailers, especially Amazon, requires low prices because price comparisons are easy online. It also replaces some demand for store employees and need for workers in warehouses and other parts of the distribution system. Walmart has addressed these challenges by restructuring work and closing some lower- performing stores, including more than five dozen Sam’s Club stores. The cuts free up money for offering more generous pay and benefits and for directing more resources to online retailing. Some of Sam’s Club stores that closed were to be converted to distribution centers.
The restructuring decisions include a revised approach to store management, with fewer assistant managers. Walmart also cut department managers in certain departments such as mobile phones, where it could bring in representatives from the phone service providers. In addition, store closures helped to set the stage for several rounds of layoffs: the downsizing of store payrolls by 16 000 and eliminating 7 000 back-office jobs in 2016, a layoff of 1 000 corporate positions in 2017, and the elimination of another 10 000 store jobs and 1000 headquarters employees in 2018. Automation has enabled a 15% reduction in the number of workers per square foot in stores. But many of the laid off employees, according to Walmart, were able to move to different positions within the company. At the same time, Walmart is placing more workers in warehouse jobs and store positions that fill online orders.
Simultaneously, the company cannot just be a job cutter and maintain its strength in the labour market. Even as it closes stores, Walmart has announced pay increases from $ 9 an hour starting pay in 2015 to $ 10 in 2017 and aiming to reach $ 15 an hour by 2021. Early in 2018, Walmart announced that it would spend about $ 400 million to give employees wage increases and onetime bonuses of up to $1000. The new hourly pay rate matched wages paid by Target and came closer to the $13 paid by Costco.
Walmart’s management appreciates the pay alone will not be enough to create employee engagement, especially for relatively low-paying retail jobs. So the company has announced other initiatives aimed at making the company a preferred employer. Along with the 2018 pay raises and bonuses, Walmart announced it would extend to store employees the paid family leave benefits previously available only to office workers. At the same time, the company promised to spend some of its savings from lower taxes on training. Months later, Walmart announced it would pay college tuition for employees who pursue degrees in business or supply chain management at three schools selected by Walmart. Finally, in a bit to make work more 4 comfortable, Walmart announced it would relax its blue-shirt-and-khakis dress code to allow a variety of solid-colour clothing.Questionsi) Discuss the circumstances that make employee retention challenging for organizations like Walmart. Support your discussion with specific examples from the case study [7 marks]
ii) Identify various impetus of job satisfaction Walmart provides to its employees to retain its employees. List and discuss two additional sources of job satisfaction that may help Walmart retain its employees. (You need to do some research on this aspect of the question). [7 marks]
iii) Evaluate the importance of employee retention to retail organisations like Walmart. Support your discussions with relevant examples. [6 marks] 5
Section B
Answer essay question in this section. Question is worth ten marks.Question 2An effective performance management system informs top performers of their value, encourages communication between managers and their employees, establishes consistent standards for evaluating employees, and helps the organization identify its most influential and weakest employees. Companies must think of effective performance management as a process, not an event, to meet these objectives.
Discuss any three ways a manager could schedule a performance feedback session to communicate its decision to its employees. Then explain a few corrective actions employers could implement to address employees’ lack of ability and motivation in their performance levels?
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