As you have learned in this unit, terrorism has a direct impact on the social structure of an organized society. Further, terrorism focuses on disrupting the very basis of government structure and societal structure. The organization and structure of domestic and international terrorist groups vary from one nation to another. Each individual terrorist group has different motives and views as it pertains to terrorism.

Your essay should address the following:

• Summarize the background of the terrorist organization, its purpose, and structure.
• Explain the political, religious, and ideological views and motivations.
• Which definition or definitions of terrorism most closely fit your chosen terrorist organization?
• Discuss if the organization identifies with left wing views, right wing views, or other political ideology and why.
• Expand on the impact that right- and/or left-wing extremism has on terrorism.

A comprehensive list of foreign terrorist organizations can be found on the U.S. Department of State website here.

Your essay should be at least 500 words in length using size 12-point, Times New Roman font, and double-spaced. Use APA style guidelines to format in-text citations for all quoted and paraphrased material. Title and reference pages are required; an abstract is not required. Title and reference pages do not count towards the minimum length requirements.

Select three poems from Edgar Allen Pie and explore the use of one specific symbol or image in their work, such as: the moon, water, light, dark, flowers, colors, etc. How does the author use the imagery or symbol in these poems? What ideas do the images help express?

Must be in MLA format

The board of directors at AGC needs a status update on your change management project. Shawn asks you to write an executive report for John and the board of directors about the change management process and the progress being made toward resolving the global human capital management problems at AGC. This report will be shared at an upcoming investor meeting. Because the future success of AGC depends on achieving its human capital management goals, the board of directors wants to ensure that investors understand that it has changed its strategy to align human capital goals with its organizational goals.

Review the AGC scenario for this course and prepare a 750–1000 word executive report that describes the steps in your change management plan, including the following:

• Diagnosis: A summary of AGC’s problems, how they were diagnosed, and your conclusions regarding the root causes.
• Intervention: A description of human capital management strategies that you recommended to create change at AGC and how they were implemented.
• Evaluation: How did you measure the effectiveness of your change management plan? What were the effects on the employees and the organization’s market performance?

SCENARIO:

An Overview

Atlantis Global Corporation (AGC) is a multinational organization that engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of electronic circuit boards for use in high-definition TV screens. Although the design centers are located in the United States, the bulk of the manufacturing processes are carried out at their overseas subsidiaries. The electronic circuit boards are primarily sold to Original Equipment manufacturers located in North and South America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific region. Headquartered in the Midwest United States, AGC has subsidiaries in three locations, on three continents: Subsidiary A in Asia, Subsidiary B in Africa, and Subsidiary C in South America. In all three locations, the subsidiaries are located in industrial parks or centers. These locations were selected for strategic reasons, including an abundance of raw materials for the company’s products, the availability of a labor force, and a rapidly growing customer base. Within the industrial parks, it is not uncommon to find two or three organizations competing in the same market segment and for the same labor force.

As part of its global human capital staffing strategy, AGC relocated several key people to leadership positions at each of the three subsidiaries. By placing key personnel from headquarters in leadership positions, AGC assumed a unified culture. Senior leadership envisioned that the subsidiaries would be self-sustainable in 2 years and profitable thereafter. A lot of capital, both tangible and intangible, has been committed to making the subsidiaries functional.

AGC has approximately 84,000 employees, most of whom are highly skilled and specially trained in the operations they perform. On average, it takes 3–6 months to fully train employees in each of the many operations of the parent company and its subsidiaries. Although the head count at the three subsidiaries has remained fairly constant, there have been a number of employees who have left the company for a variety of reasons. As employees leave, others are hired to replace them, but no one knows the exact number of employees who left the company or the reasons why they have separated.

At the subsidiaries, line and middle managers are concerned with having the right number of employees at each function or workstation. The operations manual, which the line and middle managers follow religiously, indicates that all staff must be fully trained and certified before they should be allowed to work on their own. Further, this requirement indicates that if someone has been certified before leaving the company, he or she must be retrained and recertified if rehired—no exceptions—even if his or her absence has just been a week. On the other hand, a trained and certified employee who is out on vacation or medical leave for a month is not similarly required.

Making Pay Public

You just completed reading about various challenges facing compensation professionals. Making pay public is a relatively new challenge that organizations will need to address. The objective of this exercise is to research the topic of Making Pay Public. Utilizing HR journals, newspapers, magazines, or websites provide an overview of the topic, consider the questions below and summarize your position on making pay public. Consider using acceptable sources such as: professional journals, business newspapers and publications and website devoted to Human Resources. Sources should be recent, within the last three years. Document the sources and list the citations in your submission. If the source is a website, designate the URL of the website where the source is located.

• What concerns do employers have about making pay open to workers?
• What has been the reaction of employers and workers to opening pay information to their workers?
• What was the key driver (or case) for organizations opening pay information to workers?
• What impact has open pay information had on gender pay discrimination, if any?
• What approaches are being used to address pay transparency? And, are they successful?
• How would you manage pay transparency issues?
• What is your position on making pay public?

Exercise Guidelines:

• Name and Student ID number (last four numbers) should be typed and appear at the top of the page
• Page Topic: “Learning Exerciser – 13.1 – Making Pay Public” should appear under the student name
• No more than 3 (three) pages MS Word doc.
• MS Word doc., typed in an Arial 10 point font, single spaced
• Well written, no spelling errors or incomplete sentences
• If appropriate, include citations
• Answer the questions being asked in a direct and thorough manner

The quality of the response is more important than the length.