Given increased globalization and demographic shifts, what changes in the workplace are likely to occur? Explain in terms of workforce demographics, new challenges, and benefits.

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Five-Year Global Workforce Forecast

Assignment 2: Required Assignment 2—Five-Year Global Workforce Forecast

Not only is the U.S. experiencing a demographic shift, but the world is also changing, and national borders are becoming blurred. This increased connectivity will highlight human differences while putting organizations in a position to benefit from the multiple perspectives gained through a diversified workforce. BANKS Industries continues to look for business acquisitions and plans to continue to expand over the next five years.

Consider forecasted changes in the U.S. and on a global level, and write an 8–10-page executive report addressing the following:

  • Given increased globalization and demographic shifts, what changes in the workplace are likely to occur? Explain in terms of workforce demographics, new challenges, and benefits.
  • How will these changes impact the way organizations function?
  • How will HR practices change staffing, rewarding, employee relations, communication, performance management, training and development, and technology? Within that discussion, point out current best practices that may require modification as well as the most appropriate modifications.
  • What are the legal and ethical implications of change?
  • How should current employees and leaders begin to prepare for this change? Prepare a change management plan that includes strategies to communicate relevant information to employees.

Write an 8–10-page executive report in Word format. Support your predictions and suggestions with scholarly resources and empirical evidence. The executive report should include a cover letter, a title page, a reference page, and sections addressing the topics listed. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A2.doc.

By Week 5, Day 7, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Described the likely changes in the workplace given increased globalization and demographic shifts as well as their impact on the way that organizations function.

60

Explained possible changes in HR practices with regard to staffing, rewarding, employee relations, communication, performance management, training and development, and technology. Identified current best practices that will require modification and suggested appropriate modifications.

76

Described the legal and ethical implications of change.

28

Recommended strategies in which current employees and leaders can begin preparing for this change through a change management plan. Included strategies to communicate relevant information to employees.

76

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

60

Total:

Why is seduction taboo in the Victorian Age? How did the Fin De Siècle Feminists destroy the notion of ‘modesty’? Why is sexuality perceived as non-existent in our Modern Age?

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For this discussion activity, students will review the topics and styles below and picking one.

Task (1) Pick Topic & Style

You do not have to post any questions or answers at this time. You are only picking a topic you want to research.

Topics

  1. Victorian Era lack of Sexuality attacked by Fin De Siècle Feminists: Why is seduction taboo in the Victorian Age? How did the Fin De Siècle Feminists destroy the notion of ‘modesty’? Why is sexuality perceived as non-existent in our Modern Age? Why was seduction frowned upon? Why can’t you enjoy pleasure for the sake of pleasure? Why was that a no-no? What events or what happened in the early 1900s to the present that makes seduction oh sooooo sexy!?)
  2. Segregation Era Witch-hunts: How were the Segregation Era Witch-hunts, Springfield Riots, Will Brown, and Emmett Till, and so many others who were murdered, a catalyst for social change during the late 1920s? (It breaks my heart to teach it to you because of the nature of the topic. But we are in college to educate ourselves on the past – so here it is. First, ask yourself, what is a catalyst? Define that word. Then, look back at the 1800s – 1890s and tell me how they are or could be a catalyst for the Fin De Siècle Racial Equality movement.)
  3. The New Woman, The New Man: 2020 is credited with the complete and utter break from traditional norms and values when it came to gender norms but, it isn’t the first! How did the Fin De Siècle era redefine women and men? How did these new women and new men challenge their own name? Meaning, how often do you hear your name? How often is your name spoken with affection and charm? Or, is your name neglected? Is your name not even second thought upon the lips of your lover? Or, more reminiscent of the Pre-Fin de Siècle era, is your name replaced with a nickname, their surname, or cutesy name? Discuss this topic in terms of redefining the 1920s genders.
  4. Symbolism, Decadent, and the Arts: How did the Fin De Siècle era set literature and art free from the materialistic preoccupations of industrialized society? How did art become a symbolic representation of the thoughts and mood of the Fin De Siècle era? How did art liberate and free morals and inhibitions?

Visual Formats:

  • Video Meeting with Instructor
    • Students will pick from a list of dates/times to video chat with the professor. Then, they will discuss the topics and questions together through video chat. No visual aids are summaries are required. The ‘discussion’ is the project. (Grab you PJ’s and coffee!)
  • Submitted Video Slideshow with Voiceover
    • Using PowerPoint or Google Slides, present a slideshow of the topic with a voiceover explaining each slide. You are not allowed to read the slides. The voiceover must include a natural dialogue that reinforces the slides.
  • Infographic
    • Students will create an infographic, or basically a pamphlet. This pamphlet must be informative and tell a story. Use the link to help you understand how to design a stunning visual aid!

what if the gases that come from cars and power plants are harmingthe planet themselves, even without the warming they cause?

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CO2 Can Directly Impact Extreme Weather, Research SuggestsChelsea Harvey1. Global efforts to tackle climate change rest on a common goal: to keep the planet’s temperatures fromrising beyond dangerous thresholds. But what if the gases that come from cars and power plants are harmingthe planet themselves, even without the warming they cause?2. Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere may have direct effects on the climate system. In otherwords, even if global temperatures stay locked in at a certain point, higher CO2 concentrations couldcontinue to affect the planet. As a result, some experts are calling for putting a certain limit on carbondioxide emissions, in addition to the global temperature targets of 2 degrees Celsius outlined in the Parisclimate accord. According to a study published by Nature Climate Change, rising CO2 levels may cause anincrease in extreme weather and climate events, regardless of what happens with average global.temperatures (Baker et al., 2018).3. In a study, the researchers investigated what would happen to the climate system under a range ofpossible carbon dioxide levels, assuming the average global temperature remained steady. They chose the1.5-degree target-the world’s most ambitious goal-as a reference point. The scientists ran a series ofmodel simulations using a range of CO2 concentrations consistent with 1.5 degrees of warming. The effect onextreme climate events was striking. Even though average global temperatures stayed the same, higher CO2concentrations caused a significant increase in extreme heat and precipitation events in certain regionsaround the world. Scientists have found that even if the average global temperature remains more or lessconstant, it causes changes in circulation, changes in wind patterns, which are the drivers of the extremeweather conditions.4. Previous studies also suggested that carbon emissions may directly affect the climate beyond just raisingaverage global temperatures. Scientists found that carbon dioxide levels alter precipitation and atmosphericcirculation patterns independently of average warming (Bony et al., 2013). In addition, it is not just theweather affected by carbon dioxide levels. In fact, one of the biggest concerns about rising CO2 is itscontribution to ocean acidification, which is harmful to marine ecosystems.REEVALUATING GLOBAL GOALS5. The 1.5- and 2-degree temperature targets are currently the centerpiece of international climatemitigation efforts-the ultimate goal that world leaders are striving to meet under the Paris climateagreement. However, these targets may not encompass all the risks associated with climate change andwhat’s more, they may not be promoting the level of global climate action originally hoped for. Atemperature target is only useful if policymakers know how to achieve it. As a result, numerous studies inthe last decade have attempted to determine the amount of carbon the world can emit without exceedingcertain temperatures. This value would inform policymakers about how quickly they need to reducegreenhouse gas emissions in the coming years. Therefore, the issue should be tackled in different ways.

What is the value of the following 2’s complement binary integer? 1011 1011  

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1.  In a CPU, what register stores the address of the next instruction to be executed.

2. The address of instruction currently being executed is found where in the CPU

3. If you encode the signed integer -11 into an 8 bit signed binary integer and then shift the bits to the right by two places AND wrap the bits (that fall off on the right) around to the left side of the word what is the resulting binary string. Express your answer in HEX.

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4.What is the value of the following 2’s complement binary integer? 1011 1011

5. Cache is made up of small chunks of memory.  The Index + Tag + Data are referred to as the ____________

6. How many bits (8 bits/byte/primary color) are required to store the shades of every color using R-G-B encoding.  The display 256 by 128 pixels.

7.What is magnitude of the mixed BASE 8 decimal number 020.010 Express your

answer as a BASE 10 fraction.        

8 What Cache level is the fastest.

9. When you launch a excel app and then a second word app on your desktop at the same time with a single-core CPU, the CPU is performing in a manner known as ___________.

10. You add two negative non zero signed 4 bit binary integers.  The result has a 0 in the  left most position. The magnitude of one of the negative integers must at least be equal to ______________

11.  In problem 10 the magnitude of the smallest possible integer that solves the problem would have magnitude ______________

12. Encode the fraction 7 1/4  into 32 bit IEEE floating point format._________

13 How many general purpose registers exist in the CPU of the lc3

14 Decoding instructions in a superscalar architecture requires the replication of some of the electronics of what part of the CPU.____________

15. The hex value  x23 ( or 010 0011) is sent to the console screen. What symbol is displayed

16. The following is an lc3 instruction 1010011000001011 resides at address x4001.  The pointer to the data for this instruction is found at what address?

17. The cache controller uses the cache __________to determine whether a memory request already resides in cache.

18, In the lc3 the 16 bit data element xACCA is located at address x4000 (hex 4000). Address x300B holds the value x4000.  What instruction located at address x3008 will load the value xACCA into Register 3. Write the complete instruction in 16 binary ________________

19. If each memory location can be mapped to just one cache line. This mapping is an example of ______________ mapping.

20.  In a 2500 server farm, each server experiences an 8 minutes reboot time 1000 times a year. In addition, there are 200 repairs each year that average 1 hour each. After each repair the reboot, test and evaluation takes 15 minutes. What is the availability of the server farm. Express you answer in % out to 2 decimal places (eg  XX.YY%)

21/ The MAR is a Special purpose registers. It companion register contains what type of information.

22. What type of memory, is fast, close to the CPU and requires no electrical refresh circuitry.

23. In a RISC architecture all the opcodes are usually of the same length and            always have the same _______________.

24.    In a SMP system it is important to maintain cache coherency. Listening   for     cache events on    the memory bus shared by multiple processors is  referred to as __________

25. When a second instruction cannot be executed in parallel due to logic hardware limitations, this creates a pipeline event known as a _____________  ______________. (two words answer required).