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How could Whole Foods’ democratic model of selection interfere with the development or continuance of a diverse workforce? What should it do to prevent such difficulties? (Ch 2)

Organizational Behavior – Week #2 Assignment 1

Describe how Whole Foods uses human capital as a source of competitive advantage. (Ch 1)

Identify the aspects of high-involvement management contained in Whole Foods’ approach to managing its associates. (Ch 1)

How could Whole Foods’ democratic model of selection interfere with the development or continuance of a diverse workforce? What should it do to prevent such difficulties? (Ch 2)

How do you think globalization will affect Whole Foods over time? explain several ways it could affect the company’s operations. (Ch 3)

Why are terrorism, globalization, diseases, or climate change multifaceted in terms of how they are defined as policy problems? Specifically, how are they viewed as economic, political, and/or environmental policy problems, and also security ones? Explain these dimensions for your set of two challenging policy problems.

A Post-Cold War World: The diffusion of power, expansion of transnational threats, and America’s growing rivalry with Russia and China

This essay will address the central policy conundrum of whether the leading states can cooperate on matters vital to all of humanity at acceptable costs to themselves and everyone else?

REQUIRED:
Choose two modern transnational challenges (either terrorism, economic globalization, infectious diseases or climate change), and evaluate how national security and global security are interdependent in context of the challenges.

ALSO REQUIRED:
Answer the following two questions relating to your two chosen modern global policy challenges-

1. Why are terrorism, globalization, diseases, or climate change multifaceted in terms of how they are defined as policy problems? Specifically, how are they viewed as economic, political, and/or environmental policy problems, and also security ones? Explain these dimensions for your set of two challenging policy problems.

2. Do you find a clash between the interests of sovereign states and the demands of fully addressing your two policy problems (i.e., terrorism, globalization, diseases, or climate change)? How might these tradeoffs be resolved to find effective global solutions to your policy problems, and what, in your opinion, is the likelihood of effective cooperation on your two policy problems?

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