Author: chris

Directions:

Choose a minimum of three articles from the required reading list provided in the course and four from the Argosy University online library databases. Your selected articles should discuss some aspects of the four-frame model discussed in the course. Ensure that your selected articles reflect a blend of research that has contributed to generation of applicable theories as well as a critique and affirmation of the specific theories.

Develop an introduction on the background of the topic, the four-frame model, and the purpose of the literature review.

Analyze the seven articles and describe the key themes that emerge across the seven selected articles.

Synthesize the material and summarize the patterns of similarities and differences regarding how each of the authors has presented each theme.

Based on your analysis from the seven selected articles, conclude by explaining the importance of applying the four-frame model and its impact on successful management and leadership.

Choose at least seven articles that discuss some aspects of the four-frame model for analyzing organizations. Ensured that the selected articles reflect a blend of research that has contributed to generation of applicable theories as well as a critique and affirmation of the specific theories.

Provided an introduction that offered a good foundation for the rest of the assignment.

Identified specific, major themes that emerged from the articles and was able to relate them to the four-frame model.

Response incorporated analysis and synthesis of similarities and differences in the approaches from the literature.

Explained the importance of the four-frame model for successful management and backed up the affirmations with concepts from the articles.

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

Diagnosing the Change

Select a Diagnostic Model that you utilize to review aspects of change activities and actions that have been taken by the companies chosen. Here we are looking at the “parts” of the companies as well as their strategies, as surmised by your research in Part 1. It is acknowledged that this information will not be complete, as you are looking at these companies as an outsider; but a thoroughly researched paper will give enough data to allow some (well-defended) assumptions on your part.

Here’s what to do:

1. Choose one Diagnostic Model (i.e. 6-box, 7S, congruence, or etc.) to apply to the two chosen companies. Apple inc and Kodak. Choose the model which you feel best identifies and measures the relevant aspects of the organization’s performance and therefore the diagnostic choices made will affect your findings.

2. Apply the data obtained in your research through an analysis of the appropriate chosen model. This will allow you to create a diagnosis of where each company is today (as per the criteria of the model).

3. Create a SWOT Analysis for each of the two chosen companies change plans/programs, utilizing information obtained in the diagnosis. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.)

4. Compare the two company analyses to each other and offer your perspective (value judgment) of the effectiveness of the changes made to date in each case.

5. Identify potential areas of resistance that may occur and at least one strategy to respond to each. (This will most likely come from your Weaknesses/Threats section of your SWOT. If not, take another look at your SWOT.)

6. Write your paper including each of the above sections, and analyses

Change managers play an active role in the way change occurs within the organization. There are specific foundational approaches associated with the change process and the coach and interpreter images. Evaluate and discuss the Organizational Development (OD) approach as associated with the coach image. Evaluate and discuss the sense making approach as associated with the interpreter image. Compare and contrast the steps of each evaluated framework.

Your paper should be three to four pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, and it must include in-text citations and references for at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library, in addition to the course text.

• Remote Connectivity:
  • Discuss the remote connectivity needs for the system.
  • Identify the applications and hardware necessary to address the remote connectivity requirements.
  • Address security, troubleshooting, and maintenance for the remote connectivity.
• Network Implementation Plan final version:
  • Review the entire document for any changes and improvements that you would like to make.
  • Ensure that this final version of the document is sufficiently detailed to allow the system project managers to effectively implement the network.

Locating Resources

 

Locate a minimum of three community or national resources for your illness group chosen in Week 1, preferably in your community. Study these resources and write a report about them in a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document. Include in your response all the information the patient should know about them (the specific services they offer, fee schedules, if and when appropriate, criteria for eligibility, and any other important information). Discuss potential advantages and disadvantages for vulnerable populations in seeking these resources.

 

Support your responses with examples.

 

Cite any sources in APA format.

 

I need help on my chemistry homework im completely lost. the question says: Nuetral atoms of an element have 9 protons and 10 neutrons in the nuclei and the main shell electron configuration 2 7. Use the quantum mechanical notation to describe the electron configuration of the atom

A research paper from the book “An Introduction to sociolinguistics” fourth edition of Janet Holmes, from page 19 to page 128

Criminological Theories
The Positivist School
Cesare Lombroso
Criminals are born, not made (nature over nurture)
Focus on biological and psychological factors
Lombroso and Ferrero, “The Female Offender”
Atavism
W.I. Thomas, “The Unadjusted Girl
Female crime as socially induced pathology
Sigmund Freud,
“penis envy”
Otto Pollak, “The Criminality of Women”
“Masked” nature of female criminality
Strain Theory
Robert Merton’s traditional strain theory
Rift between goals and means, focus on material success
Albert Cohen’s work on delinquent boys
Source of strain on ability to achieve status and prestige
Tests of strain theory
Differential Association
Sutherland and Cressey’s DAT presented as a general, non-sex-specific theory
Females were largely ignored in their work
Theory has been used to explain male and female delinquency,
Also to understand gender differences in offending
Labeling Theory
Labeling theory provides an explanation as to how a person acquires a deviant label, and the effect of that label on later behavior
Two main tenets:
1. Some people are more likely to be labeled than others as a result of race, sex, class, and other differentiating characteristics
2. Once a deviant label is acquired, the labeled individual may go on to accept that label and continue to commit crime as a result

Social Control
Social Bond Theory
4 types of social bonds
attachment           – commitment
involvement         -belief
Introduced as non-sex-specific, but tested on white males
A General Theory of Crime
Links classical and positivist schools of thought by suggesting low-self control as an individual attribute
Here self-control, rather than social control, and criminal opportunity interact to explain offending
Power Control Theory
One of few theories to explicitly direct attention to issue of gender
Suggests that the gender-power makeup of parent’s relationship influences daughter’s delinquency
Marxist, Radical, and Critical Theories
Marxist or radical perspective on criminology
Evolved from Marx’s writings on social relations under a capitalist system
Critical legal studies emerged in the 1970s
They questioned the objectivity of the US legal system
CLT scholars went on to develop critical race theory to address issue related to law, power, and race/ethnicity
Women’s Liberation
Women’s liberation/emancipation hypothesis
The crime rate of women will begin to resemble that of men as gender inequality diminishes
Biosocial
Similar to early positivistic theories, recent efforts use biological explanations to understand offending
Much of this work focuses on violence against women, including rape, intimate partner abuse, child abuse, and infidelity
They often point to biological forces including sex drives and hormones to explain/excuse rape and DV
These theories are highly criticized by feminists—bad science
Find that a broad range of social and cultural factors are better predictors of these behaviors