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BUS 370, WK 2 DISUCCION 1&2

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Discussion 1

Ethical Consulting [CLOs: 1,2,3]

A company that needs help with implementing a process you have little familiarity with has contacted you. Although you could most likely learn it, you would not be a subject matter expert in the period in which they need you. You are certain you could learn the process and could use the extra income, as your consulting has been a little slow. What are the implications for deciding not to take the assignment? What are the implications for taking the assignment? What would you do and why? Respond to two classmates’ posts.

Discussion 2

Describe your experience with a consultant, either from your place of employment (current or previous), in the community, or as the consultant yourself. Thinking of this week’s lecture and the components of a contract, did he/she follow that process? If not, what was missed? Describe your experience.

If you do not have experience with a consultant, recall a situation from your experience where you would have benefited from having an OD Consultant. What would you have done as a consultant? Why?

Discussion Assignment

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As the Chief Human Resource Officer of Community State University, you have just been contacted by your legal team. They informed you that your organization has been selected to undergo a Federal I-9 audit. You decided to do a spot check on 5 random departments and noticed that numerous I-9’s were filled out incorrectly. You only have one month before the auditors arrive to do an entire I-9 audit on over 100 departments and the president of the university expects a strategic update on how to tackle this issue in 2 days.

For the first part of your post, describe the immigration forms and documents needed to apply for a job. Research and review an I-9 Form and describe the documents that you would produce to establish legal U.S. status.

For the second part of your post, recommend a plan of action to correct the deficient forms described in the scenario above. In your discussion, analyze whether the I-9 Form and other documents are enough to establish legal status in the U.S. and are adequate protection for employers.

For the third part of your post, justify one additional safeguard that could be added to protect the employer from unknowingly hiring an illegal immigrant. Post to the Discussion Area by Saturday, August 29, 2015, review, and comment on at least two of your classmates posts.

The characteristics of water as a fire suppression agent

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The characteristics of water as a fire suppression agent

Prepare a well-organized and thoughtful five to seven page research paper. The paper should expand on what you learned during this course. Show that you understand the issues using life experiences. This paper should demonstrate a higher level of learning with examples to show that you can analyze the information and apply it to other situations. A title page and reference page are required but not included as part of the paper length. Requires that students use the outside sources. All sources used, including the textbook, must have accompanying citations, and may include Internet sources, books and professional journals, or resources related to the course. Your research paper must contain at least three references.

APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed.

Design Decision

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CSS 422 WEEK 4 Discussion

Design Patterns

Supporting Activity: Design Decision

Write a 50- to 150-word response to the following:

1Discuss the choice of programming language and its relation to architecture, and the design decision in one of these six categories:

Allocation of responsibilities

Coordination model

Data model

Management of resources

Mapping among architectural elements

Binding time decisions

Supporting Activity: Trust Boundary

Write a 50- to 100-word response to the following question:

2 If you were the software architect of an online election system for your county, how would you define the trust boundary of this system?

Software Engineering: Modern Approaches

Write a 50- to 100-word response to the following questions:

3 Choose any software application, such as Firefox, and Use UML sequence diagrams to show how the security mechanisms within the application operate.

4 Describe at least two applications, other than online auctions and file sharing, where trust or reputation management may prove useful, and explain the rationale for your choices

.5. Evaluate whether the PACE architectural style could be used to build the participants in the above applications

6. What challenges to security are introduced by decentralized applications? What is trust management?

7 What is security? What are the properties that a software system must exhibit in order to be called secure?

8. Critique the Agile Manifesto in the context of a 200-developer, 5-million-line project with an expected lifetime of 20 year.

Individual: Quality Attributes

Assignment:

prepare a 3 page paper in APA format that describes the following.

Select a nonfunctional property or quality attribute for your paper and describe it.

Describe the benefits and drawbacks of your selected nonfunctional property or quality attribute.

Describe how choosing one technology over another would satisfy this nonfunctional property or quality attribute.

Use appropriate external citations and references (minimum of 3), in addition to including internal references to the required readings where relevant (at least 1), within the assignment. Be sure citations and references follow the University of Phoenix approved style guide format (the Written Assignments Guidelines, along with properly cited APA references). Please Note: Dictionary and Encyclopedia citations and references will not count towards your reference/citation count. Refer to the Instructor Policies to identify External and Internal references.

MGT 435 Week 3 Assignments

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Discussion 1

Tools of Organizational Change

Select one of the following tools: the nine steps in Ackerman and Anderson’s roadmap for change, Cummings and Worley’s five dimensions of leading and managing change, or the three components of organizational change. Explain how a leader could use this tool in guiding an organizational change. Review several of your peers’ posts. Respond to two peers who did not choose the same tool as you. Discuss the similarities and differences between the tools.

Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

Discussion 2

Changes at the Top

Using at least one resource from the Ashford University Library, or a reputable online source, explain what impact you think the loss of Steve Jobs has, and will have, on Apple’s primary stakeholder groups: customers, employees, and investors. In what ways do you think Tim Cook’s leadership might change Apple? Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.

Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

Integrated Business Communication

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Integrated Business Communication. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper that addresses the following:

Turnitin not over35%

As a future executive, explain what you think are the most important communication issues you will have to face as you embark upon your career.
Discuss whether communication will become more complex, or less complex, and why.
Address what role technology will play in the communication of thoughts and ideas.
Discuss how the information gap between generations, cultures, income levels, and education can be resolved.
Include a statement of your personal philosophy on the future of integrated business communication.

The format of the paper is to be as follows:

Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format, a Microsoft Word document.

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Assignment:

For this assignment, you will use what you identified as your approach in this week’s Discussion Board to identify and assess all of the risks that are associated with your project. You should identify a minimum of 8 risks then assess them by employing the techniques that you selected in the Discussion Board assignment.

For the compilation of your risk assessment component, you may use a table similar to the following:

Note: This is just a sample, and you may choose to represent it in a different format as long as you have all of the pertinent risk-related information, including the following:

Risk name
Risk description
Likelihood (using a scale)
Impact (use both as a scale and description)

Leave room to append more information later to show your mitigation strategy.

The following is an example of ranking the risks using a 2×2 risk matrix approach:

In this sample 2×2 ranking matrix, the risks that should receive the highest priority are the risks that are in quadrant 1, and the risks that will receive the least attention are in quadrant 4.

Deliverables:

The overall project deliverables are the following:

Update the Key Assignment Document title page with a new date and project name.
Update previously completed sections based on instructor feedback.
Complete the New Content below, and copy it under the sections in Key Assignment Document called “Project Risks Identification” and “Project Risks Assessment”:
New Content
Project Risks Identification
Use the project risk categories that you brainstormed during the previous week to categorize the risks that you have determined for this assignment.
Show a list of stakeholders and project teams that you utilized to identify risks.
Thoroughly describe each project risk (at least 8), which includes the source for identifying the risk.
Identify and show the specific technique that you used to identify the risks, such as cause and effect, a fishbone diagram, a SWOT analysis, interview notes, and an assumption list.
Project Risks Assessment
Create a table similar to the sample above, or use another method to list the risk, the likelihood of occurrence, and the overall severity of impact if it occurs.
Fill in the table with the information from the project identification utilizing the 2 scales that you determined as a part of your Discussion Board assignment. Be sure to consider both the cost and schedule impact as you determine the overall impact.
Rank your risks based on both the likelihood and impact using a technique, such as 2×2 matrix as shown in the assignment description section.
Be sure to update your table of contents before submission.
Name the document “yourname_MPM344_IP2.doc.”

A few hundred words

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Topic: Reinforcement

Question/Prompt: Reinforcement is central to the behaviorist view of learning. Define reinforcement and discuss 1 suggestion from your textbook of how reinforcement could be used to increase desirable behaviors in the classroom (see Ormrod, 2012, Chapter 5). Provide an example of a classroom behavior that you would like to increase using your selected technique. Describe how you would actually go about implementing it in the classroom. Share an example from the Bible of when Jesus used reinforcement to increase desirable behaviors in his followers.

When faced with a problem, what do you do to solve it? This assignment asks you to apply a six-step to problem solving process to a specific problem scenario

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18Assignment 2: Problem Solving

When faced with a problem, what do you do to solve it? This assignment asks you to apply a six-step to problem solving process to a specific problem scenario. You will write a paper that presents a synthesis of your ideas about solving the problem using this systematic approach. As Voltaire said, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

Choose one (1) of the problem scenarios as a topic choice for your paper (Note: Your professor must approve your topic choice before you begin work on the assignment.)

Scenario 1: You have worked at your company for eleven (11) years. You have returned to college to earn a Bachelor’s degree in order to increase your chances for a promotion. You are nearly finished with your degree, when a supervisor’s position in a competing company becomes available in another state. The start date is in two (2) weeks, during your final exam period for your courses. The position offers a $15,000 per year salary increase, a car allowance, and relocation expenses. Your former supervisor works for the company and is recommending you for the position based on your outstanding job performance; if you want the job, it’s yours. All of the other supervisors at this level in the company have Master’s degrees, so you know that you would be expected to earn your Bachelor’s degree and continue on to a Master’s degree. Your present company offers tuition reimbursement, but the new company does not.

Scenario 2: Your child comes home from school with an assignment sheet for a school project. He / she is very excited about the project and begins work immediately, doing research on the Internet and gathering materials. You read over the assignment sheet and notice that your child is not including all of the required items in the project, and you have some ideas for how to improve the quality of the presentation. You recently read an article in a parenting magazine about the importance of a child developing responsibility for his/ her own learning. You recall the many ways in which your parents took over your school projects. You, on the other hand, want to encourage your child’s confidence in his / her ability to complete a project independently. The next day, you are at the grocery store when you see a parent of a student in your child’s class. That parent has spent over $30 in supplies for the science project and is taking a day off of work to put the pieces of the project together.

Scenario 3: You have two jobs—one during the week from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, and one on Saturday from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm. You are taking two classes—one that meets from 6:00 to 10:00 pm, and one class online. You have two kids—one who plays soccer, and one who is in band. You have two elderly parents who no longer drive. You have two siblings—one who lives two (2) miles away, and one who lives in another state. You have two (2) papers due in your classes the same week that one (1) of your children has a soccer tournament, and the other child has a band concert. You are coaching the soccer team, and you are in charge of fundraising for the band. You have a goal to complete your degree in two (2) years. Your doctor tells you that your blood pressure, your cholesterol, and your weight are too high and recommends several medications that cost you nearly $200 per month after your insurance co-pay.

Scenario 4: You are a sales representative for a company that encourages staff to log time in the field and away from the office. You are expected to begin and end your day at the office. You notice that each day when you arrive and return another co-worker is already there, and you wonder whether this person spends most of his / her time at the office. At your weekly sales meeting, you are informed of your co-workers’ outstanding sales performance. You suspect that this co-worker is spending more time flattering the boss instead of working leads in the field, and as a result is getting the best client referrals. Your own sales numbers have steadily decreased since this other sales representative was hired.

Scenario 5: Professor’s Choice – problem scenario presented by your professor.

Scenario 6: Student’s Choice – Problem scenario presented by you.

Review the six-step problem solving process outlined in the webtext, based on the article “The Problem Solving Process” located at http://www.gdrc.org/decision/problem-solve.html:

Step One: Define the problem
Step Two: Analyze the problem
Step Three: Generate options
Step Four: Evaluate options
Step Five: Make your decision
Step Six: Implement and reflect

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Define the problem in the scenario that you have chosen.

2. Analyze the problem in the scenario.

3. Generate options for solving the problem in the scenario.

4. Evaluate the options for solving the problem.

5. Decide on the best option for solving the problem.

6. Explain how you will implement the decision made and reflect on whether this option was the most effective.

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

You should follow these submission guidelines:

Submit the paper draft to Turnitin.com and then submit the originality report with the draft to Blackboard.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Recognize the hindrances to the decision-making process in order to apply problem-solving skills to a variety of situations.
Create written work utilizing the concepts of critical thinking.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in critical thinking skills and informal logic.

Assignment 1 Job Analysis Activity

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Assignment 1 Job Analysis Power Point Presentation

Worth up to 18 points and 18% of course grade

Objective of the assignment:

Job analysis is a core skill for HR professionals and a key task for organizations to perform. So many of the employment decisions are based on this one task. The purpose of the activity is for you to gain practice in conducting a job analysis and to gain knowledge about the methods to collect data for the analysis.

Deliverable:

For this assignment, you are asked to develop a plan to gather data for a job analysis, use at least two of the methods to gather data, write a short job description and job specification based on the data you have gathered. Please do not use your own position and do not use a job description already written. If you do not work outside the home, you have other opportunities for positions to analyze. If you do not have a position in a typical office, retail establishment or production facility you can use, seek out a position from elsewhere. The opportunities could include a server at a restaurant, a service provider in your home, your hair stylist, a sales assistant, the receptionist at your doctor’s office or perhaps your child’s au pair, tutor, teacher or nanny.

First review the material presented in the course about how to conduct a job analysis, the various methods for collecting data and the pros and cons of the various methods.

After you have selected your methods for collecting the data, select the position (a job) to analyze and use at least two of the methods for collecting data, collect the data using the methods selected and summarize your findings in a short job description and job specification. .

Place the power point presentation in the assignments folder In the power point presentation, share the following:

1. Provide an academic definition of job analysis and a short description of how it is used in organizations. Provide an in text citation for the definition.

2. The position you selected to analyze.

3. The methods you selected for gathering data, an academic definition of each, an in text citation and the pros and cons of each data collection method you selected.

4. The rationale for why you selected the methods you did (tell why you selected the methods you did).

5. A description of your experience in collecting the data (how did it go? – was is easy, hard, stressful? for example).

6. A short sample position description and job specification you were able to design based on the data you gathered. Include an academic definition of position. description and specification along with the in text citation for each.

7. Suggestions for data gathering if you were to complete this assignment again and desire to make it even more accurate.

Please try to present your data in no more than 10 slides including your title slide and reference page (recall that if you have in text citations you must also have a reference page and it is to be in APA format including displayed in alphabetical order). Keep all the relevant content in the slide content area and use the notes area on the slide for other supplemental information

Additional information on job analysis:

http://managementstudyguide.com/job-analysis-methods.htm

http://ezinearticles.com/?Job-Analysis-Methods&id=4258790

http://www.zeepedia.com/read.php?job_analysis_methods_of_collecting_job_analysis_information_observation_source_of_data_human_resource_management&b=33&c=15
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