Author: chris

Your final paper should be double-spaced, 8 to 10 pages in length, and properly edited.

Please use the following information to help you with each section:

1. 1. Cover page: Pay attention to APA style and refer to the example in your textbook.

 

1. 1. Abstract: Is written on its own page and is a very brief summary of your study. Think in terms of one sentence stating your research question, one or two sentences regarding background and what we already know about it, one or two sentences regarding your methodology (e.g., how many participants were used and how were your variables assessed), and one or two sentences about your findings.

 

1. 1. Intro/lit review: incorporate the feedback and make revisions to the introduction and literature review submitted in Week 4.

 

1. 1. Method section: incorporate the feedback and make revisions to the Method section submitted in Week 4.

 

1. 1. Results section: in one paragraph, state what statistical test would have been used and why it was chosen.

 

1. Discussion section: broken down into the following paragraphs:
   • • paragraph 1: statement of your results/findings (or what you imagine might be your results).
   • • paragraph 2: what might have affected those results (i.e., threats to internal and external validity). Include flaws in your design and confounding variables.
   • • paragraph 3: implications for your findings including the significance and impact on the field as well as future research directions.
2. Reference page: Pay attention to APA style and refer to the example in your textbook.

Overview:

This final paper will be the culmination of what we have accomplished in our first and second writing assignments. Now that we have identified and clarified the nature of our chosen social problem, and examined two key organizations that address this social problem, we will now give a more in depth discussion about the scope of the social problem, a major theoretical idea that can be applied to the social problem, and our own analysis of how this social problem might be better solved. A crucial part of this paper will be in identifying one of the major theoretical perspectives we have covered this session. The three major ones include the functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interaction approaches. However, as our texts point out, there are other theoretical viewpoints we may also adopt if we choose. The key will be in thoroughly reading and understanding these theoretical viewpoints, and finding the most effective one for understanding our chosen social problem of study.

Instructions:

Complete a 5-7 page final paper that analyzes the future impact of this social problem you have mentioned in the second writing assignment. In this assignment, you will cover:

1.    The scope of this social problem over the last 30-50 years. (note: you will need to use historical data to articulate the scope of this problem.)

2.    An analysis of one major theoretical perspective from our textbook that is useful in understanding this social problem.

3.    Finally, your own analysis of how you think addressing the social problem could be improved. In this analysis, please mention what you think should be done to solve this social problem. Your paper should utilize sound critical thought and it should provide appropriate APA in-text citations and APA full-reference citations.

4.    Use at least four concepts from our text (not used in our previous assignments) in your analysis.

Don’t forget to include proper APA-style citation and reference.

The assignment should include a title page, abstract and/or table of contents, body of paper, and also works cited page. This assignment should follow the APA format. In addition to our text, you will significantly incorporate research from at least 5 meaningful up-to-date resources, two of which must be from reputable, peer-reviewed academic journals. Please check the Course Materials for more information on this homework assignment.

Review the following scenario:

Assume that you have recently been hired as the director of continuous improvement of a company. You are an outside hire with limited history of the firm and personal capital at the firm, and you are responsible for lean production, total quality management (TQM), six sigma, and best practice implementation. Lean production means doing more with less, such as less inventory, fewer workers, or less space. A recent trade in quality management is lean six sigma (also known as lean sigma) that integrates six sigma and lean production. The capacity for which you were hired has existed for three years with a direct line of report to the vice-president of operations and dotted line of report to the head of information technology (IT), the chief information officer (CIO), and the director of internal controls and audit. You are the second person to fill in this position. You have a team of internal consultants; half of your team has six sigma black belt or equivalent capabilities with the remainder having a solid understanding of operations and IT. You also have a budget for two external vendor resources. You have taken six months to familiarize yourself with the organization and its people, mission, goals, strategy, and structure. In this time, you have also evaluated current operations. At the end of this period, you are assigned to deliver a report identifying the three most promising avenues for achieving best practices within the company. You have already been told that the company suffers from both aging and complex information systems and that your recommendation must include a major upgrade of those systems. The executive officers anticipate major investments in IT over the next several years. Your best practice implementations, coupled with new technology, must be measurable in terms of speed, quality, productivity, and efficiency or other key performance indicators that you identify in your report.

For this assignment, you will choose a company with which you are familiar. You are encouraged to choose a company for which you currently work or have worked, but you may choose some other firm if you believe it will be a compelling analysis.

You may choose one area of the company, such as a manufacturing plant or product design, to focus on if you can make a strong case. Your recommendations should have the following features.

• Repeatable: If you “fix” three things in a manufacturing plant, you should be able to tackle the “next” three in iteration.
• Scalable: If they work in one plant, they should work in all of them.
• Replicable: Your process for improvement should be repeatable in different, disparate parts of the organization.

This is a key initiative at the “C” level, and your recommendation will reach the board of directors.

Your paper must include the following sections:

1. Strategic Overview: (1 page)

   Provide a brief description of the following elements:

   1. The company, including its products or services
   2. Marketing strategy: target market segments, value proposition, market position, and source of competitive differentiation
   3. Organizational structure
   4. Any other relevant facts
2. Analysis of the Supply Chain: (4 pages)

   Analyze the supply chain for your identified company by explaining the following key elements of the supply chain:

   1. Identify key inputs, including less tangible assets, such as human resources and information. How are these key inputs sourced, reconfigured into a product or service, and delivered to your customers?
   2. Identify the key processes that add value, and evaluate the supply chain performance relative to the competition. What are the key inputs for each process? How are these inputs processed or configured into the final offering for your customers?
   3. What is the value added at each step?
   4. What is the role of information technology and e-commerce in serving your customers?
   5. What are the key performance measures for evaluating your supply chain?
   6. Research online sources to explain how the performance on these measures compares to that of your competitors?
3. Plan to Improve Operating Processes: (3 pages)

   Create a plan for improving the performance of three specific operating processes in your company. Your plan should address the following:

   1. Identify three elements of the supply chain that you recommend as targets for improvement.
   2. State the performance improvement opportunity for each element, and indicate how it will improve process speed, quality, efficiency, and productivity.
   3. Explain what specific action or change you recommend for each supply chain element selected.
4. Explanation of the Results of Performance Improvements Regarding Product or Service: (2 pages)

   Explain the following:

   1. How will your product or service be improved as a result of these changes to the supply chain activities?
   2. How are you altering the specific features or attributes of your product or service?
   3. Why are these specific changes important to your customers?
   4. How do these changes enhance the value proposition and competitive position of your company?
   5. What lasting capabilities and improvement are you introducing into your company through these changes?
   6. How will you measure the scope and impact of your improvements? What are your key performance indicators?
5. Assessment of the Impact on Human Resources: (1–2 pages)

   Detail how your plan impacts your company’s HR and human capital strategy by explaining how the organization’s structure supports the new process configuration you are recommending. Your response should address the following questions:

   1. Are the roles and responsibilities in your organization properly defined and aligned to enable these changes? Who will perform these new/modified process activities, and what changes to their jobs do you anticipate?
   2. Is decision-making authority assigned so that the process changes you propose can be implemented and properly managed under the current structure? Who will own the process and the results? Based on the current structure, will they have the authority to make changes as necessary?
   3. Are the individuals with the right skills in place to implement these changes? If not, how will you attract the talent necessary to implement your changes? How will you retrain the existing employee base? How will you handle attrition? How will you reduce the risk of impacted protected classes?
6. Changes:

   Explain changes to the compensation and incentives at your company that are necessary to reinforce your recommendations and increase efforts for continuous improvement throughout the organization. Explain how your plan motivates employees, customers, and suppliers better.

 

Write an 10–12-page paper in Word format. You may rearrange the above sections if it improves the quality of your paper. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina damaged the New Orleans and surrounding areas, news reports of groups of looters were announced. Oftentimes, when under the influence of a crowd, individuals will display aggressive or unlawful behavior that they would not otherwise participate in. This phenomenon is referred to as deindividuation.

In an APA-style paper of 800–1,000 words, research and discuss the following:

• Identify and describe a historical event in which the deindividuation phenomenon occurred.
• Explain the process of deindividuation (e.g., how it works, what changes happen within the individual to allow for unusual behavior).
• Discuss how deindividuation might also occur outside the presence of a crowd, such as in other settings in which a person feels anonymous.

Include at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles in your paper. Use in-text citations and a reference list according to APA-style guidelines.

Assignment 1: Portfolio Management

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze the relationship between risk and rate of return, and suggest how you would formulate a portfolio that will minimize risk and maximize rate of return.
2. Formulate an argument for investment diversification in an investor portfolio.
3. Address how stocks, bonds, real estate, metals, and global funds may be used in a diversified portfolio. Provide evidence in support of your argument.
4. Evaluate the concept of the efficient frontier and how you will use it to determine an asset portfolio for a specified investor.
5. Consider the economic outlook for the next year in order to recommend the ideal portfolio to maximize the rate of return for the short term and long term. Explain the key differences between the short and long term.
6. Use four (4) external resources to support your work. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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 or school-specific 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.

Deliverable Length: APA-style paper of 3–4 pages

One of the best ways to understand many of the concepts within social psychology is to examine real-world examples. The Key Assignment will be to discuss 1 such example (described below), and then explore the various social psychology concepts that are evident throughout the case.

A young Mexican-American man and his wife recently relocated to an upscale neighborhood in the suburbs of Chicago. Although the man speaks with a strong accent, he is fluent in English. The man works for a corporation in the area, and his family makes the average income for those living within that region of the state. Unfortunately, while looking for an apartment to rent, the man has two encounters with potential landlords that leave him feeling frustrated and discriminated against. Upon meeting with the man in person, both landlords denied the man the ability to rent from their facilities. Upon returning to his wife after these encounters, the man complained about the “crooked and underhanded” landlords that he had met as well as the possibility of filing a formal complaint.

Part 1

Summarize the example above, and provide similar examples from your own research of current events. Some examples might include minority people being denied access to jobs, harsher punishment for people of color, and so forth. Feel free to use various media sources to obtain a variety of examples. Please cite and describe at least 3 examples in addition to the one provided above.

• Include an account of each example and the people involved.
• Describe the reactions of the public, if applicable.
• Discuss cultural attitudes toward the minority people in your example that might be relevant in understanding your example.
• Discuss cultural attitudes toward women and men that might be relevant in understanding these events.

Also, begin to identify some of the social psychology concepts or theories that are relevant to the example given and the ones that you found. Consider the topics covered in Weeks 1–3, especially those related to discrimination, aggression, bystander apathy, and the fundamental attribution error. You will discuss these concepts in Part 2 of the Key Assignment.

In this assignment, you will write a 10- to 15-page paper applying what you have learned throughout this course. You will build upon the assignment completed in M4 Assignment 2. This paper is to be in the correct APA format, which includes a title page, an abstract page, and at least ten scholarly sources.

You must consider all of the following for your paper:

• Describe a criminal behavior in detail.
  • Define all relevant typologies or categories that pertain to your selected criminal behavior in detail.
  • Identify the statistics for the incident and rate of your selected criminal behavior in the U.S. Evaluate any issue you find with the statistics (i.e., possible issue with underreporting).
  • Describe the typical perpetrator of your selected criminal behavior (i.e., in terms of gender, age, race, SES, etc.).
• Discuss etiology theories for this particular criminal behavior .
  • Describe the developmental risk factors associated with your selected criminal behavior.
  • Describe the biological, social learning, and sociological theories related to your selected criminal behavior.
  • Apply at least two historical psychological theories related to your selected criminal behavior (i.e., psychoanalytical, theories of aggression, etc.).
• Describe prevention, intervention, and treatment of the typical perpetrator for your selected criminal behavior .
  • Describe current prevention, intervention, and treatment associated with your selected criminal behavior.
  • Discuss specific modalities (i.e., group treatment, individual treatment, social programs, etc.) and types of treatment (i.e., cognitive behavioral, empathy training, anger management, etc.).
  • Identify statistics related to treatment success and recidivism rates for your selected criminal behavior.
• Conclude your paper with a brief overview of your main points and discuss areas for future research .
  • Summarize the main points discussed in your paper.
  • Discuss what is needed in terms of future research (i.e., more research on risk factors, etiology or more research on better treatment, etc.).

Assignment 2: LASA: Industrial Organization (I/O) Consultant Report

Scenario:

Erica Freeman, president and CEO of LoneStar Landscaping, has recently partnered with Andrew Porter to expand her established, reputable business to include his business specialties: hardscapes, pools, and spas. Erica and Andrew realize that they need to examine combined organizational structure, hire additional staff, and perhaps reassign several existing employees.

Tasks:

Erica and Andrew hire you as an Industrial Organization (I/O) consultant. Design a narrated Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to help them accomplish their goals.

In your presentation, respond to the following:

• Section 1: Explain the role of a job analysis for successfully accomplishing their stated goals.
  • Explain why a job analysis is a necessary prerequisite to engage in the employee classification, selection, and placement projects.
  • Evaluate the existing job description that Erica and Andrew have provided you for the office manager position.
  • Deliver your professional opinion regarding whether the existing job description is sufficient or whether it needs revisions.
  • Justify your recommendations by citing relevant resources.
• Section 2: Create and critique a selection rating scale for the position of receptionist.
  • Select and describe fifteen to twenty factors such as education, experience, abilities, and attitude, for assessment based on the job description provided.
  • Describe the measures used to assess candidate skills: resume, interview, other assessment instruments, or behavioral observation or a combination of assessment measures.
  • Design instructions for the use of the rating scale.
  • Discuss how you would test for reliability and validity of your selection plan.
  • Justify your recommendations by citing relevant resources.
• Section 3: Analyze the need for a classification policy at LoneStar Landscaping. Next, develop an appropriate classification policy for LoneStar.
  • Identify the variety of employment classifications that may exist at the company, including exempt versus nonexempt, seasonal, temporary, and regular.
  • Explain how the policy addresses federal and state laws; clearly define each classification.
• Section 4: Create a diversity policy for LoneStar Landscaping.
  • Identify and integrate strategies in the selection process to ensure the diversity in the hiring practices of LoneStar Landscaping.
  • Explain what considerations Erica and Andrew must make in order to address the needs of a multicultural candidate pool.
• Section 5: Recommend a candidate for the position of office manager. (Note, the office manager is a different position from that of the receptionist position mentioned in section 1).
  • Erica and Andrew interviewed three candidates for an open administrative position. Please review their resumes and profiles and view and/or read a transcript of their interviews.

    Click here to view the details. Please note that there are multiple screens of additional detail. You will need to click the next arrow located in the bottom right-hand corner of each screen to advance to the next screen of additional detail.

  • Based on your learning in this course and the information provided in the interview materials, recommend and justify the best candidate for the job. Give reasons for choosing one candidate and not choosing the others.

Project description
Watch the movie ” The Butler” and write a movie reflection with answering the following questions.
1.What is the theme of the Project?
Circle one:
Race/Ethnicity/Culture/Gender/Sexual OrientationReligion/SES/Disabilities/Generations

2.What is the Main issue of the movie when considering the theme?

3.What are some underlying factors of the main issue (what causes the issue)?

4.How is this issue similar to what is happening today?

5.How does this issue affect todays society?

6.How does this issue affect you? (Not I dont know, I dont care, or it doesnt. This means to actually process it)

7.What is your personal experience with the issue (directly or indirectly, not it doesnt)?

3. In Theoretical Explanation explain in GREAT DETAIL how the BCD ADDER works!
4. In Code Input please provided the code you wrote! Should be commented!
5. In Code Explanation explain your code in GREAT DETAIL including the test bench
file.
I will include screenshots of the code and test bench.