Author: chris

Read the following statements from your course textbook and answer the following questions:

There is no complementary or alternative medicine (CAM). There is only medicine; medicine that has been tested and found to be safe and effective . . . Medicine that has been tested and not found to be safe and effective . . . and medicine that is plausible but has not been tested . . .

• How would you apply the above statement to CAM therapies?
• “Complementary therapy” and “alternative therapy” are the terms used interchangeably. Do you think a meaningful difference exists between these two terms? Why?
• What barriers exist in traditional (allopathic) medicines for acceptance of CAM therapies?
• Why is it insufficient to rely on a century’s worth of anecdotal evidence for alternative therapies?

Keeping in view the fact that CAM involves key components that often differ from those of contemporary Western medical practices, answer the questions below:

• If CAM therapies focus on wellness, how does this focus differ from allopathic medicine?
• Proponents of CAM believe that the body is self-healing. What is your view regarding the same? Give an example from the course textbook or your experience to support this contention.
• What role do plants play in supporting CAM interventions?
• CAM therapies are often personalized. How does this individualization contrast with modern allopathic medicine?

Read the following statements from your course textbook and answer the following questions:

There is no complementary or alternative medicine (CAM). There is only medicine; medicine that has been tested and found to be safe and effective . . . Medicine that has been tested and not found to be safe and effective . . . and medicine that is plausible but has not been tested . . .

• How would you apply the above statement to CAM therapies?
• “Complementary therapy” and “alternative therapy” are the terms used interchangeably. Do you think a meaningful difference exists between these two terms? Why?
• What barriers exist in traditional (allopathic) medicines for acceptance of CAM therapies?
• Why is it insufficient to rely on a century’s worth of anecdotal evidence for alternative therapies?

Keeping in view the fact that CAM involves key components that often differ from those of contemporary Western medical practices, answer the questions below:

• If CAM therapies focus on wellness, how does this focus differ from allopathic medicine?
• Proponents of CAM believe that the body is self-healing. What is your view regarding the same? Give an example from the course textbook or your experience to support this contention.
• What role do plants play in supporting CAM interventions?
• CAM therapies are often personalized. How does this individualization contrast with modern allopathic medicine?

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 theDiscussion Area by Saturday, October 24, 2015, review, and comment on at least two of your classmates posts.

What is the biggest threat in the healthcare industry? Why? Provide a fact-based rationale for your choice.

Does the healthcare industry face different threats now than they it did twenty years ago? What are the new threats?

How would you prepare for the new threat?

How could a healthcare facility prepare itself in the event terrorists began to focus on soft targets such as sporting events, shopping malls, or healthcare facilities?

What is the effect of communication on collaboration with other agencies or organizations dealing with a disaster situation?

Why did it take 9/11 for top law enforcement agencies of the United States to begin sharing information? How important is this sharing of information to fight against terror?

What are the guidelines for establishing effective lines of communication in a disaster scenario?

Identify and describe the Eight Dimensions of Organizational Capacity for Change (OCC). For each Dimension, discuss its significance to the organization and whether or not you believe it is essential to OCC. Support your positions with examples.

The Eight Dimensions of Organizational Capacity for Change (OCC) are:

1. Trustworthy Leadership

2. Trusting Followers

3. Capable Champions

4. Involved Midmanagement

5. Systems Thinking

6. Communication Systems

7. Accountable Culture

8. Innovative Culture

Instruction:

Using the text book as a primary source, please compose a 3-5 page response to the statement above.

Follow the rubric requirements (attached).

Sources must be cited with APA format.

This week, you will start work on a detailed course project, and you will be adding to the project as you progress with the course each week.

This week, you will begin by creating a storyboard for an application.

Using any graphic resources, such as scanning hand-sketched paper drawings or using Microsoft Paint or Adobe Photoshop, create a simple storyboard to examine a possible project and unify a team around a design.

To do so, complete the following tasks:

• • In a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document, propose an application, that is, small software which performs a service on a mobile device or on a smart phone or tablet.

Make the purpose small and achievable. For example, imagine an application that constantly keeps you updated on what is happening in the class, with classmates posting and commenting on your work and assignments. Be sure to explain the purpose of your proposed application.

• Create at least six screens representing various states of the interface depending on what the user does or selects. Using images, demonstrate how an application like this might work: Open and close screen options and simple branching.

Note: Do not use any video in this application. Just develop a storyboard, which can be created on paper and then scanned or use Drawing or Diagramming in Google Drive.

In this final assignment, you will design a total rewards program based on an existing organization that you have studied earlier in the course or, with the instructor’s permission, a different organization.

Before creating the final projected total rewards program, you will have conducted a research project in which you have obtained thorough and detailed information about organizational goals, objectives, and challenges. In addition, you will have obtained information about the current monetary and non-monetary rewards and work environment of the organization and the challenges or changes (such as expansions, downsizing, changes of services or products) the organization anticipates. You will have also designed metrics to evaluate the total rewards program.

In the final paper, you will provide the research findings in a report of at least 10 pages plus a title page, reference page, and appendix documents including implementation timeline and metrics. Provide at least eight sources (in APA format) in a reference list and respective in-text citations. Please be sure to use topic headings and include the following:

1.  Provide a Title Page in Academic Format

2.  Give the Introduction and Purpose for the Paper

3.  Summarize and describe the organization, including its capabilities, key goals, objectives, challenges, values, and core competencies required for success.

4.  Show your knowledge of the total rewards model by describing the current total rewards philosophy of the organization and its three categories of offerings.

5.  Identify and describe the segmentation of the workforce (drawing up our study of how to differentiate employee groups depending on their drivers, such as flexible schedules, growth potential, desire for demonstrating individual expertise or team success, low obligation and easy income, or high obligation and high income).

6.  Describe further the current requisite capabilities of the organization and the competencies (knowledge, skills, and abilities) of the employees and, in your opinion, an analysis of whether the current needs will change given the issues faced by the organization.

7.  Recommend changes to the total rewards program, along with specific plans, including plans for communicating the changes and metrics that should be used by the organization to evaluate the success of the new program.

8.  Present the justification for your recommendations.

9.  Assess and discuss the risks of not implementing the program and the opportunities the program will give the organization.

10.  Provide your metrics for evaluating the total rewards program and share why you chose the ones you did.

11. Present a general explanation for the timeline for implementation (to be presented in a table or graph format in the timeline portion of the paper.

12. Describe your conclusions and a summary of knowledge gained about total rewards through the activity.

13. Reference Page (with at least 8 scholarly sources)

To ensure the security of the files used by the new Web site, files need to access controls that limit which users can view and execute them. To further your understanding of file permissions, describe in detail these 5 file listings, explain all items on each line, explain what they specify or mean, and give the chmod command to set files with these permissions:

-rwxr-xr– 1 instruct staff 270311 Aug 11 2009 install.sh-rw-r–r– 1 instruct staff 348039 Aug 12 2008 User_Guide.txt-rw-r—– 1 instruct staff 635106 Aug 12 2009 Admin_Guide.txtdrwxr-xr-x 4 instruct staff 144 Aug 12 2009 Documents-rwsr-sr-x 1 nobody nobody 169202 Aug 11 2009 httpd

It is also a necessity to know and understand regular expressions, not only at the UNIX command line, but editors and some programs use them quite extensively.

Explain the following Metacharacters/Regular Expressions:

*?^$[0–9][a–z]

Give a regular expression to match the following:

All files that end in txtFiles that have a second character of a and end in shAny file that starts with a numberA blank lineA traditional 10-digit U.S.-based phone number, in the following format:(407) 555-1212

Submit the explanations, commands, definitions, and expressions in a Word document

Prompt: So far throughout this course, you have been looking at different facets of the company from database needs and options to website needs and options. For your Milestone Four assignment, you will be looking at hardware and software needs and hardware and software options. You will be using the Milestone Four section of the template to complete this assignment. Refer to the Sharpe Style scenario for details on the current state of the company and the business owner’s goals. Begin your response by explaining why it is important to consider the current IT infrastructure when integrating new e-commerce features to a website (the specifics of which you looked at in Module Four). Discuss how the business’s current IT affects the costs of data storage and processing. You should also discuss how the current business’s current IT affects customer satisfaction with the purchasing experience. Next, explain the hardware and software infrastructure currently in place at Sharpe Style. Refer to the scenario and the Final Project Template for an IT flowchart depicting the hardware and software in place. Use the flowchart to describe what the company has, and state what it is the company lacks. Draw conclusions for how the current state is negatively impacting business processes. Now that you have systematically gone through and identified needs and options to present to Mary Sharpe to help her migrate into online sales, complete the Matrix of Options in Appendix C of the Final Project Template to help organize the research you have done to persuasively communicate your ideas. See the prompt in the Appendix of your Final Project Template. After completing your matrix of options, you can now address some additional considerations. For example, what compatibility issues exist with the different options? Explain your response in terms of how these issues affect the business process. In proposing solutions to these conclusions, what factors should the business owner consider when deciding whether to use in-house or external IT resources and services such as cloud computing or companies that specialize in hosting online stores? What are the short-term and long-term trade-offs?

ASSIGNMENT

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

IV. Hardware and Software Needs and Options: Use this section of your report to analyze the business’s hardware and software needs with respect to the proposed expansion into online sales and lay out possible solutions for meeting the needs you identified. Specifically, you should address the following:

A. Analysis of current IT system

1. Explain why it is important to consider the current IT infrastructure of the business when integrating new e-commerce features to a website. In your response, be sure to discuss how the business’s current IT affects the costs of data storage and processing. You should also discuss how the business’s current IT affects customer satisfaction with the purchasing experience (and ultimately sales).

2. What IT infrastructure (hardware and software) is currently in place, and how does that affect business processes? Use the provided IT flowchart in the appendix to help support your discussion.

B. Present the different options you considered in a simple matrix the business owner can use as a quick reference when making decisions or discussing the potential new site with web designers and include it as an appendix. You may use the template provided or create your own. However, the matrix should clearly communicate the options, their key features, and their pros and cons in language the business owner can understand.

V. Additional Considerations: Use this section to explain other factors the business owner should consider when making IT decisions related to the proposed expansion. Your report should cover the following:

A. What compatibility issues exist with the different options? Be sure to explain your response in terms of how these issues affect the business process. For example, how can the current system be used with the new technology, or, if it cannot, what needs to be done to migrate from the current to the new technology? You may want to include real-world examples of what has or has not worked for other companies to illustrate your point(s).

B. What factors should the business owner consider when deciding whether to use in-house or external IT resources and services such as cloud computing or companies that specialize in hosting online stores? Be sure to discuss short-term and long-term trade-offs in your response

12 FONT- TIME ROMAN-APA FORMANT

Analyze and report the importance of each of the following elements in forming a corporation. Remember to include the definitions and page references as part of your report.

1. Corporation as a Legal Person
2. Differences among Domestic, Foreign, and Alien types of corporations
3. Selecting a name for a corporation
4. Selecting a state to incorporate withinAs an example of why a majority of organizations, incorporate these two states, review the Delaware and Nevada Corporation Law.
5. Establishing a purpose for the corporation
6. Identifying a registered office with a registered agent

Submission Requirements:

• Submit your responses in a minimum of a three-page, double-spaced Microsoft Word document. Please make sure you include the title page and the reference page as part of your submission.
• Cite sources in the APA format.
• Adhere to Standard English grammar, spelling, and punctuation requirements.
• Use 12-point Arial font.