Write briefly in response to the following, using your text and one other reference (preferably from the APUS online library) and citing both in APA format. Your paper should be 1200 – 1500 words long, with no more than 50 words as direct quotes from a source.

Think about a family you know (maybe your own, maybe someone else’s family, maybe a fictional family) that is headed by a single parent, or is culturally different from the American norm.

1. Describe the family. (No more than 500 words)
2. What special challenges does this family face?
3. What special strengths or assets do they have?
4. Are these the typical challenges and strengths seen in this kind of family?
5. Do you have any advice for this family?

Understanding Your Perceptions of Diversity

 

This week, you have begun learning about the complexities of culture and diversity, and developing an understanding that being respectful of and responsive to all types of diversity is an ongoing process. At the same time, you have been challenged to examine your own diversity (i.e., your cultural framework) in order to know yourself better and gain perspective on how your cultural framework might affect your attitudes, perceptions and interactions.

Before you participate in this week’s Discussion, review “Guidelines for Supportive Group Discussions” (p. 22 of your course text) and take the “Race Test” and the “Gender Test” at http://www.understandingprejudice.org/iat/index2.htm

Then, consider the following:

• What new understandings of diversity and bias have you gained in this first week of the course?
• Why is it important for people who work with young children and their families to understand their own diversity/cultural framework and biases?

By Day 3:

Post the following:

• An example of how your understanding of diversity has expanded and/or deepened in the first week of the course OR an example of how your understanding of your own diversity/cultural framework has expanded and/or deepened in the first week of the course.
• Why you believe professionals in the early childhood field need to understand their own diversity/cultural frameworks and biases.

Course Project Part 2—Setting Up Personal Goals

Continuing with the course project you started in Week 1, this week, you will interview a professional nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) who could be a mentor to you.

Tasks

Interview a professional nurse with a BSN who could be a mentor to you and who exemplifies the type of nurse you want to become.

Write a 1- to 2-page interview report. In your report, include the following:

• Identify and describe the attributes that make this nurse a role model for you.
• Explain the beliefs, values, attitudes, and philosophies this nurse demonstrates and relate it to your long-term goals.

• Describe the role of the nurse based on beliefs, values, attitudes, and philosophies.

Support your responses with examples from the readings or articles from the South University Online Library.

Use APA 6th Edition when formatting your assignment.

Team Analysis of Select Industry Groups

 

This analysis is a team assignment that requires your team to analyze a select group of alternative industries to determine which is most likely to perform best in terms of growth and earnings over the next 12 months. Your instructor will create your teams, ideally based on similar views about the near-term prospects for the U.S. economy expressed in the Individual Asset Allocation Exercise.

 

To guide this second stage analysis, you are asked to rely on the North American Industry Groups database available at Yahoo! Finance at Yahoo! Finance. The system is comprised of 9 business sectors:

 

• Basic Materials:

 

• Conglomerates

 

• Consumer Goods:

 

• Financial

 

• Healthcare

 

• Industrial Goods

 

• Services ( this is the assigned business sector selected)

 

• Technology

 

• Utilities

 

To simplify the exercise, the 215 industry groups within these 9 sectors have been reduced to a more analytically manageable list that includes only those industries at Yahoo! Finance with public firms totaling no less than 5 and no more than 15 companies. This list is attached as an appendix to this document.

 

 

 

To access more details on these groups go to  http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html and click on any of the industries to go to each industry’s “Industry Center” page. Additional useful information is available via the link to “Industry Browser” on the left. Also, on each industry’s summary page click on “Company Index” and then on “Public” on the subsequent page next to “View:” to get the list of public companies in this industry. Our focus is on publicly listed companies in which we might ultimately invest. The list of public companies is provided alphabetically. Following each name is the company’s ticker symbol in brackets.  See http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stocksymbol.asp or http://www.investorwords.com/4968/ticker_symbol.html  for brief definitions of stock/ticker symbols.

 

 

 

Please note that on occasion the ticker symbol may also be followed by other letters, such as PK or OB (see http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/04/022004.asp

 

or http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/120.asp for explanations). It is recommended that we ignore stocks so designated in these exercises.

 

 

 

The goal of this second stage in our equity analyst project is to select one industry out of this list of 24 whose performance prospects you determine are best over the next year. Here are some factors to consider when comparing industry groups:[1]

 

• Degree of Competition in the Industry
• Supply/Demand Dynamics for the Industry’s Products  (Only write on this topic)
• Industry Cost Structure
• Degree of Government Regulation-Favorable or Not
• Exposure to the Business Cycle
• Relative Financial Norms and Standards

 

 

 

Write a 2 page paper on Supply/Demand Dynamics on the AUTO DEALERSHIP industry, in APA format.

 

• 2 page paper
• Evaluate the impact of diversity training by forensic psychology professionals—s pecifically, respond to the difference it can make and evaluate its value.
• Analyze how the provision of diversity training impacts the police department as a whole. Be specific and provide examples.
• Support your responses with references to the Learning Resources and the research literature.

cite from any of these articles

 

• Article: Coderoni, G. R. (2002). The relationship between multicultural training for police and effective law enforcement. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 71(11), 16–18. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Article: Love, K. G., & DeArmond, S. (2007). The validity of assessment center ratings and 16 PF personality trait scores in police sergeant promotions: A case of incremental validity. Public Personnel Management, 36(1), 21-32. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Article: McGrath, R., & Guller, M. (2009). Concurrent validity of the candidate and officer personnel survey (COPS). International Journal of Police Science and Management, 11(2), 150–159. (Review from Week 2). Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Article: Simmers, K. D., Bowers, T. G., & Ruiz, J. M. (2003). Pre-employment psychological testing of police officers: The MMPI and the IPI as predictors of performance. International Journal of Police Science & Management, 5(4), 277–294. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Article: Steinheider, B., Wuestewald, T., & Bayerl, P. (2006). The effects of participative management on employee commitment, productivity, and community satisfaction in a police agency. Conference Papers-International Communication Association, 1–42. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Article: Wang, Y. R. (2006). Does community policing motivate officers at work and how? International Journal of Police Science & Management, 8(1), 67–77. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Article: White, M. D., & Escobar, G. (2008). Making good cops in the twenty-first century: Emerging issues for the effective recruitment, selection and training of police in the United States and abroad. International Review of Law Computers & Technology, 22(1–2), 119–134. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Module 7 – Changing Corporate Behaviour to Respond to Changing Demographics

• Objectives
• Instructor Comments
• Assignment

Module 7 – Changing Corporate Behaviour to Respond to Changing Demographics

Objectives

The aim of this assignment is to assess how the operations of a company might change when the demographic make-up of regions surrounding its operating locations change.

Instructor Comments

An important source of information for analysts of corporate behavior is census data. Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau host demographic data for their respective countries and make it available in many useful ways. In both cases, online researchers can access demographic profiles of towns, cities, counties, provinces and states in a matter of seconds. This is relevant for a course in change management as the demographic makeup of a region or locale can differ dramatically in different regions of the continent. Changes to the demography of a company’s operating locations can dramatically alter how it does business. The challenges of operating a business differ when the surrounding population is predominantly French as opposed to English or any other language. It also differs when much of the population is comprised of 1st generation immigrants as opposed to individuals families that have lived in a region for decades. Different demographic make ups of surround environments affect how a company sells, what is sells, who it hires, how it hires and why it hires. This assignment is about exploring how a change in office location might alter how a company does business.

Assignment

You should base your responses to the following questions on the insight found on the following websites.

• Federal Express http://www.fedex.com.
• Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca.
• U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov.

In this situation, Federal Express has decided to open three new offices. One is in St. John’s Newfoundland, a second is in Miami, Florida, while a third office is in Surrey British Columbia. Please assume that they currently do not have operations in those cities. When using the Statistics Canada website, under the Find Statistics heading, click on Community Profiles. When using the U.S. Census Bureau website, under Data Finder, look at Population Finder.

Please answer the following questions:

• Please examine the demographic make-up of these three communities. What are the important ways that they differ?
• How much bigger or smaller would Fedex’s operations need to be to serve the local markets of Miami and Surrey? How did you arrive at your estimate?
• Based on the demographic data, how might Fedex’s workforce differ in Surrey and Miami from that in St. John’s?
• What might Fedex do differently to serve each of these three markets? In other words, how might it slightly customize service to respond to each of these markets?
•  
• So what?

 

Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.

Module 8 – Changing Corporate Behaviour to Respond to Changing National Cultures

• Objectives
• Instructor Comments
• Assignment

Module 8 – Changing Corporate Behaviour to Respond to Changing National Cultures

Objectives

The aim of this assignment is to assess how a change in the national culture of a company’s operating environment alters how a company conducts business.

 

Instructor Comments

Just as different demographic profiles can lead to changes in how a company operates and organizes itself so to can operating in locations with different national cultures. This exercise introduces you to three useful online sources of information regarding different national cultures. Each allows users to sort by country and within each country explore different aspects or features of that culture. One important sources of comparative information is hosted on a website titled Geert Hostede.com which is named after the researcher who developed the dataset. A second data source is hosted by the Centre for Intercultural Learning of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Government of Canada. A third source is the website of a U.K. based company, Kwintessential.com. This assignment helps learners understand how a company’s practices will need to change depending upon the country within which it operates.

Assignment

You should base your responses to the following questions on the insight found on the following websites.

• Newfoundland Capital Corporation http://www.ncc.ca.
• Centre for Cross Cultural Learning http://www.intercultures.ca.
• Geert Hostede.com http://www.geert-hostede.com.
• Kwintessential http://www.kwintessential.co.uk.

In this situation, Newfoundland Capital Corporation has decided to expand from its home market of St. John’s, Newfoundland. It is opening an office in Mexico City, Mexico and Dusseldorf, Germany.

Please answer the following questions:

• How might the training of the company’s sales force need to change in order to conduct business in these two new markets?
• How might the company alter its negotiation practices for each market?
• How would business communications practices need to change for each market?
• How will decision making and the use of hierarchy need to change for the company’s offices in these two markets assuming that local staff be hired to run the offices?

 

Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.

   TOPICS:

1)How can we improve the presidential election process?

2.       2)How can we create better relationships with our fellow employees in the workplace?
3.       3)How can we create more jobs in the United States?

 

Assignment 1: Research Topics with Explanation

Due Week 2 and worth 100 points

Select three (3) topics that interest you most and identify two (2) credible sources for each topic. Note: This is one (1) of several parts that will build toward a final draft of your persuasive writing research paper.

Write a one to two (1-2) page paper in which you:

1. Explain the reason for selecting topic one (1), identify the audience, and provide a preliminary thesis statement.
2. Explain the reason for selecting topic two (2), identify the audience, and provide a preliminary thesis statement.
3. Explain the reason for selecting topic three (3), identify the audience, and provide a preliminary thesis statement.
4. Identify and document six (6) credible sources (two (2) for each topic) that you would expect to use. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources

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