Author: chris

Training is a fundamental component to any organization. Organizations spend thousands of dollars each year to train and develop employees. Many of the programs do not produce the desired result of increased productivity.

Using the Argosy University online library resources, research factors to determine how needs assessments benefit organizations.

Write a 6-8 page paper addressing the following items:

• Define needs assessment
• Determine the cost-effectiveness of companies conducting need assessments
• Identify steps companies can employ to modify ineffective training programs that are not cost effective
• Discuss the role that technology, computer based training, webinars, etc, play in determining the cost effectiveness of training programs.
• Explain the steps or guidelines which can be utilized to help guide the successful implementation of a  training program

Minimum of three (3) peer-reviewed, scholarly sources, within the last ten (10) years, not including the text material.

Unit III Case Study

 

Read the case studies on pages 192-209 of your textbook. Once you have read and reviewed the case scenario, respond to the following questions with thorough explanations and well supported rationale.

 

1. To what degree does the product align with the current trend of healthy living? How does the family life cycle work into discussion?

 

2. What is involved with successful branding? Explain how solid brand management and positioning would impact this product.

 

3. Based upon your assessment, has Frito Lay identified the most appropriate target market? Include your rationale. Would you suggest an alternative or additional target market?

 

4. Are the Sun Chips multi-grain snacks a sustainable new product addition to the Frito Lay product line? Think about whether it aligns with Frito Lay’s overall product marketing strategies. Include some level of discussion on the competition and industry.

 

Your response should be a minimum of three pages in length, double spaced. Textbook:

 

Dessler, G. (2015). Human resource management (14th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

 

 

Discussion 1

“Developing Policy Arguments and Debate” Please respond to the following:

• Develop a policy argument or claim that is definitive, designative, evaluative, or advocative, using one of these terms: (a) crime, (b) pollution, (c) terrorism, (d) quality of life, (e) global warming, (f) fiscal crisis, (g) human rights, and (h) unemployment. Ensure your claim takes a position on your chosen topic, and explain why you took that position.
• Convert the argument in the first discussion into a policy debate by providing an objection and a rebuttal. Explain if and why the qualifier changed after introducing an objection and rebuttal. If the qualifier did not change, explain why it did not change.

 

Discussion 2

“Policy Arguments” Please respond to the following:

Public policy is based on arguing a position. Chose any one of the following topics and consider an argument for and against a new U.S. policy for your chosen issue. In your response, please indicate which “mode” of policy argumentation you are using to formulate your position.
Preventing Russia from invading the Ukraine

Increased laws to combat illegal immigration

Increased gun control laws

A national policy that would legalization the use of marijuana for recreational and medical use in every state

 

–     –     Increased penalties for companies who knowingly sell products that violate regulations (e.g. the recent infringements by Volkswagen)

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the transcript Seven Day of Rage: The Craigslist Killer from CBS News and review Chapter 7 from the Harré (2006) e-book as well as the Maslow (1943), Freud (1910), and Bandura (1999) articles.

In this discussion you will assume the role of a Psychology instructor creating a short graduate level presentation on personality. The case study for the presentation will center on Phillip Markoff, also known as an alleged Craigslist Killer. To begin, choose one of the personality theories from the required readings and research a minimum of one peer-reviewed article on your chosen theory in the Ashford University Library. Create a PowerPoint presentation of four-seven slides (not including the title and reference slides). The presentation must begin with a Title slide that provides the title of the lecture, your name, the course name and number, your instructor’s name and the date submitted. The presentation must end with a Reference slide that includes all the resources used for your lecture presentation cited in APA format

 

The body of the presentation must include the following elements.

• Provide a definition and brief description of the chosen theory.
• Evaluate Phillip Markoff’s personality from the standpoint of your chosen theory.
• Explain how the chosen theoretical perspective provides insights into Markoff’s behavior.

For assistance in creating effective PowerPoint presentations you may access Garr Reynolds’s Top Ten Slide Tips . Be certain to support your statements within the presentation with a minimum of three references. These may include up to two required resources for this week.

Once you have created your PowerPoint, you will present your lecture in a screencast. You may use any screencasting software you choose. (Quick-start guides are available forScreenr , Screen-Cast-O-Matic for your convenience.) It is recommended that you create a script for, and practicing your lecture presentation before recording it as you will be limited to a screencast of no more than five minutes. Although you are required to include the Title and Reference slides in the presentation, you should not read these slides during the screencast.

 

 

The attachements are references you use also need one peer reviewed article as described in instructions

Write a 2 page report  on the mayflower compact . Include in your report answers to these questions:

1.why was it written?

2.why was it so important at the time written? Explain

3.is this document still important today to the u.s government and the American people? Why or why not ?

4.give 2 exa of how the mayflower compact influenced u.s government and the American people

A truck transporting concentrated acetic acid was involved in a non-injury accident resulting in the release of 300 gallons of acid. Part of the mitigation is to neutralize the spilled acid with a solid material such as air-slaked lime. Air-slaked lime is a commercially available product that consists of calcium hydroxide and calcium carbonate. Quicklime is the common name for calcium hydroxide. When quicklime is exposed to moist air, it absorbs atmospheric CO2 and forms calcium carbonate.

1. Show the chemical formula of air-slaked lime. Explain the chemical interaction involved with the use of air-slaked lime to neutralize the acid. Is this an effective neutralization method for this release?
2. Explain why OSHA requires employers to limit employee exposure to acetic acid vapors.

In the first Individual Project, you will be laying the groundwork for all of the work in this course. You will do the following:

• Select a company and one of its products for which you will be creating an online ordering system. Get your instructor’s approval for your selections.
• Install the required software.
• Install the provided skeleton ordering system.
• Customize the skeleton ordering system to meet your requirements.
• Construct the shell document that will be your ordering system description.
• Describe your ordering system using Unified Modeling Language (UML) Use Case Diagrams.

Now that you have a better understanding of object-oriented programming, you will use this approach to develop your interactive Java program that supports a company of your choosing to sell products online.

In this Individual Project, you will represent the design for your application using the UML diagramming techniques called use case diagrams. Later in the course, you will use another UML diagram to help design and describe your program, a class diagram.

You will also be setting up the foundation design document outline that you will add to each week. The combined Individual Project assignments will be your final Key Assignment design document deliverable.

Throughout this course, you will also be working on several aspects of this application that will result in the final version of a functioning interactive Java program. Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for this project.

Project Selection

The first step will be to select a company and product(s) that are real or fictitious as the target for your ordering application. This project will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course, and it should conform to the following guidelines:

• Nontrivial: The selected project company and products it sells should be realistic and only a few products (10 or fewer) should be described.
• Domain knowledge: You should be familiar enough with the company and the products that it sells.

Select a company and products that fit these requirements, and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. You should seek approval within the first few days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval. Your proposal must include the following:

• The name of the company
• A description of the products
• One specific product that you will use initially for your ordering system
• The name of the product, its possible colors, and the range of costs

Establishing an effective Information Technology Security Policy Framework is critical in the development of a comprehensive security program. Additionally, there are many security frameworks that organizations commonly reference when developing their security programs. Review the security frameworks provided by NIST (SP 800-53), ISO / IEC 27000 series, and COBIT. Assume that you have been hired as a consultant by a medium-sized insurance organization and have been asked to draft an IT Security Policy Framework.

You may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1. Select a security framework, describe the framework selected, and design an IT Security Policy Framework for the organization.
2. Describe the importance of and method of establishing compliance of IT security controls with U.S. laws and regulations, and how organizations can align their policies and controls with the applicable regulations.
3. Analyze the business challenges within each of the seven (7) domains in developing an effective IT Security Policy Framework.
4. Describe your IT Security Policy Framework implementation issues and challenges and provide recommendations for overcoming these implementation issues and challenges.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify the role of an information systems security (ISS) policy framework in overcoming business challenges.
• Design a security policy framework.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in security strategy and policy formation.
• Write clearly and concisely about Information Systems Security Policy topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

You are an intelligence analyst for the Department of Homeland Security assigned to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (DHS-OIA). Your unit has received a threat that the terrorist group, AKA, might be targeting the U.S. homeland. The threat contains the names of 3 individuals who might be part of the plot.

The OIA has monitored this group’s activities in the US for the last 10 years, but before the current threat, there has been no information that the group would target the United States because its conflict was localized in Country X. However, the group does have a small infrastructure in the United States that has been used to raise funds among the immigrant population from Country X. The OIA must validate the threat and initiate a strategic assessment to understand the threat of AKA and identify intelligence gaps.

For this assignment, you must write a research paper of 750–1,000 words discussing each step of the intelligence cycle, specifically detailing how DHS-OIA will utilize the intelligence cycle to validate this threat and initiate a strategic assessment.

Assignment Guidelines

• In this assignment, you, as an intelligence analyst for the DHS-OIA will detail how you would utilize the 6 phases of the intelligence cycle to resolve the threat posed by AKA and to initiate a strategic assessment.
• The 6 phases of the intelligence cycle that must be addressed are as follows:
  • Requirements phase
  • Planning and Direction phase
  • Collection phase
  • Processing and Exploitation phase
  • Analysis and Production phase
  • Dissemination phase
• In 750–1,000 words, address the following:
  • For each of the six intelligence cycle phases, answer each of the following questions:
    • What is the purpose of this phase? Explain.
    • What activities or operations are conducted by the DHS-OIA during this phase? Describe them.
    • Why is this phase important to the intelligence cycle as a whole? Explain.
• Compile your responses into the final research paper, and submit the file to your instructor.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

You are an intelligence analyst for the Department of Homeland Security assigned to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (DHS-OIA). You are currently working in the Special Events Unit, and you are responsible for producing an intelligence assessment outlining potential threats to the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting that is to take place in New York City later this year. To successfully complete this assessment, you must work closely with your federal partners in the U.S. intelligence community (horizontal integration) as well as your partners within the state, local, and international communities (vertical integration).

Your supervisor has given you a list of intelligence requirements pertaining to the upcoming event and has asked you to draft an intelligence collection plan based on those requirements.

The intelligence requirements are as follows:

• What individuals or groups are planning terrorist acts directed at the UNGA meeting in New York?
• What individuals, groups, or delegations attending the UNGA meeting in New York are being targeted by domestic or international terrorists?
• What groups or individuals associated with criminal or terrorist activities are active in the New York area of operations?
• Which foreign intelligence service will attempt to use the UNGA meeting in New York as an intelligence collection opportunity?
• Which delegations attending the UNGA meeting in New York are being targeted by foreign intelligence services?

For this assignment, you must write an intelligence collection plan of 1,000–1,250 words detailing how DHS-OIA will use horizontal and vertical integration to successfully address these requirements and identify any potential intelligence gaps. In addition, you must discuss each requirement individually and outline which sources and methods will be used against that particular requirement and how you plan to address gaps if necessary. This assignment will require additional outside research, and you should document your research accordingly.

Assignment Guidelines

• Address the following in an intelligence collection plan of 1,000–1,250 words:
  • How will the DHS-OIA use horizontal and vertical integration to successfully address the above requirements? Identify any potential intelligence gaps.
    • What are 5 agencies involved in horizontal integration? Describe and summarize them.
      • What roles does each agency play throughout the overall intelligence cycle? Explain.
        • How will the agencies be used to address the above requirements? Explain.
    • What types of local and state agencies are involved in vertical integration? Describe and summarize them.
      • What role does each type of agency play throughout the overall intelligence cycle? Explain.
        • How will the agencies be used to address the above requirements? Explain.
    • How can cooperation with international agencies facilitate the processes of the Requirements phase? Explain.
  • For each of the 5 requirements listed in the assignment description, address the following:
    • Which sources and methods will be used against the particular requirement? Explain.
    • If necessary, how would you plan to address intelligence gaps? Explain.
• Compile your responses in the final intelligence collection plan, and submit the file to your instructor.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.