Author: chris

 

Select an organization you work for or one in your chosen field.

Conduct online research on the ethics of your organization and the industry it belongs to.

Write a 1200 word paper describing how ethical principles can address organizational issues. Include the organization you selected and discuss the following with regards to that organization and its industry:

• What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
• How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?
• What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Describe the similarities in the quality improvement philosophies of Deming, Juran, and Crosby.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

750 word minimum,  APA style,

• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• No foriegn references, properly cite, NO plagarism ( content ran through SafeAssign)

Choose an industry best practice of a remote connectivity solution and in 3-5 pages describe the best practice, the advantages and disadvantages and what improvements you would make to the best practice.

Find two journal articles on your chosen best practice and incorporate them into the paper.

• This paper should adhere to APA style standards including the following: Double space, 1” margins, title page, in text citation of references, and a reference page.

Directions: Read the questions below and formulate a response to each that is at least one page in length.  Please cite the textbook and external resources to support your answer (Wikipedia sources are not permitted).  List each resource used at the end of paper in the reference list section.  Please remember that you may utilize LIRN to help you search for resources.  You can visit the Academic Resource Center for a guide on how to utilize LIRN successfully.

 

1. Contrast power and authority.

 

2. Contrast leadership in tribes and chiefdoms.

 

3. Describe two informal means of social control.

 

4. Describe and give an example of one dimension of social stratification.

 

5. What was the crime of Cephu, and how does the way the Mbuti dealt with Cephu illustrate informal means of social control?

 

Conduct research using the Argosy online library, your text book and the Internet regarding the differences in culture, management styles, and communication strategies between the U.S. and Cambodia.  Analyze at least three potential management conflicts that may arise due to the identified differences and propose solutions for each to help combat these conflicts. Use at least one chart or graph in your PowerPoint presentation.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources. Please be sure to cite, in proper APA format, the information sources you used both within the body of your presentation and on a reference slide at the end of your presentation.

Also, you may use PowerPoint’s notes feature to further articulate your reasoning for the selection of the identified conflicts.

Read the project case for this assignment.

As the project manager for the District 4 Warehouse Move project, you will need to determine who your stakeholders and project team members are for this project. Remember that anyone connected to the project who has an interest or stake in the project should be considered as a stakeholder. This would include the project team, vendors and management among possible others.

After you have determined who your stakeholders are, determine who will need to be a part of the project team. Develop a 2-3 page paper (650-750 words) in the form of a Microsoft Word document, not including the header and reference pages, defining the following:

1. How will project communications and interactions work between the project manager, the stakeholders and the project team?
2. What are some of the issues you, as the project manager will need to be concerned about in forming the project team?
3. What, if any, situational factors exist that may affect the project team’s performance?
4. What are some project pitfalls you will want to watch out for as you execute this project?

Prior to completing the assignment, be sure to review the selected MS Project tutorial videos located in Week 2 of the Blackboard online course.

Write a two to three (2) page paper in which you summarize your thoughts on Microsoft Project:

1. Give your opinion on how easy or difficult MS Project seems to be from a user experience standpoint.
2. Suggest at least two (2) challenges you foresee in using MS Project in this course.
3. Describe why it is important to use a tool like MS Project instead of using other tools (e.g., MS Word, MS Excel) to manage and track your schedule.
4. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   • Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   • 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 is not included in the required page length.

You have been selected to be the project manager (for a project of your choice). The project you choose here will be used again in Assignment 4 (Week 6) and you may be asked to reference this project in subsequent weekly discussions. The project that you decide to use should meet the key criteria of a project, such as (a) having a beginning and an end; (b) results in something being delivered to someone; (c) requires a series of activities that must be done to complete the project; and (d) requires resources (e.g, people, materials) to complete the work. The project can be one of a personal or professional nature.

Write a two to three (2) page paper in which you define the scope of your chosen project. In your paper you must:

1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
2. Describe at least three (3) project goals and three (3) project objectives.
3. Identify the key customer(s) and at least two (2) stakeholders for your project. Remember, you are delivering the project to your customer(s); however, there are others (stakeholders) who have a vested interest in your project.
4. Describe at least three (3) key milestones and /or deliverables for your project.
5. Describe a high-level timeline that includes key tasks and deadlines.
6. Estimate the project’s overall cost and any key staffing and non-staffing resources needed.
7. Examine your project’s greatest challenge and provide a recommendation for addressing the challenge in question.
8. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   • Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   • 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 is not included in the required page length.

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) are critical components of a marketing plan. For this assignment, you will build a marketing plan for an organization, product, or service of your choice.

Begin by selecting an organization, product, or service for your marketing plan and complete the following:

 

• Describe the organization, product, or service that you selected for this assignment.
• Using the SWOT analysis, evaluate your market and future competition for your selection.
• Provide your recommendations for benchmarking and creating a competitive advantage based on your analysis.

Develop a 6–8-slide presentation, excluding the title and reference slides, in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Question 1

Personal beliefs and values guide a nurse’s practice and attitude. Patient situations occur that may challenge your beliefs and values.

Using the South University Online Library, research beliefs within the nursing profession.

Describe one experience in which your patient’s beliefs about his or her medical care differed from your beliefs.

• Describe the differences between your beliefs and those of the patient.
• Analyze and describe feelings this situation brought forth.
• Evaluate strategies for dealing with this situation in a nonjudgmental way.

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

Question 2

Complete the following tasks:

• Complete the life-changes questionnaire in your course textbook and explain your life-stress index and how your level of stress impacts you.

  Use the table of contents and / or the index in your textbook to locate the questionnaire.

• Expand the discussion to focus strategies you apply to deal with stress and the stress that patients and families deal with in a hospital setting. How can you assist them? Bring pertinent personal experiences into the discussion, if any.
• Explain how those instances of stress affect behavior. How does understanding stress and its effects change your view of patient behavior?

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