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In this case study, you will research an organization and determine how their business strategy differentiates them from other organizations in the same industry using Porter’s four competitive strategies model (p. 85 from text  Using MIS 2014 David m. Kroenke)  Write a (500-word) paper to include the following:A brief explanation of Porter’s four competitive strategies. o A brief explanation of how competitive strategy determines value chain structure.

Identify and discuss the competitive strategy that the organization you researched utilizes in order to differentiate them from other organizations in the same industry.

APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed.

Navigation Systems Inc. now has total worldwide revenues of over $500 million forecast for this coming year. You have operations in the United States of $300 million with a 10% ROS (return on sales, which is the same as net income on an income statement); operations in Germany of €100 million with an ROS of 12%; and operations in Shanghai, China of 650 million Yuan with an ROS of 8%. You expect to repatriate all the ROS to the United States when available in 12 months.

At your supervisor’s request, do the following:

• Determine the spot and 12-month forward exchange rates, and determine any change in the ROS repatriated in 12 months based on exchange rates versus the current forecast.
• Describe the repatriation using each of the following:
  • A spot transaction
  • An outright forward
  • A foreign-exchange swap
• Would there be any use or benefit in using a currency option or currency swaption? Describe each.
• Be sure to consider any U.S. corporate taxes that may be due and also whether there are any tax holidays in effect that may alter the taxes due on repatriation of the profits.
• How would you advise the company to handle the repatriation?

As you have learned this week, communicative competence is important to a child’s cognitive and social development. The goal of this second observation is to watch and listen to a preschool child for evidence of the child’s communicative competence in relation to one or more of the following measures:

• Adjusts messages to meet the listener’s needs
• Asks appropriate questions
• Able to initiate and maintain conversations
• Clearly conveys intentions
• Addresses all participants when joining a group
• Makes positive comments
• Able to persuade and verbally comfort others

To complete the assignment:

Plan: Choose a preschool-age child who is between 3 and 5 years old to observe in a comfortable setting, such as the child’s home, preschool program, or on a playground. Although you are observing one child, the child needs to be in a setting where he or she is interacting with others – children and/or adults. Here are tips for planning the observation:

• As outlined in Week 1, explain to the adult (parent or caregiver) the purpose of your observation and how the information you gather will be used. Get permission to tape-record the child’s interactions with others. Set a time and date for the observation. Review information from this week’s readings about communicative competence in the language use of children ages 3–5 .
• Click on the link below to download, print out, and review the document you will use to record your observations:

  Part 2: Preschool-Age Child Observation Guide

• Arrive on time for the observation. Take time for pre-observation interaction with the child. Ask the adult about how the child’s day is going before you begin the observation. Just as with younger children, factors such as a child feeling tired, hungry, or upset can influence the child’s mood and behavior.
• Test your recorder to be sure it is working, and then place it in an optimal spot for recording the child’s language.

Observe: Watch and listen for at least 20 minutes. You may need to move out of the child’s vision range to avoid distracting the child and influencing his or her language interaction with others. Choose a place to observe where you can see and hear the child. As you observe, take notes on the Observation Guide (which lists the measures of communicative competence). Use the information in your course text and other readings to note evidence of the child’s communicative competence. Some guidelines:

• Keep your attention focused on the child.
• Use only what you see and hear as evidence of the child’s communicative competence. Be mindful to not make assumptions about a child; objectivity is essential. Remember that despite similarities shared by children of various ages, each child is different and develops language—and communicative competence—in his or her own way. Keep that uniqueness in mind as you observe the child.
• You are observing in real time, so you may observe a lot of activity from the child or very little. Record what you observe.
• Enjoy the experience. Use what you’ve learned this week to try to imagine the world through the eyes and ears of a preschooler learning and growing in language use.
• Stick to the time span you agreed to for the observation and be sure to thank the adult and child for their cooperation.
• Remember that this observation experience is intended as a chance for you to learn. Be careful not to express your views of the child’s communicative competence with the parent or other adult.

Reflect on your observations. Review your notes and listen to the recording of the child’s use of language and any adult interaction as many times as necessary to complete the following:

• Write one or more pages briefly describing what you observed. Provide specific examples of the child’s use of language that relate to the measures of communicative competence that you observed. (Most likely you will not have examples of each measure.) Include any examples of ways an important adult (such as the parent or teacher) acted to support the child’s communicative competence by describing what the adult did and how it potentially helped the child. Include insights that you gained from the observation.
• Based on your observation and what you have learned about communicative competence, write a brief script (following examples like those in Chapter 6 of the course text) that illustrates how an important adult (parent or teacher) might foster this child’s increased communicative competence in one or two related measures.

Note: Do not use the real names of the adult and child. Use only first names, initials, or fictitious names for the child and the adult to protect their privacy.

Assignment length: 2–3 pages (You are not required to submit your Observation Guide.)

Language Development Face-to-Face: Observations and Interviews

 

Part 2: Preschool-Age Child Observation Guide

Observing a Preschool-Age Child (3–5) for Evidence of

Communicative Competence

About the Observation

 

• Child’s age and gender: _C.C age 4 years old Boy______________________________________

 

• Pertinent information about how the child is feeling/acting before the observation:  _Child is really amazed with so many basketballs and different bikes__________________________________________________________

 

___________________________________________________________

 

• Observation setting : Daycare playground_________________________________________

 

• Observation start and end times: 10:01 am -10:29am______________________________

 

• Child’s main activities during the observation: C.C main activity was cathing and bouncing the basketball.__________________

 

___________________________________________________________

 

___________________________________________________________

 

• Other children present (describe how many and relationships to child, such as friends, siblings, or children the child is meeting for the first time or doesn’t know well):

 

__There were six other children present. The children that were present was his classmates ._____________________________________________________________

 

_______________________________________________________________

 

• Adult(s) present: _2________________________________________________

Measures of Communicative Competence

 

As you observe, take notes on the chart below. Indicate whether or not you see or hear evidence related to each measure. Under “Details,” note what you see or hear from the child, other children’s actions or responses, or an adult’s actions or responses. Be careful not to make assumptions. Be aware that you may not observe evidence related to each measure, and that’s OK. Focus on what you observe. If you record the child’s (and others’) spoken language during the observation, replay the recording later to add more details to the chart.

 

 

Required Resources

• Course Text: The Development of Language
• • Chapter 5, “Putting Words Together”
  • Chapter 6, “Language in Social Contexts: Communicative Competence”
  • Chapter 7, “Theoretical Approaches to Language Acquisition”
  • Chapter 10, “Language and Literacy in the School Years”
  • • Read pp. 329–344 up to “Reading”
• Online Reading: Week 3 Reading (PDF)

  Used by permission.

• Article: Early Literacy (PDF)
• Web Article: Teaching Your Baby Sign Language Can Benefit Both of You

  http://psychcentral.com/lib/teaching-your-baby-sign-language-can-benefit-both-of-you/0002423

Optional Resources

 

• Web Article: Researchers Discover Environment Influences Children’s Ability to Form, Comprehend Complex Sentences

  http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/021121/syntax-study.shtml

• Web Site: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: Speech and Language Developmental Milestones

  http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/pages/speechandlanguage.aspx

• Web Site: Child Development Institute: Language Development in Children

  http://childdevelopmentinfo.com/child-development/language_development.shtml

• Web Article: Bridges to Literacy: Early Routines That Promote Later School Success

Nikhil Goyal is a successful high school student who, like many students his age, hates school. But unlike most students his age, Nikhil wrote a speech about it and delivered it to a global audience via a TEDX Youth (2012) presentation (please click here for a written transcript of the video). The central theme of the presentation is relevance and, specifically, how schools often lack relevance to the lives of their learners. The majority of Nikhil’s story focuses on Nick Perez, a boy who was marginalized in school and medicated to be able to adhere to the parameters of thought and behavior expected for participation in the school. As you view the presentation, you will learn how Nick became disillusioned by the lack of relevancy and interest in his studies and how his disenfranchisement eventually led him to drop out of school.

In this assignment, you will reflect on the story of Nick Perez and analyze it based on what might have happened differently if Nick’s education targeted the learning of 21st century skills through culturally relevant learning opportunities. Additionally, you will recommend a culturally relevant learning experience that might have been able to meet Nick’s needs in high school. Review the Instructor Guidance for this week for additional information and use the Ladson-Billing (1995) resource and Chapter 4 of Wardle (2013) to define a culturally relevant learning experience; apply this framework to the creation of solutions. Then, create your formal written assignment to meet the content and written communication expectations stated below.

Content Expectations

• Video Analysis (3 points): Address the following three guiding statements:
  1. According to Nick, “I was denied the right to exist normally.  My school had wasted my time until there was no time left”.  Based on the information presented in the video, describe the learning experiences and cultural competencies that you believe were valued at Nick’s school.  Then, using Nick’s interest in computers as a form of his cultural identity, describe cultural competencies and learning experiences that would be most applicable and interesting to Nick (think about the way that he described his life at home and at computer camp).
  2. Examine the 4C skills (a) creativity and innovation, (b) critical thinking and problem solving, and (c) communication and (d) collaboration that are presented in Learning and Innovations Skills. Determine which of these skills you perceive are most likely relevant to Nick’s current position as a programmer in an advertising firm and which of these skills you perceive are not adequately addressed in typical classroom environments today.
  3. Explain how the acquisition of learning and innovation skills through culturally relevant learning opportunities can lead to greater student success in the classroom and in the real world.

• Cultural Competencies References (1.5 points): Reference cultural competencies in your response to the Video Analysis guiding statements. Include examples using at least one of the following four characteristics:
  1. Awareness of one’s own cultural worldview (including biases)
  2. Knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews
  3. Positive attitudes and open-mindedness toward cultural differences
  4. Ability to work successfully with others from different cultures

• Culturally Relevant Learning References (1.5 points): Reference culturally relevant instruction in your response to the Video Analysis guiding statements. Reflect on strategies that align with this approach and include at least one of the following nine areas:
  1. Maximizing academic success through relevant instructional experiences
  2. Addressing cultural competence through reinforcing students’ cultural integrity
  3. Involving students in the construction of knowledge
  4. Building on students’ interests and linguistic resources
  5. Tapping home and community resources
  6. Understanding students’ cultural knowledge
  7. Using interactive and constructivist teaching strategies
  8. Examining the curriculum from multiple perspectives
  9. Promoting critical consciousness through opportunities to challenge predominant elements of the students’ social norms

• 21st Century Skills Framework (1 point): Reference 21st century skills in your response to the Video Analysis Questions to reflect the framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning.

question 1

 

Assume that you are part of a mediation team that has been brought in to help overcome an impasse between negotiators who are deliberating the use of embryonic stem cells for a research project. The decision makers are polarized along ethical and religious lines. Since this is a potentially emotional issue, what would you do in order to break this impasse? How could the fixed pie concept come into play in this situation?

 

question 2

 

We have each had to negotiate during the process of purchasing a home or automobile. Analyze the last major purchase that you were involved with and discuss that purchase in terms of the decision-analytic approach. What was your BATNA and how did that come into play?

 

question 3

 

Eventually, the United States and Iran will have to sit down and negotiate the use of nuclear power. Discuss the issues that could be involved in such a negotiation. What cognitive mistakes might be made by the negotiators in this case? How could these mistakes be overcome in order to reach an acceptable agreement?

 

question 4

 

Discuss the four ways, outlined in Chapter 9, in which contingent contracts can improve the outcomes of negotiations for both sides.

 

textbook

Bazerman, M. H., & Moore, D. A. (2009). Judgment in managerial decision making (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

In your five- to seven-page paper (not including the title and reference pages or the three visual media examples), be sure to address the following:

 

• Discuss the rationale behind choosing each of the three media elements and support your discussion with concepts from the course material.
• Explain why the media elements contained in your Final Project deliver the message you intended to communicate.
• Describe the intent of the message.
• Apply a minimum of five concepts from the course material to support your choice of media elements. For example you may use concepts such as visual literacy, perception, visual marketing, storytelling, design, branding, social media, communication theories, or any of the other concepts presented during the course. Be sure to discuss the relationship of the concepts to the media elements that you have chosen.

Writing the Final Paper

The Paper:

 

1. Must be five to seven double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages or the three visual media examples) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. Title page, reference page, and any exhibits or appendices are not counted in the paper length.
2. Must include a cover page that includes:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
3. Must include a title page and an abstract.
4. Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
5. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
6. Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
7. Must use a minimum of five scholarly in addition to the text, two of which must be from the Ashford University Library.
8. Must use APA style to document all sources.
9. Must include a reference page that includes the scholarly sources that you relied upon in constructing your paper per APA guidelines.
10. Must be written in the third person.

 

1.  Compare and contrast Strategic and Tactical Analysis and its application to street crimes such as robbery and property crimes such as burglary.  In your opinion is one more suited in addressing criminal behavior?

2.  Is crime mapping an effective tool in combating crime?  Why?  Describe how crime mapping can be used to support tactical operations.

3.  What is CPTED?  Can CPTED be an effective means to reduce a criminals Modus operandi?  Provide an example.

1) Now that the semester has started what are some of your expectations for this course?  What do you hope to learn, and how do you think this course will help you to transition to college (or Quincy College in particular)? Do you have any fears about starting (or going back to) college? How do you think this course will help you face your fears and overcome them?

2) We talked a bit in class about the importance of interpersonal interactions in college and how it relates to motivation and success.  Of the three we discussed today, which one do you think is the most important? Why? What ways do you think you can better utilize this interaction for your benefit?

3) What have your note taking and study habits been since coming to Quincy College? How have (or haven’t) they worked for you? Now that we have discussed some new options, which one(s) do you think you will implement to help you be a better student? How exactly will they help you?

Understanding the way you view human behavior from a theoretical perspective is an important part of your professional development and global understanding of human behavior.

Tasks:

Using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, conduct research to support your response.

In this 4- to 5-page paper, address the following:

• On the basis of your understanding of the theoretical perspectives explored in this module, discuss what theoretical orientations you most closely align with and why.
• Analyze and discuss whether you fall into the category of relying upon one theory, a few theories, or multiple theories to assist you in understanding human behavior.
• Discuss how you think your theoretical preferences influence your view of human behavior.

Submission Details:

• By Wednesday, September 30, 2015, prepare a 4- to 5-page paper. Your response should rely upon at least five sources from professional literature. This may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). W

Health care organizations are continuously immersed in change from the emergence of new policies, to promote quality care and improve patient safety to keeping pace with the rapid growth in knowledge and best practices. Establishing a solid framework for planning and implementing change is a wise move, as it provides a foundation for the extensive coordination that will be needed to successfully facilitate the change.

For this Assignment, you propose a change at the department or unit level and develop a plan for guiding the change effort.

To prepare:

• Review Chapter 8 in the course text. Focus on Kurt Lewin’s change theory, and contrast it with other classic change models and strategies.
• Reflect on problems, inefficiencies, and critical issues within a specific department, unit, or area in your organization or one with which you are familiar. Select one issue as a focal point for this assignment, and consider a change that could be made to address the issue.
• Think about how the change would align with the organization’s mission, vision, and values as well as relevant professional standards.
• Using one of the change models or strategies discussed in Chapter 8, begin formulating a plan for implementing the change within the department/unit. Outline the steps that you and/or others should follow to facilitate the change effort. Align these steps to the change model or strategy you selected.
• Determine who should be involved in initiating and managing the change. Consider the skills and characteristics that are necessary to facilitate this change effort.

To complete:Write a 3- to 5-page paper (page count does not include title and reference page) that addresses the following:

• Identify a problem, inefficiency, or issue within a specific department/unit.
• Describe a specific, realistic change that could be made to address the issue.
• Summarize how the change would align with the organization’s mission, vision, and values as well as relevant professional standards.
• Identify a change model or strategy to guide your planning for implementing the change. Provide a rationale for your selection.
• Outline the steps that you and/or others would follow to facilitate the change. Align these steps to your selected change model or strategy.
• Explain who would be involved in initiating and managing this change. Describe the skills and characteristics that would be necessary to facilitate the change effort.

***** PROBLEM: ICU nurses are not compliant with doing change of shift report in the room as  they are supposed to.