What is the difference between noise and sound? Describe the three main types of noise-control strategies, and give at least two examples of each type.
Describe the most common types of airborne contaminants. List and describe the types of effects of airborne toxics on the body.
Besides the number of variables, what factors are challenges to social research? Make sure your initial posts are 200-250 words
Imagine that you have created a blog where you post about various issues important to you and your friends and others studying in your field. Write a 1 – 1 and 1/2 page double spaced blog post that educates your audience about an issue that the article you selected raises. Make sure you provide your audience with the author’s name, title and a link to the article as well as a summary of relevant information from the article, but go beyond summary. Add to what the author says in some way (one way to do that is to disagree, or engage in debate, or explore a point further than it is addressed in the article), and be sure that you make clear to your audience why the issue you are informing them about is relevant to them in some way. For example, if you have a family member with a disease like diabetes, you might want to write a blog post explaining what you have learned about the importance of a healthy diet.
This week’s Assignment consists of reading a scenario about Sandwich Blitz, Inc., and creating a memo from Lei to Dalman, based on four guiding questions.
Click on the Video icon to sit in on a Discussion that Dalman and Lei are having about ways to grow and expand the business. Then select the Rubric icon to read all the requirements for this week’s Assignment.
This Assignment addresses the following unit outcomes:
After watching the scenario, completing the assigned readings and completing the practice Learning
Activities, paying particular attention to the section on authority, compose an interoffice memo from
Lei to Dalman. The purpose of the memo is to describe the impact of creating this new position. In
IBM’s Multicultural Multinational Teams
Historically, IBM was one of the most tradition-bound companies on the planet. It was famous for its written and unwritten rules—such as its no-layoff policy, its focus on individual promotions and achievement, the expectation of lifetime service at the company, and its requirement of suits and white shirts at work. How times have changed.
IBM has clients in 170 countries and now does two-thirds of its business outside the United States. As a result, it has overturned virtually all aspects of its old culture. One relatively new focus is in the teamwork area. While IBM, like almost all large organizations, uses work teams extensively, the way it does so is unique (Aguinis, & Kraiger, 2009).
To instill in its managers an appreciation of local culture, and as a means of opening up emerging markets, IBM sends hundreds of its employees to month-long volunteer project teams in regions of the world where most big companies don’t do business (Hymowitz, 2008). Al Chakra, a software development manager located in Raleigh, North Carolina, was sent to join GreenForest, a furniture manufacturing team in Timisoara, Romania. With Chakra were IBM employees from five other countries. Together, the team helped GreenForest become more computer savvy to help its business. In return for the IBM team’s assistance, GreenForest was charged, well, nothing.
This is hardly pure altruism at work. IBM calculates these multicultural, multinational teams are good investments for several reasons. First, they help lay the groundwork for opening up business in emerging economies, many of which might be expected to enjoy greater future growth than mature markets. Stanley Litow, the IBM VP who oversees the program, also thinks it helps IBMers develop multicultural team skills and an appreciation of local markets. He notes, “We want to build a leadership cadre that learns about these places and also learns to exchange their diverse backgrounds and skills.” Among the countries where IBM has sent its multicultural teams are Turkey, Tanzania, Vietnam, Ghana, and the Philippines.
As for Chakra, he was thrilled to be selected for the team. “I felt like I won the lottery,” he said. He advised GreenForest on how to become a paperless company in 3 years and recommended computer systems to boost productivity and increase exports to western Europe (Gupta, 2008).
Another team member, Bronwyn Grantham, an Australian who works at IBM in London, advised GreenForest about sales strategies. Describing her team experience, Grantham said, “I’ve never worked so closely with a team of IBMers from such a wide range of competencies.”
Assume you are employed by a consulting company that works with Fortune 1000 companies on Organizational Behavior topics. You have been asked to write a white paper in which you discuss the following questions. This paper will be used to inform potential clients about your company’s philosophy on teamwork and to give them a sense of how your company will prepare their teams. This is an extremely high profile assignment and its success is critical to your company.
Based on the above reading and the knowledge gained from your assigned readings, respond to the following questions:
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine social psychology. Address the following items:
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
Part 1: Take a look at the Literary Timeline in Lessons. Choose any work that we have read in this class and examine some of the historical events preceding its publication, according to the timeline. Discuss how one or more historical event that takes place no more than 20 years before the publication of the work might be seen as influencing the theme or overall message of the work.
Zora Neale Hurston: How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Part 2: “Yet Do I Marvel” contains many classical references. Look up the meaning of one of them. Explain what that reference contributes to your understanding of the poem. How does it relate to the overall message?
Part 3: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” also connects a people to a symbol that is timeless and ‘of the earth’. This is not the first work we’ve seen that discusses rivers. Water is a symbol in many works. Discuss how it appears in Hughes’s poem and in two other works we’ve read this term; what does water seem to represent in these works?
You are going to create a sample project describing the organizational structure of the agency or company for which you are planning the project. Describe as many of the organizational culture attributes as you can. List by name as many of the project executive, management, and team roles as you can identify. Be sure to assign roles to yourself as well. Discuss in this paper how you anticipate that the organizational structure, culture, and role assignments will help or hurt your ability to successfully plan this project. Describe the project life cycle model that is used in the organization, and explain why it is appropriate. Write a four-page summary of the project including all the elements listed in the instructions. At least two references must be used and one of them must be obtained from the CSU Online Library. Be sure to use APA format and cite your work. Your summary should be at least four page
Radiological Weapons
The purpose of this assignment is to write a 1-3 page paper, using APA format, answering the following questions:
1. What do you think is the possibility of a rogue state, terrorist, or individual acquiring radiological material to
produce a nuclear weapon?
2. How significant a threat do you consider terrorist organizations building nuclear weapons to be? Why do you feel
this way?
3. What organizations would have the capability to build a nuclear weapon? Why do they have the capability?
4. Describe what you feel is the most likely use of WMD: nuclear or RDD. In addition, why have you decided that a
terrorist organization would be more likely to use this type of device over the other device?