In this assignment, you will be introduced to a real-world case that requires a high-level analysis of theoretical, ethical, and legal factors to explain how an abused child should have been handled by the human services agency. This exercise will demonstrate the types of cases that are common in human services. You will learn how to approach such types of cases from necessary perspectives that always need to be considered by a human services worker.

Tasks:

In this assignment, you will read a scenario, analyze its legal and ethical implications, and discuss options to address the human services needs. Consider the following scenario.

You are working in a human services agency that provides diagnostic services and residential placement to youth in the court system. A female Italian immigrant teenager was placed in this center by Children and Youth Protective Services due to suspected sexual abuse by her father. The agency conducted an assessment on the child to determine the effects of the suspected abuse on her functioning, provided her with a safe environment for twelve weeks, during which time she was allowed supervised visitation with her father, and encouraged her to trust the staff members. During this period, her case went to trial and was dismissed despite strong indications of sexual abuse. The court ruling was based largely on the results of the assessment conducted by the agency professional in addition to the client’s activity in residential placement, including visitation with her father during that period of time. As a result, the agency lost its funding for residential placement. Therefore, the girl was returned to her home the following week.

Apply scholarly theory, practice, and ethics to write an 8- to 10-page paper that includes the following:

• Identify the legal and ethical obligations to both the girl and the father.
• Identify the multiple levels of system failure in this case.
• Discuss the distinction between the legal justification for the release of the girl and the ethical problems with such actions. In your discussion, explain how an individual human services provider might come to deal personally with such a conflict.
• Identify the cultural considerations needed when working with this family.
• Describe the original or historical intent of child welfare systems in caring for vulnerable children.
• Discuss to what extent the agencies have fulfilled their responsibilities to their mission and the original intent in creating such agencies.
• Propose two to three culturally and legally appropriate strategies that may be provided to the girl that will address her human services needs.

Throughout this course, you will review scenarios involving Company A, which has been acquired by Company B. Company A was founded in 1956 in Mobile, Alabama. The average age of its workforce is 57 and it is comprised of 40% Caucasian and 85% male. Company B was founded in 1997 in San Francisco, California. The average age of its workforce is 35 and it is comprised of 45% Caucasian and 50% male.

These two companies have been staunch competitors in the marketplace for several years and the employees of Company A are resentful of integrating with their former rival. There are many strategic and ethical challenges involved in this acquisition. A few of the goals of the acquisition project are listed below:

• Managing the Communication and Information Sharing:
  • The company wants to keep employees informed of how the acquisition will impact them.
  • The company wants to be sure that they provide enough information to satisfy the employees, but not provide so much that the employees feel overwhelmed.
  • The company wants to be sure that the timing of the communication matches their execution of the changes within the two organizations.
• Managing the Consolidation and Changes:
  • There is no doubt that there will be layoffs as a result of the acquisition. The company wants to do what is best for the acquisition in a way that inflicts the least amount of harm to the existing employees.
  • The company wants to make the decisions about who to layoff in the fairest way possible.
  • The company wants to try and limit exposure to potential discrimination (age and gender) stemming from the layoffs.
• Managing the Relocations of Some the Employees:
  • Another impact of acquisitions is that employees may be asked to relocate in order to maintain employment in the newly formed organization.
  • The company wants to manage the expenses and potential disruption with the relocations.
  • The company wants to assess relocations verses hiring new employees locally.

Let us look at the role and responsibilities of HR managers regarding managing the company’s goals related to the recent acquisition.

Instructions:

You have a wide variety of employees encompassing different ages, genders, and ethnic backgrounds represented in these two companies. As a Strategic HR Director, your goal is to create a workforce that will effectively move the newly formed company forward.

Now, address the following issues:

• Identify all of the information you would need to effectively manage the three goals above.
• Identify the challenges and potential issues related to implementing the three goals above.
• Develop recommendations for strategies to address these challenges and help the newly formed company meet its goals.

Write a four to-five-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

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Assignment 2

Case study—Paid Time Off (PTO) Policies

PTO policies have become good tools for HR staff to use in terms of organizational incentives. Use the University online library and your textbooks to read about PTO policies. Now, let us go back to Company A and Company B fromModule 1.

While reviewing the information from the two merged companies, the HR Director has found out that each company has two different PTO policies.

Company A has a PTO system in which employees are given 30 days of paid time off each year, which accumulates at the rate of 2.5 days a month. Under this policy, vacation and sick leave are all rolled into one paid leave and any absence whether scheduled, such as vacation, or unscheduled, such as sick leave, are taken from the accumulated leave the employee has earned.

Company B has a more traditional leave system in which employees are given 12 days of vacation, 10 days of sick leave and 10 holidays. The company is closed on those holidays. Vacation is accumulated at a day per month. Sick leave has an unlimited accumulation, but unlike vacation would not be paid out upon termination of employment.

Since the employees of the merged company will be working side by side, the HR Director has asked you to review the situation and make recommendations for a solution.

Instructions:

As an HR Director prepare a report addressing the following issues:

• Identify any additional information you would need to recommend a solution, and explain where you would likely find that information.
• Discuss any issues you would likely encounter if you were to merge the PTO system to a traditional leave system. Explain which issues would be difficult to solve and why.
• Explain any problems you see with leaving the two systems in place, and identify which system would be assigned for new employees.
• Make a recommendation for one common PTO system. Explain your system and why you think this system is the best system for the company.

Include two to three scholarly references in your response.

Write a four-to-five-page memo to the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Please Read the Instructions and please NO plagiarism Thanks

 

 

As the lead software engineer for a medium-sized hospital, you have been asked to spearhead an effort to improve the tracking of Voice Over IP (VOIP) calls made within the hospital system. You have also been asked to begin planning out an emergency vehicle discovery program that will improve the response times of medical personnel to remote emergency locations by pinpointing the closest vehicle to the emergency using GPS.

 

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

1. Design the Requires and the Provides interfaces of at least two (2) components that might be used in a system in an emergency control room for a call-logging component that records calls made.
2. Design the interfaces of at least two (2) components that might be used in a system in an emergency control room for a vehicle discovery component that, given a post code (zip code) and an incident type, finds the nearest suitable vehicle to be dispatched to the incident.
3. Include both the Requires interface and the Provides interface in your design.
4. Develop a visual rendering depicting your design through the use of Microsoft Visio or its open source alternative, Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

 

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.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or an equivalent such as Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain the importance of software reuse.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in software engineering.
• Write clearly and concisely about software engineering using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

The topic of your project needs to be a contemporary societal problem, such as healthcare reform, immigration reform, privacy rights, euthanasia, First Amendment Rights, stem cell research, capital punishment, corporate prisons, legalizing drugs, ageism, animal rights, cloning, prayer in schools, racial profiling, recycling/conservation, sexism, outsourcing jobs, workplace bullying, etc. The topic must focus on a single aspect, as in “How far do corporations intrude into the private lives of their employers?” or “The social costs of financing the distribution of custom-designed drugs.” You may suggest another topic to use, but the instructor must approve the topic during the Week Two Discussion.

 

The Final Research Project will present research relating the responsibilities of a critical thinker to contemporary society. In this assignment, you will do the following:

 

• Research one aspect of a contemporary social problem.
• Define the problem.
• Propose a possible solution for the problem.
• Create an argument that supports your thesis position. You should take on the perspective of a critically thinking researcher. The argument must present a thesis statement and evidence to support the thesis statement.
• Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from the position you take on the issue and explain how those outcomes would influence society and culture.
• Interpret statistical data from at least two peer-reviewed scholarly sources.
• Evaluate evidence using the following standards: validity, reliability, and bias related to the chosen topic and accurately identify strengths and weaknesses.

 

Research and Define the Problem

You must take on the perspective of your major field of study and explain in your paper what that perspective is and how it informs your view of the topic. The topics listed above are far too broad to write about in 10–12 pages (3,300–3,900 words). Instead, you must choose a narrowly defined thesis and approach it from the perspective of your field.

 

Example: If you are an economics major, and you are interested in immigration reform, you should approach a very specific aspect of immigration reform through the lens of economic theory and practice. A specific thesis question would not be, “How does illegal immigration influence the U.S. economy?” One could write thousands of pages on such a topic. Instead, a better question would be, “How do illegal immigrant hotel workers in Chicago impact the economy of Northern Illinois?” You would then want to do the research and determine the positive and negative impacts they have, ultimately trying to conclude how illegal immigration in this area should be approached ethically.

 

How to Hone Your Thesis: It is important that you start your research early in this course. Try to find the most important contemporary questions and theories in your field of study and then align the most important questions with a very specific aspect of the general topics above. For example, if you are a psychology major, you might want to start thinking within the realm of healthcare reform or aspects of mental health and criminality in the prison system.

 

Your Argument

You must present a complete argument, including a major claim with at least five points of evidence, information, or data that will prove the claim.

 

• The thesis statement must be
  • A clear, simple declarative sentence as the first or last sentence in the opening paragraph of the essay.
  • Of such a nature that it can be substantiated, corroborated, verified, and proved through appeal to primary or secondary academic research source materials.
• The introductory paragraph must
  • Present the thesis statement, an explanation for the importance of the topic, and its relation to the student’s field of study.
• Beliefs, opinions, and personal opinions must not be introduced at any point in the essay.
• All beliefs and opinions should be supported with academic evidence. Sweeping generalizations with no supporting academicevidence do not reflect adequate critical thinking skills.
• Do not include rhetorical questions in your essays. All the questions that are pertinent to your project need to be answered in your essay and your answers again need to be supported with evidence from peer-reviewed journal articles and academically published books.

 

Attributes of Good Critical Thinking in Papers

 

• Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
• The evidence that you use should come from high-level researchers engaged in your field of study.
• Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
• Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
• Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.

 

Ethical Outcomes of the Position You Take

After you have defined the problem and created an argument about how one ought to respond to the issue, you need to explain the ethical outcomes of the position you have taken. This should again be in relation to the field of study in which you are working. There might be different ethical outcomes that result from your analysis. For example, going back to the example issue above, from an economic standpoint, illegal immigrants might contribute positively to the economy of Northern Illinois in a specific number of ways. Thus, an economist who believes that positive impact to the economy is the greatest good would say that one should promote the use of illegal immigrants. However, because these workers are often paid less than others and eliminate jobs that could be done by residents of Chicago, there could be other negative ethical outcomes that would outweigh the positive impacts to the economy. It is your goal to draw out the ethical implications of your thesis and explain the underlying rationale that is the foundation for your claim that one action is better than another.

 

• Critical thinkers are those who can outline the positive and negative ethical impacts of their positions. In addition, they are able to provide a rationale for why they believe a specific position is the right position, even when it leads to negative outcomes.
• Critical thinkers are also able to be honest and objective about the limitations and gray areas that pertain to their theses.

 

Final Research Project Requirements

The Final Research Project may be presented as a formal research paper (essay format), a PowerPoint presentation, a video, or a podcast equivalent to a minimum of 10 – 12 pages in APA format (approximately 3,300 – 3,900 typewritten words, excluding title page and reference pages). Written essays must adhere to all APA formatting standards and requirements, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

PowerPoint presentations must include the full text (at least 3,300 words) in the speaker notes portion of the slides, with appropriate citations, and full reference pages. PowerPoint presentations must adhere to the basic principles of PowerPoint presentation design and must include citations and references according to APA standards and requirements.

 

Videos and podcasts must include a full transcript, in APA format, including appropriate in-text citations and a references page.

 

Quotations:

There must be no more than 15% quoted content in the body of your essay. All quoted material must bear quotation marks and a full quotation citation.

 

Source Documents:

 

• There must be 10 or more source documents used, cited, and referenced.
• Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, then they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
• Where print documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) may not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) may not be used.
• Two of the peer-reviewed scholarly sources used must include statistical evidence, which must be accurately interpreted.
• Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia should not be used.
• Religious texts are neither peer-reviewed nor scholarly and so may not be used in any way.

 

Summary Conclusion:

You must have a summary conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of the project, presenting the major point of the essay and the evidence supporting that point.

 

Word Count:

The content body of the project must be 3,300 words or more. The word count does not include anything in the title page, running header, or reference list. It is expected that you meet all logistical requirements of this paper.

 

Reference List:

 

• The list of references must include only those source documents that are cited within the body of the project.
• The project must fully comply with APA formatting standards and requirements as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center: title page, running header with page numbers, font face and size, line spacing, citations, and reference page(s).

 

Davis Health Care is dedicated to providing an excellent patient care experience. A recent survey indicated that they could improve their quality of service. Imagine you are charged with identifying an area of improvement for this organization.

Select one area of improvement from the following list to complete Part 1 and Part 2 of this assignment:

• Patient safety

 

You will focus on this area of improvement throughout the remainder of the course, which will lead to a quality improvement plan in the final week.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following prompts for the area of improvement that you selected from above:

Part 1: Data Collection Tools

• Explain data needed to monitor improvements.
• Explain at least three data collection tools you can use to collect performance information.
• Explain the types of information each tool collects.
• Explain the strengths and weaknesses of each data collection tool.
• Explain how the data collection tools are similar. Explain how the data collection tools are different.

Part 2: Data Display, Measurement and Reporting

• Identify at least two tools that measure and display the QI data that can be gathered with the data collection tools identified in Part 1.
• Explain the types of information each tool measures, displays, and reports.
• Explain each measurement, display, and reporting tool’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Explain how the measurement, display, and reporting tools are similar and different from each other.
• Explain how the measurement, display and reporting tools are useful for health care organizations.

Continue to use the area of improvement selected in the Week Three QI Plan Part l assignment to complete the following section of the QI plan.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you complete the following for the area of improvement:

• Improvement Methodologies
  • Analyze each methodology you researched. Explain the pros and cons of each methodology for your chosen area of improvement.
  • Choose one of these methodologies for your organizational QI plan and explain why you chose this methodology over others.
• Information Technology
  • Analyze each information technology application you researched.
  • Analyze how these applications will be used to help improve the area of improvement you have chosen.
• Benchmarking
  • Analyze how benchmarks and milestones are involved in managing the use of quality indicators.
  • Analyze three potential benchmarks and milestones from quality indicators that could be used for your plan.
• Mission, Vision, Strategic, and Operational Plans
  • Analyze how performance and quality measures are aligned to an organization’s mission, vision, and strategic plan in general.
  • Analyze how the measures are aligned with the mission, vision, and strategic plan of an organization.
• Barriers
  • Challenges
    • Analyze barriers that can interfere with the implementation or revision of quality measures.
• Successful Implementation
  • Implementation
    • Analyze strategies to ensure successful implementation of new quality measures.

Write 1,400- to 1,750-word paper with the following sections:

• Criteria and Tasks
  • · Authority, structure, and organization
    • Describe the authority structure of the plan’s implementation. This must describe who is responsible for implementing the plan. Include a description of each role involved in the plan:
      • Board of directors
      • Executive leadership
      • Quality improvement committee
      • Medical staff
      • Middle management
      • Department staff
• Communication
  • Identify who the performance activity outcomes are communicated to and who does the communicating. This describes who is responsible for overseeing data collection and preparing data reports.
• Education
  • Describe how staff will be educated regarding the plan. This covers how each staff member will be initially oriented to the plan and how each employee fits into the plan based on job responsibilities.
• Monitoring and Revising
  • Annual evaluation
    • Analyze what elements of the plan are annually evaluated for improvement.
    • Analyze how to monitor the effect of changes implemented from the decision-making process.
• Regulatory and Accreditation
  • External entities
    • Analyze the effect of external entities, such as governmental agencies, accrediting bodies, and professional interest groups, on the quality and performance measure of an organization’s decision-making processes.

Combine all four parts of the QI plan into one document, making sure to include instructor feedback. Organize the plan as you would present it to the organization’s board of directors for approval. Use the QI Plan Template as a guide.

In the QI Plan Template, complete the following:

• Evaluate various data collection and display tools used in performance measurement.
• Evaluate tools used to measure and report data.
• Analyze various improvement methodologies for integrating quality improvement strategies into performance measurements.
• Analyze the impact of information technology applications on performance measures.
• Analyze the use of internal and external benchmarking and milestones in managing the utilization of quality indicators.
• Evaluate criteria and tasks for developing quality improvement plans.
• Analyze how performance and quality measures are aligned to the organizations mission, vision, strategic and operational plans.
• Evaluate strategies for meeting regulatory and accreditation standards within health care organizations.
• Evaluate measures used to monitor and revise quality program implementation.
• Evaluate barriers that can interfere with the implementation of quality measures.
• Evaluate strategies to ensure successful implementation of quality measures.

Write a 350- to 700-word executive summary related to your QI plan which includes an evaluation of the  following:

• Evaluate the current state of QI at the organization, its organizational and operational QI structure, authority, mission, methodology, and tools used.
• Recommend how the organization will achieve its objectives over the long term.
• Evaluate challenges that may impact the future of health care quality improvement.
• Evaluate effect of health care quality improvement on operational and financial performance.
• Cite 5 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.

Cite at least 3 sources according to APA guidelines to support your information.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Refer to this week’s MyFoundationsLab^® overview and animations of these topics, if you have not yet mastered this week’s module or would like more practice.

Brainstorm ideas for how you will organize your personal essay rough draft.

 

Write a rough draft of a 350- to 700-word personal essay, based on the topic you selected in Week 1.The final copy of this essay will be due in Week 3. Ensure that you practice with a variety of sentence styles and avoid fragments and run-on sentences. Your introductory paragraph should include a thesis statement.

Revise/edit your rough draft (RD)  (even though it is a “rough draft” ) so instructor can ascertain what feedback is necessary. In other words, it may be your “rough draft,” but write it as close to perfect as possible.

Submit your RD to the Plagiarism Checker located in the CWE of the UOPX Library. The completed report (PR)should note a plagiarism percentage of 5% or less. Since this is a personal essay, it will probably register 0%.

For this week’s journal writing assignment, you will need to review “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts,” by Bruce Catton in Ch. 11 of Patterns for College Writing from the assigned reading.

Write two journal entries of at least 175 words total that responds to at least two of the following:

• Describe the sentence structures throughout the Grant and Lee essay. Are all the sentences structured the same, or do they vary? How would you account for the sentence structures either varying or staying the same in this essay?
• Choose a paragraph from the Grant and Lee essay that contains at least three sentences. Is the paragraph organized around the development of a topic? Do you think the organization of that paragraph mirrors that of the entire essay? Explain.
• Do you think the  Grant and Lee essay was appropriately structured? Explain why or why not and discuss any sentences you thought vividly described Grant and Lee.

Write an essay comparing the scientific method and the engineering method of problem solving.

 

Details:

 

1. Compare each step of the scientific method with the engineering method.  What are the differences and how are they the same?
2. You can do your research the using the WEB, physics or chemistry textbooks, magazine articles etc…
3. Write a 2-page (~ 1000 words) essay on the topic.
4. Attach a reference page that sites the documents that you obtained your information from.

 

Note

 

Writing helps the individual writer think critically and has long been recognized as a vital component of engineering education.  Simply put, when students are asked to write, they grasp subject matter more thoroughly and more deeply.  They are then able to use this understanding to transport knowledge across disciplinary boundaries.

 

Writers are forced to think comprehensively and to link thoughts in sequence.  The vast majorities of successful writers also extensively rewrite and revise their work.  The habits developed when writing – thinking comprehensively, expecting to rework the initial results, and realizing there is no one “correct answer” – are indispensable in educating what Schon calls the reflective practitioner.  These steps are included in most descriptions of the design process, and it would seem particularly useful that writing be thoroughly integrated into engineering education since some of the most central elements of design are present in the writing process.  Both processes have a preliminary creative stage – often termed brainstorming in design and prewriting in writing.  The initial solutions in both are most often changed via a recursive procedure, and, through gradual improvement, some acceptable final solution is reached.  Implicit in both is the crucial idea that there is often more than one acceptable solution and that a unique “correct” solution usually does not exist.

Key 19th century subjects in African American History.

Instructions:

Write four pages, double spaced, a paper analyzing the dual (double) government––how two governments function—using Immanuel Kant’s duty ethics and the Social Contrast Theory. In corporate ideas we have discussed in class about how the social contract theory has shaped the creation of the US constitution. Follow ether APA or MLA writing standards.

Follow these steps:

1.Briefly summarize the main points of the dual government thesis.

2.Give a short account of how the social contract theory works.

3.Analyze the essay from a Kantian social contract points of view highlighting its strengths and weakness.

Check all PDF and PPT files I attached before starting the work.

I will run the paper through Copyscape that homework market provides, and the result MUST be = ZERO.

The most IMPORTANT things for me:

1) Follow the ALL instructions carefully.

2) Use very simple language and idea because I’m an international student and I need to understand everything about my assignment from my assignment itself.

3) Finish it on time.

Choose three cases you believe have been most important in the development/evolution of juvenile justice and why.