1 full page MUST FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS READ THEM FIRST and 2 paragraph summary

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1.  Select a topic in policing. Examples: stop and frisk, search warrant, broken window theory, women in police, police stress on job, police discretion, police training, public views on police etc.   

2.  Decide on 5-10 key terms that you will use in your search. YOU HAVE TO MENTION 5-10 relevant key terms for library search in the paper

3.  Use the link from the John Jay website to the library website. Next, go to the databases. Search database: Criminal Justice Abstracts. Limit the articles’ search to recent years: 2010 – 2020 and to peer-reviewed journals only.

4.  From a larger group of selected articles, based on the titles and abstracts, choose 5.

5.  Make sure that at least TWO articles come from the top criminology/criminal justice journals:

Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, Women in Criminal Justice, Prison Journal, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, International Journal of Criminal Justice,  Criminal Justice Journal, Feminist Criminology, Police Quarterly, Policing and Society, Policing: Policy and Practice, Policing: An International Journal, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Contemporary Sociology, The British Journal of Criminology, Crime and Delinquency, Punishment and Society, Theoretical Criminology.

6.  You can also search a specific journal (see above) by selecting it in the library search and reviewing what was published on your topic in the recent years. It is more time consuming but an interesting search. In addition, you might need to do search through the individual journal to be able to locate relevant articles. 

7.  Read the articles and then choose ONE that the best represents your topic.

WHAT TO SUBMIT:

Turn in no more than 1 page long paper (with list of 5 scholarly articles in APA and a summary of one article). Specifically:

1.  Provide the title or the topic

2.  Provide key terms that you used

3.  List 5 scholarly articles that you selected and follow APA style! (Deductions will apply if you do not follow APA). There is a link on the library website to the APA. 

And this is an example:

Celinska, K., & H.Sung (2014). Gender differences in the determinants of prison rule violations. The Prison Journal 94, 2, 220-241.

4.  Summarize in two paragraphs the article that you selected from the 5 journals you used.

Big 5 Personality Scale and Perceptual Errors

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  For this assignment, please use the Big 5 personality scale in the link below and you will get specific % on each dimension of the Big 5. 

• http://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test

• Free basic report is fine. 

1. Discuss the positive and negative aspects of your Big 5 results on each dimension and how this may affect the way you carry out your work and task. For example, if you got 75% on agreeableness, what is the positive and negative implication of this score when you work? 

If you have work experiences, please use your past experiences to support your arguments. If you do not have work experiences, then you can search from references or use school examples. 

2. Imagine that you are promoted to a managerial role. Based on your Big 5 results, determine what you think would be the best management style for you. Based on research, why do you think a particular management style you chose is the “best fit” for your personality (based on the Big 5 results)? The purpose of this question is for you to apply your Big 5 results into a managerial setting. 

Content flow

The Purpose:

A. We are wanting you to find the Big 5 personality test link in the portal and take the test- this i will provide if we start!

B. Record your results

C. Read about yourself and your dominant personality types(s)

The Paper:

A. Follow the instructions of the assignment (answer the questions)

B. Use the APA Draft Paper in the APA Folder in your portal

C. Create a paper that captures the following

– Introduction (what is the Big 5 and what are you doing in the paper)

– The Big 5 (describe it, reference it, explain what it is and why it is used)

– Your Results (explain your results, describe your personality type, reference it)

– Strengths (explain and describe the great things about your personality based on your results, reference it)

Areas to consider (explain and describe some of the limitations of your type, reference it)

Conclusion (sum it up)

 Reference Page (e.g., textbook, scholarly articles to support your learning and website etc.)

Not including your title page or reference page 5-8 pages is about right.

CASE STUDY PROJECT – FINAL REPORT

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Compose a report of 1000 to 1500 words in which you:

1. Describe an ethical dilemma faced by an individual working within a business organization that is based in the United States. See instructions for Part #1. Revise your description based on the feedback you received from me and your peer-review partner.

2. Identify and explain all of the ethical considerations that should be taken into account in this case. See instructions for Part #2. Revise your analysis based on the feedback you received from me and your peer-review partner.

3. Provide a moral judgment that describes what you think the individual should do (or should have done) in this case. See instructions for Part #2. Revise your argument based on the feedback you received from me and your peer-review partner.

4. Conclude the report by reflecting back upon the dilemma you identified. What lessons can we learn from this case? When faced with ethical challenges at work, we have to figure out what to say, who to say it to, and how to say it. With this in mind, what advice would you have for someone in a situation like the one you identified?

Please organize your report using this templatePreview the document, including section headers.

Deadline: Submit your report via Canvas by 11:59PM on Friday, December 4.

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Deliverable 3 – Global Workforce Strategies

Competency

Integrate organizational strategy and goals with a global workforce.

Scenario

You are the Global Talent Manager at Amazing Foods, a global food distribution company. Amazing Foods has an organizational goal of creating a culturally intelligent and competent global workforce. One organizational strategy to meet this goal is to develop and retain global employees. You have conducted an assessment of your performance management process and determined that there are gaps, which impact the engagement and retention of employees in your global environment. As you discuss this with the HR Director, Mr. Steve Kirkowski, he suggests developing a strategic plan focused on engagement and retention of host country nationals, expatriate, and repatriated employees to close these gaps.

Instructions

Design a strategic plan for the engagement and retention of host country nationals, expatriates, and repatriates that accomplishes the following goals:

  • Examines the challenges of performance management processes both in the U. S. and globally.
  • Recommends the use of a cultural intelligence assessment as part of the performance management process.
  • For host country nationals, expatriates and repatriates:
    • Provides a process for the development of performance goals
    • Recommends performance measures
    • Develops a policy regarding the frequency and content of regular performance assessment
    • Develops a uniquely crafted employee engagement strategy
    • Designs a uniquely crafted employee retention strategy
  • Details how the engagement and retention strategic plan will be implemented both in the U. S. and globally.
  • Ties the strategic plan to the organizational goal of creating a culturally intelligent and competent global workforce.

Be sure to provide proper attribution for credible sources used in the strategic plan. 

Home Appraisal: Ethics Brief 1 – 2nd post

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Attached is the assignment already done, it just needs to be edited with the teachers comments and pointers added in the appropriate places. Teachers comments are shown below. Original assignment is below that 

– IT does not state what jurisdiction it needs to be for the contract. It needs to Be more clear, essay states you can sue in federal but the jurisdiction/ court for a state action needs to be explained. ESSAY STATES YOU CAN SUE IN FEDERAL, WHEN YOU CAN NOT. SPECIFY THE COURT FOR A STATE ACTION FOR YOU CAN SUE IN STATE .

– state tortious interference jurisdiction. explain in detail. THIS ANWERS THIE QUESTION:If the initial buyer wants to sue you for intentional interference with contractual relations, what court(s) would have jurisdiction and why? Could the initial buyer sue your company? Why or why not?

Original assignment:

Scenario

You work for a U.S. based company that does home appraisals. While conducting an inspection on a home, you know the home has been contracted to sell for $50,000.00. You come to the conclusion that the home can appraise for $80,000.00. You also know that your sister has been looking for a home in this desirable neighborhood but most homes are well over six figures. You mention to the owner that your sister would be happy to pay $60,000.00 for the home and it would certainly appraise for that. You wink as you walk out the door, after handing the owner your card with your contact information. The owner calls you and says she would accept if your sister made an offer.

Instructions

  • Review the situation and conduct scholarly research on contract law. Write a brief in Microsoft Word (minimum two pages) that analyzes the legal and ethical issues involved in the business situation. Specifically, describe the legal theory of a claim, appropriate court level, classification of law, and likely ethical issues that exist.
  • Address the following:
  • What are the elements for a valid contract involving a real estate transaction? Do your comments to the owner constitute a valid contract? why or why not?
  • If the initial buyer wants to sue the homeowner for breach of contract, what court(s) would have jurisdiction and why?
  • If the initial buyer wants to sue you for intentional interference with contractual relations, what court(s) would have jurisdiction and why? Could the initial buyer sue your company? Why or why not?
  • What ethical issues are involved in this situation (consider any personal conflicts of interest and any professional obligations you owe to your company)?
  • Use at least three credible sources. These should be cited and in APA format.

Microecononmics

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 Click on the Assignment link above, then View Rubric to see the rubric for this assignment.  You can also download a copy of these directions by clicking on the blue file link above.

Directions:  
Download the attached document in Word, type your responses to the 4 questions and upload your completed document above. 

  1. What is a negative externality? Construct a graph for the market for Steel showing the market price and quantity when the firms are dumping their industrial waste in the local waterways. What is the motivation for firms to pollute the local waterways?
  2. Explain how third parties are adversely affected from the pollution and how the negative externality can be internalized. Draw into the graph the appropriate shift of the supply curve which will remedy the negative externality and bring about the socially optimal level of output. 
  3. What is a positive externality? Construct a graph for the market for vaccine shots showing the market price and quantity.
  4. Explain how third parties are benefiting from those who consume vaccine shots and how the positive externality can be internalized. Draw into the graph the appropriate shift of the demand curve which will remedy the positive externality. OutstandingProficientBasicBelow ExpectationsCritical Thinking

Points:20 (26.66666%)

Thinking demonstrates creativity, innovation, inquiry, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information. Project questions are not only clearly and accurately answered but explanation connects relationships and suggests potential effects. Suggested solutions are based data and theory and not merely opinion. Solutions are innovative in nature.

Points:18 (24.00%)

Thinking demonstrates creativity, innovation, inquiry, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information. Project questions are mostly clearly and accurately answered and explanation generally connects relationships and suggests potential effects. Suggested solutions are based data and theory and some reasoned opinions. Solutions are viable if not completely original in nature.

Points:15 (20.00%)

Thinking demonstrates creativity, innovation, inquiry, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information. Project questions are generally answered clearly and accurately although some questions and inaccuracies are present. Explanations connect some but not all of the relationships and suggests some potential effects. Some of the relationships maybe missing or somewhat inaccurate. Suggested solutions are limited and maybe based on partial data and opinion. Solutions are adequate but may not be original with some questions as to viability.

Points:0 (0.00%)

Questions are not answered or are answered incorrectly. Relationships are not connected. Solutions are not offered or hold no relationship to the data presented.

Written Communication

Points:20 (26.66666%)

Communication demonstrates effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas. Data is represented in an intuitive format. Graphing is professional, well formatted and appropriately placed. Writing clearly conveys complex ideas, relationships, and conclusions in a logical format that is easy for the reader to follow and understand.

Points:18 (24.00%)

Communication demonstrates effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas. Data is represented in an understandable format. Graphing is understandable, not distracting, formatted and placed appropriately. Some improvements to optimization could be made. Writing conveys ideas, relationships, and conclusions in a format that is understandable and can be followed without too many questions or distractions.

Points:15 (20.00%)

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Goal: To practice public communication of scientific concepts. It’s evident by now that I love memes: they can be used as a great way to demonstrate concepts in a visual (and often humorous) way.

Format: Meme. If you need an explanation of what a meme is: click here. https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-meme-2483702

Task: Create an original meme that demonstrates your understanding of one  (or more) of the six mechanisms of evolution for your fellow students.

Guidance:

You must work alone and produce original content. Copying a meme created by another person is not acceptable and counts as plagiarism. You know I’m constantly looking for evolutionary memes and will know you cheated. Don’t risk failing the assignment (and facing the Academic Honesty Committee) over what is supposed to be a fun assignment.

The meme should not include any profanity or hateful language (slurs or other racist, sexist, homophobic content).

The meme should convey accurate information pertaining to one or more of the six evolutionary mechanisms.

 

Goal: To practice public communication of scientific concepts. It’s evident by now that I love memes: they can be used as a great way to demonstrate concepts in a visual (and often humorous) way.

Format: Meme. If you need an explanation of what a meme is: click here. (Links to an external site.)

Task: Create an original meme that demonstrates your understanding of one  (or more) of the six mechanisms of evolution for your fellow students.

Guidance:

You must work alone and produce original content. Copying a meme created by another person is not acceptable and counts as plagiarism. You know I’m constantly looking for evolutionary memes and will know you cheated. Don’t risk failing the assignment (and facing the Academic Honesty Committee) over what is supposed to be a fun assignment.

The meme should not include any profanity or hateful language (slurs or other racist, sexist, homophobic content).

The meme should convey accurate information pertaining to one or more of the six evolutionary mechanisms.

 Mechanism it is about: Sexual Selection

Explanation: Sexual selections happen when there is an imbalance in parental investment in offspring. When a parent is not invested in the offspring’s survival, they will typically instead have a trait that hurts their survival chances, as this demonstrates to possible mates that they can survive regardless (and thus have good genes to pass on to offspring). This meme is about making a hard decision, as if the individuals cannot decide whether to invest in their offspring or have disadvantageous traits instead.

How this mechanism can change the population’s genetics : The population will have more individuals with the disadvantageous trait over time, as individuals keep choosing mates that have the trait.

Principles of Finance

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Section : Financial Statement Analysis [WLO: 5] [CLOs: 1, 2]

In order to determine if you can recommend buying or selling a stock, you first must understand how the company has performed recently. Would you want to invest in a company that has had negative earnings for the past 3 years? What about a company that has increased the amount of debt on its balance sheet? Or, would you prefer to invest in a company that has had consistent increases in revenues or net earnings over the past 3 years? As the equity analyst, your first task would be to determine the evidence of patterns in the recent financial performance. The financial analysis provides significant insight into the company’s strengths and weaknesses.

To fully understand a company’s financial performance, you cannot “evaluate performance using numbers alone. This level of analysis does not involve an understanding of the cause of performance…an analyst must look beyond the numbers” (Hickman et al.,  2013, Section 11.3, para. 7). In the real world, an analyst spends extensive time and effort researching the business strategy, operations, marketing, and other elements that have contributed to this financial performance. For this class, you will limit your investigation of the company to the historical financial analysis, ratio and competitive analysis, and the valuation of the stock. This Week 1 assignment will become Section 1 of the Week 5 final project.

Prepare:

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

Write:

For this assignment, address the following seven parts in a Word document:

Part 1: Overview of the company (one paragraph)

  • State the name of the company.
  • Provide a brief overview of the company you selected, including a description of its business operations.
  • State the current market price per share.

Part 2: Income statements (one to two paragraphs)

  • Summarize key trends in revenues, operating income, and net income over the last 3 years.

Part 3: Common size income statements (one paragraph)

  • Evaluate the trends in gross margin, operating income margin, and net profit margin over the past 3 years.

Part 4: Balance sheets (one to two paragraphs)

  • Summarize key trends in total assets, total current assets, total current liabilities, long-term debt, and total shareholders’ equity over the past 3 years.

Part 5: Common size balance sheets (one paragraph)

  • Evaluate the trends in total current assets as a percent (%) of total assets, total current liabilities as a percent (%) of total assets, long-term debt as percent (%) of total assets, and total shareholders’ equity as a percent (%) of total assets over the past 3 years.

Part 6: Cash flow (one paragraph)

  • Calculate simple cash flow for the past 3 years.
    • Show your calculations.
  • Summarize the trend in simple cash flow for the past 3 years.
  • Compare the simple cash flow to the net operating cash flow from the statement of cash flows for the past 3 years.

Part 7: Financial analysis conclusion: (one paragraph)

  • Determine the strengths and weaknesses of the company based primarily on the trends in items discussed from the income statements, balance sheets, common size income statements, and common size balance sheets, as well as the comments on cash flow.
  • Create a table that indicates whether each financial fact is a strength or a weakness.
  • Determine the overall financial strength of the company based on the financial facts included as strengths or weaknesses.
    • Categorize the overall financial performance of the company as strong, neutral, or weak.
    • Justify your conclusion based on the table you created.

Principles of Finance assistant 1

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Historical Financial Statements: Appendix A [WLO: 3] [CLO: 1]

Any equity research report will include the historical financial performance of the company. The financial statements form the basis of facts for the company and those facts contribute to the determination of the buy, hold, or sell investment recommendation. For this assignment, you will use the Mergent database through the university library to retrieve 3 years of financial statements (i.e., the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flow) for your chosen publicly traded company that pays dividends. You should use the same company you picked for your Post Your Introduction discussion forum. Then you will format that financial information using a spreadsheet program like Excel. The video below explains how to format your company’s financial information.

Title this assignment “Appendix A.” Be sure to save both formats (Excel and PDF) of these files for later use.

Note: You will use all of the assignments in Weeks 1 through 4 for your Week 5 final project for this course.

Prepare:

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

Retrieving Financial Statements Using Mergent (Links to an external site.) 

Research:

Using the Mergent database in the university library,

  • Find your chosen dividend-paying company within the Mergent database.
  • Follow the instructions in the video above to retrieve and format the 3 most recent years of historical financial statements (income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows).

Construct Appendix A:

  • Retrieve the 3 most recent years of historical financial statements (income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows) for your chosen company using Mergent. Then using a program like Excel, and based on the instructions in the BUS401 | Retrieving Financial Statements Using Mergent (Links to an external site.) video.
    • Format the income statement.
    • Format the balance sheet.
    • Format the statement of cash flows.
  • Save this Excel file as a PDF and title it “Appendix A.”

BEHS 364

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Develop a social media campaign to bring awareness to hazardous alcohol consumption and/or alcohol abuse among a determined target population.

  • Define the problem among the target population
  • Research and gather data and statistics on alcohol use among the target population
  • Identify evidence-based practices used for the target population (See EBP matrix attachment).
  • Identify a social media platform for the campaign (ex. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, etc) and describe the rationale for the platform
  • Develop health promotional strategies targeted for the population
  • Describe how you plan to monitor the success of your campaign.

References:

  • Start with the learning resources in the classroom.
  • Locate 7-10 journal articles or book chapters related to your special population.
  • Use only scholarly, objective sources for your project. Peer-reviewed articles found in the UMGC Library databases are generally good sources. Web-based information such as Wikipedia and About.com and popular news outlets such as Time or Newsweek are NOT acceptable sources for this project.
  • If you are unclear as to whether a source is acceptable, contact the instructor or visit the UMGC Library’s page on locating and evaluating scholarly articles:
    http://www.umgc.edu/library/database/articles.shtml#evaluatingcitations

Guidelines: