1. Select an agency that provides Food and Nutritional Care as a part of its services.
2. OBTAIN APPROVAL for your agency and volunteer work from instructor.

• Sign up on Canvas to receive instructor approval by Friday, June 26th @ 11:59 pm) with the following information:
• What agency you would like to work with.
• The name and contact information of the individual who is helping you coordinate your experience. (phone#, address, and e-mail)
• Title and position of the individual who you are working with.
• Proposed volunteer work that you will be completing. MUST be related to food and/or nutrition of the people they are serving.

 3.  Interview the person who is responsible for the delivery of the nutrition services or education program. (Interview time is NOT included with the 5-hrs of service).

• Interview can be in person, phone, or virtual interviews.
• Obtain a business card or professional identification (e.g. from company website) from the individual who you are interviewing with AND who is supervising your work
• What is the role of this person? Are they FT, PT, consultant, or volunteer?
• Be creative with your interview questions. Examples: What do they like most about their position?  What is the most challenging aspect to their work? Is the community supportive of the organizations presence and services

4.  Submit a 3 page report containing the following information.

• What is the population they serve? What is the clientele and services they provide?
• Be as specific as possible when describing the population with statistics, demographics, etc.
• What is the Vision and Mission Statement of the organization you are volunteering for?
• Do they have any specific goal, objectives, or measurable outcomes they monitor?
• Who coordinates the food and nutritional services or programs provided? Are they a Registered Dietitian, or something else? What is their background? (Ex: Nurse, Home Economist, Social Worker, etc.)
• Summarize your interview with the individual.
• Summarize your reflections on the experience:

1. What were your impressions of the agency? Do you think the agency is accomplishing their mission and achieve their goals?
2. What do you think the strengths and weaknesses are for the agency?

Format:

1. Paper must be double spaced, standard margins, and standard font (11-12 point Arial, Times New Roman, or Calibri).
2. If you want to include pictures with your paper, please include on additional pages at the end. DO NOT embed or include pictures into the body and content of your paper.
3. DO NOT include a cover page, and pictures pages DO NOT count and are NOT included as a part of the 3-pages of reported content.

follow the instructions

For this assignment, imagine you have been hired as the new Diversity & Inclusion Specialist in the Human Resources (HR) department of your current company or another company of your choosing. One of the first tasks you are given is to create a Diversity Proposal for your manager in response to an anonymous complaint (below) that was recently submitted to the HR suggestion box:

Complaint: I have been working here for 4 years. I am tired of watching the same “Diversity in the Workplace” 20-minute training video each January in order to satisfy the company’s annual diversity training requirement. Nothing around here shows that this company values diversity. As one of a few people of color at this company, I feel like I’m just here to increase diversity numbers so that the company “looks good” on paper. When are we going to actually do something to recognize all types of diversity? There are more aspects to diversity, besides race, that make individuals unique.   

Create a 500- to 800-word Diversity Proposal that addresses the following questions:

• What is the business case or proposition for recognizing the importance of diversity and inclusion?
• How can we create a company mission and company goals to outwardly express and reinforce our commitment to diversity and inclusion? What might our mission statement say to express our commitment?
• What are at least two short-term actions (less than 6 months) that the company can take to immediately address some of the concerns expressed in the anonymous complaint?
• What are at least two long-term actions (6 months to 2 years) that the company can take to address some of the concerns expressed in the anonymous complaint?
• How can the company enhance its current annual employee diversity training? Why is this training important?
• What initiatives can the company implement to celebrate diversity beyond race?
• How can these initiatives bring employees together to celebrate diversity and promote inclusion?
• What other suggestions do you have to improve workplace culture and messaging around diversity and inclusion?

Include a minimum of two scholarly articles/academic references.

Format your paper/proposal according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

1. External and Internal Environments
   Overview
   In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness assignment.
   Using the corporation you chose from the Week 3 assignment, Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness, examine the industry in which the entity operates. Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the company:
   • Company website.
   • Public filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page.
   • Strayer University’s online databases.
   • The Lexis Advance database.
   • Other miscellaneous sources. Note: the company’s annual report will often provide insights that other resources may not include.
   • Use the External and Internal Environments Template [DOC] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.
     Requirements
     Write a 4–6 page paper in which you do the following:
   • Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose.
     • Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
   • Considering the five forces of competition, choose the two that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose.
     • Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two forces in the recent past.
   • With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
   • Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation.
     • Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
   • Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.
     • Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
   • Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
   • Go to the Strayer University Online Library to locate three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources. 
   • This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
     The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:
   • Analyze the effects of the general environment, competition, threats, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses relative to a corporation.
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Discussion # 10 DUE: Wednesday, June 2 @ 11PM

What is the difference between race and ethnicity? ( my race is yellow)

What is YOUR race? What is YOUR ethnicity? What does your race and/or ethnicity mean to you, if anything?

How can we simultaneously say that race “isnt’ real” and race is “important” (how/why is it important)? HINT: the sociological perspective/definition of race that challenges the notion of biology.

How does race continue to be “important” in today’s cultural, political and economic landscape?

What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

repond no,1

Race refers to a combination of physical and behavioral attributes that are used to group humans into distinct categories in society. The race is often associated with biology and linked with physical characteristics like hair texture and skin color. The race is believed to reflect a biological foundation, generate distinct racial groups, and the biological foundation is inherent among generations. Members of race are believed to share a set of biological characteristics which are not visible in members of other races. This biological foundation of race manifests itself fundamentally through physical phenotypes. Ethnicity, on the other hand, refers to a categorization of people who identify with each other based on shared attributes which distinguish them from other groups. 

My race is Asian and my ethnicity is Han Chinese.  My race and ethnicity mean so much to me since they play a huge role in my growth of a strong and stable sense of self. My race and ethnicity help in shaping how I see myself and help me understand how others see me. My ethnicity instills in me the idea of belonging to a certain cultural group and how I share various elements such as language, place of origin, or religion. My race and ethnicity help me to understand how I relate to certain social, historical, and geographic contexts. The identity of my race and ethnicity helps me in understanding that of others and appreciating the differences in our races and ethnicities. My race and ethnicity also help in self-exploration.

There are various reasons in which the argument that ‘race is not real’ can be justified. For example, one cannot tell the correct race of another person by simply looking at them. Racial lines have been blurred to invisibility in an entire community in extreme cases and it is common to find people who might look one way but identify in another hence making it difficult to place them in a racial category. The race continues to be important but in a negative way in the economic landscape by being a leading source of economic inequality followed by gender. People of certain races such as Black and Latina have the highest number of less-desirable jobs, higher poverty rates, lower earnings, among others. The race is being used as a tool for discrimination in the economic sphere and is the main cause of the economic disparity among various groups of people. The race is also important in the political landscape as it plays a huge role in political attitudes. Various racial groups depict varying levels of support for political candidates, leaders, or subjects, depending on their racial background. 

Prejudice describes the thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and beliefs that a person holds about a group. Prejudice is a prejudgment that originates outside actual experience and is not based on experience. Discrimination, on the other hand, refers to the actions that are directed against a certain group of people based on various aspects such as religion, age, race, and other indicators. Prejudice refers to attitudes and opinions while discrimination focuses on the actual behaviors against a group.

Race and ethnicity can be confusing at times because many people do not understand the difference between the two. Race is more one’s physical characteristics that categorize them into one of roughly five or six races. For example, being Hispanic, White, or Asain are types of races. However, these categories are very broad and encompass many different cultures and ways of life. When differentiating oneself through culture, tradition, language, or religion, you refer to your ethnicity. Ethnicity is a little more complex than race. In some ways, it is taught, passed down through generations and not genetically inherited. Ethnicity differentiates people within one race. Ethnicity is also not to be confused with nationality. Someone who is Italian may live in the United States, making their ethnicity Italian but nationality American, but not both American or both Italian.

respond no.2 

My race is white, but my ethnicity is Serbian and Montenegrin. To me, my ethnicity means a lot, determining my religion, cultural upbringing, mannerisms, and global outlook. Because I am Serbian/Montenegrin, I was raised to be Eastern Orthodox, albeit Serbian Orthodox because it is more common in the United States. Further, since my mom immigrated at my age to the U.S., she brought with her a lot of her culture and way of life. Little things like the way she pronounces some words, some of the food we make, and some household rules (like taking off your shoes when entering someone’s house) are all traits she imparted on me from a young age. Although I do not speak Serbian or Montenegrin, I understand some words and I have an understanding of our history and traditional culture. My ethnicity shapes me a lot and allows me to feel connected with a broader network of people and family that live overseas.

            Race is a complex topic, especially in a society as diverse and historically prejudiced as the United States. In a sense, race is very socially constructed. The reality is that race is a byproduct of evolution, allowing people to live in different environments. Thus, race is biologically mundane and rather unimportant. However, due to sociological ideals and beliefs, people began to feel “different” than others, in ways that led to issues like slavery, warfare, and overall discrimination. Race is important because as a global society, we are very aware of it and continue to differentiate ourselves based upon it. Racial history is important and must be acknowledged, yet even today people lay bias upon racial differences. Police brutality, the wage breakdown, and school admissions are all byproducts of a racially divided society. Race is indeed still important today yet in a way that is more dividing and harmful than unifying.

           When differentiating prejudice and discrimination, it is important to understand that discrimination is putting prejudice into action. Prejudices are ideas and thoughts someone may harbor in their mind against a specific race or ethnicity, or microaggressions they may display in public. Discrimination, however, is the implication of laws or divisions in society that puts some people at a disadvantage to others. A very relevant example of this are the Jim Crow laws of the South and the discrimination they supported amongst Americans on the basis of skin color. Therefore, both are terrible concepts and discrimination is essentially the cumulation of intense prejudice that is enacted upon society.

Perception is a subtle, personal view of one’s self in context with the environment. Much of our upbringing influences the way we see and observe things that affect our interpretation, meaning, and judgment. As training is developmental in nature, we can develop or shape our perception to be as objective, unbiased, and progressive as we would want. 

In the organizational context, our perception affects how we communicate among ourselves. Some factors such as those shown below may get in the way of understanding the truth within a message; thus, affecting our behaviors: 

a. Stereotype 
b. Prejudice
c. Discrimination
d. Selective Perception
e. Projection
f. Halo Effect
g. Tokenism
h. Intersectionality 

Select three factors from the list and write an essay as to how your attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors are affected positively or negatively by them in a personal and organizational context. Back up with the latest research available.

Submit a 2-3 page paper (no more than 3 pages), exclusive of the cover page and the reference page. The paper should be double-spaced in Times New Roman font (or its equivalent), which is no greater than 12 points in size. The paper should cite at least 2 sources in APA format. The paper should be well-written. Check all content for grammar, spelling, and construction.