Research 1 Communication (3 page double space of content + cover page + reference page= 5 pages) APA style

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(******** book attached below, use anything between Ch.1-Ch5) Must Use it.

Your essay is designed to increase your understanding of nonverbal communication in different cultures. For this 3-4 page essay, you should choose 2 cultures and evaluate the nonverbal communication using your textbook. Choose a specific topic reviewed in this class (for example, eye contact) and reflect on the two cultures based on the interactions. Make sure to include terminology and theory connections to describe the specific interaction and/or relationship.

Be sure to use specific details and cite your textbook and/or external sources. This writing assignment should include four major sections: the Title Page, Abstract, Main Body, and References (please see Purdue University’s APA Style Guide (Links to an external site.) for more information). Review the assignment rubric available in the assignment description. 

Rubric : 

*Content Knowledge

-The essay illustrates exemplary understanding of the course material by thoroughly and correctly identifying and explaining all of the key concepts/ideas

*Critical Thinking

-The essay reflects expert critical thinking by making connections between relevant ideas/claims/points

*Written Communication: Have a logical organization of ideas and thoughts

-The essay is mostly clear as a result of excellent use of terminology and minimal vagueness

* Written Communication: Clearly express knowledge in communication and culture in writing

-The essay is clear, and concise as a result of complete sentences, free of spelling errors and uses correct grammar, by following correct formatting style, and falling between the minimum and maximum page requirement.

Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Overview

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Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. 

Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions. Use the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you address the following:

  • Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
  • Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
  • Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.
  • Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.
  • Use the Strayer University Online Library or the Internet to locate and include at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Overview

Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions. Use the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you address the following:

  • Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
  • Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
  • Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.
  • Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.
  • Use the Strayer University Online Library or the Internet to locate and include at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

MT460-6: Compose business policies to enable implementation of a strategic plan.

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GEL-7.02: Apply ethical reasoning to ethical issues within the field of Management Policy and Strategy. 

There is an important symbiotic relationship between strategy and policy for managers and leaders to understand. Business policy helps guide strategy implementation from a control perspective, but it can also enable innovation. Policy must be carefully developed so to empower employees but must also be stringent enough to set boundaries and enforce expectations. To understand the central significance of the relationship between policy and strategy to top managers and their organizations, you must gain an understanding of how environments, external and internal, affect the functioning of an organization. You must develop an ability to evaluate environment to detect opportunities and threats in it to which alert managers must respond. It means an understanding of the processes through which managers can best determine those missions and objectives their organizations should seek; it means the ability to formulate and evaluate the best policies and strategies to achieve these ends, and the methods to assure that policies and strategies are implemented. This is an important strategic leadership and management ability that you must demonstrate and continuously hone throughout your career.

In this Assignment, you will compose business policies using ethical theories and principles from a leadership and management perspective. Ethics plays an important role in strategic decision-making. Managers and leaders must be adept in understanding such concepts like Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainability, diversity, negotiation, sales tactics, etc. All strategic decisions involve trade-offs, and businesses might pursue one goal while subordinating another. However, managers and leaders must consider legal, ethical, and moral boundaries and regulations with company goals, objectives and directives. Leaders and managers must continuously hone strategic decision-making knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors as an important 21st Century professional competency.

To demonstrate your understanding of business policy with relation to business ethics concepts in this Assignment, design a narrated PowerPoint presentation to include the following information:

  • Conduct research to identify an article highlighting a recent (no more than three years old) ethics.

  • Tell the story. Provide a synopsis of the ethics  scandal by providing specific details about the company, professionals, victims, the dilemma, government, etc.

  • Explain what drove the unethical behaviors and/or  business strategies that caused the scandal.

  • Explain the costs associated with the business ethics failures from a corporate social responsibility and/or environmental sustainability perspective.

  • Explain what managers and leaders of the company should have done to prevent the scandal.

  • Explain what business policies and strategic decisions could have prevented the scandal from occurring.

  • Could centralized or decentralized decision-making have prevented the scandal from occurring? Explain.

  • Compose and explain business policies that  establish standards of ethical behavior no different from the ethical  standards and norms of the larger society and culture that could prevent a scandal like this from occurring ever again in the business.

  • Ensure your business policies balance corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability with economic responsibilities to shareholders to prevent inequity.

Use as many concepts from Chapters 9 and 10 of your textbooks to complete this Assignment as possible. You are the professional and will need to determine how many slides and how long the presentation should be to meet the requirements of this Assignment. You are capable of making such decisions at this level of your degree program. Take the initiative to be the problem solver and strategic decision-maker. Each slide should have a verbal narration and notes. Your slides should be professionally designed.

Resistance to change in business

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Leaders and Managers in today’s ever-changing business world are frequently challenged with leading and managing major organizational change as well as dealing with and managing smaller units of organizational change, and most challenging is often developing strategies and tactics to most effectively deal with individual and group resistance.  Resistance to change is a major challenge, yet there are ways to effectively address and deal with resistance and ultimately achieve and sustain change.

Assignment:  You are a Director level leader within a large organization.  You have been assigned to the Change Leadership Team by Senior Leadership to develop a major organizational change plan; to Lead the Change Team as the plan is implemented across the organization; to provide on-going guidance to Senior Leadership as the plan is being implemented; and to develop a means to assure the changes realized are sustained going forward. 

Consider the guidance provided in the two articles and the UTube video by John Kotter regarding resistance to change.  Provide a comprehensive well thought out response to the following questions:

Managing Your Own Resistance to Change:

Although you have been named as part of the Change Team and assigned the role of Leading the Change team, as you learn more and more about the forthcoming changes, you find yourself resisting the changes.  You have learned the major change will include a major workforce reduction, re-organization of several major functions, the transfer and movement of people, the addition of some new outside leaders, and for a portion of the organization, the addition of automation to replace people.  You are finding these changes difficult to accept. 

How will you self-manage to most effectively deal with your own resistance to change?  How will you manage your emotional state of mind and the associated behaviors in a way that does not negatively affect your Change Team or impact the rest of the organization?  What are some specific techniques you can use to self-manage your resistance in the most productive way? 

Managing Team Members Resistance to Change:

While dealing with and self-managing your own resistance to change you are finding that several of your change team members are also very concerned about the forthcoming changes, and are clearly resisting the changes.  You know that you must find a way to help your team members also self-manage their own resistance and ultimately get your Change Team aligned and moving forward in a productive manner, given the critical importance and urgency of the changes.

What actions will you take with you team?  What specific actions will you take with each team member?  How will you get their buy-in and support for the changes going forward?  How will you help your team sustain a positive and productive approach with themselves and with their team members?   And how will you assure that they are effectively influencing a positive and productive approach with individuals across the organization?

Managing Workforce Resistance to Organizational Change:

As you work to self- manage and to help your change team also manage their respective resistance to the forthcoming changes in the most productive manner, you must also provide the necessary leadership working with Senior Leadership to address resistance across the workforce

How will you manage this challenge?  What specific actions will you take as the Team Leader in working with Senior Leadership.  Remember, the Organizational Change initiative is owned by the CEO and her Senior Leadership Team, as the Change Team Leader, part of your responsibility is to advise and guide Senior Leadership – What will you do? How will you guide Leadership to achieve effective implementation of the change plan?   And to assure a positive productive change?

Guidance:   There is no minimum or maximum number of pages or words for your paper – the key is to effectively answer the questions.  Remember in business provide a meaningful, concise and precise answer.  Volume is not of value, meaningful content is.

Resources:

 

You Tube:  John Kotter – Resistance to Change: John Kotter – Resistance to Change 

 https://youtu.be/Wdroj6F3VlQ 

Article: Steve Bell –  Resistance to Change (Attached)

Article:  Torben Rick – Top 12 Reasons Why People Resist Change (Attached)

Clinical Standard of Practice Presentation- Sickle Cells Disease and Peripheral Artery Disease (Due 24 hours)

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1) Minimum 20  Slides with speaker notes –  You should include speaker notes on lla slides that expand and deepen the information. Therefore the information must be relevant and complementary.

              Part 1: Minimum 10 Slides with speaker notes
              Part 2: minimum 10 Slides with speaker notes
              

Submit 1 document per part

2)¨******APA norms
          All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraph
          Don’t write in the first person 
          Answer the question objectively, do not make introductions to your answers, answer it when you start the paragraph

          Use only bullets on the slides and expand the information in speaker notes.

         Submit 1 document per part

3)****************************** It will be verified by Turnitin (Identify the percentage of exact match of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks) 
********************************It will be verified by SafeAssign (Identify the percentage of similarity of writing with any other resource on the internet and academic sources, including universities and data banks)

4) Minimum  6 references per part not older than 5 years

5) Identify your answer with the numbers, according to the question. Start your answer on the same line, not the next

Example:

Q 1. Nursing is XXXXX
Q 2. Health is XXXX

6) You must name the files according to the part you are answering: 

Example:
Part 1.doc 
Part 2.doc 
__________________________________________________________________________________

Part 1: Sickle Cells Disease

You should develop the slides taking into account the patient’s data and possible findings, intervention, examinations, results, and intervention for the patient. Be specific

CC: ” I have had experiences severe chest pains periodic and swelling of my hands and feet.”

HPI:   Hispanic patient DD is 56 YO male; the chief complaint patient is he experiences severe chest pains periodic and swelling of his hands and feet; this makes the fingers and toes very painful. He reports that the last night he felt difficulty breathing. He noted that his skin was ashen and dry now for a month ago.

          Use only bullets on the slides and expand the information in speaker notes.

1. Explain the disease (Sickle Cells Disease)- Include one reference

a. symptoms

b. Signs

2. List possible  3 differential diagnoses you must include 1 reference per each one
a. supporting criteria per each diagnosis
b. excluding criteria per each diagnosis

3. Minimum 3 labs or tests typically ordered concerning this condition (slide) and explain them (Speaker notes).
a. Show the results that should do NP expect to see with this diagnosis per each lab or test (Slide) and explain to them the results (Speaker notes).

4. Explain minimum 4 goal treatment pharmacology (slide) and explain the purpose per each one (Slide)

5. Medications are typically prescribed for this condition and effects

a. Starting doses and dose ranges per each medication
b. Precautions to keep in mind when prescribing these drugs.

6. What are the outcomes expected or unexpected for this specific condition? 
a. What patient outcomes will trigger a referral?

6 Provide patient teaching materials specific to their condition (video, presentations,  brochure …)

Part 2: Peripheral Artery Disease

You should develop the slides taking into account the patient’s data and possible findings, intervention, examinations, results, and intervention for the patient. Be specific

CC: “I have pain in the legs when walking, numbness and weakness. Also, I have had a feeling of coldness in my lower legs.”

HPI: Hispanic patient male is 53 YO comes to consult with complaints of prolonged pain in the legs, weakness, and numbness while walking or conducting any physical activity for the past five days. The patient reports that she has been experiencing sores in her feet while take long to heal, toenails taking long to grow, and always short. 

          Use only bullets on the slides and expand the information in speaker notes.

1. Explain the disease (Peripheral Artery Disease)- Include one reference

a. symptoms

b. Signs

2. List possible  3 differential diagnoses you must include 1 reference per each one
a. supporting criteria per each diagnosis
b. excluding criteria per each diagnosis

3. Minimum 3 labs or tests typically ordered concerning this condition (slide) and explain them (Speaker notes).
a. Show the results that should do NP expect to see with this diagnosis per each lab or test (Slide) and explain to them the results (Speaker notes).

4. Explain minimum 4 goal treatment pharmacology (slide) and explain the purpose per each one (Slide)

5. Medications are typically prescribed for this condition and effects

a. Starting doses and dose ranges per each medication
b. Precautions to keep in mind when prescribing these drugs.

6. What are the outcomes expected or unexpected for this specific condition? 
a. What patient outcomes will trigger a referral?

6 Provide patient teaching materials specific to their condition (video, presentations,  brochure …)

Paper on the book and movie “Just Mercy” 8-10 pages, APA citations.

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The purpose of this assignment is to help students explore their own background and begin to examine how race, culture, and socioeconomic class may affect your practice skills with your clients, in a more advanced way than in previous classes, as well as to examine racial and class disparities that affect social, economic and environmental justice issues in the country. Other aspects of cultural identities including gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, educational level, or religion may be included. This paper should be about 8-10 pages double-spaced, with APA 6th ed. citations and should incorporate ideas from the required readings especially the Stevenson memoir on correctional justice.

You need to have an introductory paragraph that explains the intent of the paper to focus the paper for the reader. This is an analysis, not a description. An analysis answers the questions of why and how something has meaning or has occurred. Don’t forget to use a concluding paragraph that summarizes the main points. Each paper should include: 

  1. Discussion of universal human rights and how they are relevant to the memoir. Examine racial and class disparities in relation to government and institutional policies as reflected in the Stevenson memoir. 
  2. An understanding of how Stevenson developed his own identity and how that related to his lifelong commitment to human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice? How did he respond to oppression and social justice disparities?
  3. What have you learned from this autobiographical assignment? Discuss how your identity memberships (e.g., race, class) will inform your social work practice and how you might respond to discrimination, oppression and social justice disparities on both micro and macro levels?

create a lightweight white paper for a fictitious Initial Coin Offering (ICO).

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For this assignment, you’ll create a lightweight white paper for a fictitious Initial Coin Offering (ICO). You will use your imagination to create a brand new, hopefully unique, ICO, and develop a lightweight white paper that presents your ICO to prospective investors. A full white paper takes considerable time and effort to create. For this assignment, you’ll only be asked to provide the most essential elements. 

The goal is for you to be creative in your application of blockchain technology, and the explain your ideas. 

To start, read the following article: How to Write a Good White Paper for Your ICO –  https://applicature.com/blog/token-offerings/write-good-white-paper-ico

Then, explore new and existing blockchain projects in any domain that interests you. You can start with an Internet search for “blockchain use cases” and “current blockchain projects.” Identify a few that you find interesting and learn about each one. Then, think of a new idea how you could apply blockchain in a new and useful way. 

Once you have your idea, create your white paper. Your paper should be in APA format, and have the following sections:

1) Title – a headline that will catch your reader’s imagination

2) Abstract – Summary of what your whitepaper contains

3) Introduction – Introduce readers to the problem you will solve, the motivation to solve it, and how you’ll present your solution.

4) Problem/Market consideration – Explain the current situation (expand the problem from the introduction).

5) Solution – Describe your solution.

6) Summary – Close the sale.

As always, submit only ORIGINAL WORK. Do NOT plagiarize. 

Comparison Shopping Worksheet WEEK 2 Comparison Shopping

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Comparison Shopping Worksheet WEEK 2 

Background 

Choose a product or service that you would like to purchase for your office or yourself: ______________

Search the internet to find three providers who have different prices for the product or service:
            a.
            b.
            c.

Product Description 

  1. Describe in 2 to 4 sentences the product or service you wish to purchase.

 

  1. Indicate the amount of money in dollars that you have budgeted to pay

for the product or service: $_________________

Product Comparison

  1. Complete the chart below with information from your research.

Name of Provider Link to WebsitePrice of Product

  1. Compare in a total of 260 words the product or service offered on each website. 

WebsiteMethod of DeliveryWarrantiesTax RatesExtra Components/ServicesOther Differences

a.

b.

c. 

 

Calculations

  1. Suppose each of these products/services has a 30% markup based on selling price. 

Calculate each supplier’s cost for the product/service.[Hint: First find the markup in dollars, then use the formula Price=Cost + Markup to find the supplier’s cost.]
Website a: (name)Website b: (name)Website c: (name)Supplier’s Cost:$$$

  1. Now that you have calculated the cost of the product, use that information to calculate the percentage markup based on cost.  [Hint: Percentage markup based on cost is = (Price-Cost)/Cost.]

Website a: (name)Website b: (name)Website c: (name)Percentage Markup:%%%

  1. Calculate the percentage difference between the price you would like to pay and the price of the product/service. 

 Remember, this percentage will be positive if the price of the product or service is lower than the price you would like to pay. If the price is over-budget then there will be a negative number. If the price is under budget then there will be a positive number. [Hint: To calculate the percentage difference, you should use the formula: (Budget – Price)/Budget.]
Website a: (name)Website b: (name)Website c: (name)Percentage Difference:%%%

Analysis

  1. Write a 175- to 350-word analysis of which product you would select for purchase. Keep in mind that your purchase decision does not necessarily have to be the product with the lowest cost but you should support your decision with information from your analysis.

Computing and Recording Depreciation

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On June 1, a machine costing $660,000 with a 5-year life and an estimated $50,000 salvage value was purchased. It was also estimated that the machine would produce 200,000 units during its life. Actual production would be 40,000 units per year for all five years.

  1. Using the depreciation template provided, determine the amount of depreciation expense for the third year under each of the following assumptions:
    1. The company uses the straight-line method of depreciation.
    2. The company uses the units-of-production method of depreciation.
    3. The company uses the double-declining-balance method of depreciation.
  2.  Assuming straight line depreciation, prepare journal entry for the third year.
  3. Assume the company sold the machine at the end of the fourth year for $100,000. Prepare a journal entry for asset disposal in the fourth year.
  4. Assume you are the chief accountant of ABC Inc., a sheetrock manufacturer. Determine how you will choose, based on best industry practices, the depreciation method for ABC Inc. to use.

Your response to Part 4 should be at least one page and must include title and reference pages. In addition, your paper must be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. Review the grading rubric to understand how you will be graded on this assignment. Reach out to your instructor if you have questions about the assignment.

On time please

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Required Assignment 1—The FMLA in Practice

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was enacted in 1993 and entitles eligible employees of employers covered under it to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specific family and medical reasons. During this leave, group health insurance coverage continues under the same terms and conditions applicable if the employees had not taken leave.

You may access the latest rules covered under the FMLA at the following Web site:

In this assignment, you will analyze the FMLA policy of an organization to understand the policy’s role and importance in employee management.

Tasks:

Click here to access and read a portion of the employee handbook of Widgets Inc. that outlines the company’s FMLA policy statement. Analyze the handbook on the basis of FMLA guidelines. Identify a minimum of five errors or oversights that relate to the FMLA and list their solutions in a separate document.

In addition, in the same document, include answers to the following questions:

  • What are three alternative methods of calculating twelve weeks of leave within a twelve-month period? Which method do you believe is the best and why?
  • An employee should give as much notice as possible to his or her employer. The Department of Labor suggests a minimum notice of thirty days. What if an employee needs emergency FMLA leave? Is the employee still allowed to take FMLA leave, although he or she was unable to give the thirty-day notice?
  • What are the legal ramifications if the same position is not available to an employee on his or her returning from FMLA leave?
  • During an employee’s FMLA leave, Widgets Inc. downsizes and closes the department in which the employee works. What will happen to the employee? What are the legal ramifications?

Submission Details:

  • Save your paper in a Microsoft Word document named M3_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc and by the due date assigned, submit it to the Submissions Area.

Assignment 3 Grading CriteriaMaximum PointsIdentified a minimum of five errors or oversights on the basis of the FMLA policy and suggested practical solutions for each.56Evaluated alternative methods of calculating twelve weeks of leave within a twelve-month period.32Explained the stand of the FMLA policy if an employee needs emergency FMLA leave without giving the thirty-day notice.24Explained the legal ramifications if the same position is not available to an employee on his or her returning from FMLA leave.24Explained the legal ramifications if a company downsizes and closes the department in which the employee works during the employee’s FMLA leave.24Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.40Total:200