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 Prepare Job Descriptions and Calls for Applicants Instructions Organization X just recovered funds from a year-long hiring freeze and is preparing for a hiring sweep to fill several much-needed positions. For this assignment, complete the following: Write a job description for an administrative assistant to top management that will attract individuals who exhibit Public Service Motivation (PSM)-like qualities to Organization X. After formulating the job description, write a call for applications. Finally, attach a short reflection in the form of a memo to send to those interviewing potential candidates for the position citing the scholarly literature that explains why you worded the description and call for applications in this way. Keep in mind this memo is a reference for those interviewing prospective candidates. As such, you also want to ensure inclusion of the most helpful information on how to spot candidates with high levels of PSM-like qualities. Length: 6 pages, not including title and reference pages References: Include a minimum of 10 scholarly resources. Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate 

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This week you will share a clip from a sports film and identify a film technique that was covered in this week’s notes. Embed the clip into your post and reflect on the scene in a well-developed paragraph. Select a clip that is about 2-4 minutes. Post your initial response by Thursday at 11:59pm and respond to at least two other students by Sunday at 11:59pm. How to Insert a Link into your Response

  1. Type the name of your clip
  2. Highlight the text
  3. Right-click on the selected text
  4. Click the Link Icon 
  5. Enter the link URL in the Link Path box
  6. Under Target, select Open in New Window
  7. Click Insert

Example Post:The NaturalNote: This is an example of an initial post for this discussion. The content of the clip is not the focus; the close-up technique is what is important.In this clip from The Natural, the close-up technique is used to make a number of points.  The close-up of a bloody patch on Ray’s uniform emphasizes that he is injured, and that the task before him, to hit a game winning home run, has become monumental.  The chess-game duel between pitcher and batter in baseball is underlined in three close-ups.  One is of the ball in the hand in the pitcher; one is of the face of Ray that shows his concentration, and the third is a close up of the face of the pitcher, which mirrors Ray’s concentration.  The duel between pitcher and batter is developed further when the camera shows the ball leaving the glove of the pitcher.  The release is shown as a close-up to indicate that the metaphorical bullet has been fired, and the importance of the aim is made clear in the head-on close up of the ball as it travels to Ray.  On its arrival, the contest between pitcher and hitter is over, and the outcome is made clear through the close-up of the smashed lamp, which emphasizes the tremendous power, both literally and figuratively, of the home run of the victor.  Without a word, the use of close-ups mightily communicates meaning in this clip.

Special education newsletter for families

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Decision-making for students with disabilities should include all relevant stakeholders. Collaboration with families concerning the practical application of assessment results to the classroom setting is important for building trust and rapport. School-based team members can contribute feedback on how to incorporate assessment results into the development of the IEP. Special education teachers should be up-to-date on assessment tools, resources, and practices to ensure they can fully advocate for and meet the needs of students that are being served.
Create a two-page digital newsletter for families that highlights how special education   assessments and their results help with planning special education services within the classroom.
Within your newsletter, include the following:
  Identify and describe one current technology-based special education assessment tool that can be used to evaluate students’ needs.Outline three potential benefits and three drawbacks of using the assessment tool for special education assessment.
Explain how this assessment tool minimizes bias in the classroom.  Select one specific section of the IEP.Describe how formal assessment results determine the content of this section of the IEP.
Provide two examples how the content of this IEP section would affect day-to-day collaborative planning for a core content area.  Create a “Tips for Families” section in the newsletter. Share at least three tips on how families can support their child in addressing their assessment strengths and needs to succeed in school.
  Include an “Additional Resources” section describing three or more local, community, state, or federal resources, that families could contact for additional information on classroom assessments and learning. Offer a mix of resources that can be accessed online, in print, and/or in person (including by phone).Use a minimum of three scholarly sources to support the content of your newsletter.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

power point presentation DRAFT

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LISTENING & SPEAKING PPT PRESENTATION Due Date: Thurs., Dec. 10, 2020 by 9:00 pm Format: PowerPoint Presentation Point Value: 100 points (this will be calculated as part of your final exam grade) Scenario: You are a student in the United States and ready to apply for college admissions. Bear in mind that you will be living in the city where the university is located. 1. Choose a major 2. Decide what college/university you would like to attend a. Where is it located? (It MUST be outside of the state of Florida.) b. Why do you want to study at this institution? 3. In which school will study (school of law, school of medicine, school of engineering, school of education, school of liberal arts, school of business, etc.) 4. What are some required courses in your major? 5. What are the employment opportunities? Name them. 6. Is a graduate degree needed? Masters? Doctorate? (In some instances, a graduate degree is not required. However, if you are studying to be a lawyer, you have to earn a bachelor’s degree and later go to law school. The same applies for medicine: a bachelor’s degree must be completed and later medical school.) 7. Salary range? Presentation Parameters • Minimum 7 slides • You should add pictures, not too much text • If you want to add a video or voice over, it is optional Evaluation: What I will be analyzing and evaluating: • Content • Grammar and mechanics • Organization of presentation

Can someone do my Week 1 Assignment in General Education Capstone?

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Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen

[WLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Prepare:

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the A Model of Global Citizenship: Antecedents and Outcomes article and watch the Globalization at a Crossroads (Links to an external site.) video. Go to the Ashford University Library and locate one additional source on global citizenship that will help support your viewpoint, or you may choose one of the following articles found in the Week 1 Required Resources:

Reflect: Please take some time to reflect on how the concept of global citizenship has shaped your identity and think about how being a global citizen has made you a better person in your community.

Write: Use the Week 1 Example Assignment Guide downloadwhen addressing the following prompts:

  • Describe and explain a clear distinction between “globalism” and “globalization” after viewing the video and reading the article.
  • Describe how being a global citizen in the world of advanced technology can be beneficial to your success in meeting your personal, academic, and professional goals.
  • Explain why there has been disagreement between theorists about the definition of global citizenship and develop your own definition of global citizenship after reading the article by Reysen and Katzarska-Miller.
  • Choose two of the six outcomes of global citizenship from the article (i.e., intergroup empathy, valuing diversity, social justice, environmental sustainability, intergroup helping, and the level of responsibility to act for the betterment of this world).
    • Explain why those two outcomes are the most important in becoming a global citizen compared to the others.
  • Describe at least two personal examples or events in your life that illustrate the development of global citizenship based on the two outcomes you chose.
  • Identify two specific general education courses.
    • Explain how each course influenced you to become a global citizen.

The Importance of Becoming a Global Citizen

Border Security

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Respond to the following short essay questions using researched material from outside the course. 

  1. Please address the following as they pertain to Intellectual Property:
    • What is Intellectual Property (IP) and how does counterfeit merchandise impact the U.S. economy?
    • What safety and health concerns are posed by counterfeit products?
    • How does IP theft, especially from China, pose an existential threat to national security?
  2. Discuss the action that needs to be taken to ensure that illegal migrants are treated with inclusion and respect around the world as an element of border security? From a security perspective what would you specifically recommend the current administration do to ensure this.
  3. How have the SMART Port Security, the SAFE Port Act, the Small Vessel Security Strategy, and the Marine Transportation Security Act impacted port security? This essay should be presented in the form of a compare and contrast format.
  4. Compare the similarities and differences of the external borders of European Union (EU) with that of the U.S./Mexico border & the U.S./Canada border. Which of these (similarities/differences) have had the most positive or negative impact on border security?

(LO5.1, LO5.2, LO6.1, LO6.2, LO7.1, LO7.2, LO8.1, & LO8.2) 

Technical Requirements:

  • Your answers should be at a minimum of 8 pages, at least 2 pages per question (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit). Use APA headings for each question, instead of numbering them.
  • Scholarly and credible references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content. However, a minimum of 8 scholarly sources are required.
  • Type in Times New Roman, 12 point and double space.
  • Students will follow the APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework. 
  • Use scholarly or other relevant sources.
  • Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic type sources.
  • Based on the assigned readings, your responses are to be in your own words with minimal quotes. Instead, paraphrases in proper APA.

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Introduction: The ANS is the part of the nervous system that supplies the internal organs and structures, including the blood vessels, stomach, intestine, liver, kidneys, bladder, genitals, lungs, pupils, heart, and sweat, salivary, and digestive glands. Two divisions of ANS (the sympathetic and parasympathetic) have opposite functions. As we learned, the sympathetic nervous system prepares the body for intense physical activity and is often referred to as the fight-or-flight response. The parasympathetic nervous system has almost the exact opposite effect, relaxes the body, and is often referred to as the rest-and-digest response.

For this post, you will:

  1. Choose an organ in the body that has autonomic innervation.
  2. Next, describe how the organ you have chosen is affected by one of the two divisions of the ANS. Is it stimulated? Inhibited? Which part of the organ is affected? Do not do both divisions of the ANS.
  3. Identify the location and neurotransmitters of the preganglionic and postganglionic neurons that innervate the organ you chose from the division (sympathetic or parasympathetic) you chose.
  4. Would your organ be controlled through a gray ramus communicans, splanchnic nerve, cranial nerve, or sacral spinal nerve?
  5. Describe a situation, like a car crash, that increases or decreases the activity of your organ, and explain the effect that situation would have on your organ. Compare that effect to normal basal levels of your organ’s activity. Explain how the change(s) in the activity of the organ of your choice might be perceived, if at all. Other situations could include a job interview, relaxing on a beach, encountering a growling dog while walking outside, jumping out of the way of an oncoming vehicle, getting a massage, feeling unsafe while walking down a dark street at night.

This is a first come first serve choice, so please review the previous postings to choose your organ. If one student chooses an organ like the eye, then only the regulation by either the sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system should be discussed. One organ per student. Duplications are not allowed, and such postings will be deleted by the instructor.

Inventory Management

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Overview:

A global agricultural chemical company produces a large variety of chemcials used as pesticides, plant growth regulators, and seed treatment applications. As the company produces chemicals which are put on food, they are very closely regulated by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). Each time a change is made to the ingredients or instructions for use (e.g. crops added or changed, major ingredient changed), a revision must be made to packaging. This revision results in a date code revision on

packaging. The date code indicates revision number and date; e.g. 013/01/23/17. Keeping track of current packaging is becoming extremely difficult resulting in a great deal of time going back and forth between subcontractors, warehouses, and procurement. What would you do to alleviate the problem? Mislabeling products can result in huge fines by the government. All packaging is assigned an sku number in the computer system.

Instructions:

This week’s assignment is to prepare a 2-page paper indicating how you would solve the problem of accurate package labelling and compliance. Topics should include:

  1. What would you do to insure correct packaging is used to avoid penalties?
  2. Howwouldyouhandleobsoletepackagingwithinstoragelocations?
  3. How would packaging revisions affect Bills of Material?
  4. HIghlight the importance of SKU’s and how they can adversely affect production.

Requirements:

  • Your paper should be 2 pages in length not including the reference page.
  • Your paper should illustrate the importance of SKU’s.
  • Follow APA Guidelines per the Guidelines posted in the Course Introduction.
  • Include a reference page.

Contingency Leadership Theory

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Respond to Himanshu using one scholarly source…

Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal. Leaders show the way and influence the behavior of others by their actions and ideas. Leadership failure rates range from 40 percent to 60 percent, costing organizations millions of dollars each year. Researchers have been trying to formulate various theories to figure out what makes great leaders. In my opinion, the contingency theory of leadership most accurately explains effective leadership. According to Manning & Curtis (2018) “. Leadership contingency theory holds that the most appropriate leadership qualities and actions vary from situation to situation. Effectiveness depends on leader, follower, and situational factors” (p.21). As per the contingency theory of leadership, a leader’s effectiveness is contingent on whether or not their leadership style suits a particular situation. According to this theory, an individual can be an effective leader in one circumstance and an ineffective leader in another one. Contingent leaders are flexible in choosing and adapting to succinct strategies to suit change in situation at a particular period in time in the running of the organization. This theory was made popular by Fred Fiedler with his famous Contingency model, which paved way for further contingency theories and models with more details and understanding. According to Fiedler, task-oriented leaders get the best results when faced with strongly favorable or strongly unfavorable situations. Over the years, Contingency theory of leadership has been criticized for falling short in trying to explain why leaders with certain leadership styles are effective in some situations but not others. Contingency theory also fails to adequately explain what should be done about a leader/situation mismatch in the workplace. Contingency theory also fails to explain how leaders can change their behavior or style depending upon the situation or features of the group. 

Reference 

Cherry, K. (2017, August 03). What is the contingency theory of leadership? Retrieved March 11, 2021, from https://www.explorepsychology.com/contingency-theory-leadership/ 

Manning, G., & Curtis, K. (2019). The art of leadership. New York: McGraw Hill Education. 

SLP JOB REDESIGN

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READING MATERIAL:

Griffin, R. (2007). Chapter 6: Organization structure and design. Principles of Management. Houghton Mifflin, New York. http://college.cengage.com/business/griffin/sas_principles/1e/assets/students/know_bank/griffin_sas_KB_6.1.pdf

Bauer, T., & Erdogan, B. (2012) Chapter 6.1: Motivating employees through job design. Introduction to Organizational Behavior. Flatworld Knowledge. http://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/an-introduction-to-organizational-behavior-v1.0/s10-01-motivating-employees-through-j.html

ASSIGNMENT

Make sure you have thoroughly reviewed the background readings and understand the key concepts of job redesign and job crafting. Then think about your own job and workplace and how these concepts apply to your own work life. Once you have finished reviewing the background readings and have carefully thought about how these concepts relate to your own job, write a 3– to 4-page paper answering the following questions:

  1. Of the three main types of job redesign (job enlargement, job rotation, job enrichment), which one do you think would be the most effective in your current workplace? Explain your reasoning, and cite Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or Griffin (2007) as part of your answer.
  2. Suppose your supervisor decides to use job enrichment to redesign your job. Of the five core job characteristics discussed in Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or page 9 of Griffin (2007), which one do you think should be changed as part of your job redesign?
  3. Which specific job crafting strategy or intervention do you think would be most effective at your organization or for your specific job? Refer to one of the specific strategies or interventions discussed in Wrzesniewski (2014) or Dik and Duffy (2012).